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00:00:00There's a sprint race, to be honest, with the, with the, it was interesting, actually, I think it was Tom Christensen and I read an interview about recently and he said, he's had that just about 95% of the Le Mans races that he's done has been sprint.
00:00:16And so obviously when he first came to Le Mans, there was probably a little bit of, you know, reliability issue. But nowadays with the engineering levels and the technology that, you know, they can just effectively drive flat out.
00:00:31So if you're just joining us, 8.30 here in Europe, it's 7.30 at home. It's beautiful weather in Britain, we're hearing, and barbecue night. And those of you in Quaint and having a barbecue tonight, watching Eurosport, enjoy every moment of the coverage here. Martin Haven, Mark Colmite, me and Damien Faulkner, our star driver, turn. And Martin, any thoughts so far?
00:00:54Lights out on the safety cars. Yes, just a very quick question, actually. Renko on Formula One was asking, on Twitter rather, was asking, why did Lotus not fix the car in the pit lane?
00:01:06And the easy answer is very straightforward, same reason Alpine haven't fixed their problems in the pit lane. On pit road, you allowed no more than two people working on the car, no matter what.
00:01:17So two people changing tyres, two people doing fuel, two people doing anything else. Anything other than changing tyres and doing fuel, straight back in the garage, throw all the men you need at it.
00:01:28And that's the reason. It's just to stop people lying in the road with their legs sticking out in the fast lane. Basically, it's for safety. Lights are out on the safety car.
00:01:36Well, we say in America, cautions breed cautions. Now then, let's see if this safety car driver thinks that he is, in fact, driving an S1 Quattro short wheelbase rally car and whether he peels down the pit road or hoons across the grass without even bothering to look to see if anybody's coming in behind him.
00:01:55This time, he actually uses the tarmac. I wonder if Eduardo Freitas had a brief word in his radio ears.
00:02:02Here we go. We are racing once more. Green, green, green at Le Mans.
00:02:10And it's the number one Audi, Benoit Trilio, who's got the jump on everyone this time because, of course, his teammates and three and two cars who are some, what, they're about 60 seconds behind at the last time we looked.
00:02:23They are caught up in traffic, but everyone's starting to peel out now, those who got left behind.
00:02:28And just looking at P2 at the moment, the 26 car, that is the second of the factory, Nissan G-Drive, Delta AM, Rambal and docking Roman Rusinoff on board that.
00:02:41He's a silver driver. John Martin, of course, the Australian, very, very much a gold driver.
00:02:46And Mike Conway, a rookie. So he's a bronze driver, IndyCar racer, but a bronze driver because until you've served your time in sports car racing, you don't move up the ladder.
00:02:55Yeah, it's crazy to think that, but that's the rules. I shouldn't think Mike Conway will take long to become a gold or platinum, such as the level he races at.
00:03:07Yeah, there might be a few people that sort of raise an eyebrow and go, really? An IndyCar racer? What does he know?
00:03:12Well, actually, do you know what? He knows fast. And there's a lot of drivers that have come into sports car racing from all sorts of different single-seater categories.
00:03:22Some fare really well, some don't fare quite so well, but Conway has hit the ground running, hasn't he?
00:03:28Hello to Sam Bird. He said, talking about curse of the commentator, he said, I may not come sports car racing.
00:03:35I am his official jinx. Every time I commentate on him, he fails to win and his car breaks down.
00:03:39Well, of course, poor Sam Bird. He was due to go to the junior Formula One test of Mercedes.
00:03:43And a Mercedes penalty for the tyre gate at Barcelona is they're not allowed to test, so Sam will not get that chance.
00:03:51Well, I didn't commentate on that, so I'm afraid Birdie can't hold me up for that.
00:03:55Also, Simon Hullahan saying that the reason LED lights on the back of cars, as the Star 8 car comes down the Mulsanne with a flat tire,
00:04:04in fact, that's heading up towards Indianapolis,
00:04:05the reason that the LEDs on the back seem to be strobing is because of the interface between LED lights frequencies
00:04:13and HD television camera frequencies.
00:04:16So thank you very much to Simon Hullahan, an ex-LED lighting designer.
00:04:20I love our audience.
00:04:22Oh, great.
00:04:23We've got them all, haven't we?
00:04:24So knowledgeable.
00:04:25And incidentally, that orange Star 8 Motorsports Ferrari that went by,
00:04:28Vincente Potoliccio, who is, oh, we've got another one.
00:04:32That's just, has he hit something, or is that just a spin mode?
00:04:35I think he's just spun and he's trying to get it going again or waiting.
00:04:39Yeah, he's OK.
00:04:39Waiting on traffic to go past.
00:04:41Here it comes, a bit messy, wasn't it?
00:04:43Oh, right in the middle of the pack.
00:04:44Oh, dear, oh, dear.
00:04:45That's definitely what you call spat out, isn't it?
00:04:48He might have been helped on that one.
00:04:50It's difficult to know, but there was a train of cars there.
00:04:53So I was just mentioning eight-star motorsports.
00:04:56Potoliccio, who's last year's LMP2 winner with Starworks,
00:04:59he has covered that car in United sports car stickers
00:05:04to promote next year's American GT Championship,
00:05:08which you hopefully will be in.
00:05:09Yeah, I saw that actually and wondered what the reason was behind it,
00:05:13but that's great.
00:05:15It's leading up to be a, gearing up to be a fantastic championship.
00:05:19It's got some incredibly important people.
00:05:23And influential people like Jim France and the France family involved,
00:05:27of course, of NASCAR.
00:05:29And should have the cream of all North American sports car racing
00:05:31in terms of drivers, teams and equipment, you know.
00:05:35Of Irish descent, I must add.
00:05:36Well, some, indeed some.
00:05:38As is Don Panos.
00:05:38Well, Don Panos, yes, of course,
00:05:40with all his businesses in Ireland over the years,
00:05:42the nicotine patches.
00:05:43And Scott Atherton's here as well.
00:05:45They're all here.
00:05:46They know just how important Le Mans is.
00:05:47And, of course, Deco will be beyond excitement, won't he?
00:05:51Declan Brennan.
00:05:53So a huge, huge history there.
00:05:54And talking of huge in history,
00:05:55standing right behind us in the commentary box at this moment
00:05:58is Hugh Chamberlain.
00:05:59Oh, my word.
00:06:00So, Damien, could we just make way for Hugh for a minute
00:06:01and we'll have a quick wordle with him?
00:06:05Very quickly, also, a random question from Indipal Verdi on Twitter.
00:06:12Apologies about the pronunciation.
00:06:13He says, do we know who drives the safety cars?
