24 Hours of Le Mans 2023 – Full Race Part 12 - video Dailymotion

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00:00:00Push the car and get up to speed no time to warm up straight into an impede

00:00:06Certainly and straight into the darkness as well

00:00:10But also straight into probably the best track conditions

00:00:14That they've had because probably the last time both of these guys were in the car track conditions weren't quite as good

00:00:23This is the second stint for both of these

00:00:25Drivers

00:00:31123 laps complete

00:00:38Let's find out what they're telling James Collado

00:00:42Is there anything I should know about the track?

00:00:44At the moment it's full green. I'll talk to Ali. I'll talk to Ali. The chicanes stay tight on the line because off the line

00:00:52It's still damp. Stay up next to the curbs

00:00:55That's it

00:00:57That's very interesting

00:01:01I mean, I think we could see that from the yeah from our camera angles

00:01:06And the various offs that people were having

00:01:10I think it's just a case of trying to get up to speed for for James isn't it and making sure that you know

00:01:14While he hasn't been in the car if there's anything that's come to light

00:01:18Obviously the tracks evolving and changing so

00:01:21Yeah, when uh, when peer greedy came out the car was what was the feedback on the car?

00:01:26What was the feedback on the circuit? Anything they could do to help him to get up to speed will be a big benefit

00:01:32The days of drivers having a talk when they are on the exchange are long gone

00:01:38The the the more about efficiency we can get you the information over the radio

00:01:42But the days of that little bit of conversation where you see the drivers talking about the car maybe hand gestures that sort of stuff

00:01:50Not anymore. Not anymore

00:01:52Well funnily enough this is one of the few championships I think where the pit stops are as quick as you can make them

00:01:59Most championships nowadays have a pit window a pit a time that you have to stay in the pits

00:02:06So take Nürburgring 24 hours for instance you have to be in there for a couple of minutes

00:02:10So you know you've got plenty of time you've got plenty of time to chat and the drivers can pass over the information firsthand

00:02:16But in this racing, there's no time for the these pit stops have to be as quick as possible when it can make the difference between

00:02:24Winning the race and not winning this right

00:02:27And lmp2 now we've got uh pro-am car actually leading overall with the uh equal racing car

00:02:34There is jacobsen behind the wheel

00:02:37another of the uh 14 danish drivers that are here at le mans

00:02:44And he's just been uh recently appointed uh perjo junior driver

00:02:49So great uh i'm sure they'll be watching his performance very closely

00:02:55Almost 300 kilometers an hour before he got to the braking point for the first chicane

00:03:00And you can hear the engine note of the p2 car quite quite different to the hypergar

00:03:11Let's hear from the team

00:03:12Okay mate fuel target now is 6.30 we need to save fuel to gain one up we are expecting some rain so we need to go long please mate

00:03:21We are currently leading the overall race

00:03:24So there you go the strategy with the rain coming is starting to play to all of these teams we need to save fuel so that we can stay out longer

00:03:36For the rain to get here so we don't have to make an extra stop

00:03:42When the rain gets here so there's obvious things you can do in this situation

00:03:47I suppose the one of the most obvious is you lift off

00:03:52When you're at max speed you just left off a bit earlier

00:03:56And they still still break at the same point one of the other things is most of these drivers are left with braking

00:04:02So if there's a crossover between your brake and accelerator

00:04:07It burns extra fuel

00:04:09So that's something to think about as well that the crossover isn't is it isn't so dramatic

00:04:16And quite often with the lifting codes if you do it well, you can actually go just as quick pretty much

00:04:22Doing the lifting codes as if driving normally because once you're at maximum speed if you kind of just roll out of the fossil slightly earlier

00:04:29It doesn't really affect a lot time too much, but it saves you know quite an amount of fuel. Yeah

00:04:40I could sit and listen to these are

00:04:42I think the p2 car they're quite high revving and there's quite a lot of vibration in the car that they really really do sort of resonate and vibrate in the car

00:04:51But they're an amazing amazing amazing car

00:04:56Super reliable and obviously a one make you know one make class now

00:05:05Yeah, but it's it it doesn't feel like spec racing

00:05:09No

00:05:10It doesn't feel like spec racing even though it is a one make class everybody's running the gibson which is based on the nissan

00:05:18Engine they're all running the orca

00:05:21chassis

00:05:23Everybody's on good your tires. It's a spec tire

00:05:28And now it's a little sort of trade of uh lmp2 cars with uh jakerson who's the overall leader in lmp2

00:05:34Trying to put them another lap down

00:05:4150 car still undergoing some work

00:05:45I think we've got our answer now on james collardo. He is starting to close the gap slightly on sebastian bohemi ahead of him

00:05:53So we could see a good little battle

00:05:56developing there quite soon

00:05:58And also uh bohemi isn't exactly closing wasn't exactly closing on nico miller of course. He's uh made a pit stop so that

00:06:08That will change that around but

00:06:13Straight off that's the uh for the corvette

00:06:19No, might be

00:06:21Yeah, I think you're right. Yeah

00:06:27And this is what you don't want to see as a driver you know

00:06:29You've been fighting for the win leading the race and and the next thing you're in in the garage. It's um

