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00:00:0055 car in front of him or is that yeah it's a 55 my i like my screen it's telling me stuff and i
00:00:08can actually read it they've gone by fantastic battle and you're right in the heart of it
00:00:18okay look at the shadow growing the lights are getting closer behind the
00:00:21porsche on the run to indianapolis there's very fast you can see the shadow always looking looking
00:00:28looking oh no do not do that oh dear no no no not in paris no that was for the director cutting away
00:00:40for a battle for position for third place that looked like it was all going to shape up there
00:00:45at indianapolis didn't quite get around to happening what does my timing screen show my
00:00:51timing screen still shows 91 in front of 97 it's very close in fact the aston is having to get back
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00:02:00Welcome back to Nighttime Racing at the Circuit de la Sarthe.
00:02:18It is the 90th anniversary of the world's greatest endurance motor race.
00:02:22Live coverage here on Eurosport, wherever you're watching, whether it's night for you too.
00:02:27Yesterday, could it be yesterday still somewhere?
00:02:30I suppose it could be, or tomorrow, more likely, wherever you are watching in Europe, in North
00:02:34or South America, across the far or Middle East, down in Australia, New Zealand, you're
00:02:40very welcome.
00:02:41Martin Haven, Neville Hay, and Chris Parsons watching the action.
00:02:44Onboard here, the number 42 Zaytac Nissan.
00:02:48That's just stopped in fourth place, that car.
00:02:50Mikael Krumm going back out.
00:02:53Did he lose a spot?
00:02:54I think he did to Lucas Lohr in the other Zaytac, the 38 Jota car.
00:02:58So, battle for position there.
00:03:01Yellow flags at Marshalls, post eight.
00:03:03That is the exit of the corner here.
00:03:05So, as we come up under the brow, should see yellow lights on and flags being waved.
00:03:10We do indeed.
00:03:11That means somebody's gone off.
00:03:13Let's ride with Krumm and see who and where.
00:03:17I see Marshalls.
00:03:19I see no cars.
00:03:21Mikael Krumm, though, being cautious down into the forest S's.
00:03:25He is being very cautious, isn't he?
00:03:28Don's just come out of the pits.
00:03:30Can't see any ships.
00:03:31Car 45 has spiked.
00:03:33I can't see any ships either, never.
00:03:35I was waiting for somebody to join those dots.
00:03:37It's the Oak Racing Nissan, the gentleman driver car.
00:03:40Jacques Nicolet, Jean-Marc Merlin, and Philippe Mondeloup.
00:03:45You're loving my French accents, aren't you?
00:03:47And I can't tell who's in it.
00:03:50Meanwhile, back in the pits.
00:03:52See, that's one of the great things about being a pit reporter.
00:03:54Everybody says, well, how do you walk up and down for 24 hours at a time?
00:03:57Well, because cars are always coming in.
00:04:00They keep you going.
00:04:01From wets to slicks, the 67 Imsa Matma Porsche.
00:04:05Now, that, I would venture, is a bold move.
00:04:08But then, Wolf Hensler, their pro driver, is a bold man.
00:04:13He's obviously decided these wets are giving up the ghost.
00:04:16Time to get me onto something with no grooves.
00:04:19Now, this could be the Michelin soft-immediate.
00:04:25Kind of intermediate, but with no grooves on.
00:04:27So, what we're calling super soft tyre.
00:04:29It does appear to have stopped raining at the moment as well.
00:04:34So, maybe this is drying out.
00:04:37And as he's going out for a full stint,
00:04:42put him on an intermediate at worst.
00:04:46Good call.
00:04:47It is not raining here also.
00:04:48No.
00:04:49In the very famous words of Master Tony Hancock.
00:04:52Marginet watching proceedings.
00:04:54The Audi driver of the number three car.
00:04:57Oli Jarvis currently giving it a thorough spanking out on track.
00:05:01But in front of him, we saw a change about five laps ago now,
00:05:05probably between Nico Lapierre, who's now third, and Sebastian Buemi, who's now second.
00:05:10And Buemi roaring away from Lapierre.
00:05:13He's now 14 seconds in front of Lapierre at the end of the last lap.
00:05:17And he's lapping three, four seconds a lap every lap.
00:05:21So, Sebastian Buemi, the former Toro Rosso driver, again giving his car the full whip.
00:05:29And he's even, his last lap was quicker than Loic Duval.
00:05:33And as we know, Duval is the real speed merchant in the Audi team at the moment.
00:05:39He's not hanging around.
00:05:40He's not done that two or three times.
00:05:42That's three or four laps now.
00:05:44He's probably there about six or seven seconds.
00:05:46These things slightly come and go a little bit, don't they?
00:05:48Yeah, there it is.
00:05:48Empirically, because of where you catch traffic.
00:05:51But you're right.
00:05:52I mean, they are both on absolutely front-running pace.
00:05:56Maybe that's something we should discuss, Martin.
00:05:58Because at a meeting with Audi the other day,
00:06:01they were telling us that they actually count the number of overtakes that a car has during the 24 hours.
00:06:10That doesn't surprise me in the least.
00:06:11I wouldn't be remotely surprised if I'm there, Dr. Cas, the number of driver bowel movements as well.
00:06:16You know, if we're getting into that.
00:06:19Honestly, I can't conceive of any aspect of this race that is not thoroughly documented by Audi.
00:06:27They actually sit someone down back, I don't know whether it's at Ingolstadt or in Brackley,
00:06:34and probably the mechanic that's made the worst pit stop booth,
00:06:39he has to sit there for 24 hours and mark every overtake.
00:06:44He watches the ziggy-zaggy screen that we're watching with all the little numbers moving around
00:06:48that tells you where everybody is, and he sits there and tries desperately not to nod off for Twitter.
00:06:54Do you know what?
00:06:55It's probably a computer programme that does it for them.
00:06:58No, it's not.
00:06:58Oh, is it not?
00:06:58It's not.
00:06:59It is a personal answer.
00:07:00It's a genuine blurk.
00:07:01Yeah.
00:07:02And he's not allowed to go to the loo either.
00:07:07And the number...
00:07:10Sometimes I do regret starting threads.
00:07:13This may just be one.
00:07:15Go ahead, Chris.
00:07:16And the number comes out.
00:07:191,400 overtakes.
00:07:21For every race.
00:07:22In a 24-hour race.
00:07:23Every time.
00:07:25Not exactly.
00:07:26On V-roll.
00:07:27Thereabouts.
00:07:27Okay, okay.
00:07:28And they reckon that the Audis have to go offline, pick up debris, marbles and things, four times a lap.
00:07:41Now, what I want to know is, what is the total cumulative weight of the marbles that are picked up by an Audi in a race?
00:07:48See, 300 laps or so, 1,400 passes or so, that's quite a lot a lap.
00:07:58Yeah.
00:07:59300, three into 14, that's five a lap, every single lap.
00:08:03Well, that goes with the having to go offline three or four times, yeah.
00:08:08That tallies.
00:08:10Yeah.
00:08:11Because, of course, there will be the occasional gimme where somebody's in the gravel, but that is very occasional.
00:08:16Well, this is all getting a bit too clever for me.
00:08:21Nev, since the day Audi decided to do this, they've been too clever for simple folks like us.
00:08:26Yeah, but he's in the computer business, you know.
00:08:28I mean, there's not a problem with people like him.
00:08:30But he was told that it's quite like it counts.
00:08:3432 Lotus, the remaining Lotus, leaving Pit Lane and an outlap.
00:08:41And again, just tires.
00:08:43So, Dominic Kreihimer in that car deciding, yep, it's dry enough.
00:08:50Now, again, cars that are, how can I say this without sounding ridiculously dismissive of what is actually a really good effort?
00:08:59Cars that are not in the immediate hunt for victory or podium in their class and are now consisting of flogging the car around to get as good a finish as they can out of it.
00:09:10They are in a position where they can amend their strategy and go, right, now it's time for slicks.
00:09:16Let's go for slicks.
00:09:17Or, as in the case of Jacques Nicolet just a few laps ago, actually, do you know what?
