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24 Hours of Le Mans
The 79th Le Mans 24 Hours
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16h28m Gardel took the lead for Larbre Competition in the GTE Am category, but he has since pitted the #50, handing first place back to the #81 Flying Lizard Porsche.
16h26m Meanwhile, at the front of the race Sebastien Bourdais continues to hold the lead. He is 15 seconds clear of the #7 Peugeot, with Lotterer now just 29 seconds back in the #2 Audi.
16h25m Dirk Werner pits the #55 BMW from fifth place in GTE Pro.
16h24m The #50 Larbre Competition Chevrolet Corvette goes back into the lead of GTE Am for the first time in around four hours.
16h23m Fresh rubber goes on the #81 after its smokey off and the car heads out with Spencer Pumpelly at the controls.
16h22m With the GTE Am leader limping back into the pits, its rivals take the opportunity to come in as well and battle is resumed.
16h20m Neiman is able to rejoin in the Flying Lizard Motorsports Porsche, but there is definitely some fluid leaking from the rear of the car.
16h19m The #81 leading entry in GTE Am runs wide and Seth Neiman takes a trip through the gravel.
16h18m Up front, the #9 Peugeot leads the #7 sister car by 12 seconds, with Lotterer now 32 seconds back - more or less the same gap as before the latest round of stops.
16h16m The #88 Felbermayr Porsche has now been abandoned following Al Faisal's incident a short while ago.
16h15m Sebastien Bourdais retakes the lead in the #9 Peugeot.
16h13m The leader pits and Lotterer brings the #2 Audi in at the end of a superb stint. It's a quick stop, fuel only and he's away again.
16h12m Nicolas Lapierre pits the #10 Oreca Matmut Peugeot and is currently seventh in the classification, 10 laps down.
16h10m The pace is amazing as Lotterer posts another new fastest lap of the race - 3m25.289s at the completion of lap 229.
16h09m Meantime, the situation changes at the front now. The hunter becomes the hunted and Lotterer will need to stay on it in a bid to keep a good gap to the two chasing Peugeots.
16h07m Beretta was third in GTE Pro and he is trying to reverse the car back onto the circuit, in order to get away again.
16h07m The #73 Corvette has gone straight on and gently nosed into the tyres at Arnage.
16h06m No driver changes for any of the Peugeot entries and they join the racetrack en masse.
16h05m The #2 Audi flashes by and takes over the lead of the race.
16h05m The leader pits and Bourdais hits his marks. In fact all three 908s come in for service.
16h04m Everyone in the pits who was asleep is now wide awake as the reality of the situation dawns. The top three are covered by just 35 seconds.
16h03m They complete lap 227 and the frantic pace continues. Both the leading #9 Peugeot (Bourdais) and third placed #2 (Lotterer) set identical lap times - 3m26.298s!
16h00m The top three are now covered by 31 seconds, as we reach two-thirds distance in the Le Mans 24 hours.
15h59m Bourdais responds with a new fastest lap of his own, but Lotterer comes straight back at him with 3m26.298s. This is turning into a qualifying battle!
15h58m Car #48 - the Team Oreca Matmut entry - has now officially retired from the race.
15h57m That slower lap was probably traffic-induced. Lotterer is back under 3m30s and the chase resumes.
15h56m Lotterer's pace has dropped off just slightly with a 3m32s lap the last time around. The gap between the #2 Audi and the two leading Peugeots is 37 seconds.
15h56m Al Faisal remains stranded in the #88 Porsche after that earlier off at Indianapolis and is phoning a friend - or the team perhaps.
15h55m The #73 Corvette comes in from third place in GTE Pro. Antonio Garcia climbs out and Olivier Beretta takes another turn behind the wheel. He rejoins the fight.
15h53m Lotterer is consistently under the 3m30s bracket now as his relentless chase of the two leading Peugeots continues.
15h52m It appears that the #81 Flying Lizard Porsche kept the lead following that recent stop in GTE Am.
15h51m The gap comes down yet again and Lotterer's #2 Audi is just 29 seconds behind Bourdais.
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!
15h49m Franck Montagny in the #8 continues to hound leader Bourdais in the #9 as he bids to get that one lap deficit back.
15h48m The leading #81 Flying Lizard machine pits in the GTE Am category.
15h48m Lotterer posts 3m27.710s - the fastest lap of the race - as he continues his pursuit of the two Peugeots ahead of him.
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.
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.
15h44m Across the line they go and Bourdais has not yet let his team-mate through and back onto the lead lap.
15h43m Montagny is continuing to push hard in the #8 machine and is about to unlap himself.
By: Emlyn Hughes, Geoff Creighton, Simon Strang
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