00:06:36It's uh, yes

00:06:39Heartbreaking really

00:06:41Car that has spent a lot of time near the front of the gtm category

00:06:46The gr racing number 86 ben barker behind the wheel of that car

00:06:52but they're uh trying to catch up the

00:06:5556 rexie the project 1a0 car gunner jeannette now behind the wheel of that car

00:07:01Is on an outlap the iron dames with rachel fray in the number 85 car is

00:07:07Second in the class then the proton competition 9 11 with uh francesco castellici behind the wheel

00:07:15Then the kessel racing the first time we've uh first time we've called kessel racing daniel serra

00:07:21Is in fifth position in the class in the number 57 ferrari

00:07:27Daniel serra won a couple of times already here, isn't he once in

00:07:32At least once in aston martin and in the ferrari

00:07:36In a um gt pro. Yeah, I think that's brakes guys

00:07:41That's a brief line

00:07:45Back on board with jacobson

00:07:48Now he's actually dropped back a couple of spots. Um, I don't know whether he's made a pit stop, but he's dropped back down now to

00:07:54p4 in uh in class

00:07:56Yeah, that is odd. Yeah, because he didn't make a pit stop. No, there was a scoring glitch

00:08:08Well, yeah, unless he's really saving a lot of fuel and and well, he's backed out of it

00:08:12You know quite aggressively, uh, but he's definitely dropped back now

00:08:17Um, and guys coming from behind as well

00:08:23In the blue blue lights

00:08:25I mean, it's almost 20 seconds back actually isn't it?

00:08:32Yeah, that's something else that's unless there was

00:08:35Yeah, I'm not sure I said a spin that would that would explain it

00:08:42Because as you said he was at the head of a train so if he had it off or just going wide somewhere

00:08:48He would have

00:08:50Would have cost him some positions back on board

00:08:54With our second place

00:08:57Toyota

00:09:00So seven seconds up the road

00:09:02To start to see the lights now of the peugeot the 94 car

00:09:13It just gives you that if you're that car chasing that when you see those real lights it just gives you that little character

00:09:19Yeah, start to chase and chip away and try and um eat into that gap

00:09:24I know I imagine the team will have told him that he's quite close to him and just to egg him on a little bit

00:09:30I'd be interested to know um, who's like the most laps so far

00:09:34I mean, I think that persia seems to have been out front for quite a while now. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, it would be

00:09:47So we've got one persia one toyota one ferrari two cadillacs now in the top five so this is a replay of the car the corvette going

00:09:56Or is it?

00:10:00Was that another car going straight to him? No, that was the the replay of what we saw earlier

00:10:06I thought maybe it was a replay of something that happened to jacobson because now he comes in the pits so

00:10:13There's the camaro the number 24 car the nascar to lamont tree

00:10:25garage 56 we had john dunan in a little while ago and

00:10:29Everybody associated with this program is just over the moon happy with how things have been going mike rockenfeller behind the wheel of the car now

00:10:37When it's done fueling hopefully we'll stay with these pictures and you'll see the uh

00:10:46The dance of the jack man no hydraulic jacks on this car

00:10:50As is kind of the standard in in road racing

00:10:54This is uh the floor jack and looks like they're going to replace some fluids first

00:10:58So that's the high pressure system

00:11:07It's come apart so this is going to be a long pit stop

00:11:10But the tire changers were able to do their work in

00:11:17Just over 10 seconds in the pit stop competition

00:11:20And it's quite a ballet to see these guys work

00:11:25With the jack man and with the way that we can only have in this form of racing so many

00:11:33Unlike formula one where you have seven people for each tire

00:11:37You only have so many guys that can go over the wall to work on the car

00:11:41And here we go

00:11:43That thing weighs about 45 pounds which we worked out earlier was 16 or 17 kilos

00:11:56Yeah

00:11:58It's so cool to see this car. It's such a such a great thing to see and hear

00:12:05And they're continuing to carry on they have

00:12:08They're turning lap times in the in the four minute range

00:12:12They have uh, I don't think they have

00:12:17Climbed as high they've they've

00:12:19They have all of their lap times in the practice sessions were quicker than the gt cars

00:12:24But they're kind of mired in the middle of the gt field now in 24th position overall

00:12:30I think they're I think their wish for the day is to get close as close as they can to

00:12:36Being in the top 20. I think one of the factors is when it rained and the tricky

00:12:41Conditions yeah, they lost their straight line speed advantage and all of a sudden the gt cars are exactly are on them

00:12:50So the 50 car now slipped down to 12th place. So that's promoted both click and clicking houses up to anything nice now

00:12:58And the 37 car the core car would be following is now in the pits. It's dropping down the order

00:13:03So maybe they really did have a problem. Yeah, yep

00:13:09Yeah, because he's now been in there for a while

00:13:13And we start to see the 50 car dropping down the uh the leaderboard now

00:13:18down to 14th overall

00:13:2115th overall

00:13:23Such a shame they were running so well led the race various times full position car of course here's mike rockenfeller

00:13:32that distinctive downshift

00:13:38Here's five speed paddle shift on this car unlike the

00:13:44Winston cup wow just aged myself there

00:13:46When did they stop running that a long time ago?

