00:00Thank you Bruce, big crash for Raffaele Marcello, he's just taken over the number 15 BMW, this is his outlap, he has put it in the wall hard and this will be a safety car I think, where he's going around the 99 Porsche and loses it on cold tyres, you see brand new tyres on the right there, so it looks like he had a full set, he did.
00:20Now, he's complaining about a brake test from the 99 car, the Porsche came in front of him there and looked like a stop, however, double yellows at D8, alright, we're going to prepare for a virtual safety car because we're right in the middle, still in the hunt as the Toyota, on the inside goes Steve, the Toyota on the Proton car, the Proton car going off to the outside, can't keep it there, can't keep it there, digging up the dirt and the Toyota's got the momentum and here comes the Toyota,
00:50Here comes the Cadillac as well, here comes the Peugeot too, it's on the outside this time for the Toyota, but the Peugeot's got a good run here, what a phenomenal motor race this is turning out to be.
01:00Malte Jakuson down the inside, does he get them both? No, not quite.
01:20Out of the pits, 007.
01:27Straight on, on the colder tyre.
01:30Yep.
01:31Good handle at that point.
01:34So there's no take on the, between the GT cars.
01:37Yep, he's trying to go down the inside of 27, and the Porsche goes inside him, and he turns in and it spins.
01:46Wow.
01:52Lots of drama as the 007, on it's out that, loses it on cold tyres, and takes out 27, the Harter racing car, that had just pitted from the top three in MM223.
02:03In the Corvette, looking to have a look at the back of the Iron Dames car, then behind them, Sean Galeel as well.
02:12Because we were coming out of a safety car.
02:14She couldn't pass before the line.
02:15She couldn't pass, that's her to, to the Corvette behind.
02:18Now here come the hypercars, and that is Mikkel Jensen, the Peugeot, dives down the inside there.
02:25Right behind is Charles Malacy, so it is two French brands going for the lead in the race here.
02:30And the Aston Martin, Alex Treberas, 009, is back up to third place, where it was earlier in the race before penalties.
02:37And off wide goes the 27 Harter racing car.
02:41That was almost, he could see that happening again, couldn't he, unfortunately, Zach Robichon.
02:45I'm not again, I'm off.
02:47He's got wise to that move from the, from the Valkyries.
02:50And this is going to be carnage because this hypercar battle has to cut through all of our lead LMG23 cars.
02:57There was about 11 in front of them. Antonio Fuoco on the grass, gaining a lasting advantage by going off track.
03:04That won't be received very well. He's trying to get by the Aston Martin for third.
03:08And also, when you looked at the, the two hypercars that were at the front of the field, at that point,
03:14Ferrari at that moment, as he takes third place away from the Aston Martin, they've locked.
03:20Ferrari looking down the inside, Gesitz in the middle of the sandwich.
03:24And Gesitz in the Lexus is going to pick up a place as well, because the Mercedes drifts out a little wide.
03:30Ferrari moves up two spots. That could be very important.
03:35The surface flags at pit entry being shown.
03:40First and second in LMGT3 are our championship leaders. Look at this, 88 and 31.
03:45This is for position as well. This was for 10th place.
03:48Dennis Olsen in the 88.
03:51From Dennis Olsen's car.
03:53Point, my dark camera.
03:55Also making Farfus go around the long way. This is where they start to actually trade a bit of paint.
03:59And I do believe the Corvette just gets underneath and sort of into the back of the BMW, right at the apex.
04:05There you go, down the straight.
04:07Just a little bit of trading paint on the way down.
04:11Farfus made his living in world touring cars for a number of years. He'll be perfectly happy with that.
04:15He's raced in many endurance races since then. He won't worry too much about a tiny bit of contact.
04:25The race leader, Sharma Lacy, in the 35 car. He's coming down now through turn six for what will be the first win for the Alpine Endurance team since Monset in 2022.
04:39First win in Hypercar down to turn ten. It's going to be a red letter day for Alpine.
04:43It's going to be a big day for the red, white and blue of France as well.
04:47Because this will be Peugeot's best result if Mikkel Jensen can hang on to second place.
04:53Two French manufacturers on the top two steps of the podium.
04:57And Laurence Vantour is going to try and make sure that if they're on the podium, Peugeot will not be second.
05:03But Jensen again wriggles through traffic. And again, if he can just get onto the straight, even level with Vantour, that will be almost enough.
05:13Vantour just doesn't have the overlap. Onto the straight comes Sharma Lacy.
05:18The Alpine Endurance team win in Hypercar for the very first time.
05:23It is Alpine who will win the 100th World Endurance Championship race here in Fuji.
05:29A phenomenal success for Philippe Senior's team who brought Alpine in.
