Full Race I 2023 24 Hours of Le Mans I FIA WEC

[Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] thank you [Music] actually still common hello everybody Welcome to the Centenary of the Lamar 24-hour race we are here outside at the medieval city of Lamar in the heart of France the heart of the French early motoring industry to celebrate the Centenary of the world's greatest endurance motor race starting the coverage for you today Martin Haven Graham Goodwin and Jim roller and Jim perhaps the biggest Day sporting crowd of any event this season more than 300 000 people here around this eight and a half mile race track and every one of them is breathless with anticipation as we are just hearing you uh do the welcome I got goose and bumps the fourth round of the World Endurance Championship but this is more than just another race in a championship as you said it is the Centenary of this absolutely marvelous event in 1923 a group of three men got together from the ACO and from a wheel manufacturer and put together a plan to prove the reliability of the automobile and to Foster Innovation and 100 years later we are still following in that tradition still proven the automobile still proving new technology and still enjoying the fruits of the labor of these manufacturers which should provide for us today and absolutely stunning 24 hours of them all well first of all let's offer all thanks to the men and women the boys and girls in Orange who keep everybody safe here all the marshals all the workers on the round the track our volunteers have always been without them we would have none of this racing we would not have great names like Jackie X and Roger Penske on the grid we wouldn't have great manufacturers like Ferrari and Corvette and Aston Martin and the rest of them we would have nothing at all so our first thanks go to them the ACO the Automobile Club De La huestra France originated this race back in November 1922 the thinking came around to creating a 24-hour race and here we are celebrating at centene LeBron James there and you can see the difference in hike between a uh a multiple NBA champion LeBron James and a multiple the mon winner Tom Christensen quite significant and put ahead I think that was Martin yeah and this track 13.6 kilometers it is a shorter version of the original 10 Mile track but it still presents phenomenal challenges and two-thirds of it remains on public road for the rest of the year so it has a very different nature to anywhere else we go racing historic names in the corners and this historic challenge has not lessened since it was a 10 mile dirt track back in 1923. last year's winners Toyota Kazu racing car number eight in the overall category jota won in lmp2 you can see there the race record lap times Brendan Hartley with the fastest lap of the race last year well LeBron James towering above everybody here in terms of stature minister of sport there I believe he wasn't dating him yep so you can see the cars on the grid and they are gradually removing the excess Humanity from the field well let's take a look at the markings new for this race on the tires in the hyper car category and think of it basically W for wet water is blue-ish uh the soft tire for cold conditions white medium hot conditions yellow and red hot conditions uh red that would be the hard tire so we've got three compounds in our hypercar class the top tier here that is uh three compounds of slicks plus the wet weather Tire Miguel Molina part of the crew of the number 50. hey of course a Ferrari which claimed Pole Position the significance of the 50 there lost a meal season is of course that it's 50 years since Ferrari raced with a factory team in the top class at Le Mans and while it's dry around the start finish area it is definitely wet out on the rest of the track Graham that's part of the Mills it's not the whole length of it but as you can see it's a Fredro there on the grid it's everywhere you look familiar faces but it is wet out there still warm here so if we don't get any more we're dancing it will dry quickly zero doubt in slick conditions to start this race but equally well none of the drivers none of the cars apart from Charlotte Clark none of the teams had a chance to actually scout out those conditions that will come on the formation lap in the lmp2 category control Tire supplied by Goodyear the blimp is also supplied by Goodyear you'll see that a lot one wet weather and one dry weather Tire nicolapierre the boss of cool racing Brendan Hartley and the rest of the crew of the number eight Toyota team there big team effort to get here big team effort for whatever they've managed to achieve through qualifying in a huge team effort to tackle the Le Mans 24 hours yeah there is a this is a Satoshi Yoshino with tomato buffucci the D station racing car was damaged in qualifying that was Stars at the tail of the field and the race is not just 24 hours the race is actually 10 days long on Friday and Saturday of last week in the center of Lamar the scrutineering it's in the open air lupusage this has been a tradition for the last 30 odd plus years cars come in one by one the teams follow them and the fans get a chance to see everything using uh the test there on the lifting gear that is required for each car in this race and all the World Endurance Championship races and a chance to get that famous photograph of the entire team together I mean Jim rohler the location could hardly be more French could it and all these teams just enjoying the beginning of the week with little parade of cars down through the city as well Yannick Delmas our safety car driver will have slightly uh more up-to-date equipment hopefully on his hands than the 1923 winner it was a very great beginning to the 10 days huge crowds there as well scorching weather in the central town and Friday was absolutely Ram Saturday even more so and the drivers parade last night the judicial drivers parade in town again probably around a hundred thousand people jammed into the center of Le Mans the cowboy hats for the Corvette racing team they were brought by the starting driver of that car Ben Keating the man who put it on pole position in the GTE am class uh we'll say by the way gentlemen you may have noticed as we see the first site this afternoon of the Centenary trophy can we actually there one car not starting from the grid as we see there's celebrations in town last night for the driver's parade uh the Chevrolet clicking house gearbox leak and that car will start for pit Lane and as per the regulations that will be one lap down yeah so uh already on the back foot there but as the team said onwards it's the only way to attack this race is to attack this race and if the car starts to develop recount traits keep pushing it back out of the garage yeah happy scenes in the Montana center after the I'm gonna put this the Staggering recovery from covid great to see this race back in its pump Leo Henry told me uh only time in his life he ever felt like a rock star [Laughter] yeah class winner here at one of the gentleman drivers and he said it was probably one of the biggest Thrills he's ever had was being in the parade yeah it uh it's great to see first-time teams and drivers here as well they are absolutely Blown Away by the reception from the crowd so lots of friends of the famous down on the grid and in the pit Lane still a little bit of rain falling we've had a few drops of water in the air most of the night and all of the day the weather is moving away to the West there on the main radar La Men by the way is the local newspaper that was the first section of phonoria the mulzan straight As was Professor with the Toyota Zoo racing crew now Philippe Loop who is a long time member of ugly shonak's crew at Orica Mohammed bin sulaim there the president of the FIA greets the first ever race winner in an fi World Endurance Championship race that's a Lila wadu yeah from last time out at spa our Top Class here is no longer lmp1 it is now hyper car but two or three years ago the ACO introduced a new element to qualifying hyper Pole the deal here is that the fastest eight cars in each of our three classes got to go through into hyper pole and I had half an hour all together on track to try and set the best time Ben Keating again pulled absolutely exceptional performance out of 33 Corvette edex sport polu chatar they were they perhaps surprise pole Sitters in lmp2 a great great lemon pole for them their very first and although Toyota pushed hard Ferrari pushed harder Brendan Hartley put the number eight car third for a while it looked like the 51 carve Alessandro Pierre greedy would go fast enough but an astonishing performance from Antonio Fuoco put the number 50 car clear and Away in front I mean the Stars lined up car number 50 50 years away the last time that Ferrari raced here they had a car on Pole Position half a century later they're back and they have a car on Pole Position and of course that car was the absolutely beautiful 312 PB one just recently went at auction for 13 million euros wow so this will be the 91st running of the Le Mans 24 hours four reasons that everybody will be very well aware of in the late 1930s and early 1940s there was no racing here in France but the circuit and the town survived World War II pretty much unscathed and by 1949 they were back racing here again this is the mission h24 machine it is basically an adapted lmp2 car which runs on pure hydrogen the only uh exhaust if you like from this the only emissions from this is H2O yeah to the left the driver they will beat leading this field Stefan Rick help me many times a starter here at the Ramon 24 hours this is an ACO project set firm favorites of President uh Pierre fion with a an array of Industry Partners total energies involved here Odessa Supply the chassis as well as the supplies of all the tech it's an lmp3 chassis it is an m33 what it actually gives you as well there's a great indication of the absolute Carnage that surrounds everything here just so many people need a slice of so much this morning we were treated to a great parade of more than 50 original Le Mans winning cars we reveled in this didn't it and a whole host of others that were for one reason or other the smallest the fastest ever were particularly notable Rick's Cunningham bringing a a Cadillac under all of that under the Bodywork of the monster is a Cadillac the group see cars the cars under 19 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s naughties they were all there Toyota brought their first and their most recent Le Mans winner Audi brought a whole slew of their Lamont winners we saw Lamont winners from Peugeot and Ferrari and just about every other brand you could think of and you'll be hearing from one of the drivers as part of that parade later about what it was like yeah guy Smith joins us here for the commentary team this year for the first time delighted to have him here for this fantastic Centenary race and again from Bentley we had old number one the first car to win here at Le Mansa Bentley and that it was a two-time winner and their most recent winner as well the the expa speed eight that uh that guy drove it just seems like a few years ago I'm not going to embarrass him by saying how few that few cards it does feel in very recent history still the the uh the speed date but not quite as reasonable as we'd like to imagine 20. he's still a Sprite Young Thing guy Smith he'll be a bit remember he's actually already raced twice here this weekend beat three sets up a part of the pageantry of this event of course will be the fly pasts we'll see the the French national display team Madrid de France from the Army de lair in fact I'll correct myself I've always called them the Army delay the French Air Force they are in fact Army delay a dispass they are now called the army of the air and space uh so yeah we'll also have the flag the tricolor which will wave the drivers away delivered by the helicopter crew from lame de la Terre and uh the flag that they'll be using here has been signed by every single driver who is here to start the race so there'll be 186 signatures on it correct and that will be used to flag the way uh flag away the race and we'll then go into the museum here the flags of I was gonna say all nations there's not very many nations who don't have a participant here this week competing Nations and uh they will be celebrated with their anthems on the grid yeah well there's been so much celebration around the Centenary of lamanna we've been right in the heart of it where we live in the Caravans just in the TV compound was about 20 feet from the launch of the fireworks and about 25 feet from The Sound Stage that provided the uh son for the son a Lumiere display that was last night yesterday Chaparral yeah you need anything well I have to say I I don't know what automobiles or Aviation or life will look like in a century and I'm sure it won't be around without question won't be around to see it but hopefully something of at least the spirit of this race will still be going in a hundred years this race started on dirt roads with very primitive vehicles and now still represents the Zenith of racing technology whatever that is in a century from now whatever Powers Vehicles then hopefully they will still be doing this flux capacitors there you go back will become in just a few minutes time the 65th female drivers who started this great race there have been uh numerous uh numerous class winners could she be just the next silco was the first back in 1930 yeah and amongst the uh the female drivers that have actually won this race of course Michelle Mouton one in class before there is LeBron LeBron James is it also a Pikes Peak oh there you go not sure how they're going to spot him from the grandstanders they're going to have to crank their necks and look up ways are they this is part of the camaraderie that takes part here friends old and you and it's absolutely part of it the the mutual respect that's required to survive this race within the team within the car crew and within the paddock is is absolutely all pervading and that's one of the joys here now Alpine unveiled their new hyper car here this week that car will be on the grid in the World Endurance Championship the Canada for which was also unveiled and at Le Mans next year [Applause] so the Alpine hyper car look at the detail in the rear lights I mean I love that there's there's nothing about this car that is not absolutely drop dead gorgeous from the color scheme to the little light details and my other cars in Alpine A110 all of that it's absolutely gorgeous if it goes anywhere it will like it looks it should be brilliant and this uh even further into the future the H2 concept from Toyota kazoo racing uh with the uh the we've already seen the hundred and fuel cell will demonstrator from the ACO with the h24 project this is hardly combustion technology and this is pointed towards where Toyota want to take their future at Le Mans and tonight have already started racing cars with internal combustion engines that use hydrogen rather than petroleum so it's not a future technology it is a nascent technology Jensen button one of 18 xf1 drivers on the grid the only Formula One World Champion competing this year and as you can see from his shoulder and his chest he's not in a prototype it kind of is in the Prototype yes he is garage 56 is for cars that fall outside the normal rules they're either Innovative in the the adaptation of the car for the drivers if they're handicapped or are otherly able or in the technology they use this year garage 56 joins the celebration for the Centenary of Le Mans with the 75th anniversary of NASCAR there is a NASCAR cup car modified for endurance racing Jensen button former race winner Mike Rockefeller and seven-time Nascar Cup champion Jimmy Johnson are the crew well here is the crew at Ferrari of course a Ferrari these guys Antonio foka there and left massive smile on his face whatever happens in the race hole at Lamont 50 years after last being here they've won they've won so much here already and now all they can do is go out and just roll the dice like everybody else you can have the best car you can think you've got the slowest car Lamont decides who gets the luck of the green and who doesn't so for every genuinely in this race above all others for every single crew on the grid you could be on the podium and there's not many sporting events where you can say from the extreme of either end of of the sort of ability and knowledge scale that that is true okay so they're there The Man Behind the Toyota name and the winner of the 2023 spiritual among award in the Centenary year of this great event and he could not be more proud of the effort that his team his brand has brought to this race over the last few years they are desperate to defend that title rightfully so he should be proud rightfully soon yeah Brendan Hartley said okay we lost our string of consecutive pole positions here at Le Mans but we are going to go out all guns blazing to try and win the race you know the first Skirmish went to Ferrari and went decisively to Ferrari they made the very best use of the track of the drivers of the car and they were quick but Toyota have the knowledge of the car and knowledge of the race and that is absolutely key here you can bring the biggest dog to the fight if it doesn't know what it's doing then you could be in trouble so Toyota's still very much The Benchmark absolute gallery of Legends whether or not they're in the race or just want to be here for this race and one of the best things for me about this race gentleman every year and never more so than this year it's not just the likes of Jensen butner's world-class athletes of Motorsport that are here this is the race that could deliver on your dreams if you're not a professional racer if you have the skill set and you have the resource to do it they have the passion to do it and follow through on it this is the race that you can come to and that car the number 911 car is one that proves it Michael Fassbender here in the year five of a five-year program with Porsche there is Michael yeah the second Hollywood star to take on this race I hope Patrick Dempsey is here as well in fact humans yeah yeah I'm sure we'll see Michael racing I hope this not the last year we'll see him on the one because he's been an excellent Ambassador for this form of racing as so many people who've come and discovered Lamont have been in the past including Patrick Dempsey still here still with his name on the car a Podium Center here as well of course uh Patrick and we go down and down and down this grid towards the back of the grip by the way out of position three cars uh number 38 steam Joe to car we started by Antonio Felix Acosta from the 60th place on the grid the 13 Tower Motorsports car with Ricky Taylor 61st and the triple seven d-station racing Aston Martin the hands of tournament Fuji those three cars failing to set times in qualifying will start from the back of the grid one other slight change is the garage 56 Hendrix Motorsport Camaro will start a hide lnb2 but in front of all the GTE am cars it's about six seconds left quicker so for safety reasons instead of starting it on the back row they've decided to start it ahead of the cars that it's faster than and behind the ones it's slightly slower than Tatiana from the team manager from Kessel racing famously she was the only member of The Paddock that actually was in The Paddock when our race director and Robert Freitas made his debut in a standard driver's briefing a a couple of months ago she's uh absolutely stunning individual uh happy people on that crew as there are on all 62 Crews here this is the Pinnacle of ambition not just for the drivers remember but for the team members as well Pride on that grid and it's an enormous undertaking it's a it's an enormously challenging race but this is a little bit like being a downhill skier the only people that are likely to upset your race are yourselves everybody else has got their own race to get on with and their own plan and you are all battling the clock and Le Mans and Le Mans is a tough mistress if you win this thing you know you've done something special with your life if you become a world champion that's an exclusive Club as well this is a tough race to win you saw the Armani driver Ahmad al-hati is orange uh Aston Martin will start on the outside of the front row of the Grid in gtem Charlie East what you saw there in the shot with him he will start the car Nikki katzberg was being interviewed just down by the pole City Car in gtem it's the car with the lap set by Ben Keating is the third member of that car well let's hear from The Talented Texan then Keating on the grid by his Corvette foreign you put in such a performance in qualifying and Hyper pulp yeah it was really really special uh as a team we were kind of struggling with how to set up the car uh uh you know after the incident that we had the right before qualifying the day before uh I like a car that's really solid with the rear axle I don't want any oversteer and the team Gave Me Maybe the best car I've ever driven at Le Mans it went it would go exactly where I wanted it to go I had no moments and uh it was quite easy to be fast just because the car would do exactly what you wanted it to do so much fun you know it was it was quite emotional when I got done I didn't think much about it I did a good lap but when they said okay you've just done the poll qualifying lap in the last year of GTE for the 100th anniversary it's a big deal it really is thank you very much all the best for the race thank you middle name passion Ben Keating good to see there the uh the team line up and some of the passion that was around that NASCAR garage 56. uh John dude in there captured as being the Mr President also the team principal of this effort yeah and doing so on behalf of his boss Jim France himself presidents Justice Jaja he does this for fun and he's having a big time and Jim France couldn't be more proud of these guys uh Jim's had phone conversations uh with with uh John and is actually here today for the race so absolutely fantastic there you see LeBron James and this whole NASCAR effort has really claimed everyone's attention let's hear from Jensen button about it I'm with the driver crew for the number 24 garage 56 NASCAR Camaro here at Le Mans and you're really blowing everyone away Jensen button yeah it's pretty amazing you know it's it's such a special race this it's the 100th year as well of Lamar so to bring a NASCAR stock car here it's pretty spectacular I think the I think the fans are really loving it from what we hear every time it passes there's a big cheers so um yeah it looks great sounds great and what amazing team of people they've put together and I get to race one of the mates which is pretty cool but also the times that you're putting in the speed that that car's got yeah the car has been been well prepared and a bit more Pace than we anticipated having so it's been nice as we're positioned here ahead of the GT cars right on the heels of the the P2 Carson all right well we look forward to speaking to you during the race thanks very much uh I could have just counted something gentle button there that I'm afraid I'm terribly sorry not to apologize to ladies and gentlemen for the blatant live from because there's no way you can hear cheering over that yeah as you know all three of us at the test day and it's just a smile spreader yeah uh that that effort it's absolutely fantastic that they're here it's historically appropriate it is a real Buzz as we enter into this era of convergence between what have been Divergent codes of sports car racing and this feels not only like a celebration of 100 years but the start of an era that is really truly very special indeed absolutely right jota as so often with two cars on the grid 28 here there lead now they're only lmp2 car they're also running the first customer Porsche hybrid that has escaped from captivity and that is the Hertz team Josie car number 38 Bears there uh most famous number and mighty 38 the first time we see a customer program for a hyper car the first but definitely not the last the the second kind of customer car is 311 the action Express Cadillac but that is a quasi Works effort let's say the colors of the large an historic French make that has history here at Lamont and there's a new era now with a road going or track focused hyper car is there a racing future for that we don't know yet but the fact they've got their colors all over a race car that means that it's not a definite no number four hypercarp interesting there the John darm maybe from the public information office getting a quick interview absolutely quite right too great it's you know great to see everybody so many members of the First Responders French here and we've had a need for some of those this week amongst this team I'm talking about it as well as the armed forces we had a fabulous show uh there from the both the naval and the Air Force arms of the French Armed Forces over the last couple of days uh low sneak pass from a couple of files just a few a couple of hours ago and we'll wait and see just how special the flight pass is going to be usually very special Fred Meyer he'll be lapping this up a proud Frenchman and he's been a loyal servant to the glicken house uh efforts remember one of their two cars on the grid the other car the 708 car will start from pit Lane and a lap down after a gearbox local Boy made good right there Sebastian I was just about to pick up on that he's from Lamar a little message on the radio during morning warm up to the crew guys great work to get the car out here they had a fire yesterday in uh in the final practice session two days ago in the final practice session and he said okay great job don't forget it's just a race don't overthink it let's just go and have fun let's do this thing and that's exactly the way to approach it it's it's it is a race and you know everybody has a strategy and a plan and everything those will go out the window as soon as the lights go off at the start of it because the weather and and Circumstance will intervene but the thing to focus on is enjoy doing what you're doing especially for a team like caddy who are here for the first time in a long while most of these team members didn't come here with the North Star program so it's a whole new adventure for them it's a whole new adventure for us it's a new era grab of Top Flight sports car racing there is the 708 in the garage that car I'm sure will make the starter the the race amongst the most experienced men of this great race but that car will start as I say a lap down and we've got a good long look as well at the third Cadillac here there's two caddies to number two in the number three uh for Cadillac racing fielded by chip ganassi the third the 311 car is the first time here for Action Express racing talked about the NASCAR gym that is effectively Jim Francis day job if you like that's his Sunday uh Roadster right there not this one but uh the action express car this is is appropriate this is the Centenary Trophy and a recreation I believe of the 1923 winner I don't think the number in 1923 Shania Walker survived the subsequent years but the most successful race winner Tom Christensen nine victories here at Lamar so he's won nearly 10 of all the races ever held on this track is greedy obviously 18 starts for Tom four of those didn't result in a finish the four team that did he finished on the podium every single time and by the way that trophy it arrives here as the reward amongst the rewards for the winning crew after a globe people told to promote this great race I keep bumping into it I don't mean literally it wouldn't stand the the denting but it's great to see all sorts of major events not all of those sporting events the SEO have put a great deal of effort to try to spread the word about this about this event and boy did that work with tickets selling out completely and not a more appropriate person on the planet to be driving that replica with that real trophy the man who's won the other trophy more times than anyone else it's perfect that's one of the things he's enjoyed most about the build up to the Centenary is the opportunity to drive lots of old winning race cars he's done a whole bunch of films you know starting with Bentleys and so on and a very different kind of atmosphere driving those cars you know he's now trying to go okay Center throttle right handbrake Center throttle away which is that which is the which is the neutral where's the gear lever all of that stuff you know there you go ever the showman yeah he is of course was the ultimate Pro and the absolutely the correct Ambassador for this event this year I'm sure is X Audi teammates in particular we've been watching him just trying not to make a mistake with no little Glee there AJ foyt will tell you that the Indy 500 made him who he is today Richard Petty will tell you the same thing at the Daytona 500 and the 24 hours of Lamar has not only made Tom Christensen a national hero in his home Denmark he is a worldwide celebrity because of this event and how many races and racing teams are here or cycle through this great race because of the exemplary set yeah absolutely right the French national anthem as ever rings out across a packed grid and ground Sands here at Lamar and to deliver the starter's flag bringing it in in the now honored tradition this is the view over the circuit of Lamar from the helicopters say bring in that's some Firepower right there there is some fire hat it's also got a camera pod but this is on board the main delivery vehicle yeah just making sure that that's a new element in race controls Armory there 105 millimeter Howitzer yeah this uh spectacle though has become part of the ceremonial over the last few years including the rehearsal and indeed yeah and if you weren't aware that helicopter Pilots were certified be insane just watch this you will be and not just helicopter Pilots why would you leave a perfectly serviceable helicopter without a parachute absolutely yeah abseiling down with the chicola okayness I'm sure is a huge honor for those responsible not coming down slowly no brave men and women of the Armed Forces of this great nation the flag has been dropped off two more coming down yeah so the first two will be stabilizing the drop ropes for their colleagues that follow with a slightly heavier load and then one of these servicemen will have been recorded the honor of taking his nation's flag to the hands of the man that will signal the starts of the Centenary running of the three and a half four hours of Le Mans the traditional bow to the teams on the grid from the heli I expect at any moment ropes will drop shortly there's the trickler yeah not so long good luck to you sir [Applause] this is a proud moment for him I think he's gonna be it's a quad bike it's going to be coming on I think it is nose down very low and very very loud yeah and away they go trim anything Eurocopter tiger [Music] that's featured on a Bond film some years ago there's that helicopter it's the same basic piece of Kit in the same family as the American Apache yeah in the center of the group of luminaries the CEO of lmbm and Jesse Dr Hawkins in about the third row behind there lmbm the organization organizes the FR World Insurance championship and its family of racing events around the world so we're a privilege to provide the worlds and pictures for you there's the man that will wave the trickle there LeBron James to the Los Angeles League top American sporting star and agreed because the most successful quarterback in NFL history Tom Brady is here as well there's a big man and a big smile LeBron and this will not be lost on him no huge glories uh in his career but this we've already seen the public statement from LeBron but the honor that this represents and he will remember this there's not many times LeBron will have been in front of a criminal this big either no that's for sure I mean same deal with Tom Brady you know a Super Bowl crowd is a big crowd there's Jackie Hicks six times winner of the Le Mans 24 hours just on the left-hand side of the shot and until Tom Christensen came along that looked like a record that might never be beaten ah there you go right on cue gentlemen thank you some of our colleagues walked in this morning Through The Pedestrian gate and Jackie so it's just in front of them race suit in one hand and and a briefcase and absolutely yeah just walking in through the normal gate same as everybody else so Jackie Derek Bell those guys Heroes of mine from my eras as a kid and I'm delighted to say they don't let you down in terms of their attitude their Outlook stunning human beings yeah wonderful and it's you know it's been a huge part of the spirits of this event to this point now the new guys the modern guys take over but to this point the spirits of this event has been defined by their example coming up this is how you act this is how you're a gentleman and more importantly this is how you're a sportsman this is proper Sportsman this is how you show the respect for the event too yes you know it is that that thing it's it's very often in sport the celebrity obsessed culture we have nowadays it's not like that here yeah there's no one that is bigger than this event no well we love coming here but I can tell you Tom Christensen and Jackie Hicks love coming here even more than we do you know we've got links with this place we've been coming here a while Jackie's been coming here very great deal long ago and has very much stronger links with this place but they just absolutely love it you know it is it is just a delight the teams the drivers are so welcoming just Embrace everybody because everybody's here with the same passion wherever you come from whatever language you speak whatever your background is none of that matters everybody's here because they love this crazy event you have some wonderful moments In This Crowd whether or not you're here as a fan I've done that for many years whether or not you're here just wandering through and enjoying the sights of themselves and the Spells of this place there's always a conversation to be had there's always a lot of acknowledgments that the passion is there for everybody Stephen rickel they're just suiting up and getting ready to lead this field away in the mission h24 car second generation fuel cell car from that uh technology demonstration so very different looking pattern on the side of its missland tires and that's all going to be part of that as well all the time manufacturers trying to remain as valid as possible as as recyclable and as sustainable as possible while generating the same performance from their tires they too move the game along so so many things from decent lights windscreen wipers disc brakes decent tires on your cars have all been developed directly here at Le Mans [Music] with a cloud of water behind it off goes the mission h24 hydrogen power prototype and Monaco driver Stefan rishami knows the track well he knows his car well as well he and Norman NATO who's in the main race have been deeply involved with the test driving in this car it is a phenomenal engineering test bed because trying to overcome a whole host of challenges in terms of packaging temperature control you can see the big air scoops and so on of these pure hydrogen fuel cells is uh is not the work of a moment and we're going to have to get used to saying off in a cloud of mist by the way that car has race that car has taken part in Mission races including here at Le Mans uh last year there is I believe potentially a third generation of this and you can see there that first opportunity that's not the water coming out the back of the car well it is and it didn't start inside the car still very wet there but looks to be started to dry [Music] [Music] So within 20 minutes now the start of the race I think about you gentlemen but the butterflies are starting here Goose Clubs are rising this started on well it started on Friday but the transit has been even before that some of these teams have been building up for a full year to this race and now it is going to start to get very real information to the pitcline information to the Petland the race is declared wet the race is declared wet [Music] that means two things it means you must run with the rain lights on the back of the car and the other thing is you can now should you choose to do so fit wet weather tires before that instruction uh foreign tires and we should point that in our conversations with misslin in teams choose between slicks intermediates yes and wets and now it is really they had the slicked immediate yeah and now it is a wet that Michelin is very confident will take you all the way to dry so that you don't need an intermediate yeah that technology they now say it makes it a drying wet which means it clears the water and gives you the grip in cooler wetter track temperatures but will survive the Heat and the torture that the cars are put through that the tires are put through by the car as the track drives so there should not need to be that that intermediate step which is exactly what the tire says on the carcass between a wet weather Tire grooved like your road car and a slick Tire Groove like the tires you take off your road car when they need it done with but with more life not sure I expect anybody to start anything other than slick Tire here you've seen there is very significant wetness on the uh hunadio but I don't think enough of it and for far enough that's going to make that choice anything other than a real well uh long shot it's a Fool's errand I think a wet weather Tire you can see here this is from Indianapolis to Arnage bone dry and most of the ground around again you can see the color that the grass isn't it's predominantly straw yellow rather than green it's been fairly dry around this track for a fairly long periods of time recently it was only yesterday evening that we started to get any kind of rain gentlemen it's time for me to take my leave of you because Anthony has arrived and there's there's Rexy and uh have a great race I will be back with you in a couple of hours very much looking forward to this Folks at home I hope you enjoy this app as much as I'm if you enjoyed half as much as us I think we've enjoyed it twice as much as you absolutely correct and uh we'll be hearing from uh 2014 FR worldly Jones Champion Anthony Davidson shortly comes uh literally hot foot from the grid and the midst of what looked like belly control craziness but uh I'm sure he'll tell us the atmosphere was absolutely electric down there and welcome back thank you what's it like down there absolutely Electric so I said it was sure I wasn't wrong but packed and celebs everywhere it seems it seemed to be famous faces every single time uh the camera pointed a different direction here's one again it's great it's full of happiness joy expectation optimism it's I love this part of Le Mans you know clean sheet everyone goes in the same right now and uh you like I say you don't know what's coming your way but at this point in time you're just soaking up all the atmosphere and enjoying it like yeah you just look up to the crowd in the grandstands you look at the driver's faces or the team Personnel it's it's absolutely it's the best in the world it's just I I just soaking it all up it's absolutely amazing we're lost for words we're at that point where we can say hashtag what could possibly go wrong and you'll find out what could go wrong in the next 24 hours here if you stick with us for the LeBron 24 hours it is a race of three races remember three classes here they're hyper cars they leave the grid lmb2 uh split into lb two another P2 program we'll get to that in due course and GTE and plus of course Innovative car that does mean that three races are happening here at the very same time there's a lot up for grabs other than just glory and we are just minutes away now and have you mentioned the tour obviously I couldn't hear you on my way down here you've mentioned the fact that it's absolutely soaking wet the first chicane yes okay good yes because that I mean you're on the grid it's boiling hot absolutely dry and standing water yeah yeah Jose Lopez came running up to me with a picture of someone had been out there and sent him a photo and he said no have you seen what it's like at the first decade I couldn't believe he was talking about the same day I said are you winding me up I'm live on air here are you winding me up so I'm going to go on and say the wrong thing I said absolutely not that's genuinely what it's like yeah it's been a little uh a little downpour there and it is very wet but it will you know track is hot it will dry fast and I don't see anybody doing anything other than going on medium slick tires I'm I'm the thing I'm happiest about it not just to hear that the the spirit on the grid is effectively an escalated version of what we always expect is we genuinely expecting a really good race here now in all three classes the depth of competition here absolutely fantastic in all three classes and just talking to the drivers there most of the drivers that aren't starting of course they're a little bit more relaxed as to Christensen gets on that iconic helmet yeah and oh the drivers saying look common theme is nobody that got through to hyper Pole was saying look that it was because of just a lack of speed it was just a lack of luck yeah is that like the Peugeot drivers yeah traffic red flags we should be higher up should be closer to the likes of Ferrari and Toyota which is music to my ears yeah clubs bought the car I could just see in the background we're about to get the fly pass from the Practical defense and uh Tom as the Grand Marshal will be in the leading car very distinct delivery on that car celebrating the 17th 75th anniversary of the creation of Porsche we saw one of the very earliest cars the gamunt Porsche the pre-a series 365 that raced here and since then porsche have raced here pretty much every year since not always in the top class but they are the manufacturer that has the most wins of all outright Motors nice work by LeBron James that is drivers start your engines and here come over overhead the Prattville Defiance in there Alpha Jets that's an Airbus a400 uh the heavy lift military specs that is a big plane it is indeed I'm gonna steal a line that I read and I'm gonna say thanks to whoever wrote this on Autosport social media account because we have that Hendrick Motorsport car as well it's time for Le Boogity Boogity Boogity it most certainly is complete you've totally called me off guard there I do apologize that's awful it's it's exciting the drama just the temperature's been turned up by the ceremonial congratulations to everybody that has attempted to Stage manage uh this they've done a fabulous job of making this a very special year and we're only just about to go racing gentlemen green flag waves one formation lap so far this season in World Endurance Championship races without the use of Tire warmers we've had two formation laps this will be a single formation lap and the only chance the drivers have to discover what wet or neon odier is like if it's been bone dry and scorchingly hot throughout all of the practice in qualifying sessions in test day as well there is the Chevy Camaro ZL1 a adapted Nascar Cup car he's waiting for the rest of the lmv2 field to roll off [Music] reminder to the pit Lane in car 708 will be starting from the boots car 43 has declared the mechanical problem if that is the case the gaps are to be respected that's the 43s DKR engineering's oraca the all Belgian crude Prime car starting in 33rd position and in fact you saw it down by the pit wall as the uh Henrik Motorsport Camaro rolled off I think it was still beside the pit wall so here comes our GTE amfield and there will only be this single formation lap so that's uh that's really bad luck for candy Chen classes Lucas boy what team with the all Belgian crew and the Very Belgian commemorative Livery and here comes the rain I could just see the safety car in front just kicking up a bit of spray and yep sure enough look riding on board the Ferrari the sister car in front on Pole Position doing exactly the same thing I just as a driver you drive around this part of the track right now and you're thinking oh dear oh dear what have we got here like we said bone dry around one half of the track that other part you're really gonna have to have your wits about you right body work going back on there come on Martin is the driver and he was there in the wrt garage yesterday celebrating his fanatec GT Championship co-driver Valentino Rossi claiming what is Rossi's first ever GT3 win and his first win at Le Mans since MotoGP in 2008. you can see the transition point is at the end of the first chicane and then bow dry this is treacherous absolute on slick tires we saw it in Spa didn't we the last race we had in the World Endurance Championship although you see there don't touch that curb yep stay on the gray stuff son that's what it's there for the the big plus sign is they've had a chance to see it at least they're not coming blind into this but that's going to be precious little and the other thing is although they're going very much more slowly than they will be in elapsed time they have at least had a chance to feel how much or little grip there is the DKR car being rolled off so that will take the rolling start hopefully to be pushed into the pit Lane it says on time again scoring but has he got a chance to go we'll see if that's changed stay at the back of the queue so he's not allowed to rejoin his position in the queue he will start at the back of the queue but they won't lose any laps then it dries up going into the second chicane so it is so localized yeah it's basically just the first chicane and a few hundred meters before it and the the again the problem here is it's not just about what the temperature is like here it's what temperature is like there on an eight mile course that's the problem if I was race director right now I would throw a slow Zone just for that sector okay that's not about shout that is not a bad shout slow zones the race director can have a a a section of the track where the maximum speed is 80 kilometers an hour and that would be a a pretty decent way of just protecting them from danger in the first couple of laps but you can see how dry it is down the end of them all sounds straight I wait is still in the pit Lane I was looking for you on the on the grid so Glenn can you tell us what's happening right now yeah yeah before we went out um we noticed the little league on the transmission seal so rather than fight it for 24 hours we decided to be cautious change the seal it's fine it's ready to go um you know with this new pass around procedure it's not really an issue and we're ready to go great thank you thank you safety car leading the field around before the start of the Centenary Le Mans 24 hours since 1923 they've been racing on this track around the outskirts of Lamar in France the world's greatest endurance motor race is about to get underway for the 91st time 10-year Hiatus in the 1930s and early 40s we have been back to racing almost ever since and for the first time in 50 years Ferrari returned to the top class at Lamont with a factory effort they start on pole position with car number 50. it'll be Nicholas Nielsen leading the field ahead of his Ferrari teammate James collado on row two defending Champions Toyota gasu Racing number eight car won the race last year Sebastian wemi with them and the best of the Porsches the number 75 car starts right behind as we ride with where me that 75 car driven by Brazil's Felipe NASA Mike Conway in the second of the Toyotas and the first are the caddies of Earl Bamba car number two the peugeos are in 10th at an 11th position in our 16 car top class Fields the 708 clicking house as you just heard from Jim glickenhaus will start in the pit Lane after a change of a transmission oil seal always try and address problems as soon as you can pull in GTE am set by then Keating in the 33 Corvette racing Corvette and it is Nikki katzberg that heads that field Ed exports poor Luke shut down the man who sets the pole position in lmp2 heads the second prototype field away and just quickly the reference to the pass around there are new safety car rules this year which will stop drivers or cars losing a lapse of leaders in their class and will then Bunch all the classes together before they're released so Jim glickenhaus is uh very much the opinion that will help them get back onto an even keel we are getting ready for the start of the Centenary race at Lavon with Ferrari Toyota Porsche Cadillac Peugeot golican house and Floyd vanwall in our hyper class we've got 23 cars 24 cars in lmp2 and we have Corvette leading our 21 car GTE amfield it's a huge effort from these manufacturers to bring all these cars most of them new racing this season to the grid here huge anticipation from more than 300 000 fans packing Circa de la Sr they could not have sold another ticket everything is full to the rafters and we are ready to get the race underway the challenge is known it's well known the factors that are going to be the stories told over the next 24 hours and for years Beyond are completely unknown and that's the best part of this and there are so many unknown factors with this race the way it comes at you he comes at you hard and the fact there's so much newness here in the depth of competition in every class we're about to go racing we are about to go racing at Lamar for the Centenary race The 91st running of this great endurance classic cars heading off what was once all public road and back in 1923 was a 10 mile course this is the permanent race facility as they head into the Porsche curves Anthony some of the greatest Challenge on the in the uh in the world of Motorsport we just heard from the race director great positions all cars to assume great possessions let's close those gaps let's please close those gaps again two lines of cars these two lines of cars easier said than done somehow on those really tight final chicanes and you tell yourself as a drive at this stage keep it clean going into the first couple of Corners it's a long race but again that is easier said than done too the 75th Anniversary leverage Porsche safety car will lead the field around also sprung zarathustra reaches its conclusion the clock is set to four o'clock Central European summer time the Centenary running and the Centenary of them all 24 hours underway LeBron James weighs the chickler and we are racing Ferrari locked out the front row of the grid will they still be in front in 24 hours time the Toyota number eight sweeping around the outside looking for second place lockout from the Porsche of the 75 car that's content with the Toyota they both survive Peugeot and Cadillac both take to the runoff area there was contact it's a Ferrari one too 50 ahead of 51 the number eight Toyota in third and the number seven Toyota up to Fourth Place ahead of the 75 quarter that's the car you can see right behind then the blue nose that's the number two Cadillac the second Porsche is next up behind him and then we get into the first of the Peugeot the 93 car with that distinctive it hasn't lost its rear wind that's the way it's supposed to look look so the race start will be investigated by the stewards they get into the whip now as they come off chair straight and Anthony Davidson this is where the potential danger is it is very wet here they are on slick tires well we saw what happened into the first chicane let's see into this one it is treacherous like you say Martin and already the 75 going wide again I think that's the same car Felipe NASA that ran into the side the left rear of one of the Toyotas and cars going off the track Left Right Center here gonna for the 63 take to the internet that's the action Express Cadillac and he is right in the middle of the field he's got no steering or he's got no Bodywork he has uh low left front corner now he's going to try and drag that back to the pits Jack Aiken caught out and on the in the barriers he will try and drag that back to the pitch because who knows what else might happen in this race well we called it even before the start of the race that that first she came was going to be a little bit treacherous and on the exit just losing at that 3-1-1 but he's quite Martin we need to see what happened to the 51 Ferrari that's gone from second to Fourth he's been jumped by the two Toyotas Nick Nielsen still leads in the 50 car but Toyota number eight in seconds Sebastian bohemi teammate Mike Conway in the other red and white Toyota that's in third place there's the 51 Ferrari in fourth and there is Jack ache in the uh British Korean driver trying to drag the car back to action Express all sorts of body pits will be required but it's gonna have to go back into the garage and have a new front end put on that car look how racy the Toyota's are looking at the start of this yeah right up behind the car 50 now and breezing by into Indianapolis that's a surprise yeah huge attack from Sebastian there's his teammate Brandon Hartley and the rest of the garage applauding his Toyota retake the lead or take the lead for the first time it is Nick Nielsen in the number 50 car full Ferrari who's now in second place so a lead change already halfway round lap one of this race yeah as we were focusing of course on the incident for Jack aching coming out the first chicane it was the Toyota squaring up to the first of the two Ferraris can we get to the second UK that's where the first move made we've just seen the second and that that's early total pulling away now Ferrari has been very quick in race Trim in free practice it was very quick as well in qualifying trimming qualifying so what has changed here is it the conditions is it something about the attitude of the Toyota drivers I'm gonna take this by the Square from the neck on lap one and drag it out to the finish in 24 hours there's a long way to go a lot of racing the safety car is out and that possibly not goes to the slow-moving action Express caddy but the debris field that he left behind at the first UK and potential damage to the barrier as well which needs to Bunch the cars up to allow a big enough gap for Marshalls to be on the circuit and Recovery Vehicles as well to do that thing question here the glicken house that starts from the pit Lane should join in at the end of lap one but ah there's another problem 32 car and is that at the second chicane so that's Marshall post 11. first you came okay so Mark Van in some trouble there now Chuck E can still bring this car back at PACE despite the fact she's got three wheels on the wagon effectively here but in a hurry to get back to pit Lane they're gonna say that looks like it's built like an Audi doesn't matter this is on board with Jack Jacob do you want to take us through this end yeah so the first ride we knew it was wet stay off the curbs a little bit of oversteer there through that next left to caddy getting sideways the sister car and on power the rear just snaps he catches it the equivalent the high side of the motorbike goes the other way otherwise we have a lot of debris on track we have some cars to pick up sorry Graham it's so easily done as a driver there you're getting on power you've got cold ties you just had that slow warm-up lap and we all saw it beforehand here's the 32 slapped away from him in the chicane just ahead of the NASCAR there and he's powerless really at that point again just that shot looks like it's in the video game where somebody's just going I'm going to race a NASCAR in this one but that is uh genuinely part of the race it looks very different from everything else yeah a little bit like one of those lockdown videos from Tom Aaron Tom I know you're here on the on the uh Placer the uh PR man from Brown's hatch a great work by Jack Aiken to get back to the pit Lane so quickly now in the end this will now be about making sure the car finishes the race I mean right from lap one their battle plan has changed fix the car get it back out on track try and make the flag because they know where the field this competitive they're unlikely to be a contender but that was their battle plan all along they would have had it in their debriefs Before the Race even took place saying our strength has to be reliability getting this car home if we get through unscathed we're guaranteed a Podium it's always the way it is when you're not in the fastest car and they haven't been since the first lapse we saw here so I know it's uh I know it's easy to say sitting here but you just it's a game of survival when it's wet like that in the in the first year came but it was just getting on power maybe it didn't have the TC quite turned up the traction control turned up enough and uh a little bit of a bump as well slightly offline he had the other car to the right hand side the number three car and maybe giving that car space meant it was offline and uh around it went I'd really like to see another view of it just to see if there was even a tiniest bit of contact from behind it's it's it did look like the car just spun up but you can never quite be certain here's the 32 car being removed from the gravel at the chicane that's in the first chicane safety car has now picked up the leader we have three safety cars here and all three are on track they have all been scrambled well I'm not going to say we're not gonna have to go through the new procedure which we'll have to explain at some point there's no cars behind the second or third safety cars just now but we do have a car and pit Lane uh also by the way to catch up here we'll come back to the safety car procedure on track now is the 708 uh clicking house that one has joined in a lot late and we'll see how that works out with this process um the interior report car now recovered to the racing surface and making progress up the order are the cars that started late now this is the perfect time in fact to talk about the safety car procedure because we heard Jim glickenhaus saying with the new safety car rules starting from the pit Lane shouldn't be a problem okay they're not going to get he'll hang in a minute they might get a lot they will get a lap back where is the where is the very first lap of the race Cricket house is at the back of the queue so what happens with the new safety car rules there are three safety cars they're scrambles at the start line at the first chicane on the mall San straight and at mulsan corner and those are now all circulating at the same Pace let's take a look at the start of the race again I just want to watch out for this number 75 Porsche he goes to the outside has An Almighty lock up on the right front already looking very racy there is Felipe NASA you really had to have a little stab on the brakes there you did this is where it went wrong didn't it it was not quick away it's at right front again I wonder if there was some kind of uh regen issue and uh putting too much force going through the front right break but uh yeah number six Porsche got in very deep there alongside the number two caddy the Peugeot coming steaming up over the runoff area on the outside go go go yes that was the number eight car Sebastian Remy taking the lead this is the moment that led probably to the uh safety car scrambling the 32 car going off in the wet one twitch [Music] no no sound of contact from behind it just sounds like it just spun itself up there and it was very subtle as well wasn't it it's almost like it wasn't under under limited traction it just too quick for the corner kind of like the Antonio foco incident in uh Spa where in a straight line it just sort of got spat across the road now let's talk about the safety car rules so three safety cars circulating the entire queue is behind one car but but that's immaterial once the track is safe for racing again the three safety car cues will merge safety car b and c will wave the field by and once they're all in one long queue then we get wave Buys so if you're in a cube safety I imagine in the middle of the race you're in the queue of safety cars your class leader is behind you yes you get waved by to the tail of the queue so you don't lose a lot behind the safety card because of the safety cars then we will reposition all the cars so that all the hyper cars that are in the race are ahead of all the lmp2 cars then the Garage 56 number 24 Camaro and then all the GTE cars so that is the way it will work now what Jim glickenhaus was saying was that you know if we get into the queue that if we're nearly in danger of losing another lap if there's a safety car we'll get that lap back if you like we won't lose it I I love them which is why I was asking where is it the queue because it was at the back of the queue he won't get he won't get it on this part but what he will be is a lot closer to the traffic there is one other outstanding uh item here which is what has happened to the 25 Aston Martin let's have a listen first I know what's going on with sad boy me and then break off we see from the Porsche on board it looks maybe that it hit more of the uh the side than the rear looks like the the side of the left hand rear okay that's it's because when I play I have no assistance it's really hard to break I need to press really hard I have no assistance the kilowatts don't go in negative yeah copies that we know we're on it okay back to you let me have something best best leave it to us well that is uh that's a revelation isn't it and not a good one first Sebastian bohemi uh Toyota already in trouble he's saying basically on this fly-by-wire braking system you usually have a lot of assistance from the brake pedal to help to regen you can see the energy levels there on the left hand side that's a combination of battery power and fuel used so your total energy they're obviously all up there at the moment in the 90s and the uh the high 80 percent but what he's saying is I'm having to physically press the brake paddle really hard I've only got the mechanical brakes at this point now it wouldn't be a problem at the moment because the state of charge of the battery is high because that's what it is at the start of the race you charge the battery up yeah you have almost a 100 sock they call it state of charge the problem will come if he's got no Regen then that energy level is going to go down and down much faster than anyone else 37 looks to be going in the garage here for uh the uh cool racing Squad 38 the Hertz team jodica also on pit Lane there's a number of teams take the opportunity to just top up with fuel the other aspect by the way to this new safety car procedure is pitch entry remains open until the merge process starts the cars will be held at the end of pit Lane until the next safety car passes that will be safety car beats anybody's being released now will just lose position against the first safety car but when the safety cars come before safety cars come in they will all be merged into the same queue so this is free time it's effectively free time to top up with fuel as soon as merge starts Pier 10 closes and a driver change there was a driver change there was all after one lap so all these cars in the queue here have to wait until the next safety car passes them yeah but it's barrier repairs underway so there could well be a little bit of a delay here I'm afraid and said what a freight is there at mp12 exiting the first chicken everyone to Bear totally rides exiting the first chicane at mp-12 everyone to work I've got a lot of heavyweights on drivers left it's a train of course released behind safety car B if you're wondering why it is that despite the fact there's only one safety car train the other two cars were circulating this is why it's because this is part of the process there will be a merging process we will get to see that this early in the race slightly unwelcome it was the Goodyear Airship Zeppelin the main body if you like the field behind the first safety car past the scene of the incident still not clear by the way what happened if anything indeed happened I think it might have been attacked it is a timing glitch had a couple of those the LRT by TF Aston Martin that's referring to that started second in GTM is actually third in the queue it's a bright orange cards quite easy to see but not by data it keeps going from last back up to Third uh let's uh I think longer the repair seems uh seems big service vehicle on site now let's see if they don't do a slow Zone after that I think they're right it's a longer this is it's not a very very quick fix so I think we are going to see the entire new safety car process [Music] which means that as the pit Lane remains open now some cars May duck in and out now the question for the number eight Toyota team what they will be doing now is hacking through all of the data they're getting off the car to try and figure is there if there is something they can reset if there's something in the menus that Sebastian Remy can try and control or delete reset change or whatever part of their problem is that it's not charging up the batteries and the Hybrid Power although it's not used for a lot of the lap probably no more than six or eight seconds in an entire three and a half minute lap it is used and it is part of the power of the car it doesn't add to the power of the car it just takes the place of some of the internal combustion engine but Anthony Davidson the more significant factor and we saw this in quarter mile when the Ferrari lost Break by wire and they didn't get on top of it quickly enough is that the brakes aren't built to stop the car on their own and so imagine if you have two brakes on your bicycle and you're only ever using one it's gonna overheat because it's doing more work than it should do and that's that perhaps the larger problem immediately yeah there's a safety car will mitigate that because he's not using the brakes very much it's absolutely right and what they can do as well they can do half throttle recovery as well so when you're not on full power you do get the recovery that way it uses the internal combustion engine to charge the battery like a hybrid on a road car exactly exactly so half throttle you're getting all the recovery you need until the state of charge of the battery reaches the level that it's happy enough with and then it does naturally hand over to the mechanical brakes trouble is as soon as they're up to full speed it's going to be doing that Non-Stop and you there's very limited room on this track to be carrying half throttle everywhere the point of a racing car is to be flat out for as often as possible again behind the safety car you can't utilize that because you're on the speed limiter and it it is fixed at a maximum of 80 kilometers now so the engine will be fixed at a certain RPM so it doesn't exceed that you can choose within the car to make it charge under the safety car as well because obviously under the safety car you're not the basically the full course yellow limiter at 60 kph is doing that job for sorry 80 kph is doing that job for you it's it's limiting so the the electronics hands over to the electronic motor to slow the car down even though the throttle of the car is being told to go to 100 the the e-motor is slowing you down so you don't go flat out another another thing I would like to introduce is enormous a b and c on safety car roofs we just saw a shot of a little safety car key that's safety car B those were the cars that ducked in and out of the pit Lane and again Anthony has listened [Music] to be fair you know Jack he was being cautious it really was he's just this unfortunate business teammate alongside he knew it was slippery and greasy and he wasn't like I was just I was waiting for the like say that that's that high slip the spike of uh of the traction control not being there for him and just letting the revs fly up but that didn't happen he wasn't doing anything in my opinion irresponsible it was just a racing car and slick tires on a wet track so uh yeah it said your heart goes out to him well there he is okay can could have been anyone maybe could have been anyone it's I can't see anything he did so here's the heli shot and I'm trying to see where the Cadillac is here I know the Toyota is interesting the two peugeos nearly taken that's where it happened that's where the pass happened out of uh out of the wow chicane they just had better traction there well we saw this in Spa didn't we the Ferraris they just didn't have the warm-up capabilities of the Toyota they couldn't start that race in Slippery conditions on the Slicks the Toyotas did and we saw their first or one of their first hits on the Slicks being painfully slow compared to Automotive that was the Pastor Lee coming down towards Indianapolis things that Toyota seemed to be a little bit unhappy with with the tweak of regulations coming into this race allowing Tire blankets back yeah that hasn't been part of the scene this year so far and they said all that work we've been doing with no tie warmers making sure we can switch our tires on being clever in the way that we do that has totally been eradicated for this race so they felt like a little bit hard done by but you've got to be there when the regulations change you know it's the same for everyone really but that work they felt they had an advantage on cooler tires with no tire blankets yeah for the gag a lot of pit stops including yet another at least one more uh driver change that's around the operodo that is Francois pero day now why are they putting their gentleman driver in because they can normanato started to negotiate the Carnage of the first few laps that started lemanis is never a place for the faint hearts and Nancy but now the safety cars out each driver has a minimum amount of time they must drive at a maximum that they're allowed to drive you can't do all 24 hours so they're putting in from to operate an ass he can get himself up to speed in the safety car queue get himself dialed in and then start a decent long run Maxi Martin back in the pits with the DKR engineering number 43 car on this team making their debut appearance in The Big Race here it looks like they've got more issues than they had second no no they're not they were they they earned one last year uh through success of London P3 and actually their history in lmp2 goes back way before into the old rule set where they raced a uh open top Lola many years ago but uh well-known team in the industry Kennedy gen class uh member commentating with Oliver Gavin for races prior and uh he'd race GT1 Corvettes with Kennedy's team back in the day with dkl ironically Jack Aiken's mistaken yeah look Alex is that Alex Alex yeah just saying probably what I've just said on air look you know it could have been me it could have been anyone I've heard it I've seen it you're just on the outside the statistical had a moment in the left-hand part you had a moment around the right hand part but unfortunately the barrier was closer on that part of the track we can go to car 37 Nico lapier foreign if one of the Toyotas hits the UK or if both the new pit this message there is actually James collado's radio instead and uh quite an insightful one as well so that could be an interest to give a bluff and Double Bluff couldn't it what this has done gentlemen is it's thrown mixed strategy into the mix immediately so we're not giving the situation that we we might be with a full green start for this race where you've got a predictable cycle for the whole field in each of these classes because lmp2 and GTE am we've seen about half the the grid for each of them already down Bit Lane well people who don't regularly watch this see inside there's a little thing there with the yellow safety car message in it that's the the driver's safety system every single car has one it relays all the flag signals as the driver gets to them and messages from race control can be sent directly to that car too [Music] safety car remains out here at Lamar in the Centenary running we are 22 minutes in and on lap one an incident for the action Express Cadillac of Jack eight Kim that clattered into the barriers and the number 32 lmp2 car from interior pole have brought out the safety car number of cars have gone in and out of the pit Lane to fuel up and in a couple of cases make driver changes and Davidson people who are not used to endurance racing might be going well why are they if they don't need any I think American Racing fans will always have the answer always take fuel when you can you just want to try to split the strategies up the unfortunate thing at Le Mans is that you do have the three safety cars whether at some point they're going to merge or not yet to be seen this time around but it's a nice idea to particularly for the lmp2 cars that have uh amateur drivers as well is just looking at a replay there of Jack Aitkin going into the barrier on that first opening lap you know the outside view confirms there was nobody close behind him so it was in contact either with the number three car alongside with the yellow nose or anybody else I just feel it could have been avoided all of this and all of the this safety car period by seeing that it was wet there they're all on slicks I called it straight away as soon as I saw how treacherous it was but I think it needs a driver and a current driver to be there helping out as well to say look this is the safest thing to do to throw a full court not full course he had a slow Zone we have the beauty of that in the World Endurance Championship and the circuit is split into many sectors to accommodate that to allow for that and I just feel like all of the drivers would have been in agreement with uh with having that in place it was for me it was the it was a no-brainer the safest thing to do but uh now we it is what it is we have a barrier repair going on and the cars out there eager to get going again and the the good thing is with the slow zone is that the race carries on once you've passed that uh that period of uh of slow speed if you go to the car 94 Peugeot we would like you to box the slab kid case beat entry is opened if bit entry is closed stay out probably I'll follow the life it's a photo correct this will be fuel only copy so again taking the opportunity while the safety car remains out to top up with fuel prepare for emerging the entry is closed prepare for merging pit entry is closed so now nicomola will get a message going do not box do not box potentially close now in one of the three practice sessions the pit entry closed light was on for the entire session so that all the drivers would have a chance to see where it was what it looked like and then they'd have no excuses if they came in while it was closed so now we're going to see for the very first time at this all sorts of History gets made of this race this is another little facet of it the first time we will merge the three safety car cues now safety card B has got a queue safety car sees queue has already been waived by so they're between the chicans of them all sound straight ahead head of the safety car that they were behind and safety car B has waved its cars by as well pulling in on the exit of Arnage now as safety car uh C has pulled in at the first you can so they will all join this long queue yeah the differential between the cars by the US you'll see on the beat pillar of the car the a b or the C you're absolutely right that's exactly what's going to going to happen to be more enormous for idiots with poor eyes like me uh but something called B has now indeed pulled in uh just to explain when they say pits are closed while pits are open uh before the call to start the merge Begins the pit light exit light will be on until the next safety car passes by you join the next available queue as soon as the pits are closed you will wait till the single safety car completes another lap in other words you'll lose a lap yep now I hope that everybody watching Trackside is either listening to radio Limon on their radios or Chris McCarthy the English language commentator here who joins Bruno bondisdique and the rest of the French crew because otherwise they'll have no clue what is going on right now okay everybody's behind the Safeguard those guys are overtaking the safety car that's not right he can't do because this is brand new we haven't used it all year long in the World Endurance Championship we've never used it at the moment this is absolutely brand new so if people you know haven't been reading all their briefing notes for the drivers and they won't have because they're not drivers then this is going to be quite confusing Hold On Tight boys yeah it's uh for all the traditionists out there used to the three-car safety car it would be very confusing if you're just sitting in the grandstand uh with with no commentary to tap into but um yeah I'm excited to see this apparently when they first tried this we're in Barcelona in the drawing in LMS race beating and uh let's put it this way there were some director's notes it's not simple I mean you're quite right Martin when you're used to doing something the same way over and over again however clear the instructions the new ones can be missed and the other thing is we're dealing with people maturing enough and raise control to understand that the way we thought it might happen might not be quite that easy and there are tweaks and they're happy to eat and the other thing is to make sure that everybody gets the message repeat the message it'd be really interesting actually to see on board what messages are coming through to the drivers in their safety systems four laps into the Michelin mediums on Nick Nielsen's car again I think pretty much everybody started on mediums at the moment it'll say safety car but I wonder if in a queue that's being passed around or waved by whether you get a message saying pass SC or something and then when you're in a queue here understanding is the instruction goes to the team yeah through the timing screens it's then for them to instruct their drivers appropriately the responsibility is if it's highly the team that's listening to what's going on with Toyota okay so I need a report on track Edition again report on track Edition yeah seems to be uh a lot [Applause] if you drive copy that and when you can again on throttle charging stock 55 Target okay did we get a wrong map that I have to do that or not on a roll map now there are various you can see when you look inside the carpet you see twiddly dials that's the technical term I think it's Andy twiddly dials on the oil and a roll map which is on the spokes normally you have a sort of rotating thing many of your road cars will have that to to go from fuel consumption to how many miles you've done and whatever else converts to kilometers and and that's the same sort of thing you you'll often hear them giving them you know Alpha 12 beta something or other little commands to set traction control and fuel economy and so on but when you need to get deeper into it as he obviously does to try and sort out the braking issue and the re the harvesting of electricity issue then that's it in a sub menu That's not necessarily immediately there and it's good you know it's a luxury they've got this time to do it imagine if they didn't have the safety car they would have been really fighting fires uh real time at high speed and would have been losing time maybe even losing their their brakes as well at points so uh very lucky lmp2 now start the drop back and here comes the Camaro now then the Camaro is supposed to stop behind the lmpd it'll drop again okay so they will drop back the Camaro once this is complete this is now we didn't see the 75 car had been into the pit Lane we didn't document that that is now going to get to go by all of these cars and into the tail of the hypercar queue 38 sorry 30 what I say 75 yeah 38 sorry so Ella B2 is dropped back to the back of the field okay then then the same will occur I believe we're then going to see the same happening with the NASCAR and then the GT the GTE AMS and you can see all the lmp2 cars that have pitted going oh ah right I'm following that cue because you can clearly see from behind you don't may not know who it is but you know what it is right follow the lmp2q right so they're all together they'll then drop back in here now the advantage of this in re- starting a race is that you've effectively separated out the three races into cars of a generally applicable pace so it means that that Madness that you sometimes see safety covers Building Safety cars should be less likely to happen yeah mitigated so that's the word you're not starting the race leader behind 35 gentlemen drivers in in slower cars or or even five gentleman drives in slow cars so safer for everybody and less likelihood that safety cars will materially and majorly affect the actual race in the classes you're going to see the same car 24 now to do the drop pack exactly as we just predicted what it means is you're not going to see The Fabulous in-car shots of the likes of Fernando Alonso powering through loads of traffic yeah shots of that but what we will see in just a few laps time is them catching that train they'll still have traffic but it won't be quite as frenetic because they're in their own battle uh which they can control themselves rather than the urgency to get through that traffic to keep with the queue now as well as testing this out for real in the European Le Mans Series in Barcelona what other things do teams do to test things when they're not on a real race track they go to the sorry I was looking at something else as well as testing this system in real life yeah and what do we now have in Le Mans racing and simulators the virtual virtual virtual demand drivers yeah have done several races rehearsing this with the race controller with race director Eduardo freighter so as well as the teams preparing for this on the same race director has prepared for this on the Sim as well using some of the teams and drivers from the Le Mans virtual series got to be said very effective I'm doing this very quickly so we've had two of the past sorry the merge uh parts of this or the pass around parts of it within a single lap and I think we're going to get close to getting the third done because the 24 car is now getting towards a position it needs to be and then we'll carry on through with the GTE once the field is under control once it's in the correct order we can go back to green flag running so most of the time on the safety car has been for the incident to be dealt with Once race direction are happy that that incident site is safe they'll then go through the process we've just seen one question why wouldn't they drop back the GT cars first why have they done it the lmp2 cars and then the GT cars let me think that one through for a moment uh there must be a reason but I can't think of it for at the moment other than the fact what you've seen there is you've had a mixed batch of cars pitting lmp2 and GT cars it does help to sort that it does help to sort that so that actually what we're seeing is cars coming to forward into that into that queue both in Pace order as well as class order I still don't understand the answer aggression because they the next move I'm sure we're going to see is the GT cars drop back and that relieves the number 38 jota to join the back of the fight for cars thinking it through the answer is if for whatever reason including an early Pit Stop you've got an lmp2 car in the middle of the GTE cars that sorts that first they'll then cycle back forward in front of the GTE cars so the 43 car for instance is at a race with the other B2 cars it's in the middle of the GTM cars this helps toward the lmp2 field first and then you do the same with GTE naturally because there's no other cars in them and they mix for all them yeah and of course once we get into real life racing where the first car in the queue is the first car that the safety car picks up because you want to neutralize the race instantly it's not necessarily a hyper car or the hyper car leader or the race leader yeah so all of that gets taken into consideration as well what we're seeing here is that the hyper car was taken up first the race leader was taken up first let's catch up with the JoJo team Louise Beckham in the pit Lane that's from uh Hertz team jota number 38 now we've got a new safety card procedure it wasn't great for you guys having to start the back of the grid um what happens now that's what everyone's asking Yeah so basically obviously us Stein at the back of the grid um this couldn't have been a more perfect time for us to have the safety car because the new procedure basically means that once they've done all their pass around on the drop backs they'll be class by class so now we've cut all the way back up to all the hyper cars and we'll basically be in the back of the the hypercar class so um if we were to create the perfect scenario then we've had the perfect first 40 minutes of the race so now we're fully back in the race right behind the hyper car so now it's game on it and we can get back to when we know good stuff thinking and a very telling point just made in my uh offer by Anne Davidson and that is and but they've also been able to top up with fuel as well in that 38 jota so it's an absolute win-win and they're brilliant bit of strategy it's the right thing to do if you're way behind the hypercar you're not going to lose nothing to lose at all and it's been an absolute Net game for them and the minute the safety car came out feel fuel get him in some drivers have changed and and what I speculated about when we saw Francois getting in Eco lapier has confirmed exactly the same that they have also had a Pro driver start the race and try and keep the car in one piece and the moment a safety car came out okay great let's get our amp driver in let's get a lower rated driver in let's get them in the car in the race just you know alive in this but start them off behind the safety car and uh nothing to lose what that also means gentlemen is we are highly likely if we don't get dramas when this race goes back to green within the next hour or so that hurts team jota will lead this race um also we are being told on their uh media channel that there is absolutely no problem at all with the number eight Toyota yeah it was just it was just said worried about settings in the uh behind the safety car so all that talk about being hit on the side and doesn't look like there's much damage and what map is it in yeah yeah so as ever there's been a yeah a discrete Veil drawn over anything that might be of any interest whatsoever to anybody but this is you know racing driver's mind when you're in the lead as well he's he's very experienced and he's just flagging up potentially it's better to do that what's the next thing that could go wrong that's that's always the question you have to ask damage on the rear of the that is 63 I think yeah there is Darian Pat that command's been hit or has had something some kind of contact at the rear and that is a that it's the light in the legality panel and I think that's going to need to be fixed they will probably get um [Music] about 40 minutes ago I stood up to start the race I'm going to stand up to start the race as we didn't get we only got one corner of three or four so we are getting ready to go back to green flag racing and that means that the safety car driver will race away and have a field Pedro cachero well the great thing is we haven't had to explain how the safety car is going to work we've now seen it one of those new rules are that might be applicable that was pretty orderly yeah that was pretty orderly and and with with the incident cleared by the way done very quickly yes now there was two things about that first of all it was bone dry and and broad daylight so everybody got to do it while they could see it and secondly it's also given them half an hour for that wet first chicane to dry up a bit and it has I mean it's it's a bonus for that but uh what what you're going to see is that the safety car will naturally only really come out when you've got a barrier repair going on this it they're not just going to throw it at any time please remind drivers no overtaking before the line no overtaking before the line and again that's a different rule in the imsa WeatherTech series when the track goes green it's green everywhere in FIA rules and here at Lamar you can only pass when you start the green lap it's not green here it will only be green once you get past the line so that's a very different deal and a different deal as well and that you don't have to stay with a certain length of the safety car you can let that go it peels off and it's the leader that now dictates the pace so the entire hyper car field is nose to tail barring the lapped glicken house it's on the back of the cube but is the lap behind then all the lmp2s then all the gtems race leader Sebastian Remy brings us back to green ahead of Nick Nielsen Mike Conway in the second of the red and white Toyota's then James collado in the second all-red Ferrari Felipe NASA in the Porsche number 75 not staying right with the leaders at the restart well he nearly was in amongst them as he outbreaked himself at the first time of asking in the Dunlop curve they all get safely through this time of the film a little more strung out Anthony Davidson than they were at the first start so hopefully there should be no repetition of the bumping and boring at the start of this 24-hour race absolutely I think they were much calmer this second time around it's almost like you need to get the first one out the way and reset but uh yeah all completely through as you say Mike Conway was putting immense pressure on the Ferrari in front of him through that uh the end of the first sector but now Nick Nielsen's managed to get a little bit of a breather in his mic that comes under the attack from James collado in the slipstream as they head down towards turn one what's the uh dampness situation gonna be this time around side by side with the Porsches in the pack against one of The Purge shows are going to mark one piece of the month history fastest lap of the race as we go back to green is the Nascar four minutes and 57 seconds 0.906 it won't stay for much more than another lap or so but it's a nice to have um better news for Jim France than what he's got happening on Bit Lane at the moment so here we go side by side battle two Ferraris a 21 card with the yellow highlights and the red Livery and then the jmw Ferrari and coming down the inside steaming down the inside because one of the Dempsey proton strike proton racing Porsches they're running different cars with merely identical liveries that is Harry tingle in the number 88 car the teal uh Dazzle Livery car past the veteran number 66 the seven years here at Lamont number 66 uh jmw Ferrari 488 Tower Motorsport didn't get a lap in qualifying they're involved in a clash with a Triple 7 D station racing car an Air Racer is not getting much better they've been given a three minute stop and go penalty because of that incident in free practice one that will now need to be served now the race has gone back to green and here comes the second Toyota game Mike Conway hoving up behind Nick Nielsen and exalia Sebastian where he did going by in a straight line fine so the uh the Ferraris looked like they had good top speed in free practice the Titans look like they've got very good top speed in the race Toyota back to one two after the first half a lap of racing from the safety card it's interesting speaking to Kevin Esther on the grid and uh in the number six uh Porsche Penske Porsche and he was saying yeah you know we're quick in the Porsche curves but there's straight line speed of some of the others and he made particularly the Ferraris we can't quite match but you've just seen there the Toyota is blasting past and we haven't seen that all week so far 75 car being warned about its earlier contact it does look as though the 51 Ferrari the car in fourth place James collado might be looking to get by because Nielsen in the 50 car the first those two red cars with the yellow stripes then the rainbow colors that's the first of the Porsches that's kind of a 75 that's fifth place Felipe NASA the blue nose black-tailed caddy that's number two Earl Bamba then two more of the Porsches those are both the Porsche Penske Motorsport cars Christensen in the five and the six Lawrence vantool we just saw going by the Persia of Paul the rester about halfway around the lap so Peugeot move a Porsche moving up Cadillac at the moment sort of a little bit in stasis not going anywhere fast with a number two car and I think he's going to come under attack Alban but in the next couple of laps it's just it's a warning flag it's going to go to 75 for Felipe NASA's contact to the side of sepuemi the start of the race so no further penalty for that we heard Seth talking in the car about potential issues arising from that but no sun that's an issue but race director has said that the 63 Prema Motorsport car that was trailing that bit of Bodywork will need to repair it at the next pit stop that will be just the tail end of the car removed it will be a few seconds longer on bit road but it's not a big repair Lauren pantool looking pretty racy in the number six Porsche here pulls out to go side by side with the number five of uh Michael Christensen Christians are not really keen on giving this one away meanwhile the Ferrari coming back this is Nicos Nielsen the 50 car having a look for second place but through goes Lawrence van tour and again now Christensen Under Pressure because here's the Peugeot right behind if Scotsman Paul diresta he's got Nico Miller behind him then the yellow nose caddy that's the number three carve Sebastian border here comes the Peugeot yeah I think the Christensen could have been a little more elegant in the way that he let his teammate pass there into that first UK and he kind of fought it too long got on the slippery staff and now is potentially going to lose a position to the rest but it looks like he's just got the straight line speed to hang on to it to the second one Even Stevens in terms of straight lines meet there though wasn't that fascinating moment to see the comparison performance between these two very very different cars and it's that difference that this new class is bringing to this field how close they are what sort of hard think about a pass that didn't happen and suddenly the two peugeos have got the caddy of Sebastian balde with that yellow nose all over the back of them and again that 50 Ferrari Nick Nielsen sort of had a bit of a kind of a little look at Mike Conway it didn't happen but he was offline and he's lost you know half a second two three quarters of a second he dropped three or four car lengths further back and this is this is why this class is gonna be so fascinating because there's the cars are all totally different and yet they're so similar in the performance Windows having a look he's having a look at Nielsen on the inside of Indianapolis but thinks better of it and I think there must be a headwind at that part of the track because he got a pretty decent run out of folsen corner and then before they got to in Indianapolis he was right there behind his teammate so I think that headwind helps to Aid the slipstream well his teammate Nick Nielsen in the first of Ferraris is getting a little toe off the off the Toyota in front and of course collado is getting a double toe because he's getting a bit of a tear off the off both cars in France so he's going even quicker in a clear air and again he's looking once more kalano's not happy as he's flashing the headlights of his teammate with her to get pretty feisty I think it was fighting Nielsen as well then back then as well wasn't it Love Is Lost between these two and I'm sure no better place to uh prove who's the fastest driver within your team once and for all at this big race well what the bits of perspective you brought to the WC coverage every race and is the fact that it's not been a formation uh race for the toters when they've had limited uh opposition and it certainly isn't the case for Ferrari where you've got an awful lot of players here with a lot of pressure on them with this historic new program and you certainly sense don't you they're looking to see where they are in the pecking order it's probably worth if I was in charge at Ferrari and I mean it's probably worth just having a look to see what speed colado's got yeah you could talk them back afterwards you know obviously the race is long but you don't want to be wasting time at any opportunity look at boemy making a break for it out in front just see what your other driver can do and Graham that takes us to Toyota's rule if you get on the radio and whistle up the team and say I'm quicker they will wave You by and you've got two laps to clear air off and if you don't back in the queue it's a great discipline by the way change in the order for hypercar that's a position gained by her steam jota we set this cycle background thanks to that strategic call to bring the car in up to 13th position ahead of the number number four Floyd van Walker our top deal man and Antonio finish the Costa now right on the rear of Frank Mario in the lead of the two clicking house here comes the number two Cadillac that's the blue nose of old Bamba looking up behind the second of those three Porsches Porsche currently running Fifth Sixth and eighth and the caddy having a snare foot the tale of Lawrence van tour he had got a backer actually Michael Christensen he had got ahead of Kristen said christensen's got back past him and now bamper dropping back into the clutches the 75 car Ricardo's coming his teammates even think about defending there oh don't do that come on guys batty bregliasco the team manager needs to make sure that the drivers are working together you can't fight each other yes you can't win the race unless you beat your teammate but all six drivers and everyone in the crew want Ferrari to win Le Mans that's what this is all about Ferrari wins them on is the only headline that anybody cares about Counting full cream flag laps now 15 minutes into this race the top 13 cards separated by 9.2 seconds this is what we've wanted this is what it's beginning to live deliver is going to get better still Ferrari looks like it's just starting to switch on there that those tires those Michelin medium tires coming into it now now what's Nielsen going to do he's pretty close to Conway he's in the slippery but I don't think he's going to be able to attack him into that corner but collado to me looks like he's slightly got an advantage over his teammate and uh but it's now is the time if the team aren't going to help you out now is not the time to have a hot head you know you've got to keep reminding yourself what a long way there is to go and anything can happen now's not the time to start damaging your car so if the team don't make the change happen you go to plan B which to set back sit in the slip stream let your engine do less say fuel now talking about Hertz team jota they've already topped up and they're still on the lead lap they're still in the lead queue as this state that means they will go out they will already be racing longer when everybody else comes into they will leave if this stays green yeah they will leave if this stays green it's strawberry vision for the A team's first time in the top class we know I've got the r you know more than anybody how good they are at Davidson able to give you everything you need in terms of information guidance and strategy and that's a cracking call from hosting Joker and it's exactly what the Americans would do in racing every opportunity there's only two rules in American Racing track position take fuel at every opportunity and if you haven't got track position take fuel make it work for you and and that with Stevens said this is the most perfect start to the race you could have for cars started on the back of the grid and he was absolutely right they could not have paid enough money to get that safer car in lap one it really helped them all day on pit Lane the number three Cadillac now that's uh that early that has to be a problem but it must be early if they've been over 35 minutes uh behind the safety card well if we've been Green from the start he would still be going in three laps at least early because they should do at least a dozen laps all three-way battle in GTE Falcon horse going by the iron Dames for your thighs on soft they will struggle with tires start to put some pressure on that we want to put some pressure on Toyota on software struggle I think I think we might need to double check that when we looked at pictures of the car and agreed I'm sure we saw REM on the side of the micheliness now because they're rotating at speed it's hard to tell we don't have full colored sidewalls we do have a little colored tab on them there's the graphic he's absolutely right the number two second place number seven to eight it is on soft tires really maybe Toyota decided to do what they did in Spa starting the soft tire when there's wet on the track but he's under massive pressure now with Mike Conway so it all completely made sense that that's why the Ferraris look stronger but I mean this is the point of the race where Mike's got to get his elbows out and put a hook to that Ferrari's Pace now their medium tires have switched on but how long is the soft gun we're lost we know from Michelin here we go both Ferraris looking to combine the same move Percy's Nick Nielsen then James collado we know from Michelin they expect the medium to at least triple stint very likely quad stint so they're probably going to be on these till instead of seven in the evening and for six eleven Alpha 6 11 sub is looking after the tires are you doing a good job [Music] guessing is just keep him back and he's not managed to do that through goes Nick Nielsen into second place young Danish driver who scored a title with either or uh AF courser and Ferrari every year since 2018. he's got a lot of Top Line speed on the street isn't it he was really fighting for that wasn't he what he was trying to do was be smart and stick behind Nielsen to put himself at less of an attack from the uh the threatening Ferrari behind so he played that pretty cleverly but they're fighting a losing battle here if they're the only ones on a soft tire they're gonna start falling further and further behind and Seb doing the best he can to preserve those softs look at the Cure traffic behind him he's like well now that my step's gone so my Conway's towing a caravan he's just got a long queue of cars behind I mean he's not that slow but but everybody is now bunched up they had dropped the Porsches the forces are all now running line of stern fifth sixth and seventh they've got ahead of the caddy Avail Bamber then the two peugeots then there's team Johto I mean they're all queuing up to have a go and said Webby is trying to race away hopefully he's cured his his regen problems with that front axle and he's getting the full power otherwise he'll have to kill him it's early split strategy from Ferrari did they set them off on not full tanks that's early 10 laps we were expecting 12 lap stints and they have been behind the safety car for half of those 10 laps they're splitting the strategy come what may on the we heard remember the instruction to the Ferrari driver if the Toyota pits you follow him didn't get to that point the 50 car comes in only fuel only fuel [Music] yeah that makes sense because on the medium Tire you only do the fuel you keep them going we're expecting they can comfortably the medium tires do three stints but I'm still perplexed as to why they're in so early uh particularly under the safety car but don't forget it was that car that started on pole maybe they wanted to make sure that it had a chance of staying at the front 51 Here Comes James collado this is for second place trying to get around the outside of the Toyota Mike Conway and he if he opens the door the Porsche is coming in as well Felipe NASA and behind him Lawrence van tour and behind him in the three identical forces Michael Christensen uh yeah Porsche right there and another Porsche absolutely flying at the moment the fastest lap of the race goes to the number 38 car now into the top ten in the hands when Tony finished Acosta they're gonna not waiting for this to cycle back to them they're going for it right now last year when he was racing the 38 Johto in lmp2 he was announced as a Porsche Factory driver for their formula e-team now he's a Porsche hyper car driver G protecting the fronts more than bike in high speed good job mate can we get feedback on the tires when you can yeah [Music] good job looking after those tires he knows exactly what he's doing he works obviously with the Red Bull Racing team in Formula One and it's all about Tire preservation in that category so he's using his experience wisely there to uh put himself in the best possible scenario on those songs but one of the things Mike's doing to keep his tires alive is sit in the slipstream of the fastest Ferrari foreign Motorsport lmp2 car has not done a stop and go penalty and has now been reported to the students and that may result in a Black Flag that is a major major failure look at the energy levels just below about the halfway mark in the number seven Toyota again you can see Full Throttle being applied here drivers are very rarely on anything other than Full Throttle or full break and he's sitting in this little shoe now behind the 51 Ferrari of James collado who's in second place Porsches queuing up behind then the caddy the Peugeot they're all in the toe and the leaders are from second down there is not more than about six tenths between any of these cars what am I missing here that I don't understand why they pitted that car I don't understand why fuel I can understand if we were within a lap or so of the fuel window but we weren't they are splitting the strategy for some reason we do not understand and they're splitting it by a very long margin yeah they really are because you can see everybody else had sort of about 40 to the energy left Anthony which means that actually not only is this not going to be a 12 lap stint which we would have had properly under green of course there's a lap to get to the grid so normally your first Dent is at least a lap shy of what a normal race stem would be but he's done six green flags laps rather than 12 and that seems yeah strange it doesn't make sense is it I mean they must be sticking to their Stratus some kind of a strategy splitting the two cars perhaps in terms of strategy uh it didn't seem like there was any problem with the car the fuel just went in normally but we all saw the graphics when it came up the energy graphic like I said Martin all around the 38 to 40 mark so why would you hit when you've got still a plenty you know plenty of energy still remaining two reasons it not about the fuel there was something else and the other reason I don't know what that is it wasn't about the fuel because as you're saying unless there's a safety car now he's half a lap behind the leaders rather than three or four car lengths behind second place that it does seem that there must have been another reason the number three cardio Sebastian Bordeaux is in very early as well particular indication of how far out of their window they are we're now getting the cars that didn't stop under the safety car from lmp2 stopping and we know they on a regular WC circuit can do about 40 42 minutes the hyper cars go further always do they're way outside the window yeah I'm not sure what was going on that the only information we'll get Ferrari was the standard stop for fuel but standard [Music] we are one hour into the 24 hours Lamar we're breaking the back of this thing boys we're we're pretty much there now an hour in we've already had our first safety car first view of the new rules here regarding the safety cars three become one and then we Shuffle the field all right back into the we stacked the Jacks at the front and and keep the low cards at the back I thought you're talking about the Porsches there one because if they could get any closer they really have been and team formation and sticking with them by the way uh is the lead the only delayed to The Cadillacs a lot behind there hurts team jota uh getting back in the mix the two poor shows I think you're in there way quicker than we've been expecting them at this point that's got to be good news for that program and the two clicking houses not out of this either yeah I mean we haven't given uh Paul derester or any of the the Peugeot drivers much attention this year because it's mostly been revolving around their reliability or lack of so they've got to sing their praises both drivers doing a great job particularly Porter Esther uh in p8 at the moment he's really not letting that gaggle of cars go in front of him just seven tenths behind the Cadillac of Earl Bamber yeah great stuff looking back down through the classes by the way in GTM and is there of course account answer davini Recon and his Recon from Cairo League from Alessia picarello that's the one two three Rexy second at the mon the dinosaur delivery project one AO Porsche 911 rsr second to place in the hanza Alessia Vicario coronary rather with picarello in the iron links number six of the bright yellow car third if they can't take our eyes off this Stellar battle in hypercar change in just a moment in the voices You're Gonna Hear delighted that very shortly we'll be walking back first time in a few years to race coverage here at the lemon 24 hours to a familiar voice to many TV and radio broadcast of this great race in the past seven point B leads fastest lap of the race now goes to James Gallardo the Gap is coming down 4.1 seconds in the number 51 Ferrari 499p uh Jim roller welcome back we can have a listen in in the moment to come from three laps to go this step three laps to go fuel limited so so that yeah that is how long the state should be for these cars Jim you've been watching this develop we've gone through okay frustrating but an educational period with the safety card this time it's put a portion of total take this to it yeah he had a great run around tetrouge and I don't know what happened to Mike Conway on the exit but the move looks like it's going to be pretty set into that first chicane a nice run that uh 75 had there has he used up those tires so much that he can't get any power now and perhaps I think you're right Jim the fronts that are going off that's why we heard from Webby saying how about Mike's fronts what's happening give me some more information and sure enough Tetris a front limited corner by that I mean the fronts are slipping away from you quite literally as you go through that high speed corner and Mike just could get down on power as much as the uh as soon as Philippe NASA could is there any chance also Anthony that maybe the Ferrari is dialed back a little bit for reliability buddy the Ferrari uh I I don't know I don't think so I still stand by what I said in qualifying in the hype folder the Toyota should have been much closer to the Ferrari that it was due to the uh the red flags that we had there so here comes the number five Porsche now of Michael Christensen on the back of my Conway he ducks to the inside before most and kink Conway resists who's gonna have this corner when they get to it he backs out of it does the number six carloan vantor sorry not Christensen the three of them still running so close together leader in traffic now and that is helping James collado to close the gap it's 3.2 seconds Now new fastest level the race goes to the chasing said ball day an early pit stopper but good grief this is four five six cars contesting significant positions getting into the second hour of their Centenary running of the 20 rounds of LeBron this is epic this is proper hypercars this is what we wanted to see I mean we've longed for this time haven't we when we can see competitive a competitive field of hyper cars um this this is anyone's right now and the other thing that I noticed when I was watching in the first hour is the fact that there is no margin for error no if you make a mistake because this field is so closely bunched if you make a mistake trying to make a move on the guy in front of you all of a sudden your mirrors are full of not one but two or three other competitors and here we go again going into Portugal now this is where it gets really fun or not depending on which situation you're in as a driver are you coming up against the GT cars and you've got to get through them cleanly efficiently but also take absolute risk when you need to because that gives you lap time now this is where hyperchoric air throws in a different Dynamic you've not got the additional punch we had and there'll be one days you've got you've got measure those passes very carefully indeed and be very sure you'll pass that car yeah one thing we used to have in the lfe1 days was the Boost of the hybrid was on top of the internal combustion energy yes so now the problem is that they have is it's much harder to overtake cars from a similar speed because you can't play with that additional power it's just there in unison comes in combined with it's just part of your integrated power and it's not on top of what you have when you get the hybrid boost the ice level the internal combustion uh Power drops so you always remain at the same power level right for old farts like me that's almost like back in the day with the 935 just dialing in a little more turbo there you go yeah so the the maximum potential that they have is 520 kilowatts oh trouble for that's the 18 that's the 16 car that's the 16 16 yep the proton competition so that character is starting to behind the wheel of that car the American uh getting back underway yeah so he's got away with that when he goes it's the yellows at Marshall's post three just about backyard to recover to the track set board eight still pushing on and pushing hard he's rejoined the train of hypercars 14th now for the Cadillac that has pitted still making his way up the order by the way until he finished the customer up to Ninth Place overall now we have seen some pit stops also in the lmp2 category as Alpine came out for Charles uh malesi behind the wheel of the 36 car now leads the class and in gtem it's the project one portion number 56 with the Mateo karoli behind the lead yeah that's going to be a quiz question isn't it what was the last time a dinosaur led to the lemon 24 hours the answer is in 2023 fantastic stuff the 36 car by the way leads courtesy of it being one of those lmp2 commands adopted to pits under the safety car so they came in fuel only they've taken effectively the same advantage that hurts team Johto are going to do in just a couple laps time there's the uh Tower Motorsports car they had the penalty earlier they're in trouble yeah this is going to be a long day for them yeah suspicious feeling I'm impressed by uh Antonio Felix De Costa in that Hurston go to car 38 we know he's carrying more fuel than the cars in front of him because they're they're the only ones that stopped till we had the safety car of course we've had uh the Ferrari uh number 50 50 stop as well since that but they're behind the number 38 jota and uh you know DeCosta is he's starting to close it on Bamber Christensen ventur can't wait the car's in front of it is past the first the poor shows that is caught all the rester so it's an epic run here for mansonia Felix to Costa on the screen now is Rexy as uh he's uhfully name that's the uh am leader that's the Porsche and the Rexy comes from the Hyatt's daughter wanted to see a T-Rex on the car so that's what's pretty far and they got little Rexy arms on the door and here is our overall leader Sebastian Bohemia he is driven a phenomenal first deal yeah really really impressive stuff he's opened the Gap to Mike Conway they're usually who's detail those two buemi this is an absolute master class in how you preserve tires when you're not on the correct compound for these conditions he's out there in front and you can see the difference between how he's played this compared to the sister car yeah okay the balance might be slightly different as well we've seen the two cars during this season have a bit of a difference in performance as Conway is now into the pins he's clearly not happy with those soft tires I wonder what they're gonna do I suspects a set of M's are going to go on that bed and then get the car completely out of strategy with that do you do a driver change as well when you go for the tires you probably would is this just a single student are they going to commit to staying on these uh these soft tires there's no sign of a driver change so I'm going to say it's just two years [Music] to uh the front of the field now this is going to be a long painful second stint coming up for Mike yeah and it's and it's cumulative that's the thing about decisions now that become cumulative that you can make up for them and it's only going to get worse once you stack a whole load of extra fuel all that weight goes in around another 40. yeah they're weaning with tires there they go They're going to leave him in but change the tires so he'll do a triple stint the tire only did one stint and then now he's going to go on the double with the mediums there you go that makes sense also I bought here with the number 94 Purge after his first stints Nick Nielsen Cycles around and now ahead of the number seven Toyota you have the earlier pit stop and still this battle goes on love this graphic to show you the amount of energy left this is not how much fuel is left this is how much energy the car has left both with fuel and with the amount of energy the regen will develop while that fuel is used it's really interesting event so yeah look Felipe NASA using an awful almost double the amount of total energy compared to his teammates yeah a bit too uh is that he's he's been messing the throttle pedal a little bit too aggressively he's getting a bit carried away though gonna have a crap he's been matching that gas top eight in this race still with an hour and 11 minutes elapsed still within 14 seconds of the lead uh that is exactly what the plan should be for hyper car moving forward next off shift I think I'm gonna dig and see how many race cars have finished on the lead lap in in this race in the past well we could just break that record come on God smile on us so let's just catch up uh well we'll catch up with Ellen B2 when we've had the The Pit Stop Cycle work its way through the charger kazoo racing Subway me completely correct by the way uh James Gallardo closed right back in as they came into the first batch of traffic that sepo Amy has executed that beautifully that Gap back out to 5.6 seconds now they've completed 14 laps of this race 35 minutes of which as we're going to see a problem oh just a catch there for exactly 31 on the 41. [Music] lmp2 leader at this point so what can Felipe NASA do to save a bit of total energy has he got did he have slightly less fuel on board because they're gonna pit him first I should assume that was their strategy because you don't want to go holding up with the car free a team with three cars you don't want to be pitting all together of course you want to try and separate uh particularly if they're out of sequence in terms of where their pit box is yeah he's down to three percent now first pet stop on the way for me [Music] always risky when you follow your teammate through or another car through a a lapped car you've just got to put a lot of trust in the car they see one can't pass do they turn it off as come into the pits yeah 75 and 93 plus the two Cadillac all on pit Lane Ferrari lead Lamont [Music] for now haven't said that in a long time and he's going to be doing Sue he's soon he's down to uh 55 James collado is in that AF Corsa Ferrari there's the Peugeot in the pits now do they leave wemi on those soft ties he's been doing a great job remember as Martin Haven just popped in and uh told me when I went off off air for a while he said they've got to see those soft tires again yes 100 they do we'll we'll get into Tire allocations uh rather deeper into this race but they absolutely do and watching the the gaps here James collado who will be uh down a bit Lane shortly 3.6 seconds the good ahead of the two battling Factory Porsche Penske Motorsport cars but they're really impressive stints in this group it's the car that's now running in fourth who will not have to admits at the same time and that is Antonio finish DeCosta under eight seconds off the lead pitted on the safety car none of the other leading uh hypercars did so and will cycle round and will become our fourth leader of this race it's a double yellow flags being shown at the circuit at the moment can't see exactly what's going on at Marshall's post 13 which is between so the exit it's just past the exit in the first chicken [Music] someone's had a moment so all I've done with hour and 15 minutes in just 22 hours of 4 and 40 minutes to go separated just slightly now between those two uh Porsche teammates the car six car five they're the regulars of the World Endurance Championship Carl 75 has got the driver lineup which competes in the imsa championship it's been struggling for Pace but is still staying ahead of the lmp2 battle a big flame at the boot rear of that car on Startup it's nice to see the Penske Porsches running further up the field now yeah they are part of this uh they're part of this fight for overall big I didn't think they would be based on the knowledge of what we've had so far this season what we've seen from the car Kevin Esther was saying the car feels so much better to drive around this circuit compared to what we've what we've been used to so that's really nice to hear and it's nice for us as well to see well and let's face it as well I think that most of these cars have been designed first for this place 100 so yeah of course you come back this is your 75th Anniversary if you're Porsche you know what better way than to be super competitive and try and win outright uh this year we're talking about Pit Stop strategy and execution in the pit Lane as well uh there's been a variety of things happening here with driver changes and with with Tire changes one thing that absolutely has happened is the number 50. Ferrari has jumbo toters [Music] so Nick Wilson currently running in fifth position and it's the first of the pit Stoppers behind that Earth's team jota car that will be the last to stop income the remaining two you know they don't care and the Jonah and the Joe Center why is that happened the jota has got 46 is that no no he's down to three percent according to the graph did they short fuel the car they may have don't understand that that's bizarre unless they're going through energy you know using a bit more uh electrical energy who knows but uh here are the two portions that's what I'm talking about you've got separate pit boxes in the World Endurance Championship unlike uh Formula One you have to share the same one another series around the world as well so you have to be in sequence when you come into the pitch otherwise it gets all a bit awkward you have to take this yeah well I mean this this was right it's car number six in front of the car number five and they followed each other in in that order um don't want to that's why they pitted 75 earlier as well yeah oh is that Mike Conway getting down the inside of the Peugeot into the uh second corner yeah excuse me of course using those michelins of course Graham they were always going to get jumped to the pitch by this car we see on stream because they did the tire change on the Toyota and they would have kept the mediums of the Ferrari so this is our new race leader Nick Nielsen leads from Sebastian bordet the other car that pitted early remember the number three Cadillac so now is that line we now see what was the uh the Cadillac strategy is seeing of course the Ferrari 50 was uh it was a bit of a benefit to stop earlier because then you can it's not just the undercut well it is an extreme undercut because you're not out there lapping slower GT cars as well it's not about the graphic it's not about a tire undercut coming in because they get their Tire on right it's the traffic undercut oh this is gonna be good I'm confusing yes but this is part of it it's it's it's always been a little bit of cerebral Sports hasn't it it's a Bordeaux by the way he's not far back from uh it's two and a half seconds that all of a sudden the lead battle is not Toyota and Ferrari it's not uh Ferrari and Porsche it's Ferrari Cadillac and that explains because yeah board a stopped before the Ferrari 50 so it proves the point I was trying to make it he had even longer to be out there with a free track with no traffic Good Luck winning an internet battle about cynicism about this about this formula well if you are then you can thanks for watching now look at this you've got the two Porsches the Toyota and a Peugeot three four five six seven eight nine all right there in the same shot I believe in three seconds amazing stuff we're gonna need more of these energy Graphics they are they're all out of sequel most of them around the sequence here comes the Joe tab I'm gonna look down the inside how cheeky is that the Plucky jota team with Antonio Felix De Costa at the wheel trying it on with the uh with the big boys the the main team yeah they're taking names up there aren't they and this is great stuff and tell you something else we're going to need is a lot more coffee because I'll tell you the nobody off shift is going to want to leave this booth Here Comes Conway he goes to the outside of the 38 jota can he make this one stick it's gonna be a brave move if he can does it he does carrying a lot of speed under breaking didn't he Mike Conway takes the position on the exit of Molson and it's exactly what you said earlier on Jim it's all because of what happened in the previous corner with Antonio trying it on he got himself in there to be out of line and you know when you're looking forward suddenly you're going backwards and Conway's at it again he's not done yet and the rundown to Indianapolis Mike Conway takes another position is going to move him up to eighth I think you tired so don't forget go out there huge advantage that's why he could break later as well into mozam great Point better traction you know he's just got that the new tire effect right now and as clean as a whistle as well we've had a little bit of a brush here and there but Fantastic wheel-to-wheel action between cars from multiple teams with multiple makes it is trains of two three four five six cars throughout oh hello that shouldn't be happening behind there that was the clicking house getting tagged by the number 60 Ferrari seven Weight Club on the way that started to lap down is now beginning to make its way up through the GTM field so it is coming up the order so we've got 14 undelayed um hyper cars still the 311 I'm afraid he's in the garage after that's incident for Jack Aitkin so did they keep those the same tires on Wendy I'm guessing they did because he's so far ahead of Conway still I reckon he was doing such a good job on those soft tires but they've kept him on them see the pit stop seems to indicate he changed eyes minute and 26 58 seconds as a fuel stop I think he changed all four probably did that that's what I'm taking from that unless there was some other complexity of that pit stop that's about a full uh full four tire stop for sepo Amy around that time something like 10 10 seconds quicker for two here we go this is the lead Cadillac are going to the lead at the Le Mans 24 hours apologies it's another Cadillac Ferrari fight this time around they get oh so closed as bam but it's for fourth fifth sixth and looking but the the dry old sway through the first You Came the driver that's coming up on them thick and fast is on those brand new tires Conway is flying here isn't he gonna he's gonna he wants to be part of this there's a move Side by each around the Aston Martin the GTM car oh there's a touch yeah that was the first it was a bit of a Biff yep that's a perfect perfect description there collado hangs on to it for now but uh that uh the Cadillac have found was that came pretty quick especially the straight line speed Conway Ducks out to the left-hand side is he going to make a repeat move that he did on Felix the Costa a lap ago looks a bit easier this time yeah he's just gonna say only this time he's made it look a lot easier [Music] got around the six slow a lot otherwise we're watching this group slower left the leader and set borde is now 1.1 seconds off the lead so ahead of this group there is further epic action in this hypercar class yeah this racing isn't good enough for you folks hang on a sec really good stuff is under attack here from the uh the number six of uh Lauren vantor soon to be looking in his mirrors because Mike Conway is coming up Yep this hour brought to you by our partners well and oh my God absolutely fantastic action they come past the 37 lmp2 car that made an early stop to switch to the bronze driver well you're getting me to it Jim absolutely beat me to it because you know lmp2 drives and GT drivers are more than used to dealing with the odd hyper car coming past you uh but not a whole freight train of cars so uh this is a new experience for them definitely imagine the Porsche spotter it's still there there's another one oh wait yep one more Yep yeah imagine that yeah one more one so you've got seven cars coming up on you through the Portugal oh give me a break astonishing stuff what an hour of action we've