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00:00:24I don't know if it's going to go on the volant.
00:00:26I'm sorry, Eric.
00:00:27There's a problem with Michael.
00:00:30I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
00:00:32I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
00:00:54I'm sorry, Eric.
00:01:24I'm sorry, Eric.
00:01:26I'm sorry, Eric.
00:01:48Nighttime at Le Mans and one of the shortest nights in any kind of racing.
00:01:52Daytona, of course, in February has one of the longest nights.
00:01:55Here it's, well, barely six hours.
00:01:57However, it's cold, dark and windy.
00:01:59This frankly feels like they've had to run the race in March for some bizarre political reason.
00:02:04Not that that ever happens here in France, of course.
00:02:08Again, we're reporting cars going off.
00:02:11It's funny, isn't it?
00:02:12As soon as you get out of the twilight, which you would think would be the hardest time for the drivers
00:02:17when they're driving into what little weak sunshine there has been,
00:02:20suddenly you see cars going off all over the place.
00:02:23Phillip Pond tells us that different air takes on the Toyota do exist.
00:02:29Yeah, 2012 and 2013 bodywork.
00:02:32Apparently, I haven't seen the cars this year.
00:02:35It's the first time I've seen it, I must admit.
00:02:37Somebody asked here, CJ asks us, why are the car lights still on during the day?
00:02:43Because they have to be.
00:02:44Because they have to be.
00:02:45And the main reason they have to be is so you can see who's coming up behind you,
00:02:47because at that speed it's difficult to see.
00:02:50So if it's the yellow lights behind you, it's a GT car.
00:02:54If it's the white lights, it's a prototype car.
00:02:58Who else here?
00:02:59Various other people.
00:03:00Steven Firth saying, I'm watching Le Mans for the first time.
00:03:02I'm amazed by the speed of the cars through the Porsche curves.
00:03:05I've been coming here for 30 years.
00:03:07I'm amazed by the speed of the Porsche goes, that never gets old.
00:03:10And the speed on the Mulsar, that never gets old either.
00:03:13And the overall speed as well.
00:03:14I mean, the fastest lap here, the average speed was set at well over 150 miles an hour.
00:03:21So that's the average speed, that's for the prototype cars.
00:03:24For the GTE cars, the average lap speed is over 130 miles an hour.
00:03:33Average lap speed for a GT car.
00:03:35It's pretty impressive.
00:03:36Sparks flying.
00:03:37What was that?
00:03:38Well, the mechanics have a fag on and not the end of it.
00:03:41Hadn't earthed himself, obviously.
00:03:43So this is the factory Porsche lying second at the moment.
00:03:46Richard Lieb is just handing over to Mark Lieb.
00:03:48And that's still the Porsche sandwich in an Aston Martin loaf as they rejoin there.
00:03:54And this battle is just going to run and run.
00:03:56Peter Dunbrecht leading the class from now Mark Lieb and from...
00:04:01Oh, it's Porsche, Porsche, Aston, Aston, the top four cars.
00:04:06The Ferraris are not getting a look-in at the moment.
00:04:09Of course, Rob Bell's just moved up to second during that pit stop.
00:04:12But that'll sort itself out next time around.
00:04:15I'm here with the technical director for Toyota number seven and eight.
00:04:20So far, the cars seem to be going quite well.
00:04:22Are you pleased with the progress so far?
00:04:24At the moment, everything is running according to plan.
00:04:28Our pace is reasonably good in the night.
00:04:31We were slower during daytime, but now it's OK.
00:04:35So, yeah, so far, so good.
00:04:37Great. I'll let you get back to it. Thank you very much.
00:04:41Short and sharp. That's our Liz.
00:04:43Liz Halliday in the pit lane.
00:04:45I'm going to pay for that later.
00:04:46I think I'm being g'd up to offend parts of the nation.
00:04:50People are suggesting not only how to say goodnight in Welsh,
00:04:54which I didn't want.
00:04:55I wanted to say good evening rather than go away,
00:04:57but also suggesting I give various regional shout-outs
00:05:00to various parts of the country.
00:05:01I think, perhaps, I'm being sent a bit of a pup there,
00:05:05so we'll ignore all those.
00:05:06I'd avoid the north-west of England.
00:05:07You did give us a lot of shout-out from Sunderland earlier on.
00:05:11Oh, yeah.
00:05:12A couple of people have asked us, what are the hybrid zones?
00:05:15I'm not sure we've talked about that,
00:05:17but the hybrid zones are where the hybrid cars,
00:05:21which is the Audis and the Toyotas, they're the only ones...
00:05:23Lucas, 10 seconds in front of you is a second-place Toyota,
00:05:27but he's a lap ahead.
00:05:2920 seconds in front of you is race leader Christensen,
00:05:32two laps ahead.
00:05:35Pretty straightforward there.
00:05:36Good information there for Luca Di Grassi
00:05:38at the wheel of car number three.
00:05:39The hybrid zones, there's two teams running,
00:05:42the hybrid systems, which is assisted technology,
00:05:46if you like, to have more horsepower to the wheels,
00:05:49and the hybrid systems regenerate power under braking,
00:05:54store that power and then release it under acceleration.
00:05:58They're not allowed to use it on every corner, however.
00:06:00There's seven braking zones on this track where the hybrid systems
00:06:05are allowed to regenerate the power or produce power
00:06:09that is stored on board the car for release later on.
00:06:12Only on seven points here.
00:06:14It's at the braking zone...
00:06:16One we've just gone through, the Dunlop Curve.
00:06:18Yeah, and then also the first chicane, the second chicane,
00:06:21Mulsanne Corner, Indianapolis,
00:06:24the entrance to the Porsche curves,
00:06:26and also the entrance to the Ford chicane as well
00:06:28toward the end of the lap.
00:06:30Listen, Jeremy, just getting back to the radio message
00:06:32for Lucas Di Grassi here in the number three car.
00:06:35The relevance of the gaps to the car in front
00:06:38is because this guy has got the afterburners on.
00:06:41His last lap was a 3.27.
00:06:44He's just gone around in a 3.30.
00:06:46The leaders, well, the second-placed Toyota,
00:06:49the one that he's catching, is doing a 3.33,
00:06:52and that's only a lap in front of him.
00:06:54So he is closing and trying to unlap himself
00:06:57on the second-place Toyota.
00:06:59And then, of course, Tom Christensen,
00:07:01the race leader in the Audi, is a lap ahead of the whole field.
00:07:04So he's then got to go by Christensen a second time
00:07:07in the next 15 and a half hours, a bit less,
00:07:10to try and unlap himself and get back onto lead lap.
00:07:13But it's because of the speed of Di Grassi that he wants to know,
00:07:16who am I going to get to who's really important
00:07:18and how far up the road are they?
00:07:20That's the carrot that Halden-Haynes was just dangling there for him
00:07:24on the end of that little radio string.
00:07:27And picking up on your earlier thread, Martin,
00:07:30about the times coming down tonight,
00:07:32we've got Oliver Turvey in the 38 Zytex,
00:07:34just done that car's best.
00:07:36Yeah.
