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00:00I'm not quite sure whether it's proper smoke, if you see what I mean, whether there's smoke, there's fire, or whether that was just some of the heat exchanges.
00:09The door came open because it is very, very cold here this evening, I've got to tell you.
00:13There you are. That is starting to look more and more like smoke right now.
00:17Yeah, I think he's got an electrical problem. I think that's where it starts and finishes, and I think it's inside the car, and if I was him, I think I'd step out.
00:25Me too, and I think the guy's refuelling is probably not a great idea. There you go, straight into the garage.
00:31Well, there you are. I think we've got our answer.
00:33Yeah.
00:35Out, they wanted him. I don't know whether he actually did manage to get out of the vehicle at that point, but it's certainly now back.
00:43So, McNeil, yes, he is clear of it. They wanted him clear, and the back cowl coming off, and this does not look great.
00:51They've not had the best of fortunes, Damien.
00:53No, not having a clean run at all, actually, and neither, I think, I believe, of any of the Corvettes, but, yeah, you know, the WeatherTech car here is in a bit of trouble, isn't it?
01:08It's hard, isn't it? The Corvettes were bulletproof for years. Nothing happened. They went in that lovely flat V8 note, and everything was fine.
01:17Well, this year, oh, dear.
01:20Well, you know what, they came here, and we've been asking them the question, what's wrong with the car, and they've constantly come back and said, we don't know.
01:27We have brought the same vehicle. We know this vehicle. It runs very well. Clearly, everyone else has taken an extra step forward, Damien.
01:34Yeah, it's crazy, you know, like, we spoke about it earlier in the broadcast, but, you know, they were expecting to make it better, and they had some ideas, according to Oliver Gavin, the other day.
01:47Those ideas he wanted to keep to himself, but he said the team had some beliefs, and they were trying to make it better, and Doug Feehan had said that there was smoke coming out of the computers trying to make these cars better.
02:01Well, there's smoke coming out of the back of that car now, so, obviously, that's not one of the works cars, but...
02:07You know, the Rebellion cars have gone extraordinarily well, now.
02:10They have. They have.
02:12Turning back again to the leading battle, which I'm sure that you're all aware of is happening with the Christensen car at his time at the wheel of that at the moment, turning in laps in 328.
02:25Really, I mean, we've got Anthony Davidson turning in 333s, we've got Pierre to 331s, and then Degrassi 331s, that really is a dogfight.
02:41It's, you know, there's nobody really giving an inch, there's a couple of seconds here and there, but they are really obviously hard at it.
02:50Now, we saw earlier on today that if it was damp, it seemed to favour the Toyotas.
02:57Well, we found out why.
02:58Ah.
02:59Yes, because we had the Michelin head guy, or I'm not sure who he was actually, in here in the booth earlier today.
03:07And they have a...
03:10It wasn't the intermediate tyre, but they have two slick tyres available.
03:17One operates better at higher temperatures, the other at lower temperatures, ambient temperatures, I think, of track temperatures.
03:24And Toyota chose the sort of, if you like, the more night-time version.
03:30Yeah.
03:30And Audi stuck with the sort of...
03:32Because it was cold, it was running warm enough, but it was wearing well enough to actually do a proper stint on it.
03:37And that was the ace car that Toyot had at the very beginning of the race, which was, you know, I mean, they were phenomenal at the start of the race.
03:44Really showed, didn't it?
03:45Yeah.
03:45Yes.
03:45We all thought it was going to be a different race, didn't we, from then.
03:49Well, it still is a different race, because let's face it, we know we've seen a 323 was the lap on number 86 from Christensen.
03:57They've not gone down to that, but they can get down in another 325s, 24s.
04:02Yeah, I think they've just been, you know, if someone gets, if someone of those front leaders, even the Toyotas, I'm sure, can do a fabulous lap time, even in the night time.
04:12But I think they've just been extra careful, obviously, going through the traffic, and especially going through, you know, the third sector with the Porsche curves.
04:22Yes, the lead is coming in. It's Tom Christensen on two pit road right now.
04:27Yeah, I think it's an ordinary scheduled stop.
04:30Yeah, he's taken 15 pit stops so far, compared to Anthony Davidson's eight car of 13 and just 12 for Lapierre.
04:39They're staying at hand here, but it is a two lap advantage as he comes in.
04:43We've got a yellow flag somewhere, incidentally. It doesn't tell me where, but it just says there is one.
04:48Car 81 is in the gravel.
04:50Car 81, there it does.
04:51Marshall 0.76, and there it is.
04:54Ah, Bugmaster.
04:57Porsche.
04:58Oh.
04:59And at speed, by the looks of things.
05:00And, yeah, he really has, isn't he?
05:03Well, it's...
05:05No, it's the eight-star...
05:07Eight-star Ferrari and Poto-Lic on board.
05:11Excuse me.
05:14So the two car stopping.
05:15We were saying, Neville, a little bit earlier on, that experience counts for an awful lot here.
05:20Yeah.
05:21I know Fortune, as well, favours the brave and all that, but to be honest, these guys in this car may be long of tooth as far as racing is concerned, but they've got a huge amount of success.
05:31And they know every single inch of this circuit.
05:34Yes, that's an interesting one.
05:36Um, I was talking to, uh, I'm not going to say who, I think it's safer to, I've driven around here in more races than you can think of, but, you know, it's different every year.
05:50Uh, pardon, I said, no, it's different every year, because always they've patched something, or the trucks have just caught, and you think you know, but you don't.
06:03And that's why people have been going off during the course of practice, that's why it's so slippery.
06:09There have been a lot of little bits and pieces of roadwork done.
06:13And that's one of the reasons why it has been a very slippery circuit.
06:16And of course, you know, it's so long, and half of the circuit is used every day, and half of it's used once a year.
06:23Um, and you've got white lines in the middle of the road, and all sorts of things, so, yeah, even if they paint the kerbs with a different paint manufacturer, it's going to be, it's going to be different, so.
06:33It has been sort of noted that there's been an awful lot of change this year, particularly.
06:38I think that's the reason why.
06:39Uh, talking about changes, a nice and swift one, I think this might be Stuart Hall going in.
