Celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 24 Hours of Le Mans with the full 2023 race in stunning HD and without cuts. This milestone edition marked the return of legendary manufacturers like Ferrari, Porsche, and Cadillac to the Hypercar class, delivering an unforgettable showdown of technology, endurance, and passion. Witness every dramatic moment, from night battles to rain-soaked strategy calls, in one of the most historic races ever held at Circuit de la Sarthe.
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00:00:00That we're seeing here is just unbelievable.
00:00:04Le Mans winner Guy Smith, we're joined by world champion Anthony Davidson as well as we watch the 35 Alpine coming into the pit lane in a battle with the 80 AF Corsa car, that's the Zebra car that you saw a moment or two ago, and APR Algarve Pro Racing, so that's 4th and 6th in the LMP2 category.
00:00:24Into Europol leading, Fabio Scherer still at the wheel of that car, and his teammate last year in that car, Alex Brundle, currently doing commentary on Eurosport, watching on with interest.
00:00:34United also sports 23 car, now that's their best car in terms of championship points, there goes the 80 car, and that is in 2nd place with Tom Blomquist at the wheel, and Team WRT's Robert Kubica in 3rd.
00:00:47Jota's car that had led earlier on, 28 car, Oliver Rasmussen still at the wheel.
00:00:52Now, we've done commentary, gone for dinner, had a bit of a loaf around, come back, and he's still driving the car that he was in when we left Ant.
00:00:59Incredible, isn't it?
00:01:00He's putting in a solid stint.
00:01:02Yeah, real solid stint.
00:01:03But Jota were at the top of the LMP2 field, to be fair, when we left momentarily for our dinner.
00:01:12But, yeah, Rasmussen still at the wheel, but, yeah, right at the top there, Ferrari, Pierre Guidi, they're doing a fantastic job.
00:01:21And so is the 94 Peugeot, Lloyd Devalg, really impressive stuff from them.
00:01:26I mean, it really came good in the mixed conditions for them.
00:01:29And the car suddenly came alive, didn't it, Guy, in those tricky conditions with the slicks on, intermediate conditions.
00:01:36And suddenly, that Peugeot is right there in the mix.
00:01:40Yeah, I'm just looking at the timing screens now, because we know that the 50 Peugeot, sorry, the 50 Ferrari, sorry, has gone on to slicks now.
00:01:48So it's the first car on to slick tyres.
00:01:51So we just want to see whether it was the right decision or not.
00:01:55So I'm keen to see how they go.
00:01:57Well, earlier on, in the daylight, it was the right decision to switch early.
00:02:03I'm less convinced now, though.
00:02:05You know, it's a very different beast as soon as that sun goes down.
00:02:08The track just remains greasy for a much, much longer time.
00:02:13Usually, that's how it plays out here.
00:02:15But I might be proven wrong.
00:02:16But, yeah, I think that's quite a brave move from Nielsen to be on the slicks.
00:02:22They might need to take a little bit of a roll of the dice, because they dropped behind their sister car by over 30 seconds in the last round of pit stops.
00:02:30The team said they had to do a bit of a reset on the car, and it just spent longer stationary.
00:02:34So maybe trying to get some of that advantage back.
00:02:37You can see tyre change here.
00:02:39That's a set of slicks.
00:02:41Yes, it is.
00:02:42That's slicks going on to the United 23 car.
00:02:44Now, that is their strong car.
00:02:46Into your pole.
00:02:47United and WRT's 41 car all in from the lead.
00:02:50And so now to the lead of the race goes the 28 Toyota car of Olly Caldwell.
00:02:55Again, like in the hypercar class, as we have seen year in and year out with these LMP2 cars.
00:03:04And since before you were in LMP2 and since you've left LMP2, the battle has never been anything other than relentless.
00:03:11The cars are so closely matched.
00:03:13The teams are so closely matched.
00:03:15Blink and suddenly you're out of the hump.
00:03:17Absolutely.
00:03:18It's always been a hard-fought battle, the LMP2.
00:03:21It's been recent years, like you say, Martin.
00:03:22Yeah.
00:03:23WRT, Jota, United Autosport, they've really raised the bar.
00:03:28Driver change here.
00:03:29Richard Westbrook out of the car number two Cadillac and Earl Bamber back in.
00:03:35He started this race, of course, for the number two car.
00:03:38And he really knows his way around this track, particularly in the night.
00:03:43He was always quick here, back in his Porsche days in LMP1.
00:03:48He was always phenomenally fast, particularly in the night-time sessions.
00:03:52Going on to softs.
00:03:53So this is a change to slicks as well.
00:03:55A pit stop though.
00:03:57Sparks flying from the wheel guns.
00:03:59A little bit slow on the left rear as well.
00:04:01A bit messy there.
00:04:02Had confirmation from Penske Porsche Motorsport, Porsche Penske Motorsport,
00:04:06that the 75 car has had to be retired.
00:04:10It has shown a stop.
00:04:11It is out on the circuit.
00:04:13And it is retired.
00:04:19Turns are really not bad from here.
00:04:21It's just between the two chicanes and optimals on.
00:04:24So let's carry on.
00:04:26I think it's a good choice.
00:04:27Well, that was the engineer telling Nick that he thought it was a good choice.
00:04:37Yeah, I think my decision was a good choice.
00:04:40I mean, you're two seconds off the pace at the moment.
00:04:42So suck it up, buttercup.
00:04:44I think it's going to take, it's going to take, you say, as you said,
00:04:47a couple of extra laps to get the temperature into those tyres
00:04:50with it being a little bit, without the sort of heat of the track surface and the sun.
00:04:55So I think it's going to take a couple more laps.
00:04:57But I think with every lap, the track is drying out.
00:05:00And it's definitely going more and more towards the slick.
00:05:03So we all know that horrible feeling on a set of old wets and a drying track.
00:05:08And it starts sort of squidging around.
00:05:11You lose your confidence.
00:05:12You lose the grip.
00:05:13Yeah.
00:05:13And you're just wishing that you could be on the slicks.
00:05:16And if you're committed too early to the wets,
00:05:19you're out there for an awful long time losing lap time.
00:05:22Here's the 51 car in.
00:05:23Yeah, 51 is in.
00:05:24This is our race leader, Alessandro Pierre Guini.
00:05:27He took over the last round of stops.
00:05:29Track temperature currently 22.4.
00:05:31Air temperature 22.0.
00:05:33Temperature in the booth 22.0.
00:05:3623.0 has just clicked up to.
00:05:38So right rear, left, right front.
00:05:43Yeah, a set of scrubbed slicks ready to go on.
00:05:48Normally you don't see the chalk marks and that matte finish on a set of tyres that hasn't been used.