00:13:55The cup car of today which is this is the same as the gen 7 cars that you see in nascar action on sunday afternoons

00:14:03But this car has instead of a sequential it has a sequential gearbox but it's paddle shift as opposed to the sequential shift on the floor

00:14:11Which is what the gen 7 car has other than that it's pretty much identical

00:14:16It's 400 pounds lighter than a cup car and they were able to achieve that through going from

00:14:22steel brakes which is the the rules in nascar to

00:14:25Composite carbon brakes which took out a lot of the weight and also they did some reconfiguring full course caution

00:14:32We have another full course caution

00:14:34I haven't seen on the screen yet why we may have that

00:14:44Going back to the nascar one other fact

00:14:47Is they removed the hybrid system that the aco asked them to put in

00:14:54So in the end the aco said okay you don't need to have a hybrid and they and that was a big weight saving yeah

00:15:00Both the clicking houses still still running

00:15:08Still waiting to see why we have this full course caution

00:15:12It's what this isn't a safety car. This is just the field gets neutralized to

00:15:1880 kilometers an hour

00:15:20Can we see any cars stopped on track whether the primer car okay we we know that stopped

00:15:2663 car perhaps no that's the prima car

00:15:37Is there debris there was a there was a a message about debris on track but um this is good news for the 50. Yeah

00:15:48Yeah, how many laps have they lost does it say probably six six laps yeah, yep

00:15:59Worst feeling driver sitting there you know

00:16:03All the hard work's been done

00:16:06So 20 minute rest and then you go again

00:16:09So now do you become the um the test the test mule for the sister car

00:16:14So for example if you have change of conditions and you want to try a different tire or something

00:16:19While this car's clearly out of the race for the win

00:16:22um

00:16:23It it could be used for you know to help the sister car in some way

00:16:27I think I think you have to I think you have to there's so much on the line here

00:16:31It it gives you that opportunity to maybe go to slicks early or something like that. We have heard that there is rain

00:16:39expected

00:16:40In the next uh in the next little while

00:16:46They said 20 minutes uh about 10 15 minutes ago

00:16:59He says the full course yellow is going to end shortly

00:17:05So maybe it was just debris on the circuit

00:17:11Yeah, that makes it a uh

00:17:14A very

00:17:17Short caution

00:17:18Going to go out on softs

00:17:21Again we talked earlier uh the toyota started on softs because of the uh mixed conditions

00:17:29Everybody else during the daylight pretty much raced with the mediums and tonight as you guys expected

00:17:35They have almost all gone to softs

00:17:37So interesting even though we had a fairly high track temp no one no one's from what I saw being on hard tires all all weekend

00:17:45Current ambient temperatures 19.8 track temperatures 23.1

00:18:01This looks like the fight for second place

00:18:03Just look at the screen there it says stop for the cadillac and the penske porsche

00:18:09All right, no, it's good still going

00:18:18So we've got uh

00:18:20Rahel fry in front of martin rump

00:18:22To porsche's this is the battle for second place in the gtm category

00:18:30Through tetruge and out onto the mulsun straightaway

00:18:38See who has the

00:18:40See who has the horsepower

00:18:42As these cars will reach their

00:18:44Terminal velocity at this racetrack in this section of the racetrack

00:18:48So fry trying to hold off rump as they come to the first chicane

00:18:56Looks like rumps trying to at least having a look down the inside

00:19:01Thinks better of no has made the pass

00:19:03Has made the pass

00:19:06And now has taken over second place as they exit the chicane and now his next uh target is going to be gunner jeannette

00:19:14who's a little bit uh a little ways up the road okay here's the replay

00:19:18So it's a straightforward yep passed down the outside

00:19:27It's a good move

00:19:31Thomas loud and back there head of porsche motorsport looking on

00:19:41On board with the

00:19:43Number eight sebastian guemi

00:19:48Web is now already closing in within a second of uh nico molosso within striking distance so uh and not far behind where me is uh james collado

00:19:57So it's uh, it's getting tight from now. Yeah game on again and the cadillac number two alex lind is only uh 12 seconds

00:20:07behind the leader just eight seconds behind

00:20:09Our uh third place ferrari

00:20:13And there he can see them as they go underneath the iconic dunlop bridge down through the dunlop s's

00:20:31The hunter and the hunted

00:20:33So when we last talked about him he was seven seconds behind so he's

00:20:40Closed up he's probably closed

00:20:43Yeah more than a second to lap on him if you look on the last lap there it's five five 31 for the for nico muller and

00:20:51525 there which was full course yellow course, but yeah 516 for a colada, so

00:20:56Nico muller seems to have been in a car for a long time and must be doing definitely a triple stint triple stint

00:21:19Of course there was the perjo team that uh as you said 20 minutes or so ago

00:21:30Told nico that there's likely to be some rain coming

00:21:36Nico is probably just thinking he wants to get out of the car before the rain comes well

00:21:40I think that uh when it does come he will be getting out of the car and that event just turned over

00:21:50The toyota's right right with him now

00:21:59This is the battle for the lead

00:22:01We know the toyota is good when the conditions are a tricky uh piece so they'll be again

00:22:15Looking forward to that uh potential rain exactly if that rain comes

00:22:20It just puts him in a much better position. I expect the toyota will breeze by fairly easily

