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00:00between kobayashi and lee in first and second is 40.8 seconds and there's a drive through
00:07penalty they're coming thick and fast now aren't they so that's a midiani there we i think we knew
00:11about that from before didn't we unless he got another one i don't know whether that might be
00:15another one don't know and that might be another one corvette sounds great the 64 car it's not
00:22going so well six place and we did hear from uh ricky taylor before didn't we and he was talking
00:30about how you know they're running their own race they know they're not quite on the pace but they
00:35they know they've generally got the reliability in the car got a good driver lineup so yeah let's
00:41see where they are when day breaks because we only have to look at last year there was
00:46quite a quite a drama for the astin team last year it wasn't the right towards the end so
00:50you've got to be there at 24 hours and then work it all out and see where you are yeah fastest man
00:56on track right now for the gt's in gt pro is stefan muka in the ford currently just got up to fifth
01:04place ahead of uh the christiansen porsche and that uh pitted taylor chevrolet corvette and last lap
01:13around 353 which is fairly quick in the night
01:20bearing in mind fastest lap in qualifying was a 351
01:25so it's getting quicker and quicker and also bearing in mind around about the time that we
01:30leave here six o'clock we'll start to come into happy hour when the lights
01:36just bright enough to see where you're going it's cool and uh the track's at its best and and that's
01:42generally when the fastest times in the race go and that's why this is called happy hour what's
01:46he sticking in there what was that is that some pressed air or something that the man with the
01:52bottle i don't really know what it is um yeah let's just let's just for our things yeah ferrari
01:57thing let's just look at this one two three overall in them in the main race uh which is kobe actually
02:03leaving davison uh kobe actually is 40 odd seconds it fluctuates around about the 42nd mark
02:10but davison's 36 seconds so again at fluctuating depending on traffic around the 40 second mark
02:17but we knowing that toyota are stretching us out by a an extra lap per stint now a pit stop is
02:26in theory longer than with them just doing the fuel they can save that time so when mark
02:33weeb has to do that additional pit stop he's going to be stopped for more than 37 40 seconds so uh davison
02:41still is not out of this game by any stretch of the imagination uh of of strengthening toyota's hold
02:48on it apparently by they're able to stretch out by one lap per stint so uh very interested that that
02:55might not work out or play out for a few more hours yet when they uh when they start to get that
03:02additional stop in which is kind of what kobe actually has now
03:09okay what's happened here with the 62 just maybe just a slow motion
03:14yep the number 95 fourth place darren turner has taken over from sorensen now
03:27so that car's come up the order quite well i can't remember where they started but it certainly wasn't
03:33that high darren turner he was down in sort of 10th 11th wasn't he something like that oh i've got
03:39i've got a grid sheet somewhere a qualifying sheet i've got so much paper so it just shows you um you
03:45know even though these guys don't have the pace they're just working away and just running their own
03:50race they were they were ninth in their category in the qualifying
03:55my desk was my desk in my in our concert was so neat and tiny the other day it looks like a
04:09bombs dropping it now and it's stuff all over the plane those other i'm gonna be yeah i'm blaming giles
04:15and uh jake yeah let's blame them because it's just like it's incredible they're messing here uh
04:22but uh they'll be coming in in a couple of hours well well i don't know well i'm no there's no need
04:28to tidy our stuff about we're neat it's it's those two who are messy yeah the biscuits we might have
04:33to hide because i think they are they are ours but uh yeah that gap between the first three
04:39kobe actually to leave fluctuating 37 to 40 seconds then lead to davidson again fluctuating around the
04:4640 second mark it's um and then a drop of 12 one couple of laps isn't it two laps to jarvis yeah and
04:55then we've got the rebellion still in there the 13 cars still holding on but quite yeah what uh nine
05:01laps down on uh the race leader p2 uh it is uh menzes who is in the 36th car there 46 cars second and then uh
05:13will stevens running around in the g drive 26 car now that potentially he was in second but he has
05:20served a penalty so that's probably why that is it's uh geovander guard who you remember from formula
05:26one uh he's in fourth place in the 38 car four uh p2 cars in the top 10 at the moment with uh
05:34uh just under 11 hours still to go it's oh 63 car in the garage this could be a brake change this could
05:42be like a routine schedule service so to speak yeah we know yeah look there's some brake discs and
05:51calipers we know they have to do it so they're getting out of the way now and we know ford will do
05:57it as well but uh we i guess it was at least an hour ago that we spoke to george howard chapel so
06:04um yeah we've got one of the fords coming in now that's a 69 car so that's uh second place brisco
06:14so malic melichelli's in the pits as well so they're all coming in at the same time they did
06:19that last time around as well didn't they those those two at the front are on the same strategy
06:24but guessing malicelli's going to get out quite a bit before that ford well
06:29hmm yeah he'll flick up on our screen with us an o for out uh
06:37very shortly i suspect with the other 69 car and brian brisco on board fuel is in windows are clean
06:45i don't think there's any no the mechanic is ready as if he's going to change tires
06:50so he he was stood there with the the big nut gun
