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00:00:00Much more straightforward Healey of Lance Macklin that was collected by the much higher speed traveling Mercedes and we saw the tragic results of that but the point really was is that what that did then is immediately made people even back in the 50s realized that spectators needed to be a safe distance so we could think about putting fences up that we could think about modifying some of the areas to view from and it's all kind of escalated from there if you will.
00:00:30Well it has and there's no question that it had an enormous effect upon motorsport and for want of a better word turned motorsport into motor racing because as a byproduct of what occurred the town races ceased and the circuit races became dominant to the point where there are very few town races at all now and very few races that take part on any
00:00:59form of public road not just on the continent where this was very prevalent but of course elsewhere too however looking back at that it was indeed an accident and like nearly every other accident in motorsport or motor racing you can go on examining the events leading up to it
00:01:29and for various reasons for various reasons I believe that if you are interested in that there is ample evidence to say that this was an accident caused by misjudgment it wasn't just a plain straightforward motor racing accident
00:01:45and it was caused by misjudgment which we won't go into any more about that but one of the things that we're seeing which is very prevalent when you come to motor racing and even driving on the road and that is that people have a great deal of difficulty in judgment in depths
00:02:03uh we all know that uh we all know that uh we all know that you know if you stick a post on one side of a car and a post on the other side driving between it
00:02:11uh if you keep on narrowing it uh it gets more and more difficult but one of the most difficult things to do in a motor car
00:02:18is to actually judge whether something is ahead of you and how far ahead of you and judgments in depth and the closing speed and things like that
00:02:28is why you do get incidents of this sort lecture over let's go to the lead but it's in the second and sounds and third now the important thing to remember is that we are still seeing
00:02:41the out is able to go a little bit longer uh at the moment it's 18 stops to 15 stops
00:02:51and uh it makes life quite interesting doesn't it really it does but despite all of that the pace is still
00:02:59slightly quicker at the moment where for alex verts right over alan mcnish and uh the gap is still over
00:03:05a lap so they're in a situation where which is relatively comfortable for le mans for the current days we can see
00:03:12the hankook porsche of the farmbacker racing of dominic farmbacker and uh alan siemensen
00:03:18and christian montanari obviously having had some sort of contact with something whether it was a
00:03:24part of the scenery or another car can't really tell from that i'm guessing more likely to be another
00:03:29another car because if it's scenery well that's going back out again that's number 89 going out
00:03:35and looking at the front of that car i have to tell you that i suspect he won't be very long before
00:03:41it's back again because uh i'm sorry to say that uh it has got a lot more damage on the front than
00:03:49they've got take to patch up with yeah exactly all the time to do it even you know it would have taken
00:03:55a fairly major major job to make that car completely pretty again but uh nevertheless this is what race
00:04:00teams are good at make the best of what you've got especially in endurance racing more so than anything
00:04:05else out goes the side fuel reset now one would assume that this is uh an effort made by the aston martin
00:04:18team to make a slight alteration i'm not sure how much information they get in the pit
00:04:29from the car in things like londerson sports car racing in comparison to formula one do you know
00:04:36simon yeah they get they they've got a fairly accurate level of info in terms of the uh we're
00:04:42talking about the display i'm thinking of mixture i'm thinking yeah i mean basically it's not as
00:04:47complicated as an f1 car but it there is a significant amount of adjustment they can in other
00:04:51words they if he is running a little weaker than they want you to they could say well rich on the
00:04:55mix exactly go go for basically a performance lap or an economy lab yeah um which is very significant
00:05:01it's a very good point that they can not only uh maintain that themselves but obviously the real-time
00:05:06telemetry i.e the peugeot engineers in this instance will be looking at their computer screens being able
00:05:12to get information fed back directly from the car to them they'll look at that interpret it and be able
00:05:18to give information to the driver along the lines of turn the fuel mixer up turn it down try and use more
00:05:23revs here less revs there whatever it may be they can give them some very constructive advice even to
00:05:28the point of understanding where they're at with tire wear tire degradation etc based on temperatures
00:05:34and pressures etc so there's an awful lot of information it's collated and uh translated if you
00:05:41like in a fairly straightforward way but ultimately the driver is it's kind of getting a two-way thing
00:05:47something that you can see in the cabin in the cockpit of the car or something that he's getting told by his
00:05:52teams we see we just saw dindo capello are clearly ready to take over for mcnish and as it's uh sebastian
00:05:59bordet also in a position to take over the number eight car from third position from stefan sarrazan
00:06:10it's interesting to watch the uh aston martins uh all four cars still running
00:06:16one of the ones we know well down but um it's equally interesting in spite of the charles troubles and
00:06:24tribulations three aston martins in the top dozen which is not bad let's face it um and uh
00:06:35yes okay we know that um the car appeared for the first time last year but it was the uh late
00:06:42uh entrant of jaguars to walkinshaw not late to walkinshaw who said it takes three years
00:06:52to get a car that's capable of winning them all yeah and that was uh proved to be pretty much
00:06:58truly in 1984 85 was when the jaguars came back as a factory team twr jags and of course 88 it's a famous
00:07:05victory for them and uh again in 1990 so really it was a a period for group c racing where jaguar on top
00:07:15world champions in 1987 round was on board and uh 88 of course with martin brundle again yes we were
00:07:24hearing it uh on the thursday ever a situation that arose in the jaguar team between two of their drivers
00:07:34who were competing for the championship and everybody was being very pussy-footed about it
00:07:41and saying uh they weren't mentioning any names what have you so i wrote the names down and everybody
00:07:47was happy well it's a way around the problem isn't it yeah the uh 39 year old scotchman comes in his wife
00:07:55kelly and kids will be down to see at home in monaco looking on interesting well maybe the kids won't be up
00:08:01at this point but um well it's a very small trial isn't he he has yeah i'll tell you what made me laugh
00:08:06actually again when we were talking about this uh in there is literally shall we say a fairly miniature man
00:08:13uh and somebody said well of course they're interesting sorry nev the audi is going into the
00:08:18garage that is a significant development for audi and for ferjo now very significant watch with interest
00:08:24the seat he holds the seat away for dindo capello to get in the dindo seat being put back in again
00:08:30and uh or put in and the engine cover off the back could this be a setup change or is there a problem
00:08:37with the car we're going to watch with interest to see what the uh audi top service as they sell their
00:08:42suits are going to be able to do to get this car back out quickly of course they've not fueled at this
00:08:49stage or did they feel i think they fueled i think they've tired i think that they are actually
00:08:56doing something behind the car which is obscured uh from our view
00:09:04but dindo went in and dindo's got strapped in and he's got strapped in a bit quick
00:09:11they've still got the headlights on they have obviously been stationary for longer than they would like to be
00:09:17the aco official is telling the photographers to please go away i think he's put it more strongly
00:09:24than that um he's one of these vulnerable frenchmen who basically says go away you could hear what he
00:09:33was saying and he's still telling them but this is a very very important stop because it certainly has
00:09:42taken far more time than we had anticipated but just looking at the timing screens and this means
00:09:48almost certainly that uh well remember the eight car's got to come in for a stop as well as they
00:09:52start to wheel the car back out again it's going to get spun around on these really great jacks that
00:09:57these the teams use the air jack will go in raise the car firing the engine up if she gets the car fire
00:10:05uh dindo rather gets the car fired up and away they go now whether the sarrazan car has been over
00:10:11to take a significant enough amount of time out of the number one audi or not we will have to
00:10:17wait and see well that would look to me like a two minutes and 49 seconds stop unless i'm very very
00:10:23much mistaken i think you're right actually it sounds about right looked about right that looks about
00:10:29right and i would guesstimate that that makes a battle between the mallet we've got a huge amount of
00:10:35now what's it somebody reversing that looks like an audi to me it's the one car i'm sure no it's not
00:10:44it's an audi it's the 15th it's the 50th car christian macarood if the a10 uh
00:10:51uh background and alba's car i don't know whether he did it on his own there was another car off in
