FULL RACE | 2012 6 Hours of Spa | FIA WEC

[Music] so [Music] hello everybody and welcome along to our live and exclusive coverage of the world endurance series the world endurance championship it's the second round here at spa franchise we've already had sebring on the 17th of march and here we are in the middle of the beginning of mere at spa and it is a little bit damp outside but not as wet as it was earlier this morning just off to slightly the west and the south of brussels about three and a half hours in normal driving from the end of euro tunnel it's been around for a little while and just over seven kilometers around that's the sort of picture that you're used to seeing of spa with a little bit of cloud hanging in the air but my goodness me that's a whole lot drier than it was a couple of hours ago we had a speed series race here that i am so surprised that we only lost two cars from it awesome driving from everyone concerned uh it had stopped raining about 45 minutes ago there's a big crowd here but the track is still wet i'm john hindorf for radioalmond.com so nissan pre-race show on wac as well on the streaming video and graham goodwin of dailysportsguard.com is alongside me steady crowd being coming in pretty much all through the morning and i'm delighted to see they've been rewarded with a bit better weather than we had earlier yeah well sports car fans are a hardy bridge on it shows it doesn't it it really was tipping it down for the warm-up this morning and right at the end of that session we had plenty of incidents just kept several of the teams busy we'll talk about some of the outcomes for some of those teams in just a little while but we're looking across the main grounds down on the start finish straight and i'd say john that's something like in fact it's fuller than the last we looked easily three quarters full uh and for the prevailing conditions and for the multiple road works as well we've got around the spa circuits this weekend that's a pretty good showing for starters and that's of course without the people that we know always nestle around in the forests around the spa circuit great place to watch motorsports particularly good place to watch sports car racing i think we're in for a good one yeah you're right because you can get round the circuit here and although you might not be able to be seen by the tv cameras you there's some fantastic vantage points where you can shoot photographs over the top of the catch fencing as well looking at one of the two lava competition corvettes there sitting on the grid that is the number 70 car and that will be started by jean-philly bellock we'll give you the full run down at least the rundown of some of the drivers that we can get through uh we've got about half an hour also before we get this underwear i'm going to bring you up to date with some of the dramas from this morning as well and my goodness there were several and indeed there was one on the out lap for karen chandok in the 22 grm car they've had break balance issues all week and uh spoke to a certain uh mr leslie who is one of the head mechanics on that the tall fella and they basically just replaced everything there is the sad sight of the 61 f corsa uh the waltrip car that i'm afraid is not going to be in the race because of this this morning and that third that you heard was brian vickers backing it into the final chicane at about a 30 degree angle severe damage to the wheel and it transpires to the suspension brian was fine the sprint cup and nationwide start walking away from that but that was an unfortunate incident it was very unlucky and when you see that uh that uh instant from the rear john you'll just notice just before the car looked like it was going to strike that wall a glancing blow it just turned sharply into it and that's what i think has done the damage the to the chassis of that car team were working furiously through the lunch break to see what could be done but uh pretty soon afterwards uh the cover was literally drawn over it and we won't be seeing the 61 car so that brings us to 40 cars uh due to start this race at the moment and that is not the end of the drama we've got the 32 starting in the pit lane that is the lordness should have been started by james rossiter i believe eve told me it's going to be luke let's start precautionary engine change for 32 lola judd operating on the team lotus colours of course and that that means the car is automatically moved to the back of the grid team have opted to actually start the race with luka morrow uh presumably to let james have a bit of a run at it in the middle of the race nick armindor getting into the 67 porsche the that's the imsa mute car resplendent in its french trickler color that's a very metallic blue on that car this year it looks fantastic the tv picture is good though they are and even in full high def just do not do that color scream color scheme any kind of justice whatsoever yeah we've got uh or we we're due to have eight uh refugees if you like the european le mans series gracing the grid here um as you're looking there john at the manufacturer's world cup in lmgte ferrari porsche and chevrolet corvette separated by not very much at all nothing indeed at the top of the championship and good to see those three manufacturers competing in the fia wec this the second round of course there is the 71 that is the car that andrea bertolini will start for af courser on the outside of row 16. andrea's just suiting up there pulling on the balaclava ready to don this helmet uh we're now what uh 25 24 minutes away from race starts um it's going to be fast and furious in those gt classes because in these conditions john it's not going to be about a five-car gt pro and a nine-car gt uh field it's gonna be a 14-car gt battle yes it is and there are the team's classifications 25 points for af courser ahead of 18 for felba meyer pro on 15 for aston martin luxury not having scored in the gte pro ranks at the moment and it's a return to form again by uh the aston martin racing team uh third position on the grid here there's the gt arm team's classification 25 for felba maya 18 for labra 12 for af course a wall trip no points for them this weekend crone racing last of the qualifiers with 10 will they increase their points tally this weekend i think they will you know and then jw revealer the new british team uh bringing a uh a amateur porsche to the uh to the grid this weekend uh it is gonna be pretty fast and furious uh 14 cars as we said john on the gt grid greasy conditions some mixed abilities as well of course with gtm and gt pro we could see some incident early on in this race as things get sorted out and with such a wide spread of lap times from the lmp1s at the front to the moment the chrome racing car at the back some 25 seconds different that means we should be getting into traffic in five or six laps after the start for those asking about the difference between gte pro and gte um well gt pro you are not required to have anything other than pro drivers and all of the drivers are created uh bronze silver gold or platinum and uh gold and platinum are classed as the pro drivers they're full pro drivers and of course you're not required you could have that i mean you could have an amateur in gte pro you can and i think we may well see that later in the season but uh the the principal difference you're quite right john is one in driver classification but also those cars have got to be at least one year old in gtm they're not allowed to run the latest specification of cars so you couldn't have that aston martin for example no matter how much money you had you wouldn't be able to have that aston martin because it hasn't been out a year uh that's right you can have an aston martin but it won't be the one with the latest performance upgrade so there was a debate as to whether or not you'd be able to run with some of the reliability upgrades because of course no one's in the business i'm actually you know underlining a an issue with uh with with the cars but the performance upgrades are reserved for the gta pro cards and there's one of them right now that's fizzy keller's mount for the start of the race with the little yellow uh with the yellow shade band and the tricolore on the edge very difficult to tell the af quarter cars apart it was luxury racing and fred mcavicky with the 219 770 who planted uh the 59 car on pole position we're looking at that car right now john and uh i think we've said a great drive by fred mackel wasn't it uh absolutely he's a star and absolutely anything he decides he's going to take a take to a grid with this car did lead at sebring but had early reliability problems three tenths of a second plus between him and a field that included giancarlo physically at all absolutely just goes to show the kind of quality we've got with fred mcavicky and a gt car it's uh it may only be five cars in that field but it's uh five very high quality cars and driver lineups alan mcnair capilla and tom christensen shared the win at sebring therefore lead the drivers championship in the world championship at the sharp end of the field and i can tell you we talked about this in the drive-in this morning uh people like mcnish who have done pretty much everything even eight times a lemon winner tom christensen are excited about having a driver's world championship they're excited about that and excited as well john to be making history here this weekend because of course than a different car this weekend audi uh debuting two new versions of the audi r18 very different cars and uh pole position set uh yesterday by allan mcnish historic pole position for a hybrid powered uh r18 the new e-tron quattro delivering that hybrid power through uh the front wheel so effectively part-time four-wheel drive uh and and and uh alan you know a man with a keen center motorsport history and very happy indeed to be being part of it here that car sits uh in front of us at the moment from our position on the inside line uh before the source uh alongside it uh the number three rdr18 ultra uh we've got uh what we've got two front rows one hybrid and one uh diesel apiece in this four car audi display the grid is being cleared with the delta tones of powered by nissan portland reporter nick dearman uh doing the honours on the pa we've been uh sharing the duties in i think five languages if you count what i do as english uh so far uh this weekend here at spa franklin for the second round of the world endurance championship the fia wec comes to europe for the first round this year we're off to le mans for double points then silverstone of course before we start the fly away section of the season and jared nevo confirming this morning that the calendar as we stand at the moment is as set for the rest of the year which makes a lovely change in international motor racing lately lately john we didn't quite finish the story i don't think about karen chondk earlier uh he uh karen had a bit of a moment at the top of erosion to radio very quick corner uh put the car around into into a spin uh hit the wall there was damage to the front of that uh at the front of that car and also clanged the uh the right rear as well uh but it was down the garage just before we came on air they're changing the front body work they don't believe there's any damage to that front corner aside from bodywork but they are changing the rear corner the rear suspension on that side they hope to be able to to start the race from pit lane let's keep an eye on whether or not that car can do that so at the moment we know that that car and the 32 lotus lola judd lmp2 car are due to start the race from pit lane well wherever you're joining us around the world welcome along i was we bring together one of the biggest motor sports communities anywhere on radiolemon.com our various tv syndicates and of course on the website for the fia wec for 2012 if you want to get in touch 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little bit more and you can keep up to date with what we're seeing through the window here that's the team's classification with star works leading things in p2 here a bit of a baptism for them in every sense of the word coming to spa but peter barron had his usual trademark smile last night amazed to find that ryan diel who spent so much of his early early career here in europe didn't race he was meant to race here in f3 one year and the race got cancelled and it's such a staple of british f3 to come to spa now that that's hard to imagine absolutely i imagine it probably had weather as bad as we had this morning uh john uh yeah ryan confirmed to me yesterday has never raced at spa frankenstein was looking forward to it with a degree of trepidation it's it's a pretty awesome course here uh we also just had a quick look there of another lmp2 uh runner that's the uh the adr uh delta uh oreka nissan finished fourth in we see standings uh at uh at uh sebring it set a pole position in the class yesterday in the hands of australian john martin and undocking racing which is the adr bit there a long heritage in sports car racing many will forget and i will admit that i did that they were the original runners of the original factory mazda group c cars back in the day the old 7.7 they can have the upright looking car uh when tom walkenshaw's empire couldn't actually accommodate mazda's needs alan docking racing stood in and ran that for some years they're back in sports car racing they see this as very much a growth area of motorsport we're grateful they do and they're immaculately prepared oreco nissan the 25 car white with blue uh john martin tore graves and robbie kerr a pretty potent looking lineup as well for that car is it true that uh lucas ordonez has tested the delta wing yes i think he is he is testing he's doing it already and he's going to continue to test the delta wing the principal reason behind that other than the fact he is actually very good is of course that mikhail crum and satoshi matayama are both actually rather cup tied with super gt yeah commitments so uh yes lucas has joined the delta wing uh test team uh they're taking this thing very seriously aren't they jonathan well they might yes you weren't last night when i saw that post i'm a very naughty boy you are if you haven't seen that there is a very interesting picture son of delta wing on delhi sports girl yes uh so there we are that is how it looks ten minutes before we roll off onto the start of the formation lapse as the safety cut piece car as it is now they audi it will become the safety car when it pulls into pit lane after it has pierced the cars around so i'm not paying the one euro fine for that but uh looking down there john it's a good looking grid two gaps in it they're looking there at the first of the dunlop shod cars on the grid tenth overall uh propping up i'm afraid the uh the lmp1 standings that's the number 15 oak racing pescarolo judd and it will be local boy bertrand baguette to start that car top nine cars all with michelin tyres uh the oak the development partners for dunlop and of course i think i'm right saying all of the lmp2 cars on dunlop's two most but not quite all of our gte starters will be on michelin rubber two aside from the 55 car the jwa avila car which will be on pirellis yeah good point good point dorm one or two point five hits from the 80s 90s and today for shooters hill and greenwich i just can't help myself every time i see i see that and particularly with that big sunstrip doom 102.5 there you go sebastian poured a sitting waiting to go uh part of the uh the now extensive with the announcement yesterday that uh frank montany will join level five motorsports in the lms at laguna seca is that all of the persian drivers relocated that's right it's the uh it's the peugeot uh lmp1 witness relocation program now there is the spot where we should have karen chandok that car is in the pit lane and those are live pictures if you're with us on the stream it's going to be tight for those uh those guys to get that go out to start isn't it remember you've got to be in the race before the first hour is up otherwise you're not allowed to join there is current that's a rather ruffle looking karen chandok cheerson chastened i think it's the word isn't it but uh he will well at the attach at this stage because he won't be starting from the grid won't have to be the first driver in the car but my guess is will be but uh from the top we've got tom christensen tom christensen is taking the start is that correct yes it is let's go through some of the uh starting starting drivers so and before in fact we do that it eve reminds me rightly so we should say hello to tim burgmeister anti jurgen fact tim had a very very nasty accident in japan uh earlier on in the weekend yesterday uh during the super gt race uh problem with his porsche which pitched uh tim into a spin he couldn't control out of his uh out of his hands very heavy impact with the barrier uh we said no best wishes to him is in hospital at the moment in japan jurg is with him i know his family are going to join him uh we've had some updates uh he's going to be very sore for quite a long time but the best wishes to everybody involved apparently he's not allowed to listen to us because with broken ribs it only hurts when he laughs and there'll be plenty of laughs from us this afternoon as we get things wrong tim your best audi's team just andre a lot or a driver will be in the number one car that's the second of the hybrids and mark zenith uh the substitute for another injured driver who we send our best wishes to team or bernard of course uh team come on son we want you back i would love to see you back in le mans but we know that you can't rush these things on row three rebellion racing neil yani hop swiss as i am contractually obliged to say with a swiss mother-in-law strata racing johnny king will start the 21 car on the outside of raw three are we at the front of the grid now but we'll run through a few more of these rows andrea baliki will start rebellion number 13 on the outside of row four karen chanduk is missing from the outside of that role sebastian bordeaux we've already seen him in the pescarolo team dorm 102.5 with bertrand baguette on home ground here for the orc racing 15 and he's got a gap in front of him now of course he does indeed john then we get into the lmp2 cars out of the top ten they they're running actually in class order very neat and tidily for the whole thing doesn't that prove that the performance levels that have been set by the aco and followed by the fi are absolutely correct i'm just about right john martin will start that 25 adr uh delta uh oreck nissan we talked about a little earlier sam hancock a great performance from sam in uh qualifying uh and with the 32 conor starting from the back of the grid sam will start second in olympia two 12th overall for the 38 jota sports zytec nissan first the morgan judds uh this the oak racing car the 24 car olivier pla one of the quickest guys out there in any car will be third in lmb2 13th overall and alongside him will be a ringer vanderzender in the other of the lotus uh lola judds 31 cars starting 14th overall sahilayari uh is at the wheel of the 49 peak on racing car this team moving over from a low last year to an american nissan this year and they'll start 15th overall in 16th uh position uh we have the greaves motorsport 41 of elton julian taking the start in that car alongside him bazlindis as it looks like the engine covers going back on the grm well we've got other pictures that you can't see at the moment but it's still far from getting that car under the grid we'll keep an eye on that uh then we have uh boots and genie on racing local team jack clark starts that car the 45 car on the inside of row 10 with vince potilicio starting the star works the class uh the category leading in the championship star works motorsports 44. and then 20th overall is the 48 car this is the murphy prototypes oregonis and the team probably better known to listeners and viewers last year's rlrm sport but greg murphy has bought this new car it's attracted jodie firth and warren hughes as full season entries for the european le mans series and they're joined this weekend by brendan hartley uh ex red bull junior driver and that's a pretty potent lineup in the 48 car 21st overall is the uh first of the two cygnetek oreck nissan similar car to the 48s pier rag in that car this is a new full season entry from the wec from here on in uh with the cignatek oregon nissan 22nd is another orica zero three this time with judd power this is the race performance team swiss team ralph mc3 will take the uh the starts in the 22nd placed car the number 40 car whilst in 23rd position it's yet another oraca again back to a nissan power car and again back to a signatec car this is the nissan backed technically backed 23 squad which features uh gt academy winner jordan tressel uh on the squad as we do watch those pictures and watch the uh the engine cover going back on the jrm car uh olivier lombard will take the uh the the uh the grid in 23. uh 13 is an old goal for racing middle east affair with stephanie hansen uh taking the start for the 28th car the 29 without uh of course frederick fatiha who broke his leg in a bizarre incident and during pit stop practice on thursday night i presume it'll be jean janine delatraz yeah who will start that he wasn't on the list but i don't think with due respect to uh to the lady driver that shares that kiko ihara that they would put her in at the start behind them extreme limit ar ic is the last of the prototypes and then we have the paul sitting luxury racing ferrari of fred mackel on the outside of the row number 14 and then a tf courser inside of 15 on the 51 car that's the ferrari of course for chan carlo physically dazzle darren turner will start the 97 aston martin racing car third in class and on the outside of raw 15. and to top that into the number 30th position the 77 car first of the porsches this is the phelpmer proton car the very different looking 2012 spec 997 mark lieb will start that car uh 77 in 30th position overall fourth in gt pro i'm rounding out the gt pros the second of the af course of cars andrea bertollini in the 71 uh of course of 458 to tell you this the car that actually went so well at sebring then into the gte am runners 32nd position overall it's nick armindo in the imsa performance matt mutz uh porsche the 67 car another one of the uh the cars that is a regular season entrant for the european le mans series but uh but uh boosting the grid here and then the second of the uh the the elms cars second qualifier in gtm 33rd overall marco chiacci starts the 81 af quarter car uh one of five cars that team are actually entering here this weekend uh and shared by matt griffin uh it says the next up is the 58 of gunner jeannette on the outside of royalty libra competition 50 with julian canal starting the vet their team car jean-philly bellat will start on the inside of row 19 and there's no rui aguash in the 61 which means the penultimate rule is g.w avelia marcus paltella in the porsche 55 christian reed of the porsche 88 and crone racing tracy crow on the 57 on the 21st and last row of the grids uh but uh right for the back of the grid when starting from pit lane we're gonna have two cars karen chandok now in the car ready to go and that is our wrist director live to us here at spa as the green flag waves for the sighting formation lap of the second round of the fia world endurance championship live here from the ardennes region of europe john handoff graham goodwin to be joined by uh now that's very interesting and a good point from our race director uh nick diamond our powerpoint nissan pit lane reporter will be joining us throughout as will louise beckett we hope down in the pit lane so that we can keep you up to date but it is a six hour timed race remember no more thousand kilometers this will finish weather permitting six hours after we drop the green flag at the start of the race now you can see looking down on the kennel street the quattro leading a part-time quattro at least the as out comes the grm car that is remarkable what a job these guys have done it's less than an hour since that car was planted in the wall we've got a spinner and that's the pool center that's the paul sitter in the gte arm and that was right at the start of the latter sgt prosecutors meet fred mcafee waving left and right as he came down out of la source and fred margot has dropped it now he won't be allowed to retake he's good position i don't think he won't i think he stalled it as well it's stopped to the exit of term one that car is in some trouble john we'll keep it on that one for you uh on any resource we've got you've not gone there at the moment but uh certainly this field had gone by no sign of fred actually joining in he may well have not had space to turn that car around there john wet track but no rain here at spa as we're getting ready to go world endurance championship racing six hours on the clock the first of the double six for us here at radiolamont.com as we'll be at snedelton tomorrow the we hear that mcafee has rejoined i believe that's what we heard from the race director there yeah i think i heard that too it does indeed now get confirmed on the timing of the scoring screens car 59 has rejoined so fred marco will be in full on attack mode when the uh when this race goes green which is about three or four minutes away the audi e-tron quattros will start first and third one green flag lap so we have just on two minutes to the official start time great looking grid of prototypes john please start grouping up gt i'm loving getting this access to the race director it's i think part of what they're trying to do with the faw ec is to make it more accessible i can barely remember any endurance race that's been easier to actually follow lights are off on that safety car the rs5 leading the two uh versions of the r18 the etron quattro and the r18 ultra the lotus number 32 in the background there ready to go from pit lane and the grm car sitting ready to go as well that is an awesome shot as the prototype field keeps coming towards the camera uh looking grin on his face jimmy you didn't like one of his face after sebring did he no and he was 25 000 worse off as well after uh somewhat questionable performance in the closing laps the rs5 pulls away it's down to tom christensen and marco bona nomi to get this right what a moment for bonnanomi front row start and his debut for the works team there's a lot of very new young faces down at audi and there is the lotus rolling to the end of the pit lane the 32 car that'd be luca morrow that'll start that car i've got a feeling john that wasn't the jrm car that looked to me like the norma in the pit lane okay i'll give you that great flag and we're racing at spa franco-schump and tom christensen make sure that he claims his line and following him through his andre lottery in the second of the etron quattros that kind of makes sense he'll have had a bit of drive one or two cars going wide is that the stratocar just being pushed out wide and goodness me look at what you can see going down into a rouge answer nothing at all and in fact it looks like bonino is re-taking his second position there after lottery went through for a moment at least over the top of the rise and under the chemistry for the first time and really that's pretty it's blinding stuff isn't it they're coming down the camel straight at some pace and again we've got the quattro goes this time around the outside of bonomi it's a it's a quattro 1-2 and ultra 3-4 then the rebellions i think are together still john as they come through there's the 25 car going through john martin is looked to have lost a few places there as he was turning in and straight on one of the golf carts and that is the 29 car chandeliers that was a car struggling this morning with a non-operative windscreen wiper is going to need it at the moment isn't he uh this this car as we're saying earlier the broadcast john is going to have to get through this six hours with just those two drivers after the injury in that uh that rather freak pit lane accident to frederick fatigue but away the audis go and they're beginning to pull away already the quattro is pulling away from the ultras and the ultras pulling away from the rebellion lola toyotas so already the two e-tron quattros making that part-time quattro work for them all that power going through the front wheels but only above 120 kilometers an hour it is andrea baliki in oh there's a huge conflagration at the back of the p2 field there right in front of the gt leaders and there is the grm and the lotus they haven't are they gonna have to lose a lap of course that is the rule that carried forward from ilmc if you start from the pit lane you have to lose a full lap so they won't be released until the whole field has gone through at the completion of lap number one it was indeed the jrm car that was uh still in pit lane now i have to say i thought that was only if you changed an engine or a gearbox and grm didn't do that the launchers did i thought that would the grm car could have been out at the end of when everyone else has gone through i'll have to look at the real book for that end of the first lap then seven kilometers down and the lap time is 224 for tom christensen who leads by half a second perhaps a little more andre lottery in the number one car in second mark with bottom army in third but he's already some four seconds back on the two e-trons then mark cheney andrea paliki for rebellion johnny keane for straggler in six bertrand baguette in seventh for orc racing darren turner has assumed the lead of the pro category uh he's up into 21st position as they were coming around there john let's keep an eye on with him and maintain that but he's well ahead at the moment of the the competitors in uh gte pro now we've just been handed an official notification from the students of the meeting about lotus number 32 getting its its penalty for one lap under the control of race control but that i'm sure that shouldn't apply to grm they could have gone they should have been out the only possibility is with that damage john they may have changed the gearbox as well as that uh rear corner they may have done both at the same time in which case the penalty would apply uh but uh christensen now quicker again in the first sector as he comes around on his second lap 38.4 seconds the the march to look for as we go through there and that's the dome ahead of won the rebellions john uh yes it's jani and sebastian baude battling it out for eighth and ninth position and sebastian bordeaux has taken that position and uh that must mean johnny's had a very poor first lap because he was what fourth their sixth overall on the grid um but the dome clearly ahead of the rebellion lola toyota fantastic to see these guys circulating good start just reiterate asked martin lead the gt category is the two audi r18 ultras made good their escape on olivia lombards he's well down in the 23 sigma tech in fact that car's coming in the pit lane the pit lane very early pick caller it must must be one of the cars involved in that uh what if it wasn't coming together it's darn close nelton julian in the grizz motorsport car another one that looks to be involved on his way again though uh shona is leaving the pits right now uh but uh griez motorsports 41 car and the 23 cygnetek oregon nissan both in trouble as we got the two quattros now knows to tell john cross the line to complete the lap and listen to the quietness if that makes any sense it is they are so hushed and the addition of the electric power actually seems to have quiet them down even a little bit more as they whoosh past the come and go camera at the bottom of the hill just uh picking up on the p2 category it's still the morgan of olivia player leading from john martin i thought he dropped a few more positions than that to be honest grim but holding on to second from hancock and the zytek 38 the door the car in third fourth sawyer yari and so he'll right with sam now right on the tail of the uh the jota uh zytec nissan and just look jonatha the difference in pace at the moment in these conditions between the two quattros and the remaining field 221 and 220 for the leading two cars 224 and a half by the normal in inverted commas two-wheel drive versions of the car nick dearman has joined us up from the powered by nissan pitlin and the weather breaking just at the right time yeah i mean it suddenly it was very dry bro the right time for me because people count the queen to talk to uh interesting conversation with ralph yutna um he says that definitely the quattro has an advantage in the wet they're surprised by how much it's turned out to be and from today's performance and he also said he's missing peugeot but aren't we all the 19 car has uh missed turns five i think it's a it's nine that says 29 i think that's a mistake on something in middle east we saw that earlier so that's fine yes we've got sebastian bourdain now beginning to close down on bertrand baguettes uh in the oak racing seventh and eighth so there's battles going on despite the kind of dominance at the moment by the the two pairs of aldi's i think we might be describing this for some while yet and there is the 29 car that went uh straight on now john denis de la tras wasn't it who was in that car and it's in the pit lane and if there's some concern about the right rare here's the start again and look at that lottery definitely got through into second place in the last source but by the time we see it again i have a feeling that lavrov must have gone wide there we see there's a lot into the source within any sort of that was a very close start even standing starts is that the you can get ahead but it's not necessarily the best line for the exit as well people get better drive coming out of the corner uh obviously below 120 kilometers you get much better drive with the four-wheel drive quattro as it out comes a 29 car after receiving some attention for the problems that these cars been beset with the 28 and 29 have really had a checkered a couple of races they have rather uh they're yet to really shine as much as their very famous colour scheme does uh we're looking for a rather better race performance from gulf race in middle east this weekend just to give you an idea we are something like 20 2-0 seconds away from the qualifying piece that was set by alan mcnish yep 220.416 for andre lottera and race uh now he's taking the lead uh the number one car has gone ahead uh two twenty point four one eight for andre the fastest letter race lap so far uh and that's still comparing with two twenty threes for the ultras two twenty six two twenty sevens for the best for petrol cars now anything happened on the grid is that both the hybrids changed their tyres with about 30 seconds to go for a different set of brand new michelins and i assume we may well have soft wet and hardware um the grid the tread looks the same but they burn you completely new set on of course they haven't they aren't allowed to warm them up there's no real advantage in doing that unless they've gone for a slightly different compound and of course it did dry out and i think the drying out is actually surprising a lot of people that we were expecting a lot more rain until four or five o'clock but it stopped rather beautifully at two o'clock yep it did indeed and uh lmp1 it's one two three four one two four three in terms of the car numbers for the the audi r18s the quattro is still leading the ultras as the two uh hybrid cars make their way past that uh rather delayed 29 gulf middle east uh lola nissan uh then we've got andre baliki leading the petrol order uh in the first of the rebellion lola toyotas oh my goodness didn't make that easy for the number one audi i will say one thing that if toyota haven't already decided to use their hybrid on the front wheels they will have by now no they haven't they've gone to the back and that that is a mistake isn't it i they've tried both of it but they feel there's a yellow flag out there on the start of the kemmel street let's see if we can see what that is for uh it's very very difficult to see anything there isn't it let's be honest but that is a pass for position the image of matt murkar on our left on the inside and the that's the maya car and that's the 2011 spec porsche trying to get past the 2012 spec porsche uh shouldn't be happening really window i've been on mundo some of your star i have to tell you uh he's the pro driver beyond the gtr effort from insta performance magnets also i spoke to uh to mark lieb in the pit laner during the autograph and they've done very very little riding with this new car on the wet and there there's been a michelin test day and that's it he's not driven the car on the wet at all and it is significantly different isn't it john it's not it's not the usual one-on-one evolution of a 911 this year graves motorsport in the pit lane and going back into the garage these are effectively the defending champions of this series all right we didn't have a wec world endurance championship but it's precursor the ilmc from last year uh they were they won the lms the lms of course they were there's elton julian looking a bit brutal he's been off there was there was mud on that car and uh also of course one of them on 24 hours but they're running cars in this championship and in the european le mans uh series this year with both cars uh one of them of course uh featuring uh the family brundle uh together with lucas ordonez and we've got the 43 car uh off into the gravel as well there john yeah and that is the norma the extreme limit car we thought that had started weird down now that is going to bring out a safety car if that can't be moved it's down to turn number 14 which is at the bottom of the hill campus it's called now that's certainly clearly indicating that car is going to require a tow it's unfortunately engaged with first floored it and just dug the thing in which is uh we did see who did he escape from the gravel this morning was johnny johnny after a very uncharacteristic off some good gravel driving and that's exciting that's good i know it's hard once you're in there but um it'd be interesting they can clear this one but they're gonna have to get the uh the uh tractor i think you're right john we'll see a uh a safety car which would be good news for everyone apart from the two hybrids it's philippe is broke at the wheel of that car not an auspicious start still watching this porsche battle which is the porsche arm car the red white and blue tricolor coloured cop he's the arm leader with nicolas armindor right up the tailpipes of mark lee and they're getting a wage on both those porsches from uh car i think both of them have gone by which is uh giancarlo fizzy killer in the 51 af corsair car uh but catching i believe yes they are andrea bertolini in the other of course at gta programmer right in the front of the shop there graham as it goes through the first little right-hand kink on the kemmel street and that by the way mark levy's third in the gt pro category so if we had a single gt class last year's porsche leading gt i'm at the moment is in fourth place he's in fourth place on pace and i have to ask myself that the question we talked a little while ago john about how long it's been since we had a wet international sports car race with a possible exception of petite lamont 2009 it's been some time and my guess would be that giancarlo fisa keller has not had a lot of wet track time in a gt car i'll give you that it's john hind off graham goodwin and nick damon live from spa good to have you company as the rain stopped about three quarters of an hour to an hour ago and the track is clearly beginning to dry with these very very impressive wet weather tyres that the manufacturers bring now andre lotta last time around was a 220.7 we certainly had a quick lap the night 220.4 uh from lottery early on and at least by the way a lot of leading now we missed the two audi swapping around we've mentioned that briefly we missed it happening on track we mentioned it briefly but uh rather interestingly tom christensen as the audi's are getting amongst traffic now 222.8 for tom last time my guess is that is traffic related just looking at the kind of cars that been delayed there it is 40 starters with the withdrawal of that af uh af wall trip uh ferrari we're talking about earlier john karen chundock now beginning to make his way through the delayed cars up to 37th position but still three laps down the leaders now that is a battle for position two giants of the french motor racing same in oak racing and pescarolo best of friends away from the track are the principles of these teams but seventh and eighth on the track at the moment and there'll be no quarter aster given i know the rather odd situation there is you've got a car that bears pescarello's name from a team that bears pescarello's name and a car that doesn't and uh it's an interesting battle isn't it well i think we expect to see maintained through to june and at le mans too but these these are the kind of teams that i think to be honest with you a lot the fans come to watch and cheer on the green flashes on the dorm 102.5 in homage of course to henry pescarolo who is here this weekend and was in fine form last night as the two luxury ferraris have a little indonesian scrap at the end of the lap that's on the diameter car that went in the 58 that fell off that's gonna isn't it i think it was gonna ginette yeah interestingly when we saw the pescarolo and the the oak the last time those two drivers in the track together was in the world it was in the irl previous last year and burkett and bordeaux are both driving around together there you go and actually just to catch up with what going on in gta nicolas armando we've been talking about leads to that class from the 81 card that's the 43 cards going around again john again i think it's the same corner and that is his broke still at the word oh he's got his back wheels on the grass and he can't move now you have to wait wait wait wait wait wait in the uh the 81 a of course uh ferrari the fourth of their gt cars that are presented here gunner jeannette sitting in third at the moment in gte am standings and the first of the wec entries that says corvette running quite slowly why is that that's because he's had a heck of a wiggle and a spin at radio on a half spin at radion but recovered it that would be my definition of a tank zapper yep and that is jean-christophe billock uh marcus paltella currently fourth in the order jwa's uh genuine villas porsche ex uh flying lizards le mancar from a couple of years back um that car full wc entry and paul teller quite a spa specialist going well at the moment back up the front it's interesting that the two diesel outlets are now very close together well but while there is now some separation between the two hybrids it's four point three seconds between the uh first and second lottery from christensen but bona momi and janae are running within a second of each other and basically as close as you can get without getting too much area wash out so uh possibly again janae has a bit of a speedo bonomi and perhaps they'll swap those two around and in fact tom christensen now lapping at the same kind of pace as the r18 ultras uh certainly you're right there john as we're looking at the uh the greece motorsport car impact lane having uh handfuls of mud and earth removed from the from the uh the intakes he's had enough hasn't he that's gone gardening and uh meantime uh change for position and it's for fourth overall in lmp2 13th overall best landers uh the belgian driver uh going by sam hancock that's the pink and black 35 oak racing pescarolo lmp2 there's probably a raw from the crowd down at our route uh or there'll be they'll be dancing in the streets of beige tonight uh sam hancock in the joker sport car good start from sam he's let him go there though and it looks like his recovery is that um that is 71 car that's bursalini so that so leaves got into second place he has indeed i think he must have had a problem because both lieb and arminda have got past him so he's had an issue and dropped down to third in pro and fourth overall in the cars at gt's so that we've needed a replay that issue that is perhaps you got spooked by about to be overtaken right now by the second or the first of the hybrids that is the ultra i think perhaps our mind is having a very good half left but lee's gone past him lee was saying that the one about the wet that he thinks it's the right place to have the engines in the rear but meantime uh darren turner had made his uh good his escape but at the moment mark lieb lapping much the quicker with the two 242 last time around from darren in the lead of the gt class uh 239 three seconds quicker from lieb in the 77 porsche and armindo two beginning to catch the aston martin now he's clear of the the 71 ferrari so at the moment it's aston martin porsche porsche and the interesting thing is because we've talked about the difference in manufacturers but they've all got different engine strategies we've got front mid we've got rear rear a mid engine in in those three main fighting cars and in this weather your weight distribution matters absolutely right yeah well we are just coming up to 15 minutes into the six hours live from spa this is coverage of the second round of the fia wec andre lottera leads for audi in the number one e-tron quattro the diesel electric hybrid has 5.1 seconds on tom christensen the lead changed on lap three thank you martin pass but christensen a much better first sector that time around in the number two car there's ten seconds between the two part-time all-wheel drive cars and the normally rear-driven drive cars of bonne nominee in the four car in third and mark junior and the three car in fourth can we change those two around please dr ulrich so we actually do have them one two three four it's too confusing but john there's been a significant change behind them because now leading the petrol order is not for the first time since the start of the race a lola toyota but an hpd as johnny kane takes the 21 striker racing car uh replete with its it's uh its new union flag uh union jack barge board on the back the dorsal fin uh and that car now opened to fifth position and driving away at the moment from the lola but it's some 30 seconds back at the moment from the battling audis and this battle for p2 which is currently on screen if you're watching on live wc or a motors it's um terribly been blocked 29 cars made a complete pixel of the whole situation they're being lapped he's held him up for four corners got in the middle got spooked taken out the strikes of a thinker that was actually the chasing cars that i think was uh that's pla that's just poor driving middle of the road held him up for two three corners well i'll tell you what i'm gonna put in an alternate review here he let the one car go around the outside uh i'm not seeing that it wasn't uh contributing action by the the driving the twenty nine which i think we put john denise yes he is but i'm not sure it was uh um shall we say high percentage move trying to go up the inside when that that was definitely a gap that was closing i think what's happened there is john martin was already challenging uh olivier platt for the lead of the class uh therefore taking the outside line whether or not john denis he's in a coupe the visibility is not that great he's working very hard as well um but you have to say themselves in glorious the number three car goes off that's that's bounced over that sleeping policeman that's there as he's gone round the outside of the number 71 that's the car that was started by andrea bertollini the af courser car and he'd be looking if he hasn't done some under body damage there they are they are quite a nasty thing don't they yeah quite severe he's already before that john was already falling back from marco bononi who's having a great first run in the audi arc team as mark leaves got to the head of the gte pro field he's gone past darren turner at the written knot as darren's had a very slow lap at 2 42. that's exactly the same uh same laptop as we saw last time around from derwent for 237 for mark lieb so are those tires going away john pointed out to me that teletraz has been in the way of the p1 and p2 leader and he's only 20 minutes in and i should say as well that it's not dr ulrich who's at the helm of the audi quartet of cars this weekend it is d gas because uh dr ulrich's at the loudside ring for the next round of the dtm second round of the dtm isn't it this afternoon oh this weekend should i say now there is seventh place stefan board dear sebastian porter excuse me and he's actually already got he's got by bertrand baguette now and his next targets and he's closing on him very quickly indeed it's gonna be andrea biliki who does seem to be struggling at the moment over 2 30 last time around from andrea 231 to a 226 from sebastian bourdain with something like a seven second six and a half second gap uh that kind of uh rate of closing the dome is going to be with him within two laps now this coming through to us on twitter at specutainment from none other than ollie gavin back in yardley hastings in central uh northamptonshire uh tricky conditions but no spree get the slicks on he says watching the tv coverage back home and now very odd on board town for ferrari again it's been like that all weekend i don't know what that is i think we've just seen a move for position i think that's going by the 71 ferrari um fred macavity still trying to make up for his faux pas in the water on the uh formation no it was fred it was fred indeed fred going by bertollini uh uh through the source and uh good comeback from marco absolutely so therefore up to four so very clearly bertolini is struggling these conditions and makko catching the 51 car hand over fist nail now the uh thank you to andrew tester who's found the relevant part of the regs for me uh rule 65b is a lap delayed if you change your engine and rule 71 claws one three four any reason a car can't take the start from the place on the starting grid will start from the pit lane after competitors have covered one racing lap so that is the sim thank you very much andre i'm