Dramas for Rebellion #1. Neel Jani has tsken over from Bruno Senna. The left side door is loose. Rebellion has door problems for both cars, as Jose Maria Lopez pits. Lopez and Fernando Alonso are doing monster stints. Laurens Vanthoor is still in Porsche #92. Norman Nato is running slowly in the
#35 SMP car he shares with Harrison Newey and Viktor Shaytar of Russia. Alessadro Pier Guidi and Pippo Derani will be pitting soon. Ginetta #5 is still hanging in there, but there are problems for G-Drive, or not. Actually, that was a brake pad change. #5 will be nursed to the end, and Norman Nato in #35 is crawling around. LM GTE Pro pit stops are coming. Charlie Robertson and Ginetta are back in the garage.
They want to finish, but being a new car, it is definitely having teething issues. They had to treat this as a test session. The Mecachrome V6 is a new motor. It is a derivative of the Formula 2 engine. The motor is a port injection engine. #35 just left pit lane. Norman Nato was nursing the car, but there were no punctured tires. Alpine, Oreca, Dallara, Ligier, are all represented in LMP2. Rebellion #1in the lane, for a flat spotted tire aftera spin. Is there debris in the air intakes for Rebellion? Andrea Pizzitola leads LMP2. The Frenchman with an Italian name is going for it. We have a tire war in LMP2 between Michelin and Dunlop, and the Dunlop shod cars are running better than are the Michelin cars.
Kevin Estre takes over the #92 Porsche 911 RSR, blasting back into the motor race. Problems for Ben Keating at Marshal Post 20, Mulsanne Corner. We are heaed to another slow zone. Track temp rises just a bit to 22.2 Celsius, but with just a short time to go. Fernando Alonso will pit soon. Ben Keating has gotten his Ferrari going, and the #97 Aston Martin Vantage, in the hands of Alex Lynn is having issues. Alonso pits and Kazuki Nakajima will gets into the car. Fernando Alonso did a three hour plus stint. Windscreen tear off, done. Wheel spin in the air, could be a penalty. Silver rated drivers are maligned, but, they can be an asset to a team.
Kamui Kobayashi had a shorter pit stop but retained the lead. Andy Priaulx in Ford GT #67 is running very well. Norman Nato is running well. Andrea Pizzitola pits the #26 G-Drive carhanding over to Romain Rusinov. No victory for Signatech Alpine, but they will gain some points for the WEC. All the non-WEC cars will be subtracted from the points championship because they are either from IWSC, ELMS (European Le Mans Series), or ALMS (Asian Le Mans Series). A big penalty, for Antonio Giovinazzi.
Speeding in a slow zone, is a two minute penalty. Ford's #67 and #69 are in the lane and the garage. Harry Tincknell takes over from Andy Priaulx. Kazuki Nakajima will get a penalty for wheel spin. The #69 car has an electrical gremlin in it. Richard Westbrook loses spots to the AF Corse Ferrari's of Daniel Serra from Spain and Antonio Giovinazzi of Italy.
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