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00:00Yes, and I would have said that Tommy Kendall was an unlikely visitor, normally an unlikely visitor to the gravel trap.
00:10Yes. Ooh, lots of curb there for the Porsche. See how much drier it looks online, how much lighter it looks online.
00:16And also, as he headed towards our camera position here, how much lighter it looked outdoors.
00:22You're absolutely right. Dawn's roseate fingers are finally making their appearance.
00:26Service for Sebastian Buemi. Door open on the driver's side. Now, is that for a drinky thingies or is Seb going to get out?
00:35No, I'm not sure that he is at the moment. We don't see any tyres out on the apron. We wouldn't necessarily have to.
00:43No, door shut. Swiss still inside. So Buemi stays in.
00:49Two red lights, second in class. And the red lights mean that is the LMP1 class.
00:59Following an Audi down pit road.
01:01And that is Marc Genet, who is fourth in class.
01:11And they are followed in by the Jota car. So that has come in from... They are now third. They are third.
01:22Yes, Lucas Lewis, still third in the LMP2 class.
01:29I'm telling you what, Sam Hignett's team. Very small team from Kent. Single car operation.
01:35Really, really having a good time here. And Olivier Platt, second in LMP2. Also on pit road.
01:42So second and third place in the class on pit road.
01:48Platt goes out. That's him in front with a little red... Purple? What's the word I'm looking for? Pink. Thank you.
01:55Highlights on his Oak Morgan roll hoops. And out behind him. What's that?
02:0115 seconds, maybe? 20, let's say, tops for Lucas Loura.
02:06Still third in class as Buemi whistles a P1 Audi.
02:09And whistle is the right word for them, isn't it?
02:14Not whales or howls. Yeah.
02:18Have I mentioned car 97 recently? Because guess what, boys and girls?
02:23And guess where as well? It is the Stefan Mooker, Aston Martin.
02:28And Paul up 42, so...
02:30Yep, 42, first chicane.
02:34Is it raining there also?
02:36Drizzling.
02:37Our window has dried up again now.
02:40Very briefly, it was spitting and spotting, and now it ain't.
02:43And this camera shows no sign of spits and spots.
02:45As in comes...
02:46The second Imsum Atmak Porsche.
02:49Now, this is the sister car of our AM leader.
02:52That's 3, 4, 5, 6, 7th place in class.
02:56Woo!
02:57Wolf Hensler stays in place as the camera gets shoved out of the way.
03:00And the AM class car of Stuart Hall, which is two cars in front of it, and a...
03:09Ooh!
03:10And only 40-odd seconds in front of it on the road.
03:15So, this is not a direct battle for position.
03:20They're separated.
03:22Oh, no, no, no, they're not separated.
03:23This is a battle for position.
03:26Hensler was behind Hall's Aston coming in.
03:29Who comes out first?
03:33Stay left, stay left, stay left, stay left, stay left, stay left, stay left, stay left, stay left.
03:38Stay there, stay there.
03:39Porsche ahead of Aston.
03:40Position change in the pit road.
03:42The Porsche has gone in front.
03:45And Wolf Hensler...
03:47In front of...
03:50In fact, it looks like Julian Canal in the number 50 Chevrolet Corvette has got between them.
03:56In fact, he has, there he is, right between them.
03:59Now, did we see a driver change?
04:01It's now saying that Roel Goethe is at the wheel of that Golf Aston.
04:07Wet and very wet tyres being kept by Michelin.
04:12I think those are all wets.
04:16Darrell O'Young, you saw him there.
04:18Currently lying second in the GTE AM class.
04:22Despite that spin when...
04:24Despite me talking about him, yes.
04:29I'm not going to live that down.
04:32He's had such an unlucky season in World Touring Car Championship.
04:36I am starting to wonder.
04:39I think we'll have to have a chat with him over you.
04:42Sam Bird has already tweeted earlier on,
04:44because of my unbelievable and long-running jinxing of him,
04:47that he will never come to Le Mans.
04:50Wisely so.
04:51Martin Brundle tweets, sensational job from Alex Brundle to pull the 24-0 Nissan back into lead of LMP2 in very tough conditions.
05:01Very proud dad.
05:02Rightly so, Martin.
05:03Spot on.
05:04While you're here, Martin, you set Neville and I a task yesterday morning.
05:14Oh, yes.
05:14Yes.
05:15And I just happen to have...
05:18Are you a day late and a dollar short?
05:21Well...
05:21You're not quite, because it was in daylight hours yesterday morning.
05:26Yes.
05:26You've got three hours to get this answer out before you fall shy.
05:30Well, I can do that, courtesy of our old friend Quentin Spurring.
05:35Ah.
05:35Go ahead.
05:36Who writes...
05:37Who's written a series of books, the official history of Le Mans.
05:42And I just happened to have in the boot of my car the 1960 to 1969 version.
05:50And you asked us...
05:51Well, this all started when I was tyre kicking in the historic paddock and for the Legends race.
05:59And I saw this rather nice Austin Healey 3000.
06:02And because Jeremy Shaw, who I was with, is a bit of an Austin Healey owner, we went over to have a little mooch.
06:07And it had a board beside it with details about the car, when it was built, its heritage, who owned it and so on, and all its race and rally entries.
06:15This was DD300, wasn't it?
06:17And this was a 106, which is a one-off car, with a three-litre nose.
06:23And it was essentially a big Healey that was built as a race and rally recce car.
06:29It was then driven by the chairman, by which I assume it's Donald Healey, as his personal car.
06:35And then was pressed into servicing competition.
06:38Nice, neat service for the 99 Aston.
06:40And it is in second place in the GTE Pro class.
06:45And the thing that really caught my attention was the 1961 Le Mans entry.
06:51He said, 1961, Le Mans, black flagged at start.
06:55Yes.
06:56Well, and no further details.
06:58I thought, what on earth could you have done, other than maybe run over the president of the ACO's toes on the way out of the pit lane,
07:07that would cause you to be black flagged at the start?
07:10And Chris is looking through the book because he has the answer.
07:14But we may not get time to get to it before the next break.
07:18Well, then, if we don't...
07:19We'll leave it as a cliffhanger.
07:21Absolutely.
07:22Absolutely.
07:22So, in a few moments, we will reveal...
07:25All will be revealed.
07:26What are we now, 42 years, 52 years later, why this 1961 Austin Healey was black flagged at the start?
07:36Not failed to start, not banned from starting, not thrown out after qualifying or scrutineering,
07:43but black flagged at the start.
07:46It sounds, to me, almost like one of those where a Formula One driver who hadn't qualified
07:52sneaked out onto the back of the grid in the hope that nobody would notice,
07:55and nobody did for about seven laps, and then he got black flagged.
08:00No names, no pack drills.
08:01Tommy Kendall back in, in the...
08:04Oh, no, that's not us, Ryan DL, in the 53 SRT Viper,
08:08because the 93 car, Tommy Kendall, has brought it in,
08:12and Kuno Wittmer is now at the wheel of that, having just gone back out.
08:17In is the number 50 Pro-Am, GTE Am, Lava Competition Viper,
08:24which I cannot find.
08:25Yes, I can now.
08:26He's one, two, three, four, five, six, seventh in class.
08:31And the Viper heads off.
08:33These SRT guys, desperate to try and make both these cars last the distance
08:39and run to the chequered flag on their first race at Le Mans.
