Just under 19 hours to go. Michael Christensen is up to eleventh place. Again, we saw Michael Christensen with a drive through penalty for the #47 Porsche. Drive through penalty for track limits for the #11 Team Parker Bentley. The margins are very close. 24 seconds covering the top six. 119 laps on the board. 518 miles. #555, Florian Latorre, dinged for track limits. That is the Orange 1 FFF Lamborghini Am entry. Florian Latorre of France, Hugo Chevalier of France, Taylor Proto from England and Belgian driver, Baptiste Moulin. Timur Boguslavskiy, has listened to his full iPod playlist, read a book, and done a whole book of crossword puzzles and he has not even been in the car for a stint yet.
Earl Bamber was braving it out through Speaker's corner trying to pass one of the Mercedes cars. A Mercedes at the back of that queue has damage, and it may be Michele Beretta in the #5 car. Earl Bamber is working his way forward. The Kiwi is a former Le Mans winner for Porsche i the days of the 919 Hybrid LMP1 prototype. Earl Bamber is chipping away at Niklas Nielsen. He started 19th ad is up to sixth. Rodrigo Baptista started 55th and is up to 31st. 56th to 19th for the HubAuto Corsa Ferrari, Tom Blomqvist now at the controls.
Vincent Abril from eighth and Jorg Bergmeister i tenth, both get penalties for track limits. KCMG will claw their way back. That's the #4 HRT Mercedes Abril shares with Luca Stolz and Maro Engel. #22 is the Frikadeli Racing Team Porsche, Jorg Bergmeister of Germany, sharing with Fred Makowiecki and Dennis Olsen. Earl Bamber is catching Nicklas Nielsen and in turn, Nielsen is catching Patrick Pilet. Lamborghini #63 leads the motor race by 6.4 seconds. Kelvin van der Linde in the lane for service. Off the road is Remon Vos in the #74 Ram Racing Mercedes at La Source. Fire the car up, reverse onto the road, and continue. He just loses it under braking, and whacks the wall, slightly.
Porsche #98 in the pit lane. Stavelot is now the Curve Paul Frere. Honda #29 and Ferrari #93 are in and so is the leader, Andrea Caldarelli. He will do another stint. Remon Vos is still stranded. He does not have any power. It's in a dangerous spot at La Source and he's been there for a lap or so. McLaren #69 is way down in 52nd spot. Poor old Ollie Wilkinson is pulling his hair out. Mercedes #88 in the lane for service. Patrick Niederhauser back into the #66 Audi. All three drivers have gone through. Fraga will stay in the car, it seems. Fraga continues. Timor Boguslavskiy can read another chapter of a book as he is not needed to drive yet.
WRT are catching Orange 1 FFF. Track conditions are always changing. Drive through penalty for Kelvin van der Linde for track limits. This will put Van der Linde behind the eight ball. Felipe Fraga will move up to third. He will be up to second now. Andrea Caldarelli leads this race. No late lunges even though Fraga is in the pound seats. 128 laps completed. 557 miles. Fraga is all over Van der Linde like a cheap suit. Van der Linde is in Fraga's clutches. Van der Linde stays out. He'd best get to the lane to serve the penalty. When do you serve the penalty? You get just three laps before the marshals and race direction stops scoring you.
Patrick Pilet passes Patrick Niederhauser. Ezequiel Perez-Companc, Dennis Olsen, Rob Collard, Dirk Werner, and Romano Ricci all battle. Christophe Cresp is off the road at Piff Paff, at Stavelot corner. The Frenchman is facing the wrong way. Earl Bamber is catching Nicklas Nielsen in the #51 AF Corse Ferrari. Vincent Abril is serving his penalty for track limits and here comes Kelvin van der Linde for the walk of shame down the pit lane. Caldarelli leads by two seconds as the sister Rowe Racing Porsche is coming. Remon Vos did get moving again but is in the pit lane for service, having lost eight laps.
Dirk Werner was fighting hard with Davide Rigon. Fraga is now second, 1.9 seconds from Fraga behind Caldarelli. Maxime Soulet runs 14th in the first K-PAX Bentley. Abril serves his drive through penalty. Maxime Soulet chasing Davide Rigon who is chasing Dirk Werner through Les Combes. Thomas Preining has dropped to 15th spot and he could have had a drive through penalty. Maxime Soulet has to gain another second or so. Soulet motors toward Blanchimont. 132 laps on the board as Andrea Caldarelli is being caught back up by Felipe Fraga. 132 laps, 574 miles. The Remon Vos Mercedes is out. There is a lot of underbody damage. Game over for Vos/Onslow-Cole/Macleod/Konrad.
Patrick Kujala has resumed leading the Silver Cup ahead of Sergey Afanasiev and Alex Fontana. Felipe Fraga is the new leader. Fraga leads Caldarelli. A whole clump of traffic as we have battles way down in 25th and 26th and we have the race leaders coming through. Caldarelli is flying. He won at Donington Park in British GT earlier this year. Earl Bamber has moved up, or tried to. But he is losing ground through the traffic to Nicklas Nielsen. Maxime Martin now leads Pro Am after Giancarlo Fisichella and Rob Collard. Giancarlo Fisichella second in Pro Am chasing after Maxime Martin.
Fisichella sharing with Eddie Cheever III., Jonathan Hui, and Chris Froggatt. Ferrari #52 given a drive through for track limits, Italian Andrea Bertolini, at the controls. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, Full Course Yellow.
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