Feeling your way around the curves at tracks like Silverstone is the way to go. Some drivers are speeding under yellow., Sam Bird goes wide and gets some help from the Rebellion machine at Copse! Ker-runch! Mathias Beche at the wheel of the Rebellion team entry. The Oreca has some damage to it for sure. Alex Lynn in the G-Drive cars has dropped back in the order. Nelson Piquet Jr. is set to get into the Rebellion car. He will run the first three races in WEC with them. He has lots of experience between Formula 1, sports cars, rallycross, and NASCAR trucks. Blue skies ovwerhead, as the Toyota crashed by Jose Maria Lopez is still being worked on. Ooh! Harry Tincknell is the king of the late brakers to get by the Porsche! Good racing in LM GTE Pro. Fred Makowiecki at the wheel of the factory Porsche.
Ford runs first and third in LM GTE Pro. Tincknell is less than two seconds behind the Ferrari of James Calado. Kevin Estre is the only car out of the race. So, 26 of 27 still running. Kazuki Nakajima leads Earl Bamber in the overall. Bamber has added incentive to close the gap on Nakajima. 3.38 seconds the gap between first and second with an hour and 45 minutes remaining. Matt Rao is trying to hold off Matthieu Vaxiviere. Bruno Senna is third in LMP2. Two Frenchmen lead LMP2 and now, the Ford GT's are 1-2 in LM GTE Pro. Put the dollies under the #13 and put it in the garage to have a good, hard look at the problem.
One of the Signatech Alpine cars is in the lane and so is Ford #66 as another Prototype with Ricardo Gonzalez at the controls, spun, and crossed the track. That's very dangerous. Thomas Laurent at 19 years old, is the youngest driver in this field. Bruno Senna still leads LMP2, as Sam Bird gets a penalty for contact, for 15 seconds. That's odd. Let the chap you are racing turn in. Andre Lotterer pits and there will be a driver change. Brendon Hartley is back in the car. Cbeck that. Nick Tandy is now in the car. Some agricultural racing for Tor Graves in the Manor entry. Yikes! Nakajima in the lane in the Toyota. He will stay in the car.
Just over an hour and a half remains in this race. The leaders will be in pit lane shortly, for one more stop before the checkered flag flies this afternoon. Nakajima now runs 51 seconds behind Bamber. Matt Rao leads veteran Emmanuelle Collard in LMP2. Collard will start his 23rd consecutive 24 Hours of Le Mans this year. Major dicing between Rao and Collard. This is great racing in LMP2. The LM GTE Am Clearwater Racing Ferrari is in the way, and now, Kazuki Nakajima has to clear the traffic. He can't lollygag. He has to go, now. The gap between Bamber and Nakajima is now 53.5 seconds. Bamber is ahead by a country mile. Ah. Crewman on the radio says "box now".
We've run 148 laps (542 miles). Porsche run second and third, seventeen seconds behind Kazuki Nakajima. Ford GT #67 in the lane. Harry Tincknell stays in the car. Fred Makowiecki leads LM GTE Pro and Porsche is down to one bullet in the gun after Kevin Estre's fire. Brendon Hartley could double stint tires to the finish, or, he may need to take new ones. Well, Kazuki Nakajima and Toyota could need to take tires. There are two joker tires that could be used through the season and maybe some teams have already used one of their joker tires here at Silverstone because of the cornering loads. The LMP2 cars are so much quicker than they used to be.
We see a lot more aerodynamic rake in these cars. Moments ago, Toyota #7 rolled back into the race. Did they get the repairs done in time to salvage a classified finish? They may hit the 70% mark and can finish. Mike Conway at the controls. Jose Maria Lopez was taken to the hospital. Roberto Gonzalez is racing here this weekend, not his brother Ricardo who ran last year and in the past. Will Kazuki Nakajima double stint the tires? The shark fin on the back of the car, will be banned next year. Stand by as we get set to enter the final hour of racing here at Silverstone. Fox Sports' commentators Bob Varsha and Calvin Fish, mentioned the British Racing Drivers Club, headquartered at Silverstone. Do we have an American Racing Drivers Club? In a way we do. It is called the Road Racing Drivers Club. But, there ought to be a famous speedway in the states, that honors them.
Nakajima leads Hartley and Tandy in the overall. Check out the Road Racing Driver's Club website. www.safeisfast.com. Pedro Lamy will take over the GTE Am leading Aston Martin which is now in the lane. Lamy has been around for a long, long time. Pedro Lamy started in Formula 1 driving for Lotus in the early 1990s, and for Minardi in 1994.
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