00:05:52So I wonder if those were tyres that may have done a little bit of work in qualifying.
00:05:56We'll wait and see.
00:05:57Yellow flag, top left hand corner.
00:05:59Yep, so they're going to put the slicks on.
00:06:00Off the top of the old wets, just as we were talking about.
00:06:03And it's a brand new set.
00:06:04Oh, it is a brand new set of softs.
00:06:06You can see the white tab just at the bottom of the picture.
00:06:10Not the sort of big Michelin logo.
00:06:12There's a little white tab about four or five centimetres across with S inside it.
00:06:18So the white is for the coldest conditions.
00:06:20This makes life easy for simple people like me.
00:06:23White for cold, yellow for sort of nice and sunny and red for red hot.
00:06:26So Ferrari back up to speed and back full of power.
00:06:31Whereas Toyota, number eight car, is in this lap and the number seven probably in another couple of laps.
00:06:36Seven is in.
00:06:37You can see the energy logo just creeping up there.
00:06:4039, 40 percent.
00:06:41So seven in and Toyota, number eight, with Rio Hirokawa at the wheel.
00:06:48They're due in this lap, just down to 1 percent left.
00:06:51Either somebody has really started banging on the outside of our cabin or for the umpteenth night in succession,
00:06:57the fireworks are going off again.
00:06:59There's a magnificent display.
00:07:01If you haven't seen it, it'll be all over social media.
00:07:04The huge centenary celebration last night.
00:07:07Fireworks, drones and all sorts of music and lightning and lighting and pumping, Harris.
00:07:13You said a soft.
00:07:14You said a soft as well.
00:07:16It's cold enough.
00:07:17I'm cold enough.
00:07:18It's not so hot.
00:07:20Softs should survive here, shouldn't they?
00:07:22This is now nighttime running.
00:07:24The temperatures are cooler earlier perhaps than they might normally have been expected to be because of the rain.
00:07:29They started the race, of course, on the soft as well.
00:07:32And in the much hotter conditions, the sun was in and out between the clouds and the rain.
00:07:40It was a proper kind of April showers day almost, but a lot hotter with it.
00:07:45And they survived those warm conditions.
00:07:48Sebuemi did a brilliant job managing them.
00:07:51He had to manage them, but they definitely hung on in there.
00:07:54First ever time I've seen this race control message coming up on our screen.
00:07:59Fireworks and drone show is going on.
00:08:03So there is another centenary celebration show.
00:08:05There's another gig tonight.
00:08:07Yet another gig on the stage behind our caravan.
00:08:09So, yeah, it is a very busy weekend all around.
00:08:14Outside the track, inside the track, above the track, below the track.
00:08:18Just empty bin liners there inside.
00:08:21This little access hatch to try and get rubber out of the front of the radiator grill.
00:08:26Yeah.
00:08:26So all these cars are designed with the quick access to those holes where you can clear the radiators out.
00:08:35Particularly the Toyota, where they've been doing this now for such a long time.
00:08:39Here from the rebirth of the World Endurance Championship back in 2012.
00:08:45And you learn every step of the way.
00:08:48Of course, you follow rule changes.
00:08:50They come and go.
00:08:51But through every iteration on car design, car development, you learn a thing or two.
00:08:58And you just keep perfecting elements like that.
00:09:02So that's one area where Toyota certainly have that advantage over the others.
00:09:06You can see the fireworks through the top of the screen.
00:09:10Yeah, that's what that is.
00:09:12That's the fireworks.
00:09:13And also, you can see in his mirrors, little, you know, on your car, your door mirrors will indicate, you know, when there's something alongside you.
00:09:22You can see his has got a little car logo as well.
00:09:24It's very, it's got a standard production road car logo.
00:09:27But look at the size of the mirror.
00:09:28That's a proper NASCAR size mirror.
00:09:31Enormously wide.
00:09:33And, of course, when we refer to the project, the Garage 56, number 24, Chevrolet Camaro.
00:09:40Objects in the rearview mirror may be considerably larger than you imagined.
00:09:44That's what happens when it comes along.
00:09:46It's like a Christmas tree there, isn't it?
00:09:48I'm trying to work out, so it's green and then it's going orange and red, is it?
00:09:51So, I'm telling you, like, obviously...
00:09:53Presumably that's because of proximity.
00:09:55It starts off green, goes orange, and then goes red.
00:09:58But the car looked like it was dropping back in the distance.
00:10:00Yeah, and now it's red.
00:10:01Down there.
00:10:02But it was going green when the car was dropping back.
00:10:04And then it started going red again when the car was getting even further away.
00:10:07So, it's almost like it was reverse, wasn't it?
00:10:09Yeah.
00:10:10The reverse of...
00:10:10Just to keep you on your toes.
00:10:13You're good.
00:10:13Oh, no, he's catching you.
00:10:14You're good again.
00:10:15Let's make it.
00:10:16Hurts team Jota car.
00:10:17Yippee-yay had built up a 10-second lead after the last round of safety cars.
00:10:21Raced away from the field.
00:10:23I mean, absolutely destroyed everybody.
00:10:25But then, unfortunately, one mistake turning into the Porsche curves destroyed the back of the car.
00:10:30They lost about 20 minutes, I think, in terms of overall standings.
00:10:36They are now down in 13th place, the last of the competitive hypercars.
00:10:42Now, here's a great opportunity to ride on board with Alessandro Pierre-Weedy.
00:10:47We're going to sit with him for a full lap.
00:10:49Let's hear the sounds and sights of Le Mans.
00:11:19Let's hear the sounds and sights of Le Mans.
00:11:49Let's hear the sounds and sights of Le Mans.
00:12:19Let's hear the sounds and sights of Le Mans.
00:12:49Let's hear the sounds and sights of Le Mans.
00:13:49So how brilliant is that?
00:14:02A whole lap in the dark, at Le Mans, in a Ferrari, leading the race.
00:14:08Yeah.
00:14:09But what would it be like in a Cadillac?
00:14:12You want to find out?
00:14:13Great to find out, wouldn't it?
00:14:14We're going to find out.
00:14:15There's the fireworks show.
00:14:16Now, there's a view from above of the lights and the fireworks bursting in there.
00:14:21I mean, it was full on last night, wasn't it?
00:14:24And right where all of that is firing off is the edge of the TV compound.
00:14:28Our caravans, where we sleep for the week, are in there as well.
00:14:32And then at midnight, the Sonnet Lumiere continued on the main stage, which is about the length
00:14:38of a cricket pitch from the back of our caravan.
00:14:40So we were breathing in every bass beat all night long.
00:14:44It was impressive.
00:14:46OK, let's ride with former Le Mans winner, Earl Bamba.
00:14:50Again, the sounds of Speed Sport 1 here from Le Mans turn it up.
