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00:00:00Bruno Senna back out in front for Aston Martin in Pro GT in 20th place overall
00:00:05and it's Jean-Karl Venet in the IMSA MacBook Porsche leading GTM 32nd
00:00:12place overall and as Jeremy just said seven retirements so that means that we
00:00:17have at the moment 49 cars still running because we started 56 and how's the
00:00:26wall child come in along mark yeah well we've got to start marking that up soon
00:00:31that was a scary moment there particularly for whoever was aboard the
00:00:36Murphy prototype standard for 48 you nearly got barge off the track and into
00:00:40the into the barriers there at to the exit of Tertruche I think that's Mark
00:00:44Patterson isn't it it is oldest driver at Le Mans second I think he's the oldest
00:00:51here we go here it is again 64 boy that was close and I didn't know that the
00:00:57oldest driver ever in Le Mans was Felber Meyer senior in 2011 or was it last
00:01:03year 2011 I think and again here we are 66 years old
00:01:07oh my goodness yeah there it is wow that really was close this is Benoit's local
00:01:13circuit of course he lives just up the road at Alonso he knows it so well maybe a
00:01:17little bit ambitious though that he literally just actually brushed him I
00:01:22think it was really I think Daniel Prussner will have been watching that but
00:01:26he's a French driver so yeah he got away with it just heads up driving there by
00:01:33Mark Patterson I mean he couldn't have got any farther across the road he definitely
00:01:37wasn't in the way there just wasn't quite enough room for the whole Toyota there
00:01:41just just barely P2 Jan Mardenberg and the Zytec has just done another fastest sector too so he is
00:01:49still flying the uh the young Welshman having such a good race and he's been
00:01:53super consistent too he's been turning one year to three minutes forty ones forty two
00:01:58forty threes that is that is very impressive in a P2 car around here
00:02:02particularly given the fact it's his first time here it's it's very easy to lose
00:02:08three or four seconds particularly coming through the Porsche course you get stuck behind a Porsche or
00:02:11something like that and I haven't every time I look at the scoring it's uh it's around about the
00:02:17same sort of mark I I'd say Mardenberg has been unbelievably uh consistent it actually has in
00:02:23terms of his lap time very very impressive well very tidy and I think the circuit is very fast at
00:02:28the moment we're seeing quite a few fast sector times this is usually when it's dry and a bit cooler in
00:02:33the morning is usually when we see some of the car's best times actually no question and we've
00:02:37seen it already we saw uh Mike Conway set the fastest lap in P2 uh about 45 minutes ago uh and
00:02:45you know fast is one speed though but it's one thing consistency is another and you consider the fact
00:02:50that two years ago Jan Mardenberg never sat in a racing car at all uh all he was doing was was was
00:02:58gaming on that uh the playstation systems at home on the couch basically but to to see the progress
00:03:05he has made a new fastest lap for him though through him it's 40.7 um it's remarkable what he's been able
00:03:11to achieve and uh I know Darren Cox from from Nissan who's been involved in that program set up that
00:03:16program has bringing on these young drivers giving them the opportunity to drive proper racing cars he's
00:03:22only going to put them into into this sort of a car this sort of an event if they can he knows they can
00:03:27handle themselves and Jan uh he's he's been uh he's been busy he last year drove in the gt3 championship
00:03:33in in the uk did the british gt championship did super job there over the winter he was racing in
00:03:38new zealand in the toriota racing series uh and then this year he's racing in formula three and getting
00:03:42a lot of mileage and that's what this sport is all about mileage and experience yeah and uh yeah
00:03:48next weekend goes to the norris ring in the formula three and we were talking about that with him and
00:03:52uh and what a difference from lamar to norris ring weekends apart and if he goes there as a
00:03:58podium finisher at lamar he's going to be a real hero though he will be and he's a very he's a very
00:04:02lucky boy actually because there's a lot of racing drivers out there that don't get that opportunity
00:04:06that don't get to do a lot of testing even let alone racing in lots of different cars and it is
00:04:10seat time and he's probably had more seat time than some people who've been driving for a lot of years
00:04:16already and i think that makes a huge difference you know i think a lot of people can sympathize with
00:04:20me in those days when you just you know you're never going to get enough testing because there
00:04:24isn't the money behind it you're thrown into the deep end you've got a few laps to learn a circuit
00:04:29and you know that you couldn't have done weeks and weeks and weeks of testing and racing because it
00:04:33just isn't possible and he's very lucky to be in this program getting so much seat time right now
00:04:38it's everything it's absolutely everything experience experience experience that's what it's all about
00:04:43that's the only way you're going to improve yourself a driver that's why they've done
00:04:47nissan guys have done such a fabulous job with him uh so you know but the the really good thing
00:04:52about it from my perspective i'd never met jan radenwood before this week um because i'm based
00:04:57in the united states these days uh and i've i've just been really impressed with him as a person
00:05:02he's humble he he's very appreciative of this opportunity he knows uh that you know he's got the
00:05:08chance of a lifetime here and that you know met anybody else who wants to be a racing driver would
00:05:13give their hind teeth to be in the position he he is has been put and you know he's humble uh and
00:05:19he's taken he's he's doing exactly with this opportunity what he should be doing with this
00:05:25opportunity just comparing our first and second place um oak morgans just their different styles
00:05:31going down through the forest s's there and uh interestingly we got seven oreca chassis running
00:05:37in lmp2 but none of them in the top three we got two oak morgans and one zytec chassis so uh hugh
00:05:44de shonac who's also running the toyota program will be just be looking at that thinking let's get
00:05:48one of those oreca cars up a little bit further but uh all customer cars of course none of them
00:05:55the other guys are trying aren't they yeah mike conway now in the number 26 car for delta adr he's
00:06:01within about a minute and 10 seconds of jan marden bro behind him maxi martin in the number 46 car the
00:06:08terrier by tds car he is uh about two and a half minutes behind uh no about a minute and a half behind
00:06:16mike conway and the the two leaders you just talked about the two oak racing morgan nissans they are
00:06:22separated by about 23 seconds now so bertrand baguette who's driving the number 35 car definitely seems to be
00:06:27closing in on olivier pla who took the pole position in p2 on thursday it was interesting
00:06:34watching uh jan martin was in car there coming through and and also having just watched the
00:06:39toyota recently you can see him just dropping down in extra gear into that last part of the porsche
00:06:44curves where the toyota doesn't drop down at all they just have a little breathe and it just goes to show
00:06:50how much sort of extra downforce they have and how tight the car is through there because that's an lmp1 car
00:06:55going that much faster and not dropping a gear it's just interesting for me to see
00:07:00sort of the where the different car limits are just watching there another flying car
00:07:07these curvings i think we've seen nearly every gt car catching air and there we have a
00:07:12a flying toyota everyone except flying lizards this year where's the lizards when we want them
00:07:17i don't know they've been a real great installment of leman for many years i was thinking that earlier
00:07:22actually mark i was thinking where are flying lizards this year i don't know what's happened
00:07:26with that program of course we've got to start thinking very very soon about driving driving