00:06:15Well, apparently somebody who thinks they're Hannu Mikula.
00:06:17But other than that, no, we don't.
00:06:19Star 8 Ferrari still on the way back.
00:06:22And this orange Ferrari has all the hallmarks of a car
00:06:26that is intent on spending a lot of time in the garage.
00:06:31And that is something about which Hugh Chamberlain
00:06:33knows a very great deal.
00:06:34Hugh, a veteran team owner here.
00:06:36For those of you who are joining us for the first time
00:06:38or have seen very little sports car racing,
00:06:40Hugh Chamberlain has been coming here, well,
00:06:42since his glory days in the Group C area as a team owner.
00:06:46Jeremy Shaw was just talking earlier on
00:06:48about you running Clubman's cars for him in the early 1980s.
00:06:52Hugh, you've been involved in motor racing
00:06:53almost as long as you've been involved in rugby.
00:06:57Yes, I have to admit that I've packed up the rugby a lot
00:07:01before I've packed up the motorsport, that's for sure.
00:07:05And I don't understand about the beer.
00:07:08You haven't packed that up yet, that's all.
00:07:09Well, I haven't packed no, that's true.
00:07:11I said to him earlier, I said,
00:07:12oh, I see you here wearing Chamberlain Synergy motorsport jacket.
00:07:17Is it all back on?
00:07:17He said, no, it's bloody raining.
00:07:18They're very good jackets, that's what it is.
00:07:22Why wouldn't I wear it out?
00:07:24Yeah, let's just have a quick word about Small, your wife.
00:07:26She's just won gold again at Chelsea, so congratulations.
00:07:29You must be very proud.
00:07:31Yeah, let's get this right.
00:07:33She works with other people and they together.
00:07:35Yep.
00:07:36It doesn't matter.
00:07:37She's a landscape gardener, we should explain to everyone.
00:07:40But that's not the first era, is it?
00:07:41No, it's three in a row now.
00:07:43Three in a row.
00:07:44I'm damn glad I don't have anything to do with gardening.
00:07:46I thought I had to keep up with the other half.
00:07:49It would be terrible.
00:07:50Well, does the gardening pay for your motorsport then?
00:07:52I wouldn't even dream of suggesting anything so silly.
00:07:55No, no, no, no.
00:07:56Anyway, all those who know Small and Hugh and listening tonight,
00:08:00here he is, larger than life as always.
00:08:02Hugh, what's on the horizon for you?
00:08:04Well, one of the reasons I keep on going back here is,
00:08:07apart from the fact that I like it for some peculiar reason,
00:08:11is that everybody one wants to see and talk to
00:08:16and find out what's going on, is here at Le Mans.
00:08:20And Le Mans is the sports car race in the world.
00:08:26It is the sports car race to come to every year.
00:08:29And yes, of course I'm doing something better.
00:08:32As ever, it still isn't completed,
00:08:34and therefore I can't tell you very much about it.
00:08:36But it's, all being well, it'll be a prototype
00:08:38and it'll be announced in the...
00:08:43With all the people who remember Chamberlain Racing,
00:08:45I mean, you won here, you won the last year of the FIA Cup,
00:08:49didn't you, which was...
00:08:49I did.
00:08:49Group C, yes.
00:08:51It was a spice for the Cosworth engine.
00:08:54With Ferdinand de Leships.
00:08:55Ferdinand de Leships, indeed.
00:08:57Yeah.
00:08:57And that was Count Ferdinand de Leships, I believe.
00:09:00Yeah, whose grandfather, or great-great-grandfather,
00:09:02of course, built the Soares Canal.
00:09:04Doug Canals.
00:09:05Probably he didn't do very much about digging,
00:09:07but he thought it was a good idea.
00:09:09So, yeah, that was a spice.
00:09:09Hugh, let's...
00:09:10You won't tell us much, but will it be prototypes?
00:09:13I mean, you've always been a prototype, man.
00:09:16Yeah, all being well, we're definitely talking about prototypes.
00:09:20Yeah, I can't really see you running a Porsche or something,
00:09:22a GT Porsche, you know.
00:09:23They're foreign, old chap.
00:09:25They are.
00:09:25Come on, come on.
00:09:26You can't do that.
00:09:27Yeah.
00:09:28So, Hugh, what's your impression so far of the race?
00:09:32Well, apart from the obvious sadness,
00:09:34it's, um...
00:09:35It's...
00:09:36They're very, very quick.
00:09:39Yeah.
00:09:40The more you look at them, the quicker they get,
00:09:41and it's scary.
00:09:44I'm glad I haven't got a car in some ways.
00:09:46Yeah.
00:09:47Well, we're going to take a short break.
00:09:48Yeah.
00:09:48Don't go, Hugh.
00:09:49We'll be back for you to have a chat about more things
00:09:51in just a moment.
00:09:52Stabas here, live.
00:12:23Probably the longest lap he's had to do,
00:12:25even coming around Bathurst with a flat,
00:12:28won't have been as long as that for Jason Bright.
00:12:30He gets the Star 8 Motorsport Ferrari back with minimal damage,
00:12:34picked up a puncture,
00:12:35exiting the Terre Terre Rouge onto the Mulsanne Strait.
00:12:39It's a very, very long way to come back.
00:12:41The better part of six miles on that puncture.
00:12:44So, he comes back in.
00:12:45So, he comes back in and the team will push him back immediately into the garage
00:12:47because, Hugh Chamberlain, you can confirm this,
00:12:50two people maximum working on the car on the pit apron, correct?
00:12:54For any reason whatsoever?
00:12:55That's right, yeah.
00:12:56So, for the sort of damage that that had, although it was, hopefully, the majority was just bodywork,
00:13:02you'd have to get it in the garage and then you can have anybody you can get around the thing and work on it.
00:13:08But, of course, the sound thing is we couldn't see here.
00:13:11We don't know how badly damaged, if at all, the suspension was.
00:13:15Well, they'll, I mean, you know, whatever else, they'll get it back in the garage
00:13:18and they will have spare corners, spare parts all ready to go, hubs and corners.
00:13:22The Jota team in for a pit stop who was at the wheel of this.
00:13:26Lucas Lohr stays in.
00:13:28So, I think this is his third stint after taking over from Oliver Turvey.
00:13:32We are five hours and 40 minutes into...
00:13:37Yeah, he's on the P2 podium at the moment.
00:13:39He's running in third.
00:13:40Just ahead of him, Martin Plurman.
00:13:42We just saw a snatch of him in the oak car before this shot.
00:13:45And then ahead of him, Roman Rusinov.
00:13:48In fact, change of driver to Simon Dolan.