indebted to you for that so it's a big luxury versus a of course a battle going on here at the back end of pro because the uh gt pro is being dominated by mark lieb who's striding away from darren turner four seconds left and is to prove as if to prove that the car to have is a porsche 911 which john loves me to say uh nicola mindo has cruised past uh turner as well with the amateur car yeah and he's only five four and a half seconds now behind the leader so the leading am car is in second place in gt is this battle between the af course of ferrari and the luxury racing ferrari continues and you can tell it's luxury racing because it's got luxury racing written on the front splitter and he's close enough to be able to read that from the rearward facing camera was a giveaway here he goes john he's gonna try uh trying to get up the inside there he's not quite made it but the lap times are profoundly different at the moment two thirty nines for both of the porsches we've just described 238 for fred mcavicky none of the other gt cars at the moment breaking into beyond 240. and in fact just to underline that giancarlo fizzy keller who we're watching he did his fastest lap of the race last time on just under 241 and is not enjoying these conditions gentlemen that's three seconds slower than fred mcavicky did last time around and then it wasn't even up he's holding him up as they come down towards blanchimont down through the gearbox into the breaking area over the corner vicky on the slippy stuff but managed to get it slowed down bit of a block pass onto the eight max that's beautifully done as the 21 stratocar eases up to them as well and looks like it's going to go through they're 21 sitting in fifth position for johnny and he is going very slowly he's really struggling isn't he that was a 2 47 from daryl straight through the middle threading the needle for johnny king who went between the af courser ferrari and darren turner who has been passed like he's asked him was chained to a post atlas well darren's just done a 247 that last time around that's 10 seconds slower than mark lieb one would hope that's tires because if not he's in deep trouble really really slow for tyres and if it was that bad he'd be feeling it that bad and surely he'd be thinking about coming in have they gone for super soft wets that that aren't working or have they gone for super hard wets that aren't working i'm not sure what that could possibly be very odd indeed but meanwhile sebastian bourdain calling the timing screens is right now right with andre boliquis we've got a a heck of a lmp2 battle up there on the screen four cars in close contention and uh what are we looking at there gentlemen that is the 49 car that's second down to about fourth yeah second their second third fourth there's three of those are actually competition and the others are just there by by chance yeah picking their way through the cignatek car both the oak racing cars isn't it yeah yeah the synthetic car isn't isn't involved he's actually a lap down yeah that was uh the that was the car that actually came in for an early pit stop wasn't it and that's where you can see looking forward from the number 23 that's the car that wasn't involved so yellow yari having had that uh look at that look at the back end of those cars moving around they're all entire trouble out there early we're only half an hour into this race well this is pla versus lioness which is carrying on but i think what's happened is this track has dried out much quicker people have thought and if they put supersofts on those are going to be tearing up now whether it's front or read in fact it looks the cars don't seem to be handling badly they're just probably just lacking in grip generally well that's line is going past his effective teammate with this is one we think has lost its uh uh some of its uh frontal accoutrement uh and that's not going to be helping of course but that's going up into third place in class then correct yeah john martin though in the lead of that class in the 25 adr delta oreka nissan is somewhat eight seconds up the road from sahih yari in the 49 peak on racing car well when you want to know what a track's really doing the best thing to do i find is to ask an eight-time le moment winner so we've tweeted to tom christensen and he's tweeted back that it's still damp and no dry spots out there that's good very good going from tom christensen to do that while he's actually out there on track i hope nascar don't find out that they think a great view of tweeting during the race don't know john um on the yes exactly on the feed that we're getting from some of our racing driver chums looks like the really stuffed tire says uh mourinho frank kitty off like it's going off like a scold attack and you can see the car moving around on the blocks of the trade yeah i can't disagree with that right now going off like yoga in mid-summer absolutely meantime bass linders is on a charge and he's actually now right with sahilayari for second place in uh in olympia too as darren turner predictably actually pits for 97 aston martin he's had he's had to do that to do that and it must be tires must be ties john and that's a shame because he was leading um that's a counter at one point oh there's one of the signatec cars isn't it that's the 26th car i think and if it's that if that hasn't spooked was he spooked by the audi or was he touched by the audi it's clear oh no he got the he got the paint got on the paint on the left-hand side 12 category for pierre rags and he's off on the grass getting the car back on this is the g-zone racing by the uh g-drive racing by cignatec there's a new set of tyres going on a new steering wheel ah electric saw some electric problems as well yeah which could also go to the water water ingress this car won't run much in the wet uh and the steering wheel of course replacement is the first attempt to change anything electrical because obviously so much the functionality is now on the steering wheel but they'll try and change that first as the elimination before the next thing which is coming in and changing the pack itself well meantime at the front of the gt classes uh fred maker vicky remember fred had that spin on the the formation lap didn't it was its first lap and uh up to third overall the gt class is second in gt pro are now beginning to catch nicholas armindo 238 six seven for nicholas in the 67 gtm porsche last time around macko with a 237 four so catching around a second in lap over the last couple john amazing just who's listening and watching this coverage uh and feeding us back very very impressive information alex brundle one of the nissan drivers who we heard from on radio le mans just before the start of the live race coverage seeing that uh he's watching this very carefully and he feels that the lmp2 wets will be struggling from now on and also sam collins from risco engineering has spotted that the doom 102.5 is very very fast in sector one and three and not great in sector two and there is the 49 car struggling to get slowed down at the end of the lap there is high grip charm up there but does the right thing and drops back in behind so as not to attract the ire of the stewards and potlatcho off as well in the 44 car this is the star works hpd championship leading car of course absolutely turn 14 again i think there after it's really nicely on the gravel though they should be able to get out if he doesn't ruin it you should get out quite easy from there yeah turn 14 is the campus that's yes camp was just before what i still want to call stavalo we'll call it that then okay waiting well they might with [Music] stop stop stop and it's going to be four marshall power five marshall hurricane andrea lottera who on the audi tv feed uh on the on board is now searching for damp patches uh on the roads spotted by a number of our listeners and viewers who are clearly watching various different feeds but has just put in the fastest first sector of the race at 38 too three seconds off what they were doing um during drive running and bonner nominees to the 38-7 sebastian board here at 39 8. we've got another pick caller there john can see we're going to look at that saving fernandez is back in the pits uh so adrian got aboard that car has come straight back in that's that's a gear shift issue pointed out to be my number of our drivers it'll be a paddle shift issue because you would just deal with anything else at this stage in the race yeah uh meantime we've still got another battle underway in lmp2 and ayari back through to second but both of those cars actually catching the uh the class leader at the moment so uh ayari back up to second 11th overall from landers uh but those cars about six six to seven seconds behind the lead car at the moment but catching at something like a second lap and there we go confirmation that the 97 is back in the box and there well they're looking around at the back that's where the gearbox of course it is because it's got a transaxle thank you but i assume they're now looking at the actuators and what else which is that's a real shame because that car looks so good this weekend hasn't it hasn't it indeed yes there's also a drive belt off the back of the gearbox onto the alternator i seem to remember on an aston martin all right and that might be a problem if they're losing electrical power yep i have a feeling that landers uh he had a very quick lap did a 228 a couple laps ago down to 231 this time which is where he lost that position um i wonder if his tires are beginning to go off here fred mcavitzi is continuing his recovery he's gotten past nikolai minda it's not for positions of different classes but now means he's got a straight run at mark lieb who's 11 seconds up the road from him but he is going quicker 236.7 from uh macchio last summer around to a 237.3 from mark lieb and we're half an hour into the race lot of release now come on guys you need to be looking in the mirrors here uh yeah that's basilander's going alongside hilayary he was waving his fist to the ari there i think he thought a bit of blocking underway but lioness goes through to second rather spirited battle this one isn't it yeah another judge from nissan and there is the change confirmed on the screen with the 35 going up in the second place lot of relates by 11.1 seconds all of a sudden he's exploded away from tom christensen in second place and he's taken another two seconds out of tk last time around bona normi in third he's lapping it now roughly the same time as christensen and in fact mark zenith is quicker by about half a second than bona nomi so it's one two four three the audis and then something like 30 seconds between the audis and the chasing field after just 14 laps but johnny kane now is actually uh more or less matching the the speed of the second third and fourth placed uh audis it's something we did see from on the hpd's at sebring at points during the race uh or obviously a completely dry race there but can he can he maintain that well i spoke with a few of the audi personnel last night and they are keeping a very close eye indeed on that 21 striker they believe that that is their main competition uh in this race this weekend and a fine array of engineers down there in the pit lane dave ward who helped so much his company at uh bradley progressive who helped so much with the running of the cars and the training up of the engineers for audi team audi jost sport it's good to see dave had a good chat with him last night and we are hatching a plot for a brit car entry yeah potluccio uh back out of the gravel now and back underway but of course has fallen right to the back of the field meantime karen chandok after that delayed start for the jr mhpd very similar car of course to the straco version back up into the top 30. but it's going to be a long hard race for the jrm boys yeah obviously whether you heard but what happened with that he lost it coming over radion uh and it was a nice bit of damage and nose and uh clanged in his front right and uh a very there's a nasty bump isn't it going down the hill they see three or four the cars really don't like taking that bumper they just turn around they'll go around the old start grid they don't know we've not really spoken about why it is we're down to 40 cars we'll explain about the af wall trip car that was on the original entry and uh it was damaged this morning the incident you saw with brian vickers the other car that's missing the status gp lola judd coupe uh elms entry and poor alexander sims had a real hell of a bang didn't he in one of three practice sessions uh following another car closely through a rouge lost downforce uh and clattered the wall taking much of the left-hand side out of that car the team could have prepared it they're not a point going off the wec and they're going to look after their le mon parts uh part supply uh let's look at the p2 battle john martin leads in the oracle number 25 but he's been closed down on by baseliners by just over a second last time around it's uh seven seconds at the moment the lead buzz lined is closing in as i say soyula yari struggling a little bit as we saw in third place for the 49 original and in fourth place olivier player for the morgan oak the 24 car he's in the 31s as well ranger van der zander's got his head together in the uh the number 31 and he's lapping his best lap last time around at 3 30. we're seeing a lot of blue times now nick on the timing and scoring which means individual best times for that car sebastian is just putting a fastest fastest fastest over with all three sectors for the uh the dome another two twenty twenty two nine nine nine making him uh the second fastest car on the track in that lap about a tenth behind tom christensen but the car's getting quicker all the time but what's notes was the petrol cars seem at this point to be able to put in fastest laps whereas the uh all the audi's are currently probably not trying to uh aren't doing that but the the gain which was which was monumental over the first ten laps is basically pegged back now and through traffic they're effectively not gaining at all they're not getting away are they anymore and uh what we saw there from johnny kane again the last lap around johnny was uh catching catching catching on a poor third sector and then matched more or less the time of marching ahead of him he's just a poor poor poor earth if you like first sector in the uh 21 striker hpd but they do seem to maintain be able to maintain that pace but johnny at the moment said andrei baliki being caught by sebastian bordeaux behind them well certainly this this continues to dry out it looks like the dome uh has a sweet spot in this petrol uh battle that is going to give it a massive edge because it seems to be the fastest car uh in these conditions of moving forward as we see it in the background there in the background and rapidly closing in now on bolique on the 13 uh uh rebellion lola toyota john and we're getting a bit of uh bit of sparring on twitter here between ollie gavin and mourinho franchitti um mourinho just telling ollyator is easier from the couch when he was saying getting the slicks on earlier please come back spa's got good grip nosebleed get the slicks on i'm not that i ever probably will do but i never want ollie as my teammate when i'm out there when it where does senator do my car looks normal unlike yours we'll let them go shall we now listeners if you want to kind of just explain it's dry there isn't it experience what it's like actually in these conditions if you're sitting on your couch leather couch just if you're on your rear end just a bit of olive oil and in drying conditions just add a bit of sugar and you'll find out where you can find the grip very unpopular with all wives on the leather sofa and if you have someone with the thing that you use to wet your shirts for ironing just keep spraying it gently in the face but there again we've seen people looking now for the damp areas on the circuit andrea baliki in the rebellion racing lula the toyota powered car with sea bass sebastian bordeaux in the dorm the trimmed out dorm 102.5 the pescarolo there the big white wheel as it comes down the hill now the interesting thing is we know that the audience look at that sorry dick how much did sebas take out of beleaguer this is the battle for sixth position it now in fairness to believe he was held up slightly by the number 70 labra competition corvette but now coming down the camel straight there is a doom behind there i promise you sea bass got the windscreen white but going frantically but wasn't able to use the slippery shape of the door koopa to go back there nick sorry yeah i mean but we know that the alleys can do 22 laps in the in the in the dryer obviously the petrol cars are slightly more uh fuel in them so we're not quite sure what they are i assume they're trying to eke out to the fuel stop which would be a couple laps short because of course they've done the warm-up laps um and then also obviously want to give themselves as much time possible think about what to do next on the time there's a fire in pit lane on the 44 car that's an oil fire for the star works car now this is the championship leading car it's coming early and uh jack is at the front of that car and people had moved away from it as you might imagine with it it's still there and as nick says that looks very much like a a turbo or an oil fire is it both sides both sides both is very hot under there and taking the back off is that's actually there's oil there's actually a fire coming out the exhaust yeah i think that's turbo and still the dome unable to get by the lola toyota the second larva competition corvette now getting involved in that one deja vu there really wasn't it what we've got there is again it's domes revenge machine uh unhappy i think it's fair to say about their lack of involvement in the soda factory program trying to get by the lowla the lola with the total customer engine yes so there is a bit of now look they're still offline they're still wet there look at the speed of the door as he comes up around the outside can't see us get it breaked he can't because he's on the driveway he moves and carves his way through in the sixth position andrea palin he could not do anything about that he'd moved offline trying to get the tires cool i think i think i get he got the other sorry i was looking there see with andrea who'd been delayed through that corner he's not he's just taken a chunk out of him wasn't he there and fabulous shot of the pescarello team garage with a completely sanguine look from most of the guys that's amazing stuff we're coming around to pit stop time shortly for the prototypes in about five laps time and uh listening into the audi radio they're asking the drivers is it wet or is it grooved inters rather or is it slicks and uh graham just pointed out that fred mcafee he's putting a storming lap two thirty four eight four seconds faster than mark lieb and he's now just two seconds behind and he's gone up in the second yeah and he's the second he's just two seconds behind and looking in fact now if they went the director could find him he is about point four of a second behind and that remember spun away on the warm-up lap is his poor position start in the luxury racing car should have started the head of the field he was three tenths of a second quicker over the qualifying uh lap on the qualifying no one could get close to him and he has stormed back through the field in very very difficult conditions really really really class driving out there johnny cain putting a great thing and there it is there's the battle going into the source with the second place car of tom christensen now splitting those two and the porsche's entire trouble now as well there's the distinctive porsche hop and slide yeah by mark lee coming around the corner so what is fred mcavee doing with the tires as the the leads the second place audi itron quattro comes by look at the way the porsche's moving around as mark lead got back on the throttle it's another 2 38 for mark last time around at 2 35 6 uh from uh from machiavicky and there you go he's just about to talk about some fantastic drives fastest first section of the race at the moment perhaps unsurprisingly to andre lotra fastest second section of the race though to johnny kane in the petrol-powered striker hpd 65.5 to give you an idea there against a 68.2 from marco bononi in the in the number four audi that's a and a faster second first sector two for for johnny this is gonna be a very quick lap indeed he is looking very much now to try to get on the terms with the diesels ahead we've just started seeing some 220s from the diesel cars and we've just seen a 22 222.1 from johnny the fastest petrol left by a country mile the uh tom christian made a 220.9 now the battle for gt pro is hotting right up and maka fits he's right on the tail of mark lee but they sweep down the hill into there's that through yeah they're coming out down down the hill just have lower low and i think he's going to get him get him easy get it mark leave if he's got any sense well he's he's on the slightly dryer line but he still can't defend and that is a new reach from back to front from zero to hero and look at the porsche moving around in the hands of mark lee who is such a relaxed and still driver you don't normally see the car being thrown around all four wheels sliding as into the pit lane has come john denis de la tras uh well that's at least stopping getting in everybody's weight um well you've got to ask yourself john what could fred mcavicky have done if he'd actually maintain his grip position from the start of the race he'd have been battling tom christensen now clearly well there's nothing faster than the frustrated driver yeah that's true harry jewett hello to you uh and to your friend luke introduction to sports cars this weekend luke doesn't know how to support so what do our viewers and listeners think get onto ridgeland.com and the midweek motorsport listeners collective and let's find out who you support and why as the we see at the top of the camel straight the battle between the two rebellions yeah the car in front there is a toyota power car the car behind it's turned up power car as well but a bit of an internet sound battle there's a swap doesn't they have 12 now ahead of time with the tyres and it's this point now is that there's two reasons to hang it out as long as possible one is you haven't you want to hit your fuel pits that window and secondly they want to follow gavin's advice and get onto slicks but they are holding on as long as they can the biggest problem you've got for a p-car is if you get on sticks you have to go offline i'm looking now into the garage that's rebellion that's rebellion they have some inters rebellion have cut slicks cut slicks yeah they're not into the cut slicks they are hand cut michelin slick tires 65-3 in the middle sector for neil yani those petrol cars are coming on song now uh john the car on the move uh in terms of uh position at the moment though is looking most likely to be marco bonomi he's uh reeling in tom christensen at the moment at 220 dead uh for marco to a 222-4 for tom less than 20 seconds between those two cars now it does seem rather convenient that the two pairs have settled that are settling between eight and ten seconds apart just rather doesn't it because it makes things because then they bring them all in at the same time there's plenty of shuffle time i i i could be yeah i could be cynical i don't know but we i think we stopped from getting caught nominated uh in the number 12 rebellion the first of the leading cars to do so and he'll be going to these cut sticks we saw being prepared we did the air jacks you can see there for the 24 that's olivier playing the morgan judd have come full wet if someone will pick a picture down the hole we can see what's going on uh but there is some work going on i think they're changing the rear body work this is clashed with deltoids of course could be damaged or it could be the downforce changes worse and it's gone slick so practice the downforce on it very light cut slicks unbelievable back with the leader just on the 219 nine but we were near that this time around because obviously it's all traffic dependent these days uh as he comes around to complete his 20th lap as we are 48 minutes into this six-hour event crosses the line and does a 221-3 so pretty quick but nowhere near where he was last time then we will wait about 10 seconds until car 2 follows him and tom christensen uh and then we have another 15 second wait until we see uh michael bonomi in third in car four andre lottery then leading the german but with plenty of support so he stopped from too far he's just living in charlottesville he was 19 i think yeah so he's has about 16 different languages and 14 different potential nationalities now there are cut slicks going on to that oak racing car that's the p1 car yes 15 i these conditions there's no need to it's no professional team i think he's stayed aboard their neck really it's not the slickest of changes uh he's pardoned the pump when they're putting wet tires on as the dance of the single gun goes on it is bertrand baguette stays aboard bb on the side bernie bridgestick of course ah they look relatively happy with that i don't think it was too bad meantime on board with the third place marco bonomi who has about uh 20 seconds between himself and tom christensen in second place 54 second stop for the rebellion team uh we've just gone past another quarter of an hour so let's have a look at the what's going on in the classes in gt arm nicola armindor leads in 24th position overall in his third best gt car fred mata vicki after a drive from zero to hero uh spinning away his poor position start on the warm-up lap right at the beginning of the warm-up lap he's now after 50 minutes back in the lead of the race and pulling away from mark leib in second place in the p2 category john martin leads from paul from renga van der zender now open the second in the 31 lawler and it's still lottery from christensen at the head of the field as the first of the p1 pit stops brings all hits all day 102.5 the dorm into the pits uh one quick question gentlemen did giliani change tires yes we saw the clutch six being prepared because that was a very quick stop against the uh the rest of the states let's stop this very good point actually 54 seconds perhaps they decided against doing the cut slick so that would be quite brave and now we've got this sorry is that uh actually up to pace now is the hpd karen chanducker 221 so the car is built and actually going on a pace of the petrol cars the first time all week in fact that's better than the pace of most of the petrol cars 221 911 is very quick indeed from karen that's a diesel pace at the moment and quicker than johnny kane managed the last time around cut sticks out for the 13 rebellion but yes where they could actually go on obviously they'll change you to cut slicks and 13 john so but you see what their pit stop is it's a really good spot there from uh graham that 54 second stop would imply he didn't change he's changed tires which is ridiculously brave i think let's wait and see what happens here uh karen chandok meanwhile is about to uh go by the gt pro leader and we'll then be in amongst the lmp2 traffic now some of our egg light viewers have noticed that the number two audi of tom christensen as andre lothrod is the fastest first sector of all still to pit of course both of those cars with a 38 flat for lottera tom christensen 38 4. he's lost the left-hand headlight and that's not allowed in the rails however audi's being audi's they have denoted strips on them and i think that that probably counts as having a light light showing the headlights so i think that that is not only a good way for them to spot the car's difference because that will change color when he comes into the pit lane but also it'll require a nose change they'll earn it quite quickly well you can't afford to let that become a headlight out because then they will stop you but only at the next stop they won't let you go out with it like that it is of course here very much more a question of being seen than than seeing uh at the moment at the moment although it may change as we've got a p2 plethora three into the pits feel free to release cars that uh looks to me like the movie prototypes car the adr car which was leading the way of course wow look at this i think the pits now the boots on jinyoung car and one of the lotus lola judd lola lola judd and the fastest overall in the middle so either they've done the world's most stunning tire stop um or they've outguessed a lot of them yeah well unless unless did this start on no you wouldn't get a double out of a cut slick so well maybe you would 219 for andre a lot of last time 286 from neil yani in sixth position must have changed he's got it i think he's changing he's got slicks maybe slicks maybe he's gone onto slicks but how how has he done that that pit stop time do they not are they short filling it's possible isn't it it's possible that's exactly what they've done but 54 seconds just to be just to clarify here the next quickest pit stop we've seen from anybody is a 113 from on the olympics if they think the track's drying and the cut slicks are only worth 10 laps only put 10 laps of fuel in it no it's an extra stop down the pit line you lose too much time and also things can change so quickly here you do what the conditions that are prevailing at the time say you particularly when you you know in the sharp end of the field but we'll soon see we know beliki in the very similar car went on to cut slicks he's on his out lap now we'll start a full flying lap next time around his stop was 157 against 54 seconds for yarn maybe he didn't put tires on maybe he just didn't um let's see if we can get a note down to the rebellion boys on twitter and uh find out if they did change it's really really speeding up now john and this birch has just taken the fastest lap we've seen all day with 2 18 2 3 6. so it's about if you're getting a clear run now for a lap on these current conditions you are starting to eke out some speed so this definitely must be a case where when the four outies come in i don't think they'll be i don't think they'll be going on to intermediate i think they're gonna go straight understand there's nobody absolutely and what is the scar looking like the answer is very white indeed we've done twenty blue twenty two damp laps so the dry laps we've expected to see the amp the audi now thirty seven point there lottery's gonna be sub two minutes 19 this time around the lap we quicker slap at the moment it's a 218 two to bertrand bucket now is that cut slicks for striker is that full slick since johnny kane stays aboard the 21 car the car fueling now let's have a look and see we can see those tires that's a cut slick very lightly cut very light lighter than we've seen before to 18615 from neil yani in sixth position at two eighteen two three six nick was saying from bird from baguette back in eighth at the moment and we are seeing the alien on lap 23 lap 23 in comes lotra from the lead now will they all come in this lap or they'll stagger them over two or three laps i don't know right 23 laps then and here comes christensen he's gone i'm quite right that uh headlamp is out now will they change the noise the guys go down that's a slightly heavier cut slick than we've seen for somebody like say straka as christensen pulls in behind the already stationary number one a magic middle sector magic lap for olivier platt 2 18 6 2 7 from a p2 car yeah it's that's must we be repaired howdy have been told they're gonna have to change the doors on the number two car it will not be allowed to go and i'm not sure they've realized that yet they're just cleaning it up we've just seen the naught come up they'll be being told they've got it there's a nose there in the there's the opening of the garage john but they won't be able to do that of course until tire stop is underway anyway but no sign of that nose coming out neil yani did not change headlights and that is the clock of the course seeing that the race director just heard from rebellion thanks guys i think that must have come from sam smith uh of lola that the 12 did not change tires wow amazing but interestingly if you look at the top the two ultra audi's of course we're carrying two liters more of fuel they've managed to get an extra lap yep yeah the car the two car now they do it now they go for i don't think they were expecting to have to do that guys and i've got to say that's a pretty harsh implementation of that rule they've still got a headlight on on that car there's still a light on that car it might not be a i'm not sure i'm not sure it was showing i think they've lost power to that side to the deer well this is costing christensen the paul sitting cart a huge amount of time as the replacement nose goes on from the audi sport the yost mechanics the quick clasps go on on the front and then there's a couple of allen keys to tidy that down and put it fire up the light of the question well it's been allowed to go and it's still not got the light on still not got the light on that's good if that's a wiring issue or a fuse box issue and not a nose issue now i'm surprised that the official let that car go we saw at le mans a few years ago didn't we an aco official standing in front of tom christensen with his hand out to stop him i'm not sure he would have been strong enough that middle strip of slight light he's not lights himself so he's gone out but he's gonna come back straight back in again and get it really change well they might allow him to go to the next stop with that but as i say they've got the dear notre strip still there it's on report it's on it's on now it's on now ah i wonder if it's only on on full beam and they've told him to put it on on full beam uh very good call john yes he's going to blind everyone now see that's what it norm that's not yes he's got it on full beam because it's both sides of the headlights that will lift now that we can see the ultra coming in with the flashing heads which means marco bonomi leads the race with a 218.9 as the uh team manager for car 2 is called to see clock of the course well that is for the headlight and that slicks slicks for the ultra slicks for the diesel saw now we heard earlier on nick was telling us how we heard last night as the drinks bottle designed by the progressive guys in bradley very clever system that is uh we've heard how the diesel cars and the e-tron quattro don't debrief together so there is a certain sense of of difference between those two they've got a next lap of fuel as well and then they're getting an extra extra lap for uh uh marco bonami number four car so they've gone two laps longer than the he leads now of course takes that that lead we're seeing some cracking time the 218 from sayari the p2 card now has the fastest lap of the day sorry 216 sorry 770. so i think it dropped 16-1 from bazliners as well i think so wait you want a p2 car these big things the pointless amazing the nimbleness the nimbleness is obviously making up for the brute power at the moment well it is the middle sectors that they're getting the best time in as out then caused the number three of mark jenner and meantime uh battle for fourth place underway on track and it's between neil yani who is catching tom christensen for fourth place overall and they've both made their first pit stops of course so they're on the same strategy as we're on the hour mark that's because uh neil yarny took uh more if you like less than a minute for his uh pit stop whereas tom crystal the sun took over two minutes and he's still on his original tires absolutely amazing if if if that can last a full second uh second stint that's genius uh strategy for rebellion so in market but unfortunately they're rather slow in lap wasn't a very bad first sector 41-4 because he struggled on his last lap of these old tires but we are literally about to be an hour down john and you can't say we've lacked for action so far but no safety card well it's just what i say congratulations to everybody out there in very very tricky conditions and very mixed uh traffic as well uh as the number four car comes down pit lane now for the final audi pit stop of the first and lotora is on a tear two purple sectors in one and two he is going to be somewhere under 216 for the first time in the race in the number one car he will resume the lead as we finish this run of first pit stops for the prototypes and fred mcevicki he'll be doing shortly in fact we've started the pro the gt pit stops as well just the six seconds off then wow 2 10 1 for lottery and what did he put on he put good wow i'm just trying to work out what's happening in the gt category we've started the pit stops there i think uh fred mekovicki has not come in yet neither is fizzy so that's why we've lost lee who must have come in still out uh still out see the blue flashing around the outside of the headlamp there that's denotes that it is the number four car and it will be lotra to lead the way next time around now how about this for a bald move neil yarny started the race on intermediate tires and he's gone through as to double stint intermediates that's why he was slow at the start he's managed those tires in the difficult conditions that is awesome driving by the swiss man but oh stall from bottomi but neil is struggling now uh looking at the the laptop list around it may be maybe traffic but his sector times going right out just the moment baguette is the only person who's really pushing the 213 which he has the 17 from four day in the petrol car and the hpd of johnny kane is a 218. bertrand forget who's really mastered his conditions now that's the p2 leader that's damage for the p2 leader yeah he and he hit he hit they filled my proton card i think i think that was the mark liebh and i wonder if that's why leeb's car has slowed down let's have a quick look and see if he's pitted yet but that was the p2 leader and lieb has indeed pitted now and he's blue in the first two sectors yeah so he has not got any damage for the p2 leader then with i think john that was actually 88 car because mark is further around the track i think that was actually christian reid um on that with with that contact because mark is about to complete the lap christian is about halfway around yeah and uh john martin's dropped down to third in that pit stop cycle and after that incident a longer pit stop for for adr delta than the two cars ahead to hiliari let's uh see whether or not that incident affects him it looked like he lost a dive plane there yeah i'll i'd agree with that 212 seems to be roughly the kind of order of the day for uh audis at the moment 2 12 9 for andre lottery last time around tom christensen is now the man on its air uh 36.9 seconds for the first sector on his lap what's that uh 26. i need to keep an eye on christensen's lights christensen's dropped down the third of course now in the e-tron quattro because he had this hang around for a little bit longer now interesting what also happened is during those stops is that mark shenay in the number three ultra gained a huge advantage over marco bonami he was eight seconds behind when they came where they started to shuffle through and now he's nine seconds ahead so staying at those extra couple of laps obviously cost marco dear as the track dried out so quickly yeah and that is purely lap time because the pitstop time 125 and 128 well there's three seconds between them but that that's not enough to make that difference okay here we are then we've done the first hour uh lottery leads as he has done from lap three uh by something like like a minute now uh over his teammate mark gennady in second place tom christensen has dropped down a third after a nose change on that car that hasn't really solved the headlight problem although having it on full beam seems to keep that left hand headlamp on he's another three seconds behind mark schneer and about five seconds ahead of marco bona normie audi's one three two and four lead from in fourth place the best of the petrols p1 biss the number 12 rebellion lola neil yarny doing a cracking job started on inters and it's uh paid off 2173 for him last time around we need to keep an eye on that lap time just a 54 second stop with no tires then going into a second stint on intermediates in fifth place johnny kane for striker racing is another half minute behind neil yarny then sebastian board in the pescarolo dome in seventh and eighth it's bertrand baguette for orc racing in the 15 car and he's right up the tailpipes of bordeaux again just a second or so between them and he's got about 20 seconds andre andrea paliki who's the last of the p1 cars running in order in 10th then soyula yari leads and seems to be suffering leads to p2 and seems to be suffering no ill effect from that ding with a gt car that took off the left front dive plane a few moments to call the source 2 23-1 for saying last time around in the oracle number 49 227.5 for baseliners but john martin charging back through the field for oregon number 25 2 15 7. in fourth place olivia pla for morgan the 24 car is another 30 seconds further back in gt fred mcvicky still orders a stop so despite charging through the field having spun on the spun the pull away on the warm-up lap he's still leading and he's leading by some margin now as the pit stops have started we're going to have to look to see where mark liebe is machiavelli comes in because he's the first car who's stopped in the gt pro ranks and in the gt arms it's ferrari number 81 marco chucci of course who leads that run i wonder john whether or not fred mcavicky this may explain both the spin and his recovery started on interest [Music] the difference in pace between him and the other ferraris uh was profound wasn't it yeah that's a very good point doesn't explain how he's getting so much more mileage though he's doing really well at the moment marco polynomial is creeping back up to the to the ultra of uh the the quattro of uh christiansen he's gained two seconds the last lap um and but mark zunay is putting his his own personal best for the 212 and we're seeing sebastian bourdain now with the fastest middle sector with the dome backed up his own personal best in the first sector well it's boarding baguette having a great battle for seventh and eighth in the dorm in the york i think at the moment as well guys the neil yani throw the dice is beginning not to pay off because his laptop is going right out 221-4 for neil last time around his slowest of the four behind him is a 215 the quickest of 214 last time around from bertrand baguette 209 905 for sebastian bourdain fastest lap of the race from the dome at the pescaralo team dome sebastian uh trying to get on to terms with johnny kane ahead of him but 209 uh is astonishing comes the air of course quarter number 71 ferrari and uh that car is on the second page of our timing and comes in that's way back if we can go 33rd olivia beretta hasn't had an easy first run that has he just worked he is actually still third in the pro category in fairness because everyone else has had problems fourth fourth in the in the pro category adrian fernandez and the aston martin has not yet reappeared don't forget to that uh gearbox problem that we saw early on christian taking three different classes of carl around the outside you can do that when you've won them on times so was that that it was the 81 car it was marco chochi who pits from what is third in the gt combined and leading the amateur class when he came into the pit lane to eight four three zero now from marching a uh in his pursuit of the leader andre lottera that fastest lap of the race so far goes back to a diesel car uh number three car second position overall but it's interesting that now the car is drying out again that marked advantage for the quattro is disappearing isn't it now it's uh that that extra front grip really just does pay difference when it when it gets pretty damn damp we're looking down look johnny kane has done some personal best got to be sick sebastian there's a lot of personalities it's it's drying slowly though we had that kind of sudden jump didn't we from about 219 to 212 today but of course the dry times we're looking for our 202 for the audi's and so 204 205 for the petrol car still has to be said still damp out there in several places and uh very gray day at the back of the circuit uh fastest first sector of the race so far though to mark janae he's the man charging just now oh don't do that to me bars and torn in the middle of a six-hour race is not what i want to see uh we we have lottery then on a 2-10 2 or 8-4 faster slap the wrist from mark junior last time around they're going quicker again this summer around i think john we'll have a look at the section how interesting is this as we uh watch the replay here of christensen making that pass that uh nick was talking about um but how interesting is it that the two-wheel drive cars are now coming back at the part-time quattros at this point obviously the the cars once they hit 120 kilometers they're no longer grip limited niliani's in the pits the gamble has not paired off for the number 12 rebellion it nearly nearly did though didn't it if they just kept this track a little bit wetter yeah that would have been if it was just just a just a dumb rain and that would have been um certainly well worth a spin wasn't it there well it's it's not necessarily when when the whole thing rubs out you know safety card might still end up being the trap position they're going by doing that might be an advantage uh but yeah i mean it's it's tanks another time it's interesting because what john's been saying the whole time uh this weekend is that break breaks have been too far to the rear now i'm not sure why people are doing this or whether they're getting caught out um as it drives they're trying to be too greedy i don't know vicki meanwhile pitts in the previously leading gt pro luxury racing car mark lieb regains the lead in gt pro as i said karen chundock meanwhile having made his pit stop he's up into the top 20 overall and getting in amongst the p2s now that's interesting because of course mikey vicky got to the head of the field on pace and he's now giving it up on pace to leave who went in earlier and i suspect he changed onto full slicks and those extra laps that he's had on the full slicks as to whatever tires fred mack or whether they were uh full wets or cut slicks that's made the difference and he's re-keying the lead mourinho frank kitty reminds us that jenae's on full slicks the others are on cut slicks at the audis at the head of the field and jenny is making use of them at the moment although tom christensen puts in a 210-4 for the fact to be the fastest of the audis last time around they're separated by a minute and 12 seconds and there's almost a full minute between first and second at the moment but between second and uh fourth it's less than 20 seconds john less than 15 seconds yeah big at the big battle we're about to see hopefully very soon this bertrand baguette will catch up with sebastian ball they both had traffic affected laps and dropped off their ultimate post but andrew but leaky now is the flyer within the uh petrol class he's about to put in a personal best will be significantly faster than the 213 he has two fastest first sectors as we've seen mark schneider again ace sector with the purple which is the fastest we've seen so far in the race in the middle as the track drives slowly after it's sudden sprint down to 212 to 14 times nick felt in the car as well for the first time this weekend just leaving the pits just leaving the pitch now nick howard felt joining the fun and uh he celebrates with the fastest second sector of that car's race so far a 62-9 it's a little off the overall pace but let's see how quickly nick can get down to pace there leaky 12-4 k-12 flat and then binomial in the big in the autonomous eleven five so at the moment the diesels are getting no further ahead but they made their their progress initially and early i mean you wonder where they are and where they could go in their ultimate pace and i expect they're probably working to pretty much a try and hit this this this average time watch out for traffic let's get it let's get through to its full drive it really is uh give me a motoring chest again isn't it gentleman as we've got uh one it's the 29 car again the uh racing middle east car 28 cars have got his act together though with a 2 15 6 in p2 there that's the first time i've seen that car do anything competitive right i need to get my head around what's going on in gt here gentlemen because uh for so many races the gt battle is the one we need to keep our eyes on and if we split them up with the pro now mark lee leads convincingly and by a long way 36 seconds between himself with jamie mello who's now in second place in the pro category from uh giancola fizzy keller who's uh another 11 seconds further back in thirds and beretta is not even on the same lap anymore as those two i'm indoor from matt griffin in the arm category but of course that is the individual class battle uh if we look at the gts as a whole what we have is mark lieb in 22nd position overall as the best of the gt cars and i'm pretty certain it's going to be an am car isn't it you know it's trimming oh no it's jimmy mellow is there so that is a real time now our min doors drop right back then yep he's lost a minute longer pit stop with only 10 seconds he said it doesn't count for it but it must have been the tires again changing the tires at the right time it's been critical of this first kind of part of the race we hear so many times about not necessarily you know what tires you take at your next stop whether it's slicks or wets or cuts in is if you like obviously that's important but when do you make the change and that's pretty certain that's the discussion we just saw fred macchio having on the pit wall there with luxury racing's racing you left me out too long i'm sort of struck striker appeared to have absolutely aced it because they've got johnny kane out now in a uh 17 second gap ahead of the next petrol car and he's he's doing the competitive times but once uh yani's gamble have had had