00:07:31driver of the race car of the race i mean jan martin must be somewhere up there in the
00:07:36eurosport cabin's choice of driver yeah he's pretty far up there for me at the moment and how about
00:07:40crone for car of the race eventually oh i don't know two-tone crone
00:07:45just a for effort certainly oh my goodness yeah i think i think for a for effort from the team for
00:07:53rebuilding it certainly yeah mike conway's in the reckoning as well yeah with his retro helmet
00:07:58definitely yeah i know he would be up there for me that's the hundred percent that's the american
00:08:02journalist coming out isn't it yeah that's it what is mike conway what is english indy car driver oh
00:08:09let's see yeah that's okay sorry we're a bit it's been a long night you know it's been a long night
00:08:15oh you've got this breaking completely wrong talking of oak racing like we're a couple of
00:08:21it's going that's the third oak racing car the arch car who's driving that one at the moment
00:08:26i'm not sure but he ignored his own oh jack nickolay the team owner yes boss
00:08:30do whatever you like the g-drive car as well whoa well that's mike conway yeah seriously hot
00:08:36he was coming into that corner wasn't he that was mike conway coming up on jan marlborough is that
00:08:42is that for no that was it wasn't it wasn't it wasn't it wasn't marlborough i wasn't not okay
00:08:47olivier pla's been in this car certainly for the last two hours is it is this going to be a driver
00:08:51change doesn't look like it does it no i don't think so i think we're doing they generally really
00:08:57change tires they change drivers don't they but uh not this well we'll see actually is that all
00:09:02black helmet unless so they're already changed before we might be david heinemeyer hansen
00:09:06it's a little black helmet to be david heinemeyer hansen i think you're right jeremy it doesn't look
00:09:11to be the dane who lived uh most of the last 10 years in uh in chicago now bases himself in the south of
00:09:17spain here's mike gascoigne's charge the catering greaves car and uh having all sorts of problems at
00:09:25the front yes it's not had an easy run that car has it a lot of problems it had a big accident in
00:09:31early on in the practice this week um they managed to re-panel the car i believe they had to do on one
00:09:37side amongst other things and now it's been struggling throughout this race and
00:09:42yeah lots going on in here again it looks like that's a suspension issue amongst other things
00:09:51i think there's a couple things going on there hard for us to know from our view here in the commentary
00:09:55box yeah here's our race leader then bertram baguette has taken over the uh well no bertram
00:10:02baguette is still on board the 35 car because uh david heinemeyer hansen is now dropped just behind
00:10:08him having had that pit stop that will change fairly soon i should imagine and i think this car
00:10:15the our car nicolet's got a problem maybe that's that might be why he went off actually is because
00:10:20he's got a rear puncture is it oh no i don't know oh no it's very i think it must be the right rear
00:10:28because the uh looks like the uh left front was sort of wallowing around there looks okay doesn't it
00:10:35maybe there's something yeah i think it might be a suspension issue which yeah the way it's darting
00:10:40back and forth i think perhaps a rear suspension or something major and which could be why he went
00:10:47off perhaps you were saying he missed his brake zone but it may have been that something just broke
00:10:51well he missed his braking we're going to take a break and he's just waving cars by again doesn't
00:10:56want to be hit from behind as you mentioned horrible we'll be back after these messages here live on
00:11:02neurasport from leman
00:11:22so
00:11:32that's one of the shortest breaks in history we are back looking at jacques nicolet the
00:11:50third oldest man in the race 57 years old mark patterson 61 and uh jeremy reminding me oh dear
00:11:57liz is just i thought he was about as a driver liz is absolutely sort of cringing at the back he is
00:12:04doing a very good job he's trying really hard not to get hit in a car that keeps leaping to the right
00:12:10i'm thinking possibly that's a suspension issue it looks that way but it's hard to tell but
00:12:16certainly not an easy place to be right now for him especially with a unpredictable car there's
00:12:21one thing having your car too slow with a problem then there's having it slow and unpredictable
00:12:26which is really unpleasant yeah jeremy just uh pointing out that in fact howard blank is the
00:12:31oldest driver here was the oldest driver here at uh 64 and howard had a mighty accident in the night
00:12:37yeah he certainly did that was a huge he had several offs and that was the final one that was the end
00:12:41of that one actually there's another uh sensible hdi in the race as well uh philip esenbrook it was
00:12:46also it was a very late entry he's 58 as well actually from uh from just off the road in razz
00:12:52nicolay's been knocked down the order yes he has yes he's been shuffled back sorry here's another of
00:12:57his car sister car the 35 car that was bertram baguette coming out just seeing a quick replay of
00:13:02some of the uh the action of the night most of it's sleeping action liz oh no i just saw a car
00:13:08coming into pit lane that i thought maybe had a problem but i think he was just pitting like normal
00:13:12bang oh dear look at that coyote sleeping yeah it's funny i was in the um in the the src viper
00:13:19pit late last night and there were there were crew but guys sprawled out in all sorts of different
00:13:26poses all the way right across the floor on various different chairs and i was chatting with with ryan
00:13:30at the time and we were having a good chuckle look at all these guys that was great but you know
00:13:35boy any any chance they get to snatch a few a few z's a few uh yeah it just just a cat nap if
00:13:42you like it'll uh it'll there you go it's kind of waking up a bit now and you'll see these guys
00:13:47um you know i've seen uh teams where they're all asleep in their chair but with all their radio heads
00:13:52hit on the minute the driver's saying i'm coming in the pits i've got a problem you'll see them just
00:13:56leap through the air because they're so primed and ready for that and it's like battle stations
00:14:02the minute there's any opportunity here we go oh dear that's what we saw the same same car is it or
00:14:07no it's a different car it's a replay no this is this is the level five and i don't think this is
00:14:11a replay no we've got the uh kind of does that on a regular basis and that's just the way it is
00:14:16there's unburned fuel there out of the turbos of the uh honda it's quite special isn't it oh yeah
00:14:22particularly cool at night oh yeah definitely oh is this the art car finally into pillet and he'll
00:14:30be very happy to be coming here we should see him in front of us just now yeah well done jack
00:14:36man i worked for at one time he has a television production company in monaco amongst many of his
00:14:41attributes he's a entrepreneur of great multi-talents and um very very genial frenchman jack and uh good
00:14:48job he's done bought the pescarolo team of course and uh that then morphed into okron which is uh
00:14:54now based here at le mans in the old pescarolo premises on the pescarolo as we saw driving the
00:15:00pace car at the start of the race and he's in the next door cabin with our eurosport france colleagues
00:15:05not right now but he has been over the weekend so uh henry will not lie down no we've heard noises
00:15:11about henry trying to come back to le mans with the team we don't know yet if he'll be able to pull
00:15:16that all together but wouldn't we all love to see him back here with the pescarolo that would be
00:15:20wonderful and a really big french fan um the french have always supported pescarolo yeah so um yeah just
00:15:27seeing the art car here pushing in i hopefully will be able to see what's actually happened there but i
00:15:33suspect it's a suspension issue yeah it's it's so heavy of all these road signs all over it that it's
00:15:39uh oh dear mark just just more sleep needed i think talking to jacques nicolet um one of the