06:43Uh, we will find out in just a few moments' time.
06:46Jamie Campbell-Walter, and he is.
06:48And Stuart Hall, you're right.
06:49Yeah, there he goes.
06:50Uh, Stuart, he's getting a decent drive this year, uh, was very much hobbled last year and found himself in the commentary position here with us at a very early stage.
07:00And, uh, yeah, thankfully he's had a much cleaner run this time by, uh, and, uh, yeah, they, well, personally speaking, I'm hoping he goes, uh, even better.
07:10He's got some ground to make up, unfortunately, and, uh, running in, uh, what, sixth place, uh, right now, uh, not as high as they'd hoped, Damien.
07:18No, we saw, I think we saw that car off in the gravel earlier.
07:22I think it might have been, uh, Jamie Campbell-Walter.
07:25It was, I believe, yeah.
07:26Just getting back to knowing every inch of the track.
07:28He got out, um, to, to the edge of the gravel.
07:31There's about a car's width.
07:32Actually, he got it, he came down the grass and he sort of tagged a barrier, and then he drove it right around the perimeter of the gravel.
07:40There's just a car's width there.
07:41And, I mean, that's someone who obviously knows that that's there, um, you know, the less experienced driver may, may, uh, want to, uh, fly as the, as the crow flies back to the track and go through the gravel.
07:54But there is, and, you know, more often than not, at, at many of these circuits, there, there is that sort of lane, and it's, I think that's what it's designed for.
08:02If, if someone actually makes it through, that they can actually just drive right around the outside between the barrier and the gravel.
08:08But driving, riding roughshod is, uh, no great, no great shakes for the car, and, uh, shaking down the order, it certainly was.
08:15Well, Stewie Hall is on board and, uh, on his outlap right now.
08:19It's a great mix, actually, amongst the GT class.
08:22Um, I'd like it to be mixed a bit more.
08:24The Vipers really haven't performed as they should, and, in fact, they're almost the last of the pro cars.
08:31Yes, we were saying earlier on that it just hasn't somehow been the year for Vipers this year.
08:36They've just had a pretty awful time of it.
08:38Well, they've, uh, they've certainly got the size of engine, they've got the capacity to do something special.
08:43Uh, the, uh, street, the SRT, the street racing, um, uh, project, um, it's still underway.
08:50Let's have a listen.
08:51Yeah, sorry, I'm just sort of hooking in.
08:54We don't get a, we don't know when we're going to hear a pet report of driver, and, well, then, suddenly, you just stop because you think you can't.
09:03And it can be a snippet, and that was.
09:04Uh, SRT, street racing technology, is, of course, uh, the new brand for the Vipers.
09:09Uh, frankly, I don't know why they've moved away from Dodge or Chrysler, but they're creating a whole new division, uh, within GM, and that is where it comes.
09:16Oh, well, and even in the course quarters, I can't see the track because of the vibration.
09:25There we are.
09:25Uh, not have, not...
09:26I think it's the tyres.
09:29It doesn't look like bouncing from the inertia not working.
09:34Now, we now have managed to follow that.
09:36Are you OK for three laps, or do you want to pit?
09:39I'm OK, but I hope the vibration is OK, too.
09:45Gosh, you can actually hear the vibration coming through his voice there.
09:48You can.
09:48Presumably transmitting through the steering column and shaking him all over the place.
09:52Not comfortable.
09:53Asked by the engineer whether he'd like to come in.
09:55Said, can you do three more laps, they say.
09:57Uh, he's currently back up to 12th place after languishing in 23rd, I think, the one car went down to after a big, big, unscheduled long stop earlier on.
10:06And they think it's a tyre, or tyres.
10:09Yeah, I think so.
10:09Maybe just a flat spot.
10:11But, uh, we say just a flat spot.
10:12Damien, you know all about that.
10:13Yeah, well, you know, it's...
10:15A flat spot will certainly do it, but it could be pickup from just running offline.
10:19It's very, very easy to pick up the marbles, and they're very, very hard to shake off again.
10:24So, and they can cause a big, big imbalance on the wheel, obviously, when they're going, you know, tremendous speed down the Mulsanne.
10:32The chances of me mentioning this name are getting less than that as time goes by.
10:36But in 1959, uh, the leading Aston Martin came in, and the driver said, this isn't right.
10:43It's a terrible vibration.
10:45This went on, and it crawled round.
10:46And, uh, there was a terrible row in the pit.
10:50And actually, what it was, was that a piece had come off the inside of the tyre.
10:55And whereas he thought he'd got a problem with the rear end breaking up, it was actually tyres.
11:01They put new tyres on.
11:03The car was fine.
11:04Anything he said had lost two laps by now.
11:06Uh, they did eventually win, but it was a very close call.
11:09There we are.
11:10They're very important tyres.
11:12Yeah, yeah.
11:12What was the biggest margin of victory here?
11:15Oh, well, I can tell you that, uh...
11:17Do you want to have a think?
11:18The C-Type Jaguar won by about 70 miles in 1951, if that helps, right?
11:23Yeah, that's good enough.
11:25Yeah, we've had some very, very close calls as well.
11:27Uh, we'll be taking a break in just a few moments' time.
11:29I'm having a little bit of difficulty at the moment getting onto Twitter,
11:32but Damien Faulkner is, uh, well clued up.
11:34Yeah, maybe that should be your destination.
11:36He's racked with, uh...
11:37Carrollton, I just...
11:38...the pleasure at the moment.
11:39Honestly, I've been inundated, um, with Twitter messages here to say hello to so many people.
11:45So hello to you all.
11:47Yeah.
11:47I just can't, uh, say hello individually to everybody.
11:49A question is probably better than, can you give me a shout-out?
11:52Um, because so many people actually say that.
11:55Uh, unless you're four at this time of night, it's not going to happen.
11:59Uh, we're going to take ourselves a commercial break.
12:01Somebody asking what the, uh, light pods are on the side, the little lights.
12:05It tells you your position.
12:06If you see one, it's first.
12:08If you see two, it's second.
12:09If you see three, it's third.
12:10There was some argument at the beginning when they were thinking of putting these light boards on.