00:07:37And Ryan Briscoe in the HPD
00:07:39has just done his car's personal best.
00:07:41That's the 33 Level 5 Motorsports,
00:07:44certainly in the first sector.
00:07:45So these times starting to get quicker and quicker
00:07:47as the night gets cooler.
00:07:48Yeah, the number 33 car, Level 5 Motorsports.
00:07:51Ryan Briscoe was charging in the early stages of this race.
00:07:54They've had, however, several delays in the pits.
00:07:57They've had some problems with the engine management system,
00:08:00effectively.
00:08:01And that has cost them quite a few laps
00:08:04and now up 116.
00:08:06So five laps behind the leaders
00:08:09and about 12th or 13th, 14th place perhaps in P2.
00:08:13Look at this phalanx of photographers
00:08:15all because of this man.
00:08:17Patrick Dempsey is a massive star.
00:08:19I mean, those of you who have watched Grey's Anatomy
00:08:21will know him well.
00:08:22He's a massive, massive star here in France currently
00:08:25because, of course, they're a decade behind everybody else.
00:08:27But, I mean, he's really joined a huge crowd wherever he goes.
00:08:30Charming, charming man.
00:08:32Plenty of time for lots of media
00:08:34and seems to be doing a very good job with the car.
00:08:37And he is desperately, desperately serious about this.
00:08:40This is not playing around.
00:08:42In the same way that Paul Newman came here
00:08:44and Steve McQueen came here,
00:08:45they were not doing it for kicks and laughs.
00:08:47They were doing it to try and win their race.
00:08:50And he is desperately in the same position as well.
00:08:53Pat Long's out of the car
00:08:54and in a real scrum of photographers there
00:08:57trying to get out of the way.
00:08:58And Joe Foster as well, the third man in this crew.
00:09:01Well, there is Pat Long having vacated the car in the lead of GTE.
00:09:06And I think he will probably lose the lead now
00:09:08to Paolo Roberti in a second of the Proton Run cars.
00:09:12Well, they are going for full service here.
00:09:14Only two people allowed to work on the car when fueling or tyre changing.
00:09:19The exception is a helper to help strap the driver in
00:09:22because you cannot do your own belt up because you can't get down to them
00:09:25and you can't tip your head down to see them
00:09:27because of the helmet and the hands device.
00:09:29And also the helper is allowed to clean the windscreen of a car that has one,
00:09:34a closed coupe prototype or a GT car purely for safety grounds.
00:09:39Other than that, only two people involved.
00:09:42So full service.
00:09:45And unlike Formula One where the driver comes in, gets tyres, goes off,
00:09:49gets tyres, goes off, gets tyres, goes off.
00:09:51In GT racing, in sports car racing here at Le Mans and everywhere else,
00:09:56the driver runs until he runs out of fuel.
00:09:59And quite often, even then, he doesn't get new tyres.
00:10:02Quite often it'll be two tanks or three tanks.
00:10:04Most cars now, because of the strength of the tyre,
00:10:08will keep one tyre on, fresh tyre with the driver,
00:10:11and the tyres will not be changed until he steps out of the car.
00:10:14And then the new driver gets another set of new tyres and off he goes.
00:10:18And that may be, in case of Patrick Dempsey, another two hours and change from here.
00:10:22Now, two marker lights on the side of his car.
00:10:25They're orange, GT-AM class.
00:10:27Two marker lights means he's, yes, second in class.
00:10:30The car was in the lead when it came in.
00:10:34See, two cars from the same AF Corsa team then just flying by.
00:10:38The green one is the 51.
00:10:40The blue stripes down the windscreen.
00:10:42That's the 71 car.
00:10:44Their team will know that as well.
00:10:45They will know exactly in which order they went by
00:10:47without having to look at the timing screen.
00:10:49That's important for holding out the pit board at the right time.
00:10:53You only get one chance every four minutes
00:10:55to inform your driver on the pit board of what's going on.
00:10:58Otherwise, you have to telephone him on the radio
00:11:00and potentially ruin his concentration.
00:11:04On board here with our race leader, Tom Christensen.
00:11:07Good stuff, boys.
00:11:08Tell me about brakes.
00:11:09It's a little bit sort of low, a little bit of vibration, a little bit low.
00:11:17Just tell me if the temperature is okay.
00:11:19Fans feel fine.
00:11:20Temperature fine.
00:11:21Temperature fine.
00:11:22Temperature fine.
00:11:23Howden Haynes is engineer on the radio.
00:11:28And again, there's quite often, and you don't hear it so much on the radio, on the TV,
00:11:33because they sort of pick little bits out.
00:11:35They don't just throw everything up because there's a lot of radio traffic.
00:11:38But if you've ever watched Truth in 24, and if you haven't, do yourself a favor after this broadcast.
00:11:45Go and Google Truth in 24 and Truth in 24 to two stunning inside Le Mans films of Audi races.
00:11:53And that gives you an awful lot of the radio chatter.
00:11:56There's a lot going on between the driver and the engineer.
00:11:59Of course, it's a long lap.
00:12:00It's six and a half miles, 6.4 miles.
00:12:02So there's a long time between coming past the pits.
00:12:05And so you've got plenty, sorry, eight.
00:12:08You've got plenty of time on some of these straights to actually have a think and to have a conversation.
00:12:14I mean, they're going very quickly, but sometimes there's not a lot in the way.
00:12:19No, and certainly some places you want to talk to the driver and some places you don't.
00:12:22Just.
00:12:23A couple of very quick notes here.
00:12:24Callum asks, what are gentlemen drivers?
00:12:26Gentlemen drivers basically are amateur drivers, i.e. not professionals.
00:12:30Not being paid to drive.
00:12:32Not being paid to drive, indeed.
00:12:34No, go ahead.
00:12:35No, go ahead.
00:12:36Yes, sir, dude.
00:12:37I'm willing to be paid to drive, indeed.
00:12:38Carum asks, what are you doing?
00:12:39Yes, sir, dude.
00:12:40Thanks.
00:12:41You made the copy of the car.
00:12:42The car, the car, the car, the car, the car, the car, the car, the car!
00:12:43And you suddenly, I'll never get the car.
00:12:44I was an imminent car.
00:12:45I was to go ahead and expect you to have to drive it.
00:12:47If you go ahead and see it, instantly there's a car, the car is a car.
00:12:48And you say now it was, I'm not going to drive, maybe 7.
00:12:50I'm not going to drive it.
00:12:51But not being a car.
00:12:52It's a car, no.
00:12:53And as far as a car, can't get into it.
00:12:54I'm going to go back to the car.
00:13:24So, let's go.
00:13:54So, let's go.
00:14:24So, I worked hard out there on the track.
00:14:33I didn't want to lose it in the pits.
00:14:35So, I apologize if I got a little too rough with some people.
00:14:37But the car is really good.
00:14:54Welcome back to Eurosports coverage, 24 hours of Le Mans.
00:15:17And there is the number 71 AF Corsa Ferrari.
00:15:21Comes in for regular service.
00:15:24Tony Wielander takes the 71 car back out.
00:15:27And that is now in sixth in the GTE Pro class.