00:15:03So this time, running on board with Earl Bamba, like you say, Martin, it's like you can see
00:15:07the steering wheel, so the driver's really at work.
00:15:10Here we go, on the run-up towards the Porsche Curves.
00:15:13I'm going to shut up and let you enjoy it.
00:15:15I'm going to shut up and let you enjoy it.
00:15:45I'm going to shut up and let you enjoy it.
00:16:15And if you enjoy it.
00:21:53Yes.
00:21:55I appreciate it
00:21:55I'm going to remember this
00:21:57when we were flowering here
00:21:58and he said
00:21:59I'd love to race with my dad
00:22:00and you know
00:22:01if you talk to Martin Brundle
00:22:02or Nigel Mansell
00:22:04or Derek Bell
00:22:06you know
00:22:07the chance to race
00:22:08with the boy
00:22:09well
00:22:10in Mansell's case
00:22:11both sons
00:22:12was a really huge deal
00:22:13and of course
00:22:14for Derek and Justin
00:22:15it was nearly
00:22:16that enormous fairy tale
00:22:18in the Harrods McLaren.
00:22:19Well I mean
00:22:20I remember Derek telling me
00:22:22actually more special to him than actually winning the race yeah it just has it just has that human
00:22:27emotion and the third drive of course uh andy wallace and the team boss of that car the late
00:22:32david price so pricey the bells and awol nearly pulled it off they had uh fiona miller needs to
00:22:41be here because she was doing the pr for that car i think they had a gearbox problem in the end and
00:22:44that dropped them out what was the lead of the car a lead of the race they ended up on the podium
00:22:49in third place so yeah i know you know jeff brabman won here for perjot david brabman won here for
00:22:56perjot and as he would still have it for uh for tom walkinshaw in the xj220 so as far as i was
00:23:02concerned i stood on the podium i've still got the trophy so i i still think i want it but they never
00:23:07got a chance to to drive with their dad and would have loved to do so both of the boys incidentally
00:23:13won on father's day which was which isn't this weekend this year it's next weekend this year as
00:23:18as you will all find out next weekend when you're back home and we have a uh jan uh
00:23:23jan and kevin yeah yeah yeah when kevin was between gigs in formula one yeah just briefly he was uh an
00:23:30lmp2 driver here then even more briefly uh he was a peugeot factory driver and then suddenly formula
00:23:36one discovered they wanted a bit more of his uh pithy vernacular and some uh some driving skills
00:23:42uh not sure there is david falling on the road track from the fireworks that was a nice little
00:23:47mix but back with our race leader sanjo kirkwidi it's been interesting actually in this race apart
00:23:53from that little bit of rally stage there in existing mulsanne corner interesting how at certain periods
00:23:58some drivers in cars that ostensibly are really no quicker than the others have just wiped the floor
00:24:04with with their rivals and yippie was starting to do that after the last big safety car in the
00:24:11hertstein jota car just ran away and it wasn't because there was a titanic battle behind him because
00:24:16a couple of cars broke free he just went and was gone yeah it wasn't like he got lucky in traffic which
00:24:22we can sometimes see him in this last lap he really did a 343.9 and uh the car behind him nico muller
00:24:30this time does a 340.2 so uh it's uh swung in the favor of uh muller that lap uh 339 for kobayashi
00:24:41but uh yeah when it was um ife's turn at the wheel he he was just genuinely fast pulling away from the
00:24:47porsche behind him overtook and pulled away from both ferraris they were on evenly uh evenly matched
00:24:55tires with the same age same compounds i mean he was just genuinely quick and i still don't know what
00:25:02happened in the porsche goes but i still reckon he must have just lost the rear end on the second left
00:25:08and just couldn't control the car got on the wet stuff around the next right that followed and uh it's
00:25:14quite a hefty blow into into the barrier they're now four laps down but it was such a such a rise to
00:25:21the front wasn't it for for team jota the hertz team jota car for for a while so i'm just looking guys
00:25:26we've got the uh the ferrari af course car leading hypercar we've got the af course car in lmp2 in fourth
00:25:35and the af course car in gt in third so they're moving up the order so uh yeah they've almost got a
00:25:43podium in all three they could potentially win all three classes which which we're pretty darn sure
00:25:49has never been done at leman before imagine if you put money on on on that on a clean sweep yeah that's
00:25:54a great treble isn't it slow zone as they come out of the dunlop chicane and down through the s's to
00:26:03terrecher rouge um graham goodwin just pointing out a couple of little interesting facts ferrari leads at
00:26:08le mans haven't been able to say that for 50 years not overall a polish bakery leads in lmp2 that's
00:26:14into europol's number 43 car and a dinosaur leads in gtm so rexie the project one ao car
00:26:22matteo cairoli a porsche jr factory driver there's your lmp2 leader we will fans get around to lmp2 and gte a
00:26:32lot more hopefully in the next few hours because just for the moment and actually how far are we in
00:26:39seven and a half hours in for the first time the hypercars seem to have stopped swapping paint work
00:26:47with each other it has just settled down a little bit like a slightly longer version of the formula
00:26:52ford festival it was fun though wasn't it i mean and i'm sure it will get back there yeah uh thinking
00:26:58about you know to the start of the race before we had all the the downpours that really spread them
00:27:02out eventually uh the toyota did have the pace it was a similar pace to the ferrari when he couldn't
00:27:10pull the gap on the fries but he had a different compound of tire on arguably the weaker compound
00:27:15at that time in the soft the ferrari's had the medium so it's not as if toyota don't have the pace
00:27:21in this race to win it on outright speed they can certainly match ferrari in dry conditions
00:27:28so uh and the porsche was up there as well so we did have this incredible three four-way fight
00:27:36that i honestly don't know who had the fastest package and then yeah the rain you see different
00:27:41drivers excel at different points um we mentioned uva but also pierre guidi and nico mona the peugeos
00:27:49came alive in those uh mixed conditions as well so yeah the gaps have spread out but as we know all it
00:27:55takes under these new regulations of the safety car where we get the the three then they become one
00:28:01and we get the the pass arounds and also the the drop backs so they they split the categories again
00:28:07it all that it takes is one safety car now that that period of time behind safety car and then it
00:28:13all bunches back up again you're just watching fabio share there in the into europol car number 34 the
00:28:18green and yellow car leading elaine in lmp2 and he leads by just over 30 seconds from team wrt's
00:28:25robert kubitzer ollie caldwell in third place in the 35 alpine elf car and caldwell as we have
00:28:33famously said a number of times will turn 21 during the race uh jim was suggesting it would be at
00:28:38midnight of course it won't be at midnight because he's not french it will be at one in the morning
00:28:43local time because that's midnight in the uk so that that will be when that happens this is all part of
00:28:49the drone show that we saw yesterday evening as part of the celebrations of this le mans centenary
00:28:56the headlights there become old number one the 1924 winning bentley in fact that might even be the
00:29:04chenard a walker trying to decipher exactly which one it was a bit beyond my time that's so cool
00:29:11only a bit though it was it was very good fun to watch and uh from where we were in the tv compound we
00:29:18actually got sort of part of it but from where most of the crowd were watching it to looking
00:29:24towards the stage rather from the back of the stage it looked even better and uh the light show