12:14Uh, a bit like Michelin stars.
12:16Um, I, I think the French perhaps would have liked three for the leader.
12:20Uh, two for second.
12:21But it was far too confusing.
12:23So they decided, look, we'll go one, two, and three.
12:26And, uh, leave it like that.
12:27So, uh, not Michelin stars, but position on the track.
12:31There you go.
12:33Reading the barcode.
12:34We'll be back in a moment.
13:06I don't know if he's going to barbecue the car
13:27welcome back occasionally just get a dip into conversation and you clearly know that you're
13:46not supposed to hear it and just a few moments ago we heard one of the pit crew saying clean
13:52the car what's the point clearly well maybe there's just a lack of insect life and it
14:00looked pretty clean to him anyway he just fancied a bit of a break what do you think
14:03there you are and there's the absolute opposite
14:13there you go they are limited by the number of tariffs I think it's five and yes they're asking
14:29him if he wants to tear off which is an instant clean and he says no I'd rather keep that as an
14:34option for later despite his problems fluid for another vehicle he thinks yeah that's that's
14:39quite often the case because some of them are overfilled um some particularly some of the
14:44gearboxes and it's the overflow and then they just it sort of just splashes and it atomizes and just
14:49if you listen carefully just listen to the sound that the engine note because the toyota we can hear
14:57and he is pushing I'm not sure that the sound and our feed is synchronized because if it is he's getting on the power
15:10scarily early coming out of the turks yeah it may well be there's a bit of a gap uh a delay uh one way or the other audio in front of pictures
15:19it is the answer now he's a bit fierce I don't know you know he really is on it he is fierce isn't he
15:24three car comes to a halt yeah on his marks to grassy full service driver change as well here
15:38Stuart hall update uh oh hang on uh Stuart hall's got a problem or uh unless that last time is his outlap
15:45uh five minutes 30 doesn't look great doesn't look good at all does it no it does not uh
15:51i have
15:58and i've got to tell you that is uh around that's about third quickest uh running
16:04in fact he's the fastest man in class at the bar
16:15uh
16:28uh pro-ams
16:30steward hall the um son of pete hall who uh was a strong supporter of andy rouse in the british touring
16:38car championship for those of you who'd like to think back that far andy uh a very hot shoe at that
16:45time and uh no mean driver himself and stewart really does love his racing yeah exactly i saw father
16:51and son actually we were almost star jumping it uh out of uh audi hospitality trying to catch stewart's
16:57attention um just to give him a wave really he was talking to his dad his dad was kind of looking
17:01past him thinking who are those nutcases on an autograph yeah thankfully he introduced us a bit later
17:08on and um yes uh order was uh restored thank goodness 61 car uh taking its time it's uh last little wave
17:17away and off and underway right now running fourth in class um do you know what it's kind of order
17:25as you were porsches and ferraris at the top of the uh list for gt yeah that that battle has been
17:31ongoing for um a good few hours now it just looks like aston and porsche there all the way so well
17:38sorry ferrari and porsche in the i'm sorry you're talking about the amps yeah i was the gtm so i just
17:43trying to get back to the pros here sorry back to the pros one and three at the moment in the uh
17:5099 and 97 car martin uh with the porsche still very much involved i'm watching andre lotterer
17:57because he was complaining that he's got a problem i recall that all seems well because he's still
18:03lapping in 334s it was he was complaining about a tyre problem was it not um it was his
18:11yeah teammate i think it's teammate yeah it was marcel um fasler that was complaining about the uh
18:17vibration god it's wonderful to be wrong again welcome to my world
18:26into the darkness then um we were talking earlier on uh to liz halliday about the tunneling effect
18:31of driving at night uh a lot of drivers actually really like it i know some are quite averse to it
18:38i know a number of gentlemen drivers here although they've qualified for night driving
18:41here at the mall have decided to take their stints in the daytime and in the drive very much so that's
18:47normal uh i have to tell you because you're a young man that um your night vision does not get
18:55better as you get older i used to be uh he says quite good in the dark i'm not now
19:02steady on we'll be giving you a different subject
19:07yes uh damien um yeah was it something you rather liked or not no absolutely i do and and i think uh
19:15part of the event i think there's advantages as well because it narrows your uh is that what you said
19:21narrows your focus because what you want to do in a racing car is you don't want to have uh too much
19:27peripheral vision on the side so i tend to use you know lots of people use uh brake markers like 100
19:34meter boards or 200 meter boards as braking markers i never use that i always use something in front of
19:39me um so that my vision is always on the track because you know i just use brake marks and you know
19:46uh typically there'll be little track undulations and you'll see black rubber marks and that's what
19:53i use so it helps you i think it helps you channel your your vision and i think it's all about vision
19:58really track undulations in braking points uh it's a bit like carpet can rock just a little bit once
20:04they've laid tarmac because it is it remains fluid at temperature yeah that's that's actually yeah
20:10it looks like a schedule stop for him
20:22had lights being cleaned but they don't think they're changing tires this time the michelin
20:26signs on those tires are like new yeah it was quite fascinating to know that they actually rather like
20:33going in your um it's whatever place you go to to have you a good sort of check they can check the
20:41tires just the same way as they take up the checkout when you go out to a store i'm quite fascinated by
20:48that i didn't know that i think it's a it's actually just for their own records to be honest that each
20:52one has got an individual barcode and then it tells you what sort of tire it is because you can't see
20:57just looking at it but likewise if there's any kind of product failure they know exactly which one it is
21:01and uh who's uh uh what sort of stresses has been put under i guess uh lapier there uh just on his
21:08out lap uh anti-davidson is uh involved it's gone red lapier the seven car let's have a look um no
21:18no danger so far i think that might just be a graphical error i'm kind of hoping so well he just came out
21:25behind his teammate there in the number eight car so we're assuming he's behind yeah they have just
21:31what position yeah they're now swap position we're still waiting to see because the answer was getting
21:38in we we know that he was trying very very hard on that too and he just had a pit stop as well
21:43i think they stopped on consecutive laps well we'll see uh let's hope we don't have any nasty surprises if
21:49you're only just joining us and you're wondering why we're not having any long shots or indeed uh aerial
