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24 Hours of Le Mans
The 78th Le Mans 24 Hours
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1h47m The #8 and #9 Audis have been in for their next round of stops as well
1h46m The #73 Alphand Corvette is now only 15s behind the GT1 leading #60 Ford and closing at more than two seconds per lap
1h43m Lapierre gets his fourth place back as McNish pits, and it starting to pull away from Bernhard
1h43m McNish follows suit in the #7 Audi
1h42m Montagny brings the #2 Peugeot into the pits again. Looks like fuel only.
1h41m GT2 update: #64 Corvette, #63 Corvette, #82 Ferrari, #95 Ferrari, #97 Porsche, #79 BMW, #77 Porsche, #78 BMW, #89 Ferrari, #76 Porsche
1h37m No, McNish just got ahead of Lapierre as the Peugeot re-joined the track. Timo Bernhard is now having a go at Lapierre down the Mulsanne Straight for fifth.
1h34m Lapierre is back out in fourth place after bringing in the #4 ORECA Peugeot 908 for its second stop of the day
1h31m Mansell is being kept in the circuit's medical centre as a precaution, but has escaped his crash without injury.
1h31m There are a couple of close battles further down the LMP1 order with Oliver Jarvis (#15 Kolles Audi R10), Guy Smith (#13 Rebellion Lola) running together, and Christoph Bouchut (#14 Kolles Audi) and Franck Mailleux (#008 Signature Aston Martin) in a pair close behind.
1h28m Soheil Ayari narrowly avoided another incident in the #6 ORECA, almost running Stefan Mucke's #007 Aston Martin off the road
1h26m Paul Drayson pits his Lola from 15th place and hands over to Jonny Cocker
1h25m Montagny has taken the lead back again in the #2 Peugeot
1h24m Marc Rostan has spun the #28 Race Performance Radical into the gravel at the second chicane on the Mulsanne Straight
1h23m Pedro Lamy takes the lead in the #3 Peugeot as all three factory 908s close up at the front
1h21m Thomas Mutsch still leads GT1 in the #60 Ford GT. Bas Leinders is up to second in the Marc VDS Ford, with Julien Jousse third in the #73 Alphand Corvette
1h19m Lapierre is back up to fourth place in the ORECA Peugeot, 20s behind the works cars. McNish is one minute behind in fifth.
1h18m Montagny leads by 4s in the #2 Peugeot, with Lamy and Gene running together in second and third.
1h16m The front runners in the GT2 class have all piled into the pitlane on the same lap. The #82 Risi Ferrari, which started from the back of the grid, has taken fuel only and gets back out ahead of the other stoppers.
1h14m Soheil Ayari has had a spin in the #6 ORECA-AIM after clashing with the #24 Oak Racing Pescarolo while trying to lap Jean-Francois Yvon at Mulsanne Corner
1h12m The Larbre Saleen and the JMW Aston Martin are both in the pits with problems
1h07m The #77 Felbermayr Porsche now leads GT2 after the class-leading Corvettes pitted for fuel. It looks as though the Porsches can run a little longer
1h06m Timo Bernhard has been into the pits and taken fuel only. That's the first round of stops out of the way for all the front runners
1h04m Montagny has passed Lamy in the pits, so the #2 car now leads the race
1h04m Peugeot pits the leading #3 and the #1 cars at the same time.
1h02m Allan McNish heads back out onto track after the first stop for the #7 R15. Only fuel taken, Audi is double-stinting the tyres
1h01m Ford has taken the lead of the GT1 class, with Thomas Mutsch in the #60 Matech GT overtaking Peter Kox's Young Driver Aston Martin
1h00m One hour down, 23 to go.
1h00m Franck Montagny closed right up to the back of leader Pedro Lamy, then dived into the pits in the #2 Peugeot
0h59m Unofficial petrol class leader, the #6 ORECA-AIM comes in for its first stop of the day. Soheil Ayari heads back out
0h59m Marcel Fassler brings the #8 R15 into the pits for the first Audi stop of the day. No driver change, just fuel and tyres
0h56m Strakka Racing #42 still holds a narrow lead over the #26 Highcroft Racing entry as the LM P2 battle continues. They are 14th and 15th overall.
0h54m Now we have the three factory Peugeots leading the three Audi R15 Plus cars. The Audis are almost one minute back.
In seventh place we now have the #14 Kolles Audi R10 being driven by Christophe Bouchut.
In seventh place we now have the #14 Kolles Audi R10 being driven by Christophe Bouchut.
0h52m Lapierre fell back in the second safety car queue, and thus back behind the three Audi R15s.
0h51m The Team Oreca Matmut #4 entry with Nicolas Lapierre at the wheel has dropped all the way down to tenth place after that stop in the pits.
0h50m The factory Peugeots immediately begin ripping through the traffic as the field sorts itself out following that 31-minute safety car period.
0h49m The #29 Racing Box Lola Judd has spun as the safety cars peeled off to allow racing to resume.
0h48m The safety car comes into the pitlane and we are racing once again.
0h47m Race control states that the safety cars will be withdrawn at the end of this current lap.
0h46m The #4 Oreca Peugeot has been held at the end of the pitlane as the officials wait for the next available safety car train, as we see the #008 Lola Aston Martin now into the pits.
By: Emlyn Hughes, Geoff Creighton, Steven English, Sam Tremayne
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