00:11:00the gravity it looks like possibly the jets alliance yes it is a jet alliance aster which has had a
00:11:09torrid day as well right up there with the uh the aston number 009 now that is alex muller he's been
00:11:16off already and i think it's an element of and that looks a bit dented in the side unless i've
00:11:23very much mistaken doesn't it do you do i yeah it does look a bit here difficult to say because of the
00:11:28way that the light's falling up on the side of the car it's quite quite curved at that point meanwhile
00:11:35007 is in for uh a stop that's the leading aston in fifth place
00:11:42that's the uh aston martin eastern europe entry yeah and this of course is the crew or the driver
00:11:54driver combination that finished i think they were ninth overall last year in the lola aston martin last
00:12:00year was it the first time it ran in the the car which is actually being driven and being run by the
00:12:04speedy sebar team this weekend for nikolau prost um who is sharing the car with neil yarni a very talented
00:12:11young man from switzerland and of course that car however was the uh thomas enga car no it was a
00:12:20charu car yeah um but we've just seen make what appeared to be on the face of it a perfectly normal
00:12:27stop i'll have a look and tell you it was 141. so persia have gone up into second now as a result of
00:12:34that longer stop for ala mcdish swapping over to dindo capello and now the gap it looks like they've
00:12:41even moved a lap ahead of the audi so 203 laps is the leading verts our peugeot 202 for sarazan in
00:12:51second place in the peugeot as well 201 for capello then 200 laps for benoit trellure who's in the privateer
00:13:00pescarolo pegeot before it starts to spread out a little bit further down the 007 guy fifth the uh
00:13:06audi and six the 14 car and the 15 car just surely will have dropped out of the top 10 as a result
00:13:12because that nicolau frost speedy sebar aston is going to have closed down as a result of that off
00:13:17for um christian albert's christian backward rather and that last lap uh for capello i'm a little
00:13:27concerned about because it was a 338 and that wasn't an out lap that was a flying lap which is
00:13:35considerably slower than it ought to be so the battle has joined again it's now perjo in first place car
00:13:44number nine car number eight in second place capello in number one with the audi fighting a singleton
00:13:51battle against the might of france well aston martin in the pits that's the one that doesn't count effectively
00:14:02and we've got
00:14:09the leading car due another spot i'll stop in a few minutes time as well
00:14:18so that's something else that we should keep an eye to because i'm looking at the actual number
00:14:22of pit stops and at the moment the sarazen car also as must be due pit stop too
00:14:28now down in the pit lane we have david brabham's going to be talking to us now
00:14:38you just finished your relay you are you leading the race
00:14:41how is the car how is uh
00:14:43uh
00:14:45uh yeah i think it's been going okay uh we're doing exactly everything that we need to at this stage
00:14:51the car's running fine we don't have any particular issues so it's going well
00:14:55we can see that the struggle between the the leaders is very close yes yeah it is um
00:15:01i think it'll be like this all the way to the end so uh you know we've just got to keep doing what
00:15:05we're doing really so you're pushing at the maximum i wouldn't say pushing 100 to the maximum just
00:15:11trying to save the the car and the tires as best we can the brakes because you know we're going to need
00:15:17them at the end of the race so now it's time to sleep for you at what time you will restart now it's
00:15:22time to sleep for you at what time you will restart um yeah i'm definitely going to go and have a
00:15:27sleep i haven't slept yet so i'm going to do that uh and i'm in three or four hours later so
00:15:37good to hear from david there i think it was a little while ago that interview is done i think
00:15:41david probably is tucked up and is in his little uh little koala pajamas or whatever aussies were
00:15:48yeah that was actually uh an interview that we took around about 30 minutes ago before this latest little
00:15:54bit of drama uh which has seen the change in the situation now this is seven car
00:16:11so we've actually having had no interviews tall for a little while i have a little bit of spate of one
00:16:17and here's the one that i think could be just as interesting as the one we just had with david brevon
00:16:22problem this is the one with capello who of course uh has uh just got into the car i seem to recall
00:16:30a few minutes ago so let's hear what he's got to say
00:16:36window halfway of the race it's quite close but uh you your audience uh the only one to to be able to
00:16:44fight to fight for the lead yeah at the moment unfortunately there is only one audi
00:16:52which can fight with pegeot yeah it was not a very good race till now but our speed is getting
00:17:02better compared to the beginning of the race but i think it will be hard fight but at the moment it
00:17:09looks like anyway our competitors are still a little bit faster than us and uh but anyway we we have to
00:17:17push till the end and we will see what's happened but at the moment for sure it looks better for them
00:17:22than than for us but there is still 12 hours to go yeah that's that's the man we are exactly in the
00:17:31in the middle of the race and half race and uh it looks already that we drove so much but we have to
00:17:40to drive still exactly the same at the same time we have driven till now and you know so many things
00:17:47happened already after one hour now we have again 12 hours 12 hours to go and uh you will try to keep
00:17:57safe or to push the maximum it's always a compromise between pushing and avoid the mistake you have to
00:18:06keep safe to go to not to take stupid risk especially in the night with the slower car but from the other
00:18:14end you have to push as much as you can how many stilts will you do i think again for four stilts
00:18:21thanks a lot well hearing from dindo there you can see that they're clearly got a very uh a very calm
00:18:31and resigned approach to it obviously appreciate that at the moment perjot got the edge that uh
00:18:35slightly delayed stop seemed to affect uh obviously the positioning from their point of view that the
00:18:41sarrazane car now the number eight car has managed to edge ahead meanwhile the number seven car well just
00:18:46as it's worked its way back into a a decent challenging position let's not forget it's coming
00:18:51from all the way from fairly near the back with poor old padrio lammy on board once again into seventh
00:18:56position and now some sort of a problem has uh obviously caused the guys to bring the car into the
00:19:03garage looks like that that be i don't know if that's a stay that goes underneath the body work on the
00:19:08side but basically under the floor if you like whether that is actually part of the suspension perhaps
00:19:13it's very hard to tell from that angle but a lot of work going on somewhere towards the rear of the
00:19:17car and remember we had that broken suspension for the eight car which put it out of its leading
00:19:21position so well wonder if that perhaps could be a uh a similar situation now devil hey and myself
00:19:28simon hill have been joined by martin haven look very fresh and revived absolutely i mean from straight
00:19:36from the shower i would say amazing what a drop of water can do for you in two and a half hours sleep
00:19:41uh alan munich incidentally just saying uh after his pit stop that there was no drama with the rear
00:19:47end of the car all they were doing was clearing muck out of the brake ducts so they were not overheating
00:19:52but they were taking the opportunity instead of going for a fifth stint for him uh when they were
00:19:57changing over to dinder capello to spend that extra 30 seconds or so just making sure there were no added
00:20:03dramas and he's saying the car is now in the sort of position where they've actually got a race car it's
00:20:09it's got good balance and whether that remains as the daylight comes back and there is some heat in
00:20:15the track or not at the moment they have got a weapon with which to fight the two remaining well
00:20:21three remaining strong purgeo yeah let's not forget they're okay they're not on the lead lap anymore but
00:20:26they're lapping at a really good pace relative to the lead purgeo excuse me and there's 12 hours to go
00:20:33these boys the jet alliance car just been off into the gravel as a result of contact we think
00:20:39with the collars audi i said we didn't see the beginning of it but the evidence was there
00:20:44collars audi jet alliance car both in gravel therefore go figure as they say yeah pretty much it seems at
00:20:50this time of night uh the margins for error just squeezed out a little bit it is the darkest part of the
00:20:56morning obviously and uh just into the second half of the race so anybody around now is about another
00:21:0410 hours to go of survival before they start to think about racing for a position on the podium and
00:21:10the jet alliance car it's not the first time it's been off possibly may not be the last that is one of
00:21:15the dangers unfortunately of being one of the slower class cars so the uh car lying in what uh fourth
00:21:26position still in that uh gt1 class of course the other two cars 72 and 68 don't actually exist anymore
00:21:34they've both been removed from the race so it is the last remaining gt1 car of course aster martin
00:21:41represented in three classes and the team would very much having got halfway at least like to get
00:21:47the car all the way to the end even if they can't quite struggle onto the podium
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00:22:04the road to south africa and just over halfway through the world cup qualifying campaign