21:52shots we don't have those cameras operating at night uh but there's plenty of on boards and of
21:57course the pit lane is still very much active uh so uh it makes for great great uh running we may
22:04in a moment just have a bit of uh actuality where we'll switch our mics off and let you enjoy it you
22:08can boost the sound tell you what we'll give you 20 seconds see how that goes and uh in a few moments
22:15time you understand and that way uh you can turn it you'll know when to turn it back down again so
22:20we don't blast your ears off when we start talking it was quite fascinating it is quite
22:24fascinating in the daylight but i equally find it very fascinating at night using the onboards because
22:29it in a way it's like watching it from a totally different angle isn't it yeah it's great uh onboard
22:36cameras incidentally were huge um in the early days in fact the first racing onboard cameras were
22:43almost as big as a desk you know those very very large tv cameras and they were in uh the bathurst was
22:49the first you forget what we used to do for a living yes but do you also know the first pan
22:55shot was on the bathurst i'll tell you about that in a moment yeah i was there were you yeah well the
23:00camera was on board let me tell me if you were involved in this and it was on a it was on a ratchet
23:05system like a spring you pull the camera back and you would fire it remotely as they overtook somebody
23:11and it would just pan round you could get one pan shot but the weight of the camera as it swung would
23:16actually destabilize the car they weren't as big as that for very long we did actually have a very
23:23close association with channel seven at one time and uh i think it's fair to say that uh we brought
23:30in uh modeling car technology to a large degree and this would be in the 80s yeah it was a little bit
23:38you know as professor andretti says monkeys see monkey do um yes well there you are these days um
23:47they're called pen cams for very good reason they're about that big very very tiny yeah you can even
23:52mount them inside a helmet i've seen that done you can and uh it's really quite fascinating there has
23:57been a lot of development and i'm not going to go into it now because hey i don't fully understand it
24:01and be nothing to do with me anymore there you go that picture tells you everything you need to know
24:07it is a tiring business doing a 24-hour race and it's not just for the drivers in fact they usually
24:12survive an awful lot better than some of the crew that uh constantly asked to be on and then off
24:18all the time i think as a driver when you're on damien it's a relaxing place to be you're kind
24:23of in your office really don't you notice it damien when you're driving you you're you're with it
24:28when you come in that's it you're you're just gone it's it's it's it's very difficult to find time
24:36for yourself because when you come in the team want to know they want an update um the next driver
24:40going in wants some information uh or the one that's going in next who's already on standby from
24:47the guy that you've just handed over to um and then you just want to get fueled up yourself get some
24:52get some food and by that stage an hour and a half's gone and you might only have another
24:56hour and a half or two hours so depending on how many you know what race you're doing of course
25:00there's only three drivers here permitted but uh you know daytona which i've done a bunch of times
25:06there's you can have as many oh yeah it doesn't yeah yeah i was watching the sheer misery
25:12on alec mcneesh's face as he sits there all he really wants to do is to go out there in the car
25:18because while he's driving he feels happy and while anybody else is driving it i think he's thinking
25:23don't you feel like that yeah well especially looking into the cockpit of those outies i mean
25:27it looks it looks like you're just sitting in a bathtub it's just it looks so uh neat and comfortable
25:33and everything else and i just want to mention a change there uh patrick dempsey has uh pitted and
25:40joe foster is now in the 77 porsche um they've dropped a place from from third to fourth and marco
25:48chachi in the 61 ferrari um his teammate to uh my fellow countryman matt griffin has taken over in
25:56third place there but that's because he was involved in that incident where he patrick was clipped and
26:04we don't know who did it but it certainly wasn't his fault that he spun and find himself sitting there
26:08um wondering just who was going to hit him next yeah it was it was uh good that he got going
26:19thanks for all your kind messages by the way and uh yeah a few of you saying uh well one of you
26:24saying i've just lost it momentarily i'll join the up for a bit all night club a bit of all night
26:31well why not uh try and make it all the way um i know you some of you've got very important things
26:36to do um how long do the drivers and support crew get to rest between their next shifts as uh charles
26:43hayward um really enjoying the coverage he says as well oh hello there we are uh that's a that's a just
26:54a uh cautionary note incidentally it's not a course caution uh gravel into our nage was the message
27:02that was delivered there we go and that's uh that's one of the advantages of of running multiple cars
27:08isn't it because they will uh convey that message now to the other two cars in the team exactly
27:17ben green says hello from a tent in the back garden in the uk loving the coverage i presume
27:21ben you're pretending that you're actually camping here at le mans uh if you've got your headphones
27:26in then that would probably work uh please you could you say hi to my dad steve green um it's not
27:32the steve green i went to university with i i hope um if so apologies for being very unwell in his uh
27:41talbot lotus all those years ago it was a big night uh we'll take a break uh we've got a big night here
27:48as well and uh we'll be back with you after these short messages stay with us
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29:14Welcome back.
29:36An awful lot of gravel is being dragged out of the vehicles at the moment.
29:40I think quite a bit of it is actually pickup, which has been hurled around by their own
29:45tires.
29:46We heard the warning going out, I think it was to Alan McNish in the two-car, warning him
29:51about a lot of gravel around.
29:53There's been so many beached cars.
29:55And at night, the marshals can't possibly sweep everything, apart from anything else.
29:59It's rather dangerous.
30:00Very dangerous.
30:01Yeah, I'm afraid that that sort of debris doesn't get swept until the race is long
30:07over.
30:08Probably on Monday.
30:10There we are.
30:10There we are.
30:16That's Lucas Ordonez.
30:18Was, I think, the most successful of all of the gamers, if I'm not mistaken.
30:24He's already been on the podium here at Le Mans and went on to do great things in the
30:29Bronch Pass series.
30:30And he is here as one of the guiding lights for Jan Mardenberg, who's also here.
30:37A young lad from Wales who's doing a fantastic job, albeit having clattered the kerbs and got
30:42very airborne earlier on.
30:44He got away with that.
30:46He did.
30:46I tell you, somebody else who's getting away with it now, and that's McTeach.
30:49He's getting away from everybody.
30:51Look, 329s.