00:22:28There he goes yeah

00:22:32Yeah in terms of straight line speed it definitely seems to me that the peugeot is possibly the weakest

00:22:37One or setting up this maybe not the strongest

00:22:43And even even out of the tighter corners it lacks that boost I mean we're going to see the

00:22:49The toyota just pull away that extra little bit. It just doesn't seem to have the oomph out the corners

00:22:55He's gone already. Yeah

00:22:58But we did hear nico talking earlier about the car being just a little bit unsettled

00:23:07In certain areas of the track

00:23:10And we've seen that by their on-board run on the in the daytime as well

00:23:14And we've got the pit stop for car number eight under investigation, which is the leader. So

00:23:19I'm not sure what that is is about, but there's a possible uh

00:23:24Issue there with their pit stop. So let's let's see what happens with that

00:23:28Well, yeah, that's a car that made two stops. Yeah

00:23:32Um and it seemed like uh unnecessary

00:23:36I wonder whether the the um

00:23:40Pit lane had actually

00:23:42You know was close this one. Yeah, it doesn't happen if it was yellow though. It's definitely was a strange one and

00:23:48Got james clatter now catching up again. He's only 1.1 behind uh nico moller. So again

00:23:55It won't be long before uh

00:23:57He's trying to get past

00:24:06So the 51 the 50 car is now back on track

00:24:13Good uh indication of a wet offline there. So yeah, the track still hasn't even though it's quite quite warm

00:24:19So hasn't properly dried. It's very humid still

00:24:30Just a little over 13 and a half hours remaining

00:24:37A whole lot of race yet to be run

00:24:39Yeah, that that 37 core car it's dropped right to the back now. It's obviously got a problem

00:24:49Yeah, it's still in the pits

00:24:54That's too bad

00:24:57They had a really good run going

00:24:59So when is pulled out 1.6 seconds in the last couple of laps, so

00:25:06He's just getting his head down and trying to pull out pull out a gap

00:25:09Hopefully there'd be no issue with the uh with the pit stop still wait to find out more information on that

00:25:29In uh, the gtm category

00:25:36Only 17 seconds now separates

00:25:40martin rump and gunner jeannette

00:25:48So keep an eye on that see if uh the 911

00:25:54proton competition entry

00:25:56can close in on

00:25:59Jeanette in the 56

00:26:02back on board with nico miller

00:26:04second place in the peugeot

00:26:08Just a little over two seconds behind our race leader

00:26:12sebastian wemi

00:26:16Must be frustrating for him knowing that he can really do nothing about

00:26:22the

00:26:23toyota coming by and potentially

00:26:25Later on maybe on the most sun the 51 car will probably just pass him on the street as well

00:26:32Yeah, because that's the 51 right behind the peugeot now

00:26:36As they head into indianapolis

00:26:40And it's interesting i'm sorry that's porsche curves yeah it's really interesting to see the difference in the two cars how the the

00:26:47Peugeot is visibly moving around more

00:26:49And the Ferrari just seems to be completely nailed down but you know through the porch corners there

00:26:56fastest corners on the track yeah

00:26:57Peugeot actually looked like it pulled away so it might look a little bit more nervous but it certainly

00:27:02Doesn't lack pace through there and it's interesting that it would be a little more nervous in the dry

00:27:07But not as nervous and perform better in mixed conditions when everybody else is nervous yeah

00:27:16Sometimes it can be maybe their their sort of suspension setup is a little bit softer the car's a bit more compliant

00:27:22So when it does become cooler or it becomes

00:27:26You know inclement weather that the car just seems to get those those conditions better

00:27:35Far is not really gained on it. No, you're right

00:27:39I mean, let's see now. I mean we were just saying earlier on that

00:27:42It seems to be the straight line speed the peugeot is perhaps lacking a little bit compared to the the other the other hyper cars, but

00:27:48Um, let's see if he claws back some of that time now as we go to the bonsang straight

00:27:54Yeah, the proof will be in the pudding here if they go down

00:27:57Towards the first you came because this is the fastest part of the racetrack. This is when they reached their highest

00:28:04speeds

00:28:05Right before the breaking point for the scandal strip theme there on the 100

00:28:10ferrari

00:28:12Walking horse entry

00:28:15Hard on the brakes and it doesn't look like he closed in that much guy

00:28:18You know

00:28:20You know nico miller's driving really well

00:28:24A lot of pressure to lead the race

00:28:27But he's he's keeping his head

00:28:30Their last lap time where uh

00:28:3332 sevens one was a 32 seven two seven the other was a 32

00:28:39five six five eight

00:28:41So muller had a better better lap time last lap

00:28:45But just by a skosh there goes your race leader sebastian blemi

00:28:52Here comes second and third

00:28:56Just two seconds behind

00:29:01Over the hump as we go back

00:29:05There they are it's almost as if the pressure starting to close back in on on blemi

00:29:15You're right it's like it's uh

00:29:17It's found like a new at least in life. Yeah, just yeah

00:29:24Race his pace

00:29:26Who's going to be able to work the traffic better in these high speed portions of the racetrack

00:29:37Come the engines to indianapolis that worked well for the the porsal not so good for the ferrari. Yeah