seemingly failed it may well still play out uh we've left the striker car that's very happily on its own in spending isolation leading the petrol teams yeah at the moment nick heidfeld has not made an impact on his first flying lap we'll give him a chance yet i'm sure but uh actually at the moment quicker than him and now ahead of him on the road is the leading lmp2 car sahilayari and the 49 peak on racing eric nissan 2 13 7's and it kind of fills 2 15 5. this race has got an awful lot more to throw at us the only uh gt car at the moment on the uh the first timing screen mark leib with that convincing lead now for the feldmar proton porsche uh jamie megello is being caught at the moment by giancarlo fizzy keller and for car 13 the rebellion uh that is andrei biliki currently sitting in eighth he gets a stop and go penalty for we can only presume a pit lane in french would be something pit lane it may be a speeding it may be a too many people job uh that's very very bad luck at this early stage that's gonna put them back a huge amount but leaky was at the back of the the petrol group behind baguette bordeaux and kane uh and it's violation of article 62.2 john is the they're telling us why he's been given the ban so stop and go for a violation of article 6 2.2 right um let's just get that speed in the pit legend i'm guessing that including the pick i'm guessing that may have actually been too many hands-on well we'll keep an eye on that one for you in the meantime uh mark cheney is uh making hay while the sun doesn't shine here uh fastest first set for the race overall for mark but that time 36.3 matched immediately by andre lottera the pace is coming along again i wonder whether they just forgot to disconnect the auxiliary battery because you know when they come in they plug it in don't they and they earth the car and then when they actually go to start they disconnect the both and off they go if they've got disconnected they're going up you use the battery you didn't actually use it but it just looks like it looks like you did i can't because there's no way they would have started the car with a jump start they know what would happen they'd wheeled it back worked out it was wrong and started so that may have been simple finger trouble in taking the battery out could have been in which case i'm sure bart hayden one of his merry men will be down to the chat rapidly meantime a new fastest lap of the race goes to march in a slick ties was just saying a little earlier on the number three audi the r18 ultra 208.305 brings him just a little closer again to andre lotter just underlining by the way what a big community we are part of here whether you're watching or listening on the internet ridgeland.com or on the fiwac website over via the variety of syndicated tv around the world we've got uh listeners and viewers far afielders new zealand and australia i know that rick dull is listening in the us hello rick you're missing a cracker here mate although you would have got wet earlier this week no surprise there he's uh it's good to see him here so many of you getting in touch at radio le mans speculate on twitter and also on the midweek motorsport listeners collective the forums on radiolemon.com keep that coming can we say a good day to neil cunningham i think we should john absolutely our favorite kiwis neil of course a very popular part of the international sports car racing community until very recently and uh news breaking over the last couple of days of his current health uh health issues uh brave man neil and we miss him greatly in the pit lane here we're thinking of you know yeah man he's packed an awful lot into life and our thoughts are with your nail that you'll be able to carry on doing that for a long time to commit now there's a little incident between the 77 felder maya porsche and the 23 signatec nissan olivia lombard still the wheel of that car i don't think there was contact there gentlemen i think olivia lombard did absolutely all he can can to get off onto the oh very good on to the under the curb on the right hand side that was a change for position yes because he's fighting back guess which car spun um is it uh 29 carbine oh yes look at this they're going to have is that all the drivers flag that car is that still attracts in the car no it can't be can we get him out i'll just have a quick look and see as uh mark chaney goes down in the two or sevens there's a lot more problems with 43 isn't it 207 714 that time around that gap lead gap now down to 50.2 seconds as we look down the timing and scoring screens who's quick they all are but some quicker than others of course there are confident predictions on twitter from a number of sources that junior will lead the race by the end of this stint no well he would if he was in an e-tron but i don't think he will because he's not he's making up three seconds of lap and he's got 50 seconds to make up and that even by my math he's 16 16 17 laps without traffic and they've they're they're half their 10 laps into this stint dear me we just saw an in-car shot from one of the e-trons and was catching the gt girls ahead of him at a terrifying rate just as one pulled out to overtake the other so hopefully the brakes are good on that yes we generate at the same time it's fine this flywheel is spinning like that looked like a police chase video uh murphy prototype green in the middle of that three prototype sandwich there and that's jody firth bright fluorescent yellow helmet the bright fluorescent orange one is that of uh warren hughes that you'll see in that car jody will be uh happy happily bouncing his baby on his knee when he gets home and saying i was doing battle on track with that nate nick hartfelt i was jody of course previous british gt class champion that's not for position there now this is highfield's first uh uh experience of going around spa and overtaking people uh in uh what 20 years so he was looking quite resident actually at some point it's number 13 coming to serve it's stop go i'm wondering how long that stop going where is the penalty box here that's the first question is it it's just it's put out so we'll keep an eye on that one uh the audi mechanics have been making some changes to the overhead gantries on the number one i did say stop go not stop hold did it not just drive through was it that wasn't stuck he didn't stop he just drove through well there was nobody to stop him uh but i'm gonna actually know the uh the the penalty box must in which case be put in he didn't stop they didn't stop but i didn't see the beginning of the pit lane right at the beginning you mean it's got to be in the pair he's in trouble now already yeah i think he i don't think he stopped there he did it no he did a 23 second run that's just a pit run [Music] that's um that's uh more than a slap wrist that's not good because they're going to pull him in again he'll lose the time he lost that one and loses the time again that's uh uh not very clever and i'm wondering whether it may well be john that he actually didn't know where it was and we expected to see a man waving him in in these races um and he didn't they just traveled through and went oh bottoms yeah and als all of a sudden uh rebellion's tactical triumphs terms the tactical tragedy yo yani there in the garage live from spa graham goodwin speaking there before that nick damon i'm john hindoff if you are just joining us welcome along to full six-hour uninterrupted coverage here on radiolamont.com and via a number of syndications on tv on internet streams and of course on radio and we are watching andre lottera fighting back a little bit last time around with his fastest lap of the race at 209-529 in the e-tron but his lead is being eaten into fairly consistently by a second and a half after two seconds a lap by mark junior more than that last time john the lead was down to 45 seconds i think that was probably that move we saw not happen by the two uh gt cars we've got another lmp1 car held up between behind a couple of gt cars it's karen chandok tries to get by the krone racing uh ferrari and also the 77 car the gt pro leader and does that just now but 207 5 7 4 mark um it's 44.2 now the gap tongue christians got the hurry up with that with personal best in the first the second as they begin to uh take advantage of this ever drying surface just gonna take me headset off and pick up that big four by two bit of wood that i was beating you around the head with and i'm gonna go and find sam smith of lola and hit him naliani started on wet continued on wets and then they got chewed up but that's why he came in he claims he was given the wrong information from the team but i'm about to go and hit him with a piece of fair enough it would could happen a nicer bloke what the hitting or the uh neither and good luck to york city uh who are playing in the playoffs to get into the football league who's in mansfield doesn't it yeah the second leg against both tickets have been sold both yeah and good luck to all you liverpool fans trying to get by train to wembley yeah complaints on a postcard to the great win you didn't tell us you were changing the kickoff time so we didn't stop the engineering works karen chandx is in a 209 too he's getting the hang of this isn't he yeah and then he hasn't gone quicker this that he's stuck in traffic but that's a very very good time hey it shows that hpd whatever was wrong with it before is not and they've got a handle on it and secondly it shows that karen has not been affected by what is probably the worst feeling you can have which is bidding in the car on the out lap yep uh 209 two for tom 2075 for mark in second and andre lotta do the 2010 for 2010 210 four 211 microphone number two 12. um the alleys once again do have two seconds in their pockets over the petrol cars you can do a 2 10 212 p2 goodness me and now that wasn't delatraz's fault in fairness he had nowhere to go there and did a pretty good job that may be the only time you hear me say that all the right and the wrong reasons golfer getting a lot of value out of that paint scheme today are they just i bet he loves roller coasters it seems to be a thrill one every time we get to a corner well someone did say there is some issues with the setup of that car just to show the difference by the way guys that traffic can really make as nick hartfelt puts in the fastest middle sector of the the race so far the now ninth-placed 12 uh rebellion toyota uh we talked about karen chandler putting in a 209 he got mixed up with those uh the two gt cars at 2 15 6 seconds slower with one issue with traffic yeah i mean the time gets eaten away you're following a gt car around the corners you are losing you're probably doing what two thirds of speed you should be doing you know these are big heavy cars with no downfalls against what is basically you know a full-on you know racing car with a huge amount of downforce which the faster it goes the faster it can go as the third it's now the 13 has now served his stop go penalty from the stop go box well we'll see how long that stop and hold was we know it's 23 seconds to drive down exactly so but that is a waste it's 23 well more than that with the speeding up and uh slowing down so that's uh in order a stop and go in front of his garage as regulated article 55 well it's a 29 second stop and i think he's just done that actually i think he's just done that yeah that's just that's a little bit delayed from race control okay so he went in stopped came out again so 209 181 the fastest time of the race so far for the number 12 rebellion lola toyota that's nick heidfeld's time uh last time around and his lap 35 that car running in eighth uh fourth in the petrol class behind uh johnny k in the hpd who's still sitting with a very pleasant uh 15 or so second lead in that from sebastian bourdae who's beginning to eke out a lead from uh from seabass who had uh uh sort of bertie who began to get closer to him but now he's you know a way away in fact uh 10 seconds over uh bordeaux and in fact we're waiting for burgett to come he gets dropped way back from when he was just a couple of seconds behind uh sebastian when they came out from that last nick hydefield further back as the fourth of the petrol cars and in gt it is uh mark lee that leads for for ferrari goodness may slap me with a bit of wood might leave the leads for porsche ahead of jamie mellow in second place work continues on on what had been the class leading aston martin and there is the drive belts that i was talking about earlier being taken out from the back of the car but that's more than that uh physically in third another uh seven seconds further back mark lee uh as we have another stop goal penalty this time that's for the uh murphy prototypes car that's uh the car we're talking about just a while ago with jody firth bad news there for the irish that's 71 on the look of one which hopefully they'll come and explain to the radio in a second turn up the race director so that we get that noise that's good violation of article 71.1.1 uh i'd like to just uh take a moment to just uh say well done so far to the pecan racing team sahiliari consistently now in the top 10 uh and consistently amongst if not the quickest in the class ninth overall for the p2 leader uh the second place card buslinders uh two positions back on the track uh 212-6 john having an exciting time just in the corvette there's just not much better than that is there no certainly sounds better that ferrari on board yes that that's a very there's some clearly some electric sound like a watch decision 16 with violation of 71.1.1 which is uh mistranslation the rulebook uh so john i need to go find out what center one point one point one is uh p2 seeing a lot of blues there's some twelve there's a two twelve four and just one says no one doubts pace no it's the temperament that can be the issue uh but today's hanging all together cost henry pescara law the opportunity of a win at le mans in the year when we were in the in between years of the regulations when he hit everything except the safety card and our gather has not had a christmas card from uh from omari maddie since so people who have hit the safety card nick heartfelt here hit safety car and uh one point we're here at fire truck so it's possible jordy firth battling with jack clark here now that is a battle for position the two dark colored prototypes the black and orange one is there come down to the bottom of the hill in traffic at the moment and jordy firth having to serve a penalty shortly but he'll want to try and get by that and behind them looking to see what else might be coming through and whether they're on the same lap nor they're not but certainly those two open top prototypes now heading back on to the old part of the circuit as we have steaming wets on a golf cart and that's the york racing pescara p1 car p1 car they're going to slicks they're going to slicks as well spinning out of seventh position for baguette and nick highfelt meanwhile goes through the 208 906 much the fastest time so far for that car and any petrol and any petrol and put in the fastest middle sector of the race for any car at all jody firth in the pit jody firth in the pit i'm not sure whether his uh was affected by the the fact that one of the how was that heidfeld yes it was heidfeld just basically cut the chicken at the end of the lap there no jodi had committed to it already had felt misty's breaking point now the service stop go is it a simple stop and go it is turns the hole there's a hole as well i don't think it is he's got the green side of the board down there he just can't get it re-fired i think he stole it there so that was a four or five seconds longer than it needed to be for geordi first he'd be very irritated with himself with that won't he well of course it may not be his penalty either if you see three seconds that's uh six seconds off what he could i mean uh from previously back back on board with the corvette number 50 in the library competition machine and uh that's of course one of the runners in uh it's running in close contention actually with its uh team car the 70 car and uh i think they they are running it's actually uh nose to tail there for fourth in uh gtam between the two uh corvettes the 50 car leading frankie multicalvo in the 58s uh luxury racing car from jean crystal bellock and the second the 70 the 70 corvette from labra competition more american v8 here from the 50 car down to put on feather the throttle balancer in the middle of the corner now flat oh no not yet now she had been off there that's elton julian uh going by on his recovery run after that delay earlier for the creeps motorsport car he comes to dome it's the golf it's one of the twenty nine twenty this could be a problem it's the twenty eight car we haven't seen it we haven't seen a camera where something hasn't happened so far that's definitely hanson and he's currently running seventh in lmp2 and he's catching uh jack clark at the moment and the 45 car the buttons union i reckon nissan signature goes past our our camera car uh michael booth says rule 71 one is to do with starting drivers in p2 and gte um you have to use the driver who qualified yes did you first not qualify then no he didn't nor usually did that's a very odd basic error warren did start the race didn't he apparently not i'm pretty certain warren is only on the list to start that race he didn't in the end interesting what kind of rumble before guys 48. we go across start finish now with the car 50 the lava competition machine no jordy firth was listed as the starting driver whether he did or he didn't um it would seem that he probably did no he did because i remember saying there's geordie first he's good in the wet when i was on the ph there you go so this is a mystery this one what's a mystery why they got to stop going they'd have got away with it from one of those pesky kids no no warren qualified the car and geordie star did qualify yes yes but they announced that which is the wrong thing to announce because they obviously didn't i assume therefore the rules must be different in the european series but they were it's the leading car jody i think rather i breaked himself there only for p2 and gtm don't forget i mean graham raised an eyebrow when christensen started the audi and didn't see anything because he may want to eat in the audi hospitality if you really if you read the rules i did prior to sebring for the explains it all about it it's as clear as mud because one rule says one thing then it counteracts itself about four rules later despite the fact that i have to say the wbc website is brilliant because you can find everything and it's on french on one side of english on the other fantastic don't forget you always defer to the french if there's any uh if there's anything so moving on the sebastian board has done his first level 209.3 but nick heimfer who's flying in that car now so show you some of that real quick nick speed we were hoping to see he's got that rebellion going fast and everything else he's now beginning he's still unfortunately a minute back from uh sebastian uh who is only seven seconds down johnny kane is eking back that 15 second lead is now down to seven mean time by the way we are getting close to the second set of pit stops in the next five laps or so yeah first a second is down to just under 39 seconds so quite right nick he's not going to get by him on pace uh in this stint three seconds the last time around what's happening with the star works cars there's a number of people asking me uh that emma well there's a clash that's hit between the adr delta uh oregon nissan and i think that was karen chandok i'd be inside john martin spinning the car around and getting it back to pointing the right direction and that goes back to that that was the third placed car is that carom coming out the inside oh karen no no no i think he might be getting a penalty for that one avoid all the accident that one he just there's nowhere for uh john to go really at that point certainly uh there was certainly debris from an accident i suspect from the front end probably turning veins yeah right uh the 44 hpd is still in the pits and it has been uh since lap 14. uh this is uh at em cubed ml i wish the tv coverage would show us how the star wars boys are getting on uh not very well i'm afraid they had a fire uh in the early part this is turbo my guess is i think so and it looked engine related there were flames coming out above the exhaust place emma and it wasn't very well another faster that mark gennady but without doing a single faster sector absolutely that's the fastest lap of the race so far 207 560 for mark that means a full what 4.2 seconds after the leader's time the gap now uh under 35 seconds remember lottery is on cut slicks janie is on slicks christensen kutzletz this is the car that led the gte class and he's stuck there and that's crabbing when he tried to fire it up it's gone in sideways nick i think well actually you've got tyres underneath the front end of that car he could be all right he's okay he's sided in i think he can get away with that is he just understood off no he's got a he's got a right rear problem on that car that is that wheel is not going to stay on there i don't think now we just saw there uh a gulf liveried uh oak pescarolo in the garage that has to be the 24 car the car the olivier player led the class with he's back into ease back with work on the rear end so uh that's not a murk of the moment either so the action again is as we come to the second set of pit stops to the prototypes it's again all over the shop we've seen some accidents we've seen some incidents and we've all seen some people go off but we didn't see what happened to mello was he did he jumped was he pushed off absolutely we've got bassline just now pits and that will be from second uh ayari the lead car in lmp2 already in pit lanes the first two cars in that class battle both on pit lane right now martin goes through and gets uh second as you quite rightly said there the german car there is is waving uh it's part of its front left fender in the air so it's actually got structural damage and leaving you knows when it comes into the pits march in a meanwhile has taken nearly three seconds out of the leader on the first two sectors of that last lap to 10.7 last time around for andre lotra to uh 7.5 for mark cheney is getting it another drink he's not getting out so triple for the bordeaux sea bass the only time for who was born in le mans only a two-car team and calls this weekend there are uh is not here for this event so it's just um some bloke called menacing who's going to join in so they've got this they've got their hammers to get in there you see you know and of course pescarello team were not all on it was being held very late there what was going on there i suspected he wouldn't be able to see there that was good work uh but pescara team were planning a course to to actually debut their new car the uh pescala zero three a thirty second stop and go penalty meanwhile for the 29 golf racing middle east car could be for anything uh there are several incidents in that kind of thing i think that's like totting up with the manager it's gone that's it you've done 12 points now there was a set of slicks being rolled away from the dorm there did he not take tires at all he didn't top no 70s so he what did he have on cut slicks here okay well he's having trouble getting past the pecan car which was the car that uh he normally avoided in pit lane just there i'm surprised unless they think there's going to be rain that's an odd decision i think that's a weird decision we've got a speeding in the pit lane and that's why car 29 had a problem uh 72.8 kilometers i think the speed limit is 60 isn't it it's probably the first time it's gone too quickly all weekend but there you go um in the meantime the gap uh first a second under 30 seconds right now and bad news olivier player in the 2014 they are still seeing that morgana is still seeing the garage with the investigation behind the uh the rear right looks like a drive shaft issue are they preparing a new diff is that then no one's further forward to 7.4 meanwhile the fastest lap of the race this time last time around and again it forced a marching a you see he's nibbling off isn't he a little tiny bit he's not just nibble sector by sector he's he's he's yeah siding into that lead now but they're due to stop within the next couple of laps we believe oh lovely wiggle there you've got a nice little wiggle as the as he powers the number three down the start finish straight um i've had a question about dropping rounds as we're seeing the that was the leader well the previous leader there's on his out lap has been off the circuit there he's uh back on now the lmp2 leader um john martin pits from the what's what now is the lmp2 lead and that should mean that sam hancock may well go through to lead the class question for those of you who understand rules oh and i'll tell you what i think about this in a moment the bad result by star works here after them having obviously a cracking result in their first round ferrari engineer at ferrari engineer on twitter asks can they drop two rounds i thought it was only the p1 cars this is not the world championship this is a this is a class battle it's on the p1 cars the factory cars p2 cars compete for the cup don't they correct so all all rounds count meantime marching a is not literally not like star works unfortunately on fire 207.1 last time around and goes through a game with the fastest first sector time overall under 36 seconds is that is proving that slicks are four seconds left faster than cut snakes why is boar day to save 30 seconds in a pit stop not change tires at four seconds left faster no no i i completely agree with you there i complete unless he's quite happy with where he is and he wouldn't feel confident on slicks and you've gotta when in some ways you've seen truth in 24 sometimes you've got to tell the driver what to do and get them out there but it is bone dry up there now uh sean at sean mp says for those just tuning in how did the gap between the audis develop as we see the number 13 out of eighth position in the pit lane well the gap between the two um hybrids happened because tom christiansen had had an extra long pit stop to replace a faulty headlamp uh mark ginay managed to get ahead of marco polonomi in the pit stop and then was on full wets no for full drives rather but only on on cut slicks and that's giving him a four second lap advantage pulled through and we now will see i predict slick tyres on this car i think you've got absolutely right andre lottera from the laid of the race in the number one audi i expect they'll do a driver change well he came into the pits with uh just 25 seconds uh full slicks are indeed ready for the number one car new driver uh and uh mark gennady goes through with a 209 756 and as he crosses the line the gap is 21.145 seconds am i right that when we first checked that out was over a minute it was 50 57 something i think i think was over a minute when he first came out so he's picked up or so in that last stint just bugged into the fact that one is a pure diesel the other is a hybrid and two this one we're looking at at the moment the number one car was on cut slicks uh martinez full diesel r18 ultra it was on full sleeve firstly if it rains again the uh uh cotta do have a massive advantage but uh as it stands it seems dry weather this is heavily cooled quite heavily cut slicks as well those nick not just the odd one or two grooves that we saw on some of the other cars they've got a proper pattern the sort of uh stylized v pattern uh rather than just single sipes across the side of the the uh then while trolley has taken over that for the second run okay so here we go course leads to race now for the time being um we'll expect them to see him go a couple of laps more he could go there he did four laps more he could go they add up the advantage of course the thing to remember is that the pure diesels have two liters of fuel more than the hybrids um which is is effectively meant i mean over that period they have the same amount of energy disposable uh two liters obviously they'd like to make a huge difference at the mon with an eight mile track but here it does appear to be worth a lap yep it's hilarious by the way that that's uh that short off uh track excursion hasn't hurt his uh his uh attack he's back up into ninth place back obviously the race uh in olympia too as uh sam hancock has his latest stop and the uh jojo car drops back to fourth in lmp2 as we come to another quarter of an hour with uh four hours and 16 minutes still to go in gta pro mark lee leads by an increasing margin on giancarlo physically uh in second place saw a porsche from ferrari there and we saw the incident earlier on from what had been the pierce setting car fred mcvicky came in and handed uh that was his car wasn't it that went into the yes the wall and uh that has since dropped off the pace it's not pitted again it stayed out stayed out i think i think nick was absolutely right i think he just uh understood off well he's lovely there so nick armindo is leading uh the am class and third in gta overall if you like so jamie mellow in the 59 he's third in pro and 26th overall matt griffin now in the number 81 af corsica welcome to the wec uh the car 61 must respect the track limits a little bit late for that one buried in mind it uh actually with withdrawal for meeting after uh warm up this morning yeah but he did go a long way off he's just just now got the marshals to let him back in what it is he's actually gone home and they're going you're not even on the track that's a bit on the limit like when we look at the transponders on the nurburgring 24. i assume that's actually 51.71 they've got a number tom christensen out of second place but pits before the leader now is christensen st they look like cuts okay doing that again that's what that's mcnish getting in mr lamont gets out mr mcnish gets it gets in it's not the slim very good now what are those tails best legs oh yeah yeah okay we'll give you that so screen gets look out look how um much confidence audi have in their front splitters with the guy wiping the windshield actually standing on that splitter albeit only when the car's on its wheels but even so strong stuff that card before we make it properly you know apparently not sure how long it's strong for thanks to ollie gavin for his tweets uh he's now going to go and pick the kids up it's not exciting honestly uh so tom kristen there just having a chat with his race engineer and uh asking why they had to change the nose corn and he thought he'd lost one of the dive planes uh sorry he's he has dr ulrich this weekend yes indeed dr ulrich uh it's a little ball like stars in your eyes isn't it uh but uh tonight matthew i am but uh very interesting access we're getting for the world endurance championship joshua when they see it later he said that you know i would have gone to slicks but it was for safety i'm sure yes without peugeot they're all toying they don't need to make anything they haven't got to be aggressive they can be just that little reigned back absolutely and see and go get to hour five and see where everyone is as in comes uh no me so out of uh sequence because didn't bernami come in after janae last time yeah but he's not now further up the the pecking order order yeah um and it was 71 by the way the af courser of berlini and beretta that was getting ping for the track limits is going to come out because this is a two-car two-car f2 driver i think he'll do a quad stint no good practice let's do it le mans that's meantime looking a bit further down the order karen chandok continues his recovery drive he's getting very much on the terms now with the lmp2 leaders uh it won't be that long before he's uh up there with the 13 rebellion now what's happened in the petrol class this has been a big turn around in that sebastian border who we know came in and didn't change tyres has taken the lead of that but nick heimfeld is now right on his tail with a slick shot car and danny watts who's also just got into the uh tracker has lost some time and fallen back so the lead that johnny cain had i mean now with it now in fact it's right on the tail as they go through onto the uh the infrared circuit is there the dome is looking to be hunted down by a nick hybrid this is this is something we would have seen a couple of years ago toro rosso and salva but now we're seeing bordeaux and highfield in prototypes in p1 and petrocars going down the start finish straight and i would expect that if hyper's got any sense to be diving in the inside into the source and this is uh the major difference between the the battle that nick would have been describing from formula one just a few years ago is this is a battle that actually matters and for a significant overall position uh but yeah uh headfelt he's got his bit between his teeth now this is uh dome judd wrote by the always the chrome racing car not really much he could have done at that stage back home very much more than that but not much really i don't think the crown racing car could have done at that position 208.333 meanwhile for the number one audi in pursuit of marching a who we still uses that pit stop 2.1 seconds that cost him in that first sector just just picking up a gt car at just the wrong time and he can't get much wronger than the entrance to o'rourke no she can't there's a much more wronger who took the half minute advantage is still on cut slicks whereas haifa has the full slicks bona nomi got out of the number four and ollie jarvis got in wow thank you pete marchman for spotting that and we've just picked it up on the timing and scoring here ben while trollier in the number one is the fastest of the hours but not yet up to the speed which we saw from mark ginay earlier mark may have stayed in the car now 47 laps say what is he three three after tom or throw three after um the trio car is he four later they got a big advantage it's going to be four or five by the time he comes this acts now he's just pitted now at the end of his lap 48 he'll lose the lead but if we ran green the whole time which is a big if this is probably a stop he's if he doesn't take tires he's not going to lose it by much he's taking time he is being laid out you can always tell though it would be about 30 be about 30 seconds they are slick tires by the way because they have been indeed mark does get out uh alan mcnish meanwhile goes uh through 20735 for allen 57 seconds behind trial uh now we're told loic duval's getting into that car and he's got a uh a big set of uh his feet to follow and nick heifer has got passed off camera he'll be past uh smashing board now he's the son of fastest middle sector and the fastest final sector for a 209-3 in fact no he's literally on his tail on his tail he's he gained back those two seconds he lost quite easily with his extra grip absolutely troy magnificent 206 472 fresh tires on the cuatro so the quattro takes the fast lap honours from the number three car which is about to leave the pits uh probably uh similarly behind when it came in 26 seconds back absolutely it's live it's world-class world championship endurance racing here at sport and it's fantastic to be able to see that as allen mcnish gets straight down a business in the number two audi now in third position he's going to be somewhere in the region of a two or five five yeah if he keeps this going he's done a 35 in a 56 9 in the first two sectors i'm predicting 45 minutes we're going to have a shower of rain which will last about 15 to 20 minutes as you see we wet then yeah can you tell by the way i'm standing very awkwardly for a second yeah danny watts meanwhile has taken over the striker car as alumnus does go through the 205.251 mystic john there you go that will go through that'll be he's puts him about 40 seconds now behind luke duvall [Music] so at the moment with luke devel uh now on his out lap aboard the number three car he's taking over from uh from the previous leader marching a it's uh one from three from two from four and a real battle really this is a battle for position jensen this is for fifth and it's bordean heidfeld back at it again the two koopas the dorm 102.5 from pescarolo and the lola with the toyota power and there's a lot of well there's all kinds of niggle and needle as far as these two are concerned comes high first i felt pits it was facial furniture against facial hair there for a moment and uh but why i don't quite know well this is the third stop for this car has he got a problem i i think that's out of it's gonna go back into the pits i think they're gonna push that car back and i'd say if only rebellion could get a bit of luck there's a spin reported there uh turn nine for the lmp2 class leader uh that is where is that your name no name corner and they run down towards that's one of the oddest things i've seen a car that's obviously completely on its game coming into the pit oh jimmy dawdy need to get john martinez class leader we just talked about how to spin and continue but what you saw there too was john martin retaking the lead in the class rebellion by now about eight seconds and that's uh that's the card felt back on his way again well that is bizarre i wonder whether or not gentlemen they picked up a slow puncture well you do have sensors on these cars now as you do on most premium road cars well there was there was as you said there was absolutely no issue with the car because he was challenging he's challenging for the position where has he dropped down to i think he only dropped out away it's only a 58 second stop oh no he actually only stopped seven so that's a splash of fuel on the attire as mcnish does a two or four two as predicted you fastest lap of the race for alan mcnish and he is now twenty one thirty one seconds behind louis de val and that makes him 54 seconds behind the leader holly jarvis putting the foot personal fastest times in that car four now it's on slick dance on a 207-6 uh been while traded at 206-4 but now 205.2 for ollie jarvis so again now we're dry there's not a lot of difference between the quattros and the ultras we're hearing uh from race control and indeed one or two of our listeners and viewers have picked it up as well that aston martin racing have formally retired the 97 major gearbox issue can't change it in time and get around to get that half point for turning up hello to this year's gt nissan gt academy graduate jan martin bro who's uh i'm the man about to disappear and pick his mum up from shopping that's not very racing international racing he can do it more quickly than any other man hang on but why is everyone picking we've got all he's picking up his kids he's picking up his mum at least mourinho's got out in his new bike push back on that spot it has got wider wheels than the front rims on each delta wing though it's the reason the reason i can't get obsessed about excited about push bikes because i know how bad the engine would be there you go we've just got the number one on the number two audi's last to last lap around four element issue 204 two four seven last lap around for buenos aires at 2 4 2 3 7 8 of a second 204 for loic duvall in the uh so they've now pushed the let's go faster but let's go 2004 but 204 but it's interesting again that the massive gap we saw when it was wet has gone and it's now you know you you begin to think if we had a very long dry race does this extra bit of fuel mileage actually come to an advantage well i mean it's got to be said i mean ollie jarvis did need to pick up his uh his pace because actually sebastian bourdain was reeling that gap back uh and uh we were going to be getting unless that uh that uh you know upping of the pace actually happened uh but you know potentially a bit of a challenge there that dome is flying flying dome flying down a little bit further back it's still it's john martin so he's still scrapping for that uh that lead that appears to be mainly decided by whoever makes the most mistakes or gets taken out by other cars absolutely right so we've got the aurica uh nissan the adr delta car as we watch again sahelia uh is that another another incident absolutely off by one for the first time cards the boots and jinyoung car that was john turning in um turning in and getting hit by uh sahila yuri um but again we've seen there's going to be a cottage industry in dive planes i'm afraid and oh that's john martin being hit or hitting the 67 car that's the uh gtm leader and the lmp2 leader coming together well everybody's pushed the mental but all of a sudden um as we seeing a number of incidents let's go back and board with the audi and have a look at this one that's john martin on the right hand side three class leaders again right together john and that is john martin for a penalty that was nonsense coming out of litcom there was no need to do that at all uh so yellow yari has spun away the lead and then decided to drive into people and he's actually now lost second place as a result of that and most of his car uh as the 35 car this is the the pink and black oak racing pescarolo comes back up to second place the place it held with maslanders do you know i just wonder if as it's getting dryer the prototype guys are getting bolder and all of a sudden we're seeing them losing any sense of propriety you see that's a lovely great piece of driving there from mark lee gave that prototype plenty of room prototype goes halfway down and then backs out of it so that's brendan hartley now aboard the murphy prototype soraka nissan and he'll be tippy-toeing around i suppose the other issue is we have a dry line but offline isn't and they're all on slicks so they are trying to stick as close as possible to dry line and be off it for as little time as possible it's very grippy here though even when it's dump you can use slicks if olly gavin says it's all right for slicks as long as there's no spray i'm believing him uh i think by the way gentlemen the jrm car has had a problem because that's uh karim chandok shown has actually been on his out lap but after a four minutes 37 stop they had a long stop yeah third of the way through the race gentlemen uh what have we learned so far not very much mark lee leads the gt pro category from giancarlo physically and that is something in the region of a 62 second gap at the moment in gte amateur category that's been laid at the moment by nicola armindo and i think he's got the better part of a lap hasn't he on matt griffin now up the second in the 81 car saw the two ferraris first and second in ella mp2 john martin back at the head of that afterlife spun away the lead and then spun away second place with contact john martin himself coming into side to side contact when he shouldn't have been alongside the leading class leading gta pro porsche sorry john but that was a really dumb move enema hanson in the 35 morgan in second place with the gap of something like 27 uh 30 41 15 seconds is that the boat right that's 15 seconds thank you and two seconds further back from that is simon dolan with a quick lap last time around in the zytek the 38 jordan card just down into the 213s when everyone ahead of him is at least a second or saw slower than that so julia i think he's in trouble john because he's been not laughing as quickly as he was before that clash through the bus stop uh is 218 last time around i think it was a similar time the time before that uh as we get danny watts being closed in the moment by nick hydefelt 208 though for danny last time around means he's fending off at the moment the ever closer attentions uh of heytvelt ahead of him meanwhile uh quick lapse at the front of the field 204-221 was the fastest slap in the race last time around for troll ua but it's uh devel this the next time around 203 787 the gap under 19 seconds between the one and the three audis the uh itron quattro leads the r18 ultra with anna manish a further what's that 30 seconds back uh with a 207 274 last time around for allen and bits of bodybuilder being rested someone's had a crash there's a greens that's the accent over as they pan out we're going to see a white p2 car have an issue whoa oh it's the whole front section of body work it is which car was that it's the whole front section of bodywork popped up when he was right in the aerodynamic uh gap in the uh vortex if you like behind my guess that is that that's a double whammy he's broken it in the previous instant and they're just gone at that point and ripped off could have been peak on that i think i think it is just he's pitted that was the pecan car and that will happen as a result of that contact well that's what happens so first of all he lost a bit of downforce and then he lost the rest of the car absolutely well there's i think but yeah it's what we say about sahih he he he impresses every time and then there's always there is the confirmation there is the confirmation now the worry here is whether the catchers have been messed about and and you can see that sahil is standing in the passenger side there pointing at the left hand catch and that might be more than just swapping of body work there guys i suspect that may well be the case uh team scrambling to actually assist driver change new tires ready but that's going to lease their worries at the moment as we watch the two different lotus delivery teams gte pro leader in mark lieb in the porsche was the first of the leading runners in that category in fact the first of any of the grand touring cars to come in last time as we go inside the second third of the race 15 seconds between first and second trillior to duvall and that's three seconds better part of taking out of the leader last time around by luis duvall in the number three audi audi's one three two and four leading with sea bass in the dorm in third place now and he is some 50 to 45 seconds behind ollie jarvis fifth place sorry john a fifth place that's a fourth yes and the uh the uh pecan car is in the garage yeah connectors being ripped uh plenty there's this clearly is some damage as well you might expect with something leaving in the car at that kind of speed rickard leads uh i think that was aboard the car i'm sure we saw mark luke get out it is indeed confirmed as rickard he's lost the lead physically will now lead until his pit stop yeah i tell you what that car stopped early last time but that's another good stop of 124 for the car saw audi sport one three two and four leads the pescara team the dorm in fifth place yes they're a lap away from the leader but only just but as i see it only 40 odd seconds behind alan mcnish then it's 51 seconds back with danny watts two seconds back to nick heidfeld a minute and 15 back to no 22 seconds back sorry 2 22 back to uh baguette and where are the other battles well things have opened up now simon dolan by the way open the third now i'm watching those times and the other the other card at the moment is lapping very quickly in olympia 2 is brendan hartley in the 48 uh uh murphy prototypes car is that a right right rear problem no left rear problem left for a puncture for the left wheel reel is gone for the 26 the g drive racing by signitec car that's ninth position overall tenth now because it's losing positions very rapidly indeed and that's harold primat at the wheel of that car and he's got a ways to come home yet that is coming down pierre rag isn't it from 26 carl yeah it is pierre excuse me yes i was looking at the car that was in ninth minute and he hadn't just stopped either so that wasn't like up at a pit stop that's been sitting there waiting to come off for laps guys we're gonna see i think a change in the lead before too much longer because uh luke develops just a 202.437 that's three seconds out of he's done well to steer off the wall there graham because that happened at no name corner now how's that happened well i'm looking to see that the nut is not on the end of the stub axle that's the first thing there's no bit of wheel left so it hasn't pulled the center out that's unusual but i have seen it happen before he's doing very well there keeper out the racing line and keep that car going get some reasonable pace exactly right get a look here anything on the hub no i don't think there was so that has popped oh my goodness mate and right round the outside the luxury racing ferrari has to go a very long way around i not sure which one of the luxury cars it is this is a great job though very well done indeed poppier rag there's something flicking on the end of that hub is there but it could just be the retaining pin not retaining itself yeah meanwhile elsewhere in lmp2 by the way i said about brendan hartley was tippy-toeing around in his out lap but he certainly isn't now and there's a significant point here to be made about the murphy prototypes team jody firth has been in that car he is their gentleman driver they now have brendan hartley and warren hughes to come and brendan at the moment is by far the quickest man in olympia 2 to 11 393 last time around to 11 before that and 212 the lap before that uh this car gents is going to be in contention for that uh that overall lead within a stint or so john martin has benefited significantly from the problems we've seen with uh uh saharari because he's actually got himself a nice 37 second lead in in p2 as we see the lead uh gap diminish even more it's come down a further one and a half seconds just ten and a half seconds now that ben when trolling leads low devel the uh quattro leads the ultra allen mcnish is a further 45 seconds back or so but on a 205 as well and ali jarvis half a minute behind allen sebas just a minute behind in the dome with behind dolly jarvis so over a lap behind the leader but his next target is a minute up the road he has uh 43 seconds over danny watts who's just a natch ahead of nick highfield could you look to the front of that cart there guys with those two big air intakes underneath the headlights we're talking about the 26 g drive by signatek g drive racing by signatec nissan there i wonder whether or not they're running at the lemon configuration sean i think they're allowed to run it here but only here aside from lemon i think that's a change from last year's rules oh look at that you nick you were spot on their nut was still on the wheel the wheel has pulled off