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00:00.
00:30Beautiful view down onto Mulsanne, heading off the old road onto the,
00:50say the old road, the current road, off the road onto the Porsche Curves,
00:53this modern part of the race circuit that bypasses the old Maison Blanche corner
00:59and the old run straight down at high speed past the pit lane,
01:05which up until the 1960s was just a set of stands beside the racetrack
01:11with no protection for the drivers or for the mechanics.
01:15And down into the Ford chicane, just past the building right on the very end there
01:19behind the big plasma screen, which is where our country booths are
01:21and starting another lap of this fabulous circuit.
01:25And Martin Haven with Mark Cole and Liz Halliday here.
01:29And Mark, always great to see this circuit from here,
01:32because of course we're so close to it down at ground level
01:34that you don't really get an idea of the size of it
01:37unless you try and walk any great distance.
01:40Yeah, and the other thing, it flows.
01:41Le Mans really, really flows.
01:43It's got these beautiful, fast sweeping bends,
01:45and you get those all together and right.
01:47You've only really got one slow corner on the whole track,
01:50and that's down at Arnage, and that you have to treat with huge, huge respect.
01:54But as Liz will tell you as a racing driver,
01:55the most fearsome part of the circuit is what we've just seen, Liz,
01:58the Porsche Curves.
01:59Yeah, the Porsche Curves is a place where you can very, very easily lose
02:03up to five seconds or gain it there without even blinking, really.
02:07It's just a matter of what traffic you meet,
02:09especially if you're an LMP car.
02:11It's a very high-speed portion of the circuit in one of those.
02:14You enter the corner with just a dab on the brakes,
02:16and then in fifth gear, flat through the next two lefts if you're in an LMP.
02:20And then it's the very treacherous right-to-left near the end.
02:24But as I've said, very narrow space, easy to lose some time.
02:28And here are some frantic people trying to get into this Porsche.
02:33This is our class leader.
02:35The other car came in and had work done on it.
02:37The 91 car, that dropped it a little bit back.
02:41But the 92 cars had very quick work on it.
02:44They did a bit of a brake change earlier on in the darkness hours,
02:47and it looks as though it's getting oil topped up.
02:49And again, this is a sort of 1980s Group C full-service.
02:5470 Corvette facing the wrong way again.
02:57And this was the car that had that big accident before the race started.
03:01That was in practice, wasn't it, if I'm correct?
03:03Yes, it was.
03:04Yeah, yeah, morning warm-up.
03:05So, yeah, this car has had a tough trip,
03:08and I dare say their mechanics are already very tired
03:11after the work they've had to do this morning.
03:13Been spending a degree of time facing in the wrong direction,
03:16and unless he can select reverse,
03:19he's going to knock the nose off the car again.
03:2111th in class at the moment and outside the top 48.
03:25So he may be our last running car at the moment.
03:28I can't actually see him anywhere on page one or two of the timing screen,
03:32so I'm assuming he's on page three.
03:35Andrew Scorgy has asked us on Twitter,
03:38has a driver ever been banned from competing mid-Lemar 24 before?
03:41Keep thinking this could happen to Roman Brandler today.
03:44Well, sadly, we do remember when Stuart Hall was excluded from the race,
03:48when he was racing the Aston Martin LMP1 car for a contact with,
03:53I believe it was, the Greaves Radical at the time, if I recall.
03:56Yeah.
03:57It was a really difficult situation because Stuart, of course, we know and love,
04:01and is a very talented driver, one.
04:04I've shared a car with myself, and we've shared the commentary box,
04:07and it was a difficult situation, and I think there was another one at one stage.
04:11But we'll go back to this number 32 car,
04:13which is looking like the front end is pretty punched into the wall
04:17and sitting in the gravel.
04:18He's asking them to push him back, which is going to be a big feat.
04:22Look at these two marshals are thinking,
04:23how are we going to push this thing back on our own?
04:25Well, you know, I don't think there's a gravel trap that's had a quiet time of it.
04:29I think any marshal here at this race, when they go home,
04:32like most of the drivers, will know they've been in a race
04:35because it's been very, very busy.
04:38And yet again, can't say enough respect to the marshals
04:41for standing out there in filthy weathers with all sorts of cars,
04:45throwing themselves at the scenery and rescuing them on a continual basis.
04:50And that's on the run down to Mulsanne, by the way, that car's gone in.
04:53Oh, and he was just trying to leave enough room
04:55for the pro-class cars to go by him.
04:59I'm afraid he left a little too much.
05:00Maybe just a little too hot as well.
05:02Wow, that is Mulsanne.
05:04No, that's Mulsanne Corner, I think.
05:06That's Mulsanne Corner.
05:08Definitely.
05:08Luckily, it's a soft wall.
05:10And I think he's just missed his breaking point there.
05:12Who's going very slowly?
05:13That's a very slow prototype in front, is it?
05:16I don't know that it is.
05:17I don't think it is that slow.
05:19Right, and as that was happening, we've got a change for GT Pro.
05:23Bruno Sen has gone through into the lead ahead of Leeds.
05:25They've both had pit stops now.
05:27Leeds is now on his out lap,
05:28but he has fallen behind Bruno Senna.
05:31So we're back to the situation that Leeds and I left at midnight
05:34with Aston Martin leading Porsche, Porsche and Aston Martin.
05:38This one's just rocking and rolling.
05:40Oh, what a fight it is there in the pro-class.
05:42Fantastic.
05:43It's a fight we sort of thought would happen,
05:45but I thought Ferrari was going to be up there.
05:47I really thought it was going to be Aston, Ferrari, and Porsche pushing.
05:50They are creeping up.
05:52Jankai Fisichella is in fifth position in that class in the 51 Ferrari.
05:56This is Daryl O'Young, second in the GTE Pro class.
05:59Internally, our race leader, Leut Deval, on pit road for regular service.
06:04Raymond Narak, 55 seconds between Daryl O'Young and Matt Griffin, who we just saw.
06:10Griffin, I think, stopped on the same lap as Daryl last time round.
06:14Out goes the race leader.
06:16And Matt Griffin, such a great driver and really enjoying this race.
06:20I can't remember how many appearances.
06:21I think he's only had one appearance here before.
06:23Yeah, it can't be many.
06:25But such a good driver.
06:26I used to race in the same team as Matt 10 years ago,
06:29which is pretty scary to think of.
06:30Spends a lot of time racing in British GT.
06:32But he was a really good driver and nice to see him here again doing so well.
06:35Yeah, absolutely.
06:36And he will have been.
06:37He spent a lot of time racing with and against Alan Simonson,
06:41so he'll be really suffering as well.
06:43There's so many friends and former, well, on-track rivals of Alan Simonson are here,
06:50as well as his family and his teammates.
06:51Raymond Narak then on board the GTM, leading car.
06:54Great performance again by Matt Mutt, IMSA Performance Porsche.
06:58And they really have got this car hooked up.
07:00Raymond's been racing for so many years, 46,
07:03but showing he can still run out front there, Liz.
07:06And this is just so, so good, isn't it?
07:08He's essentially a gentleman driver.
07:11But very quick.
07:12He is a Porsche dealer in Rouen, so that's why he's got so much factory backing.