00:09:21Really not comfortable on these slicks.
00:09:23Let's get on to wets because I don't want to wreck this car.
00:09:25I want to finish.
00:09:25Whereas Audi, I'm thinking, are much less likely to be flinching because the weather are much more likely to be locked in.
00:09:35See, Nicolet with the grooves on his tire.
00:09:38Now, those are not regular grooves.
00:09:40Those are being cut.
00:09:42So, what tire manufacturer?
00:09:44Talk amongst yourselves.
00:09:46Well, we are going to talk amongst ourselves.
00:09:47I know you were going to point out for a moment or two that I've just looked at the last laps.
00:09:53I'm always getting interested in this.
00:09:55Now, we've just seen Duval on a 346.
00:09:59We're braming on a 345.
00:10:01Yeah.
00:10:02But another factor we have to bring into it is that I'm afraid the Toyota pit stops are slightly longer than the Audi ones.
00:10:12Although the organisers have allowed them a faster flow rate, they have a larger tank and, therefore, it is taking longer to fill.
00:10:23Yeah, they get another three litres, I think it is.
00:10:26Well, Chris, when you're stood at the pumps with your Bentley, it takes you longer to fill it than it does when I'm standing there with my little Mercedes.
00:10:33And that's just, you know, it is unfortunate fact of life.
00:10:36More fuel that goes in, the longer it takes.
00:10:38I wish, Brad.
00:10:40Well, you don't fill up your Bentley.
00:10:42Well, you push it everywhere.
00:10:43I don't have a Bentley.
00:10:45I've seen it.
00:10:47It's not all yours.
00:10:48No, it's a Jaguar.
00:10:49I thought you brought a Bentley down the other year.
00:10:51No, that's my TR.
00:10:52That's my TR.
00:10:55I could have sworn you came in a nice old Bentley a few years ago.
00:10:58I wish I did.
00:10:59I nearly bought a, well, I wasn't a very nice old Bentley at all.
00:11:02It's nice as mid-working with people with a different class of car.
00:11:05Yeah, different class of car.
00:11:07We haven't got to the Elvis yet.
00:11:09That's a really classy car.
00:11:11That is a really classy car.
00:11:12Now, there you go.
00:11:14Have you used to go, shall Morris, that?
00:11:15No, I was going to talk about baby Brundle because Alex Brundle is having, oh, I see now.
00:11:24I really don't want to say this, do I?
00:11:25You should have said that, Martin.
00:11:26His father would be pleased with the way he has driven over the course of the weekend.
00:11:30Has he passed the first chicane yet?
00:11:32His father would be very pleased with the way he's driven this weekend.
00:11:34His dad is very pleased.
00:11:36He said, in fact, I spoke to Martin just before the race and we were talking strategy and weather
00:11:40and what's it going to do.
00:11:41We kind of agreed that it was going to do pretty much what it had done all week, like it does
00:11:45in the UK.
00:11:46But Alex Brundle, in the lead of the race, first participation 2012 when his co-driver was
00:11:53a certain Brundle M, Esquire, and Martin is, well, he was professing on Twitter earlier
00:11:59not to have itchy feet.
00:12:02He said, yeah.
00:12:04Then we got to the driver's parade and I did think, hmm, I'm in the wrong place watching
00:12:08this.
00:12:09And I'm not quite sure how he felt standing on the grid getting ready for the start when
00:12:14he could easily have been the co-driver, perhaps, in a car.
00:12:17And, yeah, I think that's difficult.
00:12:20But I think he's going to be, if his son finishes on the podium and only his second ever Le Mans,
00:12:26I think he is going to be, and rightly, enormously proud.
00:12:29And Alex is turning into a very fine young sports car driver.
00:12:32And, again, we've got Morgan's first and second.
00:12:36So, hello again to Charles Morgan, who I'm sure is awake somewhere.
00:12:39And none of them have got three wheels at the moment.
00:12:41He learned a lot last year, Alex Brundle.
00:12:43There's no question about that.
00:12:44And I think that probably it was quite a good idea that they should start together because
00:12:48it brought him confidence as well.
00:12:51I really still like to see Martin drive the race from time to time.
00:12:55Yes, absolutely.
00:12:55I do hope you can see him back here again.
00:12:58Do you know, I wouldn't be unsurprised.
00:13:01I think he's getting to the stage where, if it doesn't happen in the next 12 months,
00:13:07it might not happen again because, eventually, you're going to get fed up of being an athlete
00:13:14who's actually not getting any chance to use your athleticism.
00:13:19And so the training kind of goes a bit.
00:13:21That was the third place car, incidentally.
00:13:23And that wasn't.
00:13:24That's the Boussé-Gignon car, the third place car in LMP2,
00:13:27driven by Lucas Lu at the moment.
00:13:28The Jota car, which is another car with a lot of British influence because it's got
00:13:32Simon Dolan and Ollie Turvey in it.
00:13:35And then, of course, Jota is based in Kent, a British team.
00:13:37They're third.
00:13:38So we've got British driver first, Alex Brundle in LMP2.
00:13:41British driver second, Martin Plowman in LMP2, a guy who's raced predominantly in the States
00:13:47in the last few years, in Indy Lights, and Plowey not really very well known, I don't think,
00:13:52by British fans and certainly by British sports car fans.
00:13:55Again, in a really good position.
00:13:58There is the Jota car.
00:13:59Lucas Luhr, guaranteed safe hands, ex-Porsche driver, ex-Audi driver,
00:14:04and doing a great job in the States with Muscle Milk and Greg Pickett's P1 programme,
00:14:11winning races left, right and centre, one in the LMP2 Porsche,
00:14:14and a solid gold, or in his case, I'm sure, platinum addition to the Jota crew.
00:14:21And again, for them to finish on the podium, it's going to be a massive, massive boost for Sam Hignett's team.
00:14:27And if they can do it, it's going to be a hugely well-deserved result.
00:14:31Another second snatched back by the Toyota there.
00:14:37This is going to be quite an exciting contest.
00:14:40Every lap, it seems to be a second quicker.
00:14:46It's going to be quite an exciting contest.
00:14:49And I'm just looking 18 as opposed to 16 pit stops.
00:14:54It's 15 only for Lapierre.
00:14:57That's interesting, isn't it?
00:14:59Well, again, he may owe us a stop, but we'll have to wait and see when that comes in.
00:15:06Darryl O'Young, Canadian-born, San Francisco-educated.
00:15:12I went through this before.
00:15:13Hong Kong-Chinese driver.
00:15:16Very good.
00:15:16You got that.
00:15:17Absolutely.
00:15:18Races regularly in the FIA World Touring Car Championship
00:15:22in the Carrera Cup Deutschland in the Asian Carrera Cup.
00:15:26He's a twice-winner of the 12 Hours of Bathurst.
00:15:29And somebody's wiper arm has come off.
00:15:31Didn't get that from Halfords, did he?
00:15:34That's not doing an awful lot of anything, really.
00:15:37I was going to say, you would think he'd get bored and turn it off.
00:15:41And bingo, he did.
00:15:42So, you know, wiper arms and wiper blades, you think, you know, well, you know, how difficult can it be?
00:15:49They're doing 190 miles an hour.
00:15:51Actually, quite difficult.
00:15:53Were you here when we had the discussion over wiper blades?
00:15:55Because, was it, Chris, you said that somebody has developed a new...
00:16:00No, it's Audi, isn't it?
00:16:01Audi.
00:16:01Who have developed a new form of wiper blade that copes with, A, the high speed, B, the curvature of the screen,
00:16:10and C, is obviously efficient.
00:16:13And I said, as far as I was concerned, the best wiper I'd ever come across was on Mercedes.
00:16:19And they seem to have done it so well that they weren't letting anybody else copy it.
00:16:22Well, they used to have pantograph wipers, didn't they, all the time.
00:16:26And now they've kind of drifted away from that and gone for a slightly more conventional two-wiper-y thing.
00:16:31So, ooh, wagging the tail over the 911.