00:13:50So, the boss takes over in the car or the main financial backer of the car.
00:13:55So, Michel Frey now moves up to third place.
00:13:58I think that is the first time that 34 car has been in a podium finish.
00:14:03That's the race performance, Orica Judd.
00:14:06Michel Frey, sharing with Patrick Niederhausen, your own Blake.
00:14:09I take that back.
00:14:10They have been in the top three.
00:14:12But Hugh Chamberlain, one thing, of course, that the safety car does is it separates some battles,
00:14:16but it bunches up a lot of cars.
00:14:18And so, for the first 10, 15 minutes after a safety car has come back in,
00:14:23you have all sorts of cars out of place and much closer together than they might otherwise be doing,
00:14:28trying to get by each other.
00:14:29Yeah, it's mayhem, or can be, because, obviously, they're all having their own battles.
00:14:36And it's terribly difficult if you've got a guy out there who's not as experienced as some.
00:14:39Not that I'm suggesting anybody is behaving badly, but if they weren't as experienced,
00:14:44they could cause a major problem if they're quicker than the car behind in some places,
00:14:49like in the straight or whatever.
00:14:51It is a problem like that.
00:14:53Yeah, looking here at the battle for second in the GTE class.
00:14:56Peter Dumbrake is leading in the 97 Aston Martin.
00:14:59A minute and 35 seconds in front of that battle you're just looking at.
00:15:04Richard Leitz in the Porsche.
00:15:06And Bruno Senna having his first run in the Aston 99.
00:15:10Right behind him.
00:15:11Senna, of course, between single-seaters and Formula One,
00:15:16went for a year and raced in the Le Mans series.
00:15:19So he's got prototype experience as well.
00:15:21On board with the Porsche.
00:15:22Is Senna drafting up behind the Oak Racing Morgan?
00:15:26Is he going to get alongside?
00:15:27Are we going to see the nose of the Aston appear?
00:15:29Look at the vibration on the car there as he's in the slipstream.
00:15:33Senna is alongside.
00:15:34He's got the move.
00:15:36And Hugh, good racing thinking.
00:15:38Saw a slipstreaming opportunity.
00:15:40The Porsche was dead in the water.
00:15:41He had nowhere to answer.
00:15:43Absolutely.
00:15:43It's very good to see competitive driving that is also clean.
00:15:48Because very often you find that people force themselves past
00:15:53in ways that you wouldn't really like.
00:15:54Wouldn't like to see in your own car.
00:15:56But particularly if you owned it and paid for it.
00:15:58So we're back to Aston Martin 1, 2 in Proven.
00:16:00Peter Dumbrake, of course, debuted here in 1999.
00:16:04Flew the Mercedes.
00:16:05Yeah.
00:16:06Mark Leib.
00:16:06We always do.
00:16:07It would be a tough challenge against Aston Martin.
00:16:09But so far it looks like the Porsche team number 92
00:16:12is taking that fight quite well.
00:16:15Yeah.
00:16:15We had a good start and a good first stint.
00:16:17And everything was going quite well so far.
00:16:19So we lost a little bit of time at the beginning.
00:16:21We had some sensor problem in one of my stints.
00:16:23But then we were fighting back.
00:16:25Romar just did a triple stint on tires.
00:16:27So it's looking good.
00:16:28Great.
00:16:29And where do you see the biggest gains against Aston Martin
00:16:32or the biggest losses so far?
00:16:34It looks like we have the better top speed on the straight lines.
00:16:38But the Aston is very good through the Porsche corners.
00:16:40And there we lose a lot of time.
00:16:42But we gain a lot of time in Australia.
00:16:43So it's a back and forth all the time.
00:16:45Great.
00:16:46Good luck.
00:16:46A very timely interview with the driver of the number 92 car,
00:16:52which we just saw lose the place to, Bruno Senna,
00:16:55second in that GTE Pro class.
00:16:58But, of course, getting in front with the slipstream help
00:17:01of the Oat Racing Morgan Nissan is one thing.
00:17:04Staying in front of factory Porsche driver Richard Leitz
00:17:07may be an entirely different thing.
00:17:09The Austrian with a lot of experience of Porsches over the years.
00:17:12And Bruno Senna, well, he's not got as much knowledge
00:17:16of this Aston Martin, perhaps.
00:17:18But he got in front.
00:17:19Keeps his nose in front at the moment.
00:17:21The Toyota's coming up hard behind.
00:17:23Just to recap some positions with just a little over 18 hours to go.
00:17:27So nearly a quarter of a way into this race.
00:17:29And, gee, only the three safety cars so far.
00:17:32Audi 123 in order number 123.
00:17:36Then Toyota 8, Toyota 7, their fourth and fifth.
00:17:39The Rebellion Toyotas, a Rebellion Lola chassis
00:17:43with Toyota engines, are seventh and ninth.
00:17:46And between them is the Stracker HPD.
00:17:48That is your LMP1 class.
00:17:50Tenth overall, a big part, ninth overall.
00:17:52And leading in the LMP2 class is Roman Rusinov
00:17:55from Martin Plowman and Simon Dolan,
00:17:57who's just taken the Jota car back out.
00:18:00And Michel Frey, who moved up to third,
00:18:02as we see Jack Gerber again, I think,
00:18:05spinning that South African liveryed Ferrari.
00:18:08Yeah, Michel Frey got into third place overall,
00:18:13or rather in LMP2, as Lucas Lua pitted.
00:18:17Simon Dolan has now been given the place back
00:18:19as Michel Frey has pitted in the GTE Pro class.
00:18:23It is Peter Dunbrecht clear of this battle
00:18:25between Bruno Senna, the first car on your screen,
00:18:28and the third car flashing its headlights.
00:18:30That is Richard Leitz.
00:18:32That is Aston Martin versus Porsche.
00:18:33And the GTE Am class.
00:18:36Pierre Giuseppe Perizzini.
00:18:38Who are we?
00:18:39Oh, don't weave like that.
00:18:42Ah, that's why the Ferrari.
00:18:45Well, again, you see Hugh Chamberlain's with us.
00:18:47Hugh, sometimes you can be too much of a gentleman.
00:18:51The golden rule, if you're being caught,
00:18:53is stay on the racing line.
00:18:56It's safer for everyone.
00:18:57Absolutely.
00:18:58Make yourself your own...
00:19:00It just frightened him off the road.
00:19:03Hugh, we talked about prototypes.
00:19:05I mean, you were involved in Group C
00:19:06for many, many, many, many years.
00:19:08All sorts of programmes.
00:19:09How do you feel about Porsche coming back next year
00:19:11with the LMP1s?