had since that safety car there's that touch yeah and I just think we've got two 22 and a half hours more of this I'm standing [Music] his second is fourth fifth sixth seventh and eighth I'm gonna have to get my head around the the difference is the subtle differences of the Porsche's liveries because uh I can't tell their numbers on this screen we've got them well they've got the shape I always use I always use the uh the windscreen the windscreen yeah the black one is square five and six is red 13 75 is red 75 and six is white as easy as that there you go and then 75 is red and the black five windscreen is the five just do what Cadillac do I know that's the number two who uh showed a few ideas of what this could have looked like if you'd chosen the three liveries maybe the fans gonna pick those iconic liveries but it doesn't take away from the action because he's absolutely astonishing this is huge huge news the number 33 Corvette going back into the garage area that's uh I think Ben Keating started the race he's still in the in the car the katzberg Graham uh uh just checking that because I was just spotted something else on top of the scoring bad news for GM as that car comes in good news for GM as the 311 rejoins the race ah fantastic great work by the by the action Express guys to get that car back out onto the recent car that brought out our first caution Nikki katzberg brought that car in the extra Express card rejoins with jacket back at the wheel that's going to be also very interesting to see as these guys work traffic how quickly they can close back up on each other when traffic does separate them because it will occasionally in certain spots there's going to be places on this racetrack where the slower cars just can't get out of the way yeah absolutely we will always ever flow and uh you know you do have winners and loses through traffic it's it's not a it's not a benign thing watch this moment before I just update you on what says going on oh and that was a hefty hit the 13 on the rear of the 39 that's a 13 car already in trouble here 39 car graph racing with uh Guido vandergarten behind the wheel of that car 13th position in the lmp2 category the 13th John the hands of Ricky Taylor he'll be in trouble for that I think so I'll be in trouble for that yeah he's damaged the car in front and I think he knows better than that right front problems for the Corvette suspected gamper issue for the Corvettes so aboard the number five now chasing now a team formation choose what you will run a 75 guard Michael Christensen following Felipe NASA to come into the Porsche curves awesome awesome part of this race track ahead [Music] see this is what happens when you don't have uh huge Wings on cars you can actually follow each other around high speed corners in the GTR number 88 car he's on a fine start to his race absolute master class in that number eight it's I'm so impressed at the moment with the job he's doing and uh yeah cool head right from the start he he's played this very well I gotta tell you he's not a guy that's that's necessarily renowned for having a cool head and he has really demonstrated a maturity here in the beginning of this race oh that is a huge uh shunt for this 14 car sorry guys in front of the car that just happened when the Cadillac was overtaking we were riding on board with it at the time and I thought it was overtaking the joker well it is yeah well it's a gold star yeah it's not the Joker I thought it was to change the 38 but it was it was something happened there with the Cadillac going around the outside it's turned one not clean did it Rodrigo Salas here we go bought the car what happened here there's Rodrigo the gold car I think he was looking too hard at the car coming I think he possibly other got just got the dirty stuff on the right hand side missed his back and no good deed goes unpunished wow so people weren't going to see any contact there but it just I saw the cater winner on board and of course you don't see what's happening in the rear but it's so rare to lose it there in the dry conditions 90 minutes in the 2022 Asia number one serious Champion where do you get Salish I think you're right Graham I reckon he just got a bit spooked by the faster car coming three wheels if he gets that car back and they get the kill on the race that's heroic and he's gonna try a hero of them very amazing give it a try that car look somebody's gonna do it because you know rear wheel drive right and he's still got the left steering work the problem the problem the bigger problem here is look at the state of that side bod it's the radiator there's fluid coming out the bottom of that car I think that car is done right yeah losing too many fluids do a whole lap like this if that was if that was at the end of the Porsche curves half a Mobic with a chance but with fluid coming up that car and the reduced there's no airflow either uh through that side of the car that carbon thread is done poorer Rodriguez Alice it's a small mistake and a massive massive consequence that's an eight mile that's an email trundle on three wheels yeah so it is only a slow Zone though we've not seen a scene this is the latest 50 car yet doing we have a battle for the lead local boys never won this race in the in the top class putting pressure on the lead Ferrari of Nick Nielsen great to see I didn't think that Cadillacs were going to have the speed against Ferrari here but it's uh they're certainly and Seb certainly proven to be wrong I'm glad they are this is great stuff great stuff by all of these teams at this point all have had Pace all of them the the minnows baby Cadillac and some of the uh the clicking house and the the Floyd Van Wall team off the pace but now in Comes This battling pair now who does what what do you go for here stick with the plan take track position what do you do brilliantly done there by four day he is we're absolutely nailed that pit entry and look at the distance he's gained on the Ferrari in front just from that one move well I'll tell you I mean we're looking at some pictures from 22 years ago a picture of Sebastian bordei in the gallery there I'll have a quick listen into what's going on double stint here so this is a double stint driver change tire change fuel Nielsen getting out keep an eye on the Cadillac what are they going to choose to do Sebastian baude remember had that earlier stop or day which looks like he's staying in the car unless they've already done the driver change these were the two teams that stops out of sequence yeah Seb still in there can see they help me design yep there are the tires ready for the Cadillac there are certainly for the what's going on there trying to see the logos Cadillac Cadillac go ahead here so a third step now for for day and the Cadillac interesting so of course he's going to get eaten up yeah eaten up by the Ferrari that's on new tires when we go green again but uh he's got that uh 30 or 40 second Gap left over right by the tire change but that will quickly come down we love that strategy there's a that's another stop for jota there's another stop for Jojo at the same time so that's a third Pit Stop have an issue are they not getting uh fuel pickup yeah it's all the medium today just saw the graphic pop up with uh Sebastian is going to be glad that he's on those tires now and uh it's got rid of the the softs as the car gets uh yeah cramed away their tubs [Music] [Music] fresh fresh tires is there impact damage or something just failed on that hood that's a good point it's not a part that they need to get into usually in a regular pit stop or something sheered there yeah the what the the screw clamp looks like it's just come apart meanwhile as they head into Multan it's the uh the two the six and the Seven still at it this is the battle for third fourth and fifth that's Earl Bamber now Lawrence uh Ventura and still Mike Conway who is on his first set his second stint but his first set of medium tires he started on the sauce and he's trying to work his way back from really having trouble with those soft tires with a slow Zone in operation at the end of this for that minute this means we can still go racing for much of it great news always when you stick it down the inside you hover around the outside of the right-hander to to end up on the inside you put a lot of trust in the in the driver that you're overtaking there but uh he's cleanly through nevertheless so the slow zones if you're not familiar with this the form of racing is I think it's a wonderful way to keep from always having to bring out the full course caution because the drivers have areas that they know that they must slow in they have to slow down the safety car speed and then they go right back to racing and on an eight mile race track it is it really helps the racing yeah it just stops the the people that have the incident and the people there to clear up the incident it's safe for them and it helps the racing stay exciting all the cars have got a full course yellow button they call it just one switch where they press that button it limits the car to the 80 kilometers an hour and then another one for the pit lane speed limit for those of you wondering that slows you down further 20K pH trundle down the pit Lane at 60k so you've got to be here so now they're in the slow you pointed out there Jim you see the the four-way flashes flashing away the car is now limited to 80 kilometers now you've got to be very on it as a driver to know exactly where to break slow it down and hit the full course yellow button get the car held at that speed and just Chuck it along now until we come out of this uh this section that they're in will take you through where the incident is to turn one turn two three the Dunlop chicane and on the exit of that chicane gonna go up and over that brow the hill and that's where you get released to get into the green across the line Hit the Floor across the other button again and Away you go well here we see a gaggle of gtem cars coming into more sun normally we'd say that that 33 car is in the middle of the fight but he is not he's uh trying to rebound from a damper problem but those three Porsches that you see right there oh another big crash oh my Heavens that's the number 13 car the tower racing car with Ricky Taylor behind the wheel of that car we saw him have a little bit of an incident earlier and uh now I think we may we may have enough Carnage around the racetrack at this point that we might see our second full course caution of the day Anthony and Graham have have taken a break and joining me now in the booth are our two dear friends that I'm just thrilled to be working this Centenary edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans with the past winner of this event guy Smith and the man who made the Wright brothers looked like pikers here at Le Mans many many years ago and that is Peter dunbrecht welcome gentlemen what are your uh as we see Ricky Taylor Get Loose there and kind of cartwheels sideways towards the wall again I think we need a closer on board nope I mean it's very unusual very experienced driver yeah um so but we know that car had a bit of uh contact earlier on yep could it be as a consequence of that was there something that was on the way to getting broken and that's it just failed yeah it's really been an awful uh an awful week for the 13 car obviously had the crash early on in the week in in practice um which required a new I believe a new chassis and uh it hasn't been uh it hasn't been plain sailing so far in the race for them uh to this point so yeah just an awful race and uh it was it looked like a strange accident so we need to see what uh exactly what happened there's the uh 90 eight car that was in that we saw going down the back straight away the whole song with its foot up come in for repairs racing still going uh in the non-slow zone areas they looked like they had extended the slow Zone on the front straightaway The Cadillacs already sort of turned I was gonna say how is how The Cadillacs impressed you Anthony's been very impressed to be you Gentle and equally equally impressed yeah they just seemed to I mean they've sort of been quiet all week really I mean I think in hyper pole but they showed that they had some real Pace unfortunately had that fire and uh had to uh you know they lost their lap but they kind of just uh yeah quietly came back when they went about the work and um they're really showing their their Pace now and uh certainly a match for the Porsche I mean I think you'd have to say that the Ferrari and the and the Toyota's probably slightly got the edge but these guys are certainly pushing them hard and uh you know it's just shaping up to be an absolutely epic battle and uh having all these manufacturers in the fight is great yeah I saw um well unusual to see so many manufacturers so close together and you know where we talked about it in the last few days how the whole category is on its way up the whole race in fact you know it's there's so many cars so many manufacturers involved as we see the damage from the 13 car I mean potentially that's going to be the first uh failure here we go oh there he made contact with the like the the lodge it looked like he uh ran up the back of the delage there so that'll be twice that he's come into the back of a car in front of him yeah was it the other way around last time no no the other way around he hit yeah because I said he should know better I see I mean it's just been so much going on in this race you don't know where to look because um there's just stuff good Sebastian bohemi coming into the pits completing his second stint here comes uh Mike Conway in interesting to see here comes the six car of course and this is almost a free pit stop as well because the slow zone is on the front straightaway so might as well make a pit stop as opposed to going through the slow Zone yeah because these guys are losing that much time we're in just a couple of laps ago one before this happened so they're probably 10 15 minutes ago these cars were all in yeah because you can see the uh the the energy for most of these cars is still in the 50 range so this is a short stop yeah it's almost like whatever obviously when there's a safety car or a slow zo they're all taking the opportunity to to make the stops and uh get in the pitch while uh they don't lose too much time there that's where they slow zone for the 14 car incident ends at the top of the hill as they go under the Dunlap Bridge down through the Dunlap s's used to be called the forest s's back many many years ago and then here it goes right back to a slow zone for the Ricky Taylor incident coming out of tatrouge all the way down through the first chicane and then part way through to the second chicane probably the slow Zone will end right after so right as they get to the second chicane so yeah as you enter the um you you the slow Zone basically the the Marshall post before that there's a board which says next slope and a waved yellow flag and basically that's to warn you or pre-warn you that the slow zone is coming up so by the time you reach the next um Marshall's post that's where it's wave yellows and at that point you have to be 80 kilometers an hour and it's so easy or as a driver to just push that a little bit harder um you know if you over speed into the if that's a slow Zone then um you know with the GPS they know and they'll ping you for speeding so likewise if you release the button too early on exit in a slow Zone um they'll ping you for that as well so it's quite easy to make a mistake and when you've got multiple slow zones you've really got to be on it you know because you can gain or lose quite a bit of time um but the worst thing to do is get a penalty the uh the other thing that I I need to correct something I said that this happened after the first year game that was actually the exit of Ted Rouge is where that happened um it's before the first chicane so the slow Zone will end at the end of the first chicane and then they'll be able to carry on carry on racing so I apologies for that in fact there you see the the first you gain and there's no incident there interested in what you were saying about how the warning is coming up for in slow zones Etc that's now coming across the Formula One formula two formula three so all the FIA championships are all getting that same system I think it's a great system and here we go back at full race speed that is your race leader the number 51 AF Porsche Ferrari the factory effort the 499 with James collado behind the wheel it's been a long time gentlemen since we've been able to say Ferrari leads Le Mans it's kind of kind of fun to say oh it's great it's absolutely fantastic to see I have to say I think it's such a beautiful car it really is a pretty race car so far it's been super super fast has he got the reliability that's that's the question yeah I think so now he has dropped back to eighth positions so now he's got another Cadillac it's the uh the old baba car um repeat was just a blue one now it says I don't have any yellow caddy chase him he's now got a blue caddy chasing him so um again is that caddy put keeping the pressure on um they've got some taste haven't they so let's see if uh let's see now they're now they're up and running can they can he catch the Ferrari 3.7 seconds the last interval for the distance between the Ferrari and the Cadillac portion number five is a further five seconds back that's Michael Christensen behind the wheel of the number five Porsche then it comes the 75 portion with Felipe Nasser he too is uh has been in since the start of the race so the our Front Runners the [Music] [Music] thank you so why are they so far back in 11th now from having led the race what what actually I missed the procedure that took them back to 11th when everyone else ahead and also stopped I think that I think what they did was I think um a lot of the other teams just did Fuel and and they did Fuel and drivers so they obviously yeah and that was that yeah it was full service which is what we're seeing is full service was about a minute to 26 seconds and just fuel is like a minute by I didn't see what happens when they get into the slow Zone from the onboard is the leader James collado does come into the pits looks like this is going to be fuel only there's no tires out the Michelin engineer comes out to visually inspect the tires clean the mirrors you would expect those mediums to be able to go tree stands with me yes and then that's what the Michelin Engineers told us is that they would easily go three stints in the night maybe four yet the 50 car we believe has changed tires so yes they would have only done the two students yep yeah the 50 car change tires the other the other one that changed tires was the two Toyotas because they started on the softs and switched to switch to the mediums so now we've also we've also seen with the slow zones as well in in some of the other races support races it's quite difficult is when you've got a chain of cars and they then break for a slow Zone a bit like you get in traffic on the road when you have this sort of concertina effect if you've seen it in the past where particularly if it's a new new slow Zone um that the cars at the back sometimes caught out and then Brampton a car in front so that's again something that the drivers have to really pay attention to well you have to be aware of there's chip canasi The Man Behind the Cadillac operations for cars two and three full season operations in the wec the 3-3-1 of course is the X Express Car here's a 21 car has now had a problem yet another slow Zone will be coming out for this and Cadillac leads and Cadillac leads because of the 51 Pit Stop So Cadillac leads them off that is under the Dunlop Bridge so that's in the area where the number 14 car was was just cleaned up they must have just released the slow Zone there's been contact between two cars yeah because there's gonna be [Music] contact between a lot of cars so that's the kind of like got hit from behind as it went into the explosion by what it looks like um and Aston Martin wow so it looks like it looks like the either the Ferrari or the Aston Martin ran into the back of the Cadillac and on this lap remember earlier we were talking about the slow Zone well prior to this lap that was where the slow Zone ended so everybody was getting on the gas there so that was not a slow Zone where that happened now it is but but at the time it wasn't so more bad luck continuing for the for Sebastian War a day and the three car they survived the fire they battled for the to the lead of the race and now they've been uh they've been uh hit in the back and there's obviously some damage there as they go into the uh a slow Zone down at the end of to get a view of the back of that car and just trying I'm sure the team themselves would like a view of the bakara green flag waves at the end of the first chicane so now they will be back under racing [Music] stop here maybe the rear of the car is going to have to it's got the really music yeah yeah it looks oh it's pretty bad shape [Music] it's been so well as well yeah that's what I say they rebounded from the fire magnificently and it actually battled for the lead of the race of course their sister car with Earl dampered behind the wheel is now leaning by four seconds over the Michael Christensen portion number five and the Felipe Nasser car the imsa Porsche which is uh five Another Second and a half back behind it's sister car the number five yeah the forwards have kind of slit down a little bit down the odor um it'd be interesting to see how it all shakes out but they kind of you know sort of drop down now sort of 30 33 36 seconds behind the leading Cadillac well I also think it's interesting because I'm dying to see some stint data to see what they're getting because we were really surprised that the 50 car came in as early as it did the first time around we weren't really surprised that Mike Conway came in because he had just absolutely crashed those tires and so he had to come in or he was just losing too much space too super too much time yeah let's unless they're carrying a problem or they found it spotted an issue that they needed to to check all they needed to do some kind of reset in the pits but um yeah it does seem like a strange call a little preventive maintenance kind of thing absolutely [Music] right now both of those cars look like they're on Rails in the lmp2 category it's team wrt with Robert kubinson behind the wheel the number 41 car and uh yes it's a slow Zone but still got to uh trying to think see if that is I think that's the 55 car that is also involved I mean that's the thing about Lamoni you know you can see already the attrition rate is some some seriously damaged cars now now that's probably now four cars out of the race yeah yeah and that's and this is actually kind of early for that many to be absolutely you might get one or a little shunt or something that leaves someone out here comes the uh Sebastian Bourdain in the Cadillac this will probably be a driver change and Fuel and tires and then they'll wheel the car back in uh they're going to do the driver change back in the garage area multiple into car champions Scott Dixon ready to get in the car hopefully he'll uh just be a case of the rear wing assembly comes off uh rear body work and uh no suspension or anything damage a new diffuser yeah just kind of the whole back module of the car they're putting the trolleys under the car I suppose it depends on whether the actual rear corner wheel and the connectors all right took any kind of damage at all whether they're bent or because it wasn't you know coming back quick was he no he was he was taking it well relatively by just being safe yeah he was being smart when these cars were designed I mean obviously designed for Speed and Performance but in this type of racing the design to fix quickly so that they're as simple as possible to to make quick repairs to because obviously for this very reason that if you can't make a quick change or a quick fix it doesn't ruin your race so let's hope that they can make that change get the car back on track and hopefully not lose um you know selling through the lap especially with the amount of slow zones out there hopefully they can keep them uh on the lead lap right now we've got about a quarter of the racetrack under slow Zone the slow Zone goes from right before the Ford chicane all the way through the end of the first chicane so through up underneath the Dunlap Bridge down through Ted Cruz and the first run to the first chicane which is basically from the Dunlop s to the first chicane is the fastest part of the racetrack so that right now is under a slow Zone and they clear the first chicane the green flags that you see will be wavings blue flags there to let the drivers know that faster cars are coming up behind them as now Earl Bamberg trying to get a little heat back in the tires there [Music] a three second advantage over the number five Penske Michael Christensen that Felipe Nasser Sebastian blemmy after his full service stopped get off the soft tires is now flying back up to Fourth position [Music] team Joda who we all thought would was off sequence has gotten back on sequence with everyone else but kind of extra pit stop but they have climbed up to six from uh starting at the back so that's pretty good drive in his first stints by uh Antonio Felix tacosta yeah they're very much in the fight aren't they the jokes team they're doing a really good job I mean bear in mind that they only got their car at the last round that's uh it's hard and really had a weakers like the weaker spot like literally had a run out I think if the Porsche's test track of isak and then turned up in the race and did a fantastic job um and they're still learning and you know in terms of the performance here they are pushing the factory Penske team which is great because it shows that you know a private tier team can take a car hyper car and take on the factory teams and that's the spirit of Le Mans you know the people that we've seen people like Yo's do that and uh that's what makes it you know really exciting to see uh that happened and it's always been Porsches ethos to have customers and to support the customer is now the customer puts it on the manufacturer yeah I was I was thinking that it's something that we've we've missed lately you know with Toyota being sort of all dominant and seeming to have everything in their pocket but all of a sudden now we've got a proper race on our hands with several cars several manufacturers and as you say jota right up there they had their issues earlier this week as well but they seem now they're in race spec it seems to be going well five and we have at least one representative of five of the six manufacturers in the top ten that's that's parody that's a pretty good period I'd love to see a replay of that uh contact with the back of the bodies Cadillac [Music] let's try and figure out what I think we've seen all they had [Music] so now they're they've come through the Porsche cars under the front straightaway this bike can't wait and this should be uh almost to the slow Zone well actually I guarantee to you in this church room they're looking at all kinds of different angles the ones we are not going to see well we might not have access but yeah exactly it's really hard as a driver as well with all these slow zones because it really it really affects your flow you know when you're doing a lap you kind of get you know you look at your lap times you're looking at your splits and you get into the Rhythm and then suddenly you stop and you know you have to coast along 80 kilometers an hour then you go again and then it stop again and it's really quite difficult to to get you flowing your your Rhythm I actually changed that one scoring page to that little map because it was kind of knocking me out of my flow and they had changed so much through three different incidents that it was like okay now just exactly where is the slow zone now there you see the one of the lift tractors trying to extract the numbers still trying to move the number 13 car that has taken a while I suspect there may have been some barrier damage there so what you have now is you have the engineers basically on the radio talking to the driver and telling them you know the slow zone is still there so they play uh keep an eye on it and obviously when they think that the slow zone is going to be removed they're just trying to keep the driver informed at all times so it's uh it's it's a really good time as if it is kind of get the information from your team while it's kind of you know not under stress or pressure and the engine note is low so exactly you're able to contact and understand each other really well of course on the trucks in the Pence they've got very high antennas where they can with a modern technology with radios you're able to speak to the driver all the way around the track I think it's um for me one of my biggest fears as driver is losing the radio because there's nothing worse than feeling like you're out there on your own and you've got no idea what's what's going on I mean I've been very fortunate I don't think I've ever had it happen to be but it's one of my biggest fears yeah that happens and then of course the pit board becomes the all-important thing but you're seeing it one lap later so you've got to kind of keep your eyes built for it especially with these slow zones you know this situations as well if you have got radio you're not aware of it so you kind of just doing it purely by sight and uh you can lose a lot of time uh you know by by not having the the information so just checking in on GTM there you see the third place car the number 85 the iron Danes Rachel Frey behind the wheel of that car he's being chased by the proton competition number 911 Rickard leads behind the wheel of that car Dr Rickard leads one of the uh just most of these guys that came up through that Porsche Junior program went on to be engineers and doctors of engineering and what a luxury to have a driver who's also one of the engineers on the car that's just absolutely fantastic Matteo corolli still leads the class in uh Rexy the number 56 Porsche and then the gr racing number 86 with uh Ben Barker behind the wheel has taken over the second position so even though the Porsches were quiet in in qualifying they are now first second third and fourth just looking at the garage 56 the Hedrick Motorsports uh NASCAR it's just slightly dropped now behind the the first uh ball GTM cars I know that's through pit stops or speed but uh really looking forward to seeing them do a pit stop NASCAR's yeah I think their lap times have been have been representative I think they've had uh probably and I think they may have made an extra pit stop I'm not sure they only made one yeah so wrong on that the cost of random of me too again like with everything else from that program they may be starting out conservative because for them there really isn't a class to win so for them it's just gonna be let's finish and let's make sure we finish here's that Porsche battle we were looking at moments ago there's a driver now this is awful this is what you just you want to look be looking ahead and seeing a clear Racetrack and when you look over you see you see all those cars it's like you know it's hard work but you know sometimes it can work for you sometimes you can get through the traffic cleanly and you can build a gap from the car behind uh likewise you can go against you it really depends on whereabouts you're hitting traffic on the lap and uh I would say the Porsche Corners is probably one of the worst because it's it's super high speed and you get a couple of GT cars it really kind of you know excites you can see just like this but next thing you know you you're under attack so uh [Music] to come upon a battle two cars but when you come up on a battle of lmp2 cars working their way through a battle of GTM cars that's just got to be really difficult and also how how familiar are you with the kind of talent that might or might not be behind the wheel of that car that you're trying to get by I mean that's pretty true because I think what you find is I mean I think Pizza will agree but when you're in the series you start to learn the various different first of all which cars are quick which ones are erratic and then you also start to know which Drive is in it and and who's you know who's quick or erratic as well so it's um yeah and with it being Lamar sometimes you've got a different driver lineup so you do start to learn and throughout the week in the testing you start to build a bit of a mental picture of who you trust and who you can't and you what I always found was there will be maybe could be like three or four cars in the whole field that every time you come upon them you know just to take extra care because you don't quite know what they're going to do and I found that in Nurburgring 24 hours as well yeah and even more complex circuit with you know the bank corners and the you know the bumps and in a much broader spectrum of exactly who can drive and who can't yeah I mean let's face it so interesting the Costa there trying to keep uh pressure and heat in the tires yep yep well is this a long slow Zone isn't it so everything is starting to settle down then you suddenly have to push again and yeah you come to a hard Breaking Point yeah into the chicane second chicane and uh you're you just want your tires to be up to Tim and quite often what you find yourself under a long sort of safety cards you're kind of work in the brakes did you work the brakes you heat the disc if you hit the disc it hits the rim which heats the tire so as much as anything you know I was always kind of I mean my understanding is the best way to actually warm the tires is not always the weaving it's the brake accelerate brake accelerate and it excites the carcass of the tire which energizes the tire which which builds up the the temperature so but the brakes are important as well to keep the brakes warm because if you go three three and you go flying down to the next corner and hit the brake pedal of the cold because as these carbon brakes do you know cool down very quickly then um you're not going to stop so is the um I mean physicists will tell you it's easier to heat from the inside than it is the outside exactly exactly there you are going through the first chicane now they'll see uh on drivers left on camera right as they come out you're going to see the green fly there it is the green flag waves there and there goes the jota around the 33 car then comes the number six car further back here comes uh Sebastian wemmy who looks like he's gotten by the 75 now so Sebastian Benny is on his way back to the front but indeed my lion eyes have yes there he is and he is definitely within Striking Distance as as a little bit of curve there for Christians who's kind of got the front of that car to wash out that's one of the things I was talking to Anthony about earlier in his and near the end of his first stint on the show is is that the margin of error because this field is so close is so small one mistake and all of a sudden your mirrors are full of the competition speaking of uh one mistake that's a lock up by DeCosta well that's exactly what we say yeah I think things have just got cool we saw the previous Corner was a car six uh Lauren Ventura he had a bit of a movement into the chicane so yeah the cars I think are just they're getting hard to drive because you're not pushing them all the time honey there's a big Zone where you're just cruising along it 80k an hour and also uh the older the tire the longer the tire has been on the card if it is second or third still every time it cools down it takes a little bit longer to re-energize and get the temperature back in it so it's uh yeah it is very very tricky but you see backed over here behind the Ferrari they're kind of queuing themselves up want to get a good run here out of uh Arnage and try and clear this car nicely before to get to the push corners and then it's going to be Pete 2p2 cars ahead again super fast also probably equally as fast as the Posh Corners probably not a big big amount in it I want to try and clear these cars yeah I apologize I've gotten very carried away with myself here this is the battle for fit folks that's how that's how good this race is the battle for fifth looks just like a lead battle that there's so much Jackson going on everywhere so much action this is the battle for fifth so the uh Jonah with DeCosta is is fifth sixth the sixth car Ventura is seventh then it's uh Mike Conway who is uh the Toyota in the back there followed by the two Ferraris who are also on the hunt trying to chase down the guys in the front who is the Cadillac number two of her Obama Michael Christensen in the number five proportion and the number 75 of Felipe Nasser so gotten myself straightened out there sounds amazing doesn't it yeah a little wiggle under breaking there how disconcerting is that [Music] but it looks like it's a quick hands I mean the Costa doesn't look like he's just slightly struggling a little bit whether it be like say maybe like a temperature in the tires or maybe the tires are just starting to to go off slightly but it may have a bit of a flat spot now a bit of vibration and here we go back into it so quickly so a Cornwall um Conway wasn't able to get by the P2 car in front so the two cars in front of just created that little Gap yeah and he's a long it's a long Zone this isn't it yeah but I mean as a driver you're just looking for that green light that green flag with your finger on the on the button as soon as you get there last time by it looked like they almost had uh the 13 car removed from the scene he was being pulled back up onto the flatbed another thing is that you know when the release comes the green the green flag and there's a lock up again into mohsan Corner yeah when the green flag comes you're kind of how close do I really have to be you know there's got to be a little bit of time so you're trying to just take those tolerances I thought that was a serious Locker because there's a big dark line I mean it wasn't like a little Lockup in that one so he's got a hard vibration it's definitely got a vibration he's definitely a blister country you see the flush there's bohemi who's is still in the slow Zone just went out of our frame that's the distance from her Webby back to DeCosta so yeah after 2010 minutes we've got still a pretty close race going on here yeah just a note the fastest lap of the race so far is from the Cadillac of four day at 228 too so the Cadillac has definitely got some pace but it's a Cadillac back on track fix them back out [Music] yeah so okay they are they are back on track that's good to see currently 13th overall 13th in class is the green flag waves as they exit the chicane they'll barrel down this uh short shoot to the second chicane second chicane is Left Right the first chicane is right left the second chicane is left right print through what used to be the kink [Music] and then late breaking for the most this is much like Indianapolis folks think that the breaking point for this is much earlier than it is you really you're really waiting a long time before you get out of the binders aren't you right there well yeah I think they're just going into moxon though yeah that's what I'm talking about it's actually super bumpy as well breaking some more sunny [Music] so we know the Cadillac was uh fast earlier let's find out more about what's uh happening with that three-car that's one more day driver of number three from your perspective Robbie sewed pretty well on TV um you know just fixation of slow zones turning on off and then one is on two he's on three Zone next thing you know they turn off you know Zone one but then you go straight back into zone two and I don't know somebody didn't remember that zone 2 was still on it was very confusing to be honest the the displays inside they kind of start lagging they don't they're switching information and you don't really know what to do and uh I think I think we just make kind of creating the monster a little bit which is a shame because you know you end up paying the prices something that's none of your fault well we're back to green plug racing now and you guys do have a lot of pace what can you do now hopefully you've run out of bad luck you know it's just uh I don't know I don't know what we could possibly done in a prior life these days but the uh the tough days uh keep piling on so hopefully uh there's another safety car pretty soon that we can get back in uh in line and not go lap down so it's a long race so hopefully your luck will turn yeah yeah that'd be good well thank you oh [Music] my God so there you see the number six car interesting that the it's kind of what we thought it was just the slow Zone here slow Zone there no slows on here now oh oops I think he just deludes the fact that the whole process is very confusing full stop and I think you know just take somebody that's uh maybe a couple of cars back or or whatever that that you know they just haven't clearly seen it and they've hit the back of Sebastian and caused that incident so it's very very much very important for those guys because we're having a great great race up to that point but um hopefully um you know they can get back into this race get back on the lead lap as he says I mean that's that's a new thing for this year if there was a safety car now and then they wave by they'd be able to get back on the lead lap again whereas in previous years uh it's pretty much impossible unless you fight your way back right I think if there's a team on the grid um you know chip ganasi racing if they're smart enough they've done this enough times to figure out how to to get laps back so be interested to see uh how they uh how they do so you've got the Penske Porsches now first and second very strong so far we've got to say Toyota leads Le Mans we've got to say Cadillac leads Lamar we've got to say Ferrari leads limo and now we can say Porsche leads him there's this tank [Music] this though is still the battle for fourth position in fact right now it's Porsche Porsche Toyota Porsche Porsche and Toyota this has turned into and then the two Ferraris followed by the two pujos Cadillac number two coming out of uh back on the track on his outlap after his pit stop that's Earl Bamber and then Frank Mayu and the glicken house number 709 and then as you said rightly so guy uh the number three car now being driven by Scott Dixon in 13th position Olivier pois in the 708 glicking house which had to start from pit Lane has worked his way back up to 29th [Music] yeah both Persians are still still going strong seven seconds apart from each other but just not quite able to get on the pace of the of the other cars at this stage but um you know this race could change quite a lot as we start to go into the evening and into the night time and it starts to cool down you find that some cars come alive uh some cars you know are not so good in those so we start to see you know varying from changing performances and also we've we've seen one little intervention from Mother Nature at the beginning of this race I'm sure that's not the last intervention we're going to hear so the five car we've been talking about a lot they now lead let's check his system close drive a change so that's gonna be it for uh Michael this is his uh this is the completion of his second stint this is only the second Pit Stop so Jody is the one Jonah has had I mean given the fact that they have they already have they've now made three pit stops to just one pit stop for the five car they've got some Pace in that car definitely definitely we saw the 50 cars there on a bit of a slide into the corner clearly that uh downhill turned six cylinders uh it's a little bit slippy I think this is the third stint on those tires for that car now when you start the race the track's super nice and clean they clean the circuit get rid of all the marbles that the marbles of rubber that you get around the outside of the circuit um as the race goes off these marbles start to build up and what happens is the faster cars will when they're overtaking the GT cars are quite easy then to get into the marbles which could be very very tricky I love this graphic I love to see the uh the comparison of the speeds from the cars as they go through various parts of the racetrack and not just top speed it's very interesting to see who's carrying more speed into the corner who's who's carrying it you know out of the corner who's got the best speed that to me is very very interesting thank you okay so this is the battle now so we got a good sense now uh the poor man closing up behind the back of Mike Conway let's see what the speed difference between these two cars we know the Toyota flew by early on didn't it um but the Ferrari seems to be right there loses a little bit on the initial power well I think part of the reason the Two Toyota is full butter please because it started out of the song but that didn't you know they used those up for Conway used his up a lot quicker than I was very impressed with the maturity that wemmy showed on that that first uh it doesn't it doesn't seem like it's that funky but boy but you see that kind of almost that wasn't quite poor proceeding but that was uh that was certainly riding the most who had that absolutely outstanding qualifying lap has proven to be a a rising star in the sport in the first three races of the Season there's four races this is the fourth race in the season first three races of the Season he's been very impressive and he has continued to do that here waiting to go to work I'm completing the next pit stop we're there [Music] the Porsche curves this is a real rhythm part of the racetrack as now the number five car as we heard moments ago box box for Michael Christensen he comes into the pits it will be a driver change moves back into the lead of the race with the Toyota Dane Cameron the young American Still a Young American of course all of them are young compared to me but um watched him come up through the Open Wheel ranks and then into the support series of imsa and then getting full-time rides and himself past himself Champion he has really his father was one of the great mechanics formula Matic and Open Wheel racing and helped Johnny O'Connell get his start and so through Johnny we really got to know Dane quite well and he's he is fully uh it's going to be fun to watch him in this portion he's right in the Roger Penske level too it'll cut a clean cut kid who mine just p's and q's and it's all about the process [Music] give me leads let's find out what they're talking about it and uh it's correcting for higher illegal out of turn seven it's nothing we can do about it how is balance and entry to turn two question how is balance entry turned two big problems [Music] so so we've heard some more than one time this weekend complain about this car under bridge that's interesting yeah it's uh they just need to be slowed him down too much he's obviously leading the race and uh seems to have a strong Pace but uh clearly he's not he's not totally happy with that Toyota so yeah we just have to keep an eye on that and see whether it becomes more of an issue so was that something to do with the harvesting of the energy and the brake performance of the mixer because they they talk about that the other day as well didn't they so I think they still haven't got to the bottom of um that perhaps the harvesting is happening too strongly we've had to change the position now as uh Fuoco has gotten by Mike Conway how he sits in fourth position Conway has dropped back to fifth that happened while we were watching the listening to Sebastian here comes the uh the pass that was out of uh I had to sleep with these hyper cars they do get proper toe I mean he seems whichever cars follow it seems have quite a bit more straight line speed and then we certainly saw that from the beginning of the race with the Toyota and then we've just seen um the opposite of that with the Ferrari sort of power so assuming that they're all running similar power levels um it looks pretty pretty evenly matched and focus said a personal best in the second sector when it was making that pass so that that tells you he's carrying a lot of speed and he's going to join these two Porsches that are battling here very shortly he has the bit between his teeth I don't think I think Ferrari is very incognizant of not wanting to let one of the Toyotas get too far down the road [Music] oh we have the four Shelf Ryan Hardwick I think that is so we've got contact again that's coming down to Tech Rouge you can see the spin marks round and round and round is that the iron linked car that's the 16 and the iron links car yeah oh that was closer than it needed to be yeah we've seen this oh it got collected nowhere to go 60 drops of wheel off take 16 with them I thought for a moment he was going to go all the way out to the wall but he when he when he corrected it bit and he came back right in front of the 16 car literally nothing the 16 car could do just a complete uh innocent party in that just had nowhere to go basically we've seen that earlier on in the week we've seen that a few times coming out of that corner where people have ran wide and collected somebody on the exit that was that was Ryan Hardwick in the 16 part no rain expected in next 40 minutes nothing expected in the next 40 minutes there are some darker clouds though keep us updated on what you see Claudio skiavoni was behind the wheel of the 60 car so Ryan Hardwick in the 16 and skivony in the 60. Joker very racy there taken to the uh the sort of Perimeter Road almost to to make that pass on the Porsche third fourth fifth yeah like I said earlier that's third fourth fifth sixth oh yes there you go a lot of squeezing by yeah really in the race boys I told you he was coming and he has arrived making the pass on the entrance to mulsong now the Joda knows that he's coming letting him know with the flashing lights welcome is on a mission yeah everybody's a bit elbows out everybody's feeding feisty still it's uh still 21 and a half hours to go a long way to go but it's there bouncing around you would think it was a six-hour Sprint watching this but this is what we want to see this is the excitement of a piper car and the Mod racing this is what it's all about and uh can they keep this up well it's hard to find out it has it has become a 24-hour Sprint race over the last few years because of the reliability improvements in cars and and the technical advancements and and teams just knowing what they're doing and you know everyone being on top of everything but this is the first time that so many teams are coming here for the first time with new equipment I'm an only Toyota and glockenhouse have been here before with this equipment so it's yes they know what to do they know how to handle issues but are they fully prepared enough to be ready to go for 24 hours at this blistering Pace yeah we're turning 131s 130s 128 eight last lap for Wilco yeah the fastest lap of the race so they're they're pushing hard still gonna hear from our race director [Music] caution at MP6 bear left bear left at MP6 track is partially blocked pair totally to the left at MP6 bear totally to the left at MP6 and MP7 of course that is Ted Cruz in what he's talking about when you hear him say MP they have the Marshall posts marked around the racetrack and this is where you saw the this is where the slow Zone begins and this will make sure that the cars are fully slowed down and under control when they get to the actual scene of the accident which is actually in another Marshall position or two and those Marshall posts uh you can Google the map and if you have it at home folks you can you can either print that out or have it on your computer and there you see why the track is partially blocked because it had to get a Lift Truck and this is I think probably one of the best innovations that we've seen for safety and for clearing up when we have an incident that these cars now all have a lift system whereby they can attach that bar that you saw to the to the roof line of the car and lift the car up in each of the cars when they go through scrutineering that is tested and I was enjoying saying that not only did they have to pass the sniff test they had to pass the lift test I think we're going to see a drag race any second now and we're going to see who's got the strongest engine who's got the best tool you can see the flashing lights there on the Porsche I don't think he's got on the Ferrari but on the Toyota and that's to indicate that the um the the the yeah the 80 kilometers an hour full course yellow they're on the button they're on the button so one that when once they get to that green flag it's a race to the button and there's as Pete's net it's going to be a drag race so uh and then Ferrari has it on the tail lights which is probably more important so that the guy behind him knows he's on the button [Music] play of earlier yes this is when foco used all of the racetrack that's pretty dirty over there that uh that red asphalt over there to the right of the white line is uh he's pretty nasty they're the other risk to that not only from the the physical side it's actually the risk of getting a picture because obviously you're watching off track it's pretty there's lots of sort of loose gravel and stuff and there is a risk there of picking up a puncher you know how when you uh all right on a long airplane flight and the pilot comes back it sits down and rests and you wonder who's flying This Plane that's what just happened this is our director oliviated team so who's in charge he's just come in to say hello with us all right here we go green wants team flag here we go green flag straight away trying to break that toe isn't he yes so Posh was awake quick yeah very quick I don't like that weaving I'm sorry we saw it in Indianapolis and that's one man's opinion I'm sure I'm wrong but here's my favorite graphic we also can see who has what energy left so we're gonna start seeing some pit stops pretty soon damage to the 708 on the right front that's going to be at least in those change back to the action that's right already so more trouble for them yeah here they come into Molson they've made it through the kink under the total Bridge and almost to the braking Zone onto the binders you hear the wine of the Regeneration and then back on the power of that Ferrari as they make the run down towards Indianapolis with the second fastest spot on the racetrack they're going to catch some traffic foco setting him up gonna try to go around the outside he's gonna have to make a decision here there's a uh the uh one of the lmp2 cards the Belgian lmp2 card Now is it going to go to the right or left or is he just gonna he uses a pick and Dacosta does a great job of using the Prima if he does it just boxes them in I think that was the uh the 63 car yeah it was the premise 63 car that he used as a pick to just hold off woco in that fast part of the racetrack now they go through the slowest part of the racetrack which is our nod and now they make the run to the Porsche curves and hopefully they won't catch any traffic here there's a Porsche there in front of him yellow flag zone the yellow flag zone is still uh the the yellow flag yeah so there it is double yellow we're taking into this area so I wonder what's uh what caused that it's back to green again the number 16 car has stopped his Porsche curves that's the uh the reason for that double yellow so that was uh easy for them to dispatch we've still got the slow Zone once they get to the top of the hill coming to the pits the 38 and the 50 both come to pit Lane right together get down to the pit lane speed limiter so that's what you're saying earlier on that's the fourth stop now for um all the other cars have either got two or three and yet they're right up there so yes it's interesting the other Ferrari is also in this has been there uh the the Toyota's split their stops because women was able to go further on those soft tires the Ferraris have been pitting together oh that's gonna be tight that's the problem and well they're set up for that you can see the um they're set up and ready for that there is the way they have the tape on the front of the the pit area they can either come in parallel like this or they can come in on an angle and everything's been measured out so they know where to stop this is the jota pit stop fuel first as is the rules you can't work on the car until the fueling is done then once the fueling is done then the tire changes and any other work that you need to do can take place so looks like it's going to be full service here nope the 50 cars away no tires just fuel well if you remember they had a driver change last time they did the fuel service then so different sequences a driver change also for the 51 good spot by uh by you Peter and looks gonna be a tire change there the 50 is out of the pits now in fifth in sixth position behind the number two there we've got 51 has still got um James collado in the car he's been in now since the start of the race it didn't look like they were changing drivers yeah I I think they did did they I think they did wait till he comes across the Line to See so we're hearing that uh potentially GM venazi is now in the car oh that'll be fun and here they are in the in the slow Zone if you're not if you if you lose your attention span for a moment you looked up and it's like is that a replay no they're in a slow zone now we're uh expecting rain off and on throughout the 24 hours this year and right now they're calling for rain Marshall's post 25 to 35 in about 8 or 10 minutes and as they go back to green as they enter the first chicane of when we was making his intentions very clear all the way down the street there yeah please just stay out of my way I'm going through Jensen just stay right there big guy I'm coming by you so let's go down to the the pit Lane and Stephanie hi guys it's been a while since I've checked in with you but I am actually outside for DKR garage right now where the car has just come in with severe damage to the rear wing so I'm not sure if you guys have seen what's happened to that car but they're definitely going to have to be a rare Wing change because it is very lopsided flopping to the left and yeah so that car is going to need some servicing [Music] that was the car that we saw going slowly on driver's right because they had the Pokemon League so they were already probably a lap upside down [Music] yes you do yes you do take care yes confirmed slow puncher left rear ah it's a slow puncher for the number six car that was Lauren's ventor that we heard there as we were watching this uh battle that is now uh taken starting to hot up between the number 38 jota the Peugeot in number 94 and the number 75 Porsche with uh Felipe Nasser still behind the wheel so he's on his third still so Lauren vanter he will have seen on his dashboard the tire pressure monitoring system TPMS will have come up flushed up and said he had a um he's losing pressure so he's just double checking that where the team who have confirmed it so yeah never a nice thing to see as a driver because you just wonder what you're you know you how much grip you're going to lose and how fast you can go and I guess they're gonna make a pit stop very sin now here's Mike Conway and Lawrence van tour we heard that radio traffic that Ventura has been told to be careful he does have the slow puncture and here he comes to the pits and with him is going to be Mike Conway so both of these guys now making their third pit stops of the race and it'll be interesting to see if we get full service here with both of these cars this will be Conway's third stint the end of his third stint so second stint on his tires but third step for him [Music] it's not looking like a driver changes that doesn't look like it unless he's coming out the other side Ventura Ventura is going to be a driver change well you know he's going to get new tires on that car that's for sure yeah yeah he has to because of the because of the slow puncture so this now has moved the Peugeot number 93 up into second place where John Eric Byrne behind the wheel you know everybody in the pool everybody gets their shot at the front so we now got EPA on the in the uh jota car and uh looks like Kevin Esther is jumping into the uh into the Porsche uh replacing Lawrence mantor Kevin Esther is another one of those guys who's come up through Porsche's GT ranks getting his uh first real opportunity and some Frontline prototype racing meanwhile here is that battle for Fifth Fifth Sixth and Seventh [Music] see a little wiggle from the holding off there yeah doc sorry for sure the partial leaving the corner oversteer losing just a little bit on my exit yeah two P2 cars racing and these lmp2 cars are seriously fast race cars it just shows how fast these hyper cars are when they just kind of blast faster so it's uh it's really impressive put really tight there into that second chicane Porsches behind me yeah there's nowhere the Porsche can go in there so either of them the GT car or the uh or the hyper car and it's so frustrated to the driver when you can find yourself in that position you've worked so hard to get up to the tail of the car in front and then you get that bit of traffic and you lose that momentum that you've maybe spent sort of three or four laps trying to try to close that Gap and here comes in the back of your frame now Antonio Joe vernazzi he's going to join this group become a four-way battle here very quickly as uh Cuoco has uh headed he's uh trying to catch the Cadillac meantime Mike Conway's in the middle of this courts push curse 19 so double yellows guys [Music] the rain that we we saw a little while ago that in about the next two minutes there's supposed to be rain arriving at the Porsche curves that's that's uh there and uh word from uh Stephanie in the pit Lane is that it started to sprinkle in the pits as well so the rain we've been expecting has arrived and here's uh more damage let's see what happened here and way off in that oh off of that dirty stuff and then you've got no control coming back on oh my Heavens United car the United car just absolutely goes into the side of the Porsche I think is that the 88 portion that's the proton car isn't it yeah it's one of the proteins either 77 or 88. I think it's the 77. it's got the blue uh it's Frederick of course that's the 22 United car it's Frederick Lubin behind the wheel of that car you've got to feel sorry for the Porsche just it is the 77 reminding its own business driving down the street they will be fuming in that car attrition rape Peter is just amazing it's like I just can't believe how many incidents we're having it's to say these guys these guys racing like it's a full-on Sprint race and that's all the way through the field I mean obviously that was a it was unlucky but um yeah it's just it's yellow zone after yellow soon enough yeah he got out we're just talking a couple laps ago you get out on that red asphalt and there's a lot of dirt out there that's where the truck diesel is that's where all that stuff is because this is a public road and so you get out there he he just totally lost control of that car he had his wheel on the grass yeah on the inside even so yeah just too much risk I think going on there everybody thinks they're Baylor and her well these cars are so low to the ground as well you know that they're literally you know centimeters off the ground and once you go off onto that kind of Side Road or whatever you want to call it service road or whatever you can see the amount of gravel and stuff oh yeah the car just bottoms out a little bit the wheels come off the ground suddenly you're out of control and that's kind of what happened there too uh to Lubin which is really unfortunate but uh so this is also going to make things interesting because if you when you come out of a slow Zone maybe you've lost some heat in your tires yeah and you go straight from the slow Zone into the rain that's uh that promotes more slow zones cautions breed cautions well this is a familiar slow zone so far this is from Marshall post six all the way down to the exit of the first chicane again we talked earlier that this is the fastest part of the racetrack it is also on the opposite side of the racetrack from where the rain is right now as you see some of the spectators there starting to Shield themselves so the word is that we've got uh there's actually some rain on on the ground coming down just outside our booth there's rain in the pit Lane I suppose another another uh thing about the rain is it makes the truck really slippy [Music] rain rain and it's decreasing in intensity [Music] so this is going to be making these poor guys crazy for the next couple of hours because I think this is what we're going to get you're going to get that little spit every now and then we might get a shower and it takes half the race track that's the thing so as I was saying we've we've had a period of hot dry weather and it seems obvious that the rain is going to make it slippery but it's going to make it extra slippery because um because we've had that dry dry we've had the bits of rain the track itself wouldn't be so bad but it's just it's suddenly coming on race day when it's been so dry well the other issue is again this part of the racetrack is public road so if it's been dry you've got a lot of diesel you got a lot of oil you got things that have dripped out of cars that when the when the rain gets on that asphalt all that stuff comes to the uh surface first yeah until it gets clear to buy weather rain and it's like driving on Ice even the white lines that if you see down the middle of the road they could be very very slippery when it's wet so it's uh it is pretty treacherous but the thing about the bond rating is that you can see that with all the slow zones the weather conditions it's just mentally exhausted isn't it there's so much going on I mean like this is probably more exhausting for the drivers with all the slow zones because they're having to make sure they're activating at the right time and release it right time they're wearing there's so much going on it's it's just um mentally uh really challenge important you're always thinking when you're in there comes the move now so that was 50 51 car going around the uh that was oversteering yet so I lost traction but so they're into the wet condition now these cars are unlikely to go to wet tires because the truck's so dry so they've just got to put up with it and try and keep the car out of the wall and also the fact that the rain is lessening in this part of the racetrack and it's the only part of the racetrack where there is rain interesting the Peugeot seems a little bit happier in that mixed condition than the portion number 75 in front of him [Music] I think if I was in the Persia right now I'd be praying for rain because they probably haven't quite got the speed and the drive to challenge but you never know where they might just have something that the other cars don't have yeah more variables yeah yeah yeah yeah it'll be interesting to see if menezes can hold off the the 70 the the 94 in that section of the racetrack because that's really the only spot he has to worry about because once he gets over to the drier part of the racetrack you can see he's pulled away is now the 51 car going up towards Dunlap is going to try and go around the outside he makes that pass stick hard on the brakes gets it done before they catch the Corvette that was probably very fortuitous on his part down the hill now out of Dunlap go around the Corvette and there you go he can uh use the the Corvette as a pick he's often on his way now in third position as the 75 car has a look as they get to the slow Zone it's a nice warp by the 51 car there he's going to caught in between so he can get straight back up to speed at the end of the slow Zone when we saw a 77 collected by the P2 car that you make the P2 car better damage or not thankfully back to the pitch so they should get it fixed in back in the race but any chance of a win or even a Podium is like unlikely now yeah that's just too much damage to you know you're in a recovery drive after that and it's I have to say it's pretty awful when you once you're in that situation where you sort of in the race and you're fighting once you have a problem early on and you are five ten laps down it's it's a longer it's a long race you know okay mate so unfortunately we're just gonna have to try and survive through this we're gonna have to try and survive through this it doesn't look to be a big storm at all meaning it's not going to last very long and it's the only area the of the track uh which will be wet so we still think it's going to move through closer to Indy and then eventually into mulsan but only on the south side of the track it's really that's that's really the worst when it moves it moves across the racetrack because it's you know it'll wet here and then it'll be wet down the sun straight away yeah which will dry fast here's another look at the incident between the 77 and the 23 car 23 car gets over in the gravel and then just absolutely broadsides the 77 car is an innocent bystander and just gets absolutely destroyed the thing is he didn't both of them keep going it's amazing that they both kept going but it didn't need to be that far over there was there was clear daylight between him and the in the Porsche and he could adjust I think he got over there far enough and then he got pulled over maybe you know I mean it was hard to get into it yeah and then and then you've got the left-hander coming and uh there's a fine line between hero and zero isn't it sometimes you make those moves and it's all spectacular it looks great that shortcut of the chicane there yeah there's always wiper on yep unless it is now starting to move across and there's a little bit of just saw a couple uh drops on the camera there maybe it is moving across the racetrack now but pretty much confirm what I I thought was he's gone more easy on the brakes this time and now 75's just going around him so wow interesting that he had a problem in the last chicken and then he seemed to be very cautious going into Multan corner and it looks like the Puja is going to get him as well he does so two positions in one corner he is not happy and maybe he's not comfortable in the Slick conditions and sometimes it's just a perhaps a lot of experience you know Peugeot is because he's just now taking the Porsche I think what we're seeing the Porsche is just a little bit more difficult to handle in these mixed conditions on slick tires also jota made a driver change very recently so he's he's still fresh slipping sliding just searching for grip [Music] here comes uh and then the jota as well so yes it's all changed here's the first part of the all right boys keep on the island yeah curves everybody's staying right in the middle of the road just kind of tiptoeing through there that's amazing how they've had to just find that comfort zone you really see the ring coming down the corner and then in two corners you got rainbow the Peugeot is through yep the pujo has gone through on the Ferrari but I'm sure jovanatsi is going to uh grab that back as soon as they get on the front straight away let's check in in the pits [Music] really dry I don't know if that's going to impact what sort of strategies the teams start to pick well it probably means mostly guys that they're going to stay on the Slicks is now here comes Joe vernazzi how long is it going to take [Music] it's gonna be interesting to see just what the performance of this Peugeot is so it seems like the Ferrari of this this dry part of the track has got the got the advantage for sure and then once we get onto the wet part of the track yeah so he's held him off for now hold him off for now great for a Gustavo menezes yeah in fact yeah as you said earlier from his point of view he'd like more rain I think so I mean it definitely seems that when the track is wet the Peugeot seems to be the most happiest in those conditions certainly being the 90 forecast so it'll be uh doing a rain dance today and the other people that are really happier not only these guys in the pit area but the PA system is going insane right now that the fact that Peugeot the the French car has moved to the second place in the most French of automobile races oh wow and there you see the rain that's over the Porsche curves so they are really going to be having a tiptoe there's the one of the GTM cars but to go back to the tire situation they do four cars sorry they just they have to put up with it they just have to cruise around slowly because it's it's what it's less than a mile long right of rain and then you've got another nine miles of dry I guess it's what time you lose I mean it's quite significant right now I mean once again standing water with slick tires you are there's the number 100 the Ferrari 100 off into the gravel trap we might be seeing might be a slow Zone some more more often potentially some slow zones or safety car as they uh clean up the the gravel that's been left on the racetrack by the collision between the 77 and the 23. these four cars now the pujo number 94 the Ferrari 51 the jota Porsche number 38 and the Penske imsa Porsche number 75 thing is if you did stop for wet tires now and you're on this part they'd be wrecked mind you if you're driving a GT you can have drying tires on the car or if you're driving yeah on wet tires in a slow Zone you don't you're not too many tires well that's true the rear is a real yeah I mean somebody could be brave with the strategy in terms of rolling the dice here but uh yeah you're right that looks like a while as well because they've got they've just kind of brought those machine that Machinery down there haven't they yeah to fix the barrier so we could be in for a while down there as well these barriers are going to be like brand new by the way safety car safety car is coming out and that is without a doubt because of the rain I would suspect over in the Porsche curves it's just probably a little too dangerous right now to be running flat out and there's a glicking house the 709 Olivier Olivia it's uh actually just pulled up that's not oh got a free car three car just very narrow area and now what you get is is carpet cleaning hitting another car so these cars are parked yeah and without issue you've got now is having a multiple car pilot yep and there you go here comes the safety car the three car has gone off that is the leader in in GTM that's uh Ricardo Pera who is leading the GTM category in the number 86. now he's got going against a little bit of uh oh something hanging off the back uh serious aquaplaning I can remember the SEC a runoffs it wrote a lance item that you both have driven and wrote Atlanta you get to the top of the racetrack and there's the double right-hander and it was the same kind of situation it was bucketing down at that part of the racetrack the rest of the racetrack was dry it was the national championship for what was then the category here's the uh 79 car just trying the third that's the 41. this is what happened or 31 31 that's the uh 31. oh and then the Ferrari goes through good Heavens wow that that came in Sue came in really hot Dixon kissed the barrier but I I think he just barely wasted if he kissed it yeah again just a small touch just missed it and got lucky that he didn't get collected by the Porsche who then hits the barrier wow yeah but the point of my my story was that all but two cars literally ended up down that hill and in the woods and two cars finished the race right and here we see more spinning as that's now down at mall San so they're uh also on corner so that has uh no that's Arnage my apologies so the rain has now gone all the way from the Porsche curves back to our notch here comes the three Cadillac limping uh limping along here's the 31 car that we saw go along the wall kind of bouncing off the wall looks like he's he's got some damage but it certainly wasn't as bad as it might have been so you're right guy I think you will see a split strategy I'm not sure everyone will go on to wet tires but some cars will yeah I mean I think there's weighing up do you drive on do you look after your wet tires on the drivers of the track because I think you lose so much time yeah risk having an accident on the wet that is actually probably the safer option yeah I think at this point you're not really looking at performance you're looking at actually survivability you're looking at the fact that we've got 21 hours left absolutely in this race the 31 card just to to put a button on that story that's being driven by uh Habsburg for that pretty apps for that's the uh wrt car here comes the 311 they're getting ready for the 709 to come in we saw that car off there's uh Dixon has made it back to the pits here's a quick question safety calls are out is it survivable on slicks in a safety car queue in which case don't go wet because half the track is bone dry look at the pit Lane here can you survive Guy come on I mean well this this is the thing it's it's as you saw I think once you've got physically got standing water and you've got um puddles I think on slicks as we saw that this car just just basically aquaplanes and you're out of control even at slow speeds I think I think even behind the safety car you're you're so somebody's gonna gamble off yeah exactly I think do you stay on do you do you nurse the wet on the dry bit because there is some of it in slow Zone and then and then obviously have the the safety um in the wet part of the track look at the water pouring out of the side part of the Ferrari I think if I'm pojo I stay on slicks so as your race leader second place in the pits 94 car or do you split the cars we do you know split your strategy I mean that's that's the advantage of having multiple horses in the race is is you can afford to do that and someone like Peugeot you know at this point you've got a gamble you've got to do something because you know you're not quite there on Pace in the dry so let's try something different does look like they're going to put weights on it there's a mato Ferrari runs their AF course that runs the uh the Ferrari program I think Peter the the engineers and the gurus on the pit wall now are really kind of earning the money is what do we do you know this is over to them it's for the drivers it's just trying to survive it's really a case of them you know of the engineers now what is the best strategy to do Dixon's back out now we saw problems for the gr racing Porsche that means that with the iron Danes who are in the pit currently come out Rachel Frey will be leading the class probably so we might have the iron Danes leading Lamar as now we're on board with the 50. and we didn't get to see if they actually put the the rain tires on the uh queuing up the uh on the pujo and because of the safety car they're waiting for the next safety car to come by so they'll be able to be released [Music] I'm not pushing that here comes the 100 car which we saw and there's wets going on the Porsche see the yellow W with the trapezoid [Music] 75 carb getting uh wets I suspect that he got wet he was not comfortable at all I think Conway has stayed out I mean Wendy's stayed out there's the five car so that slicked on that just now mediums are soft did you could you see I couldn't yeah well I could have but I didn't and what's going on uh instead of wets just going on the five cars so they they were fueling so they hadn't gotten to the tires yet but do we think the number 50 Ferrari that's currently leading instead of the Slick Tire yeah yes because he stayed out okay see how they and and and Joe renazzi stayed out and I think the two Toyotas have stayed out this is uh Ted Rouge yes it is we have on the dryer parts of the truck we now have rain yes we're just turning to get the rain it's going across the racetrack well gentlemen I've enjoyed my uh my two hours with you I'm gonna take a little bit of a break and uh uh our man Too Tall will be in so the next voice you hear after you hear these two guys talk for a minute we'll be Martin Haven okay [Applause] so said what I can see is that this big massive rain is moving across the circuit I would expect it to hit turn ten between turn ten and turn uh 12 and then it'll disappear then it'll disappear just like the team radio did okay well um it's it's time for the gamblers isn't it Ferrari we talked about this right at the top of the show Ferrari have already won enormous Headlines by taking pole position of them on the question is how much of a gamble how much how confident are they that they're making the right decision of course you can only ever find out in hindsight it's all the Peugeot come in from second place to change tires and that can't just have been a standard stop little problem for the 41 wrt leading the pit Lane we're under safety car here at Le Mans as we approach the end of our where are we three of the race just three hours in three hours and a minute into the 24 Hours of Le Mans this is our second safety carp we only have a safety car from lap one or on lap one from basically the beginning them all sound straight this uh there was an incident there and then we saw the Toyota's on soft tires at the start of the race which clearly turned out to be a major tactical error and not the sort of thing you might expected from Toyota they jumped into the lead ahead of the two Ferraris but then their Tire started to overheat Midway through that first stint and the Ferraris came back to them right now running one two Peugeot 94 in third place and the safety cars are out on the track it is wet let me know when you arrive in Porsche if it looks better in port or not if it looks better in Posh we don't beat if it looks not better we box [Music] I'm in a guy Smith will be Davidson guy in just a couple of minutes ago about the fact that somebody's going to gamble well Ferrari are comfortable enough not to have bothered splitting a strategy or not to or the drives are gone no no no no no this is survivable yeah it's um a tough call I've just said there on the radio you know to the drivers is it improving and it possibly is improving looking at the pictures there certainly the track is wet um it's a standing water is is for me is a big issue on on the slick tires the standing board is still there is it improving well I mean look to me like that that looks a better picture to me looks like it's uh it's definitely clearing up so yeah compared to this two laps ago and it was an absolute flood but that's the sort of nature of this place quite often you get a massive Cloud burst that stops almost instantly and you get like an inch of water on the track which then clears away but I mean when we saw the caddy Anthony Davidson spinning there it was very very wet indeed it does look quite survivable they haven't actually gone quick enough to catch the safety car yet no it's certainly looking better than it was I agree with uh with guys comments there I mean still weaponco's got to make a decision now is he going to come in or is he staring at me that still looks pretty treacherous around the Porsche curves and that was the specific part to the track that this engineer was asking him about do stay out and come in oh it may be worth staying out because this safety car could last an awful lot longer yeah I mean I think Ferrari could even they could split the strategy because they've lit at the minute they've got all their eggs in one basket they've got both cars on the same tires so they can afford to do something a little bit different don't forget no matter how slowly they go everybody else is behind a safety car the race leader is in Antonio Fuego now does Antonio giovannazzi follow him look it's it's bright sunlight Well there's almost no rain falling in the pit Lane and he is but then we've got barrier repairs probably that need to be done where the grasia portion went off backwards because if somebody can go off there once they can go off there twice um there might be something else around the circle as well that requires attention we saw that you know the the big clear up operation that at Tetra Rouge so Toyota have decided to stay out there both Ferraris in this is very interesting they're gonna put the wets on are they wow the wets are ready yeah they're in hand they are in hand it can look any more ready okay so the deal here is fuel and safety items like cleaning a windscreen uh can be done driver change can be done brand new unscrubbed wet weather mishlands ready to go foreign [Music] how quick can Ferrari be is the pit Lane going to be closed when they get to the end of it the other deal Anthony Davis and don't forget Michelin told us about this new wet weather Target we've got this season they say it's a drying wet it's not a monsoon Tire only for where weather conditions that will die if the track dries they believe in these sorts of conditions it will do at least a stint as the track dries out here at Le Mans which is a brave brave suggestion this may be the first time a Nascar has run on the wet in a long long workout this is not high speed oval they do run on wet weather tires on road courses but the Ferraris and the garage 56 NASCAR are caught in the cube there is the iron Dames Porsche right at the back we haven't seen much lmp2 or GTM action apart from when they've crashed because the it has been dominated by the movie stars in the top class and hypercar has not stopped Giver yet the iron Dames were in the lead it's now the AF course another 54 car the silver Ferrari started by Thomas floor it's got Pro driver David Avery gone at the wheel Sarah bovey the bronze driver in the iron Dames car because all the drivers in these categories are bronze or silver or gold or platinum if they're Superstars like guyan and here so she's the bronze driver in that car that's now currently second in the queue and again don't forget with the three safety cars we will merge the entire field when the track is safe and the safety car is effectively no longer needed to protect the workers and then we will rearrange the queues you will not lose the lap in the safety car you might get away by if your class leader is behind you yeah I mean look it's still t-shirt weather out there it's it's warm the ambient is which t-shirt some places yeah but it's it's drying the circuit is drying and I just wonder oh I I see what he's doing you know what he's doing he's taking a photograph of the timing screens because Gustavo menezes leads lemon for Peugeot of course Gustavo is driving an absolute Blinder there in those uh very tricky conditions on the slick tires you know well deserved to be heading the field right now and I think publicly quite an underrated driver you know he's he's had quite a long time in lnp2 with with rebellion and nmp what was rebellion and then sort of running in I think I think he could turn out to be a bit of a star turn here for Peugeot but this is an absolute I don't know if you agree or not guy with this one I just I've got the feeling this is an absolute pivotal part of the race right now this whoever is the eventual outcome the winner I think the outcome will be a lot changing on this moment right now it's absolutely so close and there's no room for a wrong decision at this point whether it be from the drivers making a mistake or often the team's making a wrong Tire Choice so you're absolutely right it's so nip and tough right now and I think um I think we all hoped it would be it would be this close with this fraught but it's absolutely over delivering it really is and the thing here of course is that the weather forecasters aren't just suggesting we might get a spring clean today through the night and into tomorrow this could happen again and again and again and again the more it happens the more you've got to get it right every time guy because otherwise if you get it wrong once you might recover if you get it wrong more than once there's too much good opposition and that's where you know teams like Toyota um they've got that experience they've got that knowledge um so you have to look and see what they're doing and say you know these guys have been here before they've they've experienced these types of big decisions at big big moments um the other teams are while they've got experience on board they've maybe not found themselves at the moment in this situation so I definitely looking to see what sorry to do and uh I'd be sort of trying to mirror that the other thing as well is this this safety car is going to bring the um the number three Cadillac back into play because obviously it lost that time early on with the problem so hopefully it'll be bring it back onto the back of the uh hypercar field and bring that car back into playing not we're closing up behind the safety car now each of the safety cars does have cars behind it there are a couple of outline but no nobody is caught safety carpet yet that's the one that the Ferraris were sort of closing up on um the force of 911 safety cars all have full road tires high performance road tires workers have four-wheel drive so it does give them the opportunity to sort of survive these conditions right now under safety car conditions Peugeot leads at Le Mans wet weather has returned to the Circuit till Assad we are three hours and 10 minutes into the 24 Hours of Le Mans for the second time in this race the safety car is out because extremely heavy wet weather arrives and Porsche occurs one of the quickest parts of a circuit of course a number of incidents added to the tally clear up operations going on on the track and Eduardo Freitas the race director scramble the safety car there's the garage 56 NASCAR Anthony Davidson before we came on air we were laughing a shot of work going on at Tetris there was a big tall blue car in the course oh no it's just a person one of the Marshalls cars but it it it looks so different here that it stands out quite notably well let's catch up with some of our teams then get back to the radar it definitely looked a lot lighter it looked like it was only going to affect uh the south side of the track not the whole side and not being near as intense we see now it's uh the opposite of that and again weather forecasting is more of a craft for the science there is science behind it but you can never predict entirely how much is going to come from the clouds and where so they went with the information they'd be given clearly was much more the deli's and Antonio was just going did we expect that much there is no we really really didn't [Music] thank you queuing up there you can see the garage 56 Chevy Camaro and the two High car Ferraris now in the queue they joined the end of one safety car queue in fact the safety car a I believe which has got quite a lot of the hypercar field in it Safari of course we're at the front of the field and then pitted so at the moment the overall standings for peugeot's 94 car then hurts team jota the lead to achieve romantic days and yet they have the 38 car is in second place head of the two Ferraris the caddy that I shouldn't say this should I hasn't had any trouble yet I know I know that's the number two car there it is the blue nose yellow car number three has had problems and so too has 311 that was one of the cars that brought out safety car on the very first lap pit stop for one of our teams the 94 Peugeot under investigation now that may be possibly concerned with speeding in a pit Lane too many people working on the car engine fired while it was on I mean there are all sorts of rules and regulations and and could you know could be anything it could be the driver going over the white line as well when pulling into the pit box obviously it was a stressful busy time down there we saw them all peel into uh to put the wet tires on so yeah let's wait and see I got a feeling like a penalty a small penalty might be coming their way but they're pretty hot on that when it comes to Safety in the pit Lane any kind of infringement that they're usually uh they're not wrong they're not wrong on so uh the two Ferraris you saw them queuing up behind the uh the Chevrolet Camaro the the Nascar car and uh they've joined safety car c the glicken house out there you know the own I think it's the only hyper car out there just joining the queue behind safety car B right now exactly right and then uh the number 80 car is barreling along behind them as well that is the AF Corsa mp2 car of uh and his crewmates and actually the 708 is going to be one of the big winners here in the hypercar category because they're currently running in 23rd position pretty much splitting the uh the lmp2 field so once they get the uh the wave around or the drop backs whatever you want to call it they will find themselves again back behind the uh the rest of the hyper cars they won't oh they won't know because they'll be in the queue behind the hypercar leaders rather than in front of because the hypercar leaders are all behind the safety car a which is the one that oh no the Peugeot is going to be behind 708 and that is the race leader when we go back when we go to the merge and Davidson you have just pointed out absolutely the race it's not everybody joins up behind one of our three safety cars and that will be safety car a so at the moment there are three safety cars with three queues of differing legs depending on who got stuck behind which one when it is safe to do so we will merge all the cars into one safety car queue and then any car that is in the queue ahead of the leader of its class will be waived by the safety car we'll around the lap as quickly as they dare or can to join the back of the safety car queue so that a restart they they don't have the danger of losing a lap if they get caught in traffic at the moment behind safety car a is almost everybody in hypercar behind safety car B is the 708 clicking house and one GTE am car this is what we're watching on the screen by the way is the safety car a queue but behind safety car c is the 94 among other things is the 94 Peugeot is also safety car scene has also got 54 which is the GTE I'm leading a of course a car of that very gone and where it's also got the lmp2 leader which is the 28 jota car so all three class leaders are behind the third so basically at the very back of a safety car train when they all join up so almost the entire safety car queue so almost everybody in hypercar including the 708 clicking house and almost everybody in lmp2 and almost everybody in gtem will be sent past the safety car once the queues are put together to come all the way around because the leaders of each of the three classes are going to be right at the tail of the of the thing and so they will then move up and then I guess that would mean the whole process will take longer surely because yeah it will take longer than the first time the first one was actually quite smooth and quite fluid it actually thought that worked really well because nobody was left no exactly now it's going to be a longer process yes this will give us more of an indication of how it's going to work won't it yeah and and how long it might attack because we're basically gonna wave by 40 cars maybe 45 cars so what we're saying is anyone that was brave enough to stay on slicks and just stay behind the safety cars for as long as possible might actually benefit massively here oh or they will they okay Brandon feedback as you can when you go around the circuit please on the tire I mean right now I'm on the right tire [Applause] d so that's the whole thing [Music] it's crazy right also through the Porsche Coast office relatively dry copy it will uh the situation should evolve so just let us know when it changes for you yeah [Music] oh you're on the right tire Brendan yes absolutely yeah but what is yeah you see now because the Peugeot stayed out everybody else in hypercar benefits because they'll get the wave around eventually they did come in I saw that I saw I saw they were both on outlets at one stage so they must have come in after we saw them all stayed out while the Ferrari is ducked in and then the safety car got scrambled that's why 94 leads the race he didn't pass the Ferraris the Ferrari's pit in 93 peugeot's head of Brendan that might have come in because that's done well they've all done four stops apart from a jotica which had an extra early one earlier you know if it doesn't rain anymore it just stays and we have a lengthy um sort of wave by if you like we're talking it could actually be the one we're back to slicks again but that was my point yeah anyone that's braved it out and stayed on slicks could be laughing yeah what the leader thinks of it all right [Music] that's pretty good it's very dangerous because there's zero symbability and that that might be part of the issue yeah I mean the safe car is out for barrier repairs and that's the key thing it's not so much about the weather the weather is moving away it should dry we'll have to see what's going on and we've got a chance now to catch up with DKR engineering's Maxi martam that car out early on DKR engineering car we can see what the car looks like right now can you just um give us an overview yeah it's a it's a shame because there were some wlo since uh Dunlop curve through Uhaul because there was a car crashed in the devtool before the Rouge so I was slowing down and then after that was a slow slow Zone countdown and when I started to slow down at 80 I got hit by the Gigan house and got spun hit the barrier and uh yeah we broke the whole car the rear of the car it's a shame because there are already a lot of WLOS it's a pro car it's a hyper guy it's a Pro driver and to hit it like this it's just uh yeah anyway it's really bad team giving you a review of the car situation yeah the cars uh the whole the whole rear was broken the whole rear left so they had to change the the whole corner yeah so they're working on it we lose a lot of time so I didn't know we really have to try to just go to the end um Tom and I'm really sorry for Tommy nugo because that was first time for them in the mall and uh yeah we don't just have to go to the end all right thank you thank you actually Martin long time GTA Spa 24 hour winner as was his father before him uh yeah but a top break for them and as you said you know that we've seen quite a few guys with some rear end shunts when drivers haven't quite being alert enough to the fact that they're in a slow zone or entering a slow Zone and the car in front there's a quote coming to a halt in front of me yep you get that whole sort of um backup it's like being in a traffic jam uh concertina effects but it's just a high speed one and um it's ruined in a lot of people's days isn't it it's causing a lot of problems and that Anthony explains what happened to the front of the glicken house we saw it coming into the pits with so that damage right in front corner thought oh when did that well that's where that happened we I don't think we saw what started the DKR problem but now we know what it was I worried that they might end up running out of Bodywork all of these teams you bring what three four spare noses uh and you're desperately trying to repair them you do have those facilities quite crude facilities but you do have the facilities available to repair damaged carbon but it uh all depends on how bad the damage oh it was Sebring wasn't it Martin when we saw the the Peugeot 94 getting quickly replaced or maybe it was vice versa they basically they took one nose off of one car and they were de-badging it to put the other guy and clearly run out of noses we could see stuff like that happening all over here there's confirmation from the iron Dames Who currently are in second in GTE that Sarah bobi did take where the tires now in the GTE category it is a straightforward wet and in lmp2 it is a straightforward wet as well it's the hyper car category the fastest cars on the track that have this drying wet it's a new tire concept a new design from Michelin previously we've had a tire that looked like a slick but don't ask me how witchcraft or something also managed to Clear Water away this looks like a wet weather tire but apparently lasts better so you know there's uh there's all sorts of interesting technology and this race has been responsible for an awful lot from halogen headlights windscreen wipers disc brakes decent aerodynamics hugely economical engines I mean and we're all these cars in this race are running on sustainable fuel that's created from bio waste so it's it's pushing the boundaries of Technology all the time and and uh yeah I mean for for engineers and and you know fuel companies and engineering companies it's a it's a phenomenal rate of improvement this test bed that is motor racing and did you ever drive on the wet slick yeah it's like witchcraft it's you're leaving the garage on slicks and it's raining and your head just can't compute it's like it doesn't make any sense but it works I've never got a tire engineer to sort of explain really how it cleared the water away because it's as slick as a slick and I do and I mean yes I did drove it in the personal days in the 908 yeah like you said it was it was it was mind-boggling how it you could drive flat out through relatively big puddles yeah I mean nothing nothing too big but you were amazed every time that the 1150 had I mean all it was was a really really soft sidewall compound so it was super squidgy uh it didn't like dry weather at all uh it was like the best intermediate Tire you could ever dream to have because uh it could run far longer in a dry scenario because you did go through that painful process of uh all of the blocks of rubber getting feathered up and rolling around on itself but they were quite incredible but obviously very costly as well to uh to manufacture and produce a seven time a Nascar Cup champion Jimmy Johnson has had his first ever stint racing at the bar there's his charge uh Rocky started it so it's a 54 now and a hands of uh Jay button Esquire it is one of 18 former Formula One driver we don't have any current Formula One drivers in the field but you have Charlotte Claire here with the Ferrari team but I don't suppose any more than Formula One team will allow a current driver to race it seems that those days are possibly a bit beyond us it would be good though wouldn't it be great to see I mean it'd be great to see a current formal driver yeah yeah a third car for a Ferrari with with two F1 drivers in that would be pretty epic didn't hulkenberg do it was he still in F1 at the point yeah he was a weekend off wasn't he yeah he certainly is the last current F1 oh no uh yes you know of course because Alonso wasn't the current Formula One driver yeah he'd retired for the first time but he to be fair to him he did say it's not full retirement I'll probably be back or something to those words if I haven't if I get a chance and I've won Le Mans twice in one season maybe people will look kindly on me again but I do believe that I believe Le Mans and sports car racing in general amongst other things that he's raced in um since that first departure from F1 I think it's made him not just a better driver or much better all-round driver but it's made him see the bigger picture as well within the team I think the drive we see today maybe has come with a bit of maturity as well maybe it's a coincidence but since his return to formula one I've definitely seen a different character not quite as selfish obviously he's still such a hard character but you know he's I feel like he's a more rounded driver than he ever which you know of course he was brilliant to start with um he's such a mature racer these days and then thinks about the team we saw back in the day in the group C days when you know people like Martin brundle and they would if they couldn't find a competitive form in one drive they'd come in racing sports cars to keep himself sharp and actually they'd come back to Formula One and again as you said more rounded uh more rounded driver so uh I think you're absolutely right you know the sort of working with the team to get any any chance of success is is a Salient lesson that you you don't so easily forget plus of course there's the maturity and and when he went back less desperation to prove himself that there had been you know when those World Championships with Renault were a long time ago and seven won four since then and Lewis had won I don't know whatever five of the city or six whatever you know that's a long drought for somebody who's been a world champion and is now all at Sea coming back here did two things it it reinvigorated that sort of blending with the team is the key to success and also actually you can still drive and somewhere in your psyche I mean I'm not a driver but I'm sure both of you can think of a time where somewhere in your psyche you're going have I still got it well yes given the right opportunity clearly he proved he did and because now probably even more than ever because you know you are to a certain degree you're only as good as your car that's why it's great that's why this race today has been so great so far because we've you know there are so many cars that look like they're fast enough to win on outright pace and that's great for a driver you it's brilliant when you've got the unfair advantage of being in the best car on the grid by miles but you don't get quite as much satisfaction out of it somehow as a drive like you don't feel like it was all your own ability that one knew that race necessarily um and if you're you know equally if you're in a in a slower car and you never you can never prove it to yourself that you are deserving a beat right at the front you do start to lose a little bit of that confidence so I think him coming to sports car racing being with the best team in the business at that time with Toyota and winning all those races and mixing it with your with people that drive the same car as you as well you know your two other teammates that share exactly the same equipment and you can measure your lap times against yeah it completely proves it to yourself I don't know if you absolutely needed it proving to himself but what it did do is that he came to sports cars and thought right if I can't win those seven championships or four championships that Vettel and Hamilton have got you know what I'm gonna do I'm gonna try and go for the Triple Crown I'm gonna try and win them on I'm going to try and win the World Championship in something completely different and that's they did all of it Triple Crown got so close I know and uh Indy's still waiting there to be conquered isn't it you know like like a number of drivers are still waiting to conquer them on so yeah it's almost as if he said all right you guys stick to Formula One and win your multiple championships look what I'm gonna do yeah and and and it definitely refers I mean you know you talked about the fact that when you came back to racing in jota actually you were not in love with the sport any longer you didn't like motor racing and then by the time you decided okay now I'm finished you loved it again and I think that's part of it you know as part of what he said about coming here is it gave him the love of the sport and the passion again not just the correct determination to grind it out and and it it it reinvigorated him and you know in life as so many other sports and life uh you know her parallels aren't they you sometimes you mean that sometimes you just need that boost to go okay great actually this is still fun yeah you know I can totally empathize what he was going through in the first time he walked away from formula one because it it you know when you're not winning and and it doesn't come easy it it becomes you know it becomes quite soul-destroying and you can easily fall out of love with the sport that you you really did enjoy so much and uh for him coming here it definitely re invigorated him as a driver as a person and that's kind of what happened to me when I stepped away and then went into lmp2 it's a bit more fun you know I was driving with a an amateur driver with Roberto Gonzalez and uh you know we had a lot of fun and you suddenly remember oh yeah I am supposed to do this because it's fun and it brings out a different element of you as well when you're trying to help somebody else improve themselves as well as you're trying to improve yourself it's very hard to be selfish it's very hard to be you know totally focused and up your own tailpipe so so there's all that element of it as well and that that enhances that that team spirit looking there at engineer from X track the transmission company chapter Laura wantrok closer Laura is a former engineering student graduate she worked in production engineering in General Motors and uh joined as a weekend warrior one of their nascent Juniors here racing programs in a Cadillac brand I think and then as a steadily become more and more influential it's now the head Global head of GM racing that's a lot of hats Graham Goodwin for for one person she's effectively in charge of the Cadillac program she's in charge of Corvette racing um the action Express Academy not necessarily that is that's part of her isn't it the garage 56 car not part of her remit but being a the bow tie being a GM brands that she'll she'll be paying attention to that as well critically this weekend uh the other thing she's responsible for is the uh with a team around her is the development and rollout of the Corvette GT3 program to kill on which is a completely new Marketplace for the brand uh this is on board now with Jensen button on 24 ZL1 Camaro and he's absolutely loving this every time he talks to me about this car think about this challenge he's just grinning from ear to ear he's he loves conditions like this as well we all know and uh so we're driving it the off-board shot coming through the 40K a couple of days ago in free practice and I just I thought that looks really neat and tidy really smooth smoothly done that I wonder who's that that's I bet that's Jensen looked at the timing screens sure enough it was I've I've known him feels like for my for a lifetime since eight years old with me he just saw the graphic there he's 43 I'm 44. and uh it's funny having known somebody you've competed against uh so so strongly against pretty much your whole life and uh you know certainly in terms of my racing life um and and to you just know that you know their style so well uh he's he has got one of those enviable Styles I'd say as Jensen is just he it's so effortless to him he's always been the same from karting all the way through just super smooth well and you were always really regarded as having a very fluid driving stuff I think you know what you're looking at back into the booth you guys were discussing on think Fernando Alonso and the course that he chose to take a couple of three years ago and the difference that's made to him and his Outlook and it's equally brilliant that what's not out with Jensen button on his time in Formula One was up that he walked away he's going out there he's having experiences raised here before the Olympic Wonka probably not the campaign he would have liked to start this adventure with uh he's going off and he's done off-road racing he's done some GT3 racing he's gone on one of Super GT title and still as you're saying his loving life is is enjoying his Motorsport he's enjoying the adventure and he's enjoying sharing that adventure and that's that's to all of our uh Advantage it is not raining there also yeah I'm sorry lots and lots of Errors around the track it is definitely not raining even if it has been a bit rainy but uh 54 this is our GTE am leader you saw Thomas floor uh in the garage so he started the car and this is Davide rigon and they're going to change over to their third driver rotating their guys through you would have missed this chat probably Grant you weren't here at the time but uh Martin and I a guy we're trying to decipher are we gonna see the glicken house that's in 2013 back to the back of this yeah uh he is let me get this right he's behind safety car B and the leader the 94 Peugeot is behind safety car c so unless the leader pits and joins the back of safety car a he gets right back to the sharp end of the field he will still yes no he won't yeah but he won't get the lap that they were in the pit Lane at the start of the race for so he said he won't lose another lap but he won't get that lap back no he'll get back into the lead lap oh sorry it'll be lead lap plus the length of the safety card Slick's going on the number 28 jota it's time it is time we've seen all right track teams is down to about 29 or 30 degrees but it was 40 degrees before it rained we've seen it is it's definitely he had slicks on anyway he didn't have weights on those are not wet where the tires on the apron he had slicks on anyway wow I mean jota leading the race P2 and they're they're a brilliant strategy of course they are and uh I feel like my gut feeling is that you have to rely on here is the right thing to be on the Slicks iron Dames now lead in gtem as well and they're going to get moved around in a safety car Cube especially special team Nielsen race and Ray tears it's never nice to walk into a garage and see that and I'm just so sorry for you guys yeah it's heartbreaking for for the whole team I think it's a happening so early for sure it's it's very hard and um yeah the team made so much effort like you know every team to be here but it's a very family team small structure the guys are working a lot and uh yeah everybody was basically crying because it's so much effort to put into this race you know 300 64 days for One race but also that's racing you know and I think just to stay on the positive side we we really show we could compete against you know top top teams Chota Prema all the big teams and I think first you know again kind of this small structure I think it's it's um it's very impressive I think the boys did an incredible work we had a beautiful car that's why it's also hard to swallow because we really felt like flowers we would like to switch to slicks it's like this you know it's brutal the more it's brutal and it's part of racing and that's why it's so beautiful when you win it obviously it's even harder when it's the 100 Year everybody really wants that one but that's how it is and you know we have to investigate what happened we don't we're not sure yet what really caused the accident if it's just a driving mistake or if the car on the back touch him it's very hard so we need to analyze it thank you for talking to us thank you to operate for Nielsen now Carl's coming in to change off wet weather tires onto slicks this is in preparation of the safety car cues being shuffled around again for Nancy Davidson you're right anybody who again you know we talked I talked about this with guy and with Peter somebody was going to stick it out because the safety guards are going so slow 80k's 50 miles an hour maybe a little bit more but the thing is the track has held on to the temperature yeah we haven't got any information here and it's one of us right well it was it was just about 29 degrees before I flicked back to see who was in on the second page of timing so from my experience when it rains on a on a warm circuit it always drives fast than anticipated so especially when the the sun is still out and it has come back out what are we looking at here Floyd van will tightening up the wiper arm you know these are things you don't think about but at 200 miles an hour wipers come under a lot of uh of pressure whatever it is whatever is the adjustment the length of the the wiper arm it's taking out the shade band yeah one quick thing we've got the 93 Peugeot the lead of the uh queue coming out of pit Lane yeah that car in its pit store will they go one up on the Jacks a lot of fluid though it may well be just rain water but I didn't see that from any other car there was a lot of fluid under that car early on in the safety car period when we saw the Ferraris coming out the first she came when they hadn't pitted every time they moved one side or the other the sort of like double floor just sloshed I think water out everywhere that was the the that was early on that was half an hour ago not here to cause drama but the the subsidiary point is it does go to show doesn't it the way in which these cars are constructed and work are fundamentally different somehow that car was retaining uh water in the car where the other cars were fluid retention sir yes I did yeah I did notice that my first thought was oh that doesn't look good and then I I just assumed it must just be I assume the same um and then I'll watch the next three pit stops and none of the other cars did it the same track in the same conditions now then here's another question there are two things potentially going on here one is who's on what tire and dare they stop at before there's a wave around or what's going on and secondly who will need to stop for fuel and when Who's got what energy left in hypercar Who's got what fuel left in lmp2 there's a bunch of lmp2 pit stops starting are they just tires or are people going to do a full service you don't want to you've got to be very careful if your two safety cars ahead of your of your leader selecting yes and that's a soft again Anthony now yeah track temperature is lower in 40s like it was in qualifying yeah we've seen them go well play it safe inverted commas play it safe at the start of the race by putting the uh the soft compound on it served them well to be fair through the first chicane that was pretty treacherous and um you know they've been here many times before they're in their uh they're in their 12th event here at Lemont in row so they know this is about survival conditions like this it's about survival you've got to be there at the end uh one quick question and simply because I don't know can I presume this is we're on the safety car for weather conditions weather and shuntery and barrier repairs but we've not seen a barrel repair yeah that's the probably among others we also saw immediately yeah we also saw several cars uh going off at Porsche curve so there may be work going on there as well yeah everybody is good for fuel well behind the safety guard for about the next hour and a half [Music] um so that's not an issue even the 708 glicken house can sit in the safety car queue until it needs to Louis Beckett is in the pit Lane Louise what do you know I am just at Ferrari and I can see that the team are getting ready for both 50 and 51 coming in to change to a set of soft tires for both of them thank you it is the number two Cadillac let's dig jota on pit Lane as well if they yay from second place a second third fourth and fifth place cars on track now rolling their weight down pit Lane and what's been well an intriguing a dramatic and astonishing come on 24 hours so far and we're not quite yet at the end of the fourth hour okay safety car c has gone is going by the pits now has gone by the pits now that's got the race leading Peugeot in it it stayed out on slicks so it's now made two stops less than these guys because they came in for wits they're now back in driver check I mean this is gonna be full Services you may now reset the race where are we four uh three hours 45 minutes in give or take a second or two reset the race okay here we go we're gonna go back into the shuffle we're gonna be wherever we are in the queue but we are going to have the right tires full tank of gas new drivers Louise Beckett well that pit stop didn't go so well for Ferrari as I said both cars came in together which we know normally it doesn't happen and uh one of the mechanics from the 51 picked up a tire from the 50 to put it on his car and then they had to come back give it back to the 50 and then get their correct higher a net result of that by the way is that the number two Cadillac has jumped both of the the Ferraris in the queue you can see it there yeah good spot Graham so uh jota is the the the jota hurts team jota Porsche is the gold card for mcqs you've got four hyper cars there oh trouble 93. okay not the race leader but it is the other Persia now what on Earth can he have done that's his outlap he's on slicks Jeff fresh into the car as well no we generate Van van in the car before he's on a yeah what happened to it mohsan didn't have much in the way of rebs on it did he not at all just shows how low trap just on the exit no tire temperature round it goes I mean I I've been in this situation before where you're on those slicks and it's so painfully low grip there's a little bit of dampness there still remaining and the team watch on they just wince because and you can see all four wheels spinning there as he tried to get it to move those gravel flying up from the front wheels problem is he let it roll back too much and it's beached itself he's on mediums how was the front wheel turning on that car in that situation because you are stationary yeah because it should only deploy at 150 kilometers an hour there is a rule that you're allowed to we see them doing it in the pit Lane as well yes you're allowed to I think it's when the car is below a certain speed as well I I would have thought that would be the case and probably below pit lane speed limit so 60 kids yeah the reason we know that's a medium and not an upside down W is the wet tire has a blue background to the W and the medium tire has a yellow background so white is for the coldest conditions that's soft yellow is for quite warm and sunny that's medium red is for absolutely like it has been all week until we get the the biggest race of the century and that's the red background the way goes that uh train of four hyper cars led by the 38 Hertz team Jody car that car will come back out into sixth place ahead of the two Cadillac then the 50 and the 51 it is [Music] from Antonio okay we will go behind safety car a we go behind safety car hey they will do the merging and after we should be eligible for pass around I will confirm to you but for the merging nothing you have to do we are already behind safety car a H I was just checking that on the tracker actually have they come out behind no they have come out behind safety car a but the leader is behind safety car c so two safety car cues for the back so again again we're looking at merely a full field wave round uh 38 jota the caddy the two Ferraris they all get the wave by they'll stay on the lead lap information to bit plane information to the pit Lane safety card is at 80 we are recovering a car at mp20 we are recovering a car with some money toward mp20 so they've reduced the speed of the safety car which normally be over 100 kilometers an hour to try and give them some chance of keeping Tire temperature because there is the vehicle there in the gravel trap so and you were saying you've got a theory about what happened here to John Eric Van sometimes if you've put the uh for whatever reason if you put the full course yellow button on you know as using that as a limiter it can actually cancel out the traction control ah I'm just wondering if something bizarre like that would have happened to him as he's tried to exit the corner but it's not full course yeah no safety car so that's the only thing I can assume but apart from that you just have to say it must have been driver error carrying a bit of too much speed but uh Fuoco out from the number 50 a job very well done for him you'd have to say very very tough student water what an experience as well for him to be here in the uh the Top Flight sports car event uh category in the hyper car it's it couldn't have been any more difficult for him everything was thrown at the drivers there doesn't look like he's hating his life we said after qualifying it's just as well there's a day off because it's going to take him that long to for the smile to receive to get his helmet back on but again you know he's gonna need to have two uh two double stints off to get give it over the smallest county on his face he's just and actually everything we felt from this team it's always the same they're just loving doing this something different something new for some of them and and something different something new but the other half of where they've come from Formula One or from Jupiter GT program it's all new it's all discovering it's all learning well there's the 94 car that is our race leader 93 being craned away it will I think be put on to Terra Firma and then sent back into the race so hopefully I mean it probably won't cost them a lot because they will again oh I don't know I think it is going to cost them a lap isn't it if they don't get that car moving soon I can see we will go by safety car a is quickly approaching the Box end corner and he's waving saying come on come on come on put me down gently he's gonna go a lap down here this is going to be very marginal indeed to his own teammate he's not even facing the right direction look at the grapple on the car as well he's gonna go a lap down oh John Eric Van here we go yeah so this was coming into the Multan called and no one around him he's just minding his own business on the right racing line as number five did as well and just you can see it's a little bit slick there two wheels on the outside on the wet I mean I mean it's greasy oh look this is the onboard so this is the safety calculator isn't it oh yeah no replay this is replay top left corner yep so he's not made it Away safety car is on top corner now and I'm not seeing the 93 car ahead of him that's a GameStop so he is going to lose that lap massive penalty for such a simple mistake not just a small mistake yeah so no 93 still at moles and corner at safety car running now something is pops those okay Pitt entry is now closed which means we are getting ready to merge but I'm not sure what happened to the interior pollen what was what nnp2 car was that behind it is 34 [Music] um it is that's the 80 car it is the 80 car you're absolutely right didn't recognize it from the fronts it's got much more of a red white and blue tricolor on the front than is normally the case there is the local vet that started on Pole and is now in where is it I had a that damper failure it's almost the last running car in GTM it's 15th Place they call that racing entry that's bad news for them they have a lot of work to do as we approach the end of our four here at Le Mans so the safety car remains out but with the pit entry closed Graham Goodwin and Davidson martinhaven watching you debated action with you let's say with pit entry closed we're now going to see for the second time in this race how the wave arounds and the drop backs work it sounds complicated when you or looks complicated when you read it actually when we talk about it it is fairly straightforward it certainly seemed to work very well the first time they executed that process a couple of bits of housekeeping the 93 car is now underway but at the very back of what is now the merged safety QR queue there's only one safety card oh yes haven't noticed that that's what the shuffling was going on the Multan so they have merged normally we are told that they're merging but do they at least get a chance to be behind although a lap down behind the hypercar category when it's all yes yes they will be the last car in hypercar does a little bit assuming that he moves and he has not moved yet he has moved now he's on the back of the cube oh has he okay oh no so he has yes it's just a long long wait and in fact he's only about five six cars behind the 94 so when they all get waved round although he's a lap back he will be right behind correct the 94 car literally right behind it the other bit we saw those cars almost stationary coming down into malls and Corner that was the tale of the merged queue so I just wondered whether or not they'd caught a slow-moving queue going through an incident Zone just a little too quickly and that was a little bit of avoidance I think what was going on yeah because somebody was a very heads up there the safety car coming down to where the Manitou was rescuing Jeff that was being told to slow down to 80 at that stage so you know I think they'd come barreling around off their safety car accused and then suddenly found everybody was not going quite as quickly as they'd hoped well here's the point we we heard raise control say safety girl 80 kilometers an hour managed him on track yeah we didn't hear that had been withdrawn as far as we know that was instruction yeah they've only got themselves to blame well we hear it in the teams here if the teams then have to tell the drivers drivers don't get radio in the car they do get flag signals they don't get radio so it is yeah it's a responsibility of the team to do it I think a little tweak to the regulations uh next time around for this event obviously is too late now but it should state that it that you have a merge of safety cars and there's still repairs going on on the barrier um when you have that merge obviously cars will be desperate to try to catch up with that the elite which is the safety car a if you're set free of course you're going to blast past the the incident zone so for that incident Zone there should be a slow Zone which is why I think that Eduardo will not go for merge while there's anybody working on the track completely agree but still in situations you can catch cars that are going much slower than you're capable of because you're not in that slowly because of where that happened for uh John Eric fern great onboard shot winner that answers some questions [Music] the uh 93 Persia by the way it's one of the worst year we thought it was for that car that's now two laps down that car's dropped down uh to 30th position towards the tail of the other P2 uh train and worse