07:16Yeah, and he's gotten quicker every year, I think.
07:19And shown that the right package, really, in the AM class is to find yourself a quick amateur.
07:25And there was a lot of chat saying the battle for the LMP2 and the AM class was going to be,
07:31who was the amateur in the car?
07:33And was the amateur good enough to be up to scratch to keep pushing the time?
07:37And I think we're starting to see that in the amateur class.
07:40Well, as with everything, it's the weakest link that makes the decisions, isn't it?
07:44And the strongest weak link, if you like, your strongest AM driver or your strongest slower driver in the car
07:52is what's going to keep your average speed up.
07:54And Raymond Narak, well, he's in with Jean-Karl Vernet, whose speed, although he's very new to Le Mans,
08:01is not really too much of a question.
08:03Christophe Bouré does seem to be holding his end up of the bargain.
08:07So we'll have to wait and see when Bouré gets back in, whether that IMSA Matmut Porsche remains in the lead of its class.
08:14Interestingly, Narak is not just a Le Mans specialist.
08:17He's had huge success here.
08:18But also, 2011, he was the LMS champion in GTM.
08:22And last year, he was the ELMS champion.
08:25Of course, Lama Corvette just kept shooting themselves in the foot.
08:28They got disqualified from two races for being underweight or being too low.
08:32And then, what was it, one race, their fire extinguish was out of date.
08:37And they were disqualified to race on that.
08:39So Jacques Leconte had to get his team by the scruff of the neck and shake it.
08:43And, OK, they did win Le Mans, but they lost everything else.
08:47At that level of motorsport, I mean, if it was club racing, you'd go, all right then.
08:51But not at that level, not at international level.
08:55Level of GTE performance is really starting to close up.
08:5920 seconds now between Peter Dunbrecht pushing on hard in the Aston Martin art car.
09:04He's in fourth place.
09:06Patrick Pille in front of him, 20 seconds up the road.
09:10Three seconds in front of Pille.
09:12Last lap was Richard Leitz in second place.
09:16Because, of course, that car is stuck in the garage.
09:19And that will change.
09:21Leitz will go from the lead to fourth as the two cars behind him cross the line.
09:26So that number 52 Porsche, 91 Porsche, Richard Leitz, is up back out on pit apron.
09:33And that's perhaps going to save them.
09:35There's a driver change there as well.
09:37Who has Richard handed over to?
09:38Not sure.
09:40Patrick Pille.
09:41Yeah.
09:41And for the first time in the race, Martin, the Ferrari have made page one of our timing screens.
09:49That's in 24th place.
09:50Jimmy Bruni.
09:51He's just been in the pits for a service.
09:53He's back out on track now, having taken that car over from Giancarlo Fisicola.
09:57I'm sorry.
09:58Richard Leitz is up into second place now.
10:00Patrick Pille has taken over as Peter Dunbrecht goes up into third.
10:03The 91 car is on pit road.
10:06Patrick Pille has taken it over.
10:09And he will go out in fourth place.
10:11The car came in from the lead.
10:12Still don't know quite what the drama was.
10:15They were topping it up with oil, weren't they?
10:18Yes.
10:18Pouring in a lot of oil.
10:20Yeah.
10:20And let's just remember the number 51 car.
10:23That's two of the drivers in Jimmy Bruni and Giancarlo Fisicola who had that fairytale win last year in their Ferrari, in the pro class.
10:32After an enormous accident in practice in qualifying, they barely even got the car ready for the race, if I recall.
10:39It was really difficult.
10:41And, you know, I think we were saying from the get-go, wouldn't it be wonderful if they could win Le Mans after that crash?
10:46And they went out and did it.
10:47They did.
10:48The commentator's curse failed that year.
10:50Now, in other news during the night, every time I mention somebody, within half a lap, they go off at the first chicane.
10:59So it's your fault that people crash.
11:01So any of you out there that think it has to do with any of the rest of us, it's not.
11:05It's all Martin's fault.
11:06In the same way you are the queen of red flags, I am the king of cursing people into going off at the first chicane.
11:12Although, now that it has got daylight, they appear to be able to spot where the chicane is slightly more easily.
11:17And, again, for the first time, we've got all four top pro runners.
11:22The first four are on the same lap, 208, with Bruni just one lap behind.
11:27That's going to change in a minute because the, you know, Bruni is, in fact, he's just gone out.
11:32He's on his out lap.
11:33Timo Bernhardt has taken over the fourth place Porsche from Richard Leitz.
11:40Rol Goethe in the pit there, you saw there, in one, two, three, four, five, six, seventh place in the AM class.
11:47In the GTs, in his Aston Martin, and it is his Aston Martin as well, is going into his golf liveryed collection just as soon as they get it to the checkered flag.
11:59Yeah, and he would have created the car's own heritage, wouldn't he?
12:03Oh, yes, yes, in fact.
12:04Which will be unique in his collection, I believe.
12:06Just a few weeks ago, Rol actually bought the winning Golf Mirage that Derek Bell and Jackie Ekes drove in 1975.
12:14So that collection is getting better.
12:15He's got T-shirts with the cars on, which Stuart designed.
12:19And every year, he's having to change the T-shirts because more and more cars are being added.
12:23Oh, my goodness.
12:24About 18 golf liveryed cars he owns at the moment.
12:27It's pretty spectacular.
12:29And Adrian Hamilton is one of the men, in fact, predominantly the man who has been putting him in touch with all the father of Archie Hamilton,
12:36whose car retired a little bit earlier on in the race.
12:39And, of course, the son of Duncan Hamilton, who was our winner 60 years ago with Tony Rolt.
12:46Tell us about Archie's, then.
12:47That went out during the night, did it?
12:49It did go out during the night.
12:50And if I had some of my wits about me, I could probably remember why, but I can't, I'm afraid.
12:56So I might have to go and look for that on the sheet of abandons.
12:59Couldn't be the orange rolled onto the brake pedal.
13:03I'm hoping not.
13:04I hope not.
13:06The thing was pretty petrified, so I don't think it would have had much give.
13:09Service for Marc Genet.
13:13Marc Genet currently lying in fourth place.
13:16This Audi creeping up towards the Toyotas.
13:21Now it's doing about the same lap times as Alexander Wurz in front.
13:25Sebastian Bomi jumped Wurz about a little over an hour ago
13:28and is still lapping three to four seconds a lap quicker than Alexander Wurz
13:33in his desperate chase of the lead Audi of Lloyd Duval
13:38with eight hours to go.
13:40This race is definitely not over for Toyota.
13:43Oh no!
13:44The Chevy
13:57is definitely not over too long.
14:02Yeah...
14:03Yeah...
14:04I'm sorry.
14:34We'll be back.
15:04Welcome back to Eurosport live here at Le Mans.
15:19The time here is 6.45 Sunday morning.
15:23Spectators heading off for mass.
15:24Well, some of them are heading off for mass.
15:26And we've got a great race on our hands in GT Pro.
15:29We've got Bruno Senna from Richard Leitz, Peter Dunbrecht, Timo Bernhardt.
15:33And then only one lap behind them, Ferrari.