00:29:32then also went on so i wasn't quite sure what the sombrero part of it was but to uh highlight
00:29:38some of the other features of cars that have been improved by le mans
00:29:52anthony davidson
00:29:56i think he might have been talking about tires but honestly i i didn't quite catch that
00:30:01it was brevity itself wasn't it i think he said i think he said something like the drier tires are okay
00:30:07but i'm i'm my confidence level is low on that one yes yes i think you need tc up a little bit
00:30:14on that one you sounded infused anyway whatever it was yeah matteo cairoli for project one a.o that
00:30:21is the dinosaur the t-rex number 56 porsche easy to spot with it why is it dinosaur again uh because pj
00:30:29hyatt's kids said daddy could a car look like a dinosaur and he went yeah of course it could if you
00:30:34hit it hard enough and so it did and so it and so so now when he races in the imps of weathertech
00:30:40series his car looks like a dinosaur and because he's racing here at le mans and because why not
00:30:46his car looks like a dinosaur quite remarkable really when the uh the color scheme was first
00:30:52unveiled on the gtd car in him so it kind of split opinion uh for about five minutes until
00:30:58though he agreed that actually it's really rather wonderful and then uh the chaparral there in the
00:31:03okay now i still i still haven't looked up whether it's a 2e or 2d or a 2h or 2f 2f what i think you
00:31:09should do is decide what it is then we can get people on twitter to criticize you now i'm sure
00:31:13people will go oh how can you possibly not know that well because i wasn't born you mean you don't
00:31:16know barely born he says um reaching there was there was a really very good little bit on uh a
00:31:23tick tocky twittery thingy thing hair dryers invented here at le mans as well uh very good bit on on tiktok
00:31:30of charles claire walking back down the pit lane from the grid being followed by the dinosaur one of
00:31:37the two guys with his little dinosaur arms and he was not impressed to which somebody had commented
00:31:43sometimes it's tough being green which i just thought was just a work of genius so i i'm sorry
00:31:50i haven't got the tweet handy but whoever that was you're obviously a lemon fan that was uh the
00:31:59tip of the hat that was absolutely spot up but very nice very nice little touch they had a couple
00:32:04of guys dressed up in dinosaur suits as well because you know why wouldn't you lemon is is a serious
00:32:09race but it's also to be enjoyed devoutly to be enjoyed to be devoured and and loved this thing
00:32:19well there you can again you can see more of the elements hybrid power coming to le mans for the
00:32:24first time here all part of that powertrain development that has gone into road cars and
00:32:29has come complete circle because for instance toyota gazoo racing are using road car componentry in their
00:32:36current hybrid system having used their lmp1 hybrids to help develop that and then the two hydrogen
00:32:44elements together h2 is hydrogens two atoms together a bivalent bonding of the hydrogen atoms and h2 you
00:32:53can see that with the h24 logo that's the pure hydrogen powered race vehicles that have raced in
00:32:59michael le mans cup and in european le mans series encounters and uh the aco hope will be racing here
00:33:07in the le mans 24 hours before long riding on board with uh kamui kobe ashi here team principal
00:33:13at uh 22 kazoo racing and uh he is he's putting on a charge at the moment that last lap was a 3 36
00:33:23lap time compared to the two in front of him a 3 40 of muller oh and uh pierre guidi actually tops that
00:33:30he bets that with a 3 35 for that last lap around so uh yeah kobe actually again he's uh he's up there
00:33:36with the the fastest out there but he is certainly closing the gap on uh the peugeot 94. early in the race
00:33:43the race fans may have thought oh toyota really look like they're being outclassed here you can't
00:33:50count them out not only have they got phenomenal experience of racing them on 24 hours itself but
00:33:56this is the third year they've been doing that with this car we can't state that highly enough i think
00:34:03ferrari's car is here at the month for the very first time as is the team as a race unit perjot's
00:34:10car is here at le mans for the first time cadillac's car is here at le mans for the first time
00:34:16so all of those cars are making their racing debut at le mans irrespective of who's running them the
00:34:23cars have not run here before and that knowledge that ability to keep dialing the car into the track
00:34:31and the team into the car and the drivers into the car can't but help toyota in the long run in this
00:34:38battle i've been really impressed with the way that as the weather has changed so radically backwards and
00:34:44forwards and backwards and forwards their new coming rivals have been right there on the money
00:34:51they have been right there with them i did fear when we saw rain forecast that that would just really
00:34:57tip the balance in toyota's favor it may yet because of their experience i'm really impressed with
00:35:04the way the new teams have just run with this thing racing team turkey in the pit lane the 923 car
00:35:11and i've lost how could i lose a three-digit car that's because it's on page two a long way back
00:35:17tom gamble at the wheel when he brought the car in mclaren i'm sorry mclaren chaparral 2f
00:35:22ah there you go 1967 at this great race and it was a front runner but a retirement in the after 18
00:35:32hour transmission problem phil hill and mike spence drove that car automatic transmission problem uh
00:35:37down in the pit lane if steph wentworth what do you know about racing team turkey young lady well they've
00:35:43been in the pit lane for quite a while there was actually a broken suspension and the guys have
00:35:48done really well to fix it as quickly as they have it's vanpool back in the car now and they are ready
00:35:53to go racing again excellent now what fans may not know is that racing team turkey uh sally joelich is
00:36:00is the key to to that whole uh operation turkish driver a former fia world cup winner in uh 14 turkey
00:36:11uh he and anchan juve won the first motorsport games in motorsport uh fiam motorsport games um that
00:36:18car run by tf sport which is also running aston martins in the gtm class there is rexie the car that leads
00:36:26in gtm and leads by how much over the iron dames 61 seconds yeah that's a matteo caroli pushing on
00:36:34and going very well indeed don't know how much we've seen a pj height yet that's one to watch remember
00:36:40in these pro-am uh classes is it's a there's an open season on when the teams can opt to put their
00:36:48bronze rated driver in the cars we'll have a look at that in due course but it's certainly a very
00:36:52impressive that's either a fantastic firework display it's a big offer somebody i'm sure you can
00:37:01hear the noise from the effects cameras around the track but you're probably also picking it up from the
00:37:06cameras in the booth here because it is we're not hearing it from from the tv we're hearing it coming
00:37:12through the wall of where we're in a double cabin at like a temporary cabin deal and uh yeah that's
00:37:19definitely making itself very well aware of its presence here there you can see the project one ao
00:37:25garage and uh ferrari af corsa it's been such a joy having af corsa and ferrari together in this hypercar
00:37:36class because they have brought a good looking car a quick car a good team of drivers who predominantly
00:37:43we know well because they are multiple gt championship contenders and winners but also
00:37:49they have just been so open and enthusiastic now then are we going to stay with this let's stay with
00:37:56this manu i'm begging you now we've had on boards with the ferrari we've had an on board with a caddy
00:38:01let's have a bit more americana and ride with jimmy johnson
00:38:19so
00:38:29so
00:38:31so
00:39:49I'll speak softly again for those in Houston who've still got your volume turned up because I'm sure there'll be a lot of those.