08:53Thank you, guys.
08:54Thank you, guys.
08:54Thank you, guys.
09:03Thank you, guys.
09:33Thank you, guys.
10:03And just before the break, we recovered or went back to the task I set,
10:12Neville Hay and Chris Parsons, yesterday morning in morning warm-up,
10:16before the historic race, talking about an Austin Healey that was in the race,
10:20which was originally Donald Healey's private car,
10:23and then personal car, and was then used as a race car
10:26and a rally recce car for the big Healey's.
10:29And what mystified me was that on its entry list of all the races and events it had done,
10:341961 Le Mans black-flagged at start.
10:38That was the only line on it.
10:40No further explanation.
10:42And I was saying, what on earth could they have done
10:45that would cause them to be black-flagged at the start?
10:47And, Chris, you think you have the answer, and I think you probably do, too.
10:52Right.
10:52There were two Austin Healey 3000s in the 1961 race,
10:59and the second one was entered by Cambridge Racing,
11:04and it was a reserve, and it did no laps.
11:10So, I guess they tried to get it to the start,
11:14and they were told, sorry, you're on the reserve list,
11:18you're black-flagged, you can't start.
11:20That sounds very likely.
11:22So, the other car is pictured in Quentin's book,
11:27but, again, I'm afraid it started the race,
11:31didn't finish, but it did do 254 laps.
11:35Yeah, it did actually three Le Mans, that car,
11:38and it finished the last one, if I remember rightly,
11:40in about 11th place in 1962.
11:44Yes.
11:44Another interesting thing...
11:46Don't tempt me to turn over the pages to the next year.
11:49No, no, no, no, I won't tempt you,
11:51because you wouldn't find the answer for that in here.
11:53But, talking of Healey's,
11:57I found out the other day that they actually made,
12:00I think it was 5600s Austin Healey's,
12:03of which there are 41 left.
12:06Not a bad number.
12:07Not a bad number, is it?
12:08No, not a bad number.
12:09Sorry, I was doing something else there.
12:11How many made, of which there are how many left?
12:1441 out of 56.
12:15I thought I'd misheard you,
12:17though there were 41 made, of which there are 56 left.
12:20No, that was Jaguar.
12:21That's much more likely to be the case.
12:24Certain number of cars.
12:26And who knows how many Porsche 962s there are.
12:30Yes.
12:30There were a lot of plastic ones in the end, weren't there?
12:37There were a lot of plastic ones.
12:39I mean, it is one of the most hilariously funny things
12:42that you can ever get involved in.
12:43Because, of course, one of the things that does happen,
12:46and there's no question about this,
12:48that the identification of old cars
12:55is spoiled by the fact that
12:57in those long past days
12:59when one was going from one country to another,
13:02one had to have what was known as a carnet.
13:05And on the carnet,
13:07the numbers had to match.
13:10So,
13:11certain cars were made
13:12with
13:13plates
13:16with their number on,
13:17and they could be swapped between one car and another
13:20so that
13:20the name
13:21and the number
13:22on your carnet
13:23was exactly the same
13:25as the particular
13:26250F Maserati
13:28you had out that day.
13:31Very cool.
13:32There were a lot of fun and games in those days.
13:34A lot of fun and games.
13:35It wasn't funny, actually.
13:37Having had
13:38quite a lot of equipment
13:39to come in and out
13:40of various countries,
13:42you could find yourself
13:43held up in customs
13:45for
13:45one, two, three hours
13:47while
13:47they messed around
13:49looking for
13:49the plate
13:50and the number
13:51on something or other
13:52and checking everything meticulously.
13:53Oh, I remember
13:54when
13:54when cars used to go in
13:56and out of Spain
13:57it used to take days.
13:59Well, this was one of the problems
14:00and I do recall once
14:01being forced
14:02to miss a ferry
14:03by some
14:05officious gentleman
14:06and the same gentleman
14:08was there
14:08when I came back
14:09but
14:09this time
14:10he got properly scowled
14:11and
14:12sent him to the corner
14:13but
14:15it wasn't fun.
14:16Well,
14:16changes
14:16driver here
14:18with Olivier Barretta
14:19strapping in
14:21Kamui Kobayashi
14:22into
14:25where are they?
14:27I'm losing count now.
14:28GTE Pro Class
14:29let's have a quick look at that
14:30since this is one of those.
14:31Richard Leeds
14:31leads in the Porsche
14:32so he's only just
14:33taken that over.
14:34Bruno Senna
14:34second in the 99 Aston Martin
14:36Stefan Mooker
14:37third
14:37in the 97 Aston Martin
14:40fourth
14:41Patrick Pille in the Porsche
14:42who's just left
14:42the pit lane
14:43fifth
14:44Giancarlo Fisichella
14:45in the 51 Ferrari
14:47who's just left
14:48the pit lane
14:48and sixth in the class
14:50the 71 Ferrari
14:51which Olivier Barretta
14:53has just handed over
14:54two
14:56change
14:58please
14:58change
14:59I'm afraid
15:00I didn't recognise
15:01the helmet
15:01I'm not sure
15:02if that was
15:02Kamui Kobayashi
15:04or
15:04Tony Vielander
15:07Tony Vielander
15:08it was
15:09I should have recognised
15:10it wasn't Kobayashi's helmet
15:11but I'm afraid
15:12I didn't play an awful lot
15:13of attention to Formula 1
15:14so I didn't
15:16so anyway
15:17lots of very close battles
15:19going on in the GTE Pro Class
15:21and we've only just got
15:22over nine and a quarter
15:23or under nine and a quarter
15:24hours to sort it out
15:25so
15:25it's a little more than
15:27you know
15:28a thousand and a half
15:30kilometre race
15:31maybe five Grand Prixs
15:32yeah
15:33five or six
15:35anyway
15:35a thousand kilometres
15:37is sort of getting on
15:38for a six hour race
15:39isn't it
15:39so we've got
15:40a thousand kilometre race
15:41and a 500 kilometre race
15:42yeah
15:43there's quite a lot
15:44still to go
15:44well two hours 45
15:49in American Le Mans race
15:50there's quite a few of those
15:51left in nine hours
15:52isn't there
15:53most of a season
15:54in fact
15:54half a season at least
15:57there's still a bit of a sheen
15:59on the road
16:00isn't there
16:00yes
16:01you just look at it
16:02and think
16:02well I don't know
16:03whether that's completely dry
16:04and indeed it is right up
16:05against the pit wall
16:07there you can see
16:07there's a
16:08there is a line
16:09there's not much of a breeze
16:11it's fairly still
16:12there's a lot of cloud cover
16:14it's been fairly humid
16:15all week
16:16so it's not going to dry
16:17that fast
16:18and as you can see
16:20from those spectators
16:21it's
16:22they're not going to dry out
16:23in a hurry
16:23it's quite chilly out
16:26there's no question about
16:27that when I came into the box