15:36Jimmy Brunning has finally hauled the AF Corsa Ferrari up onto the first page of our leaderboard, 24th overall.
15:44And Martin Haven, that battle is going to rock and roll, surely, all the way to 3 o'clock this afternoon.
15:48Yeah, honestly, I can't see how you could even remotely think any one of the four classes is within four hours of being settled.
16:00Never mind within eight hours of being settled.
16:02This is just ridiculously tight in all the classes.
16:05Incidentally, just before we went on the break, we were talking about Archie Hamilton and his grandfather and the orange and all the other bits and bobs and Roll Goethe's collection assembled by Adrian Hamilton.
16:17And thanks to Adam Weller reminding me that the number 30 car that Archie Hamilton shared with Tony Burgess went out when the transaxle separated from the rest of the car in a huge shunt at about 2 o'clock in the morning.
16:33Big, big shunt.
16:34I believe that Tony is A-OK, but the car definitely was very much split in half.
16:42Well, we've got a problem for the leading Rebellion Lola.
16:46The rear engine cover is reported to be loose.
16:49Matthew Bech on board that car at the moment.
16:50I thought it looked loose a minute ago when we saw it go by.
16:53But at least they've got a spare.
16:54Yeah, and they're two laps ahead of sister car of Neil Jani.
16:58So they've got the luxury of being able to make a pit stop and not lose position if they can secure that, Liz.
17:05Neil Jani lost that position.
17:06He had a bit of a long stop in the darkness again, sort of early hours of this morning.
17:10And dropped back behind his teammate, and that just hasn't been able to get on terms.
17:15Of course, two identical cars, fairly closely matched driver teams, as the number one Audi is finding.
17:22Very, very hard to make ground on similar cars driven in a similar manner.
17:27Yeah, and just behind those two Rebellions is the 21 Stracker.
17:30Nick Leventis now on board the car.
17:32Johnny Kane put it off again during the night, his second big off of Le Mans week.
17:38It's very uncharacteristic of Johnny, isn't it?
17:40But Nick Leventis, obviously the gentleman driver, he's that much slower than Benoit Trellier, who's coming in from behind.
17:46And Trellier, almost 20 seconds a lap quicker.
17:50And Nick surely is going to fall victim to him before long.
17:53Trellier in the number one car that was delayed with that.
17:56It was a crankshaft sensor, wasn't it, during the evening?
18:00In fact, Johnny Kane looped it round at the Ford chicane, just backed it into the gravel.
18:05As we said earlier on, if you've got no nose, if you're going in, make sure you're going backwards.
18:10And at least he did that.
18:11No damage done.
18:12He was dragged out.
18:13It only took a couple of minutes, got dragged out, turned round, and drove straight back into the pits for service.
18:17So, no major dramas.
18:19But again, it was just an indication, as conditions were going from night to light, and from slippery and slimy to not quite so nasty, even the best get caught out.
18:29The fastest man in LMP2 at the moment is Mike Conway, blinding 3 minutes 40, which is by far the fastest time at the moment.
18:38Oh, 3.38, my goodness.
18:40And that's a lot quicker than anyone else in LMP2 at the moment.
18:43He's pushing really hard to gain themselves back up into a possible podium position at the moment, and is hunting down Jan Mardenbrough, who just did a 3.43, which is still quite quick, but five seconds slower.
18:55And there he is on screen, Mike Conway, really flying.
18:59And for those of you that are just joining us, get a look at his helmet.
19:03It's been designed to look like an old-fashioned racer's helmet with the goggles up over the brow.
19:09And Mike Conway, his first Le Mans, and like Martin Plowman, you know, done most of his single-seater racing career recently in the States.
19:17And both of them have put in singularly impressive performances here this weekend.
19:24Seeing some of the teams there wrapped up in blankets.
19:26It has been a fairly cold night.
19:28I don't think those SRT boys are expecting this sort of temperature, because you don't get those in America, except for Daytona in Florida.
19:35Yeah, we just saw our GT-EM leader being serviced.
19:39Raymond Nurek getting out of the car.
19:42And as Martin suggested, Christophe Bure will probably climb on board that.
19:46Here's the number eight Toyota, Liz.
19:48This is the lead Toyota.
19:50Sebastian Buehmi stays on board.
19:51That's in second place.
19:53And it's 2 minutes 39 behind the lead Audi.
19:56So still on the lead lap.
19:58How good is that?
19:58This is fantastic.
20:00I mean, we've come into the morning.
20:01It's daylight.
20:02We still have three Audis trucking around and two Toyotas.
20:06And two Toyotas are in the top three.
20:08Yes, they are.
20:08This is a much better fight than I think we actually even expected.
20:11The thing we ever dared to hope for, yes.
20:13Listen, just getting back to Mike Conway while the time is on the screen.
20:16His last lap, his fastest of the race, 3 minutes 38.807.
20:21Fastest lap last year, 3.38.803.
20:26Four thousands off the LMP2 record, Mike Conway, on that last lap.
20:31But Morgan are upping the ante just ahead of him as well.
20:33They've just put in, well, Bertram Begett's just put in the 35 cars fastest lap.
20:38And Olivier Pla is also on a fly.
20:40He's just done his car's fastest second sector.
20:42He is the leader.
20:43So first and second with fastest laps coming up.
20:46Jan Margenborough we're with, third in the LMP2 class.
20:50And that car's still really in contention.
20:533.42.2 to the 3.41.3 of Begett in front.
20:59And the 3.43.9 of leader Olivier Pla,
21:03who's world's more experienced than Margenborough at Le Mans,
21:07at Prototype Racing and at everything else.
21:09So Margenborough right in the hunt there.
21:12And he and Lucas Ordinez and Mikel Krum could easily end up on the podium.
21:17Ordinez was on the podium.
21:18His first ever race here at Le Mans in the LMP2 class.
21:23And Margenborough just could do exactly the same thing.
21:27And again, showing how that Nissan PlayStation GT Academy that Liz has been involved with
21:33has really come up with a great way of selecting these drivers.
21:38And somebody earlier on on Twitter was saying,
21:41I really want to become a racing driver.
21:43At the moment, all I do is simulators.
21:45Two years ago, all Jan Margenborough did was play on his PlayStation.
21:50He entered a competition.
21:51The GT Academy played on GT5.
21:54Went to Silverstone.
21:55Got selected.
21:57Went through the tests.
21:58And here he is.
21:59He is racing at Le Mans instead of sitting on his couch watching it.
22:03If you want to be part of it, find out about GT Academy.
22:08Google is your friend.
22:09Other friends are available online.
22:12And, you know, you never know.
22:13You could be being grilled in Silverstone in the summer.
22:18And who knows?
22:19We might be sitting here talking about one of you sitting on your couch.
22:23And it's not just the UK.
22:25Wherever you are in the world, you may end up being part of the Nissan GT Academy program.
22:31Your first step is buying Gran Turismo and kept playing.
22:34Yeah.
22:34Buy Gran Turismo 5 until your eyes bleed and your thumbs are solid joints because...
22:41And then finish your homework.
22:42Yeah.
22:43But Jan has made a couple of rookie errors here at Le Mans.
22:46But that can be forgiven, can't it?
22:47He's only 21.