still is behind the leader so he's not going to get either of those laps back no he won't get either the laps back he won't lose any more to the leader immediately what they might do is wave him by at the restart Peugeot I mean I guess they may well Alpine won two at the moment by the way stop the count mimo Rojas we just saw him on board in the 36 car leads Julian canal in the third other way around Mima Rojas and 35 car leads Union canal in the 36 car and the big news for Alpine this weekend today yesterday is that they unveiled an actual physical copy of physical copy physical version of their hyper car which looks French sexy drop dead God it's a great great looking car if that had been styled just to look good for a video game I don't think they could have done a better job if it works in the wind tunnel on the track it's going to be another awesome addition to the field next year here's a question for exposure driver and Davidson you're the team manager Anne you've got the 93 car now out of position it's going to be behind their leading car on the road but two laps down you have the option you can't effectively wave your Vine and allow him to gain back some of that lost time obviously more useful to the effort as a rear Gunner [Music] okay let's start thinking on the Bus Around let's start thinking on the pass around I'm just just wait for waiting for everyone to pass over intermediate one [Music] my thinking would be generic van freshen the car fresh tires and should if you wave him if you wave him by right as it goes green if he is directly behind the 94 waving by let the 94 sit in this slipstream tow along behind him that will give the 90 because otherwise 94 is going to tow the 93 car and whoever's in the queue behind the Ferraris and so on they're going to pick up all the slipstream if you can put the 93Q right if you can put jev ahead of race leader Gustavo menezes he will help menezes in terms of top speed and that might that might just help let's just explain there'll be a lot of you viewers for the lemon 24 hours what is going on well the answer is this is wait by this is a long safety car queue because of the unique nature of this circuit uh hugely long circuit coming from three safety cars into one uh all there's three races in one what this is is cars that are in that safety car queue with a class leader behind them not losing a lap because of that so listen what's going on it's way too take as much fresh air as we can to cool down the steering let's try to take us but fresh air as we can to cool down the steering saw that last replay I thought he's just like Meandering over to left as they're going straight into the corner dude here's the electric power steering lock up on it doesn't have electric power steering or is it electric hydraulic or is it hydraulic I don't know was it before was it cause or effect did you have a problem in trying to get himself out okay it would explain why on his outlap under safety car conditions the car just looped around into the gravel so what's happening now the way by is any car that is as in the uh the queue it's glass literally behind it including hypercar will be allowed to pass the safety car and continue at some better speed around to join the rear of the safety car queue and so far one lmp2 card has that just come out the pits 43 uh no so that was already in the queue one lmp2 car has gone by all the GTE field almost all the GT field and almost all the hybrid car field have gone by because in the safety car queue what was the third of the safety cars had the lmp2 leader [Music] and it also had the GC leader but then those repeated and changed games were right at the back of this queue yes basically the entire field gets waved by and then joins him behind that to explain why that's a good thing the reason this has been brought in is some years ago early race safety car which gave the top two cars of numbers dead GTE Pro but effectively a lap lead and that was race done for two quick and reliable cars this has been brought in to try to deal with that we're then going to get to a second phase of it we'll describe that when we see it because talking about it is less effective than watching and talking about it but this is all to do with keeping those races alive not destroying those races because of circumstances that are nothing to do with it seeing Pascal vast on the uh the pit bull there at Toyota he's not a fan by the way I bet he is now I bet right this minute I bet he is now because his guys are coming all the way around to join on the back of the leader not being 10 cars in front of the leader as the safety Cars released with a whole load of slow GTS in front of them because he's a fan right now because the three safety cars did also ruin races sometimes yes if you just found yourself on luckily split into that second safety car yeah you in such a tight field like we've seen today that could have ended your chance when Jody won a couple of years ago they got a safety car queue ahead of everybody in One safety car and then another one by Darkness they've got basically a lap and a half on everybody it's last year and it was last year and and when unless the car breaks we have a major disaster catching that amount of time is just so hard I think I think the key to it is look does play a part yes in this game it most certainly does but what you don't want to do is to compound that luck by just turning the knife and there is no ideal system this looks complex we've seen it in operation actually it worked very smoothly and what it will what we'll end up with is the three races restarting in effectively race order in one queue and that does two things it's fairer in those three races and the second thing is it's safer yep because you start all the fast cars then all the next lmp2 cars then you start the GT cars instead of having the race leader in the quickest car behind a gentleman driver in the middle of the night as it's raining and trying to find his way through the only thing I'm confused by here and if I'm confused by it then of course there'll be lots of people at home confused by it as well the glicken house was able to overtake the class leader of lmp2 but the 93 Peugeot isn't lmp2 yeah look at the the the 93 Peugeot is still towards the back end of the lmp2 field and the clicking house has gone with the rest of the hyper cars in front and what's the click allowance ahead of the 94. house was in the middle of the lmp2 field but it doesn't matter whether or not he was it's his own class yeah and his own class leader is the 94 per show if he had the 94 per show behind him in that queue whether or not he's one lap two lap 15 laps down he takes advantage you still pass the field around so the fastest car the lead car in in each of our three classes has the rest of its feel behind them again that's the safety thing of restart part of it is so that when you hear the safety car restart you don't immediately get another safety car because it more collages and more damage but he is a lap Behind still doesn't matter yes but what he's gained is effective is a lap and change he's gonna gain the better part of the lap uh he then needs to catch and pass the race leader to get onto the league last yeah whereas he's almost two laps down in that situation it doesn't matter if you spend 10 laps in the pits when you're in the safety car queue for safety reasons you still start the leader of the fastest class with all the fast class cars behind no matter how delayed they are Glick and house could have lost 10 laps it's still faster than the lmp2 and GT cars so you don't start it behind them you start it in front of them then you start the lmp2 cars whatever their order is relative to each other doesn't matter you start them all behind the class leader then you start all the GT cars behind the class there's Patrick Dempsey and the Dempsey proton garage they see him back as well enjoying his racing so the 93 Peugeot has to he has to wait until the lmp2 cars all drop behind him correct on the what are we calling that the the the the bottom waiver the problem here is you're looking at the timing screen that's not the order they are in on the road yeah sure that's just the order they are in in the race so he's actually in the safety car queue probably within one or two cars this is what this is trying to do is to give respect to the fact it's three different races yeah that's that I think that's the the easiest way uh to explain it it is confusing if what you're seeing is a morass of cars and a kind of weird sort of order the clicking house it's got you've done one of two things it's either done it wrong or it was ahead of it the question I agree I don't understand it because it was Head of the Class leader it was everyone was ahead of the class leader let's hear from the Toyota team do you think the car the truck is already faster on slick now did you say one or two laps sit better with what or straight away better with lick we can wait one lap in case I think I think it's gonna be way better because of it I'm coming out of that diet is cast you're committed to the wet clearly which is the answer to the question we wanted half an hour ago they're on wet but as Michelin said it will work in drying conditions as well so they can Pace themselves and decide when they want to come in one of the quick message we've seen on the screens here in the TV Booth but not seen reflected on the TV screens is the 98 car that's the Northwest Air Market or the heart of racing cars and the 911 911 that's the protof competition car both reported to the stewards for not being race directors instructions under the safety killer now when I was just off air a little while ago bumped into one of the guys who's responsible for our full access program Cedric I said how was it on the grid was it Carney's and he said oh my goodness the stuff we've got from the grid is going to be epic but it's gonna take days and days and days to edit if you have got a moment or two you could just see on board the car there start pass around message coming up from race control if you've got a day or two after the race and a little bit of uh rub some sleep from your eyes go to the FIA WC YouTube channel and check out full access you can see the programs from Sebring from portable and from spa and in about 10 days you'll see the program from Lamar we follow various teams around lots of behind the scenes stuff and it is absolutely epic human drama and it it majes on the humans more than it does on the cars and you're gonna enjoy those I can't wait to see what they produce from the markets this is just going to be spectacular so what's going on here just in case I came to explain what you're seeing this is Olivia Park he's uh looking to catch up the back of the safety car train that sir Jim clicking out the click announced behind clicking house as if there was any other click in the house but cannot go any quicker than that because he's got a slower GT car ahead of him he can't overtake these are still effectively under safety car even though it's not in their sights they're still under safety car what we'll get at the point at which this is in order is we will then see the second the next phase of this process so all the cars have now been wavering any car in hypercar or lmp2 or GTE that was in the safety car queue ahead of its class leader has whizzed around the track and is now now in the back of the safety car queue here's the Floyd van Walker back in safety car queue because the 94 Peugeot is at the front of the queue that's the hypercar leader now you'll see the next phase lmp2 prepare for dropback that means the lmp2 cars in Squadron order if you like will move to ones there you go one side of the uh of the track they will then allow the rest of the field to pass them and the first car that went through was the 94 Peugeot the next type of car is 93. all cars to wear totally to the left no zigzagging all cars were totally to the left no zigzagging lmp2 prepare for the drop back lmp2 prepare for the drop back that is there a P2 field yeah that's the message the team got about 30 seconds ago maybe a minute ago you can see the whole LMT P2 field is now behind the lmp2 leader which is the 35 palpine and they've pulled over to one side so all of the hyper cars that were mingled in that queue go past yes all the GTE cars that are mingled in that queue also go past well then what happens is lmp2 drops to the back of the whole nv2 field is at the back then all the GTE cars pull out and then they drop back behind lmp2 and ask our first tour okay but yes all right you're right yes so so yeah the the garage 56 NASCAR will drop back because it is behind lmd2 but ahead of GTE okay so there you go we again again great you know it there's no chance that the driver won't know what's going on because of this onboard message system this safety system race control can tell each car in a group each car in a class the entire field or one specific driver a message that they want to send to him okay if the safety car comes in this lap if the septica comes in this lab we follow the safety car in pit Lane but you need to let car 8 going in the pit entry because of the pit position that's what we've been about before they've got a you know one car has to be in front of the other one in regards to their pit box to stop what we saw earlier on happening to the Ferrari where it had a unfortunately a different category of car a Porsche I think it was a one of the GT amp cars in the way so he had to pull in front of that Porsche and sort of nose it in get the car onto the trolleys so then he could get it Square drop the car down do your pizza it does take extra time to do that so this is Toyota saying look if you do come in and the safety car comes in this lap be prepared to let your teammate overtake you just so we can as a team have a faster pit stop so as soon as the lmp2 now car 24 as it goes on the uh the timing screens turn some button pulls over to the right hand side of the track he will now drop back and will join the queue behind the lmp2 Q once that's completed he'll continue complete the maneuver with exactly the same for the GT and cars I have to say uh by the way with what the drivers of the teams have executed this absolutely yeah they really have and uh it has been rehearsed and it's been tried out a couple of times in real world and a lot of times in the virtual world to to really kind of try and out this out now the other the only other element to this that could go wrong may possibly have gone wrong for the Corvette because they believe that a group of cars including the class leader were erroneously allowed to leave the pit Lane and join the safety car queue that they shouldn't have been allowed to join and so the Corvette has been stuck behind its class leader the whole time and will as a result not get there's the pink that's the class leader in GTM and the Corvette team believe it it and a number of other cars were allowed to join a safety car queue they shouldn't have been allowed into they were allowed out too soon as another safety car key was coming they should have been held back again you know pit exit has got to be 100 accurate on this not holding cars too long and also not allowing them out when perhaps they shouldn't have been well let's catch up with the other of our Toyotas okay Brendan we are thinking to stay out one lap and we want to stay out of one lap as we think is prepare for the drop back lmgt is prepare for the drop back and while we're listening and waiting for that drop back to gte's confirmation that the two cars that were under investigation from lmcds start to drop back lmgd start the drop back we're not uh we're not we're under investigation not being at one of Freddy's instructions no further action on the 1998 or the 911 so that's one we can consign to the the bin of infinity so the GT is dropping back past go all our hyper cars by all our lmp2s and also followed by the number 24 car the garage 56 NASCAR and what we get a chance couple of things bit of housekeeping first of all if you're enjoying this then why not sign up for the wec app you can enjoy the rest of the season which will include the races in Monza in Fuji and in Bahrain or the Grand Slam oh and the rest of this race by the way if you choose to swap from wherever you are instructed to go at full speed and immediately does so pulls away from the leading Peugeot so two peugeos in the front of the field now but that is motion leading the Persia that has lap down two lap down in fact and in 14th yeah but again Peugeot can be neat with their strategy if they really think about it and I mean as a punter I'm thinking okay wave the 93 car in front as soon as you can and try and use him to put poke the hole in the air for the 94 car the two of them will go quicker together than for 94 to try and hold off the rest of the hypercar field the number six Porsche the number seven and eight Toyota which are third second third and fourth they're right behind in the queue it's going to be a tough job to shuffle because look at Kevin EST he's right up the gearbox of John Eric bear so I'm not sure that Peugeot even have that opportunity now I think as well you know you do have the blue flag so as soon as it gets going he's going to have a face full of blue flags yeah all around the track and also the Marshall system within the car that we just saw in operation with the uh with the drop back so um I can't see any other way around it Martin that he's just gonna have to allow this huge stream of hyper cars past and not be in their way they'll just have to try not to allow them too easily that's all we went to wait to see exactly what the long and short of that issue with Jean Harry Van now talk to him about cooling his steering so anyway safety car remains out and we are approaching four and a quarter hours into the race just a quick Hello to friends of the show hello dunk sure he is enjoying the race as much as anybody else is he 50 already it's not the ears it's the miles enjoy italics or two while you are watching the action in all seriousness today guys it's it's still not fully dry yeah look at it look you can see the hey the the steam coming off as it uh that warm track dries but you can still see where they're driving they're leaving tracks so this is still wet enough though or when they do get going under green the Safeguard feels in they're on slicks now as we know [Music] is now open because this uh as procedure is done we wait for confirmation that the Porsche 911 [Music] at the end of this lap so this explains why they've all decided to go on to the soft literally tires first especially in the hyper car category because yeah it's still not fully dry and the further that Sun starts to set the longer it's going to take obviously to dry up and also the track temperature is not going to climb it was around 27 degrees when they launched 10 or 15 minutes ago it's not going to get any warmer so in fact as we start to head into the evening soft will be more and more the relevant Tire Choice [Music] box box press Bitcoin firm we need you to stop in front of United car 8 passing by and then go to your position is the quickest for both it's always going to be hard isn't it right let him go in front of me going into the pit Lane safety car in the slab safety car in the slab remember no overtaking before the line no overtaking before the line let's make a ship change in the race control as well what effect has I'm sure busy uh polying fondly to everybody to make sure things go as they should do safety car has rocketed away big gap behind the two Ferraris the clicking I was closing it now but uh just goes to show perhaps less comfortable in those prevailing wet conditions for those speeds in the whichever the two clicking houses that is so are the two Toyota are they lower than anybody else on energy we haven't seen that graphic for they would know that they've stopped more recently haven't they haven't they so they were really too much now everybody was pretty much okay they're changing purely for tires they're on wet don't forget saw some slinks ready for Toyotas when they came in before critiquing before no overtaking before the line green flag back to green flag racing at Le Mans after four hours and nearly 20 minutes of high octane action Peugeot leads as a slew of cars that are on the wrong choice on this drying track come into the pit Lane now is the chance for Peugeot to get the 93 car unlocked and onto the lead lap ahead of its teammate in come the Toyota's they have swap positions here's the battle now for second place 75 Porsche Penske motor sport car of Nicholas Tandy was he in trouble with his mum YIFY in third place Dives down wow to do that on Nick Tandy as well in the same car it's the it's the same fortune 75 took time to get up to speed before as well I wonder if Porsche having trouble bringing their tires back up to temperature in these tricky conditions he's got the Cadillac the number two car that's Alex Lynn in his first into the car and the Ferraris Here Comes Miguel Molina in 50 and Antonio giovannazzi in 51 and behind the two Porsches Dane Cameron and Esteban Gutierrez is the next car up in the the order but look at this three wide Dane Cameron on the inside inside takes them both he does take them both stunning stuff from the Porsche driver wow that was 10 out of 10 in terms of risk but he luckily got away with it there was contact between himself and the number 50 Ferrari drops into the lead Joker have taken the lead of the Le Mans 24 hours oh team jokes are ahead now that must be the 93 the 93 lap Peugeot is the one that you can see at the front of the queue so the 94 cars down the inside Here Comes giovannazzi leaning on Dane Cameron Cameron says no do you have a Nazi can't get through Dan Cameron 11 out of 10 for effort and here comes Miguel Molina in the 50 car Wicked snap as he gets on the power out well we've seen early on in the race oh the first lap of the race just how costly that could be when you get a snap of oversteer of these damn conditions on slicks brilliant stuff from Dave Cameron though well okay how is the 75 car slow away and yet year for year has gone from wherever he was at the restart fourth or fifth he's leading it's I mean this is all about confidence we've seen John spin it around Loop it round under snail pace around the corner they've just been around ifea on the attack here the battle no that's not that yes no that is that is the 94.94 can't stay with him he retakes the lead from Gustavo menezes Menendez looking again and right behind the camera the camera is absolutely on a tear outside around into Indianapolis that's not a brave move his hand brilliant move he's absolutely on fire here but Eva is doing exactly what he's doing so this is a a quality Showdown now between these two Epic Cool attract temperatures and suddenly the Porsches are electrifying this is phenomenal stuff and look at the Peugeot both Ferraris just going straight by it out of Arnage it's the different strengths in different parts of the circuit we talked about the start this race gentleman coming into play before our very eyes changeable conditions partly dry track partly stopping wet and of course the transition between the two magical stuff again this is absolutely brilliant I really do apologize to teams and fans of teams in lmp2 and GTE amp but I defy you to tell us when we should cut away from this to show their battles and their battles will be equally epic jota still leading lmp2 from Vector Sport and the iron Dames leading GTE we're gonna have to look after this tire so I know you could do a better job than the car cars in front if you do that we'll get them in the second stance so no risk okay very early out to the pits and into the barriers this is his Outlet this 36 Alpine is one of the two cars that was running one two early in the safety car they came in and changed for tires they're coming and changed again not got to grips with that car in the slippery Condition it's a Dane Cameron pulling a YIFY rather pulling away from Dane Cameron this is this is exactly where the ufe's wrt card died on him on the last lap of the race two years ago Hertz team show to lead the lemon 24 hours this is 36 snaps away and that's what could have happened to the Ferrari a very similar snap but Julian Canal just could catch it the other point here is Joker leads both prototype categories right now what a moment the little teams in the UK absolutely astonishing in their second race with this car more pit stops leader uh the former leader is hit 94 so he was clearly on wets as well now he'll be onto softs too and oh look at this lots of lfp cars coming in uh the Nick tandy's car 75 that's why I didn't get up to speed he's come in for tires as well clicking house 709 that's in for tires from eighth place so sixth seventh and eighth as they came into the pit Lane I think he's now jota in the Hertz team Joe to Porsche Penske Porsche Motorsport with Dan Cameron that's the one too the red Ferraris 3-4 the yellow highlights that's the 50 car the white highlights that's the 51 car that's an interesting message wasn't it to uh Joe the Nazi saying look we know we if you just play it safe now we know we can come back stronger in the second stiff yeah they're confident at their Tire management pretty clearly so at the moments just out of the pits we'll be working their way back up the field as others work their way through their strategies for normally different strategies past the civil right clicking house some further lap down for that gun that is the position by the way of this day sorry that's 709 that is the position that can help us in eighth position as we currently stand and that card is anyway so it's been a solid race so far is Alexander Sims in the action Express Cadillac Three one one the car with the red nose that crashed on the opening lap in the really wet conditions first chicane 16 laps down that car running well but 16 laps is a long long way back hard on the break see how much energy steel is in the tank of the number six Porsche fresh out of the pitch on the last lap going by the triple seven d station Aston Martin Aston Martin struggling here 98 cars out [Music] car steaming up behind Kevin Escher really pushing hard trouble for 311 on the outlap just said he's only just left the pits three minute stop and go for the 22 United car for causing that Collision it was right at the beginning just before the beginning of the safety car period and it is the Toyota just ahead of the number six Porsche that is the battle for a place [Music] flying down into more sun Corner comes the number eight Toyota there's the number seven Toyota with the glicking house on and out that is look at these two Toyotas Under Pressure the acorn uh that is who now uh Brendan Hartley under pressure from Kevin EST and behind him Jose Maria Lopez poor position as Thurman Gutierrez in the glicken house absolutely we've seen Dave Cameron hustle this for uh there's Porsche kind of restaurant we'll be looking to see that show that he can do just exactly the same again we come into another phase yes it's frustrating we've been for quite some time under safety car for the game they've lit the blue touch paper the whole Phil's coming line again jota leading lmp2 from the previous lead to the 36 car that was in the barriers was dropped right back down through the field of 16th a pit stop with a stake as you leave them out back to sport in second place in lnp2 with the number 10 car in the hands of Cuban Van Der Helm and Albert Costa third beggar Park is ready 16 with bound to help third behind Matthias Kaiser and in fourth place is Albert Costa for into europol so I mean oh that's the 311 amps just caught himself out on the curbs that's how it happened and by the way I suppose a drama for Cadillac the number three car will be giving a 60-second stop and hold penalty for a technical infringement well Kevin Ashton more hustle than a hustly thing but over hustled himself on the curbside he's now gone from a tank to the Toyota number seven is now breathing down his neck yeah that was a big mistake there by Kevin S just in the uh in the karting Corner through the car in too early side that the car that's it so uh yeah now under attack from the Toyota behind like you say Brendan Hartley I know sorry the car number seven uh right behind Jose Mira Lopez yeah and he's behind them by the way coming through skin you saw the black and red and gold of the Belgian colors on the DKR engineering car that's now back out again another steam with Tom van ronpoint at the wheel but they had that incident earlier on they were clattered by somebody else and unfortunately it cost them a lot of time in the pits great battle this is at the bottom end of the top ten and these are two previously World Championship winning teams in the eight and the Seven Toyota a bit of a wiggle there from uh Jose Maria Lopez through the left-hander of the s's so uh both Kevin Esther and Lopez pushing on hardly that Trio starts to get into the Rhythm now have that taking that stop and hold the three car from 12th position that is going to drop them back so that will not go to position though because let's go in the order 708 which is a further lap behind it's lap had changed now for Ryan Briscoe in the 708 but uh way further up the field 3.4 seconds to the good now for Dave Cameron yeah he was almost a second faster than Dave Cameron on that last lap alone I don't know if traffic had anything to do with that but Ife in that 38 Joe tune absolutely flying oh on Esther as well that code's gone to stop driving it a bit like maybe he was this time last year in his uh in the GTE car because these uh more sticky sprung lower ride height cars these prototypes that you don't like going over those kind of Curves in the chicane so uh twitched it really protested on him when he did that so uh he's got the speed it's just I just feel like he needs to stop the racetrack quite as much as he is abstract Village on that last lap as well so it's been noted that the aggression is there yeah lap time was deleted it doesn't affect the overall standing of the car but it counts towards potential penalty later in the race if he keeps doing it exactly so just say a quick hi to uh former colleague Alan bestwick who's tuned in back home in the U.S I think there's an awful lot of fans who have just got a flicked off to see oh my goodness I can't take my eyes off this stuff and uh probably in for the rest of the 24 hours yeah joking up there oh Jimmy it's Dane Cameron and that was a big moment for the number 50 Ferrari as Miguel Molina went through for second place he'll get a penalty for that you're supposed to stay on that road to the right hand side rejoined big get out of jail free car played by Dane Cameron without which he could have been heavily in the wall but absolutely Davis is right he shouldn't stayed to the right hand side of the blue line now not being a huge regular at the moment he may well not to remember that in the Panic to avoid the ball and not trying to lose second place but he did lose second place he's now between the two Ferraris as her team jokes hippie Yi is now Graham Goodwin eight seconds ahead that's well that's helped him obviously because with Dane Cameron I mean that moment and there would have been a minor lift I'm sure from Miguel Molina that's made all that difference I'm not sure we could follow the right Direction's instructions um he was clearly not in trouble to throw that car at that moment that's the one Saving Grace that might save him he was not under control I mean I I've you're out of control and you've rejoined the racetrack if you think you're just mad at they they really don't they frown above that yeah they will be still in the middle if he had enough if he had enough control to find the racetrack he had enough control to stay on the on the tarmac on the right this is notable genre obviously two laps down on the leader but right behind the race leader has just set the fastest first sector of the race so far the 93 version is looking to unlock himself slightly annoyed I imagine [Music] yeah four and a half hours into the 24 Hours of Le Mans hello Ted hi Morgan and hello Matt watching back home I'm sure there are lots of fans from three to 93 tuned in to watch the race wherever you are across the world thank you for joining us however you're watching thank you for joining us stay with us I'm not sure this race is going to lose much of its Sheen in a hurry we're looking for another slow Zone coming in foreign [Music] cabin in the middle of the Ferrari sandwich here comes the 51 car long way around the outside there's been a lot of Brave overtaking using the margins Anthony had to back out of it though because of that slow zone no overtaking on the yellow flags in the next slow before you get to the slow Zone it was just coming active as he was going for the move so he's that was a critical moment there for the Ferrari driver to back out of it there is the polystyrene board that Dane Cameron dislodged I just wonder if he can prove he was on the brakes the whole way into the corner desperately trying to slow down he might get away with it there is going to be a gap here for the be able to recover that this should be a quick slow Zone oh now is that from me off or did that cause the office right rear six car Kevin S now that's okay so it wasn't Dan Cameron sorry guys I wonder if that happened on the exit of karting Corner when he when he got the car launch momentarian he went in there's such Savage uh dips in the track and we were told all the time as drivers not to venture out too far they've been remarkably few punches of this race it's something we see very often at the moment it's a track service remarkably few questions I actually said that he said and don't forget the debris field under the Dunlop curve we saw them for a few times he's so far away from home he's already gone there he's so far away from home that he's that's where it goes that's the moment he's so far away from home here he's gonna have to really limp home he's gonna really have to go slowly otherwise he's going to free the Bodywork Beyond repair painful as it is you have to respect the speed limits that the team would have set in place for a puncture like that [Music] thank you so the number 51 continues to chase down Dane Cameron in front so it hurts deep jota 32.87 seconds from fa8 the fastest first sector so the the speeds aren't going north here new leader in gtel and that's another switch to five girl this time off he goes just briefly managed to regain the track day camera because that's a second error that has caused a second position loss to a second Ferrari such tough conditions out there Graham you know breaking into that first chicane you go a little bit too deep and then you're onto the wet stuff he did well actually to slow it down there there are there's a similarity rather way between uh all three class leaders right now they all begin with a team operated Jay two of them are jokes and the other one jmw Motorsport the oldest car on the field leads GTM 2017 Ferrari 488 debuted here in 2017. won that race tested every single about 24 hours and every single European among series since second place battle in lmp2 is in your shock a yellow and green car that's into your pulse Albert Costa the next car behind the zebra car with the red white and blue nose that is the third place car that's Prem uh a of course is Norman NATO so that is the back of the second place in the lmp2 class you can see the blue flags waving behind us there's more hyper cars coming up the hikers there are a lot of hyper cars to come up behind you this year E38 is just set the fastest first sexiest he was actually fending off uh the guy who just sent me to what the lap before but by the way it's just gone extremely quickly again [Music] but yellow flags at Marshall's post 24 will come to that at the moment uh jmw Motorsport from protons88 it's Harry tinkler By the way he'll be in hypercar next race in the FI World in Jones Championship with the next debuting hypercar proton competitions new 963 and the a of course at 54 Ferrari completes the top three GTM Weller lights lmp2 Weller light hyper car a burning Inferno thank goodness we've had a couple of long Edge safety car periods because we're damaged because otherwise I think we're defeat too soon would be needed to go for a lie down in a dark room here are your two for um Toyotas the number eight car number seven car running in eight van Ninth Place and didn't have either the ability or the confidence to change from wet weather tires onto slicks when most of the rest of the field was doing so behind the safety car maybe they just felt they were in the wrong safety car queue and and couldn't do it but either way they stayed on wet where the tires too long it is a whip that will survive on a drying track but the track was pretty much a guaranteed slick track and Slick Tire demanding track of Anthony they lost out because they just didn't react the way that everybody else did I just feel like Ferrari little bit there by changing onto the the Slick Tire it was clearly that it was going to dry up in that lengthy procedure with the safety car and uh Toyota stayed out there for whatever reason they stayed out there on the wet Tire only coming in when they Safeguard I think as soon as they started to do the thing that Ferrari realized was they were going to obviously do the merge of the safety cars and that situation Hitler might you know it like closes up closes uh it comes on so when it starts to merge you have no option to come in anymore until the safety car comes in yes and that's what Ferrari read perfectly well stop and go for the number three Cadillac by the way with the entire pressure issue right so those are mandated minimum pressure and maximum camber angle by Michelin the tire supply for hypercar so clearly it was under the minimum tire pressure which will have been a heating pressurizing error by the team but nevertheless that's what the penalty was for lots of monitoring done live monitoring effects on these cars some of which is wanted to directly from the uh the real maker some of which has to be provided mandated by the teams if a yay meantime he is 13.2 seconds ahead of Mega milliona what a race I won't run from him since we're back to green we're just seeing a slow-mo of the number six Porsche of chemist and here he is in the pit Lane which is faded into the pit Lane after picking up that right rear punch and I wonder whether there will be collateral damage whether they will winch him back into the garage just to check everything else out well they've lost the lap which is the the major major damage here and that's going to be a flight back now when fingers crossed and hope that there's going to be a safety goal of mine helping me through this race there's still in my 19 hours and 20 minutes to go by the way gentlemen they're changing the tail I wonder if there's more to go I'll change second place there's there of course the car number 80 it's now northernato in second ahead of Albert cost of the green and yellow into europol that's the lmp2 second place battle how far behind are they behind the leader jota's number 20 uh I can't leave that 28 card 10 seconds behind Oliver Rasmussen so a good restart from Joseph again they're executing beautifully uh in the uh in the leading car car number five reported to the stewards for overtaking car 100 under the safety car that is the tank camera game camera and Porsche hasn't been a happy 10 minutes for the Porsche Penske versus 14. that's it puncher for number six offer [Music] say free join and the possible penalty for passing behind the safety car for the number five car are you adventuring earlier huge audience worldwide for this race every year never more so than this year and lots of different ways to follow it whether or not it's uh with this broadcast with our colleagues elsewhere here in the TV family if you enjoying it Go and tell people who enjoyed it Go and tell people just how awesome this race is developing to be it's a brand new era for sports car racing yeah there's lots of ways you can spread some positivity on social media absolutely shout it from the rooftops because if you know anybody who's even remotely a car fan who doesn't know about the mod this is okay this is the perfect time there's there's rarely been a better time because having got out of the car little red-eyed yeah he's disappointed I wonder how he got that punch I mean obviously we've seen there's been an awful lot of debris all over the track I'm surprised yeah like you say Gregory we haven't seen more of it iconic convinced I've convinced myself that he's it's because of running out in that karting Corner yeah one thing I'll say about that is you can see his face couldn't use feels like he's let himself down he's let the team down he's let the tie down uh in the queue by the way I was just looking at the jmw Motorsport Ferrari that car no longer the class leader AF courser now leads with the 54 the silver Ferrari in GTE am and it should be no it's not in this queue so the jmw car is the dark yellow and black and it's behind the bright bile yellow car guy Kessel racing Ferrari so that's actually a battle for sixth and seventh but a of course a lead from proton competitions number 9-1-1 that's the silver car with the black rear end and that is to be driven by estonia's Martin rump and Arnold robart is third TF Sports Aston Martin the 72 car that's the blue car with the green highlights it's up to third there's the third place car in nmp2 Albert Costa losing a little bit of ground now to Norman natto because it's got a lot of single-seater men GT Racing Heritage so a GT3 program would definitely be a good match for him I think he might be looking more to be perhaps angling towards a hypercar drive down Dives to the inside of the second of the into europol cards and that second into europol car which is his teammate the white car with the green and yellow stripes is being driven by I can't see it on the edge of this it must be on page two that's been driven by oh Kevin magnuson's Dad kev's Dad yeah so Albert Costa tucked up yeah Magnuson right like that there he is the Dane I think that car is just at a penalty I'm trying to recall and I'm struggling to do so not had a very error-free and trouble-free one so he was dropped off the road in the wet weather running earlier there's Michelle gatting in the iron Dames garage uh the the next guy in the queue by the way in the blue car with the orange highlights that's 65 that's Olivier panis's panace racing entry and that's got Matthias uh pick upon team in Van Der Helm at the wheel of that car so that car is in fourth place in LMP too fastest sector time set by Alex Lin he's robbed it from ifea so he's flying in the Cadillac number two get a lot of GT action here this is the battle for third the pink Porsche that's the iron games card Sarah Boby she's fourth right in front with the blue and green of matcha and pescarolo that's Arnold Robert in the TF sport 72 Aston Martin's this is the battle for third in the GTE am class so she was in the lead of that class um a while ago and I did see her just at the top of the screen as we were focusing on the hypercar category coming out the uh first cane it looked like she might have ran out a bit wide and gone straight through the chicane I'd like to see a replay of that moment if if we have a chance but uh yeah definitely something was going on that she was completely offline anyway on the exit of that first arcade by the 72 TF sport car the colors Henry pascular matter the the also team sport run triple seven car D station racing some further way further back down the order that car running in 12th Casper Stevenson unlapped himself from the new fourth place car that is pushing on to drive to do the same we get back onto the lead lap here see the headlights flashing in the air of course the car of Norman NATO he's got a hyper car behind him that's one of the two clicking houses and behind him is the 34 car that he just passed into europols uh um uh Albert Costa yeah I think that is the 709 car the 708 is the car with the Art Car uh dorsal fin if you like it look to meet with a white Finn 709 but a place in the two cars clouds are clearing Anthony Davidson track is drying but the sun is dipping down it's nearly just very nearly gym and Sonic time anywhere at this time of day low Sun can be a major issue major handicap for the drivers it is yeah especially on that run down towards Indianapolis for the Setting Sun then in the morning when we finally get there we're still 19 hours to go uh you've got the Rising Sun on the way into tetrouge and that's equally as blinding so uh yeah combined with the fact that you have bugs and dirt and things all over the windscreen when you get into the the settings the low Sun situation it's uh it's a very hard challenge one that uh not many drivers who will ever experience in their careers until you drive here at Le Mans oh it's a yellow flag you'd see a top left-hand side of the screen the graphic there sorry that's the first uh chicane the Daytona chicane on them all Zone and I'm looking to see whether or not that's debris or a car stop there it is the number 74 car Kessel racing Ferrari that's the Battle Cats car [Music] oh I see very good back underway seeing lots of uh personal bests and fastest sectors out there Nick Tandy now is his turn or Nicholas Tandy as you said before Martin on our screens is fastest in the first sector and that was um kind of snap back and hit the uh right rear too so hopefully no damage or no further damage for 74 we'll keep an eye on that one well we said we predicted it was going to be pretty difficult conditions for all the drivers once we went back to green racing and uh yeah unfortunately we're being proven right and uh many occasion but it's good to see them getting away with it but it is hasn't been an easy Le Mans so far for the drivers it really really hasn't uh the 80 car of course goes through its next Pit Stop normanato on pit Lane and cycle back through some of this field what's happened to car number seven this is Jose Maria Lopez off in the first chicane well I've rattled the felixi hasn't got better to do it that way around than running too wide like we saw with the Ferrari number 74 beforehand so uh different angle he's got away with that one rode it well didn't it let's say mixed reception to the new safety car rules uh among the audience who have been reacting to them on Twitter so again they're not trying to win a race so they're saying oh it takes too long it just looks like a bit of a circus but it does hopefully it's fairly cars losing laps it does it is much fair yeah I think you know there's two debates here one is how long it takes the potatoes direction to get to the stage where they decide to cope with the process yes that's one debate the actual process I have to say takes about a lap um I I'm actually quite impressed with it I think the thing that really didn't help that last safety car procedure the wave around yeah is that the track was very treacherous yes so it took longer it did because the cars were taking longer to get around they didn't want to Stack it okay it's number 30. don't say those words that is the number 30 cards okay team again it's clearly pretty treacherous still at uh the first chicane it's the same rule isn't it stay off the curbs that's where all the water is because that's not where the tires are drying it he's got in offline but that wasn't the curbs I mean he ended up on a curb but it's to do with the braking and turning in that phase you go through on the run into the first you can't it's still wet there like we said with the Setting Sun that bit is taking longer to dry now than anywhere else okay if you know it is yeah 18 year old Chilean driver drive-through penalty for Dane Cameron for overtaking under the safety car so he passed the Falcon horse Ferrari that's not great news Well ironed Ames right in the thick of the action in the GTE and pass let's get down to that pit garage I'm with Michelle gassing driver for the 85 iron Dames this race doesn't do anything for your nerves does it I it says yeah no especially another one is still 19 hours to go exciting but to be honest Sarah is doing sitting out there so uh still way too many hours to go conditions are changing so much obviously it's such a big attack than we used to but the conditions are just so different yeah I mean it's uh I mean it's been the whole week has been exhausting in a good way but uh I mean uh yesterday night we had a meeting at nine o'clock and we were all like we still have a race tomorrow you know so but it's been amazing here the fans it's uh obviously the big car is attracting a lot of attention as we want to and now for for good reasons but still a long time to go all right thank you thank you Michelle gatting we saw her in short earlier on with a beautifully manicured and painted nails they might be uh it might be less nailed it's beautifully manicured and painted and uh for the entertaining language as ever the first language that any racing driver learns is mechanics English what's not funny Grandma sorry my children are listening I'm still bidding for more Tick Tock coverage but certain references have been bad go and look online if you don't know what we're talking about yippee leads Le Mans for jota for Hertz team Joe so they do no longer lead in lmp2 because Oliver Rasmussen has just been in and out of the pit Lane in the 28 car and they don't have a Jesus the race leader yeah the Porsche curves luckily he is very close to the pit Lane and luckily although it now looks like some very badly hacked about Hot Wheels car he will have lost very little time at all but ant he he's still got all the four wheels pointing at about the right direction he's got no grip and he's come in too hot I mean I'm assuming that he's lost the rear end in the in the Porsche curves and yeah runs so far out wide before karting Corner ends up in the barrier is this going to Pivot the car right around yes it does that's a big that's a much bigger moment than I thought it was and then in desperation he daunches it over that car curb into the pit Lane which has probably done as much damage he's just gone from hero to absolute zero he was doing so well yeah but that's the risk level he was taking and that's why he is clearly going as fast as he was that was maximum risk there from The Joker driver and Ferrari now 1-2 again as hurts team Joe's will have to set about this car as quickly as they can Louise Beckett just walking down to the Hertz team Johto Club but on the way I could see the number five Porsche mechanics they were lying on the floor looking as the five came through the pit Lane so something's going on at the bottom of that car [Music] this will bring everybody down to 80 kilometers an hour but will not use the safety car now then Ferrari need a pit star siren Penske Porsche number five car needs a pit stop and so does the 93 Peugeot full course yellow we are under full course yellow we are removing debris at several places on track we are removing debris at several places on track almost all of it hurts Team Toyota body work well it's a very substantial chunks of ernstein Joe Dirt Bodywork including the entire wig assembly the under part of that cell section and much of the engine cover which are in big chunks well it's gonna you can guarantee it's going to take less time to clear up the damage on the circuit than it will do the damage in the pit Lane for the team that's such a shame I I'd love to see the shot from earlier on how did he end up there so far out in the Porsche curves did he lose the rear around the last left-hander or the penultimate left-hander before the right where we saw him go wide what happened when you go offline to the left I mean not as a driver I don't know this but watching we've seen when cars are out wide they really bounce the road is really ripply off the of course you're on the other side of the camber so the road is going away from you there whereas when you turn right into the Porsche curves it's camber to help you in if you if you're the wrong side of the camera on the public road part you don't get that benefit and then you're out on the Ripley staff remember when we saw the Peugeot bouncing up and down it doesn't do that anywhere only when you're offline you get really bumpy there where the Porsche curves the modern bit of race track peels off the old public road or I say old Public Road off the public road he's either lost the rear like I say on the uh on the second part the second left of the of the Porsche curves lost the rear momentarily collected it but then you're offline you get onto the wet stuff and it the car just simply won't turn right that's what it first looked like to me or he's done what Dane Cameron did beforehand but uh slightly earlier in the corner so he's brought the car back onto the track over the grass and not follow the uh the perimeter way around to the right hand side I'm going with my going with the Guardians again the first thing is well the only thing I can imagine we've seen three or four incidents now for multiple Porsches which sort of feels as if the grip's not been where they expected it to be well it was in the start for UK wasn't it it certainly was that was an amazing it was he pulled out a 15 second gap on the field it was masterful absolutely brilliant but uh whether or not that was overconfidence whether or not there's a problem whether or not this whatever it is uh that was a big incident one of the biggest we've seen so far in this uh 24 Hours of Le Mans I mean I'd like to like say I need to see it from earlier on I need to see a different angle from the one we get maybe it's unfair on him maybe he had a left rear puncture or something or a left front puncture but I'd like to hope it wasn't driver error and the other thing there is the belting that holds the tire walls together has been damaged by that that might require an intervention and a replacement or a re-fixing of that but high drama again we're not even five hours into this race like a reef like I was saying guys it's you know this has been some of the honesty some of the hardest driving conditions I've ever seen at this at this lemon event I think point isn't it you were making it earlier in the show on the race rather where look we have seen extreme rain at parts of this circuit but it's almost better if that's all you've got what we've had is this constant facing from bone dry yeah heavy shower into dry again but not quite dry then wetter and then drier again and they're looking for where the grip is on every other lap the problem is like I said the circuit isn't fully dry and they're still out there on the slick tires and they're just about okay for these conditions because they're losing track temperature all the time if it was a hotter track it you know the tires would be much more pliable and they'd be able to extract that grip and have a bit more confidence but it's getting more and more tricky as as we go as the sun continues to set the temperatures come down and uh they're having to basically reevaluate every single time they approach the same Corner over and over just noted by the way they're will Stevens as if a yay is looking destroys me really will Stevens was suited and booted there I think that one of his inlab why otherwise would will Stevens be sitting their hands device on well and Herbert on within an apple too don't forget we said they needed fuel the Ferraris need fuel as well the Ferraris are going to gain big here if they're not going to because we're going to give the end of the full course yellow they're not going to be able to pitch Under full course yellow but they were going to be close to that as there was further damage they needed replacing recovered quickly but unfortunately the thing is deconstructing itself as a big job for the Hertz team Johto guys and girls oh I thought he would have felt that um but yeah it's desperation yeah I think you're right it was yeah as you go back to green you know what the way that Ferrari approached this they didn't care that the the jota Porsche was pulling away from them as we see a swap of positions there with the Ferraris they didn't seem to care they weren't bothered either done what Toyota did earlier on whether to get um track position for the pit stop or Pit Stop position to save the team uh generally speaking more time so yeah just get them in the right order before they stop but Ferrari to me looked like their whole approach to this event so far has been absolutely bang on they're they're they're picking their fights they're not going with that Joe to Carl pulling away in the distance the engineers quick on the radio to say look we'll go we'll we'll build this up nicely over the Second Spin look after these ties in the first we'll be there in the Second Spin their whole approach seems to be thinking of the long game there's a another Point here with this new safety car procedure and I I I've Keen to hear what you guys think about this there's various ways in which race control can neutralize the race we've seen slow zones we've seen full course yellow we've now seen two safety card procedures knowing that you've got a safety card procedure that is better at managing the real world race order I do wonder whether they've got more confidence in deploying it I do Wonder clearly the main reason to go safety guard the main reason is is to do with the incidents but they're also mindful of the overall race and the overall events and I do wonder whether or not it's might play into this a little later Are we more on the racing team turkey car now off again at the first chicane and who support the 923 it is Tom Gamble he was doing absolutely the right thing there he was creeping it back creeping it back but if you spit up the rear tires it's going to dig itself in and it just started to beach itself and that's exactly what it's done but once again look both cars the 63 as well running out wide under that braking Zone it's just you're turning and breaking another car behind them as well one of the GTS it is absolutely treacherous there doesn't look it but it is clearly very greasy I wonder if there's something else down at that corner other than just being wet because we're seeing multiple multiple cars this is how it looked on board I must be a horrible moment hey save it from going into the barrier and then you just think right I've got to put in reverse and just ease it back but that one moment where you feel the car sink down your heart sinks with it [Music] thank you when I came back in after my after my little meal break I'm looking at the scoring I'm thinking to myself when was the last time anybody was going to have to go on the air and say the Toyota in eighth and Ninth uh Now cycling back in the two toters by the way because of the pit stops for the uh yes they are but they know they've got their hands full oh yeah in the Centenary Lamar boy oh boy if we got a race on here boy oh boy if we could race on and uh you said about Ferrari Ferrari are not racing in a very Ferrari way they're not going and bringing the neck of this race they know this is a racist survival as well as pace and actually that's been possibly the most impressive part of it you've heard it here first guys and I'll probably get beaten up online for this Ferrari's strategy so far has been brilliant you yes but in the other thing I've noticed is that other than the first Pit Stop they've hit it in 10. yep the first Pit Stop they were separate surprising in the sense that they have fitted in Tandem and that's not something we're used to seeing here move forward position this is full second position overall the 94 Peugeot give said a position away to the first of the two toters Brendan Hartley goes through to Second Nick tanley by the way leads them on everyone's having a turn today out there in front I think the majority of this hypercar field have led this race oh without a doubt without a doubt so remember 84 has led eight seven fifty fifty one two three five six thirty eight yeah 11 11 of the of the 14 cars I'll tell you something you can tell how good a race it's been because not for the first time uh one of our co-commentators has completely missed the point at which they should have gone to eat and a racing driver missing out on the meal because they're enjoying the race too much I'm Davidson leaves users welcome back Peter the prick looks like a quick slap I've eaten already oh there you go he ate with me that strategy well the bad guy he knows where the food is I ate twice in fact it comes on number 94 there's from third position uh Peugeot have let them on and uh Porsche Toyota Peugeot the one two three it's gonna go down and speak to jota and it's uh Louise with dietergarten the team principal at the steam Joker I'm adita guest team principal of Hertz team jota car 38 there's a lot of work going on to this car obviously which is why we're trying to stay out of the way dated I've seen a lot of body work going on and off uh do you know the extent of the damage yeah I think very much so we obviously have seen the front end rear end rear wing engine cover going as well and from what we have seen the the elephant foot that's what it's called the park behind the front wheel and the forward part of the floor that's the extent of damage that we can see so far suspension seemed to be okay we hope so we're trying to repair the Bodywork and then we'll go again if everything confirms like that we'll see if he's saying happen yeah he said he lost it under the braking in the Bosch corners and then obviously hit the tire barrier and that makes quite some significant damage on the car was he come in because we saw that Will was ready in his helmet so yeah yeah he was up for a plant uh pit stop in this lap yes correct all right thank you yeah uh sadly that that was not to be completed at speed and if he is hero run to the front and away at the front uh was I'm afraid spoiled on that in lap by a bit of a miscalculation into the Porsche curves and the racing in lmp2 is no less exciting at this point than it is in the hypercar class we've got the team wrt number 41 leading with Louis de la trans behind the wheel chased by the United Auto Sports the remaining uh undamaged United Auto Sports number 23 with Oliver Jarvis behind the wheel of that car and they are nose to tail as they head into Indianapolis uh we're back to full track green running now [Music] then it's that's caused by if AA shunt and the clear-up is complete I'm sorry it was the second one was Tom gamble wasn't it at the first ones actually she came but uh well into double figures four cars on the leave lap for mmp2 [Music] so my lead lap in piccart is the top 10. Nick Tandy in the number 75 Porsche from the two Toyota's now second and third eight and seven Brendan Hartley Lopez then it is the two Ferraris 50 and 51 run fourth and fifth Miguel Molina on his outlap now in the 94 Peugeot 9x8 that has led this race with Alex who's showing real Pace to the number two Cadillac the quickest of the caddies we've seen some troubles today second of the Porsches is the second Porsche Penske County Cameron runs eighth and then glicken house run in ninth position with their 709 the untroubled the two scg007s second of the factory Cadillacs Ranger Van de Sandra the number three car that car runs 10 50 23 United Autosports car gym comes through to a stop on pit Lane comes out of second position Jarvis brings the car to a stop it's got to be a standard schedule could stop 75 and eight on the racetrack this is uh it hasn't changed I've been away for uh two and a half hours and there's been a lot happening but it is still the same eight or nine cars at the front [Music] just like we used to call it when we were kids in athletics class Indian Running they get in the line in the last guy in line to go to the front that's what we've got right I mean it's just you know okay your turn to lead for a while okay and now my turn to leave for a while the um interesting thing now is that for me anyway that Toyota is gradually finding its way to the front again so they're running nose to tail top three cars after what five hours of racing and now the 75 car is on mediums and the Toyota is on soft the Toyota seems to be uh at least the eight car was very very comfortable on the sauce earlier with the way behind the wheel now there knows the tail a minute ago they were a lot closer to the 75 car unfortunately so it must have been held up somewhere [Music] two and a half seconds is the gapnic Tandy pushing on the and those three cars are all due a pit stop as you can see from the energy graphic yeah 75 car down to 16 virtual energy the pace has been good yeah the battling has been epic the drama sometimes I'm welcome but points kept us awake um overall Pizza on brick what's your assessment of this expanded Piper car class After High Simpson synthesis on the other side coming into this or a very different top class at the moment yeah I think it's fantastic I think the general consensus from everyone is um we've finally after quite a few years got several manufacturers all fighting for a win we've had each one of them gradually leading the race and at the moment is Porsche Toyota closing in on them so yeah fantastic I love it some of the social media comments have been interesting because they are like why are these drivers just you know it's a 24-hour race what's going on that's how important this is that these guys know that they have got to drive all out let's find out okay Brandon car 75 ahead is for position car 75 ahead is for position position so I think kind of Captain Obvious there yeah Captain uh well that's good that's yes [Music] it's going to be interesting to see but it's it's been a transition Asda into this race all sorts of expectations much of what I read coming into this race from others in My Chosen profession was well but uh drive away with it it hasn't been like that to this point I agree with you Peter I think what's happening now not all of their own making is this races coming back to them because others have hit trouble the this is the team with the most experience here there's a certain team with the most experience here with the car they're driving this year so it's the third year at the moment for Toyota kazoo racing with the gra10 and of course they've won the first previous occasions weather has been a factor they've got plenty of data for that [Music] I'll tell you what I bet he's desperate to get into the pits and have that windscreen clean and yeah especially is the sunset especially right now because the visibility of the clouds stayed separate like that the visibility is going to get pretty tough this is a race leader in lmp2 as he came in uh through the pits and seeds that lead back to jota Oliver Rasmussen uh out of Albert Costa in the number 34 into Europa competition uh Orica that's the one two now with the next three cars in the order on pit Lane including you know to uh Jacobson the 37 car leading Pro amp and fifth overall lmp2 as they hit PID Lane or race leader in elapitu trouble for Dane Cameron in the number five carton of what has happened there has been an incident as he hits some kind of mechanical or systems trouble if the NASCAR goes blasting by yeah we can hear it it seems to be constantly damage on the car I think that as all the Hallmarks of mechanical electrical Drive there goes the 38. the joke of Warship back out onto the racetrack that was pretty quick it was let's have a look at just exactly how quick that was Toyota double pit stop here working in tandem much like the Ferraris are that was 20 minutes on pit Lane to effectively rebuild most of the top half of the car yeah but on the bottom of it as well so eight and seven in that order in their race order again see the position or two Ferrari cycle background into second and third they go Molino now ten and a half seconds back Nick Sandy Antonio giovan actually up to third but the drama at the moment the latest drama is for Dane Cameron just looking to see whether or not that car it is moving but it's back up to some speed I think that was a power recycle [Music] hello by the way something else uh at the Milton Golf Club to previous lemon leader briefly Martin Shaw ah yes or Martin and then let's chat with uh this by the way is what uh hurts team repaired in 20 minutes so when you're at your Porsche dealer later if you've had a bit of a Biff that's the kind of service you should be expecting that's right 115 an hour well you know what and I've learned a little there a very expensive way this is the car on its way in 20 minutes it would take jota back out on track now in 32nd Place 14th in the hypercar class we have had some dramas for some of the other Runners we can run through some of those dramas through the classes when we get a moment if we get a moment with less drama every five minutes seems to go out to us this is a quick look at the number 25 Aston Martin ort by TF like diamond wheels it blasted by there uh by the or blue number two Cadillac and what's this about that's Michael darling he's another one he's been in trouble at the first chicane and an impact where the barriers there that's why we're looking at the 25 75 car this is an old race leader [Music] like the Nicholas and the story [Music] so Nick Tandy continues to lead what'd you see there I I was wondering whether that was a picture I think it was I wonder why I was going so slowly ah so 75 make its way through the Porsche curves [Music] he's gonna be oh he didn't commit and he should be coming in this time he's down here but still virtual uh he's not up to speed yeah there you go that's why yeah but you'd still be up to speed all the way it didn't seem right it wasn't on Full Throttle it wasn't it yeah I wonder if he's this is a scheduled stop well it is it should be because his uh virtual energy was down to one percent so I'm wondering if he might have run it almost dry Frank Beale at one point well yeah indeed he came past Rex he's a 56 car through to the lead again Ferrari 1551 running nose detail oh no it's not the second one I think the other the 51 cars not far behind isn't it three seconds yeah say again I was seeing a leading car on the second place car only three seconds oh yes yeah looks like a driver Change Gonna Be tire change uh four the number 75. against Nick tanning will be out the car also [Music] Dane Cameron was behind the wheel of that car when it came out I wonder if he'll uh if he's still in we'll find out in a moment the moment of choir relatively yeah Fred mcaviki Behind The Wheels on the back car right now [Music] three seconds behind the previous map was too much consumption 70.7 we need 69.5 and 69.5 and please a bit more savings [Music] very interesting very interesting previous previous lap too much energy usage he was on 70.9 and they wanted 69.5 Warriors because that's going to be either it's going to be where they're scheduling for that for the stint length yeah they're looking for but aside from what the rules say about what you can do remember that there are limit sets within this rule set header it's part of the balancing that keeps the racing as close as you see gentlemen you know what is this not even six hours of this race we've been able to say Peugeot lead them on Ferrari leave them on Porsche Lee live on Cadillac leads absolutely extraordinary so far hurts team jota lead lemon yeah what we've had some treats here and that's just the hyper car club just the hyper car class uh and then B2 is but it's usual battle Battlegrounds Joe to lead that class again as they pit the Stop Cycle comes back around and in the GTE and class well we'll get to that let's have a listen what's going on with load develop all the 94 Pro show 9x8 you are running these three right behind the two Ferraris the Ferraris are running 31.5 32-0 go for it they're comfortable go for it go for it the seven car by the way there uh on the uh its first flying lap after that pit stop Jose Maria Lopez had a little bit of a near Miss I think I just spotted there's double yellows by the way at the end of the lap what's happened down at the fortune game something to get occurred there I think I just spotted as well there was a there is a stop and go penalty for the 708 that cycle through too quickly for me to read what that was for so another quick look at that in a moment to double yellows at Marshall's post 31. that's for the 43 DKR there's also another incident double yellow's a marshall post 11 and that is the first chicane on Mozan yet another issue these day this this what's happened though at the four chicane the problem the problem in this particular chicane you've got a dry line obviously and if you get it wrong you're straight onto the wet and then you just can't it's not in fact I I can't believe the Toyota managed to stare at the wall for sure it was going in the wall shows the kind of traction he's probably got he's got a little bit more of these can I do that's about the 10th car it is the number 72 car lost its rear wing that car that car's been Flying high in the um GTM class I'm not Rob and it is local driver with his brother Maxine that car has been in the wall it's been just rushed almost took a Ferrari with him that is a near Miss for the Ferrari count your lucky stars young man too he's taking the real Wing is that just brushed off it did that should get away with that after replacement rear wing the master and pascarello colored uh Aston Martin Antonio by the way which you should at some point be able to say here look another problem this stuff Vector Sports off the track again at the first uh chicane we're just looking at the fight for uh second place and GTR that's the iron Danes Sarah Beauvais trying to hold off Francesco Castile number 54 AF Corsa the silver liberty AF course and Ferrari yeah this is the battle for second he says pretty quite right he says two and a half seconds back from the leading car a little bit in the hands of Martin wrong but that's the car vital Fassbender yeah that's right 9 11. boy would that be a storyline we've had one highly relaxer in the recent pass on the uh Podium here that have been Patrick Dempsey Michael Fassbender I mean what could be his final the more in this current iteration of his racing career it's the end of a five-year program with him with Porsche Porsche tends to not let people like that just go away they tend to keep them around we talked a little earlier about the way in which the modern world deals with debates and when the debate surround celebrity it could be particularly cruel working in the same Paddock as Michael Fassbender his attitude aptitude passion has been an absolute pleasure a bit of a twitch there from the Ferrari coming through yeah they have to be careful as they came into the yellow flag zone Pizza it's not well we heard a short while ago [Music] Molina being given instructions to calm down on his energy use so I guess is that a case of lifting Coast a little bit yes yeah into the corners you know just come off the gas break in the same place but just Coast on the other hand we heard Peugeot go get yeah still double yellows by the way Marshall's post 32 and she's trying to see is that car still there it is it has not moved from there so it didn't look a big impact did it no it did not Hitler I wonder whether the rear because I think you've got a rear right picture yes yeah that car is still where it um hit the wall the other thing we've not mentioned much of but they're constantly on our streams our drivers laps deleted for um using too many too much of the truck limits sooner or later penalties are going to kill penalties World Cup yeah that's uh yeah you get five free wins per car right it's is to do the driver oh it's a five per Drive yeah okay the driver that actually gets the penalty although the penalty might be served by the next driver [Music] but two incidents at the moment being managed by race control so that means the DKR car must still be at the first chicane pretty well reached it's not natural drama the 24 hours of Ramon this year doesn't show any signs that's gonna change but one of the people that uh Peter was noticing going across the years Miguel Molina in that leading Ferrari at his last lap yeah disallow well the lap time doesn't it's a slow Zone he was he was already we noticed this earlier the the longest x3's hazard lights coming into a they clearly lock those up and they're preparing to slow but he wasn't quite on the full control there that could have been significantly any more embarrassing or Worse well we heard um Sebastian bordei talking about the system in the car earlier on and how they get a warning saying that the next Zone will be a yellow zone and they've probably already done a lap but uh they said sometimes it's delayed I'm trying to look to see are there actually yellow flags this far back or the first one around the corners and and they actually there's that first car there did they slow down too much for a maybe slow still in the green zone you know well that's a good point they may be slowing down the yellows were on the inside so no it was it was genuine where'd they go again keeping his line in the Prima car that's Booker portalati who is due to be one of Lamborghini's Factory hypercar drivers with that program debuts next year full season in the world of Joy's championship and endurance season the episode Sports Car Championship ahead for that program with the next burst of expansion in this extraordinary period in international sports car racing on the Dunlop Bridge the eight cards looked to deal with the 63 not sure there'll be a chance here probably not until he gets onto the side street yeah because they're about to come up to another slow Zone unless the car has been removed uh Douglas still there at the moment yes so flat out now down the mall straight away you're on board with Nick Dandy I'm using the slipstream he'll go by the lfv2 number 63. significantly bigger challenge for the top class drivers in this era car era not because well balanced between each other but the margins between them and the lmb2s in a variety of parts of this race significantly smaller than they were back in the Olympiad days and that is making things significantly more exciting here's the 708 series penalty the Graham spoke of earlier yeah 708 car by the way remember started a lap down at the start of this race did not join the grid with a gearbox oil leak set 13th Place Seattle comes out I think I think it still is two laps down now that's just put it back onto two laps down this is the 43 car that was off the road of the Dead tennis UK why is it called the Daytona chicane it was part of the again the convergence process yes Daytona chicane now is the first chicane on the not yet the northern Straits whereas conversely at the Rolex 24 pounds of Daytona Daytona International Speedway what usually for the bus stop is now for the monster okay yeah and indeed the curbs are painted yeah the colors of their partner circuits and both circuits here's here's a rick recovery drive for Vander rangazanga let's see what's going on with this card [Music] [Music] let's check into the pits I'm outside being number 10 back to sport as you know it had a little issue out there it turns out it was a breathing issue so the front body work is off the car and the mechanics are working hard on the front left of the car there has been a driver change so I don't anticipate they shall be in the garage for too long but they are working hard away at the minute [Music] so now we switch to the number two car currently in fourth position Alex Lynn doing an excellent job in this car yeah he's been consistently quick and uh unless we forget another one of these just a little Tableau that have made this lemon so special in the 17th of a year not wearing his own helmet colors wearing those and keep the name on one side of Derek Bell great so we're listening to what's going on before the number two with Alex Lane copy that copy that you're doing a good job let's just put the area that's been causing so many problems in the last hour or so Jim well it's he's talking about the racetrack being very greasy so uh this this rain really has changed the the texture of the racetrack yeah it was full dry and then as the rain kind of looped around the racetrack it didn't just rain in one spot it kind of moved around the racetrack it has not come back to a full dry condition yet it doesn't seem like it what they're kind of strange though because it's so warm still right [Music] so again another car it's on a bit of a recovery Drive is a 33 car after those stunning performance by Ben Keating and qualifying the beginning of the race did not really go their way ozone curves this is of course still for that Aston Martin is that car still there or is that many facts about like just checking it's still there still it's not right in fact the sport backup track is just hearing from Steph and that was but it stopped for the British team the British team by the way that uh either by the end of this season or certainly or next if they get the nod will debut yet another new hyper car the isotoshini if you don't know it's not a frasquini is it's a it's a quite an old Italian Mark Reborn and uh that car has been designed and built with the help of piccolato for many years looked after the Ferrari GT program I can leave you for a couple of hours in just a few moments and we're gonna hand over the mic to guy Smith that means from this chair over the last four hours we'll have uh I've had commentators with this sum total of one lemon that's right against me that's right Molina is now chased by Louis Duvall he's gotten by Antonio Joe bernazzi so Lewis wall is trying to push that Cujo back to the front I think a Centenary of Le Mans I think I might just start calling her Peugeot as well because then it's simple it's tomato tomato I I don't know how to say the word I call them Peugeot but it's probably you you might be right tomorrow [Music] Caribbean guy Smith welcome your thoughts so far well what a race yeah I mean I'm struggling to keep up with it it's so much going on throughout all the classes um really surprised by just the amount of accidents really and shunts um I mean obviously the weather conditions are pretty horrendous I don't think I'd like to be driving in that um those kind of conditions it looks really tricky but um yeah what a race we've got here at the front uh two Ferraris still going strong and it's great to see the Peugeot of like Davao in third place actually you know holding holding station it's actually making some small gains drops back a little bit in traffic but um they're very much in the in the hunt they really seem to like the mixed conditions those cars of courageous they they seem to handle well roughly we had the John Eric Van mistake down in um but in general I think the Peugeot does like the mixed conditions and if rain comes back back later in the race then you might see them pop back up to the top again yeah I just popped down to the paddock I just saw Paul the rest doing a little rain dance outside of his garage um so yeah who knows I mean um I think they'll be definitely welcome some showers for sure thank you magic number to hit here on the straightaways 22. great to see the um the Cadillac's back back in the mix again I think the one thing about the new safety car rules I mean while it works it doesn't work for some it obviously does work for others and um it does allow that if you have had an issue um I'll be a small issue where you've maybe lost a lot as we saw with the Cadillac um the safety card does help them get their lap back and brings them back into contention whereas previously they would have kind of been spent the whole race just trying to gain that one lap back so it's kind of doing what it was designed to do to keep cars in play um but obviously if you're you're in a situation where you've got a big lead it maybe doesn't quite work out yeah exactly Joe vernazzi has now gotten himself past the since we swap positions you know we swap positions easier for you there's no traffic in front we swap positions now now [Music] 51 to swap positions so I think that's already happened hasn't it that's exactly right yes yeah that's already happened so why now we know now we know why it happened that that they were told to do it uh they're getting ready for a pit stop and that will put them in proper order when they come into the pit so that the 51 is in the pit stall that's closest to Pitt out so they'll come in and tandem nose to tail and leave that way as well as opposed to one stopping I haven't been working is that a fight for position I'm sure it is sure is it the 75 yes it is so that is the battle for position so fifth position number eight friend and Holly abort the Toyota looking at the back of him yeah that will become the battle for Force the third position here shortly 50 and 51 make their way to the pit Lane so tight you know the hyper cars the prototypes are so much quicker through these Corners than the GT cars and if they get stuck behind them they really lose so much time so they have to take these big risks going around the outside not to lose too much time but really it's kind of hot in the mouth stuff ready when you see them go on the outside how distracting are those strobes that you get during the well um annoying but maybe that's destroyed maybe that's why they're wrong just to annoy the car behind well that's a sign that they're harvesting which is that that's important to know again we're seeing the the Toyotas especially the egg [Music] pardon me especially the eight card [Music] being able to be very quick and and put a lot of life in those soft tires Porsche on mediums [Music] it's kind of a Porsche in a Toyota sandwich there [Music] both Toyotas are on the sauce but 18 laps candy has 18 Laps on his mediums and the number seven car Lopez has 19 Laps on his songs yeah the Toyota seems to light the sauce don't they yeah [Music] and that's what allowed bohemi to lead his ability to to handle the soft tires [Music] down the mall side straight away 18 hours 21 minutes to go [Music] I've got to tell you what boys if this was a six hour race this thing all right yeah this is just absolutely stunning yeah the crowd's definitely getting the money's worth today oh private preparation that you guys go through everybody has their own did you put your overalls on a certain way put a certain boot on before the other put a certain glove on any of those no I didn't have that I didn't have that yeah how about you um not raining I mean you get to like maybe there's a there's a certain pair of gloves that you prefer or a pair of boots that you prefer um so I think I I know a lot of drivers are quite OCD you know everything has to be neat and tidy and kind of prepared so uh we all have our own little ways of doing it but um yeah everybody everybody's different yeah you don't have an OCD bone in your body no you don't you wish you did no but I do like things clean and tidy but that's that's probably nothing to do but yeah the one thing I did used to do when I was waiting yeah I'd wanna have a boat to get in the car and I need to so I need to work I need my energy up I need to and I would um I would single Flower of Scotland in my head did you really yeah before getting in the car there you go outstanding a bit corny maybe but it works no it's not there's no nothing's going now here we see the uh lmp2 cars out on Hearts Let's uh check in with Brandon Hartley we can see that you could do one more step on the front or rear anti-roll bar that's what our suggestion would be for balance and also question are you open to doing one more stint could you do one more stint question [Laughter] [Music] there you go that's interesting now we're starting to you know almost six hours in we're really starting to get into the strategy stuff now can you can you go another stint yes I can I don't know if the tires get um interesting that he's getting help and advice from the Telemetry that the engineers are seeing yeah they're obviously looking at the data and they can see you know what the car's doing and how it's behaving uh maybe Brenda give us some feedback earlier running the stint on the car so he's obviously doing a good job he's in the zone um they're obviously happy I think as we start to go as the light starts to come down and it starts to go into the night it probably makes sense to have the driver stay in the car so you have that transition period And if he's in the zone and he's feeling good then then then why not you know do one more sting and uh and keep on going really oh [Music] so here is that lead battle or second place battle I think in uh lmp2 no it's further back than that 35 car eighth place and the Joker still leading in penalty too yep [Music] see the Flies buzzing around that is some evening and we wonder why when we get the onboard shots they're all it looks like they're pitted it's also the cars what great light as you start to go into the night time you see the headlights really kind of shine in and see the car spitting flames and you see the brake discs glowing and light it up it's really uh really kind of magical time if the uh well no we're not too early yet we'd be about if the sun was uh if it wasn't so cloudy we'd be in the glooming being that golden plate I think there's a drive it's actually quite a nice time because it's it's kind of the track's actually quite quick because you know it starts to cool down you've still got the daylight so you can see um so it's actually quite a nice time to to to go into into the car I think Peach and I were talking about it earlier on you know going into the night time this is a really really kind of nice time to be in the car probably the only time that's better is is what we call happy hour which is sort of early morning as you come out of the night into the into the morning into the daylight first and second place cars in the pits together in lmp2 Oliver Rasmussen at Costa Rasmussen is one of 14 Danish drivers in the race yes yeah to tell me Tom Christensen and John Magnuson haven't had an influence well when I was when I was driving around this morning um in the parade I was behind Tom Christensen and there's a mass of Danish fans at anage so I'm sure the play Danny's flag's flying at Arnage for uh for these Danes it used to be last one out bring the flag because the entire country would come to this event that's how I know there's 14 because I met one last night in in town a Danish fan [Music] Oh you mean 14 drivers I thought you meant 14 fans no there's a few more than that I think so this is the battle for eighth 35 then 40 set no that's uh not the cool reason [Music] so they've got a car out of sequence yeah that's why I'm I'm [Music] 35 31 and 63 so that's um ah so 3163 are fighting for position button right they're further down that's the battle for uh for 16th and 17th in the lmp2 category they're trying to uh they're trying to catch it past the 35 car which is in eighth position and that's Ali Caldwell in the 35. so United States Post now in the lead of lfp2 with only Jarvis jokes are in second and Then followed by wrt so [Music] 94. again the first chicane probably problematic doing the clever thing though if you if you think you can't make the corner and you're a bit locked up just straight line it just straight line [Music] yeah the drivers that come in too hot and go for the the commitment is that's the drivers that might spin in there and we've seen quite a few hit the wall or Beach themselves in the ground in fact one of the Toyotas came very close to doing that as well Patrick pelay formerly uh Porsche Factory GT driver in the 39 car [Music] battling for 17th position with Roku portal racing number 63. premise had a pretty good season in lnp2 this year [Music] yeah I think the 63 car it disappointed with so far down on the stage because I think they really fancy themselves you know for for a for a Podium if not a win so um it's one of uh they're all they're almost done the level of a of courses with numbers I think that's one of the three [Music] entries in lmp2 that they have two for sure 9 and 63. there you go that's for sure obviously they're in former three former two as well see graphic may have been erroneous because it's the n31 and the 63 the 63 I [Music] the 31 and now scoring quick Zone to show that change [Music] was the 39 card 39 car would involved in this in this little battle [Music] there's Alex slim with his Derrick Bell tribute helmet on I spoke to Derek yesterday and he was he was very very thrilled that Alex had done that I bet that meant a lot that's the kind of [Music] there's a certain amount he understands I think Derek understands not only the history but his place in that history and I think it means a lot to him to know to see a younger driver acknowledge it acknowledge that yes thank you [Music] Sports number 23 now with a four second lead let's check back in with the Toyotas Brendan Hartley okay Brendan we now see some thoughts of rain on the radar possibly coming to we'll keep you informed had a little break up there on where the rain is but they're going to keep him informed so that was not what he wanted to hear no absolutely did not want to hear that specialize it's getting dark and he knows he's in for another stint so he's got to deal with uh potential um well if it reads heavily in the optical to wet tires then he will get out at that stage [Music] I'm with Sarah Bobby the driver of number 85 iron Danes congratulations it's going well for you so far isn't it well so far so good finger crossed to be honest last year we had a puncture I think after 10 minutes and lost two laps so clearly it's starting better um the condition where apocalyptic out there when I did the first time the straight line under the safety car I was like I have no idea where I'm going if there is a car in front of me or not I have no idea so it was really even under 30 car quite difficult um but I'm quite happy with the goal the team has made so far and the car is really nice to drive but you know it's a very long race we have done just a little part of it and uh we'll keep the head down stay focused uh I trust my teammate I trust my team and uh so far they're doing an amazing job so yeah I'll try to rely on that and we're heading into the night time are you about to get some rest before you're back in the car in the in the Darkness actually light the dark a lot I think in lemoy it's amazing to drive in the dark it's uh it feels so quiet in the car I'm actually looking forward to my nightstand um but now it's uh it's Mishi who will get into the dark but she has done an amazing job so far season so yeah I interest her with all my heart all right well best of luck to you guys thank you thank you so much bye Michelle as she's talking about is Michelle getting who's in the car now a car circulates in fourth place behind the JFW Motorsports number 66 Ferrari they of course are number 54 Ferrari and the number 25 for the TF Port but TF sport car the uh the Aston Martin it's good to hear so buoyant isn't it oh those the that team of racers is just they're fantastic for the sport because they're so enthusiastic they're very media Savvy and they're very fast Sarah had a wonderful race week Ben Keating I think it was a portable where the two of them were just nose to tail could laugh after laugh swapping spots back and forth the two of them got out of the car it was like they rushed down to the pits just to shake hands because they both enjoyed racing each other so it was a fantastic [Music] so let's see if we can see some spots of rain on any of these onboard windshields it's hard to see anything out of this switch [Music] like you get on a helmet so what they'll do is they'll probably run it until it gets to a point where the driver will say look the next pit stop you don't want to use them all obviously in the first few hours because you've got nothing left for the rest of the raid so as soon as it becomes you know much much worse so they'll take that tear off and uh particularly when I'm going to night time we were talking to the Optics people uh about that and they put windscreens come with 12 tear-offs applied so you got to make each one last at least two hours so double got a double Stitch [Music] how different the the light is on this racetrack at this point because the cloud cover is so much thicker over the Molson straight away it's it's darker when they get to the other side of the racetrack up around the Porsche curves there's the brakes in the clouds so you just the sun that's going down is still giving it enough light it's completely different see how light the sky is is that as you see it occasionally as the camera fans the Toyotas Are Back on Top seven and eight Brendan Hartley Jose Maria Lopez Nick Tandy chases in third and then the first of the Ferraris jovanazzi now it looks like the 50 car has made another pit stop because he is now on an outlet that was certainly unscheduled we didn't see it on that Nicholas Nielsen at the wheel now look claw continues to circulate now in sixth position although it says both on seven pit stops so if it was an extra pit stop for the 50 we would say eight so that's Andre lotteries violation rain expected now at uh Marshall post two through five so that's pretty much the start of the lot through to um almost to Texas yeah almost to teture because uh martial Post 6 is to is Tetris [Music] see the the forces behind the toilet looks really strong through the Posh Corners there he actually gained a little bit of time [Music] I think the Porsche should lose a little bit on a straight line Toyota's certainly very strong that could be uh of course downforce on the car and that's why the Porsche is so good in the Porsche cars and it's able to close back up again and he might lose a little bit straight line because they're turning carrying a bit more Wing there's that bright Sky I was talking about you can see how uh going through the Ford chicane that little bit of sunlight just wreaks at it with the drivers of these dirty pissed-up windshields it's always a challenge here in Le Mans with the setup you know do you go for a car that is uh low down Force and super fast on the straights or do you go for a card it's got a little bit more downforce it's a bit more secure in the corners but you you obviously get more drag with that so it's always trying to find that trade-off of what the balance is and um and of course in the wet conditions and if we are likely to see more work in the GG want more downfalls as well so that should come back towards the Porsche sometimes it also helps keep the tires if you want to do three stints if the car isn't sliding around as much it can also help the life of the tire I mean we've seen before in in the uh the American races the Porsche can be quite hard when it's rear tires um but um I mean there's certainly nothing wrong apparently with the uh with the 75 car they're really having a great run here and uh certainly putting the uh the Toyota's under a lot of pressure here damn he hits 337 that's 209 miles per hour for the breaking point for it again sparking car on the left there yeah um either lost the tire or lost the wheel and uh got a long way back to the pitch from there what's can we tell what car that was yeah we might be able to [Music] Drive [Music] oh there's what we were talking about earlier the report to the lmp2 leader that Rand expected from Dunlop Ted Cruz that is the 709 which is on an outlet so I wonder if uh maybe they didn't get the uh the wheel nuts on correctly or something definitely front and left isn't it come out yeah he just come out of the pits it was just uh it's on his Outlet [Music] that's frustrating now this is the longest lap ever yeah crew discussing he stopped [Music] you know he's just very slow it's taken him so long to get to the next uh timing line that it saying that he stopped but he was still moving his number very quickly but he is still he's not moving fast when he trips the next time [Music] yeah you're right I think his damage is so yeah so great now that he's descended up well I would just bring this home very slowly otherwise of course way more damage there is your lmp2 leader aforementioned Oliver Rasmussen at one point we had Joda the little the little company that could small firm out of England leading both the hypercar class overall and the lmp2 class it's gonna have to be a big comeback drive for that double to happen in the hypercar class as the 38 car is down probably about four laps at this point down 30 26 position so next time they takes the lead again as both Toyota's picked characteristic mistake there is the uh the current overshot it's pit box unless that's what happens when you don't come in in order in proper order in denim exactly pass them and back yourself back so we've seen the Ferraris on track before they come into the pits and it looks like the Toyotas didn't do that and they came in in the wrong order because we did have um Brennan Hartley who's sitting in car there he was leading those two eight car it's a big test for these guys now because they're under some serious pressure which is great yeah this but this is actually really testing them and um how do they react to this pressure you know do they do they do they crack or do they do they step up and um you know certainly a super super strong team and it's great to see them in a battle [Music] and they're they've been they've been waiting for that they they're not they don't have a problem with that there is the 709 carrying on all right so there you go the wheel was the wheel obviously was not uh the nut was not secured the nut wasn't secure surely the wheel would just come off that was that not more suspension well if if it got jammed up under the under the Bodywork as long as he doesn't go too fast he may stick but yes it could also be suspension [Music] they're having a pretty good run they were consistent they were ticking off the laps discussion down in the Toyota pit [Music] big lock up there that's the 30 car they can yeah Duquesne team Neil Yanni were getting rain reports on track we're getting some rain reports on track so rain reports on track also they've asked the drivers to put their brain lights on low mode I'm saying uh slippery service I was removed now on multiple sick so [Music] right now it looks like all things are dry the Porsche curves [Music] and in comes I suspect the number 75 put yup 75 in the pits that will put prior guidi back to the front of the field [Music] anybody looking for a Father's Day present of course the gmw team doing a really good job they've got uh quite a healthy lead now in uh GTE over the iron Dan's Car 33 uh second so they're doing a strong strong job and that's a comeback drive for them because they had they had the big crash in the first free practice so that's uh rewarding the guys for a lot of hard work yeah they've had a fast car all week actually they obviously were not able to qualify and uh did not have the smoothest of weeks but they have been quick when they've been on track so um they've obviously managed to work their way forward in the race and uh in a strong position right now looks like it's going to be a steering wheel change for the number 75. once the fueling is done then they can do work on the car left side the right side tires are going on new steering wheel going on old one comes out so who's out of the wheel now uh Germany yeah that's the our Long Beach uh winner in imsa it's team one we have the the winners of seabringer here the IMs of Sebring winners are here in the 311 car The Long Beach winners are here in this 75 car so I'm wondering why these teams are competitive they have the success in America like other teams who had success in the World Endurance Championship [Music] that's the way no yeah it's starting to get literally wet we had a yellow flag up at Marshall post three which was under the bridge and then now we're seeing uh that straight out of the pits on coal tires straight to the window the wet that's not yeah well [Music] looks dry as a bow oh I'm looking at the Gap up between the two Ferraris remember not long ago they were running nose to tail but uh Pierre guidi is a 13 second Gap over Nicholas Nielsen now [Applause] see the rain coming down and that's the 911 I think going around right back on the throat yeah good got out of there there you go got out of there and then it's further on tricky once they got under the bridge [Music] 34. going by the 911 because he was able to get back going so now it will be interesting to see like Duval and partial to see yes if they really do have a good strong wet pace so they're thinking about the wet tires now that's interesting I totally pulled the rest it was doing a rain dance didn't they yes you did yes you did do they have full pom-poms [Music] it was the delage and you can see that it is raining now hard on pit Lane so that the I suppose now the statisticians will be looking at uh time lost on a set of slicks on this one section of track versus putting the color on wax and running it for the rest of the driver well they've actually got some data now haven't they they've kind of they've kind of done it already once today where they're kind of what trying to work out what to do do we go for do we go for the wet which is probably the same choice so we've had a car off then that's 28. that's the joke is that the Jodi yes it is is it yeah yeah that was our class leading lmp2 car Oliver Rasmussen behind the wheel of that car and he has done some damage to the right front yeah it looks like he's gone in front first doesn't he [Music] tear off any more than you need to son 50 car 50 car in the pits now it's just the switch to softs or is that to [Music] that was a short [Music] yeah most of the cars are going to go to West especially as it's getting dark it's not that harder yeah the rest of the track will be cooler so you'll extend the life of it a little bit because the other unknown as if if there's uh some kind of accident or something that brings a safety car out again then you could have had a different strategy again just like the last one yeah and then what's going on the number two Cadillac and the same with the Toyota so everybody's pitch strategies have now been thrown in disarray as they've had to come in to put wet weather tires on so teams that have only been out for a little while of course they'll only have to fill the tanks for a brief moment too early to roll the dice and just stay out um I the 51 car I think they haven't picked I think they are on it uh he's a minute 11. ahead yeah yeah 51 didn't pitch so let's see what he does now [Music] so we're from the pits the 51 is going to come in for drying wets and that is the 75 car putting his wets on remember when Michelin came out with the Maxi wet and now they have the drying wet the drying works on on the prototypes I think they're only on the GTS aren't they here's the uh jota well just made a move on the United car and it didn't pay off nope nope [Music] well when when we met Michelin guys they said that the wet weather tires will last until the track is dropped exactly so that's where the I think where the drying went theme be advised David is on track mp14 Bear right Bear right the debris is in the middle of the track pull to the left-hand side Bear right at mp14. what I shall post 14 where do you think the rain starts then it's it's kind of in the middle of the Posh corners or on standby to declare slow zone four at 22 10 15. we're doing slow Zone 4 at 22 10 15. so the mp14 is the the shoot between the two chicanes so there's some debris in the racetrack I suspect that's from the Joda I'm frustrated Ferrari here greedy yeah with the GT car not coming into the pits quick enough for his liking this is just losing seconds Peter isn't it yeah that's frustrating that's you've also got to be so careful entering the pits because all that mission as beautiful as it looks it's really quite slippery very slippery so uh and there's there's a difference between the concrete and the pit pad and the asphalt of The Fast and slowly acceleration Lane in the test so that's one of the Porsches is that the jotica yep that's one of the Ferraris oh oh here we go again that's the leading that's the leading JW car GT Jam car the 66 and it's stuck and he's beached it so that is that the exit to the port to cartec is that yeah that's the exit karting it's very slippery it's on the other Ferrari yeah the other Ferrari's already pitted and he went through the gravel yeah yeah he went through the gravel we're going on down the roads yep now the seven is coming through here on Weds oh good heavens [Music] that Toyota absolutely of that um he he got in there and had nowhere to go and uh we yeah who was it that we stopped there was a pass did you stopped something yeah foreign okay so the seven made it into the pits uh seemingly um unscathed there is the 28 car that'll be uh that'll be a nose change they're going to check the uh obviously check it over for other damage but if it is no suspension damage just a nose that's that's a pretty good break slow zones now uh slow zone two or I'm sorry slow zone four uh now there's 22 cars the nine car they're all parking themselves yeah that's in Indianapolis that's in Indianapolis oh contact that's the yeah turkey that's the 923 Spirit of Turkey making contact with the nine so there's a job and she's locked her wheel yeah that's 22. great job just managing the car stopped no damage heart and mouth moment yeah exactly 66 yeah three times stop stop already all you're gonna do is dig yourself deeper and those guys that were having such a great run yes I think because of them because they're not doing so well oh that's the uh oh that's [Music] the world what are you about to have a crash he that it just goes in slow motion yeah right you get sort of jerky you can just see it feel it happening the thing is though you've got no control Zoro did have control he could have just come off the brakes and driven yeah he would have hit the tire wall probably but he caught he Kudos yeah he throws and just hard on the break if it had just come off the break either got some steering back but it's easy to sit here and say that very easy to sit and not have any stress and you know have a bit of a chat with another car another 100 in the gravel again this is at least his second trip to the gravel the first rain shower we had sent him off at uh portrait curves [Music] this really is survival now you know just trying to keep the car in the wall let's see what the Cadillac did the uh Corvette thinks of what's going on you're doing a great job we're trying to stay out to get a safety car that's what we're trying to do here heavy rain at the king over Indianapolis Heavy Rain free rain heavy rain heavy rain that's dangerous trying to get a safety car staying out on slicks leaving he's still on slingshot on where are we now so we're on the Multan Street yeah that's the second she came and it's very wet there oh yeah [Music] there's the 66 car ride brought over so he can get back underway that's the thing you you would think that they would just say okay you can drop it there and you can drive away but I think they've got different ideas where they take it right out of the way don't they and and then let us get started pull back out on the racetrack where he's not going to be in danger so turkey car is still going anyway just in front after it's a little bit of contact there's the uh there's the night car has made it back in I'd imagine he's got damage on the rear look at the rear left oh yeah because it took an impact so that we'll be pointing out of the way you'll have to go back in for repairs I'm sure 63 car there's a 66 back underway [Music] I wish we had a carbon shop guys because I think we're making put in quite well now we're gonna be running out of parts of this right oh yeah look at that that's yeah that's looking a bit second hand at this point the luck of the draw very unlucky there obviously several cars going off in exactly the same place and two of them made contact I mean in lmp2 quite a lot of the Front Runners you would expect to be contenders for the winner actually now dropped out yes Yep this is going to open this up right now enter europol is leading Fabio sharer behind the wheel of the number 34 Car United Auto Sports Tom Bloomquist and the 23 cars hanging in in second third is the W other wrt team number 41 with Robert Cubans would behind the wheel now there's a guy who can who can pedal in the wet you know all Israeli experience is forming the one wet experience that car is in good hands in the whatever I would think here's the 51 car Alessandro carquini but you could barely see anything hitting the brakes on it straight away [Music] just had a message from he says absolutely under no circumstances are we to have another safety car men I'll get right on that memo [Music] 66 car has made it back to the pits [Music] and I am sure that Eduardo Freitas is loathe to put out another safety car but these guys need to you know the the accelerator goes in both directions and they just need to be a little mindful of that let's check in in the pits hi guys racing team at Turkey where we just had a driver change that's how we all lost all but that car has actually received received front so let's repair of that damage [Music] from the wreck 50 car is down and out left so how have uh things shaken out so far in the pit stops and the rain we've got uh peer greedy leading in the Ferrari number 51. Lewis Duvall in the Peugeot and number 94 is second Cadillac with Richard Westbrook and then blue number two car is third fourth is the first of the Toyotas Louis Kobayashi under 15 seconds to remove slow Zone 4. ten nine eight seven six five four three two one slow zone four is now clear slows on four it's now clear so the racetrack is yours boys have at it there are no slow zones currently on the racetrack but the racetrack in some spots is very wet so I would imagine the car what was the car that stayed out on slick so imagine these problems [Music] oh and you can see just when he goes to power the car moving around it's just it's like between two cars there didn't he yeah sometimes when you're in this position you feel like you're driving so slowly you know you feel like I'm not really pushing it I need to yeah and actually you're actually going quick you know for the conditions and it's so difficult to know how hard to push um yeah this is an area where the racetrack is not very wet so it makes it a little bit easier for these drivers still a little bit of spray still a little bit of moisture so the two windows are about the whole uh situation where the 51 Ferrari PR gritty he's got a 27 second Gap over Lake Duval let's keep an eye on that because as we thought the Peugeot is pretty handy in the wet so um let's see if you can bring it down a bit and also the other one that did pretty well in that was Richard Westbrook with the two car yeah he's only uh another 14 seconds behind Devon and actually one of the big losers was the 50 Ferrari yes I think is it because they had to make two stops they just pitted and then they had to come back in again right [Music] that's the three Cadillac let's go down another lap currently in eighth position so the leading Ferrari number 51 is lapped up through eighth position so they're not Westbrook there and no Westbrook's in the two card that's the uh that's the three card now that is the blue that's well that's one of the uh lmp2 cars I see because she's just gone by Westbrook right yeah yeah you're right the Ferraris [Music] one minute stop and go for a technical infringement probably too many people working at the pits that was the car that was limping back very slowly wasn't it so Ferrari goes straight another first she came yep well that's at the Dunlop bikini went straight on yeah yeah first yeah that's what I mean turn two so gentle on the floor oh yeah just a little bit of water a puddle and you're hard on the gas and you can see there yeah Peter he's just walking around this is if you drop your wheel off the on an exit with the pain there it's uh with a little bit of steering lock on yeah the car goes around okay there's Richard Westbrook and the two car currently in fourth there's the seven it's just passed him moments ago pulled out a little bit of a gap kobayashi's always Sir Richard's probably his first time in uh purchase everyone here he's done the race many times but in GT I mean look at that lack of visibility amazing horrendous and actually what you find you see with the wiper itself it's not actually that effective I mean they're kind of there but I was thinking some of the the guys in the Cadillac yesterday and I don't believe they've done any or very little test in the in the range so this is kind of their their test as we were so these are the sort of things you find that actually the wife that doesn't work so well and water starts to come in from all these different places in the car and it's hard to steam up so um straight on from so that's the Ferrari second car yeah it's almost like the Ferrari followed him street lane chicane and then the Ferrari well they didn't really straight line it he uh he used the inside curb inside the Bollard gosh it's dicey that's just so nice good Heavens so into europol's now got a uh a bit of a lead in uh lmp2 30 seconds yep that's what we're trying to bloom question the United Auto Sports and then womb Quest is being chased by Kubota in the team writ number 41 he's just four seconds behind and also the iron Dan's doing a great job in lead now um they've moved into the lead of uh GTE so we've got the uh Porsche one two this is a little bit better representation guys of what you can see that camera oh he just locks oh turn around he goes he kind of locked it locked the rear wheels he was downshifting and uh yeah just kind of lost control and spun so luckily didn't hit anything so hopefully he'll get going again and uh on his way coming up behind the Camaro first time that car is raced in this kind of uh wet weather I wasn't sure whether he was actually locked up trying not to go into the back of the Camaro and he kind of [Music] yeah yeah but we really it was completely locked as you say but you can see the visibility is a little bit better that other camera was down in the in the area where all that water was running it really wasn't quite that bad but it's still not Stellar so [Music] the leading car the 51 car is pulled up 45 second got now to like devel in the last lap or so he's gained 15 seconds on it wow yeah and the 50 car now is what what minute 40 behind the system back on board with Richard Westbrook much drier here [Music] still looks like it's a little dicey that's going through the Porsche curves remember this is where the rain started first and we were scattering cars all over the exit of karting trying to find the grip with a car commit it but then just you know [Music] [Applause] Mr Carl okay Richard the question yeah we are trying yeah Richard is too we talked about the 33 car earlier [Music] let's find out just how that strategy didn't work out I'm here in the pit Lane at number 30 three Corvette racing with Nick over on you've just jumped out of the car tell us about the conditions out there yeah well for us it was pretty crazy so we were we're full of water you know it was like a swimming pool out there and we were on sleeks also like in the last part so it was pretty crazy I was just going into Muslim straight like 80 kph per year I was Aqua planning going really slow and the hyper cars everywhere and passing me like really fast so yeah it was scary to say but all you know we can keep the car clean we can make it back to the box and continue the race but yeah it was pretty pretty tough up there yeah so earlier on it was very difficult for you but you guys have so much taste this today enjoying this race don't you yeah yeah I just got out I don't know how it was based and maybe it was good but um yeah for sure I was giving my old I feel like yeah we tried to stay out of those leaks but then Purple Rain game came out so yeah I think there we lost a little bit time but you know this is this is raisin and this can happen it's just about managing the risk and see where we end up okay well we'll see you in a few hours we'll see you next thing you were saying Peter that Pierre Guinea or uh yeah Pierre Guinea had pulled out about a 45 second lead on Luke Davao well that's because a quick look at the last lap he was 18 seconds quicker he's turned at 409s in his conditions everybody behind him is 427 425 452 for the 50 car uh he's he's obviously very comfortable closest to him is uh the Toyota number eight with the higher Caro behind the wheel [Music] more traditions for everyone obviously a sweet condition but different feelings in the car and sure confidence levels and uh also depends on how much traffic you're around if you're in and yeah because we heard from Richard Westbrook I think is you know it's difficult for everyone to see and if you if you can't fully commit down the streets and commit to passing Maneuvers um then you just lose seconds yeah you don't lose tens of seconds at that point you start to lose seconds here's a look at the uh overall classification they've completed 80 80 laps working lap 81 17 and a half hours to go the a of course a Ferrari 499 number 51 leads so it's Ferrari Peugeot Toyota and Cadillac in the top four four different manufacturers and further down see the two glicking houses rounding out the hypercar class in lmp2 it's inter-uripple having completed 77 laps is leading the Jonah car back out has dropped down to 24th overall they were leading the class until they had problems in this most recent rain shower leader in GTM is the iron Danes number 85. they're chased by the project One Porsche the number 56 that's the the Rexy car jmw Porsche number 66 we saw a crash early in that last rain session and we have five cars out of the race the number 83 Ferrari the 16 and 60 Porsches the 55. Aston Martin the 21 Ferrari the 13 Tower Motorsports and the number 14 Nielsen racing out of lmp2 yeah the 51 car has been making All the Right Moves all the right calls so far to be in the position they're in and you know they seem to have just played a Blinder here so uh down to 404s over a minute Gap now to like Duval behind so the racetrack is obviously improving because we're seeing many of the lap times come down now a little bit but like you said they've they've they've caught this just right I think the hardest thing is if you jump in the car now in the middle of the situation finding where you can post whereas if you've been in the car from the start you kind of start to understand where the grip is and where the tracks were still or better and um at least you can acclimatize but I mean just look at the awful visibility different and Kobayashi is is a little bit uh you know a lot of movement in the car okay deal update on conditions we don't see rain at the circuit anymore obviously still quite a lot of water on track but we don't see rain at the moment okay once I go behind the car I see nothing but when I go behind the car I see nothing there you go [Music] how hard is that and is that do you just is it just hoping for the best yeah yeah it is a luck it is a lot of luck involved I mean you think about it your brain says right put your foot flat and you know you could drive down there flat out and the car wouldn't do anything you know there's enough down for some grip but then you see lights in front of you and your foot just starts to ease up the gas pedal you know no no flat flat and you don't know I want to lift off so you've got the devil and the angel on your shoulders uh just trying to protect you but yeah I've been in that situation many times and another track bad for that is Nurburgring here and everything and you know it's just it's very hairy but you know the situation it's just you've got to commit and you know the moment you've got um the guy right up the front who's obviously very committed 404 last time around and as we talked about next car 420 then a 416 422 so he's just gradually pulling away more and more and more and if he can just keep that all together and when this all clears up and it gets dry again he's going to end up with uh potentially a you know a couple of minutes Gap over the next Second Place car yeah the only guy kind of matching him really is the Japanese in the uh in a 75 Porsche he's uh lap in 402 so again I get another GT driver well another kind of GT guy um and also van Thor as well in the uh the number six car yeah looking at the GPS map you know the 75 car he's he's been in space he's had no traffic right right yeah so he's about to catch the back of a load of other cars and the 51 car is just coming on you know again he's got no traffic he's got a couple of cars in front but not many and I think if you can have some clear laps where you've got no spray I think it's a spray rather than the actual circuit that is the issue because when you like you said when you can't go flat down the street work versus being flat on the straight you're giving away a lap time um yeah if you're surrounded by cars and you don't know where they're gonna go and you don't know where they're gonna break for the next corner you have to go easy you can lose five ten seconds a lap could be quite quite I know I think that's exactly what happened to Richard Westbrook he was you know we we actually saw his onboard and how much he could see and uh it just cut him out he as you see caught up to that nice car in front and maybe just break marginally too late or whatever and just you know lost the rear end sorry team via social media that they reset the 50 car on the last pit stop and lost 30 seconds I wonder I wonder what they reset uh that does a little a little cryptic it's these small little things obviously if you have a small problem and you lose that amount of time sometimes you never gain that back and it can it's such time especially with this competition you're absolutely right you don't have there is and we talked earlier there's no margin for error whether it be in these kind of conditions where you can see from the helicopter shot to spray coming off the almost like a rooster tail coming off the back of the leading car to a mistake in the pits or a Richard Westbrook spin anything like that could ultimately be the difference at the end of 24 hours when the when the racing is this close it's looking at the the arm battle iron Dooms versus uh project one 432 yep so we we got um Matteo cairoli who I know is exceedingly quick uh catching up to Michelle gatting now she just did a 426. his last lap was a 420. I bet this will be quicker because she was six seconds quicker only 11 seconds back as well so within you think within a couple of laps he's going to be right uh yeah he's going to be within Striking Distance oh car stranded on the track there fun coming out of um Multan corner [Applause] just a long dark run yeah this is this is the part of the track where it's probably the darkest until you get to uh into Indianapolis yeah yeah once you get out of Arnage you can start yet there's you see the lights in Indianapolis the right hand turn oh okay like one of the partios [Music] it's an LP2 batter with a belong in the middle of the butt yeah Michael Jensen in the 93 Peugeot doing quick laps four and three but still desperate to try and get some of the you know that lap back of two laps even now I think so I think this is the battle for fourth and fifth that pujo is in the middle of yep 35 and the Ada of course they've been running nose to tail just half a second separating them at this point and they've been that way almost the entire lap there hasn't really been any you know they've pretty much held station now he's closing in a little bit under braking yeah Ben bonica doing a really good job leading the prime class for ad Corsa [Music] with some pressure now on Ollie Caldwell [Applause] [Music] this Alpine elf team number 35 has been right around the top five in class the entire race they've perked to the top a couple times in Pit Stop sequences but they've been been there or thereabouts the entire race is others throughout them have had problems yeah the struggles a little bit so far it's like the 80 car making a move oh he closed in did I make a little mistake yeah someone who went right through the she came there straight lined it [Music] yeah only Coldwell Formula 2 driver actually race winner this this year I think he turns 21 tonight midnight yes he does is that right in about an hour and 20 minutes and 21 years old speak of the devil there he is oh I bought it again yep well he was fine I think the 80 car ended up almost not making it having the straight line part of it now we get into the almost into the part of the night when every now and then you'll see the napping crew member through the second chicane that time that time Ollie used the inside line on the chicane as opposed to both pushing the limit suddenly [Music] watched okay aroma's getting back into the three minute flat times now for the hyper car forming it dead so yep the track is we're actually improving yeah Luke Duvall picked up two seconds on that last lap 402 for paraguini and a four flat four Duvall I think it really was how how they fell when the rain came down to where they were on the truck and then I think the 51 car was just yeah [Music] yeah they're all very similar tongues again as you say look awesome the top two the top top eight all uh within us two seconds of each other in that last lap time so the battle continues for fourth and fifth with the Alpine team and a of course are number 80. as one of the hyper cars goes through that battle is that one of the other foods that was that the