16:28a few hours ago now
16:30it was really cold
16:33in fact I brought the thicker
16:34of my anorax
16:35would have put on
16:36when I went back again
16:36yes
16:37I bet his legs are cold
16:39sitting there
16:39waving him in the breeze
16:41listen
16:41I made a little point earlier
16:42I was saying
16:43Michael Crum was really
16:44looking forward to taking
16:45Lucas Ordinez to Japan
16:46to a searing hot Suzuka
16:48and sticking him in a GT300 car
16:50and seeing how he got on
16:51in 40 degree heat
16:52of course that's 40 degrees outside
16:54so substantially hotter inside
16:58and on Twitter
17:00Anthony Thomas saying
17:01are you saying
17:01FIA GT3 cars
17:03are cooler inside
17:04than the GT300 cars
17:06I'm saying
17:06absolutely they are
17:08here at Le Mans
17:09GTE cars
17:10Pro and Am class
17:11must be cooler
17:13they have a maximum
17:14cockpit temperature
17:15which is monitored
17:16by the ACO
17:17and enforced
17:17by drive-throughs
17:19so they have air conditioning
17:20slightly more
17:22cogent point there
17:24is of course
17:25that Lucas Ordinez
17:25drives open prototypes
17:27so any kind of closed car
17:29is going to be
17:29considerably hotter
17:30than what he is used to
17:31but Michael Crum was just
17:33basically looking forward
17:35to him wilting
17:36and flaking
17:37and feeling rather second hand
17:39after the end of it
17:4051
17:41the better
17:42oh 61
17:43I beg your pardon
17:43I can't read properly
17:44must give these eyes
17:46back to the dog
17:4661 in third place
17:49in the GT Pro class
17:50Matt Griffin
17:51at the wheel of that car
17:52stays in
17:53chasing Darryl O'Young
17:5513 seconds between them
17:58as he came down pit road
17:59so there's a good battle
18:00on for second place
18:01behind Raymond Narak's Porsche
18:03which leads
18:05in the GTE Am class
18:07it has been rather curious
18:09this year
18:10that Le Mans
18:11having come a good deal
18:12later than it often is
18:13we've had such
18:14shall we say
18:15spiteful weather
18:16and so cold
18:17it's a week later
18:18and apparently
18:19last weekend
18:20the weather was
18:21absolutely gorgeous
18:22well you know
18:24when do you not
18:25go on holiday
18:25and say
18:26oh you should have
18:27been here last week
18:28thank you
18:29of course
18:30if we had been here
18:31last week
18:32not only would have
18:32had gorgeous weather
18:33but on Thursday
18:34I'd have been at
18:35Bruce Springsteen
18:36instead of here
18:36watching qualifying
18:37tough call to make
18:38very tough
18:39because I put my
18:41Springsteen tickets
18:42long before the ACO
18:43decided they'd slide
18:44the race another week
18:45further back into the month
18:46wretches
18:47however there we go
18:49out comes Matt
18:50Griffin then
18:50and out behind him
18:52comes the number
18:5370 Corvette
18:54and I'm going
18:57temporarily
18:57screen blind
18:59I can't see that
19:00on my
19:01Am class
19:02what number 70
19:02Corvette
19:03well that's
19:04it's a very long
19:05way back
19:06which means I'm
19:06going to have to
19:07flick a screen
19:08you're going to have
19:08to flick a switch
19:09I am going to have
19:10to flick a screen
19:10it's just a car
19:11that had a big
19:12problem
19:12it had a fire
19:13it had all sorts
19:15of strange things
19:15it went off
19:16into the kitty litter
19:18you name it
19:19it happened
19:19and it is currently
19:21the last running car
19:24in 49th place
19:25there you are
19:26talking of
19:27talking of fire
19:29at Neville
19:30Loic Duval's on fire
19:33as well
19:34his last lap
19:36was a 29.9
19:38I think the one
19:39before that
19:40was 26
19:41so he's really
19:43stepping on it
19:43and he's
19:44he's
19:45going away
19:46from the
19:47Toyotas again
19:48yeah I wonder
19:50whether or not
19:53it is
19:54known
19:55it has happened
19:57that the
19:58Audis sometimes
19:59perform a major
20:01service
20:01don't they
20:02at around about
20:03oh I don't know
20:046, 7 o'clock
20:05in the morning
20:06where they
20:06check everything
20:07out and have a go
20:08again
20:08only as strictly
20:09necessary
20:10only as strictly
20:11necessary
20:11everything is
20:12being constantly
20:13checked by
20:14if I was talking
20:15to one of the teams
20:16about telemetry
20:17and radios
20:18because I mean
20:18habitually radios
20:19were always a bit
20:20of a curse
20:21you'd sort of
20:21lose people
20:22at the first chicane
20:23and get them back
20:24at the Porsche curves
20:24and in between
20:25there was lots
20:26of static
20:27and I was saying
20:28you know
20:28do you get the
20:29telemetry all in one
20:30burst as he comes
20:31past the line
20:31or is it actually
20:32a continuous flow
20:33he said no
20:33pretty much
20:34a continuous flow
20:35you lose them
20:36for a few seconds
20:37around Mulsanne
20:38because that's
20:38the furthest point
20:39from the pits
20:40but other than that
20:41radio's generally good
20:43all the way around
20:43and telemetry now
20:44real time
20:45all the way around
20:46so they are
20:47so they can tell a driver
20:49instantly
20:50if they see a tyre
20:51warning light come on
20:52or an oil warning light
20:54or something come on
20:54on their bank
20:55of data monitors
20:56they can warn him
20:57instantly
20:57probably long before
20:58he knows
20:59that something's
21:00going wrong
21:00the HRG
21:01and there's supposed
21:03to be one running
21:04actually in a historic race
21:05they were the first team
21:07to try radio
21:08here at Le Mans
21:09and one of the drivers
21:11incidentally
21:11was a man called
21:12Robin Richards
21:12who was a well-known
21:13BBC commentator
21:14with an outside
21:16sense of humour
21:17that was
21:18one of the most
21:19fantastic people
21:20to work with
21:20you'd never stop laughing
21:21if you worked with
21:22Robin Richards
21:22he was a very funny man
21:24Raymond Narrag
21:25in for service
21:26this is the leader
21:27in GTM
21:28although there do seem
21:29to be rather more
21:30than one light
21:30illuminated on the
21:31side of his car
21:32which means
21:33have Daryl O'Young
21:35and Matt Griffin
21:35gone by him
21:37has Narrag stopped
21:38has he lost the lead
21:39and dropped to third
21:40in class
21:41all will be revealed
21:42after this break
21:44what does he Advanced
21:46does he tricky
21:48to keep blowing
21:49the road
21:49and he wasn't
21:50able to ride
21:50out of his car
21:51at any time
21:53but사를
21:53don't think
21:53or at any time
21:54as he slowly
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21:58coo
21:59.
21:59.
22:00.
22:00.
22:00sufficient
22:01,
22:02.
22:03.
22:03.
22:05.
22:05.
22:06.
22:06.
22:07Oh, my God.
22:37Oh, my God.
23:07Oh, my God.