30:53Alan, I said he was looking very uncomfortable and very miserable, and he couldn't wait to
30:58get behind the wheel again.
30:59Well, now you can see why.
31:01He wants to open up that little bit.
31:03He'd just like to get himself a little bit better cushion than he's already got.
31:07Alan's a master of traffic, isn't he?
31:09He's got so much experience.
31:10And, you know, especially at nighttime now, where, you know, they've just been a little
31:15bit tentative.
31:17Here's your classification.
31:18The two-car leading.
31:19The big surprise is it's Toyotas, who are nearest to two.
31:22One lap down is the eight-car, its hybrid sister.
31:28There is a further lap behind.
31:31The three-car is chasing them down, as you can see in the hands of Ollie Jarvis.
31:37And I've got to tell you, the other Audi, which had a very long stop, I think it was
31:4055 minutes, is now running in 12th place.
31:44And it's just posted a 3.25, 9.36.
31:48That is an absolute flyer.
31:51That is a flyer.
31:52That's a traffic-free lap, isn't it?
31:55And you see, Davidson, you couldn't say that it has had some effect on Davidson.
32:00He's just on a 3.30.
32:02So it really is interesting.
32:05This is a fascinating battle.
32:06There is this question.
32:09I don't think it really is going to be the decider.
32:13But there is the fuel question that we know hangs and will go on during the course of this
32:18race with the extra litres of fuel that they're allowed to have with the Toyotas.
32:23Does this mean that they will have something in hand in the way of time and a pit stop?
32:28Well, would it be enough?
32:29We don't know.
32:31We don't even know whether it's going to be raining tomorrow.
32:35Or is it going to be raining tomorrow?
32:36We don't know.
32:37But it's still a lottery, this race.
32:39It is.
32:40I mean, obviously, yeah, if the weather stays dry and the number two Audi of McNish at the
32:48moment, you know, stays reliable, it's difficult to see them being beaten on pace.
32:54But, you know, anything can happen here.
32:56And, you know, we'll just have to wait and see.
33:00But I think the Toyotas' stop, their pit stops are something like 10 seconds longer because
33:06it takes them longer to fuel, to refuel.
33:08They obviously have put them in three litres more.
33:12But there's something more than that, I think.
33:15Well, let's face it, the Audi is such an enormously experienced team.
33:21Shall we have a listen on board, everybody?
33:23Listen on board.
33:23Likes off, gents.
33:28OK, Antonio, you're halfway through this bit, bud.
33:31Lat-time has actually looked pretty strong.
33:34You're on average a little bit quicker than Westbrook, who is on stickers.
33:38Um, I think we can go ahead and try a triple on these.
33:44OK, OK.
33:45OK.
33:46OK.
33:47OK.
33:48OK.
33:49OK.
33:50OK.
33:51OK.
34:52You should have heard that Mazda at its best a few years ago when it won the race.
34:56In the hands of Johnny Herbert.
34:59Was that with the rotary engine?
35:00That was a rotary engine.
35:02Without any question, you could pick that noise out above everything.
35:08Do you know something about Mazda's project?
35:11They actually came with a five-year plan and they bought a hotel in the centre of Le Mans.
35:16That was going to be their base.
35:18They won it within the first year, I think it was, wasn't it, with Johnny Herbert?
35:22Yeah.
35:22Out of the box.
35:23Plan done.
35:24Plan executed.
35:25Sold the hotel.
35:27And made a profit.
35:28I presume so.
35:29Who knows?
35:30But, yeah, quite remarkable.
35:32They had such a, so well organised, they kind of beat themselves, basically.
35:38Unbelievable.
35:38I think I'm right in saying that they do not make a rotary engine car now.
35:44I believe that the RX-8 is no longer in production and I think that was the last rotary car that was in production.
35:50Well, I didn't.
35:51They weren't racing at Daytona this year.
35:53No.
35:53But last year they were and, by God, are they noisy when they go past you.
35:59They are.
35:59On the banking, it's incredible.
36:01So high-pitched.
36:02Yes.
36:03Screaming.
36:03A phenomenal engine that actually won prizes but has always been slightly juicy nonetheless.
36:08Yeah, that was the problem.
36:09Yes.
36:10Phenomenal delivery torque but just a little bit too higher fuel consumption, unfortunately.
36:18On board the three-car Audi now.
36:21Well, incidentally, when they come into the pits, it's in silence, which I still find very, very spooky.
36:27It is spooky.
36:28I mean, the very first diesel car that I ever drove was a Volkswagen, or Rabbit, as they called them in those days.
36:40That was not what they called you, Nev.
36:42No.
36:43They called me a lot of other things but Rabbit wasn't one of them.
36:46But it was a very strange thing.
36:47And I didn't have anything to do with diesel cars, really, until the late 90s.
36:53And I had this feeling, I came here to Le Mans after a little bit of a break, and they all laughed to me when I said that I reckon a diesel would win this race.
37:02It did.
37:03More or less on time, too.
37:05And, of course, now, more diesel cars are sold.
37:08I think it's about 51% of the new cars sold are diesel in the UK, which is quite interesting, isn't it?
37:14It's crazy.
37:15I mean, the advances they've made is, even just, I mean, I remember here a couple of years ago, the Audis used to smoke.
37:21I haven't seen them smoke this weekend, have you?
37:23No, they did.
37:24You're absolutely right.
37:25I'm not quite sure the reason why, either.
37:28Because they've been able to manage to burn all the fuel.
37:31Yes.
37:32Because the smoke is the excess fuel.
37:34It was over there, yeah.
37:34The black smoke.
37:35Exactly.
37:35Yeah, that hadn't been burned properly.
37:37Yeah, we used to worry about it, actually.
37:39I think they popped on occasion because there would be so much unburned fuel.
37:42Well, it was a good indicator of whether they were trying or not because the other teams would say, well, there's no black smoke from the Audis yet.
37:49Yeah.
37:49But I haven't even heard that mentioned this weekend.
37:51It's a bit like a papal ordination.
37:53Yeah.
37:53Thomas Davis says, what are the license types within Le Mans?
37:57Are there different licenses required for the prototypes and the GT cars, Damien?