00:39:57It's the sounds of Daytona, it's the sounds of Le Mans, isn't it?
00:40:00And what a great time to be alive.
00:40:02What a great time to be here at the Circuit de la Salle.
00:40:05The centenary race has just solved up the entertainment, the soundtrack, the sights, the sounds, the smells.
00:40:11And what an effort from this NASCAR developed problem, though, for another of the big V8 cars.
00:40:18Yeah, this is a car that had a problem on lap one, brought out the first lap safety car, the Action Express Cadillac 311.
00:40:27Alexander Simms at the wheel of this car, didn't see what the problem was.
00:40:31Where had he gone straight on?
00:40:33I think that might have been down at the second chicane, Martin.
00:40:36Yeah.
00:40:36Yeah, I think you're absolutely right.
00:40:38We just saw Malfino and Carlos Tavares there.
00:40:42Yeah, we saw Carlos Tavares in the AF Corsa Ferrari garage a few minutes ago.
00:40:46It was sort of a slight mixing of the streams.
00:40:50I wasn't quite sure what was going on there.
00:40:52Steph Wentworth is lurking still down at TF Sport.
00:40:55What do you know about the 777 D station car?
00:40:58Well, the front has had a huge chunk taken out of it.
00:41:01The front right, it looks like it's crashed into a wall or a barrier because it is completely mashed up.
00:41:06We'll definitely be needing a full front change.
00:41:09Maybe there might be some suspension damage on the need as well.
00:41:13Thanks, Steph.
00:41:14And, of course, Graham, that car was not that car, but the original 777 car that was scrutineered on Friday or Saturday was written off in free practice,
00:41:24first free practice in an accident with the number 13 Tower Motorsport car, which is already out of the race.
00:41:29And that's a brand new car or an existing car that was already at their base in England.
00:41:35That's right. So the car came out.
00:41:36It's John Horschel's regular Ilvesse chassis, but per regulation, if they can, and they did,
00:41:43switch the engine and gearbox from the original car to ensure that car was packed.
00:41:47But I think you were just saying off mic, and you spotted where that car went off.
00:41:51Yeah, it went off at the first chicane.
00:41:53It was there for quite some time.
00:41:54They were deliberating whether to put out the full course yellow or just a slow zone for that section of track.
00:42:00And then they got going again.
00:42:02And so I assume it was in the just where we passed there, actually, on the right-hand side, running board with Nico Muller in the 94 Peugeot.
00:42:10I think that's where the 777 D-Station car went off.
00:42:13I think it's got Fujisan behind the wheel.
00:42:16It is Tomolo Bufucci.
00:42:19Came in with that car, the gold-ranked driver for D-Station Racing.
00:42:23Now we've seen pictures of it.
00:42:25And so the TF Sports D-Station crew going to work.
00:42:28And that is not going to be the work of a moment for the car.
00:42:32Already down in 11th place and dropping quickly.
00:42:35It was running in ninth in class, I believe, before that incident.
00:42:40So, yeah, a shame for that tricky first chicane.
00:42:44We saw Alex Sims obviously run out wide in the second one, but this track is still holding the moisture.
00:42:51A little update by the way on the left for Floyd Van Wall car.
00:42:55That was recovered from the gravel, has been into the pit lane, and is back out again.
00:42:59It's now on an outlamp with Esteban Guerrieri.
00:43:01So if you see the number four coming past you, it has been in a relatively long stop, about...
00:43:09Actually, just three minutes.
00:43:11Just three minutes, so...
00:43:12Maybe a bit of a clean-up after that trip into and eventually through the gravel.
00:43:16It was pretty harmless.
00:43:17He just looped it off backwards, avoiding other traffic.
00:43:21Despite the woes for some of the hypercars, the top 13 cars here of the 16 are all hypercars.
00:43:29Next one down the order is the number four car, down in 39th position.
00:43:34Then we've got the retired 75 car, still shown as being in 51st position, but in reality, out of the race.
00:43:40And a couple of laps still to pass that point is the 52nd place 3.11 car, the absolute express racing car that we saw in trouble just a few minutes ago.
00:43:51Yeah, that's in the pit lane, and that may well be there for a wee while longer.
00:43:55But we have the top 10 cars still on the lead lap at nearly one-third distance of this race, despite all the best efforts and some fairly strenuous weather conditions to disperse them to all points west.
00:44:08Guys, like a toddler that's found the sweetie cupboard, this race simply will not quit.
00:44:14It won't calm down.
00:44:16It's refusing all efforts of anybody just to develop what you might reasonably call that rhythm that you get into at night.
00:44:25Never really understood why that happens, Anne, but it always seems to, that you'll get this frenetic activity getting into this kind of time of night.
00:44:32And all of a sudden things seem to calm down without your drama interjecting, and we get three or four hours quite often at Le Mans, where actually what we've got is pretty fast running.
00:44:43Speaking of rhythm, yeah, you're absolutely right, Graham, that the drivers in the car at the moment, particularly as it starts getting later in regards to time of day, the longer you stay in the car, the more in the groove you get.
00:44:55And it's quite often the next drivers that get in, you see a lot of safety cars and moments.
00:45:00We have a reported debris, Marshall Post 21.
00:45:09We have reported debris, Marshall Post 21.
00:45:14Marshall Post 20.
00:45:16Okay, that is Mulsarn Corner.
00:45:17Drivers left.
00:45:19Yeah, Mulsarn Corner.
00:45:20So somebody has possibly smoted a barrier on the way into Mulsarn Corner and shed bits, or down the straight from the shed bits at Mulsarn Corner.
00:45:28Yes, Ramsey, uh, fires Ramsey.
00:45:31Got a light out.
00:45:31Yeah, one light out of it.
00:45:3235 car, yep.
00:45:33They will need to fix that, because that will be spotted.
00:45:37That is on its out lap as well, Mamo Rojas.
00:45:39Yeah, driver change there.
