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00:00:00They'll definitely be missing out the curbs other than maybe the Ford chicane because
00:00:03they're going quite slowly there. They can get away with it, but certainly you can see them way
00:00:07off the exit line there. Okay, now we've already played a hand with Andre Lotterer. Okay, we've
00:00:15thrown those dice. Is the Toyota coming in? Yes, it is. Is the Audi coming in? Yes, it is. I don't
00:00:21know. We're going to have to wait another two corners to see. No, the number three car does
00:00:26not come on to pit road or does it? No, it doesn't. So he's going by. This is the Ford
00:00:32chicane. Is he coming in? No, he's not. Toyota is not on pit road either. Neither of the second
00:00:38or third place cars are in. So Audi has cast one set of dice. Slippery surface flags. That's
00:00:45the Dunlop curve. And again, much slower noticeably, Liz, than they would be a lap ago. Oh, definitely.
00:00:52And I think these guys are going to be playing it very, very safe in the lines they take because
00:00:57really, the little bit you might lose.
00:00:59Rain entry of turn 12 and drizzle in the pit. Drizzle in the pit. Rain entry of turn 12.
00:01:07Porsche corner. Rain in the Porsche curves. That is the last place you want to arrive.
00:01:13Between the entry of the Porsche curves and the pit, he was saying, between turn 12 and the pit.
00:01:18The wind is coming from the west, though, still. And there's blue sky coming over. So it's not going to last long.
00:01:23No. No, I think it's... Well, it was sunny half an hour ago, wasn't it? Danny Watson taking on...
00:01:28What's he taking on? Wets? Soft immediate. Soft immediate. He has gone for the soft immediate.
00:01:33Soft immediate. Slick immediate. Slick immediate. What do you like to call it? They're upstairs calling it a sponge immediate.
00:01:40A sponge immediate. Well, because it's got no grooves, it must get rid of the rain somehow. Oh, and the number one car. Andre Lotterer on.
00:01:48On that, we believe, slick immediate. Is this a replay, though? Yeah. Recent or a little one ago?
00:01:53Look at the sidewall as it comes around. This is a long white stripe beside the Michelin. That is current tire.
00:02:00Yeah. So he's on the radio. Don't use this tire, guys. Yeah. But...
00:02:06But you don't want to be on wets right now. There's no need for that. Hang on a minute. I don't think.
00:02:10Did the Toyota just get by him?
00:02:14Uh, did it... Oh. Yeah.
00:02:16Jeez.
00:02:17Well, I think when he went off, the Toyota was behind.
00:02:20No, this is the idea here now.
00:02:21When he went off, the Toyota was in the shop behind him. It got by him as a result.
00:02:25Now he's drifting by it again. Yeah.
00:02:28Now let's see who wins the bat long brakes.
00:02:30Well, I'm pretty sure...
00:02:31The range should stop in two minutes. The range should stop in two minutes.
00:02:36Right. And that's why they didn't flinch with the other cars.
00:02:39Yeah. In fact, we've now got sun on the airfield, which is just behind the circuit.
00:02:44So this is such bizarre weather. How can you choose this? How can you choose?
00:02:48No, it's really, really difficult. I think a lot of the teams will just be sort of taking a gamble and saying to their drivers,
00:02:53just try and stick it out and be safe until the rain clears.
00:02:57Because with this many cars going around the circuit still, as soon as it stops, you're going to have a dry line very, very quickly indeed.
00:03:03The problem is, remember, when we had our man from Michelin up yesterday, he said on the Mulsanne, in dry conditions,
00:03:09a slick tire can lose as much as 10 degrees of temperature.
00:03:13And with a bit of water, 15, maybe even as much as 20 degrees, and that can drop it right outside of its operating window.
00:03:20And Liz, you know, when it's in its window, it's like sticky chewing gum.
00:03:24When it's not, it's like mahogany.
00:03:26The thing is not any relation at all to the tire you had a lap ago when it was dry.
00:03:32And that's why we see so many problems in these mixed conditions,
00:03:35because the tire temperature drops off instantly in a way it never would on the other circuit,
00:03:40because they don't have all this straight line running.
00:03:42And it's just wet.
00:03:43You've got damp surfaces around.
00:03:45I mean, it is very cold out there as well.
00:03:48So I don't know.
00:03:48They might be able to hang on to that softer tire they've put on the number one car.
00:03:53He's committed to it now.
00:03:53Because it is cold.
00:03:54Remember, don't fight him.
00:03:55He's far behind us.
00:03:57He's far behind us.
00:03:5810 laps down.
00:03:59Yeah.
00:04:00Okay.
00:04:01I don't need to know stuff like that.
00:04:02Just tell me about the weather.
00:04:05Yeah, the director was trying to talk it up as a jewel.
00:04:07It's like drizzle on the pit lane.
00:04:08It's like drizzle on the pit lane.
00:04:10Actually, Anthony Davidson, when he's many laps down, has a habit of racing with the leaders.
00:04:17So actually, he does need to know that sort of stuff.
00:04:20That's exactly germane to his situation.
00:04:23Do not be drawn into trying to get back in front of this guy because he's in your way,
00:04:28because the weather will not allow you to it.
00:04:30That was Anthony Davidson's leave me alone.
00:04:33I know what I'm doing.
00:04:35However, I do think it was quite helpful advice.
00:04:38Of course, I'm only me.
00:04:58I will stop there.
00:04:59I know what I mean.
00:05:00He, he, he.
00:05:02I can't wait to see.
00:05:21I can't wait to hear the weather.
00:05:24He was a Alicia.
00:05:26Oh, my God.
00:05:56Oh, my God.
00:06:26Oh, my God.
00:06:56Oh, my God.
00:07:26That's what we always see at the end of Le Mans is the car is just beaten up.
00:07:29Some of these cars are gaffer taped together, spares on board, bits and pieces missing, damaged body work.
00:07:35It's part of the battle that is this race.
00:07:38Yeah.
00:07:38So Audi, we've noted, have done more pit stops than any other team here.
00:07:43We've got 28 pit stops by the number two lead car and 28 pit stops by the fifth place Andre Lothra car, the car that has spent most of the race playing catch-up.
00:07:52And they are helping Michelin to a remarkable milestone.
00:07:56Michelin have just announced that they have now passed the one million race miles on Michelin tires at Le Mans since their overall winning streak began in 1998.
00:08:08Wow.
00:08:09That's quite amazing, actually.
00:08:10A million miles for one of Bibb's smiles.
00:08:12That is just, and that shows, first of all, how long this darn race is.
00:08:18That's in 15 years.