22:48It's only his second season of racing, as you say.
22:50And his first LMP2 race.
22:52And it's been a really tricky Le Mans.
22:54I will give him that.
22:55You know, you don't...
22:56As your first Le Mans, you don't really want it to be mixed conditions.
22:59You know, I'm feeling a little bit smug now.
23:01I had a dry race in my first one.
23:03I'm thinking, thank goodness, it wasn't this one.
23:05Think of all the really good and really experienced drivers who have made lots of rookie errors as well.
23:11Well, we just talked about Johnny Cone.
23:12Yeah.
23:13Exactly.
23:13Exactly.
23:14You know, putting a car off in a race like this and still keeping it going and still being in the hunt for the podium,
23:21that's not any disgrace.
23:24You know, when you finish this race, if you get to the chequered flag, boy, you're going to know you've been in a race, whatever car you're in.
23:31Yeah, no, I think it's been, well, you're going to know you've been here all week.
23:34And some of the trickiest conditions I can remember from them all.
23:38You know, I've spoken to a lot of people that have been here, been coming here many more years longer than me,
23:42so they can't ever remember as many red flags in practice and qualifying.
23:46Only one session.
23:47No session went through in practice and qualifying without a red flag.
23:51Only one actually finished with a chequered flag, and that had been red flagged in the middle as well.
23:56So, yes, it's been enormously difficult for teams and for drivers, and we've already had a record, eight safety cars.
24:04We've got eight hours to go.
24:07My goodness.
24:07That's over four Formula One Grand Prix's.
24:09How many times do you get four Formula One Grand Prix's in mixed weather without a safety car?
24:14And I would love to sit here and say, oh, now the sun's coming out.
24:17It's going to be perfect for the rest of the race.
24:19But I don't know.
24:20I think we could still get some more showers or something odd at random moments.
24:25Honestly, if this week teaches us nothing, it could come at any minute at any place on the track.
24:30So all these guys are getting as much shut-eye as they possibly can.
24:35You never know when they're going to need it.
24:36Stop and go penalty, incidentally, for car 40.
24:39That's about Synginian reconnaissance.
24:42Well, that was handed a drive-through penalty for speeding before.
24:46And the weather forecast is for drizzle, drizzle, drizzle, drizzle, drizzle from pretty much midday on.
24:52Quite a situation normal this year, isn't it?
24:55Which will make for a very exciting finish to this race.
24:57I remember, what was 2007, my goodness.
25:00Do you remember the torrential rain at the end of the race?
25:03At that stage, my car was out already.
25:05He had gone out at 9 o'clock in the morning with a gearbox failure.
25:08And I was sitting indoors, feeling a bit cheesed off that we hadn't finished, but thinking, gee, I'm glad I'm not driving in this right now.
25:15But just occasionally, being out of the cockpit is not such a bad thing.
25:2142 Nissan on pit road.
25:23This is Jan Martin.
25:24It is indeed.
25:25BRDC rising stars driver.
25:29That's an early pit stop for him.
25:31Has he not?
25:31I thought he only just went in, went out recently.
25:35Not sure.
25:36That seems a bit early to me.
25:37There was nothing there other than fuel.
25:39Hmm.
25:40Maybe I'm just going crazy because I haven't any sleep.
25:43But I'm sure he hadn't been in the car for very long at all.
25:45Well, he comes out just ahead of Mike Conway, who's fourth.
25:48Now, how much in front of Mike Conway is he?
25:54Not a lot.
25:54Oh, Olivier Platt on pit road as well.
25:56The leader in class is on pit road in LMP2.
25:59He was dual.
26:00Patrick Dempsey getting into the number 77 car, I think.
26:03Yes, he is.
26:04They've had a very good race so far.
26:06They have had a good race.
26:07He might be a star, but he has done all his show of the night driving.
26:10Yeah, no question.
26:11No, he's a good driver.
26:13No, he is.
26:13He's not here to flounce around and, you know, just have fun.
26:17He is here to try and win this race.
26:19Has made mistakes, but then, you know, you show me a driver in the race that has not made mistakes,
26:24and I'll show you a very unusual individual.
26:27I don't want to remind you of what you missed, Martin, but the caption just said,
26:30Born in the USA.
26:31I thought, you know, just...
26:33Yeah, well...
26:34Oh, my.
26:34That was a long time ago, that concert, Martin.
26:37Yeah.
26:38Did you get to Earth, Wind & Fire last night?
26:39No, I didn't.
26:40No, I was working the whole time.
26:43No, actually.
26:44We had Earth, Wind & Rain last night.
26:46Yes, exactly.
26:47And we had Greg Murphy, and he didn't want to go to Earth, Wind & Fire.
26:50We sent him the other direction to see the commitments.
26:52Oh, right.
26:53Now, if I'd known the commitments were actually here, and that wasn't just a gag,
26:57I might have gone to see the Andrew Strong water pair of lungs.
27:00Meanwhile, Aston's service will get a quick break in ourselves.
27:05Oh, my God.
27:05Oh, my God.
27:10Oh, my God.
27:16Oh, my God.
27:46Oh, my God.
28:16Oh, my God.
28:46Thank you very much. We'll see you later on.
28:47And Jeremy Shaw, hot off the pit lane, is just about to take over.
28:52And as Jeremy joins us, really, really exciting time, especially in the GT Pro category, where we have got a five-way battle developing between two Aston Martins, two Porsches, and a, of course, a Ferrari.
29:08Finally getting into the frame. It's taken them a long time. It's taken them some 18, sorry, 16 hours to get to this position.
29:17But Jimmy Bruni now starting to attack Timo Bernhardt's factory Porsche. He's on the same lap. He's two minutes, 22 seconds behind.
29:27And ahead of him, Peter Dunbrecht for Aston Martin. Ahead of him, Richard Leitz for Porsche.
29:31And then Bruno Senna, a rookie here at Le Mans, leading here after those 16 hours of racing.
29:39Jeremy, good morning. Good to have you back with us.
29:42Always good to be here.
29:43Pleasure, honour, in fact.
29:45So how's your night been?
29:46I did. Last couple I had about an hour or so of sleep.
29:50So, and a quick rustle up in the shower.
29:53So, well, sort of shower.
29:54So, no, feeling a little bit refreshed. It's great.
29:56Seven o'clock in the morning here, six o'clock in the UK, of course.
30:01So, yeah, that's where we are.
30:03And, strangely, Mom, we've had a record number of safety cars, eight of them, I believe, now.
30:09Seven red flags in practice and qualifying, and it's been very, very bizarre, hasn't it?
30:14Yeah, it certainly has. No question about that.
30:17But, you know, since not much has changed, it seems, since I left here about three o'clock in the morning, I think,
30:22and not much has changed since then.
30:24We had a couple of shuffles down, it looks like, in the P2 class.
30:28Other than that, the situation as it was in P1 with the, although the number seven car has fallen the lap off, hasn't it?
30:38Off the lead in there.
30:40There's the overall classification running down the order.
30:43You can see there the number 42 Zytec Nissan, Jan Mardenberg, doing a fantastic job there in third place in that class.
30:50Behind only now the two oak racing machines of Bertrand Baguette driving the number 35 car and Olivier Pla in 24.
