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00:00It generally tends to be the higher class that's to blame, particularly if it's coming up from behind.
00:05You've got to appreciate and give the benefit, and the racing line in fact, to the slower car in front of you.
00:10It's just part of your car.
00:12Absolutely, and the problem you've got there is you're always dealing with traffic in these kind of races, as Liz alluded to.
00:17But the problem here is you've got to restart, so you're actually dealing with much more heavily bunched up traffic than you normally would.
00:22And that's why obviously you have to take to the hard shoulder there.
00:24But at the same time, you've got Peugeot's first, second, and third, two seconds apart, and then you've got a minute gap to the Audis.
00:30So they can afford to take their time, but they're not doing it.
00:33So again, I genuinely, I'd be interested to see how the next hour pans out.
00:40Yeah, I'd be fascinated to see how that happens.
00:43Thanks to all of you who have been on the website out there.
00:46We've got three Audis locked together, and who's got the bragging rights out of these?
00:50Well, it's Alan McNish for the time being here.
00:52He's got a great start, and he's not likely to see that, even to a teammate, is he?
00:55No, but at the end of the day, if Timo's quicker, Alan will let him through.
00:59But right now, they're lapping very similar lap times, and you know that they're going to be working together to make this work for them.
01:05And they already know.
01:06And they've ended up 57 seconds behind the Peugeot, so it's not as bad as we thought at one point when Dindo Capello was being interviewed earlier.
01:14But having said that, 57 seconds when you've got a slower car, it doesn't make your life easier, that's for sure.
01:19Johnny, I think as well, it probably just takes the pressure off ever so slightly.
01:22They can now just get on with running their own race and not start thinking about battling on the track.
01:28They've got a bit of a space, a bit of headspace apart from anything else, and the strategy can kind of begin afresh right now.
01:33Absolutely.
01:33I couldn't agree more.
01:34I mean, obviously, Alan knew that when there was a Peugeot close in front, he's got to attack it.
01:38As soon as they pull away, then he can just get on with his job and do exactly like you say, find that rhythm.
01:43You can drive the car at 10 tenths, but obviously take the car to the point where you're taking out of it in terms of tyres, mechanicals, all the rest of it, hopefully as if you were driving the car at 8 tenths.
01:52And it's possible to do that.
01:54And we're just giving some information that Nigel Masters and the medical compound, and he's fine.
02:06According to his team, he remains chipper.
02:10We don't have any notes on his injuries just for the time being.
02:14We suspect it's sunny downstairs.
02:17We're thinking legs, ankles perhaps, but we only speculated just for now.
02:21Markov.
02:22Yeah, we've got some problems also for the RML team, very sadly.
02:25That beautiful little Lola Coupe of Tommy Erdos.
02:30Big problems during the safety car period.
02:33Failed dashboard.
02:34And they've had to put in a reprogrammed replacement wheel.
02:36The car's now dropped down into something like 46th.
02:39We saw that it has come back after the safety.
02:42He's dropped down to 27th, in fact, now, and 8th in class.
02:46So that's the third place car having problems there.
02:48The Jaguar as well.
02:49Those who've been following the return of Jaguar for the first time since 1995.
02:54Ryan D'Al says they've had more electrical problems.
02:57A misfire and loss of power started in the second lap.
03:00They thought they'd fixed it this morning, but they've been back in and out of the pits.
03:03So they remain in dead last position.
03:06Apart, of course, from Mike Lewis, Michael Lewis, who retired the Autocon Chamberlain car on the first lap of the race.
03:13And Nigel Mansell, who followed suit.
03:15Yeah, if you're going to get your ill fortune, get it out of the way early.
03:18This is a team that's had some tub repairs.
03:21Thankfully, they've got all that sorted out.
03:23And we have Tom Coronelmark waiting for us downstairs here.
03:29Tom, we just talked to Dindo Capello, who was quite mad about Blake Mullen because he stocked the Audi after the safety car.
03:44Well, I was listening to Jerome on the radio and he just said there's at the moment three safety cars.
03:50Before it was always two.
03:52And just before the safety car line, he just had to lift off because the safety car was there.
03:58So, yeah, they created a gap of one minute 20, I believe.
04:03But that's how the rules are.
04:05I mean, we can't help it.
04:07And, yeah, I can imagine if the Audi fans or the Peugeot fans, that's where the gap was created.
04:13But if they would have been two seconds behind, they would have seen the safety car line as well.
04:17Jerome said, I can't help it.
04:20How are your races going for the moment?
04:24The race seems all right.
04:25I mean, we have a good pace and everything feels strong with the car.
04:30We think we could be top 10 if we finish.
04:34And that's our main goal.
04:35So, no, let's keep our fingers crossed.
04:37Come back in 23 hours.
04:39Then I can tell you.
04:40I will, for sure.
04:42Bye-bye.
04:42Come back in 23 hours.
04:44It's a long old race, this one.
04:46If you're going to have any misfortune out there, if you've got any scores to settle,
04:49there's plenty of time to actually either get back and do that.
04:52There are smiles within the Audi camp.
04:54Now, that's something I wasn't expecting to see.
04:57I think they're going to be playing the long game here, Stuart.
05:01They certainly are.
05:02I think you'll find that's probably a poker smile at the moment from the Audi crew.
05:05Yes.
05:06Maybe trying to send mixed messages.
05:08I don't know.
05:08Maybe I'm a cynical so-and-so.
05:10But we'll see later how they're getting on.
05:13Yes, definitely.
05:14And just looking at the 00 golf machines coming through the 30.
05:17Peter Dunlake starting off, incidentally, the spiker that you just saw being passed there.
05:22I'm just trying to get a check on it as to where he is at the moment.
05:26And it doesn't look like he's that far up, unfortunately.
05:29Just while we're looking at the two factory Aston, Lola's there, Stefan Mooker and Darren Turner.
05:34Those cars, we're told Stuart, direct injection engines have been put in for the weekend.
05:39They haven't used them during the week, but they've put these direct injection engines in for the race.
05:44I think that happened last year.
05:46Yes, I believe we had those engines last year.
05:49Save a bit of fuel, make the car a little bit more economical.
05:53And hopefully save a few laps towards the end of the race.
05:55And you never know if the Audis and Peugeots encounter problems that could come into play tomorrow afternoon.
06:00Now, Peugeot tried to protest this last year, saying that's not on the production engine at that time.
06:04Presumably, year on it is now.
06:06So, it's no longer an issue.
06:08I think it may be.
06:09I'd like to think it was now, yes.
06:11Sorry, I won't put you on the spot.
06:12Don't worry.
06:13Thomas Mooker, incidentally, now leading GT1 in the young driver AMR DBR9.
06:18You remember that Baz Lyon has gone ahead of him.
06:21He got held in the pit lane very unfairly, people are saying.
06:24Another penalty, casualty, the pit lane holdup was Nick Lapier at the Peugeot.
06:29He was held up for a long, long time.
06:31And he just now is starting to get back into the field.
06:34He was in 10th, he's come up to 7th.
06:36And he's now running right behind the three factory Audis and closing down on Marcel Fassler.
06:43Well, Fassler's right here.
06:44What?
06:45What?
06:46Yeah, actually, Fassler's on his marks at the moment.
06:49It's not getting to go time just for the time being.
06:51They've refuelled and finally gets back on the way here, Mark.
06:55It's a busy time and it's kind of thrown an awful lot of strategy out the window, I shouldn't imagine.
07:00Stuart, just fill us in as to how difficult this is to suddenly kind of mark.
07:06You've got all your data.
07:08You know how cars are going to be running when it's at full race speed.
07:11But after we've had such an enormous safety car period, an awful lot of that goes out the window, doesn't it?
07:17Yes, Carlton.
07:18It certainly has thrown the cat amongst the pigeons early on in this race.
