6hrs: Herbert holds edge

Herbert has been able to lap consistently faster than Ara during his stint, with the Japanese driver's cause not helped by a brief off at the Mulsanne chicane.

The Pescarolo Judd of Benoit Treluyer remains third overall, but erstwhile fourth-place runner Jan Lammers has hit trouble in his Racing for Holland Dome. The car was forced to make a long pit-stop for a mechanical problem, and has dropped down to 19th spot. Martin Short has thus moved up to an amazing fourth in the Rollcentre Racing Dallara-Judd that he owns.

Further down the order, the Champion Audi R8 has now recovered to ninth overall, although the second Audi Sport UK machine lost further with a lengthy pit-stop.

GTS class leader Oliver Gavin has now moved up to fifth overall in his Chevrolet Corvette C5-R, and has been able to steadily pull away from the Prodrive Ferrari 550 of Peter Kox.

Petersen/White Lightning continues to lead the GT battle, with Patrick Long currently driving, ahead of Ralf Kelleners in the Freisinger Motorsport machine. The GT class sadly appears to have lost the works Morgan team, with Neil Cunningham forced to stop the machine out on track when his fuel tank ran dry.

Another GT car that continues to hit trouble is the Perrier/Perspective machine driven by Tim Sugden, which suffered its third puncture of the race, with the team at a loss to explain exactly why its Dunlop tyres were suffering so much.

Epsilon Sport driver Renaud Derlot continues to lead the LM2 class, although the previous class leading Courage has battled back up to second in class.

Davies/Herbert/Smith Audi R8 LM1 94 laps completed
Ara/Capello/Kristensen Audi R8 LM1 93 laps
Ayari/Comas/Treluyer Pescarolo-Judd LM1 91 laps
Short/Barff/Barbosa Dallara-Judd LM1 90 laps
Gavin/Beretta/Magnussen Corvette GTS 88 laps
Enge/Kox/Menu Ferrari 550 GTS 88 laps
Collard/Bourdais/Minassian Pescarolo-Judd LM1 87 laps
Andre/Leuenberger/Vanni Lola-Judd LM1 86 laps
Lehto/Werner/Pirro Audi R8 LM1 85 laps
Katoh/Michigami/Fukuda Dome-Mugen LM1 85 laps
Bouchut/Goueslard/Dupard Ferrari 550 GTS 85 laps
Maasen/Bergmeister/Long Porsche GT 82 laps
Fellows/O'Connell/Papis Corvette GTS 82 laps
Wallace/Brabham/Shimoda Zytek LM1 82 laps
Bosch/Sullivan/Biagi Ferrari 575 GTS 82 laps
Kelleners/Ortelli/Dumas Porsche GT 82 laps
Coronel/Wilson/Firman Dome-Judd LM1 82 laps
Jeanette/Pickering/Derlot Courage-Willman LM2 81 laps
Lammers/Dyson/Kaneishi Dome-Judd LM1 81 laps
Hezemans/Deletraz/Barde Ferrari 575 GTS 80 laps
Rosa/van Merkstein/Caffi Porsche GT 80 laps
Hindery/Lieb/Rockenfeller Porsche GT 80 laps
McRae/Rydell/Turner Ferrari 550 GTS 80 laps
Melo/Daoudi/de Fournoux Ferrari 360 GT 80 laps
Alphand/Laveille/Almeras Porsche GT 79 laps
Kurosawa/Nishizawa/Oriodo Porsche GT 79 laps
Wilson/Montain/Hugenholtz Ferrari 360 GT 79 laps
Burgess/Collin/Bagnall Porsche GT 79 laps
Berridge/Caine/Stockton TVR GT 79 laps
Binnie/Field/Sutherland Lola-Judd LM2 78 laps
Nielsen/Elgaard/Moller Lister LM1 78 laps
Donaldson/Fisken/Nielsen Porsche GT 78 laps
Frei/Gounon/Hancock Courage-AER LM2 76 laps
Khan/Smith/Sugden Porsche GT 73 laps
Stirling/Lupberger/McGarrity Nasamax-Judd LM1 71 laps
Tomlinson/Greensall/Evans TVR GT 70 laps
Biela/Kaffer/McNish Audi R8 LM1 70 laps
Belmondo/Gosselin/Saviozzi Courage-AER LM2 69 laps
Sharpe/Hyde/Cunningham Morgan 67 laps
Maurylaribiere/Boulay/Besson Reynard-Lehman LM1 64 laps
Terada/Roussel/Porta WR LM2 59 laps
Newton/Erdos/Kinch Lola-MG LM1 56 laps
Bouvet/Gommendy/Briere WR LM2 52 laps
Vasiliev/Fomenko/Nearn Porsche GT 65 laps
Bourdais/Blanchemain/Berville Panoz LM1 54 laps
Andrews/Lockie/Kumpen Lola-Caterpillar LM1 35 laps
Field/Dayton/Connor Lola-Judd 29 laps
Warnock/Matthews/Daniels Porsche 27 laps