00:08:20They've done a million miles covered by cars on Michelin tires.
00:08:25Just remarkable.
00:08:26How good is that?
00:08:27Look at the clock running now on the Gap for the lead of the GTE class.
00:08:31And if there's an emotional battle in this race, then this is it.
00:08:35It's the Porsche of Mark Lieb versus the Aston Martin of Darren Turner.
00:08:40Darren's been in the car getting on for an hour now.
00:08:44He can drive no more than four hours in any six, so he can't take it to the end of the race.
00:08:49But he can do a substantial job of closing down this Porsche, and the Gap is now down below 10 seconds and falling with every lap.
00:08:59Last time around, Lieb, 4.08.4.
00:09:02Darren, 4.09.5.
00:09:04So it seesaws a little with traffic, but he has been closing.
00:09:08And when I spoke to the Porsche guys and I asked them where they felt they were gaining and or losing from the Astens,
00:09:14they said they were quicker in a straight line, but the Astens had the advantage through the Porsche curves.
00:09:18Now, what we've been talking about earlier is how easy it is to lose or gain up to five seconds a lap in the Porsche curves.
00:09:26So if the Aston Martin has the advantage through those corners, if they're going to push really hard,
00:09:30it's conceivably going to be easier for them to find an advantage when they need to.
00:09:34In third place, we've got Jörg Bergmeister and the other Porsche,
00:09:37and he currently is running seven seconds quicker than Lieb and the Aston Martin,
00:09:43and he's only 1.26 behind.
00:09:46So eventually, eventually, if that car can keep maintaining that pace, they'll catch up.
00:09:50Corvette, they're starting to creep into the top six.
00:09:53We've got Richard Westbrook and García.
00:09:56And, of course, again, a Michelin milestone there.
00:09:58It's the hundredth race on Michelin tires for Corvette.
00:10:01And once that Malicelli car, the 51 car, takes a penalty, which I presume it's going to get at some stage for that pit collision,
00:10:10those Corvettes are going to go up one more place to 6th and 7th in GT Pro.
00:10:14Well, you presume, but has there been any penalty for the 39 car, for Roman Brandler for taking out Paolo Roberti in the darkness?
00:10:22Nuh-uh.
00:10:23They've investigated it.
00:10:25I find that surprising.
00:10:26I find it inconceivable.
00:10:28They've been so strict the last couple of years and been very sort of quick to throw people out or issue reprimands,
00:10:35and to just let both of those incidents slide surprises me.
00:10:38And last year, Nakajima and the Toyota took out the Delta Wing, and he wasn't penalised.
00:10:42Now I know.
00:10:43They were just apologising the day afterwards, but not at the time.
00:10:48I'm not sure falling on your sword afterwards is a suitable retribution.
00:10:52Matteo Malicelli is in in the 51 car.
00:10:54The 51 car that hits the 45 is in the pits to be fixed, not to be penalised.
00:11:00And the 45 car is in the gravel.
00:11:04In the LMP2 class, Oak Racing leading and second with Martin Plowman and Olivier Platt in their two cars,
00:11:11the 35 and the 24.
00:11:13Yellow local.
00:11:14Local yellow at the second Mulsanne chicane.
00:11:17Yeah, there he is.
00:11:18Oh.
00:11:19I don't know if he just caught a bit of that paint going in.
00:11:22Maybe a little too ambitious.
00:11:24Not a gravel trap.
00:11:25We've seen a lot of action there, as you can see from the outskirts.
00:11:28Not compared to the first chicane, anyway.
00:11:29Did you notice how much dust he threw up?
00:11:31It's not that wet at that point.
00:11:33No, I think it looks quite dry there, actually.
00:11:35But there is a lot of rubbish on the circuit.
00:11:38I mean, you do get that through those chicanes, especially on the entry.
00:11:41It gets really full of gravel.
00:11:43You can see it here.
00:11:44Grits.
00:11:45Grits from the gravel traps.
00:11:46Grits of tires, bits of everything.
00:11:48So it's a mess, this stage.
00:11:49We're getting close to the end of this 24-hour race.
00:11:52Yike.
00:11:52Oh, this is another one.
00:11:53Well, pushing on the number seven Toyota of Kazuki Nakajima.
00:11:58lost three seconds to the second-place car.
00:12:02Van Davidson on the last lap alone.
00:12:05Davidson, eight seconds quicker than leader Loic Duval,
00:12:08who leaves the pits now.
00:12:11And that's why he was eight seconds quicker,
00:12:13because Duval came in, topped off, and went back out again.
00:12:18Let's get down to the pit road.
00:12:24Martin, you just came out of the car.
00:12:26Ah, the weather this year in Le Mans, it's very weird.
00:12:29Sometimes it can't decide if it rains or if the sun is shining.
00:12:32Quite difficult for you guys.
00:12:33It's very difficult, and even more so for me,
00:12:35because it's my first time, so every experience is a new one for me.
00:12:39And obviously, I need to push really hard,
00:12:41but I don't want to make a mistake at the same time.
00:12:44But it seems every time I go out,
00:12:46there is always something difficult going on on the track.
00:12:49In my last in just now, it rains quite hard down in Mulsanne corner.
00:12:54And then we have the intermediate tyres on, and then it dries out.
00:12:59So we decided to stay for a second stint on the intermediate tyres,
00:13:03even though it was completely dry,
00:13:05because you lose 25 seconds when you change tyres.
00:13:08So I just tried my best to get everything out of the don't up tyres.
00:13:11But it's your rookie year here,
00:13:15and you gave the car to Bertrand Baguette.
00:13:18I guess he will finish the race, and you give him a leading car.
00:13:21It's a great feeling.
00:13:22I mean, it's just three hours to go.
00:13:23I mean, it's been a perfect race up until now.
00:13:26I just got to pray that it all holds together.
00:13:29You know, anything can happen in this race.
00:13:31Okay, thank you very much.
00:13:32Great job so far by the guys in both those eight racing cars.
00:13:37Martin Plowman, you saw their rookie.
00:13:40And as Sebastian pointed out,
00:13:42hands over the leading car for the anchor leg to his teammate.
00:13:46And that's got to be a great feeling for him.
00:13:48First time here in one of the greatest motor races known to man.
00:13:52And he is in the car that could conceivably win this race as a rookie.
00:13:58What a thing to do.
00:13:59And there on the other side of Oak Racing's coin,
00:14:02the boss, Jacques Nicolet's car behind the barriers.
00:14:05That may end up being a retirement.
00:14:08Oh, we hope not. We hope not.
00:14:09Well, we've got the Lord Chamberlain back with us.