07:21Teams all week would be preparing strategies for the race, not probably anticipating a safety car 20 minutes in.
07:29So they're going to have to adapt their strategies accordingly.
07:32But as soon as we've done that, many cars came in under the safety car, some didn't.
07:37So we're still going to see how that pans out in the next few hours.
07:42Yes, the spike we were mentioning a little bit earlier on, a fourth from the back of the field at the moment.
07:47They're kind of just staying where they are.
07:49But unfortunately, they've talked to Peter Dunbrake saying that the car has made some advances.
07:55But clearly, others around them within the class have done even more.
08:00And it's actually that vehicle is so far behind, unfortunately.
08:03But it looks like it's really part of the action because it frankly is so far back.
08:07Look at this.
08:08They're just hiatus on hostilities, I think, is how you could describe it.
08:12Because Frank Mortani brings it in.
08:13Well, Frank Mortani was determined to try and get it past Pedro Larbi before he pitted.
08:18He couldn't quite make it.
08:19They were side by side.
08:20But Frank comes in for his stop.
08:22We're bang on one hour now.
08:2422.59.
08:25Still to go.
08:26A long, long way.
08:27And here we are.
08:28Here is the second place Peugeot.
08:30This is the car that came in in second place.
08:32Frank Mortani, Marc Genet has now gone into second place.
08:35And the three Audis all go past two.
08:39So, usual thing.
08:41No tyres.
08:41Double stinting then on the tyres at the moment on the Michelin.
08:44Fuel goes in.
08:45He's checking the drivers, bottle, etc.
08:48What brake and reset fuel, Stuart?
08:50Explain to the viewers.
08:51You'll just be holding the car on the brake so it doesn't roll back.
08:54And you reset the fuel counter.
08:55So you don't go out with a zero on your fuel counter.
08:58And then you as a driver, you don't know whereabouts you are or how much fuel you've got in.
09:01So you reset the fuel counter.
09:02I think it will go to 82 litres or something like that in a diesel.
09:05And that will just count down as your stink goes on.
09:08So I wonder what happened the other night with the Eureka car when they ran out of fuel.
09:13Perhaps they didn't reset the fuel meter?
09:15That could possibly have happened.
09:17They couldn't reset the fuel meter.
09:18Or they were just trying to run the car as low as possible.
09:21We saw just before the car ran out of fuel in qualifying, Nick Lapier went quickest.
09:25Maybe they were trying to squeeze another lap out of it.
09:27It didn't quite work.
09:28And in comes Alan Panish.
09:29As if on cue here.
09:31I imagine he's going to be staying in the vehicle for what will be effectively his second stint
09:37the year after the stop.
09:39And on his marks, probably would have expected to go maybe a little bit, certainly a different
09:45strategy to what he's had so far.
09:47It is disturbing.
09:48You can see he's not exactly best mood.
09:50I don't know whether he threw that to somebody or at somebody out there.
09:54But I imagine, especially after they've been caught further down the field, I should say,
10:01by the safety cars actually getting out there.
10:03He was livid, apparently, by being held up by a slower vehicle from another class once the
10:08safety car came out.
10:10Just couldn't quite keep in touch with the Peugeots, who he'd been very, very close to.
10:14Certainly at the start, for the first couple of laps, it had sort of settled itself down
10:18a little bit.
10:19But getting into traffic is what it's all about.
10:21It's what Liz Halliday was explaining to us a little bit earlier on.
10:23And I believe we've got the nice rumble of the Saline project.
10:27How many more years are we going to have the pleasure of hearing that sound?
10:30It seems to have been around for a long time.
10:32Yes, it does, doesn't it?
10:33We've got news for you in an MP2 as well.
10:35Johnny Kane has now pulled up 12 seconds over David Brabham in the class battle there
10:41between the Honda Performance Development Cars.
10:43Great performance by Kane.
10:45That Stryker car is just working so well.
10:47Danny Watts put it on for, Johnny started it.
10:49Nick Leventer's been coming on very, very hard this weekend.
10:53He's had a couple of offs and he's learning quickly.
10:55I had a chat with him this morning.
10:57He said, I hope I've got all my trouble behind me now and I'm really going to settle down.
11:01They're going to put me in the car in the night.
11:03Hopefully, if we're in the lead, they've told me I've got to keep it there and then hand
11:06it back still there.
11:08Yes, we all know how impressive Highcroft racing are with the Acura over in the States.
11:13And for Stryker racing to come here, not been around a long time and do what they're doing
11:19right now is very, very, very good indeed.
11:22Touching on Nick Leventis, he's doing a great job as well.
11:25He hasn't been racing anywhere near the length of time the likes of Johnny Kane and Danny Watts
11:29have.
11:29I know they've been coaching him through.
11:31He's been working very, very hard in the gym at Formula Fitness.
11:34And I think it might be starting to pay off.
11:37Hopefully, a good result for that team tomorrow afternoon.
11:40Double stop here for the 908 Purchase as they start to head down to their pit boxes here.
11:46The trouble is if you've got an early box, which they have, then when everyone starts to
11:52stop, particularly if you get a change of weather, if the rain starts to come down, you've got
11:56an awful lot of traffic in front of you when you get going again.
11:59I always think, personally speaking, if you've got one of the very last boxes, all right, you've
12:04got that nightmare of having to come all the way down the pit lane.
12:07But the get-go is so much smoother by the end.
12:10We're going to take ourselves a short commercial break.
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12:34Welcome back here, live at Le Mans for the 24 hours here.
12:39It's been a busy, busy start.
12:40There's been lots of issues so far.
12:44I know some of you are not best pleased about the graphics here.
12:47I think the only thing you can do is buy a bigger telly.
12:49It's nothing we can do about it.
12:50It's what we're supplied with, unfortunately, Trackside.
12:53They are pretty small.
12:54I'll give you that.
12:54If you've got a small monitor, then it does not help.
12:58So we'll do our best to keep you up to speed.
12:59Mark, a few more messages.
13:01Yeah, a lot of them here.
13:01Airbus A346, old friends of ours.
13:05Hobnob Monster, Sheila M.
13:06Good to hear from you all.
13:07Matthew Hawkins, George P.
13:10All of you enjoying the coverage.
13:11Thank you very much for your support.
13:13A lot of you still asking about live timing.
13:15Where can you find it?
13:16It's very, very simple.
13:17Just go to www.lemans.org and you'll find the live timing link on there.
13:23You can see it direct from the ACO screens here at Le Mans.
13:27So, there we go.
13:29Joining us in the commentary booth is Jeremy Shaw.
13:33It's been an interesting start to this one.
13:36No Le Mans 24-hour race is ever the same.
13:39And I don't think this will be a race that certainly Nigel Mansell or his sons will ever forget.
13:44Sadly, for the wrong reasons.
13:47And we're going to go down for an interview in a moment.
13:50But just let me say that the number 42 striker racing, HPD, the class leader in LMP2, has just made its first pit stop.
13:58As, indeed, has the other HPD of Highcroft racing.
14:01So, we'll come back to your thing in a moment, Carlton, because I think we're about to go down for an interview.
14:05Here we go.
14:06I'm not quite sure who we've hooked up with just for the time being, but we've got a number of...
14:11Marco, how is your feelings for the moment?
14:16Yeah, so far so good.
14:18You know, it's hard not to get overexcited so early, you know.
14:22There's plenty of time left, so we're just trying to take it steady.
14:26How did you enjoy the start?
14:27Yeah, it was fun.
14:29It would have been nice to be in driving, but, you know, we were just pulling for Neo, and he did a great job.
14:34You know, and he's doing good so far.
14:36So far so good.
14:37Still way early.
14:3823 hours to go.
14:40When are you going to drive?
14:42Third.
14:46Jeremy, it's been quite a start.
14:49Peugeot had everything.
