Matthieu Jaminet is all over Earl Bamber. Augusto Farfus is still at the wheel of the #42 Schnitzer BMW as they've made a pit stop. Earl Bamber is hitting the sausage curbs. There's sausage curb's everywhere, so drivers know to respect track limits. Jaminet makes a move on Earl Bamber. Earl Bamber is not racing as well as he could be, the New Zealander, who now calls Malaysia home. n ignition coil on the third cylinder was damaged on the GruppeM Mercedes. What a shame! It's a simple, cheap piece, that happens to fail. The race leading Bentley is in the lane. 35 laps for the Bentley on the latest stint. Maxime Soulet will take over from Pepper. Mercedes #10, Yelmer Buurman at the wheel of it, is steaming along, catching up. The Porsche's are likely to double stint their tires. Porsche will come back to their natural habitat, soon.
Only two mechanics change tires in IGTC. It's tough work in the heat in the pit lane. Edoardo Liberati has gained spots due to a short stop. Maxime Soulet will run ahead of the Nissan, but Liberati wants him. Liberati's tires are older, and have more wear. Christopher Mies is pressing Richard Lietz forthe lead of this race! Mies is pressing hard on Lietz headed for pit stops, and out of Leeukop, they dive through Crocodile. Both blokes will be in the lane, and Christopher Haase will; take over Audi #1. No pit stops for the Porsche's. They will do one more lap. Earl Bamber bails to the lane and Matty Campbell will take over. So, our guesses were incorrect. Mies has done a greast job. #9 and #911 are in the lane, too. Lietz and Jaminet will be in next time around.
Stradale Motorsport is the #13 Lamborghini Huracan GT3. The Schnitzer BMW goes by Matt Campbell, and Campbell gives up a spot to Augusto Farfus. Now, in the Lambo #13, it's a South African trio. Charl Arangies, sharing with Craig Jarvis and Dawie Joubert. Those are the blokes driving #13, in case you wanted to know. Both Porsche's now in the lane, Lietz followed by Jaminet, now on lap 74. Yelmer Buurman moves ahead of Matt Campbell! Yikes! This is for the championship! A tire stop for the #20 Porsche, and for the #31, a long stop for tires it seems. It's the right thing todo. Richard Lietz stayed at the wheel of #20. Nick Tandy takes Matthieu Jaminet's place in the #31 Frikadelli Porsche.
Christopher Haase has taken over from Christopher Mies in the #29 Land Motorsport Audi. Maxime Soulet runs third with Edoardo Liberati in the #18 Nissan GT-R in fourth overall. Bentley are in the pound seats at the moment. Richard Lietz leads this motor race by 22 seconds. Tandy is behind by a minute, actually. We have a cloud base beginning to roll in. It's 3:15 P.M. Rain may come, but let's wait an hour. Make hay, while the sun still shines, chaps. That's what you've got to do. Josh Burdon has uncorked two absolute best sector times! Holy cow! Kelvin van der Linde is in trouble, as the pit stop length has been reported to the stewards, including the South African local stewards John Walsh and Craig Masters.
Kelvin van der Linde is chasing Edoardo Liberati. Meantime, Yelmer Buurmn is doing the same for Augusto Farfus. He's monstering the Brazilian in the BMW. red Vervisch is now the leader of the points championship, by four markers as they run now. We'll see what happens. Matt Campbell is still struggling. He's 51.9 seconds away from th GPX Porsche in the lead of the motor race as Farfus is still defending over Buurman out of Barbecue Bend and into Sunset. Silvio Scribante is at the wheel of the #09 Perfect Circle Porsche at the moment. Richard Lietz continues to lead the motor race, and Maxime Soulet is slower on new tires! Good grief! That's really strange. Two different drivers may be the factor. I wonder what the engineers at Pirelli tires think.
On the Schnitzer BMW, it says "Godspeed Charlie", for the late Charlie Lamm, who led Schnitzer to tons of championships in GT and touring car racing as well as one win at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, two decades ago. The track conditions here at Kyalami are perfect at the moment. Lietz is being pursued by Tandy, but the gap isn't closing too much. New tires for Christopher Haase and Tristan Vautier, as Haase is doing the chasing. Again, it's the gazelle being chased by the leopard or the cheetah.
The local South African Ferrari is in the way, again. He had to bail, for the factory cars. Up through to Barbeque Bend again, and we work lap 83. 236.5 miles in the book, through Clubhouse, and into the esses. Christopher Haase has tons of wins in GT cars, and in endurance races. Yelmer Buurman is still stuck in the middle, between Matt Campbell and Augusto Farfus. Of the 28 starters, 25 cars are still running. The Garage 59 Aston Martin has retired along with the GruppeM Mercedes and the Honda from Honda Team Motul. Christopher Haase is under investigation for something on the pit stop.
