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24 Hours of Le Mans
The 79th Le Mans 24 Hours
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14h38m The #81 Flying Lizard Motorsports Porsche is maintaining its lead in GTE Am with a decent advantage over the #61 AF Corse Ferrari. Both Larbre Competition entries have slipped back somewhat and run in third and fourth positions.
14h39m David Hallyday pits from second in the #48 ORECA
14h41m Second place in GTE Am pits and the #61 is in. This gives the #81 Flying Lizard Porsche and Darren Law a healthy lead.
14h42m Leader into the pitlane, as Audi crew prepare for a routine stop for Fassler in the #2 R18
14h42m Fassler exits ahead of Davidson in the #7 Peugeot
14h43m So, advantage Audi once again, as they keep the lead despite making two more stops than the Peugeot. Gap is just 4s now
14h44m The #73 Corvette pits from third place in the GTE Pro class.
14h44m Antonio Garcia stays on board the #73 and he's down and away.
14h46m Fassler and Davidson are racing for the lead here - Fassler completes lap 209 and the #7 Peugeot is just 4s behind. Bourdais in the #9 is 16s further down the road
14h47m Quick, routine pit stop for the lead petrol LMP1 car, the #16 Pescarolo-Judd
14h47m 14 hours and 50 minutes into the race, just 19s separate the top three - Audi from Peugeot and Peugeot.
14h48m Vanina Ickx hands over the #22 Kronos Lola to fellow Belgian Maxime Martin
14h50m Less than 1s now between Fassler and Davidson, the #7 Peugeot driver on a real charge
14h51m The #75 Prospeed Competition Porsche had recently climbed as high as fourth in GTE Pro, but Marc Goossens comes into the pits and the car is pushed back into the garage.
14h52m Davidson captures the lead for Peugeot at Indianapolis. Fassler tries to retaliate through Arnage but the Briton makes the move stick for now
14h53m Davidson pulls out 0.8s on the #2 Audi, registering a second consecutive 3m28s lap.
14h53m Montagny takes control of the #8 Peugeot meanwhile, replacing Nicolas Minassian
14h54m Davidson runs off at the first chicane down the Mulsanne straight! Fassler goes by, and Audi lead again - second lead change in two laps
14h56m The top four are really going for it now, turning laps regularly under 3m30s. This is stretching the race dramatically, with the fifth placed Pescarolo now six laps back.
14h57m Heavy traffic helps Fassler pull out a lead of 2.1s over Davidson. Bourdais meanwhile does a personal best, a 3:28.302s, to close to within 18s of the lead
14h58m Lead LMP2 car into the pits...Tom Kimber-Smith takes on fuel and is back out in the #41 Zytek-Nissan
14h59m Off goes the #88 Felbermayr Porsche from 14th in the GTE Pro category. Abdulaziz Al Faisal is behind the wheel as he sits in the middle of the gravel, waiting to be pulled out.
14h59m Looks like Davidson may have flat-spotted his tyres during that lock up, he seems to be suffering with a lot of vibrations on the in-car cameras
15h00m Fassler in the #2 Audi goes purple in S3 to eke his lead out to 3.2s - a personal best for his car for good measure as well
15h01m in LMP2, Kimber-Smith in the #41 Zytek-Nissan has a lead of almost exactly 60s now over the #48 ORECA
15h03m Fassler keeping up the pace in the #2 Audi R18, as he does a personal best in S2. Gap now stands at 3.4s
15h04m The #75 Prospeed Competition Porsche is still in the garage.
15h05m Oh! The #70 Larbre Competition car has had an excursion. Christophe Bourret reverses the car from the edge of the gravel and rejoins the circuit.
15h06m Fastest laps coming thick and fast, as Montagny registers a personal best
15h06m Safety Car comes out again
15h06m Now the #59 Luxury Racing Ferrari has ground to a halt on the circuit. Stephane Ortelli is behind the wheel.
15h07m Ortelli's stoppage has brought out this latest intervention.
15h07m He was running 10th in the GTE Pro class.
15h08m Into the pits for the #7 and #9 Peugeots. Davidson hands over the reigns. Possibly a strategic call that by Peugeot...
15h10m Ortelli's Ferrari is still stranded. Two marshals are helpfully flanking it, waving yellow flags.
15h11m A tractor unit has finally arrived on the scene and will tow the #59 Ferrari a short distance to the pit entrance.
15h12m Nicolas De Crem takes over at the wheel of the #49 OAK Racing Pescarolo
15h13m Safety Car may work to Audi's advantage, as Fassler takes a 2m22s lead now.
15h13m Davidson reflective about the timing of this Safety Car period. Bourdais in the #9 car jumped his #7 during the pit stops. Marc Gene now in the #7.
15h16m Big off for the #48 ORECA, with Hallyday at the wheel
By: Emlyn Hughes, Geoff Creighton, Simon Strang
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