00:14:12Huge.
00:14:13You had a good night's sleep.
00:14:17I'm afraid you're right.
00:14:18Not a good night, but I had a few hours,
00:14:20and I'm very happy, thank you very much.
00:14:22So what's your impressions so far?
00:14:25Well, it's...
00:14:27The whole world is a bit subdued.
00:14:28The world of motorsport is a bit subdued at the moment, isn't it?
00:14:31But it's...
00:14:32I think that it's a good race.
00:14:35There are a lot of good things happening.
00:14:38The two lead teams are doing an extraordinarily good job.
00:14:43It's a very, very difficult place to be
00:14:45when you have rain on one side and dry on the other.
00:14:49So the drivers have got to be on their metal the whole time.
00:14:52And it is more difficult for everybody, obviously,
00:14:57and to keep an eye on that
00:14:58and make sure that you don't...
00:15:00That the managers are keeping...
00:15:02Knowing what's going on
00:15:03and then telling the drivers they've got to be careful
00:15:05at a turn X, Y or Z
00:15:07because it might be pouring with rain
00:15:08and you're on slicks and you think it's all great.
00:15:11So there are a lot of technical things,
00:15:14technically as in managerial and driving.
00:15:17That must be a strategist nightmare.
00:15:18It is, absolutely.
00:15:20I was...
00:15:21When the thing started,
00:15:23when the race started,
00:15:24I looked at the sky and thought,
00:15:25God, I'm glad I'm not a manager today.
00:15:30We're going to take a commercial break in a minute here,
00:15:32but we've got plenty of questions to ask you
00:15:34and Martin and I,
00:15:35I know we'd like to pump you for all of that.
00:15:37Oh, dear.
00:15:38It's dangerous to me.
00:15:40There's not too many days I don't look at the sky and say,
00:15:43do you know what?
00:15:44I'm glad I'm not a team manager today.
00:15:46I'm an armchair team manager
00:15:48or at least a commentary box team manager.
00:15:51It's very sensible.
00:15:52Here's a success story.
00:15:53Raven Narak won here in 2007 in GT2,
00:15:56now leading here in Pro-Am.
00:15:59And how good is that for the Ruan-based car?
00:16:02Almost a local car.
00:16:02And he's got a lap on his closest rival,
00:16:05Ferrari's Daryl O'Young,
00:16:07with Matt Griffin lying in third.
00:16:09We'll be back.
00:16:09Oli, for info,
00:16:36this thing is very good.
00:16:37You're actually about three seconds quickest
00:16:40than the closest car to you.
00:16:44Keep it up.
00:17:07I'm not a fan of the Ruan-based car.
00:17:09I'm not a fan of the Ruan-based car.
00:17:14I'm not a fan of the Ruan-based car.
00:17:16I'm not a fan of the Ruan-based car.
00:17:17I'm not a fan of the Ruan-based car.
00:17:19I'm not a fan of the Ruan-based car.
00:17:21I'm not a fan of the Ruan-based car.
00:17:22I'm not a fan of the Ruan-based car.
00:17:24I'm not a fan of the Ruan-based car.
00:17:25I'm not a fan of the Ruan-based car.
00:17:27I'm not a fan of the Ruan-based car.
00:17:28I'm not a fan of the Ruan-based car.
00:17:30I'm not a fan of the Ruan-based car.
00:17:31I'm not a fan of the Ruan-based car.
00:17:32Oh, my God.
00:18:02Oh, my God.
00:18:32So, Philippe Mongolo is still trying to get that 45 Morgan Nissan back into the race.
00:18:46We saw him have that spin at the first chicane, got, well, second chicane rather, got out of shape onto the gravel.
00:18:53Hugh Chamberlain, team owner, team manager, strategist extraordinaire over the years.
00:18:59Question I want to ask you today about the circuit.
00:19:02Barriers.
00:19:04Joe Gartner was killed here in 1986.
00:19:06That prompted us, prompted the circuit to build three barriers high, and we're going to come back to you in a moment with a question on that.
00:19:15Marc Genet, you are hunting the Toyota in front of you.
00:19:18Are you self-getting back into the car?
00:19:21Well, if we're doing a full pit stop, which means we change tires and fuel, then, yeah, we're going to change driver as well.
00:19:27If the tires can make it to the end, then not, because we try, we have to minimize the time loss in the pitch, so hopefully the tires can make it to the end, because we may need these 30 seconds that you lose when you change tires.
00:19:39How are your calculations until the end, if the tires are good?
00:19:42I would have to see if we need a splash, you know, because we stop one lap earlier than them.
00:19:48We are stopping anyway earlier every pit stop, so it's still not decided, but third place, it's a possibility, yes.
00:19:55Okay, thank you very much.
00:19:56Thanks.
00:19:59So back to Hugh Chamberlain.
00:20:00Hugh, there's been a lot of talk in the paddock this morning, of course, about how secure are the barriers around the circuit now.
00:20:05In 1986, after Joe Gartner's accident, they were raised to three tiers, but they don't seem to have moved on the line.
00:20:12Not since then, do they, on the road part of the circuit?
00:20:16No, it's a very difficult thing.
00:20:19I'm not an expert on circuit safety, but for sure, two barriers was never enough, particularly because in those days, we didn't have any chicanes down the Morsal.
00:20:29So people had horrendous accidents, and some guys got out, and I think about Wim Percy, who looped a Jaguar to the top of the trees,
00:20:41and was left strapped to his seat in the middle of the circuit.
00:20:45Perfectly all right.
00:20:46Well, not perfectly all right, but very nearly perfectly all right.
00:20:49But that sort of accident isn't going to make a lot of difference if you had two, three, or five.
00:20:53Or Peter Dunbarack and the Mercedes.
00:20:55Or Peter Dunbarack and the Mercedes.
00:20:56Yeah, absolutely.
00:20:56And all these things are, if you want to choose your accident, you choose whether you're actually going to be strapped in or not, even.
00:21:03Because if you're not strapped in, it catches fire, and you get thrown in, and you're safe.
00:21:07And so it's a silly point, but the fact is that there are accidents which are terribly difficult, and the results are horrendous.
00:21:16And those that you can't legislate against all this stuff.
00:21:21But I think one of the problems we have here, although I haven't gone and looked and done,
00:21:27but the suggestion, perhaps it is that an arm goes all very well, but it's no good at all if it hasn't got a decent post to attach it to.
00:21:36And from what I've been seeing here, they've been refitting some posts.
00:21:43Now, if it's been raining, and the world of ours is doing some strange things with weather,
00:21:47and if you have N feet of water land on the place over the years, and a lot of around here is sand, how deep are the posts in?