30:56And farther down the order, the best place of the GTE cars.
31:03There is a leader in GTE Amd, kind of a 76.
31:06Raymond Narak has been doing a sterling job there, as indeed has Jean-Claude Vernet, who really has been a star in that car.
31:12It was a great stint.
31:14Despite his history, his provenance, he's a rookie here at Le Mans.
31:17Oh, he is, but he won last year's Porsche Carrera Cup Series in France.
31:22He's won the India Lights Championship in America before that.
31:26He's been finished second in the Macau Grand Prix.
31:29This guy is a superstar.
31:30He should be racing in a lot of categories.
31:33With no disrespect for GTE Amd, he should be racing in a series a lot higher category than that.
31:38Of course, he was a test driver for Peugeot before.
31:41Yeah, and he was ready to be given his brake by Peugeot at Sebring when they pulled the plug.
31:45Exactly.
31:46So, you know, he's a known quantity.
31:49The guy's quick.
31:50Now, very, very interestingly, Jeremy, those top three cars in LMP2, you were just talking about the two Oak Morgans and the Zytec behind.
31:58All three have Zytec engines because those two more, a lot of the field, all the Eureka Nissans actually have their Nissan engines now prepared by Hugh Deshaunach's Eureka team.
32:09But Morgan still had their engines prepared by Zytec, and it's a Zytec engine which is in third place in Mardinburg's car.
32:16So, if the podium's going to be like that, it'd be a great, great day for John Manchester and all the guys from Zytec.
32:21No question about it.
32:22And without wishing to take away anything from that, Mike Conway is his car, the Delta ADR car, that's using the Orokin Nissan engine.
32:32He just set fastest lap of the race in P2.
32:35So, you know, it just shows the equality of the competition, the quality and the equality of the competition in P2.
32:43Fabulous.
32:44Yeah, we've got another Zytec a little further down.
32:46Simon Dolan, who's running seventh in P2.
32:50And right behind him, Scott Tucker with the HPD Honda.
32:54So, it's not all Nissan, we've got Zytec and we've got Honda as well here running.
32:59So, quite a good mixture.
33:01Yeah, and the level five motor sports car, car number 33, it places it overall 17th.
33:08So, it's a ninth place in the class.
33:09That's moved up in position since I left earlier on this morning.
33:13And that car's been fast, actually.
33:17They've had some problems.
33:18They had some, I think, engine management problems, effectively, all the way through the evening yesterday, which dropped them seven or eight laps, I think, or four or five laps, at least, off the pace, ultimate pace, in P2.
33:33But, I think, other than that, that car might have been right up in the front because Ryan Briscoe, I think it was, did the first stint in that car and came from quite a long way down the grid, right up into the top three or four.
33:43So, he was charging and it was only a few delays that put him back in the pack.
33:47We've got another change in GTE Pro, just going through the pit stop cycle.
33:51So, Bruno Senna, who's just on his out lap, has dropped to third behind Porsche's Richard Leitz and his team-mate Peter Dunbrek.
33:59And Liz has just arrived back with coffee and croissants.
34:02We are in France, of course.
34:03Don't look after you guys.
34:05Wow.
34:08Right, so, back on board with the number eight Toyota, just looking at this circuit.
34:13It's now looking dry.
34:15Even offline, it's quite dry, but you can start to see just some of the debris creeping into the circuit.
34:20We have been going for a long time now.
34:24And just a lovely helicopter shot here.
34:26Just gives you a great idea of the sort of lines these cars are taking and how vast the circuit is.
34:32It's over eight and a half miles long.
34:35Fantastic opportunity for anybody to come drive on one of the greatest circuits in the world.
34:40The longest straight of any circuit in Europe, I think, possibly anywhere that sports car racing runs in.
34:46Just about anything runs in anywhere, in actual fact.
34:49Three and a half miles, I think it is.
34:50Well, I think it's a funny story.
34:52When I first came to Le Mans, I was not as a spectator at the race.
34:57I was just on my way down to actually down to the Monaco Grand Prix in the middle 70s.
35:01And I drove through as many road racetracks as I could on my way down there.
35:06This was pre-auto routes, pre-payage anyhow.
35:08And I drove around Rouen, drove later on around Clermont-Ferrand, all the way down.
35:13Fantastic road circuits.
35:15And came into the town of Le Mans, found the Route Nationale down here.
35:20I saw the Terre Trouge, those distinctive trees on the left-hand side of the track.
35:26So I knew exactly where I was there.
35:28But great, here we are.
35:29We're on the Malt-Sandes Strait.
35:30So we're driving on down the Malt-Sandes Strait.
35:32We can see the restaurant on the left.
35:34Fabulous fun.
35:35Wow, this is so cool.
35:36Driving along, driving along, driving along, driving along.
35:38That's sort of 55, 60 miles now, probably.
35:41And driving along, driving along, driving along.
35:43There's four of us in the car in the Hotel Cortina.
35:47And we're driving for what it seems like ever.
35:51Did anybody see Malt-Sandes Corner?
35:53No.
35:54No.
35:55Cracky.
35:56That's bizarre.
35:57How do we miss it?
35:58No idea.
35:59What do we want to do?
36:00Do we want to turn around and go back and find it and drive around the rest of the track?
36:03Because then you could drive around the whole track before the Porsche, before the cut off some of the circuit.
36:08And we thought, oh dear, do we want to turn back and go back?
36:11We've got an awful long way to go.
36:12Look, hey, we've seen Tetch Rouge.
36:14We've seen the Malt-Sandes Strait Away.
36:16Great.
36:17No, let's just carry on.
36:17Okay, fine.
36:18Great.
36:18So we had all this conversation.
36:20And we're still driving, driving, driving.
36:21And what seemed like an hour later, wow, there's Malt-Sandes Corner.
36:26It can't possibly be that long, can it?
36:28And indeed, so that just shows.
36:31I mean, I've been around racing, you know, several years, even at that stage, hadn't been here to see the race.
36:36But that just shows how long that race track was.
36:38And have you seen the REM circuit?
36:40Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
36:41Again, a long straight there as well.
36:43A long straight there.
36:44Nothing like this.
36:45But sitting on this, I mean, it really is a chance to have a rest.
36:48And it does, even at 200 miles an hour, it does go on for a long time.
36:52And it must sound funny to everyone at home, but it really is your chance to rest.
36:56You have a little, you know, maybe just move your fingers on the wheel.
36:59Have a little check of all your mirrors first.
37:02Checking the gate, you know, checking the telemetry.
37:05Just making sure everything is where it should be.
37:07We heard the Audi drivers were saying they now get to scroll through sort of a little screen on their wheel.
37:14And they can check the tire pressures of all four tires.
37:16I mean, telemetry has just come on so far.
37:18And it is fantastic.
37:20And quite often what you're doing while you're just trucking along the straight is your teams may be talking to you, saying switch to map four.
37:27You can change everything.
37:28There's a lot going on other than just driving for all the drivers.
37:33And that aspect of it is a little bit different now, because when I was first here, there were no chicanes down there.
37:39Of course, yes.
37:40You had a minute or more of twiddling your thumbs and more relaxation.