00:15:50co-drivers is jean-marc merlin uh who happy birthday to him by the way he celebrates today his 49th
00:15:56birthday oh excellent making his le mans debut this season he's a good way to celebrate your
00:16:01birthday not bad at all yeah he's he's a basically a vintage car race i've never heard the name
00:16:05well not not heard much he's race various different vintage cars he's got a lola t70
00:16:10he's got a the old ada porsche 962c uh he's got uh various other classic cars as well which he owns
00:16:20and uh and educated actually in north america too so he's a bit of a a citizen of the world so happy
00:16:26birthday jean-marc merlin i'm sorry to see your car or the car you're sharing with jack nicolet and
00:16:31philip mondolo another le mans rookie in trouble now well we've had uh on twitter real racing roots
00:16:37has told us that flying lizards are still in alms going gtc this season waiting for the 991 gt3 rsr
00:16:45customer program so thank you very much for that and also um robert greasley we're just giving a
00:16:50shout out to your four-year-old son rupert because he's up and asking why he yawns a lot which is uh he
00:16:56will get used to that after a few more years of le mans i'm sure i mean will anyone ever replace the
00:17:00lizards here they're they're catapult launched uh hats flying into the crowd i mean that is one
00:17:06of the abiding images of the lizards visits and the poor lizards always having quite a tough run
00:17:10of le mans they seem to have this horrible black cloud that sits over them at le mans and every
00:17:15year we think surely they'll do better this time but they always seem to yeah they did yeah finally
00:17:20but they had a lot of uh it seemed to almost every year have something horrible go wrong
00:17:25pits off another the race leader car number two tom christensen brings the uh audi r18 e-tron quattro
00:17:31into the pits fuel only and away he goes boy that was a quick very quick yeah change of the water
00:17:36bottle for tom christensen as well just about a minute pits up uh yeah less than that 58 seconds
00:17:42from uh the uh the line at the entry to pit lane to the line at the exit of the pit lane 58 seconds
00:17:48that's a very good stop 57 58 seconds we don't see many stops quicker than that and reinhold yes we
00:17:53just saw there still hands on after all these years he was a le mans driver himself he won them
00:17:57on so many times with the lucky number seven with his porsches he has actually got a painting hanging
00:18:02at home in the attic and uh that gets older as he stays the same age
00:18:06nice to see him still here that but everybody looking a little bit sleepy this time in the morning and
00:18:14uh i'm sure that we all look the same i reckon i've aged about five years just overnight so christophe
00:18:20now taking over the 76 card bernet vene's done his uh bit in the matmuk porsche quite a short stint
00:18:26actually i think sean karlany did one uh one stint he's done more than that for sure must have done no
00:18:32i would say most teams are doing at least three when we came on raymond rack was on board
00:18:36jean carbonate took it over and now christophe buber is shown as uh when did you come in that 76
00:18:42car we've only been on for two hours so how interesting i wonder why that is because at this
00:18:47stage in the race certainly in the early morning when it's this cool because it is very cool outside
00:18:51isn't it isn't it jeremy shaw you would expect to see most teams doing three four maybe even five if
00:18:58the outies are still being that brave well it's cool i'm guessing they're probably down to four stints now
00:19:02but certainly not a single he certainly had a long stint overnight and one of the regulations here is
00:19:07you're not allowed to do more than four hours behind the wheel within a six hour period so it could be
00:19:13something to do with that they wouldn't have put him in surely then you know that's what i'm saying
00:19:17is you would have thought they'd if he'd done a long stint like that the next two drivers would
00:19:20have done quite long stints it wouldn't have come upon his time yet with no six hour period but if you
00:19:25do get you know the more time he spends behind the wheel of that car the far farther ahead it's going to
00:19:31get because he is the quickest guy in gtm it would appear at least at least some car time to get to
00:19:38qualify there is a there is a maximum of 14 hours is there a minimum that the driver must drive to
00:19:44be classified i believe it's four hours yeah am i correct so maybe maybe bruy missed out the night
00:19:50and uh maybe who knows oh who knows we're all just speculating mark patterson then uh held the
00:19:56holds the record this year for the most spins in one lap and that was the start of uh practice on
00:20:01wednesday night when the rain came down yeah he admitted that was a real eye-opener because it was
00:20:06horrendous conditions and and you know he'd never driven here before and oh yeah that was a scary
00:20:13but yeah to his credit i mean he really focused himself and he's done a fantastic job for somebody
00:20:18who's 61 years of age he does drive a lot of course these days he's he's driven in the rolex grand
00:20:23am series in daytona prototypes for several years he's been racing over here in several years in
00:20:27fii gt3 cars amongst other things so he's got plenty of experience he drove his first prototype
00:20:33uh le mans prototype type race at uh petit le mans last year so yeah lots of experience but boy he's
00:20:41he's really done a super job he really takes this seriously and i think those conditions would
00:20:46have been difficult for anybody really especially a le mans rookie so you know we will let him off a
00:20:50little bit there and and especially in a prototype car i mean it is really tricky spinning spinning is
00:20:55no problem as long as you don't hit anything yeah he managed not to hit anything jack vilna his first
00:20:59ever grand prix or in preparation for his first ever grand prix at silverstone 1977 he spun on every
00:21:05single corner during his first day of practice uh in the uh in the mclaren and everybody said boy this
00:21:11guy's completely wild and out of control well he was just he and he said afterwards yeah i was just
00:21:16learning the limits of the car just the usual french canadian galaxy shrug exploring the limits
00:21:22and you know and he was i mean that wasn't that wasn't bs from from gil that's what he was doing he
00:21:27was exploring the limits of the car finding them overstepping them because you don't know you don't
00:21:32know how fast you can go until you get to that limit we just went back to date it takes a lot of
00:21:36gas to do that we just went back to the oak racing of car of jack nicolay and it looks like they're
00:21:41replacing a steering rack so okay yeah well that makes sense with the darting around as well doesn't
00:21:47it so and i wonder it didn't look like he'd hit anything or anything and maybe it just failed but
00:21:52two of the three out is then running together we're on board the number three car that's luca de
00:21:57grassi and just ahead of him is race leader tom christensen who is um two laps down the road two
00:22:04laps of one minute 41 seconds and uh tom little lock up there going into the forza chicane the first
00:22:12one maybe feeling a little bit of pressure from the number three car right behind him well luca would
00:22:17like to unlap himself i think and remember another leman rookie luca de grassi despite the fact he uh
00:22:22has huge uh huge he has had huge success hasn't he and he won sao paulo for audi last uh autumn
00:22:31race we showed live on eurosport yeah talented guy he got a brief opportunity in formula one
00:22:38uh one races in uh gp2 before that and all the way up the ladder so you know plenty of talent there
00:22:44and good to see him get this opportunity yeah he's the only one there's 41 rookies in the race we've
00:22:48talked about that several times during the event uh but he's the only rookie in the p1 class yeah
00:22:55remember he raced in formula one 24 grand prix's can you remember which team that was with
00:22:59i do not but jeremy probably does it was with um virgin yes right yeah it's not often you would