other Peugeot that just went through that battle [Music] I don't know when we see the rear of it yeah there yes indeed it was that's the 93 car in a bit of a recovery drive now two laps three laps behind one leader I'm sorry two laps behind the leader [Music] I almost still working hard through the Porsche curves through portion curves to carting and then White House Liz on launch then the Ford chicane [Music] the amount of concentration now in these drivers you know yeah these these stints are long you know so easy to make a small mistake and you know put the car off the track or crash out so it's incredibly uh intense in there [Music] now just three seconds behind the show cutting so the fight for GTA yeah the lead will be coming very soon yep you you call that one when you're when you're uh when you're into this part of the night and even in the the wee hours the single digit hours in the morning uh one two three o'clock is it is it easier when you're racing somebody to to kind of keep your focus uh yeah I would say so yeah it's it's nice to have another car around and give you a Target so if you're the one behind you can kind of but obviously in a wet conditions it's more difficult but if you're just running on your own with flapping cars or whatever then that's a lot harder to really keep the focus and keep pushing see the spray now is definitely reducing yes although the wipe is on it's not uh nearing down going through the first chicane a little right flick then left you got it right that time [Music] Caldwell there goes the 38 jota Porsche on its recovery Drive [Music] who came up to 17th overall seconds you can't they go this one is the left flip then the right this is the wetter area clearly he's getting a spray from the car that must be the Joker yeah that's the jota Porsche that just went through [Music] [Music] so bjerguini continues to lead as the times um heading into the [Music] himself and slid weight to the gravel didn't quite get into the gravel but almost out to the gravel he probably stuck a couple of Wheels yeah he probably dried a couple Wheels through it exactly on the inside I'm not sure he's trying to avoid a car maybe not here's another look we'll find out oh you're right that's the uh a spinning car is that the Camaro perhaps that was I think it might be the Frog no it's a Ferrari it's definitely BMW there we go yeah oh yeah it's the 66 Ferrari we're going in deep then we're almost to I think he just got his uh attention yes yep I feel like he was gonna come right out but stop and probably oh no problem for the number 75. Porsha [Music] behind the wheel of that car I think that's he was turning some great times but looking like it's gonna need a little full system reboot she's glasses his glasses were up in there yeah I thought they see the fog on the window as well the lights are still green though that's good news because that uh that's if the car those lights that you see glowing there in front of the car turn red that means the the car has got an electrical problem that is dangerous and he'll have to go to what they call Area 51 and he'll be out of the race so but he's sounds like he's got no power there [Music] so as predicted Caroli takes a lead of GT the reason I know he's so fast is because he was in my last year of racing 2020 he was my teammate and Falcon and Robert Green and uh I was pushing for everything to match his times and he seemed to be just driving around I watched his on board and I thought how the heck are you doing that making it look so easy and I'm I feel like I'm driving with a knife in my throat [Music] so now we're on board with Ranger vandez and the number three Cadillac so now the number five plus uh Fred makavecchi takes up the charge of the uh the the Porsche Porsche camp he's now the highest running Porsche in seventh position [Music] if I know it's a little safe bet wasn't it guys I I fell on that five times [Music] uh I played safe I think waiting for number eight Toyota [Music] sixth and seventh now so see how that's working out [Music] so it was a big bet [Music] a lot better visibility now for Richard Westbrook the number eight Toyota it's two minutes and 21 seconds off the lead it's it's a fair fair way yes yes which is which is a bit surprising I would have thought they would have been like to you know like be a little bit closer to the to the front yeah [Music] coming up on 11 o'clock here in the sard coming up on 17 hours remaining in the Centenary Le Mans The 91st actual running of the race but the 100th anniversary of the first law in 1923 decided that this would be a great way to prove the reliability and Effectiveness and of the automobile and 100 years later we're doing the exact same thing with a brand new category with 14 cars 15 cars in the class 16 cars in the class for five different manufacturers it is the dawning of what I think will be the Next Great era of sports car racing that will probably hopefully rival the the group C and GTP eras that we got to enjoy Group C in Europe and the GTP in the United States so the number 75 car is still locked down as stocks um yeah he's not uh coming through is that where it was I think so yeah yeah he is still sat on me instead of pet Rouge so I'm sure he's doing all the reset to be speaking to the team and uh asking for advice what do we need to do what do we need to reset and trying to get that 75 car back up and running into the race [Music] thank you so the Ferrari 50 car has moved ahead of the Cadillac number two now as well so he's Nicholas Nielsen turned to 357 the last lap I think [Music] so 358 for our leader 357 for lewitt Duvall four minutes flat for kamui Kobayashi so and then 357 for Nicholas Nielsen we could see oh is this chamin a going again or is this yes he's moved further he's moved further on and now pulled off the racetrack [Music] as Roger Penske looking on [Music] he's trying to carry on did you ever have to bring the car back to the pits on the starter did you ever have to do I've never had to do that no yeah no but I don't think you'd make it all the way back well not not from that area but but in um that was something on the shorter race tracks in the United States every now and then a guy would you know yeah if you're talking about a two and three quarter mile Road Atlanta or something yeah you could Coast it down the hill and then it's just so frustrating for these guys because they're actually having a great race and uh very much sort of in the fight and uh yeah surfing straight in [Applause] a pair of greedy in the 51 cars I've been a great stint he's done that he did such a great job in those tricky conditions to sort of pull out more of a lead hasn't he and he's still uh doing a you know continuing to be uh probably fastest car on track just trying to build that git fill that Gap as much as possible is that a purple first sector on Gemini's uh scoring line on on the lap that he stopped on I think that when he when you stop or slow down it seemed to show up your faster sectors I don't believe that's that's this land I go but there he is son driver's right still puttering along time that's a quickest guy on track just now is a Peugeot of nickel reacting that card seems to like the drying conditions remember when the remember when the Audi against the Peugeot was uh when it was the changing conditions it was so much faster so yeah it would yeah the rain and the pujo would catch back up and then it would start to dry and the Audi then when it was dry the pujo would start to catch back up again the number 19 full cars doing a great job as well hanging in there in second place with good Pace yeah they're doing a great job and with 17 hours to go a minute behind is not an issue I mean there's so much racing yeah you know that is been talking about the track conditions let's see what uh the eight car thinks 14 copy in your opinion still not ready for slick question and your opinion's still too early for slick [Applause] [Music] foreign like he wasn't so keen on his leg right now yeah [Music] too early yet still too early second chicane I think still very wet on the whole side and the Ferrari though yeah they've got slicks ready that's a 50 car it's a leading cars yeah that could that could push uh no that's the 50. that was 50. it's the 50 in the pits this could certainly uh change Toyota's thinking especially because they'll be able to see what his lap times are yeah might be told no no you're going on yeah you're going on slick I I think um maybe this was a schedule stop anyway so they were forced into yeah doing something so either you go and do another stint on the wet tire and potentially lose a lot of time on you right you go into this look now but this is the riskiest time now as well yeah because yeah that crossover moment and it's dark and you can you've got to be on the line because it's wet either so yeah you can see you can see they're still leaving the tires are still leaving marks on the but it is going to get all of the teams thinking now oh yeah that's going to get them all thinking do we do we do do we match them do we do we copy them or do we play it safe guaranteed that we look at those lap times next I I don't imagine this first first couple will be quite up to it but then all of a sudden the times will come down [Music] in lmp2 James Allen Oliver Rasmussen of course this is a comeback drive for the number 28 car they had an incident earlier kind of did some front end damage given the fact that they're still in the hunt in sixth place with 17 hours to go that was uh they kind of got a I won't say they got away with it but but they got off flight that's when all that rain came down and yellow flag zones and yeah slow zones going in going into tetrus and every other car pitted at the same time so I think the yes they spent extra time in the pits just inspected in front of the car but clearly the suspension geometry of the car was okay it was just damage to the Bodywork you've got the um United 23 car of top one Quest lapping very quickly at the minute with a seven well it's seven seconds behind the into Europa car and um so let's see in the next lap or two there could be yeah it was seven seconds quicker on that last lap yeah it could be a change for the lead of lmp2 in the next lap or two if it uh continues its way yeah join us hello Martin what you've been doing I've been watching you just can't take the rise of things can you this is insane it's everything that the 100 year anniversary race should be and you know what you know it's everything we sort of hopeful when they started framing these hypercar rules there were quite a lot of skepticism that you could actually produce a platform that lots of different manufacturers with very different ideas of what they needed from it could all Embrace and could and could come out the other end of with cars that are equal but oh boy looks like another in sort of slight detail and yet they're all just of a second about on a eight and a half mile lap I mean it's insanely close and guy you know we've been through periods with one not dominating and of them are dominating in different forms of the sport then I I don't know at the moment I it's hard to pick a car but looks like it's got any noticeable advantage in almost any conditions that we've seen it's been four seasons so far apart from snow it's hard I think there's there's a very good chance that this might be okay a race for the ages of the Centenary race but I think next year there's likely to be even less chance we'll see GT cars because there'll be even more hyper cars having at it yeah I was a little bit concerned that once the race got going that it might be a Toyota kind of want to again and we might be back into the sort of the old days as we know it but it is every manufacturer pretty much taking a turn at the top and that just shows that they've got it right they've got the balance of performance right they've got the whole concept right and you know the racing that we're seeing here is is just just unbelievable Lamont winner guy Smith we're joined by world champion Anthony Dayton as well as we watch the 35 Alpine coming into the pit Lane in the battle with the ATA of Corsica that's the zebra card you could you saw a moment or two ago and APR Algarve Pro Racing so that's four fifth and sixth in the lmp2 category into europol leading Fabio share is still at the wheel of that car and his teammate last year in that car Alex Brandel currently doing commentary on Eurosport watching on with interest United also Sports 23 car now that's their best car in terms of Championship points there goes the 80 car and that is in second place with Tom blancoast at the wheel and team wrt is welcome to bits are in third jota's car that had led earlier on 28 car Oliver Rasmussen still at the wheel now we've done commentary gone for dinner had a bit of a loaf around come back and he's still driving the car that he was in when we left at incredible isn't it he's putting in a solid stint yeah real solid still it's um yeah but Joe to were at the top of the lmp2 feel to be fair when we uh we left momentarily for our for our dinner but uh yeah Rasmussen still at the wheel but uh yeah they're doing a fantastic job and so is the 94 Peugeot about really impressive stuff from them I mean it really came good in the mixed conditions for them the car suddenly came alive didn't it guy in the in those tricky conditions with the with the sleeks on intermediate conditions and uh suddenly that Peugeot was right there in the mix yeah I'm just uh looking at the time and screens now because we know that the 50 Peugeot sorry the 50 Ferrari sorry has gone on to slicks now so it's the first car onto slick tires so we just want to see whether it was the right decision or not um so I'm Keen to see how they go well earlier on in the daylight it was the right decision to switch early I'm less convinced now though you know it's a very different Beast as soon as that sun goes down the track just remains greasy for a much much longer time usually that's how it plays out here but uh I might be proven wrong but uh yeah I think that's quite a brave move from from Nielsen to be on the slings they might need to take a little bit of a roll of the dice because they drop behind their sister carbo over 30 seconds in the last round of pit stops the team said they had to do a bit of a reset on the car and it just spent longer stationery so maybe trying to get some of that Advantage back you can see the tire change here that's that's a set of six yes it is that Slick's going on to the United 23 car now that is their strong car into your pole United and wrt's 41 car all in from the lead and so now to the lead of the race goes 28 Toyota car Bobby Caldwell again like in the hypercar class as we have seen year in and year out with this car with these nmp2 cars and since before you were in lmp2 and since you've left lnp2 the battle has never been anything other than Relentless the cars are so close to the Matched the teams are so closely matched blink and and suddenly you're out of the hunt absolutely it's always been a hard-fought battle the the lmp2s Recently is like Saint Martin yes wrt JoJo United Autosport they they've really raised the bar driver change here Richard Westbrook out of the car number two Cadillac and Earl Bamba back in he uh started this race of course for the number two car he really knows his way around this track particularly in the night he was always quick here back in his uh Porsche days in lmp1 he's always phenomenally fast sessions going on to the socks so this is a change to slicks as well Pit Stop though sparks flying from the wheel guns a little bit slow on the left rear as well bit messy there had confirmation from Penske Porsche Motorsport Porsche Penske Motorsport that the 75 car has had to be retired it is shown a stop it is out on the circuit and it is retired fans are really not bad from here it's just uh between the tushikens and up to Wilson so let's carry on I think it's a good choice [Music] it's a good choice well that was the engineer telling Nick that he thought it was a good choice yeah I think mine is Midas choice I mean you're two seconds off the pace at the moment I think it's gonna take it's going to take you say as you said a couple of extra laps to get the temperature into those tires with it being a little bit um without the sort of heat of the of the track surface of the Sun so I think it's going to take a couple more laps but I think with every lap the track is drying out and it's definitely going more and more towards the slick so we all know that horrible feeling to know anyone on a set of old wets and a drying track and it's that sort of squidging around you lose your confidence you lose the grip yeah and uh you're just wishing that you could be on the six and if you committed too early to the wets you're out there for an awful long time losing lap time here's the 51 car in yeah 51 is in this is our race leader Alessandro Pierre guidi he took over the last round of stops track temperature currently 22.4 air temperature 22.0 temperature in the booth 22.0 23.0 it's just clicked up too so right rear left uh all right the right front um yeah a set of scrubbed slicks ready to go on normally you don't see the chalk marks and and that matte finish on a set of tires it hasn't been used so I wonder if those were tires that may have done a little bit of work in qualifying we'll wait and see yellow flag top left hand corner yep so they're going to put the Slicks on yeah off come the old wets just as we were talking about and it's a brand new set oh it is a brand new set of soft you can see the white tab yep just at the bottom of the picture not not the sort of big Misan logo where there's a little white tab about uh you know four or five centimeters across with s inside it so the white is for the coldest conditions this makes life easy for simple people like me white for cold yellow foam sort of nice and sunny and red for red hot so Ferrari back up to speed and back full of power whereas Toyota that brake car is in this lap and the number seven probably in another couple of left seven is in you can see the Energy logo just creeping up there 39 40 so seven in and uh Toyota number eight uh with uh Rio hirokawa at the wheel they're doing this lap just down to one percent left either somebody has really started banging on the outside of our cabin or for the umpteenth night in succession the fireworks are going off again it was a magnificent display if you haven't seen it there it it'll be all over social media the huge Centenary celebration of last night fireworks drones and all sorts of music and lightning and lighting and pumpkin you said a software as well it's cold enough I'm cold enough it's not so hot soft should survive here it shouldn't they this is now night time running the temperatures are cooler earlier perhaps and they might normally have been expected to be because of the rain they started the race of course on the soft as well and uh very much hot conditions the sun was in and out between the clouds and the rain it was a proper kind of April Showers day almost but uh a lot hotter with it and they survived those those warm conditions uh said where we did a brilliant job managing them he had to manage them but they definitely hung on in there first ever time I've seen this race control message type coming up on our screen fireworks and drone show is going on so there is another centene celebration show there's another gig tonight yet another gig on the stage behind our Caravan so uh yeah it is it is a very busy weekend all around outside the track inside the track above the track below the track emptying the bin liners there inside this little access hatch to try and get rubber out of the front of the radiator Grille yeah so all these cars are designed with the quick access to those uh those holes where you can clear the radiators out and particularly the Toyota where they've been doing this now for such a long time here for The Rebirth of the World Endurance Championship back in 2012 and you learn every step of the way of course you follow rule changes they come and go and put it through every iteration of car design car development you learn the thing or two and you just keep perfecting elements like that so there's one area where three users certainly have that advantage over the others you can see the fireworks through the top of the screen yeah that's what that is that's the fireworks and also you can see in his mirrors little you know on your car your your door mirrors will indicate you know when there's something alongside you can see his has got a little car logo as well it's very it's got a standard production Road car lotion but look at the size of it that's a proper nascar-sized mirror enormously wide and of course when we refer to the project uh with the garage 56 at number 24 Chevrolet Camaro objects in the rear view mirror may be considerably larger than new mountains that's what happens when it comes along it's like a Christmas tree there is I can't I'm trying to work out so it's green and then he's going orange and red is it so like presumably that's because of proximity it starts off green goes orange and then goes red but the car looked like it was dropping back in the distance now it's red down there but it was it was going green when the car was dropping back and then this suddenly started going red again when the car was getting even further away so uh it's almost like it was reverse wasn't it yeah just to keep you on your toes you're good again hurts team Johto car YIFY had built up a 10 second lead after the last round of safety cars raced away from the field I mean absolutely destroyed everybody but then unfortunately one mistake turning into the Porsche curves destroyed the back of the car they lost about 20 minutes I think in terms of overall standings they are now down in 13th Place the last of the competitive hyper cars now here's a great opportunity to ride on board with Alessandro Pierre guini we're going to sit with him for a full lap let's hear the sounds and sights of Le Mans foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] in a Ferrari leading the race but what would it be like in a Cadillac you want to find out great to find out we're going to find out there's the firework show now there's the view from above of the lights and the the fireworks bursting in air I mean it was it was full on last night wasn't it and right where all of that is firing off is the edge of the TV compound our Caravans where we sleep for the week are in there as well and then at midnight uh the sonnet Lumiere continued on the main stage which is about the length of the cricket pitch from the back of our Caravan so we were breathing in every base beat how long it was it was impressive okay let's ride with former Le Bond winner Earl Bamber again the sounds of Speed Sport one here from Le Mans turn it off foreign [Music] it's like you can see the steering wheel so the driver really at work here we go on the run towards the porch curves I'm going to shut up and let you enjoy [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] to Indianapolis he comes with the lmp2 cars traffic in front blinding is that the camera's picking up the uh the flashing rain light to the car in front but uh you get the idea amazing what an amazing experience to really put you in the cockpit with the driver you get to hear how hard at work they are on the throttle coming out of all those slower speed chicanes it's absolutely treacherous condition for them on these slick tires really working the the steering and the throttle all the pedals just is such high intensity high workload for the driver like like it is but um yeah oh bam but making it look uh pretty effortless because I can tell you we're just actually sitting in there it's even harder than it looks and one of the things you're not getting is the view I'm getting which is here in the Coventry box and particularly in the Ferrari every time the tail stepped out you could hear the wheel spinning you do a short shifting away [Music] who's leading um I've been watching him wedding was actually in the wet when it was really really tricky he was almost 10 seconds quicker than anybody I actually thought it was a mistake and I kind of watched his lap times and and even now looking he's the isn't he sort of high 339 340s and the other cars are in the sort of 44s oh that's the by colors uh the Floyd vanwalt car so it's still like Gary Argentine driver now that's not an outlap or anything else so what's happened to him oh dear a big bunch of cars going slower than he'd imagine down in the S's yeah just on the outside I think he was looking for a bit of space almost and uh just ventured onto the wet storm it's kind of hard to see where you're going let alone whether you're on the wet part or the dry pod when it's dark like this that's kind of that's a real shame I mean that's a single car entry it's a small team they've gone their own way with engine Choice development and everything else and actually it's shown decent pace this season it's had a couple of reliability issues but yeah putting it off in the gravel is not going to help their attack here however again for them it will be the prospect of finishing this race that will be the big deal back into the GTE category in the pit Lane proton competitions Jonas Reed in the 88 car the third generation of the Reed family because his dad is racing here this weekend Christian Reed and it was his grandfather Gerald Reed who started the family Voyage in the fiagt championship when he was racing in Porsches with proton competition with his son Christian then the young Christian in his 20s and Christians teenage son Jonas gets his first LeMans start this is one of the boys that Christian told me would never go racing they're going to do tennis or something that's cheap and then when they started karting he said no I'm never going to race with them at Le Mans so he's not in the same car I was telling you this all of this when we were at scrutineer and he said I'd love to race with my dad and you know if you talk to Martin brandell or larger Mansell or Derek Bell you know the chance to race with the boy all the in Manchester's case both sons was a really huge deal and of course for for Derek and Justin it was nearly that enormous fairy tale in the Harris McLaren well I mean I remember Derek telling me he actually even over his wins driving with Justin was actually more special to him than actually winning the race yeah it just has it just has that human emotion and the third Drive of course uh Andy Wallace and the team boss of that car the late David Price so pricey the bells and AWOL nearly pulled it off they had a 300 million needs to be here because she was doing the pr for that car I think they had a gearbox problem in the end and that dropped them out of what was the leave of the car and leave the race and they ended up on the podium in third place so yeah I mean I know you know Jeff Bradham won here for Peugeot David brabham one here for Peugeot and as he would still have it for uh for Tom Walkins during the xj220 so as far as I was concerned I stood on the podium I still got the trophy so I still think I want it but they never got a chance to to drive with their dad and would have loved to do so both of the boys incidentally one on Father's Day which was which isn't this weekend this year it's next weekend this year is as you will all find out next weekend when you're back home and we have a Yan uh yeah yeah yeah when Kevin was between gigs in Formula One yeah just briefly he was an lmp2 driver here then even more briefly uh he was a Peugeot Factory driver and then suddenly Formula One discovered they wanted a bit more of his uh vernacular and some some driving skills not sure there is Dave recalling on the rail track from the fireworks that was a nice little mix we're back with our race leader Sancho greedy it's been interesting actually in this race apart from that little bit of rally stage there exiting rules on Corner interesting how at certain periods some drivers in cars that ostensibly are really no quicker than the others I've just wiped the floor with with their Rivals and yippie e was starting to do that after the last big safety car in the Hertz team Josie cart just ran away and it wasn't because there was a Titanic battle behind him because a couple of cars broke free he just went and was gone yeah it wasn't like he got lucky in traffic which we could sometimes see him in his last lap he agreedy did a 343-9 uh we call behind him Nico Muller this time does a 340.2 so uh it's uh swung in the favor of uh Muller that lap uh a 339 for Kobayashi but uh yeah when it was um etheries turn at the wheel he he was just genuinely fast pulling away from the Porsche behind him overtook and pulled away from both Ferraris they were on evenly uh evenly matched tires with the same age same compounds I mean he was just genuinely put it and I still don't know what happened in the Porsche goes but I still reckon he must have just lost the rear end on the second left could control the car got on the wet stuff around the next right that followed and uh it's quite a hefty blow into into the barrier they're now prolapsed down but it was such a such a rise to the front wasn't it for team Johto the hurt Steve jota car for a while so I'm just looking guys we've got the um the Ferrari a of course car leading hypercar we've got the a of course car in l p two in fourth and the air of course car in GT in third so they're moving up the order so yeah they've almost got a podium in all three they could potentially win all three classes which we're pretty darn sure has never been done at Le Mans before imagine if you put money on on that on a clean Suite isn't it slow Zone as they come out of the Dunlop chicane and down through the s's to Teja Rouge um Graham Goodwin just pointing out a couple of little interesting facts Ferrari leads at Le Mans haven't been able to say that for 50 years not overall a Polish Bakery leads in nmp2 that's into europol's number 43 car and a dinosaur leads in GTM so Rexy the project one AO car Mateo cairoli Porsche Junior Factory driver there's your lmp2 leader we will fans get around to lmp2 and GTE a lot more hopefully in the next few hours because just for the moment and actually how far are we in seven and a half hours in for the first time the hyper cars seem to have stopped swapping paintwork with each other it has just settled down a little bit like a slightly longer version of the Formula Ford Festival it was fun though wasn't it I mean yeah and I'm sure it will get back there thinking about you know to the start of the race before we had all the downpours that really spread them out eventually Toyota did have the pace it was a simpler Pace to the Ferrari couldn't pull the gap on the fridge but he had a different compound attire on arguably the weaker compound at that time in the soft the Ferraris had the medium so it's not as if Toyota don't have the pace in this race to win it I'm on outright speed the they can certainly match Ferrari in dry conditions so and the Porsche was up there as well so we did have this incredible three four-way fight that I honestly don't know who had the fastest package and then yeah the rain you see different drivers excel at different points we mentioned Eva but also Pierre greedy and Nico the Peugeot came alive in those mixed conditions as well so yeah the gaps have spread out but as we know all it takes under these new regulations in the safety car where we get the the three then they become one and we get the the pass around and also the the drop backs so they they split the categories again it all it takes is one safety car now that that period of time behind Safeguard and then it all bunches back up again you're just watching Fabio share there in the interior of Paul car number 34 the green and yellow car leading Ln in lmp2 and he leads by just over 30 seconds from Team wrt's Robert kubitza Ollie Caldwell in third place in the 35 Alpine ELF car and Caldwell as we hear famously said a number of times we'll turn 21 during the race uh Jim was suggesting it'll be at midnight because it won't be at midnight because he's not French it will be at one in the morning local time because that's midnight in the UK so that that will be where that happens this is all part of the Drone show that we saw yesterday evening as part of the celebrations of this La model centenary the headlights there become old number one the 1924 winning Bentley in fact that might even be the shanade Walker trying to decipher exactly which one it was a bit beyond my time that Circle only a bit though it was it was very good fun to watch and uh from where we were in the TV compound we actually got sort of part of it but from where most of the crowd were watching it to looking towards the stage rather from the back of the stage it looked even better and uh the light show then also went on so I wasn't quite sure what the sombrero part of it was but uh to uh highlight some of the other features of cars that have been improved by Le Mans Anthony Davidson [Music] I think he might have been talking about tires but honestly I I didn't quite catch that it was brevity itself wasn't it I think he said I think he said something like the dryer tires are okay but I'm my confidence level is low on that one yes yes that you need TC up a little bit uninfused anyway whatever it was yeah Mateo kairoli for project mon AO that is the dinosaur the T-Rex number 56 Porsche easy to spot with it why is it dinosaur again because PJ Hyatt's kids said Daddy could a car look like a dinosaur and he went yeah could if you hit it hard enough and so it did and so it and so so now when he races at the imperson WeatherTech series his car looks like a dinosaur and because he's racing here at Le Mans and because why not his car looks like a dinosaur quite remarkable really when the uh the color scheme was first unveiled on the GTD car and it was a kind of split opinion uh for about five minutes until nobody agreed that actually it's really rather wonderful and then the Chaparral there in the uh okay now I still I still haven't looked up whether it's a 2E or 2D or a 2 H or 2f 2f what I think you should do is decide what it is and then we can get people on Twitter to criticize you now I'm sure people will go oh how can you possibly not know that well because I wasn't born I mean you don't know barely born he says um there was a really very good little bit on uh a tick tocky twittery thingy thing hairdryers invented here at the mom as well uh very good bit on on Tick Tock um Charlotte Clair walking back down the pit lane from the grid being followed by the dinosaur one of the two guys he was not impressed to which somebody had commented sometimes it's tough being green which I just thought so I I'm sorry I haven't got the tweet I had they but whoever that was you're obviously a LeBron fan that was a particular hat that was absolutely spot up but very nice very nice little touch they had a couple of guys dressed up in dinosaurs as well because you know why wouldn't you Le Mans is a serious race but it's also to be enjoyed devoutly to be enjoyed to be devoured and loved this thing well there you go again you can see more of the elements Hybrid Power coming to Le Mans for the first time here all part of that powertrain development that has gone into road cars and has come complete circle because for instance Toyota Gazoo racing are using Road car componentry in their current hybrid system having used their lmp1 hybrids to help develop that and then the two hydrogen elements together H2 is hydrogen's two atoms together a bivalent bonding of the hydrogen atoms H2 you can see that with the h24 logo that's the pure hydrogen powered race vehicles that have raced in this island series encounters and uh the SEO hope will be racing here in the Le Mans 24 hours before long foreign [Music] [Music] for that last lap around so uh yeah Kobe actually again he's uh he's up there with the the fastest out there but he is certainly closing the gap on the Peugeot 94. early in the race fans may have thought oh Toyota really look like they're being outclassed here you can't count them out not only have they got phenomenal experience of racing them on 24 hours itself but this is the third year they've been doing that with this car we can't Snape that highly enough I think Ferrari's car is here at Le Mans for the very first time as is the team as a race unit peugeot's car is here at the mom for the first time Cadillac car is here at Lamont for the first time so all of those cars are making their racing debut at Le Mans irrespective of who's running them the cars have not run here before and that knowledge that ability to keep dialing the car into the track and the team into the car and the drivers into the car can't but help Toyota in the long run in this battle I've been really impressed with the way that as the weather has changed so radically backwards and forwards and backwards and forwards their new coming Rivals have been right there on the money they have been right there with them I did fear when we saw rain forecast that that would just really tip the balance in Toyota's favor it may yet because of the their experience I'm really impressed with the way the new teams have just run with this thing racing team turkey in the pit Lane the 923 card and I've lost how can I lose a three-digit car that's because it's on page two a long way back Tom gamble at the wheel with me brought the car in McLaren I'm sorry McLaren Chaparral 2f ah there you go 1967 at this great race and it was a front runner but a retirement in the after 18 hour transmission problem Phil Hill and Mike spend Australia automatic transmission problem uh down in the pit Lane if Steph Wentworth what do you know about racing tin turkey young lady well they've been in the pit Lane for quite a while there was actually a broken suspension and the guys have done really well to fix it as quickly as we have it's Vandal back in the car now and they are ready to go racing again excellent now what fans may not know is that racing team turkey uh Sally yolich is is the key to to that whole operation Turkish driver the former FIA World Cup winner in 14 turkey he in unchang juven won the first most sport games the most sport Fimo sport games um that car run by TF sport which is also running Aston Martin's in the GTE am class there is Rexy the car that leads in GTE amp and leads by how much over the iron day 61 seconds yeah that's uh corollary pushing on and going fairly deep don't know how much we've seen a PJ Hive yet that's one to watch remember in these program classes is it's there's an open season on when the teams can opt to put their bronze rated rather than the cars we'll have a look at that in due course but it's certainly a very impressive that's all they're a fantastic firework display was a big off for somebody I'm sure you can hear the noise from the effects canvas around the track but you're probably also picking it up from the cameras in the booth here because it is we're not hearing it from from the TV we're hearing it coming through the wall of where we're in a double cabin at like a temporary cabin deal and uh yeah that's definitely making itself very well aware of its presence here there you can see the project one AO garage and uh Ferrari air of Corsa it's been such a joy having AF quarter and Ferrari together in this hypercar class because they have brought a good looking car a quick car a good team of drivers who predominantly we know well because they are multiple GT Championship contenders and winners but also they have just been so open and enthusiastic now then are we going to stay with this let's stay with this Manu I'm begging you now we've had onboards with the Ferrari we've had it on board with a caddy let's have a bit more Americana a ride with Jimmy Johnson [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign race has just served of the entertainment the soundtrack the sights The Sounds the Spells and what an effort from this NASCAR developed a problem though for another of the big V8 cars yeah this is a car that had a problem on lap one brought out the first lap safety car the action Express Cadillac Three one one Alex I'd assumes at the wheel of this car to see what the problem was where had he gone straight on I think that might have been down at the second chicane Martin yeah yeah I think you're absolutely right we just saw monofino and uh Carlos Tavares there yeah we saw Carlos tavar is in the uh a of course a Ferrari garage a few minutes ago it was sort of uh it's like mixing of the streams I wasn't quite sure what was going on there uh Steph Wentworth is lurking still down at TF sport what do you know about the triple 7D station car well the front had a huge chunk taken out of it the front right it looked like it's crashed into a wall or a barrier because it is completely mashed up we'll definitely be needing a full front change because maybe there might be some suspension damage as well thanks Stephanie of course Graham that car was not not that car but the original triple seven car that was scrutinered on Friday or Saturday was written off in free practice first free practice in an accident with the number 13 Tower motor sport car which is already out of the race and that's a brand new car that was already at their base in England that's right so the car came out it's John hodgson's regular illness chassis but no regulation if they can and they did switch the engineering gearbox with the original car to ensure that color fat but I think you were just saying uh off mic and you spotted where that going off yeah it went off at the first chicane um it was there for quite some time they were deliberating whether to put out the uh full course yellow or just a slow zone for that sex track and uh and then they got going again so I assume it was in the just where we passed there actually on the right hand side uh running board with Nico murder in the 94 Peugeot I think that's where the triple 7D station car went off I think it's got Fuji sand behind the wheel uh it is the gold rank driver for key station racing now we've seen pictures of it and so the TF Sports d-station crew going to work and that is not going to be the work of a moment for the car already down in 11th place and dropping quickly it was running a ninth in class I believe before that incident so uh yeah shame for the tricky first chicane uh we saw Alex Sims obviously run out wide and the second one but uh this track is still holding the moisture Floyd Van Wall car that was recovered from the gravel has been into the pit Lane and is back out against now on and out now with their step and Gary so if you see the number four coming past you it has been in uh relatively long stop actually just three minutes three minutes it was pretty harmless he just looped it off backwards uh avoiding other traffic despite the sort of the the woe was forced behind the cast of the top 13 cards here of the 16 are the they are all hypercars next one down the order is another Fork yard down in 39th position then we've got the retired 75 glass being the 51st position but the reality out of the race and a couple of laps still to pass that point is the 52nd Place 311 car the actual Express racing car that we saw in trouble just a few minutes ago yeah and that's in the pit Lane and that may well be there for a week while longer but we have the top 10 cars still on the lead lap at nearly one third distance of this race despite all the best efforts and some fairly strenuous weather conditions to disperse them to All Points West Coast like a toddler that's found the sweetie cupboard this race simply will not quit it won't calm down it's refusing all efforts of anybody just to develop what you might recently call that's that Rhythm that get into at night never really understood what that happens at but it always seems to that you'll get this frenetic activity getting into this kind of time of night and all the sudden things seem to calm down without your drama uh interjecting and we get three or four hours spot off of Le Mans we're actually what we've got is pretty fast running speaking of Rhythm yeah you're absolutely right man that the drivers in the car at the moment particularly as it starts getting later in regards to time of day the longer you stay in the car the more in the groove you get and it's quite often the next drivers that get in you see a lot of safety cars in the moments we have it reported debris and Marshall post 21 we have reported degree Marshall post 21. [Music] Marshall post 20. okay first left corner so somebody has possibly smelted a barrier on the way into Mozart corner and she had bits or down the street and she had bits at Northside Corner yes Ramsay uh fires Ramsey White out yeah they will need to fix that because that will be spotted and it's on its Outlook as well remember Rojas yeah driving change there Ollie Caldwell stepped out of the car now you're saying at midnight we should get everybody sing to him yeah that's not midnight in England and he's not French so therefore that's no it's not doesn't count he wasn't born in France so he wasn't born on French summertime he was born on pretty summer time was he I don't know where he's born it sounds like we've got to find out when he was born where he was born I'm going to check that I'm just going to give Mr and Mrs Caldwell a quick call yeah what time of the day please he is the number 50 Ferrari a of course a 499 P Nick Nielsen man at the wheel he started the race in that car of course so they have cycled through their first run of drivers and the other two drivers in the car will be trying to get a bit of rest not very easy at this time and I am but you know what's the time now half past 11 quarters to midnight here you're still wrapped up I mean especially for these Crews you know their first race in hypercar their first race at the front of the field the overall front of the field it's gonna be very hard to really tune out of that and just get a bit of rest it's I was just saying before we had the race director's message there that usually one of the hardest moments of Le Mans is to jump in when it's dark and you've been out the car seeing your your two other teammates at the wheel and you might not be you know you might have been uh it might be your first goal actually at this stage you're getting in the car for the first time because of all the delays we've had drivers reaching close to their maximum driving time of four hours at the wheel that's the most you're allowed in the hypercar categories of probe so you finally get your chance it's dark it's slippery you're starting to feel a little bit tired already just because the time of day is so late uh at uh 10 to midnight here as we are in the morning and you it's just everything's just in in fast forward you can't kind of you can't get yourself up to speed you see other cars around you you see the lap time set from your teammates before you and your miles off you can be two seconds off and you're thinking how on Earth did they do that I'm driving out my skin to be doing this I'm living by all my senses right now and I'm just desperately trying to crash the car how on Earth do I go two or three seconds faster and then gradually it starts to come it's you start to find the lap time you start to find where you can a car overtake the cars the slower cars and you get in that Rhythm you learn the processes learn the track again it is a forever changing Beast the circuit as you go through the 24 hours the grip comes and goes the gravel comes and goes that's been spewed onto the track and you just you have to be out there's no better time just to be out there in the groove in the Rhythm and living and breathing it as it evolves and that that's how you find immense lap time as soon as you've changed driver you've got to start that learning process again and that's what I always found the hardest I've chatting away to a couple of the guys who raced here a decade or so ago uh one a factory driver one a privateer LMP driver and we've been talking about what really has made the legends of the modern yes of course it's the winners of course it's those uh efforts but it's other things too it's things like the faultless drives that people remember that could be in absolutely any of the classes and beyond that it's then in adversity whether in poor weather when someone just gets dialed in and actually frankly destroys the rest of the field sorry what guy was saying earlier on about Pierre greezy yes it was 10 seconds style that's Tom christensen's style and that's incredibly impressive and it will be remembered it's it's what happens I hate talking about myself but that's what eventually got me my Toyota Drive is the stints that I did oh they watch what you do you know in those tricky conditions that's when a driver can really make the difference I can remember a couple of other drivers in that situation not here at the mom but it was a breakthrough drive that got them their break to come forward muscle fesla um destroyed the field that's far 24 hours in the GT1 the Corvettes and and went on to do amazing things in LMP and GT cars Andre Lotter his first experience in the Audi it wasn't even the the fully fledged a team was it it was the uh the college team yeah in adversity when they're in Cavite and fell off the pit wall and uh dislocated his shoulder it was just him and Charles waltzman Jr a two driver effort that did things in the car that has never been close to doing nothing private islands 2009 wasn't it yeah and that's how Lotter burst onto the completely correct and and Time After Time After Time you know these are the kind of things that do find that opportunity to break through and show what a driver of supreme quality can do and I'll blow your trumpet you are you know you were a driver of supreme quality and it was blindingly obvious to anybody that took a an opportunity to take a closer look where the quality was and the great thing about this type of car class and it is allowing quality to shine a little bit earlier to guy Smith and Peter dumb Bragg do we think that this is now a class that where the cars are so closely matched of actually the major difference between them at any stage is what the driver is doing at that time in the car just just starting to get that feeling let's hear from our leaders box this button box the slap okay at bixton from Alessandra Pierre greedy I think the answer is yes and I'd like to hear more from from about that but there's another aspect of this too when you've got a more spec class it takes something truly special to break not just break through but dominate in that circumstance I'll give you gentlemen Mike Conway in lmp2 Brendan Hartley 11p2 it takes something special to just show that field that you're not just going to take a 10 for a couple of tents out of them but seconds and keep doing it and keep winning yeah absolutely you know we've just been saying about gear greedy heard from his team he's coming in this lap but uh if they were you know it's a long way to go with 16 hours still remaining in the race but if they've worked gone and win it's that car through that does win that's one of those pivotal moments that drive that's in in very tricky conditions where you go you you kind of you lean more towards that drive and you say yeah I mean I know you wouldn't lose as a team but once in a while there's a standout performance that that more than hands you the victory and uh at the moment it seems that that stint he's put in was very pivotal to their race JJ lato through the night in the ueno clinic McLaren that ended up winning the race in conditions a lot Violet than we've seen but probably we're going to see a lot more of throughout the race so yeah there are yeah as I always say come and see our cometh the man and turn the uh Sandra Pierre greedy stays in uh can we call me actually in the pits in the number seven to eight in second place and also in the pit lane from third the 94 Peugeot of Nico Muller so we have got in from the top of the field for Rota persio Ferrari Toyota Cadillac Cadillac Porsche Porsche somebody asked a little moment or two ago on Twitter is this the best top class field we've had in a while yes it is this is exactly what the ACO and what imsa had hoped for when convergence was first spoken about that cars from both sides of the Atlantic from all sports car disciplines will be able to race together not just at the same venue but in the same class and on level pegging and that is exactly what we're seeing everything that was being talked about and that was accelerated Graham Goodwin through covid when there was no actual Racing for months on end that that Hova period of being a talk and think and plan and work and and do the testing and run the simulations that formed the cohesive rule set that we've got for hypercar that's what we've got now as a result and a game we've talked about this all year in anticipation of coming to Leman that we are there there is the feeling all pervasive that this is the dawn of a golden ear of sports car racing and nothing I've seen in the first third of this race tells me anything otherwise I'll tell you this much we came here hoping we might see a flavor of this we came here hoping I didn't really expect we'd see what we'd see uh so far in this race and I'm utterly delighted uh to say that with all that you've just said about the the amazing work that's been done uh for the sport walking in through the door um is I mean we've got lots to talk about including what we're now seeing on screen welcome to the move uh Mr President but more particularly team director our project director that ask our garage 56 uh Camaro z01 NASCAR effort John Doolin um you've had a smile about a mile wide all week I'm going to interrupt you because this is on his Outlet stopped at the first chicane he has looped it round at the first UK so that is the Ferrari sitting in the gravel and that immediately means that Toyota that somebody said on Twitter again a moment or two ago well they've been unfairly hampered by the change in Bop and clearly they haven't got a car that's as quick as anybody else that car is now the race leader no the percher is a race leader uh other peugeot's race is out in second place so yeah let's take a look here car off ahead of him okay in front of him yeah somebody spinning and somebody going straight through the chicane so was there something on the track or did he just get checked up in avoidance car to the left the car spun around he he came into the chicane in the glare of headlamps pointing in the wrong direction so 51 is going to be rapidly recovered to the racing service I'm absolutely sure John uh you'll appreciate we'll talk around uh what's going on on the track around some incredibly interesting stuff that's been going on with you Ferrari and they of course are of course uh absolutely straight into action and very concerned after a stellar stint from Alexander repair quickly eyes wide here from La that would have been a moment for her let's have a listen in with what's going with Aleppo greedy hey man they're gonna come and get you they're gonna come get you just shake off the Rocks before you drive back so anxious moments but with the work that he has done over the past hour it doesn't exactly have a margin but it will certainly serve to reduce the damage of this moment well I think pretty soon be back underway didn't see which of the other two cars were involved in that Martin did a few managed to pick that up and I didn't quite we'll probably get another couple of replays one of them might have been Manuel Maldonado he's had a very slow middle sector and it could be it was Michelle getting because that's another slow middle sector okay uh Michelle gattings I'm James car should be easy to spot Alessandro Pierre greedy doing exactly as he was told having a big Shake of a hitch and a big wiggle to try and dislocate as much gravel as possible do you bring excitement with you everywhere you go if both Pockets full let's talk oh replay is that that is a Porsche it is a 911. good shout it's the 9 11 9 11. it's 9 11 in the hands of Richard Leets boom and there can't see which car it is on the inside but I guess we're getting who's here as he spins in the lights stop quitting this one is it John [Music] I was two into one not going yeah didn't pick up the lmp2 car let's talk NASCAR um what on God's green earth started all this because whatever it was can we do it again well first of all thanks for having me uh it's been an absolute joy to be part of this project and you know what started it uh-oh that's been in a wall you can see the damage behind you do pretty drama with you don't you I do that's Louis Pratt bailing out in a Porsche curves get out of there is that the end of the career for this fantastic Pro oh there's two cars it's a seven it's no [Music] no that is astonishing he's coming out of the back street it is underway again but is there damage to that car it is the Korean there not be tracking ounces are going mental I don't know if you can hear it through the microphones but we can still hear it through the walls you can see the track peppered with gravel now at that stage but that's looks to me as if that Ferrari's been in the wall it's in the middle of the track I think a safety car almost inevitable here can you spin and clip the wall on the inside and come back in and then get collected by the Toyota or the other way around oh man people gotta slow down yeah yep yep yep yep okay here we go oh holy moly there's a pizza cut and the toaster involved in that car was briefly airborne there's four cars involved there it's the is that one of the alpines the 36 car yeah it was like the 36. yeah and that's a 25 cars there's the Toyota's View that's the ort Aston in front that's a palace car on the left was that 39 the church has taken a hit where did the Ferrari come from that is the Ferrari tried to come through the game it's the beginning of a slow Zone guys they all got cut out they all got caught out seven in trouble 67 was the only one that saw it he slowed 70 trouble 66 in terminal trouble 35 also in trouble there's the jmw team look at the crowd that is still here at midnight that is a horrible way for a seven year Le Mans career for the 66 Ferrari to finish kamu Kobayashi 10 principal of Toyota okay we're here to power now what we didn't see is it's green that's good yep is what hit him and where on the car I think is a 66 car is it was the last to arrive on that yes and he went tried to go between the 35 and the seven for 36 and seven the calendar but 35 came past the correct there was a there was a peacock I think it was the palace car I think it was 65 on the left I think 65. oh man okay can we report the damage as well we will switch to slow zone two and three so slow Zone from uh turn three to turn ten on short notice the standby for the moment it's still focusing okay that is Steve hiker the number one in the jmw Motorsport team with Stefano Terry 1998 winner also driver coach to Louis Brett trying to figure out what was going on car's involved it says here are 7 and 60 on the Marshalls screen it's not 766 60 is out and it has been for some time but the Camaro is moving seven car is moving but very very slowly this is high drama multiple winning Squad when you move 30 feet to on doonen and turn it on and off again there's a road car driver you don't need to be Einstein to read those signs that's not a healthy car yeah it's unfortunate uh it's been a lit to solicit in to see what kabukopia she's hearing or saying what happened can you tell us more when I start the engine car is not long at all there's no chance at all okay driver default 26 on first of all the vertical two six on strikes me that sounds like drive it's a drive shaft or a gearbox issue if he's taking a cloud to the side that could very well be sure that came by on the right hand side of kabu Kobayashi so he may have clipped something you can see the full course yellow sign being shown to all the drivers that'll be in every car well the only part of that I'm not sure of is whether or not it was a 65 and the 35 or just the 35 twice 35 did that car go from the left to the right in that blinding um there was so many sets of headlights that's really hard to pick up isn't it it's definitely looking looking concerned but we did see lyric get out the car the car though looks dumb yeah tell my bass down there interviewing for the circuit PA not sure that they know an awful lot more full course Yellow by the way here yeah Louis Pratt out of the car so far I don't think he stayed in that car for a conversation with the crew I think his intention was to get out of the way and get over the barrier guys are not slowing down well again when yeah full course yellow seem to be causing a lot of confusion this time let's hear a game from kamui Kobayashi Brothers Bravo 26 plus acknowledge but about 12 6 Plus acknowledge we have to try to start the engine the only way to come back is try to use the engine just try to burn out try everything we have to use the engine we don't have enough sock to come back with the front motor which is too early the only way is to come back with the engine do what you can yeah not enough sock not enough state of charge which means the batteries haven't got enough power in them to do the lap uh and Davidson has been just analyzing what we saw there I think there's there's definitely two lmp2s involved there 66 got hit from behind by the 35 guys in the Ferrari that's why there's so much damage to the rear end of the Ferrari so this Ferrari just been hit by the 35 he then comes to the right hand side look and he's still lifting past that's why the front left so completely destroyed on the 35 you're right Jim they were slowing down under a full course yeah look at next slow on the Marshall on the Marshall system yeah it's two P2 Cars one hit the Ferrari the other one hit the rear of the total and hit it hard so who hit that one I think it's 65. I think the 65 in this car I think from the onboard with kamui we saw the panna's car on the left I thought it was the color of the bonus come on I thought it was 65 then saw the 35 and I think that misled me I think it was the 65 to the inside is uh on board with the 35 car but that's not the replay that's live yeah um let's try and talk to John John What's Happening Here My you know my talking uh doesn't uh doesn't overseed that so for little effect please don't talk anymore because something else is going to happen but let's talk about this effort it has been I think the Ultimate Fan pleaser and coming into this as is always the case when something new comes there's always a little bit now there's a number seven a door open that is looking increasingly like it's going to be terminal and we'll come to that as and when we get more uh information that is the front end of the lp that hit the the rear of the Toyota now we can see why that certain's got a problem it wasn't a minor dink in the side from a Ferrari it was a fulsome shove in the rear from the Orica so while we're watching this action underway what's up with this John this is a to my mind a further cementing of what's been a very profitable uh alliance between two great parts of Motorsport the ACL F5 family and the NASCAR family with him sir yeah I think first of all thanks for all the coverage and you guys know I listen to you all the time whether it's a work race or a European Lamar or an uh Asian Lamar when I'm in Daytona I I love hearing the coverage so thanks for for all that it you're right it this this week has been a further uh extension if you will of the partnership that impsa and the ACO have had uh strategic Alliance agreement for several years which we of course announced an extension of that last year and you know if you to get to today you have to look back at what Bill France senior did in 1976 and uh Toyota we just saw kamui leap from the car it's a red car the red light is flashing they have a potential high energy problem with the car so that is a red car and that will require a lot of specialized intervention that the other car while you were talking that came into the pit Lane with damage was not the 65 panis car it's the 39 graph car another dark blue and white car and that is part of why we thought 65 was on involved and why uh the 35 car was on both sides so the 39 graph car has coming with damage that was likely the other car involved let's take a look again here says that the graph car on the left there has it already happened when kamui gets here he gets tagged by the graph car there's the gmw car being hit from the back by we think the uh the graph 39 and knocked over the Toyota and then and then the 35 car has clipped the back of the Toyota although I heard the Graf car had damage on the rear so unless that wasn't yet another car I think that had damage on the rear guys because he was next to uh the seven car and the 66 came in between them just a house of fire and and hit the 39 then bounced over into the seven yeah wow dramatic moments uh really productive moments and it certainly won potential race winning car that looks to be at this stage out of the race out of contention definitely now they can rescue the car and if it can be confirmed that it is safe to use again they can use it again he won't be excluded from having for having left from the car and got over the barriers that is part of the safety protocol unless he's meandered off somewhere which seems highly unlikely but yeah from red car to green car is and actually particularly given the impact that you sense might be the reason it's gone from group Green Card to redcar in the first place it's outside assistance that is the window of the car that's over it's over it is the number seven car yeah that is pretty much the acknowledgment that uh one of the pair of Toyota kazoo racing cars that have dominated here uh in recent years and have an unblemished record in hypercar double one two finishes for Toyota it is done for the number seven car now you only need one car to win Le Mans they only have one car left that might be enough but again so often seems to be the number seven car that runs into bad luck and that I do not think was any of their own making they were just doing the right thing and then innocent victim of a major multi-car pilot so it's gonna be a bit of a clean up here for some time debris Stricker cars at least two of them two more have actually made a bit late there may well be a further car involved in that there was a lot of cars in a small place at the same time we'll switch back to uh Mr President and Project Director for NASCAR garage 56 car uh John toon and John it has been on drama yeah with my teammates in Daytona texting me saying we're trying to listen to your interview but the guys on track don't seem to wanna maybe they're trying to sell me tell me something and they should go back to the garage tell me moving on a little we'll come back to a little bit of garage 56 you've been one of the architects of where we are right now today I I'll tell you right now we're rolled over by what we've seen so far today tell me your reaction to it I think Beyond expectations is the best way to describe it and you know architect's a nice uh a nice term to use but I've really just been one of the teammates or maybe it's team captain you got tremendous Partners involved in this project uh all the folks at Chevrolet and GM performance have been absolutely terrific relative to the powertrain uh we we wanted to keep as much NASCAR DNA in this project as possible while we had to uh endurance eyes the car if you will but this engine is an r07 cup engine we did some work on the top end the the valve train given experience they've had in endurance racing uh Goodyear has been tremendous they have worked so hard to develop a wider Tire multiple options for wet and intermediate for this Beast of a car if you will and the folks at Hendrick Motorsport you know they don't win 14 Republic championships without being absolutely at the top of their game lots of eurocentric race fans we go okay a NASCAR's just this kind of outlier from Motorsport and it's got no real relation to anything else but you talked about Hendrick and you know you look at the teams like Penske South and all the other big operations chip ganassi racing they don't just do one thing they do multiple things they have feet in all sorts of camps here a lot of them you see on a regular basis here in the interweather tech series as well as being you know as well as running cup cars and trucks and and everything else so within those organizations never mind within the greater sphere there is that interplay of information that cross-breeding that that all helps to to make both sides of that of that deal Stronger Yeah there's a there's a drone uh footage video somewhere uh of a drone flying through the Hendrick Motorsports facility in Concord anybody that hasn't seen that needs to take a look and understand what these NASCAR programs uh entail they are first class Motorsport organizations and much like uh when we have emsa races and the folks at BMW or Porsche or Acura or uh Cadillac have a group of Engineers back at home base if you will Hendrick Motorsports has the same thing on a cup weekend where they've got a group of Engineers and strategists in Concord in a control room so it's it's you're right I think there's a maybe a misperception and the hope I think coming here was a celebration of what Bill France senior did in 1976 and we're back to replicate it we are [Music] again leads the race who would have thought this coming into this race this program being torqued down thoroughly uh before this race and all of a sudden uh they've got two cars still running this has been our hope all the way up while through we saw the car racing at Monza last July it's never been to Le Mans but there's clearly you know history of Peugeot aiming to win Le Mans and and the real Hope was that this car would come alive here that it would come good here and that's exactly what seems to have happened so as so often is the case the car has been designed to win Le Mans and hopefully deal with the other races safety car is out now a game with rescuing the jmw Ferrari that's fairly straightforward it's the it's the toters that will need to have intervention tracks and well there was intervention Vehicles there already I think the blue lights I think we saw weren't medical I think they're almost certainly uh the yeah the the team red crew but that car will need moving but also there may be barrier repairs as well we saw cars going off on both sides down on the on the run to tertrude so that might be happening John foam still busy there's an awful lot but you know it's it's midnight here in Europe it's we're we're barely getting into prime time it's time to blow the froth off a couple uh back home in the states I wanted to ask another question about this we talk about racing family yeah there's one racing family in terms of this effort with the garage 26 that's supremely important 75 years of Porsche and aligned with that it's 75 years of NASCAR and one family yeah literal families behind that and the latest how can you put it patriarch of that is your boss yeah I mean what how passionate is he about this Jim is a racer to the core as is his nephew Ben kennedy as his uh his his niece Lisa France Kennedy and I have to tell you the culture in the office in Daytona the culture and the Charlotte office the culture at the NASCAR r d Center uh it's a group of racers and they operate with the utmost of Integrity they want to do what's best for the sport not just NASCAR not just emsa not just AMA flat track racing which Jim also has has an opportunity to be a part of they want to do what's good for the sport they believe in Rising tide lifts all boats and it's just a wonderful place to work and I'm so honored and blessed to be a part of it in in the insta sense in the sense of the garage 56 project and I too have gone to flat track races so I've got one final question about the Camaro that is a fantastic achievement what's been achieved here to bring that car to bring it to be able to race safely in amongst this amazing field on this unique track is no small Feats you're not just gonna Park him are you we're going to see this car any do anything more again yeah so uh first of all you know we went back to 1976 where Jim's Father Bill brought two NASCAR stock cars here they're up in the fan Village if people haven't seen them it's the the car that Herschel McGriff herschel's here 90 years old yeah Ford Torino was the other car and Jim wanted to replicate that and uh we came here to Showcase what Nascar is all about um we're doing that um the Hendrick folks are running this program in the garage like they do everything else and that's uh like they're competing for a win and if anyone has seen the garage or walked through there it is first class it has an absolute award-winning group of folks doing the pit stops which was evident in the pit stop challenge they they finished ahead of all of the GT entries with a 10.3 uh second four tire change they were P5 overall like they are taking this very seriously and as I've been in the garage all day Greg Ives and Chad canals are battling like they do every Sunday so it's it's really special you've been here before you knew what to expect okay when we were in Lupes are scrutineering in the center of the city and and all the guys came in in their blue shirts we knew immediately who they were and I went over there decent height you know no these short Europeans they uh they the the car started to come in through the first term so they were all like kind of looking over the barriers from the inside with all the crowd looking over the barriers from the outside I was talking to these guys and I said this isn't standard Tech is it you're not just pushing the car into a garage for the NASCAR guys to check you have you ever seen anywhere more French in your life because the Center Square there the place delay republique is classic Frankie architecture all the way around and they were you know boiling Sunshine so they were at home with that big crowds watching tech and and the proximity of the crowds as well is something again that the Cup teams will be very familiar with because that's all part of the US racing scene but has it been fun watching them as first timers come here and seeing all this stuff and discovering the track and the parade and and everything that goes with it there's absolutely no doubt and besides Jim France being on Cloud9 and Rick Hendrick being on cloud nine and Jeff Gordon who was here all day today um being on cloud nine the thing that I think is most satisfying for me this week besides the media coverage which is again Beyond expectations and blown up is the men and women on this project many of them not even having been outside the U.S before ever and so here they are planted in Lazar and they are part of this program a couple of them have old camcorders and they've been taking it in and I just I love that for them that they're so happy well here's another GM product that's here for millbamba oh can you give some feedback on the track conditions in general actually the last message we heard from Nico Muller he was asking the team about turning down TCR so whether or not he was able to back off the traction control that they'd ramped up a little bit in the wet conditions there you can see the red light still flashing in the seven Toyota there is the intervention crew and it's not for medical purposes that is to try and make that car safe indeed with these high voltage hybrid systems very briefly actually it's it's a whole new learning isn't it you know Europeans go and watch the Indy 500 people are looping around and having buckets of water thread on them that's not something we're used to because we don't use methanol in racing but that's standard there and these systems will have to become standard every corner worker that goes to every track that you race at that we race at has to understand the basic rules of how you deal with cars when the red lights are flashing and the answer is don't go nearby yeah it's been a nice uh opportunity for us on the exercise to get with all the suppliers The Bachelor Williams and all of our safety team we have a great track Services Group in emsa and Robert Bosworth leads that with Roy Spielman they've done an amazing job of educating uh the corner Marshals at each one of the events they're very Crystal a high voltage safety protocols the bill Pierce and Simon Hodgson and Matt kurdock have been developed so I'm really proud of how we've learned that as number one is safety in our sport I think this is a perfect example of that it is an amazing new era in this Top Class hypercar head GTP of course the in this world is it Sports Car Championship we've seen one new car that's definitely coming the way come at least is definitely coming your way for parties at least John uh next year and that is the new Lamborghini chassid Lamborghini GTP car I was at the uh the raw test at Daytona I think there are more people at the Royal Tesla sometimes seen at the race the race itself extraordinary and an extraordinary race [Music] that was fine just how busy it's been I'm not nothing I I think I'm happy I'm happy for our sport uh to be candid you know there's been a lot of people that put in effort to get to convergence there's you know pod pan Side Edition [Music] tonight I was fortunate to arrive at a time where we just had to get it done and I'm happy for our sport but the other thing I'm having problems you mentioned the war you mentioned Daytona we go to Sebring and you know the attendance at that event sets a record we go to Long Beach and I know Jim mccaleon's quite happy with what happened there in terms of fan attendance and sellouts of sweets and grandstand seats and then our friends at WeatherTech race with viviseka announced a 35 increase the highest record ever in advance sales of that event so it just there's a tremendous amount of momentum and lift I think we're doing the right things around sustainability with a new fuel and emsa through our partners at VP racing fuel we're using a hybrid that gives us a longer stem length we are increasing uh entire allocations with Michelin you couple all those things together we have the most sustainable racing on the planet the cars look amazing you mentioned the Lamborghini I've seen some photos and his entire staff have done an incredible job on that car and that was the intent and I think the credit goes back to Jim France to have the vision that we could build prototype race cars that speak the brand in their styling and that's what these cars do there's a strange thing isn't that you and all of our conversations about conversations with people up and down the pit Lane The Press Room away from the tracks lots of the the talk before we came into this risk [Applause] your racing and all it's done is to open up a robot to make these things different again yeah yeah and I think two months of fans to identify with the GT cars that they see on the street there's no doubt and you've got a tremendous number of GT cars running in imsa uh 10 I believe manufacturers running certainly several here and as the GT3 spec becomes the way forward here you're going to see more of that but then you have that's that's what is today those are the cars that people see on the road and then these type of cars or rttp cars are about what's possible going forward and I think that's how each of these manufacturers has embraced it they've got the design they've got potential customer Car Sales uh in in the wings so again I I smile because I'm happy for our sport I think it's great for the people who have followed Endurance Sports Car Racing but I also think there's a bunch of young little boys and girls that I've seen here at this racetrack in awe of what they're seeing and that's our next generation of fan and we need to do everything we can to get them to races and get them engaged John are you guys doing anything to encourage the customer programs amongst these factors I know proportion that's easy that's in their ethos but for some of these other factors it's not really in their DNA to have customer programs no you hit you hit the nail gym and as you know uh my background there was all about customer sales so if I have anything to say about it it absolutely will be customer opportunities uh there's a lot of spec Miatas running around yes sir but um clearly it needs to work in their business model I believe it's possible you sell customer cars it might be able to fund uh more help fund a cold Factory and doorstep or you know that's right and and customer programs are great and when you look back as Graham said to the maybe the Heyday of the sport I think people said Golden Era I think we're in the Platinum era now but uh you know there were custom the customer team our teams were the foundation of GTP and ipsa um and I hope that we can get back to that clearly to have uh you know Cadillac racing to have uh the accurate teams of Mike Shank racing Meyer shank racing and Wayne Taylor with Andretti they have Penske to have these top teams can I see of course action Express that's great we need to get those customer teams going as well proton I believe is is announced now um obviously jdc kicked off at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca so I think the momentum's there Jim and if this is going to succeed we're going to need all the customer teams so we can get you made mentioned uh uh suspect me out since Marcus Hazel Grove uh just the email would say say hi I think we've got Steph Wentworth down in pit Lane let's catch up with the pits uh state with down at graph racing Steph what do you know I'm at the number 39 with keto Vander guard could you just explain what happened in that incident from your perspective oh yes yes a guy flew over me and I think he came out of nowhere and he took out three cars which is uh Such a Pity because we were running really well of course you're one lap down but I was pushing quite hard I think we were in the lead lap uh we get a very good two stints in the rain which was not very easy and then this this stupid incident happened you know I mean uh yeah you're preparing for Fook or Jello so you don't want to make any mistakes you want to do it correctly and then one car just flew over me a Ferrari and that's uh yeah we have a blow of damage so the team is trying to uh to fix it so hopefully we can go out and see how the car is and we can continue well you've just been looking at a lot of data is there a lot for you to learn to be able to implement in the next stints no I mean the speed was good I think it was one of the quickest on the track uh the car which was not so very good it was a bit oversteer but now when it starts to get cooler every time in a better position and was very happy with the with my stint but yeah this is a big set down hope to see you back a week has already had her a time of a 100 before that looks likely to be in the end of the number seven uh this evening remarkably remarkably the end of the number 75 of course afternoon since that's some stat isn't it um that for me has been part of the remarkable marketers we have seen cars into problems but these are very new cars as you were saying earlier [Music] that makes if you want the serviceability of these cars more challenging but these cars but it's the garage they're back out to the garage and they're still running and racing let's take a look at those incidents though 75 Porsche turns out to be an oil pressure problem fuel pressure a fuel pressure action Express incident yes by Coles incident yes Toyota number seven internet not of their own making hurts team jota incident uh glicken house whichever one had the broken front it did incident yes they have all been racing incidents where cars have come together either with each other or the scenery not one of them yet apart from the 75 Porsche potentially has actually been a mechanically induced retirement and again these cars you know they they would even real life testing 12 months ago never mind racetrack testing they were still you know building up from single solicit single cylinder test pads and from from Cad and and you know just being being thought of and finalized before homologation so these are things that are still yeah think back to the the 956s in the first year of Group C they were not the all concrete devices and you know these cars are going to develop and fast that's the that's the progress we're gonna see it's funny is you're getting uh input from listeners I'm getting text messages and it was reminded uh that you know Rick Hendrick's operation ran the Corvette GTP program uh with Doc Bundy and Cyril Vandenberg and Rick talks finally about that they got the car running uh they drove around as part of the 24 minutes of Daytona before the Rolex 24 I was just reminded that attacks with photos by the way Rick told a funny story about that they were at Road America and Rick had the car all literally liveried up and of course in those days it was not really decal uh decals it was hand-painted stuff and uh I guess maybe the paperwork hadn't been done yet at the GM folks said well you can't unveil the car but they're literally ready to go missing and Rick said well maybe since I'm a GM Good Wrench dealer will suggest that you know that it's it's my program that's doing it so but uh what a great era but again I say I think we're at it now but we've now funny you should talk about that because the first bill I had when we saw the Mustang GT3 car unveiled here is okay Mustang GTP that's ringing all sorts of uh feel good Bells with me those things you know Scott sharp still around let's let's have a third go around I was going to ask you about Mustang because we shouldn't forget this is mixed last sports car racing GT Racing the game and it's on the ACA switching to energy you guys have already made that switch and you've got something we don't have the F5 Championship which is a full Pro GT3 bass class we've seen the new Mustang GT3 uh for the first time yeah we know there's going to be an opportunity to see that car racing in GTV program next year you know also well that heading there what an opportunity for two of the biggest names in not just U.S Motorsport but the U.S Automotive train to go head-to-head yeah for sure and we have a saying in the office the market will speak and you know the the folks at uh Corvette felt like a GT3 customer Cara was right clearly Ford is now GT3 Mustang which they believe also can be a proper customer program they have also said besides customer programs we'd like to go head-to-head with some of the other s and so that's why we have GTD Pro it's because they want to race against one another and clearly a team like Fast independently owned but has been a landing place for some of the GT Factory drivers in the Porsche family Aston Martin decided to do the same Lexus racing uh with with Pastor Sullivan is there doing a GTD Pro effort so there's a place for it we try to simplify with the same Bop and uh I've asked I've been asked a lot sometimes I see a GTD car having a GTD Pro Car well you know what we're here to go racing and why put the cars out there at the same end brother you know exactly so probably what happened good point uh Ben has done an awesome job and it's been fun being part of garage 56 because we've been part of the the GM performance space this weekend and what a guy Ben is a successful car dealer in Texas I think he is now 27 stores and man is he dedicated himself to becoming a great race car driver and he's and he's running out of brand new cars to race you know so he needs a new generation because he's never raced a Mustang had a tea on the top step of the podium here at the mall and uh bloody ran a Viper for a long time yeah I think this is ninth starts at the moment in eight different cars yeah quite remarkable good step there and he's never even raised LMP this side of the Atlantic either uh yes he has yeah came here with the Riley Oregon we're going to say good luck to you for the moment one more thing in our behalf and on behalf of the uh the funds track side certainly let's have a listen to what's going on for race control before we do that thank you car 56 must enter in the pits in the next passage and go out behind safety car c car 34 must enter in the pits on the next passage and go out behind cave safety car a significant that is the leader in the GTE um and that sense what's happened there is that they have either not stopped at a red light or been shown a green light and beetled out just before the safety car queue arrived now there was a little bit of feeling from the Corvette racing guys that had happened in the first safety car period the cars have been released into a into a a safety car queue that maybe gave them an advantage that that perhaps shouldn't have come their way but you're right it's the it's the project one car which is one of them in the 34 into europole car as well yeah I think Steph may be down at racing team turkey Steph what do you know I am indeed and I'm with Drew's van Thor who jumped into the car just to do two laps but unfortunately something's gone wrong hasn't it yeah unfortunately I only did a few laps today uh well we would yesterday included yeah we still have to investigate what really is going on just something yes breaking we have a mechanical mechanical issue we just have to check what it is and it's just a bit too dangerous for us to go out again yeah be scared that it happens again on another place where you actually don't want it to happen so yeah very unfortunate that we are really looking you're really looking strong uh going into this race um unfortunately like it is for everybody else there's a mayor out there and the weather is really making it very very difficult for everyone but yeah unfortunately um we're gonna have to see what happens and see what happens with the car because there was something wrong but we we don't know what yet how did the car feel though before did you enjoy driving it how were the conditions actually out there I mean I only did the start so far I did uh not so many lab stood there yet in the race um I think General Dakar felt really good I think with the track involvement it would only come more to us knowing how other ways [Music] at the end of the day not really a lot to say about my race I mean I didn't do so much so yeah I just watched and hope for the best well it's a big shame for the team I'm sure you guys were hoping for a much better result yeah we don't they will try hard they will come back and um yeah we'll make it work again stronger than ever thank you thank you thank you cheese fan tool thank you Steph Wentworth and of course that car racing in the European Le Mansa who's on the feeder series for the World Endurance Championship top the overall win in Olympia the overall race win in fact for a program car and that's I think only the second possibly third time that's ever happened with the bronze right driver I finished the point and then let you get on to do more good things if there are indeed any more good things you could possibly do I'd like to do something for us please John I'd like when the next time you speak to Mr Francis say thank you very much for this and to everybody involved in it because it has raised so much interest so much passion so much joy the fact that something different is out there alongside all the other good news this has been a real plus here at the Centenary of Le Mans it is a meeting of codes I hope it's not gonna be the last enough hope absolutely hope it's not the last we see of this great car well I promise I'll do that and uh I also want to say thanks to all the folks that are tuned in around the world listening to you guys as I do wherever I am or especially when I'm in Daytona and uh so many people are texting and watching at home so hi to so many dear friends back in the States former Mazda teammates so many people are listening and watching this great uh 100th anniversary and I extend a huge congratulations to the ACO for you know this morning oh my gosh that crowd the people the Fanfare uh just remarkable pre-race and you know uh we all like to see lots of racing so I pray that the second half of this race uh is less filled with safety cars and more with uh wheel-to-wheel racing good stuff thank you so much indeed uh to garage 56 mascot garage 56 uh Team president is a team director I think I'd like to say just a talk show teammate because uh I've made so many great friends through this project uh folks that I idolized you know Chad canaus Jimmy Johnson the fact that I'm even Rick Hendrick calls me up Hey Big John I'm just blown away you know that these people that are such icons and Hall of Famers in our sport I've had the chance to work with now but the folks at GM the folks at Goodyear they they have all stepped up big time to see this through and and to see all the Joy on their faces that's that's been the biggest reward for me thanks so many and John have a great night to everybody uh down at what it is indeed not garage 56 but garage 62 I believe yeah we're uh first one there at Pitt out and uh it's been great you know the fans across the way when the boys do the pit stops are roaring uh to see the the floor jack out and uh yeah it's just been a great week and I want to keep the momentum going and we've got 15 more hours to do it well you know it raises 300 000 Smiles every time it comes around and that's just here that's before it even gets on camera I mean those numbers are are just frankly slightly crazy and I didn't know that Jeff Gordon was here I bet he's going oh what you couldn't have done this 20 years ago shop liver anniversary when I was in my Prime I bet he's loving every minute of this and I know Jimmy Jimmy was saying actually when he was at the last safety car he was driving slowly all the pads were waving so I was waving at them well this is why our current safety car is out cars called out in the slow Zone and that has led to the demise of the number seven Toyota we saw it on the back of the flatbed it has been made safe but it is now on its way to Area 51 and that's where it will remain 66 gmw Porsche also out of action the 39 graph racing cars we heard from Gary Vander card that was used as a takeoff wrap unintentionally by the 66 car we also have problems for 35. so slight correction we think you'll be right behind the leader when all this uh rearranging happens or just pass him cleanly that wasn't you can pass them for the record that was a Frenchman for the record that was a Frenchman Gotta Give these people what they're what they're here for a little Sebastian Magic thank you uh thank you guys so much I don't want to distract anything from the the proper coverage here I really appreciate the opportunity to tell stories and need better let Anthony back in here I'm going to be in big trouble oh we got some more elections to come along in this one sitting in the back of uh the the booth at the moment so we might not get him in we might be going back to shuffling some cars around soon all I know is I'm not coming back because what I've done to this race at the time that I've been here is not particularly good but he's given us a great opportunity to learn a little bit more about the program and that's the Hat you came with in with garage 56 that's the one thing yeah that's an absolutely go underneath this uh garage 56 uh apparels thank you guys for now we have to decide which way you we slice you to see which which goes all the way through well the hip's office has been open from eight to five and at five o'clock you garage 56 offices open uh that's how it's been the last couple years but just so happy that we can celebrate NASCAR and I think show the passionate European fans what Nascar is about and hopefully the NASCAR fans back in the States are cheering on what is a really really special entries and fabulous John dude and for now thank you very much indeed good luck to the guys in car 24 for the next 15 hours and 12 minutes of the 2023 the Centenary running of the 24 hours of the month thanks guys we are under safety car at Le Mans we have 15 and a quarter hours of the race remaining so eight hours in we're well into the second third or into the second third of the race all sorts of anniversaries being celebrating the Centenary of Le Mans 75 years of Porsche 75 years of NASCAR and of course the big one 50 years of the British lawnmower Racing Association the blmra famed for their 24-hour race they are celebrating their 50th Anniversary this year with a 500 lap overnight race should take around 15 to 60 now so really a Sprint Race by uh by uh Whisperer green standards not actually sure if it is in woodsburgh green but uh William tysurst thank you very much for that reminder as a former member uh mower Builder and racer of the British lawnmower Racing Association I'm I'm glad to represent a bit of per herbum Ad Astra yeah you realize what's gonna happen now Mrs Haven is going to insist that you show how good you are with the lawnmower when she's asleep I'm also good with the dishwasher and a washing machine and I know where the Hoover lives she's asleep we're going to welcome to uh the guest chair another Legend of Vermont he's looking at me in that funny way but he is because uh we're coming into we're just talking to John doonan there Martin about the potential for a Revival of the Privacy Marketplace in the top class sitting next to the both of us between us at the moment is a man behind an effort that Sean very brightly indeed and showed what could be done with ambition and passion and not only that he's going to tell me for how long but I think for about half of that he led this great race Martin Short welcome thank you from well Center racing I know you're now in a kind of gentle semi-retations with his lovely wife Michelle and one of his exceptionally talented Sons what do you think of this race you were here with the fabulous Dolores then the pescarola the the perhaps a less happy memory with the radical that was there too but with an array of GT race car was an array of races worldwide with those you've had a chance to stand Trackside and watch what's going on aside from the fact that it's been a little bit Mayhem it has been fun this uh this race shows what competition brings to a race like this and you know when I was doing it we had Audi and we were all cannon fodder essentially for the manufacturers we were there to make the race um and Audi is a magnificent job and we were always going to be the best of the rest and then Peugeot came along Toyota and there's never really been a race like this and uh just let's do what's going on you can go to Tire one please Tire One if not already okay yo as we're fuel limited we want to try something to save fuel so Bravo 51 Bravo five one for more engine braking to try and save fuel so what can we go inside the cockpits of these still extremely complex uh it's hard because an environment a different time Andre pescarolo you know very much there here to Sherlock's still here 50 years of Orica and that's where those fabulous Stellaris came from that's right but this race is amazing it's absolutely amazing these drivers are under such pressure they're putting themselves they're loading the pressure on themselves they're making mistakes other people are making mistakes the slow zones are causing Carnage it's it's just kicking off you know it's and you know I started then not a miserable fashion but you know we never thought that we could ever beat the Audis well there's you know I don't know how many hyper cars and they're just going for it and now we've got the Peugeot topping you know the leagues fan seed it's just extraordinary it is a race that just continues to deliver the extraordinary let's listen what's going on with Porsche and Michael after the building after the drop back upcoming five cars ahead which will be in the leading lap so that will be your target to overtake to put us back in the Inland position should we have another safety car my memory of the world center racing today is Martin was was a number of things one exceptional ambition with you the Royal band behind you yeah and some Royal sponsors as well because that's what it takes but also that there are a number of very talented drivers that likely we would not have seen the best offer that roller Center racing but I'm you know looking at John Barbosa yeah it was around but hadn't had a big break that's gone on to Fabulous success in into racing and still I know loves you like a brother uh Phil Keane on the national scene another one that maybe didn't get his best shot for a variety of reasons but he learned a lot there he did yeah um and that was what it was like there was always something different and something new that must have been a hell of a whirlwind it really was um drought we met uh through my you know Mosler manufacturing phase and uh we never really realized how good we were until we didn't race at spa and I thought I was the bee's knees and in a Mosler and Uh there's Big conditions and uh yeah never had a chance to show himself in all of testing and qualifying and because I hold the car because of course because it's my car and we got into the race and I started the race and you know did a double steel and came in and you know touched my shoulders and thought yeah I did a good job there Joelle gets in first flying lap two seconds quickly I tell you what I learned I learned a lot that day so look what's going on in race control this later night incident clear let's start merging safety cars move out of the way turn on the green light safety car be and safety car c let's do the merge let's do the merge please brightest starts the process of merging this field and rearranging into class order this process all about making sure that when we go back to green we we try to avoid the yellow breeds yellow and uh we'll pick the bits out of that one post race I think so far it's been remarkably successful in that so I'm at the clock 15 20 years younger and this opportunity in this field presents itself could it be done again I think the money's enormous still especially with the hybrid stuff going on um we we had an amazing period where um you know I I went to huge to shore neck and uh said how much you're going to sell two Dolores for or one and then it got to two and it was 675 000 pounds for two cars and four 20-foot containers of spares so roughly what you would pay now for an oracle zero seven yeah so we had two cars and uh uh and then I had to convince the ACO that a GT team doing British GT that I'd only been doing it a couple of years from doing TVR tuscans prior to that could uh compete and uh the meeting with the ACO was went uh yes Mr short you'll have only been the racing uh not why I've got a French accent I won't do it I thought uh you know you've only been racing GT cars these cars are very dangerous so um I said well we'll do zbring and see see how we do well with 10 hours into the race it was Audi Audi Roll center de Laura Audi which is absolutely extraordinary and at the end of that race we we end up with a throttle breakage and we finished with overall but I was a hell of a field I remember distinct with Justin Wilson uh after that race the gentleman of the ACO wandered down you know through the pad that came up to us shook by hand gave me a gallic nod and I was in fabulous and that led to just well half a decade or more of an adventure I think it's actually the right word yeah and that's what this is about this is about aspiration it is about passion it is about Adventure and we we thank you for all of that so you know what did we have we had uh fourth overall here in the best way I did choke up with it when I saw him on the phone on the uh presentation of the grid that was wow yeah and we had you leading that race uh in extraordinary circumstances in your beloved galara yeah and you know it's amazing that a team that we first saw in Tuscan Challenge and then coming forward with your own built CVR server still I think that the first car in what we now recognize as GTE MGT GT2 the first car other than a Porsche ever to win a race in that class grow up we were the first car certainly to ever beat the Porsche yeah um it was I think it hadn't stuck in America in a BMW GTR but he got disqualified oh that doesn't count that it did so it didn't count at spa we won and uh and then pause came out with the big guns with Mourinho Frank Kitty and Kelvin Burton and the adventure took off and it's been an extraordinary adventure and I was just really lucky enough to meet people or have people contact me who loved my journey and to be honest most of them were TVR and one of them um worked for Deutsche Bank and uh he had a TBR server and I met him at Bedford Aerodrome on a track day and he was literally wearing an anorak and a bobble hat in the porter cabin as you thought that'll do but he just he just said you're Martin you know I tried to give him I'd like to do it would you like a passenger seat ride in a in a server yeah that'd be great three laps I didn't even take his phone number or anything shook hands six months later we have our first outing with the TVR in British GT and uh I get an email would you like some sponsorship and I have my jaw dropped and he said where should we what do you think where should we start he said how about 37 Grand which is a weird number and then two years later he said shall we do lemon and I said what you know what yeah let's go for the top class and that was that fabulous memories uh Martin thanks very much for my uh for the moment um we're gonna cycle back in with well for many let them on to a man who was the 2014 World Champion that Davidson I think is due back in the chair um enjoy the rest of the race thanks mate another family here with you and I'm sure there's some more Motorsport Adventures to come because success has come in with your boys as well right now whether it's the virtual the actual wallet's bleeding already arterially thank you thanks Graham thanks very much for your time we can listen again to what's going on with Eduardo Frances all cards to move left all cards to move left including the safety car let's prepare for the pass around prepare for the pass around no zigzagging no zigzagging start the pass around start the pass around 1am Central European Time we have 15 hours of the 2023 Centenary Le Mans still to run it is night time and we are behind the safety car and the voice you heard of Eduardo Freitas the World Endurance Championship at Lamont 24 hour race director starting the pass around behind the safety car so our three safety cars have been won do feel us being a white polo neck sweater sitting on a tall stool talking about three becoming one and maybe singing that way however the cars are in a queue to pass around now involves any car in any of our three classes that is in the queue ahead of its class leader gets waved by the safety car and comes around to join the back of the queue the door goes down on the number 17. and number seven Toyota gazu Racing ts010 tier zero turnaberg pardon and uh that car confirmed as being out of the race there's Neil Jani with the crew from the Decay nmp2 car and by the way in Haven Greg Goodwin and we are joined Now by Peter dumprecker Graham uh just about to shuffle the field around we could be within a lap or so of going back to green flag racing uh we could you saw that picture there Neil Johnny he is the latest driver confirmed to be joining the hyper car um Club if you like you'll be joining proton competitions very next WC racing Monza next month alongside Jimmy Bruni and Harry tickle back in the chair Peterson brick it's been dramas Galore Peter us what what a race I you know I think the general consensus is it's one of the best for a long time absolutely right so I've got a question very early in the racecourt hits up the back they lost a lot but the damage are they now going to give that lap back so no he'll re I think he's gonna restart this right behind the leader we have to what you missed was a little bit of banter uh with the race engineer and uh we'll come back to that in a moment let's say let's not what's going on with the number six Porsche we're still looking like seven to eight green flag laps uh listens the okay somewhat foreboding uh where Sebastian uh joshing I believe with his race engineer was asking whether or not they wanted to pass the leader or just hit him um but uh most certainly lighthearted from semester but what we think we took from that Martin is he's going to emerge from this process in a position to be able to get back on the lead lap exactly right and actually what that reminded me of was when we were talking to Antonio Felix De Costa on the grid at Lamont a couple of years ago where he'd qualified fourth he said all I've got to do is pass three cars I win them on okay that's the way to look at it absolutely the way to look at it and you're right uh caddy could be on the brink of of getting its lap back when we go back to green well some thoughts from Peter dunbrecht and Graham Goodwin and the next voice you hear in this chair will be Jim roller so uh with the pass around starting now so the process underway this is our third safety car total time under the safety car at this point for 248 minutes that's for the most part been for track clearance Barrel repair we are closing in though on what is that we're now into oh help me out here Jim it says a 10th hour yep and it is nicobula leads the field at the number 94 Peugeot absolutely who would have thought from the number eight the remaining Toyota I've told you already gone we can have a chat in just a short while about where the casualties have come from third at the moment the number two Cadillac racing v-series type are in the v-series are rather in the end of Alex Lin Antonio Fuoco lisandra Pierre greedy still in formation uh 50 and the 51 Ferrari 499ps in fourth and fifth place overall they are the cars correctly on the legal out with sep bordet Lawrence Mater and Michael Christensen uh in that train and be looking to make uh Hey when this this gets back to green flag running they sure will and if you're just joining us where have you been you don't you won't believe what you've missed it's astounding yes but this has been an absolute epic 24 hours we're only 10 hours uh not quite 10 hours in we're nine hours in and that's one way to keep warm let's carry on talking about what's going on in the classes before we bring Peter in for a bit of discussion about uh the trials and tribulations of the first hours of this race it is team wrt's 41 car cart in the hands of their silverink driver uh the angolan uh driver I got a Portuguese driver leads the way and at the moment is on a lap by himself but there is a pass around about the underway excuse me it's miskovsky for it's a Europa competition is second in the 34th Cooper Maldonado is at the moment the wheel of the palace racing 65 Oracle all cars in this 24 car starting grid it uh B2 with Oracle chassis heat exports Paulo chatsapp is back of the wheel and in fourth and Danny kiviat for Prima racing the 63 car what a recovery they've had over the last few hours Stone last yeah um in the uh the untroubled cars if GT am it is the I'm Dames in the lead Michelle gatic leads the race for the 85 of iron Damon's Porsche The Francesco Castellucci in the 54a of course at Ferrari and Rexy uh project one AO in the 56 Porsche and zabatu karoli he sits uh third so we're listening at the game to what's going on with Mr cavali ask all cars on track to close the gaps please car 70 E7 I have the feeling you may be delaying the park behind you that is Chris Reed at the moment Christian I love that man y'all get the giddy up let's go there you go um let's have a quick chat while we're waiting for this pass around to the rest of the procedure to come through the there has been actually quite a lot of attrition so far there has some of the race at the moment we list uh what is that 12 retirements now officially posted yep uh headed by the latest retirement which is the number seven Toyota after that multi-car incident coming into a slow Zone that same instant also accounted uh for the number 66 jmw Motorsport Ferrari both kibukobiashi and Louis Brett absolutely fine after what was actually got a frightening multiple car uh incident and uh racing team turkey has also called it a night as has the uh other hyper car to have dropped out and that is the Porsche Penske Motorsport entry Gemini was behind the wheel of that car the number 75 car when it had a fuel pressure situation and the car just crowned to a halt on the racetrack and they were unable to get it going again the um number 72 TF sport look to nothing incident did it yeah there's damage it wiped the rear wing off the car did go backwards into the wall but didn't seem that hard but he could not get that car restarted and I sort of wonder whether or not there might be an element of cause rather than effects uh there but uh I don't know if you saw that I did he on uh interests to Porsche cars hit the wall on the right side but as you say it didn't look big I think it was enough to certainly give him a puncture yeah um maybe some suspension damage I just wonder whether or not the shock through a wheel whether or not it was sideways thing through the wheel maybe driveshaft gearbox we've seen that a couple of times with uh with GT Cars and lmp2 Cars but it did not look a race ending incident for him but that's proved to be the case and sadly Henry pescarello's colors will not be finishing uh that I'm on 24 hours in its Centenary year Richard meal a of course so you'll have to tell me exactly what went on with the 83 car the race winning car last time out in spawn the F5 see that car out to the hands of Lila wadu not an incident I saw I'm afraid yeah then behind them proton competition uh Ryan Hardwick in the number 16 car the 60 Iron links Claudio's giovoni we saw that incident uh the 55 car that was all part of when the rains came and they were scattering cars at the Porsche curves uh Gustav Burch behind the wheel when that car retired that cow by the way not really extensive damage we're hearing from Aston Martin the car just wouldn't go back into gear so other than that if they got the car back that probably would have been good to go you mentioned the 60 car that incident with a 60 car for Claudius giovoni also accounted for the number 16 car of Ryan Hardwick so two Porsches in the same incident that went out there Gustav Burch ulis de pal in that 21 I of course it could have that also was the incident that delayed the number two at last am I right um so that was the that was the what drove oh no the number three number three one number okay um so that accounted to two more GTM cars and then Ricky Taylor uh okay 13 car had just a wretch in time and multiple incidents for number 13 come on after what's been a difficult run into this LeBron 24 hours with John ferrano having to pull out after injury at Laguna Seca a couple of weeks ago then the car being involved in a heavy incident uh earlier in the week which required that cannot be rebuilt around a replacement chassis and then multiple instance uh one for for the gentleman driver and then two for Ricky Telly before finally something seemed to let go on that car and heavily into the barriers and out of the race and finally on the first retirement the number 14 Nielsen racing car of Rodrigo Salas uh that car looked like Rodrigo slightly spooked by a a rapidly closing Toyota coming up towards the Dunlop chicane getting on to the the marbles to the uh to the inside of the circuit and turning we've seen it happen so many times sharp writes into the wall from where it did not continue that's the 12 cars no longer with us still 50 uh cars still running it wasn't that long ago that 50 was the there was all this right actually take that's right so there's a caption there somewhere with that picture I thought the shot of the Hendrick's garage with everybody with their lawn recliners it was distinctly American it is still got the hint of the extraordinary that I'm on 24 hours uh this year the celebratory firework display and uh light show was of what could it be described as Epic Proportions um if you did hear that through the the mites in here uh trust me it wasn't nearly this lounges that sounded more sitting in one of the old chairs behind here we've got 14 hours and 48 minutes remaining is another P2 car looks like it's going for a power cycle that seem to have works just trying to work out who that is somebody that's got some that might be the 80 car yeah that is fresh Bodywork that is there of course a car of Ben barnicotes that's Ben's helmet and he's struggling to get that thing fired control all delete all with one hand while you're trying to do the steering wheel and not a great Southwest to be happening with the safety car trying to sort things through the 80 car that we said before this race started the first time that um the race here could it be one in all three classes by the same team with a of Corsa at the moment there's Ben now gets the car away and is it gonna fire up properly this time see on this these are down to the Annapolis not up to full speed that will require coming into the pits I'm sure that's going to be a delay for the cart because we've started to merge and pass by and from there on in the pits are closed that car is not in good health is it you've seen there Peter he thinks there's any clues as to what Ben's dealing with um not really you know our account such as race car yeah yeah a car that just doesn't want to run you think but just not very quickly still got quite a way before the safety car chain uh catches up with the safety car single safety car now running down towards the first world championship militiamen chicane as Ben is just approaching Indianapolis but it is nowhere close to the kind of pace you'd expect in a game going through a power cycle engine's running drivetrain trying to select you here so no problems ahead or problems uh very apparent there for the number 80 car these dramas just keep coming don't they whether or not it's racing incident whether or not it's some fabulous racing we've had one we've had green flag running it has been quite a long time under the safety cars of this new safety car system it um I think it's great in the sense that it gives people back the lack that they might have lost for maybe no no fault of their own but it does seem to be takes time it takes a lot of time and it kind of you lose the rhythm of the race it does take time but I will say that I think at least two of the long cautions that we've had were because the barrier repair took a lot longer than I would have expected it to and the other thing too is I think some of the barriers around here are getting a little aging and and you're having to see things that are having to be repaired that maybe in the past wouldn't have had to be repaired but the other thing too is it's because of the speed of these cars now you can't have a barrier that's taken a hit and then just go oh yeah that's going to be fine if somebody else hits in that same spot that could be a barrier failure and you don't want that so you've got to fix the barrier I think you know when we're looking at Successful Failure I don't disagree these have taken a long time when we look at Successful Failure of this new process it's not necessarily the process it's the repair or The Incident That's led up to that that's right what I've been impressed by is when we've got to the point where the process kicks in that's happening quite quickly yeah that's only about a lap maybe a year and a half it seems it's pretty clear a brief themselves very well about what's required and I think they've done that because it's so different and it's so new here and because of the length of the lap it does give space and time to achieve what they're trying to do which is that class separation and this car is going to get back to the pits uh just before the safety car I think actually catches a much or it might just catch them but uh it's going to lose a lap it's going to clearly going in the garage isn't it so that's the least of his problems he almost doesn't sound he's he's probably just in one he's he's found a gear and that's it so safety car in this lap when it's not the right uh gear either is it no so with 14 hours uh probably be about 14 hours and 42 minutes to go by time we go safety cut is coming in at the end of this lap got 80 pulled to the right hand side on the runoff car 80 pull to the right hand side on the runoff there let all the cars pass please [Music] which is exactly what he has done and now here comes the Peugeot through the Ford chicane flick left lick right keep it a try to keep it under him and we are back racing at the Centenary of the 24 Hours of Le Mans [Music] chased by the number eight Toyota Nico Muller leads us that was almost a touch Side by each there four cars five cars trying to get through the Dunlop chicane and I think that's the the 80s so that yeah Toyota's the punches back to third now oh yeah he's lost two positions in that Exchange in the Dunlop chicane is that a catalog yeah the number eight leads now with the number two Cadillac with uh Alex Lin behind the wheel I don't think that's Lynn I think that might be Sebastian bordet ah trying to get his lap back I think it might be I think Alex is a little further back yes the graphic is telling us this is Lynn here going by the pujo sparks flying there dogs don't the Bulls on straights I think we may have both two shows yes in this and that's uh confusing well we're going to be clearing it we're going to be clearing the first timing Center Nico Muller was still leading he certainly isn't going to be but let's only get into the second uh member climbs out of the 80 car and has got back to the garage team manager car race here to the race director immediately it says Focus forward do some good clean laps here buddy said Paul hey goes barley and taker gets back onto the lead lap how's that for Easter some of that sea bass Magic oh it's 25 and 35 are under investigation for an incidents at 23.59 now that's an hour and 20 minutes ago yeah there's the two peugeots running right together so it's now Toyota number eight with uh our coward behind the wheel then Nico Muller then Antonio fuco then Alessandro Pierre greedy has he gotten out of the car tonight it's a very focused effort is that this Ferrari effort it's been a joy to watch them attack this race there's nothing conservative about the pace of these Ferraris nope and then they're chased by Alex Lynn in the Cadillac and then at the tail end of the lead lap now is the number three Cadillac in sixth place and that really is the comeback Drive of the race so far on board the Cadillac and uh camera break up there behind him on the Glick and ass cars is the number two of Alex Lin and replay what's happened here coming his first UK that is Ferrari up the inside the 50. they say they didn't look like they were up to speed because we were watching us so Rio hirakawa it is that um leads the race 0.8 seconds there are some some cards aren't there on there on social media so amongst the things being shown tonight Twitter is a somewhat photoshopped uh incident report sheet from Earth's for the 38 car famously hurts team jota a team by the way to joined hypercar just so we can tell the difference between the two cars see Martin we blew our opportunity because when he hit the wall one of us should have said Kasha we got the collision damage both the click of our Scars by the way still running and running strongly 10th and 11th the 709 car in 10th position three laps down on the lead and uh has fallen back into line with the car that started lapped out that puts on now just ahead of teammate and Roman demand there goes the 8C so whatever that was it was stuck in gear wasn't it that's what it looks like that was a quick fix for us to be anything more serious than that I think they've looked in the all-purpose racing toolkit which as we all know consists of a hammer a race tape a pair of tires I suspect it was the hammer that was used there was impressed me about the Ferrari team it's a slight clipping racing here for years so they have all been in GT yeah but like you know in the top class again it's just even things like reversing the order just before they come into the pit so they they line up the correct order and you know just little things like that they just look so professional into the gravel as they showed your car from fifth position in lmp2 one time leader in the class it is uh petrified at the wheel for that that's uh Marshall's post 11 that's again the first UK two cars together what was the other car involved there it's a big pinch wasn't it so he was down the inside it looked like and uh yeah the car on the outside better contact but I suspect that was the 47 Maybe it would have been it was uh either Manuel Maldonado or any binder was still the car and contention there and yeah punching the steering wheel in frustration and Pietro fidipaldi who led and led convincingly in the early hours of this race I think can't feel it coming away might need the bleep machine here [Music] I wonder whether it was slightly off wet offline on the inside there because it was a better damp on that bike straight still it did look a little one wouldn't go there so quite who was taking who slow Zone activated for that incident and the recovery of the 28 car back to Top Class Action this is the battle for the push third and fourth lane information penalty for overtaking under yellow in the next slow Zone [Music] by TF sport Aston Martin running fifth in GTM well up the order was that the car that was involved because when we saw the onboard from Kobayashi just before it was hit we saw a car passing another car there's another car involved here that I've not quite worked out the role of death default were a 39 draft car the 66 gmw the 35 mile beam Kobayashi and the 100 vulcanhurst Ferrari were all involved in the same space a secret see now I'm I'm working on it I'm working on it here we go again the Ferrari boys look come on I'm faster I know he's on the target but I'm faster I'm working on it I'm working on it I close that voice avoiding action on the braking Zone there because you almost take the back of the other his teammate I just saw that and then I'll take uh-huh North American racist yes yes absolutely yes logo of course that's for uh fans of Ferrari will certainly know what an art is North American Racing teams Luigi kinety forming that team he was the uh first person to win Le Mans in a Ferrari it was in 1949 it was the year after it was the year that we began racing here after World War II and that Victory cemented Luigi's relationship with Enzo Ferrari and led to him becoming the exclusive importer of Ferraris into the United States for many many years and North American Racing teams with his son Luigi Jr has a rich rich Sports car racing history that is just absolutely outstanding probably Luigi Junior still is is listening and uh if you are Luigi hope all is well yeah and listen to the tales that Jim glickenhoutz will tell you of his early encounters with Genetti and the defining Mark that left on his own mission to be in this great race car 28 and car 65 investigation so the other guy was indeed the penis racing car uh race control taking a look at that there's a replay of the nine car oh boy yeah Premier racing that's just that's kind of rough on the equipment it's like a tennis with racket abuse black girl well down 18th uh in LMP 246 overall at the moment [Music] a long way to come back for the second Prima racing cars they said about the 63 government covered back up the field pokering up and down a little delicious going well at the moment though the car shared with Dory on Pat elotti so slow zone is still in place for the recovery of the 28s you're getting the tumble down the order I'm afraid and losing laps and that's going to be a long way back yeah Maria hurricane leads for them on 24 hours for 2023 in this surviving thing number eight car you're joining us after a break over the first time says the car the number seven car involved in a multi-car incident going into a slow Zone hit from the rear by the 35 Alpine and that led to that car losing drive and what we would term going red yeah an unsafe hybrid system I think it got hit on both sides because was as much left side damage to 366 car came through between he and the 39. yeah can we give it a good shot I got um I could try to get the car back but it was beyond him so the seven car out of the race nearest competitor to that car in the overall order at the moment is care to take a guess that look at the topic screen prepare to be surprised it's a 94 Persia and that's been there for a while it has led this race more than once and led for many laps and that just laps under yellow no and uh Nick and Miller doing a fine job three seconds back at the moment so released fairly recently from a uh safety card process then it's the two Ferraris [Music] quicker than both of them and I think the Peugeot is very much [Music] in mixed conditions yes I think that's is the longer this stays dry I think certainly he's going to come under pressure very quickly from foco and I'm sorry remarkably at the moment uh what we've got are three pairs of two commands from the same teams uh from third all the way down to eighth uh so Ferraris to Cadillacs the two and the three um to Porsche Penske Motorsport 963s the six and the five sir positions one to eight racing has been Stella there have been incidents I have been safety cars around interruptions thought gosh yellows and slow zones when we've had green flag racing everything points to