Toyota leads Porsche after five hours of Le Mans 24 Hours

Toyota's ability to go a lap longer between pitstops means the cars' strategies were out of sync by five laps, and Webber gave up a lead of around 30 seconds when he pitted for the sixth time just before the end of the hour to hand the lead to Kobayashi.

Webber finished his most recent stint strongly, including a new fastest lap of the race of 3m21.816s.

While the Toyota is able to stretch its fuel for 14 laps, Porsche is short-fuelling its car slightly to save time at its pitstops every 13 laps, gaining back some of the time that could be lost as the race goes on if Toyota ends up being able to make fewer stops.

Porsche had two cars in the top three by the top of the hour, with Marc Lieb pulling alongside Oliver Jarvis's #8 Audi just as it headed for the pits at the end of lap 75.

Anthony Davidson continues to run at the back of the leading factory LMP1 pack, paying the price for an unscheduled stop at the end of his first lap in the car in the previous hour when he felt a vibration on his first set of tyres.

LMP2 - RAO BOWS OUT OF LEAD FIGHT

By Mitchell Adam

Manor's time at the top of LMP2 is over, for now at least.

Roberto Merhi had built up a sizeable lead and Matt Rao was 30s clear of Thiriet by TDS Racing's Ryo Hirakawa as they started their first stints of the race.

However, Rao had no match for Hirakawa's pace and the gap was slashed dramatically, to the point that Hirakawa and G-Drive's Will Stevens were pressuring the Manor during the second half of the hour.

At 50 minutes past the hour, the trio were split by seven tenths, but as the out-of-sequence Stevens pitted, Rao spun at the first corner.

It meant Toyota protege Hirakawa enters the sixth hour with an 11s lead over Gustavo Menezes in the Signatech Alpine, with Matt Howson third for KCMG.

Rao is now fourth, one minute off the lead and only two seconds ahead of Stevens.

GTE PRO - FORD BACK ON TOP

By Scott Mitchell

Ford reclaimed the GTE advantage with a one-two-three after overhauling the Risi Competizione Ferrari.

Joey Hand moved to the front of the pack by catching and re-passing team-mate Ryan Briscoe, who he had fallen back behind with a long pitstop, and then catching the Risi 488 GTE of Toni Vilander.

The Finn's defence was stern, but brief, and Hand eventually took the lead.

Briscoe followed him by soon after, and then showed a sudden improvement in pace to catch the #68 Ford - only to stop a lap earlier than his team-mate.

He vacated his Ganassi-run GT for Scott Dixon and that lengthy stop for a driver change dropped the car to third.

In its place has come the #66 car in the hands of Stefan Mucke, thanks to Vilander making way for Matteo Malucelli in the Risi Ferrari that was just a couple of seconds behind Dixon's Ford at the end of the hour.

A Porsche 911 RSR was wheeled into the garage for the second consecutive hour, as Joerg Bergmeister's #92 car required checks to the rear end and did not emerge again.

That has promoted the #95 Aston Martin Racing Vantage to best-of-the-rest status in fifth, Marco Sorensen having taken full advantage of contact between the #64 Chevrolet Corvette C7.R and #71 AF Corse Ferrari to nip ahead of both earlier in the hour.

GTE AM - HEINEMEIER HANSSON LEADS

By Jack Cozens

David Heinemeier Hansson leads the GTE Am division in his #88 Abu Dhabi-Proton Racing Porsche after overtaking KCMG's Joel Camathias in the fifth hour.

The #88 car's previous hour-end leads weren't a true reflection of the order, with de facto leader Wolf Henzler having pitted just before the three- and four-marks respectively.

But with both cars on the same strategy, Heinemeier Hansson claimed the lead by overtaking Camathias part-way through his first stint in the #88 and moved into a six-second lead before Camathias visited the pits for his first stop.

Mathias Lauda took a trip through the gravel on the final stretch before the Ford chicanes, but was able to continue in third in the #98 Aston Martin.

POSITIONS AFTER FIVE HOURS