00:15:32In fact, Jimmy Bruni takes it over from Tony Wielander.
00:15:34There's the blue windscreen stripe down the side.
00:15:38That 71 car at one stage.
00:15:40In fact, I beg your pardon, Kamui Kobayashi.
00:15:43Right, so all three drivers have now been cycled through in the space of about 30 seconds on our timing screen.
00:15:49All right, we'll go with Kobayashi.
00:15:51That 71 car was the lead Ferrari at one stage, wasn't it?
00:15:54It was battling with the top three.
00:15:57I beg your pardon for fourth place, wasn't it, was in that battle for fourth place.
00:16:00And now it seems to have dropped off the pace a little bit more.
00:16:03Yeah, I think it's running a couple of laps off the ultimate pace in GTE Pro.
00:16:08The class is still led by the number 99 car, Rob Bell at the wheel of that.
00:16:13Followed by number 97, Darren Turner.
00:16:16There's about 20 seconds between those two cars on the road.
00:16:21Mark Lieb in the number 92 Porsche is about another 25 seconds or so farther behind.
00:16:30And then Timo Bernhardt running fourth in the second of the factory Porsche, just kind of a 91.
00:16:35Next up will be Jimmy Bruni in kind of a 51, who is one, possibly two laps behind the pace in GTE.
00:16:47And the reason it's hard to say, because where the scoring, how the scoring system shows up here.
00:16:54Shout out here to Kieran McAndrew.
00:16:57Do that after.
00:16:59We'll have a...
00:17:01Get down the pit lane and hear from Patrick Long.
00:17:03Patrick, you just did three stints and a fantastic job taking the first position.
00:17:08So now I think Patrick is second, but how is it?
00:17:11Yeah, the pit stops are offset, so we're sort of out of sequence with the 88 car, but we're glad that it's two Porsches fighting up front.
00:17:18There's some strong Ferraris and an Aston out there as well, and there's a long way to go.
00:17:22The triple stint wasn't planned.
00:17:24We had a little bit of an issue with the valve stem, and so we had to come in and change that tire.
00:17:27We would have double stitted that first set of tires, but all in all, it ended up working out well because of the safety car.
00:17:32Really, the trick is there's been so many safety cars, it's where the safety car comes out.
00:17:36So you have to race like a sprint race to be in the front pack where the safety cars come out,
00:17:40to not lose a minute and a half by one of the safety cars sliding in between you.
00:17:43So it's going well.
00:17:45These guys have worked really hard.
00:17:46Patrick and Joe, you know, they've raised this money for the last four years.
00:17:50As you know, it's a great story, and this is a dream for them.
00:17:52It's a dream for me to join them, and we're just going to keep pushing and try to keep our minds on what the focus is,
00:17:58which is just to keep putting laps in and be smart.
00:18:00Earlier on, Pat did a great lap with a great lap time, a great stint with a great lap time.
00:18:07You advised him not to be too pushy.
00:18:11What do you think is the trickiest part for him at night now?
00:18:14The trickiest part is to put out everything out of his mind about the extracurricular media,
00:18:19what people think and say, just go out and drive.
00:18:22He can do it.
00:18:23We tested it in Vizzano.
00:18:24There was no one on the track, and that guy can put in the laps.
00:18:26But, of course, he has a lot of people pulling at him in all different directions,
00:18:29and so it's really about just keeping him focused and letting him do what he knows how to do.
00:18:34So what is the plan for you now?
00:18:35You will have some rest, of course, but when will you be back in the car?
00:18:39I haven't had a chance to discuss that yet.
00:18:40I'm ready to go back in.
00:18:41I just need to get some dry clothes on.
00:18:43I'm not really ready for any sleep right now, so I'll get a little bit of dinner and a massage and be ready to go back in.
00:18:51Dinner and a massage.
00:18:52Regular service for the number one Audi.
00:18:55Jeremy, somebody was asking earlier, why is the number 47 car, that's the one they spotted,
00:19:00being fueled from the far side rather than the near side here?
00:19:04And that would be a legacy of not being built specifically for Le Mans, I would imagine,
00:19:08because a lot of circuits being clockwise, particularly if you're racing in American Le Mans series,
00:19:14you'd be fueled from the other side because that would be closer to the pit wall.
00:19:19I would have thought.
00:19:20I can't think of any other reason why you would design a fuel system to get on the far side.
00:19:25Thoughts, Matt?
00:19:31No, certainly in IndyCar racing, certainly they have refueling systems on both sides of the cars
00:19:37for the left or right-handed circuits, so they will change that.
00:19:40It's a fairly major job.
00:19:42Well, it's not a major job, but it's a chore to change the fueling system from one side to the other,
00:19:47but it can be done.
00:19:48Sports cars, you've only got the driver on one side,
00:19:51and there's a whole bunch of reasons of where the refueling system is placed.
00:19:56It really doesn't make that much difference in terms of how the fuel is fed or the time
00:20:03because it's from a gantry across the top, and if it makes us even a second or so, I'd be surprised.
00:20:11I don't think it really does do that because the fuel comes over and down through the...
00:20:18I'm getting tied up here, aren't I?
00:20:20It doesn't make any difference, but it's just the way the cars have been designed,
00:20:25whether they've been specifically designed for Le Mans, as clearly Audi's car has,
00:20:29because that's their main focus, or for racing elsewhere, as a lot of other cars will have.
00:20:34One other thing, Mark, asking on Twitter, Joe Evans saying,
00:20:39can anyone who has the right car, right money and right licence take part in Le Mans?
00:20:43And the answer is, yeah.
00:20:44Well, yeah, you have to have the right licence.
00:20:46You have to have the correct licence.
00:20:48So you've got to have done a certain amount of racing in certain categories
00:20:51to earn that FIA international licence to race at Le Mans.
00:20:56Yeah, this year you had 92 applications for 56 places at Le Mans.
00:21:00Well, 55, in effect, because...
00:21:02What, cars?
00:21:04Yeah.
00:21:04Entrance, yeah.
00:21:05I presume we're talking about licensing to drive.
00:21:07I'm talking about entry's cars, I mean, and, you know, the ACO will only accept 55 of those,
00:21:13plus one for garage 56, as it happened this year.
00:21:15The hydrogen project didn't come off, so...
00:21:18Thank you for that.
00:21:19Um, pro...
00:21:20Sorry.
00:21:20...pro sport were permitted to take that place.
00:21:24But that means, you know, 40, almost 40 people, 40 teams were turned down,
00:21:28so you have got to have proved yourself for the ACO selection committee to invite you to race at Le Mans.
00:21:34I think the thinking was specifically drivers, and yes, absolutely.
00:21:38In fact, we talked about this earlier during the week,
00:21:40when Adrian Newey came here a few years ago, the Red Bull designer,
00:21:44and said, you know, why Le Mans?
00:21:46Why have you come here?
00:21:47You've done historic racing and so on, but what's the big appeal?
00:21:49And he said, well, they're not going to let me race the Indy 500,
00:21:53they're not going to let me race the Monaco Grand Prix,
00:21:55but they're going to let me race here, so I'm done well going to.