this being the start of something very special indeed in sports car racing because it's been hammering down there's been no when when the racetrack's been green it's been flat out all the way there's nobody saving anything for later five car going back into the garage there you go that's uh so many fun so we've lost one Porsche fence game Motorsport the other 75 car with fuel pressure problems eliminated some time ago problems now for the sister number five car cars have not been without their problems and that's not unexpected these are some very new very complicated race cars but boy of these guys been going at it so we're listening into Porsche find out what is going on for the number five Porsche 963 we'll take hybrid off ignition off and we are looking at the water leak water leak water league for the number five car and that does not look to be the work of a moment it's the 51 of fair greedy trying to go by his teammate yeah Antonio foco remember the headlines they're looking for the ones they're specifically not so the pass is made won't go behind Pierre greedy now coming through Milton corner and away they go would be interesting note to see if um fear of greedy pulls away as we heard before it sentences though Poco is actually on newer tires we'll confirm it's a little while ago this message arrived on my phone that uh I didn't see the incident before it's on block rest some time ago but I do know something fairly Hefty and it's taking a trip to the medical center he's been checked over and released back to the United Autosports team after an incident for the 23 at 10 minutes past 11 so there's what two hours and 20 minutes ago so thank you to the team for letting us know that's always fine [Music] car still running isn't it it is still running [Music] the car and uh 14th in what started it's a 24 car entry we've lost three of them we've had others that are or have been delayed and the 39 car that was involved in that multi-car incident with the Secretary of wqr and the Toyota that car still in the garage under repair [Music] I would make and back this year as I'm on for the first time in 50 years they started this race from Pole Position took the whole front row in an extraordinary hyper Pole it's real drama and they started this race as they meant to go on Battle guard both cars have led the thing the order was given there I think you probably I think he probably was yeah I think if they're struggling to kind of keep the momentum quite rather than it should you know these aren't Factory races you know all about that and it's not about your career it's about their reputation Let's uh look at the the fuser flapping away and that's the 911 car isn't it that's a little bit secondhand that's Martin runs after it goes to clicking house it's gonna need a fix at some point sooner rather than later I suspect repair on the five continues and that's allowed the 93 Peugeot to go back up into eighth position Michael Jensen aboard that car two laps off the lead now the eighth so the seven top seven cars now are on the lead map still rear hurricane Mula Alessandra Pierre greedy Antonio Alex Lynn Sebastian border and Lawrence Ventura of the current contenders in the league lap for win for the Centenary running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans character of lmp2s with hyperkawa sewing amongst them announced it on Friday that the lmp2 class has been such a storage supporter of this great race we'll leave the fiwec for the very best of reasons at the end of this season for now at least we'll continue in the European demand Series where we have a near 20 car fields of Stellar racing in the Asian oil series and also of course in the winter WeatherTech Sports Car Championship it's great to have John Dooley there quite a while in the booth trying to get our questions in as the dramas came at us like a frenzy Gibbon flinging whatever apparatus but uh also worth reiterating as it has been all the way through this it doesn't mean the Antebellum P2 here at 24 hours of the month and at least 15 of these fantastic cars will continue next year through a variety of modes of selection selection so next year we've got the 92nd iteration of the clinical demonic will be hypercar and more of them it will be lmp2 and it will be another new class lmgt3 replacing the GTE am cars that we have here for the very last time at the moment so the season to complete for these fabulous GT cars rui Android continues to lead the lmp2 category the number 41 team wrt then it is the number 34 inter-uripple Competition Car not a great one there having yeah outstanding and then the Duquesne in 30 car is racing in the 65 is fourth and cool racing 47 is fifth the leader of the Pro app category of lmp2 is the other cool racing car with Matthias Jacobson behind the wheel in the back cover the 37 card sixth in a class that's Jacobson in the 37 Colleen the pro arm sort of things it's two cool racing cars uh in fifth and sixth uh the Decay cop by the way in the hunter Freddie printer has just taken the third place it's a one minute stop and go penalty for car 35 for accelerating internet slow and causing a collision at MP5 that is I'm sure from the incidents that uh was sparked with the Toyota and the uh Ferrari the number 66 Ferrari let's see whether or not that is the only penalty that comes from that I don't think it will be the six car in for uh routine service that's the six car yes it is yeah and it is a switch to kironest [Music] you're getting to see some tired faces here we can now by the way say happy 21st birthday on it Coldwell should we sing to him I think the whole crowd should well I think the crowd should happen 21st birthday a very special time and what better way to celebrate it than with a one minute stop go penalty [Music] I cannot imagine he did not break what this is like 200 miles an hour plus with a Pitch Black it's the more you do it the more you kind of just accept it and you know you've got your your points on on the track or your marker boards that you pick out and then you hit your break point and you know what's coming no one's changed the track since the last time you came around so you know it's really yeah if you take a look from on board like we're seeing now but actually it's it's a lot easier in real life [Music] 63. that's big trouble big trouble for who's aboard that car Jim SEO copy box box box bit confirmed driver change for a sep you can undo your drinks bottle [Music] to the left-hand side and then continued into the other barrier on the right hand side and that is Dennis I suspect that's the end of the race for that car yeah he went from driver to passenger interesting how he let the car roll back onto the track though maybe no brakes anymore but um that's what I assumed because you would think yeah [Music] we saw him so we know if it is the barrier pretty hard I I think he hit on the right left and then came back the cops again so fight back to produce attention for the 63 I think has ended right there yes indeed sir vocal shallow is going to be coming in about 20 seconds time it's very recovery of that car recovery shouldn't be too difficult it will be clear up but we haven't yet seen and I almost hesitate to say it is whether or not there's barrier damage and here comes uh ayakawa instance uh pit stop for a Rio hirakawa as he was called to the pits for Coachella is called now and that's his ideal timing for Toyota pulls to a stop and loses gains if you like as much as is possible in those circumstances as the rest of the field is circulating more slowly flock of course is still ticking so less time lost to the rest of the field that doesn't seemed a little bit I really that car leaving the pit Lane there yeah they had tires ready but they chose not to change them but they said to him driver change you can undo his drink bottle that's right he did and they they did Full Service well remembered Peugeot back in the lead Nico Muller once again leads them on so somehow the full course yellow actually changed their minds yes that well I suspect that was they they knew they had more to gain by a quick pit stop in these circumstances although having said that you'd lose less wouldn't you with the driver if you're going to do it anyway yeah Danny caveat stalks away from that car and that I'm afraid is All She Wrote for the number 63 Premier racing efforts gonna be two at least to impact points to be examined and dealt with that is one very secondhand aurica big impact to the rear the rear right in particular [Applause] and we have seen through that left-hander normally cars don't go in the walls often but you haven't seen a few in there we have we have is that a function of carrying more speed perhaps watch again probably in the back area backwards there and then across the race track now that that hit didn't do any damage to the barrier well it did first hit me the first hit was a hefty crunch so that's what I'm thinking yeah if he had any breaks there at all he just started yeah because you don't really want to be rolling back onto the track he's experiences enough too to notice get the car stopped so [Music] let's see what the strategy is going to be now gosh hey it's at the festival is completed and not see anything yes we will give we will remove a tear off for James well I think gentlemen that is any hope of a meaningful result for Premier racing done that heavily delayed his 18th at the moment will obviously rise to nine uh to 17th at some point when the laps tick away but uh that 63 is done that is the end of Le Mans for 2023 for young Durham Pat and for Danny kiviat and with the other car so far down the field I'm afraid the Italian team will be looking after the Lamborghini hyper car effort next year That's All She Wrote yeah he's done damage to the side part he's rip probably he's gone around suspensions he's he's hit with the rear of the car dragged the side of the car along the Barry as well and uh be an upsetting moment for Dorian I'm sure she's quite the talent again to what's going on now with Alessandra Pierre greedy on the 51. with the air of course a car in a second and so far they are good but they had a lot of people drawn and things like it I'm not sure if we pushed 11 lap in a row like this is okay okay copy that that's why we think they're probably good for this kind of scenario we keep getting a lot of slow zones so lots of chatter with Ferrari very good spirits yeah yes I think so yeah I think this decision's been made about just how far they can push it at the moment with these Michelin Tires Lots going on still there in terms of developments in all sorts of ways longevity of the times of course we've seen the rather more if you like fan focused element here with the new color coding on the tires and still to come more and yet more uh in terms of the sustainability of these tires the the is I think you're right is it the wet is 40 renewable materials the dried Tire I think yes 30. up in the uh the village there's uh racing tires at 63 renewable materials that's a key part of the vision moving forward the road map that's being established so James collado he's going to get into car 51 when it hits he's going to get his own there isn't he what song do you think he's singing um show me the way to go home fast if you weren't with us earlier Peter explained that when he was ready to get so psyched up and into the car you sing a famous Scottish tune I believe I can fly no I have to walk 500 miles Flora Scotland did you really yes music has an amazing effect doesn't it in terms of just keeping focused shutting out everything else you know and care to give us a couple bars no one would appreciate that I'll wait till later when he's a little more tired [Music] it's a tough moment this isn't it for any team the other car is still after the pub is closed yes well here's the thing before we get to that let's go and listening to what's going on with Rio hirakawa the plan now is to come in when the full course yellow opens directly from which corner no no no it's just never mind full course yellow full course yellow wow that's right now now you've confused your job I have no clue what we have thought he was saying I mean it's easy to confuse me yep but you shouldn't confuse your driver still work going on on the water leak we heard didn't we from the number five Porsche that down to 12 position now and this will have helped them it's less delayed in terms of laps completed but there are still now three laps down on the lead battle and we're now down to what is it it is six cars remain on the lead lap by the way in and out that's an outlet for Rio so now down behind both Ferraris and the leader of The Cadillacs or seven cars uh Uh Kevin S is he still on the lead lap I'll have a look at that give me a moment no I don't the three cars the last car on the on the lead lap remember he got his lap DJs [Applause] 94 cop per at least this race you know if he he keeps doing this full cross yellow all the way through the race and in mixed conditions and crazy things happening you know they're definitely cannot rule that road and right now after the season they've had to this point and the end of the seat's been of last year there will be plenty of people at Peugeot and at salantis that will be turning cartwheels with the form of scene from these cars the other car by the way running in eight position and it's just one lap off the lead so to say this has been a turnaround in form is a massive understatement no one's Laughing Now nope I mean they probably came into the race feeling no pressure at all and let's finish the race that's what we can exactly I hate that the saddest sighting them on the garage door goes down [Music] or trusty tea maker Booth Runner and I'm afraid to say my son all around the Sun absolutely drinking buddy [Laughter] he says with barely described birth this guy's birth sells me the number six car will cycle around to be on the lead lap after this Pit Stop Cycle ah okay sure that makes sense [Music] for a driver change soon at Peugeot that's a lid I've never seen I mean Paul derista yeah I've never seen those colors before another one of those uh Lamar specials perhaps or new sponsor true well that's it that other part that we don't often talk about here is which is this is clearly a race on a rapid upward trajectory so unless it's going uh what's going on with Peugeot in the 94. yourself but I said it it's just quite risky so it's a if we have a long full christilo now it's just bringing the tires back in with how actually not predictable it is yeah it's not great but I will do my best the other thing to consider Nico is that there might be some rain coming in about 20 25 30 minutes perfect so this is also why we would rather not change tires discussion clearly about whether or not the envelope of these tires can be extended to keep the pit stop time down as much as possible amongst other things two things to consider if you're Miller thinking that's a little on the edge and then being informed by the race engineer rain is on the way oh we're gonna see the uh Ferrari being taken back it is a garage area now [Music] I think yep so [Music] Ferrari number 15 the hands Antonio Fuoco the pole setting car is in the garage more and more and more drama this is a simple matter trouble for the 311 a spin on the full course yellow this car has been on a near race long recovery Drive still what is it 17 laps straight away oh so that's coming out of the 40K as he's looped it there it's Pippa durrani they've had a long and lonely race this was after Jack Aitkin the major whoopsie through the first chicane in horrible conditions didn't seem to do very much wrong they ended with a car in the barrier and with pretty substantial front end damage [Music] oh so that was a Bremer car so we're right contact on the right side which put him over to the left and you were spot on pretty much destroyed the car [Music] wash your curves and Harding so is this I Was Gonna Save obviously uh suspension maybe no there's a or brakes let's have a listen to what's going on with the number 50. and we need to look for leak Lake braking system water system [Music] I thought that was a water pressure that would be a second car with a water leak if that's what it was it could be a braking system leak but uh I thought we saw the hands of one of the technicians there was yes well I think they've chosen the time to do it oh absolutely sure being full course yellow so making taking advantage of the of none of the cars at racing speed you're losing time just not losing as much time and they're not the moment losing a lap 9c4 car that leads the race is just left the is between the first and second she came to the Moon so they've got a little bit of time here to retain the lead like green flag though means that task just got a lot more urgents yep [Music] a big concern about his tires they've got very cold because he's been driving around slowly the truck's still a bit damp offline there you see so he's he's a little bit uh cautious [Music] Mojo lead Lamont of nickel Muller the 94 Persian 9x8 Alexandra Pierre greedy is the next threat the 51 Ferrari 499 P second place on the grid for that Ferrari team car though that was running in team formation is in the garage with we think a water leak this is the lead battle right on the tailpipe hitting that regen wine on those brakes they go through most on hard on the accelerator as they head down towards Indianapolis and that is just job done that was much easier than I expected it to be [Music] so Ferrari now leads Alessandra Pierre greedy and I think he's gonna be looking to turn the screw he needs to because Alex Lin not that far behind in the number two Cadillac nope 3.7 seconds off the lead before that pass was made and of the drivers in this race to this point I would put Alex Lin's form right up there [Music] it's right on him as the so we're looking to do what he can do to get the big face engine caddy to second place and in pursuit of Alessandro Pierre greedy keeping an eye on what's going on with the 50 still in the garage and it's not gonna be much longer before they lose a lap here [Music] oh [Music] already pulled a second and a half in less than half a lot they're gonna lose the lap yep yeah greedy from Muller from Lynn it's like maybe the end of a repair coming up here but uh it's still not plotting things back onto but in comes the 51 the lead cast of mullica's back into the lead and he comes through but instead of losing just one they would have lost three left probably two laps for sure so we're seeing hirokawa come back into the pits we did hear a little bit of Radio Chat with them I don't really understand why they pitted and then pitted again now and they were talking about driver changes so they'd probably do that driver change pool service now there's a strange strategy I don't get that one I didn't understand it either don't know what they were that what they could gain from that it didn't look typically towed to the type of stop it looked a bit messy coming in it looked a bit messy going out [Music] they could grab a change we saw James collada preparing to get aboard the car he'll do so now in the number 51 car the sister cart still in the garage joining here Rio hirakawa on pit Lane a little further back except for day in and out at the meantime with the number three Cadillac goes by the number 50 car into sixth position as he does so the second version just passed by the number 93 car the eight car I think just jumped that Ferrari in the bits I probably may have I think you're right Graham yep there it is confirmation came on yeah exactly so where are we also game on for uh Sebastian bournet now he has lost uh lost that lap again with his pit stop but when the leader hits yes he will get that lap back and it'll be interesting to see how much he's gaining two Club Battle for the lead between Nico Miller and the fast closing Alex Linton Cadillac looking to grab the lead here before the next Pit Stop Cycle comes through and then a Battle Royal as well between simple way me now more than a breakdown taking over from Rio hirokawa and James collado in close to contention with the Toyota both those cars and outlaps now and totikazoo racing leapfrogging the Ferrari still the second Ferrari 50 car with some kind of fluid leak with think of water leak is in the garage [Music] Peugeot Cadillac Toyota Ferrari four different makes in the top four as we come to the end of the tenth hour of this quite fabulous race it's quite fabulous events there's so much more at a race this week here with 100 Years of History here at Le Mans being celebrated [Music] get down to fifth place before we see the second car for any of the makes involved in this 16 car deep started Grid in either car and that make his Cadillac 1.5 seconds the gap for the lead James collado 2.3 seconds back from the next set of brake lights we can see ahead that is the remaining Toyota with traffic coming for Subway me very interesting to see how moaming can handle the traffic as we have less than 14 hours to go now it's two o'clock here at lassard that's uh 8 P.M on the East Coast it took you a while there yes indeed it'll be interesting to see for me anyway whether uh collado is going to be able to close up on that Toyota ahead I wonder what the pace is like he's just out this is his Outlet and joining us in the booth for uh the overnight hours Sky Smith it's actually both yeah welcome back guys hello I actually bought fuemy and collado both are fresh in the car that's right so it's it's interesting now for me to see who's going to be the quickest to get on on the keys push the car and uh get up to speed no time to warm up straight into an in Peter certainly and straight into the darkness as well but also straight into probably the best track conditions that they've had because probably the last time both of these guys were in the garden track conditions weren't quite as good [Music] second stint for both of these [Music] drivers 123 laps complete let's find out what they're telling James collado is there anything I should know about the track at the moment it's full green I'll talk to ollie I'll talk to Ali the chicanes stay tight on the line because off the line it's still damp stay up next to the curbs that's very interesting [Music] I think we could see that from the yeah from our camera and goes yeah and on the various offset people were having I think it's just a case of trying to get up to speed for for James isn't it making sure that you know while he hasn't been in the car if there's anything that's come to light um obviously the track's evolving and changing so um yeah when uh when pigweedy came out the car was what was the feedback on the car what was the feedback on the circuit anything they could do to help him to get up to speed will be a big benefit the days of drivers having a talk when they are on the exchange I'm long gone more about efficiency we can get you the information over the radio but the days of that little bit of conversation for you see the drivers talking about the car maybe hand gestures that sort of stuff not anymore not anymore but funnily enough this is one of the few championships I think where the pit stops are as quick as you can make them most championships nowadays have a pet wind or a tank that you have to stay in the pits so take notebook ring 24 hours for instance you have to be in there for a couple the drivers can pass over the information firsthand but in this racing there's no time for these pit stops off to be as quick as possible when it can make the difference between um winning the resin not winning the race right and lnp2 now we've got uh Prime car actually leading overall with the uh the core racing car there is Jacobson behind the wheel another of the uh 14 Danish drivers that are here at the mall and he's just been uh recently appointed uh Peugeot Junior driver so great uh I'm sure they'll be watching his performance very closely [Applause] almost 300 kilometers an hour before he got to the breaking point for the first she came [Music] and you can hear the engine note of the P2 car quite quite different to the hyper gun [Music] let's hear from the team what's up we are expecting some rain so we need to go along these mates we are currently leading the overall relationship [Music] with the rain coming and starting to play to all of these teams we need to save fuel so that we can stay out longer we're trying to get here so we don't have to make an extra stop when the rain gets here so there's obvious things you can do in this situation I suppose one of the most obvious is be lift off when you're at Max Speed you just left off a bit earlier and they're still still break at the same point one of the other things is most of these drivers are left with braking so if there's a crossover between your break and accelerator it burns extra fuel so that's something to think of it as well the the crossover is is so dramatic and quite often with the lifting codes if you do it well you can actually go just as quick pretty much doing the lifting course as if driving normally because once you're at maximum speed if you kind of just roll out of the throttle slightly earlier it doesn't really affect the lap time too much but it saves you know quite an amount of people yeah [Music] sit and listen to these onboards and in the P2 car they're quite high revving and there's quite a lot of vibration in the car they really really do sort of resonate and vibrate in the car but they're an amazing amazing uh amazing car super reliable and obviously won't make uh you know one minute class now yeah but it's it it doesn't feel like spec racing no it doesn't feel like spec racing even though it is a one-man class everybody's running the Gibson which is based on the Nissan engine they're all running the Orca chassis everybody's on Goodyear Tires it's a spec Tire now it's got a little sort of train of uh lmp2 cars with Jacobson who's the overall leader in lmp2 trying to put them another lap down [Music] 50 cars still undergoing some work I think we've got our answer now on James collardo he is starting to close the gap slightly on Sebastian bohemi ahead of him so we could see a good little battle uh developing there quite soon and also uh bohemi isn't exactly closing wasn't exactly closing on Nico Miller of course he's uh made a pit stop so that will that will change that around but straight off that's the uh is that the Corvette yeah I think you're right yeah and this is what you don't want to see as a driver you know you've been fighting for the win leading the race and and the next thing you're you're in in the garage it's um it's uh yes heartbreaking ready car that has spent a lot of time near the front of the GTM category the gr racing number 86 Ben Barker behind the wheel of that car but they're trying to catch up the 56 Rexy the project 1ao car Gunner Jeanette now behind the wheel of that car is on an outlap the iron Dames with Rachel Frey in the number 85 car is second in the class then the proton competition 911 with Francesco castillichi behind the wheel then the Kessel racing the first time we've uh first time we've called Kessel racing Daniel Sarah is in fifth position in the glass in the number 57 Ferrari time you said I want a couple of times already here haven't he once in at least once in Aston Martin I'm in the Ferrari in a um GT Pro in yeah I think that's breaks guys [Music] back on board with Jacobson and he's actually dropped back a couple of spots um I don't know whether he made a pit stop but he's dropped back down now to P4 in in class [Music] there was a scoring glitch well yeah unless he's really saving a lot of fuel and and well he's backed out of it you know quite aggressively but he's definitely dropped back now um and so I was coming from behind as well getting the blue blue lights it was almost 20 seconds back actually isn't it yeah that's something else that's unless there was yeah I'm not sure I said a spin that would that would explain it because as you said he was at the head of a train so if he had it off or just going wide somewhere it cost him some positions back on board with our second place Toyota this is seven seconds up the road to start to see the lights now of the Peugeot and then people cop it just gives you that if y'all got car chasing that when you see those rear lights it just gives you that little character yeah starts to Chase and chip away and try and um into that Gap I know I imagine the team will have told him that he's quite close to him and just to egg him on a little bit I'd be interested to know who's led the most laps so far I mean I think that Persia seems to have been out front for quite a while now yeah exactly yeah it would be uh [Music] so we've got one Peugeot One Toyota one Ferrari Two Cadillacs now in the top five so this is a replay of the Corvette going where is it there's another car going straight to him no that was the the replay of what we saw earlier I thought maybe it was a replay of something that happened to Jacobson because now he comes so there's the Camaro the number 24 car the NASCAR to Le Mans tree garage 56 we had John Dooney in a little while ago and everybody associated with this program is just over the moon happy with how things have been going Mike Rockefeller behind the wheel of the car now when it's done fueling hopefully we'll stay with these pictures and you'll see the uh the dance of the Jackman no hydraulic jacks on this car as is kind of the standard in in road racing this is uh the floor jack and looks like they're going to replace some fluids first high pressure system it's come apart so this is going to be a long Pit Stop Tire Changers were able to do their work in just over 10 seconds in the pit stop competition and it's quite a ballet to see these guys work with the Jackman and with the way that we can only have in this form of racing so many unlike formula one where you have seven people for each tire you only have so many guys that can go over the wall to work on the car and here we go Jack that thing weighs about 45 pounds which we worked out earlier yeah [Music] a so-called see this car it's such a it's a great thing to see and hear and they're continuing to carry on they have uh they're turning lap times in the in the four minute range [Music] they have climbed as high they've they have all of their laptops in the practice sessions we're quicker than the GT cards but they're kind of mired in the middle of the GT field now in 24th position overall think they're I think their wish for the day is to get close as close as they can to being in the top 20. I think one of the factors is when it rained and the tricky conditions they lost their straight line speed advantage and all of a sudden the GT cards exactly right are on them so the 50 car now slipped down to 12th Place so that's promoted both Clinton house is up to you've been nice now and the 37 car the core car we've been following is now in the pits it's dropping down the order so maybe they really did have a problem yeah yep yeah because he's now been in there for a while and we start to see the 50 cars dropping down the uh the leaderboard now the 14th overall 15th overall such a shame they're running so well led the race various times poor position car of course here's Mike Rock and filler that distinctive downshift through the gears five-speed paddle shift on this car unlike the wow just aged myself there when did they stop running that a long time ago oh the cup car of today which is this is the same as the Gen 7 cars that you'll see in NASCAR action on Sunday afternoons but this car has instead of a sequential it has a sequential gearbox but it's a battleship as opposed to the sequential shift on the floor which is what the Gen 7 car has other than that it's pretty much identical it's 400 pounds lighter than a cop car and they were able to achieve that through going from steel brakes which is the the rules in NASCAR to composite carbon brakes which took out a lot of the weight and also they did some reconfiguring full course caution we have another full course caution as seen on the screen yet why we may have that going back to the NASCAR one other fact is they remove the hybrid system that the ACO asked them to put in so in the end the AC all said okay you don't need to have a hybrid and they and that was a big weight saving yeah both the clicking house is still still running [Music] safety car this is just the field gets neutralized to 80 kilometers an hour can we see any cars stop no track whether the frame a car okay we we know that stopped 63 car perhaps no that's the Prima car is there debris there was a there was a a message about debris on track but um this is good news for the 50. yeah yeah how many laps have they lost does it say probably six six laps yeah yep yep worst feeling driver sitting there you know all the hard work's been done so 20 minute rest and then you go again so now do you become the um the test the test mule for the sister car so for example if you have change your conditions and you want to try a different tire or something um while this car is clearly out of the race for the win um it it could be used for you know to help the sister car in some ways I think I think you have to I think you have to there's so much on the line here it it gives you that opportunity to maybe go to slicks early or something like that we have heard that there is rain expected in the next uh in the next little while they said 20 minutes uh about 10-15 minutes ago [Music] it says the full course yellow is going to end shortly so maybe it was just debris on the circuit yeah that makes it a a very short caution gonna go out on sauce again we talked earlier the Toyota started on sauce because of the mixed conditions everybody else during the daylight pretty much raced with the mediums and tonight as you guys expected they have almost all gone to songs so interesting even though we had a fairly High track temp no one no one's from what I saw being on hard tires all all weekend [Music] current ambient temperatures 19.8 track temperatures 23.1 this looks like the fight for second place just look at the screen there it says stop for the Cadillac and the Penske Porsche I know it's no it's good still going [Music] so we've got uh real fried in front of Martin rump see Porsches this is the battle for second place in the GTM category through tetrusion out onto the mall Sun straight away see who has the see who has the horsepower as these cars will reach their terminal velocity at this racetrack in this section of the racetrack so fry trying to hold off rump as they come to the first chicane looks like rupp's trying to at least having a look down the inside thinks better no has made the pass has made the pass and now has taken over second place as they exit the chicane and now his next Target is going to be Gunner Jeanette who's a little bit a little ways up the road okay here's the replay so it's a straightforward yep pasta on the outside [Music] it's a good move it's Thomas Loudon back there head of Porsche Motorsport looking on board with the number eight Sebastian women web is now already closing in within the second of Nico Muller so he's within Striking Distance so uh and not far behind where me is uh James collado so it's uh it's getting tight up from now yeah game on again and the Cadillac number two Alex Lind is only uh 12 seconds uh behind the leader just eight seconds behind our third place Ferrari [Music] and there he can see them as they go underneath the iconic Dunlop Bridge down through the Dunlop messes the Hunter and The Hunted so when we last talked about him it was seven seconds behind so he's closed up he's probably closed yeah more than a second the last one if you look on the last lap there it's five five thirty one for the fenika Muller in 525 there which was full course yellow of course but yeah 516 for a colada so [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] of course it was the Peugeot team that uh as you said 20 minutes or so go told Nico that there's likely to be something rain coming Nico's probably just thinking he wants to get out of the car before the rain comes well I I think that when it does come he will be getting out of the car and not around just hand over yeah the Toyota is right right with him now this is the battle for the lead [Music] we know the Toyota is good when the conditions are a tricky therapy so they'll be again looking forward to that uh potential rain exactly if that rain comes it just puts them in a much better position I expect the Toyota will Breeze by fairly easily there he goes yeah yeah in terms of straight line speed it definitely seems to me that the Peugeot is possibly the weakest one or setting up that's maybe not the strongest um and even even eye of the tighter Corners at lacks that boost I mean we were going to see the the Toyota just pull away that extra little bit it just doesn't seem to have the oomph out the corners if he's gone already yeah [Music] but we did here Nico talking earlier about the car being just a little bit unsettled in certain areas of the track and we've seen that by the runboard run on the in the daytime as well and we've got the pit stop for card number eight under investigation which is the leader so I'm not sure what that is about but there's a possible uh issue there with their pit stop so let's uh let's see what happens with that whatever yeah that's a car that made two stops yeah um and it seemed like unnecessary I wonder whether the the um Pitney had actually you know was closed or surround yeah it's definitely it was a strange one and got James Carter now catching up again he's only 1.1 behind uh Nico Muller so again it won't be long before uh trying to get past so the 51 the 50 car is now back on track good indication of a wet offline there so yeah the truck still hasn't even though it's quite quite warm so it hasn't properly dried it's very humid still [Music] just a little over 13 and a half hours remaining [Music] a whole lot of race yet to be run yeah that 37 cool car it's dropped right to the back now it's obviously got a problem still in the pits [Music] that's too bad they had a really good run going so Grandma's pulled out 1.6 seconds in the last couple of laps so he's just getting his head down and trying to pull out pull out a gap hopefully there'll be no issue with the uh with the pit stop still waiting to find out more information on that [Music] and uh the gtem category only 17 seconds now separates Martin rump and Gunner Jeanette so keep an eye on that see if the 911 proton competition entry you can close in on Jeanette in the 56. back on board with Nico Miller second place in the pujo just a little over two seconds behind our race leader Sebastian Webby must be frustrating for him knowing that he could really do nothing about the Toyota coming by and potentially later on maybe on the motorcycle the 51 car will probably just pass him on the street as well yeah because that's the 51 right behind the Peugeot now as they head into Indianapolis I'm sorry that's Porsche curves yeah it's really interesting to see the difference in the two cars how the the Peugeot is visibly moving around more um and the Ferrari just seemed to be completely nailed down but you know through the porch Corners there fastest corners on the track yeah Peugeot actually looked like he pulled away so it might look a little bit more nervous but it's certainly um doesn't lack pace through there and it's interesting that it would be a little more nervous in the dry but not as nervous and perform better in mixed conditions when everybody else is nervous yeah sometimes it can be maybe their their sort of suspension setup is a little bit softer the car's a bit more compliant um so when it does become cooler or it becomes um you know inclement weather that the car just seems to yeah those those um conditions better [Music] hurry's not really gained on him I mean let's see now I mean we were just saying earlier on that it seems to be the straight line speed the Peugeot is perhaps lacking a little bit compared to the uh the other the other hyper cars but um let's see if he claws back some of that time now as we get up to the Bolton straight yeah the proof will be in the pudding here if they go down towards the first chicane because this is the fastest part of the racetrack this is when they reach their highest speeds right before the breaking point for the scan little strip between there on the 100 Ferrari able The Walking Horse entry hard on the brakes and it doesn't look like he closed in that much guys no Nico Miller is trying really well I love pressure to lead the race but he's keeping his head their last lap time where uh 32-7s one was a 32-727 the other was a 32-5-8 so Mueller had a better better lap time last lap and just by us ghost there goes your race leader Sebastian blemmy Here Comes second and third just two seconds behind [Music] over the hump as we go back there they are it's almost as if the Peugeot was starting to close back in on on you're right it's like it's uh it's found like a new at least a life yeah where's his base [Music] who's gonna be able to work through traffic better in these high-speed portions of the racetrack [Music] in Indianapolis well that worked well for the the Peugeot not so good for the Ferrari yeah it's so difficult um for these GT guys because they are absolutely on the limit yeah of course when you've got a hyper car probably either side of you trying to get around you in a in a high-speed Corner such as the Porsche Corners um it's it must be very difficult trying to look at your mirror and hold your line going around the number 98 Aston Martin [Music] which is currently 10th in gtem Ian James behind the wheel of that car Ian making his first return here and almost 20 years [Music] I spoke to him I used to race against Ian yeah 1994 in former Vauxhall Junior I I saw him probably for the first time since about that time in The Paddock and now we were just trying and he's been in America for 27 years man yeah yeah racing pretty much full time over there [Music] the fastest time yeah that's that that's a personal best for that car and a three what is it 329 672 the same for the uh for the Hendrick NASCAR it's done its best personal best time with Mike Rockefeller at the wheel so the tracks obviously starting to come in a little bit yeah just in time for it to rain exactly cooler weather stronger stronger engines thicker air more horsepower [Music] let's find out what they're talking about at Toyota [Music] okay so three laps to go this thing three laps to go this thin [Music] so [Music] still James collado can't quite get onto terms with Nico Miller Muller's actually matched the last lap time of bohemi which is both slightly quicker than clado so Muller's is genuinely there on Pace he's in the Remy caught and passed him and then since then he's sort of found another gear and yeah he stepped it back up again so yeah as you say it's driving a great race foreign [Music] of a similar Pace as the leaders are very very close on on that side but he's still um still 10 well almost 11 seconds behind but he is on on Pace ah but he was 12 earlier so he's chipping away he's dripping away at it so there you go they're close enough now that we're measuring it in meters not in uh in seconds [Music] pretty accurate GPS gosh when you see him that close is how hard is it to stay disciplined and just not take it a little bit deeper than you should [Music] I don't want to know I think you've got some of those I mean Peter I wear them when I Saturday night normally yeah so [Music] oh my God [Music] what is it about cloven hoof [Music] right now he's on it yeah it's always close [Music] he's got to run now he had a very very good sect too collado [Music] again there's lots of lap times been deleted for track like this but we haven't seen any penalties as yet and no warning either no you just you'd have thought perhaps by now what if we would be the uw5 uh your five Jokers as it were so we have a yellow at Marsha post 35 that's gone now Mr spin [Music] so Muller is matching and there's the pass the pass has been completed [Music] so now our running order is Sebastian bleming nope timing and scoring lied to me am I still there he's still there yeah so I was thinking it'd be very difficult to overtake in the middle of Porsche cars yeah it's actually pulled out a gap hasn't he yeah he has almost a full second now 9.9 six seconds [Music] this has gotten very interesting this is this is uh I didn't expect the Mueller to be able to to hold him off like this yeah this is an excellent drive this young man's put this car on his back because he's turning this almost the same lap times as as boy me this last lap he didn't he was uh almost a second a second slower but certainly matching matching what collado can do [Applause] there's the number three Corvette still Sebastian bourde oh man no he's going around yeah yeah I thought is he heading into the whoa I think it was just to spin there was a very I just missed it it was a very quick yellow uh flag so yeah he tried to show his intention that he was coming down the inside but the P2 car was having none of it [Music] that's the 41 car which is currently third yeah in the lmp2 category Android behind the wheel of that car risky pass actually you know to yeah but he's TR he's he's trying so hard to get back he is but you know sometimes into there against the P2 car which is very little difference in speed yep it's maybe not worth the Bola here we go the run out of most on down towards Indianapolis colado have enough this time to get by he's gonna send him on the outside yep he's gonna make him go around the Long Way once he's in front what's caused is in front it's gonna oh yeah oh yeah yep collado used that car as a pick s the line the right hard on the brakes for the left and now on to Arnage which is the slowest corner on the racetrack [Music] and job done for James collado as he takes over second position and is now going to try and hunt down Sebastian Webby who has a 4.5 second lead over the Ferrari I think William is doing the pits this time it looks like maybe Ferrari also so yeah I wonder what these uh the crew of the NASCAR team the Hendrick boys think of 24-hour racing well some of them have just come off the Coca-Cola 600 which is the longest race of the season over Memorial Day weekend Oh wow [Music] that move yeah 10-4 will hit this lap so here he does uh come into the pits [Music] after that spin after his uh little Contra Tom with the lmp2 car one of the Porsches in front of him that's the number six car Kevin Esther behind the wheel of that car [Music] routine service for both of these cars at this point Esther comes to a stop sport day they'll check the car over make sure there's no damage driver change now Sebastian bordet will get out I think that's going to be Dixon Scott Dixon yes indeed I just wanted to check my helmet chart before before I uh committed but yeah Scott Dixon seven Time Indy car champion and they'll be checking that car after the contact I think um before they mentioned about a vibration whether it was just a flat spot perhaps on the tire but they were just checking there's no suspension damage [Music] heads off for his uh evening rest okay Smith and I'll carry on with you through the rest of the evening this is it you're straight out onto the uh onto the track onto the mall San 200 plus miles an hour [Music] yeah but it's so much nicer when you're doing it when it's dry that is because you at least have some Markum of what to expect as opposed to a surprise at every corner um but it's interesting because you go from being kind of in the garage kind of it's all quite peaceful and relaxed and then you get into the car and you sort of flat out and uh full adrenaline so it's uh it's a big change this is a battle for the P2 lead um now so we've got two of the smaller teams into europol and to Ken doing a fantastic job and now battling for the uh for the overall lead in lmp2 Neil Yani a past winner of this car of this race not in this car yeah and he just been announced as a driver in the proton Porsche hypercarf so that's a great uh you know great to see him in that program fantastic driver and he's doing a great job with the Ken team back in a portion where he of course he did sit well in the Rebellion as well he did he did he's a very fast shoe he'll uh come into the pits now as the 34 carries on the Toyota's not beating us yet so it must be June yeah gotta be any minute nice shooting the fry we'll just follow it and try and match it yeah do what he does so Yani brings the number 30. Kane entry in [Music] they have not had a trouble-free run either involved in a couple of close calls and a couple incidents there is the number eight as we expected so that's going to put the pujo number 94 and now the Cadillac number two of Alex Lynn and the 51 did follow the eight in also as we expected so the peugeot's back in the lead again yes Peugeot back in the lead doesn't look like they don't have tires out uh at either pit so this is just going to be fuel only cleaning the windshield [Music] we're waiting wemmy is released [Applause] here he comes and he'll go by collado right there and there you hear the Ferrari firing up so nothing really lost there for the Ferrari but nothing really gained either no and these guys kind of circulating the same kind of lap time so it's kind of been sort of status quo for the last few laps so let's see what kind of an advantage now the Peugeot and the Cadillac have also what their energy levels are will be interesting to see [Music] this is that ebb and flow this is one of the things that I love about endurance racing guy is the the ebb and flow of the pit stop Cycles when you have an American oval track racing you'd almost call it like they're off sequence because you know they'll pit now and the other guys may not pit for five or six more laps yeah and that's a and and you have to kind of do the do the math as to what they gain or lose after the pit stop after things have settled down okay what was it before the pit stop yep and what is it now and that to me is one of the most interesting aspects of sports car racing is that is that give and take and it's you know you you get to that point where it's kind of like what I like to call the crossover Pit Stop where you're so where you're close enough now that the next time you make the pit stop you're going to be able to hold the advantages it's like with Nico Muller and Alex Lim is to see um if they've gained some time okay step 51 is on fuel only sorry correction fuel only for the Ferrari you're ahead we gained in the stop okay they gained a second well a second uh anything to cheer up the driver but no I'm just saying I think that um with Nico Muller and Alex Lin obviously not quitting here and they've been out on tractor they've had clear track and we're able to run you know continue to turn fast laps they may well have gained or we'll have to see once they do their pit stops we'll get a better idea but as you're right it it's that ebb and flow so uh the dreaded undercut and over cut yeah hey it's funny because you see with the racetrack now at the moment it seems quite quiet there doesn't need to be many cars around there's times where the track looks like it's 80 cars on the track and so sometimes it's like you're the only car on the track um and of course that's what you always hope for [Music] um this is the leader in uh into europol in lmp2 making its Pit Stop [Music] so three minute stop and go penalty for car 74. for not respecting the full course yellow procedure who is that that's the castle racing car yeah black Ferrari the black and orange Ferrari then and then again another one that has not had a trouble-free run as our leader comes back out onto the racing Surface after their pit stop in lmp2 [Music] so that will kind of settle things out because the 30 car has made his Pit Stop already so once we get a uh what's across the timing line we'll see uh just what's happened to the advantage there or not and at the front of the field Nico Muller again is managing to maintain that Gap back to Alex Lin both cars circulated embraceable lap times but uh blend's keeping the pressure on but the gaps remaining quite consistent right now so uh down to seven seconds and it looks like the 38 is going to head back into the garage again currently 10th in class and there's four laps down on our leader so it was a it was a promising start fully uh fully started to unravel when uh Yi went into the Tire barrier the Porsche curves yeah it showed some real Paces it's been really really quick just just been um yeah just a little bit unlucky and sometimes this place you know is just not going to give you a break those weekends for that crew here's your second place cat7 almost eight seconds now behind the Puja of Nico Miller Alex Lynn has just done an outstanding job in this stand 7.2 seconds now behind see if he can eat in this is starting to look like uh four or five horse race at this point where's Scott Dixon trying to get back on the lead lap let's see what they're talking about at Cadillac foreign [Music] but he's great we've got uh one two three four five manufacturers in the top five five different manufacturers that's what we that's what we that's what we come here for exactly that's exactly what we've come here for in comes Alex in his marks on the on the pit limiter this car sounds so awful and the project one uh AO carve is still leading in uh GTE got a 24 second lead so those guys doing really well I mean they've had a they've had a quite a rough season um so they're doing really well you know if they can hang on in there so our uh top two cars are in the Peugeot has also come in looked like there was a did Nico get out looks like there may have been a driver change there and adding fluids to the Cadillac possibly stayed in yeah he may have well he got out and stavo menezes has gotten back behind the wheel of that car come with another one who turned into pretty good stint earlier yep he's uh so yeah super fast very competitive super fast Californian yeah so we've got Clara now for four and a half seconds behind where me um [Music] 10 seconds further back is uh his Menace is so where he's lead No in fact Lemmy has pulled out a little bit on him uh last lap he was uh about six tenths quicker tire change now for a new set of boots for the 708 looking house Olivier far behind the wheel of that car yeah it's great the two clicking house kind of almost like having a it's Team Battle they're kind of in their own their own little race but uh doing a great job and um both cars are running well and uh inside the top ten still running still running yeah there are others who are not so just to recap we've got uh bohemian collado [Music] Toyota and Ferrari first and second and then in lmp2 it's the inner europol number 34 and The Duquesne team number 30 and the penis racing Olivier penny is uh number 65. great to see him as a car owner that uh jab van art is behind the wheel of that car and inventor actually for this race has a replica of uh of Penny's helmet when he won the Monaco Grand Prix yeah it's fantastic and it was a surprise and he put it on when Penny was in the garage he was quite pleased to see that and then in in gtam it's uh the number 56 project 1ao Gunner Jeanette behind the wheel of of that card affectionately called Rexy his uh teammate Hyatt has uh daughter wanted to see the dinosaur so got the T-Rex teeth across the front of the Porsche and little T-Rex arms on the uh on the on the on the doors it's a great great delivery a special delivery for this race then comes the AF course of Ferrari number 54 with Francesco castellicci and then the iron Danes Dames Rachel fry behind the wheel of that so it's a Porsche Ferrari Porsche and the the interesting thing that that a of course a Ferrari number 54. that's the silver Ferrari that you see there of the of the AF course a fleet of of Ferraris that car is just quietly quietly appeared in the top five and now it's appeared in the top three just going about their business working workman-like Manor and that's it that's what this race is all about isn't it it's about staying out of trouble [Music] now we're gonna check in and see what Sebastian Webby thinks okay exactly to you stabilizing with the roll bars is there anything we can do to help you question I don't know [Music] okay so we're sitting here uh seeing the phrases of how Sebastian Webby is starting to pull out a little bit of a lead on collado and then we find out from Team radio that he's virtually disgusted with his race car and having trouble dialing it in and the crews say we're seeing you adjust the roll bars what else can we help you with that doesn't get it figured out he's chipping away uh Claudia's there he just put a little bit more um timing on on Grammy so you know he's under pressure it's a fight it's a fight and he's looking he's trying to use all the tools uh it's disposable uh that's disposable to him in his car so that he can try and get some more speed out of that car it's um trying to tune it to the Circuit the track's perhaps changing as it as you know it starts to cool down and he's trying to you know dial that race car in um the best that he can and and blemy's not a guy who's shy about talking to the crew about what he thinks is wrong with the race car he's he's pretty vocal uh has been his entire career yes about he is a perfectionist and he wants that car to be as well dialed in as he can get it and he's not afraid to let the crew know if it's not up to a uh standard he likes yellow at Marsh supposed 11. [Music] the handy-dandy map here that's to the entrance of the first game okay and we can see the the first two cars actually pulled out small Gap over the Peugeot and the Cadillac so they're about 13 seconds um back now and our our battle is rejoined in lmp2 as uh the inner Europe pole entry number 34 and the decaying team number 30 Neil Yani is now closed to within half a second and I think he's going to make it make a stab at taking over the top spot here on this lap the Peugeot number 93 which is the car that's in seventh place overall a couple laps down to our leader after having some issues early in the race and just going through this battle kind of separated them a little bit I'm gonna have a slow Zone uh slow Zone slow at zone three which is Marshall post six [Music] so that's the uh that's tetrouge okay so we are again into uh that area of the racetrack for a slow Zone that's been kind of The Hot Zone in this event Calamity Corner if you will oh that was close that was close that was really close he'll look back at the highlight video and go oh my God I didn't think it was that close [Music] so the slow Zone will be uh taking a look here oh and this is why we have a slow zone 32 number 32 car [Music] down the order that he's over there on your page that's the other into your pole car that's with the Magnuson straight seemed like a really strange yeah almost like something broke didn't it just kind of those snapshots yeah that's exactly right [Music] so there's the 94 car third place car Gustavo menennis here we go into the uh slow Zone yep slow Zone that's actually after Dunlop we've not had as low zone for a little while have we no we haven't we haven't and they go through tetrus so this slow Zone we'll take them all the way through probably the end of the first game so hopefully we won't see any calamities at the as the removal unit is already there to uh clear the wreckage of the 32 car Jan Magnuson was was behind the wheel of the car foreign right on his tail there so [Music] there you see on the screen the slow Zone and how it works so it goes from the first part of the slow zone is the next Zone which is the warning area that you're about to enter the slow Zone and you're not allowed to do any passing there and you need to get yourself down to the slow zone speed and then the slow zone speed carries you all the way down the straightaway through the first chicane and then you'll see a green flash once you've cleared the chicane and there you see the 32 car being lifted pulled back and if he's able to carry on then he'll turn the line at least work his way back to the pits as you see folks picking up debris and parts that were scattered after the impacted the wall yeah these Marshals have been amazing so far this race they've been so busy clearing up the wreckage repairing barriers they're just kind of works entirely so a big shout out to all the marshals yeah such a great job there's the number 25 car comes to the pits fifth in class it's the TF sport the ort by TF Charlie Eastwood behind the wheel of that car the Aston Martin unusual color for an Aston Martin it is yeah it's quite nice to see it in a difference yeah I don't know I'm still partially Felton green myself oh yeah [Music] yeah the um the project one car is pulling out like a nice Gap now 34 seconds over the second place AF car so doing a great job there um Gunner Jeanette's got a lot of experiences you well know yes you've raced with Gunner I have and uh he he's an experienced Porsche racer [Music] another guy who was uh kind of live that that Walter Mitty existence of being a you know what what does Gunner do for a living he's Gunner he's gonna that's right that's what he does for a living my car going slow there what number is that one is that that is that actually the car crash like yes I think that is actually the Interpol a little damage on the front so I would think that it is and it's about the timing is about right although it just kind of set him down it does says 32 car is stopped so maybe no it's uh on the uh he's moving on the on noisy map there you can see okay here comes the AF uh lmp2 car a of corset number 80. again that's another car that had a pretty good run near the front for a while it's now 11th in class 23rd overall Norman NATO behind the wheel of that car work continues on the jota Porsche the Hertz team Joe to Porsche these guys won't give up yeah and I think for these guys they've done such an amazing job and the performance of the car is amazing but they are new to the car so when they have a problem it um you know it's perhaps more of a problem because they're not so probably familiar with um repairing it or or fixing the car certainly at speed so it's going to be um you know more of a challenge for these guys to get the car back on track guy for those who like me have just stepped away for an hour and wondered what the heck had just happened to this race what the heck is that this race what happened to the the 38 Josephine Portia is that Legacy of their earlier crash um I don't know they've just come in the pits again they're running really well actually they were solidly in the top 10 back amongst the the other hyper cars but they've uh they've come back and pushed the car back into the pit so I'm not quite sure what the reason for that is and just saying because they are new to the car it's probably going to take them a little bit more time to get it fixed because they're probably trying to figure out themselves you know they're learning about the car all the time but um either way I think they've so far they've done a great job and should be proud of of their efforts um but we've got a real good battle uh boemy's leading now it's only a couple of seconds from James collado you've got menezes um he's taken over from um Nico molo drove a great stint um and led I mean arguably you could say uh I'd love to know the numbers but I wouldn't be surprised if the Peugeot has led the most laps so far it seemed to be out front for a long long time and then uh you've got Alex Lin um not far behind him so you've really got those sort of the top four of a solidly in it you know with the uh with the number six uh Porsche kind of on the fringes but certainly not out of it Francesco castleacci handing over to Thomas floor uh I'm getting judging judging by the body shape that is the 54a of course a Ferrari silver car but he's currently lying second overall in the GT amp second overall second in the GTM class project one AO Portia the number 56 carved kind of Jeannette is that class leader that is Rexy for those of you watching in Technicolor and third place Daniel Sarah for Castle racing Daniel Sarah spent a lot of time racing successfully we've pulled down a lava screw in the 98 Northwestern Mr Aston Martin now back when he sort of started his GT career in Ferraris for the 57 Castle racing car looking here at the lead battle between the number eight Toyota gazu Racing the 51 Ferrari air of Corsica Sebastian Bohemia and James collado and that's come right down again it's um Sebastian gwemi is playing around with the roll bars the team had sort of said to him you know what what can they do to help when he was playing with the roll bars he's clearly not 100 happy with that car and um he's trying to find the balance and uh James cloud has gradually gradually chipping away at that lead and uh again manises in the in the Peugeot he's they're hanging in there they've got the pace you know they they they're there on Merit um not by look they are absolutely in the fight and uh you know great to see uh see them there White Flags just being waved there so that's that'll be the slower 32 car on its way back in 63 still at the side of the track so that car has not got back underway and that was at the first was it the first game it's not the first you came now in fact that's no longer showing a stop so that is moving as well both those cars going off down there are going running on board with colada you just saw him Downing into the into Indianapolis having a look at going briefly by an lmp2 car which then had the better line and more grip came back past him because at low speed there's very little at all in terms of performance between the lmp2 car and the hyper car so indeed actually the GT cars the their minimum speed is almost identical I would think um so it's only really when you get up towards you know north of 150 miles now that starts to make a difference yeah and sometimes you find with a GT car when you come to a slow corner like a hairpin or a fesky corner they're actually sometimes quicker because they've got more mechanical grips so they they tend to have you know better rotation and quite often better traction because they don't have quite as much power but they've got they've got that extra grip so um yeah in the low speed Corners it's um they're quite often quicker gap between the lead cars Toyota number eight the 51 Ferrari just seesawing to and fro you can see there and they're in a progression from three seconds down to 1.6 down to 1.2 out to 1.8 if that Halfway Around the last lap it was down below a full second see that Ferraris Eng crew well these are the guys that are producing Ferraris behind this Eaton's footage as well some friends and colleagues have asked through the gravel goes to number three carve Sebastian four day and his colleagues who support the three caddy at the moment that's uh Scott's Dixon of this parish and we've got a five second penalty for the 94 Peugeot for a pit stop so that's gonna cost them well that will be served at their next Pit Stop rather than a stop and go yellow and master post 11. and that is at the first chicane well there we go now is that that's called Peugeot that's a replay yeah just leap out of them riding the curves that kind third place the three marker lights red showing it's the hypercar class two marker lights on the 51 car second in class and one red marker light on the number eight Toyota and that shows it is the class leader you'll get the same with the total 94 has stopped that is sideways that is the third place Peugeot damage to the barriers whether it was that car or another that I think he might have yeah he's uh on board just ran wide and got on that damn part of the circuit okay that's bad news that you were talking about the Peugeot being in third place on Merit not through luck it was probably bad luck in qualifying and the inability to find a clear lap that slightly masked what to expect from the peugeot's we had hoped that they would come good here that their ground effect no rear wing Aero design package would work best at Le Mans probably the track that it was exclusively designed for win them on survive the rest but that did he did he get on the damp it looked that's what it looked like and they've all been still telling their drivers stay off the damn and the problem with the curbs you know no matter how much the cars dry out the racing line around the edge of the curbs and in the corrugations of the curbs that's where water lurks so what is a low-grip painted surface anyway becomes a very low grip or no grip painted surface when it's wet did you ever guys ever get a report on what was wrong with the 38 car no this was the crash detection the black box it had failed and the ACO said you can't run without it [Music] is [Music] maximum 80kph all right well we'll forgive him the uh 10 euro fine for front nose in extremists I think we'd all be an American but we question from the driver um you know am I going to do more damage by this thing coming underneath the wheels and we think of Jose Maria Lopez and the Toyota at Sebring all my lights have gone off I'm so sorry all right well you know he's not the first to make a mistake now is that just the carcass of the tire or has somebody spat a wheel off and where is that and whose tire was it it looks like it's the exit to carding all right the good news is it made it clear across the track without anybody collecting it but who's real is it now a mission time engineer might be able to have an A a fairly educated guess at what width of tire that was and what would that tell you well it might tell you if it was from a hyper car which hyper car it was from because the Peugeot has equal sized tires front and rear and it's Unique in the hybrid car field most have a narrower front and a wider rear tire including the Toyota so all the the Peugeot was the outlier there and as a result of of the way that it's they had it all that they have chosen to use the maximum Tire contact patch that they're allowed Persia is actually allowed to deploy its hybrid Drive above 150 kilometers an hour whereas for all the others and particularly you think of the Toyota being front wheel using the front axle for its hybrid it's 190 kilometers now before they could record it guys the Ferrari guys are telling us um that in a in a lap that in qualifying is three and a half minutes and and in the race is more you know 340 350. they're only using about six seconds of hybrid power allowed now the misapprehension or the misunderstanding perhaps of the hybrid deployment is that in this rule set in hypercar there is a maximum total amount of energy that the car can produce at any time and that's measured by torque sensors on the drive shafts on two if it's two-wheel drive or four if it's four-wheel driven and when the electrical power comes in than the internal combustion engine power is subtly reduced by the electronics so you don't have more power it just comes from a slightly different Source briefly reports are that that tire was from the 45 car okay the crowdstrike the algrove uh entry okay and also uh correct me if I'm wrong but I think this is the first warning we've seen for abusing track limits and it's going to Alex Lin yeah in the number two caddy each driver it used to be the case up until the end of last year that each driver would have a maximum of five warnings before incurring a penalty per stint it is no longer per stint which is the entire race driver by driving now the car doesn't earn them so you don't get in with four penalties already on your car and then the first time you Meander over the white lines have to go and do a drive-through it is per driver but it does mean that if you let's say you're a bronze driver and you exceeded track limits three times on Saturday didn't drive during the night when he did in on Sunday two strikes and you're back in for a drive-through penalty which to a degree sounds like an awful lot of a half harsher regimen like stay within tractors well in the words of the great Doc Hudson stay on the gray stuff so that's what it's there for it's not a car 50 under investigation when it's not your race it's not your race that's the second of the a of course the Ferraris that's the car that stopped for a cooler change and that was for the ERS so the electrical recovery system that systems water cooler had been pierced by a stone and was leaking and so they suddenly had higher than satisfactory temperatures uh in their hybrid system and that is devoutly not to be wished yeah and I wonder if that was the same kind of water leak that happened with the portion why can't these things are super sophisticated we heard earlier in the race that somebody had to stop for repairs to a power steering cooling system he's done a great job bringing this car back yeah there's a lot of Sparks yeah there's a lot of drama isn't there yeah but you know easily that could just you know what a grinding wheel looks like on any random old bit of Steel well it's not on a grinding wheel but at 100 kilometers now the track surface is doing a pretty good grinding job so hopefully it's not actually doing too much long-term damage underneath the fact that he's got four wheels certainly mitigates against that and um yeah I mean I don't know what the underside of the car looks like I was on the wrong side when all these cars were being lifted up I was inside in the scrutineering rather than outside now it starts there we go just as he gets to the peak lane speed limiter now of course hopefully that's working as well because that would really add insult to injury if you then got pink for speeding in the pits that's a brave cameraman there you go that tire delaminated just as it was coming down pit Lane that's why bits started flying off uh it's such a shame because the car was doing so well they were doing a really great job and generating the fight for the win fantastic fantastic had two great stints well now that leaves us with four cars on the lead lap as we get to close on 11 hours I'm just over 11 hours of the race remaining and we've got a slow Zone at Marshall post 30. I'm not sure what that's for that would be that's on the edge of the Porsche who's gone off there or is there debris while we were looking at something else did uh did the Peugeot spit bits off or they're trying to rescue that wheel slash Tire yeah ah yeah that's true that's where that was okay here's the incident again guy yeah he's gone in carrying a bit of speed he's missed the Apex on the left and he's just ran on and it's actually still quite wet actually offline it's um it's really not dried at all so he's just gone in a little bit hot slightly round wide and got that uh right front uh Tire on the ramp stuff and lost literally lost his steering that front at that first chicane on the moon sound strength has been the real area of contention for everybody see the bit of debris that he was driving by there yeah and there finally the Tidy laminates that's been coming in locked yeah right I mean not locked by the brakes but just not turning and so it's eventually machined its way through the the tread of the tire not luckily the carcass and luckily again because the team allowed him to come back in at up to 100 kilometers an hour not Halfway Around the lap where it then ripped the piece that ripped the pieces off the car Miguel Molina watching the action from the uh Ferrari of course the garage [Music] the game this battle between the two very equally balanced cars Sebastian Remy and the number eight Toyota multiple race winners and world champions James Gallardo also a multiple world champion he and Alessandro Pierre greedy in the 51 car three-time GTE Pro world champions when that was the thing as recently as last year last year three in Four Seasons I mean they and it that makes it sound like they were utterly dominant they weren't utterly dominant it was an utterly utterly tough fight all the way through and they just managed to get the upper hand over their Porsche Rivals Michael Christensen Kev Nash and they had a world championship as well that was the missing year for the Ferrari Trio and he's back to us there walking away that is Duty brogliasco don't get many more sound Italians eat his man is the team manages to batty find your Martin Ferrari is not being too badly I guess for somebody who's uh who's firm runs Ferraris for a living not related at least not closely related to Enzo Ferrari at some stage you imagine there is some distant relation but not always now distant it's no offense but it's not like Smith no I do goodness gracious I mean you can you can barely count the number of Smiths who won them on without taking your shoes and socks off is there another [Music] not many Clements or duffs I think it's the originals yeah yeah a lot of bananas now the number 93. is orange dessert 93 per show now becomes the team's better placed car it's the 94 car slips down the order that's how tight the battle still is with 12 and a half hours to go because I'm now at that point where I'm subtracting time of day from amount of race left on that idea that's why I brought a studio clock in it still didn't help me because I'm still looking at the wrong counter trying to figure out whether it's counting up or down and whether it means time to go or time elapsed so we're getting close to the halfway point 38 minutes away hmm and each of the teams that started the race has still got a healthy car in the hyper car class one Toyota one Ferrari one Cadillac One Porsche but actually the two glicken house cars are they lapse apart they're they're on the same lap aren't they they're actually 40 seconds apart the two Bicken house cars Lively apart and Frank Myer everything in eighth and Ninth they're having like entertain battle but they're still going and fair play they're both uh they're both going and going strong so well look Jim glickenhaus's plan when he created these cars for the hyper car category even though the rule set changed underneath him once he'd sort of set sail for the new world from the new world literally rather than metaphorically um his plan always was to be able to be watching Cars bearing his own name that he had made and designed and conceived racing down the Multan straight at night just like the cars of his childhood hero in uh Luigi kinetti and and he he did that and more than doing that last year one of his cars ended up on the overall Podium at Le Mans so as far as he's concerned that is a huge number of boxes ticked he would love more people to have come and run cars he would love to have have had customer cars running never quite transpired and as a result he's got a program that is struggling for funding it doesn't have a big manufacturer OEM budget behind it of any kind so he's funding it himself principally they are producing a road car version of the car as well that has now been crash tested and seems to be 100 approved so again now I'm sure there will be a queue for customers for what remains New York's only auto manufacturer little white tabs there you can see on the corner of the windscreen you're used to seeing drivers in single seaters pulling a tear off off their visor to clear the muck off essentially it's a plastic film across the visor of the helmet and the same thing happens here a plastic film is applied across the windshield of the car the windscreen of the car and little white tab there allows the corner to be lifted and it's peeled off and the standard number of tear-offs on a windscreen now is a dozen so 12 tear-offs which means that every two hours you can remove one and get rid of all the oil Grime all the dead insects and boy have there been some dead insects on windscreens after even a lap of running and and also guy the thing that you don't really think about which is all the black smears from the little balls of rubber that get fired up all the time and last property is it causes as much dilution of your visibility as anything else so those tear-offs there's a really key part of of keeping the driver in the frame yeah and especially as um you come into the morning and the sun once you get the sunlight on the screen that's when it really really shows up and that's the time where yeah you need you've gone through the night and you'd definitely be uh be asking for a clean uh windshield in the morning you'll often see during pit stops for safety reasons mechanics are allowed to clean the windshield so you have to see them cleaning them up but if it gets if you get particularly bad badly peppered by gravel say for instance it's your lead battle again not much in it is there then uh yeah you might want one taken off and there's a one particular company who have Mayday a massive market for themselves in this field you just saw in the back of the Ferrari garage spare windshield hanging from from the ceiling 12 tear-offs on that as well everything will have that all devices are all the tear-offs supplied the James collado lies in second place what's their thoughts fuel only boxer slap fuel only very reliable and calm voice of the race engineer for the 51 car [Music] now what about Toyota okay that box this lap bit confirmed box this laptop confirm you stay in the car and new tires new tires though battle just whistling by the garage 56 Chevy Camaro ZL1 they no question from the rear light signature what it is also the distance the rear lights are off the ground gives you a fairly good indication as well they're at uh way of our driver's eye level number three caddy is in still Scott Dixon or is that the blue and yellow Sebastian borde no birthday got out and Dixie got in yeah well Dixon was in when it came in so I didn't know what I'm saying is earlier on the last driver on the last change yeah he's recently in Andre Lotter is in the number six Porsche in third place he's just stopped so I thought uh no fourth place yeah it's number two caddy of Alex Lim is now cycled up to top the pile Alex with a penalty hanging over his head isn't he guy well a warning he's got a warranty yeah okay yep so it's going to be interesting so that both the leaders are going to be pitting and uh it sounds like uh clado is going to be uh fuel only and uh worm is going to be taking tires and look at the way that collado is piling the pressure on the Toyota mechanics the Gap was 1.2 down to 0.7 now down to 0.46 they are going to be almost within touching distance coming into the pit entry yeah and there they are there he is and that puts big pressure on both teams to perform and that's an indication of how Ferrari are comfortable in their skin with this car with this team with these drivers that it's like they've been doing it for a decade and to to a degree a large part of the team has the team is a a melores that's not the Italian word but a mixture of a of course a GT engineers and technicians and Ferrari Formula One engineers and technicians and they came together as this program sort of started to grow well less than 12 months ago considerably less than 12 months ago and uh look at that you you don't get a closer battle than that if they're like that still in 12 hours and 30 minutes then oh boy are we gonna finish and this is you're gonna see a little bit of the advantage of having either the first or the last pit stall because he will be able to start the service you know as you can see right there and then there's colado well it's a little bit like a slow Zone the guy who gets in first is going slower the other guy catches him but then he's released from it first and and in in terms of slow Zone that Gap should never grow or decrease and the same with the pit Lane here the fact that the Toyota has started work before the Ferrari stops means that the Toyota will finish work first but it will have to get this far far up the pit Lane before we know whether they're ahead or behind now count down to what and of course the fuel counts on the on the orator no that count was uh we saw that count earlier yeah sure what that is either maybe that is fuel no there's a fuel rig the fuel man has a little readout to tell him how much it has gone in for uh Toyota's on his way no tires and there goes the Ferrari because he did not change tires wow they have jumped him did the Toyota take tires there yes yeah okay did you see that yes we did we did oops I'm not saying that then something else guy and I saw all right there we go [Music] so fresh tires on the Toyota but Advantage Ferrari out of the pit stall now I would assume how yeah how long does that Advantage last because with those fresh tires it seems like he's gonna eat his lunch take his milk money depends how fresh collado's tires are if they've only done one stent they should be relatively good for the first couple of laps though for Emmy guy will have an advantage that initial bite particularly of the Nissan Tire will just give you an extra couple of laps maybe even three here with that extra little bit of performance as we go again past the Chevy Camaro still going though still going strong all the way up to 24th of uh 36th overall and again caddy Cycles up to the lead of the race so number three car is in a little bit of a zone of its own one lap off the lead but one lap ahead of the 93 Peugeot man the 93 peuge which is in sixth position is a further lap ahead of the glicken house Duo everybody and if he can get if the Cadillac number three can get that lap back then yeah and the castle cars now moved into the lead of the uh GT battle oh yeah so it has so project one must have stopped recently PJ Hart's in the car yeah thanks he's our bronze driver yes that car has stopped so uh because Governor Jeannette was in it okay so that's driver change there in the last couple of laps we didn't uh see that but that has happened so PJ doing nighttime laps you don't have to do nighttime laps there's no mandation that a bronze driver or any other category driver has to drive at night and some will not or do very little and here in the depths of the night but Prime Time USA time and PJ obviously but you know it's part of being part of the team you don't want to to feel that somebody else has done all the hard work for you um the other side of it is you if you know you cannot be as quick as you want to be or as you need to be in the dark then it does make sense to allow your teammates to do the work wrt's van Sam boss and so where are they at the moment their best car yeah Louis de la trans to 41 cars in the fourth fans the nine car has just stopped 30 habsburg's taken over you saw Sean Galileo 30 habsburg's teammate in that car it's in the lmp2 class which has been led by Duquesne engineering's Neil jarney that car's had a bit of an up and down last time I talked about that car it was skating round a tire wall in the rain [Music] number two caddy leads the race [Music] [Applause] box this lap driver change the widget keep working the front [Applause] keep working the France now does that mean there's going to be no tire change it that's unusual guy Smith for a driver to be told to work the fronts on the way in yeah that is very strange on the outlet for sure but um maybe they're gonna well no they're gonna change drivers and say if they're going to keep the tires on they want to maintain that heat but obviously doing a driver change they're going to be changing tires so yeah that's a strange you would think you would think yep so the Gap now between uh bohemi and uh colada and buemi is what eight seconds so let's keep an eye on that [Music] keep watching Alex keep watching we need to try to get the front tires up you can do it they're keeping the tires on when they hand it over to Westy now I think the deal here is that mishai were telling us that they confidently expect all of the tires to be able easily to triple and comfortably to quad stint the unspoken underlying thought there was five might well be on if the conditions are right and the thing about this circuit is actually not hard on tires it's not a particularly abrasive circuit so in terms of doing longer stints it's not really as much of an issue it's more of a structural thing um that they they may make or from yeah just from a safety point of view so he may have done a double or even a triple on those tires and they may still be keeping the tires on but yeah they just need him to keep that front tire temperature up you saw Nikola Pino Nico Pino the driver from if you didn't recognize the flag on his chest chilly so we don't get many Chilean racing drivers he's just showing off too yeah well it isn't bad enough that he's a really good race car driver he juggled too there's quite a lot that goes on those uh one of the ones with the flashing lights on the board oh yeah yeah you know that yeah yeah it cost The Reflex stuff yeah reflex yes medicine ball stuff there was a tennis balls that yes exactly there was a time uh during the January era when Tom walkenshaw came up with the bright idea of having an exercise bike in the back and getting the guys to do five minutes sprinting on it to really get the adrenaline and the blood pumping we took that eventually yeah yeah just just to get you in big because even if you haven't been asleep and even if it's daytime you know you just want the body to be absolutely red hot and ready to go not in terms of perspiration but just the blood pumping in the adrenaline up and yeah especially this time of night you know you maybe a little bit lethargic and want to get the uh yeah get the blood pumping yeah is that Arcadian rhythms or some other rhythm okay then it's not about anti-diluvian in our case five seconds added to the pit stop for the eight cards for a pit stop infringement now that's the one thing that isn't is speeding in the pit Lane what it may be is a whole host of other things not having the Earth strap connected correctly removed too early um Too Many Men working on the car the tire getting loose a wheel not getting loose various other little things because the pit stops are quite tightly prescribed there's no minimum Pit Stop time you can be stationary for as long or as short as you want stroke need obviously there was some infringement they're also safety aspects to it like you must have the guy there with the fire extinguisher advisors must be down oh 51 car James calardo just outbreaking himself there at the top of the hill into the Dunlop chicane Sebastian bwemi how far back 6.9 seconds yeah 7.3 seconds colados really honking on boy he's on a fresh set of tires and you had that five second penalty to the number eight car and uh it's pretty much Even Stevens right now on board with Sebastian buamy so the screen on the top right there alongside the driver mirror that's part of the cars systems he will have the onboard safety indicator screen also within the cockpit in the last lap there you see that uh uh where where he was he did a good time the 30 30.3 yeah 31.9 so he's brought you down a whisker but in two laps I think two laps since they've been in Colorado's open up seven seconds now his tires were absolutely ready to rock and roll and deep into a heat cycle so they would have been closer to Absolute operating temperature than the ones that came out of the tire one was to go on to the Toyota but nevertheless there's Alex Lim with his Derrick Bell Livery helmet that's what threw me actually I'd forgotten that he'd done that and then I saw the helmet in a car and I thought who's that there's Joe Bradley Morning Joe one of Washington's fighter exports no further action regarding the pit stop for car number 50. so certain elements might be examined and then double checked quite often with video evidence because there are so many security cameras around the circuit and then ah no okay that was fine we've just recounted the heads they didn't have too many men on the field at the at the right time or whatever it was and so often often I think events are reported and then scrutinized then okay no no harm no foul panace racing is your vanity in second place ahead of the cool racing car that's a tight battle on track as well uh 94's battle against the clock continues trying to get the nose reconnected hi and James now in the lead of uh GTE doing a great job they're having a great race those pit stops are cycling through PJ Hart second place a of course is Thomas flooring third again three cards have been yeah swapping through the pit stops as they go and often from Pro driver to uh bronze driver and back you'll see a change there this is why the 94 is in the pit Lane because when you hit things like that you tend to end up with damage and unfortunately for Gustavo menezes who was going very strongly at that stage and has dropped them out of the lead three and off the lead lap carp is now languishing down in 21st Place overall only 11th in hypercar so out of the points and how many laps back it is in danger of dropping eight laps back when the 93 comes out in fact if it doesn't get out of the pits in the next 10 or 15 seconds it will lose another lap because the 93 car has just turned into the Porsche curves I think he's going to lose another lap which is slightly immaterial because it's never going to get eight or nine back it doesn't really make much difference and there are times is he just gonna come back out he's going to come out slowly in front of the leader in fact he will not lose that extra lap they've just sent him straight back out so there goes the 94 car and let's check who's in it Gustavo menezes back on the horse that threw him hold it and found its he through [Music] it's amazing isn't it that car when it came in looked very very second hand and looks good yep it's amazing I mean and that's that's the important thing about designing these cars again they need a car that they can repair quickly yeah um you know not it's not about just about performance it's about how easy it is to work on the car how quickly they can fix it in in those situations and not lose too much time because speed on the track is one thing guy time in the pit Lane is what torpedoes do below the water line absolutely and you look at pretty much every year the Audi one that Bentley won you'll look at the car that had the minimum Pit Stop time and you can correlate directly with the car that's on the top step of the podium they're very very rare that is not the case nobody these days has enough of a pace Advantage you can afford to Fritter It Away by standing still they see Molina standing by waiting for the next pit stop for the 50 car which is now 10th overall they start living on his helmet as well that's the extra silver five zero that has been applied to his helmet he hasn't had that in Years Gone by so he's got the full [Music] remember those days where he changed his helmet colors to the Benetton colors and then reverted later on to the original Austrian red and white I'd say yeah Miguel's got a red helmet with a yellow fine and broad stripes that you'll see across the car and the 50 celebrating his his own cars number but also 50 years since Ferrari last race at the top class in the mom but he's not making considering he's on better tires he's not making massive inroads he's just chipping away probably half a second or so I figured I I figured by now he would have caught him I mean that's really what we thought when he came out of the pit but in fact he hasn't as uh collado his last lap was a 331-9 compared to a 333 for 330.3 yeah for um bueni and we see Molina there he's obviously ready to get in so the next time the Ferrari comes in it will be a driver change obviously tires and fuel and this is one of the things that uh robs drivers of sleep and rest is that when you're in the car you're in the car when you're out of the car you're not always off duty because the driver that's coming out will go for a rest but the driver that's due to be in will need to be in the garage suited and booted as the car leaves because it might come back in at the end of that lap with a major problem for the driver and you don't then want to be running out the back and waking somebody up no so your two drivers stint out of the car becomes a one driver session out of the car and for the other extender you're not in it you're sitting around and again in the wee small hours that's where all the energy levels sort of sag so standing around and chatting to people and looking at the data and following the race and all the other stuff that tries to keep you occupied and alert it's it's part of the Unseen Battle of of being on your on top of your game when you get into the car exactly exactly you see they're they're ready for a pit stop quite surely which seems quite short to me since it was last in I don't well it's the 50 car was in uh yeah yeah okay I get it yeah at 301 yeah well it wasn't necessarily in at 301 but that is why uh that is the last time we had a report from prior and what had happened at their stuff and uh Luca the NPR guy and his cohorts are generally pretty quick you normally find out when they're within an app or so of the car coming in uh what was being done on the other side of that coin Toyota when you ask them what tires the car on they'll say Michelin so there are ways of of running the information to to the broadcasters and there are ways of running information to the broadcasters um somewhat sap groups are more useful than others it's always interesting to find the uh people's positions when they want to go to sleep they'll sleep anywhere yeah yeah Corvette teams seem to be habitual Hoggers of uh evening photography and limelights but for the Antics they get up to yep and none of that's gone away whether they're in GTE Pro running their own cars or in GTM running the car for Ben who remains in the car in the 33 car Ben Keating that car had a number of problems early on very early on in the race came in with what they suspect was a a defined damper on the left right corner has not had the rub of the green so far that car down in ninth place in class worked its way back tonight it was much further down yeah at one point yeah there's Mike Rockefeller in the NASCAR Camaro number 24. just that uh you'll recognize that sound anywhere it's funny when you are on board with the Cadillac how you don't get the V8 Rumble that you get you get from it as it goes by you when you're on the spectator banking it's a whole different sound inside to what it leaves behind it and it's it it isn't it's got a deeper Rumble in the car than the Camaro does and a lot of that is due to the header configuration the Cadillac header configuration is different than than the NASCAR header configuration and guys used to play with that a lot and you would you could hear the tone of the engine and you knew who was messing with their with their uh with their with their exhaust well yeah and that's what they were doing they were literally tuning the exhaust to uh help with the horsepower the other Factor particularly for the drivers is that when you're sitting in the Camaro you're driving into the noise when you're sitting in the Cadillac you're leaving it behind you there's the Camaro's engine is in front of your feet and the Cadillac's is behind your arrows so yeah the noise gets channeled around you and fortunately for the drivers it's a relatively cool race compared to the week or weeks that we've had before here uh to the temperatures of daytime highs have been in the very high 20s early 30s since we arrived a weekend 10 days ago up until up until today yesterday Saturday so there was a little bit of a cool down on Friday but otherwise cockpit temperatures would be in the 50s in that Camaro 60s maybe I mean Jim you and I can think back to uh French engines Corvettes and Vipers in the American Le Mans Series in the early years there where cockpit temperatures would be close on 200 degrees Fahrenheit yeah and yeah used to melt the melty boots drivers right but exactly exactly so special boots remember racing Labor Day weekend in Las Vegas and uh guys like Ron Fellows using asbestos insulated NASCAR boots with asbestos insulation lining that you normally put on the engine bay inside those as well yeah feeding buckets of water lots of problems with cool temperature and we won't have that here hopefully this weekend it's a little bit of respite for the drivers and the fans the downside to which is that it has been a degree of rain and that's monkeyed with a few races uh you remember the Texas event where we raced in Dallas on the rovel and that was insufferably hot that was unbelievable there were there were a few there were a few so we just had a slower lap from uh buemi a lap or two ago maybe just caught some heavy traffic but that's meant the Gap now has gone to uh just slightly over eight seconds so it's uh Paul trusswell the radio Le Mans stats Guru and and a team manager as it turns out for a number of uh particularly Nurburgring 24-hour teams and all-around great guy and all around great guy always had a theory right from day one that at night cars exhibit group magnetism they clump and and actually if you look at the tracker map we've got there are several clumps of cars that's right you've got as I'm not telling you anything you don't know guy at night you've got less long-range Vision than you would do during the day because the lights just can't Pierce that far so it makes it a little bit harder to judge all the distances and to figure out where you're going to catch the cars and so as a result you spend all leader is in in GTM the iron Dames car Rahul Frey is out and who is going in is that Sarah bovey I'm just trying to identify the helmet I believe it probably is I think it is as well yeah it's been I think it's almost as the graphics says spray then Bobby then get them because earlier Bobby was in the car and then she turned over to Gatling yeah pit stop for car number three is under an investigation that's the Cadillac with uh Dixon okay so what health fry is their top rated driver she's a goal driver Michelle getting silver and the bronze in the team is Sarah bovey she's had some great qualifying battles with Ben Keating they tend to be the pair and it was really disappointing actually that none of the Porsche has gone through into hyperpolar and particularly that this one didn't because Sarah bovey has got great speed Ben keating's got great speed as a bronze driver Paul dalalana was always a really strong bronze driver there are some very quick bronze drivers and she is definitely among them she is in the car now so Charlie Eastwood Cycles uh oh no it's PJ High it Cycles back to the top of the pile project 1ao the dinosaur car Rexy ort Oman racing team by TF Charlie Eastwood in that car he's in second Thomas flooring third in the 54. hey of course a car it is Vista jet firm sponsors and it's got huffica in the 57 Castle racing Ferrari which of the two is that is that Battle Cats or the yellow car guy car it's the yellow car that he shares with Takeshi kalura and that Cycles Sarah bovey down to sixth position in uh fifth position in ggem ahead of Ben Barker tallest driver in am in the in the TR racing car that if you're on the outside of the circuit is black with their traditional matte black and an orange stripe but if you're on the inside of the circuit is the colors that they raced in when they weren't gr but when they were golf racing so it's got the blue and orange or something very very close to the blue and orange decal engineering ready for another pit stop Hugo de vilda will take over this is a an all Belgian lineup in the car and they had they've had a trying time haven't they have to flip they have to flick to page two of the timing screen to find how trying their day has been [Music] clicking the wrong way so I've gone back to live please there we go eventually DKR are second from last running car into your podcast Jan Magnuson the 32 car that seems to be still stuck in the garage that car getting on for an hour ago yeah was in that two-car it wasn't it had a weird kind of Crash going to the first chicane it kind of it looked like as he was breaking the car turned to the shop left and uh head into the barriers so I haven't got that car back to the pits but not sure whether they're about to get back on track or not race leader behind one of the two cool racing lmp2 cars in front of him that is the ort by TF Aston Martin Charles Eastwood currently in second place in GTE am because we track up the road with James collado we will find out just how far ahead Charlie Eastwood is and the next set of Lights at the chicane would be the portion of Charlie Eastwood I think [Music] I think you're right yes it is good spot guy Smith see the mechanics warming up we've seen it habitually with the Toyota mechanics doing their Japanese calisthenics but these guys everybody seems to do just a little bit and actually I have to say looks like it's good to Rave actually the uh the Henrik Motorsport guys all their brake men at the start of the morning they're at the top end they're at pit out they're they're morning warm-up is as a as a group yep it's a Sprint down to pit in turn and Sprint back now that's the length of at least two probably three football fields then they turn and go again and then they then they feel they're loosened up ready for the day whatever the day they're around that that's not immediately Pit Stop practice that's just to get them into the field and Jim you were saying that uh particularly in the Nascar Cup Series the top tier they're hit guys they're over the wall guys will tend to be division one or college football players basketball players track athletes you know big Power young strength athletes they're not just guys who put the car together and then do the the wheel changing as part of their job they have a specific talent and that that is it their speed and their power yeah and it's not it used to be it was just an extra set of mechanics who did the pit stops and in this case they are guys who that's all they do all week is practice pit stops they're just like any professional sports team they have practice sessions they have workouts they have film sessions where they dissect all the pit stops from the previous week's Races they have data points they all wear GoPros during the pit stop so they can analyze their uh their technique and yeah it has become a real science it's not just I can remember the the video of the old days the Wood Brothers with a with a bolt between their teeth with all the extra lug nuts when it was the five lug nuts you know it was a revelation when they got the air guns and uh so yeah it's uh it's come a long way baby I can tell you that yeah I'm the same way that we see tenths of seconds hundreds of seconds being pulled forward in the pit Lane in Formula One sang Two in the Nascar Cup Series even though the race is off consumably longer and and without uh seven guys on each tire yeah you know yeah yeah over the wall numbers are severely restricted yep that means that like as as with everything in in this sport choreography of how you do things and teams spend ages as you said dissecting what they do and trying to find a way to make themselves better and actually this is the introduction so a couple years ago three years ago of the pit stop challenge for the teams it didn't happen during covet but it was introduced before and then uh exude and and restarted it's a real matter of Pride for the teams to be able to win the pit stop challenge to beat of the Walk for the entire week of Le Mans as a crew never mind what your driver's your car can do we are the best tire change team in the business yeah that's pretty impressive and that was one I believe this week by the Peugeot guys yeah yeah I'm not sure which car it was but um it might have been the nice three but yeah great uh great effort by those boys definitely yeah somebody has got something plugged into somewhere that's giving us an author an awful Earth hum I have a feeling gym that might be your phone's charger if you put it down no maybe not something is definitely I don't know if you can hear it at home but we can hear it is it your computer I'm not sure no no because it hasn't been anywhere in that computer's been there all day into I was going to say is that Chinese was coming into the pit Lane no but it looks like we might maybe not quite ready for some changes yeah it was challenging coming into the pit man sort of half almost getting there and half imagined it there's a Glick in housing as well estebank Gutierrez was brought in car 709 clean of the lights to make sure that there's nothing that the race officials can complain about in terms of lack of visibility of likes or numbers or anything else [Music] and also like your road car when you're driving on roads that have been wet in our drying there's an also awful lot of grime being thrown up um and that's exaggerated here because this is not a race circuit this is public road with a bit of race circuit attached so exactly like your road car because that's what use these roads for the other 51 weeks of the Year these are public highways the chicanes have been added in you don't come around this bit in your normal Road car but you use the rest of it and if you fight at the road as well on each side of the the white line down the middle because if you've got trucks and cars going each day the road actually gets slightly worn away so as you can see we're on this side of the white line as we go down here you'll cross over to the other side um and when you make that cross that transition you can actually feel the car just just touching the bottom of the uh of the road well the same way you've made that across that transition you can actually feel the car just just touching the bottom of the uh of the road well the same way you feel it these normal roads yeah you just get the little depression so they they might only be a couple of centimeters or an inch deep but if you think about where the water stays in the chicanes that's where it stays it stays in those little channels and so when you're coming and starting to turn in across them then you end up sort of skating a little further into the corner than you want and suddenly your grip is gone and you're in the barriers and yeah well how did that happen I didn't even touch the curbs you don't have to sometimes touch the curves to find the water and when you find uh when you leave the pits with brand new tires that still come up to temperatures up to pressure and full tank so you've got a heavy car you've got tires that aren't quite up to temperature and pressure yet that's when you really feel it so the car will bottom under brake in the car will touch for the first couple of laps until you get everything up to temperature a couple of things with the number eight Toyota car the pit stop infringement was not all mechanics were back behind the white line before the engine was started so again it's those tiny little bits of choreography that let you down um and that's and that's rare for for Toyota you know and that's why now we're seeing them under some pressure um and making those small mistakes which is which is you know good to see that they're under that feeling that pressure as well well I think I think for the first time with this car in the hyper car category Toyota really having to extend the car to its absolute maximum which they didn't have to do with just like in-house and Alpine against them last year clicking house didn't quite have the performance to really put them under the casuals and the Alpine didn't have a big enough fuel tank to be able to match them on this it's on fuel even if you could Max them on pay so it was always going to be hamstrung and and and that was part of the deal the other thing that happened in that number eight Toyota stop was that there was four new tires for Sebastian wemi previous set had only been on for one stint so there was clearly something he didn't like about the balance of those tires Alpha nine two alpha 92 for 12 lap Target oh now then what for a 12 lap Target that's not fuel saving that's what we were told was likely to be a bare minimum hypercar stint so now does that mean that gives him more attack because they're not going to try and fuel save and has that been what they've tried to do earlier this didn't and then gone okay that's not happening we're not saving enough okay right just go for him we're gonna have to try and reset and do that again in the next stint then triple stint in the 33 car saying he felt pretty good about it [Music] that was 20 minutes ago doing a lot of things the gentleman driver does not normally do man he competitively tonight put the car on pole with just stunning laps and he's super fit um yeah yeah he trains hard and he's driving lots of different cars and you know he he trains like a pro and um he drives like a pro yes he really does and actually thank you when we had uh well we're talking about a little bit earlier with John doona I I always let myself down because I always forget to do stat check on Ben Keating before every race just to make sure that I've got the correct number of dealerships because he'll always correct me and the correct number of uh different franchises that he handles John doona was saying 27 dealerships yep I mean and and that chair that changed crashed a wide spectrum of yeah pretty much every one point he was the largest uh Viper dealer in the in the world and again that's when he came back to the monument with GT class with the SRT-10 and uh and then wins with the Ford one with wins with the Ford and then that was disallowed because of a technicality infringement on fuel tankage so you can see where we now closed up on the back of the Ferrari with um and clado has got a stack of GT cars ahead of him going to the Porsche corner so this could get really quite exciting that does sound a little bit like he's been told to carry up we can't go around here all afternoon yeah yeah we're not going to get the lap on fuel that we were trying to creep out so yeah time to time to get on it and hassle the Ferrari a little bit yeah yeah when we dress them into a mistake perhaps yeah it doesn't seem really happy with his car he's he's been playing around and said before with the with the roll bars and he just doesn't see I think they may be thought with the new tires that might fix it but he still seems to be just not quite yeah fully happy when we not quite fully happy is it is a sort of constant at Toyota but the other thing is that the race track is evolving all the time it's gone try to wait and then all it takes forever to get back to dry then it went wet again and forever to get back to dry and it is doing that you know we talked a little bit about the the Peugeot going off because they're still wet patches so they're still adjusting the balance of the car lap by lap maybe even sector by sector to take into account the fact he'll go oh oh there was more grip there I I break too early so now they're going to start you know harvesting a little more or they you can put a bit more front brake onto it or a bit less front brake onto it whatever to try and balance the car against the prevailing conditions cast Nakajima there in the back of the shot he is the team manager for Toyota Gazoo Racing's endurance crew and Kazuki Nakajima although still a driver although no longer a driver in this race because the car's been retired is the team principal [Music] the race leader James killado no longer there's a change okay man so this will be your last time lap this will be your last time right so we're getting to the end of the stint and that's what Alpha 12 means it has released Sebastian bohemi and as we cut to him James collado was passed for the lead of the race by the number eight Toyota but you can see his replacement is in the garage so basically in that stint what where me did was just return the order to what it was when they made their original pit stop and they took tires and the Ferrari didn't so he lost the lead so it took him a whole stint to get that lead back and remember gwemi's got a five second penalty Pit Stop [Music] quick in and outs for the number five for sure Penske Motorsport 963 game Cameron remains at the wheel of that car that was Fuel and go Philippe Luke there on the right hand side spend a lot of time racing GT cars with ugly shonak when he was running the Viper program and it's been part of his lmp2 and uh and the lmp1 programs before moving full-time to Toyota so much knowledge among these different teams over so many years I just wanted Toyotas really big weapons in its Armory is that consistency of being in this championship and racing at Le Mans whereas Ferrari Porsche Cadillac the rest are relatively new okay so Brandon is connected to radio any advice for Brendan any advice for Brendan there you go there you go yeah stay on the gray stuff son don't get out in the don't get out in the dark stuff because uh especially in the first you came so still even you know 45 minutes later yep it's still it's not drying there gray good green bad that is correct that is correct stay out okay now that would have been somewhere on the way down to Indianapolis probably okay let me just double check what you said he said this will be your last time lap so you want me to do one more lap yes stay out when we're trying to build as much of a gap yeah as he can before the pit stops well because like you said he has that five second penalty trying to recognize the helmet of who was sitting in their garage but the penny didn't drop I don't think it was Alessandro Pierre guidi ready to take over the 51 car do you have a Nazi I think it was I think it was Antonio giovannazzi and bohem is really pulled since his passive he's pulled out a big chunk of time don't forget he's on tires I haven't done a stint yet whereas calados have certainly done at least two while I've been in here and may well be on their third deceivably possibly on their ball [Music] and interesting that the last set of tires on the Toyota only did a stint and whether or not they had tried something with the medium and went okay that's not working we'll keep them in the locker for when it gets a little bit warmer during the day we need the softs or whether it's something else who knows image box the slapbox the slap driver change driver change so Brendan Hartley will be getting into the number eight car in place of Sebastian wemmy and James collado will be turning over we think okay is that great job box this laptop boxes driver change for Brendan and the penalty don't forget the penalty okay well he doesn't have to forget about the penalty he's getting out of the car he's just gonna hand over the penalty to Brendan and actually predominantly it's the team's job do you remember the penalty because the lollipop man will have to remember not to remove the lollipop that is the signal for the driver to go do they serve the penalty at the beginning of the stop or the end of the stuff doesn't make any difference he's going to park the car and get out okay it doesn't make any difference you do it at the end you'll stop the game do fuel do tires and then when you're ready to go then you sit for a further five seconds then it's clear that that's been the way it's done yeah well it's interesting because in the states it's exactly the opposite you can't start to do anything until you're sat for five seconds because then it is certain that you that you have done it well that is then particularly certain for the teams that you've done it and and they're you're not creeping an inch here in a second there might be a more sensible way of doing it [Music] you think I think the habitual way this side of Atlantic guys that you you do the pit stop and then you serve the penalty afterwards would that be the way you'd have you'd have done it yeah yeah I think so yeah for the officials I can see it makes a lot of sense boom stop it go yeah and each of these cars will have a an ACO or FIA official with them an ACO official with them there are FIA and WCF filters in the pit Lane as well but there will be a pit Marshal with each of the cars and they report on every time the car comes in what it's done how long it was there and so on and so forth so they will be informed by their head of station five second penalty for this car make sure it's served so here they come here comes the eight car hopefully we'll stay with it long enough to find out just what's going to happen Yep looks like they are going to serve the five seconds and then work on the hall to tell because of course the fuel man comes in out of our site from the left-hand side as the driver sees it or doesn't say it because it's behind him drive a change Brendan Hartley gets in driver change it will be Antonio in the 51 car now you would assume that that car will take fresh tires cleaning of mirrors cleaning your windshields cleaning of Lights polishing everything inside of half of the Bodywork and because of the penalty this is almost a free tire change yeah time wise for the firing but it means they don't have to Super stress about it they will do it in their standard routine because if you try and slow down then you will likely make a mistake no tire change I don't think for Brendan Hartley because we didn't see it but that will check how long it took when they leave the pit lane and then remember to subtract five seconds and not get over excited but they were slow in the pit Lane Richard Westbrook leads the race for Cadillac in the number two car that will be due in on the next lap of all things being equal uh one minute 22 so including the five second pit stop I don't think that was enough time for a tire change no I agree with you and out comes Antonio giovannazzi one minute 22 that was the driver and tire change remember they changed bohemy's tires on the last bit so yeah I would have been surprised if for a second stint they took tires off after one step there's James collado as relaxed and smiley as I think I've ever seen him this week just loving his life in the Ferrari hyper car and he said up until now it's felt like a more powerful and heavier GT car basically he said here from the first moment you got it out on track it's a totally different animal it just came alive so you know just from that comment that this is what it was bred to do the rest of it as Pauline might have said is just waiting around that's right but he wouldn't have used a line from somebody else's movie was the Steve McQueen line his character in Le Mans racing his life anything before or after it's just waiting talking about Paul Newman Newman did get to race here yes he's here McQueen did not he was desperate to race in the 1970 film but the studio would not allow it and uh Paul Newman somehow managed to get that one by a his wife and I'm not sure how that happened and B uh she was quite supportive of Yeah well yeah doing Seca runoffs or doing doing an imsa race here or there one thing Le Mans with dick Barber that's a whole different thing and that car finished second overall and but for a couple of changes of luck Paul Newman yeah [Music] some changes of luck and they uh a baguette with a a belt a belt in it yeah the story of that is that the Whittington Brothers their car spat off a an alternator belt yep which of the whittingtons was in the car not tick nope that's a whole different story no it was uh it was done done okay so it's Bill and Don Whittington they're brothers and uh yeah they're 935 spat off a belt and initially Don tried to then fit the power steering belt yeah which immediately broke as soon as he tried to fire up the engine so he was cut the deal then now he's down two belts the deal was then you could be assisted from outside verbally uh but you had to fix the car with anything that was carried with only with things that were carried on board so all the tools or other parts had to be on board exactly so so after a while of trying to fix this and having very little luck obviously because you can't manufacture a belt to other side of the road the team prevailed upon the marshals to say look it's really hot and he's been we're driving a racing car and he needs to drink something so we brought these bottles of water we brought him a sandwich because he's going to be here for a while so they handed him the water and the big baguette through the fence and inside one of the big baguettes was a belt and inside the other big baguette was about so he didn't get ham and cheese he did get two Drive belts it actually actually it was only one he got the belt that he needed to get the car back to the fence he turns the alternator and then they changed all the belts when they got to the pit stop so it's uh yeah things happened in life the baguette that one little yeah inside Paul Newman a sensational story so Hartley's still ahead of javanazi by 12 seconds now that's quite a margin that Gap is growing by by the sector so Hartley's tires are still told giovannazis are brand new ask strangy about that particular message obviously he's a member of their crew but I couldn't quite see on the picture that sort of very slightly yeah it's very slightly look to me like a man on a motorcycle or or a man with a big like Green Bay G on his gesture couldn't be that he's racing somewhere like the Isle of Man instead of being here I can't even I can't imagine that that would be a thing however see if Simon Strang Can Shed a little light on that inner bits is the Battle Cats Ferrari this is the other one of the Kessel racing cars uh and this car is oh I'm looking on the oh no there it is uh so it's yokozemo who I believe is Mr battlecast or at least he is the man who is the game designer Battle Cats you'll know this guy because you're of uh of a much younger vintage than me and Jim uh 800 million downloads yes absolutely astonishing number of downloads of that game obviously I'm gonna have to go and have a look now to see what it's all about uh I think I will probably tie a bit fairly quickly as I do most electronic things but uh yeah and obviously he's somehow a good Ken Follett novel never I never retire on but electronic things I do but that's that is the history of battlecastle that is uh that's where Battle Cats comes from looking on the screen at our overall leaderboard Richard Westbrook leading in the number two Cadillac from Brendan Hartley who is definitely distancing himself in the number eight Toyota from the 51 Ferrari of Antonio giovannazzi Andre Lotter freshly into the number six uh Porsche and I was gonna talk about that a couple of minutes ago we got distracted by something else Lotter just set the fastest first sector of the race in that car about five uh maybe three laps ago in his number two caddy and again it's a lot later into the pitch than our Leeds Duo he just saw a glimpse of the sort of double helix 100th anniversary trophy here at Le Mans the standard Le Mans 24-hour trophy that we're used to seeing with the four pillars and the big number 24 on the top I think those will also be presented to the other winners but for the outright winning car and team of the Centenary Le Mans that unique trophy will be presented and clearly next year in the 101st anniversary it's no longer the right trophy so it will be once and once only and clearly at this stage as well Jim somebody somewhere is thinking about a design for the trophy that will be presented to whoever wins the 100th race that's right this is the 91st running of the 24 hours of Leman so in nine years time all things being equal and with a following wind we might be here to witness who wins race number 100. and that will be a fairly epic deal who won the hundreds Indy 500. that would have been Alexander Ross it was Alexander Ross it wasn't there I was uh that was that was where I was venturing and I couldn't quite recall whether it was or not yep in in the Andretti Motorsports yeah Michael could never win it uh unfortunately even though he had he had more than enough talent to win that race he just didn't have enough luck to win that race Indy 500 and Andretti family luck is a long long Saga most famous words the Indianapolis Motor Speedway trouble or Mario yeah hello Mario did win it in uh 1969. AMR the former Northwest AMR car still entered as Northwest AMR called Alana's business talalana had to withdraw a week before the race in spark not just from Spa but from the rest of the season checks time 422 in their garage 422 in the studio clock we're aligned there because of overwhelming pressure of business and again we talked about Ben Keating and somehow fitting in you know riding 50 miles a day in this bicycle to stay fit and running all the dealerships and traveling around the world and across the us because he doesn't just do the wec races at Lamont he also does in whole limbs the WeatherTech Series in two classes so you know it's it's uh yeah it's a crazy crazy schedule and he's he's probably getting up towards Roger Penske levels of of uh hard work and input there still about 30 years behind Roger comfortably 20 yeah comfortably 20. as well Roger I think is 89. see I still think he's early 80s yeah I need it because you know he's not early 80s 89 years old and he's uh you know all the Youth of a an 88 year old and all the youth of of a 50 year old still ridiculous work rate the man puts in and I really it was really really interested to see him in the garage knows the name of just about everybody now when you can see I'm sorry businesses he'll be he'll be he just turned 86 in February so what does he have like five businesses for every year he's been alive I think so yeah something like that yep I mean in the UK he runs a a string of of different car franchises uh I believe he is the largest car dealer in the world I think he has the more dealerships than anybody else Volvo UK for instance that's a Penske company wow is it really yeah you Hall that's a Penske company I mean there are things that don't have Penske above the door that certainly are still a Penske yeah Foundation was the same way right yeah you know I can remember being out there where you you know about