14:50They've had the luck coming off the back of that safety car.
14:54Audi really hobbled out there.
14:56Alan McNish clearly livid about it.
14:58We've had the inside line on that.
15:00He wasn't happy at all about being trapped further behind, and he's blaming some of the lower-class vehicles, but that's what this racing's all about.
15:07Yeah, nothing to do with the other cars.
15:08Welcome, Martin.
15:09Great to be here, everybody, and thanks for having me, Carlton, and the rest of the guys here at Eurosport.
15:14I was actually watching the start over from the Forest S's, which was fantastic fun.
15:18There is an enormous amount of people here.
15:20The atmosphere is absolutely sensational.
15:22And, yeah, when that safety car came out, it seemed very bizarre to me that the Audi should be picked up by the second of the pace cars.
15:31It was a complete fiasco, if you ask me, that pace car situation, safety car situation.
15:35I've said over the last couple of years when I've been here that I don't really see the need for more than one pace car, assuming the rules, i.e. slow down the double yellow flags, are obeyed by the drivers.
15:48All it does is ruin the race, and not necessarily has it ruined it this time, but it's now made the gap between the Peugeots and the Audis even more distinct to everybody.
15:58So we've now got two different races going on, effectively.
16:00One at the very front of the field amongst the Peugeots, and then about a minute or so back, the race between the Audis and everybody else, which means it's farcical.
16:09But, however, that's a different thing altogether, that's a rant over.
16:12I was just down, by the way, I just went down over to the Peugeot Mansell Racing Motorsport bin and had a word with a couple of people down there.
16:19Nigel, I don't know what you've said or what you've seen.
16:21We don't know his condition just yet.
16:23Have we found anything?
16:23No, other than he did get out of the car fine.
16:27Somebody else suggested he was maybe unconscious or something.
16:29No, no, no.
16:29He did get out of the car.
16:30He didn't.
16:31He has not been on the radio to the team.
16:33They have no idea what happened.
16:35And I gather some speculation that possibly a tyre went down on the back of the car to cause it to spin around.
16:40That is mere speculation at this stage.
16:43They take Nigel to the care centre.
16:45His wife, Roseanne, is there.
16:46The boys are there with him as well.
16:48But I don't believe there's any major problems.
16:51Certainly that is what we hope.
16:52And we will bring you another update as soon as we get it.
16:55Certainly going very, very slow here.
16:57Not quite sure what that's about, whether it's a fuel issue or what.
17:02Busy out on course.
17:03Johnny Kane in the HPD machine in the 42 car is leading.
17:07But is very, very close on track.
17:09And Dave Brabham, also HPD.
17:11The 42 and the 26 cars.
17:14Well, naturally, you'd probably expect both HPDs to be pacing each other.
17:18And that's exactly what they are doing out there.
17:21They're both looking very, very quick.
17:23And indeed comfortable.
17:26Very, very comfortable.
17:27Yes, absolutely.
17:28I mean, they've been the class of the field all the way through the week.
17:30As indeed, the Stracca racing car has been the class of the field in the first two Le Mans series races of the season.
17:37At Paul Ricard and at Spa-Francorchamps.
17:39And same again here.
17:40There is Johnny Kane.
17:41He leads the class.
17:43Has done from the start.
17:45It was interesting to me that one of the safety cars did pick up the LMP2 battle.
17:49Well, I hope they might have picked up the race leaders as well.
17:53Rather than just coming out in the middle of the pack and then holding up one of the other safety cars holding up the Audis.
17:59But, as you say, we're done with that brand, aren't we, the safety cars.
18:02But, yeah, we have a race going on.
18:04And, you know, in GT2, it's still that the Corvettes have been into the pits fairly recently.
18:10So, it's now a Porsche, well, Porsche Ferrari, Porsche Ferrari, the top four cars in GT2 at the moment.
18:18It's Mark Lieb in the Proton competition car, Lieb in the class at the moment.
18:25As we see, is this a replay of the Orica or?
18:30Yes, it is a replay of the Orica Porsche.
18:32I think it splits up a little earlier on.
18:33Well, that's clearly the wrong way around.
18:37I don't know what issues he's had, but we've got a couple of the little barrier bobbles here just knocked away.
18:44Let's check it out here.
18:47Ooh, hello.
18:48Just in a little bit of a class sandwich going on here.
18:52And, oi, well, there it is.
18:54Well, that was very strange.
18:55I mean, you know, he made to go down to the inside.
18:57Then he kind of backed out of it.
18:58And, you know, the P2 car there, one of the oak racing Pescarolo, Judge, really, you can't really blame the driver there.
19:05In that instance, I would say, Stuart Hall, you're the expert on this one.
19:08But the P1 car there was very indecisive about making that pass, it seemed to me.
19:13Yes, one of the skills in traffic, you do have to be very, very decisive.
19:17And it looks like Sahara Ayari in the Orica aim wasn't decisive enough going down the inside.
19:24And the P2 oak racing car was unsighted and just turned in on him.
19:28And the resultant factor being Ayari spun and lost quite a bit of time.
19:32Yeah, and a couple of cones there out in the middle of the track as well, which one of those other cars just ran over.
19:36So hopefully that's not going to cause any punctures for anybody else until it gets blown off the racing line.
19:42We kind of got three bunches of cars here because we have three safety cars.
19:45They are starting to bridge a little bit, certainly those with more performance from various and differing classes.
19:52But we have some bad news, unfortunately, about the Jaguar.
19:54Apparently they have a serious engine issue at the moment.
19:58And it looks like it might be done and dusted for Jaguar.
20:01Oh, dear. That's a great shame.
20:03I mean, that car has had nothing but problems ever since it got here.
20:07Last year, the car we're looking at on screen there, the Japanese Lamborghini Enders Club entry was kind of the...
20:14I think they managed one lap.
20:16The run to the lesson, yeah.
20:17I mean, they did hardly any laps all week and then did one lap in the race.
20:20And unfortunately, horrible to say it, but the Jaguar, the RSR Racing Jaguar hasn't fared much better.
20:27It's been...
20:27It had clutch problems in the first session, engine problems in the second session.
20:32They've had electronic problems all the way through the week.
20:34They had the electronic problems again this morning, I guess, when the third shift...
20:40When the final shift light came on on the dash, time to shift gear, the pit lane speed limiter came on.
20:47And they've tried everything to go through the engine management system, figure out what it was.
20:51And apparently they haven't been able to find it.
20:53That's a great shame.
20:54Because, Stuart, wasn't it great to see the Jaguar name back here at Le Mans?
20:58It's a great, great shame.
21:00It's fantastic to see Jaguar back.
21:03And it was a huge undertaking for the Rocket Sports crew to have that Jag here at Le Mans.
21:07And to see it back in the garage with engine troubles is not what we all want to see.
21:12But that is racing and that is Le Mans.
21:14And it shows the 2010 Le Mans, there's quite a high attrition rate early on.
21:18Well, for those of you watching on Eurosport International, don't forget that we will be staying with Le Mans 24 hours live throughout the event.
21:27So we're going to be moving to Eurosport 2 in just a few moments' time.
21:33So you can find us elsewhere within the Eurosport family of programmes.
21:38So we will be switching over to Eurosport 2 in just a few moments' time.
21:41If you're on British, I'm not quite sure whether we will be also making the switch.
21:46But if the pictures suddenly disappear and you're wondering where your Le Mans 24-hour coverage has gone,
21:50then please just fish around a little bit on the Eurosport channels and you'll find us.
21:55Eurosport 2, then, we are about to hook up with to continue our coverage live here at the 24 hours.
22:0424 hours, which might seem like a lifetime to some teams out there.
22:08We've heard of Jaguar's issues.
22:09It seems to be all the bits that are having a bit of a problem at the moment.
22:11But Jaguar, they are out.