00:21:59And that's the whole point of it.
00:22:00Since time immemorial, in fact, the very first race,
00:22:03it was gentlemen motoring enthusiasts who brought their newfangled automobiles here
00:22:10to try and prove that they weren't all eccentric nutters.
00:22:13And whether or not they've been supported by factories,
00:22:16gentlemen drivers have been a very big part of sports car racing
00:22:20and not just this race, and remain so to this day.
00:22:24And one of the troubles with single-seaters that we don't have in sports car racing
00:22:29is that drivers have to find a budget.
00:22:32In sports car racing, often drivers bring a budget that they have earned themselves
00:22:37or that is family money.
00:22:39And so it has a bedrock of wealthy participants who can help to keep the cars on the road.
00:22:49Well, you have 41 rookies here this year, half of whom are gentlemen,
00:22:52so we can assume that answers your Twitterer's question.
00:22:57You know, 20 of those drivers have never raced at Le Mans before.
00:23:01They are bronze drivers, that means they're the gentleman drivers, and they are here.
00:23:05Yeah. The ACO hasn't invited them personally, but the car they're in has been invited.
00:23:09Yeah.
00:23:10That is your way of getting in.
00:23:12The key is having the right licence, having driven to an acceptable standard in other classes
00:23:18to get your FIA licence up to International B or International A
00:23:22or whatever it is that the standard is that is required.
00:23:25So you can't just rock up with a checkbook and go, yeah, give us a go.
00:23:29Right.
00:23:29You've got to approve that, in fact, you're not a dangerous liability.
00:23:33We've got the only rookie in the LMP1 category is Luca de Grassi,
00:23:38who has a massive amount of experience, of course.
00:23:40That's why he was hired by Audi to drive one of its R18 e-tron Quattros,
00:23:45but he's the only one, as I say, in the top class who is a rookie.
00:23:47And there's already one for Audi at Sao Paulo at the end of last year.
00:23:50He's catching him, I think, basically.
00:23:59There's only less than three seconds between the two Toyotas on track.
00:24:03Number eight car with which we're on board here, Stefan Sarrazin.
00:24:07He's only about two and a half seconds ahead of Kazuki Nakajima,
00:24:09who was rocking along behind there in car number seven.
00:24:12Yeah, we've got the Krone Racing Ferrari, the green and black Ferraris.
00:24:17It is now a stop between Arnage and Porsche Curves at Marshall's Post 1-2-1.
00:24:24So just have to watch that for a moment,
00:24:26make sure it's not going to bring out a fifth safety car.
00:24:30We'll go back down to the pit lane shortly and have a chat with Oliver Jarvis.
00:24:39Oliver Jarvis, it's been a little bit of an exciting ride for you
00:24:42in your last stint.
00:24:43We saw that dramatic puncture.
00:24:45Just tell us what happened.
00:24:46Yeah, a tough last stint.
00:24:49The car was going well, but unfortunately,
00:24:50exiting the karting corner.
00:24:53I passed an LMP2, and he obviously didn't know I was there.
00:24:57And he pulled out overtaker GT and sideswiped me.
00:25:00And he damaged the right rear tire.
00:25:02I didn't know it was flat, so I continued through the last two chicanes,
00:25:05kept it flat down the straight, and as I brake for turn one,
00:25:08just lost the car.
00:25:10Unfortunately, it happened in the worst place possible
00:25:11because it's a long way back from there.
00:25:13No, it definitely is.
00:25:14Is the car all right now?
00:25:16There's no other damage to the car?
00:25:18No, we had to pull it in to repair the side panel,
00:25:20but apart from that, it seemed to be running well.
00:25:21But, you know, we lost two laps, which is frustrating
00:25:24because we were right in there with a shout out winning.
00:25:27Well, it's still a long way to go,
00:25:28so we wish you lots of luck.
00:25:29Right, we've got safety car number five out for that Krohn car that's stopped.
00:25:34So note that down, Jeremy.
00:25:36Seven reds and five safety cars, and we haven't even got to midnight.
00:25:42Yeah, that's a shame.
00:25:43Tracy Krohn, unfortunately, has got the car stuck out at...
00:25:47And there it is.
00:25:48Is it in Zinapolis, is it?
00:25:49Yeah, he's gone off again.
00:25:51Who's that?
00:25:52Who's on board that at the moment?
00:25:53Is it crazy?
00:25:54Well, he's facing the wrong way, isn't he?
00:25:56So that has looped around.
00:25:59That is Tracy Krohn.
00:26:02121 is the left, right, second and third corners.
00:26:08In Porsche curves.
00:26:09Yeah, right by, in fact, on the right-hand side of your picture
00:26:11is the Peast Alain Prost.
00:26:13A great card circuit, as fellow Pajan Moy autosport travellers will remember.
00:26:18So just time to say hello to dodgy, dangerous Dave Ryan and all the others.
00:26:24So it looks from here.
00:26:27Mark, we can see most of the bits of that car.
00:26:30Do you think he's just lost the engine?
00:26:32He's stuck in the gravel there, you can see.
00:26:34Oh, he is, isn't he?
00:26:34What little bit of gravel there is.
00:26:35That rear wheel's firmly in there.
00:26:37I was thinking that was grass.
00:26:39But, yeah, from your viewpoint, it does look much more gravely.
00:26:42Could be gravel.
00:26:42Oh, it could be grass.
00:26:43Who can tell?
00:26:44Oh, where's the remote?
00:26:45Teddy's trying to turn itself off.
00:26:46I'm going to take my leave here in a moment.
00:26:49But before I do that, before that, I'm going to have a chance here to talk about,
00:26:56shout out to Kira McAndrew, who's 11 years old.
00:27:00She wants to know how to race at Le Mans.
00:27:02Sorry, Kira.
00:27:03We've got to go to a commercial break.
00:27:04We'll try and get back to you later on.
00:27:06Thanks for the message.