00:45:41Ollie Caldwell stepped out of the car.
00:45:42Now, you're saying at midnight we should get everybody's sing to him.
00:45:45Yeah.
00:45:45That's not midnight in England, and he's not French.
00:45:48So therefore 1 a.m.
00:45:49No, it's not.
00:45:50Doesn't count.
00:45:51Oh, thank God.
00:45:51Doesn't count.
00:45:52He wasn't born in France, so he wasn't born on French summer time.
00:45:55He was born on British summer time.
00:45:56Was he?
00:45:56I don't know where he was born.
00:45:59It sounds like we've got to find out when he was born.
00:46:01Where he was born.
00:46:02I'm going to check that.
00:46:03I'm just going to give Mr. and Mrs. Caldwell a quick call.
00:46:06Yeah, what time of day, please?
00:46:08He is the number 50 Ferrari AF Corsa 499P.
00:46:12Nick Nielsen, man at the wheel.
00:46:15He started the race in that car, of course,
00:46:17so they have cycled through their first run of drivers.
00:46:23And the other two drivers in the car will be trying to get a bit of rest.
00:46:29Not very easy at this time of night, Ant.
00:46:32You know, what's the time now?
00:46:33Half past 11 quarters to midnight here.
00:46:35You're still ramped up, I mean, especially for these crews, you know,
00:46:39their first race in hypercar, their first race at the front of the field,
00:46:44the overall front of the field.
00:46:46It's going to be very hard to really tune out of that and just get a bit of rest.
00:46:51I was just saying before we had the race director's message there
00:46:55that usually one of the hardest moments of Le Mans
00:47:00is to jump in when it's dark,
00:47:02and you've been out of the car seeing your two other teammates at the wheel.
00:47:07And you might not be, you know,
00:47:08it might be your first go, actually, at this stage.
00:47:12You're getting in the car for the first time
00:47:14because of all the delays we've had.
00:47:16Drivers reaching close to their maximum driving time
00:47:19of four hours at the wheel.
00:47:22That's the most you're allowed in the hypercar category of pro.
00:47:24So, you finally get your chance.
00:47:28It's dark.
00:47:29It's slippery.
00:47:31You're starting to feel a little bit tired already
00:47:33just because the time of day is so late
00:47:35at 10 to midnight here, as we are in Le Mans.
00:47:39And you, it's just, everything's just in fast forward.
00:47:45You can't kind of, you can't get yourself up to speed.
00:47:48You see other cars around you.
00:47:49You see the lap time set from your teammates before you.
00:47:52And you're miles off.
00:47:53You can be two seconds off.
00:47:55And you're thinking, how on earth did they do that?
00:47:58I'm driving out my skin to be doing this.
00:48:00I'm living by all my senses right now.
00:48:03And I'm just desperately trying to crash the car.
00:48:06How on earth do I go two or three seconds faster?
00:48:10And then gradually, it starts to come.
00:48:12You start to find the lap time.
00:48:14You start to find where you can and can't overtake the cars,
00:48:17the slower cars, and you get in that rhythm.
00:48:19You learn the processes, learn the track.
00:48:22Again, it's a forever changing beast, the circuit,
00:48:25as you go through the 24 hours.
00:48:27The grip comes and goes.
00:48:28The gravel comes and goes that's been spewed onto the track.
00:48:31And you just, you have to be out.
00:48:33There's no better time just to be out there
00:48:35in the groove, in the rhythm,
00:48:37and living and breathing it as it evolves.
00:48:40And that's how you find immense lap time.
00:48:43As soon as you change driver,
00:48:44you've got to start that learning process again.
00:48:47And that's what I always found the hardest.
00:48:49We're chatting away to a couple of the guys
00:48:51who raced here a decade or so ago.
00:48:54One, a factory driver.
00:48:55One, a privateer LMP driver.
00:48:58And we've been talking about what really has made
00:49:00the legends of Le Mans.
00:49:01And yes, of course, it's the winners.
00:49:03Of course, it's those efforts.
00:49:06But it's other things, too.
00:49:07It's things like the faultless drives
00:49:09that people remember
00:49:10that could be in absolutely any of the classes.
00:49:13And beyond that, it's then,
00:49:15in adversity, in poor weather,
00:49:17when someone just gets dialled in
00:49:19and actually, frankly,
00:49:21destroys the rest of the field.
00:49:22It's like what Guy was saying earlier on
00:49:23about Pierre Guidi.
00:49:24He was 10 seconds a lap faster than someone else.
00:49:26That's JJ Leto style.
00:49:28That's Tom Christensen style.
00:49:29And that's incredibly impressive.
00:49:31And it will be remembered.
00:49:33It's what got...
00:49:34I'm not blowing my truck.
00:49:35I hate talking about myself.
00:49:36But that's what eventually got me my Toyota drive
00:49:39is the stints that I did.
00:49:42Pascal Vassal said,
00:49:43the stints you did in the wet,
00:49:44in your Peugeot, in the 908.
00:49:45People are watching.
00:49:47They watch what you do.
00:49:48You know, in those tricky conditions,
00:49:50that's when a driver can really make the difference.
00:49:53I can remember a couple of other drivers
00:49:55in that situation.
00:49:56Not here at Le Mans,
00:49:57but it was a breakthrough drive
00:49:58that got them their brake to come forward.
00:50:01Marcel Fessler
00:50:01destroyed the fuel that sparred 24 hours
00:50:04in their GT1 Corvettes
00:50:06and went on to do amazing things
00:50:09in L&P and GT cars.
00:50:11Andro Lotterer.
00:50:12His first experience in the Audi.
00:50:13It wasn't even the fully-fledged A-team, was it?
00:50:17It was the...
00:50:18It was the college team.
00:50:18The college team, yeah.
00:50:19In adversity,
00:50:20when Lorraine Carthakhan fell off the pit wall
00:50:23and dislocated his shoulder,
00:50:25it was just him and Charles Waldman Jr.
00:50:27a two-driver effort
00:50:29that did things in a car
00:50:30that it's never been close to doing that
00:50:32in private ways.
00:50:332009, wasn't it?
00:50:34Yeah.
00:50:34Yeah, and that's how Lotterer
00:50:36burst onto the scene.
00:50:36Completely correct.
00:50:37And time after time after time,
00:50:40you know,
00:50:40these are the kind of things
00:50:41that do define
00:50:42that opportunity
00:50:43to break through
00:50:44and show
00:50:46what a driver of supreme quality
00:50:48can do.
00:50:49And I'll blow your trumpet.
00:50:51You are, you know,
00:50:51you were a driver of supreme quality
00:50:53and it was blind in the obvious
00:50:55to anybody that took
00:50:56an opportunity
00:50:57to take a closer look
00:50:59where the quality was.