06:59obviously the joey hand car is going to go past its teammate appearance simply on strategy
07:10to look down that pit road to see if brisco is still in there i think he must be changing tires
07:16yeah he's just left now so that is a change it will change back when the the 68 car comes into
07:26the pit so frisco's still on board
07:31tell you who i haven't seen in that car yet well in any of these fords at all all weekend and he
07:39obviously has been in is andy prio i have not seen andy prio inside a racing car yet you know what
07:46yeah absolutely bizarrely we've been we have been on we did 12 hours of free practice and qualifying
07:53commentary we've now done well we're heading towards seven hours of race country and i've yet to see
08:01andy prio sat inside a ford on our tv screen you're right how bizarre is that i think 19 hours of work
08:08i think the thing is um his car because it's down the order a bit it's now sitting in 11th place we
08:15don't really see it very much yeah we don't see him that much and it's it's uh it's a bit of a shame
08:20really but it is what it is they follow the the cars that are higher up and uh yeah it's logical
08:26having thought about it i don't think i've seen scott dixon in a car yet we've seen scott dixon in
08:31person standing out standing in the big garage it's just strange when you start to look through
08:36drivers names and who's around you're thinking not actually seen that person drive but they
08:41obviously have but we've just not been with them when they have that's really strange okay we've got
08:48a p2 in it's a 36 car it is our leader to drive a change there we go he's still got energy to run
08:55gustavo still got energy to run that's fair play amazing yeah
09:01he's uh put in a huge amount of work there
09:10another very very good driver going in there nicholas lapierre again he's a guy that's been around
09:16forever it seems he's you know he's only 32. he's a winner at the top end of this sport as well
09:21and he's only 32 yeah
09:24he's uh
09:29this team working very well
09:36i think they're going to do that full service and still maintain the lead because the car behind
09:41them the 46 car is uh in theory a lap down so
09:50they are he's out he's out onto the
09:53the track and he's still in the lead that's good going that they've got to be happy with that yeah
09:58they've got to be happy with that
10:05so some fast laps going in now there's uh victor shaitar in the 37 car was he position
10:12three and six in p2 he's just in his fastest lap of the race and i noticed joey hand over there second
10:20place has done a it's obviously not his fastest lap but it's uh 352 six in the night
10:26so that's what just just over no just under half just under a second
10:34slower than the pole position time so times are getting down to a reasonable pace
10:41okay the gap between the the first and second in p2 36 to the 46 is is seven seconds now
10:50but the 46 the 36 has done a pit stop where the 46 hasn't so uh the they got a pit stop in hand and
10:56there's the other uh sanitec car the 35 is running just a bit further down the order that's seventh
11:04uh in the in the category and i'm just going to have a look at something uh oops just going to check
11:12something this was the car that uh saturday morning warm-up was 9 till 9 45 so about 9 35 9 33
11:23david chen put that 35 car in the wall and it needed like front body work rear body work a bit of side
11:30body work and things like that but it is running in some place at the moment and it was a driver change
11:37as well at that time okay we're keeping him busy uh but anthony is in the pits with somebody for us
11:46we tried uh updated and to keep you updated and uh to keep busy and to be busy so we are with inest
11:54tetangie uh one of the two ladies in the race so inest for your first participation how is your
12:01feeling my feeling is great well i mean for this for this team my feeling was great um i had a good
12:09phase that i tried to keep that i tried to keep till the end so i mean i i made no mistakes um i love
12:16i actually love the the night so i hope i hope it's gonna continue like this and for your first
12:23participation uh a few uh moments of course that that's normal but how do you rate your your performance
12:29until now oh it's complicated to rate it we're only halfway through the race so
12:34uh um it's been it's been the track is very busy uh with a lot of traffic it's very very hard to
12:40manage all of this especially during the night where what you only see is just lights so um i don't know
12:48my performances i made a few mistakes i apologize to the team but it's my first time and uh i'll try to
12:56to make it up uh on the other stands so clearly the the aim is to finish now of course the goal is to
13:03finish um we're we're on the right way we're on the right way to finish the race we don't aim anything
13:10else it's amazing to finish the race for the first participation so this is our primary goal and now
13:17what is your program so you'll sleep a bit i'm gonna eat and sleep yeah thank you very much thank you very
13:22much okay so inasia is getting ready uh to eat and then to sleep so that's normal and she
13:30stays busy as well so yeah that's that's good as we are we are busy thank you for that anthony yeah we
13:36are busy i'm just gonna go back on to just a tweet jason bringhurst the ferrari canister
13:44it's probably engine oil so the engine is consuming a bit of oil which is normal
13:48i'm not really sure yeah that canister that they were putting in it was it looked like a pressurized
13:53kind of stood to me so but jason it kind of has to pressurize in doesn't it it's not good they're
13:58not going to get a a bottle of mobile one and why not because it just doesn't work like that
14:03it doesn't work like that they've got to use something a bit techy have they to put it in
14:07on board you might well right you're right with that well that could be um another wrc
14:12question here from stuart owen which of the current wrc world rally championship stars do you