00:16:33By the way, if you're looking at the new factory Porsches and wonder, what is that thing they've got all over the roof?
00:16:39It's 50.
00:16:40911.50, it says, across the car, because it's the 50th anniversary of the 911.
00:16:45Darrell Young being strapped in.
00:16:47His LKM sponsorship all over this Ferrari.
00:16:50Slicks again.
00:16:51Yeah.
00:16:53And again, after Pier Giuseppe got out, fresh set of tyres, full tank of gas for the driver.
00:16:59And, of course, in this business, you get in and you hope, because you haven't had a chance to have a bit of a conflap with him,
00:17:06Darrell will be hoping that Pier Giuseppe left him a brake pedal that is actually capable of doing something.
00:17:13I'm sure he would have radioed in if the brakes needed attention.
00:17:15But, you know, in the old days, that was certainly something you really had to trust.
00:17:19You trusted your life in your co-driver that if there was something really germane to the car's survival and hence yours, he would mention it.
00:17:27Now, with radios, it's perhaps, and so much telemetry, it's perhaps a little more obvious.
00:17:33Pit road for number two car.
00:17:34This is our race leader, Loic Duval.
00:17:36Well, and the question is, is somebody standing by in a helmet to take over or is this a quad?
00:17:43Is this a quintuple stint?
00:17:45No tyres being bought out.
00:17:47No, that means no driver change.
00:17:49Now, somebody asked me earlier, what do they clean the screen with?
00:17:52And at the risk of sounding facetious, screen cleaner.
00:17:57Commercially available screen cleaner.
00:17:59Various different teams will use various different ones.
00:18:01And teams do use tear-off windscreen covers, like you'd have a tear-off visor and a single-seater.
00:18:07Probably one, maybe two on a car, at the absolute most, if you think it's going to be filthy.
00:18:14Probably only one, because they tend to distort the vision even more than these highly curved screens.
00:18:19Having said they won't go to change the tyres, they are.
00:18:22Now, in which case, oh, that's wet tyres coming off.
00:18:25Well, that's not a surprise, but he is staying in, Loic Duval, so he gets a fresh set of slicks.
00:18:30Now then, I'm not sure when those wets went on.
00:18:33A full stint together.
00:18:35Ooh.
00:18:35There was a bit of hesitation there.
00:18:39I wonder whether he was told to stop because they didn't want an unsafe release.
00:18:43Maybe he was waiting for the red light at the end of pit lane to change.
00:18:46Maybe he just had a few too many revs on, on slick tyres, on a wet apron.
00:18:51You are not allowed to wheel spin away from the start.
00:18:55Somebody asked why not.
00:18:56And actually, really for safety reasons.
00:18:58It's not because the ACO don't like black stripes on the tarmac, although the ACO don't like black stripes on the tarmac.
00:19:03It is for safety reasons.
00:19:05Alex Brundle is out.
00:19:06So, full service on our LMP2 leader.
00:19:09So, Brundle is out, and pole setter, Olivier Pla, who snatched the class pole in literally the final two minutes of qualifying on Thursday night, gets back into that car.
00:19:22And there's the next out, Ian, the Andre Lotterer car.
00:19:28This is the recovering number one, which is now in front of the LMP2 leader, who is Martin Ploughman.
00:19:33So, yay, Ploughy.
00:19:35So, er...
00:19:36He's made up a whole lap.
00:19:37He's eight laps behind the leader now.
00:19:39Yes.
00:19:40So, we saw him unlapping himself.
00:19:42He's in length.
00:19:42So, he's actually made up three laps since his long stop.
00:19:45That's stunning.
00:19:47And do you know what?
00:19:47That is just a stunning pace, because he's not catching a hobbled leader.
00:19:52He's catching a leader who's keeping the rest of the field at bay.
00:19:55It's astonishing pace.
00:19:57Well, he's kept this pressure up constantly.
00:20:02Yeah, OK, we've seen 3.55 for Duval, 3.49 for Bueymi.
00:20:08Where's his time?
00:20:093.47.
00:20:103.47.
00:20:13It's insane.
00:20:13So, he really is.
00:20:14Push, push, push.
00:20:16Well, this is, you know, this is really the time, were it dry, when very frequently the fastest laps of the race has set.
00:20:23Changing tyres look also on the Peugeot.
00:20:26So, now, did we have a change of driver there?
00:20:27I didn't know this.
00:20:28I thought that was a Toyota.
00:20:29Yeah, I know.
00:20:30I meant a Toyota.
00:20:30Do you know, if it was red and white like they used to be the last time, it would have made our lives...
00:20:35It made life a lot easier, wouldn't it?
00:20:36For simple men like us, it's just too much.
00:20:38Did they change the driver?
00:20:39That was the thing.
00:20:40No.
00:20:40No.
00:20:40No.
00:20:41Right, fine.
00:20:43Because...
00:20:44But, that stop did take Sebastian Bueymi out of second and allowed Nico Lapierre to go back into second.
00:20:51But, Lapierre's is a stop now compared to Bueymi, and so that should flip-flop back and forth.
00:20:58I mean, but one thing you are right on, Neville, that the number seven car, it does seem to be making less stops than...
00:21:07Yes, it does.
00:21:08...than its team-mate, and less stops than the Audis.
00:21:12Yes, they're playing a little game here, aren't they?
00:21:16There's no doubt about that.
00:21:17Have I mentioned Car 55 recently?
00:21:19Um, it's gone straight on again.
00:21:22I know.
00:21:22Car 55.
00:21:23Car 55, where are you?
00:21:25Did I speak about them in glowing terms at any stage?
00:21:28Oh, it's Daryl O'Year.
00:21:29Of course, I was just talking about Daryl O'Year.
00:21:32Well, you're going confused.
00:21:33I really have got to give this business up.
00:21:35I am cursing...
00:21:37You confused him.
00:21:38You said he was a Canadian who was educated in America, who comes from Hong Kong, who was working in Germany.
00:21:45The poor chap doesn't know whether he's punch-bored or countersunk.
00:21:47He had...
00:21:49So he went straight on.
00:21:50He had no chance, did he?
00:21:51I talked about him for two minutes solid.
00:21:53He had no chance.
00:21:54He was always going to go off.
00:21:55Where?
00:21:56At the first chicane.
00:21:58And the reason so many...
00:21:59Why don't they go off here at the S's?
00:22:01Why don't they go off at Terre-Tier-Rouge?
00:22:03Because the tyres that come out of the tyre oven are still baking hot here.
00:22:07But by the time they've got round, at a moderate but not really high speed, onto the Mulsanne, down to the first chicane,
00:22:15the tyres are stone cold and possibly even out of their temperature range.
00:22:19So you touch the brakes, straight on up the escape road.
00:22:23It without a slight frontal body-connected Jaaaaaaaaah.
00:22:27All right.
00:22:32It's quite rare looking for massive brass so far up here in the near...
00:22:36Of theCrime series including four shops, bl lending lines of three houses in 12 o'clock,
00:22:39out of the night inducing of one, here on the pages,
00:22:40where the car states don't have much judgement,
00:22:43and you'll be able to think of this,
00:22:45but they understand some of the pieces.
00:22:49so
00:23:19Welcome back to Le Mans.
00:23:34A couple of minutes ago, we saw the number eight Toyota
00:23:36from second place coming down pit road.
00:23:38Sebastian Buemi changing from wets onto slicks,
00:23:41surrendering second place.
00:23:43It will now come back to him as teammate Nico Lapierre,
00:23:46who inherited second at the beginning of this lap,
00:23:48comes in at the end of it,
00:23:50because we can get a commercial break-in
00:23:52during the course of a one lap.
00:23:54And it's a change of driver as well.
00:23:56OK, well, we saw Alexander Wurz, didn't we,
00:23:59lurking with intent, or without garage,
00:24:02to be slightly more accurate, and folds his...
00:24:05Do you know, sometimes you look at Nico Lapierre,
00:24:07jockey, Kazuki Nakajima, jockey, Alexander Wurz,
00:24:11basketball player, and you wonder,
00:24:12how on earth did they choose this line-up?
