The LMP2 cars keep working their way through traffic. The #7 Toyota ended up with more than a turbo issue. They had a hole in the manifold! Wow! Toyota #8 leads Rebellion's #1 and #3. Interesting to see the graphic about the hybrid boost regenerating. Ferrari #75 for Iron Lynx is still in the garage. They have not retired that car yet. Thomas Flohr is preparing to go out for another stint in the #54 Ferrari. Alexander Lynn continues to lead LM GTE Pro, as we have had zero rain. The race was declared wet, but he we have not seen any. Pit stop time now for Ferrari #85. Manuela Gostner, Rahel Frey, and Michelle Gatting for the other Iron Lynx Ferrari. We follow the LM GTE Am leading #90 Aston Martin and a problem with stalling and heat soak for the #54 Ferrari 488 GTE. It is mandatory to switch the cars off. You have the option to leave the car running in the U.S. rules in IMSA. Giancarlo Fisichella gets back into the race.
The #88 Dempsey Proton Porsche has had a fraught event so far. That car has had a litany of woes, driving through the desert this whole race. They've been really unlucky. They were out for three hours and then came back. It feels so pointless if you retire. Paul Loup Chatin has the eighth spot in LMP2 as he moves past Alexandre Coigny. IDEC Sport vs. Cool Racing. The drivers could not complete their mandatory qualifying laps, but you have to start from the pit lane and starting from a lap down. Patrick Pilet in the sister car #17 sharing with Jonathan Kennard and Kyle Tilley. Christian Ried is in the #77 Dempsey Proton Porsche that has just pitted and the #1 Rebellion is in the lane. It is being put in the garage. It needs a bodywork repair.
It's bodywork and more. They are looking at the mounting points for the nose? That's what it appers to be. All hands on deck in the garage. A spin for the #60 Ferrari. That's the Iron Lynx car of Claudio Schiavoni, the Italian, app;lying the brakes spinning onto the curbs. They can't get the fasteners loosened up at Rebellion. Lots of bodywork damage for the #89 with a flailing tire doing big camage for Andreas Laskaratos. Rebellion #3 can get back on the same lap as the repairs are starting on Porsche #89 for Team Project 1's Am car.
The marshals are off toe recover debris, so, we have anoither slow zone as we watch in replay, Laskarato's tire delaminating fracas. Toyota #8 is five laps up on the #3 Rebellion, 295 laps on the board for our leader, and almost 2,500 miles. The stricken #1 Rebellion is back on track and they had enough of a gap over the sister car to not lost a spot, but the two Rebellion's are back on the same lap. Julien Canal locks the right front wheel. The circuit is a living, breathing, organism, and it is constantly evolving. The conditions are changing constantly.
The drivers are getting tired now, and so am I. We just have to get through another five and a half hours of this motor race. Sebastien Buemi moves back on track aboard the #8 Toyota. Brendon Hartley watching from the pit lane. Jan Magnussen has the wheel of the #92 JMW Ferrari sharing with young American drivers Max Root and Richard Heistand. The #35 LMP2 car spins. Now, Jan Magnussen is actually steaming along, chasing down Come Ledogar in another Ferrari. The gearshift blips the throttle to match the downshifts with the paddle shifters.
Don't artifically decelerate the car by loading it and spinning. There is a window of operation for the downshifts with the grip, and then the car is unloaded and the rear goes light and you end upon ye olde whirligig. Welcome back to the booth, Mr. Mark Cole. We also say farewell, for the time being, to Damien Faulkner. Breakfast calls at Le Mans. Intereuropol just spun the car, Jakub Smiechowski at the controls, the Polish driver. Yours truly is refreshing with a cola. Homemade cola = 1 part cola syrup, and 1 part club soda. Not sure it has enough caffeine for us endurance racing fanatics.
Emmanuel Collard has run 24 Le Mans races. Henri Pescarolo ran 33 of them. Collard will race the 24 Hours of the Nurburgring, next weekend. We hgave a pit stop for Cetilar. Emmanuel Collard will be 50 next year. Emmanuel Collard is the 1990 French Formula Renault champion. He has run Daytona and Le Mans. Francois Perrodo is a businessman, a chairman of a major oil company. He lives in London but is from Singapore. We haven't had any June fog here at Le Mans. September is the time of mellow mists, but, no fog and no rain. Dominique Bastien, again is the oldest driver in the race, and poor old Jakub Smiechowski is spinning again. One of the bollards is knocked over somewhere.
Now that the light is back, we will see more Am drivers get into the cars. Korris Chen is in the gravel, and he's beached it. It's at Marshal Pst five, out of the corner off the Dunlop bridge, sharing with Tom Blomqvist and Marcos Gomes from Brazil. Tom Blomqvist is British, and the son of rallying legend for Audi, Stig Blomqvist. Race Direcot Edoardo Freitas has been keeping everyone safe. We will go through the list of retirements, abandonments, in a wee while. We've gone past ten cars out of the motor race. Come Ledogar is in the Ferrari, one of them, and Jan Magnussen is in the #66 JMW Ferrari. He raced with Corvette for 16 years.
Tim Sugden, out of England drove sports cars and is now a team owner. Sugden was connected with Steve O'Rourke, the late Steve O'Rourke, manager of Pink Floyd. Steve drove race cars and he died years ago. Rest In Peace, Steve O'Rourke. AF Corse Ferrari #51 lost their lead in GTE Pro to Aston Martin, after having brake issues, as Morris Chen trundles back to the pits. White flags will be raised. Keep it well over to driver's right, Morris and don't go to the middle of the road. The #91 Porsche, Gianmaria Bruni at the controls, will hand the car over to one of hisco-drivers. They've had a fraught race, and are sixth in class after starting on pole.;
Nicolas Minassian says he is happy that the hard work they've done has paid off. They need to look for the good, somewhere. Patrick Pilet is running really well a d so is Paul Loup Chatin. Guenelle, the Eurosport pit reporter, is Patrick Pilet's wife. How interesting. Paul Di Resta is at the wheel of the #22 United Autosport car and Roberto Gonzalez is at the wheel of the #38 Jota Sport car. Signatech Alpine are on the comeback trail and well within the points here at Le Mans. Tenth overall, and sixth in LMP2. The Alpine is mkaing a great recovery. They wanted a hat trick, but not this year. It is hard to tell. They might go ahead and try to push. But we shall see.
The #32 United Autosport car is back out and their two cars have had their issues even though the #22 is leading in class. Will Own has done great, and they wer hampered, unfortunately, by an oil leak. LMP2 has been a barn burner here at Le Mans as Rebllion pits. Nathaniel Berthon brings in the #3.
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