#91 stays third and #52 and #92 have gained on the undercut. We welcome Alice Powell to the broadcast booth. Ferrari #54 in the lane as Giancarlo Fisichella gets out. Additionally, we also welcome Jamie Chadwick. These two ladies will be a part of the FIA WEC rookie test tomorrow in prototypes. They've both run production based cars in endurance racing. Jamie Chadwick will test with the #1 Richard Mille Racing Team. Miguel Molina has pitted from third place. Meanwhile, as we have talked about with Michelle Gatting, women are really being given lots of opportunity to race especially in sports car racing and Alice Powell echoes those sentinments.
Christian Ried says his triple stint was a good one. He has just run a triple stint in a closed cockpit GT car. He is amazingly fit at age 50 and has the enthusiasm and the stamina of a 20 year old rookie. The #47 Cetilar Racing Ferrari is into the lane now too. Drive through penalty for the #38 Jota Sport car in LMP2. Sounds like it could have been for speeding in the pit lane. The skies are beginning to darken althougb we see there is still sunset. As drivers who look to continue their careers, sports cars and touring cars are two of the championships that you can run. Alice Powell has been out of the racing series as someone's rattle gun has detached itself from the air hose! Yikes! GTE-Am leader in the pit lane. Race leader and championship leader, Francois Perrodo, or, maybe that is Alessio Rovera, as Egidio Perfetti takes the GTE-Am lead. Jamie Chadwick says that with the Richard Mille car, too, she and Alice Powell will have an hour and a half to drive the car, each, tomorrow.
Jamie Chadwick and Alice Powell raced in an Aston Martin at the Nurburgring. Le Mans will be on the radar for both of them as well. Opportunities abound for women in motorsport in this current time. We wish both Alice Powell and Jamie Chadwick well in the test session tomorrow. Meantime, Axcil Jeffries has spun out in the #88 Dempsey Porton Porsche, ah, a tandem rotation, look, as he lunged down the inside of the #98 Aston Martin. That was Marcos Gomes running sixth. Francois Perrodo has had quite the stint and is probably knackered.
If this car does not move, we could see Full Course Yellow/Safety Car. Waved yellows at turn one and the car has not moved. What will this do to pit strategy? That is what we need to find out. Alessio Rovera is now running ahead of Takeshi Kimura in GTE-Am. We will go Full Course Yellow. No lights. The lights went out. Now, Frits van Eerd is next into the #29 Racing Team Nederland car. 20 seconds to Full Course Yellow. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Full Course Yellow. RealTeam are in the lane now with Norman Nato, In replay, Axcil Jeffries catches the Aston Martin and both cars spun. That car of Jeffries is in need of a tow.
Now then, Porsche #91 is back in the pit lane. They had a seven lap stint. AF Corse will pit but we don't know which car will come in. Molina in #52, the Spaniard, he might need the fuel. Roll the dice. #70 has pitted and here comes the #31 WRT LMP2 car as well, look. Driver change. #28 and #22 will pit soon. Ferdinand Habsburg is back into the race. External assistance for the #88 Porsche means they are out of this motor race. That's a retirement as WRT is going to gain half a lap. We have gone back to green flag racing after the #56 Porsche has pitted. WRT and Ferdinand Habsburg have run 99 laps so far ahead of Sean Gelael and Fabio Scherer who runs ahead of Roberto Gonzalez, Frits van Eerd, and Esteban Garcia.
Frits van Eerd is being caught by the two cars that are running nose to tail for the GTE-Pro championship battle. Five fastest race laps on the most recent lap. Lots of fastest laps in GTE Am. It is nighttime and it is cooling down. Cooler is a relative tuerm. Meantime, thud, the Porsche slams the LMP2 car in the back. Frits van Eerd outbrakes himself there and has to regroup. Double jeopardy there, look. We've run almost three and a half hours and so we should be at halfway shortly. Toyota Gazoo Racing run 1-2 in the overall. So you have missed absolutely nothing at the sharp end.
We will miss both Anthony Davidson and Kazuki Nakajima who are both retiring at the end of this motor race today. We have seen them both in Formula 1 and in World Endurance Championship racing. Soon we will have another Full Course Yellow and we have it now at four and a half hours with debris on the road where drivers are told to bear left. Dear me, those marshals are doing their best when the cars are still running around at 80 kilometers per hour, 50 miles an hour. We are joined by another Richard Mille rookie driver. Her name is Lilou, from the Alpine Series, to an LMP2 car. Giorgio Serngiotto pigs the #47 Cetilar Ferrari.