00:24:16You've got somebody who's 6'5 and change,
00:24:18and somebody, and two other drivers,
00:24:20you're about 5'5 and change.
00:24:22Did you know that his wife has written a book?
00:24:25Julia?
00:24:26Yeah.
00:24:27Super ego?
00:24:27Yeah.
00:24:28No, I didn't know that wife.
00:24:29Well, she had written a book, so look.
00:24:31I referred to him earlier,
00:24:32when he was going off somewhere,
00:24:33as the husband of all the rest, Julia.
00:24:36Oh, well, there you are, you see?
00:24:37I also know that Julia is here on a girls' weekend
00:24:40with Kelly McNish and a bunch of others as well,
00:24:43because they're close friends and close rivals,
00:24:46but close neighbours in Monaco as well.
00:24:48Well, I can't get her to autograph it,
00:24:50because it's on mid-Himble.
00:24:51Yeah.
00:24:52And, yeah, new tyres going on,
00:24:56slicks,
00:24:57and the intermediates that they've just taken off
00:25:02just behind them.
00:25:03Yeah.
00:25:05One last point on super ego,
00:25:07at Julia Wurtz,
00:25:08available on e-readers now,
00:25:09is that, in fact,
00:25:10the boss of the mythical Formula One team
00:25:13exists in the cybersphere.
00:25:15He has a Twitter account.
00:25:18Doesn't tweet very often, actually,
00:25:19so, Julia, you know,
00:25:21get one of the kids on it or something.
00:25:23But, no, around the,
00:25:24certainly around the Monaco Grand Prix
00:25:25was tweeting about his team.
00:25:28The Lamborghini-engined entry.
00:25:31Yes.
00:25:32With all that entails.
00:25:33Yes, yes.
00:25:36One of the, in fact,
00:25:37while we're talking books,
00:25:39first of all, Michael Crum's book,
00:25:41it's called Driven to Win.
00:25:43Very, very good book, indeed.
00:25:45We mentioned Duncan Hamilton's book,
00:25:46which is another cracking read,
00:25:48although Adrian, his son,
00:25:50would dispute some of the details
00:25:52of the 1953.
00:25:53Well, you know, there we go.
00:25:55It's a cracking yarn, anyway,
00:25:57and, you know,
00:25:59as David Niven used to say,
00:26:01there's some real things
00:26:02in the biography.
00:26:04Oh, dear.
00:26:05Now, a wheel gun problem there?
00:26:07No, he's got it all done
00:26:08on Teary by TDS Car.
00:26:09What we're talking about,
00:26:10one of the best books
00:26:12about motor racing
00:26:13features as essential character,
00:26:15a dog.
00:26:16Go and look out,
00:26:17racing in the rain.
00:26:19That's a good one.
00:26:19There is the strata.
00:26:20There's racing in the gravel.
00:26:22And is that Nick Leventus
00:26:23at the wheel of that,
00:26:24or is it Johnny Cain?
00:26:26Where are we?
00:26:27Oh, it's Johnny Cain.
00:26:28It is Johnny Cain.
00:26:29Facing backwards.
00:26:30Now, then,
00:26:30we talked about the fact
00:26:31right at the beginning
00:26:32of the race
00:26:33that this car
00:26:34has not got a spare nose cone.
00:26:36Um, and I said,
00:26:38right, so if you're going
00:26:38to have one,
00:26:39hoik on the handbrake
00:26:40at the last minute
00:26:40and go in backwards.
00:26:41Good boy, Johnny.
00:26:42Good boy.
00:26:43I didn't say it to him,
00:26:44of course.
00:26:45I just mentioned it
00:26:45rather facetiously on air.
00:26:47Be careful with that axe,
00:26:48Eugene.
00:26:48If you pull the nose off,
00:26:50you will retire their car.
00:26:52Don't run over it.
00:26:53Yes.
00:26:53So he's looped round
00:26:57on a greasy bit of outfield,
00:26:59I would suggest.
00:27:00Trying to work out
00:27:01where that is, actually.
00:27:02Well, I know that...
00:27:03Would you like me to tell you?
00:27:05In fact,
00:27:06it's just outside our window.
00:27:07Yes.
00:27:08Just here.
00:27:08See, it's just there.
00:27:09That car with the digger.
00:27:11Yeah.
00:27:11It's a bit of a sort of
00:27:13a close pace
00:27:14to give somebody a toe,
00:27:15isn't it,
00:27:16with all these lads coming by?
00:27:17Meanwhile, wave.
00:27:18Oh, no,
00:27:19the camera's facing the wrong way.
00:27:20Wait, no.
00:27:21Meanwhile,
00:27:22something going on at Rebellion.
00:27:23And I didn't quite see
00:27:25why they were
00:27:26cleaning the bodywork,
00:27:27other than the fact
00:27:28that it was off.
00:27:29Do you think he's done...
00:27:31Yes, he's done.
00:27:31No, he's trying to
00:27:32shorten the strap up now
00:27:33because it's too long.
00:27:34Johnny's rolling backwards,
00:27:36which is not a good thing.
00:27:36No, he's out of it.
00:27:38He's out of it.
00:27:38It's all right.
00:27:39Very good.
00:27:40And he's at the exit
00:27:41or the entrance
00:27:41to the Forty Cain.
00:27:43Pit entry road
00:27:44temporarily blocked
00:27:45by Cain J
00:27:47of this parish.
00:27:50And now he finds...
00:27:52There's lots of terraform,
00:27:53there's lots of very different
00:27:54little bits of entry road here.
00:27:56And he's found a new way
00:27:57into the pits.
00:27:58Well, do you know what?
00:27:59That is about the best place
00:28:00to spin
00:28:01because you then get the chance
00:28:02to come straight in
00:28:03and get the tyres checked
00:28:04or changed
00:28:05and the car checked
00:28:06or not changed
00:28:08but checked anyway.
00:28:09And Stracca right there.
00:28:11They were ready,
00:28:12willing and able.
00:28:13Slicks are ready.
00:28:15Yeah, I don't think
00:28:16they're the softy,
00:28:18spongy,
00:28:18intermediary things.
00:28:19Super softs.
00:28:22I do like the new matte livery
00:28:23on the Stracca.
00:28:24That's very attractive indeed.
00:28:27Matte luster to it.
00:28:30The tyres are ready.
00:28:32I'm assuming
00:28:33because it was
00:28:33such a low speed spin.
00:28:35Well, they are
00:28:36going for tyres anyway.
00:28:37Is 12 coming back out?
00:28:41Yes.
00:28:43No.
00:28:44See the nose incidentally.
00:28:45You're used to seeing
00:28:46dive planes
00:28:46onto the front of the car
00:28:48coming out horizontally.
00:28:49They've got vertical fences
00:28:51as well.
00:28:52That's for cutting down drag
00:28:53apparently.
00:28:55It tidies up the air
00:28:56around the front wheel arches.
00:28:58Really substantially
00:28:59helps to cut down drag.
00:29:02Things what you never knew
00:29:03to that car
00:29:04is stalling
00:29:05in sixth place.
00:29:07Oh, so,
00:29:08well,
00:29:09might have lost a place
00:29:10were it not
00:29:11for the fact
00:29:11that while they were
00:29:12sitting stationary,
00:29:13in fact it's not.
00:29:14They have lost a place
00:29:15to Johnny Kane
00:29:16despite Kaney's spin.
00:29:18Neil Yarny going out
00:29:19triggered the pit lane beacon
00:29:20and he has in fact
00:29:21lost a lap,
00:29:23I would think,
00:29:23to the stracker
00:29:24at the very least.
00:29:25Didn't see when the car
00:29:25went into the garage.
00:29:27It's unfortunately
00:29:27unlike the old days
00:29:29where we stood above
00:29:30the grandstand
00:29:31facing the pits
00:29:32and we could look down
00:29:33and see these things.
00:29:34Had to see what was going on.