00:22:09it means there's still plenty to play for but who has the magic and who'll find it tragic
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00:23:09mitchell partner of endurance racing mitchell and green x challenge
00:23:12welcome back live to le mans this is the number eight peugeot of stefan sarazan second car
00:23:22on the lead lap and sarazan in the pits for very quick turnaround this is going to be very much a
00:23:30factor of the battle at the moment now between peugeot and audi is that every single second
00:23:36that is spent in the pit road will cost them dear and never has been a factor of audi's races over the
00:23:44years that they have spent less time in the pits than anybody else and that's really always been the
00:23:50secret of their success over in a lot of cases very strong opposition and and it has to remain so
00:23:56between persia and audi at the moment that the time you spend stationary is going to be probably what
00:24:02decides the race yes it has and um there's one other little point i just bring up which i'm i'm sure
00:24:08will upset your sensibilities uh we are looking now at car number nine alexander vertz in the lead
00:24:17partnered by a chap called brabham and uh then we're looking at the second place car which has
00:24:25another chap called bordeaux and another fellow also who comes from a similar country there is
00:24:35actually one lap or thereabouts between them oh i hope we're not going to see uh what i would describe
00:24:44as a little show put on which would be unfair i think in a way because what we would like to see i
00:24:52think all of us is we'd like to see peugeot do well in this race it'd be all too easy to throw it all
00:24:58away uh if they're basically pushing each other and of course sitting there at the singleton entry with
00:25:06nobody else to bowl of at all at the moment we have uh the tried and trusted trio in the audi now in
00:25:15third place having had a longer stop yes but that longer stop was done for a reason what do you think
00:25:23well i think at the moment there is no question of whether or not the pegeots are racing each other
00:25:29they are racing each other by default because both of them are desperately trying to go as quick as
00:25:34humanly possible to beat the audi and that's exactly the same for this man's car ori pescarolo with his
00:25:41car in fourth place benoit treluye has completed 204 laps compared to 206 of the race leader but uh his car is
00:25:51very much a contender for outright victory and for pescarolo this would be the culmination of
00:25:58a decade of experience and more as a team owner he is desperately trying to win this race as he did as
00:26:04the driver and uh having hoped that with his long involvement with pegeot he'd be involved as car
00:26:11number seven comes to a halt he'd be involved in running a factory pegeot entry he was denied that
00:26:16opportunity but he has got a chance to win le mans on his own recognizance even if it is with somebody
00:26:23else's chassis he's uh started with courage chassis with pegeot engines as a customer he's uh developed
00:26:30the courage chassis into what he wanted in his own pescarolo and that car of course still running in
00:26:36eighth place ral barbosa it seems never out of it but the chance to win with car number 17 is still
00:26:44very much a reality let's face facts that although things have quietened down a little bit during
00:26:49the night this is now where the relentless grind of le mans continues we're behind the pescarolo team
00:26:55as they watch the number 17 uh number 18 servicing their sorry the number 19 servicing the lead car
00:27:03alexander works heads back out fuel and tires and we know that the
00:27:09pegeots have been double stinting their drivers early on they've been triple stinting their tires
00:27:14all the way through the darkness hours and they can continue to do so as long as they need to and
00:27:21they will need to until three o'clock tomorrow afternoon so 11 hours and 20 minutes remain
00:27:28as we're so fond of saying here at le mans when we can't think of anything much better to say
00:27:32still a very very long motor race this is uh what 40 minutes into sebring so that's the uh indication
00:27:40of just what a mammoth task faces them and was that the audi going by
00:27:48have to wait and see did their capello taking over from alan mignish there was some talk
00:27:53before the pit stop possibly alan was saying that last year he could just about he thought of done a
00:27:58fifth stint but uh they needed to get the car into the back of the garage and have a quick check
00:28:05over clear out those brake tugs nikolab pross coming out in the number 13. this is the lola aston martin
00:28:13from last year of course he's acquitted himself quite well in that car um he didn't have shall we
00:28:19say the bells and whistles of a fine single seated career that led him to formula one like his father
00:28:25who he tends to look more and more like every time i see him he looks more like absolutely but he does
00:28:30seem to have become a very good solid sports car performer performer with a a good enough turn of
00:28:36speed and a good reputation for not throwing it at the scenery and who knows maybe one day he'll do
00:28:42something which his father didn't do which is to put his name on the trophy here at le mans yeah
00:28:47benjamin loyenberger brings the speedy sabah lola coupe to a halt and that car third in the lmp2 class
00:28:56and never for many hours the two porsches were a lap or two ahead there is still a gap between the
00:29:03cars casparel guards essex racing porsche is four laps ahead of seiji ara's car and that is two laps
00:29:10ahead of benjamin loyenberger's car here in third place in the lmp2 category so there are laps between them
00:29:16and so far they have gone pretty thoughtlessly through the race but there at least are no other
00:29:23cars between them on the timesheets although that might soon change the number 10 oracle car driven
00:29:28by chaga montero is a lap behind the speedy team's lola coupe one of their two cars of course one in
00:29:37this blue and chrome livery the other one in the red and chrome we've just seen they've actually stuck
00:29:42very happily there in 13 14 and 15 places fighting it out together um it's about where they should be
00:29:50with the predominance of lmp1 cars at the moment um equally it never ceases to amaze me that uh the
00:29:58chevrolet is up there in 18th place uh you can't call it anything but a little bit agricultural but it
00:30:07can get the job done well it is thunderingly quick as well as earth shatteringly noisy and still the
00:30:13prototype drivers find that gt1 corvette or those gt1 corvettes enormously hard to overtake they are so
00:30:21fast and there are not enough corners here really for the prototypes to make an easy difference they can
00:30:27make a difference but not an easy one he taking notice car receiving attention in the passenger compartment
00:30:34and now he is ready to go we'll take a quick commercial break be right back here at le mans
00:30:47after a broken collarbone and the tough and testing giro is lance armstrong ready at last for the ultimate
00:30:53challenge to win an eighth tour of france at the age of 38 can he outpace the favorites and master the route
00:31:01in a race which schedules the grueling mont Ventoux just 24 hours before the finish in paris
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00:32:03the mulsanne straight at night we're on board with the corvette c6r the factory pratt and miller car
00:32:12and here's a chance actually to experience what the lamont straight looked like at night let's
00:32:16sit and ride along for a moment or two
00:32:33great pictures from the mulsanne straight and the bellowing sound of the corvette c6r we're
00:32:40joined in the booth at the moment by uh dailysportscore.com's graham goodwin and uh
00:32:46graham bringing us uh disappointing news i'm afraid for british fans regarding uh team lmt's car i'm
00:32:51afraid so just noticed on the time and scoring screens that uh car we've been keeping around from
00:32:55the side of the race uh was dropping down the order number six team lmt uh geneta zaitek this the car
00:33:02that features nigel moore uh youngest ever british starter in the race uh amongst the driver line
00:33:07up and uh just hearing the pit lane uh from richard dean uh nigel entirely okay but the car apparently
00:33:14catching fire on nigel's in that um apparently a reasonably aggressive fire at that nigel's back in
00:33:19the pits he's okay the car i'm afraid is in retirement so i think that's the time the of the
00:33:24of the race martin and considering the amount of uh topsy turpiness that's gone on in the first 12
00:33:30hours that we've only lost eight cars is really really quite staggering and testament to just
00:33:36how fixable and survivable these cars are i mean it's quite incredible i think that's absolutely
00:33:41right i mean you can barely believe it can't you i think we were working out some time ago that
00:33:44there's been a reasonably significant incident up until about the 10th or 11th hour about every 15
00:33:49minutes um and it is a testament to the way these cars are now built how reliable they are and also
00:33:54actually the professionalism of those crews um you know that the the tiredness of fatigue is now
00:33:59beginning to hit i'm sure in very many of those garages there's going to be some unpleasant sights
00:34:03i'm sure to be seeing around the back there where people are falling basically sleeping where they
00:34:07fall but um these guys really do work extraordinarily hard not just for the 24 hours but for this entire
00:34:14week to actually make this happen i'm gonna say it's a it's a it's a tough week and this has been a
00:34:18tougher than some because wednesday we had all that rain which meant that you've got to go for a wet