#92 Porsche and #51 AF Corse Ferrari are in the pit lane for scheduled service and it is a battle of the pit crews with the advantage going to Ferrari I believe. Welcome to the FIA World Endurance Championship, Lilou. #51 does get ahead of #92. Both Toyota's are the in the lane and a driver change for both fo those cars. #7 overshot the pit box and had to be pulled back. #7 just needs to finish the motor race. Green flag. The Porsche and Ferrari battle is pushing on, steaming along nicely. We have another rookie in the booth who will drive the winning GTE-Pro car tomorrow whoever that is. We ust find out this driver's name.
Neel Jani in the meantime, says that the near argy bargy with the #29, was driving too slowly and erratically at the same time, losing-2-3 seconds a lap. At dusk, Porsche can increase their pace. They hope having three drivers is a benefit. It is really scrabbly stuff in GTE-Pro after all the political wrangling we have seen. In the meantime, Lorents Horr, coming in from LMP3 in the European Le Mans Series, he will be able to drive in GTE and again, we will know who he drives for depending on which car and team wins this motor race. Lorents Horr ran in the Asian and European Le Mans Series championships.
Lorents Horr, too, has been in an LMP2 car too. Horr could end up winning a title and getting to drive in LMP2 for 2022 including at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Lorents Horr promotes himself as a driver and does not have a manager right now. It is more difficult for a driver to show themselves in a spec car where the cars are very much equal. Ferdinand Habsburg leads LMP2. The LMP3 cars are more difficult to get pace out of than the LMP2 cars are. It is easy to find pace in LMP2 and in GTE. James Calado continues to lead GTE Pro. Giorgio Sernagiotto is now in the GTE-Am lead. Opportunities are opening up for young drivers in the sports car racing world right now.
Khaled al Qubaisi is having his wrist bandaged up. Maybe he felt something in the steering wheel, a bit of whiplash to the wrists. Excuse me. That was Axcil Jeffries. That car is out. Game over. Khaled al Qubaisi will not win today, but his daughters have successful karting and junior single seater careers. At the moment, Ferrari could win both titles in GTE-Pro. 15 minutes from now we will reach halfway. This race is getting spicy and we will see how things turn out in the second half. At the yellow end of the paint palette, we see Alex Brundle racing against Frits van Eerd I believe. We will see Inter Europol running two cars in LMP2 and two in LMP3. The two LMP2's will be split between here in World Endurance, and in the European Le Mans Series.
Dempsey Proton #77 is the sole remaining car for the team as Jaxon Evans leads the #57 Kessel Racing Ferrari of Takeshi Kimura. The ACO ladder includes Le Mans Cup, European Le Mans Series, and the FIA World Endurance Champioship. Ferdinand Habsburg still leads LMP2. Jota Sport, United Autosport and Jota Sport (sister car) are next in the order. Esteban Garcia in the #70 RealTeam Racing car is still on the prowl as well to try and catch the leading LMP2 class car. Esteban Garcia is having a stormer of a stint. James Calado leads Michael Christensen in GTE-Pro while in GTE-Am, Giorgio Sernagiotto leads Alessio Rovera.
Ricardo Pera and Dylan Pereira are next in the serial. The illumination of the track here at Bahrain is amazing. The Nurburgring and Le Mans are a lot darker than in Bahrain. Toyota #8 is growing a gap on the #7 car. #7 does not need to catch up too greatly. 18+ seconds is the margin. Alpine are coming back, in tenth place, even though they are laps down. One minute penalty for the #56 Team Project 1 Porsche of Ricardo Pera for putting a marshal in danger. A battle for positon. Porsche #91 will have a ten second pit lane penalty, so they will not be able to contend for the victory here. Michael Christensen asks what tires Ferrari have.
Keep him behind. Richard Lietz in the #91 Porsche, had trouble with the driver's door as Fred Makowiecki took over the car. Drivers wearing their racing gloves, you cannot put the seatbelts oj with then racing gloves on. Was Porsche rushing their pit stops? That's unfortunate and clumsy especially for a company like Porsche. Christensen is being harried by Serra. Porsche are having a tough old time of it tryin got get around those Ferrari's as the #56 car serves the penalty for causing a collision with a track marshal.
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