14:18think will be capable of driving a nmp1 i i was again sebastian ogier uh we know sebastian loeb did
14:25come here twice and finish on the podium and his first chance first go i think uh but uh yeah
14:31sebastian ogier i would suspect i expected it all like a go danny sordo could be pretty good mark
14:36webber now waiting to get into that one car brendan hartley's shift is about to end he went in it
14:44just around about 11 o'clock he's been in he's not been in the car for five hours but he's been
14:50his name's been attached to that car for five hours yeah that's good that could be one of the
14:53longest stints in the more history kind of like it's a pretty long stint even though he hasn't
14:58driven the car in that time well of course you're only allowed to drive four hours at one stage but
15:03yeah yeah but obviously his his name's been linked to that car because it's been in the pits for
15:08nearly two hours of that of that five team radio i think it's leaking oil yeah it sounded like that
15:19okay thinks it's leaking oil
15:25well that ain't good then no that is not good uh just to answer stuart's question danny sordo is
15:32very good on time danny sordo could probably drive one of these cars uh a question really for peter
15:37here the number one car on pit road if you guys could have a street version of one of the gts
15:44what would it be i mean i could answer that one i do like the port but it does look nice
15:49corvette just for the noise but then the ford makes the same noise i can't answer that there's too many
15:55choices i i i think for um just for having a unique car that the ford gt yeah how many you've seen on
16:04the road you've seen loads of porsches you do see loads of support loads of corvettes i'd have the
16:08ford okay mark weber getting out we're getting in brendan hartley getting out brendan hartley right
16:15he's really tall and so skinny i saw him yesterday i thought he was a surfer uh then i realized it was
16:21actually him that car smoking away again remember brendan working the brakes well that's what he's saying
16:26he thinks there might be an oil leak yeah and it might might get pushed back into the garage
16:30see the steering wheel there in that car we were looking at that yesterday i'll tell you what i'll
16:35tweet a picture i did yesterday yesterday but uh yeah we were very privileged and uh to go into the
16:42porsche garage yesterday and have a look around mechanic just on the floor at the front end looking
16:48underneath just to check it it's a full service as we'd expect driver fuel and tires going on the number
16:54one porsche and it is away so uh i mean don't get me wrong oh davison in the pits as well davison in
17:04the pits mark weber in the car so they're not worried about this uh smoking car then they're just
17:09cracking on here's the five drinks bottles going in i think that's a rule isn't it they have to change
17:15the drinks bottle every pit stop i'm sure i read that somewhere do they i'm sure i am i could be totally
17:23wrong but i'm sure they have to replace the drinks bottle every pit stop for safety for the driver
17:30for hydration right now i could be totally wrong or someone could have been winding or i've read it
17:36i'm not sure but anyway there we go that'll just set twitter buzzing again so someone will come in
17:42with that one there right the grandstand update on the grandstand opposite us uh if we look out of our
17:48window it's just over to our left um when the race started it was absolutely full when we came on
17:56at midnight there was probably about 200 200 200 to 300 people in it there's probably yeah probably in
18:04the one i'm looking at which is the motel one near the funfair at the fort chicane i would say
18:10there's about 40 people in it now and most of them will probably be asleep there is some people on the
18:18very top who are lying down so there is some people sleeping in the grandstand and they'll be sleeping
18:22there so that they got the right place for tomorrow because that is the final corner before they go in
18:28the sixth garage seems to be getting ready for something that'd be kobayashi they just seem to be
18:34wandering around davidson on an outlet that gap's down 27 seconds now he's taken mark lee's taken 13
18:44seconds out of that toyota yeah we've not been paying attention to that no but that's not a huge
18:49amount of laps to go it was 40 and maybe four or five laps to go and those toyota mechanics just seem to
18:56be kind of a strange shot of them but uh let's see toyota is going he's going around again the sixth car
19:02there's been no radio communication so hopefully uh everything is okay
19:11i mean i i didn't witness uh your last race at le mans up to this present day at the moment
19:16obviously there should be more to come but uh when we walked the track and we walked this final section
19:23uh you tell a story about kobayashi in his finals which he now basically can't do because of all these
19:28curves but very hard on the car in that day when he was in a for in the ferrari yeah yeah back in 2013
19:37they didn't have so many curbs at the ford chicane and it was possible to
19:43be one gear up on where they are now and just kind of straight line right over the top of them
19:49and as the race went on more and more people were doing it and you know the the aco didn't worry too
19:56much like they do you know they're they're giving more penalties out for track limits nowadays um but
20:03then they they it wasn't such an issue and uh yeah it was it was worth a second basically you're one gear
20:10higher and you just just throw the car over the top of the curb straight line it and i get back on the
20:17power and kobayashi i followed and i was catching him and i and then we got to here and he pulled a
20:23second off me and then i spent the rest of the lap catching up again and then he did it again and i
20:29so i started doing the same and yeah it felt real rough on the car it's not good we've got we've got a