00:28:42that on now has that moved again oh here it is tom kimbersmith now in that case from car
00:28:47and there is the crone racing garage well the car's just cars disappeared from where it was
00:28:52so it's been towed hasn't it mithyonson waiting for it to come back in we are under safety car
00:28:57conditions which gives us a chance just to get back to kira mccandrew uh 11 years old already
00:29:03racing cars wants to know how to get into endurance racing well kira actually first of all
00:29:10go and have a look at safeisfast.com the fia website which will give you a few ideas about
00:29:15driving and and and managing yourself and your career and how to handle yourself i suggest
00:29:20contacting at gearbox girl now that's shay adam she's walking running pit road here for radio
00:29:27le mans uh based in florida she's a former gearbox kart racer her dad bill adam a long-time sports
00:29:33car and endurance racer and a broadcasting friend of mine she might have some good ideas essentially
00:29:38get as much time as you can in go karts and then look at starting in something like radicals
00:29:44a good cheap way of exploring uh two-seater sports car racing downforce speed and if you like it
00:29:52then the the path will open up especially for something like radicals mark cole because
00:29:56it sort of leads you into any number of different sports car classes very good advice if you want to
00:30:02if you want to be formula one world champion go single seaters if you want to learn earn a living
00:30:06as a driver ignore the potential of you being the 0.001 percent and go into sports car racing i
00:30:14heartily suggest you follow your heart on that one and if you're a gamer follow the example of jan
00:30:19marden bro that's what the uh nissan academy is all about you know and if you're a tom gamer get
00:30:26yourself down here to le mans next year tom stop watching on the telly that is a lot of opportunity
00:30:31there's no advantage to us no advantage to anyone else it's all even i'm just getting some info on pace
00:30:38so that's um kyle wilson clark just giving advice to his number two crew there tom christensen on
00:30:46board that car at the moment still leading the race and he's got a one lap lead we've completed 135
00:30:51laps just after midnight and uh yet another spin for the number 70 larbra corvette i'm afraid and
00:30:58again up at the dunlop bridge where the nose was ripped off it this morning and this is under a safety
00:31:02car this time manuel rodriguez and i'm not entirely uncertain that he wasn't in the queue that just
00:31:08left the pit lane mind you of course he's been sat there for 10 minutes so his tires are probably
00:31:13mahogany so there you go 15 hours left that means we've had some uh audi leads its so healthy remaining
00:31:22car undelayed is a lap ahead of the toyota's the chase and look at 16th place yep number one car
00:31:29coming back up the order lmp2 class leader is now ninth uh beg your pardon eighth overall rodolfo
00:31:35gonzalez ahead of olivia plan jan jan maddenborough still doing a great job 10th place for him
00:31:40third in the class gte pro uh rob bell's aston ahead of darren turner's aston the car that started
00:31:47on pole in that class and mark leaps porsche they're in a little group of their own separated
00:31:52by the first of our what now five safety cars in the gte am class there is your leader the 88 uh proton
00:31:59felbermeyer porsche uh although it's not called proton felbermeyer this time it's the proton uh
00:32:05competition car palo roberti up in that head of patrick dempsey and jean-carl verney with lorenzo
00:32:10carzee and matt griffin close battle all those five lead cars on the same lap uh beg your pardon
00:32:16griffin's off the lead lap of that am class and behind them cars excuse me i'm halfway through one of
00:32:24mark cole's legendary kit kats and it's uh not not allowing for good speech uh behind them i think
00:32:30you meant the legendary mark cole i did behind them are the remaining cars that are running in the field
00:32:35uh we've just seen the number 28 car that's the gulf racing middle east car return to the track and
00:32:44now back to the pit road it has completed 21 laps of which at least two were in laps and two were out
00:32:51laps so not many racing laps at all and uh we have had three cars well two cars officially withdrawn
00:33:00against car three good job yeah repeat i just i was trying to talk to you i just heard they get a
00:33:07Toyota this is for repeat safety car light still on copy top yeah pace is good against car three
00:33:15and pace is good against the two Toyotas all okay all okay you're doing well well having interesting
00:33:23he has to ask his uh his team on the what pit wall how his how is my pace doing in the race martin very
00:33:29interesting just to look at marcel faster who at the moment is uh some 12 laps down after the problems
00:33:36they had having to change the um the the one the flood the flywheel sensor wasn't it they had to change
00:33:42eventually the next car he's gonna pass is natasha gashnan she's in the third of the morgans they're
00:33:48running in p2 in 15th and once he gets past natasha unlocks himself from her um natasha of course cousin
00:33:55of sebastian boy me so uh i wonder if she waves to sebastian every time he goes past i want to ask her
00:34:01because there is a bobsledder who is also called gatchnang and whose biog says that she was born in the
00:34:07same village now you know you never like to assume too many of these things but i wonder if
00:34:12she does have a sister who is a bobsled skeleton athlete anyway um that's for another day probably
00:34:18probably in a well i was going to say a colder day but actually do you know what this is not far
00:34:23off winter weather here we've got this weekend safety car lights will go off towards the end of
00:34:28this lap and the safety car will come in in some very um unusual returns to the pit road of safety
00:34:36cars
00:34:37good thank you so stephan sarrazan just applying there and stephan has gone speaking for all of us
00:34:47and the whole audience uh nakajima's right on his tail two seconds behind him when they release the
00:34:52cars they are one lap there's two toyotas one lap behind tom christensen but they are another lap ahead of
00:34:58luca de grassy and uh two laps ahead of the best of the rebellions danny watts now on board the
00:35:04hpd straker uh the straker honda and he took it over from the gentleman driver in that car who's
00:35:12nick laventis and of course nick not up to the pace of danny and johnny kane so dropping back a
00:35:18little bit in the order back to seventh i think danny will soon claw that back he's uh one minute 51
00:35:24behind nico prost and then comes ricardo gonzalez in eighth place best of the p2s and it's still
00:35:30those two morgans uh one two in that class although olivier pla who led it from the start has dropped
00:35:37down to second place behind his teammate although um they have both had the same number of pit stops i
00:35:44think yep somebody was asking about the hybrid system while we're on board with the toyota we
00:35:49talked about the seven major braking areas although the entry to the porsche is not a major braking area
00:35:54anyway we'll move on past that seven designated braking zones where you can charge your system
00:36:00i want to know like formula one is it then released by a button well it's certainly manually released by
00:36:05the driver uh unlike formula one in the audi because the drive goes to the front wheels making it
00:36:12momentarily four-wheel drive uh they can't release it until they're doing over 120 kilometers an hour
00:36:17in the toyota you can release it at any speed off a corner or out of a an instance uh a braking
00:36:24recharging instance um and and basically for as long as you as long as the power lasts you get about
00:36:30another 300 horsepower in the toyota making it roughly an 800 horsepower car for a few seconds and from
00:36:36the williams flybridge system in the audi they get what 190 200 ish horsepower so that goes to the
00:36:43front wheels um toyota drivers were saying though that their whole ethos with the hybrid is not to
00:36:50change the way the driver drives and so it has been safety car doesn't appear to be coming in very much
00:36:56this lap does it no so it has been they they predominantly use it once they've got out of sort
00:37:01of first and second gear off a corner and when they're going quicker to then lunge by a car on which
00:37:06which they are catching so they don't use it bang right from the word go they tend to use it at slightly
00:37:11higher speed so you imagine pretty much where the audis are coming in anyway safety cars out q is going
00:37:17by the pit lane so the pit road is closed third car in the mmp2 class the number 42 goose motorsport car