00:23:10see a leman rookie in the audi is that you know it just doesn't it seems like i don't know i feel
00:23:15like all those drivers have been going forever in that car but i suppose they've got to bring
00:23:19him in at some stage i think jeremy made the point last night this is one of the drivers they really
00:23:23really want to bring on there this this is the future tom and alan won't be around forever you
00:23:28know they're gonna there's gonna come the time when they want to say you know it's enough enough
00:23:32like dindo capello and manueli perro yeah absolutely and frank beeler indeed no he'll
00:23:37certainly be one to watch for the future that's for sure again that depends how long out is here
00:23:43a lot of rumors flying around this weekend that when porsche come in which is part of the audi
00:23:49group maybe audi will only have one year racing gates and then might look at something else who knows
00:23:53yeah and i guess a parting of the ways that the the head of the audi or the vw audi group
00:23:59uh motorsports um the group most was director for vw audi group who is the board member wolfgang
00:24:08durheimer you're right he left the company just before leman right we won't expand on that but it
00:24:13was uh why he was due to be the key speaker here at the audi press conference and on his 55th birthday
00:24:19he parted uh parted ways with audi yeah very interesting purple sector always always like
00:24:26looking at purple sector times for marcel fessler in car number one still fighting his way up the field
00:24:32and uh fessler he's gone up into seventh place now he's passed to the striker uh hpd number three car
00:24:39coming to the pit lane one more time 24th time or 23rd or 24th time into the pits for car number three
00:24:49the same as a number two car the two toyotas they've only been into the pit lane 21 times so far
00:24:56they'll be owing us to stop fairly soon actually as i say that alex verts is just rejoining uh but uh
00:25:02yeah three fewer stops for the toyotas but still the best of them a lap behind the overall race leader
00:25:08and then look at the rebellions uh jeremy 19 and 20 pit stops respectively they're getting so much
00:25:14distance out of their fuel loads got extra three liters like uh the toyota factory car has and
00:25:20making the most of it great great to see them doing so well in this race i don't want to give
00:25:25them the curse of the commentator but it's fantastic that they're sort of nipping at the heels and waiting
00:25:30for anything to happen i think that's what they said early on in the race when we were down in the pits
00:25:35they said well we'll be here hopefully waiting for something to go wrong and they certainly are
00:25:39there they're in the hunt they're up there with the p1 cars and you never know something could happen
00:25:44so this here we go this is the moment we just saw as the audi came in look at that crowding going into
00:25:52the uh dunlop chicane yeah great stuff looks like one of those porsches being ushered off here it is
00:25:57it's number that's the well that was tight number 80 number number 77 car i think that was actually
00:26:04no it was the 88 car with the uh silver uh shade band across the windscreen uh one of the uh proton
00:26:10competition run cars ushered off into the gravel almost you just about managed to get it out didn't
00:26:15you nice job actually i was lucky very lucky indeed and that was max martin going out just in front of
00:26:20the audi that was a nice little bit of filming and look at how quickly it gets away at the audi
00:26:25just uh slightly slower getting off yeah that number 88 car christian reed driving that car now that was
00:26:32very much in contention for the win in gtem until i don't know a couple of hours or so ago it's now down
00:26:40to uh about eighth place eight or ninth place in the class but the 88 car along with the 77
00:26:46and patrick dempsey to the wheel of that one still at the moment having just made a pit stop
00:26:50where they were you know dicing for the lead along with the 76 car well i've double shifted and i'm
00:26:57about to leave you carlton kerb is back in the cabin and i will see i'm going to leave him with you
00:27:02not leaving as well and see you soon okay liz we're on a break bye
00:27:16so
00:27:26so
00:27:28so
00:27:34so
00:27:38so
00:27:40Oh, my God.
00:28:10Oh, my God.
00:28:40Oh, my God.
00:29:10Oh, my God.
00:29:12Oh, my God.
00:29:14Oh, my God.
00:29:16Oh, my God.
00:29:18Oh, my God.
00:29:20Oh, my God.
00:29:22Oh, my God.
00:29:24Oh, my God.
00:29:26Oh, my God.
00:29:28Oh, my God.
00:29:30Oh, my God.
00:29:32Oh, my God.
00:29:36Carlton Kirby will be joining us in just a moment, but Jeremy Shaw's alongside me, and so too is Damien Faulkner.
00:29:42Damien, welcome back.
00:29:43Good morning.
00:29:44Good to be here.
00:29:46Now, where are those croissants?
00:29:47Well, we just ate them.
00:29:49You're just 10 seconds too late.
00:29:51So, Damien, you've had a wander around the paddock on the way back in, just seeing what's going on, or?
00:29:56No, I'm afraid we just came straight here.
00:30:00So, missed a little bit of the action.
00:30:02Dropping at the decant, yeah.
00:30:04Got some sleep, which was nice.
00:30:06Probably during the night.
00:30:08We had eight safety cars are up to now.
00:30:11We had rain during the night.
00:30:12Those of you just joining us, there was quite a long stoppage.
00:30:15Howard Blank crashed his Ferrari very heavily, punched a hole in the barriers, and that meant that they had to have another safety car over a long time.
00:30:24This has been a problem over the weekend, the Armco taking such a battering here, not just during the race, but during practice and qualifying.
00:30:32Yeah, and the trouble is it takes so long to repair it, you know.
00:30:36And that's one of the difficulties, isn't it, with the Armco barrier, getting the machinery down there to it, getting all those nuts and bolts off, and then obviously replacing the panels with new ones.
00:30:49So, we saw a big crash, actually, before we retired last night with the number 30 HVM status car.
00:30:59Huge, huge crash.
00:31:00But that was against the wall, so in actual fact, the stoppage wasn't too bad at all.
00:31:04Right, we're riding on board with Richard Leitz at the moment.
00:31:07This is the Manti Racing Porsche, factory Porsche.
00:31:11This is the all-new singing, dancing 991, the one which has now got wishbone front suspension rather than McPherson struts.
00:31:18It's got the radiators moved.
00:31:20It's much, much lower.
00:31:21And here we are, problem here for the 47 car.
00:31:25This is Alex Imperati in the number 47, Morgan.
00:31:31This is a car we were talking up just a few minutes ago, and they're being pushed into the garage.
00:31:35He took it over from Matt Housen and Ho Ping Tung.
00:31:38This is the Chinese car in effect.
00:31:41There we are, bang on, 8 o'clock in the morning, 7 o'clock at home if you're just waking up.
00:31:49Richard Leitz and Bruno Sen are swapping places every lap in GT Pro.
00:31:53This has been a real feature battle.
00:31:56Yeah, that's been a fantastic battle.
00:31:57That's been going on for a long, long time.
00:32:00In fact, the last stint that I did last night and long, long before that, the stint before that as well.
00:32:06So, yeah, that's really exciting and a good, proper battle for honours in the GTE Pro class.
00:32:14You've got Richard Leitz taking that, as you say, over from Bruno Sen at the moment with Peter Dunbrecht further back in third,
00:32:21and then Timo Bernhardt for Porsche in fourth place in that category.
00:32:26Right, well, next to us is joining us Anthony Reid.
00:32:28Anthony, good morning.
00:32:30You've had a busy weekend.
00:32:31You were driving Mike Hawthorne's car in the Legends race yesterday morning.
00:32:36Can you just switch Anthony on?
00:32:39Yesterday morning.
00:32:40That's about it.
00:32:40And Anthony, I mean, of course, a lot of us remember your Group C performances here, so you've been a long-time Le Mans racer.
00:32:46Yeah, I mean, I've driven a lot of different cars, a great range of cars, I mean, from the MG LMP 675, which is incredibly quick,
00:32:55and we actually did battle with the Audis and ran as high as third before the car broke down.
00:33:00Driving Mike Hawthorne's D-Type yesterday, the 1955 Le Mans winner, what a famous car.