22:14I'm getting the sign from Mark Cole as he draws a finger across his throat.
22:19Yes, engine has failed.
22:22And so that's that.
22:24Nigel has been taken to hospital.
22:26Nigel Mantle, of course.
22:27Greg and Leo haven't heard from him just for the time being.
22:29But he was clearly conscious and chatting away to the paramedics.
22:33So we assume it's not too serious.
22:35But it's serious for the vehicle.
22:36The road 5 is no longer running at Le Mans.
22:41Welcome back to Le Mans live.
22:46We're just tracking around the 77 car.
22:49The 1st Porsche, which at the moment is running 4th in class in GT2.
22:55A couple of GT1 cars ahead of it as well at Le Mans.
22:58In fact, it's just taking steps forward as we speak.
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23:18And a delighted to have your company both in Europe and throughout the world, Mark Cole.
23:23Yeah, we just had a message in from Adrian Wyan, in fact, who said,
23:28Great to be with you guys.
23:30I'm listening from the time in New Orleans, Singapore.
23:33Yeah, we give him a little wave.
23:35I think we did it a little bit earlier as well.
23:37But while our viewers were on a break, I don't speak to the Pacific Asia room where some of these pictures are going out.
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23:51We hope that you'll stay with us right the way throughout this wonderful event at the moment.
23:56Looking quick here, Stuart.
23:58Yeah, that's always going to be a quick car.
24:01There's a very, very, very strong driver line-up in that car.
24:04Mark Lee, Richard Leeds, and Wolf Hensler.
24:09And that's going to be the point to beat, I would say, in this year's Le Mans.
24:13They're currently chasing down the two Corvettes at the moment.
24:16And they're shaping up very interestingly.
24:18Yeah, indeed, we've got Patrick Long as well in GT2.
24:21And he's way out of front, he's embedded at the moment within the LMP2 class.
24:26This is how they were talking a little bit earlier on and saying that if the rain comes,
24:29some of those GT classes may well start to invade the prototypes
24:34because they've got such fantastic braking out there when it is cold.
24:39Just looking at the Corvettes here as well.
24:41They're in something of an adequate place.
24:43They're in two and three in classic GT2.
24:47They're not having things all their own way in GT1.
24:50In fact, they're all about the Ford GTs right now
24:52who are bullying everyone with much and lightness in the classic.
24:57And again, the upper speed of the LMP2 as well.
24:59Johnny Kane is heading a little bit further at the moment to HVD 1 and 2 just for now.
25:06In fact, GT2 from home have had a lot of this people leading that class.
25:10He got caught with probably two Corvettes, got held up in the safety queue,
25:14but then made that double stop of course.
25:16He's just pitching though, so I think at the end of this class
25:21we'll find the Corvettes are back in 1 and 2.
25:24There's some news there.
25:26Looking at Malabra Salina.
25:30That's still had problems apparently.
25:33Everyone else looks good, don't they?
25:36They certainly do.
25:37There's a bit of a lot of talk as well about the speed effect of the course here.
25:42There have been some amendments to the surface through the pushcars and changes through to 45 as well.
25:48And it may well have just come back to here because in terms of speed,
25:51the car's going really master in the 908.
25:54But the time on par with the 319.7.1.
25:58Not that far off the ground, we're sitting there in the early 320.3.64 for that time at Malabra Salina.
26:06They're getting close to the point of the street, but it's not exactly near the 3 minutes and 30
26:12that they were talking about as a target here.
26:16And we've just noticed that Ramon Tagli, I believe, had just taken the lead from Pedrolami.
26:22It looks at all that the Pedrolami is admitted in the straight line of that Pedrolami part.
26:27And he obviously had the pace of him at the moment.
26:30And Peugeot have insisted on a few Timor, which is at night long this early on in the race.
26:35And someone in the canal is just watching the screen, so I'm sure he was involved in that car.
26:40I can't just answer your previous question.
26:43Yeah, the pace up there has been more.
26:45And Jake, that is in the ground.
26:46And what we're just looking at there as we're fast.
26:49That is the post 11.
26:52It's the post 61, which is the one of the shipping number two.
26:57It's now 52 hours at the party.
27:00It's here to go.
27:02It's still like it's quick.
27:03It's still like it's almost like a formation race here for Peugeot.
27:08It's just getting himself stuck to you in order.
27:11And there is the Radical SL9 just.
27:13It's nice to see that they've been here.
27:16But the race performance have been here.
27:18It's Pierre, Brunum, Mark Rostein and Ralph McIntyre here.
27:24But really the party is all about Peugeot at the moment.
27:26And as they go by, sail by the spike.
27:30How heartbreaking must that be?
27:31I know it is again and again, but the spike has had a really, really tough time today.
27:36It's not only being bothered by the NMP cars, but by its cars within its own class as well.
27:43This is an impressive start by Peugeot here.
27:46They're as if to underline it.
27:48They're 1, 2, 3, the numbers 3, 2, and 1.
27:53Yes, terrific symmetry.
27:58From the NMP cars, you're going to have to spend a lot of time before they start getting into each other.
28:05But the NMP starts to make the changes around front.
28:08I suspect they might be telling you just to keep you a little bit sensible.
28:11And calm yourselves, boys.
28:13We'll try and do the same.
28:14We'll take ourselves a short commercial break.
28:15Viewers on Eurosport 2, you're very welcome to the NMP 24 hours in there, live on Eurosport.
28:26We are one and a half hours into the race.
28:29It is Peugeot 1, 2, 3, and 4.
28:32The old order now is gone as it was earlier on the race.
28:34For a long interruption, we've seen a car, who from an accident to Nigel Madsen.
28:39Mind you, we're told, it is not seriously a little bit, he's also taken to the circuit.
28:43Headed for attention to details.
28:46And again, this is the second time in this race, you've seen it by a Yari.
28:50From Nigel Madsen, it's one of the open cars that has grown as earlier.
28:54This time, a collision with one there as the Martins.
28:56Stuart Hall, which is always such a problem here.
28:59I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
29:04Yeah, you see that?
29:06Hey?
29:07Tell me what, you're all really tired, aren't you, Mark?
29:10Okay.
29:10No, you're right, that's the second time we've seen us at Yari there.
29:14And he actually didn't even see, I think that would be a 7 car.
29:17Was it a 7 car?
29:18I said, I'm a good person.
29:19And he didn't even see him.
29:21You saw the, almost, you could just read the shock look on his face, even though obviously he had a car of visor on there.
29:25When he actually touched there, he just walked from a beginning to notice.
29:28So, he's having a few incidents, but so far he's gone away with that.
29:32We've only got 12 cars, it's a minute, 12 or 13 cars on the land at the moment.
29:37We're going to have a huge mix-up.
29:39In fact, I think it's our families being might be getting mixed up as well.
29:42And at the time, you've got some grapple issues out there as well.
29:46They're very, very small numbers, and we're straining our eyes as we speak as well.
29:49We're going to keep a hand light for you.
29:51You can get some news on Monday.
29:52Well, actually, I just heard from Martin Havens at the back there that apparently, intentionally,
29:56I don't want to be a scaremander at all, but it might be potentially a little bit more serious
30:00leg injury than we first thought.
30:02But I'm hoping that that is wrong.
30:04Having said that, you know Nigel, even though he's not as young as he used to be, I mean,
30:08that man, who's the point of day coming also, he's had some serious accidents in his time,
30:13mostly, basically, in Indy cars and hitting concrete walls at times 30 miles an hour.
30:17So, you have to say that they wouldn't have had to carry him out of the car, you would think,
30:21and then he had, at that point, some sort of serious pain in his legs.
30:25So, I'm really, really hoping that that's not true and everything's going to be fine.
30:29I'm sure it will be, and those cars are very safe.
30:31So, at worst, maybe just the knock in terms of being really knocked at the legs hard.