23:37tons of Wayne Taylor. Ricky, his brother, is also racing here. Ricky Taylor in the number
23:4350 Labra Competition Corvette. Jordan Ng, one of the factory cars he shares with Antonio
23:49Garcia and Jan Magnussen. So, in amongst the established hot shoes at Corvette, and this
23:56car is currently, let's see if we can work this out, one, two, three, four, five, six,
24:01seven, eighth in the GTE Pro class. Team-mate Oliver Gavin in the 74 is seventh in the GTE
24:08Pro class. We said, actually, Martin, that it's been odd this year. The Corvettes have
24:12not been as competitive as they very often are. They make just the same noises, but for
24:17some reason or other, they just don't seem to be quite old. Why? Well, one of the things
24:21that they discovered after practice and qualifying is that they clearly did not know enough about
24:28the new compound Michelin tyre, which is being used for this year. Now, all the other teams
24:34had these tyres available for pre-Le Mans testing in the Spa six hours. So, all the European
24:40teams that raced in the World Endurance Championship came to the Spa six hours. Michelin brought the
24:45new tyres that were going to be used at Le Mans. And Chevrolet discovered them in the
24:50test weekend, which was wet, and then in free practice and qualifying, which was partially
24:57wet, partially nasty, and frequently red flagged. So, they found themselves struggling, despite
25:04the computer simulations they might have had tied in with the Michelin data, to actually
25:08correlate what they should have got and what they were getting and then what that meant.
25:14And then to set up the car for a tyre which they'd never actually physically had on the car
25:19before. So, they feel that there's six hours and a lot of development work behind their rivals
25:25in the GTE class. And that is the Jota car. Third in the LMP2 class, Lucas Lua has gone off on, I'm going to say, the exit of Indianapolis, the slow
25:36left, and has gone around the gravel and found terra firma and rejoins. And I'm hoping that that is a-okay. That's not Indianapolis then.
25:47That's coming down to Tetr Rouge. Yeah, so that's the end of the S's. He's got a problem, hasn't he, of some sort or other. It looks to me that it's a little bit down on the... It's limping. Yeah. Has he got a puncture? Lucas Lua is not in the habit of tubbing cars into the gravel. I'd say, I should say...
26:04Judging by the speed he's going. He's offside rear tyre. No, it's front. I think it's front. Well, we'll have a look, yeah. I think the front is down. Look, have a look as he goes, as he goes around to the right there.
26:15Well, certainly the right seems to be down. Oh dear, I think he's got a bit of a left side deflation, hasn't he? Yeah. I think it's all too much for him. Well, that's all too much for all three of them, that's why I think.
26:27Well, why not? I mean, and actually somebody asked on Twitter earlier on, when do the mechanics change their shift?
26:34I beg your pardon? Oh, no. Oh, no, no, no, no. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. How very no.
26:40No, they arrive at 6 o'clock on race morning on Saturday and they go home, if they're lucky, at 6pm on Sunday.
26:48So it's a proper 36-hour race. And, of course, when that starts, you would have hoped that you didn't spend all of Friday
26:55rebuilding a car that was wrecked on Thursday, as quite a number of teams have.
27:00Quite a number of teams will have done an all-nighter Thursday, worked all Friday, or done work all Friday, pull an all-nighter Friday night in preparation for a 36-hour day on Saturday.
27:11So they snooze between pit stops and they hope that when they wave the car away, it jolly well does not come back in two more laps.
27:19Well, that's the way it used to be in Formula One now. I mean, you can't work too much overtime.
27:27Well, now, Formula One, it may have escaped you, although their races do seem like they go on all day and all night.
27:33Don't go on all day and all night. There is no need to sleep in the middle of a Formula One race.
27:37No.
27:38And you're not allowed to pull an all-nighter because they close the pits.
27:42That's what I'm saying. They do all this.
27:43Indeed.
27:44The other thing, of course, is that it's a very different ball game now to that which it was, you know, about years ago.
27:50What is? Football?
27:51No. If you actually have a problem with the engine, you don't repair it, you change it.
27:56Well, in fact, you can't do that in Formula One now.
27:58No, indeed. Or here.
27:59If you have a problem with the engine, you pack up and go home.
28:02Yeah.
28:02That's one of the few things you can't change. If you have a problem with the engine, you go home.
28:07And again, the drinks bottle and the screen wash bottle being changed.
28:11So, still lapping in the 330s.
28:16Ah, car three straight on at Marshall's Post 61.
28:20That's the second chicane, as we see the number one car leaving successfully.
28:25That is Marc Janais in number three.
28:28Yes.
28:30Chasing Alexander Wurz for third place.
28:34So, the recovering delayed number three Audi.
28:38And I'm going to say Oli Turvey. I don't mean that, do I?
28:43No.
28:44No, I don't. I mean, Oli Jarvis. Too many Oli's.
28:47See, one is enough. Two, one too many.
28:50No disrespect to I, because they're both doing a good job.
28:52Oli Jarvis doing a really good job in that number three car during the night.
28:56And handing it over at Dawn's first light to Marc Janais.
29:01Janais just going straight on.
29:02And that happens occasionally.
29:03And again, entirely likely to have been in traffic, just finding the gap he was going for, meandered into and having to straight line the chicane.
29:13That's why they have a runoff area, or the road, as it's normally called, in the other 51 weeks of the year.
29:20Because as you sit here, passing the restaurant to your left, this is a route in Asiel.
29:24This is a road from Le Mans to Tour.
29:27And these bits here don't get used for 51 weeks.
29:31This bit here gets used all 52.
29:33By lorries that cut grooves in it when it gets very hot.
29:41Well, they do.
29:42And as in any road, in fact, even on any motorway, yeah, the trucks are all of a certain axle width and, obviously, a fairly prodigious weight.
29:51And they compress the tarmac into fairly noticeable channels.
29:56So what happens when it rains?
29:58Of course, those fill up with water.
30:00Whoa!
30:01And that's another one off.
30:03And is that the same place?
30:06Not the same car.
30:08It's the KCMG car, fairly predictably.
30:11But, yeah, same place.
30:12Is it slippery there?
30:16Is it drizzling there?
30:18Leaders in?
30:19Yeah, number two car.
30:21Just under nine hours to go.
30:24There's still an enormous amount of running still to be done.
30:28Change the bottles.
30:29Drinks, fine.
30:31I can't be bothered to find that.
30:33One of them is a drink and the other one isn't.
30:35And we know that.
30:36And they know that.
30:37And they know which is which.
30:38And we don't have to.
30:38But they are.
30:40The drinks bottles are a special design.
30:43They are.
30:44My progressive motorsport at Banbury.
30:46I know.
30:46And if I could be bothered to look back for the tweet, I could tell you that the blue
30:50one is one and the silver one is the other.
30:53But I can't.
30:54So there.
30:55So there.
30:56In fact, we're talking to the doctor who puts all their drinks together.
31:02It's mainly sugar.
31:03So sugar and water.
31:05Yeah, mainly.
31:07Not exclusively.
31:08I mean, it is much more sophisticated than that.
31:10But, yeah, mainly sugar and water.
31:11So the Audi leads still, number two Audi from the two Toyotas, second and third, a lap back,
31:19a lap behind them, the number three Audi.
31:21And then seven and ten laps back, the two Rebellion Lola Coupes with their Toyota engines.
31:26And on the same lap as the 12 is the 21 car, the remaining car, or the Stracker car, rather,
31:31and the head of the remaining Audi, which is a further lap back from them.
31:36And, in fact, the battle between Neil Yarny and Johnny Kane is under a minute for seventh place.
31:44How times change now.
31:46I was thinking when you were talking about that, that in the days of Aston Martin and John Wyre,
31:50the wives did the food.
31:55Well, now the wives get to eat most of the food.
31:58The wives are fed pasta and chicken and pasta.
32:02Yeah.