20:37real closing speed difference there that car that p2 car is going slowly because even the corvette
20:43nearly uh kind of rear-ended it just looking at the gap it's 26 seconds a striker in there
20:52that's uh danny watts you see there's one of those compressed things there oh oh they're telling him
20:57to turn the engine off turn the engine off because you can't work on the cars you know with the
21:00engine running the mechanic really thinking there because we've seen two people have penalties for
21:05that reason and uh so there's one of those compressed canisters so yeah that's just not like a tub of
21:11oil which has been put in um greg's been back on with twitter the longest drive for one driver
21:19uh to do was in 1949 luigi sincetti 23 hours
21:28ouch brendan hartley you've got a long way to go
21:32how many hours did he drive in that 20 probably knowing it probably all of them but uh uh the gap
21:37just going up team radio
21:49yeah i just just in that last shot the i don't know where the damage is but you know when that car came in
21:55before and i said it looked like there was something hanging down on the right hand side
21:59just as he went through there just underneath the six i don't know whether there's something
22:03hanging down so there may be been a little bit of contact yeah somewhere along the line and because
22:09he did lose some time didn't he yeah but i i thought the time i thought i saw some marks on
22:15the body work in the previous stop um but i don't know but depending on with them saying that
22:22that sounds like kobayashi is is in he's on pit road now so we'll get it we'll get a close look
22:30hopefully but does that that sounds like he's staying in the car and but do they have to put
22:36him into the garage for that just with them telling him in detail of we're going to do this
22:41you might have to go inside the garage but we'll see depends how bad it is
22:48okay the 27 car we're hearing is a garage now they're going to try and
22:51they're cleaning it i think it's the it's the bottom bit here they're cleaning the underneath of the
23:01so let's just see what they're doing they're not liking that photographer they're taking pictures are they
23:05yeah if we if we get up yeah he's had contact contact somewhere hasn't he because he's broken
23:14like the top half of the the body work so leap goes into the lead again
23:23interesting to see if they just have to put that onto the onto the dollies and push it in
23:28now they're going to do it there they already got it pre-made haven't they they said quick fix didn't
23:34they yeah so they've already uh pre stuck that all together that's quite messy isn't it that's
23:41unfortunate that is they could have done without that
23:47it's still quite messy even though it's got a bit of tape on it now it's still a bit messy but
23:52they're i mean with the way current aero is on these cars they their monitors and things like
24:00that probably pick it up so um there was a another question on twitter uh just having seen that uh
24:10shot there of the pits so kobe actually on his outlap he has dropped to second place but the question on
24:16twitter was how many people do the top p1 teams bring to a race well it's a bit different because
24:24they're limited on um on regular six hour races i think it's 60 60 or 80 i can't remember there's a
24:34big difference between that but they are limited but in le mans they do bring more i got a feeling
24:40that uh porsche with everybody got around about 200 people here i think it is something like that
24:48it's a lot of people anyway yeah yeah i think so but they are limited on regular uh world endurance rounds
24:58okay right this man mark leave has really really really got him hammer this home now
25:10this is the second place place to hirakawa i've just noticed a couple of times from him
25:17looking at his lap times he's been rapid actually
25:31looking at his lap times he's been rapid actually he's been rapid actually he's been rapid actually
25:37here we go just that watch this
25:39here we go just that watch this
25:51another question in from george uh he's saying why do we think the ford is so much faster here than at
25:57rolex well the ford is still a very new car and rolex was back in january so they've done a lot of
26:03testing a lot of work to make that car faster they did the test day here then and i was speaking to
26:09richard westbrook yesterday and he said even from the test day to now they've made some big steps with
26:15the car and improved it so it's it's just basic evolution with the car just the the fact that they've had
26:20it longer down pit road is the number two car so kobeashi still on his out lap and the number two porsche is on
26:35keeping an eye on what was going on just a gap
26:48it won't be enough for it to to maintain the lead but numbers getting cleaned headlights getting cleaned
26:56windows getting cleaned
27:05okay the 27 car work anthony is telling us is having a new front end that's uh mediani
27:19and the two car is already on its way now this could be interesting where is the top
27:25where's the toyota because kobeashi still on his out lap whereabouts is the toyota let's just keep an eye
27:30on that here comes a toyota take porsche porsche could have just sorted something out here this
27:36has just brought it back to life well it was that little extra time spent trying to fix the car after
27:43he pranked it against someone that's the hang about that's the one car oh right where's kobeashi then
27:54because they're still showing he's eight seconds behind yeah so porsche have have legitimately taken
28:01the lead even through the stops now yeah and so that that um was a 30 second extra
28:11tape tape job on the side of the car
28:16what i am curious to know is whereabouts brendan hartley goes in after having his stint
28:22it's a little uh cubicle uh what i'm curious is whereabouts is that one car is the one car between
28:30the two and the six on the road