30:34Sometimes that can bruise them, maybe it can bruise the bone slightly,
30:38and it actually feels worse than it actually is initially.
30:41Well, let's hope that's the pace.
30:42It was our gas that had a leg problem from the lane, which is actually actually from the car.
30:46They've just opened up with anything more serious than the other, so, in the other area,
30:51and, thankfully, it's kind of fixing it, isn't it?
30:54Yeah, absolutely.
30:54If they were going to lift him out of the car,
30:56you would say that they would worry about these spine issues,
30:58then, one, they wouldn't have tried to lift that car,
31:01and Nigel, being very experienced in having packing injuries,
31:05wouldn't have let them lift him out of the car.
31:07So, I'm sure that it will work out, and I hope so.
31:10I feel sorry for him, and I feel sorry for the Zaytay,
31:12and I feel very, very sorry for Greg and Leo,
31:15because, obviously, they're here with their dad.
31:17It was going very, very well.
31:18As we had mentioned before, he just set the fastest time of that car
31:21off the whole weekend,
31:22and for them to not even get a chance to get in the car,
31:25because at this point in time, they don't care about that.
31:27It was worth their dad to be okay,
31:29but for them, ultimately, to not be able to get in the car
31:31with all the hard work that the Beach Team team and the Zaytay can learn themselves
31:35to get here, it's heartbreaking.
31:38And we've got a few cars like that.
31:39You've got the Autocom car.
31:40Didn't even make a lap for the gearbox issue.
31:43Obviously, you mentioned earlier the Jaguar.
31:44I believe they're four laps.
31:46You know, four laps for a 24-hour loop race,
31:49you know, to come all this way,
31:50and then whatever happens is also important.
31:52Just while we're looking at these pictures,
31:54interesting seeing an LMP2 car running just in front of the Corvettes
31:57not in way that quickly.
31:59This is, of course, one of the main changes to regulations next year
32:02that the LMP2 cars will need to use GT2-based prevention.
32:07Well, I can tell you one thing.
32:08As a GT driver, there is nothing that I don't mean to sort of be in something in any way,
32:14but obviously, the whole joy and history of Le Mans is you have a mix of professional and amateur drivers.
32:20Some amateur drivers are incredibly good.
32:22Some amateur drivers are slightly less experienced and less quick.
32:25And it is nothing more frustrating than being in a GT car
32:28and being held up through the corners by a car
32:30that you know that the laps significantly quicker,
32:32but it's slightly quicker than you're on the straights.
32:34And it can totally ruin this thing.
32:36You can get stuck behind, turning to me.
32:37You can get stuck for an hour behind the slow,
32:40badly driven LMP2 car,
32:42and lose two, three, four seconds a lap
32:44and not be able to get past because you've been on the straights.
32:46And if you do get another break,
32:48then it's going to be straight out to the next corner.
32:50So, it's not unusual to see that here on the bottom.
32:53It's interesting.
32:54Well, I'll just give you a track of some of the time they're going around here.
32:57But, yeah, it's all about in the hour in the night car.
33:01It's actually quite quickly,
33:02but they're still giving away half a second of that
33:04to the slowest of the shows.
33:07It's not a good news at all for them.
33:10I don't know if they're hoping for some rain.
33:11I don't know if they're going to be getting a little bit down
33:13and just some of them that's special.
33:15Especially on the, on the, on the, on the,
33:16it's really pushing very, very hard.
33:19I don't know if they're going to be, I'm not sure if they're going to be there, really.
33:21And, I don't know if it's something in the effect that it's a 24 hour event.
33:25I'm not a sprint.
33:26I'm not a sprint.
33:27I'm not a sprint.
33:28I'm not a sprint.
33:29I'm not a sprint.
33:30I'm not a sprint.
33:31I'm not a sprint.
33:32I'm not a sprint.
33:33Second stop for Tommy Erlson.
33:34That car was in earlier, but happy steering wheel change.
33:37After the attachment of electronic problems,
33:39Tommy has pulled his way back up from 8th in class.
33:42Yeah, I know very well.
33:44It's a great stop though.
33:46It's a great stop though.
33:47That was routine.
33:47It looked pretty routine, didn't it, Mark?
33:49It didn't.
33:50I think the back car, we've been talking about the two Acura's,
33:53obviously the High-Craft Acura and the Stratka Acura,
33:55as probably the cars in terms of pace, the pacing that LMP2 class.
34:00But that RML car, with the drivers they've got, with Mike Newton, Tommy Erlson,
34:04and obviously Warren Hughes,
34:05they're definitely in a genuine shock for an LMP2 podium at the end of this race.
34:09They know how to do this race, and if they can keep it reasonably clean,
34:12they can finish on the podium.
34:14That's the one spot I've ever had.
34:16Carlton, your favourite car?
34:17Yes.
34:18One of them.
34:20Beautiful to many eyes.
34:22I'm just thinking it's time to look just down as a slightly dated these days,
34:25but it's not that effective.
34:27I'm too sure.
34:28Did you see Alan with me?
34:29Sorry to jump quickly there.
34:30I certainly saw the Audi through the final chicane onto the straight there.
34:35I mean, he is pressing there.
34:37He's working the track.
34:38You can just see the body language of that car.
34:41He is pushing.
34:42And as you said it, we've just got a timer for him.
34:45We were saying he was not the quickest of the Audis just for that time there.
34:48He is actually the quickest man on track at the moment.
34:51I believe that might be his fastest lap in the car.
34:53Yes, it is.
34:54He said a 24116 out there.
34:58He's clearly...
34:59The quickest car on the track on that lap?
35:00Yes, absolutely.
35:01He's in the middle of what is a big pitch here.
35:04They've got a lot to do with where the tracks behind,
35:07and a quite minutia, in fact, was the most vocal of all of them.
35:09When the safety cars came out, three of them came on, of course,
35:12to neutralize the entire field during Nigel Mouser's extrication from his crashed vehicle.
35:19And, yes, they weren't happy at all, I'm afraid.
35:23They're still on lap 22 here.
35:25Yes, I'm just going to hope it's easily lost on this circuit here, Jim.
35:30Yes, you can see that going into the first chicane.
35:32It's quite bumpy there.
35:33You come off the road, and there's lots of ruts.
35:35I can't describe it to people that have driven here before.
35:37When you first go out on the long track and you go down the straight,
35:40because of the sort of ruts in the public road that created the trucks and the lorries,
35:44the car darted around in a straight line all over the place,
35:47and then you're coming off of those little rails into the chicane
35:51that's only used during the actual Le Mans 24 hours.
35:54It's a different asphalt service. It's very dirty.
35:56It's limited gravel. It picks up a lot of dirt very easily there.
36:00It's very easy to come off that with a car unbalanced in the rear,
36:03and as you turn right and left, you almost create a Scandinavian rally flick.
36:06It's quite easy to lose the rear of the car as you saw happening to that portion.
36:09Well, a lot of them are supposed to be, all the problems with the road,
36:12especially in Porticare, are supposed to have been smoothed out here.
36:15Porticane as well, the changes there, which have actually added to the performance side of the road.
36:20I think in those areas it has, and I think, especially when it's wet weather,
36:23I think there's a lot of grip on those newly surfaced areas,
36:25and the Porticare in particular, they've generated a lot more grip with the actual public roads.
36:29But that area where we saw it spinning is actually the first chicane,
36:32so you're actually dealing with some pretty old asphalt at the actual chicane itself,
36:36and obviously dealing with the normal asphalt of the public road
36:39as you come off that road into the chicane area.
36:41Elementish looking very, very comfortable here, Mark.
36:44Yeah, a great British driver, of course, one of our stars.
36:47Another of our star British driver is Oliver Jarvis.
36:49He's just muscled the Martin-Colis Audi up in between the gole pass to Martin's.