32:02GTE Pro leader, still Richard Leitz's Porsche from the Aston Martins of, currently, Bruno Senna and Stefan Mucca.
32:10Porsche, Patrick Pille in fourth.
32:12Giancarlo Fissichella and Tony Wielander in, of course, the Ferrari's fifth and sixth.
32:16And in the AM class, Raymond Narak's Porsche still out front.
32:19The Porsche's going on there.
32:20Head of the Ferrari's of Darrell O'Young and Matt Griffin.
32:22So despite what his indicator light said on the side of his car as he left the pit lane,
32:26it seems that Raymond Narak is still in front of Darrell O'Young and Matt Griffin,
32:31who are 55 seconds apart, but not on the same lap as the leader.
32:37And I will go to my little map.
32:39Yeah.
32:40And see if I can find out how far apart they were.
32:43They were about a chicane.
32:45Ah, well, Darrell O'Young is currently in the Porsche curves,
32:49and coming down to our Nage is the 76 car of Raymond Narak.
32:53And I can tell you that because it's a fact.
32:56There's the Jota Sport car.
32:59Finally made it back to the pits.
33:01So they will fuel it first rather than paying attention to anything else
33:05because, of course, when they've paid attention to anything else,
33:07it will still need fuel.
33:09So fuel goes in first, then car goes into garage,
33:13little trolley-dolley wheels, spin it round,
33:15and, again, failing to knock over their own teammates,
33:19so it still can be done.
33:21And into the garage it goes.
33:23Why does it go into the garage?
33:24Because you're only ever allowed two people working on a car on the pit road.
33:28And the reason is to stop pit road becoming insanely crowded
33:31with people and legs and bodies sticking out into the pits.
33:36Into the pit road, rather.
33:37Right.
33:38I'm going to say goodbye to you two gentlemen.
33:41Bye.
33:42I'm off for a cup of coffee,
33:44and I'm going to leave you with Martin and Neville and Liz Halladay.
33:50I think, actually, I'm going to go as well
33:53and leave you with Liz Halladay,
33:55who's far better looking than any of us in here.
33:58And we might leave Cole here, but perhaps we'll take him.
34:01Oh, dear.
34:02A KCMG car, a DKR car, again, finds the gravel trap.
34:08And, again, it is Monsieur Brondelard who is testing everybody's patience.
34:15So we bid goodbye and say thank you very much indeed
34:20to our Night Shift Graveyard crew, Neville Hay and Chris Parsons.
34:25We'll see them a little bit later.
34:27And as we take a quick commercial break,
34:28it is still the number two Audi that leads this race.
34:31Sprinkle a rain, never too far away.
34:34But at the moment, safety car free for almost the whole of the last hour
34:38as we continue our live coverage of Le Mans here on Eurosport.
34:42We'll see you next time.
35:12We'll see you next time.
35:42Welcome back to Le Mans, 23 hours, 24 hours of Le Mans 2013.
36:00Perm those to make a proper sentence.
36:02We are inside the final nine hours.
36:04We've broken the back of this thing.
36:05Now we're on the home stretch.
36:06There's just about nine hours, what's that, five Grand Prixs still left to work our way through.
36:14And we have still nearly 50 cars of our original 56 starters still running.
36:20Good morning, everybody, wherever you're joining us at O'Dark 100.
36:24We're at six o'clock here in the Circuit de la Salle, four GMT.
36:30I have no idea what time of day it is wherever you are, but thank you for being with us, Martin Haven, Liz Halliday and Mark Cole.
36:38And so far, as dawn rises, we've spent the last hour or so without drizzle, without safety cars.
36:47And that might be something of a record as far as hours go in this year's Le Mans because we've already had a record eight safety cars and we've still got nine hours to go.
36:57So it could do anything because, Liz, the weather has not been anybody's friend, really, this weekend.
37:02Well, no, and we got up in the morning to see that, yes, it's been raining again.
37:06Not that we've had a huge sleep, but two hours, Mark Cole and I have.
37:09But noticed it had been raining and we're thinking, oh, gosh, what are we going to come back to?
37:13But I'm amazed there's not been any safety cars.
37:15I don't remember the last time through the middle of the night we haven't had any major accidents or anything.
37:21We just haven't had any in the last hour.
37:23That's what I'm saying.
37:23Oh, I see.
37:24I thought you were saying there hadn't been any.
37:25I was going, wow, that's amazing.
37:26A whole hour.
37:27Oh, I see.
37:28OK, that makes more sense.
37:30We left you on five safety cars last night, Martin.
37:32As you say, three more during the night.
37:35I see.
37:35That makes more sense.
37:36I was very confused.
37:37I was thinking, wow, that's amazing.
37:38Martin, I understand another barrier-punching exercise.
37:42Yeah, I'm afraid so.
37:44I have to say, actually, you know, we always say hats off to the marshals, all the officials and the corner workers,
37:50especially the unpaid marshals who come and volunteer for free just for the fun of being trackside at Le Mans.
37:56I can scrunch that paper more noisily, Mark.
38:00But the guys that are repairing the barriers, boy, they're going to be exhausted because they are cutting and hammering and heaving and banging and everything into position.
38:09And they're going to be absolutely Christom's cracker.
38:12Michael Krum handing over to Jan Mardenbrough, the 41 Greaves Motorsport Nissan.
38:18And they are, I can't see that screen.
38:22I'm going to have to swap my lovely movie picture screen for a page one of the timing screen.
38:26They are third still in the LMP2 class.
38:30Olivier Plaas, Morgan Nissan leading it.
38:33And Bertram Baguette, Bertie Breadstick, has now taken over from Martin Plowman in the car that is in second place.
38:39So give us a little review, Martin.
38:40Let's just remind people that are just waking up and me and Mark what's happening through the night, what the trauma is.
38:45That's a very fine idea.
38:47Well, the race started, of course, with Audi 123, Toyota's giving chase.
38:51And in the early mixed conditions, Toyota had a better suited tyre to the slippery conditions and drizzle at the start, closed on the Audis.
38:59And then, as conditions dried out a little, Audi started to pace away and left Toyota trailing a little in their wake, in contact, but not necessarily in the hunt, because Toyota had not quite as much speed as the Audis, although they have a fuel advantage.
39:15A couple of problems for the number one Audi, a crankshaft sensor for the number three Audi, also dropping a couple of laps off the lead.
39:22Left the Toyota's first and second behind leader Loic Duval.
39:26At least he's now leading in the number two car.
39:29And that sole healthy Audi has stayed in front of the Toyotas, who have swapped positions with each other, but have not yet been able to get back onto the lead lap.
39:38In fact, we saw Loic Duval putting a lap on both of them during the night from a 50-second advantage.
39:44He's now over a lap clear.
39:46So the Audi is stroking away in front.
39:48In all the other classes, actually, everything we thought we knew pretty much after qualifying has turned out not to be quite as true as we thought.
39:59For example, we were thinking in the GCE Pro class, we're going to have a battle between the fastest cars, the Aston Martins, and last year's winners, maybe the Ferraris.
40:08But, no, it's the Porsches now that are first and fourth, with Aston Martins sandwiched between them.
40:14Porsche has just been relentlessly quick in the race in a way that it didn't seem to be in practice.
40:21In the LMP2 class, well, it was per many one of at least ten cars for a potential winner, 15 for a potential podium finisher.