00:29:43It's so difficult for these gt guys because they are absolutely on the limit

00:29:48Yes, of course when you've got a hypercar probably either side of you trying to get around you in a you know high speed corner such as the porsche corners

00:29:55um

00:29:56It's it must be very difficult trying to look in your mirror and hold your line going around the number 98 aston martin

00:30:05Which is currently 10th in gtm

00:30:09Ian james behind the wheel of that car ian making his first return here in

00:30:14Uh almost 20 years

00:30:21I spoke to him. I used to race against ian and yeah

00:30:251994 in form of uxol jr

00:30:27And I saw him probably for the first time since about that time in the paddock

00:30:33And now we were just chatting and he's been in america for 27 years now. Yeah, yeah racing pretty much full time over there

00:30:39Kevin s just just put in uh

00:30:44Is that their fastest time? Yeah, that's that that's a personal best for that car and a three what is it?

00:30:49329 672

00:30:52The same for the uh for the hendrick nascar it's done its best uh personal best time with mike rockefeller at the wheel so the tracks obviously

00:31:00Starting to commit a little bit. Yeah

00:31:04Just in time for terrain exactly

00:31:07Cooler rather stronger stronger engines thicker air

00:31:14More horsepower

00:31:21Let's find out what they're talking about at toyota

00:31:23Okay, so three laps to go this thin three laps to go this thin

00:31:32So

00:31:37So still james collardo can't quite get on to terms with uh nico muller

00:31:43Muller's actually matched the uh last lap time of boy me which is both slightly quicker than collardo so

00:31:49Muller's he's genuinely there on pace he's

00:31:55You see that where me caught past him and then since then he's sort of found another gear and yeah, he stepped it back up again

00:32:02So yeah, as you say it's driving a great race

00:32:10Alex lynn's lapping of a similar pace as the leaders they're very very close on on that time, but it's still um

00:32:16Um

00:32:18He's still 10 well almost 11 seconds behind

00:32:21But he is on on pace. Ah, but he was 12 earlier so he's chipping away. He's chipping away at it

00:32:28chipping away at it

00:32:32So there you go they're close enough now that we're measuring it in meters not in uh in seconds

00:32:41That's some pretty accurate gps

00:32:43Gosh when you see him that close is

00:32:49How hard is it to stay disciplined and just not take a little bit deeper than you should

00:32:57I don't want to know. I think you've got some of those on me peter

00:33:02I wear them on a saturday night normally. Yeah, so

00:33:04oh

00:33:10Oh my god

00:33:13What is it about cloven hook?

00:33:24Right now he's on yeah now he's close

00:33:26He's got a run now

00:33:28He's got a run now

00:33:31He had a very very good sector to collado

00:33:40Again, there's lots of um lap time has been deleted for track limits, but we haven't seen any penalties as yet

00:33:45Uh, and no warnings yet either. No, you didn't you'd have thought of house by now would if we would be that you took your five uh

00:33:53five jokers as it were

00:33:59So we have a yellow at marshall post 35 that's gone now

00:34:03Maybe just a spin

00:34:05So Muller is matching and there's the pass the pass has been completed

00:34:19So now our running order is

00:34:23sebastian webby nope

00:34:26Timing and scoring line to me

00:34:29No, he's still there. He's still there. Yeah, I was thinking it'd be very difficult to overtake in the middle of the Porsche curves

00:34:35Yeah

00:34:37It's actually pulled out again, hasn't he? Yeah, he has almost a full second now 9.96 seconds

00:34:47This has gotten very interesting. This is this is I didn't expect

00:34:53Muller to be able to

00:34:55To hold him off like this. Yeah, this is an excellent drive this young man's put this car on his back

00:35:01and

00:35:02Because he's turning this almost the same lap times as as boy me this last lap he didn't he was

00:35:10Almost a second second slower, but

00:35:14Certainly matching

00:35:16Matching what colado can do

00:35:22There's the number three corvette

00:35:26still sebastian bordet

00:35:29oh

00:35:30man

00:35:31No, he's gone around. Yeah, yeah, but is he heading into the wall?

00:35:36I think it was just a spin. There was a very missed it. There's a very quick yellow flag

00:35:41So yeah, he tried to show his intention that he was coming down the inside, but the p2 car

00:35:52Was having none of it

00:35:54That's the 41 car which is currently third. Yeah in the lmp2 category. Rui Andrade behind the wheel of that car

00:36:03Risky pass actually

00:36:06You know to yeah, but he's he's

00:36:08He's trying so hard to get back. He is but you know sometimes into there against the p2 car, which is very

00:36:16Little difference in speed. Yeah, it's maybe not worth the bother

00:36:21Here we go the run out of mulsanne down towards indianapolis

00:36:25Does colado have it enough this time to get by?

