LM24 H5: Duval closes in on Audi team-mate Treluyer at front

The #1 e-tron quattro of 2012 race winners Benoit Treluyer, Marcel Fassler and Andre Lotterer continues to lead the way, although poleman Loic Duval began to close heading into the final stages of the hour.

In spite of occasional problems coming through traffic, Frenchman Duval ended the fifth hour just 38 seconds behind Treluyer, a reduction of 16s since the start of the hour.

Oliver Jarvis, having spent the past hour at the wheel of the #3 Audi, also upped his pace in the final minutes.

While unable to match the speed of the sister cars, he was able to stretch one more lap between his fifth and sixth stops. He now lies just over 1m20s off the lead.

Toyota meanwhile dropped further back, although both TS030 HYBRIDs remain on the lead lap.

Sebastien Buemi and Alexander Wurz were both regularly surrendering more than 3s per lap to their Audi counterparts.

Behind the lead quintet, Strakka's #21 HPD - now in the hands of Jonny Kane - has split the two Rebellion Lola-Toyotas.

Across in LMP2 the lead changed just before the hour, with Martin Plowman in the #35 OAK Racing Morgan-Nissan taking over at the front.

David Heinemeier Hansson is just 15s down the road in the sister #24 machine, with Roman Rusinov's #26 G-Drive/Delta-ADR ORECA-Nissan a similar distance again in third.

The highest non-Nissan powered car is the #34 Race Performance ORECA-Judd, currently seventh in class.

Frederic Makowiecki meanwhile stormed into the lead of GTE Pro, converting a deficit of around 10s into a 22s lead.

Stefan Mucke in the sister #97 Aston Martin Vantage upped his pace in response but was unable to stick with Makowiecki.

He was at least able to pull away from the chasing #92 Manthey-run works Porsche being driven by Romain Dumas.

The Frenchman regularly surrendered more than 3s per lap to the Vantages, sinking to a deficit of more than 60s.

As was the case at the start of the hour, the #61 AF Corse Ferrari continues to lead GTE Am, with Jack Gerber taking over from Matt Griffin.

POSITIONS AFTER 6 HOURS

Pos Cl      Car       Drivers                         Laps  Gap
 1. P1  #1  Audi      Lotterer/Treluyer/Fassler       73    
 2. P1  #2  Audi      Kristensen/McNish/Duval         73    +   38.607s
 3. P1  #3  Audi      Gene/Jarvis/di Grassi           73    + 1m24.097s
 4. P1  #8  Toyota    Davidson/Sarrazin/Buemi         73    + 1m47.788s
 5. P1  #7  Toyota    Wurz/Lapierre/Nakajima          73    + 2m09.792s
 6. P1  #12 Lola      Prost/Jani/Heidfeld             71    +    2 Laps
 7. P1  #21 HPD       Leventis/Kane/Watts             71    +   33.996s
 8. P1  #13 Lola      Beche/Belicchi/Cheng            71    +   41.874s
 9. P2  #26 Oreca     Rusinov/Martin/Conway           69    +    4 Laps
10. P2  #35 Morgan    Baguette/Plowman/Gonzalez       69    +   16.283s
11. P2  #24 Morgan    Pla/Brundle/H Hansson           69    +   30.887s
12. P2  #46 Oreca     Thiriet/Badey/Martin            69    + 1m24.865s
13. P2  #49 Oreca     P-Companc/Kaffer/Minassian      69    + 1m40.268s
14. P2  #38 Zytek     Dolan/Turvey/Luhr               69    + 2m09.890s
15. P2  #34 Oreca     Frey/Niederhauser/Bleekemolen   68    +    5 Laps
16. P2  #33 HPD       Tucker/Franchitti/Briscoe       68    +   15.563s
17. P2  #42 Zytek     Krumm/Mardenborough/Ordonez     68    +   31.382s
18. P2  #32 Lotus     Holzer/Kraihamer/Charouz        68    + 2m28.353s
19. P2  #43 Morgan    Gachnang/Mailleux/Lombard       68    + 2m56.817s
20. GTP #99 Aston     Makowiecki/Senna/Bell           67    +    6 Laps
21. GTP #97 Aston     Mucke/Turner/Dumbreck           67    +   22.911s
22. GTP #92 Porsche   Lieb/Richard Lietz/Dumas        67    +   49.809s
23. GTP #91 Porsche   Bergmeister/Pilet/Bernhard      66    +    7 Laps
24. P2  #30 Lola      Mowlem/Burgess/Hirschi          66    +   53.543s
25. GTP #71 Ferrari   Beretta/Kobayashi/Vilander      66    + 2m04.717s
26. GTP #73 Corvette  Garcia/Magnussen/Taylor         65    +    8 Laps
27. GTP #74 Corvette  Gavin/Milner/Westbrook          65    +   19.280s
28. GTP #98 Aston     Dalla Lana/Lamy/Auberlen        65    +   54.797s
29. P2  #45 Morgan    Nicolet/Merlin/Mondolot         65    + 2m39.588s
30. GTP #51 Ferrari   Bruni/Fisichella/Malucelli      65    + 3m38.218s
31. P2  #25 Oreca     Graves/Hamilton/Nakano          65    + 3m38.754s
32. GTA #61 Ferrari   Gerber/Griffin/Cioci            65    + 3m44.887s
33. P2  #48 Oreca     Hartley/Chandhok/Patterson      64    +    9 Laps
34. P2  #47 Morgan    Imperatori/Howson/Tung          64    +   23.788s
35. GTP #93 SRT       Wittmer/Kendall/Bomarito        64    +   30.207s
36. P2  #36 Alpine    Ragues/Panciatici/Gommendy      64    +   32.531s
37. GTA #55 Ferrari   Perazzini/O'Young/Case          64    +   57.586s
38. GTA #88 Porsche   Ried/Roda/Ruberti               64    + 1m00.126s
39. GTA #76 Porsche   Narac/Vernay/Bourret            64    + 2m17.102s
40. GTA #67 Porsche   Gibon/Milesi/Henzler            64    + 2m24.170s
41. GTA #96 Aston     Goethe/Campbell-Walter/Hall     64    + 2m30.797s
42. GTA #77 Porsche   Dempsey/Foster/Long             64    + 2m36.813s
43. GTA #81 Ferrari   Potolicchio/Aguas/Bright        64    + 2m42.711s
44. P2  #41 Zytek     Rossi/K-Smith/Lux               64    + 2m56.333s
45. P2  #40 Oreca     Dagoneau/Downs/Younessi         63    +   10 Laps
46. GTA #50 Corvette  Bornhauser/Canal/Taylor         63    +   56.629s
47. GTP #53 SRT       Farnbacher/Goossens/Dalziel     63    + 1m19.758s
48. GTA #75 Porsche   Collard/Perrodo/Crubile         63    + 2m39.992s
49. GTP #66 Ferrari   Bertolini/Faisal/Qubaisi        62    +   11 Laps
50. P2  #39 Lola      Porta/Brandela/Raffin           61    +   12 Laps
51. GTA #57 Ferrari   Krohn/Jonsson/Mediani           61    + 3m32.880s
52. GTA #70 Corvette  MacNeil/Rodrigues/Dumas         61    + 4m19.233s
53. GTA #54 Ferrari   Mallegol/Bachelier/Blank        60    +   13 Laps
54. P2  #28 Lola      Giroix/Haezebrouck/Ihara        19    +   54 Laps
55. P2  #31 Lotus     Weeda/Rossiter/Bouchut          17    +   56 Laps
56. GTA #95 Aston     Simonsen/Nygaard/Poulsen        2         Retired