00:33:06There is only one of those cars on the planet, and I was driving it yesterday.
00:33:09How lucky am I?
00:33:13How did the race go for you?
00:33:14Well, you know, these cars, it's not like modern sports car racing where the cars are incredibly reliable.
00:33:23There's been very few retirements over the 24-hour race this weekend.
00:33:26And it's all about reliability with these old cars.
00:33:30And the D-Type, we had problems with the head gasket in qualifying, so I only qualified seventh.
00:33:36I made one lap in qualifying.
00:33:38And then in the race, made a great start, got up to third place, had a big battle with the sister car, Gary Pearson, in another D-Type.
00:33:45And the Maserati, and, of course, Buncombe, got a little bit of a, he got away at the start as we fell over each other.
00:33:53But it was just sensational.
00:33:57I mean, just racing those valuable cars, priceless cars, wheel to wheel.
00:34:02It was great fun in tricky conditions.
00:34:04Oh, conditions are horrible, weren't they?
00:34:06Yeah, absolutely horrible.
00:34:07But I just love it, because that's what Le Mans is all about.
00:34:09It's like a close-range knife fight for 24 hours.
00:34:13Jeremy behind you is doing great arm-locking motor movements.
00:34:17I love the oversteer.
00:34:18How do you park those thoughts of this being the only car on the planet, when you had a fantastic first lap yesterday coming through the field?
00:34:25You know what we racing drivers are like.
00:34:27When you get in the car, all of that goes out the window.
00:34:30You just want to race and have fun and win.
00:34:33You do, Anthony.
00:34:34I mean, one of the standout drives for me, the classic racing for years, must have been three years ago, four years ago, at the Silbertone Classic.
00:34:41You had the Acela in that evening race, and it was one of the finest performances I've ever seen.
00:34:45Yes, the, oh, yes, that, that, the LNP, sorry, the Lola T290, yeah.
00:34:51Yeah, sorry, just giving it up for a second.
00:34:53Is this the 98 car?
00:34:55It's limping around.
00:34:56It's got a puncture.
00:34:57Puncture.
00:34:58Yeah, rear puncture.
00:34:59Left rear.
00:34:59That's right rear.
00:35:00Yeah, this is, of course, Roland Goethe was on board that car.
00:35:03No, it's, oh, which one is that?
00:35:06That's the, the thing about Le Mans, and you can't really see that on television, is the scale.
00:35:12Bill Auburn.
00:35:13Yeah, Bill Auburn.
00:35:14The scale of the track.
00:35:16It's, it's so long.
00:35:17If you get a puncture at the back of the circuit, it's a real battle to get the car back.
00:35:21It's not like driving around Silverstone, you're back in the pits within a minute.
00:35:25You know, it can take you 15 minutes to get the car back to the pits if you've got a puncture
00:35:29or some other mechanical problem.
00:35:31You've mentioned some of the cars you've driven here.
00:35:33I remember the Group C Porsche performance you had.
00:35:35I mean, what was, what was your favourite car here?
00:35:37Quite a few of them.
00:35:40I mean, racing a Ferrari, three, I forget exactly what it was, in 2005.
00:35:48The Le Mans Porsche 962 is probably my favourite because we ended up on the podium.
00:35:52We were operating out of what I call the Steve McQueen pits.
00:35:55You know, it was before this big building was built.
00:35:59And there weren't proper pit garages.
00:36:01There were pit boxes.
00:36:02The pit lane was incredibly narrow.
00:36:03The pit signallers couldn't make the signalling from the pit wall here.
00:36:10Signalling was done from Mulsanne Corner.
00:36:12So when you pass the pits, somebody then, you know, who'd taken your lap time
00:36:16would have to wind up the black telephone in each of the pit boxes
00:36:19and signal, you know, give the message through to the signalling area, Mulsanne Corner,
00:36:24and that's where you got your lap time.
00:36:27It was so atmospheric.
00:36:29962 doing 225 miles an hour in the Mulsanne Straits.
00:36:34It's difficult to see past that.
00:36:36I mean, it was just such a great experience, and my first time at Le Mans.
00:36:39Brilliant, brilliant.
00:36:39Now, we've got, of course, the Silverstone Classic coming up in two or three weeks' time.
00:36:44Are you going to be there again?
00:36:45Yes.
00:36:46I'm very fortunate to drive for Nigel Webb.
00:36:51He's a great Mike Hawthorne enthusiast, also has many Jaguars.
00:36:56He's got a museum in the grounds of his car, a museum in the grounds of his house,
00:37:01and has about 20 Jaguars.
00:37:03He's got a library upstairs, which has all the provenance of the cars, the history,
00:37:07full-time, you know, full-blown workshop next door, and I drive many of his cars.
00:37:12So next, you know, the Silverstone Classic, I'm going to be driving the D-Type.
00:37:16He's got an E-Type that was raced by Salvadorian period, and possibly a Mark II Jaguar.
00:37:22Excellent.
00:37:22We've got a safety car, Antonin.
00:37:24This is the ninth safety car, I think, Jeremy will confirm, of the race so far.
00:37:28The eighth one was for Howard Blanc during the evening when he punched the rail.
00:37:32Can you see?
00:37:33Oh, there's oil on track.
00:37:34That's why, and it wasn't a puncture, it's an oil problem for that Bill Orbelin.
00:37:39That must have been blue smoke then.
00:37:40Aston Martin, yeah.
00:37:41It looked like the cockpit was full of smoke as well, didn't it, when he stopped?
00:37:44He's parked down there at Mulsanne Corner there.
00:37:47Yeah, so he has dropped, that oil is on the entry to the second chicane that we've been given the light on.
00:37:58So, Anthony, you're wearing a Goodwood Festival of Speed hat as well, so, I mean, you've raced at Goodwood in the Revival, haven't you, as well as...
00:38:08Yeah, raced some beautiful cars.
00:38:12I'm also the reigning king of the hill of the Goodwood Festival of Speed, winning in for Chevron last year in front of all the major car manufacturers, which, for me, was one of the highlights of last season.
00:38:23But the Revival is a very special event, as you well know, and I've driven a whole range of cars.
00:38:28They have priceless cars, Ferrari 250 short wheelbase, the D-Type Jaguar, E-Type, a Shelby Cobra last year.
00:38:36I was leading the Cobra, the special Cobra special.
00:38:39I remember, I was there.
00:38:39I was there by 10 seconds and got a black flag for having a problem with the exhaust, and we still finished on the podium.
00:38:46And, you know, very special, that Shelby Cobra.
00:38:49And the previous evening, I'd had supper with Cleo Shelby, that's Shelby's wife, at the house at Goodwood.
00:39:00And she was regaling me with some great stories about the history of the car.
00:39:05Wonderful.
00:39:06And again, yesterday, we enjoyed seeing the Wilmot Cobra and the Cobra Daytona Coupe in your race, in the Legends race.
00:39:13Yeah, the Daytona Cobra, it's a very special car.
00:39:17There are only 10 in existence.
00:39:20Six original, and that one that you saw racing yesterday was actually built out of a standard Shelby Cobra some years ago.
00:39:28So it's not entirely original, but still a very special car.
00:39:32Of course, Peter Brock, of course, designed that on the back of an envelope over lunch, didn't he, when Carroll Shelby said, I need a quicker Cobra.