00:36:29He's gonna send him on the outside. Yes, it's gonna make him go around the long way

00:36:33What's this in front? What's cars is in front? It's gonna. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yep. Colado used that car as a pick

00:36:43Takes the line

00:36:45Right hard on the brakes for the left

00:36:48And now on to our notch, which is the slowest corner on the racetrack

00:36:56And job done for james colado as he takes over second position and is now

00:37:02Going to try and hunt down

00:37:04Sebastian webbing who has a four point five second lead

00:37:08over the ferrari

00:37:10I think that poem is due in the pits this time, but it looks like maybe the ferrari also so yeah

00:37:20I wonder what these uh the crew of the nascar team the hendrick boys think of 24-hour racing

00:37:24Well, some of them have just come off the coca-cola 600 which is the longest race of the season over memorial day weekend. Oh, wow

00:37:38Let's hear what sebastian thought of that move

00:37:46Gets in for we'll fit this lap

00:37:48So here he does come into the pits

00:37:54After that spin after his little contretemps with the lmp2 car one of the porsches in front of him

00:38:04That's the number six car kevin ester behind the wheel of that car

00:38:10Routine service for both of these cars at this point

00:38:12ester comes to a stop there goes for day

00:38:19They'll check the car over make sure there's no damage driver change now sebastian board day will get out

00:38:31And I think that's going to be

00:38:34Dixon it's got dixon yes

00:38:38Just wanted to check my helmet chart before

00:38:43Before I uh committed

00:38:46But yeah scott dixon seven time indy car champion

00:38:52And they'll be checking that car after the contact I think um

00:38:57Borde mentioned about a vibration whether it was just a flat spot perhaps on the tire, but they'll be just checking there's no

00:39:03suspension damage

00:39:12Peter dungbrek heads off for his uh evening rest

00:39:20Guy smith and I'll carry on with you through the rest of the evening

00:39:24And this is it you straight out onto the uh onto the track onto the mulsanne 200 plus miles an hour

00:39:35Yeah, but it's so much nicer when you're doing it when it's dry

00:39:40That is because you at least have some modicum of what to expect as opposed to a surprise at every corner

00:39:48But it's interesting because you go from being kind of in the garage kind of it's all quite peaceful

00:39:55Relaxed and then you get into the car and you're sort of flat out and uh full adrenaline so it's uh

00:39:59It's a big change

00:40:04This is a battle for the p2 lead um now

00:40:06So we've got two of the smaller teams into europol and to ken doing a fantastic job

00:40:12um and now battling for the uh for the overall lead in lmp2

00:40:18Neil yanni a past winner of this car

00:40:21Of this race not in this car

00:40:24Yeah, and he's just been announced as a driver in the proton porsche hypercar. So, um, that's a great

00:40:32Great to see him in that program fantastic driver

00:40:37And he's doing a great job with the decain team. Yep, and gets him back in a porsche

00:40:42where he

00:40:45Of course, he did so well in the rebellion as well. He did he did

00:40:49He's a very fast shoe. He'll uh come into the pits now as the 34 carries on

00:40:58The toyota's not been in as yet so it must be june. Yeah gotta be any minute. I've seen the fryer will just follow it and

00:41:04Try and match it

00:41:08Yeah, do what he does

00:41:10So yanni brings the number 30

00:41:18Duquesne entry in

00:41:23They have not had a trouble for your run either been involved in a couple of close calls and a couple incidents

00:41:30There is the number eight as we expected

00:41:41So that's going to put the peugeot

00:41:45Number 94 and now the cadillac number two

00:41:47Of alex lynn

00:41:50And the 51 did follow the eight in also as we expected

00:41:57So the peugeot's back in the lead again. Yes, bujo back in the lead doesn't look like they're doing have tires out

00:42:03Uh at either pit. So this is just going to be fuel only

00:42:09Cleaning the windshield

00:42:11There's collado waiting

00:42:15There's collado waiting

00:42:17Wemmy is released

00:42:24There he comes and he'll go by collado

00:42:28Right there

00:42:32And there you hear the ferrari firing up

00:42:34So nothing really lost there

00:42:42For the ferrari but nothing really gained either no

00:42:46And these guys were kind of circulating the same kind of lap time so

00:42:50It's kind of been sort of status quo for the last few laps

00:42:57So let's see what kind of an advantage now

00:43:02The peugeot and the cadillac have

00:43:04Also what their energy levels are will be interesting to see

00:43:18This is that ebb and flow this is one of the things that I love about endurance racing guy is the the ebb and flow of the pit stop cycles

00:43:26when you have

00:43:29You know in american oval track racing you'd almost call it like they're off sequence because

00:43:33You know they'll pit now and the other guys may not pit for five or six more laps

00:43:38Yeah, and that's a

00:43:40And and you have to kind of do the do the math as to what they gain or lose

00:43:45After the pit stop after things have settled down

00:43:47Okay, what was it before the pit stop?