Rob I mean we all know Rob Dyson yeah we were we were in Sonoma and we were gonna go the next week to or we were in Monterey going the next week to Sonoma and back to back and he asked me he says what are you doing you're having races that's a replay of the 94 Peugeot crashing about an hour ago and I said I'm just just gonna hang around he says well I've got this uh we make manufacture airplane seats in Seattle have you ever been to Seattle we're going to fly up there I'll take take you up on the jet if you want to go with us well you won't know what and where yeah he's great I thought you're an Upstate New York guy you know it yeah no Roger Penske is everywhere Roger penske's right-hand man retired about a decade ago because he couldn't keep up with the workload because he said Roger would say things like oh we've got a lunch meeting with uh with Denso we need to talk to them about alternates or whatever and all right okay when are they coming in oh no we need to get on the jet yeah yeah what yeah we're going to Japan we're going to Tokyo for lunch okay be lunch tomorrow by the time we get there or yesterday but but yeah I mean and he and he was just saying and that would happen you know once or twice a week you'd be not across the states but across the world somewhere for a meeting because that's how he does business the old one fashion way yeah face to face yeah absolutely yeah no Zoom calls here yeah well I guess for some for some while he will have had to have soon called everybody the same as the rest of the world did but yeah he's uh this is the battle for second place in lmp2 47 car cool racing and Louis delatrans going at it teletrans for the 49 isn't it because you've got all these battles going on uh I'm Dames Sarah Bovi has just set the fastest birth sector of the race for her car in second place in gtem on this current lap so now it's been a while since it's rain and that's a good thing devoutly that to be wished that it stays dry at least for another while because normally when the showers have come in this race it has produced Carnage we've lost half a dozen cars you know it's you know what slip bias midnight halfway yes midnight but halfway half an hour ago it was four o'clock Central European summertime and halfway through the 24 Hours of Le Mans [Music] ion and Harley now is still pulling away from jibanazzi it's up to 17 seconds so he's definitely got the advantage well Brendan Hartley particularly this season has been just a little step above in the number eight Toyota that's really really been driving out of his skin I agree with you I think he's and he's probably of that driving Trio is probably dare say on the world stage probably more underrated than than the others he's very quiet I mean yeah he lets his foot do the talk he does he does yeah not at all a superstarry driver his wife and his uh little baby toddler daughter are here as well yeah just she stole hearts at the passage Brennan's wife was you know I was we were talking and I says well there's no denying that child because her hair is just like his it was everywhere I first met him when he was racing in two liter form Lorena one of the uh Armada of Young Red Bull drivers his history with that team went up and down or with with Red Bull went up and down but uh that's the story for a lot of uh Red Bull Drive yeah but he where dreams go to die I think he then joined uh super Talent Murphy prototypes yep yep that was his break into sports car racing a small small little tea but uh did a great job but it was his first race year wasn't it with Murphy yeah I think he was yeah him Mike Conway yeah that's right um yeah a bunch of other guys and in fact Murphy prototypes disappeared from World Endurance and and from the from Le Mans 24 hours for a few seasons but they are back we were racing yeah you were racing against him road to Le Mans so I and that's great because that was always such a a fun team and you know it was small never hugely funded but just got the job done in such a great spirit and and again yeah did find you know drivers who were maybe at a Crossroads or or a little bit and I had been neglected or forgotten well yeah karoon chandok yeah produce some great drives in that team as well evening career and he apparently has dipped into the pocket for 9.99 he was he was he messaging out earlier game how come I'm not hearing you and he said well that's because I guess you haven't paid for that I'm not paying money to listen to YouTube I do that every time we go to the pub apparently Anthony's Pockets according to Karen are longer than his arms very much in an element new style keeping Allen so yeah so but but then he he was messaging earlier so and clearly he'd heard what we'd seen before uh we moved uh in to take over from the Eurosport common to commentary day team yeah the part-timers um and so he has obviously dipped him for 9.99 so actually if you are watching us overnight on Eurosport or a Motor Trend in the USA or any of the other broadcast partners of the World Endurance Championship and 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would imagine that would be close to ten dollars and ten Euros most things are these days close to parity to the b word that we can't talk about and the other thing you could do is that dollar still doesn't stretch quite as far yeah nothing stretches quite as far these days everybody's pretty well aware of that to be 12.95 the other thing you can do if you fancy seeing a lot more of this is again go to YouTube and find the FIA w e c YouTube channel there's an awful lot of extra content above and beyond what you see in the races and most notably is the all-access programs the all-access programs change format this year from four relatively short featurettes it's become a 40-minute program very well and it is all and from a TV director that is High Praise very well done it is all behind the scenes stuff with the teams with the drivers um there's a program from Sebring the season opener there's a program for porting male race two there's a program for race three spa and this one I spoke to Cedric who's uh the the guy who uh produces and directs the whole thing as he was coming back off the grid and said how was that was it chaos and he said we've got enough for about a week's worth of programs already and they haven't even started the race so that's the point one in part two then yeah yeah well yeah I mean you know Le Mans the centenre alone probably he probably does deserve a movie I'm sure there will be one or maybe two or who knows more um it's drive to it's drive to survive without the contrived drama drive to survive without will or Jack essentially so yeah no it's that too it is it is all fly on the wall documentary and uh it's it is it really entertaining stuff and one of the you know one of the things that we have the Delight of is to is to get to know a little bit about these drivers and about the team personnel and we're able to show so little of that on TV I mean is a driver yourself you know how much goes on it is the tiniest tip of the iceberg that actually appears on camera and the rest of it nobody really gets to discover until you get these you know behind the scenes camera docks yeah and I think we've seen all these um these documentaries appear and and you know I'm certainly a fan because I think behind the scenes you want to know about uh you know what goes on from the engineering to the engineering meetings and the politics and you know just to get here to be at the racetrack um there's so much um effort and politics to to get into this position well you think I mean a classic example would be a driver like Alex Albano or Esteban okon you know five or six years ago there'd just been and also ran in the back of the grid car that nobody knew or cared about now you know the people and their families and their stories everybody's invested in them yeah and that's a huge change for non-world Championship potential drivers you know there's always the three or four or five or sometimes six drivers who get focused on and get talked about a little bit and you learn a little bit more about them but it's the other two-thirds of the Grid in Formula One yeah and God knows that gets some exposure that you never really get to meet and that's part of this you know again 62 cars 186 drivers some of their names I won't say Jim won't say you won't say cumulative will talk about them you always get to the end of race and go wow whatever happened to that car I'd I actually don't remember even saying that car's name and yet it's been going around for 24 hours and we've been watching for 24 hours so and it's the same efforts yes good one and actually quite a lot quite often a lot more per capita yeah because there are fewer capitals and there are fewer resources going in and so the human labor element of it is is even more extreme back with our ironed Ames Porsche of Sarah bovey this will be the last Le Mans for the iron Dames in a Porsche because having started their career with Ferrari they signed a deal to run Lamborghinis type of car program and as a knock-on effect also Lamborghini's GT3 program so and they've moved back to the front on the exchange of pit Stars they have indeed as we're cycling through another set of pit stops for the GTM cars Scott huffaker is now the American is now in second place in the castle racing Ferrari yeah David he's just uh he's just pitted David third of course the iron damage drivers have got quite a a season on their hands for instance when in that they were in Sebring they were racing in the insert race as well in a Lamborghini and running back to not running driving in a on a golf cart back down to the wet Paddock and then jumping into the Portia and and that obviously same track totally different car totally different behavior that can't be a bit of a mind Bender either and they're doing the same in the European season where they're racing the Porsche in wec there's the battle for second in lmp2 wow that's close 47. yeah the cool racing uh car in with the two blue lights and Louis de la trans and the wrt car 41 with the three blue lights I hadn't realized they were quite that close together that was nearly a change of position in traffic there they are down at the bottom of the screen there you go and actually you've got the cool racing uh team wrt and the interior pool all kind of yeah right here together yeah with the uh Decay just a few seconds ahead so it's a really close battle there in lmp2 and if you want to know more about the iron James just to put a button on that story The All Access from from Spa has some great bits with that team it shows the camaraderie and just how close-knit that group is and and why it works so well big race for Sarah bovee Spa being a Belgian driver um am I reading the timing screen wrong Ninth Place Porsha Prince uh of course you put oh no 10th Place rather the Ferrari of course Miguel Molina yeah because he just sit the fastest first sector of anyone in the entire race of this land I believe he has that is a purple first sex I'm not it's not that he's in the pit Lane and that that was you know he's he's absolutely flying now he's down in 10th place and he's what three laps off the lead but oh boy that car's still got some speed and in some respects he's got nothing to lose has he you know just he can just drive flat out and uh he's not really going for position so he can just uh really kind of uh go for it Brendan Hartley's going for it as well the leader of the race since the number two Cadillac stop all that channel 47. that's the car that was in second place the cool racing car the third place car cool racing car that's with Santa teres he was in that battle with the Trans I wonder if there was uh the back of the car is he's backed it in face Porsche in isn't it oh okay but he's only got half a mile to get back to the pit Lane just how much of the cars are going to leave on the racetrack in the Press now when the 94 Porsche crashed we heard Gustavo menezes saying do you want me to stop and take the nose out of the way if we think back to Sebring last year there was a slight off track Excursion for the number seven Toyota Jose Rio Lopez continued and then the nose dropped under the wheels the undertrained under the wheels the whole nose dropped and he shot straight off at much higher speed what happens here oh he went off on the inside collected the wall and bounced to the outside so has he come all the way across the gravel trap did he go off a long way earlier than the scene of the accident yeah I think he has I think he's come across the gravel and not quite missed the end wall there and got tagged and turned here we go that's the 34 car that's now up to second place that's into europol's Albert Costa wait a minute what happened to Louis de la traz because Costa was closing on them yeah he's third yeah so he continues and into the pits comes the very damaged cool racing car the left rear suspension is all yep that's a long stop seeing the way the light comes on in the cockpit when they come into the pit Lane you might flash it that's not the impact light is it or is that just a colored light when they come into the pit Lane because if it is the G light no I think it's on both sides I think it's a car looks like it's on both sides yeah I don't think it's I don't think it's the the impact light if an impact on the car registers more than a requisite number of G then the driver is by regulation taken directly to the medical center now the fact he's managed to come into the pit Lane without any outside intervention means that the car can continue even if the G light has come on and he needs to be examined because it doesn't necessarily dictate damage to the car that's going to take some time to uh it's pretty big damage most of the front and the rear of the car so I've done a job on it yeah yeah it really has unfortunately it does look like it got tagged on the side spun round it slapped that whole left hand side and taking the rear off as well and this is where you see all the frangible items coming off all the wings the nose cone the crash structure on the front that's bolted on above and below all the pedal box cylinders the brake and clutch cylinders and then all the rear body work all those suspension components are designed to bend and break and separate from the car rather than tear out we don't see where he goes off oh he's going off in front [Music] yeah he's lost it before the corner hasn't he yeah he lost it as he turned in he I thought he may have come across the gravel he didn't he was on the road but he lost it a long way out [Music] in the pit Lane [Music] now it's a really tough break for them cool racing again such a an enterprising small team talked to Nick menacion when they were coming through scrutineering and whether or not maybe they had Ambitions to look to run a hyper car and he said we're not ready yet we're still a small team we don't have the engineering back up we don't have the workshop back up to run a customer hypercar program yes in you know if we can grow to that size of course we'd love to but at the moment they race this car here at Lamont they race in the European Le Mans series and in the Michelin the modern cup so they've got quite a roster of drivers and and team Engineers I was speaking to Sam hignet um earlier on this week from Jojo and he was saying that the step up to the the hyper car the amount of extra people and also their extra amount of Kit they needed to run in is significant so it's a big investment um for for any team to step up to hypergirls yeah we were talking to the guys at Ferrari about the potential of customer hyper cars and they said you know you would if it was to be decided that cars would be so old they would need to be run by Ferrari yes because the sophistication and they were saying that the perception outside tends to be that these are less sophisticated cars than the lmp1 hybrids that they are easier to run he said that could not be further from the truth they may not have quite such powerful hybrid systems but as the years progress the electronics are getting more and more sophisticated and the technology level is getting higher and higher as happens in all the road cars and that you know that knock-on effect nothing stands still in especially in Motorsports it continues to evolve so if there were to be a decision in Marinello that uh you know the equivalent of of Luigi Luigi kennetti in days gone by you know a favor or Jack hero Moretti at the moment can you imagine if not and Moretti were still around there would be North American cars somehow running yeah but it would require you know to run it or or a full Factory operation to run it but wearing a Momo or not shirts it's like yesterday's parade with the you know excellent on winning cars I mean in in five ten years time you probably couldn't do that because you wouldn't have the resources or the people possibly to run it or you would need an you you would need an army of people so um no you're right it's um these cars have seriously seriously um complex and you know high-end machinery and uh yeah it's uh the real real race cars well you know I was going to say even the Bentley that you won Lamont with you cannot run that out of a you know have a two-door domestic garage just cannot you need all of the intelligence that goes but you know this is one of the one of the problems facing historic racing to a degree that once you get past the Cosworth era of Formula One Cosmo from Turbo era and you start to get into the really sophisticated v10s and so on it's almost impossible to run but in fact even a turbo era cars a lot of those are quite hard to run because they run on clunky old laptops for which there are no laptops left well that's I was speaking to my Bentley engineer and had exactly that same problem literally went up into the attic pulled out his laptop which had all the software on a big beige Dell yeah exactly that basically had the software to run the car but without this laptop that he kind of dusted off and thankfully saved that car would be going nowhere and the problem is those Electronics have you ever tried to open a 10 year old laptop and get it to to do anything they just don't after a while they just don't do anything and there's the problem is that you know nobody is emulated Windows 311 yeah because there's not much demand for it except for running turbo era Formula One cars Joe Bradley knows a guy in the in the UK that that's what he's he's gone around and yeah collected a lot of these old laptops do we know him uh Bradley does but do we know him as well did he did he work on uh LMS radio in the early days uh no no it's not yes no no it's not Gaza it's not Gaza that's the sort of thing the castle would do yeah that's who I thought it was when he was talking about it GTM leader in the pits Sarah bovey stays in the iron Dames Porsche okay last year Ferrari this year Porsche next year Lamborghini and just to round out that Circle as we talked about the fact that the crew were racing different cars in Sebring they're racing different cars for the rest of the season as well because in ACO rules racing here in the World Endurance Championship and also in the European Le Mans series they're racing horses but they will race GT3 Lamborghinis next year in the ACO rules regulation when we changed to to GT3 and they already racing Lamborghinis in a fanatic GT series so boy they are getting some wheel hours in this year and that's why as a team they are so close they almost never don't see each other they must all at the end of the year be dying for the winter just have a few weeks where they're not living hand in glove not that I don't love each other's death because they clearly do and get on supremely well but but it's funny it's funny as a driver with teammates you is it is like a marriage I mean I remember my wife would always say to me you know I'd ring my teammates two three times a day I'd almost speak to them more than with my own family because you have to have that Bond you have to have that relationship and um you know just you're almost second guessing what the other person's thinking and that's what you need when you're in the racetrack and the other thing of course is that you really being together for too long you do need time away I mean if your wife must say to you as Jim's does and mine certainly does when are you going to work again next exactly when you're just getting a bit too sarcastic for your own good exactly and but that's the same with teammates you know you do need that intimacy I mean it's it's 100 Trust that's that's the thing that all of those hours together give absolutely absolute trust in each other that you'll be there and you will do the job for each other and and everybody will pick up the slack and I think in in this environment when you've got two other teammates it's about knowing your strengths and weaknesses and their strengths and weaknesses and actually just working together I mean when when I drove together at Bentley you know with people like Tom and Indo it's it's trying to be able to help whether perhaps they are maybe not a strong and vice versa if I'm struggling an area they'll step in right and and actually as a team you become super strong and you play to each other's strengths and help each other mitigate your weakness exactly and that's when it really gels yeah and again that intimacy and that trust that allows the no blame culture whereas what's the problem let's get it fixed whatever the problem is we don't care why or who or how the only thing that matters is how do we get around it how do we fix it yeah slow Zone here this is Scott Dixon in the number three caddy zone eight is still slow Zone 8 is still slow we're gonna pit this lap Scott pit pit so that was him coming through into the entry to the portion curves that's still clear up there for the 47 cool racing car forty seven six seven forty seven of Russia to Jairus and uh that was yeah again the messages are heard in our truck and then they are recorded and played out so it normally takes around 30 to 40 seconds to pick one out of The Ether and uh decide okay that sounds quite interesting we'll just play that in so quite often the car is in a different position when we hear it to when it was actually broadcast but Scott Dixon brings the number three caddy down pit Lane this has had a storied race this car hasn't it in fact it's had a bit of a tough week qualified then a crash very early on Sebastian border Van Der Zander and Scott Dixon the trio Rengar slipping in the Cadillac with two cars in the top five as well so doing a great job now again that you know the more cars you have in your Armory the more you still have left when things start to go a bit squarely which is why Audi so often had a three-car field here it may be a sports car but they uh it it has the feel of a single seater when he slides in there it does and with the head restraints and everything else to have protection it feels very much like a single season but again you know we're talking about okay it's a two-seat car so he's just sitting there and there's space beside him there wouldn't be if you tried to get in there oh Dives across the line just to make sure he was across the line before the engine fired up and not to incur a penalty and and you know still got 11 hours of day to go or ten and a half hours a day to go and he's 11 hours and he's throwing himself around like that no hopefully that crew member is A-Okay he's going to talk about misconception Jim will remember when uh oh it just yeah just slightly lost his balance there coming around the way I think he probably clipped his hip on the wing as he came around right yeah and then that thing where you're trying to keep your balance and you run run stumble onto the floor Once Upon a Time Early in the in the early days of LMS there was going to be a race in Aruba which then didn't happen and we ended up at Las Vegas was that Texas Motor Speedway yeah Motor Speedway regular season we're in and now there was it Texas where we were only on track in the evening because the entire track was booked for the week by the Richard Petty Driving School that would have been like that was that that was like Vegas we were only racing in the evening yeah the Apache driving school was there all week and so given the opportunity like meandered down and managed to buy myself a ride a guest ride in a car where you you're driven around by a proper driver uh that was quite entertaining because I thought you know we'll go around and we'll do some laps they actually did a pretend race with racing off Pit Road and passing on the banking and racing back into the pit Lane which is very entertaining and then managed to get a drive in the car and you sort of imagine that a NASCAR is a seat and this cavernous entity it's not you see even back then and this is 20 plus years ago sitting in a little aluminum channel with a very high Wing bucket seat around you I mean it felt like a single-seater in the middle or in the left-hand seat of of a big stock car so it's a yeah the perception that the car is a lot bigger than it is it perfect I mean the cockpit of your friendly I can remember David Brown With cursing you endlessly because he's not not quite as racing down the height as you are it was absolutely it was barely a single seater never mind an actual two-seater yeah no it's really it's funny every time I get into the car the the aperture for the the windscreen is so tight it's got smaller yeah it's got really small but it but it's um but you know when you get into it it's kind of snug and it feels good and it's all comfortable he's hitting the GT3 car now that's something different that's much much bigger and that does you do you do kind of get lost in that car um but uh a five second uh penalty on the next pit stop for the two car for a technical infringement so okay I don't know if it was the uh if they did that drive that mechanic did not clear well that was the three so so perhaps May well have happened on the number two car [Music] just to recap we're heading towards 11 hours remaining with completed nearly 13 hours of the Centenary Limon Toyota lead currently in the number eight car and what was a growing Gap over the 51 fry it grew very quickly as the cars left the pit Lane with the Ferrari just in front uh through the previous dent and losing the lead on the final lap of the previous stint driver changes Brendan Hartley has pulled away from Antonio giovannazzi but do you know givenazi is sort of uh stopped that rot and closed the Gap a little so it remains under 20 seconds number two Cadillac in third place those are the cars on the lead lap number six Penske Porsche is in fourth place Andre Lotter having just stopped and rank of andazander we saw him take over another three Cadillac a lap ago he is in fifth position with the Lesser delayed of the two peugeots the 93 car a lap back from the leaders with the caddy in sixth spot and then a further lap find them the pair of clicking houses then the number five at Penske Porsche that had a crash earlier a cooling system problem delayed the 50 am Porsche Ferrari that sat on pole position and led early on that car is now down in 10th a crash from 94 Peugeot dropped that back a crash for the 38. jokes and dropped that back two crashes for the number 311 actually expressive dropped that back various minor issues and a trip or two to the gravel number four Floyd van will drop that back number seven Toyota had a was the victim of a big multi-car pilot going into a slow Zone and it was fatally damaged in the electronics of its hybrid system and the 75 Porsche Penske 963 had a fuel and oil pump failure or or failure to proceed because of an oil pump and that car was retired on the spot actually placed you in with 311 in a lap also 93 Julian on this lap and the 51 Ferrari there it is yeah eight is in and fueling you can see it's energy level going up they've been stopping right together they're on the same lap and the number two Cadillac should go one lap longer in fact looking at 21 sock that should go two laps longer so the cadity is doing softly softly catchy monkey through the night time where it is starting to they are definitely in this stint trying to egg out another lap the problem with that guy is that you really really really really really need to make sure you've got the extra lamp because getting 15 kilometers around a 16 kilometer circuit is not good enough no no they're going to work out I mean they're probably just missing out on probably overall Pace I would say and they've got to just try and do something a little bit different trying to eke out that extra fuel mileage is going to help them who's the best gas saver in the Indycar series well yeah exactly exactly uh when it's got Dixon yeah well you know we again you know talking to the teams from SIM work they will know who they can go to when they need to save fuel and who they absolutely can't yeah either because the driving style of that particular driver is a bit throttle break heavy all because they can save you the fuel that they Hemorrhage lap time yes and and that's the bat you know we can all drive more economically by driving slower driving more economically while not driving slower now that's a whole different thing and it's a very different skill and some driving Styles will be more favorable towards it and some won't be so each of the race car Engineers will know if we're going to try and save a lap or two on a few stints and try and maybe creep another you know save an entire pit stop before the end of the race then you'll know if it's possible with a car and with which driver you're most likely to have that sort of impact I do wonder if the caddy isn't in on the next lap then it could be that part of the reason they're just lacking a second the lap or so in Pace is that they're trying to save themselves a minute and 25 second pit stop at the end of the race yeah they're probably probably working back now from the end of the race and saying well what can we do we can't beat them on pays so what how can we do that yeah and so many dip to go about winning this race the traditional old-school group Seaway that Norbert singer perfected was here's the lap time we need to get us on the fuel we're allowed to the end of 24 hours as efficiently as possible go then if it rains we save fuel yeah and we turn the turbo boost up and we blast past the Jags who can't save fuel and even if they do well if you can save fuel because he used less behind the safety car but they can't use any more because they can't turn up the turbo boost so it was always uh it was always a sort of Fairly linear plan to start with we cannot go any faster than this lap time and we don't care what speed the opposition goes because we know we can't do that and then then something hopefully will change in our favor if we're being left sadly behind they were rarely left sadly behind on Pace but that was that was always sort of plan A now Tim Rover is heading off to the Land of Nod because uh back home it is midnight 01 here in the center of France it is 501 am and we welcome that world champion Anthony Davidson and you'll be very glad to know that karun has dipped in for 9.99 because he's been I know he has commenting oh well done Curry that big rays of the eyebrow I should think by at four in the morning in the UK he's probably asleep one of the tightest men on the planet well done you're having a sleep look at these guys they're making themselves comfy well listen if you've either been here for a long while watching the race or have been here for a long while and might have had a drink or two you can fall asleep pretty much anywhere so I've just turned on my TV I see the Toyotas at the front how's that happened perfect time right that's exactly what I asked to come about okay okay perfect time for a recap it is five o'clock in the morning we have completed 13 hours of the 24 Hours of Le Mans we have 11 hours to go a couple of minutes inside that you can see the leaderboard number eight Toyota and the number 51 Ferrari you're basically being nip and Tuck uh over the last couple of hours they had a driver change last time around Sebastian where we handed over the Toyota to Brendan Hartley and the 51 Ferrari went from the hands of James collado to Antonio giovannazzi now giovannazzi was at an 1819 second deficit about halfway through the stint and that Gap has now come down to just seven seconds the number two Cadillac in third place stops a lap later has stopped a lap later they have not yet saved a lap in that car and a driver changes you can see Earl Bamba taking over from Richard Westbrook who's just um uh double stint Andrew in fourth place in the number six Porsche Penske 963 ahead of the number three Cadillac which despite all its efforts to remove itself from the weekend and the race uh the team will manage to keep it going little top up on the oil system there that's what that canister is it's pressurized and pumps oil into the oil system and then in sixth place the best place Toyota Peugeot is now the 93 because the 94 card Gustavo Munez has crashed in the damp first UK about an hour and a half ago so that idea has dropped right down the order yeah he was as you might anticipate extremely distraught but he just I mean guy the tiniest little damp hat somewhere and he just zigged when he should have zagged and he was in the wall on the outside yeah he just carried a little bit too much speed into the uh for chicane and ran a little bit wide through the left-hander and just got his right front wheel on that uh on the wet basically there was a dry line it wasn't drying very quickly on the uh off the racing line and uh yeah just got onto the wet and couldn't stay the car and went straight into the wall and I've seen so many do but yeah not into the wall but uh yeah even uh Pierre greedy earlier on did a a pretty similar thing but they were having such a great race I mean they were genuinely in the fight I mean they were it was kind of it was kind of Toyota Ferrari and Peugeot yeah very very close thing as the pit stops cycled around it would go up to First back down to third up to First back down to third so they were genuinely in the hunt uh the other major named full by the wayside in the last couple of hours has been the number 50 Ferrari that had a leak in the radiator for the ERS system the electrical recovery system so it's getting all sort of hybrid alarms so they stopped to fix that so that cost them uh about 15 minutes I think so that's what's dropped them back down so that car actually has just about five ten minutes ago we were pointing out that in that 55 Miguel Molina who took it over at the last stop had to set a purple first sector so as often is the case in the dark of the night when you're not in traffic as ill bambra has now got a clear road in front of him in the cool cool of the air engine produces a bit more power from its charge and the tires are working well on the cooler track they're all on the soft tire the grip is good conditions are good it's dry you do get some fast fast laps coming through and this is great as you can see ahead not a car inside and uh you talked earlier on about the clumps of cars or the packs of cars and it's absolutely true as you can see he's found himself in some clear space so now is a great time to it's a great time to Drive Lavon at night when there's no cars on track it's just so quiet and almost eerily peaceful and um yes it's a great uh it's a great time to be in the car yeah hard for a normal Road driver to imagine it being peaceful with you doing 200 miles an hour at top speed through a forest on public road but that all the drives I've talked to about it over the years have always said there is that slightly sort of spiritual slightly sort of Zen feel and that's when and guy that that's when you're in the zone when you've got what the drivers talk about you know the Rhythm everything is just happening automatically you're not having to force it barely having to even think about it I think any any road driver can probably recognize this feeling when you've done a route a million times and you said you're on it you're on that that same Journey one day and you suddenly stop thinking am I how have I got to do this part yeah that that is being in the zone it's when you write wife ranks to go where are you then um though I don't know although I'm coming up the same bit of motor oil I've done as you said yeah and it's Eerie um hundreds of times and and you know I always say that in my head the difference between me trying to drive a racing car and you driving a racing car apart from fitting in it is that it would take every iota of mental faculty that I've got just to make it move whereas you guys are doing it as if you're on a cruise control on the motorway and the vast majority of your brain power is object avoidance other cars you know and that spatial awareness and we you see drivers who don't have that capacity because they don't have that spatial awareness and they get into accidents as a result and and the best drivers have that ability to think of all the permutations all the calculations to know instinctively without any discussion what the right tire choices or what the right strategy choices or where to make the move and that's because you're using so little brain power to drive the car yeah you're just on autopilot and uh you know even when and I know it would be the same for guy every time we go to an onboard shop you you're thinking with them and they do exactly what you're thinking it's amazing I had a really bizarre experience earlier in the year I was doing a the F1 event with Skye in uh in Bahrain and one of these City features that they they've made us do they stuck Us in go-karts they were they were twin seater and one had the steering and the other driver had the pedals I saw that yeah and I sat in with uh Oscar pistri never met the guy ever in my life and we sat in this cart together uh I was doing the throttle and break and he was on the steering and I I kid you not we eager as we were doing the controls but both controls ourselves we wouldn't have gone any faster really just and we were racing other carts on the track as well and and it was the strangest feeling because we it was like we just read each other's minds so it's the same it's when we go on an onboard we're feeling what the other driver is going through yeah and it's almost like a muscle memory isn't it yeah like a muscle memory of almost been in that in that car with them yeah high speed gamer chess yeah you just and it's and we've got the ability having done it all our lives to slow down that time you know other people be be you know eyes on stalks just just fearful of the speed and that's pretty much all consuming but for us it's we're not consumed by the speed it's just we then have the capacity to kind of slow it all down and then think of other things as well on top of that like where to place the car in uh in in moves when you're coming up to a slower car or racing another car and thinking about where to overtake them or what you're gonna have to eat when you get out of the car yeah and stuff like that or yeah what's the weather doing yeah they have a nice chat with you all those questions yeah all that information but normally when you when you when you're on the track um during practice sessions it's always so busy and so fraught and there's always traffic so that's why you when you are on the track and you're on your own it's it's so unique and so special and that's where you really connect with it and it's moments like that that really kind of make lemon so special see they're getting all Misty eyed boys and girls I haven't just turned up as well I was literally asleep just 30 minutes ago 20 minutes ago even and uh and you get here and you get headset on and you're watching you're trying to get your eye and then you start trying to talk about it and it's very similar there are similarities to jumping in the car and having to be on it straight away and I can tell my brain's not fully it's not fully engaged yeah it's not flowing and that's exactly what it's like when the drivers jump into the car you try and wake yourself up you're doing your exercises and you know just you're talking to Engineers before you get in the car and you're trying to get yourself in in the groove I can tell I'm just I'm hitting barriers it's like my brain's not quite I'm not quite there yet and uh it's just the same when you jump in the car you think oh how was I doing it before it was also easy before I was completely in the zone and uh you get out there just fighting to get back into it and what makes the difference is the adrenaline that fires up and then all the synapses are really twitching away and everything starts to really work and and that's what adrenaline does that that's what makes human beings survive that's why we have it it gets the heart racing it gets the lungs pumping but to get the oxygen around the body and it fires the brain into that enormous fight or flight State and and that's what you need but it's an incredible job I mean you'd think there'd be that that would be there straight away when you jumped into a racing car at 200 miles an hour on This brilliant on me if I do for you yeah but maybe it's less of a it's less of a mainlining adrenaline injection for you because it is more familiar and you're not scared of it and so it does take that little bit longer you know by the time we got to the Dunlop curve I would be on adrenaline 11 and you'd still be nudging up to one maybe because I know we were gonna die and you'd be perfectly fine because you know the breaks of the tires are going to get us around so that you know there's the big difference is that the more familiarity you have the less your the less you have that fight or flight Instinct so if it will come with the speed and it will come with a with the focus but and and they feed off each other but that's that's why you know put a put put a billy in there oh there won't be any shortage of adrenaline and you'll be able to see what color it is as well classic watch there this is the uh garage 56 crew and they are the hardest working guys in the pit Lane not that anybody else isn't hard working there's on on their car it's just uh that extra little tick more physical because they have to Jack the car up by hand and all of that stuff well as I always said when the driver's happy and uh well happy but when when the mechanics are hard at work the drivers yeah exactly that's what you're saying never never both at the same time it's uh yeah you see sleeping mechanics you know the drivers out there hard at work yeah exactly right Alan that uh Wellington Sports Camaro the Invitational class car number 24 that the fans around the track side oh a little bit of a lock up there under pressure that's the decaying guard to Cain and panis that's a battle for position I think it is that is second place that's uh Nico Kino the Chilean driver in the black and green Duquesne car locking up ahead of team and vanderhelm so two youngsters teenager two teenagers team of under Helm is a teenager as well in comes the car that was uh has been the leader in the class in GT Pro PJ Hyatt gets out after Double stint uh he took over from Gunner Jeanette so I'm assuming that is Mateo Cairo some more Mateo Caroli stature than Gunner Jeanette stature that's like you and me and Davidson one looks like a racing driver and the other looks like garbage mat and people be asking well how does that work then how does a smaller driver work with a bigger driver in terms of the controls well the controls these days and the GT cars they can all move to the driver a bit like in your road car with a telescopic steering and height adjust these GT cars have that as well but also the pedal box can move further or towards the driver so the seat is pretty much in the same position they do have a seat insert as well but um yeah got one of the days where you had these huge seat inserts and the GT cars to try and Propel the driver further forward the reason behind that is for the safety and the head safety so you're closest to the well so the head stays in the same position from driver to driver for the head restraint all 20 years ago you bought a Porsche 911 GTRs and was on sliding seagraphs so loose actually the same as Road car lift the seat bar slide forward or slide backwards now obviously in terms of an accident you don't want the seat sliding forward or backwards so you don't want it to burst free from that so the seats are much more rigidly mounted into the car for lateral movement and forward and backwards movement and so something has to move otherwise a six foot and a five foot driver can't share the same car so it is the pedal box of the steering that moved together so there's a 30 Duquesne car second place in lmp2 Albert Costa leads for into europol who did you have in a Sweepstake to win lmp2 I didn't have into Europe it was jota or somebody's going to be coming looking for you deep in my heart I think perhaps slightly guilty it might not have been jota is that what you're telling me honestly I think it might have been one of the United which is uh seemingly like a terrible uh decision yeah right now about 10 euros is uh certainly a curse them I had the garage 56 car coming home in 19 so they need to make up 11 places in 11 hours 10 hours 42 minutes oh I had them at 29th position oh you did I think the chances of them finishing in 29th Place I'll probably slightly less than finishing in 19th anyway uh be that as it may let's take a look at this battle so 1.3 seconds in it it's a pretty tight battles the the battle between Brendan Hartley and Antonio giovannazzi I wonder what the tire differences were because Brendan went off like an absolute scalded cat I don't think they changed tiles the number uh eight Toyota because they'd only done one stint with sebwemi he changed tires twice uh he went out with new tires and at the end of his first tip where we came back in and changed again and the second set of tires uh Brendan Hartley is on the gaps Ebony ebbing and flowing isn't it between uh jovenazzi and Hartley it was down at six seconds yeah but it was originally at the beginning very quickly um so it's seen that a couple of times that the Toyota's really got onto the time very quickly this taken the Ferrari a couple of laps to come back up but like I was saying before Martin is was it that both drivers got in at the same time in fact okay the number eight car uh Sebastian Remy passed James collado on the inland [Music] 48 Laps on the tires 51 for Palace racing so these hard tires the only slick that's available on mmp2 they're in a third stint so triple stint on those tires at the moment and well Maldonado cousin oh why did pasta not come to my Mac cousin of pasta Maldonado there's the uh there's the juggling oranges I think they're now only fit for juggling judging by the number of times they've been drunk we saw Nico Pino juggling with them before he got into the car and I know it might seem like they're just messing around but uh well they probably are mechanics worked if they're coming up to a pit stop and like I was saying before you want the brain to be sharp that's a really good way to uh to try and switch on there's the panus racing team slumped in the seats is Mr panis Olivier panis if his son irelian is here be surprised if he's not actually aurelians uh a touring car and sports car driver races in the ice racing series trophy Andrews during the winter Champion try for Androids his dad occasionally races there as well and absolutely has no qualms in punting his son off the same as he will with anybody else if he's in the way which is always good to see juggling continues oh see look wakey wakey well there's team boss Shield Ducane not only runs this team but yield has now taken over manufacturing the chassis that was originally the normal chassis so those lmp3 cars are now Duquesne chassis leave me alone I know what I'm doing I think it's really unfair when they go around showing sleeping people that just give them their privacy well but at least in that garage they're not being painted by their teammates or you know decorated with flowers or whatever you know at least he's just being allowed to sleep peacefully on the floor in the middle of the garage like down at Corvette or something near the uh the Masters aren't they of course the Joker Joker absolutely are all right here we go then this is uh Antonio [Music] heading down the motion straight not much ahead of him the next car ahead of in fact the next car behind him is number 50 Ferrari and we are ahead of him in the race and on the road number eight Toyota is uh just about seven seconds and nearly eight seconds now this is the third place Carol battle number two caddy that was Fabio Shira we could see uh getting ready looked like he's just starting his preparations for uh a driver change coming up into europol Bamber works his way through the Dunlop chicane keep the car within the white lines on the exit just see in the distance there the Sky starting starting to become a bit more Twilight yep and actually because it's cloudy that's taken longer normally by about 4 30 you're starting to get that Golden Light coming in the pre-dawn light and the blue light that photographers get so excited about where there's still a kind of soft glow in the air but you don't get the harshness of daylight but it is taking a quite a lot longer in days gone by the commentary positions for TV used to be on top of the ATO building looking towards the start towards down towards the pit Lane so the outside of the track and they were glass fronted and glass walls so boy you knew when the sun was coming up would shine over the top of the grandstands and right into you there's the brain looking out of the exhausts of the Porsche Penske 963 that's it great shot I've never seen that before Oh we haven't seen that before I wonder if he's over fueling off brothel little stabs of blue flame as he comes down the gearbox up to our nose you lift up again down through the gears slowest corner on the track first gear because the color of the body we don't see much of that discovering but when the uh 38 jota car came in with the damaged body panel takeoff you'd see against the gold of that Bodywork how black the exhaust marks were all the way down the body [Music] now that's great through the Porsche curves first left into the second little lift there to the right hug the inside through that one and then you've got casting left coming up a little bit over the curbs on both sides inside and exit and then you're heading up towards the final set of chicanes pit Lane will be just on the left-hand side of us there throw the car in over the curbs on the left and the right slow it down even further for the Ford chicane right then left on power past the pit start finish straight stands on the right and left hand side they're not quite as packed as they were earlier on at the start of the race lots of sleeping people around but uh yeah try this hard at work like laughter he's um there's no newcomer to this race yeah he's got a few miles under his belt and a few wins under his belt as well DKR engineering the all Belgian lineup at Hugo the Builder in the car stays in giving himself a little psych up there I think getting ready to go looked like it didn't it yeah exactly what we talked about and not letting the adrenaline sag away as he's sitting there stationary stationary for nearly 90 seconds it's why as well the same as when you get out of the car and even though you can feel your body so tired you're really sleepy but you can't sleep if you try to sleep as I always did when I raced here it's uh it takes I found at least an hour before you could when you're on the come down from that that high that height of uh concentration and adrenaline whatever it is I'd love to speak to a sports scientist about it just understand why why that happens why does it take so long to get back into the groove and why does it take such a long time when you get out from the car to then wind down and uh and fully relax out of what actually goes on in in the human brain that uh kind of stops that from happening a bit more instantaneously again I think part of it is the sort of lower level if you like maybe adrenaline when you're really focusing on something and and even if you're driving a car on the motorway you know you do still have to pay attention you can't just sit there and Nod off unless you're in the passenger seat I'm gonna have the same thing you know if I've been working in the evening you focus hard a lot then you get in the car and drive home I'll get home and you know if I go straight to bed I'll be lying there staring at the ceiling for an hour it just takes a little time for your brain to stop worrying you know it's like the stress isn't it stress is uh it it can either be well I think for a for an athlete I think it can be quite a good thing when you're when you're in the Heat of the Moment yep absolutely certainly not a good thing when you're well in everyday life and when you especially when you're trying to get to sleep no exactly right well I always kind of think you know your brain's been in gear and whizzing around if you imagine you know like a spinning top one of those gyroscopes you know you pull the string and it's whizzing away it's going to take a while to slow down it's got It's got some you know it's got that bitter momentum in it and if you're thinking all the time when you're driving home then you've still got that you know your body may be tired it takes a while for you your brain to switch off Hannah's car is in this is a 65 car full service but no driver change so team and Van Der Helm stays in I think you might be asking why are you cleaning the lights why bother Clean cleaning the headlights but it really does actually make a difference having a clean Shield over the uh over the Light Panel in terms of how much brightness you get from it so if you just left it the whole race you'd have probably 10 by the end of it 10 less the lighting so yeah an important time obviously and in when it's been damped to dry and there's all the rubber around you'll actually probably only have 10 to the lighting you had in the first place number like 10 less you probably have 10 remaining so yeah like with your road car so many road cars now have headlamp washers for exactly the same reason you know salt and the grime that's on your windscreen you can clean off with the windscreen wipers but it has the same effect on light going through the light lens and you just have reduced visibility and when you're doing 180 190 200 miles an hour visibility is quite a useful thing the lights on these cars are amazing compared to your road car any roadkill it you jump in a racing car and it's just like it's daylight in front um that didn't always used to be that way no headlights have improved an awful lot even since the time I was racing uh here at Le Mans they've improved so much my I remember the first Toyota I drove 2012 we used to joke the drivers it was like holding two candles out of them front trying to see where you're going through the Porsche cabs but they came on an awful lot in our time there and uh they've got these clever metrics that they hold over in front of in front of the lights to make sure that they're perfect you get a perfect uh array in front uh so they're pointing in all the right directions it used to be done a joke for a Peugeot here used to just be done by I yeah they would sit the more experienced drivers in the car like someone like Stefan sarazan for example and say look it's somewhere like Paul Rickard at a open test day it's a bright step where would you like the light it's a little bit up a little bit down a little bit more to the outside bring it in a little bit and uh it's like yes like setting your mirrors see you know proper lighting is one of the things that's been accelerated by this race yeah you know decent fuel economy windscreen wipers and hoods that stayed on cars in the olden days before cars had solid roofs disc brakes and all the other things that have sort of slipped in through the back door but uh yeah I mean modern road cars you'll find a whole lot of them have the radar that also is your sort of automatic cruise control sensor will also work with the lights to dip the lights as oncoming traffic comes towards you while still giving you a good cone of light now we don't have that drama here frankly you don't care if you're blinding the guy in front of you looking back quite often you'll do it deliberately to try and distract him when you're trying to get by but yeah still they have phenomenally powerful lights we always used to go through that deliberation as drivers you know right up until my time at jota whether you would run a blanking on the uh on the mirrors so you'd put up with a bit of you know less visibility in the daylight so you put like a darker screen a darker film over the mirrors just for that reason in the night time it really come into its own uh because you don't want to be blinded from the car behind you you want to kind of stay focused and not have the lights dancing around behind you all the time you want to see them of course but not be blinded by it as much as it is a distraction in the on the road it is in in racing cars as well but we used to actually say right well most of the race is in the daylight we're in summer we're around the summer solstice so you around the the longest day hello Andrea and uh yeah so we would come to the decision always that well we gave it a go but in pre-practice but usually you'd you'd come to the decision together that yeah take the blanking off and uh because it was either on or off you didn't have the luxury of peeling it off you had to really stick it down firmly but no dipping mirrors because that's an extra you know couple of grams that would have made a difference well there's a hyper car they're digital now the university stays in in the 88 proton competition Porsche this is fifth in the GTE Pro class just saw the 98 uh Northwest AMR car change drive is Dan manchinelli Danielle mancinelli took over the 98 car from Alex Riveras cool Racing's Nico LaPierre has headed back out into 37 car and here is Alpine's Andre in the ground last year racing in the hypercar class and next year they will return to the hypercar class with a purpose-built Alpena care a purpose-built Alpine hyper cars and engines as well Alpine engine and well not the chassis it's going to be an Orica but uh a beautifully presented car at least uh from what we've seen online so far it looks super sexy didn't it super sexy really great looking car and apparently the Orica see is a phenomenal piece of work what's happened here down into this corner and that is the ort by TF sport Aston Martin the 25 car was in the top four or five where is he now he's in third place and that is Mike Dinan and for those of you for those of you wondering where on Earth was he going the corner goes right and he's gone left that is actually what you're told to do yep the drivers briefing and by your team and it's it's the safest thing to do rather than try to make the right hander and end up in the potentially in the gravel trap and it's so hard to remind yourself that yes just fling the car to the left yeah you go round the roundabout and yeah and you can rejoin safely because because the public road is still a public road and that is a junction to go or the roundabout the feeder road for the roundabout to go into musan Village itself and so yeah you can turn what looks like sharp left but is actually basically straight on because the corner goes right and then shoot down there so Andre negrow taking over the number 35 Alpine lmp2 car and helping with a lot of success in lmp2 number of wins oh in the lmp2 category have not had the best of luck with their two cars 36 in sixth place with Sharma Lacey at the wheel and this car in 12th Place in class it's quite an interesting insight into how it works with the driver change there from a driver's point of view you would have seen he had his right hand on top of this kind of makeshift dashboard if you like just to allow the driver helper better access to the seat belt so you you let the driver helper do all the seat belts but they will put the seat belts On Loosely but not not in terms of the buckles but the previous driver would have loosened them off before you unbuckle so it's easier for the driver helper to get them all pinned in or bolted in then you saw it's that right hand go to the helmet to pick off the uh the radio attachment that's got usually your your drinks attachment as well uh intertwined into the radio attachment so that goes in then when they're doing the tires or the end of the fuel you then start working yourself to try and tighten the seat belts up you will tighten the seat belts up so pull on all four straps both lap straps and both shoulder straps to uh to get the seat belts tighten up and what you try and do as well is feel your way up to see and make sure that the driver help hasn't Twisted the seat belts if they are these it's better to try to untwist them and get them over the hands device correctly so all of that is a bit of a fumble with limited visibility obviously with the the full face helmet obviously the full face helmet on and you can't turn your neck very much because the straps are attached to helmets on the hands device predicate against that because that's exactly what they're supposed to do is stop your head twisting and moving in an impact so yeah all of that hard to do you can't see anything you have to do if I feel you have to know just saw Nico Pino leaving a pit Lane into decaying engineering car the battle for second place in lnp2 Hit The Pit Road together there's the leader the yellow and green car that's into europol but the battle for lmp2 second place uh they pitted together and left together four seconds apart and his jubilant because this man his mate gents has got the car up into 29th Place overall so for 10 hours 24 minutes and zero seconds Jensen button his teammates may know the progress nor regress for adds to step one step closer to what I believe is a massive prize possible about five euros that might be in the office sweepstakes keep it steady no more no less just 29th is perfect well what they are looking for as a team of course is to be around still in 10 and a half hours time at 4pm central European summertime and take that car to the checkered flag John doonan the empsa president and the team captain he wouldn't like to say team manager or team boss it's sort of the uh the steering figure of that program on the horse gym of behalf of Jim France was saying that uh it's been two years in planning so that also was being thought about and talked about during lockdown to get the car here to celebrate the 75th anniversary of NASCAR and the Centenary of them all we talked a little bit about the 75th anniversary of Porsche as a car manufacturer as well of course they've been racing here at Lamont for almost all of those 75 years and uh it's the 50th anniversary of the British lawnmower Racing Association another fine racing institution and the other big 24-hour race in every British racing fans calendar and the only one I've been allowed to do and build vehicles to race as well so if they're not sure I'm up to build it I'm not sure I want to build any lawnmower probably actually because they fell apart a lot but uh not sure I'm up to building an mp2 car or anything else you couldn't cut it no the hell very good very good uh you would have seen ringer Vander Zander at the wheel of the number three Cadillac racing car they're in P5 at the moment they've had a bit of a heroic rise back up the uh the time sheets and the order because boy there's a car that didn't want to play it did not want to play well with others did it it just had no interest in being in the race whatsoever from qualifying they're going to win the lottery or something aren't they that that lot three car crew because uh that the luck has really not been on their side but this is a lesson to all watching how to never give up and uh yeah P5 at the moment absolutely brilliant effort from all of them down there at Cadillac racing car crew you know all of the mechanics team members really I'm so pleased to see them still up there uh in in the you know right in the thick of it in the competition because so many cruel moments have come their way uh like you said you mentioned qualifying at a fire and qualifying all day had to jump out the car and he had a brilliant start to race he still holds on to the fastest lap yeah of the race so far there's there's no doubting that the caddy is as quick as anything else out there they just weren't quite as lucky and poor old ringer as well don't forget he's in the car now pounding round but off to Spa I must say you know we questioned at the time what was going on there it's just a limping yes that's because he's got a broken foot because it was run over by a Corvette words you don't want to hear as a team boss the Corvette just ran over the driver's foot what have I missed where did this happen in a pit stop the Corvette ran over his foot not in this race yes Fabio showers ago hours ago when I asked my update you didn't tell me that that's quite big that's because we didn't see him hopping around the place no it is big news yeah he's broken and broken his book are you sure it's broken yeah they think it's broken wow I know what a trooper he said I don't care I want to win them on and if I have to do it with the broken put I'm gonna do it now he should be in the NASCAR Chevy because that's that's days and thunder stuff I'm not kidding you genuinely his book was all over by the Corvette so he he must be right for breaking if he can't put bear the pressure his own body on it he must be right for breaking anyway well don't forget that when brabs and David and uh John Nielsen John Nielsen one in the xj220 for Adam's foot was run over by another car and he spent almost the entire race packing it in in Frozen bags of frozen peas to stop it swelling like a balloon off well because if you take it off and you can't get your foot back in then what are you gonna do Plus for mocker I mean most of the young drivers I don't know about Fabio he's breaking style I know that Nico LaPierre uh during the Toyota days he was still right for breaking yeah and probably still does today yeah uh but the younger drivers sorry Nico I am older than you so I can say this yeah the younger drivers even younger than Nico probably will be left for breaking because racing cars today it's it is faster to let her breaks where you left foot break right foot throttle unusual so I you know I obviously did a an awful lot of go-karts but then I had to do formula forward yeah which was very much a manual expert now they're not they're Flappy paddle yeah and the clutch is only ever used for leaving the line or leaving the pits so I think Christian clean was the first F1 driver to make it all the way through to F1 never having shifted an h-pad gearbox in his life wow so that I mean and Christian is uh he's not the youngest of drivers anymore but uh goes to show how long that's been a thing so I'm I'm convinced that Fabio's had to adapt his style here mid race yep yep yep and just and just get on with it absolutely drive a change for the 51 Ferrari Alexandria Pierre guidi taking over from Tonya from Antonio giovannazzi so a double stint for giovannazzi Brendan Hartley in the pit Lane as well in the number eight Toyota and there he goes out of the pits the 51 car came in how far behind 2.7 seconds back so in fact that's just not the Toyota going out there was something else what was that that was the number five Porsche number six Portugal and Lawrence van tour that was a slow stop on the left front there wasn't it down a Ferrari I wonder what happened there it's almost like they questioned whether that was the right tire to uh to be going on the car one minute 17. not a slow start I don't know 140 bigger part that's changed yeah that was a slower stop yeah so all that hard work that uh the driver was doing with uh jovanazi at the wheel to catch by ten oh 33 goes around and that was a battle for position I think the Corvette has been in that battle with the other yellow car the car guys Ferrari foreign the cargo's Ferrari is second the castle racing car Daniel Sarah in that car and the Corvette with Nicos veroni at the wheel is down in ninth place in the class so that was not her position that was unfortunate and a little bit clumsy here's the best place to a better place of the two peugeot's John Eric Van now again both peugeot's recovering from and off Van put this off on his outlap in his first end didn't he yeah and and I know it's been incredibly tough on the driver's really difficult conditions and we've seen so many driver errors and as jovenazzi a great spin by him but who would have thought that uh you know I don't want to do a Persia a disservice here but who would have thought that it would have been the driver's course to go laps down rather than the car's reliability because that has been the story so far this year with Peugeot it hasn't had the reliability since it's debut of Monza last year yeah it's been reliability it's been grind into halt with predominantly transmission problems and it's nice sorry it's very nice it's always nice to uh you saw that moment there Jovan Nancy out the car wanders over to his engineer nice handshake and it's when you know it's a job well done when your engineers smiling at you and you go to look at the Telemetry and word on Antonio that was a real heroic effort and catching that Toyota all the way through slowly or is that no it is a d station Aston it is the D station that's your eyes are good aren't they and rolling very slowly this is on the run from musan towards Indianapolis that's Fuji sound at the wheel I think I just saw the lights turn off as well on the car 85 is GTM leader sarabobi stays no she doesn't stay in that's her getting out so Rahel freyj handed over to her which is either Michelle getting's having a sleep and Royal prayers back in the car or Michelle gatting is in in her time turn they have been doing double stents in this car which is a couple of solid hours in the GCE car I wonder how GT3 is going to shape up in terms of how long they're going to run because we're sort of used to GTE cars doing an hour basically anywhere they'll do an hour I don't know quite what the fuel tankage of a gc3 car compared to a GTE might be what their economy is like it's not made that much different of a driver change in a in a fan of tech GT Sprint race which are how long they don't have fuel stops triple seven very slow on track it is very slow on track and it is creeping towards yeah there it is lights off ahead it's just rolling that's got no power it's just lights off and it's just coasting down the hill towards is that down towards mosan no it's from musan towards Indianapolis this is coming up to Peter dunbrecht taking off territory he's not even here to defend himself no but that's exactly where it is I mean that's why you've done it the the blessing is that he is here to you know to talk about it and actually three three years ago went back to the place where it happened 20 years on and emotional little trip Alan mcnish and Louise Beckett went with and filmed a little feature there and it was yeah it was quite hair on the back of the neck you'll find that as well on the FIA w e c YouTube channel somewhere that's well worth looking at [Music] yeah just a minute or two ago that he was uh in the pits getting into the car so that's that first did for him has uh flown by here is the D station is a replay of it well Fuji sound immediately knows that's the problem it flicks the indicator on and then all the lights go off and there's no one home it's been a real journey for them so far this lemon isn't it this is not really hard work that's on their way that's the second car they've brought to this race and that one doesn't want to complete the race either there's the is that the Drone yeah it's a drone that means I'm not sure it's a wire cam through the RFID logo to pit exit there and that's uh the RFID measures the tires it scans the tires as they pass High it should it should actually like super ago because that's exactly what he's doing is getting the barcode [Music] yeah yeah please return to uh check-in desk um it would be nice as well because is it RFID it'd be great that we could see uh at all times what tires people are on yeah we need to be pushing for that definitely we need we at the very least we need a timing screen page that tells us who's on what the problem is you know in the in this field with 60 cows we need two timing period screens just to see who's on what time we could just come up on the uh that we see here and actually I think I think you know the more we talk about that the more often it's likely to be an issue particularly now given hypercar the growing Bertha hyper and uh actually our our Graphics providers and our timing providers alcamel uh yeah they're they're always very keen to explain or new ways of making it better so I think that conversation needs to be had alcohol by the way celebrating their 20th anniversary they've been involved in this Championship right from the outset there goes the rescue vehicle I think that's on the way to help fujisan tawanobo Fuji in the D station car and that is dead in the water at the moment now if they can give him a tow to somewhere and he can get out safely and wiggle wigglers and Fiddle with fiddly things and maybe occasionally hit something I don't I'm not quite sure what it is you do have a tool kit inside the car the only race that where we would have a toolkit and uh you you do go through with the engineers and mechanics as many possibilities as they can give you in terms of in terms of how the car might not be able to get back to the pits in terms of what you need to do as a driver without the help of your mechanics to get the thing going again you can't leave out there sir he's saying quite possibly with a French accent that I won't insult any of us any of our French hosts by emulating and again you know what one of the one of the features of this being a race in the center of France is that a lot of the corner workers are French and they they do speak English they're multilingual but or bilingual at least but again you have a lot of the drivers who may have quite limited English um because again they're not all necessarily native English speakers so there can be communication problems between the marshals the track workers and the teamers and some gaffordates not entirely staying on and clearly they couldn't find any in the correct color of orange for the ort by TF Aston second in the duty three classroom this car is right in the thick of it you've got the battle with it the castle racing the yellow 57 car the car guys Liberty Ferrari the iron Dames the pink Porsche and you've got the a of course a silver Ferrari 54 card that's now cycled back up to Third and then this car the orange ort by TF sport car so TF have had a a bit of a tough time they've had a turret time with this car this the second car entered this week as the triple seven they had to ship one in overnight after three practices the car was destroyed in free practice one they had to ship it in overnight and rebuild it with the engine and transmission from triple seven into what is John hartsort's regular European Le Mans series car the uh 72 car the car that was the roban brothers and vassan as a clow that's also run by TF sport that car is out of the race after an accident excellent but then uh were they running DMB I don't think they were running the DMB car as well that car had a minor incident they would not go back into gear and as a result that Aston Martin ended up retired they have also been running car number 923 the lmp2 car for racing team turkey that has now retired so they have got one car left and that is the ort uh well possibly the triple Cent might come back but right now we've only got one car that's behaving itself either remotely well and for TF sport this will be remembered I'm sure as a very try Lamont 24 hours yeah you know it all started and uh so the free practice one session we won yeah pull out that gas perceiving to any lost it in term five exit of the esses caught the slide and then it just went the wrong way and went nose into the barrier then got collected uh yeah by the number 13. yeah and and that was the big damage I mean the damage for the barriers was yeah inconsequential it was being thumped by uh the number 13 car that had not slowed down in the yellow flag zone and uh that was what yeah ripped the front off the car destroyed the 13 cars chassis as well that was replaced there's the car guys Carl as to Castle racing Ferrari Daniel Sarah leading and we're on board with Jensen button who is now uh crept up to 28th Place Anthem afraid oh gents what are you doing to the program son the idea is uh it's not about your five years it's about I'm driving the car as fast as they possibly can as we head into the final 10 hours of the race Jensen button comes down the pit Lane foreign it has been such a good advert for yeah for a different series than this new concept of car for NASCAR well Smiles per mile I would say to John Dooney you know there's 300 000 smiles a lot as that car goes right Jimmy Johnson was saying actually when they were driving in behind the safety car early on you know they're tootling along doing you know 100 kilometers an hour 80 kilometers an hour whatever like all racing drivers he's got plenty of time to to take in the surroundings so uh he said all the all the fans were waving at me so I waved back at them so during that are doing the safety cup he's driving yeah well I'm out the window waving to him we're not quite out the window because the window net but yeah waving to everybody as he was driving around which undoubtedly didn't go down even remotely badly with the fans they will have responded even more excitedly the next time they came around yeah measuring the uh yeah this break yeah the brake uh discs and pads there and the whole the whole effort has been so professional that that I think as a lasting memory from this year's Le Mans about that the concept down in garage 56 that's the thing that's going to really stick in the mind is that what a professional effort this has been I think you expect nothing less you know the the kind of Days of Thunder built in a wooden barn by an old coot yeah yeah that that's even then when that movie came out that was reflective of a very much bygone era the the kind of last of the single car owner drivers the dick trickles of of this world but I don't know Harry Gans would do we're kind of you know on their in their last knockings there in the early 80s and [Music] team Audi going to Nascar or going to the Daytona 500 with the car you know it would be damn good because they're the best at what they do and Hendrick Motorsport you know you could have chosen Penske south or chip ganasi racing or or any one of half a dozen teams who would have done you know Richard Childress absolutely a standout job as well it just happened to be the personal relationships with with Rick Hendrick that got the whole thing rolling and then you've got it you know you've got a stellar line if you've got a Formula One World Champion who's not averse to peddling other things quickly you've got a formula Model winner you have a seven-time Cup champion with with you know his race engineer Chad Canal's overseeing the whole thing I mean you just you just can't go wrong There's Tom and over Fuji I prayed for them it looks like you just can't go right I mean you can see the car's not in its familiar bright green and black because it's had so many bits replaced even in this race that does rather look like that is the end of the road for the Triple Seven car [Music] to Green we lost about 40 seconds the Gap is 45 seconds [Music] 40. so I just assumed it's because they did a tire change and Toyota didn't but that radio message there we lost 40 seconds we saw it was a bit of a slow stop didn't we yeah one minute 18 for the number 830 wasn't it 40 for Alexandria Pierre guidi taking over the 51 car now part of that should not have been the driver change because the driver change should be finished before the tire change is finished or did they just lose their time with the snow Zone lifting yeah I think that was that message I'm not sure why the pit stop was longer but I think you're right yes they got caught in a slow Zone that Brendan Harley has not got caught in [Music] just trying to figure out how that would have happened with Brendan being further down the road well presumably cleared no if it cleared up earlier now he Brenda at some Stage Alexandria guidi must have gone into a slow Zone that was not there when Brendan went past sort of but I'm just trying to work out how they would expect you to yeah usually it's the car in front if when the zone is coming into play and because if I just passes before it goes active with the car behind comes into it that's how you lose an awful lot of time in the car behind well that's what must have happened if there was a slow zone for Fuji then Brendan Hartley must have gone by him before the slow Zone was activated and then okay then comes into it and it is a slow Zone [Music] tce battle here we see a lot more of it now some of the cars perhaps we might not have it actually I will withdraw that not not have expected to be going well but have had a clean race and not being spoken about a lot gr racing that's one of them right behind Gunner Jeannette is Ricardo Pera and right behind here is that a battle for position no it's the it's the the Falcon host uh Ferrari which is a couple of laps back Jeff Seagal the American driver in the blue and black 100 car but there is the split personality the two face if you like of this race the gr racing car gr racing comes from golf racing originally the cars were in golf Livery sponsored by Gulf oil and they were they were golf racing and then the sponsorship deal ended but and so they couldn't call themselves golf racing so they called themselves gr racing as opposed to G racing I don't know you know whatever uh but that's uh so their Livery then became a sort of gloss and matte black with orange highlights there you can see it so if you're on the outside of the circuit for the race it looks like the normal gr car if you're on the inside of the circuit for the race it looks like the old gr car and here he goes trying to put the move in and goes by Gunner Jeanette so good pass there that was for position T-Rexes are everywhere in me uh project one garage and again that project one car has been cycling in and out of the lead group with differing pit stops so Jonas Reed in the barriers that's a replay is that a recent replay recent's just happened that is Jonas Reed I'm sure in the 88 car there's a double yellow at Marshall post 24 25. yeah it is 88. it is Universe the son of Christian Reed the team owner of proton competition oh oh it was a pretty hefty hit to the baron lots of debris to uh collect as well for the Marshalls so yeah the slow zone is coming you carry a lot of speed through the right hand of there and you have to get rid of it before the left-hander which is a lot slower driver change in the 50 car [Music] is current [Music] ly coloring and where have they dropped down to why am I not seeing that am I looking down too far and not up high enough I was just looking it out as we watched the Ferrari 50 in the pits there I'm looking right across ant and he's looking left across me we should each look at the opposite screen so I'm looking at the circuit map so you'll be pleased to hear this time around that uh car 8 and 51. are unaffected by this slow Zone that's just appeared into Indianapolis this time around so that's going to be Even Stevens for them no winner or loser oh dear that's a very slow stop Ferrari they're getting tired it's their first 24-hour race as opposed to test Miguel Molina bringing the car in I think that's Antonio Fuoco taking it out didn't quite see the helmet as he got in and now I think that's nice yes no that's Nick Nielsen in the 50th uh slow zone is now in place misses on the run into Indianapolis yeah so car eight our race leader is Brendan Hartley coming out of the second chicane oh the Gras you can't very late accelerated out of mulsan corner have not been told by the team of the slow Zone and it suddenly flashed up in his periphery and on his Dash big lock-up of those rear tires and those are the things that gave you a penalty going into a slow Zone too fast interestingly just listening to that uh the gear shifts on the Ferrari every time they up shift you hear momentarily it harvests some energy or maybe it's deploying when it goes through the gear shift you go up up through the gears I think it deploys I guess because it's there because it's there is a momentarily bit even in a flat shift where it's not at full revs so what all the although the engine will be at full revs it can't be transmitting all the power because you've got to change the gear somewhere so there's a little brief burst to keep the the power up to maximum keep momentum going yeah you know if you think you're thinking of that oh yeah you're on a Swede that was the big one that was a big one if you think about it in your road car you know if when you push down a clutch and change gear even if it only takes half a second if you have sensitive electronics that half a second it can drive you along and replace that Gap with the Hybrid Power that's exactly what they're doing then yeah yeah so in between so you've still got full drive as well as full throttle because you're not allowed to boost on top of when I say boost I mean the hybrid power of the battery you're not allowed to have an additional boost on top of the internal combustion power so when you're changing gear and suppose they're clutching and it's got you you're not allowed quick shift in these in this category of racing that's what you see inside the car and that's where the slow Zone starts so it comes up where you when you're in the previous Marshalls post sector it comes up next slow that means you are in the deceleration Zone and you must be aware of where it's going to be now if you're coming down to mulsan Corner you're breaking down anyway to the slowest part of the track you know it's not there so when you start to turn the corner accelerate out you know it's going to be in front of you there's really no excuse for missing that and and breaking late that was Ricardo Pera in the gr racing car just pushing on really hard trying to close on the lead group I think it's a rule that needs tweaking as well I I the more I think about it the more I think the next slow I think it has to disappear but it but you have to have the warning otherwise people don't well people will get to the 80k line doing 200 miles an hour that's exactly what we do anyway and that's what caught out Kobe Ashi and the cars behind yeah driver is a driver reacting to the next slow thinking they're in a slow Zone and they slam the anchors on yeah you just follow the line yeah yeah and that's how kobayashi's not in this race anymore because he did the the right thing by not overtaking the car that slammed the anchors on in the next low that's the difference between a hundred percent Pro and some of the other drivers so if you think about it we we're used to seeing the orange board oh hang on that you shouldn't have done that no he released he released it to it did you see that yeah he released the uh the full course yellow button too early before oh yeah as you can still see on his Dash it said yellow slow zone so yeah that was an error six o'clock in the morning we have just under 10 hours of racing still to go here at Le Mans 24 hours martinhaven and World Champion Anthony Davidson watching the action with you wherever you are good morning good afternoon good evening good grief is it really that time let's hope that you've got a little bit of time to spend with us towards the end of what has been so part of enthralling and captivating them on 24 hours the first oh well actually we talked to it was a president John doonan about the beginning of the Golden Era he said I would argue this is the beginning of a platinum era of sports car racing actually I think there's probably quite a lot of mileage in that as hyper car really comes of age here in the Centenary Le Mans and Davidson we just saw from the onboards there the light coming into the sky it's starting to really become daylight now if you look to the to the east it's still quite dark but in the west the sun is still soon gonna start creeping over the trees Over the Horizon it's six o'clock in the morning in the middle of summer you know the birds are tweeting it's it's daylight tomorrow is here yeah [Music] so the 33 Corvette heading out into the growing light there is a slow Zone down from mulsan corner to Arnage because of a high-speed incident at Indianapolis for young Jonas Reeves the teenage son of Christian Reed the proton competition boss the 88 proton Porsche coming at speed from the right-hander the early part of Indianapolis and then it looked like dropping the wheel on the dirt on the right hand side there you can see the marshals there sweeping up the oil so I wonder whether he had an oil line leaking onto the tires I you would assume then he he would not have made it round the right hand part of Indianapolis whereas in fact he didn't make it around the left hand side I think that area there being so close to the left-hander he had already hit the barrier and maybe it's when he hit the barrier that's when the whole load of oil and fluids Feud out of the car yeah look they're very deep into the corner and that's pretty much but yellow you can see the tire marks hits the barrier to the right wow and then yeah all the fluids would have been pouring out the car looks like the car in the right hand have maybe caught carried a little too much speed in and then the car's trying to spin and he's trying to break and then oh it's off and then into the barrier so easily done it's one of those Corners where you have to lift off and sort of roll into it and you can gain lap time by pushing that limit a little bit through the right-hander but the key is for Indianapolis to straight line the braking Zone if you if you carry too much speed through the right the chances are you're gonna have to start slowing down as you're still turning right and that puts too much energy through the rear of the car and uh becomes a big pendulum basically and that's what I saw happen in that moment yeah especially in the 911 oh yeah historically they've always had that it's more of a mid-engine car than a rear engine car now with it the engine not hanging out behind the gearbox it's ahead of the gearbox but still with engine cars if you change your mind they tend not to like it we've got a good race on our hands here because the Ferrari certainly through the night time has had a little bit of a speed advantage over the Toyota that we're watching on screen now the sole Toyota remaining in this race after Kobe actually was on fairly wiped out of the running doing the right thing not overtaking a slower car like we were just saying that had slapped the anchors on in a in a next slow Zone rather than the actual snow Zone Kobe actually didn't overtake the car and the punishment was Cars come they're not expecting the car to be going so slowly absolutely in this part the track here actually on the exit of the S is slammed into the back of uh one of the GT Ferraris that then in turn hit Kobe Ashi and then on top of that it was like a double-pronged attack he got hit again by one of the lmp2 cars the 35 lmp2 car the Alpine and was out of race so uh but we've got a race in our hands with the the remaining Toyota because the Ferraris slightly faster on Pace the gap's gone down from 44 seconds to 41 seconds with nine and a half hours remaining and most of that Gap is because the Ferrari chasing the Toyota arrived at the scene of an incident where the Toyota had got through and there hadn't been a slow Zone the Ferrari hit the slow Zone it was a short one so it only lost 40 seconds but only for 40 seconds is a heck of a lot you have to be a lot faster per lap for a lot of laps to make up that 40 second loss and that unfortunately is just slightly the luck of the jaw there's the number seven garage door shut at Toyota number seven one remains open but uh yeah it's going to take a long while to get that 40 seconds back especially against Brendan Hartley who is definitely what has so far this season been the real strong force in that number eight Toyota Trio well I mean not too yeah I didn't want to I I agree with you for the majority of the season but this race particularly at the very beginning for Emmy put in a stellar performance to properly hold his own and get to see another shot here of the cargo now are you going a little bit wide in the beginning carried a bit too much speed got slightly off off the cambered part of the road over the crest there's like a Crest there and he went off a little bit too wide he didn't hug the inside enough this could be a long fix because they need to repair that barrier yeah he'll be desperately disappointed yeah honestly there's Thomas floor he's 54 Ferrari the Kessel racing car leads but the 54 a of course the car is in the fourth place David has just stopped that remained in the car Gunner Jeanette in fifth place in the project 1ao car remained in the car as well and the performance of the GTM cars seems to vary sometimes sometimes one car will sort of be rela relatively common at the top of the pile cycling up and down up and down with pit stops and then it'll sort of fade away a bit and that tends to be depending on whether you've got a platinum a gold or silver or a bronze driver in in the lineup and in GTM you have to have a bronze and a silver driver you can then have a gold or a platinum and so it depends on the relative pace of who's in at what time um each of the graded drivers has to do a minimum based on their license status and nobody can do more than a set maximum but it's where they race against each other that will make the difference [Music] which is exactly the message that we heard two stints ago Seb have you got any words for Brendan yes it's the stay on the racing Line Stay on the racing line in the first you can it still went and that was an hour and a half ago and we're now looking at him exactly the same message to Rio hirokawa who is clearly going to take over well 40 energy to use in the car so that'll be uh well maybe three more laps but just yeah you know Rio's clearly suited up got the headset on probably not yet got his helmet on but listening in okay what can you tell me and and that's the message basically car seems to be good Sebastian bermi was sort of chasing this set up a little bit as the as the night came towards an end of the track dried out Brendan's much less vocal on the radio unless we hear much less of him on the radio asking about changes to set up seb's always trying to nurse a car and Chase the car Brendan maybe less so maybe we just hear less of it but again passing those messages on and Anthony you know when you're in the car and you've been in it for an hour an hour and a half or whatever you've got a really good feel for the racetrack and you want to pass as much of that knowledge on as you can without trying to do it in the doorway of the car in the in a frantic nature of a pit stop so our sports car racing is all about you're sharing that car with two other drivers and you want to like you say pass on all of your experiences to the driver eagerly waiting to get into the car but also build them a picture of how the track has changed I mentioned when I was I was on the on the mic earlier on earlier part of the race that you know when you're out there you're building this picture yourself and the track is an ever-changing thing and you follow it when you're in the car and when you're out of the car it's like you're missing missing part of a movie you're then trying to catch back up on and somebody's trying to basically fill in the missing pieces before you get back in or get get watching it again and uh so yeah it really is filling in those pieces then right yeah look the wind direction has changed the car's now got great grip through tetrouge where the Ferrari comes flying past now and then yeah first chicane still wet on the outside stick to the racing line don't touch the curb on the inside it's basically like passing on rally notes almost to the next driver getting it and it's it you sit there listening to it all thinking right okay right yeah okay got that and you're built you're trying to drive a lap in your mind before you get into the car and it really does help and park pass would be in a sports car driver and it it's also part parts of being part of a professional outfit like Toyota Ferrari any of the front running teams up and down the uh the different categories that we have here do something I always try to do as well particularly in the latter part of my career driving at jota and dragon speed when I drove with Roberto Gonzalez a amateur driver silver graded driver and the more you could help him the more you could help the the amp drivers the faster your overall car crew would be at a day almost took even more you needed to to push that along uh even more and I would almost give her an entire debrief on my Inland quite often is exactly what the car was doing so breaking into multi-corner car feels good keep the car straight on the exit a little bit of instability don't touch the curb there uh you know stones on the approach to Indianapolis on the outside stay inside into that corner and I'll do this as I went through my lap bring it into the pits and uh and Roberta would be there listening oh look at this look at this barrier repair going on this is going to be a long time well a lot of the time you see the big Grinders in because when the barriers bend the bolts aren't necessarily coming out very easy so you normally have to grind the nut off Hammer the bolt out and then put in a new barrier and then it will bolt back together Ferrara be thinking you know I know there's nine hours 40 minutes remaining but they're thinking come on the longer it stays like this there's less of the race track that we can make inroads into that Gap that uh Brendan Hartley's got over us we want the track to go full green as quickly as possible [Music] attacks the dark chicane up and over the crests into the s's he's driven a fantastic race all of them have driven a fantastic race uh Richard Westbrook as well he shares the car with him of course and Alex Lim a stellar performance through the night stints and they're still up there in uh P3 of Podium position at this point for that number two car and one of the joys of the hypercast class being so large is not just that we've got lots of good cars so we've got a stellar array of drivers you've got some really fabulous sports car drivers a lot of whom have been racing consistently but not in the world championship they've been racing in the imper WeatherTech series across the Atlantic and we haven't seen a lot of them and now more and more manufacturers turning up here at Le Mans means more and more of the stars that we know and like and love you know we can we can watch them in action to battle here in lmp2 that's the third place car decane engineering's Nicola Pino and the man who started on pole position in the car that he had qualified on pole poor Luke chatan for edex sports a number uh 28 car in Peggy Pond number 48 Car in fourth place we did 28 cup for a 48 Car in fourth race all the Chateau closing in on a potential Podium spot yeah great stuff in lmp2 as always here we have the graphics at the bottom of the screen e-dec like you say with that driver on board shut down was on Pole Position a fantastic uh lap but uh Gone other memories of that moment for him I'm sure right now yeah I don't I don't think you think about qualifying the moment the race stars do you no I think I've you know I always said that it was uh it was a nice thing to uh Flex the muscles about who had the fastest lap in qualifying but it it rarely translated into any you know into anything when it came down to race day well asked a man who set the fastest ever qualifying lap Martin Mark Blundell that didn't translate that well into race now I'm afraid for the Nissan r90ck it was uh it was not a great race for them down to 41 seconds now the Ferrari versus the uh the Toyota started at 44 as we keep an eye on that these guys have just come into this slow Zone that takes you towards Indianapolis it's the Joe to number 28 they're just uh yep passes by that is not on the same lap as they're way down now lmp2 drivers yeah Joe to have had a their ap8 in there at a P2 a bit of a tough time haven't they they are actually two cars back on the road Robin freins in their wrt car number 31 is in seventh place as you can see on the timing column on the left-hand side probably in the depths of a double stint at the moment Vector Sports have sort of slipped a little bit down the order they were actually in the top two or three uh in the early hours of the night time that car now down to Ninth Place in lmp2 car number 10 Ryan Cullen is at the wheel of that car head of the AF Corsa car which had problems early on Ben barnico is still the Pro-Am leader though in 10th Place overall in lmp2 ahead of Algarve Pro's James Allen that is second in Pro-Am and the cool racing car number 37 is 15th or overall or 15th in lmp2 and that is third in the program class out of the slow Zone at the exit of our Nash you can see Paul Lucia town already shaping up to have a go at the decade engineering of Nico Pino and as they go green there's the liar you can only act or deactivate the full course yellow button on the line and immediately trying to get some temperature back into those Goodyear Tires well the fact of it as we saw from an onboard earliest you can deactivate it anytime you like but you will get a penalty if you do it before yeah we should wait to see that by the way maybe he didn't overspeed that much but uh yeah this battle continues uh P3 P4 and uh Tire warming slash stroke trying to break slip stream weaving around right at that low speed there's not a slip steam too broken so he was just trying to make sure he had enough heat in the tires because the network one channel going though didn't it down the house once you leave Arnage what's the next big challenge turning into the Porsche curves you don't want to find out your tires are a bit cold there do you because then you don't turn into the porschecker turn into the barriers he's made a he's made a real picks here at that point of chicane though and that's open him up for shatan to have a look down the inside into turn one but he hasn't quite got the momentum but it was uh he left himself a bit vulnerable there very hard to overtake in an lmp2 car around this track you often need the help of some slower cars that you have to work your way past and again shut again the drive out of the Dunlop chicane tries to stick his nose down the inside of the s's but uh nothing doing there the slow cars all fast the cars often will will sort of duck in between two Rivals it's gonna be possible between these two but they are kind of glue close together you're gonna if you're if you're a hyper car you're going to want to take both of them or neither and you see that natural separation with the uh the aerodynamics taking play through the S's and through Tetris so the lmp2 car they almost seem to get affected more so than the hyper cars in that uh in that area so uh yeah a bit of turbulence there's not much but it's just enough to uh take away that immediate threat down into uh say the first chicane like we have here you can close back here for these slower Corners in the higher speed Corners that that separation starts again good morning gentleman yeah Graham yeah the young Chilean there not letting himself be intimidated by the much much more experience than pole sitting remember uh pull up shut down yep holder had a great run in qualifying and the team were an absolutely berserk their first World Endurance Championship Pole Position pole position at Lamont in the class I mean that is an epic result for this small French team Paul and Chateau has been part of this setup for a long time and actually his full-time job is with them as an engineer rather than as a driver with a solid engineering background employed by Eid exports uh not just as I say for a skill behind the wheel but uh with a variety of um absolutely true absolutely looking at me saying he is he's let you do a bit like uh Mark Lee correct yeah yes I didn't realize head of sport Communications I think at Portia now Mark Lieb yeah but but that's a revelation to me there look at that all knowledge walking in completely jaded having turned up I apologies you didn't watch all of last year's all access programs then did you oh no because they're so much better the full access this year so that's why you should be watching this year what's that they were there was a there was a a feature in uh in full access last year in the inexport team so this is uh yeah full access yeah the uh the series that's put together mini that's like documentary from uh fly on the wall isn't it after each race after a week or so goes by you see it on YouTube Just Just YouTube full access is absolutely brilliant the inside story from a from driver's point of view team's point of view all of the all of the the juicy moments that happen from a human aspect in racing throughout the weekend or a long race that we have here at Le Mans and it really gives you that Insight the full access that we have within wek um a little bit like the the drive to survive on Netflix it's a little bit like that but uh like I say a little bit more a little bit more human it tells the human side of the story and uh I I find it I find it fascinating I've loved it this year they're longer version there's usually 30 35 minutes long uh easy to digest and it really gives you a such a good insight into what goes into the race an endurance race for yeah I I love them so uh yeah sorry I did watch them uh March last year but uh yeah this year's I found them just easier to follow the other thing to say is that those programs are longer why because the fans wanted them longer yeah and you're right it suits the format far far better and incidentally if you are a fan of sports car racing and if you weren't I think you may well be after you've watched a bit of Le Mans despite my witterings um the FIA World Endurance Championship and the Motorsport Network have just launched this weekend the latest fan survey now they've done this with formula one before in the FIA and they have in fact done it with World Endurance in the FIA before Paul Lucia town trying to nip a little inch on the corner there and Nico pinho right on the Ragged Edge as he got to the to the line uh clearly they're not going to need those tires again but yeah you can you can partake in the next few months in the fan survey and tell people what you like and and actually if you want more content if you want longer content if you want more explanation if you want more stuff about the teams and drivers they've demand it now this is a team effort right here so the two drivers been going at it the whole time desperate for the 10th year a tenth there playing Captain Mouse with the turbulence like like I mentioned before now the team effort comes into play who could turn these cars around faster and we often see a bit of separation between the lmp2 teams we're having a replay of this moment as they both came into the pits there is a Pinot in the behind him shatan just desperate to catch a little bit of extra distance but actually ended up losing because of it going off track momentarily or off pit Lane uh just popping up by the way on jumping and scoring 10 seconds added to the next Pit Stop of car 41. that is was the uh the leader yeah of course a good collision with car three and MP3 Marshall's post 35 now I don't think we saw that Mars was post 35 that is uh into the final element of it but Robert capiche is on pit Lane now or just actually just laying down yeah so I suspect that penalty is not yet been served it will be in the next he took it over from Robin primes so somewhere in that so Robin's had a some kind of Biff hasn't he well he hasn't had a Biff he's Biff the number three caddy because obviously if any bad luck is going anyway it's going the number three Cadillac's way because they have had a tough time enough already but that car is in fifth place ranker Van de Zander at the wheel said that was the 41 car though 31. a banker pardon so yeah sorry Robin uh yeah no price is still in the 31 so who was in the 41. uh who beats is in there now but yeah he's just taken over to the lead by the way back to the lead and I don't want to miss this moment because it's been quite an astonishing day for the 34 of the European competition cabal yet again consistency and speed and Fabio Sheriff who which is the name I seem to have been saying quite a lot this season um it's a europol 11th Place overall um and I've been circling around first and second place for where are we now uh this is well I'd say seven or eight hours we're getting up we're getting close to uh 14 hours 15 hours into the race um it was new delatras who handed over to Robert Cubit sir in 41 cars so delicatrats to have them said with somebody I don't think we saw it well you did well done we didn't it was uh well if it was the caddy it was number three Carl was the one that we were told he'd made contact with well that uh 10 extra 10 seconds to the next Pit Stop Cycle will not drop it from its second position in class but what it is going to do is to very much hurt it's one is basically a battle around strategy with the interior of Poker which is on pit Lane now [Music] so they're pretty much what within a lap on the same fuel strategy at the moment we'll see what the Gap is going to be this is going to cycle back to the 41 being in the lead in lmb2 Quick Check of all the tires there you see the uh one of the tire Engineers from Goodyear with the torch out studying all four of the yeah the thumbs up at the back of the car there and easy as he walks off fuel going in new tires are sitting there ready just as a precaution so uh yeah that's why that's why you saw the uh the guy from Goodyear walking around just check in before you send the car back out there on the same set of tires through the RFID and back out onto the racetrack so yeah really strong effort so far from into europol you know this is particularly Fabio Shiraz who's driving with a broken ankle you're kidding me broken foot his foot was run over by the Corvette we saw him hopping around the car in the driver change I cannot imagine and by the way that 10 seconds is going to hand the lead back towards europol if positions are retained the Gap as the 34 Car at least pit Lane and crosses the first time he was about three and a half seconds so that 10 seconds could cost them a month so the IRA the irony here is Swiss driver Fabio sharer in the Polish sponsored and entered car is chasing police driver Robert kumitzer in the in the Belgian entered to the car for the need of this race now Sheriff I'm sure they said his foot is broken and it probably feels like it has been run over by a racing I saw in the hoblink to the car Brandon yeah I will see Dad hobbling around a little bit of a joke with Martin he said oh no he's broken his foot that's oh it must have been an old injury then and he's carried through Leman but you know that must be uncomfortable driving the car he couldn't bear any weight on his left foot yeah he apparently it happened during this event how on Earth is he functioning at this level uh the other quick thing to say by the way uh the thought was gonna just occurred to me if you're polish what the heck do you back here in lmp2 and absolutely without question he's an absolutely massive star in Poland but boy oh boy do these guys need to turn their attention to what's going on here with this team that is based uh in their Homeland the fan base around Robert Cavite is is phenomenal it's honest it's huge uh but yeah great that uh that the Polish team is uh doing the business and they've had they've been here a long time in lmp2 plotting away uh trying to perfect things and they come here with a great driver liner and a car that seems to be right on the pace all the time so yeah share up out the wheel at the moment trappilly it's been dry I'm sure he's up to right foot break I was saying to Martin earlier on I'm sure he's a left foot breaker naturally but I'm I'm convict there's no way he'll be there but uh oh big shot of the number 18. oh no another one we've just seen you just read about half an hour ago wrecked the car in Indianapolis that's why the barrier repairs are going on and this is the number 80 AF Corsica it's a Pro-Am leader and that is bad Monica that's not Ben's helmet plenty of the yellow helmet did something break there it's not the first and won't be the last accident we see that is not the beginning of the Porsche curves that was a high speed off and that car is unlikely to go much further it is I'm sure it's Ben barnicoat well that's well that's Francois so it ain't Francois that's for sure I swear Ben Monica it's got a yellow helmet there is some yellow on it so you've got a tribute Livery on it of some kind oh if that was driver error again would be absolutely gutted with himself I I need to see another shot of it but uh it looked like the car just didn't respond very well over the bumper tool and the rear almost as if something on the right rear broke it was it snapped around that quickly and it happened very early on in the corner as well there was a lot of sparkling under the car as well helmet we have got quite substantial slow zone now from mulsan corner all the way to Arnage and through the Porsche curves there was a brief one at the exit at the first chicane as well on the bull sound but that is being withdrawn but as you could see from the power the energy remaining number eight Toyota is due in 51 Ferrari is due in Cadillac will be doing a lap later and that is Ben barnacos and that is the end of the race for the number 80 a of course at lmp2 car high speed impact with the barriers you can see how much the barriers are there to protect drivers and their cars from the concrete walls that part of the track has been a graveyard all came in sideways he was losing it all the way in there I don't know you're not watch it again well he has a look down the the girls hit the curb oh he was in the traffic wasn't he and he had a look to the inside and that put him offline but he wasn't on his usual racing line as he committed to that second left oh Ben so easily dumb just yeah he's just wrong line that was the problem yeah he had a look and you feel you just you feel that responsibility right there and then you know you've got the the paying driver of perodo who you're driving for you feel that responsibility and you've just you've let you've let them down and it happens to it can happen to the best drivers out there Ben is a he's a remarkably good racing driver and uh he's driven a great race today but um one just it goes to show one moment where you get it wrong and the whole race is thrown away I mean you know Ben has been a Winner's been a win a championship one of four times as the uh Tony by the way comes uh it's a bit late but Francois II knows what one moment can do to ambition here for himself and with Corvette of course last year he'll know that feeling he won't make him any less less yeah disappointed leaders leaders are both in you saw Brendan Hartley in the number eight Toyota and into Capital Sandra Pierre guidi yes quite a lot of cars coming in in fact because you can see the garage 56 entry of the 24 Chevy Camaro and uh one of the clicking houses in 708 the 93 Peugeot genre van is in as well fresh tires going on we've got the news still going to be a soft it's not that warm outside stack Camaro had a single major drum don't even started oh why would you say that don't even start there you go in the back but something like that not when I've been on air have we seen clearly actually is the pit stop everywhere else the door opens the drivers change in the Camaro there is no opening door they climb in and out the window like the dukesa hazard yep burglar Style [Music] inches wide and if it's not if the tires gone on with it at the bottom and we're not seeing it in the shop we're just not seeing in the shot five seconds added to the next Pit Stop time for the number six Porsche that will be it was a pit stop infringement one would presume it's in the pit stop they've just had yeah it and it tends to be the last one we found out about for uh one of the cars was that all of their mechanics were not back behind the white line before the engine was started and it will be some relatively trivial thing changing leads for well it's not the lead yet for lmb2 but oh no it is it is the lead this is something it is the lead Fabio no it's not changed is it because Robert kubitzer was ahead of fabulous Sarah was in the lead uh show was in the lead before the Pit Stop Cycle uh the 41 are took the lead through that Stop Cycle but has gone no no no but it's got a 10 second track Fabio was chasing Robert Cubit sir now unless you literally a lap ago unless you passed him and then he's been re-passed he was chasing kubitz a 41 lead yes pitted Shira then LED for a lap ah okay uh We've then had the two pit stops the 40 which is waiting for the stop that 41 was then dealt a 10 second penalty at its next stop yeah and share a uh emerging the bit something like four seconds back so in very short order it's pulled back almost thoughts out four seconds on the Formula One yeah race winner and is putting the nose of the inside there just to remind him he's there and to remind everybody watching uh this the driver chasing has done that with a broken foot putting the nose up the exhaust pipe of Robert come with says as much as we're you know beat singing his Praises what he did there in the in karting I don't think that's in the spirit of being in a slow zone I'm not sure I mean it's by the book nothing wrong one thing you absolutely do not want the slow zone is another incident and he almost hit him there yes you're not allowed to put your car alongside in the slow Zone but don't forget that they are on a limiter button they are not doing it with their foot so some teams and we've talked about this before we'll go closer to the Limit and if the limit is 80k's some cars some teams will try and set it at exactly 80. some will give themselves maybe a kilometer an hour or maybe two of leeway just so they don't incur a huge penalty for a tiny advantage or lack of disadvantage in the slow zone so if one's doing 79 and one's doing 80 behind it and they're only a quarter of a car length apart anyway then you are going to see that Gap close because they're so dramatically tight yeah you'll see the Gap closed definitely and uh it's frustrating when uh what 101 laps have they not been able to get the rear tire off that car that can't be right the right rear is showing us that having done 101 Left Right compared to the 50 on Robert kuwitz's car seven hours 100 watt laps you're under eight and a half mile circuit has he got a broken foot and a left rear wheel that won't come on a right rear wheel that won't come off I'd love to know if that cat what are we going to do now make him drive blindfold that's what a stents is one 14 lap 12 laps 13 laps yeah it stinks [Music] bearing in mind that the leader has only done 196 laps that's literally half the race yeah let's ignore that we're going back to that slow Zone bit you know yes okay you'll be some discrepancy between speed to cars but it still doesn't mean you could make contact with another car or shove it down the inside just because now the team's being a little bit more conservative with their speed limiter you're in a double-waved yellow safety zone safety zone and you're nearly making contact danger in removing the limiter is the car immediately lunges forwards because you've still got your foot on the throttle no but they release the limiter after karting but if he's closing on him and he's worried about that what does he do if he takes his footage you lift off the throttle does it make enough difference yes it does you lift off the throttle so many times it happens so yeah here we go this is for third this has been a long time coming yeah well Nicki opinions did a great job in holding up all of Chateau young Chilean driver yes chilly uh [Music] they go that would be incorrect okay we'll definitely correct yep yeah or or uh yeah I can't think of anywhere else that starts with chi in the UK briefly off the top of my head but he's from Chile not from the UK yes okay so achingly close the lmp3 title oddly enough within to europol last year and uh had contact from another car in the last 15 minutes of the Season it costed the title some carrots had to cut back from that it was absolutely gutted I'd like to know how he got that run on him down into the second chicane because uh there was no way he was doing that earlier on I wonder if there's a small mistake there or whatever but yeah you can see so you know sharer has caught up to the back of kibitza putting under a lot of pressure but because of the the turbulent wake coming off the car in front it is really hard to overtake an np2 so I want to know how uh how shut down was able to uh get that run coming out of the first she came to a second one on Pino things have calmed down just a little through the uh the latter part of the darkness hours you went and said that did you did are we consider because we're not in the darkness hours anymore yeah it hasn't really calmed down in every two or in GCM or in the overall battle there that we haven't seen a lot of passing but there are some very very tired gaps in the battles all right good morning everyone and good morning to you Jensen you've just jumped out of the number 20 the number 24 and how was that same for you you look happy it was good yeah um it's been it's been a fundraise for us it's new for most of the team you know doing an endurance race uh and obviously we've been trying to play it safe as we can with when it rained and not getting off the rain tours too soon so we put ourselves a lap down compared to I don't really have a competition but the gtes and I think we're either second or first I think I ever took the leader and we were leading for a lap or so I mean we're not competing but we kind of are um and I think we were 28th overall so I I think that's pretty good um you know for us it's it's about being consistent giving the feedback to the drivers and uh yeah the car's really fun to drive it's it's really good fun and you're in a classy room but as you said it's still a competition to you guys isn't it as racing drivers yeah and also you know the GT category you know outright Pace over one lap they're probably not quite as quick but it's very close once they've turned their engines up in the race but is the consistency is a lot more difficult with this car and also our pit stops are a bit longer so yeah it's uh lots of things that hurt us but then there's certain things that help us a lot and it's such a great job by the whole crew you know it's this is a big deal for them and um as you can see most of them are taking the rest behind us so we won't talk too loud but uh yeah it's the first one that had to do a 24-hour race and it is an incredible one to be at you know the Centenary of Le Mans how much does it mean to you yeah it's great you know I think for everyone involved it's a little more special anyway but to be the 100th year and we're we've got NASCAR stock car here which is just hilarious really but it's definitely a Fan's favorite it's definitely my favorite um but no it's a great atmosphere it's been a manic race the weather's been so random and it's made for definitely a classic that's it for a driver's point of view it's it's tough It's a lot of incidents and changing conditions and it was hard earlier on with the changing conditions but we know as fans you are in the wet weather you may be hoping for a little bit of green leads or are you hoping for it to stay dry no you know let's girls don't drive in the wet so you know we've developed a time for the web but we haven't done anywhere near as much testing as we would have liked and I think we're 5-10 seconds off uh the GT cars uh with our wet tire and it's just uh yeah finding the grip but this car is quite different surprise all right well I think you deserve rest just like your mechanics thank you thank you thank you Steph thank you Jensen button Lots going on during that let's just catch up with some of our interior polls probably a sheriff took the lead in nap2 from Team boliarty's Robert kubitzer and this is the battle uh BigPond battle for fourth place in GTE am with ort's amadel hearty just hanging on the head of gr Racing's Ricardo Hera very strong run here for the 86 and the 25 great pass by the way and putting away uh the Enduro pork car that lmp2 battle is coming together beautifully Ricardo Pera put the car off the road early in the race making up for that with a nice move down the inside into fourth place uh indebted to Adam Weller who has dug around in the interweb inbox for hashtag Footloose Fabio news the official word from uh Fabio I'll read about I'm lucky the foot is in one piece it could have been worse it's okay for normal driving but I feel it in slow zones I don't want to know if it's broken or not now I just want to drive and win this thing so far so good the pace is good and we'll do a good job we're in the fight for the win says hop along there's uh there's some there's some big stuff going on in that car and to be perfectly healthy and to be driving the way he is again against a driver of the caliber of Robert koobiter is entirely admirable and to be doing it with one foot tie behind your back and the Clipper of the team as well they are there no slouches when it comes to the speed of setting up an lmp2 car and uh both the driver and team February into eurovole fantastic effort I mean they've been in the mix in the mix throughout the season in the WC this is where these are both WC cars this is a double points WC race less we forget and this is not just important because it's a it's a race win not just important not just important because it's the when it live on but this is double World Championship points as things stand at the moment uh the it's the airport competition team do not have a route through to the world and Jones championship in 2024 they don't have a hypercar program they're not a GT team and then B2 will be leaving the WC for next season because frankly there is not room for it and this is a massive result uh in the build here for the racing makers looking at Rio hirokawa our race leader in hypercar and that Gap to Pierre guidi behind him seems to be coming down it's now at 13.9 seconds a lot of magnificent raises has been I just wanted to refer back by the way guys to uh that uh into Steph with uh gentle button just the edge of fatigue and Jensen's voice coming um but uh the I think the most hilarious thing there was it's like you're standing in the doorway of the garage at the Leman 24 hours um now I know how apocalyptically loud it can be on that pitch right and he sort of something we better keep our boxes down because the guys are sleeping it's like basically asking it's like putting it right around the drumstick when you're sitting inside the drum can I just point out also that the loudest noise at Le Mans is their own literally their own car there's it goes by every lap and falls into the pit so yeah I mean those guys have beat Jimmy Johnson's actually done the the majority of the dry or more driving in that car than than the others have so he must be feeling pretty tired as well all sorts of entertaining stuff going on Rio hirakawa uh is not now 19 seconds he is not a great deal inside or outside 10 seconds ahead of the chasing Ferrari of Alessandro Pierre guidi here's the deal car had a big crash just as Dartmouth starting to turn to light Gustavo Mez is putting it hard into the barriers in the first chicane after the rain had cleared away but it was still a bit wet offline hence the repeated assertations from the number eight Toyota team to the incoming driver to stay on the racing line especially in the first chicane Anthony and so far that has served them well yeah I mean like Jason was saying as well really tough condition there's so many incidents out there and uh it has been a game of survival if you could get through unscathed in often the case here in Le Mans if he is a driver if you just back it off sometimes although it goes against every grain in your body every Instinct you have as a racing driver if you back it off you get to the end of this race more often than not and you think I could have just driven at nine tenths or even eight tenths of my effort and I would have been guaranteed a Podium if I just stayed on the track but when you're out there doing it you you feel like you have to be pushing like everyone else is and when you see it all unfold and you see that picture at the end of it all and you go yeah I shouldn't have been racing flat out of that moment in the race against so and so because look where they are now they ended up having a car problem they ended up throwing off the track you know and it's you see it at the end you go wrong it just it just wasn't worth it I could have just