6 Hours of Monza: Full race replay

[Music] hello good morning and welcome to sunday worship we are at the temple of speed for the third round in the fia world endurance championship with the autodromo nazinali di monza and if those words alone don't send a shiver up your spine would you please seek urgent medical attention hello everybody and welcome to our coverage of round three of the championship from monza and welcome back to fans at a world endurance race for the first time in 18 months nearly martin haven graham goodwin and alan mcnish in the booth and alan this is another one of those classic tracks that drivers just look at the calendar and go oh yes please every time you drive into monza you just can't help but smile the circuit's got so much history it's got so much tradition it's got such a challenge in the corners and it's so reminiscent to what it was right back when it begins but uh right now we are at monza it's the third race of the complete season martin we've had spyware tomorrow and now we're here at monza before we go to the next one being the 24 hour and historically it would have been the thousand kilometers of silverstone or the six hours which would have been the big shakedown for lemon because it was a suitably long fast circuit and monza is going to do exactly that of course there are championship points there's the glory of winning in monza if you win at monza and say so everybody knows the name of the circuit don't they so that's you know a feather in your cap and for teams and drivers there's battles to be fought with teammates with rivals for points for the end of the season but you're right the the duel in the crown of all endurance racing is the 24 hours in lebanon and this is where it begins to get serious this is where testing really really starts to play out long race long endurance testing has already been done by a lot of the teams and manufacturers the testing is testing and and racing is something entirely different it teaches you a huge amount it certainly does here you've got three sectors on the circuit all of them quite similar in reality because they've got long wide open throttle flat flat out sections with varying lengths of minimal corners there is only six corners on the circuit however each one is a real challenge you've got the two chicanes at the beginning of the lap then you've got the lesmo corners at the top of the circuit and then you come through to variant scary which is a really tricky left right left and we've seen a few incidents there in practicing qualifying and then curve parabolica the last corner which is a long long right-hander leading on to the big straight you need to have good car balance here because the drivers need to have confidence and with such a high average speed straight line speed as well as corner speeds then it really you have to trust what's underneath you part of the issue that they're going to have this weekend is that everybody is using low downforce low drag kits for them on and so high track temperatures could see with with lower aero grip could see tyre degradation being maybe more of a fact here in ponte but look at the tarmac allen it's very pale yesterday in qualifying air temperature was 30 degrees track temperature was only 46 i mean it wasn't 60 degrees like it would be on a really dark black tarmac no but the other thing for grip in this section here is we see uh france or the perroto's car that qualified second overall yesterday because then had a penalty and he's starting right at the back of the grid when you actually have these big long straights you need to increase the minimum tire pressure due to the fact the tire is turning we're doing 200 miles per hour at the end of the straights here and so the centrifugal force and that means that you actually lose mechanical grip so you've lost aerodynamic grips you need to be fast down the streets get rid of that downforce but at the same time you lose mechanical grip from the tire as well so that's going to be a real struggle when we start to talk about the second stint on the tire gram where they've got a limited number but that second stint i think is going to be absolutely critical especially in the gte pro and also in the lmp2 battles a very different circuit indeed in the afternoon everybody and it is scorching out there 32 degrees at the moment and still climbing we saw didn't we on a very different track at portimao extreme degradation on those tyres here alan though different sort of challenge they've got to stretch the envelope as best they possibly can here fuel is going to be an issue as well for all of these cars the gt cars if this stays green they'll be will not be able to keep to a full hours running the cars because there's so much full throttle here number 18 that number 47 we just saw coming around there they settled our car one of a number that's been in trouble here it's gonna be busy i can't see this race running cold green uh throughout i think we can have a very busy racetrack yeah you always have some incidents and things like that and you said about wide open throttle you're about 70 flat out and so therefore that just consumes so much energy at the same time with the slow corners at the beginning of the lap the chicanes and you stop the car and then you have to accelerate all that weight and momentum to get back up to top speed again and so you're right fuel economy is going to be one of the factors juan pablo montoya he actually understands very well how to do that from racing in america and so i would think the experience of some of these drivers actually could come into play as well as the strategy from the teams themselves and that's the other thing isn't it because we've never been here before the f5 world endurance championship there are a number of teams and drivers that have little or no experience in these cars here and that's going to come into play as well and it is worth saying that that sentence again the world endurance championship since 2012 has never raced at monte it seems almost impossible that that could be the case because it's monster spa silverstone they're such classic european endurance race venues but with a relatively limited number of races that you can run globally it just hasn't been possible to come here thankfully this year for reasons that of course we all understand we are here and the cars are on the grid what about temperatures there's actually quite a lot more cloud cover than i was expecting it would kind of think it might be really bright blue and scorchio will that cloud cover help with cockpit temperatures and is that going to be an issue for the gt cars particularly because of course these closed cockpit cars do have temperature monitors inside and you're not allowed to exceed a certain delta above the ambient air temperature and the ambient air temperature being high with the cloud cover stopping the cars maybe heating up quite so much from the sun that gives them just another degree or two of margin and sometimes that might be enough it might be enough but to mean anything above 32 is going to be pretty darn steamy anyway isn't it uh cars certainly getting to the grid here they're going to be warm it's going to be very hot you're going to see some very hot drivers coming out of these cars here's the number 56 car ego perfetti the man behind this effort from team project one and he's the family owned company that uh owns amongst things the mentos brand that's uh adorning this car yeah mentos chubby chops and a whole bunch of other um mint sweet combustibles indeed things that your parents say you can't be having those um obviously we have plenty but uh former champion as well and and in terms of being a gentleman driver we talked during qualifying about judo perferting about ben keating and some of you know some of the gentlemen drivers in these cars are real stars i mean they are really really bringing their game up there's the 47 chatela car that's our championship leader after the first two rounds of the season they of course is number 54 car in second place tf sport in third spot with the car that is actually next to them on the grids and you know we go to le mans double points for le mans we'll go then to rounds five and six which will be a double header weekend or two weeks in a row not the double header weekend that would really be quite endurance uh in bahrain towards the end of the year and there'll be points for the first race some points and a half in the second race there's a lot of points still an offer here more than half the season's points up for grabs ben keating our pole man in gte am shares with uh fortune mobile one super cup ace dylan pereira and the tf sport team on the top of the pile in qualifying it was a it was a good qualifying battle as well in the gtm it was a great qualifying battle uh unfortunately these there's been a change post session we'll talk about that when we get a chance to have a look at the number 83 car and a potential wrinkle in their plans not just because of a changing grid position for the 83 but also the fact they're going to have to start alicia rivera and not transport proto good look there at two of the six drivers here for the clicking house skidaria clamp current clicking house the first ever occasion we're gonna be able to see two of those cars starting as the band fires up it is time for the italian national anthem in a few minutes well let's get down to the grid with our pit reporter louise beckett an italian racing in monza in a ferrari that is peak italian let's hear from alessandro pierguidi alessandro here greedy qualifying the 51 ferrari in p2 you're going to be doing everything you can to hunt that porsche down especially here in monza yes of course we will try our best to monsters will be very special should be very special uh for us his first time in italy for the wc and racing with ferrari is always something special and even more this time we have some spectators so there is the fun again so we will we will do everything we can and let's see six hours long we need to do everything perfect like always if not you can win this kind of race and it is a big one for ferrari you're going to be leading a pack of 10 ferraris competing here today as you say in front of this limited but we've still got a crowd it's great yeah it's very great that what 10 cars here is a big success profiler i think and show how is the car is good and everyone wants to drive for us so i'm very lucky to do to be a factory driver and drive a pro car thanks very much thank you well let's talk a little bit graeme before we get to the sharp end of the grid about the future and about ferrari's plans because this is all part of the driving force of aligning the rules on both sides atlantic basically european rules based around le mans and the american insert regulations ferrari wants to go hypercar and ferrari wants to race in europe around the world and in america in the imsa series and you know when you've got a manufacturer with that kind of emotional clout looking for convergence in the hypercar rules that's the sort of thing that drives it across the line absolutely and you know ferrari coming the peugeot has been here this weekend already ferrari coming audi coming porsche coming all sorts of other names around the world bmw are coming gm are coming honda are coming and here this weekend we've spotted lots of people with lamborghini um badges on their on their shirts they're likely to be coming at some point too this is a fantastic time to be part of what is going to be a very rapidly growing family of sports car racing fans and these are the green shoots of that with lots of established and young talent that are going to be coming in and competing for what is going to be a vastly increased crop of factory and factory supported uh driver postings and here's two guys that will be hoping to be part of that james collado and alessandro pier greedy already world champions remember absolutely wc world drivers champions in the wc and they are going to be hoping that they're going to get the nod in what we now know by the way is going to be an af quarter run ferrari factory team in hypercar from 2023 and you mentioned as well there the absolutely extremely fantastic news that we've now got full convergence that means that all the cars that we're going to be seeing in the wec whether or not they beat the le mans hypercar versions that we've already got in the wc all the lmdh cars that will be coming along in 23 but now imsa's weathertech sports car championship will accept both as well that opens up huge opportunities both for factory teams and for what we expect to be a slew of uh private privately funded hyper car teams in both both championships and also being able to do a bit of a pick and mix yeah and and everybody's rubbing their hands with glee going it's group c again isn't it and it and it's not but it was that sort of global acceptance of one set of sports car regulations that made group c such a huge success you can do the daytona 24 as you can do sebring 12 you can do lemon 24 hours you can race in japan china australia yeah wherever and customer cars were was key to the success you'd be able to go out and race with the same kit against the factory that's what customers wanted they want parity that's whatever because they all want an advantage but they want parity real team racing leading the point standings in the pro-am category in lmp2 that's new for this season to reflect the influence in lmp2 as in gt that arm drivers gentlemen drivers professionals in other spheres who happen to love coming racing really have in the lmp2 field yeah everything's about you know the focus goes on ex-grand prix stars or like they say antonio felix decosta you know the champion in in formula e or and davidson another ex-grand prix driver next toyota drive you know but it is the gentleman like roberto gonzalez in that car that produced the funding and also are absolutely pivotal to the success of the car you can put two superstars in if your gentleman driver can't improve with every time he gets in the car then you're gonna really struggle and and that's all part of the deal in lmp2 and gta yeah you have the picture there the two if you like subclasses in lmp2 their their championship leaders are next to each other on the grid after some woes for jota in qualifying yesterday that telep2 pro am class and here's an addition to the grid by the way uh one of the cars we'll see at the moment uh next month this is the rissy competition and once that cover is taken off you will see that the tribute to their regular delivery is complete it does look absolutely stunning you'll see this car at the moment as well it's a crew partially made up of their american crew cartoon like that's uh okay netherlands couple of changes in racing team leader nick dufrese is back he missed the last race because he was uh on former e-duty but there was no gear of vanderguard guerrero tested positive before traveling here and so uh paulu chateau has been dropped in into the car well nick shouldn't be in the car at all this year that we've had rather oddly and very unfortunately for the team a couple of uh covered positives with the opportunity last weekend not able to take part here again vandergarde at home now when you test it positive stay well gentlemen i'm sure you're watching in rick edmond um at the dragon speed car the 21 car the pro-am uh squads by the way which this is one what defines them is one of their drivers at least one of their drivers must be bronze ranked by the fia in the driver rankings and that effectively gives us two sets of competition these are the bronze drivers with whatever package they've managed to garner around them uh able to effectively race against their peers and when you talk to these guys the paddock that absolutely motivates them here's an opportunity though martin with the seventh place car on the grid second in the uh on the grid for lmp2 what a topsy-turvy season it's been already at spa this team the 22 squad absolutely dominated um you know almost a lap ahead of the competition and then at portimao complete change after that lap one uh fumble between the two jota cars they came back and bossed it with a one-two astonishing stuff and still they're going head-to-head here again uh this one is gonna be a tale that will run and run all the way to the final race of the season the eight hours of borrowing and wrt there pole citizen lmp2 they really feel that lmp2 owes them a win because they've been so strong in european le mans series racing it's such a strong team and lineup they just haven't managed to avoid silly mistakes and that you know errors silly mistakes bits of contact and the lmp2 pole sitter starts in seventh place on our grid [Music] foreign [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] described numerous times as the national anthem of motor racing and certainly here it is there are two official state religions in italy of course catholicism and ferrari and the tifosi are here in number you will see lots of ferrari flags in the grand stand as rightly should fion president of the automobile club duluest the governing body of le mans and le mans series racing of which the world endurance championship of course is a highly dedicated acolyte and between the aco and imsa the governing body of sports car racing in north america finally convergence is not just on the horizon but rushing towards us in the shape of 2023 in the arrival of le mans daytona hypercar to go with these cars the hypercars now it may look like a p4 ferrari and that's not by mistake not because it comes from marinello no no no no it comes from new york because this is the glickenhaus team scuderia glickenhaus and they have now for the first time two of their fabulous hyper cars on the grid and graham goodwin it's great to see jim glickenhaus and his team a man who just loves he's so passionate about cars about racing he just saw the opportunity here in the hypercar rules which are basically if you've got a car or you want to build a car you can build whatever you like and race it and that's what they're doing here well let's catch up with the 708 driver gustavo menezes who will also be having a role in hypercar in the future gustavo menezes is back with us in wec it's lovely to have you back in the second of the glicken houses at 708 the faster of the two what's possible with this race yeah honestly always happy to be back in this paddock i absolutely love the environment at the white championship and to have some fans back today really makes it special you know after over a year of this difficult situation in the world to have one backs great it's been an honor to drive for glickenhaus and on our first race you know i think there's some real possibilities to look for a podium so right now our only goal is to keep our nose clean make no mistakes work on the reliability as it is a build up for them all and we'll see where that result puts us at the end and of course you've got two hats here this weekend because we have the world premiere of the peugeot that's been launched and you're one of the drivers yeah honestly as everyone's seen it it was a little bit of a shock with the the different style and approach that they've made but this is why i absolutely love this with this new hypercar regulation to see differences between each team you know that car is definitely a big step towards the hyper car direction obviously i'm 100 focused on this season and once we we crossed the finish line for the last race the chapter will turn and i'm very proud to be a part of that fleet for uh for the oncoming seasons great thanks very much you guys it is a phenomenal looking device really major echoes of the of the current new family face of peugeot's road cars you want to bring a road car based hyper car a valkyrie or something you can you want to bring a pure prototype purebred racing car that's what the glickenhaus is you can you want it to be hybrid you can you don't need hybrid you don't have to have hybrid it's a phenomenal almost almost can-am style sort of open rules package if you've got a car or you can imagine a car chances are you can race it in hypercar so to it we have the two new clicking houses we have the alpine here so we've got five for the first time five hyper cars on the grid and alpine qualifying in third place but they are still going to be although maybe matching the toyotas on pace graham they still are going to be with that fuel tank deficiency over their rivals yeah we think maybe about four laps difference in the stint i'm going to correct you on one thing you are correct the glickenhaus are based in new york state um you're incorrect that car was built there it was actually built two hours down the road in the aster valley of podium engineering that is where all the glickenhaus race cars have been built so far podium engineering here as part of this package together with yoast and we've had a whole tranche of well household names involved in the design of that car they do look absolutely stunning they sound great it's great to have them here and let's just see what can be done about the toyota attack here the thing we've learned so far gentlemen um in the wc so far with the changes we've seen with this new class structure changes to lmp2 as well you've got to be perfect traffic is more of an issue with these these new regulations we've got a lot of that here there are 37 cars here we did lose i'm afraid one of the entry yesterday um we're not going to see the inception racing ferrari this weekend after an incident in practice but you've got to be perfect you can be perfect on track perfect in the pits because now these regulations will punish you and allen witness you know this is the biggest feel we've had in the season and even on a long fast track with good sight lines like monza there's going to be a lot of traffic after the hypercars you know probably lap three or four they're going to be in the tail of the field and after that it's six hours of surviving every passing maneuver that you make yeah certainly but uh here in comparison to port tomorrow's a little bit easier for that there's bigger straight line speed differentials in the categories and to some extent you always know where you're going to overtake it's either going to be in a breaking area or it's going to be on the straight whereas some of the other circuits and we go to le mans there's a lot of inside outside rounds every position possible and so i expect that the fans who are going to be i'm sure cheering on the start are going to get a great race but from a driver's point of view it's about precision they need to be very precise all the way around we've seen people making very small mistakes but due to the speed and nature of the circuit with very big consequences yeah absolutely right there's it's it's a proper old-school track it doesn't forgive errors there's a lot of grass and a lot of gravel and very little in the way of runoff area let's hear from the alpine that starts third okay so new stuff together for you yes everything is great we roll off in 26 seconds everything is great well that's exactly what you want to hear that was andre mcgraw feeling very chipper and what we're going to see graham probably in the first hour is the alpine really attacking hard trying to force some kind of crack in the uh toyota defense has to and then has to go uh into well it's going to be a tricky one and keem to hear what owen's going to say about this one attacking but also preserving what they can of that fuel mileage uh i think we're going to see them lifting and coasting again into turn one to preserve some of that and to try to close that that built-in gap and it's only because this is a grandfather car this is not kind of unfair to them it's just the way these regulations are voiced five cars in hypercar it's going to get much much better than that in the next couple of years i'm truly excited about the prospects not just for what we've got the next six hours of what we've got for the next five to seven years that's for sure certainly with the marketing director of ferrari they're waving the green flag to get this uh formation lap underway ferrari obviously here with their gt cars and they'll be fighting out to try and win the gt pro and also the arm categories however they will also be coming into the top category returning to the top granted first time well they were there when i started the sports car racing back in the late 90s but since then they've always been focused on gt now they're coming back and it's good to see that sort of that support coming into it let's take a look at our starting grid for the six hours of monster sebastian buemi on the pole position uh for a megapod that's my conway on pole from sebastian puerto andre negrow and then our lmp2 pro am pole sitter is the uh dragon speed car number 21 of juan pablo montoya and that car starts in six in eighth position any further back rishi competition there making their first world endurance appearance with the lmp2 car as they prepare for le mans number one tatyana calderon starts the richard mill racing team just two drivers here her and sophia fleurs as uh they are the ones who are available in the gt pro class kevin ester sitting on pole position and he heads up the ferraris and porsches and then our gte am holster to 22nd on the grid for ben keating behind miguel molina there will be a gap between the prototypes lmp1 and mp2 and the gt cars just to give a little bit of space looking further back uh 54 air of course a car qualifying in 26 position ahead of the 98 aston martin there are a few cars with problems in qualifying rinaldi racing making it their first start here and then towards the tail of the field team project one had problems getting a lap together cleanly and andrea pacini the 60 iron links car and alessio rivera the 83 af courser car at the back of the grid one didn't go out in qualifying and one lost all its times because of a ride height issue so that is our 36 car grid wedding its way around the autodromo di monza i think so you mentioned the 83 card that has compromised the 83 card they would i'm sure of preferred to have started france probably the way the rules work is having lost their qualifying times they have to start the quickest driver in free practice that's celestia rivera my view is they would have preferred to have kept the lightning-fast italian uh to complete the attack later in the race because of course if you're gonna get an incident it's most likely to be when the cars are this close together and that could lead to them burning some of the time of the quickest driver on board with our into europol competition lmp2 car number 34 that being started by alex brundle you can see the gap now between the tail of the lmp2 field where the 38 jota sport car is after a crash in qualifying having not set a time and that car rebuilt overnight team got away about midnight and then the gap kevin esther and the white porsche on the front of the gt field pacing them so we have six hours of racing here round three of the fia world endurance championship at monza with the toyota lockout of the front row red lights are on holding their speed and away we go the tricolor flies we are racing at monza round three of the fia world endurance championship toyota one two on the grid alpine and then the two glickenhaus cars right behind side by side they go nobody wants to concede here it's a little bit of a traffic jam as ever and the alpine moves up to second place uh no change at the front of the pro field and ben keating with his elbows out the chester ferrari trying to get around the outside loses a spot instead alan mcgish yeah but there's been a leak change in lmp2 as you see there the two toyotas like to start coming in but it's phil hansen that ran around the outside of everybody in the first corner there it's overtaken in lmp2s there's another battle toyota slow and uh the alpine needs to try to make this move graham very very early he's trying to protect the car under pressure now the crowd jumped the second toyota away from the line he got a head into the first corner so kirk clearly around curva grande and into the retifeelio sebastian when he has come back past him and now as they exit the lesbos and head down under the old banking from this originally 10 kilometer road and oval combined track it is the number seven car from pole position who leads the field now they out raced in terms of pace their teammates in number eight last time out in portomal the number eight car feeling they couldn't match their rivals on pace went on fuel and that was the deciding factor in the race balance they beat them on fuel economy yeah they had a safety car late in the race and that allowed them right back into the game but i think this one right now everybody's looking at it in pure pace very interesting for me what happens in gte pro this category here we've got two porsches and two ferraris what we've seen is porsche delivering kevin estrella three wide the popsicles course 83 car coming from the back of the field going by and the d train uh aston martin also trying to go by the rinaldi racing ferrari that's the red ferrari that's the only red ferrari in gte m take apart 61. great move around the outside kept kept away from the trouble but that looked like it was trouble for the inside with the triple seven trying to make the move now the two glickenhaus are getting involved with each other 709 from 708 and richard westbrook from uh people toronto that's a change it is a change yes they've swapped positions westy on his way or after the alpine and that 709 this is its first race don't forget but it looks like it's got some sort of issue there because it's dropped right back into the clutches of phil hanson who's leading lmpd directly behind let's take a little bit of a view on this after maybe one lap when we see the sector times building up to see where they actually are but clicking house certainly switched to two cars and uh the 709 is now on its way richard westbrook is still he's won in 1.6 behind third place to andre negro red white and blue that is our lmp2 leader phil hanson in the number 22 united auto sports oracle right behind wrt with robin freeze then nick dufrese yellow and black then the white car with the blue stripe one pablo montoya won his first formula one grand prix here for williams the fastest ever recorded grand prix lap at that stage only just been built beaten nearly 20 years later but he said boy this is a very different race track he's one of a number of drivers that was here last week in european le mans series racing he said this has really changed since he was here in f1 and again the back of the queue there you can see the a of course 83 car with alessia rivera he's certainly using all his pace chetan are under pressure in the silver car the most italian battle it's possible to have i think psycho's catalachi like a clean move there jetta the blue car to the left the 47 kill that leads the championship the 54 car not giving it up is it no he's not well that car's already had a bit of wars this weekend the settler card and three practice went off at lesbo two and was heavily damaged but managed to get it back out to see them running in a podium position certainly wasn't what i expected when i saw it burying itself into what seemed like a different country it was that far off the track yeah it's a a big issue with the brakes they think they come still closely it's based in lmp2 as we're getting used to these days today a new car here with an italian name reese's competition there you see it the number one just dances in the car behind the dragon made this one and this is new to the category it's also going to be racing at le mans but oliver jarvis is grabbing a hold of it he was super happy with the car balancing qualifying nazar felipe nazar said that he could have been third on the grid if they had finished their lap when the red flags came out really misleading livery actually because it's got a big one in the middle of the nose that's first form their sponsor which is a fitness app car number one is the richard mille racing team thanks everybody 82 the oc competition car and great to see them and it here it does look spectacular fastest lap of the race this early on has just gone to the lead car mike conway with a 137.296 that lap by the way from people durrani when he was passed by the sister car he was something like two and a half seconds down on the pace of the 709 it's recovered some of that but not a lot of it no so looks like a problem for that car 1.6 seconds on the last lap a little bit off the pace and he's sort of actually holding up the p2 cars a little bit and you can see castalachi there he's disappeared last lap he overtook the car but on the inside you've got a porsche and then you've got looking to go three wide as uh the recovering uh ferrari which started at the back of the grid you've got to remember that for a post qualifying penalty and so he's made his way through very very quickly is unless the 83 car would expect him to making progress he's been stellar all the way through the season and we're hearing from louise beckett that that flicker house is going to be making a very early pit stop indeed here comes that move up the inside of the number 56 gives way for rivera they'll know who's been aboard that car there's little point at this stage with too much robust defending in these circumstances a clean start though guys it was a clean start and i'm sure that the advice there to achieve pathetic let him go look after your tires he's not our battle not our battle at the moment but it will be the battle later on francois perotto the driver that did the qualifying yesterday of the second car in this lineup which soon will be i think the first he goes to the outside this is going to be a tough one into ascari around the outside there he's going to need a lot of help from the court who says oh you little fighter the court didn't give away second place in a hurry in a straight run down into the breaking area and was not about to be tucked up in oscar around the outside either there's pride on display here this is uh this is the privateer ferrari contingent yeah and uh they've moved too and satellite racing moved to the ferrari this season he's loving it absolutely another move that's the d strip or something the d station alpine uh alpine d station aston vega pump trying to get by the iron dame's car and that's been started by newcomer sarah bovee so this is her first world endurance race with the team and right behind the d station car belgium driver bovee and she's got a lot of experience not necessarily in the world endurance championship but getting on with it but that's twice in four laps we've seen that d station car diving down the inside and up over the curb and it's got by her and next up is the 98 aston martin paul dalalana has started that we're expecting the number 60 iron links car to come as well is it he is in already now that car had a very significant front-end impact in fp2 didn't make it out for fp3 did go out and qualify became straight back in and dalalana doesn't get it done at the roger and we'll have to give that away yeah he's got to give the places back because he took a long-lasting advantage there that's probably 30 meters off the actual track length on this occasion for third place up the inside alessia rivera makes no mistakes in lesmo two it's a tough corner though out it's very easy to get that wrong it is but it's a lot easier than he's trying to go around the outside in the middle of a scary that he did on the last lap and so he's certainly not he's not shy on bravery at the moment and uh getting the job done pushed his way through effectively pushed his way through but right now it's sort of starting to settle down with people making their way forward and others may be settling into position tom ferrier needs to be on the radio to uh paul dalalana in the 98 aston martin because although he's allowed the other aston buy the d station car of tominobu fuji he has not oh dear he has not allowed the uh iron dame's car to go back in front and he must or he'll get a penalty well that's is that coolant everywhere yeah radiator coolant flying everywhere the 60. that car is the one that the front end damage as you said didn't partake in qualifying started absolutely last on the grid due to that and uh the temperature issues straight away which suggesting they maybe wasn't quite wired up correctly afterwards yeah it did look a happy car in qualifying did it and that car already even if it does get back in owes us a drive-through penalty 98 paul dalalander being told now by race control to give the position back to the iron dame's car which he does but he's held him up for a lap and allowed his teammate the sister tf sport car to go away not a sister tier sport car that's the amr running car oh the amr car yeah seriously comes in on the outside into the second chicane basically far too fast couldn't get it slowed down it you're meant to go around the outside of the cone that you saw in the far left of the picture if he had done that then everything would have been fine because he would have slotted in behind naturally here we're at the lead of lmp2 phil hanson took the lead at the first quarter from robin friends in the wrt car in second and nick the free shadowing and so it's pretty much status quo in the gaps between the top three but they're edging away from juan pablo montoya in fourth place at the moment just taking a look at the drivers who got involved in this battle mp2 uh phil hanson the defending champion from last year everywhere and robin friends nick dufrese juan pablo montoya oliver jarvis lloyd davao alex brundle and it's an amazing lineup in lmp2 and the last car in the train is stuffel van doorn this man he had a shunt in qualifying coming out of the second lesbo crash that caused the red flag it wasn't restarted and that compromised that car significantly because i had to start from the back of the lmp category grid at the same time as well damaged the tires and he's got such a limited number that's going to compromise them all the way through so they're trying to start on those tires to see if they can get away with it issue is graham with this high speed nature here if you've got any flat spot the vibration is insane at the inside obviously prophetic goes the d station car but the 28 car tellingly has not managed to get by the nfc brothers love alicia in the hands of ollie webb yeah but here is a position change d station tomo fuji up the inside of ingidio perfetti and so that car now moves up d-station up into fifth in gte am ahead of the former champion and ollie webb in what we believe will be the last race for oligier certainly in the current iteration in world endurance because lc bratislava that run that yellow car with ollie webb with miro quinopko and his son mate they will be changing to an aurica chassis for them on and onwards alicia just a little behind the eight ball over the last couple of seasons but it's what they had and what they brought to wec now they feel that they need just a little bit more in terms of competitive punch the story of the season so far in terms of qualifying has been kevin ester has been in a very different class of gte pro he's had pole here as well but have they got enough tires okay seven same target consuming more slightly more ah is the number eight car playing the fuel strategy game again it they might be now then there is a drive-through penalty applied to the number 60 ferrari which is in the pits with overheating and may not come back out and that is because it caused a multi-car shunt in free practice due in fact the very last lap the checkered flag lap in uh in free practice two three in uh anyway but that's now being applied but they probably aren't going to take it opportunity now for the first time in race conditions to see probably the kind of differentiation between these classes we're going to see more of the hmong than we did at spa or portimao and no problem in the traffic at the moment in the high speed sections of monza as they get with the gtms now the two toyotas so we might see that gap close up depending on who deals better with the traffic it's been a feature of the 2021 fire world in general's championship take a look look of the number eight curb hopping off dear me that's a lot of curb that's not a hop that's a thump dragon speeds juan pablo montoya with the stars and bars headlights are flashing ahead of the risi competition car so two u.s normally us-based teams dragon speed and reecy rishi have spent their entire racing life in north america with ventures out they've come to le mans on numerous occasions and always eager to do so again united auto sports leading from wrt and racing team netherlands dragon speed and reese's battling for fourth and then real team race in the dark blue car you can see with into europol right behind them that is the battle for sixth and seventh and of course in pro-am nick dufrese leading pro-am for 29 that's the racing team netherlands black and yellow car ahead of the second pro-am car uh one problem on toy there's henrik hedman he's the man that makes that car what makes it happen but also the man that makes it a pro and the car henrik and ben hadley particularly have been uh racing together for a number of seasons and the job for the the pro drivers in that pro-am lineup as in gte am is to help their colleagues learn how to be faster race drivers and that's exactly what they're there for let's catch up in the pit lane is louise beckett louise you've had a chat with clicking house what are they telling you about their yeah so we saw that the uh team came out ready for the car to come in for a pit stop and then they all stood down and went back the team had confirmed there definitely is some sort of issue with the car they think it's electrical but they are gambling in on how much time they're losing on the track versus bringing it in to sort it uh and the the sadness there is look at the moment when the 709 car it's not about a battle between the lp and the toyotas at the moment is the 709 glickenhaus with the alpe i think the thing we've got to also look at here is the alpine strategy going forward that we know it's got a deficit on jim glickenhaus mr passion there just willing his car on unfortunately i don't think uh richard westbrook needs to unfortunately doesn't need any sort of willing on because he can see the sights but i'm interested when we get to the end of this stint where they are with their fuel strategies because that will start to dictate the bigger picture looking forward [Music] oh losing power says uh the alpine team radio van jana growl last lap was 1.6 seconds off the pace uh but the quickest car on the circuit that last lap was actually richard westbrook um so the alpine dropping back let's just keep an eye on these uh on these sector times coming in because that'll give us a bit of guidance but he's got purple in the final section i think he's got the power back somehow but possibly so 38 9 was his last lap and it was a 40.9 the previous lap before that where we heard the radio message from christoph ulrich under pressure from paul dalalana in the background dalai lana sends it down the inside and right behind is the clicking house that's just squeezed in front of sarah bovee in the black and pink iron dame's ferrari the 85 car this is the 708 car this is peppa durrani trying to well do as little damage as he can with what is clearly not a car that's up to speed allen no not but now the signature calpine's gonna get held up a little bit into the second lesbo that will allow westbrook a run in the glickenhaus through the corner to see if he can manage to catch up this aston martin's also going to be on the limit of holding up the alpine through ascari as well so some opportunities in traffic starting to present themselves to westbrook and while we're doing that that they are the lead three cars in gta they're the caps then keating have gone away and hid they've been reeled in by francesco castellachi with alessia rivera catching both now don't forget that although rivera started from the back of the grid they might wanted to put francois piroto in he didn't have ruined tires they only lost their grid spot because of a ride height issue so he's got quick tires and a quick driver and he will very likely bring the car in at the end of the stint for its first fuel as the leader in gte am wretched westbrook has closed but it looks as though the alpine has just got a little more in terms of straight line speed and that's a bit of an issue here at monza because if you can't close into the braking area you could be having trouble actually looking at the at the information that came out of free practice the actual clicking house was a little bit quicker the issue was it wasn't getting off the final