00:21:55And if you've got to reposition and reattach and whatever, you can't concrete one in during a race, because it's not going to go off.
00:22:04So it's a big problem to actually attach something.
00:22:08The arm goes up, it's completely useless, and it's got something solid to attach to it.
00:22:12It doesn't matter if it's two, three, or five layers.
00:22:15So you have got to look at, I think, and don't tell me, and I don't know what the ACO do, I don't think about the safety procedures,
00:22:24but it looked to me as if they were replacing the posts.
00:22:27Now, it could be the posts are not solid enough, the sand around here is obvious,
00:22:32and you've got to have a very, very long post.
00:22:35But then the next question, of course, if you make it too solid, is it going to damage the guy even worse when you hit it?
00:22:40So it comes back to this silly question, choose your accident.
00:22:43I mean, we've had seven red flags in practice and qualifying.
00:22:46We've had ten safety car periods totaling four hours, 53 minutes,
00:22:50which, as Martin pointed out, has matched the record at Le Mans.
00:22:53But a lot of that delay has been caused by having to repair barriers that have had holes punched in them.
00:22:59Absolutely.
00:23:00But then, being a cynical old so-and-so, ten years ago, and I don't want to argue the number of years specifically,
00:23:09but ten years ago in the UK, you almost never heard of a motorway being closed.
00:23:15Never.
00:23:16It was two lanes or down to one lane or whatever it was, but you never closed the road.
00:23:20Now, we have a minor shunt, and the whole damn thing's closed.
00:23:23Health and safety.
00:23:24And somebody called health and Mr. Safety and his mates and say,
00:23:27you can't do that, it's bloody dangerous.
00:23:28So, hang on a minute, lads, what are we going to do?
00:23:31And I fear that it might be exactly the same here.
00:23:34Martin?
00:23:36I have to say, I'm not entirely sure, as in so many instances,
00:23:40that I disagree with Hugh Chamberlain in one iota.
00:23:43Looking here as the Murphy's prototype car comes by the battle for second,
00:23:48and for first place, rather, in the GTE Pro Class.
00:23:52And there's Darren Turner's Aston Martin, now 6.5 seconds behind the Porsche of Mark Lee,
00:23:59which would appear, to all intents and purposes, to be going absolutely as Harry Flatters as ever it can.
00:24:05And the Aston, there's just a determination in Darren Turner sometimes that is as dogged as it is British.
00:24:14And he is closing.
00:24:16And actually, having that big muscle car tucked up right behind him is helping him in a straight line,
00:24:23whereas the Porsche is working on its own.
00:24:25And Hugh Chamberlain, push me, pull you, two cars together, especially at higher speeds, quicker than one.
00:24:32Oh, for sure.
00:24:33It's, er...
00:24:35You can't always guarantee the guy you're following is going to be a decent guy, but...
00:24:39Oh, no, he's following Dazzle, and that's taking away some of the drag that Darren is leaving.
00:24:44Oh, yeah, absolutely.
00:24:45Now, the only slight problem with that is the car that's following Darren is the other Porsche.
00:24:52Yes.
00:24:53We all drag him along, dude.
00:24:55So, yes, that's a slight problem.
00:24:59However, be that as it may, that is your battle for GTE lead, and, of course, the battle for the overall lead.
00:25:06Audi's still in front, Toyota second, Toyota third.
00:25:09And we are waiting on pit stops for Toyota.
00:25:12Three hours and four minutes to go.
00:25:14So, if they stop now, at the very least, three stops.
00:25:17And we heard Marc Genet say probably a fourth stop for that car, didn't we?
00:25:21So, we can imagine, probably for the Audi as well, four stops.
00:25:26A tiny little sprinkle of rain we had has gone.
00:25:28However, another correspondent on Twitter is suggesting there is a short, sharp shower maybe 10 to 15 minutes away from us.
00:25:39Whether it skirts us or soaks us, you just hit the lap of the gods as ever with the weather.
00:25:46You know, to think that we're affecting global warming, we can't even get rain to stay away from this little racetrack.
00:25:51It's a tiny little area of France.
00:25:53Yeah, compared with France, but it's quite a big place as a racetrack.
00:25:58How about a bubble over it next year?
00:26:00Oh, that's a good idea.
00:26:01Have a roof.
00:26:02Well, yes.
00:26:03If in Clements, in the Village Hall.
00:26:05Oh, yes.
00:26:06Or run the race in the stadium.
00:26:08They don't, yeah.
00:26:08Scalextrix.
00:26:10Yeah.
00:26:11Don't suggest it.
00:26:12I've done a Scalextrix 24-hour race.
00:26:14Well, I'm sure there is one somewhere.
00:26:16Lots of British touring car drivers.
00:26:18They don't cheat much.
00:26:19This is in the 80s.
00:26:21No current drivers were involved.
00:26:23The number one Audi fights its way through the GT battle under lead and skies.
00:26:28Look at that.
00:26:29Your Twitter's right.
00:26:30He was absolutely right.
00:26:31Who is he?
00:26:32Peter Leon.
00:26:33Baron von Clutch.
00:26:35Well, Darren Turner now will hook up behind the Audi and try and get through the door.
00:26:39It's been opened.
00:26:40It's still leading, but the gap is getting closer.
00:26:44Yes.
00:26:44Well, it's closed since 19 hours, so we get used to.
00:26:49No, I mean, we will see.
00:26:52It's, you know, now it will really be on the strategy side in terms of fuel and tariffs.
00:26:59We will do our next stop in around 20, 30 minutes.
00:27:03I think we will change our strategy now to try to put the same set to the end.
00:27:07We will see.
00:27:09We'll see.
00:27:10And when everything works out, how are your calculations until the end?
00:27:14We are with the Aston on the same window.
00:27:18So, normally I think they will do the same.
00:27:25I guess they will change for only one driver now to the end.
00:27:30So, we also try to see what they do, you know.
00:27:33But, yeah, it's a big fight and wait and see.
00:27:37But it will be very close, yes.
00:27:38But Marc will stay in the car until the end.
00:27:41No, no.
00:27:42Now, Marc will stop for sure.
00:27:44And Richard will go in.
00:27:46Normally possible that we go in between.
00:27:47But now we try to see something different.
00:27:49Thank you very much.
00:27:50Thank you very much.
00:28:23Thank you very much.
00:28:24Thank you very much.
00:28:24Thank you very much.
00:28:25Thank you very much.
00:28:27Thank you very much.
00:28:28Thank you very much.