38:05Different licenses?
38:07Licenses, yeah.
38:08You know, I don't think so.
38:11I've had an FIA license.
38:14Time B, isn't it?
38:15Yeah, I think I've had an international A, I think, for the most part of 20 years.
38:20I can't have an international A.
38:21I know Richard had one.
38:22I don't know if he still has or not.
38:23Probably doesn't.
38:25But the thing is, is that it was said, and this is going back now to the days of Le Mans in the 50s, when I was sort of first sharing it, I suppose, as a boy in matter racing,
38:37that to find 60 drivers or 120 drivers who were capable of driving sensibly at Le Mans was a very difficult thing to do.
38:46Well, now we're at three drivers per car, and to find three drivers per car, when Buffy's 60 drivers makes it easy, 180 drivers,
38:56it isn't surprising that there is, in fact, a hell of a difference between people like McNeish, people like Davidson, who were very, very good Formula One drivers,
39:08I'd feel people like that, and people who have not driven at that level.
39:12Yeah, absolutely, but, yeah, I mean, they're going to have, well, I'm sure McNeish has a super license, and Davidson, also.
39:22I've got the one next to a super license, very kindly donated by Motorsport Ireland, I'd add, for many, many years.
39:28I think the other thing that we talked about this, in fact, last year, and that is that one of the problems with long-distance racing, Le Mans in particular,
39:40is that you've got to show a certain amount of common sense when you're dealing with the traffic.
39:46There are quite a few people who are a little bit tough. We've seen it, we saw it happen today.
39:51Of all people, I think Christensen was somebody who, unfortunately, clipped somebody without really taking into account that he carved the poor chap up.
40:00And we saw earlier on this evening, since I've been here, there was a guy in a Porsche who nearly went off.
40:07It was just one of those things.
40:08It's what I would call race intellect, and it's just, it's basically having the capability to make a calculated decision,
40:16and that decision being right at the end of the day.
40:21And some drivers, you know, have it in abundance, and some don't.
40:26You know, it wouldn't be right for me to name names.
40:29But, you know, there are drivers who are phenomenal.
40:34You've seen it, you know, in many categories, particularly Formula One, you've seen drivers phenomenal over one lap.
40:40Like, if you think back, and I'm not slagging him at all because he's one of my heroes, Jean Alessi.
40:46Yes.
40:46Absolutely.
40:47I remember in his glory days with Ferrari, you know, he'd be, like, half a second up on pole when qualifying was really qualifying back then.
40:58And the next corner, he would just throw it straight off.
41:00Well, as always was the case with, and has been over the years with one of the drivers, you've got some.
41:04And people used to say, oh, well, Moss isn't the fastest driver in the world.
41:10To which I would say, no, you're quite right.
41:12He probably isn't over one or two laps, but he's faster over 80 laps than you'll ever be.
41:18Well, of course, yeah.
41:19And, you know, the race intellect thing.
41:22Yeah.
41:22You know, you've got to be clever as the number two Audi of McNish comes in.
41:26And is this a, he's just, I think he's changing his fluid bottle.
41:31Yeah.
41:32It's scheduled, I think.
41:35Wiping the windscreen.
41:36Doesn't time go quickly when you're enjoying yourself?
41:38It doesn't seem two minutes since he got in the car.
41:40No.
41:42Maybe he's tired.
41:44Yeah, perhaps he is.
41:47They're topping it up with fuel.
41:49And he started up, and then there's a lovely onboard shot, and it's away.
41:52Yeah.
41:53Very, very quick and slick by the Audi team.
42:00So, you know, yeah, just getting back to, you know,
42:03you could probably name, you know, I'm going to harp on about Formula One,
42:07but if you pick the three people who you think are the quickest over one lap in Formula
42:15One, and then you ask a second question, that is, who are the cleverest?
42:21I bet you, you could probably invert the answer to the first question.
42:27Yes, you could.
42:28I mean, I think everybody today tends to sort of say that there is a certain Spaniard who blights everybody's life.
42:35And I have to say, I think they're right.
42:36I would say he's number one on the smart list.
42:38I would say, I would say.
42:39On the clever list.
42:40He's bright.
42:40He's bright and he's quick.
42:42Yeah.
42:43And to be absolutely fair to Michael, I've never understood, many, many years ago,
42:50when Michael came here and driving for Mercedes, somebody said,
42:53I've got a copy of an interview you did.
42:56And I said, well, I wish I could hear it because I can't even remember doing it.
42:59But I do know this, that when I watched Michael drive over the 90s and up to the present time,
43:06I really thought, and I made up my mind, that he was probably one of the most intelligent drivers
43:09who I ever saw because he could calculate a race while running it all by himself.
43:16Absolutely.
43:16That was his great strength.
43:17He just had that capability.
43:19And that's what the good drivers have, I think, you know, the extra capability to make, you know,
43:25definitive decisions.
43:26And, you know, he's probably made a few bad decisions as well.
43:29But anyway, we've just seen the number 35 Oak Racing Morgan Nissan do a pit stop.
43:36And he's gone under the Donlop Bridge and he's on his way.
43:41Still just a lap.
43:45That can't be right.
43:48Yes, it is.
43:48Still just a lap between McNeish and Davidson.
43:52They've already surpassed Neville.
43:55They've done 170 laps now.
43:57So they've already surpassed the total number of laps.
44:00Yeah.
44:01For 1990.
44:02For 1923.
44:031923, yeah.
44:05By a long distance.
44:06Yeah.
44:07And there's still 12 hours and 45 minutes to go.
44:11You can see one of the team there from the Oak Morgan Nissan just examining the tyres.
44:19And even though there may not have been, you know, a problem, the engineers always like to have a look and get their hands on the tyres, feel the tyres.
44:27And they do everything but taste the tyres and they want to see how it's wearing, if it's graining, if it's wearing to one side.
44:33They'll put their hands on it and feel probably the temperature.
44:37The temperature, yeah.
44:38And they'll be doing pressure checks.
44:39And they'll go around and measure the tyre to tyre.
44:42So if they've got one that's getting hot, they want to know why.
44:45And all that information, of course, is logged, isn't it?