corner quite as quick so it took all of the straight to catch that distance back then it came to the next one and it was a concertina effect so he needs to use a little bit of traffic to be able to section of the track and it's now back with the alpine through curva grande closed up into the el roger through the first the two lesmo corners named after the village just on the other side of that wall yeah but here you need if you're the following car you're in the wake dirty air coming off the alpine and you need to just get a little bit extra front on it and that's i think going to be the struggle for him without the bill of traffic starting to take something away from the alpine but he's got to sort of he's got to stay in real close contact to keep this alpine honest to make sure the ground knows that if he has any slip up bum he's there absolutely as quick if not quick on a straight line here struggling over traction out those those uh high speed turns alan yeah i think it's just the front wash it's it's not actually able to keep the line uh close enough and now he's at the point where he's dropped out of the the arrow effect be interesting how their left front is holding up everybody's trying to simulate them on as much as possible look at the rear wing element on these lmp2 cars it's you know as flat as a pancake it's as little drag as you can possibly get because drag equals slowing you down in a straight line and these guys want to be quick juan pablo montoya flashing the headlights following him through is the reecy car of ollie jarvis jarvis looking to try and jump both these lmp uh both these gte am cars that's the d station as the master of tomo fuji closing in on the chateau la the blue ferrari of roberto la court actually had a pretty decent run through there ollie webb ollie jarvis too many ollies in the race for me behind us well we've got no development the pressure now from alex brundle in the into europol that's been the same right from the first lap alex brundler has been desperately trying to get by lloyd duvall he loves to scrap alex brundle he comes out there swinging and he'll keep on going and he just he's like a little tiger brightening your heels all the time and local you know be looking in the mirrors as much as he's looking forward but duvall's got the experience to be able to sort of look at it aston martin down the inside of the cart into the second chicane yeah so it's upper position fuji saw that coming didn't he he saw that the court was having to stay tight because the p2 cars were on the outside that cram compromised his speed there through curva grande cover biasone and the aston martin could follow the quicker cars through because he used all the road and had better momentum that's thinking racing driving but that's what you get with endurance racing mid-class endurance racing parachuting one race in the middle of another one and that's what you'll get is the drama that comes from it the lmp2 cars have made their way through there's another batch behind them to make their way through the midfield runners in gtm and away we go again and we've got more than five and a half hours more of this to come gentlemen as we see the third place and fourth place cars coming down for fourth and fifth in lmp2 just going to the back of lmp2 20 seconds further back now is the second jota of stoffel vandoorne so they i don't think that's starting on those tires that were slightly damaged from the spin yesterday he's giving him a lot of fun and entertainment in that car well that's a good question you know when when you spin you just shave rubber off the tire they don't shave rubber off the tire all the way around do that because otherwise there's no life left in it well you start to struggle a little bit to make it round anyway and the problem is that when you break then you actually tend to lock on the flatter part and so it just multiplies itself but here the bigger issue is with the high speed nature the fact this wheel is rotating so so quickly then you get massive vibrations which is difficult for the driver i don't know how bad it is for fandom but i can't imagine it's too nice watch the alpine at the start here battling for second place under-breaking but then the number eight toyota is really deep into the first turn here at the retifeelio and watch the alpene he did sneak through into second place just got around the outside the number eight cup went okay boy you can have that there and then through curva grande allen came right back at him yeah he certainly did that's when the boost would be kicking in because the toyota cannot boost from zero kilometers per hour as it could in the past and so that's regulated in a slightly different way and that was purely the hybrid bruce that took him past lapierre and back into city or not lapierre sorry but uh took it back into second yeah we saw lapierre watching which is what led you astray there onboard the 91 porsche this is the fourth of four cars in gte am at the moment on their fresh rubber the porsches are holding their own against the ferrari chateau from second roberto court on the gravel losing a spot there to the uh porsche virginia profession but professors slipped down the order a little and he is now down to six in gta yam he was second in the second corner so we're in the first corner so it looks as though the porsche doesn't quite have what it needs aston benkici leads from francesco castellachi and alessia rivera and in fact castellash is such a long name you can't say them in the time it takes them to go by you this is the of the battle for the lead in gt alex we've had like developer around at the first turn through you can see the yellow and green car disappearing into mia sony into cover grande so did he lock up was there contact had brundle had a dive well we're i'm sure we'll see but uh about to say by the way gtm has been where the battles have been here is luke deval did he jump or was he pushed that's a touch i'm not sure from that angle exactly you can see in there it's left front to right rear so i suggest that it's going to be investigated but definitely a touch there so so easy to do i have to say at that point this is one two three in gta it's been dealing out all of the entertainment so far in this race and that's not going to go any time soon castellachi looks the outside oh there's the inside ben keating was looking there you know we were talking as they came by a couple of laps ago about how the lmp2 cars fared in traffic but there it was what that second lmp2 car the red reecy car was going to do to the aston was he going to just jump in front of him at the last moment forced ben keating to break harder than he wanted to or earlier than he wanted to it didn't happen but keating with the two ferraris hoovering up the toe behind him and with alex brondell now on a mission eating might be in trouble in the breaking area unless he can latch onto the back of the inter-europa car and get a bit of a slip steam from brumble castle actually fortunate there i thought about lunger i think that compromised him through parabolica that almost gave rivera the run now he's going to look around the outside coming out the first chicane should be no way through there without unnecessary contact but rivera taking the opportunity as well like brundle's gone straight on this time power slide through the second element and now with castalaccia's uh back on comes brundle yeah this doesn't lack for excitement does he no rivera there in the chrome ferrari with a bit between his teeth and just mashing the throttle there desperate for traction here comes alex brandl this is dab here this weekend around the outside no way through there into the roger just too tight to try and get by a pair of ferraris that are barely longer than your own car yeah this is italian has new friends what bro among the many languages who speaks yeah hand signal italian is definitely one that we can all relate to brundle is going to split the difference between the two ferraris and that just holds up alessia rivera a little oh now rivera will have to hope that brundle also jumps in front to francesco castellachi and holds him up under breaking in fact brundle's going to be on the inside castell actually can't take the line he wants there either oh oh an 88 second chicken that's uh this is admiral yeah it is that car had trouble in qualifying as well it was here as well did exactly the same as this in qualifying didn't go into the gravel but it looks like it's stuck and beached into the gravel that could be a slow zone yes that should be easily rescue bull it's not as if nobody ever goes off there so the marshals there are look here comes the grab it yeah prepare for full course yellow and 12 28 0 0. we are going full course yellow at 12 28 0 0. so that's 45 seconds from now that's the voice of our race director eduardo freitas that's quite late considering there's a grab handle going out the car in there and there's about 20 cars will pass through in that time period before it goes full course yellow looks like he's going to try and let most of the field get through before they put the uh the grabber out 28 minutes in no one's yet in a field window but it's close-ish for lmp2 i think they'll try and extend well most lmp2 cars will do a standard 25 laps here they might squeeze out 26 or possibly even 27 but the first it will be a lap short so it should be another seven or eight laps before they're due and this full course yellow will be long gone by then yeah but the full course yellow means that the consumption's that little bit less the question is where does it put them at the end does it actually increase a stop or reduce a stop now you know when you're on the motorway and there are two trucks on the speed limiter and one of them's going slightly faster on the speed limiter than the other that's what you had there racing team nedland and the glickenhaus you can't i don't care if you are quicker on the limiter you can't go by under full course yellow because it's still a yellow flag looks to be the 708 has dropped back behind the leading car zone p2 well we just saw that didn't we because he was the racing team nedland car was alongside and 708 i think is coming the way of louise beckett alex it looks like it's also got the trolley jacks to take it into the garage as well i saw them there in the corner so louise will be ready as uh the jumbo lmp2 car with nick dufrese is actually on the inside which will then block oddly uh the clicking house to get into the pit lane well that that might be somebody from clicking house legging it down the pit lane could you please ask him to go the other way because we want to come into the pits while it's still yellow this is going to be a very very short full course yellow though because that car is already out there house thumbs up he says it's not quite a thumbs up moment though but uh as you say his enthusiasm is he's got overwhelming he's got both his babies running on track you know and we're at monza what you know he's he's a massive from childhood a massive ferrari fan and he may not be the only car going in either is wrt going in wrt's in they have to do it this lap because if they do it any other lap then it'll be two lakes full course yellow will have gone factory porsche oh reese is coming in as well behind risi that was the inter europol car now this is a moment to think about here depending on how long this uh full course yellow stays out watch again this is that incident with lauren devel and alex brundle i like since late late late lately that's late late show i'm afraid and uh that will very likely result in a penalty we just have to remember that uh when we talk about late lately alex is traveling nearly 90 meters a second and so therefore if you're a couple of tenths of a second late on the brakes and that's 18 meters and then there's no recovery from there as we see now some teams splitting strategies porsche's split strategies bringing in jimmy bruni and uh leaving the sister car out of kevin estrada that's leading lmp2 is predominantly in the 708 going into the garage as louise predicted down in the bit lane yeah absolutely right so whatever ails the car they're not going to let it just run around and stop out on the circuit a chance to come in under full course yellow you lose just a little bit less time and all of that makes a difference but also another split strategy as well as jota they've brought in stoffel vandoorne that was last overall all the lmp2s have been in except roberto gonzalez uh who was seventh in the 38th johto sport car and uh he will i think resume behind phil hanson who's the other lmp2 that didn't apologize and so there's two of them didn't pit and everybody else did track position or fuel which do you plan for well stoffel vandoorne staying uh coming in rather but the other jota sport car staying out you just saw that so didn't change tires on stoffel van dawn's car they can't afford just to throw fresh rubber at it was a driver change lloyd duvall out at real team racing and i would assume now everybody now that we've got past the potential chaos of the start get your gentleman driver in now now get his time in the car started if jose don't get the opportunity to pit the 38 we saw there as the as roberto gonzalez came back dragon speed rising cars coming uh back out of the pits having had a full service pit stop and tucking him behind almost nil not lost to them in terms of track position uh so if jota don't get the 38 car round within this uh full course yellow period that could be a major blow to them they've clearly got a strategy in mind though martin leaders are in seven and eight now alpene i'll be uh earn nothing by having a bit of a tank full here that just doesn't help them they have to do something that toyota aren't doing and that forces them i mean that you know it paints them even more into a corner because actually their disadvantage is they can't carry enough fuel speed was their asset in portugal they were faster they were able to overtake pull away not quite enough to compensate for the pit stop losses but around here it's toyota that actually have enough speed to be able to maintain the gap to the alpine so right now they don't have many cards to sort of throw onto the table but uh you know we're still five and a half hours from the end of this race as the totals come back off pit lane other strategies report in gte and a couple of the cars stopping there the 83 cars now put friends from our parado aboard remember the force the position where they had to start alicia rivera uh thomas floor now replaces francesco castellechi in the 54. uh 47 is in and out but repo tokote stays aboard i think there might have been a driver changing the triple seven as well yeah i will check you surprised you know it is the time to to get your gentleman drivers in it looks like fujisan is still aboard the triple side but they've been in and out 78 is back on the pit apron so it's had a couple of electronic issues that car we saw in portobello had ecu gcu problems engine control and gearbox control units and and often it's electronics sets not talking to each other properly look how close it is with the limiters just how accurate you have to be they're all coming in though the the cars were missing last time around i think we're all booking uh him and louise the united are on the way in they're the only front running car there'd be two that hadn't stopped with the exception that 38 jota stopped it further down the grip the grid than they would have hoped after the disasters in qualifying yeah everybody's came in because this full course yellow has extended a lot longer than the car just being lifted out the gravel for whatever reason much longer than anticipated in that respect because it could have been clean and green about one lap ago [Music] it's almost as if it's uh an instant decision to make sure that everybody gets to short fuel and then see where we go from there so you just basically reset the field everybody's got fuel okay let's go again absolutely i've been keating in the 33 tf sport aston the four horsemen car that led in gte am remains at the wheel triple 7 have been in so it looks as though they're sort of splitting their thinking on that yeah 33 stays out uh we've seen the second and third place cars have both pitted as judeo perfetti stayed out as did christoph already sarah bovee all of the gt pro cars have stopped and now the jota 38 car stops too so that's the whole lmp2 field has stopped the whole hypercar field has stopped as have the gt pros so for at least four am cars have yet to stop this is the mighty 38 jota sport car roberto gonzalez one of the things that may be playing for the gtm strategy here is remember we said at the start of the show because of the the full throttle nature of this they might be just hoping for a bit of luck here sticking with a driver uh strategy are they trying to burn that possibility of a splash later in the race it you know it can all help that that was a half a stint there pretty much wasn't it and so yeah that that takes that potential question mark out they're 20 minutes away from their ideal fuel uh fuel filling points uh under full green conditions yeah yeah so that should cover off what the the sort of tail that ended uh prematurely with full stints number seven toyota mike conway our race leader of course yellow we are under one minute to remove full course yellow louise beckett just saying in our ears do we know how long this is going to last it's almost like eduardo can hear us sometimes so number 708 click and house just about to come back out they have dropped a long way down the order outside the top 20 that they will return to the track amongst the gte remove full course yellow under 30 seconds to remove full course yellow i feel potentially unless there was work going on that we didn't see elsewhere and that does often happen that that might just have been to allow the full field the opportunity the full opportunity because if it goes full portion you've just gone by the pits so you can be hung out five four three two one full course yellow removed full force oh goodness me henrik hedman not off the speed limiter the speed limit will not release only jarvis has gone now he hasn't stopped bashing the steering wheel come on come on come on got jumped and that was really unfortunate he's just got into the car now let's just quickly before it gets noisy louise becky what did you hear from clicking house with 708. a loom issue and and so yeah potentially something not talking to something and that's so often really tricky to diagnose well henrikh hedman yeah what a disaster of course whether it works or not we'll find out in a moment or two porsche ferrari ferrari porsche that's a change graham goodwin the 91 car uh now behind miguel molina yeah it's now kevin esque uh pierre under uh sandra pierre greedy miguel molina and jimmy bruni is the running order so absolutely right that is a change and it's a change because of the pit stop the uh porsche pit stop was three seconds slower than molina so it was a jump in the pits it was uh where that actually came not on circuit absolutely quicker in the pits as well in the hypercar class for toyota to their competition 50 seconds each for the two toyotas 53 for the alpine 52 for the clicking house drive through penalties coming though unfortunately for alex brundle for that tap with like duvall into the first chicken and so they're taking it right at this moment in time very very early on very fortunate here in a way that it's a short pit lane however on the flip side of it you're going very fast when you're on the circuit yes yes the the other uh point to note uh about the pit stop uh times uh united auto sports picked up four seconds on wrt 51 seconds to 55. wow and the racing england team picked up four seconds on them as well so 51 seconds pit stops either side of the wrt squad 56 second stop for dragon speed that involved a driver change none of the others did stoffel vandoorne that was a one minute uh now one minute stop for our henry hedman dragon speed so yeah they lost nine seconds with the driver change but of course that has been made 708 is back out and running almost seven minutes on pit road though has dropped to 25th position in amongst the gtans what happened at real team esteban garcia took over we saw lloyd duvall getting out one minute 19 compared to a 51 second that's a 30-second loss did they have damage after that impact with uh this possibility their car 8 is under investigation the second place toyota for not respecting the chicane at term one that is sebastian at the at the wheel of that car three seconds off the lead but with uh andrea groud just seven seconds back and richard westbrook five seconds back from that any kind of penalty is gonna have dramatic effects on the running order yeah the swing is that if you do make a mistake you have to then go through the polystyrene blocks to the right hand side as we're looking now um but it is very possible that in the situation they just jumped across this again i presume that is what it's for it's a warning only ellen by the look of it warning only yeah so got away with that one here comes the reese's oni i'm having to actually physically stop myself from adding ferrari to the end of that no you do that don't you because for 25 years probably i've been saying risky competition ferrari and it's not it's a it's a head of a ferrari so that's close enough and it's the right color stalwarts of endurance racing and great to see them having a couple of races in uh europe in recent years giuseppe reese at the spa race some uh some couple years ago first up i think he i think remember telling me the first time they've been racing there for something over 20 years yeah but great team great to see them number one on the 44. yeah driver change for richard mille racing team uh did they i think so no catching on their own starters so it was a slower stop one minute two for them not quite sure why but that brought ollie jarvis into play they were five seconds quicker and ollie looking to go the long way around into the vari ante de la rocha that was tatiana called it on just defending position there getting the job done as now we see uh robin friends is caught right up in the back of phil hanson this is the battle for the lead fringe was on pole position courtesy of his teammate but got jumped at the start by hanson hanson has controlled the situation pulled away before that full course yellow section came in and the pit stops but since then friends is back onto it now this is the second stint on the tire this will be an interesting point for the vision going forward in the race it's kind of not yet though is it because we didn't get a full step with that was a short film so are they going to do one and two third stints or are they going to try and but this is two thirds because it's a green circuit and also it's the hottest part of the day so it's only going to get staying the same or cooler later on the other thing is it's on a fuel full fuel tank load as well which puts more energy into the tire yeah it's reversed again third position gone back to jimmy bruni got to put himself ahead of the 52 there of course a ferrari miguel molina this battle is going to go on throughout the day without a shadow of a doubt real teams lloyd davao telling louise beckett there wasn't an issue with the cast it was just a slower pit stop and there's the dive bomb down the inside nice and clean didn't have to cut the chicane to complete it so that's always a sign of a good pass i've got to say sign of a good race it looks like porsche has reversed the balance a little bit at the moment they're able to hold on and keep position we saw jimmy bruni going backwards in portimo at the last round and the ferrari pulling away but it looks like it's certainly at least at this stage it's a little bit more balanced between the red and the white cars portamer's got the sort of tired egg that you expect from a cheese grater doesn't it this track is is is much better in that aspect it's much less abrasive on the tire and the temperatures aren't as extreme either you know high track temperatures are 46 47 ish rather than knocking on 60 like they were in portugal poetry motion both of those cars it's going to be a close run thing between the two factory gt broke uh squads throughout the day that's phil hansen having to defend here remember this uh close battle this includes uh france closing up that four seconds lost to the pit stop so he's pulled back quite a deficit uh to phil hanson in this robin you've got to give him the give him the room there that was very very close gave him a millimeter well listen he's just come back from racing in new york so he's used to giving a millimeter and not two isn't he nick the three sitting there in the yellow car that's fourth in that particular train for the category and he's sort of sitting in there wouldn't necessarily charging forward but you know hanging on brief after that there's 12 seconds back to fourth place which is oliver jarvis in the racy competition and davis is the lead pro am car as well in third place the reese's car not registered for the pro-am competition ryan cullen and philippe nasa sharing with ollie jarvis ryan cullen's going to go second in that car with felipe nazar third and then it'll be back to jarvis coming through no questions asked there no prisoners taken by stoffel vandoorne down the inside of hendrick headman whether hedrick allowed him to or not and he is on the move i have to say he may well need a visit to the dentist and the ophthalmologist after the end of this if he does a stint and three quarters on flat spotted tires from qualifying and it was if you haven't seen it you can go and have a look online later it was a massive looping spin that really would have just ripped the tire completely flat yeah it was actually quite a quick spin into the barrier so in some respects he could have been fortunate that he got away with it with minimal damage but uh certainly he's now back in the mix because they're up into fifth overall they were struggling off the back before that full course yellow and not quick at all but uh they seem to have sort of came a little bit more into their own as this next part of the race is progressing looking at the am class battle for third thomas floor has taken over from francesco castellachio perfetti remains in the team project one porsche looking for third place here not going to get it right there 47 the chester racing ferrari of roberto court and triple seven tomo fuji's aston martin the d station car under investigation for full course yellow speed so satoshi hashino has taken over triple seven from uh tomo fuji but there may be a penalty to answer for now with thomas fleur the uh the van to attack having uh had to seek the position to the 54 car with francesco casamachi battle here another one to watch gentlemen in lmp2 we're observing and now we have things to say this about the race about the potential strategy from jota with stuff of andorn after that pit stop cycle has played out he's up in now fifth position in lmp2 from the very back of the field is now the time he's pushing well let's get down to louise beckett louise while we were watching everybody everywhere you were watching the gte pro class what was going on there [Music] [Music] thank you very much and left side only because predominantly that's the tires front and rear that get a bit of a hiding round here because the in reality there is only a very slow and limited number of left-handers and so therefore you get it you get a lot of right-handers load on those ones and you can even do three stints on your right-hand side tires now when you've got a limited number of mechanics that are able to change tires at once that's a pit stop time gain as opposed to changing all four as well and a limited number of tires as well which means you can have fresher tyres that work and and leave the the led ones on the other side it's less of an issue phil hansen still just staying ahead of the wrt car of robin friends nick dufrese closing a little behind looks like the traffic's broken a fraction better for him his body work loose on there look at this hypercar p2 gte that's a true that is friday night on them on the tram center nord of uh milan that's uh quite close the two toyotas are closed up a little bit three seconds there with the traffic and there you can see just in front is i think 708 flashing the headlights people durrani going by the high class racing lmp2 car and the dragon speed carve hendrick hedman looking in front and in both mirrors at the same time and a porsche 1-2 on the cards going around the outside into the parabolica of the ferrari of alessandro pierguidy that might have been the 46 car if there's the other white portion i think it might have been the 46 car but it did look a little like the didn't it well let's take a look well there is the pro ferrari in second place and he's still shown a second place ala sancho pierguidi so you are absolutely right sir certainly a bit of a moment for a white porsche around the outside of parabolica busy out there right now about to say by the way uh people durrani back up to speed he's in traffic at the moment but he's been putting times in the 138 since coming back out after that uh repairing the carriage he's now ahead of the gt pro battle seven minutes though in the pits fixing that electrical issue ollie jarvis under pressure and 44 the arc bratislava legier from tatiana calderon in the richard mill racing orica oliver webbing that as we go back to this battle there where webs in the yellow car up ahead and we're on the toyota which is second semester wiley just weaving his way through just not quite enough tarmac but there is enough grass just to get three wide going down towards parabolica and graham is right that was the 46 porsche which is chase delivery again and so that's what we saw from the heli shot and that's actually the car that slowed tatyana down and ollie webb just managed to weave through traffic that did look like the high banking of the daytona 24 hours for a moment there go high go low go high go low yeah pick a side any side but this traffic has actually split the gte pro battle because you see the porsche just going in 92 now and then the ferrari that's first and second in gta pro and then third and fourth are now about three or four seconds further back and the white carve henrik headman there ahead of the yellow car volley webb in the parabolica took a very tight inside line it's holding webb up here comes calderon she might get a run here ollie wave going the long way around the outside not much wrong with the legit speed there in low drag form low down force form and tatiana calderon trying to come around the outside of henrikh hedman as well his job is to survive and lose as little speed as possible in his stints don't fight them now let them go concentrate on keeping your speed up keeping your lap times up then let the pros do their bit good stuff here from hollywood by the way up into eighth position alejandro will be its final run with the rsc bratislava squad they change to their newly acquired oraca from the 124 house and will continue through the season with that car a car by the way has raced once and only once a lightly used oracle but that's not the only track time it's had great tulsa it's been an astonishing story for the car that they've obtained actually a track day car for sps performance in germany has raced just the ones it was a replacement chassis for chassis damaged by dick sports at uh spa in uh the elements a couple of seasons back so it has raced just once but that's a an mp2 car as a track day car now that is a toy that is a toy well sps you know they're famous for having track days at spa and also at the nordschleife so you know one one race driver and lots of not very careful owners very low mileage very heavily used yeah but uh you know for them they feel that to be battling on the same foot with everybody else in lmp2 is going to give them a fairer indication of where they are and where and how their progress is being reflected whereas if you're the only person who's left-handed it's very hard to judge how you are against the right hand at all whatever so here's our battle then united also sports wrt and i did say two or three laps ago that nick dufrese was closing and now visually he is really very much in touch and if phil hanson catches traffic which he won't for a long while there's one car in front of him 83 pro am ferrari and then there's at least in fact very nearly half a lap before there's another slower car in front of them so this could be a battle that develops over the next few laps and defrees is absolutely on the money in this racing team netherland car very quick right now he's the quickest of the trio yeah last time threw 42-3 for phil hanson 42-2 for robert and 41-2 for nick devries so you're quite right martin this is a developing battle so we'll get this for the next few laps because these three guys know how to race these cars well i think we are they've only done five laps on fuel haven't they so we've got another 20 laps of this ding dong battle for the lead one goes by the 83 car to go by the 83 car that didn't break well for nick dufrese i'm afraid here is the battle 83 is trying to stay away from francois pirodo is currently second which is where that car would have started in third place this is the battle thomas floor and the gdo perfetti fire mateo mateo [Music] not sure friends and family uh that'll be one of our factory drivers won't it which matteo cairoli that'll be who's in the porsche that that uh group of fans were supporting absolutely in the pits the 60 iron lynx car although we haven't received official confirmation i think the chance of that car reappearing are somewhere between zero and minus one aren't they it's a shame but it's a big damage a great job to repair the car but it didn't look right after that did it it's not usually fluid it's meant to be coming out like a geezer from the front of the car not as designed i think it's fair to say yeah i don't know if it's if it has been overheating and they've lost fluid then the risk is to the engine and uh clearly that's going to have a limited lifespan if it's got some damage and there is that car itself bodywork back on knows back on but uh up in the air so i think you're right on that uh zero percent to minus one unfortunately so i'm afraid matteo crosoni if it was matteo crossover as opposed to matteo cairoli who those friends and family were here to watch he's not gonna get to drive the car today and that car that's taking the radiator cap off where it says do not remove radiator cap if hot so that is all the pressure in the system super over pressurized system i mean they run at high temperature but they run at high pressure to stop it boiling but uh clearly the system not happy and as a result i'm afraid that is not going to take any further part in the race that's the real shame because iron links new to wec this year they are such a competitive team so ambitious racing in the lower categories of of the ladder in the european le mans series program and uh of course they also bring the all-female crude iron dame's car not just a elms races as car 60 but here is 85 as well to le monk up it's not 60. it's 85 here no in um in oh is it yeah yeah so we thought we were commissioned confused with the numbers yeah we've got uh michelin cop we've got european le mans series we've got the wec they've been putting cars in we've had the all-female crew car actually in the uh the big race in the italian gt chairmanship uh just a couple of weeks ago with with iron dames this is a very serious program let's not forget either that uh that collaboration that's no underway with pregnant power team to provide that career structure for young drivers coming through single-seaters into high-level single-seaters and guess what now into potential for gt and who knows what in the future yeah yeah absolutely i mean and and clearly a team like that have got ambitions to go right to the very top and being aligned with ferrari is possibly not a bad thing in the forthcoming years marinello may well continue to focus their own private attentions on formula one and allow the cars to be raised by approved race teams on board with mike conway as he just overtakes coming out of parabolica now he's now got a six second gap over sebastian boyme we saw bloomie getting caught up a little bit in traffic but it was at three seconds and over the last few laps then it's extended out to six i think there is a decent traffic effect on here because the problem is that even although there's not many corners when you do catch cars in the corner then you do tend to lose a lot of time the point to make here is uh when we came back out that uh full course yellow when we saw the 708 back on track it was ahead of the totals he's still ahead of the totals uh so the pace from people durant has been pretty good he's in 39 deads at the moment being closed down by the eight but not votes for the seven has gone by him but uh not as quickly that's the 20 card blowing this the first chicken he's losing three tenths of a second the lap that's pretty decent pace to the benchmark in hypercar but if you also look a little bit further back the negro in the alpine as uh he's 14 seconds off the toyota uh the elite car but there's a lock up in the rear just that last downshift and the last gear change down locks the rear and then the best option is to do exactly that at least time loss as well almost collected the alpine there as well scenes were dramatic incidents at that chicane in past years yeah i think that was robbie have left him with eyes like dinner plates as he saw the toyota reversing hard towards him there underbreaking particular incident involved one of the commentary team in this booth all right we weren't going to talk about that again not sure how where al was about that incident when stefan i'll tell you some years back oh yeah watching [Music] and here we are it's going to be porsche 91 that's the third place jimmy bruni as we see him there so that's where curbs modify your line allen so if you're going to take them hard like that you need to know that any full can take off all the skill is in the landing oh that's where you need very very good control of the suspension and damping to be able to do it but you also need downforce if you've got downforce in the car they absorb bumps and curves much much better estra pulling away here from the chasing ferrari of alessandro pier greedy four seconds to the good now and five point seven seconds back to jimmy bruni he's just got a bit of a gap now for miguel molina yeah not massive margin one 1.6 seconds but it's it's just creeping away creeping away creeping away there they go across the line there's the 51 car that's bruni i think on molina raced here last weekend european le mans series has to download sandra pierre guidi yep great great battle in that race not with their regular teammates they were in different cars yeah mcdonald molina races in europe series for iron links and alessandra pierre greedy a late uh substitute for matt griffin sadly not with us last weekend after the timely death of his dad and matt if you're listening i thought you and the whole family knew back in the happiest times sir pierre grady bringing that car home to win well astonishingly we are an hour into our race here in monza showing no signs of slowing down at all [Music] the drama nazinali di monza the heart of italian motorsport a beautiful sweltering summer's day ready for round three of the fia world endurance championship for the first time in a long while fans at the racetrack not a lot but everything is piccolo piccolo a little starts toyota dominating qualifying and led the field away at toyota one two ahead of alpene and two glickenhaus cars in the hypercar class and the alpe getting the better of the number eight toyota into the first chicane everybody else minding their p's and q's no little aerodynamic flicks or anything else being left behind it was a fairly uh well-controlled start andre the crowd just getting by sebastian buemi finally up to over 130 kilometers now was able to deploy the hybrids that powered him back into second place and that was pretty much the end of alpene's challenge in the gt class again porsche versus ferrari there was a little bit of outbreakery at the first chicane we had porter ferrari porsche ferrari ben keating helping the chettalar firmly off his racing line allowing engio perfetti to move up into second to the distress of the chetalar garage but that didn't last long roberto lacour then having to battle the car that starts at the back of the grid alessia rivera in the 83 chrome delivery day of course the ferrari coming from last on the grid all the way through towards the lead of the am class any contact so far of any note alex brundle tagging lloyd duvall into a spin as they battled in lmp2 and they had a drive through to serve 88 brought out the full course yellow being rescued from the gravel andrew harriento looping around at the same place that he spun in qualifying moving up the order from the back of the field 38 that didn't set a time in qualifying after a huge high-speed looping spin into the wall was being rescued back up the order by stefan van dorn battles all the way up and down in lmpd two and the 91 porsche just at the end of the first hour after everybody had fueled and tired getting by for third place in the gte pro class henrik hedman the gentleman driver at dragon speed in the white car not getting involved in driver battles with the pros just keeping his nose clean beginning his is likely to be double stint in the car as we get to the end of our one so one hour in no further clue as to who's going to win in lmp2 in gte pro or gte am graeme goodwin in terms of the battle this is lmp2's lead duo united also sports red white blue and the red white and black of robin friends for team wrt just behind the black and yellow of nick dufrese racing team netherlands he's lost a little ground in traffic because he's been closing and the frustration there must be obviously spent you know half an hour closing in on these guys you can lose it all just getting stuck behind the wrong car into a chicane yeah plenty more punches to go in this boxing match yet and look up the inside of the wrt car there doesn't make that stick so phil hansen has a possibility here just extending the gap the other car to look for by the way is the car that's currently in fifth position stopping vandal it's about 35 seconds back off this battle effectively in championship terms is fourth because the 82 car is invisible and friends has been caught up here and he's allowed to freeze to get onto the back of the ferrari certainly was too helpful into the chicane but i was surprised not to see friends going through uh prior to coming out of the second lesbo there but that's allowed to freeze a little bit onto the bank he's giving phil hansen a little bit of some breathing space as well he's probably got another two laps before he starts to have to think looking in these mirrors momentum so much more important now with the lmp2 cars in the 2021 spec and just losing that opportunity through one of the slower corners it just takes some time doesn't it to gather themselves back again well they also remember have a little bit less downforce so it's not as if they can actually move line quite as easily or dive bomb someone in the breaking area quite as easily as before team project one ego perfetti out of the car they didn't stop during the full course yellow this is their first visit to the pits the other car sarah bovee from iron links has yet to stop she is currently in third place in gte am so looking here at our field after first out toyota gazoo racing one two were there [Music] he uh alpine in third place ahead of glickenhaus number 709 their new car 708 recovering from a longer pit stop down in 17th place now between the gte pros and the gte and the lmp2 cars united leading lmp2 from team wrt racing team netherlands porsche ferrari porsche ferrari and gte pro our am leader 1883 a of course a ferrari from the 54 car and it's a ferrari one two three with iron links in third chester in fourth the best the rest is the 98 aston martin paul dalalana he's in fifth place ahead of d stations aston satoshi hoshino and the 60 iron lynx car in the pit and it will not return from there what is going on with dempsey proton and with team project one they are both really struggling with the sole exception of the gigio perfetti the 88 can remember is the car that had the spin at the second chicane that's last time there the 46 i've not seen any problem with that car at all i'll have a quick look in a moment to see just how long it's sat on pit lane just pace i thought i it may well