00:34:24setup you've got to go for a wet setup there'd be no testing that any cars never been here before
00:34:31totally different setup to anybody's experience then we have to thursday where it's a different
00:34:36story and then we've got uh today where it's been really exceptionally hot and that's going into the
00:34:43garage there the pedro army car yes losing more time now the car was up on the uh stands a while ago and
00:34:50they were clearly working underneath the car right at the back giving it a good polish and everything
00:34:54else but uh looks like this car is significant number of woes still being attracted to it and
00:35:00in some ways you feel sorry for the crew graham but i'm sure their teammates are going well
00:35:04you just attract all the bad luck you know that's that's why i mean nobody wants that particularly for
00:35:09their teammates but on the other hand you don't want any of it to to meander across the garage into
00:35:13your part well sort of the seven car uh it seemed like about 10 minutes ago that car stopped our
00:35:17company which has done more than a couple three laps since its previous uh trip into the garage
00:35:21and there it seemed to be that the main attention was going into cleaning things out i mean there's
00:35:25a lot of cars been suffering from a lot of well god knows what really all sorts of rubbish actually
00:35:31yeah rubbish debris i think and one of the things i think as you'll know from talking to the drivers
00:35:36is that audi has suffered from is not having a car set up for a track that is green green green now
00:35:41this is fifth and sixth in the lmp2 category but it's still on pit road you saw guillaume rose
00:35:47black and pink car sitting down there the 35 car looks like they were topping up uh differential fluid
00:35:53and tommy erdos taking over the number 25 rml lola master coupe and again a long stop to clear out
00:36:02all the ducks this is something that i mean alan mcnischius stopped just uh now when he handed over to
00:36:06dindo capello car back in the garage clearing the muck out of the ducks there is a lot of
00:36:11rubber buildup and dust and so on and i wonder if the fact that the track was so dusty still after
00:36:17very little running means that actually the rubber pickup is just more significant it's actually got
00:36:22more stuff more gunk to collect well certainly earlier in the week the audi guys were complaining
00:36:27about uh dramatic understeer because the track was in their terms so green that it was taking a long
00:36:33time for the rubber to go down whether or not that is um a mark of the fact these tires are actually
00:36:38going to last far longer because of the new uh rules we've now got uh the tire changes i don't know
00:36:43whether or not actually that rubber when it does actually fall off or get rubbed off the tire in some
00:36:48way it's just stickier and more destructive but we certainly have been having an awful lot of lengthy
00:36:53stops for just a darn good cleanup and you know for those that haven't seen these cars after a you know
00:36:58a good stint or two uh with one or two of these body panels off it's an amazing amount of rubbish
00:37:03that actually uh collects in there whether or not it's been through a gravel trap it's dust it's gravel
00:37:08but that the rubber buildup is quite phenomenal you can make another set of tires with you grab
00:37:11out those ducks i spoke to alan winish around supper time yesterday and he was saying that when they
00:37:16got to the start of the race with just four hours of running on the track during qualifying when
00:37:20they're actually able to do anything about picking up the muck and the dirt and the dust and clearing
00:37:25away the litter you know stones gravel bits of grass and everything else he said when they got to the
00:37:30start of the race it was almost like the afternoon of the first day of the test weekend the track was
00:37:36starting to change a bit and you know now in the middle of the night it is a bit rubbered up it's a lot
00:37:41cleaner but it hasn't had that long progress of uh thursday and friday picking up the dirt off the track
00:37:48and moving it away and so that's what they're finding they're doing now when they're into the second
00:37:52half of the race this is the uh paul drayson car the 87 aston martin the gt2 category car which timing
00:38:01page three would be quite useful for but we don't seem to be able to get that on our telly it would
00:38:09seem though that the audi does have this problem whether they like it or whether they don't that
00:38:15aerodynamically it's a brilliant idea but it does pull it more dirt than you can possibly imagine
00:38:21well one of the problems graham i suppose with having airflow going all the way through the car
00:38:25is that the mug goes all the way through the car as well uh yeah and you know and it's it's a long
00:38:30track bear in mind these are you know public roads for the most part it's not like a kind of billion
00:38:35smooth a bit of table smooth um you know race track when you'd normally get road racing on this you
00:38:40know this public road and and listening to bald racing uh experiencing this try the track for the first
00:38:46time particularly in kind of wet dry conditions on wednesday um you know you do get diesel spills
00:38:51and you're not quite sure what you're going to find in the apex of the corner and it is completely
00:38:54different and once the guys have got the heads around that it is probably the most awesome place
00:39:00they're ever going to race in their lives until they do it's a scary place to actually try to fill
00:39:04your way around in a car that perhaps you're not that familiar with i think that's probably not a bad
00:39:08thing it teaches them immediate respect for the track that 87 car with marino franchiti on board 38th
00:39:14of our 49 cars so that's uh umpteenth in the gt2 class there you go yep chasing the 99 ferrari which
00:39:23is four or five laps in front of but actually all they're really interested in like a number of cars
00:39:29in the second half of the field is making it to the flag because you can't learn about lamarna by sitting
00:39:34watching it not as a driver you have to have done hours and hours and hours of relentless lapping
00:39:40even to really get a feel for what you're up against now obviously marino has got the experience
00:39:45all jason and johnny cocker considerably less so so uh still you know young team and that gt2 project
00:39:52the pro drive aston martin racing people now really starting to concentrate on making that a competitive
00:39:57car because of course they want to sell them to customers so it's very much their remit to try and
00:40:02make that car as successful as they can yeah it's a good looking car it's a great sounding car which
00:40:07is always popular here at le mans i said there's no better place to hear a racing car go by than
00:40:11here at le mans it still has got some way to go yet in terms of being competitive ultimately on
00:40:16performance there is a game plan around that they've done a lot of development it's certainly far more
00:40:20reliable than it's ever been so far uh clearly what aston martin racing are actually hoping for now
00:40:25is to get the odd break or two from the rule makers uh their selling point is it's cheaper than a
00:40:30porsche it's cheaper than a ferrari if actually what you want is more variety and bigger grids
00:40:35there's part of your answer danny watts jumps out the stracker racing car is in 17th place so he's
00:40:41making himself a lot easier to find out just in front of tom coronel in uh sorry johnny o'connell
00:40:47in the 63 corvettes 17th and 18th place at the moment just a lap between them and that uh chinetta
00:40:56what would be the next position stefan or telly i suppose is just one lap ahead of them in the number
00:41:0210 car so battle between them and the oreca car and of course you mentioned the gt2 rivals for the
00:41:08aston martin porsche ferrari well you know they're both porsche not a decade down the road but this
00:41:14particular car a decade down the road of course it's got an awful lot of experience from 956 962
00:41:21and stretching back uh running in that car so yeah i mean pro driver starting that project from the
00:41:27you know from a zero starting point and trying to catch the front runners and as we've seen audi
00:41:33prove if you start behind it takes quite a long while to catch up yeah and they're not the only ones
00:41:38of course we're looking from uh from your commentary booth down at the corvette racing uh pits and if
00:41:43things go well in what's a tricky time at the moment for general motors then what we're going to be
00:41:47seeing pretty soon now and just a couple of months time is a brand new um chevy corvette gt2 racer
00:41:54and talking to doug fian um at the scrutineering uh program in in the center of le mans on on monday
00:42:01when the cars went through there yes they're still on track yes they expect them to be racing
00:42:05and and and there and what they're also actually expecting is huge competition
00:42:11from Porsche and Ferrari you see this very much as their playground
00:42:15the number three audi returns to the track still down in 42nd place but roma dumas continues to try and
00:42:25find something to do with it
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00:43:20mitchell partner of endurance racing mitchell and green x challenge
00:43:24welcome out live to le mans you're watching henry pescarolo's team bringing benoit treludier's car
00:43:32back into the garage this uh persia 908 fourth car being run for persia by henry pescarolo and uh great
00:43:41man running that car himself overseeing it this is our lmp2 leader on pit road as well one of those
00:43:47little busy flurries on the pit roads um graham goodwin caspar elgaard and his team have just managed
00:43:55in the last three hours really to break the stalemate with the navi team go-kart the other porsche rs