00:28:29Thank you very much.
00:28:30Thank you very much.
00:28:31Thank you very much.
00:28:32Thank you very much.
00:28:33Thank you very much.
00:28:34Thank you very much.
00:28:3510 seconds outright never mind in class this could go to the very last minute and beyond we've got
00:28:42three hours and a minute remaining in this race and no closer to knowing who's going to win it
00:28:48who's going to win lmp2 who's going to win gte pro or am so many twists and turns three hours
00:28:55more than one and a half grand prix distances more than a full american le mans series race
00:29:01as much as a european le mans series race it's like the daytona 500 you spend 400 laps getting
00:29:08into position and 100 laps racing to win it we're getting there cue down to the nitty-gritty
00:29:13yeah well a bit i mean it's uh it really is going to be an extraordinarily close finish obviously
00:29:19there have been other close finishes but uh in every class it's close it's fantastic racing
00:29:2410 seconds stop and go penalty for car number 38 the driver has breached the maximum driving time
00:29:31even as the four out of six words were spilling for my mouth oliver turvey is in the pit road
00:29:38now did he not come was it turvey who didn't come in in time in the jota car
00:29:43i can't imagine simon dolan exceeded four hours in every six with all due respect to simon
00:29:51well that is a very unfortunate miscalculation for jota if that is the case or lucas law if
00:30:00oliver has just taken over i don't know three has just been and gone for audi eight is on pit road
00:30:09now for toyota johnny kane has just been and gone from sixth overall for straka it is midday here in
00:30:16france we are into the final furlongs boys and girls i don't think it's time to place your bets even
00:30:23yet here when did you know when you're going to win them on when did you know it was actually going
00:30:30to happen was it checkered flag time do you think is no it's after the checkered flag you've got to now
00:30:35you don't know because you've even in those days you had to complete the last complete the lap and
00:30:41you had to complete it until he'd actually taken the flag which of course uh could have been the flag
00:30:46comes out and you've got and he could be 30 yards in front you've got another whole lap yeah and the
00:30:52worst one was when we're i think third with the viper and uh neamarin had no clutch yeah and well he's
00:30:59foreign isn't he yes another trouble another lap and he didn't come past and people saying oh fantastic
00:31:04fantastic no he hasn't come past i'm sure he has no he hasn't come past and he's he's he'd stopped
00:31:12out on the circuit on the last lap to make sure that he wasn't gonna because the radio wasn't working
00:31:17and then eventually he did come through it's 15 minutes after four well that's when you're glad
00:31:21it's not a 1400 cc turbo engine and it's got lots of talk and grunts and it doesn't actually really
00:31:27need many of those gears of course now that wouldn't qualify as you finisher your final lap has to be
00:31:32inside six minutes and some of these cars right at the back are doing 5 45s and five minute laps
00:31:41now yes yeah in race trim without marshals and flags and slowing traffic and all the other paraphernalia
00:31:47so it's not the easiest thing in the world no that six minute rule was brought him shut just after
00:31:52me took 18 minutes from his last lap yeah he didn't finish till monday but nevertheless
00:31:57close there you go it's like the chap who does the london marathon a diver's suit who takes you know
00:32:0214 days or whatever it is to do the 26 miles it's a bit unkind to knee but i know what you mean
00:32:08another peugeot on pit roads this time it is kazuki nakajima comes in from third place
00:32:14so he takes service and davidson has already departed we will not leave you in the lurch we'll be back
00:32:21right after this
00:32:34so
00:32:36so
00:32:46and we're going to have to change the rear view
00:32:50we're going to do the left side of the rear view
00:32:54pano recognition
00:32:58and we're going to change the rear view
00:33:16Oh, my God.
00:33:46Oh, my God.
00:34:16The 2013 24 Hours of Le Mans, of which 21 remarkable and dramatic hours have already expired.
00:34:25We are into the final three hours.
00:34:28And here we have two Audis, as we're so often used to seeing them going towards the closing stages.
00:34:33Mark Cole, nose to tail.
00:34:35These two, however, are not first and second.
00:34:38They're not second and third.
00:34:40They are third, the number three car, and fifth, the number one car.
00:34:45And that is ten laps off the lead.
00:34:48Yeah, riding Volley Jarvis, and the car in front is not a Toyota.
00:34:51It is the number one car of Andre Lotterer.
00:34:53Well, actually, the car in front is a Toyota, because that car in front is behind.
00:34:56Yeah, the car in front is behind.
00:34:58That's the number one car of Andre Lotterer.
00:34:59Of course, double winner back-to-back the last two years, but not to be this year.
00:35:03But he, Marcel Fassler, Benoit Trollier, and Lina Gade, the four of them who've won Le Mans twice.
00:35:09More than ten laps left, I'd say, in the race, and he's only ten laps behind.
00:35:13Well, nothing is impossible.
00:35:15No, in this race, absolutely nothing is impossible.
00:35:19Well, that number one car is so far behind, Damien, because they had a crankshaft sensor fail.
00:35:25Had to remove the gearbox, change the sensor, and send the car off again.
00:35:29And it cost them 38 minutes or so and ten laps.
00:35:32Yeah, thanks, guys.
00:35:33Good to be back here for my final stint.
00:35:36I've enjoyed the weekend.
00:35:39Yeah, obviously, they had a problem.
00:35:41It makes you wonder what might have been if they hadn't had that problem,
00:35:44because, yeah, was it...
00:35:48Fassler or Lotterer has done the fastest lap of the race at 3 minutes 22.746 in the number one Audi.
00:35:57Clearly the fastest Audi, formidable driver lineup.
00:36:01As if the other two Audi's don't, but they all have strong driver lineups.
00:36:06But, yeah, they were unfortunate.
00:36:07Obviously, going for their hat trick, it's not going to be.
00:36:09But they've made a good fight back, and they're now up in, what, fifth position.
00:36:14Yeah, and then they've come back from sort of 20th position, and on pace, of course, they should be in front of almost every other car in the field, if not every other car in the field.
00:36:24But it's about how long it takes for that pace to pay you back, Mark Cole.
00:36:28Finally, looking here in the Porsche curves, Damon, despite all the rain and the drizzle and everything else, there's actually some rubber down on the line.
00:36:37It looks like there's starting to be some grip for the closing stages, and a dry last three hours would give us a real grandstand finish.
00:36:44Well, it doesn't take long, you know, you actually see a lot of the rubber just there under braking for the first, second chicane, rather.
00:36:53A lot of, a lot of vibration.
00:36:56A lot of pickup.
00:36:59Copy, like, copy.