be just pace it's not a regular lineup is it dennis olsen has been joined by anders burkhart and axel jeffries so we've got uh a gold a silver and a bronze there olson a familiar porsche driving face and as burkhart was the man who qualified at the norwegian he spun the car there is the gr racing porsche that's also mike wainwright ben barker and tom gamble a regular edgy that's struggling a little for pace as well this weekend lost about 30 seconds in the pit stops to its comp competitors the 46 car but that doesn't explain but the only other explanation therefore two potential explanations are one a problem with the car the other one is justice summersburg it is his first race this season remember yep uh did not get to race at spa after that uh looking now at the 46. and the 86 yes change yeah so that's mike wainwright i think in the 86 car uh 47 has a penalty to serve that's chetela full course yellow violation they'll spend an extra 10 seconds stationary in the pit bank against what we're looking at on timing and that's gonna be costly because that will cost at least three places yes um so that's gonna be costly for the 47. and the third place in category at the moment as well so drop them off that podium position however with the speed of that car and the way it's been fighting from the start i would suggest that it will try and get yourself back up into that uh position again by the way it's a decent run at the moment satoshi yoshino has not been perhaps one of the quickest bronze drivers so far this season doing a decent job here in the triple seven d station aston martin so the pass we just saw the 46 team project one car that was getting himself back onto the same lap as gr racing's mike wayne right let's get down to the glickenhaus team louise is there to talk to the man whose name is above the door james clicking house the ultimate enthusiasm yes um 709 is running really well we're very happy with the speed um and i think we can do very well 708 went out on seven cylinders one of the spark plugs was broken so that's what it was but if you look at his times now it's running the same speed as the top two toyotas so that was just a silly thing with a broken spark plug we fixed it and now it's running yeah we never stop i mean on seven cylinders the car was still pretty quick so we were happy and we were going to keep it out we got a full course yellow that helped us pull it in and richard's car is run like a clock i think the 708 will run like a clock and uh i think we'll do well thank you all right well we heard the cogent detail there we got the answers from jim glickenhaus we'll sort the these microphone issues out a little later but uh that was the issue anyway for the car broken spark plug you know these things can and do happen occasionally unless you've got a diesel engine in which case there's any injectors that can mess you up another good little battle here 44-34 the two cars with yellow ollie webb ahead of alex bundle alex recovering from that drive-through penalty they served immediately that it was notified and i always think alan that's the best way if you know your bang to rights like that just get in get it done give yourself as much chance to recover as you possibly can i think it depends on where you are in the race but in principle you've got a limited number of laps you can actually stay out anyway before you get a further penalty for ignoring the previous penalty but in the case of alex then he wanted to maximize the time as you could see the asr bratislava car uh just getting a little bit too far over the curb and a bit of a kick that's giving alex an opportunity to run out of the ascari chicane down towards parabolic i think there'll be a bit of defense going on but uh he's certainly on a bit of a mission to try to recover because he was fighting for fourth place at the time when he had that touch it was fourth fifth area and uh that's dropped them down at the moment into ninth in lmp2 great to see by the way this is a world championship race the slovakian team have a polish team yep we're seeing so many new nations coming in to sportscar racing the turkish team in the european le mans series it's it's great to see it and uh okay not a slovakian and a poet's vibrant yet but they will be and uh 44 from 34. the battle of the yellow cars exactly right you know they're starting with their pro drivers ollie webb and alex brown all the hired guns these are the guys that they hire not just for their speed but also to try and help lead the team in the right direction and both these teams have come up from other forms of endurance racing in lmp3 through things like v to v and the the eset v4 cup which actually is still racing but also up the ladder the aco ladder from michelin le mancom european le mans series here to world endurance and that's uh that's you know exactly what the aco have hoped to create it's that route of ambition let's hear from inter-europa and alex prandtl brilliant of alex brilliant jeopardy pushing the pushing uh we've got three snaps six seven nights ago seven laps to the end of the stint for alex brundle a little bit of motivation from the team and i think in reality in the actual end of it ollie webb kind of realized the game was up and he was going to either be overtaken or just try to lose his minimum time as possible but now tatiana calderon's locked onto the battle of that legion and the aurica looks better at the end of the stints than the legion elijah is struggling with low speed grip and traction you saw coming out of the previous chicanes there was a bit of oversteer and that allowed brundle to get a real running into the second chicane and don't forget ollie webb jumped tatyana when she got bought in traffic a few laps ago so she's going right that's my place you've still got some beam i'm having that back so she's all over the back of him at the moment looking for a way to jump through we said this is like this is like the last race we'll see certainly with this league yeah felicia and the wec one of the things counting against the legion in the last couple of seasons has been this dominance in terms of the numbers of the oricas and that means when you get to things like tire development which is utterly critical of course what you've now got are tyres that are more suitable for the aurica over the longer stints than perhaps the afternoon [Music] is uh certainly struggling a little bit at the moment tatiana's there but alex brundle made a bit of a mistake into the chicane so it's allowed the three of them to sort of join up again but i think uh the quickest card off that trio is grundle and i expect him to start to ease away again well we're starting to get towards the end of the entire life we we are now at 50 laps uh no we're not we're out how many laps for the league 41 yeah 41. so we've got uh when did we have full course yellow for these how many laps have they done on their second they're about halfway through their second stint are they because they've got sort of three quarters of a stint so they're getting towards the end of what they're expecting the tires to do come on [Music] further up the road on lmp2 the um thirty-eight jota car twenty-eight georgia carton hands of stockholm vandal he's putting in fast lap times and he has so far in the race he's beginning to close that gap down for the racy competition car 13 seconds now as still tatiana calderon and hollywood not getting away from this fight and tatiana was very nearly in the alex brundle on real team racing zone there she just got it stopped kept a nose out of the way as the 44 car turned across into the first apex of the uh [Music] she sent it at the roger and ollie webb's going i've got the line good stuff from both drivers really calm from tatiana calderon she's inside into lesbo one she makes the pass completed she started and griffin out wide in lesbo two here comes ollie webb yeah great stuff so ollie webb has got some front end on that car because he managed to come back tighter underneath tatiana who should have maybe had the momentum that perhaps just had to breathe out of the throttle to keep it out of the gravel trap and ollie we're back in front in the signatek alpine squad and uh they of course look after this number one we should build racing team uh car looks like absolutely well watch all of this you're not missing close battles at the front of the lmp2 uh battle because phil hanson is pulling away again from the team wrt car and the racing team nothing car behind those gaps are coming out again after we saw them knows to tell what 10 minutes ago it looks to me at this phase of the extent phil hansen's got the pelico underneath him [Music] the great stuff from this battle between the 44 league of ollie webb and tatiana calderon and just up ahead we've got alex brundle who now his team manager has got to go and see the race director about some something or other not sure what that is but it'll be uh i'm sure a very frank and clear discussion but at the same time all the lmp2 cars are about five laps from the end of their stints and so they'll be coming up to their second pit stop remember the first one was slightly earlier than expected due to that full course yellow the second one's going to be a full stint now possibly the reason that alex brundle's team manager has been sent to the race director is that they are now showing the 34 car a black and orange flag and that means we think there's something or we know there's something wrong with your car that you may not want to um you are forced to pit now it could be it can be something like a illuminated door panel not being illuminated or something it could be your body works flapping and you know you're dragging a bumper at the back are you're gonna try to push it as long as possible because they're coming into their pit stop window so they'll try and extend it to the maximum allowed time due to the regulations and then pit on that point because it will allow them the biggest flexibility for strategy later on well normally if you have applied a penalty server drive-through you have you can cross the line no more than three times after it's been notified uh black and yellow flag i would assume a black and orange flag but i would assume would be the same but again have to dive into these pacific championship ranks and ollie webb just creeping away from tatiana calderon as sophia flourish high-fives the team getting ready to get in the kindness you pointed out just the two of them racing here and actually perhaps pretty glad that it's not the temperatures of portugal it is the sky is clearing a little but there is still a decent amount of cloud cover it's still going to be pretty hot and physical three hours each in the car [Music] 92 porsche leading in tte pro from the 51 af course of ferrari shoot the chicane just getting it wrong jimmy bruney far finding the back locking up there might have been a late dive in traffic what comes through the shot next driver so we're starting to see nnp2 changes wrt are in robin friends is out of the car ferdie habsburg uh he's easy to spot because all the other racing drivers essentially just come up sort of barely halfway to his chest so he's easy to spot in the pit lane reecey are in ollie jarvis well ditto with him pretty much likewise he'll probably be getting out of the car there in your insect is the wrt team we have full set of tyres for them and high class have already pitted and left jan magnusson who of course will share a car for high class with his son kevin and other virgil drivers for next season they will be sharing that car at le mans so jan magnusson at the wheel of the high class car two really good-looking driver squads for high-class adlamond this year with kevin and jan uh showing with anders fjordpack and confirmation this week that the 20 car this car will have dennis anderson aboard with marco sorensen for being part of that crew and i've immediately again forgotten where the other driver was well what we know is it's not nikki teams yes we're expecting it to be the aston martin dane james but nicotine dota lake call up to join that car actually the 98 amr aston because will not be available for the le mans 24 hours for the t i'm sure he's very disappointed about that but family demands back home so uh miro canopker i believe is getting into the arc bratislava car and sophia flush very diff and it's almost actually 30 habsburg charmeleci height difference between sophia here and tatiana calderon so very very different seat insert required sofia actually he needs to stop growing she's definitely grown out of being uh single-seater height in comes the real team car that means the number one has to be pushed back push back that's about four or five seconds pit stop time loss there but actually you have to pull back or push back on the on the pit apron here is actually a very narrow distance between each car in the pit lane and quite often you do get it dragon speed in juan pablo montoya'll about the car sorry henrik hedman out the car one pablo started this one i wonder willie i would leave him in now he's done a stint and put him in on fresh tyres i think you could get all of his driving hours out of the way and then let the other guys carry on later on he's in the rhythm we will see ferdi habsburg has taken over in wrt let's hear from andre mcgraw and the alpine team yeah okay there you go driver change coming up for alpene and they are making their second stop lap eight six ricky taylor by the way oh a yeah proper champion uh lineup there with ricky taylor he's a champion of course and uh marcus sorenson reigning world champion in the gt time of his championship first of our hypercars to stop is the alpine that's because both the toyotas and the glickenhaus built to hypercar regulations have bigger fuel tanks oh and chest in the barriers and that's where their race ends i think that's a lot of damage front and rear for roberto la corte must be coming towards the end of his stint and that is on the exit of lesmo two that's exactly where uh stoffel vandoorne planted the jota car in lmp qualifying well i presume he's dropped his left rear wheel coming out to the corner onto the gravel and that's what's looped him around didn't even get to the gravel just on the power touch the porsche touchdown the porsche touchdown right front because that will be something that will be investigated i'm sure if there was a touch i think he'd already lost it but it certainly was contact you could see the front right corner of the porsche there we go that's the car that's in third place jimmy bruni the local hero let's take a look again he lost it there cause or effect no no i lost it was just the final tap i don't think there's anything jimmy could have done that no he was lucky to get away with so little contact he was so close behind on board john yeah the guy in front of me just lost the gun [Music] it's going to be definitely arrow lost there for the 91 that's very sensitive around about that front arrow so i think they'll be trying to understand now uh what they can do at the pit stop because this i would assume will go full course yellow safety car at least i think full course yellow again excellent lesmos not a hard place to predict that cars are going to be requiring a tow at some stage but time lost on track and time lost in the pits fitting a new front end and that hasn't damaged the floor didn't look like it would have but who ever knows you know things happen in accidents actually watching the porsche team practicing the uh bodywork yeah changes modular stuff there that's richard leeds absolutely suited and booted well you know it's we're kind of oh well chester are backing out roberto la court if he hasn't damaged the steering and the suspension it might be a relatively quick fix we will see in a moment or two when it starts tracking down the straight if it is tracking straight down the straight double waved yellows at turn seven eduardo freitas our range director might get away without having to go full course yellow on this it gives the chettalar car another moment or two alan we're here in in uh formula e all the time the race director can talk direct talk directly to the driver can you restart we can't do that yet here he can message them but they can't message back but yeah but you can through the team and the team will be the link between the race director and also with the car itself and so that conversations will be going on to see whether they can get that ferrari back and also the other thing is there's a potential risk of it dropping bits and pieces on its way back as well because it's still a good three kilometers from the pit lane entry was removed so he's got that car uh running this is the battle for second in uh gtm it's the classics that's been entertaining from the start it's paul de la lana on a bit of a tear here and he's on the back of ben keating driven away from this field at the start of the race martin and they are going to catch roberto lacourte he is just leaving oscar and they're heading down there so they may just catch him at the parabolica toyota meanwhile in the pit lane number eight is in first that's very interesting because number seven has pace and the eight has stopped first on fuel and that's exactly the opposite of what we saw in portugal where number eight went into major fuel saving mode so clicking house richard westbrook in as well on the same lap as the toyota so that gives us an indication of how well they're both faring in terms of economy second third and fourth follow weight for the aston martins in gtm because fourth in the order one way further back is the triple seven car 47 is elm pit lane we're hearing from luiz yeah you just saw it there flash across the inset picture in front of the 709 clicking house this is their car that has not had a delay yet and not being released in front of fast moving traffic that's the seventh toyota coming in it's come on come on baby come on fire oh you little rotter meanwhile in the main picture ben keating hanging on to second from paul dalalana then keating so excited to claim pole position here last afternoon yesterday evening and what a big lap it was from the aston martin driver in the four horsemen car yeah just seeing that clicking house though as we see the battle here in lm gt toyota going quite slowly as well oh that's the seven car jack that's the eighth car so driver change no driver change in the seven car hold on yeah he's active on the steering wheel that's it it's something from the pit stop doing a hundred and eight hundred and seven hundred eight kilometers per hour that's too constant yeah it's on a limiter isn't it or stuck in gear through goes the alpine up to second number seven toyota on in the pits the car has stopped driving [Music] on this particular beast but uh looking at his problem there for the eight at the same time the clicking as we saw going slowly out the pits which i suspect could be heat soak after a pit stop and then that stumps it here we go back to the toyota though yeah i fuel pump if they've gone too low and come into the pits it wouldn't pick up and therefore they'd have to effectively like a kind of primer effectively but they were one lap less than mike conway their sister car and this has given everything to that car as now it's leading easily and also for the championship because remember this car the eight has won both the races and so far all the races so far but at the flip side of it you've got uh the situation where the other car has actually had the pole positions absolutely and the clicking house goes through to third position now and uh still not managed to get the car back to the pits crawling back this must seem like an internal lap but but salvation because if it had stopped out on track oh yes that would be a massive points deficit here they've got four other cars in their class so if they finish the worst they can be is fifth chances are they've got so much pace that even if it's you know a few minutes in the pits now and loses a couple of laps they may well yet finish on the podium so the points gain for their sister car is not so enormous but frank mayor now in 709 in a podium spot and no surprise to see number eight going into the garage another component tested on the glickenhaus and that's the position lights they all work its third position for the number 709 car whilst frantic activity in the toyota kazoo racing team not the quicker car but you've got we said at the start the race didn't we he looked well frustration on the face of brendan hartley you've got to be perfect you've got to be fault free you cannot afford to put the car on the garage and the toter has falling down the field into the lmp2 field now so up in the fourth position has come team wrt ahead of felipe albuquerque so but it's been a driver change for united auto sports that's what's made the difference in 18 seconds in the pits for wrt phil p kirk is now seven seconds back over listen to what's going on with the number eight no we're not going to hear that this is the british racing car i think about to have a lap put on it by the 28th no this is actually the reese competition identified now so this is the battle we've been talking about this while ago weren't we it's now ryan cullen aboard the rissy car sean gale has taken over the jota car this is for position and this is for a little bit hairy at the end when he started to get into the apex but he's managed to get themselves up in to fourth position and so now it's jota up into fourth and decosta is in the other jotiko that started last as we're now seeing well we hear it starting up running through the gears it's now dropped behind the second lickinghouse that's uh exactly what jim wanted to see well listen everybody knows that the only way you're going to be to toyota here is if it has a problem and that goes for the other toyota as well correct you know and and the crew of number eight there they're the points leaders as you say they've won both races by smart racing by fast lap times but by good fuel economy and they know their only chance to beat the number seven cars to have a perfect race and they know now it's not going to be a perfect race however battle for the lead ferrari coming back to porsche now luis said they had left sides only so both cars on tyres of the same vintage but looks like the ferrari has either made better use of them or better use of traffic and caught the 92 porsche kevin estrella still trying to fight fend off alessandro pierre greedy two of the quickest guys in this field in gt cars to the quickest guys in the world in gt cars that's in a rich vein of form and alessandra pierre greedy keen to show that he's on just as much form he's gonna come home with consecutive race-winning performances on consecutive race weekends in two different ferraris at this fabulous monza track that's just possible united car closes up behind this pair blue flags shown to the gt cars to make life easy for philippe alberkirk who's maybe concentrating he strengthens the needle and tries to get back on terms with the team wrt car [Music] hearing from louise that the toyota number eight is to be back on two pit lane yeah ferrari fans here it's great to have some fans back he stands only for the moment away goes number eight and how long was that on pit road well actually clears the blend line it wasn't a long stop but it doesn't have to be sometimes to torpedo you below the waterline now four and a half minutes they know that their teammates have to have an absolute nightmare not to take a big points advantage away for toyota now down to 21st place just ahead of the am class they're going to have to do what the 708 glickenhaus did which is just basically grind it out and see who else has issues three laps as the kevin estrella just dips the rear wheel off the porsche to the gravel that's given other sandra pierre queen yet another bit of a nibble here yeah there are several things i'm sure apart from the proximity of the car in front that really just sort of get a driver's blood going the smell of overheating the smell of transmission fuel fluid you know which is so clear or the rattle of gravel as he makes a mistake under pressure here in tota no mechanical work required it was a power cycle and changed the settings that was it so electronics race cars is it in the barrier no has it still got four wheels correct are there flames no electronics yeah wc chief strategist martin haven here it's available for any hypercar program yeah does it move yes should it no gaffer tape does it move no should it yes wd-40 you know they're the basic rules of engineering life aren't they i've just checked out south who is not an ordinary queue for any team principles looking back disorderly it's a it's a mob they're beating each other up to try and get me to run their programs for so where we where are we now was we watch from on board sandra pierre greedy looking at the rear end of the uh the porsche it is toyota kazoo racing's number seven leading uh just over an hour and a half gone with this six-hour race from the 36 alpine and then the seven porsche has gone deep into their sorry to interrupt their grim but the porsche went really deep into it that's allowed a little bit of a run i'm not sure he's going to be able to get it done because if i suspect that esther's just going to go to the left and make sure the ferrari has to go the long way around two gt stories uh in the pits jimmy bruni back out from the pits 47. i know this not because i've seen him on track because he's been warned about respecting blue flags so that means he's not in the pit lane so chetila have turned that car around and got it back out and i have by the way while i was quite i've been doing some engineering i've now turned the telly back on and found out why we lost all our timing screens and uh we now have both our timing switch back so the chet's luck i've come to the wrong page so yeah yeah i've undone all that haven't i yeah the jet lag car is last running car so he's still ahead of the number 60. for fun of the tvs it's another bid for that uh that team job but rooney there you see this porsche bottom left-hand side they're not looking to change the nose of that car that was a damage after the selected car spun and just got tagged into second lesmo but uh it certainly isn't going to be a performance enhancement tool the damage on the on the nose of the car ferrari though is right behind poor giddy right behind estra three minutes by the way on the pit lane for the chettalar car that's what it took to repair that damage they are now eight laps down on the overall leaders i think something like three laps down on the class leaders in come both the gta pro leading cars okay so will we see driver changes this is where what might have been a plan suddenly goes to becoming a different plan will you stick with plan a do you go for plan b do you consider sticking to your strategy or try and go for track position and then as well i think crystal fall rick is probably getting out of the 61 car he's done a stint and a half he's done an hour and 40 minutes nearly 35 minutes so that's a very decent half his minimum drive time requirement what's he what's the am drive time requirement in the six hour race it's not 90 minutes okay he might not be far off that however am's in a in a six-hour race are one hour 45 and we're one hour 37 done so he will need to do another 20 minutes so he'll need to do another stint later in the race neil yani in for the porsche i remember the different positions on the pit lane as the porsche goes past both ferraris in remember the 61 car their day here is about this race but it's also about practice they it's an interesting one isn't it they're the first reserve car for them on 24 hours simon man with christopher ulrich now it wasn't ulrich in for the whole thing though someone man was in that car when they came in just now the 61. there was a driver change there was a driver change um so tony vallander still to come in the 61 car yeah with the two pit stops so far the ferrari cumulatively is four seconds behind the porsche porsche's just sneaking a little bit out in the pits so simon man has just got in ulrich started i'm pretty certain they changed a lot of the first split i looked to the timing screen when the car came in it said christoph alright still right um there's been something iffy there in which case with the drama selector because i thought it was already in the car checked and well we'll see we'll have a look and see what uh what our system tells us seven car still one light on the side of the toyota the untroubled tow to hyper car at the moment goes through what will be the end of the 56 now 26 seconds the good from the alpine it's been the most convincing performance so far for the total hypercar against the alpine on pure speed 42 seconds by the way between the alpine and the first of the clicking house the second clicking house by the way is just about to get back into the overall top 10. 708 come on that's a spark per problem we were hearing from reese with jim looking house left a while ago 11th position on the fight back still a break car has now cleared the gte pro field is up to 17th on the battle on the way there for toto to point battle in hypercar points against the 708 will mata [Music] 36 alpine hoping maybe more than one issue for otosi this afternoon don't appear to have the legs on the totals this uh in this race the 709 i think here's straight line speed relative to cornering performance and that's one thing with uh the toyota struggled a little bit in a high speed longer corners of porto mao and there's significantly more of them uh than there are here big lock up in the background as we saw somebody uh blowing the chicane there at the first corner don't know who it was but somebody's definitely lost a little bit of time got a bit of a flat spot could it it's number eight toyota's in trouble number eight toyota has just been passed by a gt yam car this is on board with the number eight brendan hartley is in trouble again and he may well have blown the chicane because he was control or deleting furiously [Music] not good news good news for toyota his last lap time was a 39.8 so it was back up to speed here we go on board that's even much more than i thought when i mentioned it before holy moly that was nearly enormously bad news for brexit throttle sort of break issues as now he comes back towards a bit rob leupens on the radio travel open you're looking at the pictures of the number eight toyota this is not what we want to see what is going on uh good question louisa we're not sure ourselves at the moment what has happened but apparently there is some malfunction on the steering wheel and that has caused the problems with brandon and his outlap and then and now he's pushing a bit maybe a bit too hard to see that but it seems that it's going so i don't hear him at the moment i cannot tell you exactly what's going on but he's driving so let's see and hopefully we continue and try to come back up onto the grid okay we'll come back to you thank you okay thank you i'm not 100 sure that was just driver error coming down into the chicane there there's a lot of electronic systems break balance systems that automatically shift the balance from the front to the rear while the hybrid system is recuperating and that can have a tremendous effect on the braking stability and efficiency but let's go and let's hear from brendan hartley now i think more front drive train okay sorry it looked very visually as if it shifted everything to the rear because the rear was dancing around behind them before he locked the fronts and it can do that because unlike your road car predominantly your road car you push a pedal and it's a fluid system you pump fluid here it's break by wire computers can malfunction in that system and get it all wrong for you yeah but there's road cars that now have a lot of break by wire as well but a great principle you're exactly right and that's where i was a little bit surprised with the with the sort of comment suggestion because looking at it on board that was a bit too dramatic just for a driver look up he's yeah i'm gonna lock up one of these cars into the chicago by that he's a bit too experienced for that to be in driver era well to be honest on the onboard camera just looked at the width of his eyes when he was looking at the back of that aston martin and that suggested that it was a bit closer than he expected or wanted but the cars going back in that really takes them out of any game unless the others need the category of a technical problem look at the debris what has been machined off there that is that is not an electronics issue the electronics don't produce swarf that has the the either the bell the actual disc itself has come loose or the caliper is loose something has machined lots and lots of metal and that's why the damn thing didn't stop it was busy falling apart machiavellia for alpene in second place trying to come by the uh green and yellow into europol competition cart of rengar van der zander graham that's not gonna be we're just to hit the electronics or replace a box is it that was pretty serious drama wasn't it fastest car on the track at the moment is the click and house in third place in the 38s compared to the 39s the cars ahead wheel won't come off this is toyota you saw it there martin as it came in and now the nose is off and they're working away yeah that's a lot of stuff now the good news for the number seven car is if it's not electronics it's unlikely that it's gonna happen to them as well that's certainly not by design no unlike it's not impossible they'll both have new brake components or whatever fitted for the race from the same batch but there is yeah machined metal everywhere and cars don't do that by habit so pachito lopez leaves from vasivir and fonkmeyer lies in third for glickenhaus top three in hypercar three different manufactures and graham on pace that is the first time we've had that this season absolutely and you know we again we said at the top of the show you have to be perfect here you know these these cars are only going to get better as things come through yep at the moment large-ish gaps but what we've got are three healthy cars at the top of tubing scoring we've got another car that's way down up to ninth now for the second clicking house on this fight back from now just other menaces upon the seven or eight but that car is healthy in the 38s and one moment very unhealthy toyota indeed that's not something we've been able to save for quite some time i know i know racing team nedland fritz van air the gentleman driver in that car the boss of jumbo supermarkets of course you've seen his colors not just here but racing in tour de france and all the big grand tours as well and he is out in the car at the moment pull up shutout is very fast frenchman indeed it's uh by the look of things about to getting aboard the 29 racing team netherlands oh prematurely i think we're a long way from their next yeah their aircon probably isn't that what ours is but uh team wrt lingard ferdi habsburg is our leader in lmp2 ahead of philippe alberkirk and sean galileo we saw him battling in third with fritz van aird antonio felix de costa we didn't i think took over 38 the jota sport car and here's our lead battle in gte pro the 92 porsche neil charney let's hear from him hey that's a good start to the stint like we said before we just got to look after these tyres the right size from kevin has quite a lot of wear and they've got to try and double them you're doing a good right side from kevin has a lot of weird now that's the right side that i'm going to start as you see the am porsche just uh missing the chicane there so that means that right side if they're going to double them will do four stints or three and a half stints because of the old course yellow at the beginning and uh the left side will be fresh neil gianni brought this up in uh when i was speaking to him after portomales he said that it was one of the things that he learned actually the card is significantly better balanced than more feedback than he ever expected however the management of the tire was something you really had to get your your head around trying to understand how far you can push it but also when you're pushing it a little bit too much because the recovery point of it is very very difficult but right now you've got yanny but collado is catching in on behind was he going to race him or is he going to play the long game well i think alan so much of this gte class is things like time management because drivers of this caliber actually finding the pace in the car that's that's no problem for them whatsoever it's maintaining it that's the all right that was the agedio perfetti am class car that was moving around there in the lesbros so judo's not in it but it's it's that car the bentos car but uh even so uh kaladi just losing a little bit of ground there to the 92 porsche yeah it's ricardo pereira in that 56 car we saw at the moment at the first chicane another moment across the chicane as we've got in the background [Music] that was antonio phillips de costa in the second jota car going by fritz van eyed for what is now fourth actually chasing down the team car 28 which is five seconds further off the road it's really close because involved there and that is the position as well ahead of fritz went ahead so military's up to eighth position and now closing in rapidly on decosta for seventh um by the way second place in uh in gtam with that instant the first chicane five seconds gonna be added to the next pit stop for the arc branislava car for a incident of the second chicane for [Music] yeah that'll be uh potentially a warning for track limits yes this is one of the four corners they're examining there's grip out there it's less than ideal but slightly more ideal than hitting a porsche that's drifted out wide on you yeah but it was always going to drift out wide that's the the tricky area here that the costa i think will maybe have a little bit of a word in his ear for that one because there was no question the porsche had the right to move out to the outside of it antonio was committed and he knew there was runoff area to spare kept his foot in he knew he hadn't got previous there so he won't get a penalty for it looking at the other penalties that have just came in for kanoko for splitting the chicane and things like that i i would i'll wait and see what uh the race director you almost always get a final warner from warning from race control before you get a penalty eight more work going on on that left front corner [Music] that's a long job isn't it there yeah lmp2 by the way philippe cook has been just hedging back into that lead from the wrt car but freddie habsburg doing a great job in finding them off it's under 11 seconds and cuts good though it's been really strong they were struggling i thought in three practice three reader of the car didn't look very stable graham but then come qualifying boom unless he stuck it on paul and it was a blooming good lap and they've been quick right from the beginning even though they dropped to second place at the start but when hanson jumped them they were right on it with robin friends all the way through philippe albuquerque in second and in third place in lmp2 the jota sport driver sean gillel both on best laps of the race so far for themselves indeed it's uh what they're looking to do here is put wrt cards back on the table in this championship it's not been the start this season they would want but uh well the big points are still to come yep but united and jota taking this ball so far there's currently sitting second third and fourth and piling the pressure on they're both going quicker both the second place united and the third place jota sport car going quicker than 30 habsburg on that last lap i think they've changed the corner if i look at it yeah it looks like they've taken all the suspension the whole thing off [Music] yeah this was bro this is when he pulled off to the side this is out he's already had the issue at the first chicane this was him getting out the way the second one yeah when you go for the middle pedal and he does stuff like that it's a different lock up isn't there i tell you to the pits yeah no first that was the first one this is the second one that's that's not easy to watch is it no back in the day alan you know your whole team audi just a test here without the uh the chicane in place i was never all that excited to go into curvy grand at 40 kilometers per hour i'll be honest with you i think your heart rate would probably have told a different story i always look to the right instead of the wall on the left yeah there's still a lot of work going on there in fact it's off the front page of the time screen for those who at home that means it's not in the top 28. it's going to be little um compensation to them but this is an opportunity to go through those drills they're out this race effectively therefore go through those drills ahead of the next race to come and that's absolutely right everything is rehearsal for le mans you know all of life is a rehearsal for them on and they're absolutely gonna learn their lessons from this but you're very correct it is of little compensation to them yeah yeah because you're not practiced on the other car will be the only thought that the team of number eight have and number seven will be going i hope to goodness that our drive shaft hub brake whatever it was didn't come from the same batch well we see sean galileo the second of those cars are jota the green jota lmp2 car he's in third place and in fourth antonio felix decostic the second of those jota lmp2 cars however he's under investigation for that overtaking round the outside off track at parabolica and so that's something that we'll see whether there is a warning or a penalty or whatever's to come but the cost is on a charge but ultimately he may actually have a little bit of a penalty to pay yeah well we saw that 98 aston mart was told to give places back that he refused to give having shot the chicane um and and that was the only penalty and it wasn't for position it was just putting a lap on the on a back marker on a slower gt car so i think a drive-through penalty would be pretty harsh though yeah just 10 seconds stop at the next pit stop or something like that is uh the opportunities available to stuart aboard the number 91 car [Music] now fourth position closing again on daniel sarah here yeah just 33 hundredths of a second behind him at the line so this is a genuine battle for third the high-class car may not be the ferrari fans favorite in a moment because as he shoots down the inside and stands on the middle pedal he's going to take a little bit of the focus away this is jan magnusson gets by nice and closely uh nice and cleanly rather but closing right up behind richard leitz on daniel sarah looking strong at the moment isn't that 91 porsche fourth out of the four runners in gte pro again for yana head and yellow and green car that's a battle for position the yellow and green into europol car currently in the hands of renga and what was their last lap time 41-3 and a 41-7 both quicker than the three cars ahead of them at the moment so progress being made by both of those cars now that was the ferrari kicking up the dirt there we saw moments or two ago in the other ferrari porsche battle for the lead of the cast the porsche kicking up the dirt ahead of the ferrari but uh neil johnny just creeping away to a second and a half nearly ahead of james collado and teammate daniel serra in the red car in front of us with you know not even a quarter of that advantage at the moment over neil jarni here let's see what the team have got to say this is richard leeds peggy parker in 91 richie if we stop fuel savings do you have skills to pass the ferrari question hardcore tour okay please try we'll give it five so they're saving behind lift off and coasting trying to you know just conserve the well two things the little bit on the brakes but also the other thing the fuel which will extend the the stint lens potentially but uh now give it full beams get past the ferrari you're being held up too much it's a warning flag for the 38 for that tower take off of track limits at uh parabolica she's keeping an eye on the pace at the moment that gustavo menezes in ninth place in the glickenhaus the seven eight car that's had to have delay early with his spark plug 148 his lap two laps ago he's not back yet to the kind of pace we've seen that car with 38 39s so i wonder if that car might be traffic more likely maybe a little bit of a problem hanging in this firing of it uh antonio costa getting a warning from the stewards for passing around the outside uh passing around the outside not the issue passing around the outside by exceeding track limits that was the issue there he's just been warned