00:39:38So, Peter Brock has been here many, many years at Le Mans, not this year.
00:39:44We haven't seen him this year, so I guess he's decided to take a holiday for a year.
00:39:49Anthony Reid, thank you very much for joining us.
00:39:51Carlton Kirby is ready to come back into the chair.
00:39:53And all the best at the Goodwood Festival and at the Goodwood Hill Climb.
00:40:01Looking forward to it, and thanks for inviting me this morning.
00:40:04Good.
00:40:05Anthony Reid, thank you very much indeed.
00:40:07So, just trying to clear some of this oil debris of the Aston Martin of Bill Orbelin.
00:40:13If you're just joining us, the 98 car has been out of the running for some time in the top places.
00:40:20But Hugh Deshonak there overseeing the Toyota program, working together with Toyota Germany on the Japanese car.
00:40:28And Bill Orbelin knows he's not going to go any further.
00:40:31No, but he seems to be, is he plugging in his radio?
00:40:36To talk to the team, to ask the team something?
00:40:38Or is he trying to disconnect it?
00:40:40Yeah, the rule is you don't go more than five metres from the car, or else it's considered to be abandoned.
00:40:46So, as long as you stay within the close proximity of the car with the radio on.
00:40:50And Carlton is about to leap into my seat, and he's never looked more wonderful on a Sunday morning.
00:40:55And while you do a changeover, just a quick note about Anthony Reid.
00:41:00And, you know, people, I get a lot of questions, you know, how do I get to become a racing driver?
00:41:05And my answer is, how hard do you want to work?
00:41:09We're going to go to a, well, you can probably get this in before the commercial break, but how hard do you want to work?
00:41:13Anthony Reid, for three years, worked on the oil fields up in the Shetland Islands, living in a tent and just, you know, earning as much money as he could.
00:41:22It was hard, hard work, really hard work to earn the money, came back and put his money into a racing career.
00:41:28Derek Daly, the father of Conor Daly, who's currently running one of the front runners in GP3, he worked for 18 months in Australia in iron ore mine.
00:41:39Absolutely right, hard labour.
00:41:40He and a fellow Dubliner, David Kennedy, and both of those two, Derek Daly and David Kennedy, both made it to Formula One.
00:41:47That's how hard they wanted to become racing drivers.
00:41:49They both went to Australia together as well, didn't they?
00:41:51Yes, they did, yeah, and spent 18 months on the road, came back with enough money to buy themselves each a Formula Ford car, made all the way to Formula One.
00:41:57Also, if you're trying to become a racing driver, a great resource for you to go to is www.safeisfast.com.
00:42:06It's a website that's been put together by the Road Racing Drivers Club in North America, and it's supported by the FIA Motorsports Institute, Safety Institute.
00:42:16So, it's a great website.
00:42:17Alexander Virts has been a contributor to that, amongst others, in this motor race.
00:42:22There's a whole bunch of instructional videos about techniques, about how to find sponsorship, about how to work on your fitness, about safety.
00:42:31It's a tremendous website, and there's also question-and-answer sessions on their Ask-a-Pro Ben Edwards.
00:42:37The Formula One commentator for BBC is this week's Ask-a-Pro.
00:42:42You can send in your questions via safestfast.com.
00:42:46We're going to go to a quick commercial break, and we'll be back.
00:42:49Don't go away.
00:42:50We're going to go to a quick commercial break, and we'll be back.
00:43:20We'll be back.
00:43:22You can send in your report, and you can send in your submission to the company, which is where you might be able to do it.
00:43:27You can send out your card, which is available on your website and you can send out all your PDFs.
00:43:34Sometimes.
00:43:35You can send out to the release, and at least you can send in your Breathing and send in our own website.
00:43:40These zooms are always very, very spectacular.
00:43:43They also allow you to see the energy deployed everywhere.
00:43:46Not only by the officers, but by the members of the supporters,
00:43:50who are always present.
00:43:51They are ready to intervene, if you like.
00:43:53The conditions should be required.
00:43:55Thank you all for joining us.
00:44:00Thank you again. My name is Jeremy Shaw.
00:44:02Alongside me, as has been for the last hour or so,
00:44:04Damien Faulkner joining us in the booth, Mr Carlton Kirby.
00:44:08And we are under yellow here.
00:44:11The eighth caution period, I think, of the race.
00:44:14Still nothing changed at the front.
00:44:16An hour ago, I was sleeping.
00:44:19I've just joined ten minutes ago.
00:44:21Is that what it was?
00:44:22Seems like forever, Damien.
00:44:24The teddy bear tells you everything you need to know.
00:44:27It took Carlton just a while longer.
00:44:31Absolutely. It's been a long, old night.
00:44:33Thank you for your company, if you were with us through the night.
00:44:35And give yourself a little medal, if that was the case.
00:44:38The clean-up's still going on.
00:44:39Do you know what?
00:44:40I've lost count.
00:44:41I thought this was the ninth caution, but anyway.
00:44:43I might have missed one.
00:44:44Probably.
00:44:45It's been dogged with them.
00:44:46I thought it was the eighth, but it could be the ninth.
00:44:48Talking of people tuning in and staying up,
00:44:51a couple of shout-outs from Twitter here.
00:44:53Ken Chia is currently watching live from Malaysia.
00:44:56Great to have you with us, Ken.
00:44:58And a nomination for the drive of the race,
00:45:02which we were talking about a few minutes ago.
00:45:04All the Aston Martin drivers.
00:45:06It says, Aid and Indy the dog.
00:45:09Yes, nice name.
00:45:10Great suggestion, because the Aston Martin guys
00:45:13have done a fantastic job under horrendously difficult circumstances.
00:45:17Patrick O'Brien, can I have a shout-out?
00:45:19Please have been watching in Ireland since 2 o'clock yesterday
00:45:22and pulled an all-nighter to watch your sport.
00:45:24What do you think about that, Damien Faulkner?
00:45:25Yeah.
00:45:26Well, I wonder if he's related to Arthur Doyle,
00:45:30because he's up all night as well.
00:45:31He's just tweeted in.
00:45:33And another guy has tweeted in here to ask the question,
00:45:37when the Audi pits, the driver plugs a wire into the side
00:45:43of the driver's seat and he wants to know what is that for?
00:45:46Downloading the data from the onboard system.
00:45:49They get the live telemetry beamed back to the pits in real time
00:45:52as the car is going around the racetrack.
00:45:54But there's also, there's only so much data they can transfer
00:45:58electronically while the car is in motion.
00:46:00So they plug in that computer wire to download all the data
00:46:05from that last stint, since its last pit stop.
00:46:10So the data engineers can analyse that as soon as the car leaves
00:46:13the pit lane.
00:46:14Somebody here is suggesting that staying up pretty much all night
00:46:18has made me sound a bit croaky.
00:46:21I guess that's probably the case.
00:46:23No, I haven't been on the cheap lager.
00:46:25Wish I had.
00:46:27But thanks for your comments.
00:46:28Philip Lane asks, will we see DP cars from the Grand Am series
00:46:31in Le Mans in the next few years as a result of the merger
00:46:35of Grand Am and American Le Mans series?
00:46:37That's a very good question, to which we do not know the answer.