40:28It seems to be British-driven and crewed cars that are going very well.
40:32The up-racing Morgan No. 24 car, which Alex Brunel's just handed over to pole-sitter Olivier Pla, has the lead.
40:39Bertrand Baguette has taken over from Martin Plowman in his Morgan Nissan.
40:44That's in second place.
40:45And Jan Mardenbrough, another British driver, has taken over Greaves Motorsport British Team Zytec, British chassis, in third place.
40:52And that has pushed John Martin in the Irish run, Murphy's prototype, down to fourth.
40:58And they're still too close to call in the LMP2 class.
41:03Positions have been changing with pit stops in that class, in GTE Pro, and in GTE Am, where, again, a Porsche has inveigled its way into the lead.
41:14And Raymond Arrak in the IMSA Matmuk car does not look very much inclined to give back the lap that he's won over the Ferrari battle for seconds.
41:21Daryl O'Young currently ahead of Matt Griffin by a growing margin.
41:26It's now out to a minute.
41:27It was around 40 seconds when they both pitted on the same lap last time round.
41:32Fourth in that class, Patrick Long in the 77 Dempsey Del Piero Porsche.
41:38The real loser in the AM class was the 88 Proton Porsche, Paolo Roberti, that was tripped up by a very errant and mimzing Roman Brondela, who basically took him out of the race.
41:50That was an amazing rundown.
41:52I was actually asking what happened over the night when we'd been away.
41:55But that was awesome.
41:56That was, like, nine hours.
41:57No, I mean, I know there's been some accidents.
41:59We had a safety car.
42:00We've been out of the mix.
42:01Rain, accidents, safety cars.
42:04Safety car just about to come in started raining again.
42:07So they kept the safety car out so everybody could change onto wet weather tyres because it rained rather than just drizzled a little bit.
42:14And then safety car went in and then one more brief safety car appeared.
42:17Many yellow flags to allow cars to be dragged out of gravel traps that didn't require a safety car.
42:24But, yeah.
42:24So who's been out?
42:26Who's had a bad time?
42:28Shorter list is who hasn't.
42:30Right.
42:31Lloyd Duval in the number two Audi.
42:33No, seriously, number three Audi's been off.
42:35One of the Toyotas has been off.
42:38Half a dozen of the LMP2 cars have been off.
42:40Tricky conditions.
42:41Several of the front lines, yeah.
42:42I mean, you can see now from the overhead shot, there is a light grey line.
42:48Oh, and here's the Jota car that was third in class.
42:50I was wondering where that had got to.
42:52That's been in the garage for several laps now.
42:54Lucas Lure brought it in after an off in the S's and limped all the way round.
43:00And it looks as though it was not a driver induced off either.
43:04Yeah, that looks like perhaps there's been a suspension issue or something in there.
43:08That's what it looks like to me at the moment.
43:10But without being down there, it's very hard to say.
43:12Interestingly, we left at midnight and I left a list of who was out front.
43:17And it hasn't actually changed hugely.
43:18It's still the number two Audi, as you say, from the two Toyotas.
43:22The only real change of note is in the GT Pro class.
43:25I understand the Ayrton Senna, Bruno Senna car, had to come in for some brake attention, Martin.
43:32And that's why it lost that lead to the Porsche.
43:34But otherwise, that's been rocking and rolling, hasn't it?
43:36The two Astons and the Porsche.
43:38Great to see Raymond.
43:39Oh, puncture for the 75 Porsche.
43:42Great to see Raymond Narak up there, though.
43:44Of course, he won GT2, as it was, in 2007.
43:49That was a famous victory.
43:50That car, which is from Rouen, has always been supported, hasn't it, by Porsche France and by the factories.
43:57They've always had a lot of assistance.
43:58And great to see Jean-Carl Vinay on board.
44:01He's a rookie.
44:02You can't believe it.
44:03He's the reigning, he was the reigning Porsche Cup champion in France last year, and he was a Peugeot test driver, but he has never, ever raced at Le Mans before.
44:11Astonishing.
44:12Well, the number 75 car there is Emmanuel Collard behind the wheel.
44:16That is the car that took over the Garage 56, which was meant to be for improving technologies.
44:22It was meant to be the green GT car that was meant to come.
44:26That fell out at the last minute.
44:27Luckily, they got the slot.
44:28So, hopefully, they're going to get that car back out on the road very quickly.
44:31P2 leader on pit road, Olivier Platt.
44:34One blue light on the side of the car means he is position one in the blue light class, which is for LMP2 cars.
44:42Non-factory-developed prototype cars.
44:46Essentially, customer cars rather than run by a factory like Toyota or Audi.
44:51And car 42, that's Jan Marden.
44:54Mardenberg again in the Greaves motorsport car, straight on at the second chicane.
44:58Jan's been having a baptism of fire here.
45:01Last night, he had a flying lesson and would have run credit to the airfield next door.
45:05He took off over the kerbs, didn't he, Liz?
45:07Yeah, fantastic filming of that, wasn't it?
45:09We looked at it and thought, are those all four wheels off the ground?
45:12Wow.
45:13It was quite high up in the air.
45:14But I think, in this occasion, when I was just watching the filming of him coming down the S's, I was thinking, there's a dry line, but it definitely isn't dry just off the line.
45:25And my guess would be that he's just but one tire off in the damp on, you know, new slicks and see you later.
45:31And, of course, when you're in a prototype, half the time, what are you doing?
45:34Going offline to go around the GT car.
45:37And therein lie beasties.
45:38You're absolutely right.
45:39And my guess would be he's probably just had to brake while passing another car.
45:43Been on a bit of the damp and has gone straight on.
45:45But hopefully there's been no foul.
45:47Oh, my goodness.
45:47We have a big fire.
45:49Yes, we do.
45:49In pit lane.
45:50Now, quite often, these cars blow back through the exhaust, unburnt fuel, when they are started back up again.
45:56That looks a little bit more dramatic for Level 5 Motorsports.
46:01It's what it was.
46:02It's fuel coming back out of the exhaust, but it was just quite dramatic.
46:08Do you know what?
46:10The tire fixer on it didn't want to hang around there too long just in case it all went woof again, did it?
46:15Driver hanging on in there, though.
46:17Fairly deuce.
46:18He's being a brave boy.
46:20Oh, it's going again.
46:22Well, that's probably because he's trying to fire it up.
46:23Marino Franchitti trying to keep the engine running.
46:28Of course, you know, with all this drive-by-wire throttle and the engine ECU controlling everything,
46:34the driver may not have an awful lot to say about what's going on.
46:37Best just to floor it and get going.
46:39Oh, Jesus.
46:40And again, he does.
46:42Oh, my goodness.
46:42And it's not nice being in one of these cars when there's flames flying up behind your head.
46:47It really isn't a nice feeling.
46:48Marino Franchitti not short on bravery.
46:50Marino Franchitti hanging on in there.
46:52Very easy, I would think, to bail out.
46:54But he thinks, no, no, I've got to get this thing off pit road and then it'll all be fine.
46:57I'm quite sure that the team was probably telling him on the radio,
47:00trust us, Marino, it's going to be okay.
47:01Just get it going.
47:02Get it going.
47:04Either that or running for cover.
47:05One or two.
47:06Somewhere between those two.