00:29:36We now have to rely
00:29:37on the telly pictures
00:29:38which are not,
00:29:39despite what you might think,
00:29:40omnipresent.
00:29:41332.
00:29:41I'm just watching
00:29:45the lap times again,
00:29:46Duval and Bramie.
00:29:48Bramie had about
00:29:50half a second
00:29:50on him last time.
00:29:52Duval comes through first.
00:29:53He's now done
00:29:54a 332.5.
00:29:55Ah, now then,
00:29:56there's Nick Heidfeldt
00:29:57out of his car
00:29:58which Neil Yarny
00:29:59has just taken over.
00:30:00In fact,
00:30:01as Johnny Kane
00:30:01has tripped the timing beacon,
00:30:03he has gone back
00:30:03behind the number 12
00:30:05rebellion car.
00:30:05So they hold their position
00:30:07as they were having
00:30:08their issues.
00:30:09Johnny Kane
00:30:09was creating
00:30:10an issue of his own
00:30:11and Andre Lotterer
00:30:13not yet
00:30:18on the same lap
00:30:19as the Stracker.
00:30:21I don't think.
00:30:23I have to wait
00:30:24and see how that transpires.
00:30:26Lotterer might
00:30:27now start to pick off
00:30:29actual P1 cars
00:30:31instead of just
00:30:32GTM,
00:30:33GTE Pro
00:30:34and P2 cars
00:30:35which he has all
00:30:36successfully left behind him.
00:30:38Yes,
00:30:38still two laps in it.
00:30:41And still 10 hours to go.
00:30:43Yeah.
00:30:44Or 9 hours 59
00:30:45for those
00:30:46of a more pedantic nature.
00:30:49So in a couple of minutes
00:30:49we will have our
00:30:5010 minus 10
00:30:5314 hour roundup.
00:30:56Takes a minute of time
00:30:57at this time of the morning.
00:30:58Oh, do you know,
00:30:59when you look at the screen
00:30:59you go,
00:31:00yes,
00:31:00and it's 9.58
00:31:01in the morning.
00:31:0250,
00:31:03oh,
00:31:03no it's not.
00:31:04It's 9.58 left
00:31:05which is,
00:31:06oh,
00:31:07yeah,
00:31:07I'll look at the watch now
00:31:08and not resort to the screen.
00:31:09It's 5.00.
00:31:10It is 5.00 in the morning here
00:31:12and actually by this stage
00:31:14the roseate fingers of dawn
00:31:17should be starting
00:31:18to streak across the sky.
00:31:20And that sort of means
00:31:22that it's quite cloudy still.
00:31:23Yeah,
00:31:23they're not cloudy.
00:31:24On a clear day
00:31:25you could see forever.
00:31:26Certainly by this time
00:31:27on top of the tribunes
00:31:28where we face the grandstand
00:31:29there
00:31:30on the left
00:31:31of your picture
00:31:31was where the sun
00:31:32would come in
00:31:33vis the east.
00:31:34And so we would be staring
00:31:36into the early morning sun
00:31:37from 4.30ish,
00:31:395 o'clock.
00:31:39Certainly we might be seeing it.
00:31:41I think perhaps
00:31:42it's a bit of a dark,
00:31:43sort of almost like
00:31:44having a race in March.
00:31:45Imagine that.
00:31:46Cold, wet, miserable.
00:31:47We're on the Isle of Man.
00:31:52Yeah, looking out the back
00:31:53of our cabin.
00:31:56Any light coming up.
00:31:58Ten hours to go,
00:31:5814 hours in.
00:31:59These are the positions.
00:32:01It is still the number two Audi
00:32:02that leads.
00:32:03It's still got a titanic battle
00:32:05going on between two Morgans
00:32:07from different teams
00:32:08and the Zytex,
00:32:09third and fourth,
00:32:10in the LMP2 class.
00:32:12In the GTE Pro class,
00:32:14Porsche have the upper hand
00:32:15at the moment
00:32:16over Aston Martin.
00:32:18Porsche, Aston, Aston,
00:32:19the top three.
00:32:20Porsche, Ferrari, Ferrari.
00:32:22And look at that.
00:32:24The battle between the Porsche
00:32:26and the two Ferraris
00:32:27all on the same lap
00:32:29at the moment
00:32:29for fourth position
00:32:31in the class.
00:32:32And of course,
00:32:32the top three were split
00:32:33from the rest of the GTE Pro field
00:32:35by the first safety car
00:32:37of now eight.
00:32:38Record eight and counting
00:32:40in this race.
00:32:41And Raymond Narak
00:32:42is leading the GTE Am class
00:32:45with the orange numbers
00:32:46and the orange lights
00:32:47on their cars
00:32:48on the side.
00:32:50And he is in the
00:32:51Imsum Matt Mutt Porsche,
00:32:53second in that class.
00:32:53Darryl O'Young
00:32:54in his Ferrari,
00:32:55third Matt Griffin
00:32:56in his Ferrari.
00:32:57So we've got a Frenchman,
00:32:59a Hong Kong Chinese
00:33:01and an Irishman,
00:33:02first, second and third
00:33:03in the class
00:33:04with Joe Foster,
00:33:05fourth place,
00:33:06having taken over
00:33:07from Patrick Dempsey
00:33:09in the Dempsey Del Piero
00:33:10Proton engineering car.
00:33:11Yellow flag
00:33:12at Marshall's Post 8,
00:33:14which is
00:33:15the beginning
00:33:16of the S's.
00:33:19SRT, boys.
00:33:20Shh, now quietly.
00:33:22Ah.
00:33:23There we go.
00:33:23That is for why, Keats,
00:33:24for why.
00:33:25And if only he could turn around.
00:33:27I'm assuming that's a P2.
00:33:30Assuming that is...
00:33:32Oh, it's the QCMG car.
00:33:34No, don't do that.
00:33:34There's a good car.
00:33:34Don't...
00:33:35Oh, well, I suppose...
00:33:37He's going to.
00:33:38Yeah.
00:33:39Oh, it's not, though, is it?
00:33:41No, no, no, no.
00:33:42No.
00:33:42No.
00:33:43No.
00:33:43Hush my mouth.
00:33:44Er...
00:33:45It's the DKR car,
00:33:47I'm sorry.
00:33:48I am continually
00:33:49getting my acronyms together.
00:33:52Don't back it into the wall,
00:33:54though,
00:33:54because that will cause you
00:33:55more of a problem.
00:33:57Well, we did have a question
00:33:58earlier on.
00:33:59Do prototypes have reverse gears?
00:34:02Oh, yes, they have.
00:34:02They have reverse gears.
00:34:03Yes, they do.
00:34:04Yes, they do, indeed.
00:34:07And lots of them.
00:34:08No, just the one.
00:34:09But half the time,
00:34:10the drivers don't know
00:34:11where they are.
00:34:12Well, because,
00:34:13generally speaking,
00:34:14not that bothered
00:34:16about where reverse is.
00:34:17Much more bothered
00:34:18about where first,
00:34:19second, third,
00:34:19fourth, fifth,
00:34:20and sixth are.
00:34:21Ooh, he's close to that wall.
00:34:24Of course, with flappy paddles,
00:34:25now you don't have to lift
00:34:26the detent out of the way
00:34:28so you can hoik the lever back,
00:34:30you know,
00:34:30that stops you doing it
00:34:32in a fit of
00:34:33down-breaking exuberance
00:34:36as you can somehow
00:34:36slotting it down
00:34:38from fourth neatly
00:34:38into reverse.
00:34:40Now, with a flappy paddle gearbox,
00:34:41you can't do that.
00:34:43I don't know if some of them,
00:34:44though,
00:34:45you need to maybe
00:34:45press another button
00:34:46so you don't accidentally
00:34:48select reverse
00:34:48in the pit lane.
00:34:50Oh!
00:34:51Well, I mean, you know,
00:34:53with a flappy paddle,
00:34:54there's nothing to stop you
00:34:54just clicking it down
00:34:55one more
00:34:56from neutral
00:34:56and into reverse.
00:34:58Goal!
00:34:59That was in the door!