00:44:02spider they had swapped the lead they've been racing literally door handle to door handle throughout the
00:44:07first half of the race pretty much but now they've made what seems like a decisive break but with the
00:44:13insanity that has been going on in this race i don't think there's going to be such a thing as a
00:44:18decisive break at the moment they've got the upper hand now all they've got to do is drive like the
00:44:23devil and keep everything cross because there is there is so much going on here you can see the
00:44:28perjot team that's not going far side struggling with the nose here that's 17 that's 17 that's pescarolo
00:44:35yes it's got green on it okay fine now they've got the rear engine cover off and again changing these
00:44:39filters but i thought i have seen something i didn't see thank goodness they are they are the
00:44:44cookbook filters actually as such so i'm quite pleased that uh it is the pescarolo car the other
00:44:50thing that interests me was that if you looked at the pit stop times actually of the uh recent ones
00:44:55of the two uh peugeots they were exactly the same time exactly the same time that perhaps shows
00:45:00the peugeot learning some of the lessons they needed to learn the first two years of the program
00:45:04where bluntly they've thrown way too much away simply uh by not being disciplined enough in the
00:45:10pit so they're a panic sometimes they're on fit all the time absolutely yeah well i thought it was a
00:45:15very significant moment early on when we had the second safety car situation the delayed or at that
00:45:20stage already delayed number seven persia was the first one to come down pit road of course they
00:45:24weren't in a safety car queue so they were at normal racing pace but as it came in it was waved away to the
00:45:31side by the penalty box to allow eight and nine which at that time was still fully on the program
00:45:35to come in get serviced and get gone and that's the first time really i've seen a stand out piece
00:45:42of pit work by peugeot that you would expect from an audi that you would expect from a porsche get out
00:45:47of the way the important cars are coming in you're not first in the queue you are last to be fed so just
00:45:52get out the way and we'll get the other guys gone and it will have cost the number seven car a little bit
00:45:57of extra time but on the other hand you know to the greater good and so it's it's vital that they
00:46:03do run their race that way that they do live like that because otherwise they will get beaten again
00:46:09they've got to be smart and that's one of the reasons why and it's a smart move we're actually
00:46:13looking at here we've got uh an upgraded 2008 spec uh peugeot and what's that been loaned out to
00:46:19pescarello sport uh what other team other than peugeot and audi have regularly finished in podium
00:46:25positions in endurance racing in europe pescarello sport and you know you know what i don't think
00:46:30peugeot will will care whether it's a factory team a factory team car that actually wins or
00:46:36henry pescarello's uh peugeot wins because what matters is a peugeot wins le mans and i think it's
00:46:42another mark that they've taken a good hard look at a program that had all sorts of promise
00:46:47board level they don't give a damn do they absolutely not it's all about actually what's the bottom line of
00:46:51marketing as far as it's it is about selling cars yeah and actually for them there's double romance
00:46:56because it's got the pescarello name you know he's such a racing hero three times a winner as a driver
00:47:02and you're right yes still peugeot wins le mans those you know four words uh rather than three those are
00:47:08the words that they you know that they want in all the papers on monday morning and whether it's pescarello
00:47:15or not you see if pescare wins it is still peugeot win le mans that's what the headline writers will
00:47:20come up with and they've shut him up about diesels as well at the same time well you know that's a
00:47:25not insignificant truth as well you know it's not lost on anybody i don't think that uh they have
00:47:30brought their biggest critic into the fold so yes a very clever piece of work yes and no but of course
00:47:36the other thing don't forget i mean henry is is a canny old devil himself and there's two things
00:47:40to say about henry one is he's still extremely annoyed about the pit lane incident earlier that
00:47:45cost that cost his car time when uh the factory car was released into its path the other thing is
00:47:50there's two cars in this race being run by pescarello sport if anybody had the opportunity to compare
00:47:55data how he's got it if he wanted to take that argument back to the aco and say say there you go
00:48:01guys actually this is what i was talking about he's going to have all the data unfettered to be able
00:48:05to do that and my guess is that's exactly what it'll do the question the second thing to say here
00:48:10that uh say martin you're absolutely right about the marketing side but the other things that's
00:48:15important here from the acos point of view is the crowd here need a hero and good grief can you
00:48:21imagine what this place is going to be like if that is the first car actually crossing the finishing
00:48:25line at three o'clock tomorrow absolutely they will be they will be far more mental than if it was any of
00:48:31the other persia no question at all little uh replay shot of damage to bruno senna's car wheel arches
00:48:38deep the front and rear dinked it's just a little uh montage of pictures of people flaking quite thick
00:48:45and fast at the moment to be honest so just to recap what's going on 47 cars remain in the race uh
00:48:52officially we have not uh had the number six janetta come off the timing screens but perjo lead
00:49:00and are in second place car number nine car number eight margine sebastian bordet and the soul healthy
00:49:07audi the car now of dinde capello car number one is in third place ahead of henry pescarello's perjo which
00:49:13we just saw making a slightly extended pip stop and that pescarello car four laps off the lead in the
00:49:20middle of the darkness hours the sun will be up in about an hour and a half here at le mans it's uh 10 hours and
00:49:2659 minutes remaining so we're we've broken the back of the first half but now comes the really
00:49:32dispiriting part of the race when the sun comes up and then it's morning and it's six or seven o'clock
00:49:38and you go oh thank goodness we've survived it well hang on a minute you know we've still got 1500
00:49:44kilometers of racing left to go and that you know for the bodies when the heat starts to come in the
00:49:49morning sun that's when all the fatigue really creeps in but actually you know you have to get
00:49:56by lunchtime before you can start to think about the end of the race and i'm afraid from it from
00:50:01the viewpoint of what is it now 4am uh central european time even lunch seems a very long way away
00:50:07it's got to be said you walk into i'm sure this room the broadcast area the press room down into the
00:50:11pit carriages or even the grandstands it is by the time you're getting into seven or eight o'clock in
00:50:15the morning those people have fought off sleep for night it's like night of the living dead it is
00:50:19cesar robert would be proud it's it's it's it's not what i would call a fabulous sight i'm trying to
00:50:23think what the opposite is and it's certainly not a very nice experience uh but you know if you can
00:50:28get yourself a little bit of rest and some strong coffee and see your way through to the end here it
00:50:32is one of the world's greatest sporting spectacles at the end of this race it is whether you're track
00:50:36side or whether you're sitting on the couch it still is uh an enormously exciting race to watch
00:50:41and this year graham i mean i was unfortunate to have to go do something else last year and miss
00:50:47what uh clearly was one of the races of a generation this not quite the knockdown drag out sprint at the
00:50:54front but in many ways even more bizarre than last year uh yeah we could get an absolute farmstormer
00:51:02we still have got a very long way to go stay with us we'll be back
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00:51:45mitchell partner of endurance racing mitchell and green x challenge
00:52:01welcome back to le monde and the drama continues to unfold in the darkness and this must be somewhere
00:52:06like the chicane on the mulsanne we are looking at the number 17 pescarolo the lights are off the body
00:52:13is off the suspension is off safety cars are on the track as you can clearly see we have not been
00:52:19notified on the timing screens that the safety car has been scrambled now we have but it's already out
00:52:24you can see the safety car boards and yellow flags the yellow lights will be on graham goodwin with us
00:52:29here martin haven neville hay and graham goodwin from dailysportscar.com and graham an enormous
00:52:34accident the engine is still just about attached to the top but it is one of those car to component
00:52:40part reducing crashes and the immediate worry is that neither of the doors are open yet on the car
00:52:46the door is just open in fact the only reason we can tell what that car is and we believe it is
00:52:50the 17 uh pesco pescarello peugeot is because of the green flash and the nose of course this car
00:52:58has only just left the pits yes uh after that uh after that stop we think to renew fluids and actually
00:53:03clear out some of the muck in the in the in the in the various vents but an enormous crash none of the
00:53:08the wheels attach the the car the full tub though is intact um and the the the survival cell if you
00:53:15like on the coupe is it is attached both doors no open can see i believe driver moving inside the car
00:53:22i believe there is a um a marshal down there with him and so and very sensibly no attempt being made to