The #188 Aston Martin is still in the garage. It is being repaired. It'll go back out, with a new gearbox as it has to be shipped to Australia, to Bathurst, for round one of the 2020 Intercontinental GT Challenge when the new season comes, in February. The Mercedes does not seem to have a performance reply to the BMW. Strange. Yelmer Buurman wants to do it, but Augusto Farfus slams the door directly in his face. Farfus has been a successful touring car driver, and has those skills to fend off Buurman. Christopher Haase is chasing Tristan Vautier. He tries down the inside, but discretion is the better part of valor indeed.
Vautier is stuck behind Liberati through Ingwe. Unlucky #13, as the Lamborghini is off the road. Dawie Joubert at the controls. That car is going to have to come back. But, because of this, we now have a Full Course Yellow. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Full Course Yellow, now. The Lamborghini has hit a concrete barrier at Mine Shaft, and he skidded across the road to the other barrier. So, the only Lamborghini in this motor race is out. Game over, mate. Now, we have the GPX Porsche and also the #62 R-Motorsport Aston Martin Vantage in the lane. Ricky Collrd, Hugo de Sadeleer, and Marvin Kirchhoefer re the trio. Michel Christensen is in, and so is everyone else. Better to be born lucky than rich here.
Aston Martin, back on track, and more cars pour into the pit lane. Virtually everyone is in for a splash and dash to top up the tanks. Six hours and 20 minutes left on the board. Sven Mueller, Christopher Haase, Yelmer Buurman, Sheldon van der Linde, and others, have pitted. Sheldon van der Linde has taken over the #42 from Augusto Farfus. #25 will be given a time penalty on it's next pit stop. That's the WRT car for Dries Vanthoor, Kelvin van der Linde, and Freddie Vervisch. The Lamborghini is still being snatched by the safety workers. Dawie Joubert came from the inside across, and crunch! He hit the wall hard!
How he got out to th left side nof the road, into the clag, we don't know. Maybe it was a driver error. The safety car will pick up the field. We remain under Full Course Yellow, until he picks up the leader of the motor race, the GPX Porsche. The safety car is also a Porsche 911 GT3RS. So, it too, is fast. Christopher Haase has dropped to 11th overall and the #25 is tenth but will lose spots after the penalty. The road car Porsche looks puny compared to the GT3 race car. The Ferrari must go quicker at the head of the queu. Ferrari driver, please speed up! Even the safety car is being held up. Get the egg out from under your foot, sunshine.
Get with the program, buster. Pick up the pace, please! Maybe the radio is dead and the driver can't hear. Their teams have said, go by this bloke, and finally, the Ferrari driver nails it and goes faster. The #44 Mercedes has one backmarker between it and the leader. Nick Tandy has gained in a massive way. He's gained six spots, look! Holy moly! Tandy is going to go for it. With the pit stops, the next calculations for future stops, have been thrown out the window, working lap 93. 265 miles completed. Jake Dennis in the #76 Aston Martin for R-Motorsport has been lapped. Dennis sharing with Maxime Martin and Enaam Ahmed.
Safety car in this lap. We will go racing this time around. Matt Campbell might just be champion, but the points margin are really close. Michael Christensen can now press the throttle, and we're going back to green. Green flag, now. What can Nick Tandy do? They go through Crowthorne, and the #44 Mercedes is off the road and there's contact with Nick Tandy! Tandy is damaged! Yikes! That was a messy bit of argy bargy through Barbecue! Michael Christensen is moving ahead followed by Christian Krognes and Matt Campbell. Off the road there, for Jake Dennis. Dennis is pushing, and so is everyone else.
Tandy will dive around the Aston and gets balked by the Dinamic Porsche. A drive through penalty for Christopher Haase. The car was not grounded at the pit stop. We've seen a drive through penalty for the #188 Aston Martin as well that just got out of the garage. Vauiter made a mess of things through Crowthorne. Christopher Haase will get a drive through penalty. Tandy has gained time back due to the FCY and the safety car. We are now working lap 97. Matt Campbell is backing up the cars behind him. Tandy is one of those. Tandy goes for third and makes the pass. Tandy looks to catch the BMW. Nick Tandy is now third. This helps Dennis Olsen for the title. The BMW is right on the money through the esses.
Krognes, down the Mine Shaft, chases Christensen. Krognes has good pace, the former Spa 24 Hours winner in 2018. GPX won Spa this year. New tires and no pace? That's strange.
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