00:37:25is waiting to go and we've just had another spinner martin the jmw motorsport uh dunlop ferrari in the
00:37:34hands of prince abdullai's turkey al-faisal who crashed that car course on wednesday he's just had
00:37:40a spin at dunlop lights out on the safety cars now so they're not though well that's what we're being
00:37:46told by race control they have been ordered to go out and they will go out of their designated spots
00:37:51all the clanking and banging you can hear the bar by the way is liz halliday coming in with beers
00:37:55that's not going to help us to stay awake is it uh not for us of course no indeed that's for our
00:38:02everybody else that's for our friend sebastian who's uh in from the pit lane for a while because
00:38:07apparently it's got cold and or the cameramen have gone for dinner a bit of both it's very chilly
00:38:12and it's a wonderful soissons which is the year the french foreign legion was formed well in which
00:38:19case i'm afraid if we're going to mention 1664 uh good evening wing commander and the rest of the
00:38:24crew hello to squadron leader toad and the 1664 squadron uh a fabulous chopper bicycle display team
00:38:31that uh fans of beer mountain and many others will remember even better i saw international rescue
00:38:37six of them in their tracy family suits excellent and they were knocking back beers too which is
00:38:42something you never got on thunderbirds on television well that's because they're off duty
00:38:46so we are waiting for the safety cars to pull in as i said we've had some very ambitious
00:38:52uh lunges for the pit lane because obviously the safety car driver isn't aware that the teams have
00:38:59got televisions radios and communication what's catching everybody by surprise and very nearly had
00:39:04off a uh a corvette that was heading down the pit road at the time so i think perhaps we'll have a
00:39:09little bit more of a regulation safety car peel off now we're getting to the sort of area at
00:39:14anage where a safety car will peel off
00:39:16out of indianapolis let's stay with this toyolivier stay with the toyota i don't want to see a man in
00:39:24a mask i want to see the restart here we go we're going green at the start finish line we could have
00:39:30gone green with the toyota but no now we pick it up now he's on the curse i beg your pardon now he's on
00:39:36the hybrid button but it works the same way as he blast past these gt cars now this is what's
00:39:45difficult since some of these restarts that we find halfway through the races he's been restarted
00:39:49in the middle of a club of gt cars all racing themselves you can see another lmp car up there
00:39:54in front it's just a huge mixture of speeds and cornering power so it is very tricky especially in
00:40:00the dark when everybody's getting a little bit tired there you can see those lights flashing
00:40:05trying really hard to make sure everyone can see him the road just starts to narrow here a little bit
00:40:10very very dark on this portion of the circuit you can see the braking boards there the blue lights
00:40:15shows where to turn in
00:40:18yeah i just think mike mike rockenfella two years ago oh god i'd rather not that was horrendous
00:40:28so classic thing about how difficult it is to pass other uh the other cars on the circuit and what
00:40:34can happen it's worth worth pointing out those bright blue boards because during the daylight of
00:40:39course there'll be marker boards 200 meters 100 meters 50 meters to the corner can't see them at night
00:40:44so they're highly reflective just like normal road signs and down into indianapolis they're not
00:40:50actually used by the drivers or to tell the drivers where they have to turn drivers can
00:40:54generally work that out for themselves at this level and down into our nage
00:40:58and again markers on the side of the track and why are there so many markers down because this is a
00:41:06public highway and it's to stop members of the general public driving off into the trees
00:41:10rather than our highly trained racing drivers who tend to avoid that mostly and i really hope we're
00:41:16going to get to see this on board oh it's going to say to watch him come through the porsche curves
00:41:20without anybody there would have been fantastic here we go we'll take this absolutely flat through
00:41:25the left there we're going to go to a commercial break but stick with this as long as you can
00:41:31go ahead and see if we can see this on board and see if we can see this on board and see if we can see this on board and see if we can see this on board and see if we can see this on board and see if we can see this on board and see if we can see this on board and see if we can see this on board and see if we can see this on board and see if we can see this on board and see if we can see this on board and see if we can see this on board and see if we can see this on board and see if we can see this on board and see if we can see this on board and see if we can see this on board and see if we can see this on board and see if we can see this on board and see if we can see this on board and see if we can see this on board and see if we can see this on board and see if we can see this on board and see if we can see if we can see this on board and see if we can see this on
00:42:01All right, my lover.
00:42:20Apparently, this holiday, you sound like you're from Cornwall.
00:42:23What?
00:42:25Just like that famous Cornish racer, Dindal Capello.
00:42:29I'm sorry.
00:42:30That's a new one for me.
00:42:31I've had nearly everywhere else, but I've never had that.
00:42:34Cacorna, no, California.
00:42:37Very clear ahead of you.
00:42:41Well, now, you might wonder why drivers need a head up
00:42:44to find out what's directly in front of him.
00:42:47Can you recognise what it is from those two red lights, boys and girls?
00:42:50No, nor can he.
00:42:53Yeah, I know it is very helpful for them to know
00:42:55if it's a very, very slow car that they're approaching sometimes.
00:42:58Now, people think this is what our commentary booth looks like.
00:43:01If you follow at Martinhaven, my Twitter line,
00:43:04you'll see that our commentary booth looks anything like this.
00:43:06This is race control.
00:43:08Daniel Poissonot there.
00:43:09And in the centre, in the white shirt with the goatee beard,
00:43:11is our race director with the head of the FIA,
00:43:15Monsieur le Président Jean-Tot, looking over his shoulder.
00:43:17So, Eduardo Freitas will very definitely be keeping the safety cars
00:43:21under control for a moment or two.
00:43:23That's race control.
00:43:24They have all the CCTV cameras,
00:43:27the permanent cameras around the track here
00:43:29and all the TV camera feeds on which to base their judgements.
00:43:34And they will use all of that information,
00:43:36whatever they're getting from the corner workers,
00:43:38whatever they're getting from reports on the track as well,
00:43:42and their own experience,
00:43:43to try and decide how to keep this race running safely.
00:43:47And they will be there in those chairs from start to finish.
00:43:51There will be no rest for our race directors.
00:43:56I'm going to give a little shout-out to James Bolkely.
00:43:58Did I say that right?
00:44:00Probably not.
00:44:00It's the unicorn world.
00:44:01Lying in Walton Hospital in Liverpool,
00:44:03watching on your laptop.
00:44:05Well, hi there, and I'm sorry that you're in hospital.
00:44:07I hope you're having a lovely time.
00:44:08I hope you're getting better.
00:44:09Marcel Fasler still working his way back up the order.
00:44:16Of course, now every position is going to be harder and harder to get.
00:44:20Has he just gone by Natasha Gatchnang?
00:44:23Was that the 40-car thing?
00:44:24No, no, he's still three minutes.
00:44:26Is that not it?
00:44:26Three minutes, 24 behind her.
00:44:28But she will be the next car that he will take for position.
00:44:33She's in 15th place.
00:44:34He's 16th.
00:44:35Well, he's lapping 329s, she's lapping 358s.
00:44:40So he's doing 30 seconds a lap more than her, basically.
00:44:42So it'll take him at that rate of closing four or five laps, six laps, yeah.
00:44:48Exactly right.
00:44:49But then, of course, cars will go in and out of the pits at various different times.
00:44:52So he will get a couple of gimmies as cars in front of him go into the pits.
00:44:56Oh, I wonder what the big red bat phone's for.
00:44:58Is that line for the Kremlin?
00:45:00That is probably the emergency phone from a Marshall's Post
00:45:03if they need to ring the big bosses to find out what's going on.
00:45:0773 was our lead Corvette.
00:45:1274 was our lead Corvette.
00:45:13They were running nose to tail, 28th, 29th.
00:45:16And Magnussen's dropped a couple of spots to Kamui Kobayashi's Ferrari
00:45:19and the Aston Martin and Bullock.
00:45:21Aston Martin and Bill Orbelin.