00:53:32actually get driver out of the car until we get the the intervention vehicles yeah proper extraction
00:53:36vehicle and an ambulance on the way and so now everybody on the racetrack you can see two cars
00:53:41coming up behind and the dunlop car as well in the gt class gt2 cars well you know they will know
00:53:48that there is something very serious awry because you do not have ambulances fire engines or exactly as
00:53:56the same as when you pass them on the motorway you do not have them on a racetrack now back into the
00:54:00garage goes audi number one dindo capello has completed one stint in this car and this now
00:54:07with the safety car out would seem to be a chance perhaps them to do a bit more clearing out and uh
00:54:12looks like they're changing a motec unit that would be the digital unit that controls all the car's
00:54:18functions not necessarily because he's got a major problem it might might just be something like
00:54:23the screen readouts on there i mean there are something like a dozen different buttons on the car for
00:54:27adjusting traction control ratios and all the other things as well as the paddle shift uh just on the
00:54:33steering wheel alone and uh that was was looking like it was the complete ecu unit being changed
00:54:40and of course because we've got a safety car out i mean forgetting for a moment that what we were
00:54:44looking at is quite a serious accident uh because of the safety car at the moment they've got an
00:54:49opportunity now to take not a free stop but a stop to actually do perhaps more than they would in a
00:54:53regular stop uh they'll be aware of what's actually going on up there uh as there's more people
00:54:57actually arriving now i think i say on the the doctors intervention unit now fire crew there as
00:55:03well you see the chrome helmet of the fire crew still trying to work out exactly where that is martin
00:55:08and well it can't be far if the fire engine's got there it is in the s's or tetrouge that seems he's
00:55:15got a long way off into a big runoff area and there are not many big runoff areas here now of course
00:55:21enormously worrying times to ori pescarolo but by correlation as well suddenly enormously worrying
00:55:28times for the whole of the peugeot team because as yet there is no indication as to why the accent
00:55:35would happen an accident of that violence generally one of two things i would think you see ori pescarola
00:55:40in the cap right in the center of your shot and of course everybody's on the radio the fact that they
00:55:46are so worried presumably means they cannot raise their driver now two things normally are going to
00:55:52cause a crash like that one a catastrophic failure either of tire or suspension where the driver at
00:55:57high speed is just a passenger clip something and the car begins to self-destructive barrel rolls
00:56:03and the other is it starts with clipping something and that something would be
00:56:07a large piece of debris or a small piece of car somebody else's car you can see the number eight
00:56:13car has been in the number nine car also on pit road and in the cliche of the of the grand prix movie
00:56:21for everybody now that is not involved with that number 17 car now is not the time to slow down and
00:56:26think oh my goodness now is the time to push even harder it's like when in the grand prix movie that the
00:56:32famous line about when i see a crash i put my foot down because i know that everybody else will be
00:56:37slowing down and that's a direct quote from giuseppe farina the 1950 world champion well there you go
00:56:42and that was exactly and that and that is the the sort of cold-bloodedness that that is required even
00:56:48in a professional blood sport like motor racing was in those days you can see the rescue crew have got
00:56:53the screen up there to uh screen the driver off from the crowd rather than from the tv crammer tv cameras you
00:57:01can see they're ready with the um sort of bracing equipment on the right hand side there with the
00:57:06stretcher that'll have inflated packs around it to uh try and make sure that when they do extract
00:57:12benoit treluye there can be nothing uh that is going to make any injury worse it's got shades it has to
00:57:19be said of um uh 1999 10 years ago at their first turn here with an accident for thierry boots and uh in
00:57:27the toyota gt1 clipped another car going into the turn uh very violent accident but the uh the good
00:57:33news there i mean anybody saw that crash and and i did uh would barely believe that someone could
00:57:38actually step away from that car but uh but thierry did terry was back here just a few years later
00:57:44actually managing a team that went on to great success uh with with champion racing um but yeah i think
00:57:50the guys are just taking it very very easy get him out the car all the help he needs is actually there
00:57:55um and well fingers crossed absolutely it's a big accident absolutely and uh there will be nobody in
00:58:04pit lane that is wishing anything other than the very best for benoit treluye and of course uh again
00:58:11huge crushing heartbreaking disappointment just in terms of this race for henry pescarolo but that
00:58:17will come later at the moment now all he wants to know is what has happened to his driver absolutely
00:58:23right and let's not forget henry pescarolo is known probably best known by most people that come here
00:58:27as the guy that brings uh the blue cars green cars actually to uh uh to le mans but let's remember
00:58:34henry pescarolo first and foremost as a racing driver um and and he'll be fully well aware of the
00:58:39consequences of an accident like that so i'm sure the pit garage at the moment there's high emotion
00:58:44from henry from maddie and from the entire and from the entire crew they'll be waiting very anxiously
00:58:48indeed for whatever music and actually get and of course he knows exactly what he of which he speaks
00:58:53he's not only raced here many times 33 times as a driver but of course very nearly lost his life as
00:59:00well in a fiery crash in a match uh he still bears the scars the burns are still clearly etched on his face
00:59:07and so you know uh never mind team never mind car never mind race there's another race there's always
00:59:12another car there's never going to be another driver and so that is the prime concern now number
00:59:19nine back in making a second stop and wisely so go around behind the safety car come in drop you know
00:59:26three or four positions on the track rather than in the race to take more service so mark janet heads back
00:59:33out sebastian borde in second dinde capello in third and that number 17 car benoit trelui was in fourth place
00:59:40and remains so that's the gap between him and jan cheroz but the 007 aston martin will move up
00:59:48at the end of the lap up into fourth position
00:59:54lmp2 class still the porsche's leading and johnny kane's lola the number 33 speedy sabar coupe
01:00:02in third place lights flash all around the circuit in the darkness yellow flags wave of course in the
01:00:06daylight to make sure that the drivers are aware there is danger afoot graham is now flicking through
01:00:13the circuit cameras on our tv monitors looks to be beyond the second chicane if this if these are
01:00:20actually lined up in chronological order um it looks to be beyond the second chicane well that would then
01:00:26put it down at mulsanne corner and that actually does make quite a lot of sense because there is a long
01:00:32way there as the road turns sharp right there is a long way between the the track itself and the
01:00:38spectator fencing but he has gone all the way down in there the question is of course um just what
01:00:46triggered it all off and uh far more importantly how on earth is he and uh it may be some while up here
01:00:53before we heal from uh the team or from the medics as to the condition of benoit trelui obviously
01:01:00henry pescarello is in no uh position at the moment to tell us anything so as and when he is i'm sure
01:01:07we will be made aware for everybody else then service continues the uh hankook porsche sitting on pit
01:01:17road that 89 car with christian montanari still at the wheel and this is a chance really for the team to
01:01:24get on with some jobs that need doing so it's uh you know giving your car in for its 12 000 miles
01:01:29services having brake pad change on the front there the screen being polished within an inch of its
01:01:34life to get away all the black rubber marks and everything else pescarolo's race continues as a
01:01:40team of course because they've still got car number 16 running's ral barbosa is in we saw the team
01:01:46preparing for him and that car in seventh position at the moment and in fact it is the second best non-diesel
01:01:55car and of course this is one of pescarolo's as you mentioned a few minutes ago ground one of pescarolo's
01:02:00you know uh sort of trademarks if you like is that he is the best non-factory entrance at leman
01:02:06and has been for a number of years and gerald barbosa has been in the other car that has been the non
01:02:11best non-factory entry another car that has a predominant green in the livery the roll center racing team
01:02:17that uh martin short has run over the years here and i'm sure that uh shorty has been following
01:02:23giles progress with great interest he most certainly has he's been texting us for most of the weekend to
01:02:29actually find out what's going on uh shorty himself having a bit of a busy old weekend uh coming back
01:02:33from seapang who has been handing over one of his mosela race cars and i think at zamenfort tomorrow
01:02:39uh to race another of them um so neglecting the british gt race weekend at knock hill where there
01:02:44are yet more mosela's running so yes indeed but but certainly barbosa you know a man very aware of