28:37the mana is in remember mana led uh lmp2 uh earlier on in there is 110 110 second penalty so that's like
28:48nearly two minutes isn't it uh stop and go penalty for the car for the breach of limitation of fuels
28:57so uh yeah three times more than what the the limitation of fuel that they were allowed they've
29:04used and it's still not going very fast that car even with using extra fuel
29:09oh they will be so pleased to get to the end of this rate i'll just see the end of it whether it's now
29:17whether it's in another ten and a half hours we've got a bit of a lot it's a bit smoky there we've got
29:21another porsche making smoke or was that just a lock-up hard to tell it's not going very fast down the
29:30straight yeah but it's it's against other yeah but it's getting caught by another one behind it does it
29:39maybe it's not i thought that people want that but i thought that gt car behind was catching it
29:45it's okay it's okay
29:50okay we're going over to anthony he's in the pits so maritio uh what happened on the 27 car
29:56uh actually we don't know why but uh the car is jumping quite a lot and uh
30:07little by little there's a part of the car that's
30:14probably broken and we have to fix and it's very difficult to drive and
30:19uh to to break in the right place to avoid to lock the wheels and to also to watch outside i mean
30:28very very difficult situation it's probably the most 24 hours of my life
30:33wow yeah and uh of course the the race for the victory in lmp2 is always difficult but yeah it's even
30:39more difficult now uh believe me like this it's very difficult very deep thank you very much
30:46yeah mauricio will have a rest so yeah he's very friendly to to answer our questions that's good
30:53thank you for that we got um basically the top three 49 seconds apart now this is just starting to
31:01get interesting and looking at that gap there just flicked up we do need to wait for kobe actually to go
31:08over the start finish but that last sector just split up popped up 11 seconds it's there again it was only
31:15eight or nine wasn't it coming out uh when they were both on their out laps oh
31:22it's now same kabuyashi's in the lead
31:24okay the team reading from there is that the rhythm is good we have a one minute advantage and uh mark lieb fans
31:48port number two fans don't worry uh it just put kobayashi in the lead and disappeared with mark
31:53lieb but mark lieb is back there uh the gap 12 seconds so uh that is uh going forward the porsche
32:02is quick again this was the car that was on pole position remember it's now starting to find that pace
32:09that it had on thursday night wednesday night not thursday night wednesday night so uh
32:19nicholas lapierre he is in the 36 car they're leading lmp2 and they uh they have quite a good lead
32:28going on in there so uh we'll see what else is going on now i'm just waiting for the times to update
32:36again 48 seconds the top three are split by its lead kobayashi davidson toyota were leading comfortably
32:4610 and a half hours to go they well when i say comfortably they had 30 odd seconds kobe actually
32:51had an extended stop for a small bit of damage that just needed to be uh repaired
32:58um they kind of just stuck a bit of tape on it and made it kind of a bit more aerodynamic
33:06um
33:06just answering uh these just reading some more information and tweets how many formula drivers
33:17have won or more after their last f1 start oh i have no idea we'd have to google that one yellow flag
33:25zone 15 yellow flag that is somewhere on the mulsanne straight somebody potentially going slowly
33:32on the mulsanne straight and uh we're way beyond there in the in the number two porsche so i'm not
33:42really sure what it is ah this is the the 110 second penalty that the uh the car for uh on the web is
33:51having to uh stick 50th overall oh it's just been a disaster this car was on fire on wednesday afternoon
34:00and the the quick thinking uh of uh the driver's name has just gone past me right what's going
34:08slowly here there's a car parked up it's a bit of rebellion it's the 13 car lights out on it now it's
34:15going to be looks sounds like he's going to do a bit of a i'd say he's the youngest driver in the race
34:21they're in sixth place overall oh dear me dear me what has happened to the rebellion
34:27it is parked up on the straight
34:36it's not looking good for them i was trying to find some information out for you wasn't i on another
34:42driver and i forgot what driver it was with that uh stop but uh never mind we will uh endeavor to try
34:49and remember what that was but uh it's markedly followed by kobe actually it's now up to 13.8 um
34:56it's going in the right direction for them so yeah the rebellion stopped car 13 stopped on the
35:03mulsanne straight and then the mechanics they're looking in it's uh he's had the headlights on he's
35:09had the headlights off on and then off and then on uh i suspect trying to do these that are on there
35:14he's parked up just before the second chicane they're trying to well basically they're trying to
35:21now you see the lights talk him into getting home yeah yeah yeah well the lights were on and then
35:26they went off he was as if he was turning all the power didn't do no full reset yeah but it's not moved
35:32anywhere since he's done that um yeah it's not going anywhere at the minute that car that's a huge
35:41disappointment because their other car is down in 20th first place and has had a problem there's
35:46going to be a slow zone at zone 13 14 15 16 which is basically in the area where the rebellion is
35:53parked up just pure and simply for security of that car while uh uh tushka has a well potentially works
36:02on it or does something with it but in the rebellion is currently stopped on track
36:07now the gap is up to 14.6 that porsche has now just found it was oh no i was gonna say i was gonna
36:18say it was round about this time in qualifying but it wasn't this time qualifying it was uh about 11
36:22o'clock at night but it was it's kind of finding the pace what was our last lap 326 what's uh
