Le Mans 24 Hours 15th hour: Lotterer's Audi e-tron leads into sunrise

Dindo Capello, who is 48 today, is in second position, lapping at a slightly less frenetic pace than poleman Lotterer.

Oliver Jarvis in the #4 Audi ultra still leads Nicolas Prost in the #12 Rebellion Lola by five laps. Prost is slowly being caught by the second Audi ultra driven by Marc Gene. Sixth-placed man Harold Primat spun on cold tyres shortly after the safety car came but has recovered in the #13 Rebellion Lola to keep the leading LMP2 cars at bay.

Ryan Dalziel is still circulating in his #44 Starworks HPD-Honda, clear of Soheil Ayari in the Pecom ORECA-Nissan, who is handing over to Pierre Kaffer on the hour.

The #48 Murphy ORECA-Nissan has been retired after Brendon Hartley's earlier incident.

Gianmaria Bruni leads GTE Pro in the #51 AF COrse Ferrari 458, with Stefan Mucke, who took over from Darren Turner moving into second position in the #97 Aston Martin, although the gap to Frederic Makoweicki's #59 Luxury Racing Ferrari is under 20s.

A pitstop has switched the positions at the front of GTE Am, with Nicolas Armindo in the #67 Imsa Porsche leading Patrick Bornhauser in the #50 Larbre Corvette by under 30s.

NOTES

- The #48 ORECA-Nissan driven by Brendon Hartley has retired after hitting the wall at the Porsche curves

- Faisal spins the #75 Porsche at Porsche Curves, hitting the wall to bring the safety car out

- Marcel Fassler spins the #1 Audi e-tron at the Porsche curves, handing the lead to McNish

- Dumas tipped into a spin while passing traffic at Ford chicane

- Davidson confirms he sustained a broken back as a result of huge earlier crash

- Westbrook loses a wheel, and with it the lead of the GTE Pro class

- Peter Dumbreck suffers blow-out in the #22 JRM HPD

- Spin at Ford chicane for #21 Strakka HPD

- Problems for the #7 Toyota following collision with DeltaWing at the restart

- #29 Gulf Racing Lola B12 the first official retirement

- #40 hit with a two-minute stop and go penalty for second pitlane speeding offence

- 30s pit stop penalties for #40 and #49 LMP2s for speeding in pitlane

- Audi hits early niggles, with Tom Kristensen the third unexpected delay for the marque across its four cars