00:19:15You would never bet against them.
00:19:17I've played against Porsches all the time,
00:19:20and they keep on making cars that finish.
00:19:24They're very, very strong.
00:19:26They're bound to be quick.
00:19:27I mean, when they came back into LMP2 some years ago,
00:19:31they just wiped the floor with everybody.
00:19:34But they were very, very good.
00:19:36Whether or not the new one is,
00:19:38because I don't know too much
00:19:40about the technical advances they have
00:19:43and what they're going to be using,
00:19:45but I wouldn't be at all surprised
00:19:48if it was competitive from the first race.
00:19:50I mean, obviously, what we do know,
00:19:52it'll be mid-engined, whatever it is,
00:19:53because that's what Porsche want.
00:19:55They want to have a mid-engined car again,
00:19:57something with direct fuel injection
00:19:58that they can just take on everybody.
00:20:01Yeah.
00:20:01Well, the only thing that made me open my eyes a bit
00:20:06was when I first saw the picture of it.
00:20:08It looked a bit strange at the front to me.
00:20:10So I'm not quite sure that it's...
00:20:12It may be well before four-wheel drive,
00:20:15but the aerodynamics,
00:20:16it looked very high at the front.
00:20:18So we'll see.
00:20:20I don't know what it is until we have a look at it.
00:20:22It looked a bit perjewish
00:20:23if you took all that black-and-white sticky tape off it.
00:20:26Yeah.
00:20:27It did look rather as if it had got a plastic bodywork
00:20:29and it was pretending to be something else
00:20:32being driven through the Arctic Circle.
00:20:33Well, apart from the guppy-mouthed Audi,
00:20:36most prototypes look the same as each other, don't they?
00:20:40Listen, Hugh, a couple of people on Twitter saying,
00:20:42any chance of the words Chamberlain and Viper
00:20:45being uttered in the same sentence?
00:20:46You've got a little bit of a hankering
00:20:48to go back to a very happy partnership?
00:20:52I was having a long conversation with Bill Riley the other day.
00:20:54Mmm.
00:20:55And when you discovered they're £300,000...
00:20:58Yeah, it's not Hugh's money.
00:21:00Listen, there's nothing you can run here
00:21:02that's going to come cheap, right?
00:21:04I think that's pretty safe.
00:21:06That's a safe bet.
00:21:08No, I can tell you that we have not done a deal
00:21:15about running a Viper,
00:21:18but we were chatting and they have no idea
00:21:22whether they're going to do a customer program or something.
00:21:26Mark, Janais, you had very little time in practice
00:21:29and qualifying to get a really good dry set-up.
00:21:31Now we've got a dry track.
00:21:33Are you happy with how the Audi's handling so far?
00:21:35Yeah, from what I hear from the drivers,
00:21:37they are quite happy.
00:21:38It was just very difficult at the beginning,
00:21:40but it was the track conditions.
00:21:42They all did a good job not making any mistake.
00:21:45And so far now, so good.
00:21:47And now that the car, the air is a bit cooler,
00:21:50you know, they are doing the fastest lap time,
00:21:51so it's OK so far.
00:21:53And what's going to be the plan with the tyres
00:21:55for the rest of the night?
00:21:56Will it be quadruple stints so far?
00:21:58Yeah, at least quadruple stints.
00:22:00That's what we are aiming for.
00:22:01We'll see, because there's two types of tyres
00:22:04and we may change to another type.
00:22:07But, yeah, the target is four stints.
00:22:10Thanks very much.
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00:22:21ORCHESTRA PLAYS
00:22:51love the sound of an on-board what a great piece of on-board footage just thought you'd like to
00:22:56enjoy that without us twittering over the top of it that toyota hounding down the mulsanne straight
00:23:01and look at this just one of the you know everybody talks about the beckett says is at
00:23:06silverstone for single seaters the porsche can you imagine what a fully lit formula one car would
00:23:11look like through the porsche curves it's such a stunning set of corners the audi number two
00:23:17lying in second place fastest second sector of the entire race for loit duval who is
00:23:21right on it with just over six hours to go here at le mans
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00:25:55welcome back to eurosports live coverage of 24 hours of le mans and as the temperature starts to drop
00:26:00air temperature cools density comes into the air fastest laps popping up loit duval we just saw him in
00:26:06the porsche curves a moment talking about how quick he was going he said the fastest lap of the race
00:26:12three twenty three point two six eight and now benoit trellier answers with a three twenty five point four
00:26:20including a faster second sector than loit duval even managed that time route and the pole time three twenty two point three by loit duval so they are
00:26:31nine tenths
00:26:33nine tenths of a second
00:26:35nine tenths of a second
00:26:37nine tenths of a second off pole we've still got 18 hours to go i got very excited saying we've six hours to go of course we've six hours gone in three minutes
00:26:47Martin haven with Mark Cole and alongside me also Damien Faulkner at Damien Faulkner on twitter he loves new followers so follow him and Damo
00:26:58and Damo
00:26:59I have a hundred new ones since yesterday
00:27:01couple of people asking are we expecting toyota to catch up
00:27:05in a straight speed fight
00:27:09no
00:27:10they're not losing a lot more ground but
00:27:13they don't look like they've got
00:27:16pace to catch Audi
00:27:18no
00:27:19well i don't know i mean it's
00:27:21you know from the warm-up this morning obviously we saw something different
00:27:25something new we had a toyota that was fastest
00:27:28and that was sort of that was a complete upset really
00:27:32and i'm sure maybe there was a few heads that have been scratched at Audi
00:27:36and then of course early in the race they were really really strong but after that safety car period
00:27:42they both of them seem to drop back and subsequently they've just sort of continually lost pace relative to the Audi each lap
00:27:52so i don't think so to be honest i mean you've just seen two of the Audis there goes you know really fast putting in some fantastic laps
00:27:59and i mean i don't know i think they're just in cruise control those Audis i really do
00:28:04the problem is mark even if toyota go two laps longer on fuel which they might be able to do
00:28:10they might save one pit stop or two pit stops even if they save three pit stops
00:28:16that's still only what three minutes maximum and so they can't be more than three minutes behind the Audis
00:28:23you know with with two or three hours to go because they're going to fit that number of pit stops in so
00:28:30and they're running four or five seconds off the Audi pace
00:28:33yeah they're just not quite close enough after that into 300 laps plus and you know as you say
00:28:39who knows though i mean anything can happen martin
00:28:42i'm going to answer a question now immediately because to see the man on the right there
00:28:46they just said they plug something into the back of the Audi during the pit stops what is it
00:28:50well they plug something into the back of or into all the cars during the pit stops what is it
00:28:54it's a compressed airline you plug it in and and it then pushes the jacks down which lift the car up into the air
00:29:00the other thing he was holding the little wire with the crocodile clip that is an earth lead