00:45:23Words I never thought I would hear myself say in the same sentence.
00:45:26BMW.
00:45:27Oh, yeah.
00:45:28Aston Martin and Bill Orbelin.
00:45:29Sounds good.
00:45:30Yeah, it does work.
00:45:31He's just on loan for the weekend.
00:45:32Make no mistake.
00:45:33He'll be back to BMW next time we see him.
00:45:36Same with Oliver Turvey.
00:45:37Oliver Turvey on loan from McLaren.
00:45:39And that guy, Oliver, still running a solid third in P2 in the Zaytac.
00:45:44Having a really, really good race.
00:45:46Only cars ahead of him.
00:45:47The two Morgans, Gonzalez and Pla, who've been swapping places.
00:45:50And, of course, that Jota car with Turvey on board.
00:45:52And Simon Dolan won the extraordinarily wet three-hour ELMS race at Silverstone earlier.
00:45:59First race of the European Le Mans series.
00:46:00So, they already went to bat and came up with a big, big result.
00:46:05And Turvey, I was watching him in the driver's parade yesterday.
00:46:09And he probably won't thank me for this.
00:46:11But genuinely giggling like a schoolboy.
00:46:14Having so much fun.
00:46:16How can you not in the parade for Le Mans?
00:46:18It's fantastic.
00:46:19But, you know, when you come from sort of racing in single-seaters, Formula 3 or DTM, DTM, maybe.
00:46:24Maybe you get the sort of mass fans that you do here at Le Mans occasionally.
00:46:29But there's not many other categories of racing you come from, I guess, unless you're an IndyCar driver at the Indy 500, where there is just this massive crowd participation in everything.
00:46:40But the fans are different, I think.
00:46:42Le Mans fans are a different sort of fan than you would find at a DTM race or at an IndyCar race.
00:46:47Because it's 24 hours.
00:46:48And it's the biggest 24-hour race in the world.
00:46:51This is the biggest sports car race in the entire world.
00:46:54They come for a whole week.
00:46:56And, boy, do you know it.
00:46:57Oh, yes.
00:46:58And they've usually spent the last three days before the parade getting ready by drinking a lot of beer.
00:47:03So it's very exciting.
00:47:04We're on board the 73 Chevrolet Corvette.
00:47:07Antonio Garcia on his outlap after a pit stop.
00:47:11They're still a long way down the pro order.
00:47:13In fact, the pro sandwich we had, the Porsche sandwich of the two Aston Martins, got a bit lopsided because the two Aston Martins are now one and two.
00:47:23Rob Bell from Darren Turner.
00:47:25And Mark Lieb and Timo Bernhardt in the two factory Porsches are now third and fourth in that category.
00:47:31Well, that sort of second, third battle has really flip-flopped with pit stops.
00:47:35And they're not on the same strategy with all the different safety cars and that, yadda, yadda, yadda.
00:47:40Well, though, all four cars have made eight stops now.
00:47:42Oh, yeah, yeah.
00:47:43But some of them are sort of four, five, six laps apart.
00:47:46And so as a result, one will jump into the lead as one stops and then it will flip-flop back.
00:47:51And, Liz, what we've seen is the Porsches are eating tyres up more quickly than the Aston's, being rear engine.
00:47:56Yeah, and I think that does make sense in just the design of the cars.
00:47:59And I think from what they were saying earlier, that's one of their downfalls.
00:48:04Also, what's interesting, though, is I expected it to be more of a Ferrari and Aston battle.
00:48:08I didn't expect it to be Aston, Aston, Porsche, Porsche maybe as much.
00:48:12And not to say that I didn't feel they were capable because the drivers are phenomenal in those Porsches.
00:48:17But I think we just didn't really know.
00:48:18We weren't sure.
00:48:19And I think they were maybe a little worried.
00:48:21They're driving the 2013 cars.
00:48:23They've not had a lot of time in those cars and certainly not a lot of time in the dry.
00:48:27But what we're seeing now is they really are quite fast.
00:48:30And they were saying when I interviewed Mark Leib earlier that in a straight line, they actually have an advantage of the Aston's, which is surprising.
00:48:45Some vibration he's talking about.
00:48:46I thought we might get an answer from Lina Gade, but I think that was a sort of rhetorical radio report.
00:49:00I am getting some vibration.
00:49:01Didn't necessarily require...
00:49:02Necessarily front, I think, so.
00:49:04Yeah.
00:49:04Speaking through a fish tank probably wasn't the help.
00:49:07That was our race leader, Tom Christensen, the familiar voice of the Danish eight-time winner.
00:49:12Another hero here in the pits, Yves Courage, visiting all his friends at Toyota at the moment.
00:49:18Of course, Hugh Deshawn outruns that team, even Hugh been pals for many, many years.
00:49:22And Yves Courage, all those wonderful cougars and then courages, he built and raced at Le Mans over the year.
00:49:28A real Le Mans hero.
00:49:29Nice to see him here.
00:49:30I raced at Courage in 2007, which was really cool.
00:49:33And Yves Courage was there and fantastic to, you know, get to know him.
00:49:38And actually, he asked me to do the start, which was pretty cool.
00:49:41So, it was really fun being a part of that team.
00:49:43No wonder you like him.
00:49:45No, he was lovely.
00:49:46He was very nice.
00:49:47Can we just return to the pro thread?
00:49:48Because Ferrari led from the start really last year, didn't they?
00:49:52And look at them at the moment, running there in fifth.
00:49:54And how many laps down is Jimmy Brunner?
00:49:56He's, I think, one lap down, two laps down maybe on Rob Bell now.
00:50:01And the other thing is, in sixth position now, is Tommy Milner in the lead Chevy Corvette.
00:50:07And who thought they would be behind or between the top two Ferraris?
00:50:11Certainly not them.
00:50:12And pretty definitely not Ferrari either.
00:50:16So, Ferrari are really underperforming.
00:50:19The team that dominated this race from the front all the way through last year.
00:50:23How quickly 12 months can change the balance of power.
00:50:26But what have we not had much of in all of practice in qualifying?
00:50:30Consistency in the dry.
00:50:31We've not had any of that.
00:50:32And now that the wet conditions have gone away, the mixed conditions have gone,
00:50:36we've got dry running in cool conditions, which we've not had all week.
00:50:40And suddenly, Ferrari's not quite as powerful as we thought they would be.
00:50:44Well, well, well.
00:50:45Listen, I had a quick question.
00:50:46And we'll see it a lot during the pit stops.
00:50:48And somebody asked, Rory Burnside wants to know,
00:50:51who are the people scanning barcodes in the pit lane?
00:50:54What are they doing?
00:50:56Well, the answer is, tyres, pretty much they all look the same, right?
00:51:02They're black, OK?
00:51:03They might have some grooves on.
00:51:04But wet weather tyres, both sets of wet weather tyres have grooves on.
00:51:08And all four different types of slick tyres that both the manufacturers produce,
00:51:12or four for Michelin, three for Dunlop, they're round and black.
00:51:15So you have a barcode on to tell the manufacturer and to tell the engineer,
00:51:20so he can tell the team, what the tyre is and what compound it is,
00:51:25because they work at different temperatures.