44:47I think the other fascinating thing about the Le Mans 24-hour race is that if you go back into sort of races of years ago, there were the great team managers, people like John Waugh, who would have his drivers lined up, two drivers per car, and say, you are going to lap in so-and-so.
45:07He would tell the other car, right, you're going to lap five seconds a lap slower, and so on.
45:13It doesn't like that anymore.
45:14And while it isn't every man for himself, there's no question about it, that when you get out there, you are driving it flat as fast as it will go.
45:23And as somebody said so rightly earlier on today, anything goes wrong, you've basically lost your positions.
45:29You're not going to get it back.
45:30If you have a problem with a car, look at number one Audi.
45:33He's going like lazes at the moment, 325s.
45:38He's way, way down there in 11th place.
45:40He's the best will in the world if he gets into the top half dozen.
45:44Everybody will say that was a fantastic drive, Chum, wasn't it?
45:47Yeah.
45:48You know, they'll be thinking what might have been.
45:50Yeah.
45:50Because those guys were going for three in a row, weren't they?
45:52Yeah.
45:53But, yeah, I mean, the stakes are so high that, you know, each of these, even the Audi drivers, although, you know, we're just mentioning now with the number one car down in 11th position overall, as we see some excited fans there.
46:07They're all wanting, they're all wanting to win here, of course.
46:10They're all wanting to, you know, beat each other.
46:13And they'll go to great lengths to beat each other, probably further than the team Dr. Ulrich and the rest of the Audi teams would wish them to.
46:23Sorry about that.
46:24You knew I was looking at something.
46:25There was a guy there with a large bottle of orange jade.
46:28And I thought if he can do that on orange jade, I wish I'd got some.
46:30Well, I think we have stronger here, if you want.
46:35Might I offer you some?
46:39Oh, dear.
46:41So, Alan Metney's still leading in Davidson in the battle that's going on between the Audi, the two Toyotas, second and third.
46:49Ollie Jarvis.
46:50And that's been a, it's nice to see him with a car that really, you know, befits his ability.
46:56Ollie Jarvis.
46:57Yeah.
46:57Oh, an excellent gentleman, a fantastic racing driver to boot.
47:01You know, I was so, so pleased for him.
47:04He was driving for Alex Jobe.
47:07Obviously, he's an Audi works driver.
47:09But for Alex Jobe was running the sort of the satellite works team, if you like, or whatever, for the Daytona 24-hour.
47:16And they were our teammates.
47:17And we were across the other side of the garage in the Porsche.
47:22Yeah.
47:22So, anyway, we were one, two with ten minutes to go.
47:24But they eventually won it.
47:25So, we made a mistake with our fuel calculations or with our strategy a little bit.
47:30However, he won the watch.
47:33And then, of course, a few weeks later, he wins at Sebring.
47:36Yeah.
47:37So, he had a fantastic start to the year.
47:39And no better guy.
47:40He's a lovely fella.
47:41You mentioned the name Alex.
47:42Alex Brundle, I see.
47:45Quite well up in that car.
47:46And I'm delighted for him.
47:47His father must be very pleased that that's come off well.
47:50That car's in the top ten.
47:52Well, it doesn't look like he's missing his dad this year, does it?
47:55No, no.
47:55Yeah.
47:56He's doing a stellar job.
47:58I think it sort of was a pretty, how can I put it, upsetting when you find your father still faster than you are.
48:05And we're still looking at the, they're still working on the Corvette.
48:14You may, oh, yeah.
48:15We've got a lot of dust.
48:18Clouds of dust and everything else as well.
48:21We can't see why it is what it is, but I'm sure we will.
48:23We've just seen silhouettes.
48:25Yeah, we've got a yellow flag on the corner.
48:29And I'm waiting to find out.
48:31But we're going to get a safety car dispatch.
48:33There's no question about that.
48:35Oh, that's a huge crash.
48:37That's a very big accident.
48:40And a fire also.
48:44Fire as well.
48:44And safety car is out.
48:46The engine and gearbox has been ripped off that car.
48:51And so a lot of, hopefully a lot of energy dissipated.
48:54Yes.
48:55And the door was open as well.
48:57That's a prototype.
48:58We're not sure which prototype it is.
49:00No.
49:00At the moment.
49:01So we're in a safety car situation.
49:03There will be, as you have seen earlier on, for those of you who have the misfortune to watch the cars out before, there are usually three safety cars go out.
49:13And that is what is going to happen.
49:16So we're just waiting to see.
49:25It's the car, actually, that had a problem earlier on today, isn't it?
49:3225.
49:32It's the 30 car, is it?
49:41We think.
49:42It's a car that had a problem earlier on today.
49:45It's car number 30.
49:46Yep.
49:47HVM status car.
49:49Well, let's hope, let's hope that driver is okay.
49:54You can see the medical team have arrived.
49:57And they've taken every precaution.
49:59But that was a huge, huge crash.
50:02Yeah.
50:02It started coming into the corner, didn't it?
50:05Yeah.
50:06And it looks like that's at the end of the Porsche curves, isn't it?
50:09Yeah.
50:09And that's not a wall you want to visit.
50:11No, it's not.
50:12To visit.
50:17But there seemed to be a lot of energy dissipated, a lot of parts coming off the car.
50:21And I think from what we saw in that one replay, what looked like, certainly, the gearbox and the whole, the back end broke off it, which is probably designed to do, yeah, absolutely, to dissipate the energy, yeah.
50:39Yeah, that's the number 30, yeah.
50:40Yeah, it's the Lola.
50:41And I suspect that that may well be the driver.
51:02I suspect that the driver is out of the car.
51:06That looks like Tony Burgess, isn't it?
51:08Yeah.
51:08That has his helmet.
51:08I think it's Tony Burgess' helmet.
51:11I think so.
51:11So we've got pace car out.
51:23This is, as we said, in the S's there, McNeish still leading the race.
51:29We are going to have that pace car out for a while, but it may not be as long as some of the stops that we've had because there isn't an arm code damage situation, which is going to help a little bit.
51:40And meanwhile, if you're thinking like I'm thinking, it'd be quite nice to have a cup of tea, then just go off, put the kettle on, have the cup of tea, enjoy a little break.