ended in a much better position if we weren't the ones that people were saying oh you know they had a bad bad time at some point in the race but hindsight it's a wonderful thing and actually part of the reason that other people throw us off the track is because you are getting it to 11 tenths and putting the pressure on them and that's what motor racing is it's not the slowest who wins it's the first to the flag it has been a proper race of attrition I mean Jensen summed it up beautifully well there didn't he just you know it is tough for us particularly in the rain in that car because it's not designed to to drive in the rain and uh as well on top of that saying because of the lack of body roll yes the car has that it becomes mechanically very unstable and uh you rely on that as a drive you you feel the car moving around it's one of the cues that you rely on as a driver to know where the edge of grip is and him saying that it's so stiffly sprung that when it's in on the wet tires that I'm I've lost that feeling so it makes it doubly hard particularly for Jensen who's who's you know every Smiley sense Twitches in those conditions so well just a little quick mention for uh an artist called Jason Fong who you will find on the internet Jason is again creating one new painting every hour of the 24 Hours of Le Mans race and he is uh race against dementia to receive a proportion of the sales so uh go and have a look for that online and see if you can help contribute again looking at this battle we are just approaching seven o'clock in the morning we are getting down to the nine hours to go Mark and we are fast approaching the end of lap 199 and uh now lap 200 uh Toyota still lead from Ferrari they lead but that Gap is coming down thick and fast it was two seconds last time around it's been a second faster in Alessandro Pierre guidi's favor for the last four or five laps I've been watching and Pierre greedy is bringing that number 51 car back to the front of this race after that initial moment that he had in this very chicane coming up here in wet conditions a car spun in front of him he's kind of spun in sympathy ended up in the gravel momentarily he's now redeeming himself put my tongue back in very much so because the gaps now down to 10.3 seconds security down quickly is that it is Michelle Gatti on pit Lane in the iron Damascus running in second place in gtem and that will be another place going to the overall order by the number 24 uh Camino uh ZL1 that was the final uh really interesting part of the mindset I got from uh Steph's interview with Jensen by the way is to measuring themselves against the GTM field they were talking he was talking about where third of the order now uh so that's that well that's what's motivating them yeah yes and we remember guys we had this conversation very early in the race is what what are you doing what are you measuring yourself against second in the ordinance absolutely absolutely right and you know that that for me the way I watch a race at this stage things are tending to happen quite slowly you're intended to think see people working a gap and I'm sure that must be motivational for the uh the garage 56. you've always got to be you've always got to be racing someone absolutely thing and uh you know to to motivate it to make it fun as well yeah gaps front and rear it's that kind of thing it's how am I doing against my perceived competition and even though they're not in the same category doesn't matter it's just your closest it's what's in comparison what about here what about next what's next what's next what's next what's the capital I'm attacking and you know you're measuring your own performance but it's a lot easier I'm sure a lot more fun if you're measuring your performance against somebody else I mean unless you know let's not kill ourselves that car should be way faster than the GTS because it's so heavily restricted that barn door has got strapped to the rear of it is it's not a wig it's a gurney flap so it's a basic door it's a trap is it's their sole purpose it's not there to create downpours so it's just a losing situation is is there to uh to make sure they're not in many ways way faster than the lmp2 cars or even the hyper cars in a straight line yeah takes uh member coats well now effectively retired falls behind the GTM leader on pit Lane now for the delayed number 50 Ferrari it's okay we'll come back and get another look at him shortly because that's uh another great story another true Enthusiast the car guy behind Car Guy the team based just outside Fuji Speedway in fact literally across the road from our other Japanese GT team uh d-station racing they have their team um yeah they have their team bases on the opposite sides of the same access road to Fuji Speedway a couple of thoughts from Anne Davidson will be joined by Peter dunbrick and then I'm going to head to the land of Nord for a couple of hours Grant Goodwin will be in the driving seat so Toyota lead from Ferrari and Cadillac it is seven o'clock Central European summer time 15 hours in nine hours to go and Counting and I don't suppose we are out of storylines yet [Music] oh my God so yeah seven o'clock 702 to be precise trust me it's uh still well alike this race Gap now for the league 11.1 seconds the good from Alessandro Pierre greedy next down the road by the way almost two minutes back but still in the lead lap is Will Bamber the number two Cadillac so still three makes on the same lap in this Amazing Race it is a tiny bit less frenetic than it was petered a Breck when we both had a thick a little bit of sleep but still very engaging yeah we've got to leave back on talk about that absolutely um I suppose the biggest difference for me is the number 94 Peugeot has fallen back I gather it had a bit of a crash yeah so you've answered the same questions I had fito and I first uh got back behind the mic and uh it was a Gustavo menezes I believe in the first chicane that uh got it all crossed up and uh ended up in the barrier unfortunately it's still unbelievably it's still damp in that first chicane so before hirokawa got back in or behind the wheel of the number eight car it was Brendan Hartley relaying the information saying yeah you tell Rio when he jumps in the car to really make sure he stays on the racing line into that Persia cane because it's still definitely damp on the outside uh it's still buses down in pit Lane Steph what do you got for us [Music] and I'm just outside the number 10 at Vector garage here just had it in front of the wind speed although it doesn't appear to have any damage so does that appear to have damage what might that be at this time of the morning get front Body Work change for so detector setup change could be no changing weather at the moment potentially drivers are complaining of um I don't know 100 steering over steer uh at least front maybe they've just managed to put some more down box on the car it's a quick way to uh to change your right piece a quick way to change the Aero balance of the car if it's that bad if it does obviously come with a Time penalty um so it better be a lot better in terms of balance and gain you that time back and more some uh afterwards but uh yeah a bit of a strange it's no damage maybe the damage to the underside of it I don't know but uh or maybe there was a dodgy light connector or something um who knows but uh yeah certainly one way that you could that you could change in a P2 car as well you get a bit of fluttering bit of pulpiting and sometimes changing the nose because it eradicate that as well platform per second here in GTM and it's the general racing car they're on a fine run here takes the opportunity Ricardo para Ducks up the inside off the Ferrari uh they've really recommend it through with Ricardo Pera as both cars just kick up the gravel at mozen corner there's any Recon and all the tires are on the corner of that car because that should not have been that easy for Ricardo para Regan has not given this up inconceivable they didn't know that was a position goes to the outside and they go almost door-to-door on the run down to the Annapolis there's another P2 cart and a mix here looking for a way by but Pera it is that comes out to the good and through it's a second place for the car with the Dual Livery here to contributes to this great bracelet satina a year very unhappy about that it looks like he's not happy to let the P2 car buy either at the moment well he's in a tough battle he came to understand just exactly what happened there well I could see what happened Ricardo Pera did him he's threw it into second place but uh it's almost as if he didn't know that was a position I mean we're going exceptional driver one of the oh absolutely Ferrari factory boys but um a fine run you know I said just a few moments ago it sort of quiet and down for the frenetic activity then you look back at what's happened in the last 20 minutes we've got a developing battle for the overall lead it's now down to under what about eight and a half seconds on the right now seconds now we've had a lead change and Lead battle in lmp2 and a change in GTM threat for uh for P2 there as well hirokawa's in trouble here he's he's starting to uh Hemorrhage lap time compared to Alison Pierre guidi who's driving an absolute Blinder of a stick right now or a couple of stints and uh it seems like hirokawa's got no answer to that pace first time we've seen them in shot together for a long time thanks to that uh four course yellow moment where it handed the uh a quite a big advantage to Toyota at uh when Britain and Harley was at the wheel gained around about 30 seconds it was a slow stop on top of that for the uh the number 51 Ferrari something wrong with the left front to be a slow stop there but uh yeah he agreedy absolutely with a bit between the teeth right now is it my imagination or does he just seem to be all the time yeah greedy he's just doing this race on his own James collado with a really spirited attack in that car but uh it is that thing about when you're looking at battles for an hour after hour to hour you could sometimes forget they've had that change juventaxi does not seem to have a huge amount of seat time in the time that I've been focusing on that car I think yeah same for me I just maybe we've been asleep well uh tubing that's who's been in the car so it's under nine hours now until we find out who is going to be the latest team name car name and three driver names to be carved into the 100 Year history there is James Gallardo his name is not Ray-Ban by the way that is James Gallardo yeah another uh Second and a half in the favor of this man we're riding on board with Diego he's got a bit of traffic here though the lmp2 car in front through the esses of tetra Rouge we're gonna be careful of that though all four wheels off the track this is one of the Premier cars that he finds his way past now [Music] and there they are both in shot Toyota car number eight heads towards the first chicane Pierre guidi with the iron Dame's car in front of him we'll get a little he's gonna hold up in this again no he's going to be just perfect on the exit so he gets back on Power and he'll be able to actually pick up the tiniest little bit of stitching for pulling out now not anything really that was he got through that that's what you pray for when you're in the cockpit isn't it Pete you just pray for getting through the chicane without getting affected by the slower car in front yeah you overtake so many cars around here when you're in the top class that you're always trying to gauge it and you know you know when even from Five Seconds back you know that oh I'm gonna hit to hit this car and we're not hit this car caught behind this car at the wrong time our new rear deck for the 709 uh clicking ass they've had quite a good run here seventh and eighth of these two cars we're not done yet so that it was the 708 much earlier in the race uh which was uh helped by was we looking at here the numbers or stay out of the barriers no there's the touch so that is uh Lauren fantor yep from fourth and that car has got a five second Pit Stop penalty to come in its next run down pit Lane 7.6 seconds that Gap now to this car we're looking at we're going to break and it's picked up time even though he's been in traffic [Music] yeah he must have uh had a a kind of a better deal of it somewhere else around the track got more speed I think 7.3 seconds is the gap AWA to Alessandro Pierre greedy Gap behind that by the way to the Cadillac not really coming down it's stable at a minute and about 45 to 50 seconds lean time L and P2 Javier sharer has pulled away a little from uh it's two and a half seconds [Music] all right and then gtem [Music] to be a pit stop just now from Android Motorsports I think it's been a bit of a actually it's not is it the uh Jimmy Johnson has been passed by that uh battling GTM being a bit of a Nutty lap it Ebbs and closed doesn't it uh through the traffic a little bit more of an unlucky lap there so 7.1 seconds he had got it down into the sixes at uh pure greedy on that lap but now you're going to see hirokawa just fly around the outside there for the car 56 Porsche and again you get into a higher speed part of the track where you have no traffic and that's what you're always looking for but uh but it just seems inevitable at one stage we're going to see that Ferrari 51 right on the back of car eight yeah Gap going down for seven seconds now it's here a car has got to step this up somehow I think the cars were on similar strategies they both had a driver change both changed all four tires um we saw chobanazzi get out of the 51. and Hartley get out of the car eight so uh as far as I'm aware they're on uh you know this is this is a Level Playing Field in terms of strategy and tires the entire life so leave battles underway in all three classes here it is now under seven seconds hirakawa from Pia guidi into europol's Fabio sharer battling away within two seconds or so of rockabitsa and the castle racing car on the hands of the bronze driver Takeshi Kamura being closed down by Ricardo Ferreira that Gap 90 seconds that was an awfully long way to go here at power still the the least experienced of the the total Toyota lineup of all six drivers said boyme for example has been there since uh the Inception of that team back in 2012 still driving with them today at uh Brendan Hartley very experienced you know the mom winner world champion from his Porsche days in l p one and uh so he's he's got the uh all of the credentials that you need and those two together have really harness that relationship with Rio and have tried to go into the first track his his progress within the team but in these kind of moments I'm sure he got Seb pacing up and down I can almost hear him in my head pacing up and down can't wait to get in the car to carry on the job he was doing earlier on but there has been that that role for the two older drivers to more experienced drivers to just in his very early days in this program riahukawa there was just a feeling of potentially a little bit of vulnerability there he did surprise us in a very positive way as that developed with resilience and with pace but this is a very testing moment indeed it's Ferrari it's Alessandro Pierre greedy already world champion in GTE Pro and they don't come any more feisty than Alison getting your elbows out does it no they don't uh I'll double check my uh right inputs in this season this is a world championship up for grabs isn't it some kind of drivetrain is you've got to say that's that's motor the ice [Music] smoking away not I'm afraid the first time this this team has had thermal incidents luckily it's right near the uh the orange barrier there with the you could just roll it back yeah there's Tristan votier late replacement for Jack reel Nerf in somewhat publicly disgust fashion disagreement between the Canadian and 97 former one world champion champion and the team but that is clearly race over for the 24K sorry it's four count right hand side of the engine is uh 4.5 liter version by the way of the same basic engine Gibson V8 engine that powers in 4.2 liter version or 11 P2 cars as kirikawa deals with the traffic in the shape of the number 24 Camaro Gap now after six seconds Peter Exactly five five and a half seconds yeah I don't think there's anything here at hirakawa can do to stop the progress of Pierre greedy he just seems to be on fire at the minute unfortunately actually on fire uh briefly it was the van Wallen that's the team um congratulating each other on getting this uh this effort this far it seemed by their reaction they started taking them to be disappointed but they seem to be relieved they seem to be happy with how far they got in the race it's a very new car at this this level edex sport car hitting from third this is the canal course that was in the battle with Nico pinho yeah was our Pole Position holder or what's going on here he's been asked to get back into the car so we can just steer it back into it yeah yeah so that was actually a well-placed he had placed it in the right way so he can get it pushed back quickly and all the drivers out there will be uh thankful of that as they can get going sooner as a result after this slow zone is lifted literally as I'm looking at the uh the screens uh confirmation that the triple seven d-station racing car is out of the race just a little bit of housekeeping and away from race control at the moment so the bottom end of the timing screen look at that look how close they are it looks closer when it's when they're in that slow Zone but hirokawa knows he's coming it's an awful feeling isn't it P20 know that this you see that car coming up behind you think it's just inevitable soon they're going to be right on the harassing me ducking and Diving trying to overtake me anywhere they can I think that's her number four guys just about to become our 20th confirmed retirement it's a long list Peter yeah I was thinking exactly exactly that hirokawa is going to be looking at the emergency ill Hub uh hard radio Corporation from the team the car is coming from behind and yeah there's not much he can do he's able to obviously release the speed limiter button earlier yeah so I said in the songs that it it it looks much closer than it than it actually is when they get going again you get that uh cat and mouse effect don't you uh that Chain Reaction so he's he's on his way to the final of chicane but yeah good problem is when you could see the car in front it just motivates you even more so uh this this is gonna be this is going to be Hammer at tokens now yeah last few laps it's been high 330s low 331 through your hirokawa it's been under 330 for Alessandra Pierre greedy the net result of that as they cross the line as the Gap is now down for 3.8 seconds [Music] collado watches on and he's just about to get in the car by the look of it just just hand me the car in the lead that's all I that's all I ask uh meantime this is the final taker for the lead group in lmp2 for the latest round of pit stops value of sharer took the lead in that pit stop and will increase that lead unless no dramas remember because it was 10 seconds to be served by the wrt car in that stock that they've just completed yeah they're gonna that's gonna really hurt them so I saw the tire Graphics earlier on with the wrt by the way their tires were much older than the interior gold car so that explains how Shira could just catch and Breeze past Robert kibitza that we see there coming into the chicane yeah he's coming into chicane as the interior pool car was rolling down pit Lane so we're into significant increase in the lead here still measurable in the lowest number of seconds but it certainly isn't the two seconds it was when they came into this Pit Stop Cycle it's the 50 Ferrari as it completes the map on the North End though it is the 51 of Alexandra Pierre greedy 3.3 seconds it's Thanos he's inevitable [Music] it's got a little bit of traffic coming up here with the Ferrari GT car just in front in that second chicane right there you're going slower now than you really should be at uh Breeze past the outside you're never quite sure you put a lot of trust in the car that you're overtaking around the outside and you could see you could almost feel that that how tentative he was in that moment but uh that is the right thing to do you never know where the M driver might place the car and then again into the Multan pin to let your feelings override the situation and yeah because you got a sense where the car is going to go and you don't always make the right call but a lot of the time lap after lab you kind of read the body language of the car where it's going to go and and that situation he was pretty sure okay I can sweep around the outside of the car seeing me that it won't even run to me yeah like I say reading that body language is cars it's going over bumps and things and you see the body the body roll of the car and you think yeah and being a GT driver himself he'll know exactly how that felt so he's kind of on and off the throttle waiting to see what happens to that body roll does it does it uh translate into the car actually sliding or was it just going over bump so it's always better in that kind of moment to play it with a bit of caution but uh luckily you've got an extra bit of track to run up on the outside there lap or two on this fuel step by the look of things maybe but uh background for green track now yeah fullbeam track this is this is great what a showdown we have coming with Pierre guidi and Rio hirokawa Rio is giving it everything he can I'm sure but that attack is relentless that's what it looks like on the pit Toyota Colorado [Music] they're on the same strategy they're both going to pick the same time uh just that there's a quick look at the virtual energy attack at tank 13 for the uh Toyota 14 for the Ferrari they're back on yeah they came in at the same time like I said before all four tires were changed driver changed it was full service for both cars so uh they do seem to be as far as I'm aware of exactly the same strategy at this point 2.2 seconds now a chunk taken in that last sector and traffic coming I don't know about Tire compound though that's the one thing we couldn't quite see in the pit stops that we think they're both on the soft you would think so yeah yeah well we've seen well I haven't seen any of the cars running the hard car so it's it's all been medium during the day and then soft in the night and in the wet conditions also soft now this is interesting car number eight got a spare splitter out we've seen them doing a lot of this during free practice Splitter on splitter off changing it all the time number 10 Rebecca sport goes wide in the middle straight on in the first decay pretty clearly we're going to see these battling hyper cars on pit Lane very shortly staff is down at Ferrari and we'll be ready for that the back support car moves over on the algar broker that is four position ninth position in Ella B2 now got broke up on a weight man to come around that is our program leader now 1.5 seconds between hirokawa and this man now you can hear from uh Rio herokawa's radio now [Music] for fuel and front end you stay in the car so the overtake is going to be done because of that nose change in the pits what has happened there they picked up some kind of debris inside the radio listen here from here ingredient okay driver change of Creeper is that why he's not going to respond to his sort of imbalance in the car driver checked you ready try to probably change the Ferrari yeah but has been ready for a while yeah it's just straight away I don't understand because Peter greedy just got in after uh after jovanazi if I didn't see that yeah from my understanding he's only been he's only done a double yeah I would have probably been there for a triple but maybe there's soft eyes are only doubling this uh this lead change could happen before the pit stop hit again from me Toto what's going on for Rio hirakawa yeah throw his gloves behind now 1.3 just for info I'm sure he was well aware of that look how much faster Pierre greedy can carry how much extra speed he carries through the high-speed corners of the Porsche curves hear a coward definitely struggling uh with this Toyota and uh has he got some damage to the splitter there I can see whether or not we can get a closer look at that I think he has your name but that would explain it I mean it doesn't look like much but the car hasn't had better things than this isn't it so far the same absolutely no step so it's going to be car number 51 after this uh after this driver change so Rio is going to stay in so they are on slightly different strategies here because Rio stays in and Pierre greedy is going to get out so it will still be the Toyota that exits the uh the pits ahead despite this nose change yeah so if you're going in the car because they're going to keep the tires on you only do the the tire change when you do the driver change yeah this is the change for James Canada to get aboard the cast if it's down there with the Ferrari how things looking down there Steph it's a busy pit stop I can tell you that James collado is about to jump in the car and just cleaning everything off but yeah it's a it's looking like a clean stock so far they're just trying to get the stuff done which tires are coming off that car what's going on Steph the I've got the waiting to finish refueling and then we'll be able to see which tires are going on it's looking like a softs the change you should be looking there for a tire change for it and the Egg cart just a slight stumble they do make the nose change in good order and it is a tire change car is released and the change comes for the lead is this the decisive change in the long 24 hours we're just over eight and a half hours left in the 2023 running the 91st running in the 100th year of the 24 hours of lemon Ferrari back to the lead and Davidson well that uh nose change took a lot longer on the Toyota than I expected so uh yeah hirokawa stays on board but um yeah I I just assumed that it would be a faster change than that so the overtake has happened in the pits five seconds difference on pit stop time it was a minute 32 seconds on Pit Road from the Ferrari air course of 51. James Gallardo it is that heads off now in the lead of the race uh from Rio hokawa stays aboard but with a nose change for that car so if we could see what the pace is now for mirakawa so it was even work in terms of that loss to Pierre guidi's lap times it was even worse it means that Rio hirokawa had newer tires as well yep so it wasn't as we thought it was uh yeah Rio jumped in with a with a fresh set of tires that had gone on which always happens during a driver change because that extra time to get the driver and now it's around 25 seconds coincides with the amount of time it takes to change the tires which can't be done when the fuel is going in has to be separate so that's what you try and tie in all the time driver change comes naturally with with tire change as well watching what make his way through the second chicane on the wallsend now in the micheliners UK down towards Mills and Corner the Gap 5.4 seconds as they clear the timing sector I mean despite this nose going on the undamaged you you knows that goes on the Toyota he's on older tires now compared to uh collado absolutely so now we would expect naturally colada to disappear up into the distance and we can hear from uh hirokawa's reindeer I believe watching the 38 Hertz team jota Porsche can't let the race remember until drama for FAA have a listen to what's going on aboard the Toyota with Rio hurricane okay yo Ferrari has changed driver ahead Ferrari has changed driver ahead collado in the car you have a new front end and we change the rear right tire the rear right had a puncture so we changed it right puncture that that would explain why he was suffering so badly in the high speed the porschev as well you haven't watched before so uh bright rear slow puncture normally he would have known about that anyway he'd either got the TPMS warning yeah he would have seen it on board but it must have just been a very slow puncture that was under control but uh that's okay so that's why they they came out that that extra bit of time to change that one tire so far he's uh maintaining that Gap at five seconds [Music] through a couple of laps you kind of get your eye in again don't you but it's Rio's in the river at least and uh so maybe colado won't uh be able to pull away so easily straight away but I'm sure once he gets into his stride it will uh you'll see the Gap grow and grow of course all those cars he's already had that traffic so and probably in the Porsche cars [Music] well let's go down to pit Lane Steph has got what the menu's been very much involved in this battle down to you Steph [Music] yeah we're not uh we're not hearing that one so uh yeah Cadillac number two into the pits El Bamber jumps out to Alex Lin who did a great stint a couple of stints in the night time jumps back in which we said from the start this race Alex sporting the helmet killers of well Mr Derrick Bell in tribute to his fabulous achievements at the race it's a great race and Cadillac having something of a mixed day night and now into the day but still in the mix here and this race can throw things at you very quickly oh I spend for Rexy man's a good genetic I think still there just double checking that's it recently aboard the car former race leader as well drop back to fourth place so not good at this stage of proceedings we'll be looking to get back in of the terms [Music] it is that still leads the race in GTM the 57 car seven seconds now the lead Gap as [Music] last bit of that batch of traffic Peter and now it sets off in Pursuit be very interested to see what he can do in clear air here that's uh as that Davidson said we've got fresh tires versus tanks say good morning to guy Smith joins us as I'm Davidson leads for a little bit of shut eye guy coming into the early morning here at the mom I know how I feel it ain't great uh what is it like getting into a car that's in a battle for a significant position well you've definitely got the uh added adrenaline which is uh carries you a long long way um these guys are very much in the zoo they'll have had some sleep but not a lot um very much in the battle here fighting for an overall win at the front between the Ferrari and the Toyota what a fantastic battle this has been raging through the night and uh the Cadillac there in Pittsburgh place with Alex ladies not out of this by any means he's still hanging in there if you haven't quite got the speed of the leading two but they're there in case anything happens um between the two Front Runners that's the thing that's the three drivers cycle through there'll be one that's just gone out in the car so appear really now might get a bit of something to eat and then maybe settle back because he knows he's not getting in for quite a while but um you'll have the next driver waiting in the sidelines so there's always sort of the reserve waiting to get in the car just in case the current driver in the car right now is uh enter some kind of problem that's right all it takes is for um you know if the driver comes in early or has a problem you've got to be ready to get into that car and uh you're ready to get on it so uh yeah it's um we're kind of getting towards the business end now it's daylight we're into the Sunday morning and uh looking forward now if the end is in sight a couple of changes one to a position the other one too just the rhythm of what's going on Stanley battle this morning thoughts of the inside of the Cadillac there this is the number six car this is for position this is fourth place okay you can see just the right hand side the side window position taken there for the moment with the Porsche better sorry the Ferrari rather a bit of a pick here but this is a somewhat spirited run from Kevin S reclaiming the fourth place he had would have lost that principally because of the pit stop penalty have lasted around so he's back up in a fourth and splits the caddies again because the first thing he's about to say was said board a so in the limits is initially just absolutely ragged Edge stuff stick with this and he's got the blue uh blue flags well that's four that's for the car that he's just overtaken I think sitting close behind him [Music] not so close [Music] exactly how this one is working we've come across the line [Music] it is true what was that for everybody that's the six come on disaster I mean he's really I mean he's driving it like a GT car he's throwing it around using the curbs he's really really hustling that car around [Music] what he was doing is I'm lapping himself from the two because my Cadillac's up it was kind of Nest unlapping himself in the next Lane getting that lap back taking some risk along the way obviously just overtaking move down into Indianapolis watch these pictures the other battle is referring to by the way is the continuing heroics of Fabio We Believe driving with some kind of break or fracture in his foot after that was run over by the Corvette only in the race and his battle with had overtaken and is now pulling away from Robert the picture in the uh on the 41 twrt car in the lead of lmb2 yeah those guys had a great race they've been right the sharp end and uh understanding pretty much take three and that's really what's the difference in lmp2 is is really staying out of trouble and uh being consistent and that's what those guys have done and find themselves in the lead of the race so now I've got my Cadillac sorted in my slightly befuddled Sunday morning head and lapped himself from the third place number two cat rack and now giving us trying to close in on the gold the yellow number three car and that is the the race for position fourth place under two seconds let's have a lesson into what's going on before the number six for Kevin Estes [Music] and I definitely didn't get it I didn't understand what Kevin destroy was saying uh and his little postcard to free confused bloke to the Box eight hours 20 minutes to go Ferrari lead in the gravel just dropped back right corner into the gravel there is really pushing hard he's really Plus in that Porsche around I think he's trying to obviously get back past his uh three car trying to get another lap back I think they're on the same lap that's for positions absolutely position so yeah he's giving it absolutely everything he's trying to close that gap down and get back ahead of the Cadillac well it is Porsches flash politely gone here they've had some real glorious at the front of this race but uh it's not got their way into and through the night has it the six car running fifth chasing fourth said Bourdain knows he's there and body language of the Porsche I would say frenetic [Music] it's just well known for grabbing a car by the Scruff in the neck and you know it's very very fast but he's occasionally prone to the odera isn't he yeah exciting to watch I think we'll call it yeah dramatic nothing for it I think they could they could sense that I mean a possible Podium position you know anything oh absolutely up front and uh they'll find themselves uh be impossibly on the podium and that's really what they're pushing for right now 34 years old now and uh as with a large proportion of these new hyper car drivers coming from a lot of these Factory efforts GT teams and this is a massive opportunity for him in his career is one numerous big races and uh I'm sure he'd like to uh to add this one to his uh CV has he won in GT around here I don't know if he's running actually I'm not sure if he's running GT it means one pretty much just about every beat you would think you would have yeah is absolutely fantastic driver speaking of fantastic Drive he's got a set for day there local man problem on about to come under some serious pressure yeah and he's actually but he's still got the fastest lap of the race at 328.2 I'll just say earlier on the race [Music] thank you yes that's what it feels like to be here at the mom but when they wake up they're going to be waking up to a very exciting race we've said it for a long while we've been waiting for this moment in sports car racing this race has delivered it's continuing to deliver we've got multiple gaps this gap before the battle for fourth position now under a second and with traffic report date closest to the camera here his son fending off the close attention is of right now [Music] what meanwhile just drop it back a little but that rate of change in that survey battle not what it was but this is where the action is right now [Music] this beat the potential Podium position in 2017 minutes time I think hirokawa has set them down of it is peace has improved for that last lap though he did lose a couple of seconds but previously I think he managed to sustain the pace with James Gallardo [Music] I don't think there's gonna be any complaints whatsoever you know if this is what we've got coming in this era of this great race and the FY World Endurance Championship s coming up on one of the glockenhouse cars the at the moment by the way setting seventh and eighth as you can see from the body language of the uh of the Porsche it's Kevin's really thrown it around the car's moving around a lot I think we're going to see you move here be brave move into there though yeah that last section of the Porsche cars through karting Kevin's really tight to the airport it's really wide carrying way more speed than Seb they see the I think he sees the opportunity that the Glick announced may present at some point in this lap the pace difference between the two cars and three cars not that huge they're taking us in the 332s these two cars the 331s it just needs to guess right I'll be placed more correctly or to find that tiny little Gap said all day A very wise head on his shoulders he's been around this race for an awfully long time so something a family affair with his dad as well pretty much a veteran here in their local race but some of us that's your local karting track but then it's right here not the position to do it there GT car ahead he's using the slipstream of that GT car to help him and try to graft up now behind the clicking house which is pretty quick in a straight line so um what will he do will he let the fire or will he is he gonna contest at home quick out of the corners or it's got good straight line speed considering it's um punching the hole in the air it's got a lot of talk hasn't it Cadillac number three Porsche number six and the pick could be the 708 black announced that's running in seventh place this is the battle for fourth place the body language of those two cars in this battle could not be more different could it [Music] I think seb's keeping it smoother and as as um was mentioned before um Clement Astra seems to be driving harder but almost like it's a GT car is fending off the challenge and where and the if is this this pass to get another car between them but perhaps uh more significant bit of traffic ahead it is the other surviving Factory as the next car down the road it's the number five car of redmaker Vicky yeah it's gonna be tough to pass the Cadillac is drafting up to the the glicking house trying to use the toe from that car to kind of flips off clear of the uh of the Porsche and it's whether he can clear him now he'll be eager to try and get that clicking house between himself and the um trouble front left that wasn't coming off well the way I think Nielsen brought the car in and [Music] Tony furoko it is that takes the track that car down in 10th place now previous race leader and that's uh sticky front left cost something like 10 seconds and that's about that pit stop CP their favorite place for him oh it does take another curb there doesn't he and we've seen that's a risky place to do it as well so fast and possible chance here again would be risky so going into this section celebrity was had a good swap five six car lands and it's just been completely closed up now Cathy great talk off the off the turn still haven't got close to passing that liquor house another high per car ahead Penske of course the Cadillac starts to pick up some of the dirtier from the clicking house and we'll start to uh find it more difficult to follow him so you really need to try and clear that clicking house as soon as possible not lose that momentum that sort of forward in the camera head one off if not the most experienced man in this race he'll know he'll be being told by the team what's going on behind him really thickest moments and allow this battle to go by safely or is he just going to get on with planet which will surely be run to the finish and see what happens around them this stage for all the different St that's got to be frustrating for Kevin Astra there um it's just unable to even the slips to to close into that caddy I think quite a bit quicker through the corners but I know the cardi picks up the two as well which is better for said board eight but could it could better turn into worse if he can't clear big lake in the house before the second she came there's the GT traffic as well so that's going to make it even more difficult it's not close enough is he horse is dropping right back straight there so yeah that's a speed difference so the clicking house is probably the quickest down the streets oh and he's oh yeah take one this is going to cost Kevin Astro at some time I think before I can do about that he's getting on with his race [Music] can't breathe a little easier tell you what he'd love to get that glicking house in between the two two wouldn't he still by the way not that much further down the road is that other five Penske Porsche I can't really get nine still Ferrari in the hands of James collado now leading 8.9 seconds to go from you absolutely right Peter the gapping lap Pace at the moment there's even that little so quickly the gap's still changing but it's about tense Esther's dropped back what a chunk and he's clear at the glicking house now the uh Cadillac ahead so that's another further challenge for Kevin EST next question is in that spirited Pursuit what has he done to his tire life on that car [Music] he's making some adjustments to the looks like engine to the engine mode or something so the cut is the car is passed broken house so yep so so next challenge for said ball day it was just looked impassive it's just been smooth it's just been easy whilst Kevin estimate has been poking around behind over the curbs it was the moment they gave the gap back [Music] he's going to complete the lap with significantly more Advantage from the attacking Porsche so we'll throw them back there I think he's gonna need the Roman domato actually [Music] purposely let him buy because I don't think he's got the straight line speed to attack that clicking house Ferrari Toyota Cadillac Cadillac and then this Porsche number six card still more than eight hours to go with this race foreign [Music] yeah he's just pulled away so the Gap now what's uh well effectively gets back to where the cab was three four laps ago still give an extra not able to clear remember do that we talked about this uh earlier yesterday how you could have different cars on different uh downforce and you know the Porsche in a straight line doesn't seem to be there but in the corners he's all over it and the Porsche cars especially so it could be that that car is just running more downforce and it carries more you know the wings uh flatter more top speed this race has got a lot more to give stick with it it does seem in every phase whether or not it's a blasting lap from Kevin airstrike whether or not it's a 50 minute cat and mouse game further down the order further up the order whether that's a class battle for the lead or for a significant position there is they've always been more than one thing to watch have a listen to what said four day is telling the capacity racing Cadillac racing crew you were half a second faster than the leaders right there who knows what this could produce it's through he's drafted past the clicking house going into Indianapolis so the cap now it's two and a half seconds that's customer further half second in that battle but we're coming up to Porsche's best part of the track so I imagine Esther will close back up with clear air [Music] just looking at what the pace is like if Fred Baker Becky head he's quicker than both of them in fact at the moment so it's not a matter of said all day dragging up to the uh like traffic in the manner of Fred macko is pulling away from him here albeit laps down all your problems came to killado now 10 almost 11 seconds clear if that Gap is opening up again Alex Lin two minutes behind that battle in third place in the other Cadillac the blue Cadillac here better part of a lap back from Alex he's bought in this battle for position with the Penske Porsche number six that's the top five and then the 93 Peugeot previous leader of this race I wanted some dramas and now a lap back from Kevin EST Won't See Much from Persia this morning and then into the two clicking houses 709 the second of them on pit Lane at the moment see the 708 the background there completing the top ten and all hypercar top 10 the number five Penske Porsche and the second Ferrari in the hands of Antonio what the Delight it is to report that can be gone for eight o'clock in the morning at the 24 Hours of Le Mans a top 10 all the top class and with multiple battles Within and that's what it's been like since the get-go for all the changes coming including for the iron dames [Music] the the 85 car by the way and then to Michelle getting that six seconds back from the leading Castle racing car at the hands of the bronze driver Takeshi Kimura this is the lead battle and it will be interrupted for the driver change for the 85. after a torrid time at Spa For the all-female crew Verizon links it's come back into play here at the horn that's uh I think if they could have chosen which one would see them in competitive form it would be this one that would be quite the headline wouldn't it it's having a great race they've been they've been at the sharp end all the way through and uh depending on the pit stops they've pretty much been first or second yeah I was I was thinking the same they've had their Challengers who've come up maybe overtaking them then dropped back again and they've just been there plugging away um so impressive to to see how the team's working projects it's good in so very many ways the visuals in terms of the way they present this car I could the message is great there's not a place for females in Motorsport there's a right and all three of the girls involved in this effort just go about it with just a great competitive Spirit over the uh earlier this morning at Davidson and Martin Haven were talking about the full access program take a look at the full access program on the fiwc's YouTube channel from spark you'll see what I mean about that they've been a factor over the last couple of years uh fantastic stewardship of this program by Iron links by Deborah Meyer who the coroner of the team whose project this is and remains she's now the president of the women in Motorsport Commission of the FIA and that's a kind of policy direction from Motorsport gentleman that is really making a difference in a very positive way without tokenism and what we're seeing I certainly notice it every weekend I'm at a racetrack is we're seeing far more female faces not just beyond the wheel but in the garages as well and not just in some of the perhaps more traditional roles than we've seen from women in motorsport for most of my life but they're out there and making a massive difference in terms of the way these cars are prepared turned around in very scenery roles in Team Management in the technical sides of things and the engineering sides of things and I think that's a great a great step forward and in the fie there's there's many females in ethienos I was working down in Monaco doing driver standard advisor and the full F3 Steward room was all ladies and me had a lovely time we have to ask them whether or not they had the same experience but side by side this is the 25 car oh there's the Bonnet uh up at one corner that's not the first time we've seen it from Aston Martin today and that was a change 33 ahead of 25 Nikki katzberg ahead of armadill harty and TF sport I'm sure enough is on that 25 cup but there's a problem with the Bonnet left uh rear corner of that Bonnet on a 25 Armadale hearty ball away taking the opportunity to try to get rid of a toe back from the Ferrari it's not going to work him afraid but Nikki katzberg goes through and that car up into fourth place so Corvette could not give this one up clearly an issue but uh come through this race but that's a bonnet because for 25 car evidence that one of the essential items in the sports car racing toolbox race of tape has been used to try to secure that Kevin let's just set the fastest lap of [Music] that car the race 60 8.9 followed by Nicole Jensen in the Peugeot of 299 their fastest lap so it's a fast time oh big lock up there for the uh number six car yeah he is absolutely pushing it he just it halved the gap under eight hours to go now that was a huge lock up got too deep in there didn't he and almost just a couple of wheels in the gravel the margins here are so so tight Graham Goodwin with [Music] Eli Smith and Peter dump wreck [Music] no shortage of action whatsoever at the 24 hours of Ramon came into the 2023 race expect all numbers that was it that was that was very late of the inside of the lmp2 car and that here in estera finally a bit of a percentage move that didn't pay off gentlemen how did you see it well it was building wasn't it I mean he's he's been on the limit our life after lap yeah and obviously previously I had a big lock up into a large corner and into the two wheels into the gravel so he's hustling and um yeah it was uh it seems to be coming it's a bit of a late move I'll be inside of the P2 car lost the rear end and uh through the gravel yeah a Biff with the tire Barris he's got the car moving no contact I don't think it was just over the curb to the other side of it wasn't it so I'm not sure the P2 car did anything wrong no I completely agree with you I think it was a late move from Kevin you know that's not a place where the P2 cars got much of an option to duck out of that yeah you come into there with what you small break you drop it one gear and you get back on the power so it's such a fast entry there so said board eight what had been a 1.2 second Gap as they come across the line look at now just waiting for that to is 47 seconds cost him dearly that and that by the way is 46 seconds closer that Michael Jensen is moving to Kevin Esther he's still a lap down on the Porsche that's a good chunk of one of those there's that lap it's the other that's the uh I think that's a 94 [Music] but you're a bit right now so they actually hit anything he did he did he give him a bit of a bit of a body slam to the top area yeah I'll only do three about to unlock himself or trying to unlock himself from the Porsche it's the 93 isn't it so sixth place car and the fifth place car taking the wind over seals hasn't it it has [Music] so now when he's under pressure and this is under pressure to retain the lap advantage on the Peugeot behind and up at the lead now has increased to 13 to 13 seconds gentlemen both top professional drivers here multiple Factory entries already on your CVS big era there from Kevin Esther he's still on track he's still in the mix what's the mindset monkey at this point it's it's sort of cold it didn't we didn't know yeah about an hour ago he's pushing the boundaries he's driving much harder than said Border in front he was driving the car more like a GT car um I'm not sure it was inevitable but um the risk factor was certainly increased for him it was hard it was the and it seemed high for a long time and the fact that he'd already had a minor off down in Multan in the same lap you know it he was obviously pushing and you know that's the reason why he's employed he's an incredibly fast racing driver um and the team know that and he's you know they they know what you know what you get with Kevin Esther let's have a listen what's going on the radio with Kevin EST we see some damage [Music] to the city as well if you look at the rear um deck of the the rear wing of the portion the next time I get a chance to see it left uh light is flashing oh yes that's not the rain light is it that's the light we see when that car is coming into a slow Zone so something's gone wrong with the electrical connection as well giving Kevin Escher I'm sure he's got uh all sorts of warnings on the dash for the Porsche Michael Jensen will have taken that opportunity rubbed his hands with Glee and see the opportunity that perhaps there might be light at the end of what's been a pretty long tunnel this morning for Peugeot except all day by the way on pit Lane now so Kevin Astra will take that position for the moment it will be due down pit Lane shortly Ferrari from Toyota then the two Cadillacs that is said ball day soaked up that pressure uh Peter dunbrecht really the he did he didn't Panic um he he could probably see in his mirrors where Kevin Escher was quicker but he knew he had the straight line advantage over him so he he just you know maintained didn't make any mistakes kept it nice and smooth I think they're running a perfect race cuddler they are they've not had the look and that are quite the pace uh I'm just gonna pop down what have you got for us uh Lou Beckett welcome back good morning good morning I've just had [Music] obviously the number five just came in for a standard stop the team seemed to be poised ready they don't they're not really they're not really running around or anything like that they're just standing there watching the TV screens I guess waiting for Kevin to come back in now the rear Liquor on the left-hand side is flashing there is some damage it's not visible to us other than that [Music] number six team and then we see some damage to the underfloor okay we tried to continue just take caution yes something was loose there yeah but look at those lap times actually he's still in the three purchase so it's not only going slow what caused it he stayed away from the potential hit didn't he that took him over the curve to the inside of the empty the Porsche curves and from there on in yes it was slap the barriers so that's the second call we've heard from the pits that they can see some underfloor damage [Music] I could see as well as some damage that the uh left rear corner of the car nickel Jensen running late as well in Pursuit [Music] Porsche already and it's going to be I'm sure for the number six car at the moment with that uh stop from said more day Kevin Esther is up to fourth place but it's not good news for Porsche that incident I think he's going to see this car in the garage it's here again developing story let's hear again what's going on for the Porsche Penske number six [Music] let's see what we can change if we need to otherwise we'll continue no tires that's what Paul's going to say what have you got to say about it Lou Beckett you're down there if there is certainty within the team the mechanics are on Pit Row waiting for the six to come in but I saw one of them looking to the Dolly's guy and [Music] we don't know we could just read all of that as they're standing there yeah we shortly Luke we'll keep an eye on it we'll come back to you just very shortly so this battle that's been underway the 93 car trying to unlock itself from the number six so it's drama for Kevin Esther at the car we think is going to go in the box is it dollies I'm looking I'm not sure they're sure if it's going to go in [Music] to you but uh to you Lou Beckett's what's going on it's the query the mechanics have they don't know if they're bringing it in the car however I've just seen the signs now I think that car is going in the box right now [Music] underneath the car he's had a look around and then he's he's put his hand up to point to the Box there's still confusion hello [Music] we need to answer something that car is on the dollies being spun around and going into the number six Porsche Penske box is that the moment that marks the end of the challenge for Porsche to win the 2023 Lamont 24 hours as almost eight hours could determine whether that's that's the case while that's all going on either end the pit Lane the 51 car from the lead in the hands of James collado the eight Toyota and the hanzaria hirokawa they're on pit Lane as well dramas Galore on track gentlemen dramas now guy Smith armpit Lane yeah it's uh it's all it's all going on isn't it um the Toyota was almost 15 seconds behind the Ferrari when they entered pit Lane so are they gonna take tires it looks like it's just a fuel only for the Ferrari it was two times less time for the Ferrari it was one tire uh puncture tire for Rio hirakawa clears pit Lane now that was one minute and 20 seconds on Pit Road for James Gallardo Maria calma I think it's still really bought the car rolling now this is just exactly how long they just haven't been happy with the the balance of the the eight car that they've they've just been struggling they just haven't quite got it where they want it I believe and um we're just missing a little bit of players compared to the 51 Ferrari that will be new tires I believe though for the number eight carts a minute to 31 seconds on Pit Road so it took an 11 further 11 seconds let's listen to what sir Toyota telling the driver okay the new set of soft tires new set of soft tires and a review [Applause] the 12 laps don't coming for your hurricane what new boots on each Corner that will be good news for him at this stage is going to need a bit of a boost here to just push this forward Peter yeah I'm just wondering what the strategy is now whether uh new tires and nose I mean he's gone two more stints or does it mean that because he's not juicy food now at least yeah so is it two stints on a set of tires I'd have thought not it's a straight answer it seems to me a slightly strange one I could see the damage there by the way to the underfloor of the Porsche this is not going to be the work of a moment and that car is going to drop back now uh Michael Jackson comes on to the same lap okay in and out of the pits onto the same lap as the Porsche and I think that Peugeot is going to take fifth position from the least delayed until this points of the Penske Porsche 963s Ferrari Toyota Cadillac Cadillac Porsche for the moment but Peugeot looks set to take that position then the two clicking houses [Music] contenders [Music] here at the moment each of the three appearances with two cars they've finished with every car on every appearance and have never finished lower than fifth look at what they're up against this year it's been running seventh sorry sixth sorry seventh and eighth at the moment with under eight hours to go what a remarkable story oh they just seem to be running the wrong pace and unaffected by the other cars and you know it's uh it's almost like a victory if they were to finish in the top five but you know what more trouble can happen ahead and they could just gradually pick away anything can happen in this race well you know when we came back to uh the race this morning after taking a little bit of shutter right battle between the Cadillac trying to fend off Kevin Esther how long did it take them to catch Roma Dubai that car still got pace so if they could keep out of the out of the uh pit Lane and out of the garage it doesn't take very many fumbles the like a witch has currently being suffered by the number six Porsche [Music] 53 by the way has gone through and has taken the fifth position quite a bit of traffic in the Porsche curves which is not what you want and not the place to get it either but uh it's pushing on through it seems to me with the Toyota the bolting on the soft tires all the time so listen what's going on now with Toyota again the Gap is 25.7 5.7 Ferrari did not change tires this is going to be a testing moment he's gonna make an impact now yeah he's um I think feeling a lot happier more confident in the car so what have we have for this car this the dramas for this car lost the lead uh in this period of time and those change with damage for that puncture in the same pit stop that was the previous pit stop now and we've lost that lead he's back out with fresh rubber now is the time to shine to Cadillac that car comes in the hands of Alex Lin he's had a good stint there 43 seconds behind the lead battle plus this stop of course still the Porsche in the garage we'll come back to what that's going to mean shortly someone listening to Cadillac what you mark you stay in the car you stay in the car this will be Alex going on to a second stint and we are just a couple of minutes away from Porsche losing another position here sixth at the moment Olivier Park called the 708 and he's in the final sector maybe another lap actually looking at that it might be one more lap for Lydia plant to take sixth position Penske are not going to win them on the ship and with the Toyota as well the Gap now at 25 seconds David won't want that to get any bigger because once you know once it starts to get bigger the pressure starts to come off the uh off the Ferrari so [Music] there were two cops [Music] procedure [Music] so Alex Lynn waits for the go gets it there away he goes the electric starts the Hybrid Power with electric power and then thank you my liter engine kicks into life sorry guys so yeah I'll just look at the lhp too and you've got into europol still leading but uh the wrt 41 is only 2.3 seconds behind so my change now is with the bits into the bronze trying to report the car right that's why the silver driver bought the car and uh we've done well actually to fend off Robert because it took to this point [Music] the family behind the racing Bakers and also the team principal now of this effort they have had a magnificent run really truly impressive they've been in the mix for Podium places in the WC and that's not sort of come their way but uh they stand here as potentially in the mix for something bit more than just a podium all right [Music] foreign at the easiest mornings for Rio out there but we have just heard on the radio he's feeling much better with those tires yeah yeah big old time for his first tint he already had some damage from some debris on the truck also he had a punk showing he came in but our guy reacted very well to minimize the damage and then struggling with a balance but now now he has a new tires and he seems to be much happier with the balance so let's see his voice I think still pirani is a bit is a little bit quicker so it's a few difficult for us but uh yeah we just do our best and we have full support from our crew including Castle crew so uh we really focused on high eight and let's hope it works out thank you thank you yeah one uh left in the corner of course from Total that means the the management Focus off that car and indeed the Gap is coming down a little under 25 seconds now time Alex making his way through a bit of a gaggle of traffic I might gaggle of traffic by the way is the battle for the lead in GTM still Takeshi Kamura is a long stint this morning that runs Drive the 57 against the goal drive from Leonard James it looks to me except for our health Rye about to take the lead in GTE am here right yellow Ferrari bright pink Porsche third is Thomas floor he's only 3.5 seconds back so here we are 16 hours and change into this race and the top three in GTM separated by three seconds shot the Porsche occurs will see the silver red car where is it not quite the shot there but not so much further behind this bear there it is they are the top three the yellow car the pink car and the silver car oh I'm lucky to put pressure on the the Japanese Japanese gentleman drive it paid off they're a little bit pressure was applied also the P2 bottle half a second between position one and two right now so we've got battles underway nose to tail in two of the three classes this is one of them just looking at the garage 56 Hendrix Motorsports car this car is uh moving its way up the field now ahead of all the GT cars that's first time this morning we've seen that that's uh that's been their battle we heard earlier with Steph down in pit Lane and over to Lou Beckett's and uh Jensen button talking about the fact that they're measuring their progress here's the gtms that battle for the moment is one [Music] tougher from here on in there's been two cars in good health we've got side by side action now for the lead in GTM and through and into the lead goes right off right yep that's the way that it makes her feel it will be Millions around the world pushing hard cheering on this earlier in the morning for this effort so many hours does commuter have to do in the car does the bronze driver have to do and then get six I'll have to double check if I think it's six hours and uh once I get a bit of breathing room and I'm looking just exactly how he's doing all this driver time that is the thing to watch at this stage is all very well where these cars sit in the overall order but which of these teams have still got on quite a lot of problems time to burn and particularly the GTM cars they come in chunks of about an hour at a time yeah and you can gain a lot of time with a gold or platinum driver in that time you can lose all the time against the other teams if they've chosen that strategy in a different way this is where the opportunity to if you like bird the bronze time those safety car periods comes back into play this is the battle for the lead in lmp2 and again it's the lesser ranked driver silver ranked Cuba in the 34 Cup against Robert and it's a shiniest of platinums grand prix winner of course in Formula One his career there it is Polish driver against polish driver I'm sure our friends and colleagues on polish TV are keeping your weather eye on this one absolutely fabulous stuff foreign all three of us from the UK of course could be a bit blase about what it means about sporting success when you've got a depth of competition available to watch and to follow but when you've got a nation that maybe is not and that the anxiety does it there does it beautifully as the Do It Off Track I think he's gonna have to get that back the pass was made off track and he is going to let cooperkovski back for the moment that's smart by Rebecca bitzer got In Too Deep not clean wasn't and he's let that one get out there'll be another moment to do that calm down everybody in Poland just for the moment and by the way another brand new nation uh came to the Moon with Mariah and Gubler Portuguese [Music] breakfast all over the living room all over Poland right now [Music] the second GK people's doing a great job here and you'll be thoroughly enjoying this team and slowly enjoying it it's a multinational effort at interior fall competition not really closing up in the in the draft does it does he look how big the Persia looks compared to the P2 cards so much bigger I think the other thing to say here is every single part of the lap that the interior ball car can make this difficult for the 41 makes it better for them in the long run the longer he holds them back yeah you're absolutely right yep and at the moment it's not even remotely close so the pass isn't coming anytime soon so do we think it's trying to force him to make the error which he did he made the error in trying to make the lunge see will be delighted with the efforts of their man here into your report team Robert commit certain meanwhile but will be the one feeling the pressure remarkably here that's not a traditional because it's risky there was there was certainly through I think if there was room left there yeah there's racing we've left there but he wasn't quite close enough I'm just wondering whether he's weighed up the situation says well I can't get him on the streets he's too fast so I've got to go to an unusual place to get by him and obviously with kabitza being a high level driver he's looking for every possible overtaking place and wait up that last corner he may have another goal this lap depends if he can get by him into Indianapolis the inside of the left-hander is a possibility then in Indianapolis the game is at the pace of the 34 car is going to force Robert nabitza into a lower percentage move here he's not gonna pull aside and let him go and quite why they shouldn't this is for the lead at the moment it's 12th Place overall cracking battle Drive of his life Cooper he will be it's an understated guy pick up the Kimura Sam now under pressure from matakaroli for second Caroli makes the pass bright green dinosaur overtakes bright yellow car guy so it is Porsche one two again now I think he katzberg by the way 30 seconds behind here in what's been a fine recovery drive from Corvette this morning yeah I think they can sense that they've got the pace to uh to get certainly on the podium if not the win here and Nikki katzberg is [Music] see what he thinks about the team boss and his progress this morning well I've just got back onto pit Lane and what a great sight to see yeah I mean it's my third fourth raising work it's my first time that you go here to visit me that means that we are doing the right job and I'm really happy now enjoying this first debut in LeMans in the uh well in a bit best way is possible we are fighting for for the big that this is happening this I have no words to describe we need to keep calm we need to keep doing the job as we we've been doing until the beginning and yeah Focus easy no curves no no no crazy moments and just push push push and you've just been watching yeah it's fantastic I mean you know [Music] pushing himself a lot on the at home training losing weight and he's up against Kavita right now sorry saying no but really is it's amazing the way he's working on the team everything we are working together and he's pushing himself to become a better driver and this is the result at least he's not finished but this is a great result also for his father for his family for his mom that he's in the in the heaven and this is amazing for all the this family here all right well I hope to speak to you later I hope to see you later too well that's what it's all about you can do the excitement can't you know but Costa's voice there this is I don't think a result they would have been expecting at this stage he's right this team is very much a family affair uh the Reigns handed over to Cuba from his father emotional let's hear back from uh Lou what else can you tell us about it's a history here at Lavon and within the WC they've always [Music] you know they're always sort of there but not quite right now they're leading it they are indeed and there was a big step forward taken from this team in the age of the month Series this year their first ever overall win in Ellen B2 done in fine fashion very different driving Squad and obviously here it's not just about the drivers it's about what the difference can be made by all sorts of aspects from that team teams taking a step forward guy Smith it just needs this gonna love her encouragement for people to dig deeper and find something yeah the interior team have really kind of just been improving year on year they've really um have stepped up and uh have been now challenging at the front and now they're leading at Lamar so what a fantastic effort and give it to cart get past it is is soaking up that pressure so well it's doing a great job but the thing is you find that once you catch up to a car you catch him quite easily but if you don't get past him quickly you kind of almost lose that momentum and that that uh forward inertia so he's kind of almost like stuck behind him now and I think he'll know that he's got a bit of confidence to keep him behind him uh if my time is correct by the way um Cooper will be utterly elated he's within five minutes so it's a bit of a driving time at which points this can be handed over should he choose to do so or should he at this stage um to the two professional drivers of the Costa and this is working a bit something like Friday but still held off bye thank you so listen meanwhile what's going on with Ferrari [Applause] [Music] operations uh but that Gap coming down once it's about 25 seconds this is heating up again this this this this this race is just sitting on the it's not a knife edge yet although I'm sure lmp2 would disagree but this is cooking up to something could be very special Beauty winners here of course but also as we might focus on the absolute global news story that was the drama at the end of the month and the overall win 2016. it was wrt that lost the lead on the last lap the car with ifea in the wheel the other car came through to take the win but it could have been should have been a one two for wrt that's now that was easier wasn't it that was the Corvette data I went off in the background for the DKR car you should find it again is that just it kind of looked like that because it it could have just uh looks like he could have kept that place but job done it's the inlet thought no wrt we're on Gerard ready to go so their silver driver still with time to serve let's have a look at what that looks like where is rui with his drive time you know it's like scroll through this lot and see just exactly how much silver drive time rui has still got over an hour to do so whilst that is a position lost foot into Europe it's the timing system we've got in the booth here is correct um maximum that's I do apologize this morning maximum is this lap of one more to get to his minimum six hours of driving time so frankly unless it's this lap for fuel he's absolutely in the window to do the best job he possibly could have done and I can tell you right now the next time I see a Cooper is going to get a great big man hug because that's a magnificent display from him and if you could just sit down you know keep it close to kibitza now then that's fine that's great you don't have to keep that Gap uh close and he is he's sticking he's just pulled back in and keeping that car in sight under seven and a half hours to go Ferrari lead this race James colado Gap is coming down a little it's 20 seconds to rear hirakawa after what's been a little bit cat Mouse through the early hours of the morning Cadillac Racing's Alex live two minutes 20 seconds back in third place said ball day for the three minutes back off the lead lap the Cadillac six three four after a battle a till about 40 involve Kevin EST in the number six Porsche Astra a spirited attack did not manage to pass the Cadillac and eventually the pressure told on himself with a an error into the Porsche curves the car slapping the barrier at the outside after a run through the gravel trap damaged the underfloor of that car and it's still in the pit garage and as I speak falls out of the top ten 93 per show in fifth then the two clicking houses making their way back up the order as others fumble in sixth and seventh the lead car in the Porsche battle now is the Porsche Penske number five then the 50 Ferrari and the second of the Peugeot both peugeot's in the top ten and the Peugeot attack has faded but they LED and led well for quite some time going into nighttime hours in lmp2 as we watch the 9 11 9 11. um take to the track shortly I think that's right twrt took the lead on the current lap completed that lamps are two seconds the good now from the interior Paul can't Platinum versus silvercraft it took him a long time to get there those two cars two seconds apart and a minute 22 seconds back is ready Bender in the on form Duquesne team effort the number 30 car edex Sports Paula fog almost a minute back with the palace racing car it's uh three French teams in fact four French teams then battling behind and caps to be addressed the pro and glass LED and led well at the moment in 21st position by Alger Pro Racing after traumas in the morning and particularly for Paul Ben Barney Coates and then over 80 car crashing out the lead and out of the race we've got racings melty Atkinson is what is that uh two three laps back from the lead in Pro-Am in the 37 cool racing column has its own problems overnight looking at the Hendrix Motorsport tomorrow gloriously filthy that's exactly what a race car should look like my Rockefeller aboard that car and in that pit stop there goes the Jackman on the left-hand side of the car we'll do the same on the right hand side of the car to see Rocky get aboard the car through the driver's window no doors on that car car drops back again into the lead pack of GTM and in that battle it is the iron Dames Rahel fry leads the race two and a half seconds ahead of a closing matokeo rolly Porsche one two 85 from 56 for the project one AO Choose Your Weapon bright pink Porsche green dinosaur this is uh this GTM battle is fantastic the lead is just changing almost every hour you know when PG Pro left the world championship the frwc at the end of the last year will mourn it and we'll we'll for everyone it's provided fantastic and GTE am the formula with Pro and drivers of these cars the sole remaining place in the Willie Jones championship and here at Le Mans for the GTE machines in their final year of competition alongside the Elms again its final year before lmgt3 takes over next year we look forward to the the variety of that's going to bring Albert singer there so long so a part of the portrait efforts in um here at Leman and uh with Christian Reed the ever presence starter still that number six score this is a long repair by the way Robert Singer's son the first race car he's designed is the current and brand new 992 version of the 911 gt3r the current GT3 car about Porsche gt3s speeded up wreck down through the years and so the Nurburgring most recently the year I've I've driven a few last list on Entry to Indianapolis for 98 got the hands of Ian James in a Podium finisher here at the mom back in 2006 in lmp2 art of racing backed replacement for Paul dalalones and drink but under the entrance came together the days before Spa they've not long to put together this effort at the moment so we'll come back to you with Porsches at the Nurburgring and yeah I mean I talked about it before actually Matteo Caroli was my teammate in my last year in Falcon Motorsport Porsche and I said I know how quick a driver he is he's pointing in on uh rail fry now yep and uh this is a big story between two very popular teams for two very different reasons the significance cannot be ignored we've already had an overall victory in the European lemon series for the iron Dames they still are waiting their first victory in the FI World Endurance Championship and if that could come at the 24 000 a month wow that would be quite something well we've seen them in the mix the whole race they've just absolutely they've been in the top three the whole time just up first second third back to first again so they're really taking it to the other teams and five seconds added by the way to the 708 next pit stop the clicking house in their Pursuits of fifth place the next turn get for clicking house do we get mostly for the moment on reliability they're climbing up the order survival flight from Switzerland I think it's fair to say now a veteran Pro driver has been a factory driver for Audi in the past a turkey a Porsche contracted Drive the next stage down from a full Factory driver Italian driver who is passionate about Porsche there's not many of those but he is his words to me where and I couldn't believe him when I was when he was seeing it he said if I don't drive for Porsche I don't drive that's it he said that to me more than once um I remember in putting uh I think the first Easter egg came across him at the top level the European Le monster is putting the Porsche the only poor shirt that year in the European a month series on pole at imler and I've rarely seen a more elated young driver I think he's a fabulous character and here he is a big green dinosaur fan favorite would be an understatement here and look forward by the way uh if you if you like your toy cars I do that car I can tell you took a visit to Hot Wheels recently if that's coming and that will be one of the very popular pocket money toy when it finally comes this is a great battle it looks like it's about to take a bite out of the iron Dan's Car [Music] your weapon well the weapon at the moment is a Porsche 911 rsr 19. the 2019 spec of these cars [Music] let's have a listen what's going on with the lead car James Gallardo [Music] um do you think it's pickup oh front right big vibration I can see the tire popping up down and he doesn't think it's pickup yeah with the lap time still good is the 29 8. versus uh parakara on the 30.3 so the pace is still there but um clearly he's obviously got some concerns over that uh that tire this issue of vibration try to put it piece of dumb wreck into terms that someone could understand and listening I've seen your explanation on the stage at them on scrutineering when you're asked what's it like at 200 miles an hour on Panel Town and I've often demonstrated to people face to face how it was you explained it and it was both graphic and hilarious but what level of vibration are we talking about by the way that's the lead change that's just happened with the material making his way by well obviously the faster you go the more that vibration comes through the car and um I will explain it to both the gentleman sitting to my but to my right what Peter did when interviewed by Bruno stick the the question was what's it like at 200 miles an hour on the Mozan and uh Peter's response was which it was basically Peter um I'm going to put this acting out effectively being in a tumble dryer now that's a regular run down the malls and it's not really a table smooth and a race car if he's complaining about it he's got a problem seeing if there's anything at the tire the wheel rather it's hard to tell whether that's irregular but that could just be the fact that he's reporting it yeah so this is his first stint on this tire uh looking at that maybe I'll try to see on the pit stop if they did if they did four times that was quick so listen to what James is saying now hey James we need at least two more laps and it's three to make it a 12 lap stand we can't cut this one short or we add a stop [Applause] go from this far out 7 hours and 14 minutes team making it very clear you've got to tough this one out sunshine Gap is now under 20 seconds but it's not coming down massive did on that last about by three seconds actually so we'll keep an eye on sector times here it's actually quicker in the middle sector than I record our last time and it could be the balance of the off the wheel yeah so he's basically just going to make it his way through at least two laps and hopefully three to keep them on the strategy and as you heard there from Justin Taylor the race engineer on the 51 car with huge amount of experience X Audi and with Rebellion for some time as well just in they're counting back here and that's a that's quite a moment for this race isn't it when you start to count back towards the end of the race make it feel shorter or longer gentlemen I think it's shorter I think you know the end the end is in sight definitely close to the end now so but this is where it really starts to you know they can't afford any yelling pit stops because they don't have the time to recover so it's a straight fight now between the two uh between the Ferrari and the Toyota so and as you said even even at the lap times he's doing he's still maintaining that 1920 second Gap yep well as a mark of just how well like this race is we're talking here about a gap for the overall lead hovering around the 22nd Mark with a little bit of a running problem at the moment 51 car vibration for the front right in the last 10 minutes we have had lead changes in both lmp2 and in uh GTM Let's uh go to one of the guys who've been involved in that battle with Beckett is with Robert capitzer on pit Lane with team wlt right now I'm with Robert pavitza from the 41 wrt that looked like it was a challenge this morning [Music] actually compared to to the middle part of the race and the early part of the races was an easy one uh but yeah I mean the uh it was not in the first part of the race so uh yeah we are fighting it's not the easy one against the interaction from different lakes compared to us so uh a part of I think that they they are more clever by using short ratios shorter ratio than us so they gain a lot of acceleration than they are it's still a long way to go everything can happen especially with the new safety car rules so uh yeah we have to keep going keep it clean and try our best you jump straight on team radio and you would feed him back a lot to the team just that's what he was saying was it about those pit stops no I mean my job is to involve the team how was the balance how was the car tried to give as many information also to rui and yeah we didn't have a proper pressure I think for this run for these things I did triple stint but especially first two were very difficult there was a lot of slow zones in the high-speed Corners so I didn't put a lot of energy into the tires I couldn't put because we were going anything with the problem so the entire never switch on and actually afterwards they will work better but yeah nonetheless you know still a long way to go thank you thank you I'll say right now I think team wrt are rattled by the form of that card he said something about the short ratios from memory I think there were two options for lmp2 ratios I find it difficult to believe that the month 24 hours they've gone for a short ratio auction migrate there are two ratios for the B2 card as you say you would have thought there was uh only one set for Le Mans yep um but they certainly had the Speed advantage on the streets didn't he yeah but it could be Aero I mean it could be that they're looking at maybe a slightly fill out a car or yeah yeah [Music] well I said what's going on with [Music] in Pursuit okay do we see we think the 51 Ferrari has flat spotted its tires you're too tense up section one cap 19.3 great job let's keep pushing mate keep pushing your head down that's what you want to hear but trouble here from the government 708 car Indianapolis I think that is has looped it can the car be restarted it's Olivier plant don't think it's hit the barrier has it I think it's probably just maybe spun on the exit you might have hit the Barry you know looking at some look here classic era we've seen time and time are getting here oh it spits it hard that is going to be in the barrier yeah it's clanged it climbed it hard that could be a big problem don't like to see gentlemen that rear wheel clattered into a barrier that could transfer the energy all the way through the car and that's where you can get mechanical problems and also the Barry you saw the barrier tick you know huge amount of impact and uh it's whether it's actually damaged the barrier because if it has damaged the barrier then obviously gonna have to get the marshals on track to start fixing it double yellows at the moment as you might expect to give Olivia plant the opportunity to rejoin he is going to rejoin fabulous stuff you could see the barrier bending with the impact that has it been too far liquor now it's ready he's still not away gonna need to find reverse Olivier highly experience needs to push back here he's not got room to do it he's struggling to find reverse hit for the car these cars they're not really designed for reverse they have a tiny little reverse gear and sometimes well the problem here is follows the marshals will be instructed whether or not they can go to the track service to push that car there is not the protection of anything other than the yellow flag and I'm pretty certain that without a slow Zone they're not going to be attending that car shaking his headlight isn't he walking to the team by the look of things as well so listen what's going on from race control and slow zone is coming but it's supposed to announce correct yeah that's that is Peak Eduardo I I don't think it's the case that he doesn't know how to do it I think it's a case that it just won't go in I suspect that's probably quite right and that I think is why he's shaking his head which is where I'm concerned what we've often seen when you see that that kind of sideways impact through the axle is the damage isn't at the wheel and it's not the driver shaft I think the damage could be in the gearbox right I think we've got Masters on the track now so the push will happen and finally the number five car or six car Rod that rejoins the race and that was 43 minutes that small error at the entry to the Porsche curves cost the Porsche Penske number six come up [Music] chemistry that will get to get things back on track what's going on down there I'm James collado it looks like that number 51 Ferrari is on its way in for a pit stop [Music] will be the two laps that Justin tiller told James needed to complete to stick with the plan he's restricted the damage that car is crabbing so everybody goes back on the way but it's not running in a straight line look at that it's the spirit nose for the 709 prepared for the 708 this time which indicates they're beginning to run upstairs such a shame they were having such a great run absolutely as we've seen though it's a tiny little mistake can make all the difference and and can pretty much ruin your race yeah Olivier will be absolutely destroyed with that so let's get down to Luke just briefly Ferrari is going to be on its way in shortly what's waiting for it Luke you can see Antonio juvenazzi ready to get into the car and a fresh set of medium tires already yeah Fair action with the leading number 51 car rio hirokawa as and it's on pit Lane now it's a double stinting drivers at the moment changing tires and Driver every two stints collado out of the card is yes do you have Nazi in no pushing and pushing hard now I think I think they're just trying to keep the drivers fresh and I think they are and I think they can sense a bit of History coming here gentlemen there's a huge opportunity here for AF Corsa Ferrari it comes the 708 from clicking house if you've got tired drivers the chances of an error Lake Olivia just made become a bit higher therefore you're better just to double send drivers keep them fresh keep them rested yeah they're in a good they're in the prime position right now indeed also on pit Lane by the way her account from second place a 51 on that lane with James Gallardo Antonio giovannazzi we're here can almost data board and a great car in and out of the bits for number two Cadillac in third place now announcer Richard Westbrook said ball day he sits in fourth Cadillac still third and fourth as they have been through most of this morning and it's the Peugeot with the almost the damage from the rear of the Lincoln house so I think Toyota choosing to go the other way there is not the fourth stint of uh hirokawa news he's been in for quite some time Peugeot I'm in the fifth place the 93 car and that car also recently in and out of the bits it's Michael Jensen called that car 709 clicking house takes the sixth position that was previously occupied for the car there's now being pushed back into the garage after that's hit the exit between Indianapolis there it goes Olivier plant it is a highly unusual occurrence in the history of this team to see a car in the barriers in the the garage you spotted something yeah um where me now is in the car in the number eight we didn't change you get two fresh drivers it is that was a I think it wasn't it through the gravel trap just had the power on where it didn't need to be it was almost like he got away with it but then he almost bottomed out on the curve yeah kicked the rear wheels up and that's what got the right you can see a lot of other people have stuck a wheel in that gravel so the gravel now is a hole yeah exactly completely yes absolutely spot on what a brilliant shot that was great camera work that's a fantastic shot a few minutes till we hand over to Jim roller in the big chair it has been a morning of real drama this has just been the latest one it's as we get uh close to nine o'clock in the morning here seven hours to go it's Ferrari that leads them on had uh interpolish battle team and drivers for the lead in on the P2 the moment has gone the way of the Interior Bowl Competition Car Albert Costa at the wheel of the 34 car I'm coming away from twrt now cycling through with their silver driver still needing about an hour to serve of his drive time six hours they must do looks like the Ferrari had a slightly better pit stop than the uh the Toyota looks like the Gap now in 28 seconds so we'll see once uh a little bit further on it was actually so we'll get 21 seconds longer for the Ferrari so that indicates Pace somewhere has been lost by Toyota we'll keep an eye on that Gap 28 seconds you're absolutely right though it's down to 19 wasn't it yes the other side of that Pit Stop Cycle so what's going on there um GTM by the way and that's been will I like too and the latest change is it's been a pit stop there on games who led coming into breakfast time here [Music] if none of those words mean anything to you Rexy the dinosaur leads them on dinosaur winslamon wow that would be something Nikki katzberg by the way on the 33 Corvette back up into second position and up to the third Charlie Eastwood in the ort by TF Aston Martin top three places three very different cars the 25 car Pokemon racing team talked about the Polish Nation getting behind what's going on on the P2 trust me little nation of Oman Nation around four million people will be waking up this morning whatever time it is you know man I'm too tired to work that one out will be taking a very close interest in what's going on in gtem so I wonder what happened there with this Toyota it's definitely uh 28 seconds on the 29 seconds it's gained 20 seconds in the pits but lost time on track let's find out whether or not any clues from what's going with sepoini okay sir but just try and push it a little bit forward Push It Forward maximum and then while it's down pull it back Push It Forward maximum then pull it back unlock the what bar the robot or maybe I'm not sure [Music] so under seven hours to go now and as I say uh I'll be handing over in just a few moments to Jim roner and voice you were here in our third chat we'll be at Davidson for Peterson wreck Let's uh go down though to pit Lane for interview with Louise Beckett I'm with James collado he's just brought the 51 Ferrari and uh just getting a massage there do you reckon he can do that on my feet I could try I think it's a good little thing it's like a I don't know vibrating thing be careful what I say um I guess you want to ask about the the stint it was it was pretty decent the car's there it's been a great fight for the Toyotas uh we've been nose to tail for the last few hours and uh I'm just really enjoying it I think it's uh it's a magical place to be um you know and you know so proud of the guys so whatever happens I'm happy with them I mean yes what you guys have achieved so far this season within wec and here in the mon uh we are getting to the early hours we are getting a little bit emotional but it's true isn't it what you 've what you've achieved so far is incredible yeah I mean um I don't think the car's ever gone this far before I'm honest in terms of hours but you know it always seems to be okay I mean fingers crossed but like I say we'll just take it lap by lap step by step do the best we can and Antonio's in the car now on a on a different compound because I start to struggle a bit with the rears and we'll see how we go I'll let you rest up a bit thank you a bit more of a massage there's our one-time leader in the [Music] and still is our leader yeah just running lfp2 category well while Anthony and I were having breakfast this morning we saw that car lose the lead for the wrg number 41 but now it is regained the lead back in the old days of Television guys you'd have never seen those Pebbles they would have been little blurs that's what high definition has done for us you can see you just have a shot on the entry to uh all Saint Corner into the gravel yeah look at that she's lost concentration for a second but um those stones it's a lot of stones in that car that could cause some problems it just takes a stone to get into the brake disc or in the wheel and you know that can cause a problem so hopefully it won't do they're having a great run and uh had a sort of a 20 second lead um over the second place wrt car so yeah they had lost the lead uh when they had their lowest graded driver in the car behind the wheel of the Interior pole but now I believe they can run through to the end of the race with their higher graded the golds and the Platinum drivers that they have available so uh yeah so that's a rare mistake I'd have safer Albert Costa there down into the Multan Corner as Rio hero Carla walks away from the pit wall back to the garage new fastest lap of the race by the 50 Ferrari on a 28.1 328.1 so you fastest lap so guy I understand uh bohemi who is uh not well he is back in the car um once I went off to for my for my rest he continued to have roll roll bar issues but he's still complaining about the car yeah they just don't seem totally happy with the car they've been playing around a lot with the robots and they just don't quite have the raw pace of the Ferrari they've kept themselves in the game and uh but the last before the last pit stop a couple of laps ago the Gap was 19 18 19 seconds they did a pit stop and came out and it was at 28 29 so somewhere um Toyota lost a decent chunk of time were they were out of sync on they were the driver changes they both changed at the same time they so when we jumped in um for yes or hang on I can hear I can hear Louise in my ear so Louise do you want to come in if Jim hits the panel there you go you can tell tell the world Luke thanks and when Rio put a fresh set of tires on he went back out and there was a 25 second difference so now it's 32 seconds [Music] Rio of course being for Rio is Rio hirakawa yeah so hirokawa um so at that point he was out of sync with uh at the time it was Pierre greedy yet at the wheel of the Ferrari 51 so that's why I assumed that still would be yeah yeah but uh so Rio obviously he had the right rear puncture slow puncture as well for those of you who have missed it um so that's why they lost a little bit of lap time there they all also not lap time to the 51 car and they also had to change the splitter the nose of the car came off had a little bit of damage I think it affected the balance of that Toyota and uh so they still even with that nose change they still haven't managed to find the speed that they started this race with it's a Graham Goodwin leaps out of his chair and he's pointing at a purple yeah we are yes we are in happy hour where the track is at its best you got the rubber down from uh from yesterday and coming into today I know we've had the rain but the temperatures are cool and you can now see where you're going so that's where the lap time starts to come from as we uh are just under seven hours to go there's your lmp2 leader second place is the team wrt number 41 and the Ducane number 30 continues to circulate as our final Podium position in lmp2 [Music] amazing would this be probably completely cursed it for them right now uh into europo regardless what happens through the rest of this race [Music] the time that I've been watching there efforts their efforts at this track so uh or or in lmp2 in general they've always been somewhere there or thereabouts but they have had a quick racing car all the way through this event Albert Acosta behind the wheel of that car currently do you ever Nazi just did his fastest lap of the race uh lap earlier on a I think it was a 28.6 I believe seven so the Ferrari is pushing on got some real Pace at the minute and again extended the lead Over Burlington 33 seconds and in third place is still the the Cadillac Richard Westbrook behind the wheel and then in fourth place is the other Cadillac Sebastian bourde still left down he's not been able to get that lap back yes uh even with the new safety car rules we haven't seen one for quite some time and that's probably what that number three Caddy's praying for but a remarkable effort that they're back there in P4 it really is because there was a time when I thought that they were just going to leave the car in the garage it's had a troubled time here I think it's fair to say you know the car set on fire we saw her in qualifying and then they suffered it wasn't that through no fault of their own a huge amount of Crash damage in the race and uh yeah it's it's a show a showcase to everybody to to never give up well and speaking of never giving up the number 33 Corvette racing Nikki katzberg behind the wheel of that car yeah has now climbed all the way back to second in the GTM race of course uh Rexy the project one AO warship matoli karoliage behind the wheel of that car and then the iron Dame Dames uh Rahel Frye in the number 85 so it's the the two porches and the Corvette now battling it out as we uh have just under seven hours to go it's just past 9 A.M here in luzart good morning everyone [Music] the times actually guy are a little bit different but really things haven't changed much since you and I were together last about five o'clock this morning no the top very much the same it's the Ferrari and the the Toyota there's a super bronze thank you for the bronze he's keeping his fingers crossed yeah and the Corvette as you say is making a a real comeback and um you know it's very much in the frame for for a possible win here [Music] maybe hope for a top five but they're I mean we're coming up on 49 minutes away from a regular Race distance so it's all to play for that's right the uh the Moon is uh round four of the World Endurance Championship this season and uh yeah like you say Jim most of our races we have in the wek are six hours long and uh yeah we're 49 minutes away from that happening here comes the overall race leader in the back of your shot that's the a of course a Ferrari 499 Antonio jovenazzi the former Formula One driver beyond Behind The Wheel yeah Joe Benassi was uh driving a absolutely formidable stint before he handed over to uh Pierre guidi so he's back out there and he's got the sister car behind him number 50. with uh foyoko at the wheel who holds on to the fastest lap still let's find out what the Corvette team's talking about [Music] [Music] oh we're not a full course yellow we have a full course yellow now what has happened here oh it was uh woko running a little bit wide there but that's not what the uh it's not what the full course yellow is about but that was uh that was a lucky Escape there wasn't it from furoko [Music] so with a full cup picking up some bollards so with the full course yellow pit lane is closed so if your Corvette and you're close on fuel you're getting ready for a pit stop Ben was standing by I think this is the reason for the full course yellow right here just too much debris just too much too many Pebbles too much they need one of those big jet blowers they do the guy behind's thinking why use my broom when the guy in front's got a leaf blower he's really there to uh watch the guys back yeah exactly be honest and if I'm the guy with a leaf blower I don't I don't want that guy I want him looking yes Louise good morning good morning uh the other team that are waiting for their car to come in is the number 43 DK oh the lollipop person is in the pit Lane so they're gonna um they're gonna suffer from this closed pit Lane hopefully they haven't left him too close and have to make emergency service for fuel well that's the thing if it's if you have to come in because you're running low on fuel uh you're only allowed a five second Splash and then you're gonna be back in before you know it yeah and then you have to come back in yeah so uh yeah that's that's the penalty you you suffer with the you know if it's just unlucky timing there's nothing that the team can do could the 50 get any closer to the 51 yeah yeah I'm only leading the race mate come on I'm sorry I think these these guys are playing too many games um I get the competition I get that you you know you want to be competitive but unless you've been told to get up there and look at something that's just insane you're asking eventually that's going to come back to haunt the most kind of shenanigans like we saw at spa you know and like we saw earlier in the race when when they were really going hammering pong at each other stretch your legs boys you got 24 hours well you know the number 50 is pushing on to try and make up lost ground they're down there in p8 though if it's anybody else yeah sure but when it's your teammate it's um you don't want to put the the lead car your teammate under unnecessary pressure watching the replay there of uhmi cup wow that's a huge lockup he's gonna have blisters with that kind of vibration oh flat spots yeah and uh he's definitely going to be feeding that one you're right there Jim that's what we call blistering oh you call it blistering yep not flat spot oh no no no on your hands I will drive through that it would be more concerned about his uh eyeballs getting rattled around with their sockets from the from the flat spots as uh Fuoco continues to harass his teammate through the Porsche cabs let's go back to the bits well just looking at the timing we've got six remember a wec race is six hours so we're not even we're still above a normal six hour um six hour wec race right now yeah that's where we were just talking about that that's you're exactly right and uh can you uh ask the Ferrari guys what's going on between the 50 and the 51 I don't know about being the monitor goodness they are the other end of the pit Lane but okay I will go up there yeah we do it just be good to know if they're going to swap them around because uh it would make sense if I was the if I was the team boss there I would be saying look you know there's no at the moment no pressure you're you're over 35 seconds ahead of the Toyota uh is jovanazi and focos down in p8 he's a couple of laps down on his on about six laps down yeah let him go you're right absolutely right yeah multi Jacobson there just uh had a spin so the pit Lane is open and here comes the 50 car that makes more sense now because he was trying to minimize the time loss before coming into the pits he looks over his left shoulder there just to check the car as he comes in sees him on his way so yeah clearly on a very different strategy there but foco was absolutely flying fast as that like you said earlier on guy 328.1 on lap 227. that will save Louise the trip then that's good yeah Stand Down blue yeah it all makes sense now Brian actually we should have seen because they're on the graphics there the energy level with the six percent remaining of uh that's a clue there you go and behind it uh the 33 car has also come in Ben Keating will uh he was suited and booted but he did not get in fuel only no tires same for the 50 car [Music] so the comeback Drive continues Gonna Leave Nikki katzberg in the car for one more stint at least yeah you're gonna leave Nikki in there for as long as you possibly can [Music] exceptionally quick racing driver particularly in that 33 Corvette he's been outstanding so far this year put in a absolutely brilliant Drive in uh put him out at round two of the championship under immense pressure he was that day Let's uh hang on to it a real master class in defensive driving and this is a huge race for the 33 car from the overall big picture of the World Endurance Championship because they can put a virtual lock on the championship with the victory here given that it's double points and in fact I know Graham Goodwin worked out there are a couple of scenarios where they could clinch here if they can get a victory but that's uh definitely dependent on that let's check in with Eduardo Freitas and his team we're removing full course yellow at 9 18 45 at 9 18 45 in 30 seconds we're removing full course yellow 30 seconds until we uh go back to action Antonio foco coming up to speed and full course yellow is gone yeah weaving around on the uh the back straight there the most on straight down towards the first chicane seventh gear 318 20 21 still Rising before the braking Zone into that first chicane down into second gear get on power as early as you can see the graphic on the right hand side straight clicking house he was stuck there the clicking house uh yeah it's kind of hesitated momentarily and they had a slower car on the left-hand side so that bulked uh Foy goes progress and he's weaving he's kind of yeah it's not quite sure it's not the time to try and get some pressures up in your uh you can really see the body language of the car the attitude's different from a car down in p8 compared to that of the uh the 51 car with Joe bonatsy this just it's more alive more energetic or dare I say desperate in the approach and there's nothing to lose now when you're down there risky choices the full force yellow is under investigation which is kind of a broad statement that they're checking that someone may have done something wrong and it's slippery down there isn't it you still see there's a lot of Pebbles there they've they've tried to clean the racing line but there's a lot off it's just I don't know whether the wind has changed direction or what but it's uh or maybe some oil down or something but foco immediately running wide almost a copy of what happened to the 34 Car earlier on you know the Gap at the top of the field now 39 pretty much 40 seconds between uh the AF course Ferrari and the Toyota wind is switching Anthony about 180 degrees from when we looked at it earlier and early in the race so track temperatures 26.6 ambient is just under 20 degrees centigrade wind speeds uh nine kilometers per hour humidity 70 percent that's why uh the first you came took a month to dry out last night I took it till the sun came out yeah to dry it off properly that lasted forever didn't it the slippery conditions what a brutal race for the drivers it's been instead of medium tires there ready to go on the number 51 Ferrari they get interested to see they they tend to choose the median Toyota tend to go for the soft [Music] prize in the daytime do you think we'll see that strategy change a little bit and we may see them go now he's back in sorry yes you know what it was it had to have a splash didn't it under the pit Lane yeah yeah that Ferrari had to Splash so he's back in for a full service so you have to sir you have to come back in within a lap of going green so that's uh both being done perfectly by both Crews I wonder if Ben Katie mogetti now that's exactly right I bet he will and that's why they didn't get in so a couple of teams there stung by that pit Lane being closed under the uh the yellow that we had so uh nice uh even more time loss for all those that suffered that but however a break for Keating is the fact that the project 1ao Porsche Rexy is also in the sense for their stop and in fact Here Comes Ben sliding into the Corvette katzberg gets out katzberg will stay and help with the with the belts a lot of times you'll see mechanics do that new set of Michelin boots going on Rexy I love the arms there I still don't know why maybe you know the answer to this guy but like the GT cars the the driver helps the other driver they effectively become the driver helper don't they in terms of installing the next guy and the next uh driver in but the LMP cars is all I've ever really known you always have a dedicated driver helper I think with the GT car the driver can actually do more so when I did GTS I'd always do my own lap belts and then the driver getting out can then do the shoulder belt so it's quite straightforward whereas in a prototype it tends to be you jump in you lift your arms up and they do your full belts because it's so difficult to search a little room in the cockpit to actually do much yourself I think um there's just a bit more yeah a bit more space and then it frees up effectively another person um you've got you've got less bodies in the pit so yeah well and the other thing too is is that with the um with the GT car there's a lot more room so you with your helmet and everything else coming in where with the LMP uh with the with the prototypes the the mechanic has got less around his head smaller opening exactly he can get in there and help I was just so you know whenever I got out of the car you're in a kind of you know you're in a fluster you all you want all you could think about is just get out get back into the garage I'm knackered all I want to do is get the helmet off drink cool down as quick as I can I would have been worried I would make mistakes in installing the next driver and be slower as well than uh than a driver helper that's dedicated to the job so I'm surprised they've got the the energy and also the capacity to uh to do such an important job it you know it's such a responsibility yeah it's supposed to be the um the the driver gets it out will just do the shoulder belts so the driver will do the get it in we'll do the the lap belts the driving us out we'll do the shoulder belts and then it's usually a thumbs up you know are you good are you good to go I'm good to go door gets closed and away he goes is there an opportunity to communicate you know sometimes sometimes it might be Dexter knackered or you know yeah I mean sometimes it's it's often it's very very quick it's you know cars good or it's got big oversteer or it's a very very sort of quick exchange uh but um yeah kind of look him in the face and say I've thrashed it for you slapped him on the knee good luck it was fine when I got out of it that's right yeah it's making a funny noise it'll be all right nothing to worry about though there is your new leader in the GTM category the iron dames Rahel Frey behind the wheel of that car we just saw bobe looking on from the pits again these girls are doing a great job they keep they're just depending on pit stops they're over first or the third they've been in the in the hunt all day and you know these girls are inspiring so many females um in Motorsport and um you see you go to a local go-kart track now and you see the amount of girls uh young ladies racing and this is partly down to teams like this that are inspiring these girls this event has a long tradition of female participation dating back to 1930 in fact 65 women have competed in this event in the past fantastic yeah so it's uh it's going to boil down to this again isn't it it was inevitable of course it was the 33 yellow Corvette versus the car we're looking at on screen the iron dam is pink Porsche is this has been the story all season long usually in qualifying to be fair but it's usually that epic fight between Ben Keating and qualifying versus Sarah bovey and you know the order's a little bit mixed up in this long race today 33's had a severe setback near the start of the race and I never expect I was with you Jim I never expected us to be even remotely thinking about the the prospect of Corvette being on the lead lap let alone potentially challenging the iron Dames the leaders of this race in the last six and a half hours so uh yeah I can't wait to to see that Gap slowly closed down but Ben Keating is now behind the wheels we saw him jump in with Rahal Frey driving the iron Dave and a great statement for Porsche as well because they didn't even put one car in the hyperport yeah in the class there were there were eight cars in GTM and not one of them carried the gold shield it's like I always say you're probably bored of hearing me say it I never ended an endurance race ever and thought you know what I wish I could have had a better qualifying session that's right all it is is a it's a great way it's a muscle flexing contest qualifying particularly for the 24 hours of Lemont I've never known so many qualifying pole and uh you know Breeze off into the distance and go yep it was all because of that pole through the Porsche curves goes the Ferrari number 51 that's our race leader Antonio giovannazzi and he's really taken to this isn't he uh his first season in full-time sports car racing in the car that he wants to be in the Ferrari the car he never had a chance to race in Formula One he that was his primary goal sure like many drivers they start off like guy mentioned go-karts single-seaters you get into first and you you kind of blinkered is that it's that fast track to formula one that's all you can really think of when you're young and you've come out of of you know the junior formulas single-seaters and this probably wouldn't have been on his radar he would never have envisaged it happening so early in his career but my goodness he's not looking back now let's check in with uh the track limit at turn three this lap fifth goal track limit turn three fifth call so that's he's now used up all of his free wins yeah five Jokers you're allowed five Jokers before you get a penalty so the momentum's just starting to shift a little bit towards um the Ferrari everything's just slightly got in their favor a little bit more speed when he's on the max out on his uh [Music] [Music] completely what they're completely flat-spotted all right yeah I mean that was a huge lock up into uh well a round turn one basically wasn't it yes fast right-hander and uh inside right where I wonder if that's got anything to do with the uh with this this the uh roll distribution which is stuck possibly you may have put the put too much weight forward or back yeah and I mean if you're if you're if you're too light in the front is that going to give you a tendency to lock the fronts yeah too stiff on the front end yeah under braking and uh you know you got that extra load going through the front axle of the car less compliance basically yeah and easier to lock up I do wonder if they're they're really on the back foot there in this flat spot will not be helping at all and it loses speed on the straight as well as we well know guys you know it just causes that that extra drag it's been a long race for the uh the action express car 3-1-1 obviously lost a lot of time earlier in the race and when it happened so early in 24 hour race and you kind of just playing catch up it's uh it really is a long race yeah you know kind of use this probably you know as much as anything as a test it's a great opportunity to get more miles test the car [Music] on board of the two car Richard Westbrook behind the wheel now this is third overall so we have Ferrari Toyota Cadillac number two Cadillac number three and then the Peugeot 93 now much like the Ben Keating story who would have thought that the if we were going to see a Peugeot in the top five that it would be the 93 car the [Music] yeah there was a time when we wouldn't have been uh wouldn't have been surprised at all if it didn't make it back out of the garage [Music] good job Bridgette good job people behind this not for position he's down looks like the was that the turkey something they are still still running but the two peugeos I mean they've had their issues they've obviously had a trip in the gravel they had the uh contact with the barrier in turn one uh sorry uh first you came but actually the car's been pretty reliable very reliable so you know impressive actually they've had good speed particularly in the west they were probably the fastest car on track so um they could definitely um hold their heads high but I think I think there's a little bit of um you know what could have been because they were running solidly in the top three um it would have been interesting to see whether they had the pace to maintain that there's the number 65 Penny racing entry in third position in lmp2 about three quarters of the Left Behind [Music] Van Ark behind the wheel of that car trying to chase down Aubry and Jacobson those are the top three uh overtakes I should say do you have a Nazi against his fastest lap of the race on a 28 328.5 so he's not he's not hanging about he's pushing on they're trying to extend that Gap over Sebastian weather which is now at 43 seconds [Music] waiting around at this point there's no no with six and a half hours remaining in the race it's still still keep it keep it keep it going keep it going I think you've got to I think as a driver and as a team if you start to Drive slightly conservatively that's when the mistakes happen and you know you lose concentration so I think absolutely flat out full focus and um you know that's that's what we need to do Maybe not maybe not in ten tenths but certainly nine tenths because the other thing too is that any margin that you build becomes a safety net if you do have a problem later on it may not be a big enough safety net but at least you've got something you know Kevin Astra there he's also doing a 3283 and the Porsche which is you know that's actually quicker than the leader's fastest lap so it just shows there is the pace of that car lmp2 leader into the pits got some new tires standing by some new good years we may see a tire change the Goodyear engineer entire Tech going uh giving those a pretty close inspection yeah it's usually when they want to keep those same set of tires on so you got there the other tires all ready to go just in case and then the thumb goes up from uh the guy that was just checking the tires yeah so fuel in and I should expect they're gonna keep those tires on for another student so just a precautionary measure that's taken makes sense to uh to do that because without the help of the entire technician might be you know it's a small cut in the tire or something you just can't see from inside the car and the mechanics are doing their job around the car and uh you know yeah they don't have time to do a tire inspection no way so uh you know there's no one better suited to the job than the person that's involved with the tire manufacturing themselves and each of those Engineers is embedded with the team yeah so they also know the team strategy they know [Music] rest of the race so fully in the know and can help them make their decisions here's the second place car in the class rui Andre [Music] you see the total overtakes there the hypercar you have to be LP2 GTM 8181 overtakes incredible stuff three class racing there's passing everywhere there's 2727 overtakes per driver at this point in that car crew probably fit in the car cruise for the uh hyper car no wonder some of them go wrong from time to time a serious amount of uh calculator calculated risks to take should we say yep yeah I did work it out once because uh during the LPS are even faster than you had today and you're catching cars even quicker roughly you'd have to say it was around for about four or five cars you were overtaking per lap at any time wow and uh I worked out yeah no wonder is no wonder it goes wrong sometimes because per driver in each car with your time behind the wheel around eight hours yeah uh it was around for 400 450 cars you were overtaking alone uh per driver basically every one of them perfect that's a big word it doesn't be surprised how many near-misses and do you think that was close that was close I'm glad it wasn't just me yeah you do you think back and you think I know we won that race or we had a Podium and it was really good but the outside looks like it was really slick and you know nicely operated but if that moment had just gone wrong there oh yeah when I go and I just thought I'd you know just getting it oh so close and thought I'd mastered that one if driver had just done this or that at that moment it would have been a massive one yes yeah have you ever looked back at it what was I thinking no I thought what was I think it's just more of the wow that was lucky yeah yeah yeah you've always got to push but uh yeah it's like I say it's calculated risk and um you've got to have some cooperation on the track you've got to have respect and that's the important thing is is when you're racing closely and particularly you know against your sort of peers you've got to have that respect and um you know it's fine my fine margins and you know sometimes when you come up to some of the slower cars they don't always see you and uh that's that's the danger is getting collected out the number three cars got Dixon back in these guys have uh put in another outstanding performance this is a so so we've got a couple of comeback drives in each of these classes that are just very noteworthy and this for me in hypercar is the is the most noteworthy of all again this was a car that was out of it and all we got to do is have a little bit of trouble for any of those three cars in front of them and they are definitely into the shop for a podium your rail prey is just on the fastest lap of the uh iron dames's car so they're pushing on they know that they they've got pressure from behind from the Corvette and the project what car so she's uh done a great job there and she's pushing pushing hard to keep that car up at the top spot what an amazing story it would be for them you know they're they're a great car crew like said guy um you know had success already in the World Endurance Championship but uh this is the one they want this is the one where they're they're on track you know to do that you know not a clean qualifying session for them yeah it didn't make hyper pole but uh you know the car we're looking at on the screen didn't make hyper mole either but they were in there yeah we had the problem I mean I I'm surprised honestly still to see them in the race they've had reliability has not been their friend this year Well since they since they returned to the World Endurance championships hasn't been their friend and uh I think there were modest expectations to say the least from even within the team themselves in terms of the reliability of the car and uh I'll just I say that it's going popping back into the garage couldn't see anything wrong with the car no but I mean look you you're down there effectively last place in in hypercar at the moment anyway but that's due to driver error not because of reliability set all day out the car now local man [Music] report from the pit Lane is that oil temperature alarm on the Peugeot so they have taken that back to further investigate okay I wonder if that's anything to do with the earlier shunt in the car because it's very well first again a lot of talk now down in the Toyota pit about nuemi coming in and switching to mediums yeah they've been running the softs haven't they for the majority of the race and the pace just isn't there they're just losing time to the Ferrari I think [Music] we've got to kind of roll the dice a little bit here and maybe just try something different try and go for the mediums as as we start to as the track temperature starts to warm up um it might find that the medium tire is going to be more in the window for them so let's see how that works out and of course remember he he absolutely destroyed the same tires going up into the Dunlop chicane with that lock up so yeah he'll be desperate to yeah he's desperate to get rid of these things and if that happens earlier in the stint you know one of the first few laps you've got to live with it for the rest oh yeah it's awful as we said about that vibration it's literally feelings with your teeth they're knocked out so it's it's an awful thing to have to drive with for a full stick see a comparison there between the [Music] 56 PJ Hyatt The Man Behind that is actually his daughter is the person behind that T-Rex [Music] Porsche paint Scheme there and behind in his mirrors where he's got an lmp2 car now that's the number 41 in second place Andre driving that car but further back you've got the 33 car there it is with thanks heating on board and uh instead of a dinosaur I think we've got the shark I think we're gonna try to hear the jazz music [Music] here it comes so 51 comes in with jovenazzi there this looks like it will probably be fuel only for this stop there's uh getting ready to take one of the no they're not going to take the tear off they were pulling something off the off the top of the top of the car on top of the windscreen thought maybe they were going to go with a tear-off position why would they clean the windscreen it's the windscreen wiper they put it back yeah yeah so they can access more of the screen with the uh cleaner fluid and you don't want to go peeling off too many tear offs you want to use them wisely you've only got I think 12 maximum can go onto this Xbox box for tires stay in the car this is a couple times now the Toyota has had to oh trouble now for the 709 that's the same place as 708 I had the exit of Indianapolis yeah the 708 ran wide into the gravel dropped a wheel and bottomed out on the curb and unfortunately went backwards into the barrier with oliviera 709 possibly done something similar ly very almost the same duplicate but it went forward yeah what I was going to say about the Toyota this is uh at least two times that I've witnessed uh personally and maybe it's happened more that the drivers have gotten out of sequence with their tires we saw at the beginning of the race when they started in the sauce and and when we stayed in the car and they changed tires and this time he's stayed in the car and they've changed tires they had to because of the flat spots but yeah I think this is going to be the first time we've seen the medium Tire go on the Toyota so yeah we're hearing that the Toyota has in fact come in now yeah because with all of the uh the rain that we had we kept getting the soft compound when you could be on slicks that was the one to be on yeah I think though that they did on that first stint when when they were went out on the softs and the racetrack started to dry enough they went to the mediums and then we got rain and then they went everybody came in for the the wet tires the number 50 Ferrari just posted again the fastest up of the race on a 327.8 which is seriously quick wow absolutely flying I mean it's yeah I mean like we said before you know they're out there taking the risks that you can now there's nothing to lose down there in the p8 and uh you know if you don't do that then uh you disappearance you're not leading the race like your teammate so yeah there's the move as expected from Ben Keating on the car 56 no contest there another place gained and heating now up into second place uh look at that under braking just absolutely perfect but Hyatt went for the brakes Ben said see ya [Music] through Indianapolis this is where the uh double yellow for the 709 has been removed that car's back underway through Arnage the 90 degree right-hander so the last lap for Keating was a 355 and the leader of that class at the moment around Frey 3 55 as well she's uh yeah keep it maintaining that Gap but uh I've got a feeling this this fight's not over no no Corvette's got some serious base in it as we saw in qualifying as well here comes the 709 back into the pits [Music] there you see the NASCAR Camaro number 24. reminding folks that is not a NASCAR it is a NASCAR car NASCAR is the series that's exactly so they they've heard uh Jimmy Johnson and Jensen referring to as a stock car so you could call it a stock car that's not a NASCAR I mean NASCAR is the National Association of stock car automobile stock car automobile racing easy for you to say yeah exactly uh if you can't say it no one's gonna do it because because in in the Genesis of the sport they were stock cars they were they were showroom bottle take and modify and and turn into race cars I mean the actual the actual origins of the sport Believe It or Not were a group of guys who were Moonshiners who used to use you know modify the cars to be able to stay ahead of the police and the revenuers and and they would have places in the car to hide the illegal liquor and these guys would always be as as men or want to do would be bragging about whose car was better so they started to get together on Friday and Saturday nights and raced their cars on the dirt tracks and that was really the Genesis of stock car racing in America I don't think anyone would have a chance of catching that Chevrolet Camaro no they would hear it that would go against it much much like those uh jets that we were flying over yesterday they [Music] struggling with the 708 car I think all side of you knows and they they had the change the stickers looks pretty damaged as well so coming out I'll be a bit like Peugeot car themselves in that situation in Sebring round one and they were desperately peeling after I can't remember which way around it was in 193 19th boy they're peeling off the stick yeah one of them oh look at the Gap at the top between the Ferrari and uh wow it's out to a minute good spot guys after that pit stop of course good point thanks so said back out there on the medium tires now it's not what I it's this part of the race it's not what I expected I did think really Toyota would have the speed to match the Ferrari not necessarily be faster but uh I didn't expect the Ferrari to just be streaking away now his first full lap though he has set a personal best sector one let's check in in the pits a majestic Wicked house and that lane to fix that car but at the same time the 7088 has now come in for a pit stop as well so they're both side by side the team are still working on that 709 at the front of it at the moment are them let you know what happens I'll try and speak to somebody from the team yeah he went in at uh both of them have now had problems at Indianapolis going wide on driver's rate hitting the hitting the gravel and then and then bouncing and spinning the 708 went in on the driver's left he's at 709 winning on drivers right so they both at Contra time with the same spot [Music] they should have really put that car the 709 in the garage but it's ready to go now that was a that was a troubled moment for clicking house trying to get that front end on that car I really didn't want to go at one point I wonder if it Bend something else yeah yeah or or even one of the attachment Clips you know it's you've got the well they couldn't even round peg in the round it seemed like they couldn't even get it close enough to get the pick to do its thing [Music] he's now seen two of his cars get rotated at the uh the same corner I've said it before I'll say it again history we'll look upon this man as one of the unsung heroes of sports car racing [Music] believes in the project is you know his own pocket that's kind of much like I was talking moments ago about the foundation of stock car racing that's kind of the foundation of sports car racing Louise said she was gonna see if she could find somebody at clicking house and sounds like she may have I'm with Ryan Briscoe driver of the seven a week Lincoln house um I mean you guys can't get brakes right now can you yeah I mean it's a shame you know because uh we had both cars sort of looking top five but hey we've still got a lot of racing left to do um and both cars are running strong so you know we're going through some noses and stuff but um it's been a bit of a theme of the race I think for everybody uh after the team got the 708 into fix all of the repairs for that one 709 had a very similar one they thought they could do it in the Hitler yeah yeah um you know I think I think we we've had a bit of suspension damage on our one so they had to bring it in uh do the suspension on that one was just Bodywork so they were able to do it in Finland pretty quickly um but yeah I mean not the sort of things you want to have to do during the 24-hour race but uh you know we have a great crew here they do it as quickly as they can and uh we've got both cars on track um and honestly we're running pretty good pace so we've been really happy with how the race has been going absolutely um your history here is that actually you've always been there at the end yeah yeah no and we know that's our strength and we really went in with the mindset we didn't want to have any mistakes no penalties we've had a bit of both but um you know we're just gonna do our best here and uh see what result we can pull out of it between six hours yep that's it [Music] so it's just an over a normal Race distance to go we've got the Ferrari 51 leading Antonio Joe vernazzi Sebastian bleming just set a personal best for the Toyota a 329 3 well meanwhile further down Antonio foco our pole sitter has set the fastest lap of the race at a 327-434 [Music] yeah almost two seconds to lap quicker than the uh Toyota so it just shows the toiletries definitely lacking some pace to take the fight to the Ferrari [Music] it all goes also goes to show the the top three are really only there because they've had the the least problems I mean yeah they've got speed as well but you look at the number two Cadillac as a prime example of you keep your nose clean and a race like this such a high attrition rate such difficult conditions for the drivers who've mentioned and Ryan Briscoe touched on it there as well you know everyone's had their fair share of misdemeanors but the Cadillac has really had one of the cleanest races and they're right up there on a Napoleon position now we've had a change in uh GTM in for second place the uh Oman racing team by TF Charlie Eastwood has now gotten by Ben Keating in the number 33 Corvette for second place in the class of course the iron Dames continue to lead Rahel fry behind the wheel there there you see him in the background of that shot Eastwood in the orange Aston Martin yeah Charlie is uh I think he's a gold rated driver not Platinum he's gold so he's super quick in these cars right he's a super quick driver anyway he drives lmp2 as well he's an experienced endurance racer and uh yeah so he's in a different category of you know graded driver compared to Ben Keating who's a bronze so that's that explains why Charlie's really uh flying up through the field at this stage let's go back down to uh to Louise yes I'm with fully chatan from the 48 edec Sports I mean hyper pole feels like a long time ago but uh you did an incredible job putting that car on pole yeah I propose you know it was a Thursday so now it's on time ago but it was a great experience to travel so we droved chimney the roadway job so for sure it was nice to start from Full position for for this race after you know now we are 67 from the end of the race and still fighting for for a good position uh maybe a Podium Paul just finished his driving style time which is good because now we will be able to push us maximum as possible to the end and to try to come back on the podium how the race balance um Valance is the same of course we we're just a bit the setup to have a bit more of industria because it's always better to have a little bit of industry for 24 hours race but the balance is quite pretty good the car is very fast and just feel your cross to to be able to to charge your top currently running seventh uh you've got a great team here they always put in a good effort here at Le Mans so you're feeling confident yeah I'm confident that you know the others are very good too so we'll do our best and I would be really happy to be able to come back before p3p2 P1 Maybe so how how challenging has this particular Le Mans been sorry how challenging for the drivers is this lemon been because we've had rain we've had dry we've had so much going on of incidents from the start yeah it was already featured first part of the race the Southwest way to change just the first chicken in the united was wait so we had to be careful there but yes honestly the 10 first Towers were really challenging a lot of pressure because when you are at lumo it's dry at some corners and it sweaters others on the train difficult to manage from the strategy even for the driver we don't know if we can push or not we saw a lot of mistakes just because sometime when when there is a lot of water we are just a passenger in the town we just try to survive when are you back in sorry when are you back in I will be back in uh something like two hours okay thank you thank you very much Louise Beckett down there patrolling pit Lane Forest interesting conversation yeah good Insight from shut down there because you know you hear it from the horse's mouth that it's what a tough what a tough lemon it's been I mean we we can only watch on and uh you know imagine uh was that some dust getting things lmp2 that saw a 45 car that's the the crowdstrike yep thank you where are they in the order 45 [Music] now on the other timing screen yes they are the leading Pro-Am yeah they're 23rd 11th in class right behind the Alpine number 35. I'm not right behind but that's who they're chasing but yeah shut down go back to that he you know one of clearly one of the stars of qualifying and we were all talking about foco and that pole position epic stuff at Ferrari uh giving them their their front row lockout but yeah shut down in the lmp2 is uh it's a hard fort a category is lmp2 everyone on the Orica same engines you know it's a spec car spec chassis um so to do that it's a it's a real Testament to uh the driver's skill and uh yeah really insightful saying how we knew we had a good qualifying car and we've had to work on the balance coming into this race you're always putting a little bit more understeer to just stop the car from being so pointy so edgy to drive to allow a little bit more understeer in the car to give the driver an easier time particularly when the amateur driver gets in as you as you have to have in lmp2 and there you see the 45 car going off let's head back to the pits I'm with Joplin neuter from the 65 tennis racing bringing the car in in fourth just jumping up you look like you've worked hard yeah I think they've done a full 24 hours for my feeling and I still have to do the last [Music] uh will be tough but I'm looking forward for the challenges how's it been yeah it's it's going well like we are fighting for the podium so I think we have a good good chance we just need everything to work out as well towards the end with uh bit slopes Etc but so far it's looking quite good time is right so we do see you at Le Mans so how does the team come together are you doing Elms with them yeah we do the full Elms together with manual entertainment so this is just we because last year we finished second in Elms so we got the entry for Lamar uh so that's why we we do this event but normally bunnies is always always there right well hopefully I'll be speaking to you again soon yeah thank you very much so just under six hours remaining we're at the three-quarter Mark of the Centenary Lamar The 91st running of this great event but the 100th anniversary of the first one in May of 1923 and right now Ferrari leads Lamar we haven't said that for a long long time in fact the last time that Ferrari was able to win this great race was in 1965. 