00:46:40There's certainly been some, there's going to be a lot of changes
00:46:44next year in sports car racing in the United States with the amalgamation
00:46:47of those two series.
00:46:48I am involved in the American Le Mans series.
00:46:51Fortunate enough to do the television coverage of that.
00:46:53Hopefully I'll be doing it next year as well.
00:46:55Fingers crossed.
00:46:56But where that will leave those cars in relation to Le Mans,
00:47:01yet to be determined.
00:47:02Do you know what?
00:47:03I'll tell you what though, it'll keep us a lot, they're loud.
00:47:06They are loud.
00:47:07Very, very much so.
00:47:08Do you know, it's amazing.
00:47:09Endurance racing is experiencing some kind of renaissance at the moment.
00:47:13People are actually getting into it.
00:47:15We had a lot of people yesterday as we just watched the Corvettes
00:47:18replay of that incident.
00:47:19A lot of people are actually saying that they're new to it.
00:47:22They've come to it.
00:47:23They really, really enjoy it and absolutely hooked.
00:47:26Had a couple overnight who were just expanding on the attractiveness
00:47:32of the sport.
00:47:33I think if you make it live and you realize what it's all about,
00:47:35all of a sudden something does click with endurance racing.
00:47:38And whereas you might have thought 24 hours, I couldn't possibly.
00:47:40Well, actually it kind of flies by.
00:47:42And especially when it's been as busy and more busy than that poor gentleman
00:47:49who's clearly just about reached the end of his tether.
00:47:52Dawn Marie Cox says great coverage out, guys.
00:47:54Had an all night but confessed, I did actually accidentally snooze off
00:47:58in the middle of it.
00:47:59I presume you were dreaming about us, Dawn Marie Cox, at the same time.
00:48:03Just to stay in touch, sort of metaphorically, if you like.
00:48:06Yes.
00:48:07Jake says he's not impressed apparently with the balance performance rules in,
00:48:13excuse me, in GT.
00:48:14And he says that they didn't pay as much as Aston or Porsche.
00:48:17I'm not quite sure who he's talking about there because I missed the earlier
00:48:20threads on that one.
00:48:21But, you know, if he's talking about the fact there's only two marks in contention
00:48:26at the front of this field, the two Aston Martins and the two Porsches.
00:48:29The main reason for that, Jake, is because of that initial first full course caution
00:48:35at the beginning of the race.
00:48:36That split the field.
00:48:37Three cars were able to pull away by a third of a lap from everybody else
00:48:44because of the way the three pace cars are run here at Le Mans.
00:48:47So my criticism is not with a balance of performance.
00:48:50I think they've got that pretty close.
00:48:51Yes, the Astons might have a slight advantage here.
00:48:53But, hey, generally speaking, it's pretty close between all the marks involved in GT racing.
00:48:58I think, given the fact the cars are so different, I love the fact they've made them pretty close.
00:49:04And certainly if you look at the lap times, there's not a lot to choose between them.
00:49:08And it was just that fact that those cars were split away from the rest
00:49:11and there was another caution later on that split them even farther away.
00:49:14So that's the main reason there's only the Astons and the Porsches dicing for the lead in GT.
00:49:20Damien Faulkner, it's been great to have you on board this year.
00:49:26I'm hoping that your smiley face means that you've actually very much enjoyed this, are you?
00:49:30And that you haven't got any other kind of problems lingering.
00:49:34Well, yeah.
00:49:35I mean, I have.
00:49:36I have.
00:49:37I have enjoyed it.
00:49:38And I promise I haven't been talking to any teams about driving here next year.
00:49:41Yeah.
00:49:42Because I want to be back here next year and here with you guys.
00:49:45It's been like an open application his entire time here, which is great.
00:49:48So, yeah, it's been it's been good to have you on board.
00:49:51And we're back now for a solid session into the rest of the morning.
00:49:55Can you believe there's still more than six hours and 40 minutes remaining of this race?
00:50:00It's hard to get your head around.
00:50:02And in fact, it's about now, isn't it?
00:50:04Where you get breakfast time that you start thinking as a driver.
00:50:07What?
00:50:08Yeah, I mean, it's, you know, they wake up and the guys who have the drivers who've been asleep.
00:50:19Well, we'll wake up now.
00:50:20They'll be they'll be tired.
00:50:22But, you know, they just have to get on with the get on with the job.
00:50:27There's only well, only less than seven hours left.
00:50:31That's not a lot of time because, you know, they're going through their road of system.
00:50:36And so they're they're just going to be as Carlton's choking here beside me.
00:50:41Yes, it doesn't sound good.
00:50:43There's one of the Corvettes down there, car number 73.
00:50:47They had some problems early on.
00:50:48Jan Magnussen showing at the wheel of that car running in seven eighth place in the GT class just behind the sister car of Tommy Milner.
00:51:00And if you if if our last respondent on Twitter was talking about the relative competitors of the Chevrolets.
00:51:06Yeah, they've they've been taken a bit by surprise here this weekend.
00:51:09They're going actually not quite as quickly as they went last year.
00:51:12So although they've made some developments on the car, they're not quite on the pace they were last year.
00:51:17I spoke to Doug Feehan, the program manager yesterday about that.
00:51:21And he said, you know, last year's lap times here really weren't representative, he claimed, because they got toes, aerodynamic drafts on each of the long straights here.
00:51:31And so they those toes, the cars go quicker than they might otherwise have done.
00:51:36Well, they have not usually get toes this year.
00:51:39Frank, quite honestly, the cars aren't quite as quick as they were last year, and they don't really know why.
00:51:43They've got a little bit more weight on those cars than they originally planning to run.
00:51:48But the Chevy's just they've missed the mark a little bit.
00:51:51This race.
00:51:52There's a sad sight.
00:51:53Bill Oberlin phoning America, phoning home.
00:51:56Yeah, he's stranded out the far end of the Molster hand, isn't he?
00:52:00Well, we've seen so much in terms of how you ride your luck out there.
00:52:05I've got to say that I'm delighted to come back in and see Toyota's two and three at the moment and the best of them.
00:52:11The Sarazen car number eight at the moment, just a lap behind.
00:52:15And you never know what might happen.
00:52:17But well, Alan McNish was talking about how the ease or whatever of when he won and how he almost felt like the first one was something of a gift.
00:52:28And then he wanted to repeat the feat.
00:52:31He's going for his travel, of course.
00:52:32And Tom Christensen.
00:52:33Well, it is an endless list of victory.
00:52:35These guys, hugely experienced.
00:52:38And I think they're riding that.
00:52:39They know every inch of this circuit and they're using it to very good effect.
00:52:43They're going to need all their while and guile to bring home the big prize because Toyota, surprise to me, are absolutely knocking on the door at the moment.
00:52:51The number one car has been amazing as well.
00:52:53It's up to six now.
00:52:54That was down into 23rd place, I think, at one point, Jeremy.
00:52:58Yeah, it was certainly a long way down.
00:53:00And it's still, I mean, laps behind it, two footers, 11 laps behind.
00:53:04It's about what it was when they had that long problem to change the alternator on that Audi R18 e-tron Quattro.
00:53:11A couple of other Twitter notes here.
00:53:13APH Motorsports, does the safety car give leaders the chance to bunch up?
00:53:18Well, sort of, except the fact there's three safety cars here at Le Mans.