00:35:01That was going to happen.
00:35:02And that is
00:35:02one of our fronters
00:35:03in GT3.
00:35:05And it's Paolo Ruperti.
00:35:06Too involved in that.
00:35:07It's raining.
00:35:08And it's Darryl O'Young.
00:35:09Yes, it's raining
00:35:10and that's why.
00:35:11That is Paolo Ruperti
00:35:12and Darryl O'Young.
00:35:13Darryl gets away.
00:35:15Ruperti up there
00:35:16does not.
00:35:17He makes contact
00:35:18with the recalcitrant
00:35:20number 39
00:35:21of Roman Brandler
00:35:23who has had
00:35:24more spins
00:35:25than your average
00:35:25hot washing machine.
00:35:28And that was the car
00:35:29that was in fourth
00:35:30and second
00:35:33in the Am class.
00:35:35Oh!
00:35:35Darryl is second
00:35:36in the Am class
00:35:38in that Ferrari
00:35:38and gets through
00:35:40by the skin of his teeth.
00:35:41Well, he's...
00:35:42Look at that.
00:35:42There he is
00:35:43across the grass.
00:35:44But he's in the gravel.
00:35:46Yeah, Paolo Ruperti
00:35:47is off there.
00:35:48He's in the gravel.
00:35:49And Darryl...
00:35:50But actually,
00:35:51that didn't look
00:35:52as if it was his fault.
00:35:53No.
00:35:53I don't think it was.
00:35:54It was the LMP2 car.
00:35:57Yes.
00:35:57He was in the submission.
00:35:58Straight across on him.
00:35:59Yes, he was having
00:36:00a monster dawdle
00:36:00and then a meander
00:36:01and I'm afraid...
00:36:03Mimzing of the most
00:36:05black flaggable order.
00:36:07Guess what I think
00:36:08is going to happen next.
00:36:10I think we're going
00:36:10to have a base car.
00:36:11Well, do you know what?
00:36:12I'm not sure.
00:36:14I would think
00:36:15you can drag that
00:36:16with a local yellow.
00:36:17It depends.
00:36:18Well, it's there already.
00:36:19Oh, it's there already.
00:36:21The snatch tractor
00:36:22is there,
00:36:23ready to snatch.
00:36:24Brilliant stuff.
00:36:26And Paolo Ruperti,
00:36:28not long on patience
00:36:30when he's been taken out
00:36:31in a situation like that,
00:36:32I would warrant.
00:36:34However,
00:36:34he has got a race
00:36:35to try and win
00:36:36so he will try
00:36:37and keep his bad temper
00:36:39for when he gets
00:36:40back to the pit lane later.
00:36:42In the AM class,
00:36:43it is still
00:36:44the Porsche
00:36:45of the Imsum Atmuk team
00:36:46that leads.
00:36:47Daryl Young second
00:36:48in that 55 Ferrari,
00:36:50Matt Griffin third
00:36:51in the 61 Ferrari.
00:36:52I did not see
00:36:53which Ferrari went by
00:36:55but it was either
00:36:5551 or 71.
00:36:57One's got a green stripe
00:36:58down a windscreen,
00:36:59one's got a blue one
00:37:00and I forget which.
00:37:02I think...
00:37:02And it's quite difficult
00:37:03to see it this time
00:37:04of night, Martin,
00:37:05isn't it?
00:37:05Well, the strip's
00:37:06very easy to see.
00:37:07I think the green strip
00:37:08is 51.
00:37:10Giancarlo Fisichella.
00:37:12Incident involving cars
00:37:1339 and 88
00:37:14under investigation.
00:37:16Yes.
00:37:18Well, the stewards
00:37:19will take a look at that
00:37:20and pronounce.
00:37:22And any investigation
00:37:23that involves contact
00:37:25will be...
00:37:25Any situation
00:37:27that involves contact
00:37:28will be investigated
00:37:29as a matter of course.
00:37:30Well, now you can see
00:37:31that he's got some damage
00:37:32to the front of that car.
00:37:33Not badly damaged.
00:37:34He's got it lit, though.
00:37:35Yeah.
00:37:36OK, it won't hold
00:37:38but he's trying
00:37:39to get it started.
00:37:41When he turns the key
00:37:42and, oh yes,
00:37:43when you buy one
00:37:44they give you
00:37:45the ignition key.
00:37:46When he turns the key
00:37:47it's all the lights
00:37:49are coming on
00:37:49but it's not catching
00:37:50just yet.
00:37:51Red hot racing engines
00:37:53often take a bit of patience
00:37:55to get them restarted.
00:37:58That looks a bit more...
00:38:00lively.
00:38:01Very easy to flood
00:38:02unfortunately.
00:38:03Now, of course,
00:38:04he's pointing the wrong way
00:38:05on a gravel area
00:38:07behind a barrier
00:38:07so he's now got to figure out
00:38:09or and be told
00:38:10you want to go straight
00:38:11on there, mate
00:38:12or back up
00:38:13and turn left
00:38:14or whatever it is.
00:38:15So, whatever you do
00:38:16do not go against
00:38:17the direction of travel
00:38:18or get stuck
00:38:19in the gravel again.
00:38:21Oh dear.
00:38:22Panic not over yet
00:38:24for the Porsche.
00:38:30Oh dear.
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00:38:48Indianapolis, one of the fastest corners on the circuit here at Le Mans, down into Arnage,
00:39:10one of the slowest and one of the easiest on which to make a mistake.
00:39:13We're in a battle here for position, the number two, Audi e-tron Quattro.
00:39:17This is our race leader, Leut Duval, putting a lap on the Toyota of, you've got to assume, Alexander Wurz there.
00:39:28And that is going to be a mighty step for him to get a lap lead over either of the two Toyotas that are chasing him in second and third place.
00:39:35Will be a very big step forward indeed.
00:39:39It is car number seven, according to my timing screen, which is Alexander Wurz in third place.
00:39:44In comes the number 39 car, which was a victim of its own making, I'm afraid, caused an incident as well after recovering from being off the track.
00:39:55Not much damage at the back of that car, but they will have to make sure that the modesty panel on the back remains intact.
00:40:02The rear body work clips, I'm sure, will be detached and a new piece put on.
00:40:06And then Roman Brandler, for Tis He, will be free to pop out again and get in somebody else's way.
00:40:15I'm afraid the stewards are probably going to summon the team manager fairly shortly.
00:40:19Not quite sure what sort of penalties there might be for mimzing.
00:40:23Damaged body work comes off.
00:40:28Quick check underneath to make sure that things like the protective bar at the back and gearbox casing and so on are A-OK.
00:40:35Rear lights are working.
00:40:38And see again, they're moving the panel by the wing there.
00:40:42And here comes the car that ran into the back of the very slow and randomly driven number 39 car.
00:40:55And Paolo Roberti, well, we saw for a while he had lights but no engine.
00:41:00Now he's got engine but no lights.
00:41:02Now he switches the lights back on.
00:41:03And of course, you know, after an impact like that, the one real Achilles heel of the 911 era of GT3 racer and GT2 racer for that matter before it is that all of the cooling is right behind the front body work.
00:41:18All the way around those front ducts, front vents, as you see him sprinkling gravel everywhere through, I mean, again, through no fault of his own.
00:41:26All the cooling is right there.
00:41:28So they will have to have a very good check of that because if they send him back out with a hole in the rad, then, you know, eight and a half miles to get back to the pit lane, it's entirely possible he might not make it.
00:41:42Wouldn't have enough for a cup of coffee.
00:41:44Proton, yeah, he certainly would.
00:41:46Not at the pressure that they have to run the systems at.
00:41:48If there's a leak, it doesn't just dribble out.
00:41:50It comes out like a flood.
00:41:51But the 88 car, the Proton car, has dropped, I'm afraid, from what was battle for fourth or fifth in class down to ninth or tenth.
00:42:02One of the mechanics went flying there.
00:42:04Yeah, knocked him for sixth, actually, as they whirled the thing round.
00:42:09It's just not having the best of runs, this car, is it?