over the top of the nook the nut that was really good eyes there mate that was uh i i didn't see that i looked very hard for it yari meanwhile rejoins or at least the card is not a yari of course anymore that is and he's falling out the top ten in that class a class that that car has led for a considerable chunk of the uh the first of the race race guys as we watch uh on screen now sebastian bourdain pressing on who's not suffered as much as i thought he would from his tyre choice because he's seen obviously however the extra stop which has pulled him back out of contention again heimfield now is is stuck behind or going the states because danny watts but that speed is a second and a half two seconds laps slower and that 30 seconds he gained and then the extra he's actually coming out spelling of roses from that decision when's our when's the show coming john i'll let you know in a moment hang on just looking here now at the gt battle meanwhile giancarlo physically of course leads he owes us a stop uh we saw the 77 car stopper rather earlier uh the gap there some 12 seconds but uh rickard leads a couple of seconds quicker last time around so that gap is closing it's a lot where the stagger unwinds that's a big lead for the people big league for the porsche meantime 204 dead from uh laura deval last time around brings the lead gap a gap big gap gap underneath 10 seconds for the first time in many a a mania lap with alan mcnish putting in a 203 623 uh behind but it's uh hybrid audi from diesel audi from hybrid audi from diesel audi at the moment you the question obviously yeah mario walker's favorite thing is catching is one thing in passing is another absolutely and it's whether you're allowed to pass another of course that's the third one that isn't actually in that list and i think that the closer we get to the end of the race uh the the uh the more likely that question is to actually come up in a quick team meeting perhaps off camera this time do we want to say first hybrid win the major motor race on monday's papers or not uh it's not though is it highway win hybrids have won other endurance races before takachi takachi uh toyota supra it would certainly be the first world championship yes let's not write their copy for them i think as it's a hybrid you go spin on sunday sell on monday you have to explain it it's not that funny but i'm just explaining to everyone that it was a flywheel unit uh magnificent's just done his own personal hot fast left with 203 six and pulled a second or so of develop but he's still going to find 45 44 just for 43 seconds down to seven last time around now uh and again we've had two games so mkhitaryan oh there's a problem there's there's uh it's a grm hit that's the 35 oh racing car uh that's the second place car in the class and that's hitting lewis paris company is just on his out lap so that was that was enemies yes it was lots of avoiding think there's further contact as a result of that we've not quite seen yet 1.8 seconds at the front there as uh low develop pulled it down 7.8 seconds a few cars we've lost some time in that first corner but no damage i think i think in that period this is four position six position overall height felt going around the outside of the hpd and making that stick outside pass on blanchima with a wet track offline that is someone in nick heinfeld who feels very comfy in that car absolutely just to tidy up that uh incident at the source at the first hairpin david enema at hanson being rather ambitious going down the inside and uh kneeling now do we think that was that was compensating at the end of his first lap just completed his first lap out i was just going to the source for the second time uh in fact sorry the first time wouldn't it be because he would have joined just absolutely correct and uh yes he was nailed so we'll have a look and see how luis uh i'm very surprised we haven't seen john martin ping for unnecessary contact yet yet well yes maybe this is still catching up the stewards have been quite busy today already yep that cost uh luis perez company some 20 seconds or so really that car is a definition of being in the walls isn't it really it's um it every everywhere it turns it's hitting someone or being hit by something absolutely magnetic perhaps the fourth first magnetic carbon fiber car nick highfielded his own personal fastest lap there when he went past any watts around the outside like buffalo girls as john likes to say 208 five he's 43 seconds is the gap he's now going to make up on sebastian board a fifth place ahead of him couple of good comments from the forum at radiolemon.com now was the nut still there on that wheel or was the mechanic spinning a new one on to check the thread we think the nut was still on thanks wardy for that uh i'd also with your puns spin on monday sell on monday uh did you just give them the curs of the commentator [Music] very good ollie jarvis is is also it looks like that the audi's are now trying to stretch their their lead a little bit they can all effectively do 204 205 and i don't think the petrol cars can do much better than 207 and a half of them a clear run so we are seeing that advantage so we've seen a slow level 212 from benoit yeah eight billion now we'll see whether or not team orders are actually in play because that car is going to lower develop is going to be with show you any moment now was that some lightning i saw john no it was a flashback over there okay i saw it as well sort of lightning it's just very small very small localized and causes red eye anyway so the battle really is we're about to get joined is for the lead which is remarkable because all of a sudden those lap times are going up have we got because 212 is 207 now from duvall is this my rain arriving i wonder just wondering we've got blue still from the other p ones 207 six nick highfield's fastest time so far 201 eight one danny what's his fastest b still lost half a second fell back in that petrol battle for second in the petrol class and for sixth overall virgin baguette is uh now not really gaining any more but how primer in the second of the rebellion is now beginning to look a bit quicker the 282 bit more feisty and there's number three and we'll see just just up ahead is the leader so we have both the cars in the same frame as the uh troyer car goes past one of the ferraris now both on slicks now of course full slick so we have a tron quattro versus ultra diesel uh fred macko by the way back aboard the 59 car that's something of a surprise uh that's uh very shallow out of it very short stint from from jimmy melo i wonder if jeremy winded himself when he went in sideways uh rick on leads by the way under five seconds back now from the class leader who still owes us that stop gently that's an unbelievable turnaround there for the porsche that has been a great run by leibnitz again and when we talk about the ultralight diesel by the way as their two audi's pick their way through the damaged car parts at turn one last source one point two seconds now the gap bertrand will get in the pit lane for uk after a long long long pit stop and oh so that was another car sorry that was the uh 24 24 car but then he's actually come in and go out and he's getting new tires and off he goes again and uh just to finish the thought of the audis we talked about as the ultra diesel the r18 ultra it is of course the same weight yes as the hybrid car uh despite the fact that the hybrid car has a effectively a 70 kilo to 70 and 90 kilo penalty for running the hybrid system it wears heavier they've ballasted the other car up into the same into the middle of the weight yes 900 now is it 920. always moving around and now literally nose to tail are the leaders the one and the two so the one the three is the hybrid from the ultra troye from duvall duval course in his first uh competitive race for audi uh a refugee from the emergency come on finish your thought i'll start a different one he thinks about that one uh we've seen that change happen in gt because uh physically has brought the 51 af quarter ferrari in for his second routine pit stop rickard leads there uh goes away into the lead now uh the the lead the 77 car held before their earlier rather out of sequence we think pit stop the intro my guess is that perhaps that's our choice wasn't working the way they thought it should but the pace since then has been pretty stunning ollie jarvis meanwhile in fourth position does the fastest lap of the number four rit r18 ultras race thus far and now 30 seconds dead behind uh third place alan mcnish those first two cars are now pacing themselves it's uh just like that it didn't work there's a smile there from uh from john's they found maybe wrong about something which is quite likely um in fact it's a slight gain there for duval but duvall and uh andrea now are effectively in the same frame they know what's going on they're attacking the same bit of a traffic and having the same problems that needs to get past there before uh oh rouge will lose a fistful of time but now he's caught him he's made his point is he allowed to do anything else there you go jimmy bruni uh leaves the pit support the 51 car but uh i think that car is going to be getting closed in reasonably quickly by fred michael vicki putting in the fastest time of the the race in the third place 59 luxury racing 458 these cars by the way running 22nd 23rd 24th at the moment overall so getting in towards that top 20. top nine still filled at the moment by lmp1 cars with karin chundock still on this recovery drive back up through the field at this point now we're seeing um some some absolute pacing between the two hours they're sticking uh when you get to be within a second as you know you don't want to get any close in the second if you're not going to pass them because at that point you start getting heat gain you start getting tired extra tire wear and that's when the car starts to suffer from being in the aerodynamic wake of the car ahead and dope and these things have a massive aerodynamic weight so bell right trailer then not being my trolley hey new york development development we've done loads of races oh well right ah that's i've got it the wrong way around them all right but uh one thing we are seeing that's rather different from round one of the world endurance championship let's not forget this is a round of a world championship is uh if i recall correctly most of the uh attrition at sebring was lmp1 at the moment mostly attrition is lmp2 because there's been pretty remarkable reliability so far from what is quite a new looking bunch of cars all these audis are new the the uh both of the rebellions are the new 2012 spec cars in fairness 21 out of the 27 uh prototypes have effectively not had a problem of their own making i mean there was a problem with the iari that was hitting things or being hit by things but you know those cars have all done quite well there are issues down there obviously you say you've got the 24 morgan with la hey that's been in the pits for a while the normal job we've seen having problems you know but you know it's not a bad performance two and a half two dollars 20 minutes in oh no absolutely not especially as we've had so much niggerly contact i think that's absolutely right we've not had uh terribly much by the way substantial contact but a change to report at the moment as a class lead uh with the uh the 67 car the amazon performance map muk car has pitted uh that car handed over from nicholas on mind off a cracking stint from nicholas james for the lead here john on the way yeah and the seeing it from the onboard cameras louis duvall has a look down the inside of his teammate the flashing lights of doom there with the push to pass uh on the steering wheel but now the last time well not the last time i see it the only time that i've commentated on formula one for bernie ecclestone's tv channel i saw a pass like that that was i think two thousand i'd like to see that's one of the times i didn't want to be on board then you wanted to see the shot coming towards them and how they are interfacing with the three other cars because i think he could have got past and didn't that was the camera that was after after you claw because i don't want to to be too aggressive on my now aggressively isn't he chemistry it was a couple of gt cars one audi the lead audi two drivers left the second place added to drivers right and they are they are not even a car's length between them as they dive down the hill now i think duvall backed slightly out of that simply because he didn't have any room left to actually go around the car the the the the slower car without going onto the grass and that's not where you want to do that uh whereas trail uh meanwhile it actually threaded the needle and actually found a clear way through but that was a cracking piece of drive from both audi drivers there uh that could have been well either way drawn for despair couldn't it more traffic for ben trelu here to deal with as he heads to wars blonde shimon oh and it's a really bad news for duval on the 44 star works car which is back out on the circuit way back of course after that fire earlier on john but the 44 car it's uh put alicia back out in the car yeah and they've done 15 more laps than the last time that we spoke about it but there was some there is damage to lloyd duvall's car that he's lost one of the dive plus he goes through in the lead in the turn one and that was truly allowing him to go by there i think he seemed now this is interesting going down the hill with a new leader and that is louis duvall very interesting very odd because he shouldn't have been anywhere near him there should he so it has has the number one car picked up a problem there he was told to let him through i think and and he was told to let him through into the hairpin it was getting feisty and they said right with 228 with 220 in we haven't got to worry about it yet yeah so that is team orders there and you can see there's some damage on the front of the number one car as well on the left front that might explain why he's going off pace and he's looks to be picking up a little bit of understeer there and in fact he's reporting a tire issue remember we spoke to uh marcel fazler after qualifying and he and we said the car looks great but it looks understood yeah that's probably got with the car generally so you don't want to lose anything more and if they lose some dive the car is already not turning well that's the issue absolutely i may be wrong about that now i'm looking very closely again at the front of the number one car and maybe there isn't damage but he does have a lot of understeer through the medium and the faster corners it's interesting that is something which movable ballast which they would have in the ultra but not in the hybrid oh no no no you can actually start helping five six laps away from his pit uh pit window he's got the 69 6809 yeah he's got the worst combination of understeering and oversteer through the middle and out and ben trailer is try he's doing a great job just to keep that e-tron quattro on the circuit it is in desperate need of a new set of michelins so lauric de val's gone through and i want to have another look at this the dive planes as he comes past us he can actually look outside of course can't we as he comes by goes past the crown racing ferrari i think he's okay i mean uh sorry the trailer i think is fine we have a yellow flag at the moment turn 12 gentlemen that's uh there is no point to this question guys yeah the quattro fabulous extra power but surely extra tire wear as well or different tyre wear the fronts and the rears it's got it must be putting more energy through the front you know there must be an element where the are gonna wear slightly quicker well i was talking about how you can balance out your tire wear better in terms of your braking because you can balance out the braking and get a better braking and a more progressive braking on the front end issue on the circuit uh fine is uh the 40 car the race performance erica judd have made contact we're told at turn 12 we don't know whether or not there's a barrier another car at the moment we're seeing nothing more than what race director is telling us i thought he has rejoined the wrist performance car is what is number 40 yes what color is it it is white was that the car that really hit and not the star works guys it was definitely star wars 44 sebastian bourdain meanwhile has pitted from fifth in the 17 dome so that's going to mean that heifer who is getting quite rapidly on the uh he's going to take that position the car which was at that time was on a combination of cut slicks and it's a full service i would expect are we going to see uh mr minassian getting in the car i think we are i think it's about time must be his turn by now they've managed to find the uh solvent for the super glue i think it's the case because there's two guys guys i can see the second helmet in the in the pit so i think that is sea bass getting out i think that's right so now they've got a problem because their second drive was in the car and he's yeah we've got nick mines here what can you say quick nigg not not known as quick knit for so that's quick nick hyde felt quick nick minassian and uh quick window no am i not quick nick quick nick price girlfriend says it's not good so nick heidfeld goes up in the fifth position danny what's up in the sixth position and what's uh sticking with heidfelt just three seconds behind there's the view you wanted nick of the cars making that way through and i think you're right i think that deval had to think about it and then backed out of it in fairness trello was not as you said he threatened the needle yeah i think if that had been another manufacturer's car he'd have pushed it he wouldn't he absolutely but i think you're right trey got a much better round that looked like from that on the discretion the better part of valor there i think so but that's a good call because you couldn't really see it yeah he got that zip rather than getting bulked uh meantime uh in lmp2 we're talking about the potential pace of brendan hartley uh slightly slower lap that last time around for brendan as luke devel puts in the fastest first sector of the race uh overall but brendan up to fourth position in lmp2 now uh behind simon dolan who is doing a cracking job simon aboard yeah the 38 joe dakar 212 from simon last time around that's there and they're about the quickest in the class the interesting thing is we have nothing blue out there at the moment no no one is going faster than they can go except loic duval or jimmy bruno rather than that richard leach has done his fastest time but in p2 particularly even though some have made their their third stop they're not going quicker and that's uh a question is it because they've now put in some of the gentlemen drivers or has the trip track actually becomes a deteriorating game despite that it's not rained uh yeah well good theory let's see what luke devel can do on this lap his first lap clear of the challenge of traffic is ollie jarvis he's looking to make his way by past a couple of lower coupes ahead one of which is one of the uh old job is about to lap the man immediately behind him so he's just elected absolutely audi will have a lap the audi as a manufacturer will have a lap on the field which is a pretty good thing after two hours 28 minutes significant moment as on board with ollie jarvis coming down the camel street at the lift hut the lift he's not willing to let this one go is he he's going to push this one on heidfeld and heidfeld is flat trapped he's got the protection of a corvette on the inside heartfelt's going to hold it there at the end of the straight keeps the lap there he'll be hoping he is hope for a yellow flag right now now won't he but he's not going to be able to hold him off for very long now uh last time around it was olly jarvis with the 207 nick hardfeldt with a 209-1 no doubt in my mind there graham that ollie jarvis lifted off as he was coming over the brow at radion you don't have to be a hero at this point the race john a steaming number 13 comes into the pit lane that is harold prima sorry i'll give everybody a shot me earlier on when i looked at the wrong part of the timing screen and had him in a different car all together the lmp loop two leader b wall has actually uh pitted uh john martin in the pit lane uh as indeed was a second place car the 35 car and that should mean that uh if he doesn't lead it he's not gonna be far off it's simon dolan could could leave this this race i think that actually the jolly manager gets such a big advantage from the travails of other cars he may actually with the second place man dropping in as well he may actually go back out again in the lead in fact he's he's i think you're right three man's dropped behind him which is p1 who who was ninth overall uh ben martrell his own personal fastest lap at 204 204.0 uh about unfortunately a 203 flat for low development has got some speed back in the car but still significantly slower than uh duvall 204.9 for allen 207 after that huge amount of traffic rolly jarvis it you know it just seems that number three car is is seeing don't forget that was the car that which wasn't the fastest absolutely in qualifying so setup is everything and it's not about one that's not about it's about how you can actually make those that that fuel those tires last uh absolutely right nick we may be getting a bit of drizzle in the next few minutes looking at the radar and also at our spotters out on the circuit thanks to captain captain kiosk good to see you got here adam adam prescott he's had a story of his own as the 25 car with john martin gets a new set of boots the 48 car the oracle with brendan hartley the status car is actually now looking to be quite a solid bet it's uh got two very good drivers to run the rest of the time and there's a two six two ten six which is a sort of three to four seconds above the average you see a nose change for the leading p2 car contacts he's had a lot of contact hustling and don't forget neil delete you were right in fact graham and simon has gone through the leader p2 simon and sam hancock explored quietly somewhere in the pudding he's uh he's very sanguinous sam he'll be uh he'll probably just open a another can of pims couldn't start the this is looking very good for joe to sport it's looking very good indeed for zytek and also for murphy prototypes um this has been topsy-turvy times hasn't it in lmp2 as like devel puts in another fastest first sex for the race brendan hartley meanwhile a 210 698 another fastest lap for for that car so john martin's finally out of that what was the leading p2 car and tour graze has got in he's a gentleman driver and a 217 stops they lost about 27 to 30 seconds in that kerfuffle in the battle at the top of the timing screen for best petrol car heidfeld's still only four and a half seconds ahead of danny watts but it's been a bit somewhere between half a second and a second a lap on danny but he's not getting away that fast and uh this is the 26th car that was in that trouble with the rear wheel that is still actual problem yeah they are looking at the whole left rear hub that car has not moved has it since that uh problem iran bad lap for mcnisha 209 there which must have been traffic certainly through sector one so he's not making any impression on the leading two at all in this stint after a good couple of first laps all right we've just gone through another half an hour you're listening to live coverage here on radiolemon.com and the wec the fi wac site as well as our television syndicate all around the world it's john heindoff along with nick damon and graham goodwin so let's have a rundown of what's going on and we'll start in the gt amateur category grand touring amateur cars where it is at the moment it's the inter performance performance but mud card uh ahead of that in in that car at the moment john having taken the car over after a fantastic stance to start the race by nicolas armindo who had the car writing amongst the overall gt leaders for much of the first half hour 45 minutes that car's done its latest uh routine pit stop has regained the lead from the uh second place gtm car the 81 af courser car as the number one car pits from the second in second place now is that about right that is 67 laps surely maybe one lap early maybe nick dearman says between uh mouthfuls of a chocolate substance that i've just handed to him so that we didn't all do our chocolate pit stops together uh so that will put then alan mcnish when he comes past the line this time back up into second place at least for the time being well that's going to start a whole another another cycle of pit stop so before that happens let's quickly do this run down for you is that all that goes the number one he might not lose that position actually he comes back yeah he's gone through he's gone through to take that position just now i'm not sure you're gonna see the audi pop out you're absolutely right uh he's popped out by 10 15 cast lengths wow so gtr uh tony tony of ponz is uh leading for the 67 into matt mutt porsche he's got about a minute and three quarters on prairie giuseppe perezini in the 81 car who i who that's pierre who's just gone off in the luxury racing car fourth place in the arm and between them is perezini and roberti and they've got about a minute between those two that's the af course uh amateur car from the alms john guest car here this weekend from palo roberti in the second the amateur car from uh from proton uh in the gt pro category 22nd overall the porsche of rickard uh doing a fantastic job basically got almost a full pit stop ahead of jimmy bruni in second place in the 51 ferrari and fred macavicki now back it's only seven seconds away in third place in the gte pro category uh from jimmy bruni having taken over that car after jamie mello remember had that accident in p2 the [Music] the zytek of simon dolan has just come into the pits just coming to the pits it's about right i think in terms of time for uh their uh routine pit stop uh simon though held the lead up until that point from the 25 car had that long pit stop to replace uh the front body work tore graves at the wheel of the what had been the pole sitting adr delta motorsport car but uh been a bit in the woes hasn't it uh in the walls with a bit of contact for john martin and the opening stints for the 25 car 35 car at the moment uh this is the second of the racing pescarolos the pink and black car uh the moments in the uh hands of david heinemann hanson uh holds third ahead of brendan hartley in the murphy prototypes 48 car the uh orica nissan as we've got the number two car coming down allen mcnish coming down pit lane from third place and harassing the lmp2 car ahead of him uh looking to get uh is a star works car there pitting as alan comes down with the headlamps flashing brightly on the r18 um this is the r18 trunk quattro of course and he comes to a stop just about now so these are the short stops of course because they are now with double stint these tires now we're in full dry condition so we saw a 55 second stop from there trollier we'll see a tire only stop a very similar length from allen as well and i believe the same will happen when we see ollie jarvis and like developing the four and the three though again they will be several laps later those those they're getting a lot more egging out the diesels they have tyres waiting there they have a bit of a stare at the front of the car i think they just hit the fuel in it's only 58 liters of diesel have to go into the hybrids not particularly speedy off the line but that's about as uh cocky book as you can have those blue edge lights now go out as the main beams come on to prove that number two does have its lights working quickly as a huge phalanx of cars got the camel straight including our third place man only jarvis who's actually got past adam mcnish in that set of pit stops and don't forget that when the pit stops unwind audi lead the entire field by a lap yes good point uh interesting difference in strategy here in the comedy box as well as graham goodwin and i both took a mars bar where it was a snicker for a different compound i'm nuts so that's fair enough so danny watts has now dropped 10 seconds almost behind uh nick hydefield long pit stop for simon dollar no no minute and one that's okay he's back out again that's that's the tire only so that's that's a big gain over tor graves who did a complete uh driver change tires and had a problem with the nose change so i think that's only fuel i don't even think that's a toast no no tires nice it's a fuel loading stop so you're absolutely right um you can double sit these tires now we are in the situation we have a ferrari into nissan battle it's bruni against makavitsy mcafee in the luxury ferraris they go up throughout ruse and on the camel straight it's bru literally fizzy keller has no length at all any sort of toe and here's macavity coming to drive us right as they come in at the breaking point for likon or malmody depending on which track map you believe and that was easy as you like there and that's uh in fact that's because no it's that's frank no the 71 car is passed that was uh frederick going past the uh car of who's driving city one at the moment yes it hasn't got the little tricolore on the yellow shield who's got the car but he's only five or six seconds behind uh the bruny car so he's six and a half seconds behind yeah sorry about that dear viewer it's quite good pass though and it's pretty obvious that they got the luxury racing cars are handling better than the the air quarter cars at the moment uh also interesting you didn't hold him up and uh there might well have been an easy way to what we don't want to do is misidentify those two cars very much more than we did at sebring but so they didn't hold up uh pretty sporting stuff there from may of course uh there's a nickname fizzy keller keeps a weather eye on the screens from the pits tell me what's meanwhile these are pits after his latest routine stop so he's dropped down behind sebastian bourdain again so nick felt in that number 12 lola who's sort of out of sync like he had that odd minute long pit stop for a fiddle we don't know what actually happened down there now 27-1 that's his best time and i think probably from memory the best petrol time we've seen so far 207.1 uh board a lapping around the 2 9 2 11 time depending on traffic danny watts was uh but not far behind high first time a half second recording the lap he's just got in he'll have some nice new boots after one minute stewie he did a fuel no new boots after one minute stop so he now needs to go his second part of the seat and now start the the hard work of trying to get quick nick back in his sights again well in about 60 seconds time we'll have a good opportunity to see how the real running order is actually happening with lmp2 the cars as close to being in stride on uh on kind of pit sequencing because we're going to see them simon dylan about to complete his lap 66 so i realized that the last thing i just said is sebastian boardo stir in that car yes he is unless it's a timing era because um he's carried on going uh i kind of sworn that was bordeaux's helmet in the pit carriage we saw well might be wrong it's not always perfect the driver it would be a sensible thing to do it half and half wouldn't it if you could manage to do that um and you know there's the opportunity to do it here two drivers both pros do they like uninterrupted coverage of the fia world endurance championship uh live streaming pictures and audio radiolemon.com good to have you company as in comes the fourth of the four audis in third position at the moment just to confuse us ollie jarvis completes the cycle of pit stops for the uh well i was going to say class leading race leading oh they're going to take the nose off that car are they yeah just wanted to point out john we had just the fastest lap of the race so far for nick hydefield as he pits uh in the number 12 lola toyota 207.145 but harold primat in the 13 car back in ninth position does a 207 148 just three thousand slower than the uh recently x formula one driver in the other uh lola toyota uh i'll take that back they're not gonna take the noise off that car they were checking the windscreen wiper and that's why they pulled that off the screen i thought he was unfastening the catchers my mistake there as out goes ollie jarvis having steered aboard the number four car and it's just a 56 second stop so exactly the same times in the pit lane as alan mcnish and they actually showed a little the on board you heard the whispering on board was uh whispering allen mcnish then we see now going up to uh oh rouge in the number four car of volley jarvis but just prior that we have nish and they were just showing you that he had got back into that third place so the cars are back as they are like duval now has gone round and done four laps more than uh benoit trolley and still running now i just had a uh an email about the graves car what happened to them well down in 20th position and elton julian brings the 41 car into the pit lane and that puts them in four five six seven eight nine tenth in p2 and that was a good recovery drive milton julian after an early delay for the car spent some time in the garage and very solid driving deep melton to bring it back into if you like the lmp2 pack meanwhile simon dolan leads continues to lead that class in the 38 car up into the top 10 now for jota they're very similar zytec nissan uh simon just continues to laugh at a competitive pace 215.8 last time around his lap 67 uh slightly quicker by torque graves behind in the 25 uh adr delta oraka nissan but only slightly uh david hymer hansen in the 35 morgan judd meanwhile about the same pace again uh but meantime brendan hartley in that fourth place morgan uh sorry that fourth place uh murphy prototypes orica nissan is continuing continuing to take a couple of three seconds a lap out of the three cards ahead of him it's looking particularly good at the moment now i think for sebastian bourdain because when the stagger real minds in a second he's either gonna be right on nick hydefield's tail actually got past him now highfield is still slightly ahead but that lead is now diminished to just a couple of seconds four and a half seconds now between heifer and board both them running uh with uh used slick tyres so it's a a straight fight between the dome and the lola danny watts is a further 10 seconds back in hpd and then just to make it as we see the leader coming into the pits the leader pits on lap 72 he's done five laps more than the second place man he's already a quarter of a stop ahead and the worst comes to worst he's what gained what 12 seconds or 10 seconds of fuel flow absolutely if he stays aboard he was only he's in lap was only a 211 uh against a a flying lap of two or six so did he lose five seconds on that first bit of coming in so that's like a 206 an in-lap which is pretty impressive now still waiting for the diesel to go in and that's fuel only unless we watch the chasing car this is charlie ray's car was on the uh was on the second screen there was it not john yeah and he was just in underbreaking for the final chicane as duvall has already disappeared so it won't even get to see him as he comes down the start finish straight and into la source happen now trello on the brakes turns in right and he'll be looking in the distance to see if he can see the back of the three-car and he's off he's off now who is that i think that's a lotus or a rebellion his lotus feet it's a 32 car yes it is i thought for a moment that's kevin weider in the lotus he's just come out of the pits i thought for a moment that was an audi and he's going a wrong way against track as well it was the contact there i don't know i think he i he's just come out the pity guys i think himself i think he's watch it oh no he says he got the power in it spun away from him john what was he doing oh so far the right down there well he's lighter off on the rear left hand side that was on board with trello he was in the same place on the circuit as trello came round that's a car that was in ninth position in lmp2 now has he done any damage yeah there's damage to the left rear the bodywork is flapping around he's gonna have to be a little bit careful there just to make sure everything is still pointing in the right direction as through course magnificient jarvis meantime sister cop is halter has brought that into the pit lane in fifth position in p2 sixth session i think uh just as he pitted their job yes you're right but uh reasonably solid runs from that point from both the the kind of lotus uh lola judds but uh there we go we see weider there making his way slowly down the main straight pass by a couple of gt cars and that is i think that's where that is rickard leets leading the class and getting very close at the moment in the gt pro is fred mcavitz he's just 2.9 seconds behind uh jimmy brown he's he's half that gap over the last four or five laps brooney's trying to actually respond uh quick his first sector from bruny last time around but a quickest first sector and a quicker one-two from fred mackay vicki and he's taking tents out of him and on every sector just now the gap under three seconds what um variety of driver is fred makaviki now he is a gold driver yes he is called i think he drove everything in the world yes last year yes he's the only non-platinum driver in lmgte pro and he's the fastest one there in a ferrari at the moment by by a distance 222 557 for britney last summer round 221 259 for a car you have to say that should be absolutely identical coming down to uh three and a quarter hours to go allan mcnish is being fired up by telling him he's leading the green x challenge at the moment and uh clearly we have to do something about that the thing to point out as well those battling ferraris in second and third are somewhat 93 95 seconds back from rickard leets the one concern i've got john and there's contact again there that's the 13 of the 29 gulf racing middle east lola nissan the thing i've got some concern about from the 59 uh squad's point of view is why did they take jamie melo out of the car and is he fit to get back in it's a very good point he would have to do another stint you can't do more than four hours in total so that was quite odd i think there may well be he may well be he's feeling a bit battered and bruised after a bit of a dink into the tire barrier and we're now on board with the pescarolo judd with bertrand burghett number 15. if you're watching this i don't i think burton's view is slightly better than our camera view which is mostly fogged that makes it look i really hope so yeah it should be he's been counted down by the dome which i think he's going to put a lap on him isn't it so baguette's about to lose a lap within the petrol class to the dome which is behind him with that it's a white one yeah i saw a white car out of this blurry thing it's whatever dome but it's not right off the track from mcnish coming out of lycom heading downhill to rivage on board with him now let's have a listen to the cockpit sounds uh well we could have before we could do that but i'll i'll whack the sound up next time for those of you listening on radio lamont we can't affect the sound levels on audi tv or on any of our tv affiliates uh however here's pat with mcnish you can really hear the regen more than you hear the power coming on you can hear the region oh we've got the jwa carp that's the jwa velar uh gtam porsche uh off to drivers right and uh that car another way down there's got the two car off the circuit john that's mcnish mcnish has gone off at the bottom of the hill just before you come in to campus so that's the exit of feign and downhill into campus of stavalo as i still want to call now what happened here he breaks and turns in and the car just doesn't work the uh the car ahead of him squirrel badly as well i wonder whether or not this small down there because the car ahead of him under braking squirrel quite badly on the same line just understeered off there that was classic understeer off and is he gonna get he knows he's carrying on going so he's clean the tires up consternation in the uh the oak pit for some reason but uh that cost him seven seconds that little uh faux pas across the gravel the 55 car we're talking about uh that's joel camathias at the uh the uh wheel of the jwa vela car that was running sixth position in uh gtam but more significantly fourth in the wec gtm uh running joel a previous le mans series gt champion together with mark lieb as i recall i just wonder if we're getting a bit of dampness down there maybe that's what it was very odd wasn't it yeah all the times have gone brown boys there's not a single blue on these yeah well that's that's just what i was looking at i wonder if there's just a spec or two of rain at that that's about as far away from where we are as it can be and that is the direction that the weather normally comes from a lot our weather spotter says the rain has moved away a little bit as the wind is picked up from the opposite direction but of course there could be fluid down as graham says from another vehicle keeping an eye on the lead battle in olympia 2 at the moment so graves is beginning to make an impact on the advantage of simon dolan uh always unwise to do these things over a single lap but uh does seem to be biting into that advantage 22.5 seconds now the lead with the uh 35 oak uh further well 20 seconds or so back and brendan hartley is still making big inroads into the the advantage of the three cars ahead of him and with warren hughes still to come in that car brendan's got a big future if he decides to give up the f1 dream and come over to the sports cars he's been very very impressive don't forget the murphy cars had a stop and go penalties as well yes it has just started with the wrong driver you had what uh 30 seconds so that uh to that uh thing and that that girl would be a what a minute off the lead with as we say both pro drivers still to come they are of course one of the teams who's gonna have an amateur who would you know uh could more than happen at this level you're an amateur it's like but has pro trump been in the car since the start as well yep yes he has he's allowed because he's p1 so though question from jeff h16 jeff harris uh on at specu tournament is the dorm able to score privateer points for pescarulo i believe it is it's not a works entry is it it's not a works entry but it's not entered for the championship ah that's a good point because it's a one-off entry yeah good point we'll just race here and at le mans so i don't think it races for championship points now i'm trying to recall what the rule book says it can however am i right take championship points off cars that are behind it ah yeah i'm sorry that's we're beyond my provenance david brabham now in the uh the hpd car take away from karen chanduck since the start so karen did a part of three hours a long run but approaches make you want to get back he just didn't want to talk about the accident again just let me go i won't say anything so we have uh a slight calm i think before the next storm luke duvall is comfortably ahead in the ultra car we'll find out how comfortably within a few seconds when they're lapping last time around a second exactly quicker than his nearest rival who is best dean second ahead of benoit so that's a that's a comfortable leakage and he's also got several laps of fuel in hand alan who's obviously had a problem just going off we think on something because the car is understeer off rather than rather than mistake off at the bottom of the hill he's a long way further back probably a minute and a half back from the leader and olly jarvis is a fuse he's 11 seconds behind him a lap further back it is nick heidfeldt who is being rapidly caught by you know it's staying preconsistent now eight seconds to sebastian bourdain nick highford danny what's the further nine seconds back but that means that there are 17 seconds covering the top three petrol cars and bertrand baguette is also going reasonably well as we have a problem uh graham for one of the library competition car that that car at the moment john has been there and there abouts the wec lead in it's patrick bornhauser in that car is fourth position overall second in the wec uh gtm standings let's got that car back moving yeah we should see it oh and that was actually it was he was collected by a prototype well that was an audi there was a rebellion that was nick heidfeld i'm afraid that caused that one and that was the onboard shot from the audi that we saw uh from ben trellieway in fact what was that lacks should really constantinople the front of the petrol group then in fact it has it's then boarder is now just 1.4 seconds behind nick hydefield that's lost in the battle recovering from that's kind of half spin really wasn't it and recovery over the grass now what we've got to get the i'm sure all of the down in the pits all of the guys will be just trying to calm the drivers down a little bit as we're coming towards half distance in six and a half minutes time we'll give you a rundown of what's going on at that point it's world endurance championship round two from spot live and interrupted coverage thank you by the way for all the nice comments wherever you are in the world uh for what's been going on now is that that was a just a sorry frozen shot closing the screen i thought the cover had stopped we uh i think that corvette is carrying a bit of uh rebellion on its front splitter front right has damage absolutely oh dear that's a bit of a of an expressionist way to make the start finish for the uh is that a luxury luxury car behind i think actually that no it wasn't uh yes it was no it wasn't sorry well perhaps it is who knows um really the battle we need to be looking at though is slightly further up which is the uh board day in hinefield battle which is um now just two seconds behind a bit more corvette engine noise pawn here on the chemistry full revs coming up and as i said thank you for all the kind comments uh for those of you watching all around the world on the internet as well as many of you on various satellites and tv syndications don't forget radioalmond.com covering all the sessions uh in sound and qualifying and all of the races this year and sound and vision for the wec or live all three and all uninterrupted no ads no features just the racing which is of course what you want to see on the internet isn't it as this is lmp2 oak being caught by lmp1 oak the two gulf livered cars of the three-car team here this weekend john of just 167 cars in the race that have the gulf uh same colors on them it's teams the remaining 75 cars all in lotus livery yes it is quite remarkable how uh fashion uh not really fashioned with with the gulf delivery because that's been around for such a long time but how all of a sudden you see numbers of cars that pick up a similar type of livery for one reason or another whether it's marketing or whatever but there's a lot of black cars around at the moment yep and there's a lot of kills colored cars around in them no one's taking the plunge to be a lotus golfer have they no not yet no they are neatly neatly done there is uh using his loaf to get past his teammates he's stuck at his stick it dude dear idea you are a pan sorry and relax so bertie bertie breadstick he's gonna do three hours which is pretty impressive i'm told by uh ferrari engineer on twitter non-championship cars are invisible when points are rewarded so they can't take away points from champions you mean like 14 doing qualifying yes oh okay i'm not sure about that i'm gonna try and check that at the moment but i've read i've definitely read two laps to go for the orca on called detour as he said uh i've i know that there is a rule about it because i've read it so it's graham goodwin nick damon and i'm john hindorf this is spa i don't even notice this i've just noticed now myself but the four audi pit stops were so you're even getting interrupted by people on the track in front of us now 55 55 56 and 56 yes which is interesting because you would have thought that the two diesel cars periods would have taken slightly longer than bigger fuel tanks always assuming that you think they're using more or less fuel they're going to do more labs well you would think that wouldn't you but maybe the uh maybe the pure diesel cars are leaving more in the tank and could go even further well that is that is the point that that seems to bear out given the very slow fuel rate of uh diesel yeah they are the fill rates are the same aren't they yeah first the same they're obviously putting the same amount into each vehicle but the the diesels are getting a lap to two laps more from that amount and then you surprise you know the same weight i'm surprised uh news from the pit lane that it's a bent track rod on the 32 lawler coupe here of lordless racing which is the kevin wieder car that uh spun it's uh if you bet that against the wall and you defend itself no absolutely meanwhile what i think we're watching now is the coming battle here for second place in gte pro that back yeah that gap is still about 1.2 seconds but uh fred makavicky um i think he's actually allowed things to cool off for a lap or two and is now in full attack mode again albeit with the unwelcome sights of a gulf racing middle east car in the same shot and it is the 29 car we heard about captain chaos on the uh spectator banks any minute now it's gonna hit something or fall off or explode let's have a quick look who's aboard that now it is kokiri hara the japanese lady driver ex-british formula 3. she's going up the inside and does that without any major drama she did wait a while didn't she she did wait a while keiko i gather will be extremely pleased that we've not had the heavy rain that has been predicted so far not looking very forward very much to racing the rain whatever uh and now we've got uh one of the audiences the three car the leader between the two battling ferraris like duvall makes his way through and it's all it's battle battle restored here and makaviki certainly closer than he's been before and he has taken so far a better part of a second in fact more than a second out of