00:53:22So, unfortunately, they don't bunch up altogether.
00:53:24They bunch up behind three different safety cars, which I've been ranting about that consistently through this race.
00:53:30In fact, the last several years that I've been here, fortunate enough to come here.
00:53:33I think that's, to me, I don't like the safety car system.
00:53:36I like, I think they perhaps should bunch up the field, at least before they go back to green.
00:53:41I mean, it just gives, for me, it gives a better show for the fans.
00:53:44I mean, that's why we're here.
00:53:46We're not racing for ourselves.
00:53:47The drivers aren't racing themselves.
00:53:48The teams aren't racing for themselves.
00:53:50We're racing for the quarter of a million people that come here to watch.
00:53:54And the countless knows how many millions watch on television around the world.
00:53:58So, I think that would provide a better show.
00:54:01But that's just me.
00:54:02Yes, it is a window that we have here on Eurosport into 28 million homes, let's not forget.
00:54:08And that's a massive audience.
00:54:09I think you're absolutely right, Jeremy.
00:54:11It is about the show.
00:54:13The excuse, if there is one, is that it's such a vast circuit that you have three cars just to sort of neutralize the field.
00:54:22But, yeah, I know what you mean.
00:54:24It would be nice to just see them racing right from the get-go.
00:54:28I suppose it allows for a shorter safety car period with all of the trio just running between the various zones and peeling off at the next one.
00:54:35But I haven't really witnessed that.
00:54:37And I'm kind of in your camp on this one, I've got to say.
00:54:40Damien, your thoughts?
00:54:42Yeah, it probably, yeah, because the track is so long, I think that's probably part of the reason.
00:54:50And it gets the car slowed down much faster.
00:54:53Because it's such a vast area, it's eight and a half miles all over the place here.
00:54:58And so, pardon me, the cars will have, the more safety cars, the quicker the cars are going to find one.
00:55:09And so it slows them down and it probably protects the incident and the marshals at that incident, whatever that may be, a little bit better.
00:55:18That may be one of the reasons.
00:55:20I think that's exactly the reason that they have three safety cars here.
00:55:23And I think that's a very good reason.
00:55:25However, in this day and age, with all the telemetry and the electronics on these cars, race control, the information, the drivers should be, that's why you have double yellow flags.
00:55:36You slow right down for double yellow flags and that there's all sorts of systems that could be brought in, introduced into these cars that would alert anybody in race control to anybody who's going too fast through a specific zone.
00:55:50It would take a bit of education, no doubt about it.
00:55:52But I think it could be done because if there's an incident on the track, you know, 98% of the track, it's clear.
00:55:58It's just the area around the incident where you want to make sure that the speeds are properly maintained.
00:56:04Well, they could actually do something, you know, like when the incident is clear or the driver is gone and they're just sweeping up or whatever, they could get rid of one or two of them and have them all bunch up together.
00:56:19I think so.
00:56:20That wouldn't take much more time.
00:56:21No.
00:56:22Anyhow.
00:56:23Just an idea.
00:56:24There we go.
00:56:25We know everything.
00:56:27We can fix absolutely anything.
00:56:29You know what I don't know is how the fans do it, especially when there's a gale blowing and indeed the rain's hammering down and you happen to be in a summer tent because that's all you bought 15 quid from your local supermarket.
00:56:42But they come here.
00:56:43They remain cheery.
00:56:44It's absolutely fantastic.
00:56:45And the grandstands are starting to fill with those looking slightly the worse for wear.
00:56:49They are our friends.
00:56:51Let's not forget that.
00:56:52And they are what this sport is all about.
00:56:54It's marvelous.
00:56:55Yeah, it is.
00:56:56For one or two or three of them, perhaps a little bit of alcohol might play a bit of a role in that.
00:57:01Maybe not that friendly.
00:57:02Yeah, a note from the number 32 Lotus T128.
00:57:08Boy, the Lotus teams had a, Lotus Praga teams had a difficult week, but that car has finally been retired.
00:57:14Terminal clutch problems, we are told.
00:57:16So I think that will be the eighth retirement from the race.
00:57:20And we talked about a little earlier on the record for the fewest retirements from the 24 hours of Le Mans is 16.
00:57:27We're currently at eight with six and a half hours to go.
00:57:31And I just got a tweet from Adam.
00:57:34He said, you even asked for a drive with Murphy prototype on air.
00:57:38He did.
00:57:39Damn right I did.
00:57:40He owes me now.
00:57:42The whole interview went along the lines of, why didn't you call me?
00:57:46I'm here for you.
00:57:48Why aren't you here for me?
00:57:50Very good.
00:57:52You don't ask, you don't get.
00:57:54Of course, I don't ask enough.
00:57:56That's part of my problem.
00:57:57That's why I only race 12 times a year at the moment.
00:58:00I felt like the ugly partner of the girls.
00:58:02You know, I was a...
00:58:03I better leave.
00:58:04I better leave.
00:58:05I just went round the corner.
00:58:06I don't think so.
00:58:07I went round the corner while the love in got...
00:58:08No.
00:58:09But we...
00:58:10Yeah, at least you've made a mark.
00:58:11There we are.
00:58:12Well, I think so.
00:58:13He...
00:58:14Look, he knows who I am.
00:58:15He knows who I am.
00:58:16The cameraman's paid his...
00:58:17I know who he is.
00:58:18He's paid his four euros.
00:58:20It looks like he's the only one on there.
00:58:21Well, have we got a fixed camera on that thing?
00:58:23I don't think so.
00:58:24It'd be a very cheap special effect instead of using a helicopter, I guess, if we did have
00:58:28a lock off there.
00:58:30Find your peace where you can, I think, is the message from that gentleman.
00:58:35Still local yellows.
00:58:37And is...
00:58:38Is there a human being there?
00:58:40There is.
00:58:41There is.
00:58:42He's got a yellow bib there.
00:58:43Is that a photographer's bib?
00:58:44And that's what he's seeing.
00:58:45Yes, precisely.
00:58:46Oh, fantastic.
00:58:47There's some fantastic pictures we've had over the last 18 hours here.
00:58:53Just tremendous, tremendous camera work here.
00:58:56Somebody's really thinking about it.
00:58:58We can see the camera actually on the Ferris wheel across from us here at the Ford Chicane,
00:59:02our vantage point here.
00:59:03Note also for the pit lane, the number 12 Rebellion Lola's been in the pits for about
00:59:0710 minutes.
00:59:08We'll try and find out why that would be.
00:59:11It's dropped it down now to eighth place.
00:59:14And it is a couple of laps behind the stracker car.
00:59:21A couple of people asking overnight as to why there are a number of various different
00:59:26helmets, ice hockey helmets, bicycle helmets.
00:59:29Well, basically, you are required to wear head protection as a member of the crew, a disco
00:59:34ball as well.
00:59:35We did have earth, wind and fire last night.
00:59:36Did I mention that before?
00:59:38And, yes, you take whatever's comfortable, I guess.
00:59:42If you're not in a particular fire zone, it is a work area.
00:59:45If you're going to be in there, you need head protection.
00:59:47Even the pit lane reporters in the past have been required to wear them.
00:59:52Although, I think Liz has managed to issue that, which is...
00:59:57No, because we have to wear the headsets.
00:59:59Yes, exactly.
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