47:07Somewhere between it.
47:08But it does appear to be all right now.
47:09We're up and running.
47:10Well, again, it may well just have been churning on the starter that was throwing the fuel back
47:15because it wasn't catching.
47:16Of course, you know, with a turbocharged engine, the exhausts aren't exactly what you'd call cool.
47:21No, definitely not.
47:22And Marino Franchitti, they enjoyed a fantastic Sebring 12 hours.
47:27A win for that team at that very, very difficult race.
47:31Many people say that doing the 12 hours of Sebring is like doing a 24-hour race.
47:35It's certainly for the car components and the drivers because it is a real hammering there.
47:40So very good for them.
47:40Half as long but twice as hard.
47:42That's what they like to say in Sebring.
47:44The track's starting to come back to the races now, Liz.
47:46Patrick Pele has just done the 91 Porsche's fastest first sector.
47:51And he's on a flyer at the moment.
47:53So after the overnight rain, it's all starting to come back to them, isn't it?
47:56Yeah, and spot the ones that are in GT cars.
47:58They'll be finding these conditions easier to be a little bit quicker in
48:01because they won't be doing quite as much passing.
48:03And there is that helmet we've been talking about.
48:05Fantastic.
48:06It really does look like goggles on there.
48:08It really does, doesn't it?
48:09Some of you have tweeted us the pictures earlier on in the race.
48:12And I have retweeted those.
48:13Indy car driver Mike Conway going the whole hog with his helmet
48:16at the old-fashioned look for his first ever Le Mans.
48:19And incidentally, I believe that helmet designer is the same
48:22who does Lewis Hamilton's helmet, I understand.
48:24Oh, OK.
48:25Well, I have to say.
48:25So clearly he knows what he's doing.
48:27I have to say he clearly does.
48:28Is that Lewis I can't drive any slower, Hamilton?
48:31That one.
48:32Yeah, it might be that one, yeah.
48:33Incidentally, in that 33 Level 5 motorsport car,
48:37it wasn't Marino Franchitti who was being patient.
48:40It was owner Scott Tucker who was sitting there
48:42desperately hoping he wasn't going to get fried.
48:45Did lose a couple of places.
48:47Dropped behind Lucas Lure's car.
48:49And Natasha Gatchnang also got by.
48:51The 35 car still on pit road.
48:54This is currently in fourth place in its class.
48:58Oh, believe it.
48:59The 35 car still on pit road.
49:04The 35 car still on pit road.
49:05The 35 car still on pit road.
49:06The 35 car still on pit road.
49:07The 35 car still on pit road.
49:08The 35 car still on pit road.
49:09The 35 car still on pit road.
49:10The 35 car still on pit road.
49:11The 35 car still on pit road.
49:12The 35 car still on pit road.
49:13The 35 car still on pit road.
49:14The 35 car still on pit road.
49:15The 35 car still on pit road.
49:16The 35 car still on pit road.
49:17The 35 car still on pit road.
49:18The 35 car still on pit road.
49:19The 35 car still on pit road.
49:20The 35 car still on pit road.
49:21The 35 car still on pit road.
49:22The 35 car still on pit road.
49:23The 35 car still on pit road.
49:24The 35 car still on pit road.
49:25Welcome back, Martin Haven, Liz Halliday and Mark Cole
49:39covering Le Mans, 24 hours for you
49:42as we get into the daylight hours
49:44and we just saw Olivier Platt, the leader of the LMP2 class
49:49make a pit stop, Betjen Baggett in second place
49:51making a pit stop as well, taking his car over
49:54Mike Conway taking over the car that lives fifth in the LMP2 category
49:58as the sole remaining Lotus does, doesn't, does, doesn't
50:05doesn't leave the pits at the moment
50:08this is David Kreihimer
50:12and the car has now lost one, two, three, four, five places on track
50:21because it was in the middle of a tight bunch of LMP2 cars
50:24and is dropping fast and it is on the trolley dolly wheels
50:28and going back into the garage
50:30car 40 being reported to the stewards for speeding in the pit lane
50:34that's the Boussin Gignon car
50:37and that was, well, Rodin Unessi has taken it out
50:42so it may have been him or it may have been the driver who brought it in
50:46who was doing the speeding, I don't know if there was a driver change
50:49we didn't see that stop long enough, I think, to tell
50:52A few of you have been tweeting in with some questions
50:55and Paul Moore has asked
50:56can you tell me who's the youngest winner of the 24 hours of Le Mans
50:59well, certainly, I think, I think, correct me if I'm wrong
51:03one of you two, but at least in the LMP2 class
51:07I think it was my old co-driver, Clint Field, back a few years ago
51:10I believe he won LMP2 at the age of 20
51:13but I could be wrong and there may be someone younger
51:16I feel like maybe we've had someone younger
51:18but Mark is feverishly looking through his book
51:23outright winner, I'm not sure
51:25I thought maybe one of you would know
51:25outright winner, I don't know
51:26but I think winning anything, I thought it was Clint Field
51:29Mark Patterson takes over from Karen Chandock
51:32in the Murphy's number 48 car
51:35and where have they got to in class
51:411, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10th in LMP2
51:48have to count down because we just have a screen
51:50with everybody in order
51:52and so you have to sort of count down the class
51:54because I'm not clever enough to subtract 19th from 9
51:57I don't think any of us are
51:58speaking of the youngest winner
52:00I think Mark Patterson is our oldest driver this year
52:04in this race I think, correct me if I'm wrong
52:06I believe that is correct
52:08and I hope that he's going to settle in
52:11and do a good job in these somewhat tricky conditions
52:14because as we just said the offline is not dry
52:17and we saw in practice he managed three spins in one lap
52:21which was very impressive
52:22especially that he didn't hit anything
52:24well we've now got to almost full daylight here at Le Mans
52:28without any early morning sun
52:31the cloud have been so thick
52:32there's been no hint of the sun at all
52:34it's 20 past 6
52:35it's fairly bright and light outside
52:37you don't need lights to see where you're going
52:39and they're just on because they have to be on
52:42so that other people can see that you're coming
52:44but as you can see from on board with our number one Audi
52:47the visibility very good
52:49it is properly daylight
52:50but you don't have that glare into sleepy eyes
52:53through a grimy screen
52:55that Liz just is such hard work
52:58no it really is
52:59and I think a lot of especially the open top drivers
53:02will be very very pleased
53:04that they've not had that blinding sunshine coming through
53:07the other thing we get at Le Mans sometimes early in the morning
53:09is fog
53:10which it doesn't look like they've had
53:12you can get a thick fog over the Porsche curves
53:14which I must say is very exciting
53:16as you come piling over into the first corner
53:19and we actually had Mike Sims asked in fact
53:24what is harder driving at the dusk tonight
53:27the night or the night to dawn stage
53:30certainly in these conditions
53:32this is much more favorable
53:33because we really didn't have
53:35either coming in tonight
53:37or coming into dawn
53:39we didn't have that glare