that lead so far in two thirds of the lap [Music] motorsport you love it we love it together we live it radio le mans [Music] uh we've had a request for this and it is halfway through the wrist so let's do a race update for you live from spot this especially for at sean mp on twitter uh as we stand then with exactly three hours gone three to go in this time grace lloyd de vale of audi in the number three this is the ultra diesel leads it by six 11.66 two seconds from ben treluway in second place in the first of the e-tron quattros in third alan mcnish about to come around and complete his 80th lap to stay on the lead lap and he's eight seconds ahead of ollie jarvis in the number four addie the lead four audis have a lap on the rest of the field which is late in the petrol class if you will by the number 12 lola rebellion cooper with the toyota power by nick heidfeld at the moment he's got nine and a half seconds on sebastian bordeaux in the dome the 17 pescarollo in in sixth position danny watts is another six seconds behind in seventh overall uh in the 21 strata hpt with the honda power in p2 simon dolan leads for zytek and for georgia the 38th car has 28 seconds on tor graves who's behind the paul sitting 25 orica as well at the moment and he's got uh around about 20 seconds on uh enemies hanson in the third place in the orc morgan and brendan hartley's doing a great job he's another 30 yeah odd seconds behind in fourth position in the 48 orega in gt pro there's a great battle on the circuit at the moment between jimmy bruni and frank machiaviki and you're probably watching that on the screen at the moment i'm wondering why we're not talking about it we are honest i can see it uh and we will keep an eye on that it's ricard leitz uh who leads that battle by well country mile at the moment bruni in the 51 ferrari from machiavelli in the 79 are separated by not very much at all and in fourth place is andrea bertollini and just to round off this update with half of the race gun in the gte arm category it's still tony or pons in the imsamat mud porsche who leads it from paolo roberti but uh he's uh well over a minute ahead of paolo in the 88 porsche in second with pierre giuseppe perezzini in third in the 81 af courser card that he shares with among others matt griffin back to the action on the track there is your three hourly update with leuchtvar leading on lap number 81 by now 15 seconds uh john uh this uh gte pro battle for second firmly engaged but these guys can't get a clean crack at each other without an olympic are gonna get mixed up in it they've just had to deal with three faster cars coming through they've got another one closing quickly a sebastian board a in the dome is actually now closing on this pair but they're two lapping within half a second of each other at the moment this is jimmy bruni under attack from fred macavicky and here comes uh sebastian bourdain he threads the needle drafted get a draft fred oh he tried to did he's right he tried very much to do that watch up the right hand side or he cuts across early and very very high on the curb bruni using all of his experience he's feeling under pressure his job very much so very very much so and it's another coming-of-age uh drive from fred macko for luxury racing they could dearly do with uh with the points at very least from this they had a very poor sebring indeed both cars out very early on after the 59 car it actually led the gt race overall uh but uh he's tracking now uh let's face it one of the guys who's is actually seen as very much a yardstick of pace in gt racing and just as he does so guess what looks in his mirrors here's danny watts in the striker hpd all very nearly uh had to duck out of it there through pilon uh as danny came through on the inside he's now cleared bruny so now it's gonna be ferrari on for our reaction again as the lmp's clear and initially one of the uh during this verse kerfuffle uh danny watts has pulled quite a bit closer to uh the car of uh sebastian border and often another picture there that could well be that's an um so we are now seeing a battle for the place of second overall but the leading leading in pte and leading first and second gt am it's those porsches the pesky porsche is gonna be a lovely time today as fred looks to ease up as they go around the fast part of the bottom circuit before they come into the the what was the course the bus stop uh they all the they're all very wide there they're still holding some water behind the x at the edge of that curb as they come in now to break hard before the left and the right before start finish but another lap we led by uh g brewing these two cars are as close as you can get they're separated by the length of a half a car but the aerodynamic drought epidemic um gain is low and uh can fred now pop out into the source no you'll have to follow him through now you're only the very brave we're trying to do anything up the hill let's just remind uh people nick that uh the car doing the chasing here the third place car had a spin on the opening lap i had to come back from the very back of the field that's also been off the circuit and into the barrier yeah with jamie mello jimmy mello taking out that car early we don't quite know why yet but frank mcavicky put back in the car and that remains i think our concern about the attack of the 59 car here it's a two driver team jimmy bruni appears to have more straight line speed in that he's actually pulling out along the kemmel straight despite the fact that fred should have got a toe so they must have very slightly subtly different areas have they both got the the big holes in the front of the bonnets oh but not closed let's have a look next time around we see it because there is there's an insert that can go in there they've both closed the same configuration the front of the car by the look of it i'm not sure actually tends to be the case of course today of course we'll get uh the first stab at uh any tweaks here's on board with jimmy brownie head labs are flashing for a slow prototype ahead of him and that's one of the is that the launch that's not great driving i'm afraid by a very slow moving car wandering around in the middle of the track and change change your position and uh danny's giving the benefit of the flasher unit on the hpd at the moment uh i'm here sebastian i'm coming yesterday five seconds this lap well that was that was you know 11 12 seconds when i did the run down so this has been an awesome run by danny watts at 10-7 last time around with 13-4 and there's barely anything between them as they come down in the breaking area for the final chicken and the big white wheel that is the dorm 102.5 comes across the line and we're looking to our left to see that they've got traffic ahead of them one of them being the signatec 26 car the other one being a gulf racing middle east loneliness and here comes mcavicky he tries to run the outside this time into the bus stop that can't work not there yet will he get the cut back here as he gets the power on a fraction earlier closer than ever what's the gap going to be this time it's going to be uh sixteen hundreds absolutely amazing vicky throws the dummy to the outside but he's then gonna try and split it up he's done it brilliant stuff by fred mackey he threw the dummy to the outside and it's not often you force jimmy bruni in the mistake but you do and now danny watts does the same thing he gets position on the inside going into la come at the end of the kemmel street and that was that's very interesting because we were talking earlier on about the dorm being slippery down the tube exactly right and my guess is the dome must have been bought there by one or other or both of those lmp2 cars because that's exactly where here we go we can see it now and in fact it wasn't my guess is suffering slightly from something it's slightly down on power it's got a slight problem sebastian has been in it for three hours and eight minutes he's got a tired driver but no but he's he's lost a lot of time over the last four laps and relative time towards nick heidfeld he's lost that as well so the dome is going slow well done he going fast well no i mean danny is going fast but you don't know where they are in the tires who's got the newer tyres on as well they all have made a stop on the they're all on second stint in the tires uh but obviously how they wear them is a very good point john but they are second to none into this set of tyres uh the four audis have a lat lead uh at least on everyone else as we move into solidly into the second half of this afternoon's racing which reminds me almost check the football results uh and uh i i can't say enough about the uh simon dolan drive for zytec guys he's got 25 seconds of his life simon this one drive of his life he's been actually holding that gap actually very well indeed against tor graves is a gentleman driver too but of no little experience at this kind of level and uh this is by far the best driver i've seen from simon dolan and in fourth position in p2 in the 48 hour brandon hartley is the quickest of the top four or five cars he's taken about 10 to 15 seconds out of the advantage of the third placed oak in i would say about the last 10 or 15 minutes luik duvall leads the mortar race on 84 laps as out goes ah we're starting the next set of gt so he stops and it is the leader that makes the stop first now can he get out without losing his lead he might be able to do this here he's jude to come around any time now and crosses the line now in front of us and i think he's got out without losing the lead absolutely i think pretty easily there's basslinders fairly clearly ready to get back aboard and take over the wheel from the 35 car they know they're under threat from behind from the uh the uh the orica nissan of murphy prototypes and uh david heymar hansen uh will be one of the trio together with bass at le mans alex [Music] that is the second sorry the second and the fifth place cars in the class nearly getting together this from alex verts on twitter hello alex listening in at home i wish you were here and wish your car was here as well he just said does this tell us a story with ex-pers your driver's jeannie and duval leading in spa in an audi yes it tells us the story we you should have the pure shows here for starters well i think that's what he's seeing isn't he really it was only ever a uh uh associate poster was he via the um uh world of vodka but for how much longer well he obviously didn't have an offer as we know this year's drive for the person smoke from the back of the three car at the top of the hill uh you see that quite a lot when you go off and on again the um the optical loosens the code i was going to say khalid converters they don't have catalytic converters there have been particulate filters right tend to cycle themselves through the meantime mark leave is now back outside comes three seconds by the way the gap to fred mackey vicky who is a stop owes us a stop that uh mark lieber's already taken you're right uh down the pit lane rumbles the dome i think we will see nick monastery get in now next looking pretty boring we'll see a new set of boots and we will see whether this car is just suffering from fatigue of tyre and driver or he's actually now beginning to carry some issues but they did in fairness if this was a unless they're timing back from the end this came in at least five laps too late yep and uh we should have a competition i think at le mans to uh which quick nick is the quickest quick quicker quickest here's uh a guy who's certainly got call on that title nick minassian gets aboard second drive a different very different car since uh leaving the peugeot squad after driving at uh paul rickard for the sebastian racing we've actually said today of course our um yeah the the missing persons act of the uh witness the occasion of persia has had its final no no no you were on the grid yeah i was doing where they did monsanti now um you know the uh high interest that's come in the announcement i appreciate that number five motorsport though i didn't actually realize he wasn't he was available to listening to us early the weekend that must be it uh the big white wheeling to get its new tires and surely cpas getting out of that now he is out here and next turn bolted in there he goes with his sketch his wheels there he goes so now he has to try and uh make up for the time lost in those four or five laps where they went too long danny watts is doing some personal best and closing in actually uh under 13 seconds now the gap between heartfelt and watts this is a stellar stint again from danny watts again one of those drivers that if you had a race for your life one lap for your life danny watts thomas singer mcnish is not having a good session he's not managed to pull any if he actually lost 15 seconds since the stop to ollie jarvis i mean you can't look at individual laps because it gets traffic effective but the fact is he's less than 10 seconds ahead of olly jarvis um and a long long way behind ben martrollier who's who's consistently now between 15 and 18 seconds behind like davao there's uh sebastian boday feeding back to claude gilapan it's not growing on me i'm afraid i thought it might and is that simon it is simon dolan looking to get by the dome well he's on cold tires of course just out the pits and just into the raise for the first time behind an af course a pro car not which one it is and he's not being helped too much there actually that is the 71 car that they've just gone by that's andrea bertollini he's had a quiet race 71 car not really anything like close contention in a in a class that we've seen some very close racing good on summoned early sticking to the back of that uh that dome isn't he that dome's really not i think it's just his first flush of youth in this race i think he may well be suffering very slightly finally beginning i think then again perhaps john kerry right it could have been the greasy surface slash cold tires interface issue looking a bit more like it now the car looks quite hunkered down i think the the controver the the looks are interesting because it's left with kind of yeah 2008 2009 car it's got two thousand on headlamps and not the uh the triple decker leds were used to everyone else and so it looks kind of like quite small visually littered lit litters that's it this is a good word thank you i've got several words today slightly confused that we haven't so far seen the 35 car stop we saw um basslinders uh in the pick garage uh helmeted up what seemed like a couple of laps ago uh but uh david heyman hanson has gone back around again uh being reeled in about 14 seconds the gap between him and brendan hartley harold pre-manager stops in the p1 at the second 13 car uh rebellion lola that car has been traveling along quite happily obviously having to make up for these several stop-go pounds as you got yeah a while ago in the first hour actually nothing but high cloud on the radar for the next half an hour so i think we can see that the threat of a splash has possibly disappeared it's interesting though because looking out on the start finish line in front of us it's actually still damp in places there it is it is it's because it hasn't completely dried it's muggy that's why it's not it's a really strange turnaround for the weather forecast isn't it we expected solid rain throughout uh today and yesterday and it just hasn't emerged we've had sporadic very heavy rain indeed but generally speaking it's been that muggy sticky yucky it has not rained during the race it hasn't no it started horribly wet but it has not rained during the race actually just goes to show one thing about spa weather is don't try and predict spa weather absolutely the only thing that's predictable about spa weather is its unpredictable nature and nature being the orbit of word the leader is louis de valent with two hours and 45 minutes to go or thereabouts as the third place p2 car comes into the pit lane and that will promote for a moment at least the brendan hartley driven 48 origin into a podium position in p2 but it'll be a slightly tougher task now always we got to the three is that the three core circuit there for a moment now he just took a sharp one and i think actually right okay but uh brendan will have a slightly sharper task to actually it was fred mcvicky that went into the pits it was indeed and therefore he goes back down to third position because uh brendan's uh closest contender now is going to be paslindus he's being uh belted into the car now for his second stint tires for the oak the morgan oak and that i think was that a pecan car coming in as well there yes it was luis perez company from 19th overall and ninth in p2 and in fact that 35 car now the only car in the top six not powered by nissan wow that's a big turnaround from what we've been seeing earlier this week where we had all three engines in the top three or four at more or less every point in every session but all of a sudden it's a zytec powered sorry i said nissan powered zytek from two nissan powered oracas then the morgan judd then two further nissan powered uh oracas nick highfield has been called with a warning a driving standards warning that instance we saw a while ago where he took um the 50 lava competition car off the track i think correctly no that's just the first wall nothing will happen unless he does it again but that's the first boarding you've seen after a number of questionable moves though i'm very surprised that some of those have have passed without penalty i'm not one for throwing penalties all over the place but there have been some less than sensible drives up the inside by prototype drivers on other prototypes but especially on gt cars and i'm afraid the prototype guys have got to get used to being more patient i'm afraid so it's part of the game and uh and i'm afraid to just also great to finish off that thought if the stewards don't jump on it they will think it's okay to keep doing that quite correct we've seen this haven't we in formula one about driving standards that uh people coming in see the the errant moves of others and think that's normal um you know this is a big boy in big girls game and uh the end of the day you know a mistake or a bit of a fumble there can have pretty dramatic effects of we as we've seen in in pretty recent races meantime in gte by the way uh mark lee puts in the fastest lap of the 77 cars race to 221-733 some 12 seconds up the road at the moment from now second place to 51 af courser car calls fred mcavicky what happened the second place luxury cars pitted but bear in mind that uh the af quarter car still owes us a pit stop to get back onto the same footing if you like as the leading porsche it's looking very good for the 77 crew certainly is we are uh minutes away now from the next rotation of audi stops i expect the number one car to be in in the next lap and lap nines you're late at 91 with either that lap or the following wet we'll see the car too and a bit of a gap before the four and then anything up to five laps after approximately six laps now we'll see like davao in uh if they're all playing everything straight batted they're not trying to uh manipulate anything uh but he has had a nice stint in this this his second scene is netted him an 18-second lead uh mcnish really not had a good one virtually lapped back now or certainly that's the uh confirmation of what we've seen on the screens now good news for the uh dome squad the pesquela team dome squad is it nick minassian is up to speed has done the fastest lap of that car's race at 209 299 the bad news for them is that both nick heidfeld and only watts and the 208s uh the last time around although both have gone slightly slower this time uh danny watts now within 13 seconds of nick hydefelt for fifth position overall and this is actually guys been a pretty decent petrol fuel battle for the lower positions it certainly isn't it's by no means over because you're not even a minor mistake ahead at the moment you are just literally clicking the laps waiting for the last hour see where we are and if you're 12 seconds behind or seven seconds behind you're right in with it let's have a quick look what's going on in the gtm class uh that's still led at the moment by that 67 car it's still the two elms guest cars one two the 67 himself performance porsche ahead of the uh af courser uh ferrari the 81 car with palo roberti at the moment at the wheel of the 88 in the pits at the moment in the pits of the moment the 88 uh filled my proton porsche the car that won at sebring a couple of points coming in on at spec team and at radio le mans uh tinvek 2005 kevin yoon says i really like the dumb it looks okay and we're looking better with a decent paint job but i love the retro feel of the group c style lights and stratos arrow yellow whales uh wicked racer bill says shark fin makes the cars look like the billboard trail as you see on the highways i can't disagree with that and uh a stop-and-go penalty for causing the collision collision that was in bus stop wasn't it i suspect that was from some little while ago there was some side to side contact was there not in the bus stop nice you're right but that was with fredbackervicky i thought when we saw the car nipping off that we've not been interested in the replay they got that one because i don't remember i'm not seeing car 3 having much damage so that'd be interesting it's okay and i've got to say i thought that was the prototypes fault when we saw that i'm not sure we've seen that clip the clip we saw a minute ago was the prototype of fred mcafee to the other luxury races so i'm not sure i'm sure the boys will be spawning through the evs right now trying to find the instance so we'll get replayed a second uh it is frankly monty calvo who's at the wheel of that car at the moment i think lying fourth at the moment john in uh maybe fifth in uh gte ham that's uh that's a quick look as the screen clears for us and indeed that car is fifth and that uh may not lose to place still not be happy though will they no particularly if they feel they got nailed by an audi meanwhile goes quicker again so into the tour eight the first time for the dome still in that seventh position looming large and very white i wonder if they consider putting pescarila green wheels on that car well there's this wing mirrors of course pescarula green wing marissa let's let's go on board with uh alan mcnation have a listen to this a tron quattro uh did a cappello in his new helmet according to pete marchman looks like an x-wing fighter pilot with that new silver and white may the force be with him i'm not sure i disagree with that maybe the fourth was yesterday john uh may the fourth was it yeah all right sorry yeah but can he hit fault rats with the t10 at 200 meters is a big question now interestingly uh we're now yeah we are they have come on and they've just stretched it slightly to 91 for the uh second place car the car won this should be um a full service tyres and driver uh troyer will get out and marcel fazla will get in the car uh i think i've just seen john a tweet from someone implying that uh people in the usa cannot see this on tv i believe i'm right and saying you can see it online no no that's no no the point is if you follow the conversation uh there's well over 7 000 people been watching it on the fia site uh so far and that is a whole lot of americans uh watching it and understanding complete incredulity that there's no ads bricks or features in an internet uh feed as we were talking about earlier right at the point sorry isn't that the point so are they disappointed that they actually wanted a kind of ambulance chasing lawyer or some prescription foundation or exactly means we all have me jealous hit you castle car 29 please call us now uh meantime nicki minaj is i think a third consecutive fastest lap for that car as both cars ahead of him nick hydefelt and danny watts are on pit road at the same time of course if it was may the fourth be with you yesterday today's revenge of the fifth oh dear and eight not mine when you change drivers and do tires 121 that's pretty quick actually very quick that's 25 seconds for four tires with one bloke dancing stupidly right meantime it's all oh no as well sorry so they've defeated the same lap because mcnish is that far behind um jarvis will go past um but he will get stack around wines they're both coming on their lap 91. so then uh p2 meanwhile summon dolan pits uh we've not seen whether or not someone's going to stay aboard but that's a fantastic extent from simon pitts from the lead for jota in their zytek nissan baselines meanwhile has gone up to third position because the murphy prototypes car after a really good stint from brendan hartley has pitted to hand over the 48 car to warren hughes oh this is an accident between the crown racing ferrari that last horse and the p-com racing 49 car that's uh perez company now i'm not sure who is in the 57 it is it is the two team owners luis perez compact in the 49 car tracy cron and now yellow be careful when he goes out there because they'll get upset with the uh that so the both of those cars are not moving that's mainly a safety car john it's a very slow part of the circle i think that people can get inside now someone needs to push cron backwards that's what you need to do a problem alan mcnish out of the number two audi gets into the warmth and dry of the audi hood now see here what happened here alan mcnish was trying to draw attention of the team he's got some problems with the wheel i think he said oh my goodness mate perez compact that was absolutely brain dead move uh and poetry crone would not have normally hit him there not really sure what else to the corner cars either side of it this is a safety car can they it's got to be safety cars they can get how annoying if they could get a safety car some vehicle to pull perez compact backwards it's uh stiffy car is being told to stand by we could be going full course caution and the audi's have just pinned it well they haven't the the hybrids just pitted neither the diesels are pitted yet who's putting it in p2 well it was just a flurry so tom hancock who's got barak aboard the jota car bus landers has just got into that car warren you just took it into that car the 25 car hasn't pitted yeah and he's only got six seconds he needs to get in as quick it's a full course caution now full course caution now so unusual that this happens in european racing 232 to go and we are full course caution it's not pointing the wheel he said he's got a problem with something and i didn't hear what he said on the track is that where the warning lights are for the hybrid he's pointing to the top of the car john now the safety car the circuit is under safety car procedures the annoying thing about this is it'll take two seconds to get that done under full course caution and several a couple of three laps at least safe car one has picked up the 25 car or the leading mp2 with tour graves on board yup i'm not sure what the other safety cars picked up now meantime my guess is that's going to be bad news indeed for the 25 car because that means that sam hancock is right behind him on track and bit further back we've got bus linders with warren hughes right behind him for third place now the question is are fazler and duval behind the same safety car polly jarvis right behind fazler as it stands they may well not gain or lose out this if they're behind different safety cars then it will be pretty much honest neutral between duval and faster slight advantage to faster will be from that one alan mcnish still clearly quite aerated about something so this is going to be a quickie a quickie safety car because as soon as those are gone car four comes in uh that's olly jarvis that's a couple laps early he's coming in like 93 you would expect him on 94. now whether they pull uh loic and another 94 which is early ago i don't know but you see where they decided better they've cleared the construction tom kimber smith uh who is at tks77 says he's enjoying our coverage here but uh the youngster is trying to make me much toy story but i'm winning the battle at the moment and on the din door capello helmets sam collins says i think the new helmet is more tie fighter than x-wing and by the way audi hospitality is like the death star canteen it's a and actually ralph youtube he's a big eddie izzard there you go um bruni meanwhile in and out of the pits um as the safety car continues and as he came out the pits it's one minute and 27 the gap uh behind mark lieb for the still at the moment shown as being second placed that will be a game of course he's picked up i think so he's effectively a lap and he's going to be in a minute without a time has got back in the 59 car in has come that's still a car full of jobs so that's still on it's normal and perhaps a lap early but nothing much tell you what's good for him boys well depends on where is he gonna come out is he going to come out in front of behind alan well he'll have to stop and while the other safety car comes around because remember its default position here is light red it goes light green when the safety car train has passed now when the uh the safety card we've got there the uh first and second placed cars in lmp2 behind their no nose to tail behind the safety gear they are behind behind behind the second safety car i think and therefore is held at the exit we've got the third fourth placed lmp2 cars and the grm hpd in line of stern uh about 90 seconds behind and there's the start of the queue the lineup at the end so it appears then that it hasn't changed from the ilmcgs default position on the pit exit lights is red under safety car which is why it's very very dangerous to come in under two or multiple safety car periods only when the whole of the train has gone by will it go green to allow the cars that are waiting there to go out and then it will immediately turn back to red again it's a silly sister it is a silly sister but i don't remember one they didn't actually get right at silverstone no because they did it the wrong way around uh but this is the way that it was meant to work it also means that uh johnny kane is gonna have nick manasian right behind so the car that has actually profited most from that safety car i would offer gentlemen is nicola prost who's got a better part of two minutes advantage we should be a minute when they get to speed again so he's basically got half a lap for three absolutely right uh that is the green light going on so everybody tools out who was waiting there and now it'll be back to red again so if anybody else comes into the pit lane duval has got a lap yes so he has absolutely gained because when you even he comes in does he stop he's going to come out 40 seconds ahead yeah now that audi number two has not got alan mcnish in it anymore it's got capello so dindor hasn't flicked his driver id president what he's pointing at right here we go then we've just gone down to two and a half hours uh safety cars uh lights will presumably go off next time i've got to work out who's going on this tour well it depends who's got the leader it'll be the other car not this one the other car's got the lmp2 leader who's got the wrestling it's a white car that's not the lea no no oh here comes the leader here comes the leader and that's what's confused me as lord chaval comes in now this is dangerous no he should be they obviously worked out he can get out and be at the back of the next line which will put him a half a lap ahead only if it doesn't go great well but the question is do they want him halfway john the question is do they want that car to win yeah i know i know we sound very cynical but it's interesting potential history of team sports it's a team sport there's potential history here if you were the audi marketing director would you like to win if they let him win i'm gonna incredibly respect the organization oh yeah yes i still playing this replay of alan shouting about no no this is something else something about a helmet or a head or the the they when they get on they never ah they haven't plugged in the radio lead they haven't plugged in the radio lead it's still on the velcro on his head and the radial lead will carry the driver id and that's why it still says and he has no radio communications and he has no radio communications as well back to live pictures and romantic matt is stalling got it going but he it doesn't matter because he's going to have to win it anyway at the end of this lap and uh how's that gonna work well the new leader is marcel fesler and the safety car will come in at the end of this lap so duval is going to lose the duval car with now um who does that just put in that car too much thank you it wasn't news he put him in yes lose the lead he'll lose the lead okay so big gainers uh are definitely uh nick prost who's third in the queue there what's wrong with this one ah no that's not what i expected to happen they pulled off the late safety car has pulled off halfway around the lap not what i expected to happen at all did they release the leader they were really why aren't they because everybody hasn't gone through yet this is the 41 car has spun and now they let them go there's a whole load of cars still coming that's the kill safety car no that's the only car that's coming there for the moment john was the uh the griez motorsport car which spawned in the bus stop that's not confusing well what's happened there and that's confused everybody is the car that had the lead train didn't come back to the start finish line it pulled off halfway around where did the other one pull off into the pit lane into the pit lane they pulled up at the same time well no it never works quite like that so it's that's been a big game for romero man has got a from here he was 16 seconds ahead uh i think you'll see though we will take a couple laps to really wind through yeah he's going to have something in the region of 40 seconds so we wait not quite he's not quite through sector one yet and fans there is so he's not got 35 seconds way around in the sector two now john so we're gonna wait i'm afraid to the end of this lap to see what the real uh gap is now there that's on board with the leader and he's coming down to no name corner well i think they were lucky there um presuming that uh that's what they expect i expected when it says the safety car comes in at the end of the lap that it would be the safety car with the lead group that would come in at the end of the lap not the next safety car across the line sam hancock sam hancock takes lead lmp2 on that uh first flying lap nicely done sam saw the zeitgeist back in after everyone has done four pit stops at the head of the p2 field david brabham meanwhile gets between basslinders and warren hughes in the battle for third and then warren hughes has done five stops but don't forget one of those was a drive-through it was indeed and the lead is up to 30 seconds so we've now got our first official time check so the lead is it's a after all that complications gain of about 12 seconds one of the lotuses i think is it oh that's cool that's that is a big biff that's uh the lotus that's a deranged rear wing that's a 31 car and that is murko shulsters i think that was his out lap yeah and he is in seventh eighth place in p2 18th overall not for much longer i don't think because that's uh that is going to have to be a pick caller yeah as here comes the leader roman dumas with two hours 22 minutes exactly as he crosses the line still to go here at the six hours of spot a four minute 38 lap for him that time around behind the safety car and that was a full lap for him uh out of the pit actually he wasn't it wasn't a full lap yeah so it was a pit stop and confirmed his car 31 involved in that incident uh been making his way back to the pits i'm sure now and he's pit stop of course was a 2 31 because he was sitting in the pit lane contrast that to marco bonognoni who was kept waiting three minutes and five after he's pitched up so he lost 30 seconds by being in the wrong place on the track with the two safety cars you can never make two safety cars work why don't people understand that what you've got to do is if you're gonna have the two safety cards fine withdraw the second one close the field up and then withdraw the first i know we've broken record but code 60. wow uh 28.6 seconds the the gap last time around but now the leader is stuck behind a huge gag of traffic including guess what it's a gulf middle east slovan nissan yeah he's also got mark lieb there i think isn't it yes it is that's the leader leader in p sorry gt um and still that goal for ace in middle east car is not letting the leader buy which of the cars is it can't see from this angle it'll be the rubbish one oh hang on that's both of them oh dear oh dear oh no see the problem is there's blue flags there and not everybody's watching and still not buying you can hardly miss that audi though can you well you can if you're not looking behind you that is true i think you'll find is the problem there i suspect that to be that is that you might be familiar the fastest middle sector of anybody i think he tries to to third section of anybody excuse me and he's battled to make up that half minute that he lost because the safety cars weren't running at the same speed last six seconds at least six seconds in that middle sector so this gap is going to close 21 seconds in indeed 21.7 seconds the lead gap as they cleared the second sector only four seconds between sam hancock and tor graves in first and second in p2 warren hughes meanwhile he's got about three seconds to make up on basslinders who's just been overtaken by david brabham as he makes his way through the p2 leading group and that puts the hpt the number 22 grm after all its problems back into the top dozen absolutely at 90 uh about seven laps down on the leader but uh about a minute to make up on the two leading lmp2 cars before we can get a top ten exclusively populated by mp1 cars again meantime guys the uh the lead gap in gt pro after all that shenanigans i think is coming down and i think it's coming down to something around a minute yeah they're definitely the uh the porsche's lost from that the the lead car massive accident right that's at the top of the hill at all rouge the driver's moving it's fine i think that's the grm car it is indeed and that then is david brabham he's getting out of the car on his own and he's lost the back end right in the middle and gone in front and sideways the tires have done their job the car has absorbed the energy david brabham's hand off the wheel he is moving around in the car he takes the steering wheel off with uh some derision there now is that that's not probably not helmet that's not perhaps helmet unless he's changed his helmet safety car has been deployed again that's not brad's helmet perhaps it's a blue and yellow helmet unless he's got a new one what driver walking away driver's shaking but shaking and probably stirred but the uh once again the old fashioned i know we say this so many times about absorbing energy that is well over 200 kilometers up the hill but the tyre barriers banded with those rub thick rubber bands what four five six old tires thick there and the arm core did not move at all that was displaced along the whole length of that tire wall area now just as that was happening john we had a very fast lap indeed for marco bonomi which has not been scored as the fastest lap i'm guessing because the track had just gone immediately to caution but it was a 202.215 from margaret bonani 203.465 manufacturer ahead of him that was a remarkably similar looking accident to jean christophe bouyon yeah in the coupe here level five car i i you can't see from what's left of the car accident we have seen many times there is a small bump but there is over that and the car goes light and can lose downforce that's not that's not the grm car that's not brabs in the grm car it's the norma isn't it is it the normal it doesn't it doesn't look like the enormous paint job but why would this that's that's been misa that was the car i thought it was when i first saw it and i called it before we saw the let's have a look perhaps in sector two so there you go are you absolutely right john that's the moment i'm sorry guys i i called it from what i could see what was that fairness so did the tv well i called it before the the uh the caption came up but that's not that car bravo has come into the pits interestingly perhaps perhaps his car is shown in the pits but i think that's the norma it's certainly not problem lisa sorry if you're listening if i worried you there for a moment but i think david has not had that accident who was in the norma then at that point that is a very big hit uh that was hayes brook yeah uh maybe it wasn't it is it's showing us that sean is stopped yeah yeah yeah it was his brook who's had a couple of incidents already so again put my hands up there i apologize was my immediate reaction to say that that was the grm car the black and red threw me out there's no nose or right hand side left on the car the car has held up very well to what was a very big bang indeed john and i was just gonna say but the passenger cell the driver area is has not had anything in uh insider and there is the grm car with david brabham in the pit lane in his very distinctive helmet yeah and uh my apologies to everybody who i scared the living what nuts out of now meanwhile where's that left us under the safety car that's left us with dinner capello with marco bonognomi right behind him uh johnny kane meanwhile has got uh let's do it let's do a run down while we've got it's uh 2 15 to go romantic mark leads by a minute and 25 seconds under safety car the second safety car of the afternoon from marcel fezler so it's audi ultra diesel from audi e-tron quattro then din do acapella in third place in the number two car and we're just waiting for that normal to be pulled away and it is the norma yeah thank you that has just been confirmed on the screen um again my apologies to everybody involved in grm there but there's not much left to that car the helmet of the driver the only thing that caused me to have a second look at that and i just wonder if something snapped or broke on that car in the middle of the corner uh third place didn't do capello who so right ahead of uh bonanomi in fourth and i mean right ahead i don't think you even think there's anything between them might be one car we'll keep an eye on that one jonas they come by us best of the petrol cars now on 96 laps with the leaders having completed 98 is nico prost from johnny kane on 95 laps so they've lost out there the strat has lost out although yes they have because johnny kane hasn't done his fifth pit stop yet uh nick minassian is right up behind johnny kane in seventh place the 17 dawn pescarolo he has only done four pit stops as well whereas nicole prost has done five dom creimer in the orc racing the 15 car the p1 car in eighth position on 95 laps and he's behind the safety car three minutes ahead of hal prima in the 13 lola let's have another look did something break at the left you know i think it might have yeah he broke it he snapped away before the apex didn't it uh and just to confirm john the safety guy that's just gone buyers has got the four and the sorry the two and the four uh audis uh nose to tail with johnny kane and nick menacion just behind that pair nose to tail going again sam hancock has the tiniest of leads over tour graves but now a lap of baz linders who is just ahead of warren hughes um and dave brabham difficult car entirely mark lee is on a mark libra's managed to be a different safety car ahead of jimmy bruni so he'll keep his mid or so lead yeah that worked out okay didn't it well they lost out the last one john they weren't lost from being almost lapped down to me didn't they so they lost him they did last one and they're gonna keep it then keep it as it is now for the uh the next run and they're looking inside this soda card that's the greaves motorsport car then we've got what must be the number one audi behind that car and i think that's the only r18 behind the second safety car guys i'm really sorry i misidentified that car here doing it when it doesn't mean anything and i'm really sorry if i've caused any unnecessary worry for anybody uh who has a contact with grm and particularly with david brabham uh obviously we we are effectively a community radio station for all them so my apologies with that uh and hopefully we got that put right as quick as we could i should say though john that uh driver from the norm was out quickly yes he had his feet and absolutely fine by the look of things yeah it was uh it was his brook wasn't it uh philippe here's a brook the uh frenchman the french silver driver's paired with uh philippe tyrion this weekend in the norma judge i have to say fingers crossed that uh bear in mind that is a pretty unique car that norma it's not very long until the mall is it and that car is due to be on the entry uh fingers crossed that that is recoverable it's back on a flatbed bed now a thai wall being attended to they are very good with their tower wall repairs here they remark what they can do as far and think i did notice though with the amount of water that come out all the time yes it's rolling down our rouge i think it's like a circumspect for a couple of laps when you go up the hill it's the wec pit lane marshall and i'm stands at the end of pit lane with uh the i think that was the 31 lotus the notices are having that's just how they're ready for its rear end yeah i mean they're having a bit of a um after a really quiet start from apart from the uh pit lane start they've had a bit of action over the last hour or so so we've been down through the p1 order p2 sam hancock for jota the 38 zytec nissan leads tour graves in the adr delta the 25 car the oregon nissan the morgan judd by sliders in the 35 car this is the black and pink of the two oak racing cars uh with warren hughes right behind him in the green livery the metallic green liveried murphy prototypes the 48 car and another oreo nissan uh then in the p2 order the next one up is the 45 car this is the butchers and junior racing another oricon so bastonbriere aboard that car with jordan tress on in another auricanessa and the 23 car the first of the cygnetek entered cars sixth position in that class seventh is the 28 car the car that we were describing should we put it that way the gulf racing middle east golf livered lola nissan coupe and then rounding out the top eight is the 41 car this is a car that's at his woes this is the grieves motorsport car and christian zougal at the wheel at the moment at the 41 zaitik so having just seen that uh first or second safety car line go by and you are indeed right there were three of the four leading cars in fact it's a car two from car four then behind them is karthi so roman dumaris very nearly now a lap ahead of the two teammates and he's half a lap ahead of marcel fazlov so what was a rapidly reducing 20-second lead has thanks the misfortune of the normal played right into the number three cars hands and roman demand the team there and the ultra team for audi uh and they're gonna have to start thinking pretty quickly how they're gonna get these hybrids to win in uh gtm by the way class we've not mentioned little wee while it's a porsche one two now it's a 67 card it's uh the first time we've actually seen i think that 88 car in those top two for quite some time because it's been the elms cars uh you know one and two but we've now got the 67 insta performance macbook car ahead of the 88 feldmeier proton car and then the 81 af course a ferrari with patrick bornhauser now fourth after that contra tom with uh nick heidfeld i just had this as an update uh posted on the midweek motorsport listeners collective at radiolemon.com on the forum uh from york bergmeister talking about uh tim burg myself had that huge and very scary looking accident uh in japan yesterday wasn't it um now these are uh york's works that they are uh trying to save the left lung and no damage to the head or the spinal cord we'll know how it will go in the next two weeks that's him talk about his brother uh tim york all of the bergmeister family and friends there's a huge amount of people listening to this and we are all sending lots of good wishes and hugs across to you and hopefully everything will turn out for the best uh fantastic set of people the bergmeisters and jorg and tim are good fellas and frankly even if they weren't we'd still send them good wishes but uh guys just to let you know that there's a lot of people uh who are watching and listening to this race who are thinking about you guys as well tim get well soon come and give us some hell at le man so this slight hiatus in the action gives us a chance to take our breath and i think uh just to take a a bit of a look back as the remnants of the norma comes back on the flatbed look back at the first uh four hours of this race and uh gentlemen what do we think graham goodwin dillysportscar.com uh we've we had a pretty gentle lead into this week it wasn't perhaps the most exciting as well the safety card being at this lap so i'll ask for some some quick comments uh well it's been predictably dominated by audi but there's been a great petrol fuel battle behind it john um you know we wait to see how this pans out with the diesels versus the the hybrids and it was pretty clear that in the worst the weather we've had the hybrids held a real performance advantage t12 is where the other car goes in okay i'm gonna stop talking because we've got the audi safety car now coming into bus stop and uh i tell you what the two audis behind it aren't giving themselves much of a gap remember you can't go by oh that's going to be very tight indeed as the audi s5 pulls off and he's followed into the pit lane by who murko schultz's was it oh and that's not a smart move unless they were desperate for that stop meantime romantic mart with uh fesler right up his tailpipes but of course a full lap beat no hang on a minute that's not that's that's that's uh dindo that's dinder leading the lime not confused at all now tinder third with mononomy fourth further back absolutely so dumat is closing uh well we think closing on those two to put the lap down as nick minassian pits he does