00:42:12It's even running over its own team.
00:42:15Yeah.
00:42:19Off he goes.
00:42:20Indeed.
00:42:21Without a rear light.
00:42:23So, he'll be back.
00:42:25Don't worry, he'll be back.
00:42:26He will be back.
00:42:27Yeah.
00:42:28Yep.
00:42:31Especially since he's already on the naughty boy list anyway.
00:42:34Yes.
00:42:35His car, as we would have said in the old days, Nev, has been well and truly marked.
00:42:39Yes.
00:42:40I think.
00:42:41Headmaster study, I think.
00:42:42Yeah.
00:42:43There's a car behind him flashing,
00:42:44Oi, mate, you've forgotten to put your lights on.
00:42:46Oh, he's done it again.
00:42:47Oh, my Lord.
00:42:48And that is the second place Toyota.
00:42:50I think, you know, that somebody needs to have a word.
00:42:55Yes.
00:42:55Like...
00:42:56Right in front of the Toyota.
00:42:58Should you not perhaps look for another form of employment?
00:43:02Oh, you see, the problem is, he's not employed.
00:43:05It's not the team that has hired him, if we can put it that way.
00:43:15He is a gentleman driver, although a wealthy amateur might be slightly more to the case in
00:43:23in what we've seen from him so far.
00:43:25Very unfortunately, not only is he causing the team an awful lot of heartache,
00:43:30but he's almost had two other cars off the track.
00:43:35In fact, is this one of the cars?
00:43:38Talk amongst yourselves.
00:43:38I'm looking for a piece of paper.
00:43:40I said, we saw the cars just on Mulsarton there, and there was a lot of spray.
00:43:45Yes.
00:43:46So it could well be raining again over there, although it doesn't appear to be where we
00:43:51are, by the pit in road.
00:43:53I think we're all right here, but I think there is some rain over there.
00:43:58But we had this, actually, yesterday afternoon.
00:44:02I was sitting in the motorhome, and 150 yards up the road, it was raining.
00:44:08Simple as that.
00:44:09Yes, it's very localised.
00:44:11But luckily it wasn't filling your gin up, Nev.
00:44:13I mean, that would never have done that.
00:44:14I haven't got any gin.
00:44:16I'm terribly sorry.
00:44:17What?
00:44:18I haven't got any gin.
00:44:19What?
00:44:19It was his whisky.
00:44:21Whisky, yes.
00:44:22It was diluting the whisky.
00:44:23I will have you now.
00:44:25I only had one glass of white wine.
00:44:27Roman Brandler and Stefan Raffan are both in the number 39 car, are both rookies here
00:44:35at Le Mans.
00:44:36I think Roman Brandler might find it a little difficult to get an entry next year.
00:44:40And Loic Duval is going to be feeling very pleased that he pulled back a couple of seconds.
00:44:46I tell you what, Loic Duval's race engineer won't be feeling entirely pleased that he's still
00:44:50got to get round Roman Brandler.
00:44:52The 39 car is currently at the Mulsanne corner as our race leader comes down to the second
00:45:01chicane on the Mulsanne straight.
00:45:03Martin, just keep on talking about number 39.
00:45:06Oh, good call.
00:45:07And then he'll go for the first chicane.
00:45:08Yes, absolutely.
00:45:09But you see, the problem is, the flip side of that is every time he goes off, he takes
00:45:13somebody else off, either in the act or, you know, near after, or indeed in the retrieval
00:45:20afterwards, or the return from the pit lane afterwards, or at some stage anyway.
00:45:24So race leader now coming on to the fastest part of the circuit as he comes out of Mulsanne
00:45:30corner.
00:45:31He will start the run up to Indianapolis.
00:45:33In front of him is the car that for a long while was the leader in the GTE pro class.
00:45:37He flashes Fred Macavici as he goes by.
00:45:40That car is second and chasing Romain Dumas, who is 2 minutes 52 up the road in front of
00:45:46him.
00:45:50Leader now approaching maximum velocity.
00:45:54V1, V2 hit the brakes down inside the Boutin Gignon car, who just ventures a little bit
00:46:03off line to give him the room, but enough that he knew that the car was committed.
00:46:12And again, out of Arnage.
00:46:14Shall we turn the mics off and just have a little listen?
00:46:16Doesn't make a lot of noise.
00:46:17So...
00:47:09Smooth and rhythmical as you like.
00:47:11Luke De Waal, our race leader, using just enough kerb and no more in the Ford chicane
00:47:17and keeping everything very neatly under control in the Porsche curves.
00:47:23And substantially more noise from the onboard camera than you ever hear from the side of the road from this car.
00:47:30And that last lap we rode on board with 328.1.
00:47:35No wonder he looked so fast through the S's and another chance to, or through the Porsche curves,
00:47:42another chance to ride with him onto the Mulsanne Strait.
00:47:45Yes, I think he'd be very happy with that one.
00:47:47Five seconds quicker than the pursuing Toyota or Sebastian Bremi.
00:47:53And we can just see a little bit of grey in the sky to the east now.
00:48:00Which is as quick as anybody who's gone in a straight line.
00:48:03You see how much the Audi's lights pick out there in the darkness.
00:48:23We are getting ready for a driver change now.
00:48:26Slick's coming out, but with a 3.28.
00:48:34Yep.
00:48:35It's got to be dry.
00:48:36It's not for Leutte Duval.
00:48:37That is for the number one car.
00:48:40That is for the chasing car.
00:48:42The two-time winners here.
00:48:45André Lotterer brings the car down pit road.
00:48:49And who is going to take over?
00:48:54Marcel Fesler, Ben Trellier, André Lotterer.
00:48:58It's their third year together as a driver line-up.
00:49:01Two wins in succession.
00:49:03And then a crankshaft sensor problem on the car this year has dropped them right back down the order.
00:49:11New tyres getting ready.
00:49:13Windscreen has a full clean, full tank of gas.
00:49:16Driver out.
00:49:18Yes, out.
00:49:20He gets finally André Lotterer.
00:49:25Fueling is completed.
00:49:27Those two bottles, incidentally.
00:49:29One is drink.
00:49:31One is screen wash.
00:49:34Can you guess, boys and girls, why they're very, very different colours?
00:49:39Well, one tastes a little different to the other.
00:49:42I can't bear thinking about.
00:49:43Can't see where I'm going, but I know I'm going.
00:49:47Exactly.
00:49:49Exactly.
00:49:49Yes, that apparently is what they are.
00:49:51They've been using the same pressurized system for the last couple of years in the Audi.
00:49:55And Lidl.
00:49:57Okay, what are they adjusting here now?
00:49:59Okay, they're unscrewing something.
00:50:05Hand into an inspection panel.
00:50:08Adjusting something.
00:50:09Now, this would possibly be something like a roll bar adjustment or a suspension adjustment.
00:50:14In NASCAR terms, maybe a turn of wedge, but we don't, of course, have that kind of thing.
00:50:20Or are they reaching in to measure something, aren't they?
00:50:24Okay, now, this is a delay.
00:50:25The number one car seriously delayed already could well do without.
00:50:29You can see the inspection panel.
00:50:35It's not for an adjustment.
00:50:36It is for an inspection.
00:50:37It sort of looks like somebody's unscrewing the lid of something.
00:50:40Would that be a brake fluid reservoir, I wonder?
00:50:43Oil and water systems are under a lot of pressure.
00:50:46If they need topping up, you plug in a pressurized line like an airline.
00:50:50They're not happy.
00:50:50No.
00:50:51No, I'm thinking...
00:50:52They're not happy.
00:50:53They're going to put the car back in the garage.
00:50:55In the garage straight away.
00:50:57Boys, I'm thinking that's brakes.
00:51:01I don't know why I'm thinking that's brakes, because his lap times have been very, very decent indeed.
00:51:10But I don't know what else you would have under an inspection hatch that you would not expect to have to top up or adjust.
00:51:21And if it was suspension, wouldn't that be under the nose?
00:51:25Meanwhile, 42 is in, and this is the car that lies fourth in the LMP2 class.