36:30trying to think what his best lap is i'm not sure his best up is but their qualifying lap was a 319
36:40319 i think they've done a 321 yeah kobayashi's the fastest but i'm sure they've done a
36:47slightly higher 321 so going that that last lap runs very slow i don't know whether he had to
36:55no he won't have gone through the slow zone yet he's keeping his tires warm in the slow zone it's
37:02got to be davison because there's three little red lights on the side of it
37:05and it's uh yeah he'd be the one who'd be thinking right here we go
37:13yep those three red lights signal the red is for lmp one the three means that he is in third place
37:20he is currently eight on the pit road so fourth place man jervis is in the pits now
37:28again it's another one he's been in a while isn't he yes driver changed to de grassy this time
37:41they'll be keen to get some rest now
37:43the grassy will see the sun come up
37:49nice time to be in the car that is it yeah it's it's you know getting in the car knowing
37:55while it's dark and just gradually lap by lap it getting brighter and brighter and brighter and then
38:01finally seeing the sun come out it's like ah yeah and it's it's like the first step it's like
38:06yeah we've made it through the night it's a big step and okay psychologically it's a big step and you
38:11know you yeah when we're going to see it actually within within half an hour we're going to see
38:18it like yeah i mean i'm sure even out there now it's starting to just turn so um yeah where are you
38:25looking i'm pitch black outside where i'm looking i've had my carrots you must have had lots of them
38:33i'm sure i can yeah yeah i can see whatever whatever slight changes and then half an hour's
38:42time that will be big changes and it's just that it's a great time to be the car this rebellion has
38:48been pushed down the road a little bit i think it's going to be basic oh it's being pushed backwards in
38:53between the barriers that doesn't mean it's out it now just means he can work on it in a safe place yeah
38:59but uh it's yeah right what's the stories when we had the white weather tech porsche the 89 car
39:06very early in the race yeah up at dunlop and you said that a mechanic could come out and help and
39:10et cetera well they can no they can come up and advise yeah yeah in the old days in the old days there
39:17must have been stories when that that you may know when cars were stopped out on bullseye and mechanics
39:22was sneaking through i'm sure there's no cameras there maybe a few pictures but there was no video
39:29cameras as such and you know whereas we've got complete coverage nowadays haven't we i mean i bet
39:35it was you can't get away with anything now some of the stories must have been just immense and
39:40fantastic in those days yeah cars being repaired and things like that but uh we have seen over the
39:50past some very very battered cars being driven back to the pits to be worked on uh the seven car just
39:57coming in but as you said we haven't we we haven't really had that the only one that was bad that
40:04couldn't get back to the pits well we've had two we've had one porsche we've had one ferrari but the
40:09ferrari was basically the wheel fell off and you just couldn't do anything about it i don't know really
40:14wow the 69 car this is the second in class right back into the garage now this
40:22potentially breaks potentially i think he's getting out yeah driver change
40:27is there a load of breaks and stuff on the floor yeah there is is he going in yeah so i mean we knew
40:33it was going to happen yeah we knew this was going to happen at some stage but uh here it comes now and
40:39yeah we're past the halfway point this is regular don't panic this is this is this will be planned
40:45wouldn't it they would have in their strategy we are going to lose this much time here when we change
40:49the brakes yeah i guess that's scott dixon going in the car now that's it so uh yeah you're saying i was
41:06certainly saying that anthony our pitlane reporter reminded me that i hadn't seen scott dixon in the
41:11car either there here you go there we go seeing scott dixon in the car now it's taking how many hours
41:17a lot a lot 13 hours 40 minutes so uh so there goes the old break let's have a look for no marino
41:26marino's still in car 67 so andy's not in yeah yeah we still haven't seen andy in the car
41:31look how dirty that car is now you see some of the teams when these cars win massively prestigious
41:42events and you go to their museums they've kept the dirty car in the museum and things like that
41:49yeah they they lacquer it even do they so they can't be cleaned yeah okay right okay i didn't realize
41:55they went to that extent i believe the port from last year is still dirty the the nick uh the nico
42:01hulkenberg car i believe that's still dirty so uh yeah here is the the 68 car second at the moment a
42:10minute and 22 down yeah that fizichella ferrari is holding on very well you consider that battle
42:19early on with that car and how um both joey hand and uh who's the other drive the other four drivers
42:27just look how wide that car is from that angle it's really wide yeah it's low and wide yeah wow
42:33those discs and and canipers are already on the wheels are going on
42:39wasn't a very long pit stop at all
42:41here we go get him out get him on the ground before he starts his engine
42:51still reporting him in second place he's got to get out of yeah that's because he hasn't gone
43:00past the pits as he has a lap because he came in in second place he's he's got two little green lights
43:05on there but that will change to three green lights because he's about to come out of the pits and it'll
43:10register because it's this car the 68 car that is in second place in the pro category
43:18the rebellion is still stopped out on circuit the 13 car
43:24bad weekend for rebellion i mean a lot of people a lot of people not just dreamers and uh
43:34people with like kind of