stay aboard we expect him to stay we think in the car to the end of the race now that means johnny kane gets some respite because nick minaj was right with him but the other one to watch is the lmp2 lead because just behind the dome in that train with sam hancock with tor graves right behind him uh warren hughes meanwhile is less than half a second now behind bass line is for third right so it's all open it's all up for grabs and mp2 as well as with the audi order john right so this is the battle for third we've got it right thanks to the guys in the truck for putting the putting the captions up so that's dinder capello in third from uh marco bonognomi in fourth and they are just short of a lap a we're uh just short of going a lap back on the other two cars on the on the three car john because the the one car was actually in the second uh further half lap back so if you look behind as we get a longer shot uh you've got the two car from the four uh car then a couple of so they have to drop off the lead lap then uh no not yet no not yet they're about to if you knock three cars back when we get a long shot you'll see the three car looming large behind what i think is the adr delta car with sam hancock just ahead of him normally i'm not this bad at keeping up with this two safety cars just there's no need into the pit lane comes the 49 that's had it's travis of course that's uh that did lead of course to class early on uh john but it's way off now afternoon one of my tips for that i'm afraid i've probably cursed it by seeing in our preview program that was a tip for the championship that car well there you go it ran very hard it ran very well but unfortunately it's run very hard into other cars too often and uh it's well well off the pace now uh and here we go we've got uh that is uh the the uh third and fourth place cars with danny watts is the next car along behind then we've got uh sam hancock and then uh the leader the three car and he's managed to eke out something in the region of about a 50-second lead now uh over marcel faso perhaps 53 seconds uh based on the 26th he the big gainer from that second safety car was for amanda man who got an extra half minute of lead effectively over the other three audis so there's always weird always losers um in the petrol class it's still nick pross by a minute and six now from johnny kane who as uh we know with the dome uh starting the sequence of stops for the petrol cars is now a long way ahead of uh nick menacion um sam hancock's already pulled out a six second lead on tour graves uh just uh what i was just about to say something's happened here with warren hughes we're about to see it i think he's had contact uh he's lost four or five seconds um to baseliners in the second sector here and that may just have been traffic but sam hancock meanwhile has actually powered away at the front of the lmp2 field in that first flying lap he's put six seconds on him hasn't he on tour graves as we see now the uh the battle for third it's an audi internecine battle in some ways but one's an ultra and one's a uh uh quattro and certainly the if we've learned anything from this race it's when it's really wet you want to have the quattro you most certainly do now we're just learning it does appear that the cars are very similarly paced and you've got them set up properly the the ultras is fastest absolutely now at this point um if you were the audi team manager what would you do i'd be i think minded sporting considerations aside you're asking those two to the whole station spinner ferrari in the finals oh my goodness me that is the 71 that's the fourth place uh gte pro car he's had a bit of a another one has a busy day isn't it a very busy day that's allowed the gtm uh leader uh raymond narak now at the wheel of his car to uh move ahead it does appear that in basic raw pace in an ordinary dry situation the ultras are quicker than the hybrids now i'm sure that's because setup work needs to be done on the hybrids and you know it's a different thing and getting the actual maximum out of them but it does seem that the dry weather the the new ordinary car if you can call an r18 ordinary has the pace and then as you say the management audi has to decide what it's going to do about it i'd like to keep an eye as well on the pace of nokia prost at the moment so 2 14 last time around was a slow lap for him uh that's six seconds slower than the chasing johnny kane to the point where it's actually now a minute debt to the thousandth is the gap between our uh leading petrol cars fifth and sixth overall as marco bonomi nails what you've just said nick and puts in the fastest first sector of the race so far under 35 seconds for the first time the number four car 34.9 seconds and now right with what a tenth of a second the gap now between uh the uh number two uh itron uh quattro of dinder capello and marco polinomi in the four uh r18 ultra when it's happened before they asked the ultra to the the quattro to move aside for the ultra it's definitely a case where the two is holding up the four will they ask him well no the the ultra moved over for the quattro because they they were having it was the one car was having tire troubles yes he was asked to pull over at the at the hairpin the quattro moved over for the ultra yes that's what i said no you see the other ones all right sorry they're quite repulsive and that's what we're asking about again because the quattro is ahead of the ultra i think warren hughes is in trouble gentlemen he's just done a second slower lap at 219 it may be maybe a little bit of traffic but it's slow in most sectors slower than most sectors than the car ahead of him buzz linders uh 35 oak pescarolo let's see what happens as they complete this lap a 217 to a 213 for the car ahead meantime we saw ubeko schulte spinning the lotus lmp2 new rear wing section applied clip on clip off that's a new innovation for the 2012 car from lola in huntington and karen chanduk tweeting that he feels really good physically after the triple stint except that after about 45 minutes in he really really needed to use you don't do the johnny herbert thing when you're showing a car then johnny herbert just used to do it in the car uh and johnny or connell is the sim apparently it's fair enough really but is that why they've got this sign now wash your hands well you know it's it's not quite it's a single seater you can understand it you're showing it to the people it's slightly less social i'm not even going there i'm not even going with my seat insert here's my nappy looking little flushed sponsored by depends there you go uh roman demand meanwhile comes around 203 370 we're under two hours to go now four hours down 30 seconds stop go penalty meanwhile for car 38. no less than sam hancock that is indeed the same hancock car the leading car in p2 has got a 30 second stop go penalty now why ever has that happened yellows but yeah maybe or overtaking before the line yeah some sort of safety car oh dear oh [Music] all right let's have a quick rundown of what's going on as we move into the last hour and again as we're watching the action we'll last two hours excuse me uh we'll have a a start from the gt violation of articles stop and go 30 seconds for car 38 for speeding in the pit lane decision that would appear to be more than once they've done it perhaps jan luca deletes the amateur class does he in the 88 he seems to at the moment from no he doesn't because the 67 car is on the first screen 24th overall uh leads the gt arm category from uh the 88 car that i've just mentioned the 88 of jan luka roda by well over a minute and a half and matt griffin is full another minute or so behind that as we watch the number four of bonne nominee go past indoor cappella and there's ollie jarvis in good old teammates clearly there is a bit of needle within the the audi teams in the pro category of gte a minute and four seconds is the gap between mark lieb in the porsche and jimmy bruni now restored into second place in the 51 ferrari jamie mello has got back in the 59 p2 sam hancock's gonna have to stop for a stop and go and that will lose in the lead to tor graves it may not lose him though second place uh third place john uh it's gonna be very tight indeed but uh yep that's uh not good news for jota and uh ten seconds further back behind bazlinders who's a minute away from the top three is warren hughes back down to a 212 last time arriving up to speed it might well just therefore have been maybe a little bit of contact but certainly traffic replay of the change of position as bonner normie goes through to past indoor capello into the final corner in fairness dindor not making it too difficult moves across through that right-hander in comes bona nomi there is a difference in sound isn't it when they break down in the normal car the non-regen car all the clapping you might give there there was a definite second move to get out of the way there there was 202 936 for marcel fasler second position itron cuatro moves within 43 seconds of the leader against 205.8 for roman dumas um to make it look convincing is gonna have to chase him down at three seconds to lap for the rest of the race uh yes he is and he's got 43 seconds he is going quicker but at some point we're going to see uh the jota cart rumble down pit lane and then stop for some time so the moment looks like uh adr delta due to actually retake the lead of this lmp2 race and into the top ten as well of course uh for the first time second time and warren hughes beam while is now catching baseliners uh 210 581 from from warren the fastest outside seconds uh yeah absolutely fastest time so far for the murphy prototype team yeah when was the last time you think we had an irish run team in this kind of position in international sports car racing i'm not going to ask john but uh maybe we're gonna ask the collective but so all of a sudden we've got a fair irish contingent in sports car racing honestly i don't think we've had an irish entered team we have had in the lms because status finished on uh the podium at sir paul rickard in the european le mans series not but not in uh a world champion i agree yeah i agree but uh good to see got a great attitude to coming racing and i've certainly got the hurry up because uh warren's now just blue sected his first set of that uh and bath line has been told to go faster as well more on board from the pescara the good thing is they feed the camera on that i think they were telling him to richen that car up and he was certainly twiddling with dials as he came down the camel straight in the 15 or pastoral as we got all one uh af courser car making life difficult for another that's on the pro cast that is the 71 that is the olivia beretta driven car in fourth place in the pro category oh i'm just drifting a little wide olivier couldn't see which one the other one i'm guessing the other one was the 81 car all right oh we've got a snow prototype 24 on start finishers are going down the hill that's jack nicholas i think that is down the hill down there and i think there's a problem at the left rear of that car gents is scott moving again well maybe it was a control delete moment but he can't be going very slowly there he keeps well across to the left-hand side off the track in fact that's really heads-up driving straight there is a slow car on the left hand side of the endurance straight making it up to radio that is eduardo frittas by the way a number of people asked us who the voice of the race doc risk director is the former world touring car championship race director and i'm really loving hearing oh it's great what's going on it's a real level doesn't it just a little bit more inside information it's the kind of thing we know sports car fans absolutely lap up sam hancock meanwhile has taken that stop go penalty has rejoined the race he is in second position at the moment but he's now got the chasing pair of basslinders and warren hughes not quite breathing down his neck but they're getting closer and closer and closer he's got 12 seconds over baz and he's got 22 seconds over warren with one hour for two minutes to go warren now 10 seconds behind basslinders roman demand not playing the company game and now putting in a 203 in game faster this lap oh dear uh suggestion from pal warren martis p perhaps why did i didn't plug in the radios so he couldn't be asked to pull over and led by the dog well that's the car that they need to score points with of course well the the other cars don't exist either they're not entered so the points that matter yeah but that's got to be ahead of the fesler car yeah that is an absolute battle you're right but they are obviously two two-thirds of a lap down on that position aren't they so they've got it thanks to these safety cars so that one versus two battle will even itself up after the addition of the points from here and uh sebring just that pole yesterday marlon will keep them ahead i think yep as we wait for sam hancock to actually complete his outlap after taking that penalty meanwhile his uh his target or graves the end of the kimmel straight that's the difference it's 39 seconds and when tour gets out we've got robbie curtis no meantime uh buslinders now what 12 seconds back from uh sam but uh warren hughes he's got the hurry up he's closing in another second out of the advantage of bassliners ahead so to the end here we might well have ker hancock lindes hughes yeah yeah i think so that's something to savour isn't it and david brabham looking to make his way by all of them at some points perhaps has still got a very good chance of uh catching up with the back of the p1 field so which must be the aim off that rather unfortunate start where they started a lap down because they had to repair the damage that karun did on the out uh though carry made up for it with a good triple stint but uh just waiting to settle in attention to that that the the safety cars putting things up and building together and then the uh penalty for uh sam hankel has just kind of put everything into kind of a waiting pattern for a while now you can see us we're looking and seeing what's happening and watching it develop but we're very much at the calm before the storm i think after that sudden flurry of activity we had about half an hour ago you know and it's it's again they've got that variety still there it's oracas it's as it's judds and it's nissans and uh you know they've got different strings that just pass this racetrack john i love our listeners i really do listeners and viewers just had this in on twitter uh from and i've just lost it again give me a second uh uh jeff easterling at grim brothers one as we're watching uh 20 types 29 crores down the hill back in the wrong way direction it's not crawling down the hill it's rolling backwards uh quickly from just jeff eastley we were talking about irish cars he said irish cars best when experiencing a good draft very good and a quick history lesson from lawler a courtesy of sam smith how he says is he stranded now not believing what he's seeing from who's in the 29 now do i really have to see it thornhauser sorry sorry oh my goodness mate that was only these guys have got an entry to le mans aren't they two entries someone has got to have a word with this team because they're not safe it's not good enough neither them are safe on the track look what he's doing now he's pulled out right in front of a gte car let's pull it right in front of the lmp2 leader as well that's uh this is this is a poor show i'm afraid from golf racing uh 43 years ago this weekend the late great joe bonier shed a lawler t-70 with herbie muller to win the group four class here at spa now those were the deers there were some black and white pictures last night at the get-together to on a junk club plus r that were just so evocative i don't know if you saw some of the t70 pictures [Music] unbelievable how if the shirt had only been a slightly 17 sizes bigger that would have been underneath the shirt eve's only got a small handbag this weekend so we couldn't sneak one of them out how hard do we think that the audis are pushing number of people on the midweek motorsport listeners collective on the forum at radiolemon.com saying good reliability from the new audis and they are brand new but how hard is i think there's been elements where you're pushing very hard and i think it was noticeable how alan went nowhere in his stint allen is not going to sit around being fourth of the audis and he would have pushed to a level which was allowed to but he made no impression on any of the alleys around him that dropped back from uh the other ultra so the other hybrid um i'm not sure how much they got in their pockets they are effectively able to go four seconds faster than petrol and that's what they're doing most of the time so well some of the time and we're looking at two threes for the quickest car two sevens for the slowest of the four at the moment um one of the guys i think they can play they can play with uh with parts of their program here they've got some space here they've got strength in numbers and look at it all four cars are still running and running relatively uh you know unscathed 202 from the lead ultra car anything the ultra car can do the other three can do provide them well certain of that so whether they can do every stint because the way they wear the tyres where the weight distribution works out i don't know um we're in the engine situation of course where the cars are fastest when they're heaviest because obviously they get the fresh tyres every other stint but they've got a full thank you fuel um the qualifying time which we saw which was a 201.5 is certainly they could have gone quicker than that i think probably on a good day they could do two minutes flat yeah even in race trim uh i would tend to agree with you what we've got at the moment though is that none of the petrol cars can really make any kind of impact on any of those four uh certainly not anything over an individual lap i'll tell you what the other thing is about that intrigues me is this this uh fuel the diesel mileage that the guys are getting as we're watching on board with the 15 or pescaralo of dom by the way in a good drive so deserved it after a couple of great seasons in formula le mans absolutely as we've got him coming back past the griez motorsport car but it's it's certainly battle is well joined now in lmp2 and the two guys have actually got the their pedal to the metal at the moment sam hancock in second position after taking that penalty down into the two tens and 35 seconds back from the leading car the 25 edr delta car but warren hughes is continuing to actually bite into the advantage of basslinders it's about six and a half seconds under six and a half seconds now for third place so one two three four within a minute of each other as the 13 car uh with harold primette uh seeding the seat two who's that getting in hmm started it so multi's cross on top of the helmet so be um he's trying to work out very quickly now they've been he came free man in the car it's only a two-car team you got it better to drive a team car to drive a team i think the uh the interesting question is how many phone calls are being made to dr ulrich at the moment saying um uh is it all right the ordinary one wins oh that's was that smoke from the 49 cart i think it was it's all that's left to happen really isn't it a spectacular bluff where they dump oil over the entire track just what's left of that car haven't covered themselves in glory i'm afraid luis perez compounds one of the drivers there it is on the oh with that tyre no [Music] entire rubber damage damage on that car how could that have happened well that was the corner that he attacked with and there is the the answer and i'm sorry i have i have championed luis perez company front wheel is hanging on with a small piece of thread i've championed luis perez compound i thought he's been very good that was a very poor maneuver and it's going to cost them what would have been a good result graham and a car that should be challenging for the championship uh to agree uh the one thing i was just going to do yes yes yeah the yellow helmet yes sorry but it was perez compact who was in the car when he yeah when he t-boned uh t-bone tracy croom well um let's look what's going to happen here i think we're going to have pretty soon um sam hancock is now being caught by bus lineders but uh bus landing is being caught by warren hughes this is going to concertina beautifully i think in the next 10 15 20 minutes and i think we're going to have perhaps as good as a four-car no-till battle in lmp2 i think there's those three it looks like tor graze has made the most of that advantage of the uh stop and go penalty for speeding which was suffered by the car but anything happened next hour and 45 minutes uh absolutely right and the unsurprisingly the 49 car the p gun racing car goes into the garage well they've got the pace down now they need to get the racecraft absolutely right it's seriously very unusual you don't see those guys normally doing that sort of stuff um you know close um pierre cafe is a consumer professional ex-audi factory driver of course i think i don't think any any of this has been down to pierre cerie hari batted the thing around for the first session didn't we how many times he had a little nibble at someone nibble at someone else then the nose fell off he drove that car this type of car last year of course whereas the they've swapped over the other guys you're absolutely right just looking at the pictures we're seeing at the moment very clear the suspension's broken um spring into action it's been nudged so how many are we interested to know how many little individuals uh at least four mr perez compact have had two of which were quite major but there were two others where strikes were going and if these cars are strong you know well done and there's bass liners now comes to the pit so he's the first to fit of this section because while we have five pit stops from sam hancock one of those stop goes if bass comes in for the same duty as well don't forget that feels early but i may be wrong because safety cars can have that odd effect can't they but that feels a little early to me certainly yeah i was outside the safer cars are completely put off where we are warren hughes then first time then uh the uh murphy prototypes team up into a producing position one thing that has happened during that uh section of um stops we didn't really notice is that it really suffered luxury racing luxury racing who are on the tail of uh jimmy bruni uh for uh second in gte pro have dropped a minute and 13 back now jay mello so there's no real direct fight in gte pro they've all sort of been split by those safety cars on board with into acapella and okay right we're not going to stay with that which means i can ask this question from atford the cat on twitter it's tony walsh uh graham for you why are the rebellion lola toyotas in lotus livery and why aren't they called lotus um right here's a long long question the very strange one is that 12 in 12 words or less we've never actually seen this announced uh what i know is that there is uh is or at least was an arrangement in place for various parties behind rebellion to be involved commercially with various parties behind the lotus renault formula one team to do with marketing and supply also understand there is a wish for there to be a technical commitment with that between the uh between the lotus factory and rebellion moving forward but because of the change in ownership currently underway uh with with lotus group things i think have rather stalled and my guess would be that if you have to find a good way of explaining it is the retention of that livery is a good will gesture at the moment by rebellion i suppose we're not calling them are we not calling them the l word because that's not where they are i suppose nice delivery the car looks nice it's a marketing guy there's nothing wrong with the marketing i haven't got another sticker to replace that sticker why take it off you go if everyone's getting on breezy well as one of the two uh cars we've seen more than we needed to the 28 uh golf team voters and i genuinely would like to see someone put them on probation and say unless you can get these cars running competitively and safely at test day you're not coming for them on i i'll say this to try to be fair here i don't disagree with you but that car has actually been okay it's not set the world on fire but i think it's not selling mbl's on fire and i think the the 28 cars run reasonably reliably with reasonable pace it is at the moment running in seventh place in the class and i would i would say if we hadn't had all the problems with particularly jean-denis deleterious we wouldn't be being so hard on that car when we saw it holding somebody completely agree the 29 car i'll i'll say this now at sebring was a disgrace and here it's been more or less the same and on that front neck i 100 agree with you that the moment we do have a reserve it sits there at the moment ready to go um it's actually racing this weekend it's ready to go for the lemon test uh test day it's the other oddly enough lotus lola judd lmp2 and i think they perilously close to a meeting without coffee with the aco and of course it's in the aco's gift as to whether or not that offer of that entry is retained through testing beyond after test day they failed locked in you could take people out of it but you can't have to add anybody in uh that is the regulation the 32 uh low alerts 32 lotus will be at the test day and my guess would be um these guys better finish and better finish without any further major incident because otherwise anything could happen well we've been kicked out of one race and not particularly efficient in the second race to start you're causing danger i don't know you know it's not like they need the entry no anyway so seeing a gaggle of cars coming down we have one there's very lovely multiple prototype battles where you have uh both uh the one the p ones uh diesel the p1 petrol and two of the lmp2s they streak down the and uh him we actually actually was i think the the reasonably competent golf car was going past a uh a gt am car and we're now on board with the number one car of martial fazu second by about 40 seconds meantime the lmp2 leading car the 25 car has pitted torque graves another faster slap by sam hancock come on the fastest petrol up i've seen there from andrea leakey with new boots on two six five three seven excellent uh they they've probably i think they would say themselves the 13 car rather underperform this this this that's right absolutely but 206 537 sam hancock retakes the lead after taking that penalty um in lmp2 tor graves still shown in the pits uh warren hughes i think is gonna go through to second place here gentlemen go on that feels like quite a long pit stop well we'll see when he comes out baliki with the fastest first sector time backing up that last lap of a two or six five 24 car meanwhile in for a pit stop that car long delayed by a rear end rear end problem which is all of us that's uh 10th position in lmp2 which sounds like a long way down but a field that actually featured 18 cars it's midfield there's jack nicole who always drives respectfully quickly how you see and there is a perfect point nick you absolutely right jack niggerly will not make any pretensions other than the bean absolutely he's getting a top of a boil there into the back of that car no pretensions just have been anything else other than a gentleman driver yeah and yet when he had problems coming down to one of the you know he's come out the pit or he's had a problem coming out of the source he's coming down to auroug pulled right over the curbs all four wheels off to the track whilst he got himself sorted out and got the car running not a mistake by him a problem with the car maybe an oil warning light as we you know now are cut off or something like that that he's had to override but made sure that he was not putting himself in the situation where he could give someone else a problem right just grit and if you know due respect due respect to jacques he's not in the first flush of youth but if he can be as cognizant and courteous of his surroundings why can't they unless you use the word that actually is often used in an incorrect fashion here professional and professionally minded you don't have to be a pro driver to act professionally and he does that certainly yeah there's been i think pretty significant changes that are underway at the moment in lmp2 john and we'll wait for this to wind out as warren hughes actually takes the lead briefly in lmp2 uh because both the 48 and 38 cars are on pit lane just now so i think he's passed him in pit lane but uh but surely sam hancock will read you on first but i think what we've seen potentially is the is the 25 car fall behind have we yet i think robbie kerr is now currently seen as third but he's out on out and running so when he when the he comes around next time he'll go past hughes and hang up in the pit uh that was a 42 second lead prior to the stop uh i also just saw quite a slow lap from uh marcel two bad laps a ten and now and nine four and a nine so it may have been traffic it may have been tires going off but let's keep an eye i think over the next two or three minutes of what's going on in lmp2 we may be about to see the conclusive moves in that junior lmp class nice stop by audi marcel fesler down and gone that was uh fuel at a drinks bottle only that's that car that second stone was the buzzer in lap then uh question uh from the twitter uh ask sorry question uh from the forum at radiolemon.com how were the vets and crone doing well crone got hammered but tracy's back in the car again the vets are fourth and one of them i suspect is out the race and we've not seen why but that caused a 70 car that's been gone for some time these are the cars of course that finished second and third uh at sebring in gte am uh but fourth is the best of the the two at the moment patrick bourne house is still the wheel this was the car that got clanged of course by nick hydefelt is some 25 seconds behind matt griffin in the 81 uh gtm af corsa car and the other car that you were asking about slick is the 57 35th overall and seventh in class and now some nine laps off the class lead some of that and uh not insignificant part of that down to being attacked by louis louise uh now meanwhile as those pit stops wind out one thing that has occurred is we may just be about to see david brabham he's certainly up to 11th position he might just be starting to graze the top 10 for the first time in this race uh as the uh jrm car recovers back up the field after karen chandok's unfortunateness on uh on the formation lap uh but uh let's just have a quick look here still only eight laps off the lead yep so they haven't really tried anything else effectively well more yeah yes then they had more trouble after that didn't they so that's been a really really good drive back now the point i was going to make a little earlier uh is that we certainly know that the 25 cars lost time in the pits they had a near two-minute stop the car that uh torque graves brought in from the lead of lmp2 one minute 57 seconds to sam hancock's one minute uh 1.1 second sorry 61 seconds uh as opposed to three three seconds under two minutes warren hughes emerges after a 64-second stop uh so i think what's going on seconds behind sam hancock yeah i think sam hancock has just come around now and uh he leads lmp2 again after taking a 30-second stop go penalty not that long ago second place now uh some 42 seconds behind is that right nick yeah is warren hughes in the murphy prototypes aurica nissan and robbie kerr is third in the 25 car however only five seconds back guys i would say that though sam and warren stopped for fuel only the last time whereas robbie was a full-service chair and tires so he's something else as well by the look of it yeah so he will therefore theoretically have an advantage next time around but we have no idea where there's an odd number even when it stops to go racing have just told us if we've cursed the their run then we're off the christmas card list as in comes uh the number two of dindo cappello and whilst uh a new set of drinks bottles those very clever slotting drink spot the new uh date a recovery card that's the ac on the fia demand see the color coded drinks bottles that uh are custom made for audi by progressive motorsport at bradley pressurized very cleverly done it's got a dry brake system in that and even when mcnish ruled the cars ruled the car at le mans that system was uh intact and still working uh and worryingly full of whiskey interesting interesting this this is just coming our rebellion adding a flybridge uh system in one or two of their cars before season end as williams flybridge said they've signed up a two-car team no the answer is no they're not so who is then i can't tell you oh i can't you know yes i do there's a clue no but let's start with what does it start with tell tell john with his microphone off no no no i can't there's i don't believe at the moment that it is in trouble oh no that unusual that is so unlucky for nick mcnasty back up to speed john delete by looks of it i wonder if he's either control or delete or a quick quick spin perhaps um meantime uh the gt pro leader has had his latest pitch double of course is out of sequence with the ferraris the record leads uh now running second but less than 20 seconds back from jimmy bruno on the track 17 eyes now he's gaining bass i'm about to say that i thought it was all right now the slight delay john on this one yes yeah i think that's delayed slightly for us but uh rickard leads back into second she'd be pruning a lead to the class um but uh bruni willow as a stop uh which we've just seen from rickard and so the question really is what was the issue with the dome well apart from they couldn't rent it for years um the key thing is i mean he's absolutely absolutely up to full speed now there's nothing so you would you would say that it's likely we saw the recovery of a half spin maybe i think uh likely actually at that stage moving to the inside and certainly nothing nothing in the body language of that car to to indicate there's any further problem is there no meantime we can now give you kind of something more more conclusive in terms of where we currently stand with lmp2 uh 10th overall uh sam hancock again leads the class and what's been a topsy-turvy hour for the jota team a fantastic run from simon dolan sam hancock taking over the car the car being pinged for 30 seconds stop go that now leads the class by 25 seconds from warren hughes in the 48 murphy prototypes car the pair though we've got david brabham between them in the recovering jrm hpd and that car about 11 seconds behind salmon looking set pretty quickly i think to join the top 10 overall robbie kerr meanwhile is six seconds back from warren hughes lost a few tenths on the last uh the the last lap around and robbie kerr is fending off the uh quite close attention to bass liners meanwhile uh in the uh fourth place in lmp2 uh 35 oak racing uh morgan judd fifth is uh jordan tresson gt academy winner of course a couple of years back in the 23 cygnitech oregon nissan and then sixth is jack clark we're not said much about jack every this this weekend but in the 45 boots and genuine racing yellow flag here gentlemen yeah and there's a car being pushed it looks like it might be red and ferrari shaped car four comes in from third place into the pits the leader carries on uh it's not jamie melo because he's leaving the pizza right no it's not my apologies that was just a goggle of that is our show it's 23. that's jordan tresson that is john tresson in fifth position in p2 in the nissan signature behind and he's either hit the barriers or he's been hit from behind yellow flags well he's talking to the team by the sound of by the look of it now we're getting a good look at that jordan tress on the second graduate of the nissan gt academy which has just started and runs through to i think the 28th of this month there are eight brand new challenges for you to try to get yourself into the dubai 24 hours squad in january next year following in the footsteps of lucas jan martin brian height cutter and of course most famously having been in third on the podium they always lost it going into those dates oh yeah wow that's very odd i wonder if he just did he clattered the kerb on the inside there john lucas was the other name i was gonna mention i think the uh the battle in peter though is absolutely hotting off the moon robbie kerr took three seconds out of warren used for a second place overall in the last lap and he's just another 1.4 going up the hill so he's right with him now he's right with him now on board with the leader romantic mark as he starts to head down towards should come in this time or the next okay what do we think gentlemen e-tron victory first time out in a six hours or at le man in the 24. if they're only what are you making the most problem if it wins now they're gonna have to manipulate it because it's got the pace in the drive and there's unless it rains they're gonna have to manipulate the victory and they have to decide whether they want to do that or not uh great but given the fact that they're going to win they could well in le mans and they'll certainly win something because they'll win the races later in the season when there's only uh quattros there they drum pit lane gentlemen and robbie kerr up to second in olympia but i agree entirely absolutely with everything you say uh we're right well i think i'm making a decision i'd let them run i think that i think they're getting more by letting them run than not they're changing it around now but i am not a multi-millionaire multi-million employer and billion value german car company who knows marketing 10 million times better than me but if you think if you think well you know race my view as a marketing person and not as a racer i'd manipulate it because you don't know what you're going to get at that moment that's fine i remember criticizing persia extensively at the nurburgring a couple of years ago when they didn't swap around the two cars to give the car that was leading the championship the maximum points and what happened was that car then had a shunt at silverstone and despite the fact that they'd won everything up until then they lost lemon and they even managed to lose the championship to a team that had never won a race correct something very odd just happened with the timing i'm absolutely certain robbie kerr overtook uh warren hughes on track absolutely certain of it but uh it's not showing that it's shown that he he left the now it looks like it looks like robbie had a bad last sector because he ended up doing both doing 214 so possibly he went past and had to back out again maybe [Music] so there is the leader he's come out again a 54 second stop so we had a 54 535 and dindo's stop was it was 14 seconds longer did we see why that was uh no other than the fact they did replace a drinks bottle but that's all we saw did the drinks bottle and then you did that during the fuel stop they did the drinks bottle and the memory card for the seo fi did it not sure that number two car is in is in rude health actually i know it's going quite quickly but yeah it's yeah the edges are blurred blurred that's a very good way of putting it hour and 24 left to go and it's beginning to get quite dark outside the overcast has not changed that much for the last few hours but it's i i just see the headlights a lot more brightly shining from the left as i look across towards the uh middle part the exit of blanchima there's not really been a moment during this race john where you couldn't have imagined that we might get a shower any second now yeah so jordan trestle officially has stopped now they haven't managed to rescue him back at the pit yet i think he's in trouble in that gulf racing 28 cars gonna head uh on the road so we are gonna have to light up on twitter aren't we he's doing they're doing a stand-up job really in the in the numbers for a team that is fair enough yeah amateur enough is the wrong word not professional uh with their drivers compared to the very professional arts you've seen the people who does put the 28 car up into sixth position uh meantime that battle between warren hughes and uh robbie curry is again fully engaged uh it's what three seconds sam hancock uh running at a similar pace second slow that lap but we know it's evan flow at this point with traffic 123 you would think they'd still need two stops wouldn't you from when they stopped the wireless timeout pit stop uh okay 250 it was the pit stop okay so 54 seconds all right he looks like he ran five laps longer really so he's five laps ahead of where the second place carl fazler is and how much is that how many so how many is he doing how many laps he's doing we he lost the advantage during the stop but he's doing one lap more a run effectively he did two in the first and then he's been doing he can then do an extra one each run if he wants to so he's doing 23s lap stints and the other ones i think it's it they're both oscillating 22 and 23 and he's doing 24s but that means they can probably it's going to be 10. it's going to be 10 or 11 at the moment that's what you're looking at 10 or 11 at the moment well they're going to get they'll obviously be looking at ways of making it 11 if it's close it's a good moment for irish motorsport we've got uh warren hughes in the uh irish flagged murphy prototypes car second in lmp2 but matt griffin's just retaken second in gtam as the 88 car makes its latest uh routine pit stop is thraxton's finest uh gta driver thrapston's finest is he local yes believe it or not he drove from my house to do an interview when it's actually longer to drive than it needs to walk because you could just you don't have to follow the road around told me it was raining it's fair enough it was it was right it was really it's raining quite heavily but jordan meanwhile continues to drop down the field now i've been uh seated seventh place to the recovering grooves motorsport car ricardo gonzalez at the wheel of the 41 car now david brabham reeling in rapidly now sam hancock for that 10th position overall give me a neat look there's something scoring screen with all the people it's time for us to watch it far easier to do this when they mix the class up it just gets so messy but the um kind of rather topsy-turvy lap times between the second and third place cars warren hughes and robbie kerr seem to have stabilized and that gap still but three and a half seconds two and a half seconds yeah it looks like warren's uh appears to have um good laps and bad laps and whether he's nursing a problem he did see some some slight contact didn't we earlier on or whether he's just suffering more with traffic and we just happened to look up at the wrong moment which is possible you know you can look up we look up one lap it could be a hero look up another lap it looks awful more news on the potential for another hybrid car all lulas feature a void exactly the size of a flybridge cft curve system and uh says sam collins of risk car engineering at-risk our engineer and uh sorry if i muddied the waters rather flybrid is one company williams hybrid power are another they both make five flywheel hybrids but they are separate companies yep you get tend to get nasty emails if you say fliber to mean something else you mean like hoover uh no nastier than that all right really well you know what i mean reasonably pointlessly nasty actually try and give your teachers america that exists then no would be it would be nicer to actually have an explanation as to why but uh there you go uh nick we were talking about this earlier in the week uh dusky blog f1 says uh i thought all wlc endurance races ended on a sunday so why is the six-hour spa on saturday no it's uh they are looking at being intelligent and flexibly moving the dates around to best attract either people in the grandstands or tv audiences sunday is stunningly packed by running a race on saturday you get more chance of getting numbers but when we get to silverstone because silson traditionally wants to protect a crowd the race moves to sunday bahrain is currently programmed so brazil is programmed for a saturday as well and they want to go late into the night because that will work for tv they think and it yeah and then again we go to bahrain saturday because their weekend's different saturday again sorry sunday for fuji because that's the traditional race day for japan for the crowd and saturday for china for tv reasons they're actually thinking about which day of the weekend work better for those two combinations tv and crowd and package they're thinking about which has been a very interesting part of how things are evolving in recent weeks uh that you're actually getting spectators to the circuit that there's something to them to do when your little boys and girls and while i was actually getting a bit bored jeff carter who's the the head of medium pr for the series about these timings uh and he's saying that if you look at website it says two o'clock start for all these races a holding page there will be different start times which work best for each event and each country in from seventh position overall is nick minassian let's have a look and see whether or not there's attention to anything nick's shaking his head and that's another memory card being changed i just had a couple of people asking about uh straggler we haven't mentioned them for a while in p one bis in the petrol park still running sixth that's uh second in the petrol power class johnny keane aboard that at the moment two or nine one last time around took half a second or so out the neat or prost lost contact during the safety car period with the uh with the pros car the rebellions that car gained out of that as we see jordan tresson being pushed back under his own power he hasn't but that looks like that rear left is deranged like there's a suspension problem he pushed back on the track he'll recover to the pits now uh and hopefully i'll be able to repair it it's taking them a long time to do that hasn't it and uh pearl jordan has uh that's got some suspension he can't turn the front wheels he's blocked he can't turn that car left can he what's happened with that the rear wheels are deranged and i think there's a front there's a problem with the steering box i wonder if trying to steer away from that he's actually damaged the steering with the impact that's been in a long time i say for what should be a non-tyre change uh there is a problem with the day when i'm afraid that's that's spent too long in the pits shaking his head wasn't eating in there yes it is which is never a good thing or not moving enough to make a difference you can't do it they're telling him to turn the wheel he's uh explaining i'm sure in as clearly as he can i'm trying i'm trying but it's not going no lock it's got a flat tire it's a bit of a design in the pits oh dear oh dear what a shame not surprising we've been seeing things right at the back end of uh sebastian board's session run it began to look like it was getting tired um and now we've seen it probably my guess is it's it's electrical gearbox because it's got that kind of there's working no it's entry not partially blocked by car 23 this entry is partially blocked by car 23. they need to pull that car out the way and give up with it don't you i think so i mean they will try and get it back but i got a feeling if it gets halfway down that pit load which isn't very wide you could actually block the thing and that'd be a disaster that's it's not like uh gearbox meantime in the battle for second place and for that matter uh the battle for lmp2 honours uh warren hughes and robbie kerr continues lap quickly and last time to 11 338 for warren 211 339 for robbie uh so robbie lost a massive thousandth of a second on that's uh trying is he not really done brett now in the uh jrm car so he gets finally gets to go with an hour and 15 to go absolutely that's dropped that cookie might probably take that now i think so um but hopefully that where the next picks up he'll be moving to 10th though by that point the day will have dropped out so we won't get our lovely symmetry with graham it's but what that does do is we've got now the uh the oak up into seventh position actually having watched the last there's no real pace from the leaders anymore you know and i've not seen anything good recently i mean obviously we know there's traffic we've got the six six eight and ten from the four cars with the slowest that car 2 that's not happy um but i haven't seen anything quick for a long but the fastest lap was lap 54 we're now on lap 124 yep and it's the conditions are better than they were because it hasn't rained again so either the east back or the track actually is not as good as it looks but um if they run into a pace it means they can manipulate the result if they want to thanks to everybody who's been interacting with us either on twitter at spec your teammate or at radio le mans we've had a bump a crop of new people involved in this broadcast this weekend also at radiolamont.com on the forum and it's good to know that there's new people being brought in whether by friends the evangelical sort of arm of sports car racing of which uh we are all part it's the outreach group isn't it it's where it's where you lock the you lock the living room door with a bucket and four and six tins of beer you're not going anywhere missionary things there's a there's a few people who have said uh that uh there's been trouble at the house because they've been locked in either on television or on the uh or on the computer this weekend and it doesn't stop here for us regular on tomorrow another 12 another six hour race uh we'll have final practice at half past nine tomorrow morning uk time from the schneiderlin six hours and then pick off a couple of the support races before we do the six hours live and of course in two weeks time it's the nurburgring 24 and mere 200 cars starting that race and uh graham you've already memorized the entry list haven't you all of them by heart don't test me yet okay spoil the surprise yeah indeed and tune into