00:37:01Yeah, and the number two Audi reporting a vibration, and he probably quite rightly says it's a lot of pickup, because he'll have a good idea himself, if he's locked a wheel or not.
00:37:11That would be the other reason why you would have a vibration.
00:37:17Now, you'd say, okay, he's only got pickup on the tire as the number one car leaves, because he's gone offline, so he shouldn't go offline.
00:37:25But, Mark, you told us how many times these cars are going to pass in a 350-odd lap race.
00:37:33Yeah, but he's suggesting he hasn't been offline, and he probably hasn't locked up, as you just said, so it could just be general rubber pickup.
00:37:42The circuit is getting so dirty.
00:37:43The thing is, he's traveling at a much faster pace than, obviously, all of the GTs and all of the P2s, and so he's having to go offline here and there to overtake them.
00:37:55Like, just four or five times a lap, and that was the point I was making, Mark.
00:37:59I quoted this stat earlier on.
00:38:01These Audis, they reckon, will overtake 1,500 cars during the course of a race, which is four or five a lap.
00:38:07Yeah.
00:38:08Plus the onus is...
00:38:09Which means they've got to go offline.
00:38:10And the onus is on that Audi to keep well clear of the other traffic.
00:38:14There he is, right out to the fringes of the circuit, and every time you do that, you're in the marbles, you're on the dirt.
00:38:20Once those chunks of rubber have become embedded on the tire, it's very, very difficult to get them off.
00:38:25And actually, they just act as a sort of a...
00:38:29A magnet.
00:38:30A wheelie weight, if you like.
00:38:32So with the...
00:38:32Using the rotating wheel with centrifugal force, it puts the balance out, which is why, you know, it has a vibration.
00:38:40He's staying out at the moment.
00:38:41But Ralph Juttner there, who's the race director for Audi, basically looking...
00:38:46The car director for Audi, basically discussing with the crews, do we need to bring him in and give him fresh tires or not?
00:38:53They've got a lap in hand, but that lap in hand will soon come down if they have another problem.
00:38:57You've only got to have a puncher on the far side of the circuit, and your lead's gone.
00:39:00Yeah.
00:39:00Well, then, of course, if you bring him in now and top him off, do you then end up having to come in the last two or three laps when you might be really up against it for a splash and dash?
00:39:11You know, there's so many calculations to be made.
00:39:15Yeah, but the one thing they will be paying particularly attention to is reliability, and they'll not want any vibration at all because there's lots of nuts and bolts and brackets and latches and everything else on this car,
00:39:29and they're not going to want any of those to be vibrated loose with pickup.
00:39:34So, again, it'll probably be the driver that will make the call, and he'll tell the team how bad it is.
00:39:43If it isn't going away after a few laps, then you never know.
00:39:45They might choose to take him in.
00:39:47And the other thing, of course, is how physically wearing a constant vibration is at high speed because it won't be like your road car.
00:39:54It'll be a really high-frequency vibration that is just rattling the interior of his skull, and that's going to take away from his overall performance as well.
00:40:03Well, it's going to take away from his vision.
00:40:05Yeah, exactly.
00:40:06Well, if you can't see, you can't drive fast, I would say.
00:40:10You would be right, I would say.
00:40:12What do you think?
00:40:13Yep, absolutely right.
00:40:15Although, of course, there are blind Lansby record holders, but he doesn't have somebody beside him going,
00:40:20left a bit, left a bit, you're right, you're right, you're right, you're right, you're right.
00:40:22Here's the battle then for third and fourth.
00:40:25Still alive, Oli Jarvis in third in the number three Audi, and Nico Lapierre in fourth.
00:40:30Now, this is the first time that we've seen a consistent separation with the two Toyotas being spread by an Audi that's got between them,
00:40:39and how much this is going to continue to flip-flop back and forth.
00:40:44Look at the side of the track, by the way.
00:40:45All those black bits, they're loose.
00:40:48That is loose bits of rubber.
00:40:49Tyres wear.
00:40:50The rubber goes somewhere.
00:40:52Damon, when a tyre gets sideways or scrubbed forwards under braking, like when you're rubbing blue tack off a wall,
00:41:00that's what happens to the rubber.
00:41:01It balls up.
00:41:02I didn't get a word of that, I'm afraid.
00:41:14We were waiting for some in-car radio there, but it didn't happen to it.
00:41:17Oh, you didn't hear it, or we did, so we need to be turning yours up a little bit, so I shall make that adjustment.
00:41:23So, a very impressive performance by Oli Jarvis, and taking that third place away from Nick Lapierre.
00:41:29How long is he going to keep it?
00:41:30I don't know.
00:41:31The gap, as you can see, just half a second after that goes past one of the factory Porsches,
00:41:37and Oli Jarvis in his third Le Mans 24 hours.
00:41:40So, our class leaders, Loic Duval in the number two Audi, Bertrand Baguette in the number 35, Morgan Orica,
00:41:53and fastest race lap for Nicola Lapierre, trying to get back on terms with Oli Jarvis in that Toyota.
00:42:10So, our class leaders, Loic Duval in the number 35, Morgan Orica,
00:42:40and Asíakh.
00:43:00So, our class leaders, Loic Duval in the number 35, many years after this Lunarяж vers a new players.
00:43:06Oh, my God.
00:43:36Oh, my God.
00:44:06Olly Jarvis, Nico Lapierre, battle for third and fourth between the Audi and the Toyota.
00:44:21And as you can see, exactly to the hundredth identical lap times last time around.
00:44:29So much for Audi's speed advantage over Toyota.
00:44:32Now, if they can do that on a couple more laps, Damien, three and a half minutes and they're tied to the thousandth of a second.
00:44:40It's remarkable ability of two completely different concepts to kind of meet in the middle at the same point.
00:44:46It is. It is. And, you know, it's no coincidence.
00:44:52It is, you know, for this lap here is eight and a half miles.
00:44:56That's incredibly close, incredibly tight.
00:44:58I mean, a second here is nothing.
00:45:01A second in most other circuits is a week, you know, but here it's nothing.
00:45:06But I would say I would say the Audi probably has more in hand, to be honest, than the Toyota.
00:45:12It may well be that it's just a complete freak that they're affected by traffic.
00:45:21Looking here at Darren Turner in the GTE chasing Aston and he is dropping away from Mark Leib.
00:45:29He was within seven seconds of it.
00:45:32He is back within seven seconds of it now at the last split.
00:45:367.09 seconds.
00:45:39It was down as low as six and he is closing in now.
00:45:42Look at this. Audi number two comes in, the race leader, and right in front of him.
00:45:48Oh, dear.