36:56He flew up himself up to 8th place.
36:58Oliver Jarvis got the fastest rookie award for the Grand Le Mans last night,
37:03and that's rather tempered by the fact he's home electric.
37:06Driver suits, his hands and his boots all got stolen from the pits,
37:10and it's not the first time.
37:12Can't be better waiting for us.
37:14You're second at the moment.
37:16Everything is doing quite well.
37:18What?
37:19The position is quite okay, but the speed is not there.
37:22So David reported us that he cannot follow in the trucker car,
37:27so on this race we are a little bit slower.
37:29Maybe we do during the race adjustment with the wing or on the wing,
37:34and so and so on.
37:36We are without programming the race.
37:38The position is quite okay, but we will see.
37:40You were racing with Audi in LMP1.
37:43Is the change really big between?
37:46It's a big change, so it's a completely different driving style.
37:51You lose all the time on the straight, so much slower with LMP2 car on straights,
37:55but still late on braking, sometimes quicker in the corner,
37:58so higher corner speed.
38:00I have still to learn because I did only seven laps in the practice during two days.
38:06In the warm way it was quick.
38:09We were the fastest there, but that's not the race.
38:12Are you still following your friends from Audi?
38:15Yeah, sure, I'm looking what they are doing, the race and watching the laptops and everything.
38:21I wish good luck to the guys.
38:23Thank you so much.
38:24Yes, good luck apparently makes up around about 50% of what you need to actually go in here.
38:31Just getting a rather conflicted report from the medical center to say that the passes is reasonably okay.
38:37So, well, conflicting reports, maybe they know more than we do, but there you go.
38:49We heard he's actually picked up something from the first series.
38:51I think we should stop speculating.
38:55Absolutely, so I just thought I'd tell you that, because that's how folly the situation is at the moment.
39:02Great dice going on here, Mark.
39:04Yeah, we've got a great battle going here between Mignish and Lapierre.
39:06He just passed Lapierre.
39:08Lapierre took him back and came under braking for the second chicane,
39:12and just slightly ahead of the moment, so suddenly Mignish has decided he's going to take the fight to Virgil.
39:18Well, it's interesting to look at because when we went green the last time,
39:21and I don't know, Mark, maybe you could find out how many laps ago that was that we'd been green before.
39:24We went back to green racing after Nigel Mattson's sort of dramatic accident,
39:28but they were 59 seconds behind.
39:30They're now a mere 7, so they've only passed 8 seconds.
39:338 seconds.
39:35Not as far off the pace, perhaps, as we thought.
39:38We went green at 4 o'clock, so that was what, a few minutes ago.
39:42So, I can tell you that much.
39:44We've got 7 turns out to be in the car this year.
39:47He's still in the leading team at the moment.
39:50Here he is.
39:52So, how's it going today?
39:55Well, it's got low risers.
39:58It's great to see the little Peugeot sports.
40:01He is now in the fourth place.
40:04Let me just tell you.
40:07It's a 1-1 race this, he says.
40:09So, tell us about the safety car issue that we had earlier on.
40:16Well, in general, it's not something you want to happen out there, he says.
40:20But, it's worked out very well for us, he says.
40:23So, we just, the only thing is to find and continue your rhythm and just keep your focus out there.
40:32Well, again, saying this, this is a very, very long race.
40:44You can't count your chickens essentially.
40:47And, oh, dearie me.
40:49And, just looking at people of mine out there, just going through traffic.
40:53Trying to do what Armagnish is doing.
40:55Now, this part is very well for the race here, because Armagnish is on an absolute charge.
40:59He's gone past Lapierre in the fourth car, and he's currently in fourth place.
41:05Next to the target, man, is Marc Genet, and he's going very, very quickly.
41:10Yeah, and I think you're seeing, actually, the Audis, actually, this race, perhaps,
41:14of the tracks rubbering in, coming to them slightly.
41:16I know that they're going to be triple stinting, potentially even bottles,
41:19for double stinting, those Michelin trials on the Audi.
41:22And you're now seeing, obviously, the car coming to the driver,
41:25because Timo Bernhard is obviously quicker than Lapierre in that Peugeot at this time,
41:31and it's just a case he's lacking a little bit of straight-line speed,
41:33no massive amount, and he's told me earlier,
41:35it's only three or four K now they're down for the Peugeot on the straight.
41:38So, it's not just about straight-line speed, the Peugeot advantage around here,
41:42but obviously makes it harder to pass the car in front
41:44when they're gaining a little bit on you on the straights.
41:46Giving a lot of respect to the young Nesta Barnes-Grader there,
41:48as he takes, picks his way through here.
41:51Watching the nine car, and he is desperate to get into Lapierre,
41:54who's clearly suffering just a little bit,
41:56not quite sure, but he had a huge shimmy as he laid the power down,
41:59on the start of finish straight here.
42:01Feeding the pressure, he's already lost a spot, Lapierre, too,
42:04but Nish, but Bernhard is all over the back of it,
42:08as we sadly have to take a commercial break.
42:10Look at this, this is one heck of a battle shaping up here.
42:13It's what we need, live here at Le Mans.
42:16Le Mans is the last step up.
42:18Le Mans, is the back here, live to Le Mans,
42:22on Eurosport, Pedro Ravine, Mark Hennet,
42:24and Brent Montagnoe.
42:25Peugeot 1-2-3, and both you want Montagnoe,
42:29just coming into the pit to make it his second stop,
42:32at the end of, not exactly around 50 minutes of racing,
42:35Yeah, I mean, as you see Alan there, I mean, really working the pit lane entrance and that's another thing to remember here, I mean, you can see there, they used to have the pit lane start here, now you go across that white line, they've moved it back slightly because that last sort of kink in, you're coming in there quick, you can easily have an accident, it's so narrow you can block the pit lane, so they've moved the beginning of the pit lane speed back earlier to make sure that that doesn't happen, as you see Alan now, he's definitely
43:05I would assume stay in the car at this point, it might be tired, it depends on what he's feeling for the car, it's definitely obviously the fuel at this point, so fuel going in, and we've cut back to pictures of the
43:15Orica Peugeot going through Dunlop, so they've obviously regained at this point third place, and a little bit of composure, and decided not to come in, I really, really thought, Johnny, that this was going to be the moment to actually make a stop, but it hasn't happened, Alan Van Nish is in, and so is the 8 car of Marcel Fasler at the moment, so it's a bit of time for
43:35Audi downstairs, so Peugeot, while proving, they didn't take tyres, and look, just getting clear, as a number 8 Audi comes in, so they've timed that almost too perfectly, Alan's back out on track now, and he did not take tyres,
43:49Wow, so, this stop is getting, and maybe, maybe, it will extend throughout all areas, and just keep them on course, that's the only chance, Carlton, to be honest, if they can quadruple the tyres, certainly they're going to triple, and triple goes without saying, the Michelin tyre doesn't triple round them on without too much problem at all, they're going to have to keep the tyres on as long as they possibly can in order to stand a chance, and make that time on the Peugeot, so I think work their tyres a little bit harder, potentially, than the Audi's do.
44:16Bear in mind, because 31 minutes of the event was not under racing conditions.
44:21Absolutely, yes. Although, sometimes, to be fair, that actually hurts the tyres, because you're picking up, no matter how much you're trying to stay offline, or stay online, rather, you're going to get pickup from being offline, or the pickup that comes onto the line, and also you're going slower through the corners, so the tyre doesn't clean itself as you're cornering, so, sometimes you can get a lot of pickup on your tyres going slowly, and then it's difficult to get that back off again, when you get back up to racing speed.
44:44A lot of speculation, before the race started, that Peugeot were running a super soft tyre, because their settings, and their aero package, actually allowed them to get some life out of it.
44:54If they are running such a soft compound here, it may well be something they'll rue a little bit later on.