00:51:32Mikhail Krum, currently at the wheel, sharing it with the two PlayStation Academy graduates.
00:51:38It's Lucas Odenyeth and Jan Mardenbrough.
00:51:44Mikhail Krum, highly experienced GT racer, especially in Japan.
00:51:49Spent most of his professional career racing in Japan in Formula Nippon and in Super GT.
00:51:55And long, long, long time, server of Nissan.
00:52:00And we should remember that Andre Lotterer spent a lot of his time, a lot of his career in Japan.
00:52:10Absolutely right.
00:52:11Many people have made their careers in Japan.
00:52:14Jeff Lees.
00:52:15Yes.
00:52:16In fact, another one in the historic race today.
00:52:18Anthony Reid, former Japanese Formula 3 champion, spent a lot of time in Japan.
00:52:21And it's a, ooh, dear.
00:52:25Ralph Furman.
00:52:25Ralph Furman.
00:52:26Yep.
00:52:27In fact, we were talking to Mikhail Krum at lunchtime on Thursday, and he was saying,
00:52:31I can't wait that they are sending Lucas Odenyeth to a Super GT race in Suzuka in July.
00:52:38He said, I can't wait to take him there.
00:52:40He's going to love it.
00:52:41A GT 300 car, 35 to 40 degrees cockpit temperatures.
00:52:47And Michael Krum was just smiling.
00:52:49He said, can't wait to take him there.
00:52:51Number one car's back out on track.
00:52:54What we need now is some indication as to what that might have been.
00:52:59I may have to go and have a look at the Twitter feed.
00:53:03Apparently, it's getting brighter in Ireland.
00:53:06Well, that's nice to know.
00:53:07There's some definite lightness in the sky here as well.
00:53:13The dawn is coming up.
00:53:15Yeah.
00:53:15But it is so cloudy that it's nowhere like as light as it usually is.
00:53:26We have a yellow flag at post 76.
00:53:30Who have you been talking about, Martin?
00:53:31Yes.
00:53:32Who have you been talking?
00:53:33We've got another yellow flag up, Martin.
00:53:35Now, what have you done now?
00:53:36Not me.
00:53:36That's not my chicane.
00:53:38Post 76 is Mulsar on corner.
00:53:40It wasn't me.
00:53:41It's car 93.
00:53:42It's in the gravel truck.
00:53:46Well, that is one of our two Vipers.
00:53:49Jonathan Bomarito, Kuno Vitmer.
00:53:52And they are the two rookies in the car.
00:53:55So, the SRT boys will hope that it comes back.
00:54:01Tommy Kendall, the third driver in that car.
00:54:03Who is in it?
00:54:04That's getting the front off the Porsche, and you recall a little bit earlier on.
00:54:08Oh, it's Tommy Kendall in the gravel.
00:54:08Martin, you were telling us that the cooling and everything else was at the front of that car.
00:54:13You can see the accident bar at the front has been bent as well.
00:54:17There's a lot of rebuilding going on.
00:54:19I'm afraid their chances of a podium in class have been ruined by the driver of the number 39 car.
00:54:24Yeah.
00:54:25There's a lot of building on the road, two Vipers, with 208 tours.
00:54:34There's a difference with the Toyota number 8.
00:54:38There's a lot of building on the road.
00:54:39There's a lot of building on the road.
00:54:43Well, apologies for that.
00:55:05We managed to drop into an advertising break just as the leader came in for regular service.
00:55:10But no major dramas there, so back out he goes.
00:55:14Just a clean screen and a full tank of Super Unleaded.
00:55:18And away goes Lloyd Duval in the number two Audi.
00:55:21Otherwise undiminished in his attentions to the leader this race.
00:55:26He's a bit worried about the Super Unleaded that went in because it's diesel.
00:55:31He might have a little bit of a problem around the laps.
00:55:34All right, Super Diesel.
00:55:36Pedants.
00:55:38In for me, in for me.
00:55:40Ah, reportedly a pedal adjustment for the number one car.
00:55:45Well, probably not a throttle pedal, I'm guessing.
00:55:53Daily Sports Car tweeting,
00:55:55Audi number one back in the box.
00:55:56DKR team, take note.
00:55:58No mechanics were skittled in the making of this repair.
00:56:04Indeed.
00:56:06Indeed.
00:56:06Indeed.
00:56:10So, Audi number one's official tweet says,
00:56:14Andre Lotcher brings the number one in full service.
00:56:16Benoit goes in the number one.
00:56:18Yeah, and that bit where you stuck your hand down inside it?
00:56:21No official reply to that, I'm afraid.
00:56:23So, was it me or did we see that Aston in fairly recently?
00:56:38I think we saw that Aston in fairly recently.
00:56:39I think he's made a bit of an unscheduled stop there.
00:56:43Yeah, I don't think he's a very happy man.
00:56:46Which one?
00:56:47The Aston Martin there.
00:56:48Yes, which one?
00:56:48Uh, we think it's number 98.
00:56:54Uh, no.
00:56:56Yeah, no.
00:56:56I thought it was 98.
00:56:58No, that's Fred Mako.
00:56:59That's the 99 car that was, and is, still in second place in the GTE Pro class.
00:57:07Stefan Mooker has just left the pit lane.
00:57:11Now, he's in the Golf Golf colored one.
00:57:13Yes.
00:57:14Mako is in the day-to-night-to-night-to-day dark blue, light blue one, the art car.
00:57:20There are your class leaders.
00:57:22Yeah.
00:57:23Number two Audi, number 35 Morgan Nissan, currently being driven by Martin Plowman, still in the lead of LMP2.
00:57:29And, uh, Loic Duval showing no sign at all of getting out in the number two Audi.
00:57:33Uh, green, it's Porsche leading the GTE Pro class.
00:57:37Roman Dumas in that one.
00:57:38And the orange car, and again, Porsche leading in the GTE Am class.
00:57:43Of course, Aston Martin on the front of both those classes in qualifying, giving chase at the moment.
00:57:49But the best Aston in GTE Am is one, two, three, four, fifth place.
00:57:55The Stuart Hall, Jamie Campbell, Walter, Royal Goethe Golf car.
00:57:58Which is the newest car in the Roald Goethe's all-golf collection, by the way.
00:58:03The one that he himself is driving this year at Le Mans.
00:58:07And there is our art car in front of us.
00:58:10Second in class.
00:58:11And the 92 Porsche would be...
00:58:17Uh...
00:58:18The class leader.
00:58:22Has he just put a lap on the Aston?
00:58:24I think he has, yeah.
00:58:25He has just put a lap on the second-placed Aston.
00:58:28Yeah.
00:58:29Wow.
00:58:29Because he had it down the straight there, didn't he?
00:58:32Oh, yeah.
00:58:33And, wow.
00:58:34With the dawn, we get the rain again.
00:58:40It's now raining outside our studio.
00:58:43Now, there is another...
00:58:44It is indeed.
00:58:45There is another Aston Payton Lee right in front.
00:58:47Which one is this?
00:58:48Uh, green board.
00:58:50So, that's another GTE.
00:58:52So, that's Stefan Mucca in the 97 that had just come out of the pits.
00:58:58So, the Porsche is steaming by both of the Astons that are also in podium positions.
00:59:05He has lapped second, or put a lap on second and third in the GTE Pro class.
00:59:13This from a car that, after qualifying, looked, frankly, in quite a lot of trouble in terms of pace.
00:59:21And was not in the lead trio that was separated from the rest of the field by the original safety car.
00:59:29So, they have jumped from the peloton into the lead group and gone to the front.
00:59:35And, it now seems, put a lap on everybody else.
00:59:38Meanwhile, puncture for the SRT motorsports car of Tommy Kendall.
00:59:42That is the SRT Viper GTSR.
00:59:45So, he has got out of the gravel at Mulsanne with a flat.
00:59:50Now, generally speaking, being in a gravel trap doesn't give you a flat.
00:59:55However, the converse is true.
00:59:57Being, having a flat often does put you in the gravel.
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