00:51:00And the great thing
00:51:01about this hypercar class
00:51:04is it is allowing quality to shine.
00:51:07Absolutely.
00:51:07I was going to say that
00:51:08a little bit earlier
00:51:09to Guy Smith
00:51:10and Peter Dunbreg.
00:51:11Do we think
00:51:12that this is now
00:51:14a class
00:51:15where the cars
00:51:16are so closely matched
00:51:17that actually
00:51:18the major difference
00:51:19between them at any stage
00:51:20is what the driver
00:51:21is doing
00:51:22at that time
00:51:24in the car.
00:51:25Just starting
00:51:26to get that feeling.
00:51:27Let's hear from our leaders.
00:51:29Box the slap.
00:51:31Box the slap.
00:51:33OK.
00:51:35Ed Pickston
00:51:36from Alessandro Pierre-Greeny.
00:51:38I think the answer is yes
00:51:39and I'd like to hear more
00:51:40from Ant about that
00:51:41but there's another aspect
00:51:42to this too.
00:51:43When you've got
00:51:44a more spec class
00:51:46it takes something
00:51:47truly special
00:51:48to break,
00:51:49not just break through
00:51:50but dominate
00:51:50in that circumstance.
00:51:52I'll give you
00:51:52gentlemen
00:51:53Mike Conway
00:51:54in LMP2.
00:51:55Brendan Hartley
00:51:56in LMP2.
00:51:57It takes something special
00:51:58to just show
00:52:00that feel
00:52:00that you're not just
00:52:01going to take a tenth
00:52:02or a couple of tenths
00:52:02out of them
00:52:03but seconds
00:52:04and keep doing it
00:52:05and keep winning.
00:52:06Yeah, absolutely.
00:52:07We've just been saying
00:52:08about Gia Grudy
00:52:09really heard
00:52:10from his team
00:52:11coming in this lap
00:52:12but if they were
00:52:14and it's a long way
00:52:15to go
00:52:1516 hours
00:52:16still remaining
00:52:17in the race
00:52:17but if they were
00:52:18to go on and win
00:52:18and it's that car
00:52:19through that does win
00:52:20that's one of those
00:52:22pivotal moments
00:52:23that drive
00:52:24that's in
00:52:25in very tricky conditions
00:52:27where you go
00:52:27you kind of
00:52:29you lean more
00:52:31towards that drive
00:52:32and you say
00:52:32yeah
00:52:33I mean
00:52:34I know you
00:52:34win and lose
00:52:35as a team
00:52:35but once in a while
00:52:37there's a standout
00:52:38performance
00:52:39that more than
00:52:41hands you the victory
00:52:42and at the moment
00:52:44it seems that
00:52:44that stint
00:52:45he's put in
00:52:45was very pivotal
00:52:47to their race.
00:52:48JJ Leto
00:52:49through the night
00:52:49in the Ueno Clinic
00:52:50McLaren
00:52:51ended up winning
00:52:52the race
00:52:52in conditions
00:52:53a lot violent
00:52:55than we've seen
00:52:56but probably
00:52:57we're going to see
00:52:57a lot more of
00:52:58throughout the race
00:52:59so yeah
00:52:59there are
00:53:00yeah as they always say
00:53:01cometh the hour
00:53:02cometh the man
00:53:03Antonio
00:53:03Alexandre Pierre Guidi
00:53:05stays in
00:53:06cometh Kobayashi
00:53:07in the pits
00:53:08in the number
00:53:087 Toyota
00:53:09in second place
00:53:10and also in the pit lane
00:53:12from third
00:53:13the 94 Peugeot
00:53:14of Nico Muller
00:53:15so we have got
00:53:16in order
00:53:17from the top
00:53:18of the field
00:53:19Ferrari
00:53:19Toyota
00:53:20Peugeot
00:53:21Ferrari
00:53:21Toyota
00:53:22Cadillac
00:53:23Cadillac
00:53:24Porsche
00:53:24Porsche
00:53:25somebody asked
00:53:26a little moment
00:53:27or two ago
00:53:28on Twitter
00:53:28is this the best
00:53:30top class field
00:53:31we've had
00:53:32in a while
00:53:34yes it is
00:53:35this is exactly
00:53:37what the ACO
00:53:39and what IMSA
00:53:40had hoped for
00:53:41when convergence
00:53:44was first spoken about
00:53:45that cars
00:53:46from both sides
00:53:47of the Atlantic
00:53:47from all sports car
00:53:49disciplines
00:53:49will be able
00:53:51to race together
00:53:51not just
00:53:52at the same venue
00:53:54but in the same
00:53:56class
00:53:56and on level
00:53:58pegging
00:53:58and that is
00:53:59exactly what
00:54:00we're seeing
00:54:01everything
00:54:01that was being
00:54:03talked about
00:54:03and that was
00:54:04accelerated
00:54:05Graham Goodwin
00:54:06through COVID
00:54:07when there was no
00:54:08actual racing
00:54:09for months
00:54:09on end
00:54:10that COVID period
00:54:13of being able
00:54:13to talk
00:54:14and think
00:54:14and plan
00:54:15and work
00:54:16and do the testing
00:54:17and run the simulations
00:54:19that formed
00:54:20the cohesive rule set
00:54:22that we've got
00:54:23for hypercar
00:54:24that's what we've got
00:54:26now
00:54:26as a result
00:54:27and
00:54:27again
00:54:29we've talked about
00:54:30this all year
00:54:31in anticipation
00:54:32of coming to Le Mans
00:54:33that we are
00:54:35there is the feeling
00:54:36all pervasive
00:54:38that this is the dawn
00:54:39of a golden era
00:54:41of sports car racing
00:54:42and nothing I've seen
00:54:43in the first third
00:54:43of this race
00:54:44tells me anything otherwise
00:54:46I'll tell you this
00:54:47much
00:54:47we came here
00:54:48hoping
00:54:48we might see
00:54:49a flavour of this
00:54:50we came here
00:54:51hoping
00:54:51I didn't really
00:54:53expect we'd see
00:54:54what we'd see
00:54:54so far in this race
00:54:56and I'm utterly
00:54:57delighted
00:54:57to say
00:54:59that with all
00:54:59that you've just said
00:55:00about the amazing
00:55:02work that's been done
00:55:03for the sport
00:55:04walking in
00:55:05through the door
00:55:06is a man
00:55:07we've got lots
00:55:08to talk about
00:55:09including what we're
00:55:09now seeing on screen
00:55:10welcome
00:55:11to the move
00:55:13IMSA president
00:55:14but more particularly
00:55:15team director
00:55:16our project director
00:55:17for the NASCAR
00:55:18Garage 56
00:55:19Camaro CL1
00:55:21NASCAR effort
00:55:21John Doonan
00:55:22you've had a smile
00:55:24about a mile wide
00:55:26all week