00:29:05so there are no static sparks when they are refueling the car because that is going to cause an explosion
00:29:12that's why you should never wear a nylon shell suit in a petrol station because a spark from that will set off petrol vapour
00:29:19so that's what they plug in sometimes on the back of a prototype car will go in the back
00:29:23in the GT car quite often it goes into a little nipple on the front wing
00:29:27but Damien you know that's absolutely standard onboard air jacks are run by compressed air
00:29:31and when it's released then the car drops down immediately and the jacks retract out of sight
00:29:35yeah and of course they can't hold the compressed air in the car the compressed air has to be held in tanks
00:29:41obviously in the garage they're not allowed to have their own system in the car so it's just basically
00:29:47you know jacks three normally three jacks actually well three in a Porsche anyway that jack the front of it up
00:29:55the complete car to allow them and then there's just a quick release which one of the mechanics will pull
00:30:01and the air will just blast out and it'll immediately drop and away they go
00:30:07Patrick O'Brien in Ireland says he's going to stay up all night and watch with us can we give him a quick mention
00:30:11no no chance of that I'm afraid Benoit Trellier another fastest second sector really charging
00:30:17they see the pole car number two on pit road now the leader number one on pit road now this is an
00:30:25absolutely level knock down drag out knife fight these two guys now and their teammates think that they
00:30:35and not the number three car are going to be battling for the win of course we've got 18 hours
00:30:40or 17 hours 59 minutes a lot of weather a lot of safety cars a lot of accidents lots of other
00:30:46things perhaps in the way but right now they're about half a minute apart and they are going at it
00:30:53at near lap record pace well while we're cycling for the pit stops we're just being joined by a
00:30:58Nicholas Grubay from Michelin and he's going to tell us something about the tires Damon if we could just
00:31:02once more another Audi stop goes flawlessly just incidentally on the two people working on the
00:31:12cars you see two people doing the fueling you'll see only two men ever changing the tires you're not
00:31:19allowed anymore the one exception for safety reasons is you can have a driver helper during the driver
00:31:26change in the pit stop or to clean a windscreen of a gt car after six of our 24 hours Audi lead the
00:31:34Le Mans 24 hours in its 90th anniversary year one two three cars one two three Toyota giving chase and
00:31:40hoping somewhere that playing the long fuel card will help them LMP2 leader back with John Martin the
00:31:46the man for most of the most of qualifying had pole 99 Aston Martin the pole sitter in the GTE pro class
00:31:54is still in front of the pro class being chased by teammates and Porsches and in the GTE M class as you get to
00:32:01the next page of your screens it's Pier Giuseppe Perazzini's Ferrari the number 55 car that leads from
00:32:06Gianluca Road as Porsche and Jean-Clau Verne's Porsche another rookie he lies in third position well of course one of the
00:32:14huge supports for any kind of motor racing comes from tire companies like your own road car nobody can
00:32:22move without the support of a tire company and one of the most successful in motorsport is Michelin so
00:32:28uh welcome to Nicholas Gruber back to Le Mans and of course to the Eurosport booth and thank you very
00:32:34much for continuing to come back there it is the magnificent new Michelin scoreboard to bring bib and of
00:32:40course to bring how many thousand tires here around six thousand days for the 37 cars we're partners
00:32:48with now of course what you have to anticipate is that it's going to be extremely hot and very hard
00:32:56work on tires and bring enough for an entire race for the entire field and also that it's going to be
00:33:02completely wet throughout the race and bring enough of those tires and everything in between so you
00:33:08can offer the hopefully perfect choice for the perfect conditions yeah exactly i mean uh it's exactly what
00:33:14you said basically you know among the six thousand tires we've brought here we're going to use maybe only
00:33:20two thousand but we have to get ready for all conditions and i mean this year is a good example you know from the first
00:33:26three or four hours you didn't know how the weather was going to be for the next 10 or 15 minutes
00:33:32and uh well that makes the racing uh interesting but that's uh that's a nightmare when the drivers have to pick up the
00:33:38right tires and what Nicholas what we've seen and what our audience has seen is that Audi a quadruple stint
00:33:44in your tires this evening that's the first four hours of the race okay we had safety car but to get four
00:33:50stints out of tires that is so impressive yeah we're very very happy with that and uh it showed very
00:33:56really that they were confident because you know usually what they do is you start by doing a
00:34:02conservative choice you know deciding to do to start with maybe three stints then look at the tires
00:34:08and then do four and then five but this time as they were very confident then they went straight away from
00:34:14four stints so that's uh that's a really good thing so could you get five in the night when it's
00:34:18yeah yeah i think it's uh would be okay on the uh on the Audi uh of course it's um it's very difficult
00:34:24afterwards you know for the driver because they have to stay in the car for five stints and whether
00:34:29or not they want to take the risk i mean maybe it would be their decision but the tires can definitely
00:34:34handle it well listen we're going to take a quick commercial break we'll come back as well because i've
00:34:38got so many more questions i want to ask you not least relating to the very beginning of the race when
00:34:44we saw what seemed to be a different balance of pace between Audi and Michelin and you may not be
00:34:50able to tell us secrets out of class but i want to know if they were on the same tire strategy briefly
00:34:56at the beginning were the Audis and the Toyota both on the same tire do you know no they were not
00:35:02i'll tell you later okay it did look definitely as though the Michelin had a bit more wet grip maybe
00:35:08they went with the intermediate we'll come back a quick commercial break and we'll talk more about
00:35:14tires right after this live on Eurosport
00:35:44so
00:36:14to do the 13th row.
00:36:17And Alexander Roth will be able to do it.
00:36:21You have to do it.
00:36:44The tournage is a very interesting one.
00:36:46We have talked about Pascal Nassman during the conference of the press,
00:36:51on the next week, on the Télé-tap.
00:36:55And we have a great day.
00:36:57We have a great day.
00:36:59We have a great day.
00:37:01We have a great day.
00:37:03We have a great day.
00:37:05We have a great day.
00:37:07We have a great day.
00:37:09We have a great day.
00:37:11Welcome back to Eurosport and our coverage of the Le Mans 24 hours 2013.
00:37:39Wherever you're watching, across Europe, across the Asia-Pacific region, hello, if you're watching on Eurosport Asia, very glad to have you with us throughout the day, night, wherever it is, wherever you are, night here, day there, one of those.
00:37:53We've got Michel Armand, not with Ben with us, but Nicolas with us.