00:43:49Yeah, and what is it now and that to me is one of the most interesting aspects of

00:43:55Sports car racing is that is that give and take and it's you know

00:44:00You you get to that point where it's kind of like what I like to call the crossover pit stop where you're so

00:44:06where you're close enough now that

00:44:09The next time you make the pit stop you're going to be able to hold the advantage as opposed to losing

00:44:14It's like with nico muller and alex lynn is to see if they've gained some time

00:44:22Okay, 51 is on fuel only sorry correction fuel only for the ferrari you're ahead we gained in the stop

00:44:29Okay, they gained a second

00:44:36Well a second uh anything to cheer up your driver

00:44:41But now just saying I think that um with it with nico muller and alex lynn

00:44:45Obviously not putting yet, and they've been out on track if they've had clear track and were able to

00:44:49Run you know continue to 10 fast laps

00:44:52They may well have gained or we'll have to see once they do their pit stops

00:44:56Well, we'll get a better idea, but as you're right it it's that ebb and flow so uh the dreaded undercut and overcut yeah

00:45:04Hey, it's funny because with you see with the racetrack now at the moment. It seems quite quiet

00:45:08There's because there needs to be many cars around there's times where the track looks like it's 80 cars on the track

00:45:14And so sometimes it's like you're the only car on the track

00:45:18And of course that's what you always hope for

00:45:20Um this is the leader in uh into europol car in lmp2 making its pit stop

00:45:34So three minute stop and go penalty for car 74

00:45:39For not respecting the full course yellow procedure

00:45:43Who is that that's the castle racing car yeah

00:45:50Yeah, that's the black ferrari the black and orange ferrari

00:45:57Then again another one that has not had a trouble free run as our leader comes back out

00:46:05Onto the racing surface after their pit stop in lmp2

00:46:13So that will kind of settle things out because the 30 car has made his pit stop already

00:46:20So once we get a uh once they cross the timing line we'll see uh just what's happened to the advantage there or not

00:46:29And at the front of the field nico moller again is managing to maintain that gap back to alex lynn

00:46:35both cars circulated in very similar lap times, but uh

00:46:39Lynn's keeping the pressure on but uh the gaps remaining quite consistent right now, so uh

00:46:43uh down to seven seconds

00:46:48And it looks like the uh 38 is going to head back into the garage again

00:46:53currently 10th in class

00:46:56And there's four laps down on our leader

00:47:01So it was a it was a promising start

00:47:04fully uh fully started to unravel

00:47:07when uh

00:47:09Yee went into the tire barrier

00:47:13the porsche curves

00:47:15Yes, it showed some real pace this car hasn't it?

00:47:17It's been really really quick just just been um yeah just a little bit unlucky

00:47:21And sometimes this place you know, it's just not going to give you a break

00:47:36This has been one of those weekends for that crew here's your second place

00:47:41Cadillac just seven

00:47:43almost eight seconds now behind

00:47:45The peugeot of nico moller alex lynn has just done an outstanding job in this stand

00:47:537.2 seconds now behind

00:47:58See if he can eat in

00:48:01This is starting to look like uh

00:48:04A four or five horse race at this point

00:48:08Where scott dixon trying to

00:48:10Get back on the lead lap let's see what they're talking about at cadillac

00:48:18Box this lap box this lap you stay in the car and you keep the tires

00:48:25So i'm going to be fuel only for alex lynn

00:48:27But it's great we've got uh one two three four five manufacturers in the top five five three manufacturers

00:48:38That's what we that's what we that's what we come here for exactly that's exactly what we come here for

00:48:42In comes alex in his marks on the pit on the pit limiter this car sounds so awful

00:49:00And the project one uh ao car is still leading in uh gte

00:49:12got a 24 second lead so those guys doing really well i mean they've had a they've had a quite a rough season um

00:49:18So they're doing really well you know they seem to if they can hang on in there

00:49:22So our uh top two cars are in the peugeot has also come in

00:49:32So nico muller looked like there was a did nico get out looks like there may have been a driver change there

00:49:42Again adding fluids to the cadillac

00:49:46Possibly stayed in yeah he may have

00:49:52No he got out and gustavo beneses has gotten back behind the wheel of that car

00:50:00Gustavo is another one who turned in a pretty good stint earlier yep he's uh yeah super fast super fast

00:50:07Californian i think leaves california yes yeah

00:50:12So we've got clara now for four and a half seconds behind where me

00:50:16Um

00:50:2010 seconds further back is uh is meneses so

00:50:26And it's interesting because colado has not been able to cut in at all to guemi's lead no in fact guemi has pulled out a little bit on him

00:50:34uh last lap he was uh about six tenths quicker

00:50:38Tire change now for a new set of boots for the 708 glickenhaus

00:50:49Olivier fla behind the wheel of that car

00:50:53Another guy that can pedal yeah it's great

00:50:56The two glickenhaus kind of almost like having an inter-team battle

00:51:00They're kind of in their own their own little race, but uh doing a great job and um both cars are running well and uh

00:51:06inside the top ten yep

00:51:10And still running still running yeah and there there are others who are not

00:51:15So

00:51:23Just to recap we've got uh

00:51:25Wemi and colado

00:51:28Toyota and ferrari first and second

00:51:31And then in lmp2 it's the inner

00:51:35Europol

00:51:37number 34 and the duquesne team

00:51:40Number 30 and the penn is racing olivier penny his uh number 65

00:51:48Great to see him uh as a car owner uh that

00:51:53Job van urt is behind the wheel of that car and van urt actually

00:51:58For this race has a replica of uh of penny's helmet when he won the monaco grand prix

00:52:04Yeah, it's fantastic and it was a surprise and uh he put it on when penny was in the garage

00:52:10quite pleased to see that and then in in gtm it's uh

00:52:16The number 56 project 1a0 gunner jeannette behind the wheel of of that car