37:46Now, that part of the track is actually a little bit more difficult, because you have to concentrate on the chicanes coming up in there.
37:51But in 1983, Derek Bell took me around in the Rothmans Porsche in the days when we gave Group C.
37:57Journalists were given media rides.
37:58And in that Rothmans Porsche, I had a crash helmet, but no belt.
38:02I was jammed into the passenger seat.
38:04And Derek took me down the chute.
38:06And he took the hands off the wheel.
38:08He said, you know, we've got tram lines from the truck, so take hands off the wheel.
38:12Anyway, we got back in after an amazing lap.
38:15And I said, what were we doing?
38:16He said, about 220.
38:18I wouldn't take my hands off the wheel almost.
38:20I was lucky enough to get a ride around here.
38:24It was in a C2 car, the Acos car in 85.
38:28And, boy, that was an experience.
38:30So we weren't doing 220, but we were doing just about 200.
38:33And that was running in a brand-new transmission, too.
38:36Incredible.
38:37Lights flashing as this LMP2 car comes around, a couple of GTs.
38:41As we talked about it before, these cars do have to run with lights on in the day and the night.
38:46It is a normal rule here at Le Mans, also in the American Le Mans series, ELMS and WEC.
38:52And actually, well, I think that's a good thing.
38:54It just keeps you clear as to which car is coming out behind.
38:58You've probably noticed that the GT cars have yellow lights and all of the LMP cars have white lights.
39:03And you can just get a good view there of how different the Audi lights are.
39:07It's a different shape.
39:08Really, really bright LED lights.
39:10You can see sort of the clusters coming down the front there.
39:14And this car holding an unenviable record this year.
39:16The most stops.
39:17That's the 24th stop that the number one car has made.
39:21Of course, they're in the garage for a long time having the crankshaft sensor changed.
39:25I wonder if that'll beat our record.
39:26I think Intrasport might hold the record of the most stops ever.
39:30We've still got almost eight hours to go.
39:32Oh, God.
39:32That was a year and a half, wasn't it, for you, Liz?
39:34Oh, I think we had 48 stops or something like that.
39:37Jan Marden has just done his car's fastest middle sector, and that's impressive.
39:41Here's a nice replay of Jean-Claude Vernet, in fact.
39:45And just looking at some of the other opposition, there is the 125 years of Dunlop car.
39:51And their door flying open.
39:53Oh, goodness.
39:54That's really open, isn't it?
39:55And that was last night.
39:56And we've had reports again about 10 minutes ago that that door is flapping open again.
40:01Get the gaffer tape out.
40:02That's another job for gaffer.
40:04I think when they had the court case last week, they took the door handles as well, didn't they?
40:08But the court closure now, and that's all behind us.
40:11So, oh, messy.
40:14There's another gaffer taped up car.
40:15I think we were all joking earlier, saying you could near enough build a race car and gaffer tape.
40:19But you certainly can hold most of it together.
40:22And this is the other Matmut car.
40:24They've got two running, of course.
40:25This is the 67 car and the 76 car.
40:29They swapped them around.
40:30Well, Liz, long way to go yet.
40:31As we said, almost eight hours.
40:33And this GT Pro is just absolutely amazing at the moment, isn't it?
40:37It's two laps covering the whole field as they're going through the pit stop cycle.
40:42But up front, it's still Audi.
40:44Loic du Val from Toyota and Toyota.
40:47And who would have forecast that at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon?
40:50We're seeing a really fantastic race here.
40:52We're quite a few hours in.
40:53However, everyone starts to think you hit the morning, you hit daylight on the Sunday.
40:57It feels like we've got through the night.
40:59We're getting there.
41:00And then you realize how many hours are still left to go in this race.
41:04And it's a long way.
41:05Five Grand Prix still to go.
41:07It's a very long way to go still.
41:09And Mike Gascoigne made that point last night.
41:11He said, it's really tough getting used to this.
41:14You know, I thought after an hour and a half, we could all pack up and go home.
41:17And then someone said, no, you've got another 22 and a half hours to go.
41:20No, it is difficult.
41:22And I'm glad that we've still got a fight going in every class.
41:25That's fantastic.
41:25By this time last year, the Toyotas were gone.
41:28We were just watching Audi doing what Audi does best, which is hammer along at the front.
41:33But this year, we've still got a race in all four classes going on.
41:37And it's a hot race as well.
41:38Tom Christensen gets in the number two car.
41:40We're not going to give it the commentator's curse.
41:42But if he won today, nine victories.
41:45My goodness, that's quite amazing.
41:47And it would be his 12th podium.
41:49Do I have that right?
41:50Yep.
41:51Wow.
41:51And Nishi would have three wins.
41:53Fantastic.
41:54That would be great for them.
41:55It really would.
41:56We are British Eurosport.
41:57Let's cheer Nishi on, shall we?
41:58Yes.
41:58Absolutely.
41:59I'd love to see them on the podium again.
42:01So, Bremi second, Alexander in third.
42:05Just remind you, Alexander Vertz, the youngest ever winner of Le Mans at 22 years old.
42:26Thank you, for your time.
42:33To be a man, to be a man, to be a man.
43:03Welcome back to Eurosport.
43:25We have a slow car here going along.
43:28I think he's just come out of the pits.
43:29This is the Caterham LMP2 car number 41.
43:33Tom Kimber-Smith at the wheel.
43:35I'm not entirely sure what's wrong with his car,
43:37but it did definitely look like it was creeping down the malls on straight, Jeremy.
43:40Sparked hit me off the front of it.
43:41Looked like potentially some sort of a puncture perhaps.
43:44And he came out of the pits just a lap or so ago
43:47with Tom Kimber-Smith relieving Eric Lux at the wheel of that car.
43:50Here you can see now crawling down the malls on straight.
43:53That's going to be a scary feeling too, hasn't it?
43:55Oh, it's horrible.
43:56It really is horrible because all the times you feel like those cars are passing you fast anyway
44:01in the LMP1 class.
44:02You have no idea until you're creeping along at the speed of a Fiat 500 would be in traffic.
44:09You know, it's absolutely horrific.
44:10And he's got a long way to go.
44:12This is when you really know how long the Le Mans circuit is,
44:16is when you have a problem early on.
44:18You're out there for just, it feels like hours.
44:20It really does.
44:21Yeah, with cars flying past you.
44:23And it's not very wide.
44:25It really isn't.
44:26And trying to stay offline is really difficult when you have a problem
44:29because you can't move out of the way quickly.
44:31You're trying your best to continuously move off the main racing line.
44:35But in order to do that, you've got to take a risk of moving across the track slowly.
44:39There will be marshals flailing a white flag to show that there is a slow-moving car
44:44that you're approaching.
44:44But even so, I mean, we've talked about these incredible speeds
44:48that the frontrunners are doing.
44:50And no matter what's out there, it's going to be difficult.
44:53Service for the 47 Morgan Nissan.
44:56This is the Chinese car, the KCMG car.
44:59Matt Housen getting out of the car.
45:01And is that Alexander Imperatori getting into it?
45:06I think it might have been.
45:07It's hard to tell, really.
45:08We'll see as soon as he comes back on track.