00:37:57Listen, just briefly before the break, we touched on a question that a lot of people have asked, and we were asking ourselves, Chris Finch on Twitter, one of those saying,
00:38:05what was the explanation for Toyota's early pace in the beginning of the race in mixed conditions?
00:38:11We guessed that there was a difference in tyre choice on the grid between Audi and Toyota, and you can confirm that, Kenny.
00:38:19Yeah, you were right. I mean, basically, Audi picked up, you know, we have three different offers as far as slick tyres are concerned.
00:38:27One of them is intermediate slick that nobody picked up to start with, and then the other two is, one of them is made to be used mostly when the temperatures are quite high or during the daytime,
00:38:38and the other one is made for lower temperature range. And basically, the Audi picked up the one for daytime, and Toyota made the choice, the opposite choice, to go for the one for lower ground temperature.
00:38:55And it paid off because, as you said, I mean, the Toyota were really competitive to start with, and it's because they had a different tyre choice.
00:39:02They knew that if it was going to be 100% dry and with higher temperature on the ground, it would be more difficult for them as it is right now.
00:39:10Yeah. So they didn't go for your slick immediate, they went for the nighttime tyre, essentially.
00:39:17Yeah, that's it. But then, after a while, then Nicolas Lapierre on the Toyota No. 7 switched tyres to go to the slick intermediate,
00:39:27and he was lucky and unlucky, because when he just did the tyre chance, the following lap, he gained about 15 seconds compared to all the other guys.
00:39:39But then the rain stopped.
00:39:42So, at the end of the day, he kept that tyre for two stints, and he did gain nearly two seconds a lap, average.
00:39:51But sometimes 10 seconds, sometimes losing time, so it's really a gamble, you know.
00:39:56You never know what's going to happen, you know, in the following 20 or 40 minutes, and you have to make a gamble if you want to be in front.
00:40:03Listen, we talked about the number of tyres you bring here, bringing 6,000 tyres for the cars that you're supplying,
00:40:09and you will take home at least 3,000 tyres that you're unused.
00:40:13Yeah, 3,000 or 4,000, yeah.
00:40:14Okay, now, everybody else will go, yeah, well, that's not a problem, because you just bring them back here, but back next year, but you don't,
00:40:19because tyres are like wine, they go off, right?
00:40:22Yeah, actually, wine, you know, you can keep wine longer than tyres.
00:40:26Yeah, exactly.
00:40:28Can't drive so fast with tyre, with wine, though.
00:40:32No, we cannot bring the same tyres again next year, because we keep evolving, you know.
00:40:38It's a discipline where you have to do tyre, constant tyre design, and as the cars are changing every time, you know,
00:40:45you have to keep up with the evolution, the car evolution, and especially for next year, as you know,
00:40:50I mean, the rules are going to change drastically, and the tyre size is going to be way different.
00:40:55We're going to lose more than 2 inches in width, which is a big difference,
00:41:03and it will be a big challenge for the tyre, because we expect the speed of the car to be more or less equivalent.
00:41:10I mean, the FIA is saying that the car will be slower, but we don't believe them yet.
00:41:16They always say that.
00:41:18We have another five WEC races, you can use these tyres for those races, or are they specific to Le Mans?
00:41:23Some of them we might, but not everywhere.
00:41:27What we do is we bring, you know, different tyre choice at all the venues,
00:41:31so some of the choices we'll have here, we'll have other places as well,
00:41:35but we know that some other places we need completely different stuff, so...
00:41:39Yeah.
00:41:40Now, we've got a Twitter question for you here.
00:41:43Someone's asking, what did you give Toyota for the warm-up?
00:41:47For the warm-up this morning, that was...
00:41:49Actually, that was a surprise.
00:41:51It was for us.
00:41:52Yeah, and then, I can tell you, it was a surprise for Toyota people as well.
00:41:55Well, I think, you know, in the warm-up, it's really down to the drivers,
00:42:02which safety margin they want to take, and my guess is that the Audi guys were very careful.
00:42:10Yeah.
00:42:11I mean...
00:42:11It's not a qualifying session, of course, although Toyota treated it like that.
00:42:15It was their fastest time of the week.
00:42:17True.
00:42:17For Lapier.
00:42:18Yeah, for Lapier.
00:42:19Well, we had Hugh Chamberlain with us earlier, and his famous quote many years ago,
00:42:24nothing good ever happens in warm-up.
00:42:26There's a lot of that happened again this morning.
00:42:29And we have one other question for you.
00:42:31Has anyone in the race taken a rain tyre today?
00:42:35Yes, I think the Alpine in LMP2, they chose, unfortunately, a rain tyre at one stage,
00:42:42and they had to come back a few laps later because the rain stopped completely,
00:42:46and it wasn't the right choice, right decision at that time.
00:42:49And you have a choice of two rain tyres as well, don't you?
00:42:51Yes.
00:42:51They're wet and a very wet tyre.
00:42:53They're wet and very wet, so they chose, of course, only the wet,
00:42:56but even so, I mean, it was not wet enough to be able to use that tyre.
00:43:00Final question, just what we've got here.
00:43:01We've talked several times, and drivers have told me constantly,
00:43:04about the temperature drop because of the long straights here.
00:43:08Can you put that into a degrees Celsius kind of idea?
00:43:12Are we losing five degrees of tyre temperature or more or less?
00:43:16Is it marginal or can it be quite large?
00:43:18No, it can be, I would say, between five and ten,
00:43:23and when the tyres are used in their working windows, then the drivers don't feel it.
00:43:30But then when you start going out of the window, where you can feel it is after a straight line,
00:43:35when you have to put your foot on the brakes, and then you can feel the tyres not working properly,
00:43:39and then it's a sign that when you have to change and switch to the low temperature one.
00:43:44Low temperature tyre, yeah, absolutely.
00:43:46And, of course, safety car, you have exactly the same situation,
00:43:50which is why the drivers work the brakes so hard to try and keep heating the tyres.
00:43:54Exactly.
00:43:54And the final thing that people at home will know, of course, is that you don't inflate tyres with air.
00:43:59No, I mean, you could inflate the tyres with dry hair, which is very important,
00:44:07is not to have any humidity in the tyres, because if you have humidity, then the pressures go higher and higher.
00:44:15And then, as you want to control the pressure, you have to be very careful, so either you put nitrogen or dry hair.
00:44:23So all sorts of things that your car tyre you never think about, but, ooh, as we see the Porsche dive down the escape road.
00:44:32But 90 years ago, this race was created to test out Raj Whitworth wheels and roofs on cars, and, of course, tyres.
