H6: More woes for Pescarolo

This forced Nicolas Minassian to drive into the garage and the mechanics to change various components on the car.

After approximately ten minutes, the C60 rejoined the race but was back into the garage after only one lap. The car is now running again but has dropped from third place to ninth, eight laps behind the leader.

The race is still led by Audi's R10 TDI No. 8, driven by Emanuele Pirro who, after another pitstop, is now on the team's first triple-stint driver of the race.

Eric Helary's No. 17 Pescarolo maintains second place, one lap behind the Audi.

The sister R10, however, is crawling back into the race thanks to a trouble-free run after having previously suffered from reliability gremlins.

Allan McNish has now taken the No. 7 car into fifth place, four laps behind Alex Yoong's Dome in third and Marcel Fassler's Courage-Judd in fourth.

Felipe Ortiz's Courage No. 9 suffered a puncture and dropped to 38th overall.

Thomas Erdos's MG-Lola is still in the lead of the LMP2 class after the car was handed over by Mike Newton. The No. 22 Radical-Judd, however, has dropped to third after losing second place to the No. 39 Lola-Aer.

No changes have occurred with the leading GT1 cars, with the No. 64 Corvette still in first place with Oliver Gavin at the wheel, while Pedro Lamy's Aston Martin No. 009 edging closer, twelve seconds behind.

Cirtek's customer Aston No. 62 is still in third with Antonio Garcia doing the driving, while the second works Corvette is half a minute further back.

The other works Aston, however, is coming back strongly in 19th place overall, after having been listed as 28th one hour ago. That means it is now eighth in the GT1 class, having clawed back two places.

The GT2 class is still led by the Porsche No. 83, with Lars-Erik Nielsen having taken over from Dominik Farnbacher.