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The 79th Le Mans 24 Hours
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15h17m The safety car period may be extended now to to this most recent incident.
15h17m Marshals trying to help coerce the #48 car back to the pits. It currently lies second in the LMP2 class
15h18m Looks terminal for the #48 ORECA - Hallyday is out the car, which is smoking at the side of the track
15h20m Audi #2 now holds a two minute lead over the #9 and #7 Peugeots, as they sit behind the next safety car some way back down the track.
15h22m #74 Corvette maintains the lead in GTE Pro, but Giancarlo Fisichella is now on the same lap in second place, with Antonio Garcia one lap back in the #73 Corvette.
15h23m Another pit visitor during this safety car period is the #49 Oak Racing machine. Nicolas de Crem is behind the wheel.
15h24m A flatbed truck has arrived on the scene to remove the #48 ORECA.
15h24m The #55 BMW is into the pits and now on its way back out to rejoin the snake.
15h26m Soheil Ayari is another driver into the pits in the #28 Signatech Oreca. That car is third in LMP2.
15h27m Car #48 is now on that flatbed truck and is being transported slowly back to the pits.
15h28m The safety car comes into the pitlane and we are racing once again.
15h29m Peugeot #8 peels into the pits immediately at the restart, leaving the top three to race away.
15h29m Four tyres and fuel for the #8. Franck Montagny remains in the car and he's away.
15h30m The #61 Ferrari has spun and sustained light damage to the rear after making light contact with the wall.
15h31m Meantime, the #16 Pescarolo pits from fifth. Collard stays on board and rejoins some six laps down.
15h31m The three Peugeots are together but separated by one lap as they head down the Mulsanne straight.
15h32m Audi #2 now has a lead of 67 seconds with the #9 and #7 Peugeots chasing hard. Fassler is due to stop soon.
15h33m Montagny is looking to try and get past his two team-mates in an effort to get that lap back.
15h34m Cars thundering past the pits at racing speed once again, waking one or two of the fans trying to grab a nap in the grandstand opposite.
15h34m The gap between first and second is down to 53 seconds as the trio of Peugeots make for an impressive sight from the helicam.
15h35m Hallyday's demise in the #48 ORECA has promoted the #28 Signatech Nissan into second place in LMP2.
15h36m Audi is ready and the leader peels into the pitlane.
15h36m Fassler brings the #2 in and there will be a driver change this time round.
15h38m Andre Lotterer climbs aboard as four tyres are changed and fuel is taken. He's down and away.
15h38m Peugeot #9 whistles by and into the lead of the race with the #7 car now in second place.
15h39m The #88 Felbermayer Porsche has ended up in the gravel at the kink approaching Indianapolis. He's getting tow to safety with a tractor.
15h41m Al Faisal is at the wheel of the #88 at the moment as it is dragged out of the gravel, some of which has spread onto the circuit.
15h41m Sebastien Bourdais leads on home soil with a narrow margin over the #7 sister car. The #2 Audi crosses the line a short while later.
15h42m The gap is timed at 40.707s between the two Peugeots and Lotterer's #2 Audi.
15h42m Race control warns of the slippery surface, with gravel on the road approaching Indianapolis.
15h43m Montagny is continuing to push hard in the #8 machine and is about to unlap himself.
15h44m Across the line they go and Bourdais has not yet let his team-mate through and back onto the lead lap.
15h46m Lotterer cuts the gap to the leader to 38 seconds. He flashes his headlights wildly to let the #33 entry know that he wants to come through and put another lap on it.
15h47m #41 the Greaves Motorsport machine still holds the lead in LMP2 ahead of the Signatech Nissan. The gap between them is two laps, with the #33 Level 5 Motorsports Lola another two laps behind in third.
15h48m Lotterer posts 3m27.710s - the fastest lap of the race - as he continues his pursuit of the two Peugeots ahead of him.
15h48m The leading #81 Flying Lizard machine pits in the GTE Am category.
15h49m Franck Montagny in the #8 continues to hound leader Bourdais in the #9 as he bids to get that one lap deficit back.
15h50m Lotterer has the gap down to 32 seconds and if this continues we will soon have the top three nose-to-tail once again. All this after almost 16 hours of racing!
15h51m The gap comes down yet again and Lotterer's #2 Audi is just 29 seconds behind Bourdais.
15h52m It appears that the #81 Flying Lizard Porsche kept the lead following that recent stop in GTE Am.
By: Emlyn Hughes, Geoff Creighton, Simon Strang
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