00:44:43Tyres, yeah, of course.
00:44:43And still, for the manufacturers, for Michelin and for the other tyre manufacturers and manufacturers of every other component,
00:44:50this is a great test laboratory, because it puts them under so much stress.
00:44:54Absolutely.
00:44:55It's a great test, because for a tyre maker, for example, you're going to encounter very different conditions, you know, through the 24 hours.
00:45:02Rain, dry, hot weather, very low temperature.
00:45:05So, basically, you have to work on things that are going to be very useful for your everyday car.
00:45:13And that's why we like being here.
00:45:15And the other reason is that it's an open competition.
00:45:18So, Michelin is not the only tyre brand here.
00:45:20So, we're competing with other brands.
00:45:22And then, thirdly, I would say that the ACO and the FIA are trying very hard to promote new technology.
00:45:30And that's why you've got hybrid cars.
00:45:33That's why you've got, you know, Garage 56 cars with different, completely different technology.
00:45:38And they make the racing grounds a ground to develop new technology, and we love that.
00:45:44And that's the reason why we're here.
00:45:46And that's the reason why our cars are a lot safer on our own.
00:45:48Nicolas, thank you very much, indeed.
00:45:50Thank you very much.
00:45:51Thank you very much for coming with your tyres and for coming to talk to us as well.
00:45:54Fantastic insights there.
00:45:56And, again, you know, you've just got to thank all the people that support motorsport across the world.
00:46:01We love it because of the excitement.
00:46:03We benefit from it because of exactly what this race was created for, to test and develop new technology for road cars.
00:46:11And you look at these prototypes here, as you see these battles, you think, no, really, is this making any difference?
00:46:1860 years ago, 1953, the first ever Le Mans was won by a car with disc brakes, like the ones on your car that stop you going into the hedge.
00:46:27About as uninformative a radio transmissional, I think you've heard, for a very long while.
00:46:45We'll let the Toyota team try and sort out their radio issues.
00:46:49We'll be back in just a moment with more live coverage.
00:46:52We have just gone over the six and a quarter hours mark here in Le Mans.
00:46:56And more guests coming into our studio as it's getting close to dinner time.
00:47:01I don't know how we managed to drag them all away from the table.
00:47:04We'll be back with more coverage in just a second.
00:47:06Stay with us.
00:47:07We're going through a racing that this is becoming a changing thing.
00:47:26We're going through a race.
00:47:26And we're going through a race.
00:47:39So far we'll be back in just a couple of days.
00:47:43But we're going through a raceYeah.
00:50:17They rebooted it in track, but it seems like the Gremlins may well have returned as everyone settles down for their evening meals.
00:50:25As you can see, it's not been a pleasant time for Toyota.
00:50:30Audi, they're just going quicker and quicker, it seems.
00:50:33And in fact, some of the times that they're putting down right now are exceeding the speeds of Toyota during qualifying.
00:50:41That's how miserable it's got.
00:50:43So, problems for Toyota, they're being passed by GT cars at the moment.
00:50:47It's in the hands of Mr. Wurtz and Mark Cole.
00:50:50We've got another guest.
00:50:51Yes, it wasn't for bad luck.
00:50:53They'd have no luck at all, would they?
00:50:54So, Mike Gascoigne, delighted you could join us.
00:50:56Of course, big interchange between Formula One and sports car racing.
00:51:00Caterham, you've brought Caterham here into Le Mans, the longer greeds motorsport, in the number 41 car for Tom Kimber-Smith, who's obviously one of the most winning drivers in the history of Le Mans.
00:51:11Eric Lux and Alexander Rossi, how's it all going today?
00:51:15OK, we had a slight problem.
00:51:18We had a bit of a suspension issue.
00:51:20Unfortunately, that cost us about three, four laps in the pits, but we were able to get it sorted out.
00:51:26And actually, since then, we've had Alex in the car for his first stint and first time at Le Mans.
00:51:31I think he was a couple of seconds a lap quicker than the whole of the LMP2 field.
00:51:36So, he was obviously enjoying it.
00:51:38And we've now got Eric Lux in, who's doing a pretty sterling job for us.
00:51:42So, it's a long race.
00:51:44I'm learning that.
00:51:44It's my first time at Le Mans.
00:51:46We were just saying an hour in.
00:51:50Monza was normally over in an hour and 20 minutes.
00:51:53And we've still got 23 to go.
00:51:56We've got, this is 16 one-and-a-half-hour Grand Prixs.
00:51:59And it's all run at sprint pace.
00:52:02Absolutely.
00:52:02It's been a great event and, obviously, with Caterham announcing a new range of road cars.
00:52:10The 40th year of the Caterham 7.
00:52:12So, a great time for us to be at Le Mans for the first time and also evaluating what we can do for the future.
00:52:18Now, Alex, of course, is your test driver in Formula One.
00:52:21Tom Kemper-Smith has come in here three times.
00:52:23He's won three times in his categories.
00:52:26Eric Lux, I think, if you remember rightly, youngest ever driver to start the Rolex 24 hours at Daytona, 16 years old.
00:52:33And he comes from Buffalo, doesn't he?
00:52:35That's right.
00:52:35Known as the Buffalo Kid.
00:52:36Yeah.
00:52:37But a big learning curve.
00:52:39Now, obviously, a lot of rumours that you might be looking at LMP1 next year.
00:52:44I don't think LMP1 at the moment.
00:52:46I think you look at it.
00:52:48We've obviously got people like Audi and Toyota with very big budgets.
00:52:51And we've got a Formula One team that needs a big budget as well.
00:52:54But I think, certainly, LMP2 is something we may look at from the point of view of coming in as a constructor.
00:53:02It may make commercial sense for us.
00:53:05It's a cost-cap formula.
00:53:06But, obviously, with a Formula One team, we've got aero departments.
00:53:10We've got composites departments.
00:53:11We've got design departments.
00:53:13And actually, commercialising them makes a lot of sense.
00:53:17And also, obviously, if we're in LMP2, it gives us a lot of brand awareness as well for the launch of the new cars.
00:53:25Plus, maybe for the future, when the new car comes out, a GT version of that.
00:53:30But LMP1, I think that would have to be a little while in the future.
00:53:34Now, Mike, you're an engineer.
00:53:35You've got an engineering background.
00:53:36We've got people like Lena Gaye.
00:53:39She's one of them on two years running.
00:53:41So, so important.
00:53:43We encourage all these young engineers.
00:53:44And I know that you, as Caterham and Aston Martin, you're both now partners of the new Silverstone University Technical College, which is, it's a school, isn't it, where they start at 14, do the national curriculum.
