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24 Hours of Le Mans
The 79th Le Mans 24 Hours
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15h06m Safety Car comes out again
15h06m Fastest laps coming thick and fast, as Montagny registers a personal best
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.
15h04m The #75 Prospeed Competition Porsche is still in the garage.
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
15h01m in LMP2, Kimber-Smith in the #41 Zytek-Nissan has a lead of almost exactly 60s now over the #48 ORECA
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
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
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.
14h58m Lead LMP2 car into the pits...Tom Kimber-Smith takes on fuel and is back out in the #41 Zytek-Nissan
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
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.
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
14h53m Montagny takes control of the #8 Peugeot meanwhile, replacing Nicolas Minassian
14h53m Davidson pulls out 0.8s on the #2 Audi, registering a second consecutive 3m28s lap.
14h52m Davidson captures the lead for Peugeot at Indianapolis. Fassler tries to retaliate through Arnage but the Briton makes the move stick for now
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.
14h50m Less than 1s now between Fassler and Davidson, the #7 Peugeot driver on a real charge
14h48m Vanina Ickx hands over the #22 Kronos Lola to fellow Belgian Maxime Martin
14h47m 14 hours and 50 minutes into the race, just 19s separate the top three - Audi from Peugeot and Peugeot.
14h47m Quick, routine pit stop for the lead petrol LMP1 car, the #16 Pescarolo-Judd
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
14h44m Antonio Garcia stays on board the #73 and he's down and away.
14h44m The #73 Corvette pits from third place in the GTE Pro class.
14h43m So, advantage Audi once again, as they keep the lead despite making two more stops than the Peugeot. Gap is just 4s now
14h42m Fassler exits ahead of Davidson in the #7 Peugeot
14h42m Leader into the pitlane, as Audi crew prepare for a routine stop for Fassler in the #2 R18
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.
14h39m David Hallyday pits from second in the #48 ORECA
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.
14h36m Fassler on a charge now, and he extends the #2 Audi's lead to more than 60s over Davidson in the #7 Peugeot
14h35m Panis pits in the #10 Matmut Peugeot
14h35m Orange hue on the hills of Le Mans now as the sun begins to make an early appearance, 14.5 hours into the race
14h34m Oliver Gavin is at the controls of the GTE Pro leading #74 Corvette. He has a one lap advantage over the #51 AF Corse Ferrari. Giancarlo Fisichella is back onboard that car.
14h34m Robert Kauffman in the #71 AF Corse Ferrari has reportedly been banned for the rest of the race for dangerous driving
14h31m Neel Jani in the #12 Rebellion Lola dives into the pits
14h31m Michael Waltrip pits the #71 AF Corse Ferrari. Some problem there for the American as the engine cover is lifted off by the mechanics.
14h31m #41 Zytek-Nissan protects its LMP2 lead, stretching it to 9s over #48 ORECA
14h29m The faintest flicker of sunrise playing out across the hill at the Dunlop curve, as Barbosa rejoins in the #33 Lola - which falls from 3rd to 5th
14h28m Problems for the fourth placed car in GTE Pro. Stephane Ortelli is another other car stuck out on the circuit in the #59 Luxury Racing Ferrari.
By: Emlyn Hughes, Geoff Creighton, Simon Strang
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