45:10Yeah, here is Peter Dunbrek, the flying Scotsman, literally in 1999,
45:14with Mercedes.
45:15But coming back and having a great race here, lying in second at the moment.
45:19But that is changing every lap between him, Senna, and Richard Leitz.
45:24And Aston Martin having such a strong run in this class.
45:28And, of course, David Rich is telling us last night
45:30they want the win for Alan Simonson.
45:33I have to say I would love to see that today.
45:36I think that would be really great.
45:38You know, I'm a big fan of the others that are running at the front.
45:41But it would be fitting today for that to happen, I think.
45:46So Tom Kimber-Smith still limping around.
45:48And, of course, Tom's hopes of continuing his winning streak
45:52of three wins at Le Mans in just four appearances.
45:55I mean, that's as pro rata, as good as Tom Christensen's ever done.
45:59Lucky bucker.
46:00Not today, sadly.
46:02Sorry, go ahead.
46:03But he's limping around, and the car had already fallen
46:06some way down the order, hadn't it?
46:08I was going to say, I think most people would be thrilled
46:09with three finishes at Le Mans out of four starts,
46:12let alone three wins.
46:13Yeah.
46:14I have to say, two years ago, I was on the panel,
46:16the Guild of Motoring Writers,
46:17which is the motoring journalist organization.
46:19And we voted him driver of the year.
46:21And that was over Lewis Hamilton.
46:23So it just showed how much respect his peers,
46:26his motoring journalist peers, have for him.
46:28My goodness.
46:33So Tom's still limping around.
46:36He's only got to post 63 at the moment,
46:39which is just coming down to Mulsang Corner.
46:42That's how long it takes to get around this lap
46:43when you know you've got a problem with the car
46:45and you need to get it back in one piece.
46:47I think it'll take him on a puncture.
46:49Could take him up to nine minutes, ten minutes even.
46:53I mean, it's going to be a long, a long slog.
46:56And the worse that the puncture, or the worse that the tyre gets,
46:59the slower he'll need to go to not risk tearing off bits of body work
47:03and shredding up the radiators and everything.
47:06So he's going to have to be really taking it cautiously
47:08and trying to not get run over at the same time.
47:11So that's a huge problem if you have a puncture on the last lap
47:14because you have to complete your final lap in six minutes.
47:17And if you've got bits coming off the car...
47:20The only thing, on the last thing,
47:22you don't have to worry about just bringing it back slowly.
47:24You can bring the...
47:25It doesn't matter how many wheels are on the car
47:26as long as you get it to the finish line.
47:28But you're right, you're right, absolutely right, Liz,
47:31because the average speed of a front-running lap in LMP2, even,
47:37not LMP1, is almost 140 miles an hour.
47:41It's 137 or 8 miles an hour.
47:43That's an average speed for the whole lap.
47:45Well, if you try to do those sort of speeds
47:46with a tyre flailing around,
47:48you're going to do an awful lot of damage.
47:50So, yeah, you know, nine, ten minutes is quite conceivable.
47:54You've got to limp around the whole way, which is what he had to do.
47:56And also, what Oliver Jarvis had to do last night
48:00in the number three Audi R18 e-tron Quattro,
48:04because he got a puncture going into the Dunlop curve,
48:07so he had to do the lap all the way around.
48:09And they usually say about 30 mile an hour maximum on a puncture.
48:14It's sort of a general rule,
48:15but a lot of it will be down to what the team's telling you.
48:18They'll be watching on the TV when they show the car.
48:20Earlier on, we saw a Ferrari that had a puncture.
48:23And in my opinion, he probably went a little bit too fast in
48:27and it's torn a bunch of the bodywork off the back of the car.
48:29And ultimately, you're not saving yourself any time
48:32because whatever small few minutes you've gained
48:35by coming back that little bit faster
48:36are spent putting an entire new bodywork package on the car.
48:40So, really, it's down to just patience
48:42and telling yourself that this is just where you are
48:46and you've got to just hold it together
48:47and bring it in the best speed that's possible for the car.
48:51Just going through Indianapolis as we talk.
48:53In comes then for service.
48:55This is the number three Audi.
48:57Marc Genet brings it in.
48:59Driver change.
49:00So, it's going to be full service for this car, Liz?
49:04Yeah, it looks to be that way, going as quickly as they can.
49:07We can just see how fast and dialed in the driver changes are.
49:11All these teams will have practiced and practiced
49:13the driver change and the tire change
49:15and the whole pit stop procedure
49:16because they know more than anybody
49:18that a race can be won or lost in the pits.
49:20Most of these drivers will have the change down to under 30 seconds.
49:24They should definitely have it down to that
49:26and that includes everything.
49:27Driver in, out, seat insert in.
49:30Water plugged in, radio plugged in,
49:32belt's done, finger on the button, ready to start.
49:35And that's pretty impressive if you think about it.
49:37Yeah, it certainly is.
49:39The number three car with its problems overnight
49:41has gone within about 40 seconds
49:43of the third place Toyota, number seven car,
49:47before this pit stop.
49:50Another good stop there, I think, though.
49:52That was a tidy stop.
49:53Yeah, that was good.
49:53Yeah, yeah.
49:54Driver change, as he said, there is
49:56Stefan Sarazam waiting for this car,
50:00Sebastian Buemi.
50:01And Sebastian Buemi won't be able to wave to his cousin,
50:03Natasha Gashnan, because she's just gone back out
50:06after a pit stop in the Moran Racing, Morgan Judd.
50:10So...
50:11Was that a long stop for her?
50:12It was.
50:13I feel like they've been in there for a while.
50:14It was quite long, yeah.
50:15Yeah.
50:17So Buemi then, on his in-lap,
50:20just coming through Indianapolis,
50:21that lovely little bank corner.
50:23Can you really feel the banking on that?
50:25You can, yeah.
50:26Yeah.
50:26I mean, obviously, it's not like a huge bank corner,
50:29but you can feel every ups and downs of this circuit.
50:32And there's much more than you can even see on TV.
50:35Even just the little humps in the road,
50:36just there, they're going over one.
50:38You just see the car humping.
50:39You feel everything in these race cars.
50:41And it's...
50:42Anytime there's any bit of camber on the road,
50:45it can either help to hold you in or push you away.
50:47So you've got to be really conscious of that all the time.
50:49So photo opportunity for Toyota.
50:51They're running together at the moment.
50:52Second and third cars, they are one lap apart.
50:55Yes, that is.
50:55Yeah, absolutely right.
50:57But incidentally, that car number 41,
51:00Tom Kimbersmith, did make it back to the pit lane.
51:03And his sector time through sector three here, 240 seconds.
51:08So it's a long way back.
51:11Yeah, a regular sector time for a P2 car through there
51:15is a bit over 100 seconds.
51:17So it cost him a couple of minutes just in that final sector.
51:20But he did get it back.
51:21And hopefully, he can get that car back into the freight
51:23without too much damage to that corner.
51:25We expected Buemi to come into the pits.
51:27He didn't.
51:28He stayed out.
51:29And, in fact, Wurtz just trying to pass him
51:30as they go up into the Dunlop curves.
51:33Wurtz trying to claw back that one lap they lost earlier on.
