9hrs: Davies hit by penalty

With Davies taking over from Herbert, who quadruple stinted in the preceding hours, Team Goh put Rinaldo Capello in its car and the Italian is charging hard to close the gap to the leader.

Third is still the Pescarolo C60 in the hands of former F1 driver Eric Comas. The French car is now running four laps off the lead but still holds a lap's advantage over Martin Short in the Rollcentre Dallara.

Amazingly, despite its 170mph shunt in the second hour, JJ Lehto is now fifth in the Champion Audi. The Finn is two laps behind the British-run Dallara, but at his current pace will catch it by dawn.

Oliver Gavin's Corvette leads the GTS class and sixth place overall but he is still embroiled in a battle with the Prodrive Ferrari currently in the hands of Alain Menu.

The next three cars are all comeback stories. The Kondo Dome coasted into the pits in the early stages with a technical problem but has since run trouble-free and has worked its way back up to eighth. Andy Wallace has dragged the Zytek back into contention after the car has suffered two punctures and the Justin Wilson/Ralph Firman/Tom Coronel Dome is flying in tenth after its earlier gearbox debacle.

The pressure is off the Sascha Maassen White Lightning Porsche after its main pursuer, Stephane Ortelli's Freisinger car, took a trip into the gravel and is now two laps behind the GT class leader.

Davies/Herbert/Smith Audi R8 LM1 141 laps completed
Ara/Capello/Kristensen Audi R8 LM1 140 laps
Ayari/Comas/Treluyer Pescarolo-Judd LM1 136 laps
Short/Barff/Barbosa Dallara-Judd LM1 136 laps
Lehto/Werner/Pirro Audi R8 LM1 132 laps
Gavin/Beretta/Magnussen Corvette GTS 132 laps
Enge/Kox/Menu Ferrari 550 GTS 132 laps
Katoh/Michigami/Fukuda Dome-Mugen LM1 130 laps
Wallace/Brabham/Shimoda Zytek LM1 129 laps
Coronel/Wilson/Firman Dome-Judd LM1 128 laps
Collard/Bourdais/Minassian Pescarolo-Judd LM1 126 laps
Andre/Leuenberger/Vanni Lola-Judd LM1 126 laps
Maasen/Bergmeister/Long Porsche GT 124 laps
Bosch/Sullivan/Biagi Ferrari 575 GTS 123 laps
McRae/Rydell/Turner Ferrari 550 GTS 123 laps
Kelleners/Ortelli/Dumas Porsche GT 122 laps
Rosa/van Merkstein/Caffi Porsche GT 121 laps
Bouchut/Goueslard/Dupard Ferrari 550 GTS 121 laps
Lammers/Dyson/Kaneishi Dome-Judd LM1 120 laps
Kurosawa/Nishizawa/Oriodo Porsche GT 119 laps
Hindery/Lieb/Rockenfeller Porsche GT 119 laps
Fellows/O'Connell/Papis Corvette GTS 119 laps
Alphand/Laveille/Almeras Porsche GT 119 laps
Binnie/Field/Sutherland Lola-Judd LM2 119 laps
Burgess/Collin/Bagnall Porsche GT 118 laps
Frei/Gounon/Hancock Courage-AER LM2 117 laps
Biela/Kaffer/McNish Audi R8 LM1 117 laps
Donaldson/Fisken/Nielsen Porsche GT 115 laps
Wilson/Montain/Hugenholtz Ferrari 360 GT 115 laps
Berridge/Caine/Stockton TVR GT 115 laps
Melo/Daoudi/de Fournoux Ferrari 360 GT 115 laps
Stirling/Lupberger/McGarrity Nasamax-Judd LM1 115 laps
Hezemans/Deletraz/Barde Ferrari 575 GTS 114 laps
Jeanette/Pickering/Derlot Courage-Willman LM2 111 laps
Nielsen/Elgaard/Moller Lister LM1 110 laps
Khan/Smith/Sugden Porsche GT 110 laps
Tomlinson/Greensall/Evans TVR GT 109 laps
Maurylaribiere/Boulay/Besson Reynard-Lehman LM1 105 laps
Newton/Erdos/Kinch Lola-MG LM1 98 laps
Terada/Roussel/Porta WR LM2 73 laps
Sharpe/Hyde/Cunningham Morgan 72 laps
Bouvet/Gommendy/Briere WR LM2 53 laps
Belmondo/Gosselin/Saviozzi Courage-AER LM2 80 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