51:52We'll be back with you at Le Mans in just a few minutes' time after the break.
52:14Oh, my God.
54:16And he took his own helmet off there and I think he was just discussing with the marshals.
54:22He might be asking where he is, but at least he's here and that was a very, very scary
54:28moment.
54:30But, yeah, the car is completely destroyed.
54:33It's lost the engine.
54:34It's lost the gearbox or certainly the whole back end and gearbox anyway.
54:39Yes, everything sort of that was supposed to fall off, fell off and took it away.
54:43And there is Alan McNish.
54:46A very concerned looking Alan McNish there.
54:49Very concerned indeed.
54:50He's still down as being in the car, incidentally, you know, but I don't think he was in the
54:57car.
54:58I'm here, in fact.
55:00Yeah, that's, yeah, that looks to be wrong, doesn't it?
55:03Yeah.
55:04I think he's got to be wrong.
55:06Will he get into trouble?
55:07Oh, I doubt it.
55:08Will there be questions asked?
55:09Yes, if there are.
55:10We know who will get the blame, don't we?
55:12Me.
55:12I was thinking, well, it couldn't be me.
55:17Yeah, well, exactly.
55:18Well, we can blame Carlton.
55:20He's just come back.
55:22He doesn't actually know we're talking about him at the moment, but say nothing.
55:25Right.
55:26He just left us to our own devices there, didn't he?
55:29And ran out.
55:29You may say, yeah, just like that.
55:31Ten minutes ago.
55:32You may say, sort of, the driver has come back and will go off to the medical unit for
55:41a check-out, but it was quite a relief to see him step away from the car.
55:49And now it's a question of picking up the car.
55:53As I've said, this isn't, I think, going to be a very long session, purely and simply,
55:58because once we've actually cleared the bits and pieces of car off the track,
56:02it isn't a question of damaged arm core or something like that.
56:05So we will probably, with the marshals hard at work here, sweeping the debris off the track,
56:09be going back to a situation soon with the base cars going in.
56:14I'd say probably in about another ten minutes or so, something like that.
56:16You know what?
56:17I've just actually been doing a radio interview a few moments ago concerning Alan Simonson,
56:24and I stepped back in after saying it's an extraordinary good safety record here at Le Mans.
56:30Well, I know that a lot of you must be watching this, and maybe some of you are new to motorsport,
56:38and when you're seeing ambulances getting scrambled in the middle of the night,
56:41you're probably asking yourself, why on earth are these guys doing this sort of thing?
56:44It is for the love of the sport.
56:46And Alan Simonson passed away for the love of the sport.
56:49And it is that passion that has made his family take the decision to ask Aston Martin to continue racing
56:57and to try and win it for him.
56:59Let's just hope that this incident as well passes by without injury.
57:05Let's not forget we haven't had a fatality during the race since 1986,
57:09when poor Joe Gartner, the Austrian, crashed on the Monsan,
57:14ended up in the trees and beyond, unfortunately.
57:17Yes, and today we lost Alan Simonson.
57:21And let's just hope we don't lose any more, shall we?
57:28So, night-time racing.
57:30It's part of the allure of Le Mans, and it looks, I've got to say,
57:36I think it looks absolutely magnificent.
57:38And you can see it's a fantastic spectacle, isn't it?
57:41But you can just see how hard and how active or proactive those drivers are being
57:46under the safety car with their tyre temperatures.
57:48Yes.
57:49Because, of course, our ambient temperature has dropped, our track temperature has dropped,
57:53and so will their tyre pressures and temperatures.
57:58So they'll want to keep those pretty high.
58:01They'll want to use quite a lot of brakes,
58:03because you get a lot of heat soak from the brakes that will keep the tyres hot as well.
58:09And also, we need the brakes hot.
58:11You can see the rear end, the engine, the transmission, everything else as well will be carried separately away there.
58:18Yeah, that's...
58:22I haven't seen the incident myself.
58:24Was it actually captured on camera?
58:26Yeah, well, just the aftermath.
58:28I don't think the impact...
58:29We didn't see the impact anyway.
58:31We just saw the aftermath, and there was a bit of a fire as well.
58:34But the marshals were just right there to extinguish that.
58:39But actually, when we saw the first pictures, we were just seeing a cloud of what we thought was dust,
58:45probably more smoke and a mixture of dust, yeah, and we were just seeing silhouettes.
58:51But thankfully, everybody is okay there.
58:53And do we know if Burgess is all right?
58:55We've seen him out of the car.
58:56He was out of the car, standing.
58:58We saw him standing by the barrier, talking to the marshals.
59:02Tony Burgess, of course, the Canadian, from the American Le Mans series.
59:05So, you must have raced against him.
59:09Yeah, I think so.
59:11There we are.
59:11I have.
59:13So, a car with a podium chance.
59:16The HMV status GP machine.
59:19It is the 30 car, isn't it?
59:20It's in contact.
59:23Yes, it is.
59:24Yes, going for a conservative strategy.
59:27They say it's something of a reliability run, perhaps.
59:32But it's the eight car being called to the box on this lap.
59:37So, running in P2, Anthony Davidson will be coming in.
59:41And, yes, we are, as you know, behind the safety cars, all three of them, in the night time here.
59:50Well, this is Johnny Molan's car, expert in the wet, general good guy.
59:55They've had a bit of a rough ride, but it didn't get any rougher than that for...
59:58So, you mentioned in your mind.
59:59You also mentioned.
00:00Yeah, I am in this journey.
00:01I was, you know, when you're going to have a сделain.
00:02Yes, you are.
00:03You are.
00:04You are.
00:05I'm you.
00:05You are.
00:06So, my name is Johnny Molan.
00:07I am.
00:08You are.
00:09Well, I am.
00:10So, my guess, here we are, very clear.
00:11And, yes, here we are.
00:12Let's see you.
00:13Why is so much better?
00:14Let's see you.
00:15Let's see you.
00:17Let's see what's next.
00:17I do.
00:19Let's see you.
00:19Let's see you.
00:20Let's see you.
00:21Let's see you.
00:22Let's see you.
00:23Let's see you.
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