53:40which Martin was talking about
53:41that's what certainly I've always found most challenging
53:44and I'm sure most drivers do
53:45because you can't choose a visor
53:47you're basically stuck with
53:48going with the visor
53:50for the conditions you'll be going into
53:52so you know you're sort of struggling to see
53:55coming into the Porsche curves
53:56is a big glare portion of the circuit
53:58when the sun's coming up
54:00that's really difficult
54:01but I think at this Le Mans
54:03in a way everyone will be happy
54:06that it's been cloudy in both of those sectors
54:08yeah that might be the only silver lining
54:11to the generally cloudy weather
54:12that it hasn't got that low morning sun glare
54:16or low evening sun glare
54:18because yeah that is very distracting
54:20evening sun as well
54:20it always seems to me
54:22from the onboards
54:23down to where you'd least want
54:25to not quite know where you are
54:27going into Indianapolis
54:28yeah exactly
54:29and then you're finding yourself
54:30having to do extra tape
54:32on a clear visor
54:33to try and stop the glare
54:34because you obviously
54:34can't go into the dark
54:36with a shaded visor on
54:38though I've known drivers
54:39that have mistakenly done that
54:40yeah you'd prefer not to really
54:42but you're ready to come back
54:43to me on the youngest driver
54:44yes I am Mark
54:47he's running in third place
54:48at the moment for Toyota
54:49Alex Wurtz
54:5022 years old
54:51when he won
54:52for US Porsche in 1996
54:55overall
54:55on his first appearance
54:58he should have quit then
55:00and just out of interest
55:02the driver with the most Le Mans
55:05behind him this year
55:06is Christophe Bouchoud
55:0720 appearances
55:08and he also won
55:11on his first ever appearance
55:121993 for Peugeot
55:14wow
55:14so he did
55:16that's pretty cool
55:17and hasn't won again since
55:18Alex Wurtz has of course
55:19yes he has indeed
55:20wow
55:21there we are
55:22we would have got it
55:23on the internet
55:23but I'm afraid
55:24throughout most of this race
55:25the internet's been down
55:27so I've been scrabbling
55:28through books
55:28luckily I had the right
55:29books of me
55:29and there we are
55:30fantastic
55:31well done Mark
55:32that didn't take you long at all
55:33well we're looking there
55:34at the art car
55:35in the Oak Racing garage
55:37and we're not the only ones
55:39looking at it
55:40men with laptops
55:42men with things
55:43men pointing
55:44I can't make it rhyme
55:46men with laptops
55:48men with things
55:49it's poetry
55:49poetry doesn't have to rhyme
55:51it has to get you
55:52to the heart
55:52it has to scan
55:53it has to scan
55:53no it doesn't have to scan
55:54it has to get you
55:55by the heart
55:55and this car has been
55:58almost nothing but trouble
56:00it is currently lying
56:0144th
56:04out of 49 cars
56:06that are running
56:07well they're changing
56:08steering wheel
56:08and some road signs
56:09while they're there
56:10oh dear
56:11oh here is
56:13one of the crowd's favourites
56:14aren't they wonderful
56:15the SRT Vipers
56:16not Dodge Vipers
56:17SRT Vipers
56:19and they're very clear
56:20about that
56:20Kuno Vitma
56:21is the driver
56:22at the wheel of the car
56:23rookie
56:24making his first appearance
56:25here
56:25and a man I'm very glad
56:26to say is a proper height
56:28doesn't that colour scheme
56:30work
56:30it's great
56:31no it is fantastic
56:32and it's so nice
56:33to see them back here
56:34SRT of course
56:35standing for
56:35Street Race
56:36and technology
56:37which I think I've
56:38gotten right
56:39brilliant to have them
56:41back here
56:41it's been over 10 years
56:42since Vipers
56:43has been back
56:44of course they won
56:44here in 2000
56:46one of their drivers
56:47Tommy Kendall
56:48has not been back
56:49to Le Mans
56:49since 2000
56:50that year he was
56:51in a Porsche
56:52but he said it
56:53feels like it's
56:54his first Le Mans
56:55again because he's
56:56coming with a team
56:57that he's been racing
56:58with already
56:58and it's been a great
56:59feeling for all of them
57:00a lot of camaraderie
57:02in that garage
57:02they are all really
57:04proud to be here
57:05and really happy
57:06to have Vipers
57:06back on a page
57:08here at Le Mans
57:09and this is the
57:10third generation
57:10of Vipers
57:11interestingly enough
57:12to race here
57:13but what a great
57:14history here
57:14and just socket
57:16to Corvette
57:16that's what the
57:17crowd want
57:17yeah no absolutely
57:18and I think
57:19it's been interesting
57:20asking them all
57:21what it's like
57:22they've all said
57:22the car is really
57:23easy to drive
57:24it's good in the wet
57:25it feels fantastic
57:26you know all good things
57:28I think it's just
57:28been a little bit
57:29too slow in places
57:3039 car
57:31now those who have
57:32been watching
57:33since the darkness
57:34will recognise
57:35the car
57:35and the name
57:36Roman Brondela
57:37off again
57:38this time at
57:39Mulsanne Corner
57:39he's the one
57:40that took
57:40Paolo Roberti
57:41out of the race
57:42in fact
57:43Paolo Roberti
57:44has been so
57:45delayed
57:45in the
57:4788
57:49Proton
57:50engineering
57:51Porsche
57:51that
57:52they are
57:53only
57:54well
57:5718 laps
57:57ahead of
57:58Roman Brondela
57:59should he not
57:59be getting
58:00some sort
58:00of warning
58:01from the organisers
58:02if he's been
58:02taking people
58:03out and firing
58:04it off
58:04every other
58:04lap
58:05he should
58:05be getting
58:05some sort
58:06of kicking
58:06from the
58:06organisers
58:07which is
58:07probably why
58:08he's still
58:08in the car
58:09the art car
58:10is going back
58:11together
58:11no the organisers
58:12have said
58:13they would
58:13investigate
58:14the incident
58:14between the
58:1539 and the
58:1688
58:16essentially
58:17Brondela went
58:18off
58:18meandered down
58:19in the dark
58:20meandered down
58:21the S's
58:22and as cars
58:22came up behind
58:23him
58:23moved from
58:24one side
58:25of the road
58:25to the other
58:25that's always
58:26a great idea
58:27cue Paolo
58:27Roberti
58:28running straight
58:28into the gap
58:29that no longer
58:30existed
58:30he at that
58:32stage was
58:32fourth in the
58:33LMP
58:34in the GTE
58:35AM class
58:36and the guy
58:37that was second
58:37Darrylo Young
58:38having to throw
58:39his car across
58:40the grass
58:41at the left
58:41in the S's
58:42in a vain hope
58:43of missing
58:43everything
58:44which in fact
58:45happened
58:45and he came
58:47to a halt
58:47on the tarmac
58:48inches from
58:49going into
58:49the gravel trap
58:50at the bottom
58:50of the S's
58:51and then spending
58:52three laps
58:52being dragged
58:53out to there
58:53because Paolo
58:54Roberti
58:54was closer
58:55to the crane
58:55and so Darrylo Young
58:56would again
58:57have dropped
58:57right out
58:58of contention
58:59so yeah
59:00Ron Brandler
59:01hasn't covered
59:01himself in glory
59:02so far
59:03his time
59:04may be yet
59:05to come
59:05I doubt it
59:07though
59:25have been
59:36as well
59:38as good
59:38as he
59:40did
59:40with
59:41out
59:42as well
59:42as the
59:43him
59:43as the
59:44was
59:44left
59:45and
59:46as possible
59:47as good
59:47as
59:48and
59:49how
59:50has
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