00:45:49It's the mobile chicane, the number 39 car.
00:45:52And again, Romain Brandelat.
00:45:54Slippery surface flags.
00:45:55Where is it raining?
00:45:56Marshall's post 120.
00:45:58Oh, dear.
00:46:01That's the Porsche curves.
00:46:02Into Porsche curves.
00:46:03Yeah, that's a nice place to find a patch of rain there, Damien.
00:46:09Yeah.
00:46:11Sad and jest, of course.
00:46:13Yeah, indeed.
00:46:13Not at all the best place.
00:46:16Incredibly fast, long, sweeping corners.
00:46:19You don't really want to be getting into trouble there.
00:46:22So Alan McNish not getting in.
00:46:24We've got two hours 40 still to go and Tom Christensen getting in aboard.
00:46:29Will he now stay there till the end of the race?
00:46:31Or will Alan McNish be given another chance at the wheel?
00:46:38Who knows?
00:46:38We don't know their strategy.
00:46:39But it would be, we were, well, we were, I guess, dreaming.
00:46:44And we were thinking that it would be a lovely tribute for Tom to finish it.
00:46:49But you never know.
00:46:49Well, it may be that Tom will do a stint now so that Alan McNish, perhaps, for instance,
00:46:55doesn't end up doing more than four hours in the last six of the race.
00:47:00So it may be that he, if he got in now, he would run out of time before the end of the race.
00:47:08That is to do a driver change now with two hours 45 to go than with 12 minutes to go.
00:47:13Because that's really getting into squeaky time.
00:47:16So it could well be that Tom is going to finish the race.
00:47:20It could well be that he's going to do a single stint and McNish will get in with whatever's left of the car.
00:47:24Again, there's no way of knowing.
00:47:26But this is the race leader.
00:47:28And looking suitably grimy and grubby for a Le Mans race leader as well.
00:47:32Car number 49, the mobile chicane.
00:47:34No, it's not the mobile chicane.
00:47:36Car number 49 gets a 30-second speeding penalty.
00:47:38That's Pierre Caffer, who is in one, two, three, four, fifth place in the LMP2 class.
00:47:44And that will hand the place to Ludwig Bade in the number 46 Orica.
00:47:48And we've also got the 53 Viper just coming into the pits of a rear puncture.
00:47:52He's limped all the way in from Porsche curves.
00:47:55He's just gone past us into the pits.
00:47:57Wow.
00:47:58And then he was on board that car, the 53 car at the moment.
00:48:01Was that Ryan DL?
00:48:05Dominic Farnbach.
00:48:05Dominic, yeah.
00:48:06He took that car over not long ago.
00:48:08That spoiled the strategy then.
00:48:10Dan Dan, the gravel trap man.
00:48:11He stopped in front of us earlier on, didn't he?
00:48:14Looped it around coming into the pits.
00:48:15There's a 30-second stop and go penalty for car 49 speeding in the pit lane.
00:48:19Yeah.
00:48:19That was, again, as I said, Pierre Caffer.
00:48:22He's going to...
00:48:23Well, it's not necessarily him that was speeding,
00:48:26because often the driver coming in is the one speeding.
00:48:28The one goes out is the one who has to serve the penalty.
00:48:31Caffer is in the car now,
00:48:33so it is he that will have to serve the penalty whether he earned it or not.
00:48:36You win as a team, you lose as a team.
00:48:39Of course, you do prefer to win as a team.
00:48:41Race leader, safety got by the 39 mobile chicane,
00:48:44the TCR Jammer car, for those of you of a slightly older vintage.
00:48:48And there is your race leader, Tom Christensen, on his outlamp.
00:48:53And, yeah, for all sorts of reasons, emotional reasons,
00:48:58I'm sure a lot of people would not be very disappointed
00:49:02to see Christensen take the chequered flag here today.
00:49:04Heavy rain on the run down to Indianapolis.
00:49:06Now they're reporting that's, again, not a good place, Damien.
00:49:10Well, now, if I was our director, Olivier,
00:49:12I would like to rejoin this car
00:49:14as he gets out of Mulsanne Corner and on the way down to Indi-Lap.
00:49:18He's just gone through the Mulsanne kink.
00:49:20Meanwhile, here comes Dazzle.
00:49:22Darren Turner, second...
00:49:24Ooh!
00:49:24Spot a water on the camera lens there at the Porsche curves as well.
00:49:27Second in the GTE Pro class.
00:49:31He's taken that gap down now to six seconds.
00:49:34Well, he took another 1.2 out of Lieb last time round.
00:49:38You don't need to do that.
00:49:39There's Lieb into the Ford chicane,
00:49:41and there is Turner into the pit lane.
00:49:43So that gap...
00:49:45Now, again, the Porsche will need to stop as well.
00:49:49I think the Aston...
00:49:51Is it doing less laps on fuel in the Porsche?
00:49:54Lieb's got the wiper on.
00:49:55Yeah, well, Lieb's done 19 stops.
00:49:57This is Turner's 21st,
00:49:59so Lieb certainly owes us one, as you say.
00:50:02Well, I think the Porsche is going at least a lap longer,
00:50:05if not two.
00:50:06Unfortunately, I can't drill up through the ceiling
00:50:08to get to Paul Trustwell and ask him
00:50:09because he would tell us within a matter of seconds.
00:50:14But, yeah, definitely that relieves some pressure on Lieb.
00:50:18Of course, it's not the end of it
00:50:20because he can't get to the end of the race
00:50:22another two and a half hours plus
00:50:23without stopping for fuel at the very least once,
00:50:27probably twice.
00:50:28And rear tyres, of course.
00:50:30He's not going to make those rear tyres last for nearly three hours.
00:50:32Well, do you know what?
00:50:34If he needs to, it blooming well will.
00:50:37It would be surprising.
00:50:40They've been really heavy on their rear tyres, the Porsches.
00:50:43Heavy at the back.
00:50:44Great traction, having the engine hang over the back,
00:50:47but not so good for tyre wear.
00:50:48Well, now, listen.
00:50:49There's only one way for Aston to win this,
00:50:51and that is flat-out sprint.
00:50:53So throw fuel and rubber at the car,
00:50:56and the only way for Porsche is to stay in front,
00:50:59and that means not being in the pit lane.
00:51:01And, Damien, that's really hard when you're the tortoise
00:51:04and you can feel the hair.
00:51:06Pit this lap.
00:51:07Pit this lap.
00:51:08Pit this lap.
00:51:09So one lap longer on this stop.
00:51:12Yeah, well, this will be interesting now
00:51:14to gauge the gap when he comes out again
00:51:17to see who did the best pit stop.