about that i recently see the the team radio is a double-edged sword you can have a conversation with your driver but it's not secret because if we can hear it and we broadcast it as we just have done then the ferrari team if they're not watching the tv or not hearing the radio broadcasts will be only fools themselves number eight back out and back on track do you reckon that brendan's going to be a little bit gentle in the breaking area the first game once or twice definitely in fact there are no small stops here are there so he'll be very cautious down to the roger the first time but now they've put a new left front corner on the car and i'm sure it was as you said alan the full corner drive shaft potentially and everything else and hopefully what ailed it should be cured you don't expect a second major companion failure like that he pops out just uh behind the battling jota cars i saw the battling definitely last uh last time to port him out it was great entertainment he's through covers wrt car leading the class still by uh over 11 seconds so felipe albacore is not making an impact on to that uh that gap right now it is richard lee on the back of daniel cena he's been given the the okay to go for it but he's not been able to go for it and get it done damage on that right front corner as well i was thinking it was 92 but it wasn't it was that car wasn't it it's another unimpressive lap uh from the clicking house it's 1 45 now i'm pretty certain the military's got a problem here yes i don't think it's traffic so it is i don't think the stardom has forgotten how to drive halfway through just entirely the last three laps have been 148 142 145 against well laps in that traffic cluster at 141 142 and uh more often than not it's been 138 to 140s when the garden gets full screen to put that into perspective that's four or five seconds a lap slower than an mp2 car so he has definitely got an issue and he's gonna struggle to to pass most things in a straight line as a result he's going to be the traffic for the gte cars at the moment at that place confirmed it is a full front left corner change for the right totem thank you very much to well how full is the front left corner is that drive shaft as well that was uh 88 i think they're running off onto the grass on the exit of ascari kicking up the dirt 77 i think sofia flourished there is just the lmb2 card in behind that let me show me a releasing card they are sitting that particular car is uh just lost it it's nine so it's behind gustavo menezes in the glickenhaus on the timing screen it's ninth in the lmp2 class seven total pushing uh has been pushing for some little while now certainly not in any kind of conservation mode i think it's on a risk assessment certainly because it's made competitive in the championship is uh several laps down being the sister car however at this moment in time in the toyota pit if it's not already done it's understanding what the problem was and also what the risk is to the other card the number seven yeah that's leading this race and and the thinking there if you're in the number seven team garage is if we are going to be forced to stop we want to be going as quick as is humanly possible so that we get back out in front of the other car because that is your championship rival rather than the drivers of the alpine or the glickenhaus which are unlikely probably to beat you at the moment three-car battle here with uh fritz fernandez now under pressure from ryan cullen and jan magnusson battle we have reggae van der zander yeah indeed that is all for position fritz van eyed in the black and yellow racing team nedland car leads in pro-am he's fifth overall in lmp2 and gets the break in traffic nothing wrong with his driving abilities here there's some van der sander on the back i mean going too wide it's gonna be three i think he's okay with that yeah two wheels over the white line to make the pass he's got an overlap though here we go coming down the inside of the high-class carving magnuson and he's commanding the inside line and jan says yeah i've got the inside line for the second element make it through frankie vanderzander picks up the spot renga is quite strong in traffic shall we drives very robustly but uh does a good job and those two know each other well of old of course because wenger spent a lot of time racing in him so where yam has as well and renga was saying this car compared to the cadillac dpi he said it's like it's got air con the cadillac is like a sauna inside he said this car is no problem at all in the temperature it should point out as well by the way that fritz fernard leading this group of four cars is leading the pro-am class and his major competition at the moment is the uh high-class racing car magnussen sitting second in the class yeah ben hanley has taken over in the dragon speed car from hendrick hedman at the last stop mira konopka did take over from ollie webb in arc bratislava norman nato in at real team that was the driver changed [Music] is missing a guard and a tire left front corner that's that's what i mean yeah yeah it's also the inner edge of that tire is actually the band has come off it yeah so more than likely he's had a flat spot and it's then just peeled it back on the inner edge well we're watching this as well by the way uh the 709 definitely the 708 rather in trouble it's a four at 147 yeah that's actually just lost the lap to its sister car achievia professes in that's the car that has all the trouble here that's the tire that has all the trouble left [Music] that was it that was the tyre shredding the front of the car happens at high speed these things because then the centrifugal force just peels it off so therefore if it is the bonding where the the whole construction of the tire joins together if it has just released a little bit then you get this a lot of carbon debris on the track there at a high speed part of the track and into a braking zone you can see they're on the inner half of it how it's cleaned and then the other half is flailing oh and the problem there is not just brake lines and suspension but all the electronics and everything else inside it's you know there's the exhaust running around the back of the wheel arc litter yeah butter's gone as well that is a big job ben keating is out you can see the texas lone star in is our lmp2 leader safety car yeah that will be for debris on all that debris that was running up towards their sky and wrt's done their pit stop but will there be a red light at the end of the pit lane will they able to leave they're wow that's full rallycross spec there oh that was antonio felix de costa yeah kept his foot in it over the gravel three laps for pits closed on the safety gear 38 has come in that's a mistake as well it'll be emergency service for anything immediately now this is where the debris field is going to be wrt have left the pit lane so they have been allowed out of the pit lane and they have already started their pitch yes by the time that it wasn't as if they came in at the beginning yeah that would have been colossally unfair if they'd been caught at the end of the pit lane gt pro pass for thirds oh that's a bit of top speed yeah absolute just oh it's a bit of did he make the corner yes [Music] that's a great bit of supercap action there from richard leetz there is our safety car ready to go because of this huge tyre failure that's and that was that out of sequence extra stop you imagine that they didn't do us did we see them do a set of tyres uh let's have a quick look what was his pit stop time it's entirely possible here because they've got old-fashioned-ish kerbs with edges that fall off into gravel traps it's it's entirely possible that running out wide has somehow cut the tyre a little bit i think it's more likely coming from the flat spots yeah and then the vibrations of everything that comes from that you saw dylan pereira sitting in the seat so he's not getting in the car now but that's a worrying moment for our race leader in gte pro neil jarney davery field coming back at you at flat chat it's a pretty worrying moment for what was then the leader in gt yam yeah which was what actually happened but he obviously sends something because he moved to the inside it was probably starting to shake itself to pieces in his hands and then boom because as that started yeah that's quick reactions though from ben keating it's a really tough break for the team from for ben and for tf sports just going to show all the energy involved there can do the damage there and the tyres grow so much in their circumference as well at the speeds that they're doing here as well that any any weakness is going to be found out much more than at a less less quick less longer straights [Music] the basic problem that you put the tread on top of the carcass and so they have to be joined together and anything that is joined can be unjoined which is what's happened unfortunately for tf sports this has to come down there's bad news again for toyota that's uh hard earned almost lap lead on the flickinghouse in third and uh substantial uh lead over the 36 is gonna come down to next two nothing the man currently with the widest eyes in the pit lane is just squaring up with louise beckett this will be an eye to eye interview almost for louise let's hear from ben keating then keating i can see the disappointment on your face we can see the team working hard uh what happened from your point of view in the car uh i i pushed a little bit too hard when i was trying to pass the 98 car going into a scary and i flat spotted the tire pretty bad i was trying to nurse it for the last 20 minutes we just pushed it one lap too far uh unfortunately we should have pitted one lap earlier we would have been okay but uh the tire exploded blew out the inner tire liner and uh i guess according to the rules we have to race with that inner tire lantern so so now they're working to replace it all but uh who knows how many how far down we are now yeah the damage that it causes is just incredible yeah unfortunately we were uh i don't know maybe half a kilometer from uh from pitting so it happened on the back straight away right before coming to the pits but once it exploded boom the damage is done okay thanks ben thank you a lot of damage time ben keating taking this car to the bond next month his seventh visit to le mans graham goodwin his seventh different car not not actual chassis different type of car not because he's done that to all of them now ben you know it's again the passion shows and the disappointment shows doesn't it but yeah it's the adventure for him well this two is motor racing allen isn't it you know for for the few highs there are far more lows aren't there yeah very true majority of the time you go home thinking what might have been uh but the ones where you managed to be on top of that podium that the two cars coming to the pit lane are at now uh is just a fantastic feeling and it makes up for all that disappointment in the rc bratislava is in the pits also sean gale in the jota in the lmp2 car and the iron links sarah bovee gt3 am all in the pits well there is the race order after just over two hours toyota alpine glitten house you're one two three those are the healthy hyper cars united also sports wrt ahead of the brace of joe to sport cars as pit stops start behind the safety car and in the gt pro class 92 porsche ahead of the 51 ferrari with porsche ferrari the remaining positions in the am class tonight at the aston martin that was leading ben keating's car is in the pit lane and that means that 83 bags at the top of the pile francois parado ahead of the 54a of course the car and the 98 aston is in third position and the pit lane is now open we are seeing pit stops and the last car running the car behind you is a toyota that is the fate so far of the number eight car and they've got just over three and three quarter hours to try and find their way back that's a picture that you don't expect to see isn't it as a racing driver a tractor coming the other way good and we can vouch for how effective that blower is can't we after the track walk earlier on i didn't do this right you didn't come around so it was it was just uh just me and duncan i thought that you were oh it was dave it was dave our producer obviously i was too busy drinking teenaged in biscuits which is my one great knowledge by the way from you there martin on uh ben keating as we watch uh repairs going on not just seven different cars several different makes as well yeah so you know he's been part of the 24 hour since 2015. not the best of luck one uh podium in class in gte am did win on the road before disqualification for gt but we've got a bit of time uh 2015 the srt viper gtm york at zero three nissan with murphy prototypes in 2016 and on p2 riley mark 30 gibson in 2017 18 with safari 488 gt with kitty motorsports the following year the fabulous wins liver in four gt last year team project won with the porsche 911 rsr if things get planned it would be tf sport and the master not advantage gte in 2021 for one of the most enthusiastic people on the planet yeah seven different cars run by seven different teams you know and he's always just looking for the next adventure it's not that he didn't like the cars that he was racing all the teams he was racing with he's just always looking for that next adventure and texan runs 13 14 different car dealerships back home so he's a very busy man and actually graham you know we've talked about it last season and this boy he's quick oh he's probably quick i mean he's it's quick in gt cars he's quicker than b cars anybody that watched the relax 24 a couple of years ago but i've seen him frankly destroyed the field in the start of the rolex 24 in lmp2 car probably stretched the envelope a little bit in racing both in gtd the gt3 cut and the p2 and i think he was tired by that but the talent of ben keating as a driver let alone as a gentleman driver absolutely undisputable for me right up there as one of the best if not the best non-professional driver in sports car racing i think in our field he and the ggo perfetti and the gts are right there hammer and tongs with each other and as good as anybody else you care to put them put against them and by the way don't challenge him on a bicycle either oh that's often the case he has done multiple times more miles on a bicycle since the beginning of lockdown than he has done in any kind of wheeled vehicle he is a very fit individual and you know he as i said runs a slew of car dealerships all the way across texas uh from his home in victoria texas and uh yeah what an enthusiastic is he back in the car uh no it's not no so dylan pereira no because dylan was in the seats over there yeah it may well be i thought dylan was getting ready to go in but it may well be philippe fragrance behind the safety car with pits still closed of course it is the seventh toyota kazoo racing car we just crossed the line now the second part is now complete uh behind the car here it's uh now matteo vasopierre from the second so you've got great 36 albion [Music] the seven car the underlaid car in lmp2 it is a change with that pit stop we saw just as the safety cars car was scrambled for the wrt car did not manage to burn most of that under safety car conditions though so it's the 22 united auto sports car uh of felipe albuquerque who leads the way from the 38 johter antonio felix de costa fritz van eyed in the number 29 racing team netherland come on that car brings very well for the pro-am uh squad into europol competition with rengar vanderzander runs fourth at the moment wrt having made that stop others still have to stop uh is out there running in fifth possession in position in class still staying out despite the fact i think we're pretty convinced it's carrying a problem the 708 car clicking house racing i expect to see that go on pit lane when it can yeah um and that car running in ninth position overall and amongst the lmp2 class completing the top ten with the 28 joe to car with sean gale uh and in second in the b2 pro pro-am 11th overall jan magnusson gt pro 17th overall it's porsche ferrari porsche ferrari again neil jamie uh in the number 92 for the 51 of james gallardo with the of course of porsches richard richard richard leets sorry in the porsche and daniel serra once roberto now leads at the gtm class in the 83 ferrari uh out of the second day of course at ferrari in the hands again francesco castellachi paul dalalana third in the 98 amr uh north west uh aston martin vantage ben barker in a good position at the moment in the 86 golf racing car and a good run here from satoshi hashino and race control telling drivers to close up gaps in the field which means we are preparing i think to go back to green flag racing safety car remains out well let's get down to racing team netherlands that car lying in third position with fritz van aird at the wheel as we said earlier nick capri's here this weekend he's with louise beckett [Music] [Music] yeah of course it's very weight okay uh of course it's a shame for the team to miss out on on two permanent drivers but um yeah luckily we could step in and replace them for this weekend um unfortunately we have been very unfortunate by this safety car uh we're obviously on the same kind of strategy as the leaders but our competition managed to benefit massively from it because they were behind and they obviously pitted during the safety car while we had to do a splash and we still need to do a full pit stop but it is the way it is um i think we we are strong and still a long race together okay thanks i can see the team i'm getting ready behind you so uh we'll get going thank you cheers hello to uh friend of the show alard calf who's been enjoying at racing his spice hour not his spice a spice again all weekend uh at sanford but he points out that this will be the first le mans for ben keating without jerome blake correct mundo yes well spotted have you thought of that drone in this race is [Music] a long long and productive uh partnership between the two of them so jerome will be aboard a different car in gtm come on time so lights off start yeah lights off on the safety car it's always a sign when eduardo wants the field to close up there's the clicking house closing up a little too much over the 61 am class ferrari we go green green flag is shown at the start line and our race leader who is jose maria lopez now the seven toyota leads the charge but the d station aston is that coming into the pits it is and that means that the cars behind can't pass they can't pass until now as you get to the line so that's why the queue is spreading out and here comes the 709 third place frank mayer his first world endurance race in that glickenhaus and everybody else bottled up behind there's the sister car contact and didn't get by that's uh the 52 car of daniel sarah trying to go by richard leeds the alpine has pitted looking house 709 up to second place right now across the timing line 15.9 seconds back that didn't do the clicking house any favors backed it right up there well now in the pits united first in lmp2 chota second in lmp2 racing team medlin third in lmp2 into europol fourth in lmp2 nick defeats was kind of right that a lot of their rivals like them had to come in for an emergency stop to get a few liters of fuel on to survive the safety car that's possibly almost as much of an issue now then was that a safe release for the jota car to come up alongside the 98 aston martin that's dropped behind triple seven there's a change there because they came in with the 98 of paul dalalana ahead now andrew watson in the d station carves the head of marcos gomez in that 98 aston the all aston battle and those are the top two healthy astons somehow now dempsey protons christian reid the 77 car is up into the top five this is the battle for the lead in gt pro through traffic against the frog let's take an advantage here around the outside is he going to make that oh neil uh is going to make him use the runoff area i have the inside i'm drifting out wide sort yourself out something how can we start here in gt pro this is james collado world champion there goes the real team racing lmp2 car he goes by he's going to try and get by the project one porsche in front can't do it and again the ferrari now he's got the internal apex and he takes the inside line and rubs the porsche off into the dirt and through goes richard leetz so big loss of ground there i'm afraid for neil jarney the defense didn't work did it unfortunately johnny loses two places on the exit back corner reese's pit stop under investigation they have just been in and out of the pits of the whole field it looked like that yeah but also miguel molina i think he's still aboard that uh that's that's daniel sarah isn't it he's in the mix here as well there's a lot of last of the late late breakers going on here isn't there leader in gte pro for the first time this race is a ferrari and here's how it happened james collado denied the outside line in the parabolica goes outside inside and just goes i'm having that neil gianni tough tough luck son suck it up in the gravel that was a big move from collado allen yeah it was and at this point then to be honest it wasn't a surprise that uh that yanni ended up with two wheels in the gravel and then ultimately dropped back into third place and he's not far ahead of daniel sarah oh and that was the glickenhaus going straight on daniel sarah is there as well so this is collado the red car the white porsche with the red stripe that's neil jarney then there is the am class porsche the third white portion that is third place and the ferrari behind is fourth place that's your gte pro field with an am in the middle of it going guys please go buy me right now if you wouldn't mind that was a 708 clicking house we saw on the run through okay that's another uh long wrap i'm afraid from gustavo menezes is he back into trouble again immediately once we come up with this from the safety car yeah are they running with a problem we can see the blimp they're up in the sky there it is indeed once more it's been well over a decade nearly 15 years i think since there's been a good year blimp resident in europe 708 is in the pit lane so gus menezes clearly not happy with the way the car is working yeah but it was like 45 when they were last into the pits and so therefore they're still early on the stop but i presume after an issue at the first chicane then there's maybe a little bit of bringing the stint length down and making sure they get them sorted out well you learn nothing if you have to park the car you learn an awful lot more even if it makes you slightly less competitive here of course you're trying to learn for them on so make sure you get all the kilometers under the wheels as you can might just be that he was running out of tire jerome was galore continued 92 car back up to pace and back with the system 91 51 ferrari leads for james collado coming down the straight with the green splitter the red rinaldi racing throw we barely talked about that car but that is a newcomer to world endurance championship racing christian hook is at the wheel of that car at the moment they are in the top 10 in the gte anfield and again for them it's limbering up for le mans dennis olsen by the way now aboard the 46 car so this will be his first introduction to the world championship this year in the 46 project wong khan setting quick lap times immediately for a man that took the book down the gt challenge a couple of years ago ricky van der zander third place in the third europol competition fourth place jose antonio felix de costa so this is a battle for the podium position rick of azanda certainly isn't going to be i would say too courteous towards the coast and shouldn't be in reality because this is a battle that actually the interpol into europa competition car remember it had a drive-through penalty earlier in the race for tagging like duvall into a spin they have an impressive start to the season the polish flag team big investment in their engineering staff this this season a couple of fifth places cooper games yeah the third driver his dad is into europol he's here in the truck oh yeah you will get him one you will get him in 21. you can do it it's gonna be a big break i'll tell you that's easy to see from the very luxurious pit box licking the stamp this is gonna be a long send okay he's gone for it yeah there you go that was never not going to happen antonio gave it what the team suggested he gave it the full nine yards there and renga perfectly within his rights took the inside apex allen great racing for both [Music] he needs no words [Music] well you said renga wasn't going to make it easy and at the same time antonio's not going to make it easy on the other side licking house in the pits tear off off this is the second place yes it is so with it's good year good yeah good wood sticker that's the first time it ran up the hill at goodwood in the festival speed last week a lot of brake dust just behind the front wheels of that car if you look at it on what we call the elephant foot which is the area directly behind the front wheels it's very very dusty isn't it just hard work out there ford is a very new car the two totals running together on track but uh far apart screens they've got the fields surrounded they've got them exactly where they need them number seven still leading this race toyota looking for a third straight win in hypercar it's going to be an interesting three and a half hours that we'll see them somehow end up with a one-two i think that is less likely than many other possible outcomes of the race only update from tota is two completely unrelated issues for the delayed car it was a settings issue that saw a car in trouble the first time and they're still trying to diagnose the issue that uh required them to change the corner machining itself to pieces yeah the question is why yeah that's not the issue there's the rinaldi racing ferrari ahead of us we're with the number seven toyota and you can see alan what's going to be the issue coming out of some of the chicago it's nice the iron things that they struggle to get off the corners sometimes as quick as the gts let's hear from decosta okay [Music] yeah i'd suggest next time don't suggest into turn one yeah i was expecting antonio to say okay that's turn one got any more good ideas and davidson watching any notes on turn two i suppose with the next question accidents being investigated now absolutely but it was a racing incident rengar van der zander didn't change his line he went from apex to apex to exit that's the way he was on the racing line and it's the sort of racing we want to see close and no quarter given or asked and antonio would have done exactly the same let's hear now from jimmy brownie louise is with the porsche team jimmy bruni you're watching on as the porsche's battle out and still that ferrari porsche battle continues yeah i mean uh this is this is part of the history of endurance racing uh yeah it will continue i think until the end at the moment we are b2b3 we are recovering some time that we lost uh it's looking okay still uh more than half and a half of the race to go let's see how's it for you uh coming to monza with porsche i mean it's good yeah i mean uh i i it's it's something special always raised in uh in italy especially this uh historic uh track like monza and uh of course not all the fools he loves that that uh i'm with porsche but i like it so i'm happy to be here we know that uh when you've been coming in you've been changing the left side of the tyres so how is tire wear out there uh you know tires is always a big question mark it can change hour by hour because the track temperature will uh going higher or lower you have to react always but uh at the moment okay let's say uh so far uh it's it's okay you had a bit of contact with the settler we knew that he was already in trouble when that happened was there any we saw a little bit of damage to the car but did it affect you yeah i mean first of all uh the driver i think he was the amateur driver if i if i'm not wrong he was blocked me for four or five corners i don't know why it was a blue flag so it was a advice from a car different category coming he was blocking me and then he lost the kayaks top seven and it was no chance to avoid the content because i tried to break and steer but it was a little bit you know stay there coming back but damage so far it's more looking the damage but the car seems to be okay good stuff thanks very much thank you yeah it's um thrown at it bits of gtam card thrown at it twice now uh in and out of the pit talent the number seven total from the lead see how that affects the running uh currently we've got the top three cars running around 23 seconds of each other uh also great news as that uh interview is progressing back heavily delayed after that tower explosion front left tyre from the 33 letting go yeah the tf sport was driven by ben keating there was a lot of damage there it was leading gt gt am at the time ultimately he's been in the pits for quite a wee while so he's out of contention but it is good to see that the blue aston martin's back onto the track as we are now on board with antonio felix de costa who's hunting down again ringer van der zanden into europol competition car you know if we just review back to what was it three or four laps ago then uh the engineer said send it at turn one and that's exactly what decosta did but van der zande had slightly different ideas about well that particular discussion was going to end up at turn two well you were perfectly right a couple of uh a couple of ups before that and saying both these guys very kind of uh they know exactly how to race shoulder to shoulder that's what we saw see what race controls view of that uh that incident was martin haven making it very clear he saw that as a racing incident i have to say i agree with him but uh it's as you said didn't require a great deal of explanation as to how that panned out certainly didn't and uh decosta has now got back up to speed again and is catching back in remember this is for uh third place in category nine seconds ahead of the enter europol car we have got second place paul luchata in the racing team netherlands it's leading the pro-am category because uh look paulo chattan normally would be in that car but he was a great late replacement due to a positive covert test and ultimately he's jumped in to replace uh van de garde who normally is in that racing team netherlands car so is this a question for me is shatter the first non-dutch driver to be driving in that car uh he's probably an honorary dutchman for this weekend i'm sure he's giving it full clog at the moment so pulled up shout out regular driver of course read export at the european uh le mans series there is they've got your airship and uh i think you're probably right he probably is the very first philippe alberkirk 8.8 seconds ahead of the racing tin revlon car so it looks at the moment in the way that things are going as we've got this battle fully on the way but what's what's at stake here in this uh part of the race on for this joe to sports leading the championship at the moment and into europol over here from the 34 car now okay copy that right there looks like you're drinking too much because we put in the cup anyway for now you have to push it without the drink bottle yeah that's the deal done this time decosta was a little bit closer centered down the inside got the job done vanderzander had no response and that particular radio message was probably about 20 seconds ago yeah where he'd been saying that he's run out of drinks bottle and engineer so well don't drink so much but that's not always the case there's a lot of little valves and they can leak between them especially when it links in towards the driver's helmet and things which finally throws back to conversation here and i had in the garage just before the start of the race about now beforehand he was saying the real problem with the with the cadillac dpi also was that at the end of a triple stint in daytona his vision was whiting out he only had a tiny cone of tunnel vision because his drinks bottle wasn't full when he got in for the second when he was in for the second stint and he had no nothing to bring to no fluid to bring his uh his hydration back up so he was really really staggering struggling and in fact scott dixon his teammate had to get out of halfway through a stint because exactly the same reason he was completely dead so the thing is the furnace but you do need that fluid you need that hydration to keep your focus otherwise the brain starts to shut down that's not ideal at these speeds no it's not here it's not too bad being very frank with you it's certainly warm and it's warm outside but in terms of cockpit temperatures it's not extreme and it's not the humidity that you get in florida or you get uh when you go up into say watkins glen or something new york state that's where it's extreme humidity and unless you've got airflow in the cockpit then it's very difficult i certainly know in my previous life we used to put a lot of effort into making sure there's air flow in the cockpit to the point where we could reduce the drinks bottle size because as one engineer put it we were the fastest taxi for drinks bottle in the world 36 car blows from second chica pays the rule to rejoin with limited drama just six seconds ahead by the way of the click now's currently running third seven from 36. that gap 16 seconds out of the position in gte am as well here you can see simon mann in the 61 car closing in on ego perfetti not simon man the cricket commentator fear not tms fans but gdp right up behind the reality racing ferrari that's gotta be eight again yes it is eight whatever ale toyota unrelated issues are not going away let's try and listen 140. now he's on throttle here remember the first time he actually was stuck at about 108 kilometers per hour this time he's actually able to slow in throttle so this is something but can he get a gear is that the issue is he stuck here he was in third he wasn't changing up or down [Music] or has he got no brakes again here we go he's been told to drive slow to the pits yeah that was liftoff as he was coming down uh towards oscary now everybody else in hypercars again enough with the eight could you please start putting some bad luck on the seven car but the 17 you know it's it's clearly not just that left front corner issue they've still got an ongoing electronics issue of some some kind because everything is controlled by electronics on these cars and if it can go wrong on theirs it can definitely go wrong on the number seven car so this is where all of your sort of spidey sensors start twitching fuel pressure is what we've been told from toyota yeah so fuel pressure is the issue by the way one bit of detail um racing team government did actually put a young non-euro a non-uh dutch talent in the car at the moment their very first year it was a brazilian by the name of i think it's known as rubens well that's an interesting one sorry to stop you there that's an interesting one in fuel pressure because they talked about fuel pressure on the first instance however that car's only done 20 laps uh and uh sebastian boyemi who did the start of the race did 30 laps in this thing so therefore it's something definitely major it's not just that it's on low fuel right because uh they're clearly struggling with it it's not a fuel pickup issue no something in the electronics is going haywire the pump itself yep but usually you do have backup pumps pit stops so much a part of endurance racing you work so hard for every hundredth of a second out on track you can give away so much in the pit lane just by not being well rehearsed the irony of that clip one car count them one single car on the pit lane while that was playing roberto la course has been in and out for jetelar a car that promised much at the start of the race but has had very little luck since then and the other stopper we just saw was ben hanley at dragon speed he pulled in behind the number eight toyota a great car not likely to recover for the rest of the afternoon you say about how important headstock routine is these things an indication of just what they will put in to learn i spent all last weekend with the european one series through two full free practice sessions i think for most of the weekend i won't tell you which team it was a team member on the the other end of the pit lane on the pit wall observing their major wc opposition if there's a change there yeah neil johnny doesn't get by richard lee's because richard blitz makes it neatly into the roger oh that was a bit late by neil yeah lights end and yeah god tell us which team it was great i won't say that well you know when we talked about this in free practice the driver is always the weakest link much as alan would would uh decry because the teams spend you know they probably spend two or three lunchtimes a week doing their pit stop rehearsals and getting their two-man ballet correct and then the drivers get in the way warning flag for richard leeds from losing track limits to say here as well remember very different pit stops uh richard leetz didn't neil johnny just jump the chicane they're getting it wrong they might be confusing the two portions unless it's different it might be a different place it might be entirely unrelated i don't believe in coincidence and john's racing clearly attracting attention from all around motorsports so to explain as well know these pit stops are not as quick as you'll see in other forms of motorsports but look at the number of mechanics that are actually being employed here to do those uh those pit stops whereas in other forms of motorsport you have 23 24 people through that car here it's not like that it's a very limited number of people that there's a sequence you have to follow to do that it's all about reducing cost and risk because of course the refueling of the car it's a very different strategic game that's being played here absolutely and some are better than others number eight has returned to the track that that's the moment where hugh chamberlin in days of yore would have gone right either we're all going to the pub and having an early night or it's going to behave itself final chance and if it's back in the pits beyond when it needs fuel that's it we're going to shut the door and go home ranger van der zande by the way dropped way back from antonio felix de costa is now under attack from ferdinand habsburg remember the previous leader um in lmp2 now of course are they on a slightly different fuel schedule wrt because they were the leader they came into the pits then the safety car came out everybody else sort of had a little dip in them out had to come back in again so it seems to me that they could be out of sync with everybody else very potentially so the cars ahead of them all went for emergency service i think uh they did a full he's due to he's got five laps six laps to go but uh he's right behind van der zaan [Music] has done 13 laps so it's half stint whereas habsburg he's a lot closer to the end of this particular stint yeah the incident by the way between antonio vince de costa and regular zander they've come to a conclusion and it's no further action yep i think anything else would have been a travesty real team back in the pits with norman nato that's not scheduled is it meanwhile uh freddie habsburg goes by rank of alexander and then stakes oh is it okay so they are definitely a bit out of kilter with everybody else i imagine naruto will stay in he has he's in fact he's gone even as i noticed he was in a 60-second stop so that'll be fuel only you would think about comes towards the end of that state normally but yeah they're lagging back a little they are at the moment third of the pro-am class albeit uh ninth overall in this stacked lmp2 class but somebody dive into the pits we have it is richard leitz in the porsche and francesco castellacci our am class leader yeah richard leitz 35 lap still here so he pops himself in so he's uh currently in well it's dropped to fourth in this particular battle but that'll sort of rebalance itself out as we continue on and the others pit around and about [Music] fastest race lap by the way for another porsche the gr porsche of tom gamble 148.1 fastest lap that car has done there is the goodyear blimp he told the story of goodyear's more than century almost century-long deal with zeppelin from frieza's half and they have been because goodyear made rubber and zeppelin needed bladders for hydrogen it was a natural combination that's why goodyear's history with the with the blimp isn't just sort of 1970s 1960s it goes back the better part of the century [Music] yeah it really really is an astonishing experience last year at the mom goody bags had a flight in it last year didn't you i should definitely be pushing half what i've never been up in a blimp and i would absolutely love to we should make it clear [Music] meanwhile in second place in third battle of the french drivers and battle between laguardia alpine in gorgeous philippine french blue metallic blue made so famous on red delays racing at rally cars through the 50s 60s 70s 80s being caught by my earth looking house he is most certainly being caught by mayor that capper is three seconds now and took a further six tenths of this advantage last time around fried by her which is i mean hugely encouraging this is the car that hasn't raced before for brick and house so this is its shakedown race if you like and it's got good pace and so far i'm now even regretting starting a sentence it has been the more reliable of the pair so it's given the drivers a great shake at having a good race great news for commentary team from goodyear mike mcgregor their event manager uh telling me i can go back at the blimp again this year that's very good news if only you weren't going to fall down the stairs the day before no in fairness mike says you are very welcome and uh a golden ticket in your way fabulous oh oh that was that was the 60 car no this car can't be that's just blowing around the outside of it it's the 60s the 60s really but they didn't they'd ignored it the problem child was just being frozen out the 60 car is not in the garage that's andre well it's made three stops it's a mere 58 laps behind the leaders can it get classified at the end if it's 58 laps back um yeah they're looking for a position over the hyper car number eight that's what they're looking for well that's going to be an easy gimme isn't it they're only 54 laps behind it miles on the 60 car andrea pacini it is the team director violence three and the p2 cars my goodness [Music] this is the position as well this is the ben has been 70 car for possession isn't it yeah ben hanley took over the dragon speed car from henrik hedman their bronze rated driver he's pulling it back up the order and that was over norman nato for ninth and third in pro-am fuel and two or four i think it'll be two tires remember they're going to try to trip or quadruple stint the right hand side on neil yanni's car this is first and second in gta pro and you see top left the time clicking up which is the pit stop time and it'll be a race out of the pits at the end and of course because arrive at the same time the clocks didn't start at the same time oh a little bit slow there on the ferrari ferrari got jumped in the pits slow in dropping the car they didn't release the car in time that the fuel they had the tires done but they hadn't dropped in the ground we said about that ballet didn't we with the pit stop some pit stops they were caught a little bit cold there and also that's the advantage of being close to pit in because if you're rolling then you block the car that is further down the pit lane potentially from being released because it might be just too close so if you gain even maybe one or two seconds in the pit lane you can also gain more by them not being able to get their car out when it's ready to go so that is a lead change in the pit and we say time and time again this genuinely is a team sport we are looking at a slow glicken house which won 7-0 708 the one that's had all of the problems since the start of this race martin yeah well and and you know as a team although you don't want to have problems if you're going to have a problem child you don't want the problem spirit spread around keep them to yourself that's gus menezes again and i think he will be heading in towards the pits going very slowly here he's trying to stay out of the way now he picks up the speed a little bit and there's the four horsemen aston martin 33 car back out after it uh tore itself apart or after a shredded tire tore itself apart and we heard from ben keating allen was absolutely right it was flat spots that led to it [Music] four seconds was the delta in the pit lane