00:53:56But alongside that, you do engineering work.
00:54:00You do race, all sorts of race courses, you know, maybe crowd control, anything like this.
00:54:05And Neil Patterson, your friend from McLaren, who's a McLaren designer, he's, in April, he was appointed principal.
00:54:11And he's bringing you all on board to make this work.
00:54:14Yeah, I think it's the fact that you've got engineering, getting a profile in education is something that, for me, is very important.
00:54:22I was very lucky at school.
00:54:23I did engineering design at O level and A level.
00:54:25It was a very rare course, though, and still is, but was invaluable for me as an engineer.
00:54:32And I think more practical engineering-based subjects around which all the kids are going to learn all their maths and sciences and normal things.
00:54:40But dealing with real practical projects set for them by outside companies like Caterham is something we're massively supportive of.
00:54:49And, of course, a chance to go to school at Silverstone.
00:54:52I mean, there's the new building right opposite the old pits.
00:54:55And Neil's telling us you've got students already booked for September from Wales, Scotland, Devon, all over the UK.
00:55:00And you just, I think you and he and Ulrich Beck met up with Prince Andrew the other day, had lunch with him.
00:55:05Yeah, that's exactly right.
00:55:07I mean, Prince Andrew, very supportive of it, which is great.
00:55:12And, yeah, I drove past the building myself.
00:55:14I think I might go back to school myself.
00:55:16It looks so nice.
00:55:17But, no, a fantastic opportunity for the children.
00:55:21It's great that it's inspiring kids to come into this sort of thing.
00:55:25And, you know, it's something that we're very, very supportive of.
00:55:30And, of course, once you've got Formula teams, Formula One teams, putting, you know, projects into those places, it's going to act as a great inspiration.
00:55:38This is the big magnet, isn't it?
00:55:39Absolutely.
00:55:39You're involved.
00:55:40It's at Silverstone.
00:55:41And Carlton has got a four-year-old, Teddy.
00:55:43I mean, one day perhaps Teddy will be able to join in that, in the school because it's all going so well there.
00:55:50So, really good project.
00:55:51Well done.
00:55:52And all the best for the rest of the race.
00:55:54Where are you at the moment?
00:55:5541 car.
00:55:56There it is.
00:55:56Running 33rd at the moment.
00:55:58But Eric Lux gradually dragging it up the order.
00:56:00And there's a long way to go.
00:56:02Absolutely.
00:56:03Mike Gascoigne.
00:56:04Carlton, anything you'd like to say to Mike?
00:56:06I just love what you're doing.
00:56:08I love your ambition as well.
00:56:09Well, it's, all right, it's at the moment a little bit of a branding exercise, but you're a fantastic technology company.
00:56:16You've got a massive profile.
00:56:17You're in people's thoughts.
00:56:19Very much associated with Lotus in the past, but making your own way on the global scene.
00:56:24And we love it.
00:56:26Yeah, well, I think, you know, actually if you come down to the pits, we've just launched a new range of carbon fiber push bikes.
00:56:32We've just announced a sailing team.
00:56:34Teddy, that's my other wing.
00:56:35We've just announced a sailing team, Caterham Challenge.
00:56:38I sailed solo across the Atlantic last November, and myself and Brian Thompson were doing a race from France to Brazil in November.
00:56:47Fingers in so many pies.
00:56:48Remind me not to buy one.
00:56:49Well, the bottom line, if it's moving and it's high technology, then Caterham won't want to be involved in it.
00:56:55Well, Earth, Wind & Fire are on in around about half an hour, I suppose that's where you're going.
00:57:00Entering the music business as well?
00:57:02Tony Fernandes started in the music business, so we've got that one covered as well.
00:57:07Unfortunately, I'm working here, so Boogie Wonderland is not where I'm going to be, but fantastic.
00:57:11Thank you for coming and joining us.
00:57:13Absolute pleasure.
00:57:13Well done.
00:57:14So that's the seamless joining of Formula One and the world of endurance racing here at Le Mans.
00:57:21What better place?
00:57:21Thank you, Mike Gascoigne.
00:57:22Thank you, Caterham.
00:57:24Yes, indeed.
00:57:25We'll be seeing an awful lot more of those boys.
00:57:27You can believe that in the future.
00:57:30Well, you've heard it here.
00:57:32Mark Cole, it's been a busy old night, and in fact, they're queuing up good and proper to speak to us.
00:57:38I believe we've got the Murphy boys coming through to us in just a few moments time.
00:57:42It has been electric, but let's just let everyone catch up with exactly how we stand here.
00:57:46Audi's 1, 2, and 3.
00:57:48They're in that numerical order as well.
00:57:49Trulia, Duval, and Jarvis it is at the moment.
00:57:53Toyota Verts and the Lola with Besh is currently running in sixth place, I've got to tell you.
00:58:01They've had their electrical issues, Toyota.
00:58:03Toyota, yes, 8 and 7, the way those cars are shaking down at the moment.
00:58:08They keep swapping performance, it seems, provided that they don't have any electrical glitches.
00:58:13Let's hope that does not continue.
00:58:14Just remember, we might have three outages at the top, but you've got four Toyota engine cars in the next five places.
00:58:22Stracca in the Honda-powered HPD, Johnny Kane in board.
00:58:25They managed to drag themselves up from 36th place on the grid where they were sent
00:58:29because they hadn't met the 110% rule after such a disastrous qualifying for everybody.
00:58:35And Johnny Kane is now running a firm seventh.
00:58:38He's been there for the last two hours ahead of Neil Jani, and that's the Rebellion Toyota that's had the problems.
00:58:44As they refuel here, a lot of you are saying, why on earth do they do any other work while they're refuelling?
00:58:49They're not allowed to.
00:58:51Fuel goes on first, and occasionally it looks like a long old wait.
00:58:55It depends on what sort of load they're taking.
00:58:57Incidentally, Peter Dunbrecht is doing a fantastic job in the 97 Aston.
00:59:01He's holding everyone at bay, and believe me, they are on his tail.
00:59:05Richard Leitz is nearest Mantua.
00:59:07Just can't get past Peter Dunbrecht, who's got such wide-ranging experience
00:59:12in a whole host of globally significant championships, and he's doing a fantastic job.
00:59:18He is leading the 8GT Pro-Class at the moment, ahead of Leitz's Porsche and the Amp-Class.
00:59:26Parazzini it is, with a Ferrari ahead of three Porsches just for now.
00:59:31We'll take a break.
00:59:32We'll do a small piece of shit.
00:59:35We'll take a break.
00:59:39We'll take a break.
00:59:44One happy hour.
00:59:53One happy hour.
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