00:51:18Now, then, this is where stopping early might help.
00:51:24When Lieb comes out of the pit lane,
00:51:26his tyres will have come straight from the oven onto the car.
00:51:31Turner's will be up to temperature.
00:51:32Lieb's will lose temperature all the way to the first chicane.
00:51:36If Turner's still within seven seconds of him
00:51:39as he crosses the line,
00:51:41Lieb's car will be going slower than Turner's,
00:51:43and he will not be able to brake at the first chicane
00:51:45on the Mulsanne on cooler tyres
00:51:47than Darren Turner will
00:51:49because his tyres will lose temperature
00:51:51all the way down from the pit lane
00:51:52to the first chicane.
00:51:54This might be Turner's chance to get right on terms.
00:51:58And look how wet it is there.
00:52:00Very, very wet.
00:52:01Beginning of the Porsche curves.
00:52:03That's the third-place car in the GT class.
00:52:06That is Porsche's fallback, Patrick Pille.
00:52:09No, that was back at the Mulsanne.
00:52:10Yeah, that's where the road was.
00:52:12They've jumped now.
00:52:12That's the problem.
00:52:13They've left the car we're following.
00:52:15And this is the 91 car.
00:52:17Oh, and he's going to go over the arms, the Ferrari.
00:52:21Patrick Pille on board.
00:52:22Yikes.
00:52:26Thumps it over the kerbs.
00:52:28It's traumatic when you look out of our window, isn't it,
00:52:30because they flash past our little window so fast
00:52:32and bounce hard over the kerbs.
00:52:35But this is Porsche's fallback.
00:52:37If it all goes wrong with the other car
00:52:38and the Aston together,
00:52:40then they've still got an ace in the hole.
00:52:43Yeah.
00:52:43First and third, that's covering bases, Mark.
00:52:46And all three cars are still on the same lap.
00:52:48That's the great thing.
00:52:51Yes, the closest rival, Kamu Kobayashi's Ferrari,
00:52:54the 71 car, the damaged 71 car in fourth place,
00:52:58is three laps back.
00:53:02So they need a cataclysm.
00:53:04Mind you, we've had a few.
00:53:08We've had filthy weather, safety cars,
00:53:10cars flying off left, right and centre.
00:53:12Look in front of you, down that straight.
00:53:14Doesn't make good viewing for any racing driver, Damien.
00:53:17What do you think when you see that?
00:53:19Do you think, oh, that's just coming.
00:53:21You know it's coming.
00:53:22Those dark clouds hanging there,
00:53:24coming towards Mulsanne.
00:53:25Well, it's just an instinctive feel, really.
00:53:28You know, you just have to be careful.
00:53:30You have to be very alert.
00:53:32And, you know, if you know that it's there,
00:53:34then you wouldn't be pushing just at 100%, to be honest.
00:53:37As we saw, Mark Lee going into Mulsanne.
00:53:40Great driving by Kamui Kobayashi.
00:53:42He stayed on line and then pulled away from running wide
00:53:46to allow the Audi to go all the way around the outside of him.
00:53:50Good thinking driving.
00:53:53Kamui Kobayashi really impressing his Ferrari team
00:53:56with his laid-back attitude, so non-Formula One.
00:54:00The third time you have to do right now is what you need.
00:54:02Three, four, three, four, three, four, four, five.
00:54:07There's what you need.
00:54:08Let's do it.
00:54:09So
00:57:09This is...
00:57:10Doug, in qualifying they were, but Doug Feehan said that their qualifying laps last year
00:57:15were the beneficiaries of some massive tows, a tow on all three major straights, he said,
00:57:20and as a result, actually, empirically, cars are quicker.
00:57:23They have been quicker all year.
00:57:24Part of their problem, though, is that they do not know the new tyre that was introduced
00:57:29to the Spa six hours, so the teams would be ready for it at Le Mans.
00:57:33Corvette weren't.
00:57:34Corvette weren't.
00:57:34But that is only part of the problem.
00:57:36We're not blaming the place at Michelin's door, blaming the place even, placing the blame
00:57:40even at Michelin's door eventually.
00:57:41But Corvette just slightly befuddled and bemused.
00:57:45It's...
00:57:46Interestingly, just slipping out of a podium position, but perhaps back in as Mike Conway stops.
00:57:52Jan Mardenbrough in the number 42 Zytec Nissan is a lap ahead of Pierre Kaffer.
00:57:59Mike Conway has stopped the number 26 Orica, and that, of course, is the G-Drive racing car
00:58:07that he shares with John Martin and Roman Rusanov.
00:58:09Bertrand Baguette and Olivier Platt leaving for Oak Racing the 35 and the 24 car, respectively.
00:58:16And just before the break there, we saw the...
00:58:20Or during the break, rather, we saw the number 51 car of the winners, GTE winners last year
00:58:28of Matteo Manuselli going off in the damp, out-braking himself, locking up at Mulsanne
00:58:35and going straight into the gravel.
00:58:36Now being towed out and back into the race.
00:58:41So Christensen leads P1.
00:58:42It's Bertrand Baguette P2.
00:58:44It's Darren Turner now finally getting ahead of Richard Leitz.
00:58:48But Turner, does he still have to make a stop?
00:58:5021 stops he's made against the 20 of Leitz.
00:58:53What's the feeling on that, Martin?
00:58:58I don't know.
00:58:59I don't know.
00:59:00It's...
00:59:01It's much easier to have your nose in front than to be constantly trying to stick it in, isn't it?
00:59:05Yeah.
00:59:06And again, two hours, 30 minutes.
00:59:10Ask me again in two hours, 33 minutes who's going to win this, I'm afraid.
00:59:14I think they're going to...
00:59:15It's too close.
00:59:16They've only done one more pit stop in, what, 20, 21 and a half hours.
00:59:22Yes.
00:59:23So they're not going to do another more pit stop.
00:59:25What's going to happen is they'll probably, if they're using more fuel, which invariably they are, they're probably just going to have to spend longer in the pits doing a splash and dash at the end.
00:59:34Well, that's possible.
00:59:35That is possible.
00:59:36Looking at Mike Conway with his special helmet with the distinctive goggles design.
00:59:41It's been designed to have his colours around the side and on the top, but to look like an old fashioned cork helmet with a leather strap underneath, goggles pushed up over the visor of his helmet.
00:59:51If you see him come down the straight and see that dart mark above the yellow visor, look closely, and that is an old fashioned pair of goggles.
00:59:59And you didn't stick with that.
01:00:00And that was the doof.
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