between neil yani and the porsche and corsa ferrari james collado four seconds was given away towards porsche by ferrari on that last pit stop but possibly two of them in the actual stop and the other two by not being able to release the car because the porsche was in the way but yeah a few more issues oh and that was clicking house clicking house i think that was the start of the problem menezes and then going slowly back towards the pits the sister carl was sitting right behind him as he hit the brakes there so well it was nothing major his last lap was a one minute 56 which was about 17 seconds off the base is right with the alpine now yep under two seconds neil johnny leading for porsche james collado for ferrari richard leads third for porsche 91 52 in fourth place and that's still daniel sarah so they've cycled through the the the driver that started did a stint in a witchy bit and then they've done double stint 708 going back into the garage at glickenhaus and the p2 by the way we've seen the 708 being pushed back into the garage philippe albuquerque holding that lead just under 11 seconds but now hamsburg is making up progress on the cars ahead he's now back up into fourth position lmp2 as the team in the clicking house carriage go to work go to work the engine cover is going to come off so they'll take the tail off and then the engine cover from there and that is literally the only car in the garage we sort of said that assuming that number 60 was still in there but somehow iron links have decided are all right we'll fix it and send it back out because when we saw the the last shot we had with the iron links number 60 car there was nobody even looking at it but uh there's a lot of people looking at the clicking house car and this is why alan if it's not just fuel and tires anything else apart from the windscreen clean goes back into the garage because you're not limited in the number of people that can work on the car all the things you can leave lying around while you're doing it yeah the first thing you do is refuel the car and then they pop it back into the garage and then it's all hands on deck whichever hands you need in whichever hands you have and then they get to work when you're actually in the pit apron like the rinaldi ferrari is at the moment we're looking loose if it's done rake change change it's a gt3 car then you're limited with the number of mechanics available right now bear in mind these brakes work at somewhere around 800 900 maybe even a thousand degrees celsius and they do a lot of work here yeah but it's a bit strange that's a that's a rear yeah normally the front brakes would take the pounding right here looks like they were just trying to get the pads back in one slight correction in terms of what you're allowed to do in that carriage there's a limited number of people who are allowed right in their whole crew for the car yes in the case of a two-car team and of course potentially you've got the guys everybody else are you limited in terms of uh gte no i mean if they click in lmp you're limited to 43 in total yeah yeah per car hyper gun yeah per team 13 yeah absolutely that's uh survivor flourish getting out is going to be tatiana calderon back aboard the car for her second crack at this as we're just six minutes from halfway in this six hours of bonza the first six hours of monza in fiwc history yes it's strange to say it really does it's it's a weird racial series but not raised here um for the fbi so coming into halfway he's a fight here for second place this is the fight so in the hands of franklin yeah gaps opened up it's gone from one point something out to three and a half seconds three in a little bit great view down there of the monte paddock the privet hedge that separates the paddock from the race track where else i ask you on the planet can you find a nicely trimmed privet hedge lining one of the fastest straights in the place frank meyer creeping away uh big upon machiavelli creeping away very slowly from front my ear and just maybe had a couple of good breaks in traffic and sometimes alan that's all it takes to gain you a second around this place yeah very true but on the last lap equaled exactly within in fact sorry apologies he did he was a second slower than mike jovaksev so my tumor civilian delivered a 38.6 he was the fastest car on circuit on that last lap quicker than the toyota that's leading jose maria lopez which we should remember is only 22 seconds up the road it's not as if they've got the huge lead they had at the beginning that safety car brought everything back into line again and so one trip up very very slight trip up by the toyota they're in the clutches not only of the alpine but also the glockenhouse just a message to the smith family close to huntingdon mrs smith ought to make sure that her husband sam is nowhere near her wardrobe sam said at the beginning of the race that if there aren't at least three safety cars you can call me sylvia hello sylvia smith we're nearly halfway through the race and we've only had one so far you could be in trouble we will require photographic evidence [Music] and most of the unpopular ones too so the glickenhaus alpine battle continues and as you say it looks as though clicking house i wonder if maya has just pushed it sort of over the edge of its tire and and now the alpine is having a little bit of an advantage they're closing up behind the number one recent mill racing lmp2 car of tachyana calderon fresh out from the pits jan magnus magnuson rather a long stop for high class he's still in the pit lane looking at the lap time evolution between the two cars i wouldn't say necessarily myo had a couple of laps he had a slow one yeah which was a 42 second lap which is about three and a half seconds which was definitely traffic but then got back down into the realms of where it should be so i think that traffic lap sort of broke the back of the holding on to uh machu picchu [Music] but if traffic can taketh away traffic can give us back at some point it was my thing when i was racing was just hanging on to that thought when it was going against you because you know it's tough to just keep digging in and fighting in and knowing that there's things that you can control and things you can't some of the areas of traffic you definitely can control there is no question about it but one thing that is also control about speed in the pit lane and unfortunately racing team netherlands second place over all in lmp2 and leader of the pro-am reported to the stewards for speeding in the pit lane oh dear oh dear that'll be a drive-through if it is that was in that's not nick dufrese first pit lane speeding penalty this season i don't think oh dear two minutes from the halfway mark maybe wrong but yes and that will throw a cat about the pigeons high class have sent dennis anderson out their pit stop was a one minute 38 that was a lot longer than you would expect even with the driver change it may just have been a slow driver change coming back to the racing team netherlands it's at 1405 which was roughly the pit stop that paul loop chatter had because he jumped in the car they did a four lap slash remember we spoke to the freeze and then i think it was his first stop uh under green that caused the problem great stuff at the moment in gtm by the way from andrew watson he's putting in quick relax that we've seen from that car so far third position so it's porsche ferrari aston martin aston martin porsche top five in gta it is very even stevens d-station had a podium they have yet uh that's a change for wrt yeah wrt they're a 28-lap stick by fernie habsburg yeah now everybody else is doing 26 and when i spoke to phil hansen this morning 27 is a real stretch but uh 28 now there was an element of that full course yellow period in there so we need to see exactly how it extrapolates with everybody else but you know when i said before the race and you said that's a stretch the man who said 27 might be possible yeah 27 was possible but the thing was that you had to slow down so much your laptop loss was actually bigger than your strategy game now of course they also came in just as the safety car was starting so not only full course yellow fuel stop had a little safety car advantage and there's the racing team netherlands car trying to make up for time that will be lost with that penalty not only to stretch that fuel extent it's been with very very good times indeed acted in that uh top group only by the race leader in lmp2 philippe albuquerque and the the student average is only within about a tenth also you can start to crank up anarchy in the uk because uh pole setter charlie lacy has just taken over that car the johnny rotten look-alike of the pattern 28 yeah sorry yeah that's antonio felix de costa slow coming through curva grande third place should he have heard that yes he should have heard box box box 23 lapston that was a 23 he's been on this stint for 23 laps now they've done 25 and 26 before so i don't think it's related unless they had a problem getting fuelling but i would suggest unlikely just gone straight through to stay out of everybody's way he looks as if he's back up to speed again [Music] yeah he's on the racing line again yeah i know well yeah but he's not the hyper car so this is the battle for second position battle for second and that's not gonna help as of yet he comes around now now actually antonio is back up to speed so maybe he's control all deleting his way through the roger but again you know when the car goes blur that's always a worry is this a script anybody would have written before the six hours of monza started antonio's staying out of the way there frank meyer maybe the team on the road again now there's something going on and off here because he's got speed at different points and then it stopped in the middle of the corner yeah yeah this is the script we have seen before this race with frank mayer a man who has not raced in a non-wc race since 2012 the very first year battling for second position overall against well it has to be said the most mature the most developed car in the prototype field absolutely right this is closing right up again traffic didn't hold him up there either oh and somebody's been bouncing across the gravel who is right in front of them 92 porsche going slowly well compared to them that's they've blown by him how much of a lead did 92 have over james collado nine tenths at the line right behind them there's the porsche there's the ferrari top left of your screen in his 28 they'll push it straight back in the garage louise possibly not the best time to stop for a cup of tea not while the fuel's going in the man in control of the pit stops knows exactly what the rules are dolly went under the other side yeah i saw that place 36 alpine third place the 7-0-9 lincoln house racing scg007 this is what jim glickenhaus was dreaming of battling for real positions in world championship races absolutely right leader is in front no united race team netherlands in from second place in lmp2 so two of our top four in lmp2 in the garage for different reasons 28 with an unspecified you've got to sense electronics issue and 29 38 rather than and 29 in for a drive through penalty for speeding in the pit lane they have come and should have gone by now i think that's a stop for them quite well into europol in with rengar vanderzander sean gale in at jota as well for regular service i think there's a driver change out into europol so that may be what may well be kubis makovsky not kim massiak getting into the car traffic here for the alpene is this the chance that frank mayer is looking for is the 56 car oh it is but he's gonna have to thread the eye of the needle he gains there on the 36 of machiavellia is going to defend this like his life depended on it and he blocks the uh glickenhaus in behind our gte am leader alessia rivera this is cracking stuff now fantastic stuff tell me what that clicking house has got some serious straight line speed in comparison to the alpine ahead of it twin turbo v8 essentially two 600 horsepower rallycross engines on a common crankshaft and restricted to barely the output of one randy cross entering this motor engine jim clicking house says is comfortably capable of producing a thousand great horsepower in race trip and surviving great to see an effort like this producing real performance and exactly what if you like the other side of the hyper car debate needs it's not just about the big factories you can come and compete here's a question for you graeme when was the last time a u.s team finished on a world endurance podium overall alan mcnish puts his hands right back down after going yeah oh nico lapierre will take over the wheel says louise beckett fritz finer is out on the track in the racing team netherlands car as well so that was a pit stop so they still need to do their drive through then if they get it they haven't uh i don't think it's been adjudicated yet or thought it ah being investigated was it yeah it's a pure number tom blonker is taking over 28 38 still in the garage risi competizione philippe massa has left the pit lane in that red car and niro konopka stops in the arc bratislava car now whether he's going to double stick now or hand over to his son mate we will find out in a moment united are in uh or have been and gone fabio shera rejoins in the lead of lmp2 for united auto sports ahead of fritz van aird and xiaomi lacie the man who put team wrt on pole for this race as the clicking house runs second red and white cars are at the front of the field they are not both from cologne no red and white second to white and red here comes the philippine blue back out nico lapierre at the wheel of the 36 as matthias vasovier it's great stuff and yes the safety car helped this no doubt about that whatsoever don't care it's racist it's racing that's what happens in racing the there's your race leader patito towards the end of his second stint great you there when you see the car from a lower angle of how far through this toyota you can see it's essentially it kind of looks a little bit like an interseri car where you've got a formula one tub in the middle some wheels on the outside and body work and this enormous channel right through the middle but it is toyota that lead at the midway point here in the first ever world endurance race in monster monza what a place to come and what a place to finally bring fans back as we started the six hours round three of the fia world endurance championship under bright blue skies in gorgeous summer temperatures here in the shadow of the alps close to the italian lakes just outside the metropolis of milan in the royal park toyota leading the field away one two after qualifying ahead of alpene and the two clinton house cars and the alpine inserting itself between the toyotas right at the very start is the lmp2 cars jockeyed for position the blue of alpine came through between the two toyotas seven started on pole and led the race number eight once he got up to speed and could deploy the hybrid drive moving back into second position would perhaps be left to battle for the final spot on the podium in the gt classes honors even between a porsche and ferrari in gte pro nothing gained nothing lost but in the am class though pulsator ben keating had the lead he was under threat chester racing ferrari being eased out of the way as the project one porsche moved up to second drama though for the leader in the second stint close to the end of it ben keating would end up with a big puncher first uh contact of the race between alex brundle and uh duvall brundle turning like around and then the first full course yellow as andrew harianto backed the 88 dempsey proton porsche into the gravel change in the battle for third place in gte pro the 91 porsche moving up ahead of the ferrari and lots of battles was always through the lmp two field number 38 dota sport car coming up through the ranks losing their control and just about getting away with it the 92 porsche that led then drama for toyota number eight fresh out of the pits brendan hartley smoking through the first chicane with a drive problem a braking problem turned out the left front corner was basically disintegrating and literally disintegrating the left front corner on ben keating's gt pro leading car as he was on his way to the pits being ripped apart by the time they have dropped well down the [Music] that order out the safety car for debris at the restart ferrari taking the lead in gte pro and elbowing the 92 porsche off it to the gravel recurring problems for 708 leaving that glickenhaus dropping down the order leading in lmp2 united auto sports leading outright toyota gazoo racing number seven [Music] martin haven graham goodwill and alan mcnish watching the action halfway through toyota have one dog left in the hunt the other one completing mileage after numerous pit stops glickenhaus up to second alpine in third united racing team netherlands and wrt the top three in lmp2 with racing team nedland still leading pro am class then porsche ferrari porsche ferrari in gte pro and af courses 83 car that started from the back of the field leads in gte am from team project one with the d station at 98 aston martin's about to take a position away from the project one car because that has pitted and they have yet to do so dramas for the 38 jota sport car that started at the back of the prototype field and worked its way right back into contention that car in the garage with as yet unspecified issues and is dropping it like a stone [Music] believe the click in the house has now been part passed by the number eight car [Music] let's catch up with matthia vagtivia he's been in a fantastic battle for second place with the glickenhaus of frog by er he's now in the pits let's hear from him he's with louise beckett matt maxwell bringing in the 36 alpine and handing over to nico it was great to see some basses out there but unfortunately it didn't go your way yeah i mean it was okay for us i mean we just uh delivered our best and we tried to to prove that that we are here and uh by it was we struggled a bit compared to the toyota for sure we were a bit slower and the tomcat didn't help us as well so i mean we will do to do no mistake until the end of the race this is our main target and every time the same goal and so for the moment he's looking good i think the team did well during the strategy during the pit stop when i was in the car so i understood a little bit i was following the race but uh no it's good so yeah really looking forward well we can bring the cow coming back to the team deep breathing what did you have to report back to them anything you can hand on to nikko uh yeah about tire degradation how to manage the tire during this two-step so yeah this is the key i will not tell you what uh which which we are so far but uh i mean uh i know that niko have a lot of experience you know what to do for sure but yeah we try to help each other and also like some for some advice andrea uh help me on t1 like just to say maybe try to more in the inside it's uh it's better so yeah we try to help each other and be the best team together great thank you thank you uh hearing from toto by the way the delayed number eight car will be running shorter stints now that fuel picker problem um not something to be fixed [Music] that would here draw some of the advantage over this uh 36 car uh ellen will not have that advantage here let alone the fact it's laps and laps behind with those three different problems i think it's just an additional problem and headache for them i don't think it'll have any impact on any result at this moment in time the impact is going to what's happened when the glickenhaus that uh currently on board with nicola lapierre he's chasing uh lapierre is currently coming out of lesmo 2 whereas the glickenhaus is coming into the second chicane however the glickenhaus owes us one pit stop most certainly does 141-0 for the lead car the number seven uh toyota right now 29 seconds to the good ahead of my ear in the 709 glickenhaus scg007 yes the scg007 running second overall at 139.403 last on a round from the frenchman and the calapierre 14 back but as uh as alan says with that pit stop to come from the glickenhaus but this is looking very close between the second and third place in uh cars united auto sports increasingly healthy lead now fabio shara 32 seconds for the good now charles malesi though is catching and will soon catch fritz fernaid for second overall in lmp2 the recent team netherlands though with a comfortable lead in the program class cooper schmusky 14 seconds back from malaysia in the into europa competition car that's having a very good run indeed and running fifth at the moment the richard mill racing team tatiana calderon they've got back from the polish entered 34 car but a very strong run indeed 38 johter as i speak is on its way out of pit lane with davidson after a near 13-minute stop for as yet a problem for that car gt pro continues to head download james collado that gap under a second still as it seemed to have been through the entire race janie has got to grips with this round here he sort of bit of a fight at the beginning of this stint managed to jump into the lead due to them being a little bit quicker four seconds quicker than the ferrari in the pit stop however he's been able to control it significantly more in line with what we know of neil yani from the past when he was racing in lmp1 for porsche and uh he's now i think got his head completely around this gte pro car that they've split the strategies for the the two porsches but we shouldn't forget that after that safety car they were nose to tail all four and this lead pair the number 92 porsche at the 51 ferrari now what 11 seconds up the road from rickard leads in the 91 porsche about two and a half seconds to go from daniel serra martin havens joy ride continues to circle it's the 709 car now coming out for the pittsburgh man comes to the race for the first time three lights now on the side of the 709 car romance gets back up to speed it's about play 10 seconds behind lapierre at the moment there's lapierre coming through the second chicane and lapierre's been in quite a decent bit of traffic as well but he's nearly through the majority of it but uh this traffic is what uh we're going to see roman dumas coming up to and then he'll have to fight his way through so i think it's going to be probably more out towards the 15 seconds for 12 seconds 15 seconds by the time you do a couple of laps struggling to get up to speed through the chicane that seems to be now going away from the jojo car behind him this will be a huge boost to get in these skidaria cameron clinton house team this car hasn't run now for whatever three hours with no problems wrt meanwhile pushing we're gonna go down with louise he's got third known habsburg with that in pit lane after a fantastic stint uh from the 31 driver putting in a great performance uh bringing the card back in for wrt how was justin yeah it was really good i think um got in the car went from second to first in the undercut so i pushed a lot on the first couple laps which gave us the lead straight after the first pit stop so that's really cool then unfortunately in the safety car we missed a great opportunity to be far in the lead which put us back down to p5 which is really disappointing but we're trying to get back up there now yeah charlemagne is putting in a good performance as well now to get you back up yeah absolutely i mean hopefully i gave him a good feeling for the car on the radio and uh just to make sure he's confident he's fast as he showed yesterday so i'm sure we'll be able to get maybe up into the podium positions again how frustrating are those situations for you hey i missed opportunities or the worst uh i'd rather make a big mistake than i have that but i just got to keep it focused we've had a few errors here and there but we're still so young and learning a lot and the most important thing is that we're super fast and then we're we keep much inside but they're going guitar thank you cheers well their last pit stop a minute 31 that had a driver change but uh there was a driver change at united in a minute and 17 seconds you can't be giving away 15 16 seconds on the pit stop well that's not been a very good pit stop without question traffic so charming lazy it could be interesting to see now just exactly what the pole setter could do and uh now through a little bunch of traffic he's got a clear lap ahead of him now in the 31 car and traffic makes a big difference his last lap of 42-4 last lap for fabio shera who is chasing a 40.2 yeah 39 seconds is the gap remember that number yep race leader a minute and 39 seconds ahead of nicola in the alpine former toyota driver driver change so pachito is out this is kobayashi aboard the car it is indeed and they've effectively got one bullet left in this gun do you think they need it well as we've seen so many times you only actually need one car to win them on no matter how many you start with one is the only number that you could win it with but well you know if the electronics are going squiffy on one car and bits are falling off it they're made by the same people in the same place it's not like they're they've bought them and they're being run by different teams so there's always that question mark you know remember we had uh the brand new toyota of the pair that haven't got the miles on it all sorts of troubles race the season 20 seconds added to the next pit stop car 82 that is not respecting the emergency pit stop under safety card that means that presumably they've taken the they get a risky competition a full fuel yeah now there's there's a very similar set of regulations in uh imsa racing in north america they will be familiar with that if the pit lane is closed you can come in and you can take on a specified minimum maximum amount of fuel now they're not the only ones mira konopka will had five seconds added to his pit stop when he handed over some mate for continually getting the roger wrong and getting coming back off getting the roger wrong wrong as well through penalty for racing team netherlands ah third place in lmp two overall and the leaders in the lmp2 pro am fritz von edd will have to serve a drive-through penalty for speeding in the pit lane from that car that won't as of yet cost them the lead in pro-am it's not going to help though is it it's not going to help charm malaysia meanwhile is now matching fabio showroos times in the 40s nicolas may well gesture there at uh the racing dame's ferrari but what on earth was she supposed to do she had to take the racing line the fact that he was trying to squeeze up the inside neither here nor there there is the racing team netherlands car kobayashi is left to pit lane you saw ben hanley handing over to juan pablo montoya you didn't see the handover juan pablo in the car at dragon speed himself out in the seat jackson evans former porsche junior driver and porsche mobile one super cup competitor he is out in the 77 dempsey proton car just to uh mark the moment that uh tom gamble and the gmr race of the gulf racing car uh leads the lmp sorry the gt aem class at the moment uh fast laps coming that uh will be towards the end of his stint i'm sure we're going to see him down bit lane he heads a train of three af corsa ferraris alessio rivera tony vallander welcome back to the world of giants championship tony and thomas fleur in the 83 61 54 respectively well as everybody goes noisy past the pitch catch up with louise beckett louise you were saying as we watch the 28 jota sport car battling for positions 38 has got a slightly longer problem than you might have thought yeah we saw antonio costa bring it back in uh there's a misfire issue the team sent it back out thought they had it sorted and right now it's just pulled up in front of me they got the dollies ready so they expected they had to bring it back in and that looks like what's happening thank you lou well what was looking like a very good race for both of the jota sport cars as 29 takes a drive through that's racing team netherlands fritz van eyed the lead joe the car 28 the healthy car tom blancos at the wheel has just stopped that car is in seventh and the 38 car dropping back into the pit lane and davidson at the wheel their last stop was nearly 13 minutes and that has not apparently cured all the issues with that 38 car race leader is still the number seven toyota gazoo racing 0-10 don't call it call this an olo jamie kobayashi has just taken that car over as they cycle through their drivers from chito lopez and the gap came down from a minute and 39 to 16 seconds over nico lapierre of course that's the factor of being stationary in the pit lane going in and out through the pit lane in gte pro miojani currently leading for porsche ahead of james collado and richard leetz and the battle hasn't exactly died down much it's only 1.4 seconds between them tom gamble for gr at the top in gte am that's the first time in a long while we've been able to say that ahead of alessia rivera tony v lander and thomas flores just a moment or two ago graham does that mean the gr car is completely out of kilter there's only one of our cars behind it that has had four pit stops and that was the af quarter 83 car 86 is coming towards the end of its stint unless your river is just three laps into a stint ah tony vallander has got another 10 laps or so to go and the 54 car another 10 laps to go so this is this is going to see the 86 car drop back into that back and which was the other car with them then d station wasn't it that easter didn't do that first full course yellow pit stop i think there was only two am cars that didn't what you effectively got as a group they were about five cars battling away within about 30 seconds yeah luis says it was the 85 iron links card may well be right there is the 85 iron links car the iron dames watching the racing netherland pit stop underway so fritz served the drive through then came back in on the next lap to do the driver change that may be a short stint but that might be the end of his drive time 11 laps toyota number eight which is not on page one of the timing screen and you're not going to hear me say that very often in this or any other planet is back in the pit lane that could be a standard race they've gone ahead of gustavo menezes in the 708 licking house and his 60 iron links car is back in as well it's going to be a standard if shorter stint as we were hearing from toyota from right car though but at the same time you're saying about fritz fanart the minimum driver time in lmp2 is one hour 15 minutes he's now done one hour 18 minutes there you go and so therefore he's completed his minimum driving time this will not be a routine stop for the number eight they're going to replace some parts on the fuel system with the eight it will be what is described by territory as a long stop yep so may not see that for twenty time for louise to pop down have a cup of tea on the way at jota and continue to toyota what what then we uh completely lost my train of thought why are you regaining that just mark the fact that it's about 13 seconds apart for that second place battle between nail pain of nicolapia romantima in the 709 uh glickenhaus uh lapia just 15 seconds back from the leading total but nikkilapia and roman dumas battling for a place yeah last time he was on a podium in the wc was when he won at le mans in 2016. overall podium yeah i was having a the last healthy running car thought which is felipe fraga in the 33 four horsemen tf sport aston of course it's healthy now but it was very unhealthy when it lost all the time when it was in the battle for the lead ben barker now at the wheel of the gr racing porsche that has stopped and started off again driver changed there but that has dropped them back down to sixth in gtm they are on a very different fuel schedule so they'll be trying to work out whether that works doesn't work when they have the short fuel whether they have to go splash and dash at the end alessia rivera is back in the lead of gte am in the chrome af quarter racing ferrari that started last on the grid [Music] [Music] back to racing with the 92 and the 51 still battling away this is the well race long battle thought supremacy in the gte pro class it's a great display at the moment from neil johnny he's seeing off at the moment the challenge of james gallardo that back at that cap still under a single second 13 and a half seconds ahead now of regardless yeah gte pro battle really giving here where it kind of withered on the vine very quickly in the heat of portamel let's catch up at united auto sports with felipe albuquerque [Music] [Applause] another strong performance from the 22 united yeah i think so far really really well i was panicking with that safety car came right on the point that was not suiting us it's luckily it seems like team wrt did manage really well the what's going on so i was really surprised that we are leading now uh and it's it's a nice race going on for our side but as we can see anything can change any second but i'm super happy with the car car is good so let's just now flow and another thing that i was understanding is just like you need to be lucky to not get cars at the oscars because you can put a bunch of good lap times and then you get like a slow gtm in ascari you lose straight away two three seconds and there is nothing you can do we are a little bit you know luck or unlucky i know about those corners but it's what it is so i just hope that i get the two good stitches yet okay thank you we won't see you at the end thank you very much we often think about you know the the three she gains here the retifeelio the roger but it is the scary that is the longest and and potentially the most damaging when you catch slower cars absolutely it's clear then this is this is that change with these regulations this year traffic is a bigger challenge but you've got to manage it that's now part of the game this by the way martin is a bit of a battle ninth overall sixth in lmp2 dennis anderson bombs driver in the number 20 high-class racing team uh trying to fend off the close attentions of the less delayed of the two jota sport cars tom longfist it is but he's struggling there as we've got the uh wrt carl charles malesi catching them to put a lap on this battle um hoving up behind it a fair old rate that's sort of almost a scandy battle isn't it dennis anderson is a day tom blogger's dad stink was is a swede thomas is a british licensed holder good stuff too through this but with some misfortune from some of these teams the strategy has thrown i think a couple of these teams off kilter a little and is this going to delay sean lazy this is something of a spirited battle he needs to find clear air to try to close the gap on fabio shera who by the way is driving very well indeed laps in the 140s hang on a minute where's roman duma in 709 this is very interesting roman dumas lighting up the timing screen live it's hyper pole purple sector one purple sector two which means for the uninitiated the fastest sectors of the entire race for anybody in any car fastest lap of the race at the moment goes to mike conway in the number seven car 137 158 that came on lap six we're now on lap 119 how close on either side of that mark is roman du mat going to be formula one with your sprint race hold my beer absolutely six world insurance here we go roman de mar by the way who will start his 21st consecutive le monde 24 hours this year he has not missed le mans in this century got held up in the final sector it wasn't the best 137 265 the quickest lap for that car but here comes charles millacy putting a lap on this battle has he got the overlap on dennis anderson on the inside he does can he get by no can't but he jumps tom blonkfist and that's a momentary respite for dennis anderson in the number 20 high-class car but my lacy goes the long way around the outside and curva grande via sonic i'll add into this by the way as we're watching this spirited lmp2 battle second and third place cars are catching the leader without a doubt they are catching the leader it's 14 seconds leader now they're taking about a second out of that it is under 20 27 seconds for the top three now this is not done there is no rest here whatsoever for toyota they're going to have to push they really are aren't they uh that i mean that's the case in all of these classes gt pro if you blink you've given away victory and then it's as simple as that and here we go there is the pass that tom blonkist wanted he worked hard enough it's the persistence that gets it that and the speed of the driver he goes by the high-class racing entry good stuff from dennis anderson though this is big progress for the danish gentleman driver um they've been a part of the high-class racing efforts since before their time in lmp2 back into the renault sport trophy years and in uh european demand series racing there's and davidson out of the jota sport car and d gloving that looks like that's the end of the road for 38 and you have to wonder if they've got ongoing issues did they help cause antonio phillips to cost his rally crossing or what might have perhaps the other way around or were they totally unrelated here's our second third place car now roman dubar in the glickenhaus and he's now in a big bunch of traffic he's got the 21 mp2 car not too far ahead of him [Music] that is being driven by juan pablo montoya 709 pushing on they see the potential here of this situation don't they there's no potential to beat anybody if you are sitting back and waiting there's the top three on the map seven coming out of the parabolica 36 halfway down past the privet hedge and exiting iscari is the 709 that's third place the fastest race lap for that car the second fastest lap of anybody in the race so far i think yes for roma duma 1 37 2 uh against a 137 one for mike conway well over a hundred laps ago not bad for an old boy for a rally driver part-time rally driver and occasional racer roman dumas roman dumas history is extraordinary and it becomes more extraordinary when you see the variety of things he's doing in the later years of his career and in between times yeah absolutely freed from the shackles of having to win racist major manufacturers he can go out and win rallies for major manufacture absolutely that's it in the road for 38 i mean they're still working on the car but end of any hope of competition but of course if you don't find out what ails it the next time you wheel it out of a truck in competition it will be at the bottom so you want to find out now oh by the way this is the fourth different class that uh has competed in a wc racing all right d1 uh lmp2 gte pro and now hypercar add in all the other things he's done in this astonishing career and it would take us longer than the 2 hours and 22 minutes we've got left this is nicolas frankly barely less accomplished i think it will be his 13th consecutive le mans this year 14 overall i think that's correct how many vmc errors yeah i remember until last year he was mr 100 percent of mp2 multiple races at the mom managed to complete that sequence with girl racing last year now manages that team that does his professional driving at [Music] the rear tyre being dragged around as it goes over the curb antonio felix de costa and davidson that's the face of disappointment and i expect more from this guy that's okay what i just pushed him off the track is he saying that being eased off the road by the wrt car was uh the start of all the problems or is he still just gripping he got lost off the road by the wrt car like entirely sure the other garage of doom is it's not been a very comfortable race for them either 38 and the number eight listen if you're gonna have a bucket full of problems take them at monza and hope that they don't come back and don't forget this is a new car this season for toyota and what they've carried over from the previous uh lmp1 car is not the same this year it's a very different hybrid system very different set of mechanical electronic demands and so it is you say well they they know an awful lot about what they were using yes they do but they obviously also have tried to advance things and it hasn't so terribly been entirely straightforward for them that was tatiana calderon you were just watching from the blimp coming out of with your airship coming out of the pit lane after what felt like quite a long pit stop but it wasn't it was uh it was a standard pit stop for the number one car yet the uh not slow just far away just far away um the uh hybrid tech for the toyota this year far closer to kind of road car specification in the space age amazingness very very much more so and that's that's to a very great degree actually what the road relevance is for toyota of the 010 and with road car componentry possibly also comes road car electronics and to a degree maybe a little bit of road car frailty because road cars don't do this they just don't take this pounding in such a concerted time before ferrari decides i'll go to the racing line early but not possibly quite as early francesco castellachi was hoping for there gap first a third continues to come down and the gap it's a bit from romantic to nicolas under nine seconds now he is catching the alpine again 137-6 137-8 last time round for dumas 137-8 for dumas 138-2 for the lead at kobayashi 139 5 for second place nico lapierre so duma is pushing the train from the back it most certainly is this could get very very interesting as we get deeper and deeper into these stints uh neil johnny meanwhile is pulling away from james collado a little over three seconds for good now dennis anderson takes the number 20 high-class racing car to the pits from second in the pro-am class in lmp2 juan pablo montoya is the next man behind in the pro am entered cars that coming not because uh juan pablo is anything other than a professional it can come because henry kevin is a bronze rated driver one is part of the pro party pro am you have to have a pro and an am [Music] 83 car that is the leader in gtam alexia rivera uh ahead of uh tony valentine's got 22 seconds to get there further six seconds back to ricardo pereira we've got his mirrors full of the triple seven aston martin andrew watson again putting in good times here pressurizing that car for a podium position it's andrew's second stint in that car he was looking very relaxed before the race got underway so he in fact has just put in the fastest lap of the race for that car 147.5 1 48 3 for the third place card ricardo pera in front of him at 149 at 5 for tony villander and 147.7 for the leader alessia rivera so again andrew watson is compressing the top four in am from behind if you can't get a ticket yeah well you know i prefer to let professionals drive i'm not putting myself an enormous great fan blade behind me and you know a bed sheet above god bless those who do i swear that's fiona miller just checking us i was just checking by the way and that d station racing car i've been watching great great fun at the moment satoshi achino has completed his bronze time in that car i thought he said we've got we've got every watson and uh fuji to the end here that could be a car to watch yeah that's got real podium potential for d station and that will of course also run under the uh tf sport banner just like the four horsemen car the turquoise car you see at the back of the group there the d station car is the black car with the green highlights as the tea bags arrive no i have to say in a game second tms um chesmar special mention of the entire race that nobody comes in with cake or well you do get no pork pie yep so if you're thinking of sending cake consider it courtesy of me graham government at my home i'll make sure it gets the rest of them carry it around safely in your pouch yes indeed there's the 61a of course a ferrari started by christoph ulrich uh simon mann drove it in the second uh he well he's had i think maybe a double because tony vlan has not been in overly so but do we think simon's bronze rated isn't he gonna have to [Music] um thank you for this jim uh from jim glickenhaus uh the 708 car is retired it's a gearbox failure on that car um so that is our first retirement off the race confirmed retirement fine fight from the two car effort but that shouldn't get away from the fact there's still one car in the fight and fighting it is it is still the quickest car on the circuit 137 813 plays 137 889 9.1 seconds back from nicolapia and still the gap to the toyota from the third place car is coming down it's 24 and a half seconds now yeah crossing his fingers i don't think he's finished his driving actually i think francois might have another stick to do i may be wrong on board with uh into europol competition what happens here makes it safely through france well's done for the day oh is he okay i suppose