51:40And I suspect perhaps Wurtz has got fresher tyres than Buemi.
51:44If he's due to come in, that might be partly why.
51:46He's a little bit quicker, but I'm not 100% sure.
51:48But looking at their lap times,
51:50Sebastian Buemi was quicker on the last lap than Alexander Wurtz was.
51:54But that might not be the case this time around,
51:56although his sector times look faster.
51:58So we'll wait and see.
51:59Blocked by the Aston there.
52:02Buemi just couldn't quite make the pass that Wurtz has.
52:05Wurtz has gone ahead of him then.
52:07Looking at some who's doing fast lap times right now,
52:10Nick Manassian is behind the wheel of the number 49 car, the Eureka.
52:14Toyota, that's the PCOM car, clawing its way back up through the P2 order.
52:21He's just done a 3.41.8, quickest time for that car.
52:25Also, we've seen Mark Goosen's behind the wheel of the 53 Viper.
52:30Recently did its quickest time.
52:31He did a 3.59.0, which is a very quick time for that Viper.
52:36One of the fastest, I think the quickest time is probably done all weekend.
52:41Back on board of the number 8 Toyota here.
52:44Heading down the Molzon straight gives you a really good view
52:48of how fast this is in these cars.
52:50You can just see everything flying by into the second chicane.
52:56You can hear the gears changing very, very fast.
52:58They'll now head on down to that run into Molzon corner.
53:01Oh, Parc Fermi.
53:04But what's amazing is how few cars are in Parc Fermi.
53:08I mean, goodness me, here we are, what, 17 hours or whatever it is into the race now.
53:14And generally by this time of the morning,
53:16there's a lot more cars in there than that.
53:18Don't you agree, Mark Gole?
53:19Yeah.
53:19Have they brought back the 31 Lotus?
53:23I don't know if that was there.
53:24I think that went behind the barriers.
53:25That's probably still going to be there.
53:26I think there are a couple cars out of the circuit on there.
53:28Probably no more than five or six out of 56 starters.
53:34Especially with the weather we've had.
53:35I mean, if we were a bone-dry, hot race, then you'd go, all right, maybe.
53:39But, you know, we've had such mixed conditions,
53:42especially in the night, have rain in the night.
53:44It's pretty good, I think.
53:46Yeah, what time was that rain shower?
53:49Do you know, because it was after 3 o'clock,
53:50because it hadn't happened by 3 o'clock.
53:51So it must have been around 4 or so, because we got up at, yeah,
53:55we were up at, well, 4.30-ish.
53:57And then, yeah.
53:58It already happened by then, yeah.
54:03So again, the Toyota's coming across Aston Martins,
54:06it seems, almost every other corner.
54:08But running together, and as we said,
54:11Verts has just unlapped himself.
54:13Well, hasn't quite unlapped himself.
54:14He's still being shown as one lap behind Bramey,
54:16but he is ahead of him now.
54:18But, of course, that's not on the lead lap, so.
54:21And to Porsche curves again, so, so fast through here, Liz.
54:25Oh, just unbelievably fast.
54:27Fastest collection of curves in the whole circuit.
54:30Fifth gear through most of that.
54:32Quite often fourth or fifth through this last piece.
54:35Usually it's fourth through the right-hander we saw before the left,
54:38but so, so fast.
54:40And not very wide either.
54:41It's quite narrow.
54:42It's very difficult if you meet a car in the middle,
54:44because you can come around the left-hand extremely fast in an LMP car
54:49and have no idea what's in front of you until you've arrived upon it.
54:52So it's very difficult.
54:53Imagine Silverstone's Beckett's complex, but with walls on both sides.
54:56Yeah, and faster.
54:57And longer.
54:58Faster and longer.
54:59Yeah, it's pretty wild.
55:02A lot of fun if you get it right, though.
55:03Fantastic.
55:04Of course, British Grand Prix next weekend.
55:06Desalina Gate, winning race director, car director for the number one car.
55:12Not this year, sadly.
55:13That broken crankshaft sensor that I suppose any other team would have just packed up
55:20and gone home at that.
55:21But not Audi.
55:22No, they've got a lot of guests here, and they want all three cars to finish.
55:25Well, I think any team at Le Mans would have tried their absolute hardest to fix it.
55:29However, I don't know if the other teams would have had the resources and the ability to fix the car quite as quickly as they did at Audi.
55:36It certainly would have taken a bit longer.
55:38But, you know, I think most teams would do absolutely everything possible to finish the race, you know, if they could.
55:47Got a moment here.
55:48This is all such a close brush with one of the Intermat McPorsches and just comparing the two cars.
55:57Bit of porpoising there from the Audi.
55:58Yeah, a little bit.
56:00And I think the drivers don't really seem to notice that very much.
56:02I think it's less than we think from in there.
56:06But certainly a porpoising car is a little bit weird to deal with.
56:11It sort of messes up your vision.
56:12But I question if it's not really as bad as it looks to us.
56:16But it's hard to know without speaking to them.
56:18I remember a couple of years ago asking about it, and they said, what porpoising?
56:21We didn't notice anything.
56:22So here we are, those two Toyotas still running together.
56:27And this is just a replay of what?
56:31Is this way we're going back ahead of Wurz?
56:34Yeah, I think that looks to be the case.
56:37Yes.
56:37Stefan Sarazen then waiting to get in.
56:39And we're going for a break again.
56:43And we'll be back at now almost 7.30 in the morning here in France.
56:48Get a coffee.
56:49Join us in a moment.
56:50And we'll be back at now.
57:20We'll be back at now.
57:50We'll be back at now.
58:20Welcome back to Eurosports coverage of the 81st.
58:2724 hours of Le Mans pit stops here for the number.
58:31The second place car of Sebastian Buemi brings his Toyota TS030 hybrid into the pit lane for, we think, we believe, scheduled service.
58:43We were talking a few minutes ago about the number of retirements.
58:46There have been seven retirements from the race so far with, what, how many, how many, seven and a half hours to go.
58:54So 16 and a half hours in the books, we've lost the 95 car, the 31, the 28, the 25, the 57, the 54, and the 30.
59:03Still seven and a half hours to go, but the fewest retirements ever in this race, as pointed out just to me a few minutes ago by Martin Haven, was 16.
59:11Right.
59:12That's the fewest number of retirements.
59:14Last year, there were 23 retirements in a race.
59:17There were actually only three retirements in 1923.
59:20But there weren't nearly so many, they weren't running nearly so hard either back then.
59:23But, you know, we are on a pretty good pace here to get a lot of cars to the finish line, which really would be very, very impressive.
59:32Only seven is really not much at all at this stage.
59:34No, that's my point.
59:35When we've made it through the night with only seven is amazing, isn't it?
59:37Absolutely.
59:38Yeah.
59:39It is quite incredible.
59:40Come on, this commentator's curse will kick in if you're going like this.
59:42Oh, no.
59:43I better stop, yeah.
59:44Don't do this.
59:45Don't do it.
59:46No.
59:47We've got seven and a half hours still to go at Le Mans.
59:50Tom Christensen leads for Audi in P1.
59:52Olivier Pilar leads for the Oak-Morgan team in P2.
59:58Ninth overall.
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