01:02:51what it actually means to drive for that factory pescarolo team um it has got heritage it does mean
01:02:56something having driven a pescarolo before he's got a flavor of that but um taking a huge amount of pride
01:03:02to actually in amongst that team and actually having all three drivers christophe tonso
01:03:07uh brishwani and uh drow uh in that scene will be enormous help at the moment i'm sure
01:03:12uh they've been in the garage they've been they've been full parts of that team they're not just here
01:03:16to plug themselves into a car and go around as quickly as they can um it's a bit more than that
01:03:20that seems a bit special it is a bit special and and i think you know as they always say that you know
01:03:27any organization is led from the top and i think that's you know one of the reasons why you know that
01:03:32team is so special it is all about the person in charge and when you get family sized teams like
01:03:39that even though it's you know reasonably large family uh still the feeling is there now the flying
01:03:44lizards porsche has had its fair share of trouble as well graham in that gt2 category and uh looked at
01:03:51one stage as though it was going to be really a very consistent front runner down in fifth place at the
01:03:56moment seth neiman at the wheel as mika salo leads the gt2 category and is this a straka racing car
01:04:04yes it is still again they'll be doing our suspects with the routine maintenance otherwise would have
01:04:08cost a lot of time plus flying lizards i mean actually uh you know sadly in many ways this this
01:04:14this um safety car period will help teams like uh flying lizards it will allow them to close back up
01:04:20there will be contention for a podium finish at this stage of the race they're currently lying fifth
01:04:26um and almost on the same lap as third correct so yes so depending on where the safety car because
01:04:32of course we use two safety cars here at le mans the 24 hours um it'll be either on the the end of
01:04:37that tail uh that train or it'll be um about a half a lap behind but either way it certainly is going
01:04:43to be closer than it was before uh the safety cars were called for now we're actually going around
01:04:47nolzang corner here so we may see whether or not that's instant happened there it doesn't appear
01:04:52to have done doesn't does it no it has it's happened an awful long way over to the left
01:04:57well he is he is hard up against the barriers now we were sort of assuming that it would be
01:05:01the barriers dead ahead of you at that sharp right-hander could equally be the barriers down
01:05:06the left-hand side he could just have traveled all the way down the barriers yeah the next option
01:05:11for that kind of mcgall trap would therefore be indianapolis so it's not i'm not sure it's big enough
01:05:16at indianapolis see if we can find out a little more okay we're hearing from our french colleagues
01:05:32that they have been told the benoit trelloyer is conscious and talking to the medic so that in
01:05:38itself is uh all we needed to hear enormously good news um graham these cars are so so strong but they
01:05:47again they are so so fast and the the most the the weakest link in the chain actually is the soft
01:05:55contents of any of these cars and so when you have an accident that violence the safety cell stands up to
01:06:00it you often wonder just how much of a shaking the contents can take but fortunately it seems that
01:06:06he has been well protected by the car that's that's really great news and basically what will be
01:06:11going on right now it's the same it's the same process that actually happens if an accident happens
01:06:15off the racetrack and what that is it's all about making sure the right people there with the right
01:06:19equipment and taking the right time to get the right result and if it takes time to get benoit out of
01:06:25the car that's what it's going to take and if we have to have a safety car for a lengthy period of time
01:06:30then you know what that's exactly right absolutely so and especially every single driver will want to
01:06:36know that that sort of attention will be lavished on him that there will be not even the slightest chance
01:06:42that anything more detrimental is going to happen to him when he's sitting in a steaming wreck i think
01:06:47that has already i think we're looking at him actually a picture from afar well now they're
01:06:52inflating something i saw them bringing out the backboard before they were inflating something
01:06:56they're inflating a a board that actually mobilizes the neck and spine yeah so quite possibly from what
01:07:03you were just describing martin if if there is any kind of pain being felt uh as soon as you'll get
01:07:08that kind of response for driver they'll immediately actually respond with it with that level of
01:07:12equipment and that's good news right people right things there and frankly even if there's not
01:07:17he's been in a plane crash frankly and so you want to get him out get him immobilized get him to the
01:07:23medical unit immediately without any fear of anything else happening to him so you know
01:07:30adrenaline is an astonishing thing i remember seeing mark blundell in indy cars shunting into a
01:07:34wall heavily in brazil climbing out and walking along for about six or seven seconds until the
01:07:40adrenaline wore off and then he fell down because he'd broken his leg in the shunts you know adrenaline
01:07:45is a very strange thing you can't take it from a driver just because he says he is okay that actually
01:07:50he is okay because he's the least well placed actually to know quite correct quite correct
01:07:57at the moment looks like an exemplary job being done here uh for the field absolutely under control
01:08:03everybody clearly is aware as aware of they can be of actually what the situation is
01:08:07and the right people the right equipment as we said uh is exactly where it needs to be
01:08:12person number seven still in the garage noted notably though on the floor rather than checking
01:08:18underneath it you saw pedro larmy has finally got out got a bit bored sitting there obviously nothing
01:08:22on the radio that he was liking the the hearing of uh so he stepped out uh so we'll take another quick
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01:09:38live coverage from start to finish ten and a half hours of the race and a little more remain
01:09:44and uh we have received confirmation that uh the accident to number 17 purgeot was
01:09:49at tertia rouge so uh not possibly at the ultimate highest speed he could have been going but not
01:09:56hanging around going out onto the mulsanne straight so again still not sure quite what caused the accident
01:10:02but you can see the rescue crews there and that i'm sure is benoit treluye on the stretcher being
01:10:07prepared now to go into the ambulance and to go to the medical center here and of course here at le mans
01:10:14like most other race circuits very well prepared for an awful lot of eventualities and unlike some
01:10:20race circuits of course graham goodwin we are right on the fringes of a major city one of france's
01:10:26biggest cities and so in fact uh when the reason the race is here it was uh france's second city and
01:10:33uh second industrial city uh 100 years ago so he is in uh about as good a place as you can be at the
01:10:39moment after that accident i'd agree and this is this is very much uh an international standard
01:10:44event with all that means in terms of facilities that are actually thrown at this and you know
01:10:49you're absolutely right what you said a little early before the commercial break martin uh you know
01:10:53we're in a culture now where safety is absolutely all in in in this particular sense and that's quite
01:10:59right um you know it should not be the professional blood sport i think you described it as uh that it
01:11:04used to be again that was a direct quote from steve mcqueen in the in the le mans film that this is a
01:11:09professional blood sport and everybody in it realizes it and unfortunately now we are not
01:11:13losing drivers at the rate that they did in the 50s 60s and to some degree the 70s but look you know
01:11:20there is not a drive in the place looking at olivier beretta they're getting ready to take over from
01:11:25uh from his teammates uh in the corvette ollie gavin it's not just the pescarello team that glues to the
01:11:32screen waiting to see something anything it's everybody every single driver knows that they're but for the
01:11:38for the grace of god so this is a very small family it's a very tight-knit family uh motorsport
01:11:43in general sports car racing in particular everybody knows everybody 165 drivers and uh about a thousand
01:11:50crew up and down the pit road but yes you come here and you cannot walk through the paddock even if it's
01:11:55only your second visit here working at le mans without bumping into somebody every 50 yards that you
01:12:02haven't seen for 12 months and you want to have a good old uh yarn with so yeah it's very much so
01:12:07and i'm sure that every new driver you know thinking here guys like the the collars out these
01:12:12drivers uh you know they're here for the very first time six rookies in a team never been to
01:12:18le mans before we had dario franchiti up earlier he's never been here before despite all of his european
01:12:23racing experience and all the endurance racing that he's now starting to do and he's saying this
01:12:27is just there is nothing like this he's desperate to come back yeah spread away i hatched a plan for
01:12:34him i said what he's got to do now is do what david ingram of audi did a decade ago which is bring
01:12:39somebody on a boys weekend he's got to get chip ganassi say hey let's have a boys weekend it's after
01:12:44indy we've got a free weekend we'll go to le mans we'll have some beers we'll chill out we'll just enjoy
01:12:49the racing and by the end of the weekend ganassi will be formulating a plan that's exactly how audi