- Early GTE Pro scrap between Corvette, Aston Martin and Ferrari

- #99 Aston Martin Vantage suffers early misfire and then retires with damage

POSITIONS AFTER 16 HOURS

Pos Car            Drivers                      Class  Laps  Gap
 1. #1  Audi       Lotterer/Fassler/Treluyer    LMP1   233   
 2. #2  Audi       McNish/Capello/Kristensen    LMP1   233   +   34.130s
 3. #4  Audi       Jarvis/Bonanomi/Rockenfeller LMP1   231   +    2 Laps
 4. #12 Lola       Prost/Heidfeld/Jani          LMP1   226   +    7 Laps
 5. #3  Audi       Gene/Dumas/Duval             LMP1   224   +    9 Laps
 6. #13 Lola       Belicchi/Bleekemolen/Primat  LMP1   221   +   12 Laps
 7. #44 HPD        Potolicchio/Dalziel/K-Smith  LMP2   219   +   14 Laps
 8. #22 HPD        Brabham/Dumbreck/Chandhok    LMP1   218   +   15 Laps
 9. #49 Oreca      Perez Companc/Kaffer/Ayari   LMP2   218   +   57.697s
10. #26 Oreca      Ragues/Panciatici/Rusinov    LMP2   217   +   16 Laps
11. #21 HPD        Leventis/Kane/Watts          LMP1   217   +   52.073s
12. #46 Oreca      Thiriet/Beche/Tinseau        LMP2   217   + 1m29.131s
13. #41 Zytek      Zugel/Julian/Gonzalez        LMP2   215   +   18 Laps
14. #33 HPD        Tucker/Bouchut/Diaz          LMP2   215   +   12.104s
15. #25 Oreca      Martin/Charouz/Graves        LMP2   214   +   19 Laps
16. #42 Zytek      Brundle/Brundle/Ordonez      LMP2   212   +   21 Laps
17. #45 Oreca      Briere/Nakano/Petersen       LMP2   210   +   23 Laps
18. #35 Morgan     H Hansson/Leinders/Martin    LMP2   210   + 2m00.143s
19. #51 Ferrari    Fisichella/Bruni/Vilander    GTEP   207   +   26 Laps
20. #15 OAK        Montagny/Kraihamer/Baguette  LMP1   207   + 1m47.284s
21. #97 Aston      Mucke/Fernandez/Turner       GTEP   206   +   27 Laps
22. #59 Ferrari    Makowiecki/Melo/Farnbacher   GTEP   206   +   16.567s
23. #23 Oreca      Tresson/Mailleux/Lombard     LMP2   206   + 2m26.536s
24. #38 Zytek      Hancock/Dolan/Kurosawa       LMP2   205   +   28 Laps
25. #71 Ferrari    Bertolini/Beretta/Cioci      GTEP   203   +   30 Laps
26. #30 Lola       Sims/Buurman/Iannetta        LMP2   203   +   12.114s
27. #67 Porsche    Pons/Armindo/Narac           GTEA   202   +   31 Laps
28. #50 Corvette   Bornhauser/Canal/Lamy        GTEA   202   +   23.322s
29. #66 Ferrari    Walker/Cocker/Wills          GTEP   201   +   32 Laps
30. #73 Corvette   Garcia/Magnussen/Taylor      GTEP   200   +   33 Laps
31. #57 Ferrari    Krohn/Jonsson/Rugolo         GTEA   199   +   34 Laps
32. #88 Porsche    Ried/Roda/Ruberti            GTEA   197   +   36 Laps
33. #70 Corvette   Bourret/Gibon/Belloc         GTEA   192   +   41 Laps
34. #40 Oreca      Frey/Hirschi/Meichtry        LMP2   190   +   43 Laps
35. #55 Porsche    Daniels/Palttala/Camathias   GTEA   188   +   45 Laps
36. #79 Porsche    Neiman/Pumpelly/Pilet        GTEA   188   +   46.647s
37. #43 Norma      Rosier/Haezebrouck/Thirion   LMP2   187   +   46 Laps
38. #61 Ferrari    Kauffman/Aguas/Vickers       GTEA   186   +   47 Laps
39. #17 Dome       Minassian/Bourdais/Ara       LMP1   173   +   60 Laps
40. #83 Ferrari    Rodrigues/Illiano/Ferte      GTEA   173   + 1h55m31.874s
41. #74 Corvette   Gavin/Westbrook/Milner       GTEP   172   +   61 Laps
42. #48 Oreca      Firth/Hartley/Hughes         LMP2   196   +   37 Laps
43. #77 Porsche    Lietz/Lieb/Henzler           GTEP   184   +   49 Laps
44. #75 Porsche    al Faisal/Curtis/Edwards     GTEA   180   +   53 Laps
45. #31 Lola       Holzer/Schultis/Moro         LMP2   155   +   78 Laps
46. #58 Ferrari    Ehret/Jeannette/Montecalvo   GTEA   146   +   87 Laps
47. #24 Morgan     Nicolet/Lahaye/Pla           LMP2   139   +   94 Laps
48. #7  Toyota     Wurz/Lapierre/Nakajima       LMP1   134   +   99 Laps
49. #80 Porsche    Bergmeister/Long/Holzer      GTEP   114   +  119 Laps
50. #28 Lola       Giroix/Badey/Johansson       LMP2   92    +  141 Laps
51. #8  Toyota     Davidson/Buemi/Sarrazin      LMP1   82    +  151 Laps
52. #0  DeltaWing  Franchitti/Krumm/Motoyama    CDNT   75    +  158 Laps
53. #81 Ferrari    Perazzini/Cadei/Griffin      GTEA   70    +  163 Laps
54. #99 Aston      Nygaard/Poulsen/Simonsen     GTEA   31    +  202 Laps
55. #16 Pescarolo  Collard/Bouillon/Hall        LMP1   20    +  213 Laps
56. #29 Lola       Ihara/Deletraz/Rostan        LMP2   17    +  216 Laps