that if you want to know the origin of the names of the corners yep yeah i can barely wait there'll be that'll be two of the 24 hours gone yes yes absolutely i must mean it's not often i'm actually quite think i'm quite pleased that i can just listen to you guys for that event that event just seems like too much light difficult it's the most fun i know but you guys don't forget are the ultimate sports car purists no and i'm a flippity knight flippity jibbity coming in from a single seat as many a few years ago significant change gentlemen has gone ahead of warren hughes uh warren though right with him 0.329 of a second when they came by so that means we've got uh nissan powered from this empire because the this is this this timing actually updates per sector not at the end of the night okay so that's happened in sector three yeah that's happened in sector three but robbie kerr for uh the adr delta team who did lead the class until a bit of a clash earlier on as getting back on the terms now uh certainly back up into the podium positions as here comes jordan dress on down pit lane now he's only talking about the leader there sam hancock only got 27 seconds which is not the tyre stop he's effectively half behind but we don't know if they both need to stop the tires before the end or with an hour and twelve you take it basically so it's nip and tuck isn't it gonna be bitter waiting to see will they risk triple sitting in the tires which probably would have to do i like the alive off he goes and there goes dominic cryhammer dumas still faster than fazler which is not worth doing much good with their uh ooh who was that at the 15. down that's what he was doing that's exactly what he was doing he wasn't looking at what he was doing on the pit lane very nearly hit the wall on drivers left there that would be quite amusing no it wouldn't not not when you're sitting in a points playing position in the earth position where you're sitting in the closest prep is what coming up to lap the number four is it is that the ultra cone about following the other ultra i can't quite see there's like a silver car on the white car so it looks like dumas i know you know it's an audi because it's got the uh it's got the leds at the edge of the wheel which one is it i think it's silver i think i think it's a three lap in the four this is on board with the three yeah and he's coming up behind before before correct correct so bonomi is about to be lapped by roman dumas which is an interesting situation because you kind of wonder how that's happened because they've both been trolling around the whole time when they know all these problems but you know another kind of change in the rhythm that's been happening i've been watching this for the last five or ten minutes is that rickard lee's still of course second in uh gte pro after taking that uh pit stop out of sequence with jimmy bruni um is catching the ferrari on pace at the moment uh down to about eleven and a half seconds that gap as jordan is wondering i don't think richard leet is that far ahead because i think that the bruny car could possibly get the end on one more stop and that's the same as we're going to see from lee so i think this could be a fight to the finish you know well now that would be a turnout for the books wouldn't it uh but at the moment so that it it's only stopped the team stopped three times so far so they they're doing more than an hour and ten minutes each run so they have one more stop as does richard lee so this lead which we've been thinking about they've had isn't actually there and that 10 second gap is a 10 second gap they've both got to stop once more now admittedly elite has the ground speed so it should be okay as you say it bruni stops right now and that gap is going to go down to nothing at all in fact the elite goes through and takes the lead i shouldn't have given you chocolate at the same time shouldn't i right okay we'll can't have you eating and talking at the same time uh so leeds goes back through having done his fourth stop but as nick rightly says he doesn't get the mileage he's been coming in early and they both will have one more to do from here the question that i have is can leads do it on just one more stop or will he have to have a little splash and i think it's going to be tighter than we think i wonder if this is why they've been pushing so it is going to be quite interesting when we get towards the end because in theory if jimmy bruni well i think they can both go from here you think you think that nigga's shaking his head no elites definitely has to stop again it's not necessarily a full stop um but he stopped a long time ago but you think bruning and call from oh he can't definitely they're full stop an hour and a quarter stop they're fine that's what they've been doing it to leeds has more ground speed he was 10 seconds behind before the stops he won't need a full stop but i think he needs to stop probably in the next i'd say he's going to stop about 50 minutes to go 5-0 i think you might be right i think you might be right because he was well it was further out of kilter than i expected him to be this year it's pretty obvious that um they of course we've looked off the pace they've been running this concept the whole way through to lose a stop against the porsches so possibly they've been in some sort of fuel economy saving mode who knows but it's going to be what looked like a quite a opening shot case is getting much closer uh and the thing about that is if you are the porsche team the absolute moment that you get close to being able to come in for your last stop surely you've got to take it then because you could lose all of that lead if a safety car comes out and we've had two already i know it's unusual and more unusual on a circuit at this length but you can't risk that guys can you i i i wonder actually i'm just looking again at by the way jordan dressler's accident as the guys disassembled that laurica so i had an important point there fizzy didn't get in the car bruni stayed in oh we just seen him in the pits as well so they've decided bruni's the man and broody got in the car well well as the jwa vela car is recovering whereas that was that last i think it was uh i'm by himself and who's in that car at the moment that is uh paul daniels car owner team co-owner uh having a bit of a moment uh nicole mindo meanwhile makes his way back on to the uh first-timing scoring screen 24th overall for the gtm leader but uh it's this is all gonna be about pace isn't it it's all gonna be about pace and how long a stop do they need and when do they need it in that porsche i think nick's absolutely right six uh six minutes before we go into the last hour let's pick off a few of your questions how did the ultras get ahead of the e-trons says at s abuse which is scott buse the car is quicker in the drive yeah i think it's set up they've got the setup better now it's dried out again uh nearly underscore 88 neil ridley says do you guys honestly think toyota will race at le mans next month yes yes and the test day both cars uh i've been told that the second car will shake down at the test day if plans go to uh if things go to plan and uh the line from toyota and uh the conversation one to one and i believe it is that they they believe they can run ahead of audi at the moment we might have an interesting wednesday and thursday evening we might have them going for par john they've got we're finally going to see a petrol with a with that full-on money object area development which you've not seen yet and that's a big difference i know they'll have done a brilliant job but it's not the same as a factory error effort well and also lola have to there's always some compromise built into them very good um all right he is our final one in this one a number of people including at wicked racer bill says i thought the new rules were supposed to help the petrol cars not seeing it happen graham uh not enough is a straight answer there are two two ways to look at this nick you and i go for this first year because the point about it is is you cannot compare aldi with rebellion no rebellion are a fantastic racing team but they're you know they're not a factory factory team there's 150 people from audi here develop running four cars where they they have the ability to run a hybrid and a non-hybrid you can only compare them with toyota and really toyota next year if you i exactly agree i think what we should see hopefully towards the end of this season and certainly into next season is where that all winds out that i think i absolutely agree unless you're going to do something false if you like and place a budget cap on development which let's face it you cannot do can't believe you are not going to get to the stage where you know without extraordinary circumstances whether induced or you know or attrition induced you are not going to get to the stage of a season where a rebellion lola toyota team can actually do battle uh head to head with a factory audi let me place before the court uh mclaren and hrt they have exactly the same rules to work to correct one is effectively a factory team one is effectively the same as privateers and there's three seconds difference with no difference in fuel no difference in fact the engines themselves are probably within 20 horsepower what they should be just it's it's about development it's about that ability to have people who can work on every single part of the car and then somebody else work out how every single part of the car works together yeah and look at this way as well we've got three different technologies actually operating in the top 10 at the moment full petrol cars which as it turns out just so happen to be all privateer cars we've got diesel hybrids and we've got full diesels which are the two uh two technologies that are closest to each other it's the two factory-backed programs that are operating very different systems we did have last year of course the peugeots and the audis at the same level of development yes and potentially we had a great race there of course last year as it looks as though with sebastian bordeaux closest to the camera with his jacket on his work is done with an hour and three to go and nick minassian will take the repaired durmest s102.5 pescarulo to the finish of this race it's dropped out of the top 15 15 now down to uh 16th position for this number 17 car and that looked to me to be some kind of gearbox actuating problem that they were struggling with in the back of that car fazer is starting to close down roman dumas so that's the uh quattros closing down the ultra i have no idea if that's a very slow lap last time no idea or whether that's on any uh radio message i don't know but um the leaders come down from something like 52 seconds to 38 which uh would mean that within an hour they'd probably be able to get them where they need to be yep but again it could ever flow you can't tell everyone slow flow couldn't it in terms of uh battle still on track at the moment we've still got that porsche the 77 car we're talking about nick still lapping quicker than jimmy bruni at the moment can manage with a fully fueled 51a of course a ferrari let's not forget either the 51 squad need points they did not score um uh and so let's see bring they need points um for uh a good points finish here uh rickard leaked to the moment outpacing the uh the ferrari but we believe we'll still need to stop tomorrow just to prove me wrong put the 204 in so it's uh it is uh the ebb and flow um he'll like said his lead slightly as the dome rejoins 62 minutes remaining in the race jimmy breed is his fastest middle sector do we need to absolutely nail everything his fastest lap of all 220.479 he's actually gained two seconds and richard leads there now this is bad news lee's doesn't need a full stop so they will have to it's going to be really close isn't it but when they come out you know i think in about 11 or 12 minutes time though maybe a bit longer they're going to be very very close and bruno's gonna have a bit between his teeth uh yeah and what was bruni's full service pit stop with a minute and 20 seconds they may have to be a throw the dice with tyres you know what whether you change them or not indeed what would you rather have fresh tyres and go chasing or tires going off and defending if you have to come in with 50 minutes to go you want the time you want to come with 35 minutes you don't there you go and it's uh there's a 13 uh rebellion leaves the pit seventh position overall in fact drops down to eighth as he rejoins uh guillermo takes the 15. his times has dropped off again uh that's a very slow lap for warren but he's just back up to speed again first sector so i think he's one of the ones that's just had a lap with traffic he's been there and there abouts with temps here half seconds there he's only got 12 seconds in hand between himself and buzz liners he can't afford to keep having this is the whole point about his that is john that is his only bad lap that i've seen about the last half hour p2 is the same situation that sam hancock theoretically has to take tyres and robbie kerr doesn't have to take tyres well the top four's within fifty seconds of the 25 second gap which is tires and they will be stopping once more at this time all of a sudden it's a matter of who's your best strategist and uh what have you got there you've got the jota guys some hignits a very experienced racer hello sam um we'll be there with uh with his back room boys and crunching the numbers robbie kerr and the ellen docking guys well hung docking knows his way around the racetrack now doesn't it i think he does uh what have we got we've got uh warren hughes there with the murphy prototypes team the rlr guys who know all about endurance racing not just with the lmp2 cars but of course with the little two-liter prototypes and then you've got the racing team with the resources they've got to throw at it you know what throw a blanket for these three any any one of those three could easily finish in any position on that podium you're listening and watching the fia world endurance championship live from sports john hindoff graham goodwin and nick damon and uh our radio the radio portion of this broadcast i brought to you powered by nissan and in association with audi good to have you company uh through the hall of this week and a reminder we'll be doing these six hours of schneider tomorrow from 9 30 uk time and in two weeks time off to the nurburgring actually not too far away from where we are now for full coverage of the nurburgring 24 hours from thursday onwards and the new qualifying procedure that i'm really looking forward to with the single up qualifying for the top i think it's 40 cars obviously because it wouldn't yeah there's nobody it's got at least five times more than anything else absolutely so inside the last hour of the race then it's the four audi's as it has been for some time with romantic mark leading by 40 seconds just a little bit over that from fesler bonognomi johnny king and nicole prost are a lap apart prostin fifth johnny keane in sixth in the lawler and the hpd's the rebellion and the striker cars respectively it's a good point scoring for both of these guys in the world endurance championship uh fight for the privateers cup guillain-barre in seventh place for oak racing and then andrea pelicky for the second of the rebellion cars he's only six seconds behind actually just having come out from a pit stop might need one more might if he could stretch that to the end from there that would be handy this p2 battle is the one that's really really getting our attention with a i think a stop for everybody in the top four nick uh still required there are 49 seconds between sam hancock leading and baslinders in fourth in respect between them they've got uh robbie kern warren hughes in respectively the 38th zytec the georgia car robbie kerr in the 25 uh orica the paul sitting car warrant hughes in the 48 murphy prototype auric and the oak racing 35 morgan of baslinders and as i said they're 49 seconds apart the top four all of them with stops to make and all of them with strategy calls to make robbie kerr probably the easiest callers we've got a spinner out on the circuit or is that a reaper there's a replay that's a replay because that car is long gone that's the normal yeah um yeah robbie kerr's the easiest tactic to call only he's because he doesn't need to take tires he can if he wants but he doesn't need to take tires he took tyres last time around uh both sam hancock warren hughes um not sure about baseline there's a 116 stop middle kind of a clunky stop i think that was okay but yeah that's their option what they need to do i mean just on the side is noticeable that they've obviously fixed the dome it's just on his fastest lap in the 207.6 with nick minassian so that gearbox actuation issue if you believe it was has been sorted we're in a situation where with an hour to go i think three of the three of the event of the glass up for grabs definitely pro gt's up for grabs definitely peter's up for grabs and politically i think p1 is up for grabs normally you would say duma won this if he wasn't driving the wrong car if you know what i mean yes it's uh it is again a bit like automotive chess isn't it with the added uh addition of marketing interest at the top but uh that's a very well even i can't work see i can see i can work out tires i can work out for you i'm afraid i haven't gotten to work no absolutely right and uh it is a tough one but you know that the peoria says i hope not the puritan in me says let him go learn what you can if you're going to switch better the only way that would be worthwhile swapping them around at the moment is to allow cappella to get ahead of the one car because they're the car leading the championship yep and the that's not going to happen the nightmare scenario course and it is an absolute nightmare scenario is uh is what if what if you did let the ultra win what if you had a meltdown ala persia a couple of years ago and a toyota hybrid one won them on what have you given away then in terms of the value of this program and uh that might seem something other than a pure sensor but that's a very realistic answer when you look at the kind of budgets that are being thrown into a program like this but what but then again you have to factor in the confidence level of audi uh yeah i absolutely agree i mean and uh you know if you again listen to what uh what what toyota actually said uh and that kind of one-to-one chat uh just a couple of days ago what do they think well they're racist they're coming to win but 99 certain that audi will take it but they want to run ahead of them but what if you had a very wet race what if two of those those cars got taken out in an accident what if those two cars were the two e-tron quattros because two audi's getting taken out in a le mans 24-hour race could never possibly ah the thing for me is that i think you take the result when you've got it uh both nissan and toyota have spent billions and billions of yen trying to win le mans and the only japanese manufacturer that's ever done it is mazda and actually where we are now you can thank jackie x for the bulk of that because he was the guy who lobbied the aco to give the rotary engine mazda a bigger fuel capacity than it had had and if they hadn't had that they would never won that race because they would have been able to run at the pace they did um however mazda in 91 still the only japanese company who have won none of the big three from japan honda toyota and nissan have that sticks the japanese love their endurance racing and it's a big thing for these manufacturers to be involved now honda toyota and nissan are involved this year only toyota have got the chance to win they know they can't do it and why wouldn't you if you were audi take away the opportunity for toyota to be the first hybrid to win next year you might as well let your hybrid win and if that also means it winning here on its first time out the headlines are about the hybrid audi you've got hybrid cars coming online and toyota in the same way as audi stall the diesel away from peugeot the diesel headlines away from peugeot persia were the biggest manufacturer of diesel engines in the world and they were all over africa in the middle east and the far east audi came racing and not only did they race the diesel first but they won the french race with it first took persian quite a while to recover from that and get the heads around having to go racing with the diesel if you did exactly the same with toyota who are the accepted in terms of automotive manufacturers and street cars the accepted leaders of hybrid technology with the toyota prius sorry i always want to call it the pious um then again you've pulled the rug out from under the sea fade grim absolutely right andy and i'm afraid a lot of it when it comes right down to it there are lots of things that drive this there is a technology transfer but there is absolutely that aspect and ever more so in this modern world of ours the fact that these guys have got to shift metal and how you do that you do that by actually showing that you've got a competitive difference in the technology you can actually provide not just through racing but how that transfers the to the road car meantime um i'm watching a pattern changing again guys it's another pattern changing again in p2 because all of a sudden that uh backward move we'd seen over the last few minutes from warren hughes is beginning to be reversed and warren is now picking uh chunks of time out of robbie kerr ahead of him and what have we got the moment we've got three brits battling uh in three nissan powered lmp2 cars as i tech leading to orica chassis and uh this is a proper battle this is a real battle uh because the 35 uh oak pescarolo has pitted now back to fourth and uh baslinders has stepped out of that car and my guess is that david uh jaime hansen is going to be in that car to the finish uh in gt pro meanwhile uh rickard leetz holds a 62 second advantage at the moment over jimmy bruni who is laughing just a bit quicker at the moment than the porsche so it's porsche from ferrari from ferrari from ferrari but so realistically this is a two-car race for gt pro and that two-car battle is between the uh filmmaker proton porsche the 77 car and the 51 af corsa ferrari 458 italia fastest man uh on the course at the moment though is the leader it's roman dumas probably the least audi of the audi drivers it has to be said in the current company of course uh i think we expect to see roman potentially uh race a different lmp1 prototype in just a couple of years time uh as we watch is that the rebellion and uh they're going to be looking for the bragging rights for the first uh petrol-powered prototype home nico prost uh holds that honor at the moment and is lapping quicker than the petrol power cars ahead of him 207 508 for uh pros junior that time around i'm getting quite i'm beginning to think that they're not going to swap these outies uh it doesn't look uh like like to happen any time as soon as robbie kerbets they're not going to want to make a ridiculous you know ferrari at uh nostrios no they're not no they're far more sportier pit stops if they're gonna do it it's a lot he's got a 45-second lead that's going nowhere he's not getting any less and now this is the key pit stop it's right here robbie stayed in the car tires doesn't need to take tires he'll feel to the end for these 50 minutes i think they're taking him as early as possible to get to the end on a full stop send him out the uh x british a1gp driver now the question is when sam hancock comes in does he take tyres warren hughes meanwhile goes up to second position guys it's getting quite dark out there now we've got better part of an hour left yeah 49 minutes to go the leader in p2 is in the pit limb and in fact he is rolling again now so sam hancock retakes the lead warren hughes goes into second sam never seen the lead uh it was warren hughes goes up yes uh and the uh the key here is going to be does he come out ahead and i think he will of the uh the oak the 35 car yes uh because there are four cars in this battle i think he's just got out ahead of him in fact he's got what's happened to the 35 car we just fuel that's fuel only now sam hancock did a fuel only stop last time for a minute and one yeah pecan racing back in the pits with uh smokey engine i think their their challenge i'm afraid of this day really do the engine blow up i think their challenge cannot be more or less dismissed i'm afraid it's a shame because that was a card that looked to have prospects of being a real contender in what's been a very hotly contested lmp2 class throughout the race oh and it's going in the box is it known to pull it back because of the car ferrari in front and which of the ferraris is that it's one of the af courses it must be the 81 because it's not the other one on the front pitch it's not the 51 of the 71 sam hancock is in the pits all right so is robert hughes gonna it's gonna happen here guys you've got this is what you've got to do isn't it once the once one of them has gone in everybody's got to get in and everybody's going to get out and this could be down to finger trouble it could be down to strategy but uh this is a telling moment for the lmp2 class who takes tires and who gambles that is the question here well there we are hughes is getting out of the car hughes is getting out of the car and there was new set of tires new set of dunlop's there for the is this going to be brendan hartman's moment shoes he scored as the leader there last time he was close enough that because he's further down the pit lane that's right because sam hancock hasn't clicked now just just another point to make clear here as well is if anybody doubted we know we've got problems in terms of numbers in the european le mans series and we doubted the quality let's just remember that the top two cars in the order before they pitted were both elms cars hancock is just waiting to go in he's still not clicked out the robbie kerr on a 103 warren hughes is still in as well if you've done breck so it's case really at this point of waiting for them to trundle down there it's pretty unfortunate that the cameras weren't able to get into 144 simon dolan has got back aboard that car yeah and hanson is coming around as well so remember there was 48 seconds between the top four as the leading audis are caught up in traffic as well or is that the uh the oh look at this we've got one two three four cars all together coming down this is the first lens it's fesler taking the back of the of the doorbells into the pit lane comes the audi and that is the audi of the one it's a faster car is it yes it is the fesler car from second place this will be its last stop so dolan uh re-emerges in the the 38 zeitgeist is brendan hartley in the 48 car wow but robbie curse stayed in the 25 and that was a longer stop for murphy prototypes 151 so they both took tyres robbie didn't he's going to be comfortably in the lead now wow and it's unlikely simon dylan can chase him down any person he possibly has brendan on fresh tires it really comes down to whether or not robbie can actually make those tires last uh competitively another 45 minutes 46 minutes now on the clock uh i think that throw the dice might well my guess is that probably uh somehow could give no more long long fill for the number one audi and still it goes in go go go and fesler catches the clutch he had to wait actually that's uh that is is that donald leaving the pits it is indeed in the two five so wasn't that long it's a 54 second stop again john so it was in 38 sorry excuse me the two five are still out on the track with robbie curt and that's a good stop then from like that someone dylan 54 seconds for marcel fesler and no ty is offered i think you'll find that dumas will get tires when he comes early yeah [Music] johnny kane um has he's in the position big time off has gone fesler and that is at the top of the hill at malmody at le combe just looked like he outbreaks himself there john now that's not new tyres on that car either so he turns in and he gets a lock up and that's exactly what happened to allan mcnish earlier on i've had a word with the audi pitch there wasn't oil down from on board listen he clattered that curve didn't he oh he did he does well to go through the sleeping position though he did did well once he recovered there you know what was missing from that sound there the regen oh yeah he didn't get the regen when he was breaking well there you go that's really interesting you didn't get that big noise a little bit we've certainly had a we had a week with there's a bit more of it there yeah okay well as we uh complete uh the top two in olympia complete the next lap robbie kerr now leads simon dolan by 22.7 seconds during those pit stops david how much hansen meanwhile is just four seconds behind hartley who's at the wheel of the fifteen that's guaranteed he is absolutely throwing the car at the corners 32 and he's got baliki ahead of him that's a battle for position that is a battle for seventh place he's really on it the car ahead of him is the is the toyota he wants to pass andrea bolique in the rebellion as they go over the top of the hill at radio and he's got the draft it's noticed that i think that maybe on the lotus lmp2s john uh but i think beliki is there but it's done i think it's that car i think felicia is here there you go right okay you're right he's in the picture too many black cars as we mentioned earlier absolutely two seconds or so up the road meanwhile that uh p2 battle will re we'll bring you up to date on that as it comes across the line next time around but it's 47.7 seconds between the top four meanwhile uh should anybody decide that robbie kerr uh versus simon dolan is an unequal battle at the moment uh someone donald is taking time out of uh right three seconds he's taken uh he's yeah he's taken three times absolutely now that could be a gamble that is not going to pay off it could be traffic uh but uh let's have a keep an eye on that uh little dynamic [Music] and interesting we now has gone off we've download one of the loads this is the car that is uh he had we've already had rear end damage this car earlier this is the car that did start on time unlike it since the car 32 that's off on the side nose is nosed in and then gone to the side we see now the the struggling audi the number two car which really just isn't on the base i think it's got a little problem he comes in for his final stop as well which should be less than 55 seconds because they were they're filling him to the end it'd be interesting where it is came about a lap and a half or later than the one of fazler who's now off on his way of course for his final run i haven't seen either the ultras yet we've only seen both the cuatros and away goes dindo for a bit of an extra length of run and he tips the pizza at 53 so he saved a whole second there you go and uh meantime simon dolan continues to take time out of robbie kerr three more seconds that's their that's it's next lap he's taking a second out sector more electrical issues for the dome lighter stuck on flash the wiper doing old things as well oh dear most i'm not going to just got 67 horsepower more than it had before they were looking for electricity renault five live henry henry's a garage and stuck it instead for the wipers i think robbie kerr is in big trouble there guys because uh because simon dolan has just taken three and a half seconds out of him in the middle sector i think robbie is in trouble i think that's tired i think that's all tires mate i really do we've seen how these tires sometimes can fall off the edge of a cliff they are on their second stint with the tires and we saw how good he was when they were new on each this is the number two audi this is dindor capello has he just outbreak himself he's just locked up from the back i think that was just a lock up oh my goodness me so that's going down to uh rivage that looks okay uh guillermo and team manager to report immediately a team manager cart 31 guillermo rowe who is on track another job who's car 31 rengar van der zander yes taking him off has there been a bit of a ticket there oh dear me so does that mean they've got to bring more marrow into the pit he says immediately control that means he's got to come into the pits well that's the eighth position cart he's just lost the position to andrea boliki uh what five or six minutes ago five six laps ago ollie jarvis waits to get in the number four audi that's in third position at the moment third place oh you're right well we've got we've not seen anything that happened there but that's a very odd thing i've never seen that before of you john no driver call to race control from the middle of a stint there must have been some tip for tap um blocking or something which meant that 31 went off so they've they're going to put they've obviously decided it's bad enough to penalize mr moreau um elliot has on the forum at radio le mans hit the nail on the head for that audi thing do you remember we were talking about uh to marcel i think it was about how it worked he says does the logic of the computer not let the regen kick in for fear of overvaulting the system if the flywheel is already running at max yes he did say exactly that elliot top man uh sorry getting a bit tired through the race but that was a bit of a information that we did uh elicit from audi and you may well be right maybe it's just a little bit uh cleverer than it needs to be that could be a case so we're still waiting for the final stop from the two uh diesel only ultra uh audis rather than the quattros they're both going to come in we expect probably to see uh the ollie jarvis uh bottom enemy number four car in the next lap and then probably two laps after that uh roman dumar who will almost certainly take tires and do a driver change for no descendable reason part to lose 45 seconds if slick mode is on otherwise well let's wait to see here comes the four car but i know me after what i think it's fair to say guys it's been a pretty convincing debut for the factory team pretty convincing debbie for these two boys as well because they're both new to the uh the top line sports line course we saw ollie at uh uh lemon a couple of years ago yeah the colors audi car but that second year effort was not as good as their first year in fairness it was a it was very late and sort of half begrudging in many ways i always thought um he's obviously done his time in dtm he's doing some gt3 as well for audi 23 will stay at the current position until the end of the race okay that's a confirmation basically that the 31 car is a retirement where we could see that i think from the state of it but uh and they're not going to try and move it no they're not going to try and move it so that means no chance whatsoever any kind of uh intervention or safety period for this now then meanwhile what's going on there that could change uh well lmp2 has been the order of the the the the one to watch and all of a sudden robbie kerr is beginning to eke out a bit more an advantage and brendan hartley who had not been lapping as quickly as someone dole and now he's lapping considerably more quickly now the other bottle we've been watching nick is the gt pro field yeah jimmy bruni has has over the course of the last half hour since he made his stop definitely reduced the lead over ricardo elites by something in the region of about 12 seconds to the point now i'm not sure that leeds can get in and out and do anything uh effective within the time he's got which is only a 55 second lead however on the good news of richie we're now down to 36 minutes he's not been in so he's getting more to smash and dash than full service uh absolutely it does mean that the the benefit of actually taking ties at that point is more or less extinguished yeah he's got to go with what he's got in comes it's going to be very tight it comes bona nomi for the final stop for the number four audi he'll drop out of why not actually probably hold on to third position and ollie jarvis will bring the car home in his debut for the audi works team in endurance racing i've got an endurance missing sorry about that uh he has of course arrested the ttm so bonognomi jarvis luic de val and mark chenier all debutants for early this weekend fantastic isn't it it's uh it's it's another era for the audi sport team oh tires for the four car well that's just because they can um i'm not sure if that'll be enough to get the two car ahead of it actually because the two cars not having a very nice time um it might be wow did you say that the the guy on the left-hand side sorry that doesn't work on radio if you're watching the pictures you might have um the guy on the left-hand side the ultra lightweight sock puppet that audi have to have slammed the door and just let it close on its own didn't then make sure that he was absolutely confident that as he shut the door on the drivers left it was closed it's basically i think what they've done this fitted technology transfer from one of those high-end kitchens so it's got the soft clothes clothes very good well that certainly meant that jarvis will stay in third place the capello 2 car is not 100 healthy but it's healthy enough to beat all the rest of the field so championship leader at the moment but the only one that can't hear that is merged for points for the whole season so uh it's one and two the cars one and two are registered for the whole season points weed up the straight there is always tries to get some heat in the car that came on straight before they come and uh three lights of blaze mean he's third but we're all now waiting to see roman dumas he'll be in either uh the coming lap or the one after to see what he has to take uh for his pit stop this is de mayo tournament sorry maybe make his own drinks yeah could you get out run around jim carve get out run around the car twice fill in a questionnaire uh and indeed they brought him in early so he's coming to latin before he needed to do let's see what he's going to quit wandering along that newly pinned what do you need is fuel and that's that's it what he gets will be the question he's not getting tires man he's going to get a new drink no in fact he's not even getting a new drink spot he's got a new deal oh no new drinks bottle goes in looks like they're playing it fair looks like they're not going to manipulate unless they're going to make it really obvious now this is the number four car in third place this is ollie jarvis up behind the of course of ferrari as he comes down to the bottom end of this the track it's tavello he doesn't get by him there or the next corner he's got to wait oh that's a bit brave and away faster fast stop for 50 seconds didn't need all the fuel calls because that's the fastest stop we've seen 50 seconds well i've just seen the 23 car lapping i think i have that's the 23 car back out john well done to those guys for getting the rear suspension fixed valuable points um it's 25 for a win 18 no is it the f1 scoring yes apart from that you get an extra half down to 10 and you get north under primary school half point taking part uh yeah and you get a point do you get a point for paul as well all drivers in the car get a point regardless yeah that's a good point yeah uh so romantic man had a particularly a completely standard pit stop he will emerge from 45 seconds ahead so it looks like they're either let it win or make it very obvious why he's not going to win whereas in p2 robbie kerr has stabilized that gap now at about 16 seconds yep uh brendan hartley is 40s he's picked up three or four seconds above simon dolan so we really only situation here where if no one makes a mistake they should stay in that position it's got half an hour to go that's a long time on those tyres right let's now that everything's done as we're watching a replay from on board and audi that's going off he's going off as an ultra it's white white wings which one that that's the two car it's got that terminal understeer both of those cars have got under steering issues because don't forget we've seen the one car go straight on as well oddly i i i still this is this is the regen you know what it's very interesting do you remember the thing that stymied four-wheel drive cars in racing it's always been understood i know they're not permanent four-wheel drive yeah it is different but it's always been the fact you have inherent understeer in a four-wheel drive car but effectively it is four-wheel drive under braking if you see what i mean because it's the regen so you get it's not like the just the transmission disconnect when you're slowing down it's just not you're getting the worst of all worlds actually because you're not getting the extra grip at slow speeds pulling out it's only from 120 k's up but you're getting the drag and the slight now pleats in the pits here is the leader of gt pro as spinning is the gwa avelia porsche so elites needs 31 minutes of fuel it's paul daniels who has looped that car that'd be uh porsche asking paul whether or not he could loop the car in front of the uh the 51 goal he got held between that's the 23 car i'm afraid so who was that and that is another really low percentage move that was again not massive surprising then well you have to say you expect better than that from frank mayer that is that is a massively low percentage move so richard lee still in the in the pits uh any minute now jimmy breen will be going past him in fact that is to jimmy bruni we're on board with now good spot by the director as he goes down the straight to take the lead but now richard is out richard later this is out 47 seconds that's a splash and dash they're both on old tires they both got fuel to the end this is a battle look to the left-hand side do we see the porsche there no we don't this is cutting it fine i think for the porsche they've done a timed stop i really hope they've got their numbers right he should be about seven seconds ahead i think at this point when we get through who's that in front of jimmy one of the other for jimmy right over the curbs there you can't do that jimmy that's that's not respecting the track limited turn four that is i think another is it a luxury car that's a luxury car he's getting a nice towel ferrari that was a it's the amateur luxury car nice driving jimmy but you've got seven seconds to make up instant involving cars 55 and 23 that's the one we've just seen within 33 seconds wow that that was negative i tell you that is if this investigation i'm not surprised where was that porsche supposed to go in that situation when he's got a striker on his left yeah yeah now in fairness frank may not have been able to see the other car on the other side now guillermo meanwhile has continued yes he has now what's going to happen there um i would maybe a big big let's see well unless the marriage has gone and said look can we make now the end of the race they've got oh well right he's in the car you really want to see him now otherwise it's gonna be a big row so that's the warning system isn't it for uh i think it's the discharge yeah boxes the hybrid boxes who would be um what i was gonna say as olly jarvis puts in the fastest third sector of the race uh on his way there were two or two eight which is the fastest lap for that car and the fastest lap since lap 54 and we're now on lap 145 just a a note about this gt battle i the porsche has been stopping early from the very start of this race and if they have done their sums that well that is brilliant and why do we like gt racing exactly for this two different cars one rear engine one mid engine two different strategies that has happened to be played out right from the start of the race absolutely right and means on the gtm leading car in the pit lane now this is nick armindo after i think one of the drivers of the race from nick armendo he's been fantastic throughout it may not be the most glamorous uh of the four classes here but that's been a thoroughly professional job was in second place in the gte when the conditions were at their most difficult he was second place on pure pierce at the moment robbie kerr still laughing at a very uh a very good pace 2 12 seven last time from robbie so no immediates on those dumb looks falling off in terms of the pace he can squeeze out of them uh sixteen and a half seconds at the moment is in the pit so has he is he getting out he wouldn't need to be the pitch he's being kicked out the car this is out again we've got a transponder pick up again uh we'll see in a moment mean time out goes the inside mud porsche from rouen just down the road from lamar now then up the road yeah sadly not the first time of late that guillaume has been in trouble yes 49 second stop so it was a splash of whether they actually did change him i don't know perhaps it was just a coincidence he needed some fuel anyway and all of a sudden uh robbie kerr is able to kind of squeeze even more of a gap out six and a half seconds still the gap there brendan hartley can he respond the magnificent at baron von clutch peter leung has said in honor of eduardo freitas our wrist director this afternoon how about we uh hashtag freitas which is f-r-e-i-t-a-s and see if we can get it trending on twitter thumbs up there from nicole mindo third of the quick knicks uh no more stayed in the car or did they or did he he's gone through the first sector now so he should have painted he should have pinged a um a driver fang 55 and 23 no further action after investigation nfl okay i think i was lucky that was yeah i think that i think the 23 is a long way down already i think the problem they've got john is that they've let so much go already and that was no worse than four or five things we saw earlier on but it was the same effect the serving grace may have been there for frank was that he's so low down in the car that he can't in the same way as the porsche can't just disappear frank can't see through the porsche to see the striker on the other side of it and that might have been the only thing uh slick one are you two says on the radio lemon forum where is volkswagen ulrich i haven't seen him he is at lausitz for the german touring cars this weekend yesterday he was here on thursday but lots of clashes this year with dtm and wc does anyone else says paul robertson feel the headlight flashing should be controlled a bit like the jockey's use of the whip rules um yes is the answer question i think uh yes the concept we have this whole thing at le mans i flashed ten times what does it mean is it just you flush it doesn't mean that they get out of the way well on the forum uh jm graham very sensible normally on here says i feel there should be a separate low intensity lights to flash only signal dawn blind or disoriented particularly during the hours of darkness that's a brilliant idea there's a bit of bullying from the p1 cast there certainly has been in uh several notable cases even to the extent of convincing people to send to disqualify people from races because they had nothing to do with accidents there you go there is that view well that's a fact it's not you didn't nothing nothing else but let's go back there now but they never touched now let's have a look we've still got those two close battles they're putting them one car back in again uh is that the number one that was uh one pit board oh he's got a puncture i think he's got a right rear puncture oh no he's going too quick for that the car doesn't look right though there are new tires new michelin's being put in the car doesn't look right this is the second place car marcel fester and the best of the e-trons and this is unscheduled now that card did not look right under power it's a minute and 40 seconds he did seem to be sitting the rear right i think you think you were correct the view we had coming in well he's going to get another drinks bottle and another flash card not just another flash card it's all four unfortunately when we want to see it when we can't see which is the rear right oh see how difficult it is to get those ties out from under the rims just catching their left front in the way there no still okay they're looking at the right rear i think you'll find if we'd seen the picture there somebody was having a good look under the the right rear and cleaning the screen this is going to get the diesel's first and second isn't it jarvis was a whole lap down uh after he was a minute and 40 seconds down it was a minute and 40 seconds down as they came in but would be fine for this i mean not the best cleaning job on the windscreen i think they've been disappointed with that they should get some romanians shouldn't they do it the traffic lights i wonder diesel's first and second group is you're thinking that's what exactly swan song for the diesel yeah is it sir now the uh lmp2 battle guys meanwhile is topsy turvy to say the least it must be traffic uh because uh we've got uh robbie kerr 2 14 2 15 212. it's still going to be about a 15 second gap i think but simon dylan has closed that gap over the uh over this stint but brendan hartley meanwhile is not able to close in significantly hans heinemeyer uh has closed in though on brendan hartley and now it's only 15 and a half seconds between third and fourth and with 22 minutes left that is not it's traffic it's got to be traffic if you look at the sector times the traffic the second times are all over the place olivier playing the pit lane there's a car that is flat to deceive this week and certainly in the wris had that problem in sort of an hour and a half in where they needed to uh get ahead at the rear end of the car uh jimmy bruni's managed to take just a second out of richard leach in the last seven minutes he needs it's not enough as the consternation is very there's a replay now of the car that's number two car tripping over the 17 dome no harm no foul it appeared there let's see on the on board that's the regeneration noise cluttered the curb i'm not sure they've replayed that one no me neither but he's gone past the dome who is uh nick massey recovering from that long stop for what looked like a gearbox situation supposed to be electric whilst again we'll ah they're looking at that tire the michelin technician so there was something and that is the rear right that they are looking at