45:00It could be, although, I mean, it is warm out there, but it's not as hot as it could be, and I suspect, because the sun is a little bit sort of hazy, it's not really sun, so the track surface temperature, although the ambient might be reasonably warm, the track surface won't be as high as if it was sunny, so if they are running, as we see the other Peugeot coming in, in fact, you've got two Peugeot, and you see the lighter stern, I think, going back to what you're saying about the softer tyres, they could probably get away with that if they're running such a softer, because the track surface temperature won't be quite as high as it might be if it was sunny.
45:28And I'm sure Peugeot, they've done enough, but one thing you've got to remember with these teams, as you know, Carlton, is that Audi and Peugeot have done an enormous amount of 24-hour tests before they rock up, they don't just turn up at Le Mans 24-hour and hope that the car will last, they know, they've done weather simulation, they've done every compound simulation on tyres, and they've worked out exactly what works in what conditions.
45:49Well, speculation as well, if they hadn't won it when they did, for the first time, that they would have actually just packed up the programme, because they've been trying so hard to beat Audi, since then it's kind of been there, and they now are the old boys, essentially, because the R15+, it's a new design.
46:07Yes, exactly what they really are, they have the chasers, and Alamadnish is doing a great job of doing just that right now.
46:14So Pedro Lamy rejoins, still the lead Peugeot, Hedijunet, Montani, Alamadnish in fourth, and McNappier in fifth place, as they go back on the track.
46:2326 laps now completed, Johnny, we've had about 30-minute hiatus from the safety car, how's this going to affect the distance record here at Le Mans this year?
46:33Oh, crikey, I mean, you're talking to the wrong mathematician for that, I had no idea, I mean, they've obviously, I'm sure that it was a long enough safety car period for it to potentially not be the fastest lap, and the last time that the Persians are doing, are they much quicker, given how much quicker they went to the 45, they're not that much quicker race pace than I remember them doing last year, so it'd be easy to see with that 31-minute safety car period whether they'll be able to be the fastest at any number, unfortunately.
47:01Timmy Renato is going to be able to get up to his marks, so he's done very well, yes, he is there, he's driving due to me.
47:07Yeah, absolutely, and steady, steady, steady, steady, and some bits of Presoccu that you want to do, but he's also able to have just picked it up a notch, and when required, and more is required often.
47:17And you see Al Alam coming out, literally going past the pit out, as we speak, as Tino Bernard comes back out onto the track, and it'll be interesting to see where the Orica of Peugeot pans into all of this, because obviously he hasn't pitted yet, so he's back in fourth position.
47:31Now this pans out at the end of this lap, and the finish will be back in front of Bernard in the number nine alley, and then be in fifth and sixth, respectively.
47:40I've got a three foot to enter, it's doing a job at the moment, though, and they're getting back into this race, which is exactly what we were hoping for.
47:46At the time, as you heard earlier, Armand Nush setting an absolute beauty, he was well down in the 3.24s, so there were a lot of slower times out there.
47:56Lapierre, the quickest man on course just for the time, he was supposed to 3.24, 4.35.
48:01That's strange, isn't it, Carlson, because Lapierre was doing for two or three laps, and he wasn't having, I could see, any real issues with traffic.
48:07You've got Timo Bernhardt behind him, all over him, and he was doing 26s, and now all of a sudden, he's got a bit of clear air, and he's doing back in the 24s again.
48:14As you rightly say, he's the quickest car on track at all in that last lap, so I don't know if he had some issue within the car, maybe he was cycling through some different map settings, or a TC problem, or something like that,
48:24but he certainly, as you see, McNish doing everything except, I have to say, except actually take to the hard shoulder there, again, thinking about punctures all the way,
48:33but obviously cutting it very fine, but for that exact reason, back onto the, straight down into the second chicane.
48:39Yeah, three wide as he went past the Porsche on one of the forts there.
48:42And then you've got Timo Bernhardt, and that's it, you saw Alan there peeling into the second chicane, now you're with Timo Bernhardt riding on board,
48:48and he approaches the braking area for the second chicane, which is the left-right chicane, so you can see that they're not actually that far apart,
48:54there's two Audis.
48:55Yeah, a couple of vets about to be eaten up, classes one and two from the GT class.
49:01Incidentally, the four Corvette garages, all absolutely one, two, three and four, and they're very, very well marshaled crew.
49:08When you see them actually coming in, you couldn't ask for more from that outfit.
49:13They're amazing to look at, almost like clockwork, because they've got 50 years' experience.
49:18Absolutely, I mean, they're so talented, I mean, they have all the talent in the world, and they've now got the speed to go with it,
49:23and really, this is their solution, they just need to keep themselves calm, not get desperate,
49:29and regardless of whether you could have a quick car or not, the Audi in the Peugeot's case,
49:35it's a big, oh dear man, as you see again, now we've got Timo Bernhardt just passing the BMW there,
49:41so again, number 008 car.
49:46It's the 07 and the 08, and so I know that they're not together on track, it looked like it's...
49:53Yeah, you're right, I'm standing right at this, and this is why you do this passion.
49:56So you're right, it is the 08, and it's the 08, and it's the 08, and it's the 08,
49:59and it's the 08, and it's the 08, and it's the 08, and it's the 08, and they're coming up on track.
50:01And, and this car going finishing, I believe, fifth overall mark last year,
50:06and Aston Martin did a fantastically good job, and obviously at the moment,
50:09he's running eighth and ninth, so this is early on in the game,
50:12they could be well set for top five again.
50:14Yeah, and of course the last time we'll see these cars do a come on,
50:17because Aston Martin will be working very hard to produce their new prototype,
50:21with new regulations.
50:22Yeah, and Aston Martin will be working very hard to produce their new prototype,
50:25and new regulations.
50:26David Ritton is sometimes over the weekend, he won't be drawn on that.
50:29Just let's have a quick look further down the screen,
50:31we haven't seen what's happening in P2 just lately,
50:34but Johnny Kane in the Strucker car, the Silverstone Run Strucker, HPD,
50:40continues to lead the car, he has not seen the start.
50:43He has got 1 minute 16 over David Ritton, the second of the car,
50:47and the better Olivier Clarke in Berlin is looking further down to GT1,
50:54Thomas Munch for Ford, still leading that category,
50:58and Olly Gavin, leading the car brigade as he has done since the start of the way.
51:02Yeah, the Hank Cripting car backer machine just moving over,
51:05finally we have a little bit of an opportunity to do so,
51:07so the Aston's get back at each other.
51:09Aston Martin's end to that, and yeah, they're going to be taking in in-house,
51:13so it may not be a little asked in Martin in the future,
51:17but we will wait, see, it's a huge budget nonetheless,
51:19and they will, if they do leave Lola behind, have learned an awful lot from that.
51:24Absolutely, and obviously Lola, the Lola that have given her a great car to work with,
51:29I think there are obviously certain issues when you're putting a different engine perhaps to,
51:32a Lola chassis is designed to take a whole different variety of engines,
51:36and so sometimes you can have situations when you're putting a different kind of engine into it
51:40where you're compromised in terms of aero, in terms of weight distribution,
51:43so obviously that's something that when they build their own car and their own chassis in-house will make it a huge difference in Martin to really make that type of good.
51:51How's your day doing?
51:52He's okay, he's just having me some extra checks, just to be safe.
51:56He took a bit of a lot, but he should be fine.
51:59Okay, so nothing broken or nothing bad, because we saw him being carried out of the car.
52:04Yeah, it doesn't look like it at the moment, like we said, with the adrenaline, it's better to be safe than sorry.
52:09We're checking everything we can, but we're fine.
52:11What happened? Do you know details already?
52:15We don't know yet. We're going to wait to get the car back, download it, have a look at the data.
52:20At the moment it looks like something happened on the rear going down the straight, but like I said, we don't know what it was yet.