01:12:55ended up coming here uh the the british audi guys brought wolfgang orrush for a bit of a jolly
01:13:01and bingo by the end of the race he's looking out of the pit window going this is something we must
01:13:07do do this and i think there's this old adage that you never come to le mans once and actually if you can
01:13:12pull that trick with someone who's got very deep pockets and a bit of imagination
01:13:15great idea and also chip ganassi let's not let's not kid ourselves a man who loves his racing how
01:13:23could he fail to love this place it's it's fabulous and you know talking to some of the rookie drivers
01:13:28uh scrutineering and then at practice and asking them whether or not they'd actually ever been here
01:13:32before uh to actually watch the race and those that haven't that race morning when you walk through
01:13:37that pit garage the very first time it's this amphitheater here the noise the spectacle uh it's
01:13:43breathtaking it absolutely breathtaking and you would think that friday night's madness in town
01:13:47might prepare them for it but no again you know there's there's nothing it's like they say with
01:13:52formula one there's nothing anywhere that prepares you for pretty much any of what le mans is about you
01:13:57just have to come and then okay now i get it and it's amazing you said that hugely experienced people
01:14:04in all sorts of motorsport disciplines that come here and for the first time and then they go
01:14:08now i get it third place car is on pit road you can see the lights clinting in the background
01:14:13dinde capello and audi number one so too is a fourth place car jan charuz taking over from
01:14:19stefan mucca just being held at the end of the pit lane so he can join the queue and again back into
01:14:25the gaudi gaudi uh audi garage gaudi garage now that would be something to see maybe in barcelona
01:14:31who can tell into the audi garage goes the number one car and that car beginning now to slip back
01:14:37a little i mean okay they're not losing the kind of track time that they would under full green flag
01:14:42racing they've got four laps in hand before they start to fall into the clutches the fourth place car
01:14:48the 007 uh lolo aston martin uh plenty in hand there i take down the safety car conditions but uh beginning
01:14:55now to wonder whether or not there's a deeper problem well you are likely there's an awful lot
01:15:00of stoppage there it's been about now three or four times it's been in it's gone into the garage
01:15:05every time it's come out they've changed the electronics they've looked at all the likely uh
01:15:10culprits and it's not looking quite as simple as it first appeared i think you were saying earlier
01:15:16martin i mean alan mcnish telling yourself and others uh this week as some of the other audi guys that
01:15:22you're beginning now to see what you lose out on if you've not got a full race program and if you've
01:15:27not um got a test day here for the Le Mans 24 hours it's very different you can go to Paul Ricard and
01:15:33go to whatever track you like it's not Le Mans and actually this place if you've got a weakness
01:15:38somewhere in that package this place will find it even if you haven't got a weakness in this package
01:15:43this place will create it and that's absolutely true absolutely true but again with the safety car in
01:15:49they may well be taking to do the opportunity to do things that they otherwise would not have
01:15:53needed to bother with as we know belt and um braces are the uh two sustaining elements in any audi attack
01:16:02uh so uh you know it may not necessarily be too much of a major drama for them and of course
01:16:09audi aren't really even remotely fussed about what's coming up from behind there's only one thing they're
01:16:14looking at and that's the distance between where they are now third and where they want to be
01:16:19first so it doesn't matter how many laps behind or how many seconds behind somebody else is
01:16:23they're only looking in front of them in fact i think possibly the only reason that Audi bother
01:16:28with wind mirrors on the car is because they look quite groovy because they certainly never bother
01:16:32looking i mean not in actual racing terms but metaphorically they never look in the mirrors and
01:16:36the number one car is back down and out again so again nothing much to stop it it's now in clear
01:16:41air behind the safety car queue off the back of which it came in so it might have lost a few seconds
01:16:47but it'll make those up catching back up to the safety car what i find quite interesting uh from last
01:16:53year is that when i was sitting up here at around about the same time yes it did start to rain round about
01:17:00now uh we were fascinated by the time it took to get into to get the driver out and get another driver in
01:17:09now that seems to have gone straight out the window whether we've got more nimble drivers or
01:17:16whether we've had a bit more practice at it i don't know but we don't seem to have any of those
01:17:21problems at all have you noticed that martin well i think every i think actually the Audi pitstops have
01:17:25always been one of their strongest elements they've always been able because they haven't got a roof
01:17:29they've always been able to stand up step into the side that is not occupied by the driver the other
01:17:34driver can clamber in then he can bend over and help buckle him up which you can't do with the
01:17:39bergeot you have to have a mechanic hurl himself bodily in through the far door as you climb in
01:17:43through the driver's side and somehow try and wriggle your way in this is the jason aston martin and
01:17:49i think that's been in the pit garage for quite a while now yeah some sort of 10 or 15 minutes i would
01:17:53think since we saw marino being wheeled back in
01:17:55johnny cocker getting ready or is that marino getting uh just standing by whatever it is
01:18:03there's somebody underneath working up and somebody at the top working down so that might be uh would
01:18:08say towards the back of the engine maybe something starter nator automate uh alternator something like
01:18:12that starter nator starter motor nobody's nobody's doing that starter nator thing anymore are they that
01:18:19was uh that was a one-time mistake and actually despite the best efforts of the car the cruise schiller
01:18:25motorsport crew are keeping the 39 car going the car that very nearly didn't finish practice
01:18:31very nearly didn't make it to the warm-up very nearly didn't make it onto the track at the
01:18:35beginning and when it did damn well didn't want to stay there they uh haven't been to bed since
01:18:40thursday it's now sunday so they must you know how tired you're starting to feel graham they do like
01:18:46it tough here you probably remember they like it's tough well i think i mean last year um in uh in
01:18:53in qualifying here we had an almighty another almighty accident and they were the victims
01:18:57of it that time and they take you know that you know that yeah indeed x formula one driver uh managed
01:19:02to get it horribly wrong um down towards uh the dunlop bridge uh the car getting airborne and running
01:19:08itself into a ball um hideki walking away remarkably unscathed the car unfortunately not being quite so
01:19:15lucky being reduced to its component parts but between the team and uh lolo's technicians who were here that
01:19:21car was back on the grid and started the race yeah so today i mean this year they must be feeling
01:19:25positively fresh as days they've only missed one night's sleep rather than two yes then i don't
01:19:30think they slept between scrutineering at the end of the race they've they've had a tough old start to
01:19:35the season two uh that the um their initial idea this this season would that be that they'd upgrade
01:19:41the uh the existing loan they've got there to a lola coupe unfortunately they've got mixed up into
01:19:46someone else's scam i'm afraid uh which meant that they lost their spawns or lost their drivers and by
01:19:51the time that that uh that misfortune had actually come to light and those drivers were let down badly
01:19:57um that their only remaining option was to actually field this car for the full season and you know god
01:20:02bless them and all credit to them they're doing it and doing it well immaculately prepared certainly
01:20:07is weaving up and down the pit straight we're on board the number eight car margin a lead for
01:20:12perjot car number eight is sebastian borde he's in second place for perjot and up and down pit road
01:20:18more and more pit stops continue and for a lot of the teams if this is right in the middle of a fuel
01:20:23window graham then actually pretty much need to kind of stay in the safety car queue and of course all the
01:20:30teams will know that this is not going to be a short safety car either so you know that you've got
01:20:34maybe half a dozen laps in which to try and sort it out because although now we've seen benoit
01:20:39treluier disappearing in the ambulance and going off to be looked after of course we still have to think
01:20:44about moving the wreckage of the car checking the tire walls and the barriers there to make sure that
01:20:48somebody else has an accident there they don't run into damaged safety barriers so it is going to take a
01:20:54while and it's not uncommon at le mans to have quite long safety car periods after a major accident
01:21:00particularly at night and of course you know fire engine's hardly the work of the moment to get
01:21:04itself uh back around the circuit into a place of safety either is that coming back into the pit lane
01:21:09now i think it possibly is it is indeed yes that's been it so we'll take a quick commercial break safety
01:21:14car remains out here at le mans 218 laps in the book and just under 10 and a half hours of racing remain
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