00:51:27For instance, now, in the cool of the night, or on a damp track earlier on,
00:51:31as we heard from our Michelin man earlier on,
00:51:33you'll use a much softer rubber that will survive at the lower track temperature
00:51:38because it won't overheat.
00:51:39In the heat of the day, you'll have to use a harder rubber
00:51:42because it can then withstand the G-force loadings much more substantially.
00:51:45So the barcode very simply tells you exactly what the tyre is.
00:51:50And for somebody like Michelin or Dunlop and all the other tyre manufacturers
00:51:53who are often here but just don't happen to be this year,
00:51:56it also tells you when it was made and when you have to use it by,
00:52:01because tyres, like everything else in a racing car, have a finite life.
00:52:05And if they extend their shelf life, I believe it's usually around six months.
00:52:11Any beyond that, the rubber compound starts to change and go off,
00:52:16and what it was designed to do, its performance changes,
00:52:21and therefore it's not usable, so it will end up going back to the scrappy.
00:52:25Number two out of here coming into the pit lane.
00:52:27We saw the team getting ready for them to have what we hope is a routine pit stop.
00:52:31We'll see.
00:52:32Tom Christensen has been behind the wheel for an extremely long time.
00:52:35I think they were trying to do five stints,
00:52:38which would just about be within the amount of time a driver is allowed to be in a car,
00:52:44which is still four hours, unless that's changed.
00:52:46Four hours in any six.
00:52:46It's always been four.
00:52:47Four hours in any six.
00:52:48Yeah.
00:52:48So I'm guessing they're going for, if they can fit just barely a five stint or in on these tyres,
00:52:55they would be going for that.
00:52:56Well picked up, Liz, because Nicholas Gruber from Michelin said he hoped they might go for five stints
00:53:01during the night on tyres, but there's not much advantage.
00:53:04If the driver can't quite make five stints in four hours,
00:53:07then if you can have a driver change, you're not losing any time by changing tyres, are you?
00:53:11Well, I have a feeling if they were bang on 45 minutes per stint,
00:53:15then it would just about work.
00:53:17But they're going to have to have it literally timed to the second,
00:53:20because any second over that, they can't risk it.
00:53:23They can't risk being checked out for that.
00:53:25So, Tom Christensen, race leader, just coming in for a splash and dash.
00:53:31No more than that.
00:53:31No tyre change, no driver change, no service, just maybe a quick windscreen clean.
00:53:36Returns to the track ahead of Toyota's Stefan Sarrazan, Toyota's Kenjo Nakajima,
00:53:42of course, son of Satoru Nakajima, great Japanese Formula One driver of the 80s.
00:53:50Luca Degrassi in fourth, and Andrea Bellici, Nico Prost in the two rebellion Lola Coupe.
00:53:56Toyotas again, remember Toyotas, so we have Toyota second, third, fifth, and sixth at the moment,
00:54:03and then Danny Watts playing catch-up in the HPD Stracker after his teammate Nick Leventus.
00:54:10Just cost them a little bit of time.
00:54:11The gentleman driver, obviously slower, and then in eighth place, great performance still by Jack Nicolay's Morgan team
00:54:19in those Oak Morgans, and they are running a solid eighth and ninth, leading P2.
00:54:25Well, listen, we talk a lot about the cars, but look at some of this.
00:54:27This is in the paddock.
00:54:28This is the media centre for Audi, or the media hospitality centre,
00:54:32to one of their tiny hospitality units.
00:54:34They've got some massive, massive ones all the manufacturers have here at the circuit,
00:54:37because, of course, as well as being a great motor race,
00:54:40it's a great opportunity to bring guests and customers to a fantastic event
00:54:45and really wine and dine them and make them feel very good about themselves.
00:54:48It was with some SRT guys last night, including a whole bunch of Viper owners from America,
00:54:54including one family who have 63 Vipers.
00:54:57Wow.
00:54:58I know.
00:54:59Is that necessary?
00:54:59I said, I don't believe there's 63 Vipers in the whole of the UK.
00:55:01I didn't know there were 63.
00:55:02Yeah, exactly.
00:55:03Oh, there are.
00:55:04They have plenty.
00:55:05They've got to really love Vipers for that.
00:55:06Their local Viper dealer took them on a guided tour of Jay Leno's garage.
00:55:12Oh, wow.
00:55:13And the boss of SRT was going,
00:55:14are you mad?
00:55:15They'll find out that other cars are available.
00:55:19That's fantastic.
00:55:20Yeah, just at this point, stop and go penalty being issued to the number 93 car.
00:55:27And that is, oh, that is the SRT Viper.
00:55:30Oh, no.
00:55:31Just as we talk about them.
00:55:32The rookie for breaching the pit exit light, i.e., he shot the red light at the end of
00:55:38the pit lane.
00:55:40And that's a real shame for them.
00:55:42They were hoping to have a clean race, no penalties.
00:55:45It doesn't mean they're excluded.
00:55:46It just means they'll have to come back in, stop and go.
00:55:50But it will drop them a little further back down the order.
00:55:52There are the SRT guys.
00:55:55And there's your barcode.
00:55:56There's your tyre engineer reading what it says about the tyre.
00:55:59So all of the data in their databanks goes in, correlated to the use of the tyre, the
00:56:05manufacture of the tyre, what they expected from it and what it actually produced.
00:56:09And, of course, all that goes back in to developing the new tyres for next year.
00:56:13Because, as we heard, narrower tyres for the prototypes next year, same load, probably
00:56:18the same speed.
00:56:20Poor little tyre has to do even more work than before.
00:56:22Well, here are our SRT crewmen.
00:56:28Funky helmets.
00:56:30Yeah, those are pretty cool.
00:56:31Yeah, aren't they?
00:56:31Like the guy in motorbike racing.
00:56:33Yeah, they do well.
00:56:34But they've got these little V-shaped front down.
00:56:36That's to show their goatee beards off nicely.
00:56:39Obviously members of the Alexander Vert's Fun Club.
00:56:42Oh, ho, ho.
00:56:43And on that note, harsh, harsh sin.
00:59:18I believe everything he says, I always have done.
00:59:21I imagine that was while drinking.
00:59:22That doesn't seem like a great grounds for factual knowledge to me.
00:59:25It was while drinking left.
00:59:27So, I mean, yeah, dear.
00:59:29Are the pit cameramen trained wrestlers?
00:59:31Yeah, it is a bit arms and elbows, especially when you're around Dr. Gorgeous, Patrick Dempsey.
00:59:37Ed Goddard says, this race is so good, I don't want it to end.
00:59:40Don't worry, you'll be praying for it to end eventually.
00:59:42I know we probably will be after we've been on air for a million hours.
00:59:45If we have many more safety cars, we'll all be taking ourselves out of these shots.
00:59:49We've had Greg Smith ask, saying that he loves our enthusiasm.
00:59:52Could we please not speak over the radio?
00:59:55Oh, yeah.
00:59:56The problem is, in fact, we don't know.
00:59:59We don't get any warning.
01:00:00They just...
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