43:35romantic side of seeing privateers doing well with lots of people thinking a rebellion could be on the
43:45podium here quite easily and uh it's just kind of going wrong for them yeah if they you know they
43:51just they had to keep going at the pace they were doing not necessarily all that quick and just letting
43:57everyone else fall apart around them but they're having their own issues
44:03yeah a couple of questions um here's a good one who's the oldest driver in the field
44:08yeah i'd have to look through my book take quite a while but i'll have to look through my book i've
44:14certainly seen tracy crone you're going to go for tracy crone i haven't got a clue let me uh so
44:2439 each 39 and i'm going to talk to myself while we go right go for it let's uh 39 again 39 can't be the
44:32oldest there but uh we've got a 40. stefan sarazan's 40. as i go through my stats book he is the oldest at
44:40the moment but so we've got a long way to do better than that we're going to do far better than that
44:45ladies and gentlemen i'll tell you we are going to do better than that we know who the youngest driver
44:51is easily we know the youngest driver 52 eric mares is 52 he is now winning the competition 52
45:01better put my finger in that hole just uh better put my finger in that hole just so i know it's him
45:08there so we're looking at 52 let's keep going the 62 just being in that's the leader townsend bell
45:17on his way out yeah ed brown is 53. ed brown is 53. do you know the answer to this question or
45:27i i'm just guessing it tracy crone someone with a name i can't pronounce remy
45:31stray big 57. hopefully it's not him because i can't pronounce his name very well
45:38oh that's oh brilliant i've been told by uh by our reporter in the pits that was quite good
45:44so uh so there's been a driver change in 62 as well jeff seagal is in the car
45:52and now he's got a lap over alcopese after all of that you didn't wonder why alcopese was being
45:58kept in the car but you'll have to do so many runs won't he so many miles yeah true but you'd you'd want
46:05him to do it in the daylight when he could be a bit faster it's the number two car this is the lead car
46:10remember he well not anymore a couple of ashes gone by him now when he's sitting in the pits because
46:15it was only it was about 11 or 12 seconds this is why that porsche is going so fast because it knows
46:21it's probably gonna have to do one smoke coming off as it sits there at this that it was the other car
46:26doing yeah interestingly leaves having tires as well because they'd have had a set before as well when
46:31he got into the car tracy crone 61 you could be a winner you could be a winner if you'd have done break
46:38with yours let's just uh oh we've got i've got a response already no mark patterson do we walk by
46:48on the way to austin i've got 64. i haven't got to him yet i haven't got to him now let me just see
46:54wait a minute i don't know what car he's in what kind of reason i don't think i've got past him yet
47:02mark patterson i'm running out of cars i i've obviously i've obviously not written his age down
47:12or i've missed it as i'm going past well he's in the car right now 57. he's in the car
47:20oh well i've obviously uh gone past that when i was
47:28looking at him i was going to tell you something else about mark patterson before
47:33um i've obviously missed his age while i was whizzing through all his uh
47:38all the stats on other people what car is he 57 yeah right i do have something else on on mark patterson
47:48somewhere in this book tell you what if they're listening to us in the truck
47:55they are just going to wonder what we are going on about
47:59we're in we're you know it's it's what times are they court there's quarter to five we're in a
48:04delirium here if there's anybody else listening in that truck i'll be surprised anyway
48:09it's quarter to five and i've been up since half past six yesterday morning
48:14i know you have what car we're looking for
48:20mark patterson 57 57 i can't find 57. have you
48:25drink some yellow at zone 20 yellow zone
48:28right so 51 is in the box yeah
48:43it's having some issues so let's let's look down i can't even see a 51 anywhere i mean oh yes i can
48:49yeah yeah yeah it's 10th in 10th in pro category yes i said yeah it's the
48:54uh they've had issues it's um the broody car isn't it yeah it's not good
49:03it's not good for them at all at the moment oh we gotta spin that's the number two that's the porsche
49:10is it where's its lights up the side no i'm sure that had number two on it
49:19we need a replay i'm sure that had a number two on it
49:30did anyone else see that i'm sure
49:33it's gone quiet in here because i ain't kind of just just do with seeing what happened there
49:48looks like a bit of a rock or something you puncture that sorry mate watch out for rocks on the track
49:53something about a puncture and watch out for stuff on track
50:01we're staying out
50:11where would that have been then was that uh to our nash yeah it looked like uh
50:17i could just really could just do with a with a replay couldn't we just to
50:22see because i'm sure that was the car that was parked up
50:31let's let's check the porsche twitter and see if they report anything on there
50:39because the 12 cars still well it's dropped behind davidson so yeah you might yeah look he's uh
50:45uh hang on i'm getting some more wait a minute wait a minute
50:53the 12 car has been reported to have stopped at mulsanne but the 13 car obviously stopped there as
50:58well so maybe it was maybe it was 12. but anyway mark glebe is now his third place yeah he's dropped
51:05places behind kobayashi and davidson and davidson's oh mind you he hasn't pitted yet but he's only 17
51:12seconds behind kobe he's he's on a bit of a stormer
51:21no change in gt pro or um same top three positions joey han seems to be the quickest one at the moment
51:30in the 68 car gradually catching up fizzy keller
51:35and uh al kobezi is now in the pits i would put a bet on him coming out of the car this time and