00:55:27I'm going to interrupt you
00:55:29because this is our race leader
00:55:30Alessandro Pierguidi
00:55:31on his outlap
00:55:34stopped at the first chicane
00:55:35he has looped it round
00:55:37at the first chicane
00:55:38so that is the Ferrari
00:55:41sitting in the gravel
00:55:42and that immediately means
00:55:45that Toyota
00:55:46that somebody said
00:55:47on Twitter again
00:55:48a moment or two ago
00:55:49well they've been unfairly
00:55:51handled by the change
00:55:52in BOP
00:55:52and clearly they haven't
00:55:54got a car that's as quick
00:55:55as anybody else
00:55:56that car is now
00:55:57the race leader
00:55:58no the Peugeot is the race leader
00:56:00oh the Peugeot is the race leader
00:56:01yeah the Toyota is out
00:56:02in second place
00:56:03so
00:56:04yeah
00:56:04let's take a look here
00:56:06car off ahead of him
00:56:10okay
00:56:10and a car spinning in front of him
00:56:12yeah
00:56:12somebody spinning
00:56:13and somebody going straight
00:56:14through the chicane
00:56:15so was there something
00:56:16on the track
00:56:17or did he just
00:56:19get checked up
00:56:19in avoidance
00:56:20car to the left
00:56:21the car spun around
00:56:22he came into the chicane
00:56:24in the glare of headlamps
00:56:26pointing in the wrong direction
00:56:27so 51
00:56:29is going to be rapidly
00:56:30recovered to the racing service
00:56:32I'm absolutely sure
00:56:33John
00:56:33you'll appreciate
00:56:34we'll talk around
00:56:35what's going on
00:56:36on the track
00:56:37around some incredibly
00:56:38interesting stuff
00:56:39that's been going on
00:56:41with you
00:56:41Ferrari
00:56:42and they of course
00:56:43are of course
00:56:43absolutely straight into action
00:56:46and very concerned
00:56:47after a stellar stint
00:56:49from Alessandro Perguidi
00:56:50eyes wide here
00:56:52from Ale
00:56:52that will have been a moment
00:56:54Vera
00:56:55let's have a listen in
00:56:56with what's going on
00:56:58with Ale Perguidi
00:56:59hey man
00:57:01they're going to come
00:57:01get you
00:57:02they're going to come
00:57:02get you
00:57:03just shake off the rocks
00:57:04before you drive back
00:57:06so
00:57:09anxious moments
00:57:10but with the work
00:57:12that he has done
00:57:13over the past hour
00:57:14it doesn't exactly
00:57:16have a
00:57:17margin
00:57:18but it will
00:57:19certainly serve
00:57:20to reduce the damage
00:57:21of this moment
00:57:22and
00:57:24well I think
00:57:25pretty soon
00:57:25be back underway
00:57:26didn't see
00:57:27which of the other two
00:57:29cars were involved
00:57:29in that Martin
00:57:30did if you
00:57:30managed to pick that up
00:57:31and I didn't quite
00:57:32we'll probably get
00:57:33another couple of reflays
00:57:34I think one of them
00:57:34might have been
00:57:35Manuel Maldonado
00:57:36he's had a very slow
00:57:37middle sector
00:57:38and it could be
00:57:41it was Michelle Gatting
00:57:42because that's another
00:57:43slow middle sector
00:57:44okay
00:57:44Michelle Gatting's
00:57:48Iron Dame's car
00:57:49should have been
00:57:49easy to spot
00:57:50Alessandro Pierre
00:57:52Greedy
00:57:52doing exactly
00:57:53as he was told
00:57:53having a big
00:57:54shake of the hips
00:57:55and a big wriggle
00:57:55to try and dislocate
00:57:56as much gravel
00:57:57as possible
00:57:58do you bring excitement
00:57:59with you
00:57:59everywhere you go
00:58:00it's both pockets full
00:58:02let's talk
00:58:03replay
00:58:04that is a Porsche
00:58:05it is a 911
00:58:06good shout
00:58:08it's the 911
00:58:10911
00:58:10it's 911
00:58:11in the hands of
00:58:12Richard Leitz
00:58:13boom
00:58:16and they can't see
00:58:17which car it is
00:58:18on the inside
00:58:19we'll get a view here
00:58:21as he spins in the lights
00:58:22it's not quitting
00:58:24this one is it John
00:58:24that was two into one
00:58:30not going
00:58:31didn't pick up
00:58:33the LMP2 car
00:58:35let's talk NASCAR
00:58:36what on God's green earth
00:58:40started all this
00:58:41because whatever it was
00:58:43can we do it again
00:58:44well first of all
00:58:46thanks for having me
00:58:47it's been an absolute joy
00:58:49to be part of this project
00:58:50and you know
00:58:52what started it
00:58:53uh oh
00:58:54oh dear
00:58:56here we go
00:58:57that's been in a wall
00:58:59you can see the damage
00:59:00behind
00:59:00you do bring drama
00:59:02with you don't you
00:59:02I do
00:59:03that's Louis Pratt
00:59:04bailing out
00:59:05in a Porsche Curves
00:59:06get out of there
00:59:06is that the end
00:59:07of the career
00:59:08this fantastic
00:59:09oh there's two cars
00:59:10it's a seven
00:59:11it's the Toyota
00:59:12no
00:59:12it's the seventh Toyota
00:59:15with Kamui Kobayashi
00:59:16Tetra Rouge
00:59:18that is astonishing
00:59:19it's coming out
00:59:20of the backstreet
00:59:21it is coming out
00:59:22it's coming out
00:59:22underway again
00:59:23but is there
00:59:24damage to that car
00:59:25look at this
00:59:26how can there not be
00:59:28track announcers
00:59:29are going mental
00:59:30I don't know
00:59:30if you can hear it
00:59:31through the microphones
00:59:32but we can sure hear it
00:59:33through the walls
00:59:34you can see the track
00:59:36peppered with gravel
00:59:37now at that stage
00:59:38but that's
00:59:39looks to me
00:59:40as if that Ferrari
00:59:41has been in the wall
00:59:41it's in the middle
00:59:42of the track
00:59:43I think a safety car
00:59:44almost inevitable here
00:59:46did he spin and clip
00:59:47the wall on the inside
00:59:49and come back in
00:59:49and then get collected
00:59:50by the Toyota
00:59:51or the other way around
00:59:53oh man
00:59:54people gotta slow down
00:59:55yep
00:59:55yep
00:59:56yep
00:59:56yep
00:59:56yep
00:59:56okay
00:59:57here we go
00:59:58thank you
01:00:00thank you
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