they don't just change the single tire obviously they'll change your full set uh jeff easterling saying are you guys excited about the new viper gtsr feels like the gt grid will be complete again i've got a soft spot for vipers having uh packed one into an armco barrier um yes and no i'll tell you why jeff i think it's great that the viper is in there but the car doesn't comply with the rules it has a far too bigger engine and therefore i'm not sure how it can be made gte legal in fact he can't unless it has a smaller engine you're right exactly the same way as the corvette was yeah and the corvette had to downsize their engine and nothing's being said about how they'll make the gts legal so i'm not sure at the moment is the answer i'm i'm bang against wavers particularly in gt racing i love gt racing and the gd2 gt racing is one of my favorite classes what i don't like about it is how difficult it is to find out how level or not the playing field is and i think letting a car in with uh half well a quarter as much again of the cubic capacity that's allowed in the class by ac or eggs doesn't help that i can certainly tell you that there are those within the corvette program um that are less than happy with the uh the level of waiver that will be required uh to get those cars onto the grid but uh it's difficult isn't it at a time when you're looking for more quality cars on the grid uh there's an element of reality uh that says you've got to do what you have to do but uh i tend to agree with the sentiment john jimmy bruni has approximately nine laps i would say to make up 11.9 seconds he made up one of those seconds in the last one he's made a couple attempts already but he's going to need a bit of help from a trip or a bad bit of traffic for ricardo leeds it's gonna be a lot closer it looked like any other point of the race though uh yeah absolutely and uh it's still all you know all up for grabs isn't it for two of these three classes see these four classes rather probably coding a very strong job in the method very impressive he's running very consistently keeping the gap as he can around 13 to 17 seconds with that sort of four second window of traffic and flow uh on old tires that car we see now the fastest lap we've seen since lap 54 on lap 150 with new tires it's marcel fazler and the audi number one quattro with a 202.321 so that's the best we've seen uh all day after a hundred laps of not trying to go fast he's now got fresh tires bang there you go fastest sectors of all in sectors one and three through the whole race for the number one car uh so i think we can stow away that thought that perhaps we might see a diesel one too that's certainly not in marcel fazler's tell you what it is i'll tell you what it does though it underlines what we've been saying about taiwa at the front of the eight drone yeah and there there is something that audi need to get their heads around there we've already heard that toyota will not use the regen power on the front they've tried it both ways uh the original tub not the one they'll take to them on the redesigned tub that hasn't been redesigned obviously that's exactly the same as the one they crashed that i don't believe them about um had the ability to run drive shafts at the front and they tried it at record and they discarded it for the balance of the car well there you go maybe that's part of the reason behind it as uh robbie kerr comes sorry i suppose marketing wise um quattro is a unmissable name brand for the reality there you go why wouldn't you in those circumstances as well as which you think on balance there's no penalty against it but maybe we're seeing the first uh well in the very early days of this particular program the first signs that perhaps there's a weakness there what are two people pointing out that the gtsr has been given a waiver to run the eight liter v10 in gte it has by the lms but i don't know whether that would account for it can't come to a moment i would imagine that would be unlikely in the current circumstance and i don't understand why you want to race a sports car in sports car racing and not go to le mans and if they do try and take that to le mans there will be a revolt among the other gt manufacturers i think the answer is ask yourself where is the viper's key market is in the united states isn't necessarily in europe and actually winning races in the united states can do a national homologation and give them a national waiver to put it in gte as they've done in the past with other cars indeed the original ford gt was actually a gt3 car that was adapted to gt2 we've had uh gt3 style corvettes as well uh in the american le mans series but that doesn't mean that it's an ac or compliant car necessarily and as i say i think given the big debate there is about gt3 and the balance of performance at the moment and how that makes the class very difficult to police letting an eight-liter engine into a class that has a five-liter displacement category leader car into a five liter displacement class is just asking for trouble um right now gentlemen jonathan jarvis brings the number fork uh one before uh r18 ultra down pit lane well he's just got in that tires that's very strange isn't it rowdy getting having a tire issue they're getting nervous about tires they're seeing slow punctures or are they doing tire testing with just 16 minutes left to go or do they want a headline that says two ultras on the podium i don't know well they've got two ultras on the podium no they haven't because at the moment josh was third at that point he's going to need to uh dindo will now get past ollie i think the ultras are the decent my apologies right right nick knew what you meant and i was thinking and you said literally you actually heard what he said and i heard what he meant it was a change for position the petrol uh order andrea baliki makes it a uh rebellion lola toyota one two if you like but five six overall takes the thirteen car pass nick leventis and the striker uh hpd but a good run for striker this weekend quietly just going about their job haven't seen much appears in the guys and a great debut by the way for the 2012 uh spec uh rebellion lola toyotas well they managed to you know they've managed to get over that reliability issue they've had so far touched by a piece of wood the only problems they've had has been those double uh pit stops as we see a new super fastest lap well superfast is slapping that's a heck of a middle sector from marcel fazler because he didn't improve the best sectors for the car and either the first or the third sector neither did he set the fastest sector overall in the second sector but he still goes around at a 201 851 the first lap of the race under 202 121 seconds for seven kilometers of controlled savagery has had three slow laps in a row a nine and nine and an eight i don't think he's possibly slowing down enough to wait for marcel with 14 minutes to go no but he might need some new tires do you think so yeah everyone else had them well they could say it was a fault couldn't they we've got uh fesler and capellon now second and third the one and two if jamal was to drop behind capela we would have one two three and four in one two three and four which is entirely the way i expected it to happen if i'll open this envelope that i have over here which was sealed and i have a wax seal on it with your signature i think absolutely i think you'll agree i do agree that is my scenario is that your playing card it's the seven of spades yes it is indeed the seven of spades there you go so bobby kerr has completed another lap and i think we will see that when he comes around he's actually extended the least slightly i'm sure he has but so brendan hartley is now closing in on on simon dolan it's been a good run though from simon yeah very very impressive two-car team so they have to carry you know the gentleman drive it along with here uh an overshoot from jack clark uh in the fifth place uh boots and genie on uh oraca nissan which we've not said very much about that car but uh it's been a good run from them as fastly goes quicker again in the middle um for jack clark and the aurica team their fifth in class at the moment and again i'm on the but sometimes it's best not to mention by us you know just means you're quietly doing your job and look we've got some points i i could be really cruel here and say and point out that actually there's only one of the top five um in lmp2 it's actually a full season wec entry yeah that's very true and that's it it was something i was looking at earlier on and a few people on the radiolemon.com forums have said that sort of the fight the weather is an ac or whatever [Music] nowhere holly jarvis now playing fastest sectors his new fresh boots he's in a 34-8 for the first set to one we've seen we may see a faster lap from the boy he's still got 17 seconds behind him he won't be able to pass in 12 minutes there's nowhere that ferrari and porsche and corvette are going to let him lead the cargo 12 minutes to go the gap at the front of pro uh gte pro is now down to 9.2 seconds we're just going to run out of time about half a second isn't it on a good lap there that's the it's a way to absolutely kill a great class i'm afraid guys uh the tsr three or two diff is different the front suspension pickups have moved and the hall for the drive shafts have gone says sam collins it's just people you might know really yeah well he's very close to those guys so apologies for that i i really hadn't picked up on the fact that the that was an ac or whatever if that is true i think that's a disaster right let's concentrate now in the last dozen uh the last dozen minutes well if there's something something potentially quite significant happen there because it's a big big change uh between the gap for one two and gte pro john down to 7.6 seconds that's the second and a half in that lap and all of it in the middle sector traffic almost certainly but uh does make a big difference doesn't it when you can see your foe ahead of you oh yeah target acquired and there will be places where seven seconds can be seen absolutely it just beat up another 0.9 there but it was a 2.8 second game in that lap so meantime we're seeing some big gains as well uh on robbie kerr from both simon dylan and brendan hartley uh 215.3 last time around from uh from uh robbie to 12.5 from simon up to 10.9 from brendan but i think he's just a bit too far back 204 996 with two fastest sectors of the race so far for oliver jarvis but a relatively slow middle sector but it's pretty fast and furious at places around there at the moment romantic matt in the lead uh has settled into a much slower pace he's very much within himself now we haven't seen him go fast in 207 for the last seven laps now 208 fazer's doing 203's capello is doing 206's jarvis did 204 which was actually should be much quicker that was starting by a bad middle sector but as it stands they that that would be the way they finish i think unless ali now start looking around at moving cars about the only prospect i think at the moment involving car 2 under investigation of pit lane infringement it says here that's dino capello but unless we start getting games played where the car is brought in for some kind of check i can't see them actually changing this richard leet is six and a half seconds ahead he lost two tenths in that first section gt pro it's gonna come right down the wire and uh just talking about viper by the way paul tracy and ryan hunt the rear names that have been bandied about with that viper program for 2013 they're looking for six to eight drivers for that sir and i'm hearing as well that it may be limited to a seven liter v10 because that makes all the difference when the limit of the class is five meters i can't just kind of cut off all the cylinders well i see you say that they did that i'm done it was at phoenix did that uh it was don't know zack speed exactly right with the old gtsr at the nurburgring but it was still more than five liters it was a v8 yeah it was still more than five liters i suppose if they let uh corvette go back to seven uh aston martin have got a six liter v12 and it's only ferrari and porsche who would lose out over that and let's be honest nobody's interested in more ferrari and porsche thing because they haven't supported sports car racing for any amount of time at all well you've got to say there's no one car out there that's more important than the overall competition and uh much as i'd love to see them back in there i don't want to see them mess it up for you know paper the tar nick prost has been in for dash uh he's just out again but he's uh still comfortably uh fastest petrol in fifth overall with a quick 38 seconds andrew oblique has been as well nick leventis has dropped back off that now and he's at 18 seconds behind uh leaky so it's a great very very good day with a brilliant lola's as we speak with eight minutes 52 seconds to go and the key gap which you need to bear in mind is leads to bruny and gte pro is now 5.7 seconds yes 5.4 seconds sorry it's changed right simon dolan's charged towards the front of pt seems to have come to an end with a couple of seconds taking him back away from him by robbie kern it's back up to 17 and a half seconds and brendan hartley has settled into a lovely rhythm lapping in two elevens and two twelves in third place for the origa in uh for the uh 48 or rather in 11th place third in class and he's now got quite a gap to enter by hanson who hasn't come across and now he's still looking at tires who is it this time two well he's got he's got he got a pit lane problem already yeah so is that was that a pit lane speeding violation or something similar last seven minutes guys let's have some thoughts from you first of all nick uh the gte pro battle's not over yet bruni's got an absolute bit between his teeth and he just needs a bit of luck with traffic um which he's just got to get down to four and a half seconds that's a big one i'm very impressed that the audi are going to stick with duma within the race and in comes dindo capello from third position this was the paul sitting car remember and is the championship leader in p1 after winning at sebring for alan dindor and tom now what is happening here a full set of michelin boots for the last 15 minutes a drinks bottle for a two drinks bottles for uh dingo he's uh obviously consuming the fluid like a man who's just walked out of a desert uh that's much more ah no much more elegant now rather than having the sock puppet man on the left hand side leaning in he just kneels on the side of the car so ultra lightweight but not anything other than ultra strong and again the right rear being looked at there guys that's very interesting right it's a question that we'll ask afterwards and i'm sure martin pass will answer if we ask uh martin's paid down in the pits for the last part of the race so he can't escape us from where he is uh is this a genuine problem with taiwa on the e-trons or is there something else going on no because jarvis came in as well all right come in three of them come in for a new set of boots um i think fazla had a problem because he looked odd when he went into the uh the pit lane the other two whether they've they are very concerned i think they found a problem and they're concerned about it and when someone says they've got a bit of vibration they're putting them in out [Music] but why would suddenly manifest itself at the back end of the race on tyres running 15 laps unless they stuck them all on super soft slicks rather than soft or something i just wonder whether with it with the order in effect being uh maintained here whether or not they're actually just trying going through a kind of work plan in race condition i i think that was more information information for card number two for violation of the fueling refueling regulations the penalty stopping of the car in the pit lane stopping restart the engine and then the driver can go somebody must have been touching the car uh take the engine off as well um i would say yes i understand as robbie kirk comes in the pitch from out of the p2 leads oh my goodness me five minutes to go and simon dolan will go through into the lead and brendan hartley could yet be in second place with enemies answered slightly too far back i think the benefit and there is the confirmation go go go and out of the pits has to be a puncture has to be a puncture he surely didn't need fuel but we didn't see unfortunately what was going on there well i could see the end of that was the fuel rig going back away again have they had the fuel warning light come on well dolan's gone through it's own five seconds it's just a splash two laps too early maybe do you know what i'm not saying that this is what happened as bruni is down to two seconds away from getting the lead in in gt i'm not saying this is what happened but i wonder if the guys in the 25 auric yeah we're expecting the audis to be going quicker at the head of the field no because it's not it's not a last race it's a terrorist forget that handoff all right sorry now there is the blue light stop and start from dindle and he's gone so he served his penalty will that cost him the position yes it has as ollie jarvis goes through so with four minutes to go it's romantic martin three from fesler in the e-tron quattro the number one car in second and there's half a lap between those two guys ollie jarvis penalty has been accomplished okay uh and in fourth place just indoor capello nick prost and andrea paliki as we have a spinning number 15 guillaume maro from eighth position overall oh he's got a problem in that car is that a slow puncture as well the front left yeah yeah no he's got it he's got suspensions gone suspension's that's done that's done it's a collapse of the rear suspension he is going nowhere yeah i think that's like to get more heated i'm going to turn that down the gap in uh between porsche from ferrari at the head of the gt field it's uh 1.3 seconds john but actually in amongst that you're going to get olivier player getting himself involved in that because he's catching both cars very quickly indeed as we look for the uh completion of that that was that suspension's been gone a long time on maro's car you could see the way it's sitting down and cocking its right front wheel up in the air and i'm afraid he hasn't felt that and that's a bit surprising because he's been through at least two corners that we saw him there 51 car and he's right right with him it's less than a second now surely well it was timed at 1.2 across the line i can't see that it's that and well done to the director for picking that up as their head down towards all rouge with them two minutes to go for the leader roman dumas and where is he going twice we've seen the ferrari of jimmy bruney got all four wheels off the track at the head of the hill and you've got to get a warning for this we've seen this before at uh spa in the elms at the end of the race how many times have we seen john in a major international sports car race the gt cars come up with the goods right at the end right at the end where is duma in relation to that battle because into the pitfall car number three has entered his last lap last and there is the answer behind the two uh fighting gte pro yes but will he get past them before the end of this lap no he won't nick shakes his head confidently there goes saw on board now on board with the leader and there's a big smile down there in the pit lane for roman dumas team it's louis de vale and mark cheney two first-timers for audi and marcia looks like becoming the first man to win races for both peugeot and audi good spot in uh in a diesel power car so it's a victory running for roan de mar the is eventually proving to do better in the mixed conditions than the quattros didn't look away in the wet but certainly once the dry weather came it seems that the more conventional powering and sorting of the chassis has meant there's more of a chance less than a second now the gap between leets and bruni and that's because players gone through that's allowed jimmy bruni to get right with uh rickard leads we're not gonna see that though i'm afraid we're gonna have to keep an eye they're gonna have to go around again they've got another lap so they'll be starting their last lap any moment now in fact i think i can see on the corner of my eye i may be hoping that there were three or four ferrari similarly painted that's 59 i was right wasn't that one robbie kerr meanwhile is reeling in simon dolan but it's still six point four seconds the gap that's not going to get big gap big gap in the the that was a good last sector for richard leeds he got up he pulled away a bit second and a half the gap now here is the winner of the race overall coming across the line and roman dumas completes a pretty decent weekend for the number three audi team as the fireworks go off over the start finish line early number three the debuting audi r18 ultra diesel wins from marcel fesler it should be in second place in the e-tron quattro which of course uh took poor position in the shape of the fourth place car and the red flags are out straight after the start something happened and john this is not fireworks that was fireworks above the start finish line that went off on the trunk quattro bridge saw it on the tv and lots of them it does become the r18 uh ultra uh part of a proud tradition of audi cars winning on their debut of course they've been it's been the exception rather than the rule uh for cars who have done that and it looked like jimmy was beginning to catch back up again with uh richard lee but i don't think he's gonna have enough time to do it because he's got only a few corners they're already plunging down the hill point four of a second there is the battle exactly what we wanted to see there's a couple of castles between them now there's a yellow flag in the last breaking area the last overtaking area of course at the chicken because of so jimmy brown if he's gonna do it he's gonna have to get there much quicker than he is at the moment meantime here is simon dolan for jordan for zytec and for nissan ninth place inside the top ten and winning p2 and more fireworks to come i'm sure no fabulous two corners to go two corners to go and jimmy bruni is so tantalizingly close this is the battle for first position after six hours and uh six thousand two minutes of racing jimmy bruni he can't do it now he's coming through the bluncher he's dragging him behind the porsche he's gaining he's had the lift in the middle of blochymon and now he can't get close enough surely because the yellow flags will still be out at this point there they are on the left-hand side he can't do it can he out drag the porsche to the start finish line it's going to be tight bruny gets on the power super early but rickard leetz has driven a stormer with marker lead and will win for the 77 felba maya porsche team i'll tell you what they weren't sure where they were i've not seen mark lead that happy for a long long time 0.6 of a second the gap at the end they're very happy bunnies indeed and whilst we might point the finger and say there's a porsche factory-backed team there's not a lot of budget that filled my proton and an awful lot of passion excellent excellent race in gte pro right to the flag unbelievable stuff it may not have been the audi result that was expected but fantastic result for you yeah because we really thought the the each one was going to blow us away because it was so much quicker at the start of the race all through the week but then our car today ran very well the three drivers we did a very good job the engineers mechanics and it was a perfect race for us so very surprised well done luis beckett's down with the successful team and the usual media scrum that will greet the number three of romantumat back into the pit lane well gentlemen let's have some thoughts for you we'll try and get as many of the winners as we can before we go off the air on both the radio and the stream you get a chance uh graham to see a few words here well disappointed we didn't see the debut tota here um did actually serve up some entertainment but the real entertainment for me john was actually in the other classes p2 was excellent gta pro was epic there's even some good running there with uh the 67 carlymps performance matt mukkar coming home uh with the the winning gte am that was where the big stories were for me today aside from the r18 uh ultra's win um but a great race too in the petrol powered stakes yes absolutely nick with the two rebellions coming home fifth and sixth ahead of the strat he might have thought that might have been the other way around but for once there was a little bit better look for rebellion not as much as they might have hoped for and what about p2 as well that kept us guessing right to the end yeah pt was an absolutely epic battle i mean the the latest bashing dash of robbie kerr threw away what we thought was a certainty and once again in a six-hour race he's two classes decided in the last seven minutes 6.3 seconds and of course and 0.7 yeah and and i must be the thing that i'm most enjoying i'd love to know what all this tire changing was at the end for the audis but i'm very very impressed they let the fastest car win yep and i'm also very interested that that was the fastest car yes particularly with the new two newcomers in that car uh we should say well done to gte i'm winner that's the 67 uh porsche uh that car ran like a swiss watch all day and as i said earlier rana's highest second place overall gt car group yeah and also and gtam uh worth recognizing as well the 88 car that came home second the top point scorer for the second round running in the wec gt endpoints it won of course first time out at sebring um gte pro meanwhile it's gonna be pretty close i think uh after this once we get the points through um a good race in some ways a great race uh in the classes but not an absolute classic at the front of the field what do you think uh what do you think we get out of this for le mourne audi were i i thought that the fuel consumption was something that we need to drill down through in the next couple of weeks and before we get the lemon test date um if we've got time between that and the uh 24 hours of the nurburgring but the the difference in how long the cars could go nick not just explained by two liters difference in the fuel tank hybrid is not an advantage in the dry at the moment it's obviously i'm making the car understeer it's made the car under unpredictable under braking and that's all about fine tuning and it appears to be thirstier that's for us from the outside we're not sitting on the pitbull audi we could get all the the fuel thing could be entirely a fallacy but certainly as it looks it's not an advantage in the dry it's a stonking advantage in the wet oh absolutely four seconds which is massive surprising because it only clicks in over 120 100 kilometers an hour so i think audi are going to take away from this they've managed to get a debut car to win they got all four cars to the end with basically perfect reliability the two looked a little bit limpy but not too bad um and they now can go away with some actual race experience and work out what do we need to do to the hybrid to make it better here's romantic mark performance there you go the team celebrating just there but with those last minute pit stops did you think the tires were gonna last well you know it was clear when uh i heard they did not take the towers i had no chance and i said okay i do the same it actually was a you know i have not as a choice and for sure i was really taking care of my towers the last 15 laps i had a good gap before so i was just driving around but you know it was very long because i knew if they stopped you know because they were not so sure with the turrets but with me the towers were perfect until the end no problem with the car teammates made a fantastic job i have to say if we look where we start from and yeah we always gain time on a pit so i think it was a perfect race for us i am very happy thank you we've also got like devel here top spots at far yeah it's great you know it's my second race with audi uh we didn't expect that and we did a good race the car was fantastic as usual without it no problem on our cars finish first second third and for us it's just just a perfect day to prepare them thank you and saw audi bring four new cars home in positions one through four what a toyota think about that graham goodwin well what they think about that is they better be darn reliable haven't they with their own tso30s when they get to the lemon 24 hours uh it's going to make it a lot more difficult for us to predict anything like competitive performance from an incoming uh factory team to stand up against this steamroller without race experience very impressive indeed from from audi sports some questions to be asked about how some of those tactics panned out at the end of the race but uh reliability is everything uh when you get to the le mans 24 hours pace you know what that's a great thing to have as well but that's no good if you can't bring your car to the race without uh spending time on the pick garage and remarkably few of the front-running cars spent time in the garage today bearing in mind the amount of new machinery we're seeing and the extra weight in the front of that uh hybrid in the e-tron quattro nick clearly affecting the confidence of the drivers as well as the balance of the car not handling as well we had a very brief conversation martial faster last night there was a throwaway we said oh it looked like it's under steering a bit and he said yeah it's a big problem we're having well we've now just how big a problem it is in the drive when they're on long runs but they've got test day they've got a lot of private testing they've got a lot of data my guess is that isn't going to be an issue when we get to le mans a few weeks time no let's hope not actually we'd like to see these cars running fast and running running reliably together with uh with all the competitors but some i think some strong signs there as well for some of the privateer cars that we're running in pretty close formation behind the audis that if things do go wrong and if we do get poor weather that there might just be a glimmer of hope there maybe nick well you know the the fastest of the petrol cars is end up four laps off the lead but only two and a half laps off fourth um and that's a very good performance by uh nuclear placement rebellion and in fairness we had some safety car which we wouldn't have expected that's true and but it was relatively neutral across the field i felt those safety cars mostly you might get a minute andrew leaked he did very well too he just lapped behind nick cross because he had two extra stop and goes um the hpd striker it's consistent but i think they'll be disappointed they didn't get sick they kind of drifted away at the end uh nick avengers was putting in some relatively uh slow times i've no idea whether that was the car going off or just difficulty with the light in the traffic um disappointing start for the hp the other hp jwm car but actually in fairness it did actually do five and a half the hours rather well it did very well indeed and i think what we've seen as well is a couple of standout drives not in the lmp1 class and the one i'd like to salute right here right now is simon dolan he's a gentleman driver uh it's a small team uh jody sports and you know what he went and he duked it out with some top pro drivers in lmp2 and he's come out the winner with sam hancock well done to them they had a dreadful year last year their plans to go lmp1 with aston martin uh this year came of course to naught with the problems with the aml one project they've come back with a zytec nissan and they've won this race out here um so we're waiting for the podium celebrations to begin and this is going to be a very happy looking audi team with uh all four cars coming home can't underestimate no matter what else has gone on that's a six hour race in difficult conditions to start with and we haven't seen any of those four brand new unraised audis in the pits at all at any point over the four hours of free practice the qualifying or the six hours absolutely right apart from the 24 hours of running let's not forget uh that's not bad going at all is it now honours are even of course between the e-tron quattro teams and the ultra diesel teams and what have we got being recovered here john that's the ferrari i think that's run out of fuel on the slow down lap well well well now that's how tight are you taking that then well he's got over the line will that be enough in to get a sample there you go that will be interesting the other quick thing by the way about the p2 thing i'm sorry for obsessing about this what suddenly occurs to me is all three teams on that podium are all teams that have never featured on an international uh sports car podium uh it's certainly anything like this level undocking racing of course in the past maybe but certainly not under the adr delta uh banner uh jojo's sports uh adr delta and uh the brand new uh newly rebranded if you like and we constituted for uh 2012 murphy prototypes team that's a that's a great thing to see uh new blood that's what lmp2 has been all about since the genesis of the new uh the new class and that's what it's do it's dulled out this time at uh this past six hours so ollie jarvis and marco bonognomi two of the newcomers for audi take the third step of the podium on the second step marcel fessler andrea lotterra and benoit trell you here and the first international podium first world championship podium for the diesel hybrid and leading up the winning drivers romantic mark with lloyd duvall and mark cheney two drivers who are also new to audi and let's also have a little word here for timor bernhard who should have been in this car who's doing so much of the development work who isn't with us due to that injury he sustained at sebring while testing this very car absolutely right we wish you were here timo and i'm sure you do too but i'm sure you're there right now applauding the efforts of all your teammates there are three debutants to the audi sport team on that podium we see in front of us and four another one that actually debuted last time out at sebring so some very new faces for audi sports in 2012 but it's not affected their competitiveness and it's not affected the dominance that they're able to show against the opposition that's been fielded so far ralph yountner has joined them up there that's entirely appropriate for the man who's done so much of the engineering no wolfgang ulric this weekend absolutely not dtm [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] fourth place drivers are up on the podium as well and graham goodwin of dailysportsguard.com says when was the last time a factory team was one two three four one any team was one two three four unbelievable stuff sorry luik duvall of course was it sebring it's great i know i made that mistake i apologize everyone yeah and i've just followed you because i've been too excited you have to follow me at some point uh are the first the fourth guys are up there not only for a bit of a celebration because they're also in the top three of the michelangelo next challenge oh there you go they won the great next challenge well that's where they're up there yeah they won the green x challenge that's what they make the main podium is the one two three and the win the green x challenge that's handy that uh that will be a photograph that will go around the world of course uh through the good offices of uh audi's pr i'm not quite sure how the number two won the green x challenge because they took two extra sets of tyres at the end and they must and they went less far on what might be very similar amounts of fuel well less amount of fuel well obviously yeah in which case they will talk to you about the logarithmic skill and how the green x challenge we've got many hours in the car can ask your favorite and please don't you're not there you'll be fine i've got to keep them awake not to send them to sleep actually so should mention john the uh the one uh podium uh finishing car we probably haven't which is fred mcavicky i think another stand down performers oh outstanding not particularly well served by his teammate i'm afraid i was gonna say that once again has uh brought questions upon himself right so uh that's uh clearly entered into the barrier at one point and uh taking out the car early for we can only presume he's suffering a little bit but uh fred uh machiavicky actually bringing the 59 car onto a podium finish for luxury racing and into the top 20 as were all the three gt pro cars uh the podium finishes for gta ham the first two we've already mentioned the amazon performance map mutts uh porsche the ferb my proton uh porsche and the third podium finisher which will pop up right now with marco chiacci in the 81 af courser car with matt griffin with matt griffin which means that we had two podiums with two elms invitation entries on each and the audi drivers waste an inordinate amount of perfectly drinkable champagne there it's a good job i've got to drive home tonight i would have had to have a stiff word with them about that wastage of uh and let's just drink them as well yes you know six hours of snetterton tomorrow here on radiolamont.com and then two weeks time we will be at the nurburgring 24 from thursday live coverage from thursday onwards you know this for many years john as a cub sports car reporter i actually genuinely thought that the natural smell of an audi driver was champagne [Music] seven tenths of a second between first and second in gte now we've moaned and we've groaned about the numbers of gte pro cars in the wec this year but if they keep doling out performances like that and let's face it what we saw at sebring as well you're going to get no complaints from me for the remainder of the 2012 season and we never got a chance to see what the aston martin could do no bother a shame because it was right up there wasn't it fast at the start next round is lemon double points 24 hours of racing plus wednesday and thursday practice radio lemon on the air from monday at the track will be at the test day before that of course week end of the second of june i thought a good drive by mark chenier stepping in to audi out late noticed absolutely and as we were saying a little earlier it becomes the first man to win in a diesel car for two different factory teams and the question is whether he'll actually be at the 24 hour of le mans oh i'll make it better and i know having read a couple reports it's looking like it's quite touch and go at the moment uh joe taylor says jordan have had a podium of the equivalent of this before monza thousand care 2005 with their sidekick that's perfectly correct well done short but i haven't won so looking back at some of the early action in weather that was marginal to say the least just what 45 minutes before we started racing and those early laps were a real test of everybody's concentration and skill levels and the levels of attrition have not been so bad today one or two people saying is this a worry for a mom because the levels of attrition i don't think it's playing that bike so fair amount of contact involved with the p2 cars and we were saying earlier in the race john uh there's a bit of a sea change here so sebring we saw a bit of a meltdown in the in the p1 field here if anything it was the p2 cars that started to hit trouble uh hit being the the operative word the interesting thing is of course that uh you thought that zebra you had all the cars that were tried and tested all the old grandfathered cars i said and this is this obviously is completely new 2012 cars and in fact they all the p ones barring i think about the oak got home didn't they well in fact if you look at it the uh the top seven cars here the four audis we've already talked about being brand new cars the two brand new 2012 spec lmp1 the toyotas and the uh one race old uh lmp1 hpd as arx03a are all 2012 spec cars in the top seven cars in the order um it's uh i think getting pretty impressive in terms of reliability for those customer cars and longbow that continue because we'd like to see some of them getting in amongst those uh those factory cars if things don't go according to plan for either audi or toyota we also managed to get one two three four five we got six p2s basically through without anything other than just them running which is great news because obviously we need with a huge chunk of the race being p2 now we don't need the traditional fragility of p2 um two of them their own worst enemies so i think again there's some good pace in there yeah and the i guess the question to be asked there is uh did uh the adr delta team just miscalculate and throw that rose away uh my guess is yes uh the podium there that has zytec yota on the top with the zytek nissan adr delta and murphy prototype shoes he gets on the on the podium there brendan hartley i thought was outstanding that was very good it didn't seem to have quite the pace i thought he might at the end of that race but uh um but you know let's wait and see will we see brendan aboard the car uh for them on 24 hours who's confirmed like half of the morning nobody's confirmed with that car for a moment because because orderly queue yeah for that car for the mom which will be only lengthened by its performance today and that was mainly because it was in fact a reserve wasn't this it was indeed um but uh they together with other teams been looking for additional talents and uh times additional funded talent of course because don't ever forget that for privateer teams that i'm on 24 hours is a very important part of the commercial year for them and uh you know is that balance between performance and the commercial side that becomes the telling factor for particularly the for lmp2 uh in its current format uh but it won't do any harm whatsoever to any of those three top finishing teams uh adr make no secret the fact they see growth in sports car racing and in particular with lmp2 it's a funny commercial program for them uh with simon dolan and sam hancock they're due to be joined at the le mans 24 hours by uh x another ex jota guy hiroki kirisawa um he'll be joining them it'd be a bit like an old boys club really for jota and uh then we'll wait and see what movie prototypes can actually bring up but uh it will be fun indeed with a very irish looking team uh joining the the le mans 24 hours for the first time this year so they're the champagne being poured by the p2 class winners what is that what's the name of that piece of music it's from carmen if i'm not it is [Music] well we should just about get time for the next podium which i think should be the gt tours yeah although these guys are rather milky they're hogging aren't they they have a movement i remember when i was doing the podium back in silverton last year getting them off was as important as getting them on loves you know absolutely i've got to get the drivers off and there they go that is park fermi and what is the gathering gloom here and a lot of the fans have stayed in the grandstands and it's been a good turn out here i think so i think so john and the other thing we should say here is what didn't turn out is the weather that will be expected to do and from even as late as this morning when the the rain came hailing down on us um you know it did look i think for quite a while as if this was going to be a pretty difficult race to go the distance but uh we've not had rain throughout the six hours and we certainly wouldn't have predicted that so the gte pro ranks should be up next and in third place representing the 71 team 50 19 uh 59 teams sorry for michael vicki and jamie mello a bit disappointed with jeremy today i thought matt vicki was a start put the car on paul spun it of course on the warm-up lap and then proceeded to drive back to the head of the field we think that may have been perhaps an interest or even cut slicks because it was just the relative pace of that ferrari against the others was just astounding jamie mellows often being criticized for his antics outside the car but you can normally rely on him inside the car and that wasn't the case today put the car on the barriers and characteristically it has to be said for him yeah this is going to be an uh a not terrifically regular kind of experience for the second place team uh uh jamiria bruni and giancarlo fizzy killer because they don't like coming second they don't like looking up to mark leave and rickard leads and that's what they're doing right now ferrari ferrari but porsche on the top step of the podium there you go it's been a while uh the new porsche gets the victory for team felder by a proton in the german national anthem [Music] [Music] so so magic stuff in the darkness here at spa and there is the drivers world championship and confirmed then that romantic man louis duvall courtesy of their victory here this weekend go to the top of the driver's points standings by two over mcnish capello and christensen the win and the poor position the winner see bringing the poor position here not enough to keep them in the lead of the drivers points championship that's surprising there you go there are big gaps at the uh it's 25 for a win of course and an extra point for all of the drivers in the pool sitting car and the drivers world championship goes down oh it it it's not class pacific it's not class specific right okay just overall [Music] so there will be an awful lot of names down here with half a point because they just took part in their north london primary school wc championship mm-hmm i'll have to put that page up i'll see you here we go more rear suits in an early stage of smelling very bad i think after six hours we will be on that stage i know but you don't need the sticky champagne smell as well so the final podium will be that of gt um which has it's the it's uh marco chucci and matt griffin in the 81 car along with pierre giuseppe parazzini in third christian reid gianluca rhoda and paolo roberti don't seem to have mentioned them a lot today and yet they come home in seconds they've been quietly efficient john and the 67 porsche but winning so porsche's first in both of the gt categories nico mindor riemann narak and anthony pawns his first year at this level for uh anthony pons is the g2 teams can't agree six tenths of a second not very close not a great deal for aston martin racing with a problem with the paddle shift confirmed to us by twitter from darren turner apparently we couldn't have listened to his radio it was the automotive equivalent of tourette's syndrome was it rude yes that picture actually is uh making it look far brighter than it is there is the p1 classification again with the 3142 formation audi sport team yours interesting that i didn't realize that the full car was classified as north america that it's uh the one and two cars of course who are full season entrance and they will carry their points forward what hasn't been decided yet grim is uh who and what will race after le mans there's jordan out uh that is a picture for the guys in the 38th team 6.3 seconds top four top three within again 40 seconds and uh the teams who had the problems at the back of the field and the matt griffin chochi perezini and parazzini team have already sneaked up there as have the 88 team and we get the french national anthem before the guys are on the top step [Music] so [Music] well the martial is ringing out and it is normally the martials that greets the top step of the overall podium because it's been a long time since anything other than a french car and a french team in the shape of pescarulo and then all those wins from peugeot of course have taken that victory that rendition of the french national anthem for imsa performance matt mutt who take the gt am from the porsche of felba maya proton by just under a minute and a fantastic event comes to a close here the fia wec world endurance championship race number two of the championship here at spa franco-schump the trophies being handed out audi have broken the french stranglehold at the front of this race the last non-french car to win we think was going back to the creation we think that might be right john five was that a rule six creation or zytek well shimoda was driving it so call it what you will be as i text and so audi get this one in the bank they haven't won it for the better part of a decade then trophies go up the camera flashes get the pictures you'll see later on in the week or later on this evening if you're going to get the details from dillysportscar.com my thanks to nick dearman and to graham goodwin of dailysportsguard.com and to audi and nissan for their assistance our responsible adult was eve hewitt the guys at mca have done a great job on the tv presentation as have the fia and the aco in putting this together my name is john hindhoff we're back for le mans 16th and 17th of june but the action starts before that and if you're interested in june's racing join us tomorrow on radioalamond.com from 9 30 uk for the six hours of snesterton we're driving there now and then it's the nurburgring 24 in two weeks time from just down the road as the darkness gathers here audi have done what many thought was not possible they've brought four brand new cars home at the end of a six-hour race pretty much without incidents and the chips have been laid down for the le mans 24 hours toyota didn't race and will they rue that come 3 o'clock on the 17th of june thanks for being with us enjoy the rest of your weekend from spa front and shopping round two of the fia wec bye for now [Music] you

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Published: Thu May 12 2022

Reddit Comments

[u/Kaggles_N533PA]

God I love WEC so much. They used to upload full video of a race that held recently and now they are uploading full race videos held years ago as well

[u/JamesRacingGeek]

WEC social team really stepping up their game this year, well done

[u/BCNBammer]

smh this championship is so boring, Rebellion is clearly no match for the Audis. Can't wait until more manufacturers come so Audi is actually challenged.

[u/Michal_Baranowski]

Finally WEC is uploading classic races to their Youtube channel.