looking so relaxed uh there was a change of position by the way in gta yam the moment we cut away from them d station moved up to third because the air of course the car 61 with tony villander came in for a routine pit stop shall malaysia stop for wrt as well remains third has been been through the pits because they're on a very different fuel schedule to everybody else because they were in the pit lane when the safety car came out lots of fun and games going on here in uh gtm understand that was dave porsche blowing this game that's gt pro league battle uh a third place battle of big apartments 91 still isn't it with the damage on the front the knights do some damage [Music] racing car remember that car on the pit stop cycle he's beginning to make the roads into the cars ahead of that car running in fifth and looking set for a good finishing position and that's very out of kilter with everybody else that's only going to unwind or not towards the end of the race because in an early full course yellow that was caused by andrew harriento spinning the dempsey proton 88 car they were one of two teams in am that did not stop for a top up with fuel now everybody in the gt class believed that you would not get an entire race in complete stinks there would be a splash and dash at the end we've had two full course yellows and a safety car gonna be closer i will say about the gl racing car might win mike their promised barber does have to get in and do about another 20 minutes yeah of course yep as we said in pro if you blink you lose takes the joker lap philippe nasa in the pits yeah for reese's competition that car now in 10th place in lmp2 and that's uh at the end of a double stint i think that'll be a driver change driver change going on to see richard leach with the austrian colors jimmy bruni with uh slightly less evident tricolor of italy on his helmet it's been an intriguing battle hasn't it in gt pro i think we've got every potential for a grandstand finish with the overall here well you could have a ferrari one two you could have a porsche one two and when we were in portugal and even really in spa porsche didn't come to the races they came to qualifying in free practice but they didn't have what it took over a long distance and whatever changed about the car between last year and this they seem whether it's a factor of the track or the temperature or or their work behind the scenes between the races they seem to go on top of their tyre wear issues gta pro gtm andrew watson is on the rear end of the second place car now team project 156 car it is less than a second the gap there so it's been a stellar spell from the triple seven car as roman demar decides go time okay purple again and uh talking of porsche drivers here is neil chaney in the pit lane dumas currently not racing a porsche he's in the uh out in the clicking house but a former porsche driver and current porsche rally driver kenneth kevin est gets back in didn't have the crushing dominance in qualifying that we saw in portugal and then spa but he was the quickest man in qualifying to take pole for the 92 porsche and in from third comes daniel serra and that's the end of the double as well driver change there too [Music] don't tune away from this only two hours to go and many of the same battles as close as they were it was talking about at this point an hour ago talking to a camera crew from goodyear earlier on before the race got underway and they're saying who's your money on for you are joking right who's going to win this i said i couldn't even tell you're going to win out right i know who i think is probably safe money but i am afraid to say i would possibly put it on the number eight because if seven and eight were together there's a very good chance that eight might have come out on top however fate has not smiled okay two tyre changes there as well 28 car comes out right in front of the wrt car 22 united auto sports fabio shera after a great stint and swiss driver comes in from the lead of lmp2 with well it's a comfortable gap less this stop just about to say james collado the leader in gt pro yet to stop here he comes so he comes in after the others have stopped so they will stop before him because he was the leader on the road and he will hand over to yes this is all the preparation of getting out the car isn't it to head over to alessandro pierre guiding this back in the pits and got through for jota so that was full only for blondquist fabio shera stays in at united so third for racing team netherlands and lmp2 and the final of our gt pro pit stops i think that means that collado and have got a lap on the field whether that actually matters at the end or not in terms of fuel they've come in a lot later but uh they still have track position and that's the key also in the 36 from second place that puts romantic instantly up into second place the gap to the lead now 24.3 seconds and again last time around he was quicker than kamu kobayashi not a lot quicker but quicker yes that could be very entertaining couldn't it just could be very entertaining two hours time we might [Music] news from louise beckett that we have a second possibly a third retirement uh 708 we know has been retired the 60 iron links ferrari they have parked again and 38 from johto we're probably not going to see again [Music] just 21 laps into what's been around a 30 lap stents for this car so plenty of time before we see the glickenhaus back on pit road again 23 seconds took what was that a full second and a half out of the lead last time around ramadan that's the uh real team racing car of lloyd duvall dive bombing the ferrari and not finding the room he needed to get through on the inside so he runs across the kerbs actually that [Music] here's our overall lineup with two hours and seven minutes remaining toyota lead from glickenhaus and lp double in lmp2 united from team wrt and team netherlands in gte pro 92 porsche lead a pair of ferraris and in gte m a of course there's 83 ferrari leads from the fast closing andrew watson for d station the team project one making it three different brands in the top three it's been a pretty blinding stint here by roman doom actually because he's averaged over the 22 laps so far a one minute 38.3 and mike conway's first in from the green and remember there was no traffic at the beginning of that stint because well basically it was leading it was a 138.04 so it's been a very very good stint by dumas since he got in okay got in it's slightly cooler now and tire everything else but uh they've still been able to consistently deliver lap time through traffic and at the moment he's got a bit of a clear run for probably the next two laps as well and that's hugely encouraging isn't it because this car has effectively done a bit of testing it's run in competition up the hill at goodwood at the festival speed last weekend this is its first race for tomorrow i thought i was 708 i thought you know the reliability is the key issue here clearly the car has got pace it's not very far away from toyota in le mans trim and what it really needs is to be able to still be going at three o'clock on sunday afternoon with that kind of pace and and nothing intervening in the way because that's the only way you're going to win the mod against toyota is by having no problems zero none not a one ladder [Music] nothing i think there at the moment certainly the characteristic of the circuit as soon as a grip starts to go down they seem to get a little bit stronger it appears uh they seem to be a little bit stronger in this section of circuit as well being the very low speed chicanes and then pulling out through the lesmo one and lesbo two interesting to see how it definitely develops through the course of now and also leading towards the testing towards le mans the alpine is going to have the same problem at the moment that it has here it's fuel tank just allow it to run as long as the others do which means it spends more time stationary one difference at le mans we have to wait and see how it stands out that because it's such a long lap it may be that it can just creep onto the same lap so for example do 10.1 laps instead of doing 10 9 and not being able to do the 11th is a bit of a waste of time in reality exactly stuck at the side of the track 21 seconds and it's now the gap as from under that continues to close down on the total a bit of a discussion there about how to drop the car down and get it on its way so his little pit stop works still being worked out within the team jim flickenhaus obviously pretty happy with the way things are going i should think so i i expect some spirited information close race well you know let's hope that the car is still running reliably and quickly at the flag as well because an overall podium here with two toyotas starting the race is a big result both for him and as well another thing that will endear this car to the fan base for the le mans 24 hours although i'm sure alan will add him that there was [Music] about losing stuff everywhere number seven toyota is currently our race leader by under 20 seconds the number eight car though has been the problem child let's hear from toyota's rob rob life and we're back here again it's not been the day for the number 8 toyota tell us what the issue is what they're dealing with now it is definitely not their day we are looking at the fuel pressure which has been an issue after brendan jumped into the car we have changed the fuel collector that means that everything has been taken apart around the fuel tank and yeah we hope to repair it soon and then go out again so there's been two or three separate issues now today we have had two issues the first one is the one related to the fuel pressure which as brandon jumped into the car was created there by settings so this has well this went on until now and the other one uh we have to investigate this it was when brendan went wide in the chicane so these are two separate issues the other one we had changed the front left corner which went okay and now we are looking into this situation and since the race before lamar you would like to do everything to not let this happen there of course um you're gonna get the car back out but where does that leave you in terms of points i would have to check so i don't know where we are at the present moment we say in the lmh class we are position five i think i don't know what the 308 or the 708 or clicking house is doing um so i would like to i would have to check this it's what would be expected for today okay thank you you're welcome now they've got to complete a certain distance to be able to be active to participate for points and that's going to be the key thing not necessarily whether they get out again in time but let's go to kobayashi leading the race no problems for them [Music] is covering at the minimum distance to score points we are two hours uh remaining we are now on lap one three six half of which again takes us to that 202 potentially so what's two what 75 percent of that range distance 100 is 75 650 okay so how many laps are they behind [Music] they are currently only 35 laps behind so if they don't lose any more time if they rejoin now they comfortably make it and they probably would not completely fourth because the several wheat has been taught but they can't afford to lose more than another 15 laps before the end of the race or or give or take so actually that's not a lot of time that's 20 minutes more stationary in the entire race and they could potentially not score points [Music] he can't really give away 10 laps because otherwise an lmp2 card will win it [Music] 30 seconds behind fastest lap of the race for ben barker in gr's porsche that's in fifth place fastest lap of the race for alessio picariello in the dempsey proton 88 car our porsche coming back into it a little more as the temperature drops a bit uh picking a little it's having a good spell here a little way down the field is intended position in that shooting impasse but there's been plenty of fastest laps in that car [Music] very good for a very good result here can he catch rivera i'm not sure about that uh we've got almost 12 to go it's 31 seconds is the gap but uh it's a bit of help you never do know do you gat for the lead overall as we take a look at the third place card this is ricotta pera 2.4 seconds back trouble for the seven leader in trouble number seven car very slow for kamui kobayashi very very stopping it's stopping this car's stopping that's 24 laps into the stint and the leader is stopped and just gone by him was roman dumas who does not go off laughing but takes the lead of the race for glickenhaus that toyota unless they are very lucky is not getting back to the pit lane brendan hartley managed to crawl the car back all the way through oh my goodness [Music] you stop on the side and use four cycles [Music] lights are on who's home can he get it to fire up yes you can there you go all the way through again lots of control or just stop weaving there's fast cars coming yeah but how far down has he dropped here 36 seconds at the moment at this sector line is now the glickenhaus has gone through the first chicane so effectively half a lap yeah is the distance click in the house leads at monza with the 709 of roman dima they owes a pit stop fairly soon but uh nikko lapierre is going to be close now to the number seven 709 will be coming in any time now try to scramble to the pit apron as you would expect no it goes through yeah reported on the steering wheel which then he had to do the power cycle now in this situation then usually it is something to do with the hybrid and the boost and that sort of profile structure i would suspect with the previous problem as well of the eight when they had the situation for brendan hartley then they're a little bit hyper sensitive about it but not going as according to plan as it did in porto maro or its spa for toyota two minutes and 39 lap a full minute loss there by the uh the toyota and that's a minute he can't afford to lose only a minute lost though by the toyota don't forget the the 80 the number eight car is is 25 laps lost already the roman demand leads now by 41 seconds so here is your race leader where's that camera that's been on the pit wall next to jim glickenhaus because there will have been spontaneous combustion he comes for his fuel stop so it's a brief lead over toyota but the race is not over 29 laps on that stint for the 709 car i should see if the total stays out he's killed a cucumber isn't he he can stay out the toyota's got about another five six laps to go in the stint however the clicking house always will have to stop earlier it can do less laps on its tank of fuel than the toyota can adjusting the mirrors there as well for the driver because he knows he's gonna have a toyota behind him in a few laps time because of course when the toyota does have to stop for fuel it will drop back behind the glickenhaus again so roman dumas wants all the weapons in his armory so soda goes through to lead again oh it's got it's going down into the pizza if you look there the this card is going into the box as well trolleys are underneath it trolleys are ready breaks it's breaking breaks okay louise beckett's down in the picture shouted up breaks are going to be changed we spoke about the amount of dirt on those elephant foot louvers that are just directly behind the front wheels that was from very early on in this race and the front brakes are the ones that are taking the real hit round here drama galore never seen this car from so high above looks like a lowla t-70 from above that's what it looks like now alpine have to turn in the game yeah this absolutely 100 puts the 36 right into the game for a potential win here yeah but let's look towards the end of the race because of the fuel stop lens this alpine has got uh two stops and a splash actually sorry apologies two stints to go it's got it's actually clear it's clear to go through with the same number of uh stops as kobayashi so it's a 31 second gap from kobayashi to nikko lapierre it is all going crazy in gtam as well this is expected to be a 10 minute stop potentially for the click and house this that's going to be rough for them it's going to be rough for them but it's also going to be rough when you look towards the big picture of le mans because if in a six hour race you're actually changing brakes after four hours then you can do the simple massive extrapolate out even though though lemon is different in terms of its cooling capacity and everything else it still suggests that they need to work a lot on this and this car is homologated to a great extent as well so something in that brake material needs a lot of looking at anyway kobe actually back in front sorry you can't change the brake material because it takes about six months for a manufacturer to be able to press a new set of discs and pads to be able to go through so it's not as if you could suddenly just pull a different one you could go to a change brand but the cost in that is huge and also the way that everything is designed around and about the characteristics of your disc and pad can you in car change your manufacturer or is it part of the modification it used to be with lmp2 or remember the uh points we have for the issues with with brake desks can you yeah i think if you if it's under a safety point you can do basically anything so in this respect we clearly know that brakes are a performance factor but they are also definitely a safety factor and the cost absolutely well that's drama um as we get into the final two hours of the six hours of bonza four hours ago we had five hyper cars we currently have two and some halton lane so yeah i mean yeah it's all new they're all pushing the boundaries with every bit of this technology and that means that an overall podium is an lmp2 potential five minutes back at the moment the united auto sports 22 car with a 47 second lead over the team wrt car um also pointing out that after four hours of monza an overall podium is a potential for an lmp2 car as alan has pointed out lemon is six times longer than we have currently run and we have no more hypercars coming to le mans then started here it's kind of an interesting month or so isn't it isn't it though this is uh the glory days of olympia are not done yet it might be their most glorious [Music] and she will have to allow him to go through and does before she rejoins and like duvall is not far behind 10 seconds back for real team racing but he was in front of them when he came into the pit lane he admitted just now he was in front of him when he came into the pit lane louise beckett like everybody does trying to stay out of the way as teams are frantically getting everything sorted this was not expected adam they're getting bits out of a toolbox that they didn't have ready yeah it's as well in principle there's a difference between changing these things and testing and there's a difference when it's actually hot live in a race and this is where you see too many people in a garage this is where you need to have structure within your team like this gentleman here on the right standing doing nothing but spectating so he needs to be completely out of the way and in that respect there's a i would say a new learning of just the team and the integration of all of the new parties within the team they'll learn from this they've got a month that's why you're [Music] every day is a school day in life and in racing we're on board with our lmp2 leader kevin s a tte pro leader kevin nest moving up to third position overall now united auto sports fabio sharer two laps down from the lead battle 33 seconds between those top two and may i just look at as we've seen estra now pulling away a little bit from queer goody it's now up to five and a half seconds which is a huge breathing gap in gta pro and i have to say neil gianni was the architect after being able to get into the lead through a really good pit stop by the porsche team to be able to give esther the chance now to stretch it away what's happening in yam class as well the porsches aren't hanging out the back of the field like the long-term rouge anymore now it's like they're in the mountains and suddenly the porsche's it's all coming towards them is the temperature of the track changing is that making life more easy or less difficult for the porsches let's say also the other thing is there are less corners here than portimao and at the same time uh you put less energy into those tires and so from that perspective they've been able to play i think pretty clever strategy game i think they've also learned a lot from portugal which shocked quite a few people in how hard they were on the tires driving wise in the way the setup is and also just general preparation but the more rubber that goes down on the circuit the better it is for the tire so the later into the race more you get into the better position for the tire like that part of the other element might be that they may we've got just barker their fastest guy tennessee proton 77 jackson evans is in team project one matteo cairoli they've got all their gentlemen drive time out of the way no not all of them not all have mike wainwright's got a little bit to do he doesn't have some hate he does so i think maybe some of the others have and some of their rivals now simon mann is in a of course jan carlos of course seven is in the pit lane is this a scheduled stop yes it is this is 30 laps but this is right on the critical coin point because they need to do 31 laps for the next two sticks to avoid a splash whereas nicola lapierre he has also got two stops to go but he doesn't need to do that extra splash right rear puncture for the number seven car as well is that from when they pulled over and stopped because they stopped exactly where they aston martin left front tire and don't forget what side of the track the tractor blower was on that was going down that side of the grass on the driver's left as he comes up the hill there so could well be it's not been straightforward has it it really hasn't it's uh just everybody bar the alpine has had problems yep this is yeah well done graham uh that was graham goodwin there 709.708 rather out to the pit lane seven nine in israel victor fries back in racing team netherlands lmp uh two pro am leader pro am united also sports third overall leads uh lmp2 rather uh team wlt charm malaysia fourth overall for uh for lmp2 in second place third in lmp2 into europol's jacob schmikowski so into europol having a very strong race at the boat though he has just been warned about uh track limits it's a great race at lmp2 it has been nip and tuck it has gone in every different direction possible and and for for once there has been a race of attrition in mp2 we've not seen that for a long time can i decide i say this so often coming tomorrow somebody said what's so great about captain sponsor it's a classic racetrack not just because it's been around a long time but because it always produces good races this is the great race and we've still got almost two hours of it to go no still no money on anybody yet i'm disagreeing with you it's not a great race it's four great races that's the great thing about this is we've got those races overlaid here yeah which is what gives us that added layer of drama that comes only in this sort of racing it allows those storylines to develop over time and sometimes you can see them coming and sometimes they just come up and bite you yep and toyota so toyota racing kobayashi on the apron this will be our last running car and uh without a problem then yeah by your calculations from before if they don't have any more problems yeah just talking about problems earlier on we had the racy competition receiving a penalty if we remember i've just seen the actual official notice and that was due to refueling too long while the patex was closed during safety car procedures so they did a full refuel when they're meant to only take five seconds if i remember correctly of fuel under an emergency situation then refuel at the break number eight toyota is 43 laps behind if we go just over the 200 lap mark which i my really rubbish math suggests we might do there'll be six or seven laps to the good it's not a big margin for a car that's already 43 they've lost car they've lost 10 laps per hour so they can't afford another major issue they can't afford another binder issue yeah it's it's seven laps for 10 minutes here and back up to third at the moment remember we do still need to see uh mike wayne right back into that car yes great spell for ben parker andrew watson just stopped out of second place for d station he's dropped to fifth but he stayed in and here is the battle between racing team netherlands and joe to sport the 28 jota car tom blondquist at the wheel closing in on nick dufrese the gap was half a second at the line chris is quicker here at this phase of the race this is the battle for fourth overall in lmp2 united auto sports team wrt enter europol competition competing here for what could be their first ever world championship podium what a fantastic result that would be for a tiny team from poland who who dreamed big and started off in v2b and ended up in a podium position with an hour and 45 to go here at the world endurance championship aco titles their name asia the monster is then on p3 three times second place in the lms championship in lmp3 two fifth positions in their first two races in the world at jones championship and now truly in a position where it could be better than that uh great stuff from that team and uh making progress this is the fight racing car and that is dennis anderson still at the wheel [Music] was that cooper yeah [Music] watch this again this is from inside the 34 car that is anderson to the right hand side he's on the inside there yeah he backed out of it which was his actual issue because he then if he had gone in side by side then it would have been a side to side hit which everybody would have kind of bounced over the curve and got away with the okay but by backing out of it he put himself in a position where it was right rear to left front which spun the other car around oh that would be tough if they get a penalty again and drop themselves out of top three but still an hour and 45 to go probably factory driver nicholas nielsen being strapped into the leading car in gte am yep from alessia rivera they were 45 seconds of the good when that stop started and comes the second place car which is [Music] this is marcus gomez and he's going to be replaced by secretary farfas i think steve i think you're right i think paul dalalana has done his minimum drive time here comes our lmp2 leader third place overall fabio sheriff squeaks in front of the gr racing porsche being driven by ben barker that is now our am leader again so we need to work out where that fuel misalignment or non-alignment is going to leave them they didn't stop under the first short full course yellow chose track position and thought that maybe things might come their way well maybe they might still who are you talking about gr the number 86 porsche they definitely do need uh mike wayne right back in that car yes now if there is a splash at the end mike wainwright might be getting in for a short shift might well be that they've got uh they don't have a splash they've got two stints to go and uh they can equal them out and say 26 laps normally the car can do 32 laps mike wainwright needs to do about 12 minutes or something i think we think it's a little longer maybe 20 minutes yeah nick nielsen in a of course as you documented it was augusto farthest who gets in the 98 aston martin jackson evans pits from behind then with the 77 dempsey proton porsche as we watch high class versus dragon speed this is an all danish battle who's in the dragon speed car uh that is one problem on tour so not quite as dangerous as henrik hedman now have to go back and check the results on this one this as things stand could be the third wc race ever with an lmp2 car on the overall podium one of them came at le mans with the uh result with the jackie chan dc racing cars second and third the other came in the very first wc race at sebring with star works uh putting the car on the overall podium at sebring very good i remind the the uh that was a joint race uh so it was not the overall podium but it was the podium for the wc cars that competed there right juan pablo montoya you can just see from the goodyear blimp ship with the white just just not getting by the high class racing entry there dennis anderson hanging on this is for third in pro-am and eighth place in lmp2 anderson eighth montoya in ninth place leader in pro-am in fourth place racing team netherlands with nick the free sat at the wheel absolutely that race by the way in 2012 second uh place and that race went to uh one of the audi's robin demar amongst the drivers in that car the uh first place car it's another audi zandindo yeah it was actually [Music] good battle here for dennis anderson this is why gentleman drivers like endurance racing where else do you get to race an ex-grand prix driver a three-time daytona 24-hour winner a nascar racer a multiple twice indycar champion not all in the same field by the way but all in the body of one person in one car and that's why endurance racing is so much fun and in the next race he gets to race alongside in that car uh an indie uh imsa champion and the reigning gt world champion yeah that's what's uh special and uh minor contact i suspect there good move by juan pablo montoya the stewards will look at the contact between the uh high-class car dennis anderson there the red and white car and the 34 car of uh it was kuber schmidtkops of uh yes makovsky driving it wasn't it was uh into europol car that currently lies in thirds dennis anderson showing spirit there and just uh giving juan pablo the opportunity to realize you can't lift off their sunshine yeah it comes this is the move to the outside taking a couple of laps and one using his experience to go outside inside here [Music] a good race from dennis anderson this he's uh showing real spirits they just get better and better the high-class team and as we said you know they've raced all the way up the ladder into world endurance they've they've climbed the aco's ladder [Music] both toyota's back out now their second and fourth alpine lead by 40 seconds 709 remember we'll still be on a podium if it completes this race yeah it's uh the hypercar class making its way back up the order with that uh pit stop just on the way now for them one car seems early let's get down to the pit lane louise beckett with jim clicking house we saw him looking fairly sanguine about the 709 car which is now back out on track jim glickenhaus what can we say about this race is still so far to go but it's all going on we couldn't have predicted this at all could we for the 708 and the 709 now the 708 lost the spark plug the beginning of the race so it was running on seven cylinders and then it something happened in the gearbox we're not sure what but since it dropped metal into the oil i didn't want to just replace it and damage another gearbox the 709 is running really well and really quickly uh but the brakes in the front were wearing more than we expected so for safety we replaced them we're able to run very fast lap times and uh you know there's over an hour [Applause] [Music] what can you do about that situation is i i don't think it means much it's very hot now toyota have the same issue but i don't see it as being a systemic problem or anything okay great thank you you got it all right well we've got a full grand prix distance still to go in terms of time to be run so let's wait and see how this one ends up and alan it's not just hypercar that's in the balance gte pro is in the balance gt yam is in the balance nobody's got a clue who's going to come out on top in lmp2 and that's that's all four classes still you know if you put your money on anybody now you lose a reasonable reasonable chance of losing your shirt i'll take your money anyway and hold it just in case but uh right now i don't know if there may be too many people with bitten end of this race never mind bet on the end of the next one being le mans but uh it's pretty nip and tuck this particular battle definitely has swung in the direction of uh porsche in terms of leading it because you've got kevin estrada that's got a a six second gap and he's able to hold peer gear at arm's length but on the other side jimmy bruni's now caught right up in the back of miguel molina i think it's going to need a pit stop to be able to achieve it because the traffic effect doesn't help the gte cars as much as it helps the hyper cars and so therefore the pit stop as they did when they got neil yani into the lead of the race in the sister car i think that's the position that they'll have to look at but right now the balance between these two they do provide performance at different points on the circuit but equal over the whole lap a bit of an update comes from our friend on twitter at wc data at two further races than the wcc's history we've seen lmpd2 cars on the overall pokemon bahrain last year in fact uh the jackie chan dc racing car and bahrain as well in 2013 with g drive making it open with two bahrain races this year and who's gonna better get that well is it gonna be cool in bahrain do we think and kind of cars no no no it's not real it's related a little bit to air temperature yeah which is definitely going to be a bit cooler it's not the august 44 degrees that we had in the first year of the bahrain racing which was i have to say a little bit extreme for my little scottish body but it's still pretty tough on everything debbie sanderson the high-class car we saw battling with one problem montoya now in the pit lane i think that that is dennis's uh time in the car done i suspect very much so could go back to uh magnus and jay of the i would think there's the driver change going on i feel we need to see this i'm just filled back that's going back to school but gotta do a final step there for himself the only other car that was in the pit lane has now exited gr racing tom gamble back in so it's gamble and [Music] map going to the grid in the opening round did not take part in that but uh getting some good miles on their new porsche this year someone else getting some real good quick laps in and miles into kamui kobayashi who has just done nine laps an average of one point two seconds quicker than nicola lapierre that's leading the race so it looks like kobayashi's got the hurry up it's you know they've got a push they've got to push it they need to put the alpine crew under pressure it's an hour and 30 minutes to go still and this is not done so he's averaged a second a lap for nine laps that's nine seconds he's closed there's 30 seconds 36 seconds between them it's an awful lot of laps still it is but the alpine also helps with this pitch stop yep this is very true so the battle for third place continues and we're a third of a second apart at the line that's possibly one of the bigger gaps around the lap between the air of course a number 52 ferrari and the white 91 porsche behind the white and blue car further back team project one matteo cairoli and that car has been up and down like the assyrian empire to assimilate a phrase but is now in third position don't forget gideo pavetti jumped from third on the grid to second in the very first corner in that car and then they seemed to suffer tired woes or something else as all the porsches just sagged down the order now they are coming right back into it matteo cairoli third place andrew watson second in the d station aston martin 12 seconds in front and a gap to nick nielsen here for the af course 83 car in the lead it's a whopping 29 seconds from first to second [Music] a number of these gtm cars still with some uh bronze driver time to burn included in them by the way is the number 88 car that's been brought hairing up the order she got 52 and 91 battling away here and moves to defend who's to take the optimum line through the chicken gets it and good drive out there from the ferrari too that should fend off the close attention to jimmy brunit for another lap fastest lap of the race goes to kamui kobayashi meanwhile 152 and it's about 100 quicker than the previous best lap that's a 1 37 1 5 6. in the pre-event press conference duncan asked jimmy bruni whether he would mind breaking the hearts of the tufosi as an italian here in monster beating beating the ferrari he said no team wrt go to work it's a driver change here with sean malesi 45 seconds back did not make much of an impact there on the uh the gap to fabio shera that blinding speed we saw in qualifying not able to reproduce that across that stint i'm sure these distant times were pretty good it was a 141 407 um average time across that 27 rap stint and again i think that shows the hunger of fabio scherrer who of course missed the last race didn't he uh for united autism sports so he is back in the car that is our race leader and jakob schmikowski was how far behind a minute 11 behind second place so that into europol car is getting close still no a decision on the contacts that we saw at turn one down at retifio whatever we see in the remaining hour and a half here though martin what we've got is teams that we've not seen very often in the mix that includes the glitch now squad it includes the interior pole squad and they're getting a taste of what it takes to be there and that's going to pay dividends moving forward that through become turn one that's a view from the goodyear airship porsche's got better top end the ferrari gets off the corner pretty well yeah so between it they're sort of ebbing and flowing a little bit it's going to take a a reasonable run to allow jimmy bruni to have a a good blast of molina because molina is certainly not going to wave him past there is no question about it good hard racing in this class isn't it has been from the very start of gt pro and it's carried on so whenever the end comes for what's been a fantastic class of international racing i think it'll come down in this particular battle to in and out laps uh at the pit stop [Music] robin freeze taking over at wrt from uh charm lacy the car only drops one spot down to third position with that pit stop remains ahead of racing team nederland who are in fourth they're about 20 seconds further back down the road or were at the so he'll be on them soon and it's sometimes it's those opportunities for a gt racer it's not necessarily cars you catch it can be cars that catch you if they dive in front of your rival at the last moment or in front of you at the last moment it can definitely affect the balance of supremacy there's our lmp2 leader still fabio scherrer they've got a balance of supremacy at the moment they've got a good lead 40 seconds give or take and uh equal on the number of pit stops to the end of the race well now they all pitched up relative to wrt but uh prior to that they were they were effectively on the same number of stops as now felipe albuquerque gets ready he'll take over when that car comes into the bit shearer will jump out in probably one more lap this could be his last lap actually before it happens in come the interior competition team that's uh boyd brundle getting out of the car yeah so it'll bundle mine at climbs aboard alex bundle will be in you think to the end so too you would think that albuquerque yeah they will be there's two stints to the end and so they'll double to go through now it's gonna be a monster arm wrestle to win this one isn't it i mean this is a big big battle going on yeah i think in the in this particular one you know there's enough gaps between them unless there is something like a full course a safety car that brings them back in you know alex brundle uh definitely then would see his opportunity there's no question and give it everything but i can't imagine robin friends is going to think anything different than felipe albuquerque we know wrt got caught a little bit because they did their stop predominantly under green and went back out when the safety car uh just started so ultimately lost the time most of the time in that particular point absolutely they were unfortunate they were lucky not to get caught in the pits but they were unfortunate that everybody else was going [Music] much faster for most of their time on pit road out comes alex brundle in the 34 car not the quickest pit stop time but not bad 121 on pit road in comes the leader in lmp2 and third place overall fabio shera that's been a good double stint from fabio shira racing team medlin can't be far away either they're in fourth place now the inter-europa cars dropped behind them and roman duma 25 seconds behind nick dufrese third in the glickenhaus in hypercar but in fact in sixth place overall on a different fuel stance uh the racism come on it's under 20 seconds between uh robin friends and nick davis yep that one's got mileage to come hasn't it the battle rages on still jimmy bruni just nudging up behind miguel molina's got a good run going through curvature sony but no chance down at the roger driver covers off the inside line porsche man will have to try again somewhere else and meanwhile here comes more mp2 traffic that's still the high class car behind them and behind them is the wrt car of robin freeze so robin freeze just behind this battle expect at least one of those lmp2 cars to come by and there goes our mp2 leader felipe albuquerque out of the pit lane another car that they're going to try to get out is the jota 38 that we saw coming in earlier on they're going to try and get that back out louise beckett has just been down there as we see at the back of that lineup actually the sister car uh which is stoffel vandoorne yeah and that car fresh out of the pit lane is in sixth place the wicked vowel for real team is in fifth into europol's yellow and green card alex bundle is in fourth and here comes the jota cart trying to fight its way through the porsche ferrari battle for third in gt pro and look how hard it is for the p2 cars to pass in a straight line and here comes jimmy bruni down the inside gets eased over towards the grass by miguel molina and again jimmy bruni would have done exactly the same in defense there's no easy passes race leader in the pits nico lapierre for alpene not for toyota that was a few years back race leader nicola is in door is shut i think there's been a driver change there as well in that car lapierre had done a double stint so it'll go back normally by uh oh sorry to jump there a little bit wide for molina onto the gravel doesn't give quite enough for jimmy bruni to have a sniff up the inside into the first lessmo toyota back in the lead number seven car has re-taken the lead kamui kobayashi [Music] [Music] and the white 91 porsche all over the back of miguel molina this is the battle for third their teammates similarly ahead of them by about half a minute kevin esch ahead of alessandro pierguidi is five and a half seconds not just under half a second as this battle is long stop for a rc bratislava mate konopka in the pit lane not seeing that at the moment too much on track action and uh machiavelli was who took over the alpine he comes back out of the pit lane in second charged with chasing down catching and passing kamui kobayashi in the toyota uh recovery drive uh underway from the clicking house of ronald demaio around the outside this time from the porsche the 91 car has he got room to do this he does i was going to say if he doesn't get the first apex he's going to try and hold the second one on the left there but he got in front under braking defense by miguel melinda but in the last couple of laps alan mcnish he's been sort of all over the curbs and kicking up the gravel he sort of says that the porsche had a bit more tyre left in reserve yeah they definitely know i think we'll pull away jimmy bruni and that will sort of settle this battle down because there's a 30-second gap up ahead to pour giddy who's in second place but already bruni has done his fastest sector one of the race so far by immediately getting past now admittedly got a little bit of a draft for molina down the street but he's still able to deliver it here we're now on board with kazuki nakajima in the toyota this car is still not in the top 30 overall but he's now managed to get itself up into fourth place due to the fact that uh the glickenhaus has retired and that will allow it to sort of keep in the points and keep it in that points battle it'll receive 12 points with its teammates 25 which will bring the championship battle to within six points if my calculations are correct and that is significantly tighter than it was coming into this race also in hypercar back up in the sixth position on that recovery drive now is the 709 clicking house minute and 21 seconds off third place [Music] that is a gap that will be