00:52:23affectionately called rexie his uh teammate hyatt has uh

00:52:28daughter

00:52:29Wanted to see the dinosaur so got the t-rex teeth across the front of the porsche and little t-rex arms on the uh

00:52:36on the on the on the doors and it's a great great

00:52:40livery

00:52:42special livery for this race then comes the

00:52:44af course of ferrari number 54 with francesco castellici and then the iron dames dames

00:52:53Rachel fry behind the wheel of that so it's porsche ferrari porsche and the the interesting thing

00:53:00that that af course of ferrari number 54 that's the silver ferrari that you see out there of the of

00:53:06the af course of fleet of of ferraris that car's just quietly

00:53:12quietly appeared in the top five and now it's appeared in the top three

00:53:16just going about their business work workman like manner

00:53:21and that's it that's what this race is all about isn't it it's about staying out of trouble

00:53:25now we're going to check in and uh see what sebastian webby thinks okay sam we see you

00:53:32stabilizing with the roll bars is there anything we can do to help you question

00:53:36okay so we're sitting here uh singing the phrases of how sebastian webby is starting to pull out a

00:53:50little bit of a lead on collado and then we find out from team radio that he's virtually disgusted with

00:53:57his race car and having trouble dialing it in and the crew saying we're seeing you adjust the roll

00:54:03bars what else can we help you with yeah you see clara the the field hopes he that doesn't get it

00:54:10figured out he's chipping away uh cloud is there just put a little bit more um timing on on where

00:54:17me so you know he's under he's under pressure it ain't it it's a fight it's a fight and he's looking

00:54:21he's trying to use all the tools uh his disposable uh that's disposable to him in his car so that he

00:54:27can try and and get some more speed out of that car it's um trying to tune it to the circuit the

00:54:32tracks perhaps changing as it as you know it starts to cool down and he's trying to you know dial that

00:54:38race car in um the best that he can and and blimey's not a guy who's shy about talking to the crew about

00:54:44what he thinks is wrong with the race car he's he's he's pretty vocal uh has been his entire career yes

00:54:51about uh he is a perfectionist and he wants that car to be as well dialed in as he can get it and he's

00:54:57not afraid to let the crew know if it is not up to a uh standard he likes yellow at uh marshall's post 11.

00:55:12that's the entrance of the first chicane okay and we can see the the first two cars actually pulled out a

00:55:19small gap over the uh peugeot and the cadillac so they're about 13 seconds um back now and our our

00:55:30battle is rejoined in lmp2 as uh the inter europe pole entry number 34 and the duquesne team number 30

00:55:41neil yanni is now closed to within half a second and i think he's going to make it make a stab at

00:55:49taking over the top spot here on this lap

00:55:56the uh peugeot number 93 which is the car that's in seventh place overall a couple laps down to our

00:56:03leader after having some issues early in the race just going through this battle kind of separated them

00:56:11a little bit we're gonna have a slow zone uh slow zone slow at zone three which is marshall post six

00:56:18so that's the uh that's tetrouge okay so we are again into uh that area of the racetrack for a

00:56:34slow zone that's been kind of the hot zone in this event calamity corner if you will oh that was

00:56:41close that was close that was really close he'll look back at the highlight video and go oh my god i

00:56:47didn't think it was that close the slow zone will be uh i'm taking a look here oh and this is why we

00:56:59have a slow zone 32 number 32 car

00:57:07down the order that he's over there on your page

00:57:13that's the other inter-europe ball car that's where the ann magnuson ah

00:57:19straight seemed like a really strange yeah almost like something bro didn't it just kind of

00:57:23those snap shot left yeah that's exactly right

00:57:33so there's the 94 car third place car gustavo menenez here we go into the uh slow zone yep into the slow

00:57:43zone that's

00:57:47actually after dunlott we've not actually had a slow slow zone for a little while have we no we haven't

00:57:53we have it

00:57:56and they go through tetrouge so this slow zone will take them all the way through probably the end

00:58:02of the first chicane so hopefully we won't see any calamities at the as the uh removal unit is already

00:58:13there to uh clear the wreckage of the 32 car jan magnuson was was behind the wheel of the car

00:58:23so neil yanni is still behind the uh inter-europe car but right on his tail there so

00:58:38there you see on the screen the slow zone and how it works so it goes from

00:58:44the first part of the slow zone is the

00:58:47next zone which is the warning area that you're about to enter the slow zone

00:58:51and you're not allowed to do any passing there and you need to get yourself down to

00:58:56the slow zone speed and then the slow zone speed carries you all the way down the straightaway

00:59:02through the first chicane and then you'll see a green flag once you've cleared the chicane

00:59:08and there you see the 32 car being lifted and he'll be pulled back and if he's able to carry on that

00:59:16he'll try to work his way back to the pits as you see folks picking up debris and parts that were

00:59:29scattered after he impacted the wall yeah these marshals have been amazing so far this race they've

00:59:34been so busy clearing up the wreckage repairing barriers uh that just kind of works entirely so

00:59:40uh a big shout out to all the marshals yeah such a great job there's the number 25 car

00:59:46comes to the pits fifth in class

00:59:55that's the tf sport the ort by tf charlie eastwood behind the wheel of that car

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