51:47then putting either pat long in the car well i haven't seen pat for a while have we so yeah maybe yeah
51:54there you go bingo pat long exits in car 88
52:01right we're going to see some uh frantic catching up of the car ahead now pat long's going to put in an
52:07epic stint where he um two minutes 23 behind though
52:13al kobezi did lose quite a lot let's just make a note of that somewhere
52:17lap 186 the 12 rebellion it must have been the 12 rebellion okay uh
52:312 25
52:32okay i found my staff mark parson former wall street banker now runs his own private equity equity
52:49equity and hedge funds company based in new york he'll be quite wealthy 1951 december the 16th he was born
52:57right this is both rebellions having problems and 12 car as we know is stopped out on 13 car
53:08stopped on mulsanne and then the 12 cars now in the pits yes bodywork i'm just looking to the left
53:14behind those guys and seen and thinking the car's sitting there but it's not it's the bodywork
53:19so the driver's out there's yeah no haste to in fact the cars the car's going up on its high stands isn't
53:28it so it's going to be there for a while the mechanics asking nelson just to move away just
53:35so he can get all the stuff down there
53:37ah disappointment for them lapierre on an out lap in his category no why yeah i mean 12 wasn't going
53:48that well anyway but 13 that's the what's what's happened to the porsche it's now a minute behind
53:56it's a minute behind the leader in third place yeah
53:59and the toyota's weren't going that slowly before were they what what's what's his last lap what a 327
54:07to a 324 and three just find it a bit bizarre did he not get new tires last time he was yes he did
54:14yeah yeah yeah yeah so that'll be another 20 seconds won't it so yeah true but then he shouldn't have
54:21any issues and he should be able to keep the pace up but they talked to well yeah they talked about you
54:28know watching out and having has he got a slow puncture or something
54:35yeah they did tell him to watch out didn't they
54:42right matt powers said it was the 12 car that we saw spun but why did the two car pit after five laps
54:51leaps been in twice in five laps
54:54you look at the amount of pit stops he's done he's done 17 pit stops
55:0810 hours and seven minutes to go i'm just looking at now speaking do you need to look underneath the car
55:14sevens going slow now oh it's on pit straight as well
55:21it's i mean it's kind of not a surprise is it about and it's speeding back up again bizarre but yeah
55:27there that that thing's just seemed to it seems to go fine for a while and then just suddenly have an
55:34an issue and it's speed back up again it's like a short circuit or something
55:54so fizzy keller's responding to the challenge from joey hand
55:57he's now lapping very similar please oh oh oh that's why it was going slow
56:07that was what we in the trade you would call a tank slapper oh yeah
56:12he did well to keep that as a wall yeah because he was nearly he was nearly into that end of that
56:16barrier wasn't he
56:20here we go team radio
56:21everything okay
56:27yeah that was that was how he had the tone of uh yeah sorry that was my mistake so yeah and
56:36sorry that he that maybe i didn't damage it anymore he might have put us out of our misery
56:42so oh dear me tough tough weekend for them that's tough as the number one for yeah i mean if
56:49they've had so many good weekends over the last few years that's it and uh you know
56:53and the good weekends are only really good because you have bad ones you know what i mean it kind of
57:00just write it off so to speak the gap at the front kobe actually to davidson is 13 seconds
57:08so uh and davidson is definitely lapping quicker two seconds off uh kobe actually in fact two and a half
57:16yeah i'm not saying this is really what's gonna happen but i did pick last two the last two years
57:30winner of the race and i bet on the davidson car for this this race you did bet on the davidson car
57:37so fingers crossed for him not that i'm biased in any way and uh he'll play out and i'm you know
57:45right okay got some information yeah um
57:48um so yeah the second pit stop from for ma for mark lee was due to a slow puncture so that's why he did
57:59two pit stops in five laps slow puncture right and that's yeah that has cost him so he's he's really
58:05gonna have to raise his game but at the same time anthony davidson is uh on a charge
58:1213 seconds behind kobayashi you know that porsche was flying right and then it gets a slow puncture
58:21so anything can happen you've got to think we've got 10 hours and four minutes still to go so there's
58:27all sorts can still go on in in this race and we've just seen that the seven hour that's coming through
58:34the fortune now that just the previous lap had a moment where it had a it clicked the curb and ran wide
58:39and then a bit of a slide on heading towards the wall corrected it all it can so easily change and
58:47there's still a huge amount of laps we've done 218 laps
58:54and uh what was that what was did i have somewhere last year's winning amount of laps i can't remember
59:02what it was now but uh we are over the halfway mark we've got 10 hours to go
59:09so there's still another 150 odd laps to do so we are by far and leap is now starting to press on
59:24he's under a minute now i know it's still a lot but when he was a minute and seven or something behind
59:30he's uh but you look at his last laps his last laps aren't there so i'm not really understanding how
59:36that gap's come down but uh yeah we we've not been talking about about the number eight car of course
59:42we're seeing it come into pits and everything but he's been he's had a very quiet race de grassy's in
59:48the number eight car just now he's just there waiting to pick up the pieces just lapping away on his own a lap
59:56behind no stress a couple of laps behind i think isn't he
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