coming down we'll keep an eye on that one moment give you an idea it's about two and a half seconds a lot quicker uh duma than philippe alberkirk different on fuel strategy across fuel uh the pit stop times for these two cars fastest lap of the race you're quite right from jimmy gruder 146 627 30 seconds back from pierre greedy that's significantly quicker than any of the other cars in gt pro that time around still looking at the talking about the clicking house there i heard from jim's licking house that uh breaks he didn't think were an intrinsic issue even when the car went back out after the change of the front brakes there's still a lot of dust coming off them in the heavy braking area so it's clear that they do have a little bit of work to do there whether it's something that is in the dna in the way that the cooling package is done or in the brake manufacturer or whatever but there's a little bit of work to be done there before them all talking about a bit of work on board with this man quickest first sector of the race so far now caught behind a bit of traffic in the two lesmos but he's half a lap ahead of mature vaccivia in the alpine we're seeing now just crossing the line to start the which number of lap is that 159 slap so 159 laps in the books 51.8 seconds is the lead gap between the two relatively undelayed because we have had the delay for the number seven uh toyota third overall is that number 22 united order sports uh oracle the lmp2 car with felipe alberkirk at the wheel uh he's got 38 seconds advantage over team wrt car 31 car with the third car overall on an mp2 fifth over on the race nick devries in what is the pro and leading 29 recently in netherlands 16 seconds back from that we get to the recovering roman dumas in the 709 car that's a eight minute stop for a change of breaks on the 709 they are racing back and will if staying out of trouble make some further progress up the order yeah a minute and a quarter behind the 22 car in third place overall of course they will go on to a hypercar podium if they finish where they are now whether they're third fourth fifth whatever down the order i think the the sort of battle there is the fact that nick the threesome the racing team netherlands in fifth place overall first in pro am actually still owes us a pit stop so we'll then come back in towards the areas of the inter-europa battle for third lmp uh in gt yam rather team project 156 car and that is the acronym porsche of matteo cairoli racing in touring cars last weekend in motorland aragon with near 800 horsepower a two-ton rear-wheel drive touring car so he's probably finding this to be a little bit underpowered to be honest but it stops a bit better not so correlated we talked about jimmy rooney mate corelli another italian passionate about porsche may well be part of the future of the porsche brand in motorsports uh i'm not sure how much longer they can fend him away from a porsche factory uh factory seat but he'll relish this on home ground with team project one and a driver of the quality of augusta farfoo's to battle out there porsche leads aston martin for third position it's another aston martin ahead by the way in second position and gte am been trying not to mention d station and andrew watson too much just fear of giving them the jinx the commentator because at the moment they're having a really good run drive through penalty for car number 20 that's the high class entry for not respecting blue flags and causing contact with car number 34 so the uh the yellow and green car off into europol not judged to be at fault for that so a penalty handed to uh uh was was that dennis anderson is all this driver change it was if a penalty was coming i'd have probably called it that way and the blue flag side of it i hadn't taken into account but the way i saw the contact yes um this is a great battle yeah and uh really good stuff the aston just with a little bit more top end it seems on the porsche and uh at a circuit that is quite top endy like monza that doesn't hurt too much you spend a lot of time at full throttle here something over 70 of the lap that's getting on to old hockenheim kind of percentage seem to remember one time they said in 41 89 percent of that you spent at full throttle at hockenheim or something wow insane like that out through the forests i should say by the way the brothers drivers from these cars both paul delano from the chasing 98 car has done his uh we acquired minimum time as has a gideon pathetic 56 car well both started the race and that that's almost always the way they go to try and get their drivers in right at the beginning both have done significantly more than the two both have done over two hours aboard the cars there's paul on the left felipe fraga on the right and uh fellow brazilian augusto farfast there in the 98 aston chasing the italian in the porsche whoa on the grass is tom blondquist oh it's nice 38 not 28. they're coming back in that's antonio felix de costa and davidson and roberto gonzalez car and that is aunt davidson going very very slowly louise was expecting the car in any way let's hear what the team have to say [Music] [Applause] so we need to change [Music] well that doesn't normally put you off into the grass yeah that was the thing that surprised me was he was off in the gravel but uh let's see he's coming back on like a lymphoma yeah [Music] so yes i mean the the initial part of the message there too late on the call that means they need they were bingo fuel they needed to come in and didn't say so and he should also have warning lights that tell him things like that but you rely on your engineer and try not to get too distracted by them minimal laps so that's the thing since early on in the race i've been doing little in and out short laps short stints but he's up to speed again looks like he's only been out for four laps yeah i wonder what it is it can't be that they're out of fuel it's standard that they stick fuel in the moment the car arrives well the only other thing is was it a call for another problem that came too late yeah maybe they are warning him of something they've seen come up has he got a slow punch or something was back up to speed that doesn't look like somebody's coming back with a puncture did he have an electronics issue it's the brain's trusted jota he will come into the pit lane i think it would be good if we could see uh sort of trip across the gravel and grass whether that was actually the result of something that was earlier dragon speed in the pits juan pablo montoya brought the number 21 car in from eighth place in lmp2 11th overall [Music] let's get down to hear from louise beckett see if she can tell us a little bit more louise uh you're at jota what do they know so anthony reported that there was hesitation in the car so they were calling him in to come in anyway because they knew that they would probably need to check this issue more and then he was just too late on the call for him to come in okay so it's got it it's got an electronics or a long running problem with the car and they had hoped to stop him doing another slow lap ben hanley takes over the dragon speed car for the until the end of the race like everybody else if the car is playing up now they just want to learn what they can and try and use this as training for fixing issues if you learn what a problem is hopefully you won't recur well there's been a lot of problems today much more than expected and certainly from cars and operations that uh you know normally we haven't had this level of problems we want to come back to le mans they might be headed to uh monster might be a few teams again now actually we're good we didn't like monster very much we didn't have much fun not among them here united so far not among them here either in this battle in the gcm car team project one and uh amr and into the pit lane is our third and fourth place battle jimmy bruni and miguel molina rooney stops in the porsche molina stops now in the ferrari lane uh again the extraordinary thing about this lmp2 battle this season has been this tale of the three big teams united jota wrt and they've all hit problems um you've had perfect races uh the spa opener for united was absolutely faultless after the first lap shenanigans between the two jokers you've barely ever seen a race that perfect from the two-car team to come back with the result that they come up and here we are again it's uh it has been pendulum i think is the the phrase they're either very very good or they hit multiple troubles when they're good they're very very good when they're bad they're horrid correct uh pit stop two four real team lloyd duvall i think may well stay in jimmy bruni miguel molina saw having service the porsche coming out narrowly in front inches fourth down in inches an hour and nine minutes to go and they go a lap down to the 92 porsche which will owe us a stop that was the last to stop on the last round gonna be the next lap 92 porsche will be in the leading porsche now does the 52 ferrari come in or yes it does uh does the 51 ferrari come in or does it stay out as long as airstrike does it stays out as long so alessandro pierguevi has somehow saved a lap of fuel as well yeah he'll be going in for the next stop yeah but i thought the 92 car stopped on its own last time round i may just have missed the ferrari going in as well now collado did 34 laps on the previously and uh 33 laps on this particular stream so the same sort of numbers i've been james that found the extra lap to get them back on terms graham goodwin the fastest lap of that car's race goes to uh philippi alberta in the 22 uh united auto sports car 139 602 which is just tenth off uh the fact the time just posted by the effects of the air in the alpine fastest lap for the uh the car two goes to sapphire flourish at the number one uh resharp meal racing car ring ninth and sixth in lmp2 and just a moment ago uh also a fastest lap for that car for the second place car in gte am that went to andrew watson with the 1475. we're entering happy hour time this is what we're getting close towards we qualified at six o'clock yesterday and it's uh quarter to five now with an hour to go we will finish the race at about the time that we started qualifying yesterday um and it does seem to be just a little bit of a cooler day much more humid but that doesn't bring the track temperature up i wonder if they're just finding a little bit more even at the end of the step 92 on the pit road or a white porsche at any rate yep it's two it is as indeed comes the 51 ferrari so it's as you were last uh time last time around it was 91 and 52 this time 92 and 51 and it becomes a matter of who can turn the rock the car around more quickly amongst the two pit crews rather than two real men and again if the porsche team gain one or two seconds they start to cover the ability of the ferrari team who are further downstream in the pitch to release their car and we think when the porsche team gained four seconds in a stop a couple of stops ago two of it might have been in the actual stop the other two because the ferrari couldn't be released when the porsche was coming close to it down the pit lane left sides only that's pretty much been the way it's been looks like left sides only for ferrari as well i think the porsche is on its way sounded like it there it goes ferrari losing more time here it's not a bad looking pit stop from patty pregliasco's crew out they go they were about eight and a half seconds apart coming in it's not dramatically different is it looks like that might be the same although the ferrari is going to come into quite a lot of traffic now that's just shot by him here we go look including the race leader kobayashi who by the way is stretching that lead 59 seconds to good now over mattia vasovier fastest final sector of the race for the toyota as well it was in clear air all the way through sector three which is basically exoduskari to the finish line full second taken out of the alpine's time and uh now being not quite as quick even as the glickenhaus in sixth place is uh closing in pretty rapidly on nick davis moments you don't get many of those laps where everything runs really clean for you and so when you do you probably have to take advantage you really did there which those battles would be keeping an eye on mateoka only still leads up mr farfus for that uh battle of the final podium position in gte m as indeed as you were jimmy bruni and miguel molina still nose to tail yeah [Music] lmp2 [Music] 40 seconds between united and team wrt further 17 seconds back before we get to racing team nedland there's actually some significant gaps in that field now start a couple of them starting to open up a little bit very very close still and hopefully there are some very young fans there still enjoying themselves that's not quite a joke it is now a change for position changed back foot position in fact as the 98 aston had got in front we didn't see that i don't think across the line he was about 10th up yeah and then lost underbreaking to the porsche that's why he's got the three colored lights on the side marker for being in third position they will go out on his car and come on the porsche at the end of sector one which was breaking into the roger and now when we see the side shot of the porsche it'll have the three yellow lights on or orange lights off and there it goes cracking stuff with these two has been flat after lap black in to pit lane comes nick defrees seeds fifth place overall so ronald dumas moves up another one but will owes a pit stop fairly soon the 709 these two laps in fact i think the threesome racing team nedland need to keep their nose clean looking for another pro-am win rinaldi racing ferrari being warned about obeying blue flags guest cars by the way [Music] position best of the gtm cars that are not full season entrance they're 10th at the moment chris hall rick attention gta 28th overall in 10th place in lmp2 as well not been a smooth race for them has it hasn't really been drama but it just hasn't really been quite as quick as they'd have hoped i think they're down behind high class and dragon speed there's an outfit of that ability all right they don't have much to go on here in monza in recent years but then orders anybody else at a pit stop cycle uh for the racing team nylon car drops them down to fourth in the class behind the interior competition car again so alex brenda four and a half seconds clear of nick dufrese that could be an interesting battle of course yeah that was at the line so brundle was coming by at 180 miles an hour and defrees was doing zero as he sat on the jack so that could be up to 30 seconds no it was the first time in the first time in beacon okay and when in when there's troubles ahead left leg in left leg out yeah it's it's big yeah the okie cookie is definitely big eat [Music] striding away now it's a minute and three seconds clear [Music] that started on pole position and leads with an hour and two minutes to go fairly standard straightforward race so far then for toyota as you say it like that but anything but in reality conway i think we'll take over fairly shortly from kamui kobayashi and probably see the race out of demand meanwhile is 62 seconds off a podium position with 62 minutes remaining that has come that is still coming down about a minute yeah there are pet stops to take into account here yeah but uh so you're getting your money out no not in this race yes yeah change this time doesn't quite manage to do it because he got better attraction coming out but uh farthest manages to get it done squares it away nicely and the top end speed helps to creep the aston martin away as they get towards the breaking area for the roger the second of our three chicanes here in start monster sun start to uh beat down there out of the cloud cover it's pretty humid there's been quite a lot of cloud cover today but when the clouds aren't there you really feel the heat of the sun action on top of this field with brake racing and some misfortune 30 seconds away from the start of the final hour gtm this is how that moves start around the outside yep probably honking on there around the exit of the parabolica gusto one of the dempsey proton cars at 77 or 88 it's the atm they're as we head into the final hour here in [Music] monzo pit lane for our race leader kamui kobayashi this was an expected and scheduled stop and as we anticipated perhaps mike conway taking over the man who started from pole position and toyota gazoo racing will definitely be hoping that the brit is still the race leader as he was in the first turn coming out of the last in between times a very different story to any that we've seen so far this season so far this year in spa and most recently in portugal the number seven toyota's had the pace on the sister number eight car here number eight didn't quite have the pace and has had no fortune other than bad here though comes the challenge for the new race leader and this is for alpine going across the stripe to move ahead of the number seven toyota the car that was briefly in the lead the 709 glickenhaus is in fifth place overall third in hypercar as the seven car leaves the pit lane it is a two-horse race [Music] just a little quick on board glimpse during the pit stop of mike conway here is mike at speed again full tanks fresh rubber job is to claim a third straight a third ever hyper car victory for toyota it won't be a one-two as they've had at the previous two races and it would be the first hypercar win for the crew of number seven graham if they survive the next hour in front yeah and uh they've given us a couple of moments haven't they sure have jose maria lopez in his stints in the number seven car in the middle of the race that leaves him available to chat to our louise beckett let's get down to the pit lane hey maria lopez mike conway's just taken the number seven to the end of the race could you ever ever imagined the race would be playing out like this i send your resurrection you have to be prepared for everything [Music] it's been a crazy race uh having problems unfortunately on carraign we had some problems too a puncher click how has a problem had a problem and yeah it's been crazy but we are prepared for that you know we kind of know how hard it is so yeah we managed to have a good rhythm come we did a fantastic job and then we have to see the strategy how he's going to play in the end but uh yeah let's hope that everything comes together and we can bring back home uh the trophy it's unfortunate for the issues but is it nice to have that fight brought to you oh definitely to have the point to see to see alpine to which you see like how having a very a very good pace it's very good is what we want you know it's competition it's going to be more and more difficult for us as well so [Music] we take it as a good challenge we're ready for that and uh yeah yeah i think it is a very bright future ahead of us and be glad we're glad that it's like this thank you thank you bringing that competition to them here today this has been one of them dropped off that battle with need for a break change in the 709 just uh that car i think is going to need a splash [Music] 56 minutes to go the toyota no the clicking house has just been a stop yeah i think the toyota as well is on the limit of it so 56 minutes to go out comes the glickenhaus in the hands of richard westbrook now it comes back out in eighth position through to cross the line for the end of lap one seven four three sorry is uh matthias vazoviere aboard the 36 car also saw by the way the 33 the tf sport car that led the race in gtm but had that massive blowout rather ruined their day crawling in i suspect out of fuel managed to make it back to the pit box let's just uh rejoin the race so fast yeah 13.8 seconds to the good but uh who's as a pit stop reasonably certain agrees me soon it's 11 laps which should be his final stop that will be his final stop but then the question is can the toyota get to the end without an additional splash yep the gaps should should all things remain as they are that's not been the case for the last five hours uh should be the toto looking reasonably comfortable despite the issue we saw the number seven requiring a stop on track to a power cycle and then a puncture reported with the car happily for the team pretty close to its fueling window anyway yeah third overall united auto sports lmp2 uh with a comfortable lead philippe albacre over the team wrt 31 car robin france alex brundle back up into third position victories putting him under pressure yellow and green defrees yellow in fact that's not the priest behind him the that's the third yellow guy that's 44 asc bratislava's ollie webb trying to unlap himself the yellow and black racing team nedlands cart in the background there four seconds that is to freeze there's our gt am leader who just went straight across the gravel somebody did we had a full-on rally cross moment there if that was the real team racing car so there is nick dufrese behind the 83 car of nicolas nielsen he leads in the gt yam class from d stations andrew watson still at the wheel clearly super glued the door shut when he got in and augusto farfas is in third so aston martin second and third and ferrari defending a lead here was it 83 that gravel 24 [Music] that's pretty safe to say yes that would be giancarlo fissy keller he knows all the lines around here monza rally isn't until later in the year traditionally can we just mention to him here is the race leader overall manchester again he seems to have super glued himself firmly into the seat of the alpe five hours and seven minutes done an hour to go here in monza the fia world endurance championships first race in monza incredibly in its ninth season and a great bumper crop of cars the biggest field we've brought so far to the table in 2021 including a few interlopers ready for the final shakedown for the le mans 24 hours and the glory of winning for the first time in wec at le mans toyota locked out the front row of the podium in hypercar didn't manage to lock out the top two places x team turned one into the retifillio just a little bit cautious sebastian bouemi in the number eight toyota and getting the jump on him was the alpine of andre nagrau got through into second place courtesy of a bit of cheeky nip and tuckery but then as they got up above 130 kilometers an hour toyota able to deploy their hybrid drive end result toyota one two so much so standard you might have thought in the gte class it was porsche ferrari porsche ferrari on the grid and that much remained constant through the first corner ben keating in the pale blue aston easing the chetila car offline in the first corner to defend his pole position and as the tetanar team protested through went to porsche first penalty of the race for alex brandle in the inter-europol car for a move that he made down the inside into the first corner andrew harriento bringing out the first full course yellow spinning at the roger most cars fueled and the battles continued all the way up and down the order in all four classes then drama for chetila his car crashed heavily in fp1 just avoided taking the 91 porsche route there's a little bit of contact there with the spinning car then drama huge drama for the number eight toyota brendan hartley freshly into the car slowing right down clicking house up to third in hypercar and overall as the toyota came in with electronic issues much more evident issues for ben keating right at the end of his double stint the tyre letting go and ripping the front of the aston apart sending it from first to last in gte ham more friendly rivalry between the gte pro drivers 92 porsche getting eased out of the lead and second in one fell swoop but they have fought their way right back 92 the pulsators back in the lead after four hours the glickenhaus dramas continued early on 708 had problems then 709 coming in for a great change at the end of the fourth hour just as it had taken the lead from toyota after a glitch for the number seven car 92 leading in gte pro 83 in gte am 22 leading in lmp2 and third overall at the moment and our race leader is toyota number seven chasing the alpine at number 36. in the shadow of the alps and the italian lakes is the royal park of monza just about 20 kilometers out of the center of milan and on track currently albin lead from toyota it's a one-two for the hyper cars third place overall is our leader in lmp2 united lead from wrt and into europol but the clicking house in seventh is closing porsche ferrari porsche ferrari looks like nothing has changed in gt pro everything changed and changed back a of course a lead from aston martin's and porsches in the gte am class the delayed number 8 toyota 33rd overall on target should it lose no more than three further laps to complete the race and bring home points for fourth in hypercar despite its tardy delays but our race leader is machiavelli in the alpene 48 minutes remain could this be a glorious triumph for the french team alan mcnish yes or no [Music] i think that this particular glorious triumph is going to be a close-run thing i have a feeling seconds to conway uh it's the question is whether conway could stretch the fuel mileages or not and i suspect probably unlikely to be able to do it the thing is uh that if he does he'll be doing a splash of fuel whereas uh the actual other car with with activity will actually have more fuel to put in so it's going to come down to who's the most disciplined does anybody make a mistake do we see any further mechanical electronic electro electrical dramas we've seen plenty of that through this the race of the race again the 22 united auto sports car 42 seconds the good over a well-driven 31 twt car [Music] and holding that advantage and holding it very well indeed it's been very constant for the last couple of hours really between the two of them so the advantage went in the favor of united auto sports at the safety car when the wrt car pitted just at the beginning and was refueling and then others were able to achieve it at slightly lesser average speeds it's all together closer for the final podium position in lmp2 alex brundle holds just a four second advantage over nick devries who also by the way leads the lmp2 pro m class with racing team netherland car into europol 34 currently holding the final podium position lmp2 chasing back in seventh overall and close to both of those cars is the 709 clicking house car that led this race twice this afternoon before uh brake issues saw the team hitting for eight minutes to uh replace the braking system the car back up to seventh overall still of course sits uh in third in the hypercar class as the 31 team wrt car comes in for that's 46 minutes the end of the race that's pretty edgy very close very close interesting little graphic there for kevin estrella saying he's up three places of course not in class started first in class leads the class he started 18th on the oval with his 15th overall leading in gte pro even more strange that's only 25 laps on the stint for the team wrt car now is that absolutely as they planned or have they got a problem i have to wait and find out louise beckett will be down in the pit lane nick nielsen in at a of course a driver change now that should can't be near his maximum so i'd have thought not so happy francoise actually done his minimum 45 minutes remaining maybe nick nielsen is just feeling a little bit iffy and so antoine rivera done enough now he's done quite a lot i think that's also he did he did the first stint in a bit and he did a single i thought that is that a four-tier change there that was a four times for the club because there are minimums that you must do as a bronze driver there are maximums that you can do well let's get down to united auto sports they lie third overall leading in lmp2 louise beckett with the chance to catch up with their young phil hanson third overall phil hanson we're going into the last hour and the 22 is still dominant uh can you sit back a bit at this point i don't think you can ever sit back in one of these races to be honest like you said there's still an hour to go or 45 minutes to go um it feels like the longest 45 minutes ever when you have a 40 second lead that we do currently um but yeah up to now it's gone really well okay thank you yes well phil is the only united auto sports driver that has done that well all the races so far this season this is his third because his teammates have swapped around depending on who's available who isn't and he's the only man in the points in lmp2 separating all six jota drivers who are first and third however if nothing changes now he will leave here as the points leader um by the way acoustic is the lead in uh the gtm class yeah nick nielsen still showed the wheel of the car so whether or not that was driver assistance from maybe a drinks bottle could be something like that could be because the driver is not counted as a member of the pitch crew they are fundamentally not in any driver um drive time issues with that crew i guess the farthest pits now for his final stop um tomorrow fuji is at the wheel now with the d station racing and that was a fantastic run from that was a bit white though isn't it just i might call me us was that going as fast as we expect yeah i saw comey could be actually doing the same early on in the race i'm very very wide that's a corner that when you really attack into you can lose the rear of the car quite easily and uh it's happened a few times in les leismo1 maybe they are desperately trying to cruise and lift and coast and save that fuel they're pushing 37-4 okay 97-4 is not too far off they're qualifying it's a 37-1 remember is the fastest lap of the race it's just three tenths of a second off that less than three times in a second not fat taking two seconds out of matteo vasovier in the last few laps come down from 9.27 points something so one thirty seven six from the out being that time under one thirty seven four one thirty six nine now uh from conway and he is pushing that's the fastest level of the race two tenths off the previous fastest lap for the gap now between the two 7.1 seconds this is the move they're trying to make isn't it yep 136.9 put the alpine under ultimate pressure going around the d-station carve tomorrow to take over from andrew watson so far for stays in the 98 aston they're looking for an aston one-two here it's two different teams of aston martin's tf sport running the triple seven car and amr running for 98. the one two is gonna be out in their reach without a problem for the lead car it's been a fine it's a yes yeah it's been a fine performance from the 83 and from both of those aston martin squads and frankly from the 33 as well had it not been for well as he said himself ben keating sort of self-inflicted but he's having to stretch the envelope for those tires and it went one lap too long so he led and led well [Music] on pit lane now for their final stop of this race and that is well within the window as it is for joe to sport for the 28 car seventh and eighth and as that happens going up into fifth position overall gas ignite devries is the glickenhaus yeah richard westbrook just went by him in the final sector so he's up to fifth place overall remains third in hypercar there are still two lmp2 cars ahead of him and they are well robin friends for wrt is one lap ahead of the click in the house he's 23 seconds he's 23 now isn't he so 23 seconds is doable um it's um over a minute oh he was not healthy that's why he was so late into lesmo because he's got that braking issue that the number eight car had that's what we saw from brendan harley it was much more dramatic because he smashed into the back of the 98 aston well now is this justin pushing watch again is he on the white line [Music] i think that's just lock up maybe that's just let's just lock up somebody has helpfully knocked some of the polystyrene out of the way to lessen the problem for him 40 minutes remaining united alter sports now on pit lane from third overall and the lead in lmp2 no fuel worries for this car until the end of the race it's all beginning to fall into place isn't it now and uh once we get through these outlaps from the lmp2 leading group we'll see where this actually sits in the bottom of the line which was the car we thought was edgy on fuel in the um wrt wrt because they they stopped they were in the pits they were in the pits and safety car came out alpine lead one red light on the side of their car the last lap for mike conway was a 137.85 so he was really pushing into the pits for the final fuel stop potentially comes the alpine can they make 39 million yes yes easily so that hands the lead back to toyota mike conway already in the lead there he is but conway will have a splash at the end of this race and that i think is going to be the defining factor because this will be just a short splash so purely the refueling time between the two cars will be the difference so how much can he build up here these are going to be absolutely potentially race-winning laps for both cars last stop for toyota one minute 17 last for alpine one minute 15. how much shorter if any will that be it goes to 36 38 and a half minutes to the end of this race and it will be matty avazavia to bring it home do you know the crouppe hasn't even called fett beaujour never mind got the ball out and started spinning the roulette wheel has he this is going to be right down to the wire one minute one was their pit stop that's the number to look for isn't it when we see that the toyota coming back back out from the stop which will inevitably come when it's how much of that is pit lane delta 25 seconds because that will be 25. the drive through is 25 seconds away so it's 61 minus 25 which is 36. thank you [Music] if he is the fuel i think you'll find 70 seconds ahead after [Music] [Music] okay no shooting through chicanes no mistakes and none none permitted from he's got to be fully lit fully 100 millimeter accurate for the remaining 37 minutes unless i don't we are not yet at the magical 25-minute mark at which point all chaos descends upon 12 minutes to go until all wheels fall off always yeah i didn't realize that was a it's a thing it's a feature here's our third place car and whatever else happens this is the newer of their chassis since its first race 709 has proved that they have work to do in the braking area and alan when you see him get onto the brakes there's clouds much less now there was when the discs were very fresh clouds of black debris being thrown out by the wheels yeah certainly the braking energy is pretty high and they had some issues with that here is about high speed and very heavy braking and you get cold discs going down the street and then you get very quick increase in temperature and once you start to get into the cycle where the wear rate goes up then it's just uncontrollable and that appears to be a little bit what may have happened to the glitches now as we watch our af corsa car leading we're gonna hear from francoise keep your eyes though on the battle [Music] starting at the back of the grid at the start of this race came through the field so well and continuing that yeah it's looking quite good there's only uh 45 minutes left i think and we're leading the race it was bad news last night when we heard that we were disqualified after a technical infringement but alicia took the start he did a great job handed the car p1 and of course i mean that's racing we were held by the safety car so i did the job for my drive time and then hopefully the boys will bring her home on the top step fingers crossed okay fingers crossed we'll speak to you later thank you thank you nick nielsen is at the wheel second place in gta d stations tomorrow fuji his last lap at 148.2 oh four yellow well that will not change the gaps between the cars full course yellow at 24 at 25 30 17 25 30 prepare full course yellow debris at the entrance to ascari on drivers right is the reason for this it won't allow the gaps to close but it will remove some of the need for toyota to spend time stationary it allows them to come on field now doesn't it yeah have they got time to do it well he's in parabolica yeah he can feel now they can come now and they will lose almost no time at all that almost guarantees that they can't be caught that's a really tough break for alpene on the radio to raise control yeah toyota 7 hasn't it's gone past for why keats for why looks like pieces of curbs actually came up there that's pieces of the inside curb of parabolica the left-hand one that especially gt cars are cutting big chunk of splitter there isn't there no the bolt holes yeah i think you're right allen that was bolt holes to hold it down the inner curbing so two cars have came into the pits that's richer meals racing team lmp2 in eighth place in ninth place uh high-class racing both of them have pitted why would you not pit if you're toyota why would you not he had the name yes they had the chance this does take away the racing time as well in a way because it holds it they were able to do that with the laps and then 90 seconds ahead they would have been they would have crept back out long before alpine got to and answer them question they do make some bizarre decisions sometimes you know i'm only a doofus but it does seem thank you it does does as well we're not live it does seem that that was a golden opportunity to give your team the fuel they need it's a full course yellow is continuing even though they've picked up that car i'm sure they're inspecting what the rest of the kerber round it is like as well part of that is the kerb has come out but it's bolted in and often you find the remainder of the bolts are sticking out and and those tend not to be very kind on tyres so we're looking there at marshall's picking stuff up they may be identifying if there is an issue there if the bolts have ripped out as well then you need to find them at all well and good we'll just go ahead with less curb 32 minutes to go how much racing do we get this is the race ebbing away from alpene unless there is a drama for toyota [Music] toyota could well be coming in louise beckett they went by last time there's no major movement from the team but as i say that they're starting to now the refueller is ready and in position but nobody else is moving just yet okay there should be another five minutes six minutes horse that strikes me as an inspection yeah i think they are concerned about excellence okay i'm sorry cutter off mid-sentence into the pit so that so now with that expected to be the case how tough is that on alpine who had only stopped a few minutes earlier it's the same as wrt earlier on in this race yeah you know it's like penalties in football and i hate to say it but england know all about that situation it goes with you sometimes goes against you and others but we're in with alpine at the moment and let's go and listen to my two of activities that's it they will radio the guy including you maybe it's looking for them or they will beat them that was a half a lap ago will have they pitted no they happen yeah about my two of activities coming out of the first chicane whereas right now mike conway's actually going into the final corner parabolica and at this average speed they're doing it's effectively like a free stop for the toyota yeah absolutely because he'll be doing the same speed down the pit lane as they are out on the track so the only difference will be the six or seven seconds it takes to put the fuel in and he's got a two minute 40 lead and it's insurmountable unless something happens to the toyota yep it's cruising in a pit right now this is one of the things though you always try and stretch your fuel mileages and try to bring yourself into the position that if you do get something like this you have the opportunity to take it if you don't do that then you tend to miss out on the opportunities that present themselves number seven is in the pits kevin ester has pitted for fuel so too has miguel molina that's first and fourth in gte pro so have deep breath norman nato ben handley sophia flourish anders fuel back and ryan cullen that is six seven eight nine ten in lmp2 so has andrew harianto at dempsey proton in gte am so they have all clearly gone thank goodness for that now our fuel worries are over so to confirm what we believe is happening on this full course yellow there's a big chunk of curve with the bolt holes but no bolts uh that would seem to indicate that they're gonna do an inspection to see whether or not where that was ripped from still has the bolts in place or if not whether or not they can find those fitments great view of the outer dominating alley de monte in the forest here of the royal park in monza and just sweeping through cutting through down at the bottom there that's the banking there's banking at the north and the south of this track and the road course comes all the way around and you basically a complete 10 kilometer lap would be around the banking down the straight through the road course and back to the banking to end the lap so a phenomenal track last used for formula one cars in the 1960s they were still using the high banking here if you watch john frankenheimer's grand prix film you will see grand prix cars racing on the banking in montana or if you walk up the banking you realize how mental it was how insane it was yeah as jimmy bruni has just taken a splash of fuel and back out and the same deal as with the toyota you lose almost nothing the only time you give away is whatever time it takes to put the fuel hose in plus give or take a second to slow down and speed up from uh rolling in and you saw just behind the miguel molina and that's the third to fourth fight and so basically pretty much stay to school between the porsche and the ferrari yeah taking no chances new tires on the right side of the number seven car because they had time to do it let's hear from the 92 porsche but they will have to vote as well they might come the next battle and they realize they didn't jump up if i was there i'd have done exactly that done the opposite to us so i think they might try and gamble and stay fuel to the end we we were literally on a toying cost but on a coin toss sorry but we had the gap so we could do it okay so now we stay out and let me know how many numbers right here we currently 28 minutes remaining i think in the wake of the risi competition car we are going to see maybe a curb fired up we are that was the final store that broke the camel's back all those sticky tires pulling pulling pulling for five hours at the kerbing finally pulled it out you saw one man there with a birmingham screwdriver approximately five pounds and uh another magnet there with a pair of stilts so you're either gonna undo it or hammer it in that power tilt they've been bolting a new section of curb back down in that corner full course yellow will be removed at 17 34 30. in less than one minute we're removing full course yellow into the last quarter effect 25 minutes and what looked like it could have been shaping up to be a very juicy battle afraid that kerbing has rather put a mocker on because toyota got a free stop but don't curb your enthusiasm because it's going to be a race to finish in at least two of these classes clearly here come you and gt pro they're not quite sure which way this is going to play out yet no i but they're all good for fuel now and again uh kevin she sent me eight seven six five four three two one full course yellow removed full coarse yellow removes there we go we have an extras engineer saying that ferrari or they trying to decide which lap to come in on toss of a coin as he said never do the same as what the other guys are doing you don't usually gain an advantage from that i mean there are times when you have to but generally aren't there is a very close battle for gte pro just eight tenths of a second kevin esther ahead of alessandro pierguidi at the line as we restarted we're on board with ali that white car just up ahead that's the leader and he's just been held up by the 22 united auto sports car as well he won't come off the turn the way he wanted to gt cars have a seems a higher apex to exit speed the lmp2 cars and then they have to wait for them to get out of the way so okay greedy versus estra for the win here 25 minutes to go i wonder what porsche are thinking louise beckett might be able to find out from neil johnny and he's potentially watching his car head to victory here [Music] johnny after five hours and 35 minutes it's come down to this yeah one second difference this has been uh a real up and down game between uh the ferrari and us um it's just really a ping-pong game and just right now we had to come for a splash and dash they didn't so now the gap is just very close so let's see um hopefully they have to save some fuel now and then we can pull the gap up again but let's see okay