52:25Do you know already what this means for the Pitch St. Manson Motorsport project?
52:31It means me and me are going to have a lot more energy tonight than we were.
52:34We don't know, we'll wait and see if he would like to fight another day.
52:37For me, the thing is, he's okay, and we'll regroup later on and see what we're going to do for that.
52:43Thank you very much.
52:45Well, that's good news, and I presume he's actually been in touch.
52:49I'm surprised, I don't know, if it was a tyre puncture, I'm surprised I don't know, because they do have real time trajectory and the tyre pressure sensors, they would have seen the immediate drop in pressure just before he went off, or perhaps they're not sure when they couldn't actually combine the pictures and seeing the data, maybe they feel that might be when he actually did the demonstration.
53:07They're causing the facts, I don't know.
53:09Yes, exactly, exactly.
53:10Well, we'll see.
53:11But this, for the time being, good news, I think the clouds have started to clear on that one, thank heaven.
53:18We're just seeing Paul cross the line, by the way, that year, a number four car, and he's absolutely out of charge.
53:23He's maintaining some very, very good speeds out there.
53:26Don't know how the car has come to him, what changes he's made, but it is a possibility to do that.
53:31It's not just about the pressure he was under from the cars behind, it's more to the goods than that, and he was sitting in a little bit of a much higher speed, I think maybe I've got the answer to it, I think perhaps we missed time a little bit on the pit stops there, because I think Alan was passing him, he was running a lot longer on the field, because I think what would have happened is that he pitted, so he would have been higher on the field, and that would have explained why McNish and the team over there was a shame, what a shame for that.
53:59I think I must say, I love that, I don't know what you think about, we have it, it's not related, I love it, it's like exploring the pain factor that it means in the eye of the car, but it's not going to be able to do it.
54:10He's having a very good practice, he's not going to be able to do it, by the way, he's just straight, he's pulled off as an inch, yeah, he's gone straight, he's definitely like a diff or something underneath the arc-a-bomb or something like that, or maybe even an engine issue, but the way it wobbled there, it looked like it might be a diff issue.
54:27It's a good design car, internationally, it's supposed to look like the dying embers of fireworks on the scale.
54:35I'm surprised at that, because BMW, especially in America, have been racing very well and very reliably over 12 hours, a CV, 6 hours on Laguna, which is the last race where I was competing in, and they ran very strongly there, so I'm surprised at only a few hours in, less than two hours in, that they've had a problem.
54:52Now this is very interesting, because of course they've been running this car in the VLN series, in a very similar form, including an Urbac V24, and they've been doing destruction testing, particularly with drive shafts, the second VLN races here, they ran the car with old drive shafts, see how long it lasts.
55:08They've realized that we've lasted exactly one hour, for a huge drive shaft growth, and this is the whole idea of this, was getting ready for Vermont, to try and get these parts live.
55:17So if it is a drive shaft, a lot of difference is present. That is very surprising. I know a lot of people are complaining that it's a bit like bringing touring cars to big parties here.
55:26It's just great to have BMW back after 11 years to build. I mean, I disagree with that. At the end of the day, BMW run a fantastic motorsports program, not just in sports cars, but a whole variety of things.
55:39I mean, they may not be in Formula 1 anymore, but manufacturers are incredibly supportive of motorsports, so I think for them to be a part of the console, if there's only right and just.
55:48It's a good scene back here. Oh, they're having a serious puncture as well. He's got to bring this back, nursing back. He does not want them to disintegrate, he can start beating them back.
55:57Rather beautiful body work, and I'm not sure how many replacement panels they've got. They've probably worth an absolute fortune, especially if they've been signed by the artists.
56:05So a good scene back there like this. I think if you remember the last time they won in 99, they also had a sort of questionable vehicle with pinstripes.
56:12A lot of people were actually thinking, is that nice or is that drastic? It's not really too sure, to be honest. So make your own minds up. Go and Google it and have a little press in and see what we mean. We'll be back in a moment.
56:26Come on, drama all around the circuit. We may be in for a safety car. Not for this. This is BMW's hard car crawling back to the pits.
56:33Get Bullock got out to investigate what was up with the car. Left rear puncture is the answer. Coincidentally, just at the same time, one of the pits is showing us.
56:42Youngblood are getting his feelings shaken out by the other BMW. So either they both picked up a puncture or the other car has got a different problem.
56:50I don't know what I'm saying. I don't know how it's supposed to be done.
56:53I don't know how it looks like this. I don't know how it looks like it's just a bit of a match to the point.
56:56I don't know how it looks like it's just a bit of a match.
56:58It's too hard to get the ball here.
57:00A long and soft kickback to the back car.
57:02You've got a much bigger fish to try.
57:04Massive accident now that the S is the marker.
57:08The S racing board has gone off very heavily.
57:10Very heavily hitting against the balance.
57:12Yes, Martin, it appears so.
57:14We've only had a quick shot, but there's bad lines that have gone off and gone off.
57:18On the right-hander of the F's, just after the gunlock bridge.
57:21It's a nasty button there, so Batman causing that wall.
57:24There's going to be something else going on with the goal.
57:25We don't know yet. We haven't had any other pitches.
57:27Well, Cameron, we saw it in the gravel, noted with the rear end missing,
57:31and the wheel spinning seriously.
57:33The short side of the throttle is jammed open.
57:36Whether it was jammed open, of course, it's excellent.
57:38And the weather is a lot of fun. Hard to tell.
57:41But it moved a lot of time with a very big accident.
57:46Yes, it certainly was.
57:46He did seem to move the barriers quite extensively down there.
57:49Not just the tire wall, but also the barriers seem to be misplaced as well.
57:53So we'll have to wait and see whether they can continue the race
57:57without doing the surgery to a racetrack.
58:00Well, having comprehensively hobbled almost everybody in the field
58:03into the design battles with the first safety car,
58:06let's hope they can get away without the second one.
58:08Of course, we'll be waiting with interest to see what happens with our sliders.
58:11Looking at the 63-court bet, just coming on to Pit Road
58:15from the lead of the Cheating 2 class.
58:18No, no, it's the second of the Cheating 2 class.
58:20Yeah, I think it was probably leading when it came in.
58:23What did it research?
58:24No, it was two cars between or eight cars between.
58:26Oh, OK, fine.
58:26Well, I think it's a battle on the schedule because these guys came in for their first
58:31bit of joy in the first safety car period.
58:34So they're now about due for a pit stop in any case.
58:37And so I'm sure we will see them as well.
58:39You'll see them fairly soon thereafter.
58:41The portions of the most of the other cars certainly could go several more laps,
58:44but if there is a full-course caution now, that's, depending on what the first cars can,
58:49potentially not a bad idea to come in and let drop in stops before the safety car emerge.
58:54They may well have had it forced on them by fuel consumption.
58:58They're changing tyres on the car as well, although no sign of a driver change,
59:02so Jan Magnusson will stay in as we've run down the full-course round affair with you.
59:07Down towards the bottom, you'll still see that the J-Lock Lamborghini is confounding all of us
59:12by running after other cars who've had problems.
59:15Quite a number of Rocket Sport Jaguars still in the garage have to get to officially retire,
59:20but either do many laps.
59:22Nigel Mansell, the Beech-D Mansell Motorsport car is out as well.
59:26We've already heard that he is seemingly OK, despite what looked like some unnecessarily overactive marshalling
59:34carrying him out of the car.
59:36He had hurt his legs, certainly, and I was down there just trying to drink over
59:40and down there in the Beech-D Mansell Motorsport team just a few minutes ago,
59:44and it's not just Docton from Jersey actually had to be here to watch the race,
59:49and he went down there to medical centre just to have a look around,
59:52and he's rattled a few boats around in the past game, just haven't you, Nigel?
59:56Michael Bray.
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