thank you plenty of gaps still do abort here in this last 24 minutes martin first of all first thing to mention by the way is right at the end of that four kill sheller 29 racing team nedland pitted in and out very rapidly just 44 seconds on pit road nick dufrese retains third position overall retains the lead uh for the 29 squad in lmp2 pro-am richard westbrook now under seven seconds from fourth position overall in that recovering glickenhaus there is a great battle potentially underway here for the final podium positions plural in gte am tony pufuchi is not going to catch nick nielsen but has augusta farfus closing in on him under eight seconds back mateo caroli under 15 seconds back from that in fact before that uh full course yellow came out looked very much as if far foods was going to drive to the rear of the triple seven car that's a moment has just stalled a little but that battle is still very much alive over three seconds allow at the moment so it's going to be close from al justo farthest right now aston martin second and third but they of course are leaving the car that started last was second fastest in qualifying that lost its time because of a ride height infringement it's the battle overall for the win in gte pro though that i think is going to capture her interest here kevin estra has got the hammer down alexander appear greedy it's well two cars between the two and one and a half seconds and they've gambled on track position versus splash and dash and the question is can they do it there is uh the click and house of richard westbrook he's uh closing in rapidly on robin fines it's under five seconds now uh for what will be fourth position overall good recovery drive from this team after the break change forced them into the bits for eight minutes whilst leading the race let's not forget and there he is he was 2.3 seconds behind 2.3 seconds quicker on the last lap and he is one two three and a half nearly four seconds back still a bit of traffic right there with lincoln house yeah and wrt with a long run in front a couple of cars they'll catch under braking [Music] if robin freeze doesn't get by close up quickly 3.7 seconds the gap at the line goes up the inside of the gt pro porsche closes up and again under braking two lights on the side of the wrt car that's because it's second in lmp2 yeah will stay in that position whatever happens with any kind of clean pass from the click and house westbrook has to really get in there late to get around the gt pro porsche so he's a little slower off the turn he has got better speed than robin freeze in the lmp2 from teamwrt is coming down relentlessly meanwhile farfus is taking tents out in every sector from the triple seven car of tournament fuji that's gonna go right to the end here i think 1.7 seconds quicker on the last lap the brazilian was than his japanese rival interesting little dynamic coming into the gt pro battle because they're closing on the 44 legion ahead that could come into the equation here they they're not closing on and they're basically up is exhaust pipes aren't there yes but is that going to delay kevin astro that's miro konopka who is lapping maybe a tenth quicker than est and maybe six tenths quicker than alessandro pierguidi there's the 33 aston martin that started from pole the turquoise car a big tire delamination ripped the left corner of the car apart and cost them any chance of a win here which is a real shame when keating and his team look like they had a car that was capable of matching anybody in gta as they have done on both occasions so far this season and there is jim clinton house don't show me show my car point eight of a second across the line closer now as they come into term one this is about fourth position overall in the race that's point eight of a car apart there was there the apex and westbrook with the top speed of the hyper car drives around the outside he's got more power he's got more rubber he's got more grip he's got fourth place will be i think as far as speed will take him it's 49 seconds up the road for the united car it's been a good day i think for glickenhaus despite the disappointing retirement with gearbox issues of the other car it's been a competitive run whatever jim says i think we all agree there's possibly some consideration to be done about the braking system on that car before we get to le mans i don't think they're gonna kid themselves are they they've had to change brakes after four hours they know that needs issues but sorting that is a massive achilles heel whatever other reliability issues the car may or may not have if you're changing brakes six times in a race five times in the race ain't gonna stay in the lead group for very long but toyota also have massive issues with the number eight and that they can't possibly only be considered as a car issue must be a fundamental underlying problem there that they are lucky perhaps not to have had with the number seven as well well we have that one power recycle different week for the number seven car plus the puncture so from the point of view of total lots of questions the point of view of flicker now some significant questions but also some real plus points here what we now know is that car's quick it's in the window which is exactly where it needs to be two retirements from our bumper field one car didn't start the inception racing ferrari was due to stop pit stop of car seven under investigation that's the final pitch stop of the leading toyota of mike conway when they came in then under that full course yellow which was five laps ago two retirements the number 60 iron links am class ferrari which had a big shot in fp2 barely turned a wheel in qualifying and clearly not a happy bunny after that may have looked straight ish don't think it was entirely sorted and the 708 the clicking house that raced fairly major gearbox issues here is the ferrari ferrari toyota pit stop now what is the issue here fuel going in how many hands on the car well windscreen and drinks bottle of both safety issues three i'm sure let's watch this is it how long the hose was on is it how long the hose was on they've been caught by this before [Music] i can't see in the final hour is that an issue i mean we don't have the same sort of nurburgring 24-hour rules but is that an issue if you have a short stop that seems wildly punitive if you still have to have 34 seconds or something of hose connection and even more obviously team manager car 7 to the race director oh okay so we've got 15 minutes left in 20 minutes will we know who's won the race depends how quickly you walk to the race director i'd be going quite slowly if i was here it may do it's quite a long way to the restaurant's office they were hit out again some stairs it's quite warm [Music] here is the number seven car then if you think about it it's just becoming even more drama filled us can we come back next week i know that's what the european long series drives to this now and graham who was [Music] yes yes we've had four good races throughout the fields of these uh and of course the the field deeper still when we get to them ben hanley norman natto at it this is uh quite nice this is the position ben hanley in the white car real team racing's norman nato this is for sixth in lmp2 but more importantly it's for second in the pro-am category of lmp2 as well racing team netherlands is uh significantly far up the road leading that category in fact it's a lap ahead of that battle isn't it great stuff so there is the racing team netherlands car the yellow and black car that is the pro-am leader it's third in lmp2 battle behind it on the road is for sixth in nmp2 so it's a lap difference it is indeed but those are one two three in pro am flash of the headlights there from norman nato who doesn't want the ferrari to get in the way the ferrari has been in the way didn't get in the way he's got a good run on him yeah here we go that always caught a little bit in the wake of the ferrari and that sort of allowed hanley to take a nice wide line deal done is not giving it up he's coming back this will be the last of the late late breakers ben hanley on the bumps that commands the inside line takes the spot up to sixth position and he is in second in pro yes [Music] that is what it's all about there's the real team racing crew shaking their heads not an awful lot the norman nato can do about that and to some degree this all plays out with who had fresher tires when which of the gentleman drivers was in when what's left over at the end of the race for the hot shoes to try and battle for every inch of this track okay well we're being shown here it's it's a foot on the white line is that a no jump you're supposed to be there well that's you've got 12 minutes and 48 seconds to find the rule in the rulebook and then guess what the appropriate penalties and the penalties could be ranging in these things stop and go drive through it'd be a penalty after you can't do a drive through uh sorry to stop and go or drive through i think penalty at the end of the race yeah stop and go would be 30 seconds added to their road time which still means they would win if they did it now yep and a drive-through would be less than 30 seconds 25 seconds on pit lane yeah i would always take the time penalty as opposed to the drive through the drive-through you could have an issue time penalty after the race you know exactly what you're playing with until the line yep so he's got to stay 30 seconds ahead of matteo vasevier this is like an aggregate race do you remember when we used to have those part one red flag part two well he is ahead but he's only head by 12 seconds and he was behind by 17 seconds after part one so although he's in front he's actually five seconds yeah yeah that's why we don't do that before my time there's not many people to remember our time out of aggregate rates ask your father great by the way is still catching uh but probably not quickly enough yeah under six seconds he is taking time out took a tenth out yeah but it was over a second the lap before that so in clear air it looks to me like uh farfu has got much the quicker car that's uh it's going to be tight it's it's definitely going to be tight norman nato ben hanley that battle looks done for the moment basically the length of the roger to the lesmos apart that's not a big gap that's one little mistake across the line across the last timing line it was precisely to a thousandth one second the gap in uh gte pro across the uh the start finish line it's a couple of hundreds closer again not done yet in gte pro and with pride of ferrari on the line here at home but we heard about the porsche team saying it's a coin toss about whether you come in and do a splash or you gamble on getting to the end we're with alessandro pierre guidi they gambled yep and can they make it to the end of the race saw him being very busy hands there out of the roger into curva de lesmo it's by the lesmos sports center there on the left hand side just the other side of the wall wall kicks up the gravel he's not giving this one if he runs dry in the final lap at least he knows he goes down fighting alexander is saving there is this gonna go their way our porsche they have the lead are they gonna hold on point eight of a second in it and nine minutes team manager car seventy race director second time of asking yeah that's that's in caps i mean they all are but that is uh that is the race director now shouting don't make me come and get you i think is that what's about i think this could be race director information to the pit lane information the pit lane warning on car number seven for a pit stop infringement warning on car number seven for a pit stop infringement warning only it would appear honestly you know one foot on the white line i i think a drive-through penalty would have been extremely harsh in that circumstance try three penalty that cost them the race that would be really really really tough now if they're not close enough but you know we're set with potentially setting precedence for what might happen at le mans here and if you've got a foot on the white line after 23 and a half hours because everybody is has been up for 40 which is the reality of it at the end of the month yep here we go again for that much i so the tire is on the white line tyres on the white line as well as the foot i think the tire is the issue there okay still it's a warning however do that at le mans boys you're back in the pits absolutely through comes the race leader and the lmp2 leader and is that the jeep that's the gte pro third place car so the number eight toyota shaping up behind but actually can't stay with the number seven car even at this late stage of the race so clearly all is not well with toyota number eight it's not even on page one of the timing screen so it's barely in the top 30 if at all i turned to page three it's still 33rd 43 laps back it's not lost anymore that's the leader since it came back out so is correct they are seven laps in at least aren't they we're on lap 198 we've got seven and a half eight minutes to go so we'll get to lap 203 204 yep the 709 meanwhile is closing on felipe albuquerque 37 seconds behind now but with under eight minutes left that gap is not going to close well close significantly is is at the moment uh lapping something like two seconds a lap uh quicker than the car ahead so we're going to get down to something in the 20s aren't we but it's been i think a fine fight back from the 709 they've lost eight minutes they'll fall um what something like 20 seconds shy of a podium position yeah i think got every reason to go away from this highly encouraged by the progress with this car not sure they're going to be much more than eight minutes behind the leader either are they they're four laps behind aren't [Music] so that's 400 seconds that's uh 6 minutes and 40 seconds and they've lost eight minutes in the pit they did if they hadn't had that all right if toyota hadn't had the two problems with the number seven car then they would be further away again but actually they could have won this race they [Music] that's a very good point really sweat here is our second place car d station racing domino buffootie now this is a new car championship this season a full season engine of course fujisan desperate to race in the shadow of his namesake the holy mountain mount fuji but we will not go to fuji this year however augusto farfa is closing in from behind sounds about close again broken exhaust actually but closing down quickly inside the final six minutes now the race doesn't stop at six minutes if they've just gone across the line it might be a last lap lunch it's 2.2 seconds is the gap for that second place battling gtm this is the battle with the gr racing car in between for the overall win in gt bro that gap across the line eight tenths of a second plus this bit of traffic yeah now sancho pierre guidi in the red ferrari comes around the outside vtr racing porsche and that is mike wainwright as we suspected he had a small amount of time to do but the way the race has fallen he's in for the final stint gr racing car will finish inside the top ten he's a lap ahead of tony v landers ferrari the 61 car solid race from jr racing this time they've run well at the front uh with ben barker yep no errors no problems for the car that we've been aware of father's is lit here um he's taking out in everything he's gone blue it's a qualifying lap for augusto farfas he's going to have two or three of them to try and get on terms with tomorrow fuji station haven't finished on the podium this year have they well either way 98 happened i don't think they have either i think they had a pretty uh tough time of it i think they have do you think they've been on the podium uh double check either way a of course the 83 car blarings buying some catastrophe will win in am but will it be porsche or ferrari in pro the gap shows no signs of getting any larger it's still two or three car lengths from kevin est in the 92 porsche to alessandro pierre guidi in the 51 ferrari the 33 aston martins had a second place this year aston martin racing's best result was last time it was a fourth yeah so 98 hasn't been on the podium either so 98 and triple seven both will be if they finish where they are now first or podium finishers even if this reverses yeah 1.5 seconds since they crossed the line it's a further 10th taken out of fuji in the first sector fastest race lap for augusto farthest 147.129 bear with me bear with bear with their qualifying lap in that car was a i can't find 98 now i'm looking for it where is it well to give you no idea how quick that is from augusta that's quicker than kim and estro went around last the last lap their qualifying lap was a 148.4 he's gone faster now than the car did 23 hours and fifth uh three days ago it's two tenths of a second here as well coming together the gt pro battle for the overall win porsche versus ferrari on ferrari's home ground yep it's how we live in a ferrari against a frenchman in a porsche well it's the world championship absolutely let's not forget at the end of this season the victorious crew in this championship will become fia world champions that is a big deal for these guys both these teams have been champions before half of a kevin schumacher uh with uh michael christensen yeah and james collado and alessandro queguini preceded them as our champions in super season two very different characters i mean kevin extra it's it's got that special kind of far away glance oh and it's going to be it's better they needed fuel that was it that's it they gambled long and hard and in the end they needed a lap of fuel two minutes left in the battle and he's in the pit lane and we heard kevin ester's engineers saying it was a coin toss they went possibly in in you know traditional porsche man again we we want to get to the end we know we want to finish this one here's the battle for second in gte am so one gt battle uh surrenders and the other one continues to enthrall they're right behind the high-class racing entry that is anders fjord back completing his driving time big lap underwear at the moment for richard westbrook as well he's gone purple first sector of the race for anybody but he's got a lot of traffic between him and the number seven around the outside and down the inside comes alex brundle is that frontal it is goes through fuji's on the inside this could play back the seventh triple sevens who's going to get the better run out the corner well side by side amazing start farthest can't keep that it was outside the white line and that is in one of the particular corners that they have been warned about good grief i know fantastic a minute remains the leader will maybe not even start one more lap this might be the very last lap of the race third and second second and third you name it you call it my money's on i don't know 83 it's gonna win seven uh it's coming down now towards apparently 45 seconds the leader will go on to one more lap after this this is great stuff whoa through goes the alpine that's not the race leader the number seven toyota is out of the parabolica unless she puts the handbrake on now or stops for a cup of tea there will be one to go after nearly a winning weekend last week in purity tcr in motorland oregon ended up finishing in second place but won his final big weekend he races a hyundai in the electric championship races and aston martin here he's got the run going again on fuji sam seven has started its funnel that will be this dancing around in the mirrors of the triple seven cards the d-station car in second place in the class the 98 car for the northwest amr team time is up time is up we we have finished six hours we've got a lap to go and this half of the lap for tom nobufuji to hang on to second place for both cars whichever way they finish it will be a first podium of the world endurance championship season for d-station racing a first podium full stop and farface again wide out of the final turn he's got nothing left to give has he but he's got the better run out of the parabolica is there enough here i don't think that quite is it's going to be the lunge and that's very dangerous right here right now fuji will be painted to the white line farfas tries to go around the outside inside and fuji sand does he get it squared away he can park it on the apex here but he can't park it on the exit comes around the outside of curva grande and this could give him the lead and second place in gtm what a fantastic last lap battle six hours and a minute already into the six hours checker is out seven toyota wins it it will be the alpine in second and glickenhaus will come home third the 22 united auto sports car leading that was kevin ester taking the check and flag as well in the white car and farfas is in front last lap in gte am lmp2 united auto sports halfer there he is across the line and the winner the 83 car in uh gte am on his way to the checker as well and fuji no disgrace there augusto farfas hugely experienced and the reigning formula e champion and tominobufuji just losing out on the final lap he took second place after six hours that's not when the race is finished astonishing stuff from this pair door banking stuff and uh well firm we'll wait and see whether or not everybody agrees it's fair i thought i'd enjoyed it i thought that was entirely reasonable racing you're racing for a podium spot in the final five minutes i mean now gusto ran out wide in the parabolica a couple of times and does again and that gives him a slingshot down the straight but fuji held him off there and it is second for the 98 amr car third for d station okay they might be a little disappointed not to take second but for d station racing it's their first ever world championship podium and farfetch'd just crept in front of the roger to take second wow that was some six hours of racing toyota number seven first win of the season for mike conway kamui kobayashi and jose maria lopez and boy graham goodwin they needed that yeah look at the relief on the faces of some of these toyota guys because i think they are relieved that that could have turned horribly bad for this team both cars had problems uh the number seven car comes home to take the win great race from the number 92 porsche to fend off race long pressure from the 51 ferrari amazing consistency again from united water sports they didn't have the best the starts to start their season but they've come back and delivered uh here again as they did in spa not the start of the season portimao was the one where they had a little bit of a wobble didn't they but great stuff from the 22 crew this new look 22 crew for the united water sports team and that will help them in the defense for their title and gtam well the 83 car pretty much cruised to it but that was one hell of a final lap well that goes to aston martin yeah they did cruise to it from last on the grid yes indeed so that's a heck of a race from them as well alessia rivera i mean all three of them really you know nick nielsen and francois perot again we say so often about these gtm lines at lineups in lmp2 and in gte am itself without that man first of all you don't have the budget there's no car on the grid and secondly if he's not fast you don't win stuff and francois perotto is fast already a wec champion in gtam and yeah very much part of the story about who's going to get there this time so many story lines and one of them is going to be we're here in the heat of summer in italy it's caused some problems august in france it's going to be hot and we've seen what that can do for the cars up and down this grid you cannot write the story lemon yet in 2021 good lord now i'm looking as uh company coming in this is the pro-am winner the racing team netherland car fritz fernandez run a fine race pulled up shut down the late the last minute replacement for keith van der gaard and um nick devries replacing job product yeah you're both feeling well at home guys well and again like phil hansen overall in nmp2 they're here well there is philippe albuquerque doing some donuts um now fritz van aird is the only man in that 29 car who could win the pro-am title because he hasn't had the same two teammates all the way through fabio scherrer philippe albuquerque have both missed a race so it is phil hansen alone in lmp2 and he's now the solo leader of the lmpd so i should say by the way great stuff from phil hanson really good role for fabio shera return uh to the championship this weekend uh soaked up the real pressure there great stuff from this crew though the number seven crew they're gonna be hungry in a month or so time aren't they very very hungry indeed yep number eight has won the last three years at the moment definitely they want to turn that around they want to be champions they want to be lemon winners they have to make sure that they've got the pace the reliability and there's nothing wrong with their pace they are the quicker of the two crews overall and have been all season pretty much were last season didn't necessarily have the rub of the green will that change this year so team wrt finished second in lmp2 racing team netherland finish third overall in lmp2 just off the overall p2 podium into your report competition two fifths and a fourth so far for that team the consistency is what's paying off for the polish team they're learning and they're getting quicker absolutely right podium cannot be far away and maybe the next race what a place that would be to do it for their first time and our four cast winners arrive so the united also sports car and here is the 83 af course of ferrari francois will join that car in a moment nick nielsen bringing it to the line and three albuquerque phil hanson our lmp2 winners alessia rivera [Music] join the 83 guys in a moment or two you know celestia there francois perot there's a very hot and sweaty james collado i think just peeling the helmet off the ferrari finishing in uh no he wasn't there so that was miguel molina in fact alexandria pierre greedy finishing second of course in that car after the late splash they didn't lose their spots what's the porsche one two porsche one ferrari second in gte pro of course in third place hyperguard dolled out the dramas of the not not necessarily the close racing side of things but the dramas too of that as well from time to time lmp2 faultless stuff from united auto sports some fine performances behind they win lmp2 and third overall just the fifth time that we've actually seen that in nwc history glickenhaus racing they showed us what they've got and it's not quite enough yet but it's coming there's no doubt whatsoever about that gte pro dulled out the entertainment as it has done for the entire life of that class af courses number 83 car looking solid championship contenders out of that toyota number seven with kamui kobayashi mike conway and josie maria lopez they delivered pole position yesterday but now converted that into their first race victory of the season in front of a crowd the first time we've had a crowd in wc for a long time but camus i have to ask you it wasn't an easy race you had some problems out there and you had to recycle the car what was the issue with it a bit small no your average height is okay yep yeah i mean you know i think uh suddenly cars just shut down and we need to stop in safe place but actually i couldn't find the safe places there and just to stop in the green as much as i can to be safe and i just got called for the discharge engine so we need to shut down the car completely and we need the back again which costs quite a lot of time it's a bit shame because we had a quite reasonable margin but due to that we are the back to behind which is quite big loose and obviously we need to push again which is it's no easy situation because as you see the track is really narrow when you're overtaking the the stroke actually it's taking a lot of risk so i was i think everybody did a great job in the end i think we tried to push but try to be safe in the car no damage we did our best and in the end i think we we managed to win finally so i'm very thanks for all the team did a great job it's been a shame to stop but i mean this is where we start and we are lucky before the month so we need to just investigate which is good thank you yeah congratulations to the trio because now it brings you right into the world championship fight before the big race at le mans and the momentum definitely is strong but also we have to congratulate as well the winners in gte pro neil yani and kevin estra they delivered a killer blow to the ferrari hopes here in gta six hours the first time the fia world endurance championship has raced at the italian temple of speed started midday under bright blue skies in intense summer sunshine toyota had dominated in qualifying locking out the front row biggest hyper car field seen so far five new hyper cars in this race second clicking house joining in is everybody jockeyed for position in the retifeelio for the first time of asking senior tech run alpine came through past number eight toyota out of the chicane into second place but that was short-lived toyota's hybrid drive put it back in front running into a one-two formation seven ahead of eight in the gte pro field they qualified porsche ferrari porsche ferrari and that remained at the start of the race but behind them the am pulls it to ben keating holding off the chetila porsche ferrari and allowing a porsche to go by as the ferrari ran into the gravel first contact to the race alex brundle turning around the real team racing car earning a drive through for the team first full course yellow andrew harianto spinning the 88 dempsey porsche into the gravel and needing rescuing battles up and down the order jota coming through after disappointments in qualifying and then chetlar a second impact with the barriers in the race weekend the first in three practice one nearly taking out the 91 porsche in the process trouble for the number eight toyota just after brendan hartley had taken over the car cruising around very slowly putting the glickenhaus into the top three as the number eight car headed into the garage had a major front-end problem so too did ben keating leading in gt yam tar delamination ripping the front of the aston martin apart intense battle for position in gte pro 92 porsche getting back in front during the pit stops and then dramas for the 708 glickenhaus toyota number seven continuing in the lead of the race as there was more problems full course yellow and they're allowing the battles to rage between the aston martins in the closing stage of the race for gt yam honours 98 coming ahead of triple 7 83 winning in gtam in gte pro a last minute pit stop literally in the last two minutes uh slightly taking the battle away from ferrari 92 porsche 1 third overall for the lmp2 win of the 22 united auto sports car but victory overall and a hyperclass win for the third time for toyota car number seven making it to line relatively healthily to claim victory for the first time for that crew so the goodyear blimp hanging overhead in torpid skies good word torpid still and humid and that's been uh the weather it has been pretty ferocious out on track game goodwin that may be the best race i've seen in quite a while yeah i think plenty of gelato and plenty of beer to come after this one it's been a very warm week in a very very warm day and uh fights well fought there across six hours sets us up nicely i think for the summer delayed uh running of the the mon 24 hours 62 cars on that one including all at least almost all of these one might not be there we've got the uh the uh first reserve here but nothing uh to complain about about that uh six hours of entertainment leaves questions on the table for some very significant players including this one well it's worth pointing out isn't it yes toyota gazoo racing were here last year yes they've been here for several years yes they've won le mans several times in a row yes they've won the world championship several times in a row it is worth pointing out that hyper car is very much not last year's car with a different body shape its whole ethos the hybrid drive the mechanics of it the electronics of it very much road based not what they were racing with last year so it is effectively as new as the glicken house that's completely correct i mean i've said it before i'll say it again and didn't tell people to stop saying it i think toyota made a mistake i think they made a mistake in putting the same delivery on that car because it does have people believing that there are strands around that car that are in some way a carryover from the lmp1 car not true at all it's not an lmp1 in a different pair of loafers no well our winners will come out onto the podium the af 83 ferrari winning in gte am 92 porsche winning in gte pro in lmp2 united auto sports third overall this is our overall podium so united auto sports coming out into third place overall fabio sheriff phil hanson and felipe albakirk the fifth time that's happened wc history involving six cars now with the double podium at the moment in 2017 with jackie chan dc racing in 2020 for jackie chan gt racing bar in 2013 drive and sebring 2012 star works the very first wc race so in which case it is united alter sport's first overall podium in their history alpine to the second step and a fine race from them yeah a really strong race from there they two led they have pace here [Applause] [Applause] my conway jose maria lopez and khmer kobayashi and this trio now closed within half a dozen points of the overall championship lead [Music] okay now it's time for the photograph please well that's uh mike conway's ninth overall win in his wc career he added his lmp2 successes 13 uh trips to the top of the podium here it's eight wins for kobayashi he's now for reigning champions this is a quirky one it's the first time total won round three and when was the last not toyota one two i probably ought to be able to tell you that at the drop of a hat and i can't frame's having a pompey he's trying to think when last year it was i'm sure there must have been one rebellion yes so when [Music] well whatever else that closes the championship right up for the toyota drivers and realistically we are expecting one of the two toyota teams to end up with the championship there's phil hansen he'll be back out as the top step for the top step of the lmp2 podium and he alone is now our lmp2 points leader fabio scherrer missed porter mao because of a positive covert test and philippe albakirk missed one of the others brendan hartley miss baltimore kazuki nakajima and sebastian buemi it was spa that cheryl missed them 75 points they are six ahead of pachito lopez camille kobayashi mike conway because they got again a point for pole position andre nagrau major vasivir and nicola lapierre lyon third and our delican house crew richard westbrook and his colleagues are in lavon last year position the last time that territory left gtm's left well it was such a strong performance from all from both of you throughout that race but then it all came down to the end and if they were gonna have to stop for that last splash yeah it was uh to be honest four cars but it hasn't been such a close race since uh years in wc in gt so really really cool to uh to race here in monza we had the performance but just there you know and ferrari was all the time behind us putting pressure and the last stop we we just went on the fucosilos did a splash and they didn't and we were like okay maybe they make it to the end and he was coming he was faster so i was prepared to get as wide as possible but then he had to pit obviously he had not enough fuel so um we managed to bring back the win which is uh which is great and and great job by neil he he drew fantastic districts well done both of you and just what you needed before you get to lemon thank you thank you so it was after the real disappointment of portugal where the porsches were absolutely lost it's what they needed they finished first and third second and fourth james callado alessandro pierre guidi on the second step and of course at le mans we will have three drivers in the cars that's the minimum requirement so they will all have their long-term teammates with them [Music] [Music] different circuits wow really yeah that's entertaining so in spa when the temperatures were more moderate they were right there with ferrari in the heat of portomal ferrari i mean had the upper hand with with no question at all what about when we get to the end of the year in bahrain but porsche might need to have a points advantage by that stage it's gonna be fun i mean you know we said people said to start the race didn't we remember it's not just the number of races fewer races this season for obvious reasons but it's the split of the points across those races from this point forward we have one six-hour race we have one eight-hour race and we have one 24-hour race so we've got the majority of the points still to be awarded this season four and a half lots of [Applause] points over the park as we see the points for gte pro and gt drivers actually kevin estrin neil gianni just two points ahead now that take the lead of the championship from alessandro pierre greedy and james collado the 92 porsche crew from the 51 of course at ferrari crew daniel serra and miguel molina falling off that battle a little bit 20 points is the gap but a le mans win for them would change things really very impressively indeed and then uh jimmy bruni and rickard leetz are further nine points back from there gt pro lmp2 next let's go down louise has got the winners with can i say the number 22 united you put on a great performance throughout that race and getting the overall third spot from the six hours of monza thank you i could not be more proud about these boys i mean fabio it's his second race in work and he goes to the overall podium i think he's getting not the best uh getting gonna be spoiled for sure it's gonna be my i think me and phil's first overall podium the car was just amazing was a great fight against the wr team but again i think everyone they did an amazing job we were on the top two the whole weekend the car was just amazing very nice to drive phil did an amazing job at the start going to p1 and holding there and fabio as well on his face pulling the gap as well so he's a perfect race to be honest well go and enjoy going on to that very famous podium thank you wrt and racing team netherlands in third place overall [Music] here's an impressive stat that means that uh freight and phil hanson have now won six of the last seven wc lmp2 races that's the astonishing form they showed at the end of last season to dominate the uh the run two championship and two faultless performances this season in the top the first three races so they head back to the scene of that big victory as well with the wind in their sails after a great race here in montana and wrt if the safety car had fallen differently they might have been on the top step it could have been very different indeed but uh well bernie habsburg said we've got to stop making mistakes we need to iron out the little issues they didn't make any mistakes they were very unfortunate they still lie in fourth place in the team standings but united auto sports have the lead ahead of joe to who were one two coming in here jota having a pretty tough time 38 scores nothing 28 car struggling as well they only finished in fifth position after their faultless display aside from the turmoil shenanigans in the boards they'll go away and be asking questions themselves for sure from here and into europol just a point behind wrt be judged by the company you keep i think we can judge into europol pretty well so far it's been a very very impressive start to this campaign they've invested well uh both in terms of the uh the resource the the human resource they put in place here and the training they've put in place with that team there is definitely more to come they were in podium positions more than once during this race uh we did have one little stumble only won the race for them could that have made a difference and uh earlier martin about had that not been a breaking issue look at how long it uh took the glickenhaus team on the pit lane yep they could have won the race without a shadow of a doubt could have won this race on pace absolutely into europol will definitely be uh in the shout for a podium fourth place here not far away from the top three racing team netherlands you just saw wrt and united auto sports united auto sports they need to change their car color to purple really to reflect the sort of patch that they are having however a very very famous first world endurance championship podium for d station racing tomorrow fuji may feel disappointed that he was beaten after the six hours by augusto farfas in the 98 houston they take second position two astons on the podium would have could have who knows what might have happened with ben keating and the 33 team that's dominated in qualifying and led early on barring that puncture but it was victory from last on the grid for the 83a of course of ferrari six wins in the wc now for france valparado level with duvall dumas estrada that's not a bad trio join and there's more stats to come once we've enjoyed the national anthem that will follow for the winning team af course everybody else gets two bars that has been floating across the paddock on a daily basis several times a day just to make sure finally we get a chance to hear it on a podium the stat that comes with that is with alessio rivera standing on the top step of the podium he becomes the 60th winner from italy in the wc's history excellent stuff for him great stuff for the 83 crew and they're turning their season around in rapid fire order aren't they yeah 98 also turning their fortunes around and triple seven first podium for them and again for tomo fuji to have augusto farthest diving up the inside and taking away second place on the very last lap that's no disgrace that is a quality world-class driver satoshi and shino will be correctly very pleased indeed with that point standings there settlement racing still retain the lead in the championship despite a really disappointing weekend for them the 83 car though closes to within two points of that the 98 car 10 points off the championship lead with a bundle of points to come 54 af course at 41 points team project 156 40 points yeah thank you for the 33 card the four horsemen car really unfortunately he had just could have been right back in the fray but who knows ben keating and his crew go to le mans for the seventh time for ben in a seventh different vehicle antonio fuego giorgio cena giotto roberto la courte for chettala still slender leaders in the drivers points ahead of alessia rivera nick nielsen and francois perotto and next stop for them and for everybody else is the 24 hours of le mans for uh everybody that is a massive massive hurdle to get over d station finishing third here 98 amr aston martin in second place and they were although they were close together and the gap at the line was seven tenths of a second after six hours and five minutes or whatever it took to finish their race uh they were still just left behind a little by the af courser car that had a really really solid run from the back of the grid it was second quickest in qualifying we knew it would be a contender in the pro-ams championship real team sailed to the top three points ahead of racing team netherland who closed them right down dragon speed in third ahead of high class and arc bratislava there is they finish third here in pro-am very well this season their first season in the fr world endurance championship stepping up from lmp3 last year in the mms yeah it's been a while since the last one and the view will be very different if the track is not flooded with tufosi and ferrari flags i'm sure he'll enjoy it just as much and our race winners in pro-am racing team netherlands [Music] the bars of the dutch national anthem and uh after a few days which has been very difficult for people in parts of holland and belgium and germany have something [Music] [Music] it really did what an epic first ever again find that hard to believe first ever fia world endurance championship race here in monster the six hours of 2021 was an absolute barn stormer from start to finish and the next time we meet will be late august at the circuit de la south till then from everybody here from the wec tv crew from louise beckett duncan vincent from graeme goodwin and alan finnish i'm martin haven saying thank you for joining us thank you for your company we look forward to meeting you again as we get set for the world's greatest endurance motor race but find cats for do more we'll see you then bye for now [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] you

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