50 years ago was the last time that they were here with a Frontline car that was the 312 PB that sat on the pole at this great race currently Antonio Joe vanazzi leads in the Ferrari chased by Sebastian Benny in the Toyota he is almost a full minute behind at 59.8 seconds and then comes Two Cadillacs the number two car with Richard Westbrook behind the wheel and then Scott Dixon in the number three car let's check in with the Ferrari team hey man Gap is steady at 61 seconds good job managing the traffic so all is uh seemingly going well for that car in lmp2 we have the Interpol interior pole Interpol I knew I was going to say that eventually they're not a crime stopping unit they're a a bakery concern the uh the Interpol [Music] we are much better with those tires much better I just got 200 kids [Applause] if you just joined us uh not been happy with that car throughout the flat spotted his tires the first part of his stent let's catch you up on the other classes before we do anything else the inter-uripple competition car number 34 leads in lmp2 team wrt with rui Andrade behind the wheel is second and team Duquesne is third the number 30 car with Neil Yani behind the wheel the Hendrick Motorsports Innovative car the NASCAR Camaro has now climbed to 29th overall they are just Racing for uh to see what kind of position they can get at the end of this race and then behind them is our new uh GTM leader the Charlie Eastwood in the orange Aston Martin number 25 he's chased by uh Corvette Racing's Ben Keating in the number 33 then comes the project one AO Porsche of PJ Hyatt and then Rachel Freya in the iron Dames number 85 live those look like the four cars that are probably gonna fight this out here in the final six hours uh the iron Dames were leading until they made a pit stop so that kind of catches you up with what's going on I'm Jim roller alongside Peter dumbreck and Anthony Davidson and and gentlemen we hope that this race would be given that it is the Centenary celebration and epic event and so far it is pretty much lived up to the hype absolutely it's been a fantastic race we've we've seen the top category again hypercar reignited after a few years where you know the numbers were not so great now we've got so many manufacturers in here and only going to get stronger from here into next year but right down the fields of the three different classes that it's nipping tuck between the first three cars so it's great to see all these battles taking place on on track It's been a lemon 24 hours like you say for the Centenary very fitting let's hear what he's got so we did get a track warning uh for turn three the other lap when you're pushed out we'll try and do something but the onboard isn't uh it isn't there isn't clear I got this chicken so yeah here we go as well as we know he's he's on his five Jokers and one more and uh he's gonna get some kind of penalty so uh he's had to he's had the warning flag um that's what they're uh stressing about right now so they're trying to get the onboard to prove if they need it prove it to the race stewards because they could get called up so we'll keep an eye on our Telemetry screens that we have to see if that is the case so it sounds like you got pushed off in the chicane yeah buy another car so that that would explain it if you can prove that then you know fair enough you're physically pushed off the track then you know that's not uh through any thought of uh of Seb but that's also another reason to try and keep one in the bank just in case that does happen let's go back down to bitly it's not looking good for Crema they've already retired the 63 and now the nine is marriage I haven't seen what's happened if you guys have but I will try and speak to the team once they've finished working on this car that car has gone congratulations it's been on the hook at least twice that I remember it's funny isn't it when we get to the daylight you can tell that the the Marshals or the stewards or whoever's looking at track limits they can see a bit more they wake up a little bit more and suddenly it becomes more of a thing in the night time we didn't hear anything about check limits it'd be funny enough it's so hard to see you you would see across the bottom of the screen occasionally it would occasionally somebody but yeah but not with the regularity yeah yeah we've seen zero penalties so far that's true with all the you know leading up to this um all the qualifying sessions all the laps getting deleted I was pretty sure by say I was six that we see the first penalties but actually we've done see nothing so by half distance yeah seriously by half it's always the way in Wick you know they go it's Eduardo Freitas is the race director is his style he goes very hard on the drivers in the beginning fp1 fp2 calls them up into the stewards room gives them five minute stop and go penalties during free practice sessions really comes down on them hard and then when it comes to the race it all kind of eases off in a hope that the lessons that he's put down yeah he lays down the law early on he he hopes that uh you know everyone starts behaving themselves what's the definition of crazy doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different results if you've been called in on the carpet in the early going hopefully you'll you'll learn and it makes everybody's life better during the race the thing that's tough for the driver as well that fp1 fp2 you're really learning the ropes and so going off the track is more commonplace that was always my argument you know you it's of course you're going to make more mistakes and when the track's Dusty you're trying to get up to speed you know you have to you make you it's natural you make mistakes and you bring it back from there you didn't need necessarily like an extra punishment or reminder that it's not the right thing to do and uh so it does come with some frustration as well it's not easy to to stay within those white lines at all times and that's why I've seen such a lot of incidents on this track that's pretty unforgiving around certain points yeah I don't know there are some people that would believe if you give them an inch they take that call well you will but only when there's no immediate uh risk involved so yeah there's a psychological impact when you've got a white line or a barrier it's close to the edge of the track it's here from Astra foreign [Music] [Music] but uh yeah and some discussions down in the uh in the pits as well what are we looking at here one of The Cadillacs the 3-1-1 car on the inside big block up into the dominant chicane gets away with that I think I'm just going to carry a mild platform you know Jeffrey you're talking about the the differences what you you know give a driver an inch you'll take a mile the job of the driver is to take that mile it's nice to just work these little angles to try and you know be that little bit better than your competitors and produce a faster lap time and a safer lap time and those factors and as soon as you see car doing something that you think is quicker yeah watch for the white line so yeah you go you know the fastest way is to go as close to that white line with the left hand tires right as possible it's not so you give yourself a little bit of margin most of the time so you saw half the car go over there now if there's a battle illegal if there's a barrier there very close proximity to the edge of the track that you know will be a serious consequence if you were to go straying too far now it's easy for someone sitting there to go yeah but why can't you do that with a white line because of these psychological impact as I always say I don't know anything about being scared to drive those jumps tell you what cut all the trees down and put white lines on the side and deep it flat wherever I want to go if I run out a bit wider yeah it's only a white line yeah it's a good Ness psychological impact whether you're staring at a gravel trap a barrier a bit of grass a white line team so the drivers will naturally just take a few extra Liberties this corner here in uh I remember the days when that wasn't there yeah you had extra space so driving through the corner you felt that you had more space and then it came in and you're you're driving up to the car I'm very close and we've seen a few come and it it compresses the the tracks lately and you feel oh it's really tight what does it used to feel a lot wider for that it's like walking across a it's like walking across a beam isn't it you know it's just walking it's right and the beam is quite low to the ground and if you call it you can walk the normal street across that big threat now if you were to put that beam way up high in the air are you going to do how slow are you going to walk across exactly that's the psychological yeah so the white line is the equivalent of that beam being super low to the ground you know you're you know immensely you're going to get told off if you fall up that beam ever you know it's still just it's not the same as you being actually physically scared yeah for your life if you fell off that beat and you'll never be able to replace that this human preservation itself yeah so yeah we got there in the end along with it was a long-winded race I would never put my Lego over a motorbiking could go around that track take all the buildings [Music] there you see [Music] consider Ed cutback trail that big number 311 Action Express entry guys that have big problems early for very good reasons these laps are invaluable what you were learning with these this is the first kind of fully subscribed year of hypercar and they are there are dated notebooks just their their jump drives being filled up with ones and zeros as they try to laugh after lap after lap to learn as much as they can in second place car and Allen P2 the team wrt has come to the pits for its scheduled service [Music] 59 seconds now separates himself to jovenazzi so he is like he said on the rodeo feeling much happier on those medium tires and he said to the guys look watch my lap times I'm feeling much more comfortable I know I was in traffic the last two or three laps so ignore those yeah last up around 329 compared to jobinances 331 of course it it comes and goes with traffic but um that Gap has come to at 58.8 seconds now [Music] see the choreography takes place in a World Endurance racing Pit Stop only allowed four guys over the wall once the fueling is done oh that's that's uh that's some fresh debris that's new that's definitely gonna need to be cleared up isn't it and uh somebody is carried on I'm sure that would be a slow Zone [Music] people people have wondered uh you know there's been there's been a lot of chatter social media about the length of the yellow flags I applaud the rule that Eduardo lives eight seven is the case four three two one slow zone six is now active slow zone six is now active any Marshall to go near the racing service oh and it was a 38. the 38 car was the one that uh Mr Coke brings coaster of the wheel there [Music] of course well that isn't the way it used to be Anthony okay this is really similar to the glicken house incident wasn't it just dip the right rear wheel momentarily onto the gravel catches the slide one way and uh shoots him around the other he's made it back to the pits let's go to it Louise typically [Music] difficult and I was speaking to the team earlier they said after the 75 Porsche Penske retired they gave their spare Bodywork over to the Hertz team jota team as a backup and the team have been preparing it trying to get the 75 delivery off put their own on and it looks like they might need it well we can't see that now is that gonna have to go back in the garage I think yeah that was a pretty hard hit oh it's the structure of the nose not the not the chassis so that's yeah it's that's the yeah the crumple zones the only thing that's left of that nose assembly crumbled I did its job didn't it [Music] looks like it's a new living because it's got black black fenders with some rap put on with some stickers yeah they've uh they've done the best they can in a short time to get that car looking uh well they get the Livery back on that's the least of their problems right now or were they having a look at that front right as well that's sustained some damage I think could that be part of the brake cooling or is it a bit of body work only [Music] looks there on the left-hand side of the screen ready for uh where you've got twenty percent yeah another round coming up the slow zone is the three card switched apart from the obvious of staying off that exit curve I don't know what else could be done to stop these incidents you know the car snap again because they're once they drop off where that gravel lens is squared off yeah you have to curb and then you have asphalt and that just launched in the rear end of the car and then when it catches it's gonna go whichever direction you may or may not have it from it's an unfortunately shaped curve with a it's like a it's like a triangle on its side so as soon as you go up and over that triangular Edge it just dips you straight into the stone so it's uh you've got support only up to a certain point then you drop off the other side [Music] this is going to take longer than we expected because we will need to repair the guard rails on driver's left on driver's left that's interesting I wonder if that is well yeah the the hex car didn't actually contact on the left side now contacted only on the right there was a bit of stunning camera work before I came on it it is the right it is the drive yeah he's got his left and rights mixed up Cookie handed word of the cookie um there was some stunning camera work before I came on of the when the 908 went off of it dropping the wheel in that gravel and then kicking in and sending it on its way let's go to Louis just picking up again on the hurt team Joe to incident Antonio Felix DeCosta thousand a car and he's gone around to everybody in the team shook their hand saying sorry mate um just goes to show so you know how he's feeling about that yeah he's a real team player is San Antonio we all know that and uh he'll be absolutely kicking himself for that mistake and uh you know he'd he'd survived the hardest bit all the way through the rain he watched his teammate uh give up the lead by crashing out in the Porsche curves and you know Antonio had driven a brilliant race up until that point real Survivor it's a rare mistake for him but uh goes to show how unforgiving like I said before how unforgiving some parts of this track can be and that's one of them we've seen so many drivers make that a similar mistake the clicking houses just moments ago both of them yeah to me they built a few yeah so both both of them make a mistake you know we're talking about experienced drivers here as well and that's part of the challenge of Le Mans you know you get to this stage at 20 past 10 in the morning the sun's back up you're still out there doing it you're so tired and focus just drops slightly for a short amount of time because the car I mean he was literally probably three inches too wide there yeah and yeah and it was enough just to drop the tire off around she goes so we saw a shot of the united auto sports cars running in tandem the 22 and 23 both of those cars have had uh eventful races the 22 car is currently 11th with uh Freddie Lubin behind the wheel and the 23 car with Ollie Jarvis is in 12th position [Music] there they are going through the second chicane separated now by the Ferrari the race leading Ferrari number 51. one of the pujos I believe that's the uh [Music] on the crowd have been absolutely treated haven't they to one-off if not the best Le Mans I've ever seen the biggest crowd I've ever seen has gotten their money's worth big time Big Time I mean yeah they couldn't have asked for any more action not really and uh yeah still five and a half hours to go this race it's uh under a minute between the lead car and second place in the hyper car category Richard Westbrook in the Cadillac number two still on the lead lap as well three cars on the lead line three cars under the yeah I I frankly thought we'd have at least one or two more yeah based on yeah based on what we saw earlier on in the race there was a moment in the race I honestly thought I don't know if I can keep up with this for 24 hours let's go to Louise Juan Manuel career you from the number nine Premier you've stayed in that car the whole time the team have been working on it just hold down and I'm so sorry that you've stepped out now so tell us the situation yeah it seems like we have a broken starter so Aries was already already over before that with with action we had uh during the night we were just trying to finish the race I think we'll be back out in the track soon but I'm gonna step out and bent is gonna go in now and and take it um yeah a shame because the pace is really really good I was running with uh with the Front Runners through my host end and uh we're competitive but it wasn't meant to be and we can see how it's hard and fast the team are working to get that car back out yeah they're amazing we we had a broken crankshaft after the the accident we had in the night and they changed everything in 20 minutes we thought we were done and they got the car back out there so shout out to them uh yeah hey it's lemon first time here I'm still really enjoying it well that's my other question so I think you were with us in Portugal was that right and then you're here at lemon how are you finding endurance racing it's awesome honestly I I love every second of it it's so different especially this race you know Portugal was already very different for me than F2 what I'm what I'm racing but this is a whole different level so uh a lot of learning I got up to speed which I'm happy about and I'm just enjoying the experience you've worked really hard to get back up to Fitness anyway for um after your accident but how much more do you have to do for this I've seen some of your socials where you're training in between all of your all of your stuff well it's tough you know I'm sweating uh it's we're doing three almost four hours thins sometimes in here in endurance and you need a lot of concentration I think mainly my preparation is more cognitive and mental you have to stay focused you have a lot of traffic and it's very intense thank you thank you [Music] thank you I think one of the things that people don't still even even as much as the sport of auto racing has grown throughout the world in the last three four decades the um I don't think fans really realize how the fitness level that you guys as drivers have to achieve isn't so much about the physical side as it is having the stamina to use the mental portion because there's so much concentration I know that that even in in the parts of my old job directing Motors not a mortgage boards but stick and ball Sports in the United States if I was on the air for two hours it was total concentration on that event and that's all I could think about I had to be planning where I was going what I was doing and for you guys like you said three inches and that's mental yeah that's mental the thing is I think most of the drivers it's I suppose it was probably Schumacher back in the 90s that alerted everyone to the kind of Fitness level taking it to that next level of fitness and then bit by bit everyone just got fitter and fitter to drive the car like Tiger Woods and golf yeah so it gets to the point where your actual feelings in the car well there's nothing there you're just strong you're fit and the rest of it's all in the head so you know one Manuel career if his name yeah um he was just talking about the cognitive side and yeah he he is very fit he drives former too um which are high downforce cars he's doing two two races per weekend on on the former one weekends so um the fitness center is obviously there but this is a different story this is about trying to keep keep the focus up for such a long amount of time and for me with sleep deprivation yeah and everything else there was I always I I kind of felt there's two ways to go about it you could say right I am going to be safe I'm not going to drive at 10 10. for whatever reason maybe you think your car is not quick enough to win but you're quick enough to take a Podium and for me I was like well at times I was like okay I will survive that's someone saying a song about that didn't they so um but then you get you get you get drivers different subjects drivers like Kevin who in his last thing that he was pushing like crazy absolutely on the limit ten times 11 tents and the result was a crash that put them you know cost them 40 minutes in a pit so there's two ways to about it and you you I think you have to play the right the right way at the right time yeah it's risk and reward isn't it really fig and you see the drivers like we mentioned foco earlier on there in p8 p7 in a way nothing to lose Ferrari came here they're on the front row they want to have a one-two finish so let's try all we can driving at 10 to 10 so I say Peters get yourself back up into the into the top three perhaps even further up if he can and it might pay off if you can carry on driving like that but there's no way you would drive like that when you're in the leads like Antonio job and that's his and you can see the body language is very different between the two cars but what um Correa was saying is that you know mentally this race has been so fatiguing because as we all know as drivers driving in the rain it takes so much more mental capacity than driving in the dry you can't just let the car flow and do its thing you're always your eyes are on stalks your body goes rigid because you're just trying to feel extra extra input from all four tires driving through the seat of your pants and before you know it you realize that your hands are absolutely correct like like like your life depends on the steering wheel if anyone's ever been in a kayak or a canoe yeah the first time and they're like they'll know exactly what we're talking about your knees suddenly get wedged into the side your whole body goes stiff and every little movement you make you're you're absolutely petrified that it's going to escalate further and that's what it's like driving a race car in the rain when you're not confident at the grip particularly for wet track on slick tires or even walking on ice or something like that you know just one slip up quite literally and you can really hurt yourself so you what do you do you tense up right and the problem gets worse and for a career It's Complicated by coming back from that crashing spot oh absolutely that's a whole other thing not only physically but as our leader comes to the pits Antonio Joe vernazzi gets out looks like uh Pierre guidi is going to be uh taking his turn behind the wheel and there's a driver change here Jim I'm gonna love you and leave you and replace myself with the story of my life I am good with Story of My Life foreign so driver change is complete as soon as the fueling is uh done we'll uh see a new set of michelins go uh onto the Ferrari there uh looks like they're media michelins welcome back Graham Goodwin did you have a good rest uh well it's a little breakfast um replacing the Ferrari of some Davidson with the travels of myself um it's uh this is this is developing into quite the world's only cardboard car it's yes it is n't said about 20 minutes the best lemon that he can remember being a part of and I absolutely Echo that this is an absolute classic it isn't quitting the best thing for it from my point of view is it's not just in the top class it's in all the classes yeah and this three-class system has come together beautifully uh great battles up and down the order sorry to interrupt Ferrari serving a penalty he's a big hell isn't he yeah he's being held you know he's not being held because he's got a penalty of being healthy because they're working a problem no there's there's nobody working there goes the Toyota turn the mechanic switch on [Music] they turn the mechanic switch on that's probably could he not get it started could he not get it restarted well could that be a problem that shows itself more than just oh my Heavens that is uh drama uh five and a half hours to go and hello we've we've got a race again 65 additional seconds on pit Lane with that issue for the previously leading 51 Ferrari Tota kazoo racing Take the Lead at them on with five and a half hours to go this thing has got more twists of turns than well this race track yeah and that's quite a lot it's absolutely astonishing from beginning to end you ever seen a race like this here Peter no no I haven't I mean I mean I'm just looking down to the GT arms again and I'm just seeing iron James have retaking the lead in that so the lead is just changing different car different car different car we had the Corvette fight its way back up [Music] okay so but the Gap is 5.8 the Gap is 5.8 show them what you're made of wow here we go versus boy me that's quite mouth-watering isn't it and then you add in Toyota the dominant Force here at Le Mans for well half a decade five consecutive wins looking for their sick Ferrari back as a factory team to the top pass for the first time in half a century so many potential storylines and well we said there'd be more trauma there's one of them there was no dramatic moment but the out turn certainly was [Music] the outcome of the moment is uh provided us with a whole bunch of drama we've gone from the Toyota almost the full minute behind to now leading by 5.6 seconds is the uh head down the mall Sun straight away the first time on their outlaps [Music] win that would be if they make it make this one home astonishing from team wrt and then Duquesne team with Neil Johnny previous overall winner here and now in a Podium position in lmp2 for the team that uh there's one at the lmp2 class not the overall lmp2 win that's going to a Pro-Am team but the overall Olympic 2 class in the opening round of the European Le Mans Series this year Barcelona Alessandro uh pieroguini there you saw from the onboard camera taking advantage of the slow Zone to be able to hook up his drinks bottle it's here from Eduardo it seems that the repair on the guardrail is taking another 10 to 15 minutes we still don't know but the slow Zone will stay there until the guardrail is properly repaired Indianapolis where we've seen both look in the house and jota it's been a couple of years since I've been here have have we seen this much uh guardrail repair in the recent past I I don't remember I don't recall it I mean sure when Rocky had his his shunt and yeah Alan mcnish had his you know those kind of crashes that well they were they were they were massive crashes but but we've seen some some guardrail repair from from Fairly innocuous hits it fairness to the the guardrail repair at uh at that particular location yes it punched it we've had three come on yes exactly exactly I mean we saw the uh the incident after I think it was was it the click announced the last time that's why the joker last time but don't get me wrong I'm not saying we shouldn't be repairing it that's unusual trying to remember yeah I don't just don't remember it happening it is this conversation earlier this morning off here won't we tune my bounce um before we get to that about what's going on aboard the 51 for Alexandria hey sorry the radio is not working from you from you when I know something more about the issue I'll tell you on a used tire he's on a used tire it's Brandy again so interesting that the we had a problem getting the car back underway now we're having problems with Communications yeah they're coming back to it man that is electrical issues the gap's coming down though 4.3 seconds between the two cars well one of them's on new michelins the other is unused that should uh that should have a little bit of a difference plus uh the Ferrari has been quicker just just frankly it's been quicker perfectly new looks on a man with a proud history with Ferrari and amongst the uh honors for Andrea who is the nominated test driver for their competition class it's driven all bar one forms of Ferrari Formula One car ever absolutely astounding number it's well into the hundreds the number of Ferrari chassis he has tested and shaken down for this good area including all the historic fleets including all of the corsiciente cars there is one car I think was a short-lived car from memory in the 80s no longer existing it's the only Ferrari from the trailers even the shark knows because I mean there's no to best of my knowledge there's no shark noses and in addition to that does the same job with more or less all of the Contemporary sports cars as well wow so Andre bertolini super guy as well lovely outlook on life always a smile but super focused Maserati as well to the GT1 World Championships that's right that's a good job for you you could test everything that comes out of the British Japan Factory I'll go work with Graham no no you're not the tonic's taster [Laughter] it's like what you want to say the 25 car by the way still with that uh Luke's Bonnet the rear left corner on the Aston Martin but it isn't stopping them uh RT by TF Charlie Eastwood 52 seconds back from Rahel fry Ben Keating a further two seconds back and that is a change that is the ort by tfkr taking second place uh they've actually while you were gone they've actually met to the front yes oh yeah these five four cars the 85 25 33 and 56 have kind of been swapping positions based on you know a little bit on the racetrack and then and then depending on which drivers behind the wheel and then there's Pit Stop sequence well funky things very very clear this will be a slash GT drive here um he loves the GT cars he's not particularly interested in moving to the GT3 formula there is Ben behind the dollar should live Ridge 48. if we see him back it will be an lnp2 that's is where his future lies he's had a astonishing Machinery here at Lamont ranging from lmp2 cars in two different areas vipers Ferraris Porsche Aston Martin now here at board the Corvettes it's been nine starts at the mom for Ben Keating in eight completely different cars the the patina that these cars get oh yeah at this point Phil and that was the other cool thing about going through the museum is many of the cars nowadays are just left to where they were in fact Audi actually lacquered one of them so it wouldn't go the patina would just make sure the Ferrari didn't pass anyone after [Music] no stone unturned never change just just drive that is the gap that's the Gap with three cars between the two battling four overall honors here do wonder he got an extra snowball yeah do Wonder gentleman whether or not they're going to take the opportunity whilst that barrier was prepared to do something about what's a growing ditch behind the curb which is what's causing the problem um shot of sticking a whole load of new gravel in there I don't think there's much they can do and the guys will just abuse it and start digging another ditch we've uh we've had three significant incidents for hyper cars yeah in the last couple of hours at that point back up to speed now after they clear the slow Zone and there is the Ferrari moving past the traffic now the next on the road is the Toyota just ahead of him as they go through the Porsche curves and then through karting and what I will do by the way in the next Arrow soap is a quick review as to where we stand in the Pro-Am standings not just where they stand on track but more particularly as we approach kind of five hours to go who has got non-professional driver time to burn that's a very significant factor for many of these teams I have to say astounding level of attrition in GTM I think we've lost half the field yeah almost off the field 10 retirements in GTM but it's not something that we used to seeing a lot of incidents unfortunately yeah at least two of them were GT on GT incidents that saw both cars retire in the 16 and 16 getting together 55-21 getting together difficult conditions earlier on on the race with the rain coming and going slow zones we've seen quite quite a few impacts as cars have come into slow zones car in front slowed down and caught the ones behind by surprise and and the concertina dot you see a good shot of uh pieroguini right out of Central Casting isn't he oh yeah I need a Ferrari driver no yield dude and the name the name for it as well into the garage that's uh car was troubled early this morning after Ace how do we put this pizza a spirited attack from Kevin S yeah it was good to see you and he was he was driving hard and that's why he's there just unfortunate uh small mistake put him off into the barrier down in 20th Place overall 11th in the class but not this man Sebastian Benny and his teammates have been right at the pointy end of the spear on this Centenary celebration of the Hun of the uh 100th anniversary of Le Mans the red the department of redundancy Department there sorry about that um and he has been at the in the battle for the top three the entire race as has the 51 card behind him Alessandra paraguini and then comes Earl Bamber in the Corvette uh yeah come on stop under investigation for the county three minutes and 46 seconds through the slow zones behind the league battle so keep an eye on whether or not that might have thank you for saving me because that's where I was trying to go and that's why so it's going to be we've heard from a broad afraid to be some little while with the slow Zone in place for that Barrel repair driver's right between Indianapolis and Arnage that's there because the uh okay so if there are no marbles try to minimize distance if there are no marbles try to minimize distance minimum is just minimize distance to what to the if there's no marbles so that would mean edge of the race it's going offline it means taking the optimum line doesn't it or track limits no good Twitter will now light up that we're being oafs and uh a bit because we're missing something like that one out at the moment we're expecting oh don't blame you I can't talk uh potentially an updates on whatever the issue is at a Ferrari yes you just joined us um cars are in this order in this slow Zone coming through the instance like now where you'll see the top of the picture that's where the barrier pair is going on General kid the president both stalantis group and Ferrari changed into Sunday morning clothing and a ferry to sign a Ferrari outfit on yesterday John and here we go by the way losing over a minute and the lead uh with the car seeming to be unwilling to re-fire after a pit stop oh now that's gonna that's gonna hurt his pace and that's going to give the Ferrari a chance to get on the back of the Toyota the lmp2 program leading Elgar Pro cup was exactly where the Toyota wanted to be and now we've got no detail action again I do think he made the right call there because yes that is like oh well we saw it with uh Kevin Astro if you if you've tried to overtake into that corner you might well come a Cropper and have contact so he he just decided to be cautious no point to throw it away there well the choice to fight another day because absolutely he can maybe he can hold him off well the choice he made means that might be a slightly smaller cap by a couple of seconds but he still leaves the race okay but a different choice he's down in 20th position now and we've got back in the garage better to have your mirrors full of Ferrari than to have your mirror in the uh Somewhere over the fence that's the the you know when we were talking earlier with Anthony that's the the difference between leading the race and having a little bit more caution and then full attack from behind and deciding to roll the dice a little bit and that dice sometimes comes up on the wrong number I think uh Sebastian Bureau would always pick a fight with Pierre greedy than a fight with your grandma's wrap yes and that's what we've got now it is the number eight Toyota the hands of Sebastian boy me huge success here at lemon up against well not the newcomers they've been with us in GTE for a decade at the pro level but that effort and a whole lot more besides transferred with a resumption of history for Ferrari back at the top class and side by side almost on the exit slightly Ferrari 's not had any luck in traffic that's twice now in the space of half a lap he's been blocked by traffic and now he's going to lose the position unless he can just he's got the inside position going to the chicane he's going to force it here yep oh my heavens Alessandra paraguini much to the Delight of his crew passion passion everywhere except we'll give this this one off not passion no 10 seconds early by the ways but watch this still developing lead Battle 5 hours 12 minutes to go the lead changes again this is gonna be interesting turn no worries no worries still five hours to go mate head down into the slow Zone he'll be seething oh yeah because yeah lost momentum didn't he coming through that first chicane it was wasn't quite done but almost done there almost toughed it out here Ferrari much quicker in the first place that straight but the Toyota came back at him ultimately as he did at the end of the Porsche Coast Peter dumbreck uh decided discretion was about a part of valor there again you know I thought for a second he might try and force it back down the inside but yeah he decided nope get out of it that's left to fight another five hours and we'll see how it goes from there back into the slow Zone this is so and and see this the slow zone now helps Remy because he's not gonna a pair greedy he's not going to be able to pull away no you know because he's the momentum is lost he can use the entrance into the slow Zone to uh to pull up on him let's go back down to pit Lane and Louise Beckett I was just waiting on an interview from James Allen from the uh 45 Algarve Pro and he is constantly on the radio to George Curts who's in that car at the moment who you saw for whammy come up behind can you imagine how that driver must be feeling as he's uh is his first Le Mans as he can see in his mirrors for Emmy and uh yeah behind him [Music] foreign [Music] because then that gives the competition yes the chance to run flat out but whatever you do Seb do not tell Ferrari [Music] Louise has gotten that interview in The Algarve pit let's go back to her I met James Allen from the 45 Elgar Pro you've been talking on the radio I thought you were talking to George but no you've been talking to the Pitbull is that correct yeah to make sure what the plan was going forward so we've got a decent lead over the next program so we're focusing on that so realistically we're just gonna be relaxed make sure we get to the end and hope you currently leading the program in the lmp2 George has been in a great run right now and he made a lovely move to move out of the way for the hypercars behind him just then yeah I mean that could have gone a bit wrong I think there was a bit of confusion between between Sebastian and George but luckily everyone came out of it so it was really good and George has been amazing all week it's his first time here and he's really picked up everything really really quickly and really well I'm quite happy for him and I hope he gets the result he deserves today all right well hopefully we'll speak to you later thank you thanks so much he's put the hammer down two seconds quick word but James Allen by the way he's looking at a second 24-hour win another B2 uh this year after the astonishing finish at the relics 24 at Daytona we took the win literally on the line from the car he's now driving in [Music] to cross from the winning car at Daytona to this campaign with crowdstrike racing by epr like Opera racing right four laps of the good in lmpt brown that's another class by the way that's had significant Patricia it is a 2.2 second gap for the lead in about 80s overall and now I pick are three minutes and 45 seconds for the top three transfer that to an in B2 Pro out I'm not just looking here it is but a part of 10 laps for the top three as a an outsider if you like coming in once a year to come and sit beside you guys and have a chat Pierre guidi has been incredible so far yep this week my my feeling Peter is this is a new and extremely important program for Ferrari and they've made the choice that the vast majority of the the driving Squad have come from their GT uh cool slow zone is back to green and it looked to me like if anything totally got the better run there sure did [Music] we did hear from Ferrari that they're having trouble talking to Pierre Queen if this on the circuit and that has paid off for them but you're right Pierre greedy he's at his moments where it's not gone all his way big hiccup for him at Sebring with a reasonable shot that said that car tumbling down the order I do Wonder Peter he's absolutely came in as his multiple world champion GT Pro uh one of their stars but then young drivers in the other car the pressure being exerted and there's been moments when I have been concerned that maybe that's getting in his head a little bit right you're a driver that's had a long career it must be tough when you put the top of your game and someone you comes in it's always going to happen you know it's going to happen sooner or later so you know maybe maybe this is just giving him his second wind you know it's what's 39 years old so delicious at 39 for the first time and doing this kind of job and I I want to knock on wood because I don't want to jinx them but yeah he's doing a great job there good cheers [Music] now it's removed closing in might have been a quick spin yeah try to get on five hours to go and it's six of a second as a lead Gap oh my goodness still the lead battle here mmp2 is the same lap what if GTE am [Music] let's dig out the circle back uh with five cards [Music] oh well if you hear track size you've had a treat so far still five hours plus of this to go and if you've been tuning in with us throughout this great race thank you for being with us I hope you're enjoying the developing storylines they are Legion [Music] Ferrari still lead Lamont from Toyota but it's close very close moving just a little way back it's still on the lead lap the first in the Cadillac's number two Corner hands of will Bamba so three different type of car makes on the lead lap with almost 19 hours in the book [Music] they're on in tonight it's the first of Peugeot and they came in there's a Mata Ferrari the AF Grande of Corsa and who would have written the script for Peugeot up until problem set them in the middle of the night they really did look very strong indeed this is the duck out well I'm just gonna say we've got the AF courser we've got the Ferrari Toyota Cadillac Peugeot and Porsche all in the top six yep and all of them have had their moment in the sun with a leave the race and all of them have had issues yep so well the great part about this era now this is really the first time it's bloomed with absolute respect for Toyota 12 being for that matter the great thing about this is if you're gonna win it you're gonna have to fight for it a boy if we sing some fighting here we often talk about other codes of motor sport the hope that people will discover just how good this is well judging by what we've seen on track here gentlemen I think we can transfer that to other forms of mixed martial arts as well because it's been epic stuff Peugeot I'll give the curbs there first okay they're first at their cars down in fifth place this boat's very well indeed for the future of this race and for the future of the FI World Endurance Championship and the future of the episode Weather Tech Sports Car Championship yeah GTP equivalent of these cars this also for me in some ways Harkens back to the Audi Victory where Lena Gade was the engineer and I believe in memory serves that that was the year that both Rockefeller and ignition had their crashes and so Audi was down to one car much like Toyota is here and they were in a pitch battle with Bujo and it was right down to the final half hour when they were making decisions about tires and and that sort of stuff and Lena made all the right calls that brought that car home a great conversation on the radio between her and Andre Lotter that you've got to do this you've got to bring it home and and they did and that was an outstanding Victory and this is what comes to mind here Ken Toyota carry on going for a fifth consecutive victory that put them with the likes of Audi and Ferrari and others with the consecutive win streak or will Ferrari be Victorious on its return 50-year return to Top Class racing here alone well they both hit problems for each other I think is the other thing it's close enough but when you get down to uh um we did ask a little earlier whether or not anybody might have any ideas about that uh what we thought was a cryptic message to separate me about the shortest possible distance and delighted to say Michael zalavari uh down under in uh and around the Adelaide area uh Michael lovely to hear from you covered the overnight stands for part of Delhi sports car Michael and a keen part of online communities that support this uh great area of racing and I think he's dealt it he thinks the message to where Boy Meets about the slow zones take the shortest possible path there you go if there's no marbles there you go well done Michael [Music] my fatigue of combined to provide less convinces than you were able to do this time in the morning and 11 o'clock just pass them all the way here in France is astounding circuit in front of an amazing crowd and what is four was a great race but this year in particular is truly the historic moment in Motorsport five seconds now Pierre greedy to sepo Amy shouldn't be too much longer before we see this slow Zone come to an end I think it was about 15-20 minutes ago that modifetus was predicting 15-20 minutes ago she undercane that enjoying his body [Music] part of the organization before green again slow Zone has been withdrawn also part of the lmp3 landscape Shield to Kane taking on what was previously the Norma program and is now through decaying d08 as you can see the wheelchair there to the right hand side and also only drives up early days of GT3 [Music] puzzled no less than a Dodge Viper uh with some success behind the controls of that car the fastest lap of its race for the race leader pushing on now let's add red Pier greedy the same lap a little Bamber obviously with the uh track back to green [Music] from Seventh I think the two car is going to have a five second penalty and we'll do its next pit stop as well so trying to carry on with that [Music] [Applause] so we're moving [Music] that's uh what you uh car in the business uh yes okay that's all the output [Music] uh yes the art that is [Music] the old Dukes and this is the 85 car still leading the race in GTE um uh would it be another last win for female drivers here at this event seeing that inside at the bottom Sebastian brome love deleted so that's definitely number five no yeah yeah if if it's not uh if it's not six that's five we may see uh we may see a warning flag look after this is the the last thing you want is a drive-through penalty at this stage that could be the defining moment is the race leader in the middle of those three cars the 34 behind ID exports need export 48 Car the all blue Livery is running Fifth and the palace racing car four that that four fourth place palace and edec with the race lead without a P2 between them he pushed by a minute ago uh just on the exit of Porsche cars so he's got in between so obviously now he's lining up we know the 30 forecast got great straight line speed so good chance he'll toe bye now looks like he was going to do that forever sure by the way if you didn't join us early this morning um the injured foot after being run over we believe his foot by the Corvettes I'm not sure whether or not there's a break who is that that is Fabio's leading MP to race but certainly in some pain with one of his feet but it's not stopping him he's currently a minute and 38 seconds clear of the chasing wrt 41 car this is an epic run from its Europa competition but the battle he was in between there is for fourth in class Palace raising the hands of team and the help from the Netherlands Germany [Music] so very talented young men I suppose if it was your left foot you could not left foot break I think that's in the old-fashioned kind of thing I'm stopping him he's gone by and he's pulling away here this I mean frankly one of the all-time great lmp2 runs in this modern era we've seen some faultless runs from the the acknowledged super teams from jota from wrt from United Auto Sports here at Lamont but you know this is a team that's been bubbling under a little it's been challenging there for Podium possessions throughout the season in the FI World Endurance Championship but this is form we've not seen from them before we've seen some great stints from a number of drivers are driven for the Polish flag team just seems to find more and more and more came into lmp2 with the United Auto Sports a few seasons ago seems to be in a happy place here and we'll be looking at here this is a reason [Music] but that's the large getting back yeah the 48 going by 65. yeah that is first season of LMP to racing as a full season driver um big success with dqr Engineering principally in lmp3 he's a rapid young man Lauren sir noticing from the helicopter shot no one has gone home why would you quick quick laptop as Peter are coming all of a sudden the last lap column is lighting up blue that's quickest laps of the race so far wow of teams 328 for February meet three twenty eight three Twenty Eight Seven foreign [Music] the day there here though is the leading car in GTM Sarah Bovick climbing aboard as out of the number 85 Porsche climbs for a Hellfire and we saw that the number 25 asked Martin went by to take over the lead Charlie Eastwood behind the wheel of that car far back Ben Heating units he was only probably about 30 seconds behind so he may come by as well the driver change has done as soon as soon as the fueling is done it looks like that car will get some new there goes uh Ben Keating we aforementioned uh Corvette driver now in the second place that puts the iron Dames back to third now they've got plenty of time they will get out of the pits in front of PJ high and young the project 1ao Porsche so this is going to move them back to the third position routine Pit Stop four new Michelin tires new driver Sarah Bove as a Graham rifle they pointed out back into The Fray with her against her her arch nemesis in in a good way Ben Keating these two have had some outstanding qualifying battles throughout the season in the World Endurance Championship and that's that's the great thing about the the new qualifying format it's uh it's proven to be it's just very exciting it's it's an extra day of great racing now absolutely that we have in the World Endurance Championship just an update from the fiwc's immediately get Rachel cavers who's been working hard through this race and she updates us with the condition of Fabio says not too bad is uh feels it when he's not racing more than he's in the car and plenty will do that for you won't it pushing through still left foot breaking he will be fine but uh you and I and certainly you Peter and wreck will know that's because it hurts later today and certainly tomorrow absolutely yeah I mean uh the adrenaline does get you through like he's hopping out of the car yeah yeah he can't even put any weight on it yeah he's he's to the point where when they do the driver changes he uh one hops yeah yeah for some new painkillers and out again three cars on the 327s laptop three till Bamba with another quick lap in the caddy this time unless I'm going to appear greedy responds to the attack from sephoraemi to 3 27.890 that is a second quicker than the fastest land from the total there is PJ Hyatt in the project one AO Porsche Rexy with the big teeth and short arms couldn't be the king there is your lmp2 leader [Music] in the car you only got the thumbs up from the uh Goodyear technician see if they uh decide to stay with these skins or if they'll put some new tires on the 34 car if my numbers are correct I think Sarah both he's got a stint and a half still to do in this car as their brothers Rider she's a good bronze but she will be seeding time to drive us around her because you can see where they can see where PJ Hyatt is at this order [Music] DJ is about where he needs to be so it is five minutes and 57 seconds at the six hours needs to do so that folds well in this battle between those two Porsches but she will lose time to the golden the uh and the silver drives and the other cars Amador harty meanwhile needs about another 40 minutes not quite a full stint uh for the Armani driver that's now our new leader Charlie Eastwood pushing on Keating uh he too is about a minute away from his six hours and here is the Afton mentioned sound of the NASCAR Camaro [Music] with a big smile and there you have it he has just had a ball driving this car we had John Noonan in around 11 o'clock and and the whole team spawns over the moon just absolutely over the moon so I think mission accomplished there it is but um there is coach Jordan Taylor flexing yeah and this has been to see uh Chad canaus and some of the other people who are such veterans putting their foot in the water of this type of racing people with you know Championship pedigrees go ahead who know the sport inside and out is just uh absolutely fantastic and to see them have this modicum of successes is just outstanding 34th overall that's not quite as high as I thought they would finish I I figured they would they would get into the 20s for sure maybe even craft the top 20. 11 minutes on pit Lane so there's clearly been a some form of issue gloriously filthy that car I'll have zero doubt that whatever happens with the Camaro ZL1 after this race it will be a car the Hendrix Motorsports gym France for that matter will treasure forever truly historic 75 years of NASCAR 75 years of stock car racing in the United States and they've come here all guns blazing loving every moment of it to explain why by the way Jordan Taylor is in the garage he's here as the reserve driver and also as driver coach lots of experience here Jordan particularly in GT cars dirt with the full respects of the NASCAR family and Rick Motorsports on all three drivers he's been a key part of the test procedure here does look odd scene in that car but he handles well Peter it's not bad isn't it uh to put in the lap times it's been doing it's been quicker than all of the GT cars so it's not just quick in a straight line it can go around corners as well well I hope this encourages everybody around the the organization not listen to this race but other races too to just take a look in the books and see what else can be done along these lines I just think that encourages more people to be enthusiastic in more depth it's great to have people are really enthused about a battle to the overall lead and a great race like this but it's better still when you've got all the story lines to write I know one of the things that John Deere was telling us last night is the thing that has blown them away more than anything else aside from the the welcome here which I think they expected but have still exceeded their expectations it's the it's the level of media interest in that program welcome back this morning to Martin Haven morning everybody uh good morning again everybody good afternoon again good evening again um little tweet two minutes ago from Nascar garage 56 accounts NASCAR G56 2 000 miles with 230 laps of circuit de la sart under our belt the next gen G56 has blown past the 2000 mile Mark or 3218 kilometers whatever those are it's almost three and a half Coca-Cola 600s what I like is the respect with humor yeah I mean and I think that's absolutely Mutual I don't think there's anybody in the pit Lane that goes well I better take in the garage that can be used by a proper rated car and there's so as we said to John dude in the middle of last night there's at least 300 000 big smiles every time that car goes around this track and that's just here there is nothing bad whatsoever about that effort Charlie's from by the way from second place in uh as a GTM on pit Lane that puts uh Cycles Ben Keating back through to the lead might better get my Zumba class going on I'm going to just zoom that in the in the back of the uh for booth while we're watching Earl Bamber in Academy so the story of the 51 Ferrari which has retaken lead after briefly losing it in pit stops that was a power cycle for the car it wouldn't fire so it had to do the control alt delete return try turning off and on again so that's exactly what they did um it seems to be perfectly okay the slight worry obviously is every time you turn it off if it doesn't fire up again you can lose 10 15 but of course once you've done it once it doesn't bite you quite so badly the next time Peter you you go oh okay it's that again right we'll do that recovery will be quicker in fact well the change is going well there uh poetry is happening and everything it could be maybe functioning you can't fire it until all the men are behind the line so you can't try to fire into all the menus behind the line so there is yeah you can switch the ignition okay I think quite a lot of time they probably leave the ignition on just so there's radio comps and everything else um but yeah once you've once something's caught yeah you think about the Jody car a couple of years ago that ended up winning here which was in second place for most of the morning and it's aired on board air jacks failed so basically got one of those inflatable bags you use to sort of jack up vehicles on soft ground and they were having to Pump It Up at one end in a pit stop and then the other end in a different Pit Stop to swap tires appear at a time front to back or side to side um it had a misfire as well and and they still managed to flog it to get it to finish which in the end on the last lap turned them out turned out to be to win the race so these things will take a lot of abuse what they don't like is um sharp stops using scenery and then that's been there's been a lot of that going in or in good weather as well as in man well looking down that second page over there we're we've got a lot of hours beside cars so yeah a lot of retirements well there are 20 or have been already 20 retirements out of 62 cars that's the highest in quite a number of years in terms of retirement okay it's a box of this lab box this lab confirm boxes lab driver changed to Brendan absolutely about to take the wheel off the second place car it is 8.4 seconds the Gap we have four hours and 42 minutes still remaining and it has changed the balance of power between these two cars before when Hartley has come in he's immediately been very quick now the last time that happened was day to night and I wasn't quite sure how the dialogue worked there because Hartley was very quick initially and then gradually got reeled back in and I wonder whether they'd gone with a softer Tire on the Toyota to give him that initial Edge as you can see from the energy graphic Pizza the number three Cadillac is the outlier there it's only recently stopped the others six percent seven percent five percent they're all coming in this lap so your top six barring one car with four hours to go are on the same lap of pit window never mind an approximate equivalent strategy it's really easy isn't it to get sucked into the um the mindset that we're closely Under This Racist almost five hours still to go but what we are into now is the face of the race where the leading two cars are going to have to get a problem for Cadillac to Win It well that's entirely possible or safety car because that brings them onto the tail of the pair and that is also equally possible we've had safety cars predominantly because of incidents in weather but not exclusively so far in the race I have to say this is as frantic a lead battle Sprint as I can remember in quite some time and we're we're back to Audi versus Porsche versus Toyota P1 hybrids you know absolute full competition and that was three teams what we've had recently is the the Toyotas controlling the race and it's going to be one on the other that wins and they're obviously not going to attack the same way as Toyota will attack Ferrari now it's a better pit stop this time it's an underlayed Pit Stop one minute 16 seconds on pit at the pit Lane for the leading Ferrari that would be a full service stop and here comes the Toyota just want out to left in this race behind the Ferrari there coming out it's the third place car in lmp2 the number 30 Duquesne card so that has well that was coming into the pizza place that's dropped out to the top three lmp2 into europolder 34 card green and yellow wrt the 41 car still in second Louis de la Tran's not able to overhaul Fabio Shara but Shara must be at the end of some epic stint 65 panis team in Van Der Helm again he's been in that car a long while keeping that car up towards the sharp end of the field and in GT Pro from we're nowhere we might as well pack up and go home territory Corvette Racing's Ben Keating leads from arch rival Sarah bovey in the pink iron games Porsche Mike Dinan for ort by TF lies in third head of Thomas floor that 54 Ferrari relentlessly right in the podium hunt there from start to finish and then gonna Jeanette in Rexy the project one ao4j has dropped down to fifth with a pit stop he's just made before I forget this um a word for Thomas Fleur we've not mentioned him very much in this race but his level this year has been raised absolutely dramatically I've done all this I've always been having his breakfast cereal but it's working well maybe he's had time yes and that's so much of this with these drivers is finding the time to actually focus on their driving hey Ali Just for info previous lap we had a track limit in Ted Rouge that's the fourth one okay and the significance of that Peter is if you get five then you are on the way into the pit Lane for a penalty so five is the warning flag isn't it yeah you get five warnings in the entire 24 hours so basically in eight hours of absolutely foot welded to the floor racing yeah you can transgress five times and no more so we've seen no penalties so far from any driver yet it does mean though when we get into let's say with four hours of 37 minutes to go let's take the four off the beginning of that it's entirely conceivable that with 37 minutes to go and maybe the prospect of one little fuel Splash before the end we will still have a four second gap between our leaders well whoever they might be that's entirely possible I'm not counting out one of the tightest finishes ever in history it's 19 seconds the Gap at the moment that is significantly less than a drive-through would take yeah and that's why that's important because the first penalty would be a drive through penalty to carry on doing it it would be a drop it would be a short stop it would stop and go yeah and then it starts to get worse than 10 seconds so it can't just be frenetic Pace at any cost that's what that rule is there for it's about keeping it fair it's about making sure that we're all racing the same race track and not an alternative line and Peter taking the shortest day distance means the shortest distance but within the white lines absolutely we were talking Gemini about the drivers basically pushing the envelope as far as possible and sometimes you overstep and pick up uh the potential now to pick up a penalty for running away this is just getting harder and harder and actually the more severe penalties are unlikely to come from the stewards if you're running out wide because there have been so many incidents there's so much David there's so much gravel so many sharp little bits of carbon around but actually running out beyond the track limits is just looking for a sea of Comedy tax to Punchy attires isn't it yeah and and you know exit to Indianapolis we've seen at least three of the hyper cars in the wall there yep 38 so both the click of our scars all spat out of that growing ditch behind the uh the curve with drivers who have all got plenty of ability these are the little tumblers these are not you know rank amateurs these are highly professional drivers but as excuse me his answer was explaining earlier it's a it's a it's a ramp with a vertical drop at the end of it and if you go off the vertical drop you can't ease the tire back off you're as likely to puncture the tire if you try and wrench it back on as you are to get spat out with Ravel tab so there is probably a need I think for that to be either rebuilt as a much more level curve or built with an upslope and then a downslope into the gravel trap from which you can hopefully nurse your car it's so easy I mean I mean it's a ridiculous comparison but it Bears the 36 it will tell to take the story on the way back to the airport him out the WC race could down the hill from the hotel a large commercial vehicle from the other way down a a narrow Country Lane which went slightly off the road to allow this vehicle to happen and the way in which I rejoined the surface the Sharp Energy the tarback ripped the side out the tires yeah the inside tires are built to take a phenomenal amount of punishment the guys are missing it was saying the left rear in Spa from the pit Lane is taking 1500 kilos of downforce from the pit Lane and they were saying and that's the issue there with a cold Tire it's not up to temperature it's too stiff the pressure is too low at a normal sort of setting they would use with a heated tire and so that's why they were having to ramp up the base pressure so you go out on a coal tar that's also over inflated quote so that makes the the warm-up even harder wait look at this it's 20.7 seconds down the gap between here greedy and Brendan Hartley looks to me at this phase of the race gentlemen we've got the pace it's now about just trying to Edge away when you've got the pace with nowhere whatsoever well I think Peter the way they've gone about this as if they've been doing it all their lives and to a degree they all have but not this yeah not this in hypercar not trying to win them on outright a lot of the year of course the team have got that experience from their GT program a lot of them have got winnings trying to win overall experience from formula one but this is the first time they've done this and it's the first time they've brought the car here but they're just running a natural race I mean they just look so relaxed in the way they're doing everything the same professional manner of going about it that Toyota have exemplified over the years because they've been doing it for years and I'm just so impressed with Ferrari absolutely overstressing or overthinking or second guessing anything they're just making the right calls at the right time and driving hard and fast staying cool and we saw that with the the full reset with the car they lost one minute but there was no big Panic they just went about their business they got back on track oh Pierre giddy hunted down the Toyota go by him back into Legion camp thank you you have just a little moment there where the car was not quite gonna make it round the Dunlop curb okay this is so see cats Burgers T-Rex I think Moroni is due to get in and here is the arch rival the second placed iron Dames Porsche sarabovy Becky to your sarabovie have produced so many entertaining qualifying battles in qualifying in the regular World Endurance Championship like in hyper pole here the bronze rated drivers have to qualify and Keating and bovey have just been going harder forever [Applause] and at the end of a I'm going to have to check triple possibly quad stint literally just looking right now and the team were saying this will be the end of his minimum drive time requirement so that will bring him uh can bring him to the end of his Drive 6 hours 16 minutes as we count uh for Bank Keating what about Sarah bovey as well so it's got a way to go yeah we've seen them regularly cycle through between her Michelle gatting and Rahel Frey and the iron Danes keeping the pressure on at that Corvette so it is remember it's the bronze and silver drivers that need to complete six hours both in GTM and in lmp2 I'm sorry to us there see the cap at the far end Andrea Pacini one of the Puccini brothers that uh runs the iron links operation it is an hour and eight minutes that Sarah bovia's got to do okay now it's it's no slur on Sarah's ability she's been stellar it's a defined bronze level but she has got time where she's going to be mentioned against not Bank Keating but silver and gold and a platinum ranked drivers to the end of this race and actually part of the way that they've got the Corvette back in has been to have some of their to have their Pro drives Nikki Casper and Nick moroney driving through the night same with Sarah Bovi although actually the iron Dames have rotated through in in regular rotation Sarah has not been sort of parked overnight or when it was wet they have all stepped up and all done their their stint in time didn't see any stage where they sort of changed the rotation it's all been as it was expected from the start also uh 25 minutes or 24 minutes still needs to be done by no cover only so he's about to get aboard the car yep he's been a very popular addition to this crew of a smiling tall young Argentinian driver [Music] GT3 class I think a teamwork minded young fast the moments of ranked driver is going to be no small thing and whether or not he retains a silver ranking goes to gold I think you're going to find that young man it's with Corvette for quite a long time oh that is the lead battle in GTE am third is the ort by TF Aston Martin the orange Aston Martin for those of you watching in Technicolor that's uh Michael dine and garaginet in the green T-Rex Liberty project while Porsche is fourth fifth fourth uh fifth is gr racing Ricardo Pera that's the card that's black with uh orange highlights on one side and orange and blue golf colors on the other side and in sixth position and also in the pit lane or has just been through the pit Lane is the silver a of course a Ferrari combo 54. have it a re-gon heading out on track staying in that car so driver change as Ben Keating completes his minimum driver time looks like Sarah Bovi will stay out on track for another lap or two right behind her is the car guy Kessel racing Ferrari that's Daniel Sarah he's not passing her for position he is a lap behind the Brazilian Pro that's LED there is the car in third place though that orange Aston Martin and that Gap is coming down yeah I'm James lead the race ort by TF have left the race Corvette racing have led the race project one AO [Music] and I don't think the 911 yeah that they had two problems they made contact with somebody popped the Bonnet up they fixed it in the pit stop and it then popped up again so then they properly fixed it I assume they used a larger Hammer the next time around less and less like it's going to be a great afternoon for this squad this is the car early this morning involved in a battle for that Scandal Lottery getting out of the car so this is not going to be quick work no Andrea having to miss the formula re-race in Jakarta or opting to miss the former e-race in Jakarta there's uh about nine drivers from formulary who did race in Jakarta on Sunday and then came back from Indonesia for qualifying and practice it was that um had the problem with the carp in Spirited Pursuits of a potential Podium position it was chasing down the Cadillac so this has not been a change for the lead again to reiterate The Car Guy Ferrari which is absolutely flying at the moment Daniel Sarah had that yellow car has just unlapped itself from the class leader that's the iron Dames Ferrari there's the second place car and a Corvette but I did to that pit stop drops about half a minute behind into third place but again these cars all slightly out of secrets with each other and so Peter the teams on the pit wall will know absolutely they won't care what the hyper cars are doing they won't care what the lmp2s are doing which we're trying to follow as well they will just be watching their peers their class Rivals that's what the focus is they're winning what you can win never mind what everybody else is doing well it's essentially three three races taking place in the One race and you know what it's great to be the overall winner you know you really want to be that you want to be in the hyper car but the mp2 and the GT there is valid winners as the top class you know the the fights are just as big the uh competition's just as strong and it's it's great to see I mean we're we're spoiled that we've got three races going on here which have none of them refused to uh have you know they did just refuse to stop being exciting they are all really really tight close races and again you know if you're on the podium in gtem or lmp2 or hypercar you're going to stand up on the one of the most famous podiums in any sport anywhere in front of 300 000 people and receive one of the world's most famous trophies that I don't care what you're driving that is a reward for a year and more of hard work that's got you to this point Daniel Sarah by the way uh can I think do the majority of this race from here uh Takeshi Camara has now completed his uh required six hours minimum driving time it's well over his required time there is the trophy yeah trophy it's been around the world uh this but still can't find its babies so Daniel Sarah is in with because he's not going to do four hours for 24 hours so who else is he I suspect will yeah I've stood through the middle of this one I think we're going to see Daniel in for a while like he's got puffica in maybe a couple of hours time and probably Daniel back in for the finish here but doesn't need to begin no more than four in any six hours uh in which case he'll do four hours yeah oh oh and that's trouble for the nine nine one that's Michael Fassbender that's Michael Fassbender oh no that's a lot of time wreckage now he's gone in backwards again into the Porsche curves wow Michael Fassbender coming towards the end of his driving stint here uh he had 18 minutes left to complete his six hours well he's gonna have to go back out again then because that's easily completed [Music] back again and that's a big hit that's a big hit yeah well it's climbed the tire barrier it's still driving and that's just one of those classic lemon accidents that it's one of those places where you'll see it time and time again he's he's trying to keep the car within those white lights but in that instance he should have just opened the wheel and run the car away took the the penalty that was coming his way for going over the white line but now he's gonna have to spend some time in the pits to get that fixed all right come on coming in from ninth position in the hands of Michael Fassbender the Irish German foreign a five-year program it is to come to to bring his driving level up to the level where he can compete in Le Mans 24 hours he's raced in 40 Carrera super cup he's raised in other GT programs he's raced here on road to Le Mansion a few guys on the podium just having a photo yeah it is media and pay our guys there I was just you that's probably this year's voting committee for the media award s apologies for obviously the excitable language and exactly as you said Peter he was just trying to tighten the line when he realized he was going to run out wide as well as a rebuild of the tire barrier there's gonna be a long-ish slow Zone because all those Tire Stacks need to be replaced and probably rebuilted back in as well because that's all part of the safety uh on the corner that is homologated a little bit of arm waving going on is that end of game heart waving I yes there's body language in the back of the garage is not at all encouraging Louise back here he's down in the pit Lane Louise always that steps in here okay what do you know well let me tell you this car does not look good at all and the Marshalls are frantically running around uh their mechanics should I say are frantically running around all the bits and pieces that they need in reality there could be a front and back change to the car but there is just too much damage to that right side of the chassis that just will not be able to be fixed and replaced so it could be that this is the end of that race all right well if you can hang around there and try and get word from the team thank you for that we'll see if we can get a final uh word on that but again even with four hours to go there's a lot of time to fix the car it depends how much of it is actually fixable just watching a piece of brexit facial expression with the hit that was the Grimace that was a big hit yeah it was a big hit and I was looking at the Marshalls that were very close behind the wall as well so thankfully everything held up and um no no um parts of the car went over the wall so uh I'm hoping that's not the end for Michael Fassbender here as a well worldwide celebrity often when you put your head above the paraplets and do something different do something with passion people out there that choose to criticize them to mock but I can tell you from multiple multiple experiences of watching him apply his chosen trade here but uh he's done it for both of your passion and with absolute commitment and it's very easy to stand at the sidelines and go okay well he's not good enough to do that he is good enough to do that much much better drivers than him have made the same if not bigger errors I'm sorry yeah I was going to say the same thing we've seen some very very professional drivers make errors of that magnitude and you know it can happen to anyone he'll be working on her frustrated because last year the car got away from under breaking down to the first you came ended up in the barriers and now again you know and this is all he's been doing it for five years well you can probably count the number of races he's done on his fingers and toes is almost in total whereas anybody else of his age or of or of any age when they get to this level will have been racing full time for at least a decade probably more like 15 years if they're in their early twenties and he does not have all of that instinct yeah he's good he's quick he's competent he really addresses himself to the racing but you know all of those years of having crashes and learning how to avoid them then that takes time to build up he's doing it all in public that's that's over it is over I must say that is the end of the road for Michael Fassbender and the rest of the crew 9-1-1 Martin rumping the cap there in the background shaking hands with the boys Mitchell eats as well that's uh he'll take his time just to gather his thoughts but I'm sure we will hear from Mike Lopez okay A little bit of Raffles cage a little bit yeah think about it this way just go think about doing something completely different you've never done before at a level you've never done it before musical instrument is a good example of this go and learn a musical instrument how long does it take you before you don't make an error and your concert pianist or a concert violinist and and that's the level we're looking at it's not being able to play along with your local you know a string Ensemble or something this is absolutely virtuoso performance and at the highest level there is nothing more demanding than this in terms of driving sports cars and the Porsche is still these are not easy things to conduct quick yeah you hate to see it for any driver and the Clara publicity is clearly going to be an opportunity that from the inside track that is part of the deal that's been done to open the doors in the same way that we've got the WC full access nearest my well look it's part of what they do as actors they expose themselves they leave themselves open to criticism and ridicule by becoming something that they're not now this is a whole different level of becoming something that you never were before and he has applied himself with just the same you know exposure and vulnerability and uh I always admire anybody all the bronze rated drivers in GTM class the gentleman drivers who are racing and Lady drivers who are racing in you know on a not professional basis in anything around the world they're doing it because they are passionate not because they wanted to be Formula One World Champion or because they wanted to win them off when they were kids they're doing it because they've predominantly discovered it later when they've got an opportunity to do so and it just you know that yes it's fun yes it's exciting yes it's demanding and thrilling and adrenaline pumping and everything else I feel like it's hard well I mean I'll say there's this about this and the final word on it before I'm sure we will hear from Michael I'm sure he will come out and talk to Steph um but he's got a sick yeah and that's the beauty of this form of the sport it's not the same for every level of Elite Sport with all the barriers between us and the people we'd like to talk to there's no difference between Michael and the guys at the absolute Elite level I always tell young journalists coming into this trade you go into a conversation with the assumption that these guys are as passionate as you do and if you're not boring and you are respectful that they are good to be Keen to talk to you to tell their story and that's exactly what I found with Michael when you've given him the space that he needs to do the things that he's doing and if this is the end at Le Mans it's not the end of his race career that will complete the European series I think we'll still see him racing somewhere but if that's the way that islamon Journey ends then I'm very sorry maybe he needs another five-year project to to go again unfortunately but um entirely in awe of someone doing two things at Elite level yep 100 and he does two things at least level is a stunning actor that is his trade this is his passion and the time that it must have dedicated to the physical the mental preparation uh to just do this is pretty awe-inspiring some on-board audio from either a Ferrari or the toys it does sound like the Ferrari but uh you were watching there the battle at the top of the lmp2 class into europol's Fabio Sarah and have Louis de la trans and the wrt car number 41 that's the red white and gray car and the black car with the green highlights Duquesne teams Nico Pino now we are ready for wrt to come into the pit Lane so this will be the car in second place Dallas has been in for a while I think so let's see whether he comes in through the slow Zone there he is the the interior pole car easy to spot green and yellow halves to the car basically long slow Zone into the Dunlop curve into the uh portion curves rather and then all the way through the chicane out onto the start Finish Line see Vehicles heading off in the direction of that impact of Michael Fassbender with repair equipment aboard somebody ducking into the pit mine there and until that tire wall is repaired the slow Zone will remain Jerry tassan watching on another of the great Belgian racing Legends who are involved with the wrt racing crew and into your ball lead by the way is going out over two minutes now and uh their silver driver Kuba has done his six hours so if Fabio sheriff is fit enough we've he's got that problem with his foot we've been told isn't that much of an issue you need to go and have a little while hopping literally hopping the car around the car as if it's some sort of added value Pit Stop challenge he was run over by the 33 Corvette yeah but the team originally said they thought he'd probably broken bows in his foot and and that may transpire to be the case if frankly even is it just severe bruising having suffered that um once before um that is no joke I broke a couple of toes in Sebring and I've only really stopped feeling it about two or three weeks ago and that's a long time and I've not been driving race cars no indeed uh by the way the lead gap between Alexander Pierre greedy and Brendan Hartley still hovering around the 19th 22nd marks that's uh that's not really moved so much since we went through the last bit cycle there's a battle on track wrt card just leaving it's pit box there goes the Alpine that's sixth and seventh you can see on the graphic just leaving the pit Lane so there's what between them what was that sort of 10 seconds maybe that's uh 20 seconds to take it out of that Gap uh with Matthew that will be a change in 30 house first service but yeah for wrt that's not like them very much not like them also recently through a pit stop is generic van in the uh some Persia the number 93 car that Smith has come to join us from uh fresh from breakfast at United also as well with a little mini tuber Refreshers that's going to go really well with my Double Espresso what's its names in a bottle of coke they're actually love hearts so thank you messages there that'll be lovely absolutely I'm sure that was Richard Dean's personal idea and this as a result of Michael Fassbender getting spat out of so many have actually this heli shot if we hold it we will see what the result of this this is turning off the public Highway the first element and then you come through this right left sequence and as you turn left look at the impact there he was trying to avoid running out wide and in fact he said it on the radio exactly as uh as Peter dump record suggested he was trying to avoid running out wide there and he and getting another attack limits infringe but I don't know how many he'd had whether that might have been a drive-through infringement but he was desperately trying to avoid it and just tighten the line too much car looped into the pits lmp2 leader in the pitch probably a share of State support so we won't get a chance to see whether Nazi is still hopping around on that he'll still be hopping around will not have stopped when her foot's broken or not it is clearly far too painful to even walk on what did that guy this we're now close to 20 hours into the 24 Hours of Le Mans 2023 and the way this racetrack develops multiple multiple multiple incidents gravel everywhere bits of Tire debris everywhere but it's a car carbon everywhere how filthy does this truck get through that it's it there's places where it's barely a single line yeah it's pretty treacherous about this point in the race the track is not in great shape and obviously the Martians do a great job and if there is an incident they obviously clean up the sort that at um corner but um and also the cars now are starting to become a little bit secondhand the brake pedal might be getting a bit long there might be nursing a gear box issue or whatever else so really the end is in sight and um you know while there's many people still fighting for position some of these guys are just literally just nursing it to the end of this this point and um they just want to get that finished so if the weather remains sort of Fairly constant presumably sort of end of the night early morning is is about the Zenith of the track and then it just continues to degrade as more and more muck gets thrown out and more and more gravel and tired debris and it becomes although the grip level is good online there's quite a lot of the lap in any lap you're not online and that's it you've got the marbles the marbles of rubber little pellets of rubber offline and while that's okay if you're driving online when you're not online which these hyper cars and even the P2 cars when they're making the passes around the outside of the Porsche curves they are risky to put in two or possibly four wheels into those marbles let me tell you when you got those marbles you've got marbles for a reason you you might as well hit wet patch so if you imagine it'd be like a single line on a drying track it's very similar situation so these guys can't switch off although the track is dry once more mistake run a bit wide and they will um pay the price for that leaders on Pit Road Number Eight In and Out full tank of gas no driver change Sebastian Brendan Hartley remains in no tires and you saw Sandra Pierre guidi there he is coming down the pit Lane was uh the uh who is that coming down the pit Lane in front uh number six Porsche Penske car I think it's written just coming down as well that was the red car the red tail that I was thinking oh there's the port of the Ferrari but it's not so Toyota and Ferrari no longer stopping on the same lap their last stop was on the same lap the stop before that was on the same lap we've seen the leads change in the pit Lane on the same lap you can't do that if you're stopping a lap behind somebody else so Ferrari crept another lap in or have Toyota somehow been forced to stop unless you'll find on these statements on uh because Guy these guys have been going at it 11 tenths there is absolutely no sign of any backing off between Alexandria greedy and afari and Brendan Hartley in the Toyota then we're going at it absolutely hammer on top so what happened the last pit around the pit stops and if you saw it but Pierre guidi was in first from the lead then the car wouldn't restart when they dropped it onto its wheels and then they had to power cycle it last about 30 seconds so Brendan went by me when we went by at that stage retook the lead and then it's like somebody had lit the blue touch paper Alessandro Pierre guidi came after him like a woman scorned he just tore into him and went straight by and took the lead do we know what the issue was I mean I guess the concern is is we know that the Ferrari's got the pace he's got a pace Advantage but you know that issue 311 caddy wasn't aware of that is very marginal energy it needs to come in right now this will be his in lap it well the last pit stop the most recent one where Brendan took over uh there was no drama at all Ferrari dropped down gone yes right so you know Ferrari we've all got we've all got a laptop we've all got a phone but no switch on you stupid thing you you will find five minutes I mean yeah that's exactly what it is and and you know in a million pound race car you hope that the electronics will be and they are much more Brazilian but on the other hand everything has a has a limit somewhere said he said you know even though they've done multiple long distance endurance testing there's still kind of they're kind of in the unknown at the minute I think they even this is surpasses what possessive have done so uh we are in the under but yeah it's super impressive by these uh two top two cars just been at it hammer on top always long and most of their distance testing was actually pre-seasoned as well Down the Walls since the season started I think a Paulie Carr they did a couple of winter tests so actually one of them was wet so they've got knowledge but at that stage they had little knowledge of the car you know now they've got a lot more knowledge of the car and also therefore you know ramping up the knowledge of what it can and can't do in the way it's on a real race track or on this racetrack which isn't the real raccoon if you know what I mean so you know and again I'm sure all the way through your career here there are things that you have to do here and you cannot do here that don't relate to anywhere else you go because of what it is because it's public Highway what was impressed me actually is the the AF course team how when I saw them in Sebring they look like they've kind of just been thrown together and kind of were in the car very fast race car and now they look like a proper well-oiled race team not not dissimilar to how we were with Bentley I mean they've only done a handful of races together now they've got people that have worked together previously but when you've done merge different groups of people together it takes time and a complicated car absolutely at that but the the spirit in the team is just so relaxed and on it it's it's quite remarkable for what you say it's right it's a pickup crew and a brand new one I mean of course you're in the same deal but Penske Porsche team at Sebring they had Engineers working on the car who hadn't even been paid because they've not been in the company a month that's how new some of these programs are I mean the fact that we've got a battle like this at Le Mans you know in those circumstances is remarkable uh three points of interest here the number six confirmed they're changing the Hybrid battery in that car um confirmed too that that was an early stop for Toto waiting to find out exactly why well I have to wait until the written reports come out on Thursday for that I think the key to that is the level of energy that's still left aboard the Ferrari at the point at which that happened it's all about the slow Zone the other point of interest and guys point to it on the screen is be called to race director immediately is the team manager of the leading car in lmp2 in zero four competition now has somebody overstepped their drive time allocation have they got uh the only thing is then there's a minimum minimum six hours they're on maximum I don't think they're close to that four hours in any six is is the main maximum figure yeah meanwhile nicely executed driver change James collado with fresh rubber Brendan Hartley up to speed with tires that he's already done a stint on and he's been in really good form in this race Brendan Hartley just seems to have had a little bit of pace over his teammates in the number eight Toyota well the big change here is that was 20 seconds that's now four seconds and that's the full service for the Ferrari as opposed to the fuel ago gas and go takes a lot less time than if you're also because you can't start the tire change until you finish the fuel the driver change can go on at that stage again that slightly seems to non-seconda to me but there we go um so yeah there's Alessandro Pierre guidi one of the French networks sporting Network to keep France's biggest sported newspaper that's just out the pits the three level car the hands of jacket was he coming into the pits he was coming into the pits where they had that Locker oh yes yes and so that was in for the stop I don't think he was checking the car the gravel at that point I think Jax just got aboard the car now we're at four hours of one minutes ago what happened here on some corner oh that was actually the first you came up that is the chicane he crashed in in the wet crashed on the exit the same place he almost met exactly the same fate oh my goodness was a strange kind of a strange accident really well kind of steps out on the rear hit the curb which knocked it straight she's gonna go to another slow Zone we are about 20 hours in that's about 30 seconds of this race gentlemen if you like the European Lemont Series race to go and the lead Gap is 3.7 seconds that was very strange that is really Deja Vu that is that is almost the same incident he had the same incident John Eric Bern had in the 94 Peugeot straight off into those bits of barriers and in fact all in fact all the advertising hoardings are back shows how much work has gone on there because they've been repeatedly assaulted and attacked not just those two cars a hard a huge number of them have our class Leaders with four hours to go James collado Fabio Shara and Sarah Bovi try to clear slow zones 8 and 9 at 12 30 12 0 0 30. Marshalls are back at it yeah that is about to be removed whereas we've got one just about to be introduced or is introduced at the first uh chicane okay that will go from uh territory just before Terrors the end of the s's down to the exit of the first chicane the slow zones are in sort of standard blocks so again the first you came first you came to second chicane second she came to Multan corner to corner to Indianapolis Arnage so to to allow the cars to go by and still continue Without Really affecting the race but allow a slow speed of car progress so that Marshalls can work at the side of the tracking relative safety November on pitway and as Earl comes to Holt number six car after that's a hybrid battery change leaves pit Lane and its next Target will be the camps in trouble three laps ahead of it action Express card Andre Lotter Johnson 25th position overall the wrong end of the lmp2 battle it's still though the 51 Ferrari being chased and here is the view from Brendan Hartley's windscreen of is now aboard the 51 car ahead the number two Cadillac meanwhile back in the hands of annex Lynn currently shown as being a lap down I don't think it is let's see if that's uh change again when we see a timing sector change so Ferrari Toyota Cadillac I've got slow zone for the recovery of the 311 Cadillac the hands of Jack Aitkin a little bit of a whoopsie at the first and chicane it's been the graveyard of all sorts of ambition and Fortune there today and yesterday see the safety monitors inside each of the cars there showing Brennan Hartley it's a slow Zone reminding him of the speed though they will all have an automatic speed limiter button on their steering to press foreign Martin Haven Lamar winner guy Smith and Graham Goodwin in the booth watching the action with you we're in a slow Zone down to the first chicane on the mall San straight after Jack Aiken got caught out in the action Express Cadillac on his outlet from the pits and uh dropped the car off the road and lightly into the barriers not a a big impact guy Smith but at this stage just another frustration he had a crash early on he will be really beating himself up for that yeah it's had a tough race um I mean those guys have been uh incredibly strong in the US but um you know at this point they just got to put it down to experience um I think it's probably jack's first time here at Lamont so he's having a bit of a tough baptism of fire but um you know he's a great great driver and I'm sure he will learn from this and uh I'm sure they'll be back next year I'm sure actually expressed one of the stallets of the insert program it's a WeatherTech series and the ability to run the same car in both has not been lost on them four chorus green four chorus green over my shoulder that's exactly right both slows outs are being removed at the same time that's a nice little bit of synchronicity that was not necessarily intended just the work has been tidied up so we have a green race track four hours to go that is a European Lemont series races Graham Goodwin said and we have 1.2 seconds in our lead battle third place we have got Cadillac fourth place Cadillac fifth place the remaining healthy Peugeot car number 93 is creeping back up the order John Eric Van in the car he crashed it heavily in the rain early on Saturday evening and that car is now back up to fifth overall and in sixth place is the number five Porsche Penske motor sport car of Dane camera let's hear from the number eight Toyota team okay Brendan plenty of energy available for override or no Cuts plenty of energy available [Music] energy deployment in these cars has a maximum value and it is constantly monitored in real time now there is no rule as to where the energy can come from it can come from squirrels on a treadmill or internal combustion engines or anything else but there is a maximum but what that is saying is that you can now deploy the energy we heard that happening with the Ferrari when we're on board during the night at times like when you're in the flat shift and the engine although the engine the internal combustion engine keeps revving as the clutches change gear you're not transmitting that power what the clever Electronics can do is instantly and very briefly transmit the electric power so your maximum power remains exactly as it was even for the fractions of a second you're changing gear and when you change gear I don't know how many thousand times in a race all of those fractions those add up and that's the kind of Freedom he's been giving okay I had a problem with their charging system clearly they've worked around that and they no longer have a problem with their charging system so what's been going on uh while we're going through this though so it's 311 car by the way has been recovered so the bits and is now back on track uh getting in the hands of Jack Aiken we were pressuring white with a bit of a bobble over them curbs they're coming through Ted Rouge from the uh number eight got white the early stop it was to take advantage of the slow Zone to say to effectively grab back some track position boy that has worked and from 20 seconds down uh they Toyota now two seconds down we're gonna have to do some hard sums to see where that's going to count back later in the race because that's what they've done they've traded track position for their fuel window the other Factor that's worth keeping an eye on here gentlemen there is the leader there is a second place car and there is the number 50 car which is in seventh but could be a factor here in Ferrari strategy even Gap 2.0 so what's jokes lorda I'm sure is hoping for is the Cavalry the former Greek Helm of Lima and a 50 car can be ah we put this a confounding factor for Toyota's attempted attack here any pressure from behind to a lap from the second Toyota it's going to take some of the brake power that's going to be required for Ollie's front and attack on the leading car for this race and there's under four hours to go and the other thing is there's no guarantee it's going to remain dry we might get a massive Cloud burst the leaders might all end up in the wall there might be a safety car if the 50 Ferrari can unlap itself from the leaders then it's got a much better chance if it's on the lead lap of being back in the frame all of a sudden and this race has taken one or two weird twists already but it's not beyond the bounds of possibility that the the script writers haven't finished with us yeah if that if that number 50 car can get in front of the Toyota it will just be a thought at the side because they just want the straight fight and if you're going to get the 50 car in there it will just be a buffer between uh two cars excellent sector two Brendan excellent sector two Gap 1.3 more likes within DRS ranges if we had such a thing but again gives a great indication I I think really my biggest takeaway apart from the quality and and actually the survivability so far of these hyper cars because almost every issue has been predominantly human affected or see me inflicted by the humans my takeaway here is actually this is a little bit like a spec formula race in that the driver seems to make a bigger difference to the total equation than I can remember in a number of years you get somebody who's really on top of the car and suddenly it's just a different car and and that is changing with which driver is racing against which in their rotors and it's also great to see them tweaking the strategy you know maybe the slow there's a slow zone so we'll pickle up early small little things there just to try and gain some time here gain some time there and it all all adds collect theirs up and clever thinking that Toyota have not had to do in recent years because they've not been under the cudgel like they are here this is an absolutely knocked down drag out knife fight of a race no one's got an advantage everybody's got a foot on everybody else's throat and yeah this is that absolutely happened to really think that they haven't done since the Audi Porsche Toyota lmp1 hybrid days they've not had this level of sustained level of intense competition yes they are being hypercar was quick but it never had the fuel capacity to to match them on on endurance so it would be quick but we always knew it was going to fade and so they didn't have to match it in the same way that they have to match Toyota and Porsche Cadillac if they let them go by sticking too rigidly to plan a they may not be coming back yeah you've got to be flexible and thinking on your feet and that's what these guys are doing and it's great to see Toyota having this battle we know we know they're a brilliant team we know they're got great drivers and uh you know well organized but this is them you know backs against the wall this is really seeing what they're made of and you know they're really stepping up to the player here showing why they are you know multiple winners and wet Champions and yet for all their experience of this race and their third year now here with their car the new bugs the new kids are on the Block Ferrari Cadillac Porsche Peugeot because Peugeot although they know the car have never raced it here they're all right there they are all right there and again Graham that's that's a an indication of Just What A good rule set this is by giving you targets to attain rather than a box to be constrained by it's allowed some free thinking with them I'm on a very different concepts but the end result is they've all hit they've all hit the goals all their darts are in the ball listen what's going on with Toyota you're doing well man you're doing well keep pushing this is a battle now the other point is going to make you a gentleman is we're lucky we're sitting here and watching fantastic pictures of a fantastic motor race but what's better still is has never been more ways to follow this racing oh who's that gone off and where have they gone away with the toaster just catching me like smoke wasn't it it looked maybe the car whoever is in front on the road oh no it's a 757 it's off the road it had gone off that's it it is Daniel Sarah yeah he must have been getting right towards the end of a monster stint in that castle racing Ferrari he was absolutely flying and lapped himself off all the class leaders I will hold for a moment to see whether or not we get another view of that we saw the dust cloud I thought for a moment it was just one of the leading cars that caught the edge of the track I've come back to the point it was about to make about that was in the air before they got there but I couldn't see anybody ahead of them on the road and we didn't see initially anybody in the gravel so that's team jota it has been a difficult one it is a double yellow Marshal's post 24 25 to protect that instant site for Daniel looks like they're preparing to get the car back on track but uh obviously any chance of a good result is going other than a finish which would still be a good result yeah point I was about to make there was there's never been an easier way uh he's a rather more choice in following endurance racing it is a complex Sport and to do what we do to do what the fans I know at home love to do you can't do it without timing screens and data and different ways of crunching it and the way which the Geniuses in our production uh facilities manage to translate that into Graphics that are useful for us and for other people to follow we talk a lot don't we about the manufacturer Partners here and about uh you know about Michelin and about total energies we don't talk very often about alcohol systems who's providing us with solid Service as part of the history of this world championship well it's more than that you know it's a 20 year old company they've got a lot of experience not only does everybody rely and this this is not just us this is the teams or the drivers on all you know looking for all the sector data for every driver on every lap that their willingness in fact they're enthusiasm for constantly evolving the graphics package to include more information more for the fans to learn because if it's written there on the screen or written in our timing screen the information is the same but getting it to the fans is easier and and they've been such a part of of keeping the information that you're doing great the slow Zone will be active from turn 14 to turn 17 this lap I will remind you when you're closer slow Zone from turn 14. still who's on the radio the slow zone or full course yellow or red flags or whatever logos at the top all of the you know the timing information the new energy level indicator and what will what we'll talk to the guys about when we finish the race is working on a way in introducing the tire information as well with you know we know basically what's going on in London mp2 if it's raining it'll be the wet if it's not it'll be the slick but in GTE and especially in hypercar and that's really where the focus is going to be over the years knowing who's on the soft or the medium or the hard at the beginning of the race for instance would have told us all sorts of great information the Toyota's have started on the soft it's 40 degree track temperature wow no wonder they're going away you know those sorts of things when you learn about them later explain a lot but having the ability and I'm sure somehow the guys at alcabel will make that happen that's the kind of thing that the fans will see the same as the manufacturer's logo and the car number and the car or the driver that tire information will be it you know when it's on screen all the time it's just a constant drip drip drip of information to the fans and you know those guys have been great for for pushing that along within our our on-screen package there is that uh that phrase is the little knowledge is the dangerous thing but having a lot of knowledge is absolutely brilliant and um the girls at uh in alcohol systems have been working hard again through the whole week in fact two weeks uh here so listen again into what's going on at Toyota yeah we'll talk outside of the slow Zone come here look at how close the second Ferrari is the back of the Toyota yeah that says caught up going into or in the slow Zone that could be an interesting moment but that is Brennan Hart you know under the pressure we predicted he might be a lap or so ago uh he's looking to get eyes forward onto the first of those Ferraris but the 50 car in the hands of big ovelina is right there with him it is six laps off the lead lap the number 50 Ferrari so he needs to get a few more back and that's not going to be possible in four hours of racing three hours 45 of racing so there's not a chance he's going to end up on the lead lap but again that constant distraction the last thing that Brandon Harley wants now is uh a Ferrari in his mirrors when he's trying to look forward and Chase down James Gallardo he wants to be uh ice forward and trying to close that Gap and it looks like the 50s behind him he's flashing his lights making his intent that he's right behind him and wants to Force spread it into a mistake well wherever you've been for the last 21 20 and and the quarter hours if you've got the opportunity to just stay with us for 3 hours and 42 minutes to see who wins this three hours 45 minutes only American Le Mans Series race it's uh it's a great opportunity to see who may end up with the trophy at the end of the Centenary lemon and how that's going to work because again we've got no indication the chances are it might be the 51 Ferrari or the number eight Toyota chances are equally easy that it could be neither of the above okay Brandon So the plan is to keep you in for a third stint we are wondering if we can keep the tire do you think the tire can go through East ends question oh yeah okay he's complaining the 50 Ferrari is gaining too much in the slow zone I'm fed up with that and probably actually the 51 Ferrari is gaining I think he's right I think he's right that car is significantly closer now what we didn't see is where the game was well now there's going on here obviously three cars are being driven by extremely professional drivers under extreme pressure the deal with the slow zone is you must be doing no more than 80 kilometers an hour like the pit entry line as you hit the line says there is a very slight leeway it is a very slightly way but there is a very slightly way there's a little moment early in the morning where two cars were nosed to town in lmp2 in a slow Zone and the car behind was closing on the car in fact and they were so close you didn't see them almost touching is it so going for a mass this is exactly what he said might happen because he's trying to get himself this is pressure for Brendan Hartley yeah he's got his own race to run well it's it's more than that isn't it because the pace we're seeing now from the Ferrari to unlap himself for one of how many six laps uh might not be replicated if he gets by well it will have to be because he'll get blue flags and they'll have to move aside if he is in front of holding up the Toyota everything is green actually in the short term this could not work particularly well for Ferrari because if Molina gets by and is just a tick faster than Hartley what happens then guy Harley sits in the slipstream it helps the Toyota speed up yeah I mean I think sister cars will be faster than two cars the faster but I think the Ferrari has the speed to break if he gets past the Toyota he can break the toe and um just basically sit there between the two of them probably get close to the 51 car and just kind of play rear gutter as he works well and again then those two would work quicker than the Toyota on its own and so yes there is definitely that element to it drama in Olympic too he said that the team manager of car 34 been called to raise control it is car 34 reported to the stewards for a safety car infringement I believed at the moment 49 seconds that is going to be at least Martin at least a drive-through penalty yeah at least so interior pulse Fabio sharer has got enough on his plate but a tiny safety car infringement and it won't be a monster thing like passing a whole line of cars because these guys are far too good but it will be something fairly small but still a significant rule Break by the way when we're talking about [Music] before you go to the beach to say hello to the family back home Matt Morgan enjoy your day on the beach and Ted put the sunscreen on and then Gaga we'll talk a bit more about racing cars so confirmed 911 as we thought the 911 911 is a retirement so the other one is a bit of a drama Camaro new gearbox okay that is the first significant delay for that effort but they're fitting the new Big gearbox and we won't see that car again by the look of things and the traffic has played into the hands of James collado because what was 2.0 seconds as the Gap is now close to five don't forget is on fresher tires this is his first into the car Brendan Hartley coming towards the end of a second stint or deep into a second stint now whether they're going to Triple those tires or not we didn't quite get the answer to that the engineer was saying we'd like to do a triple do you think the tires can take it stop talking to me in the slow Zone okay is that a yes but I guess we will find out I think it's I mean if I was Brendan I mean he's he's trying all he can to keep um collado yeah close by he's he's also got um Molina right behind him and they're asking him to stay in and do it on used tires [Music] foreign chasing the track in this car all the way through had a number of messages from it's the front end of the car that's seemingly more of an issue than the rest they seem to be making more changes to that car it's almost like on the oval with the weight jacket yeah they're constantly tweaking and playing around with that car whereas we've heard nothing from the Ferrari guys about any kind of changes there except the fastest lap with the United car 22 and likewise uh for uh yeah just did a quick time so the track still quite quick well train temperatures nearly doubled it's now up to 38 and above ahead temperatures up to 23. it's a much warmer Dave it is quite hot out there okay Brendan quicker in sector one and sector two this lap great job mate let's not forget the guy in front is on new tires the guy in front is on younger tires than you just remember him I'm sure that you'll see the gaps there'll be frustration and off the track uh briefly from Brenda dartley um you took a little bit of advantage in doing that by avoiding correcting yeah boarding Rexy at least he avoided Rexy and that's where he'll want to have done gonna generate in the green Porsche coming out of the pits the project one AO car that down in fifth place in its class that's his outlap so he's trying to build up speed out of the pit Lane the Toyota coming in fully lit and battling for victory at the I suspect the worst that will happen there is a an addition to the list of track limits violations absolutely that was supposed to put this way indeed from the book of Kennedy and Foxy cunning that I'm sure whatever happens with the uh the second Ferrari closing it on on him came from now that was that was accident avoidance that was taken to the hard standing to get by because the alternative was hitting him hard for him and it would have been a hard hit from behind and that would have put them both out of the race so there was there was no option there was that guy that's one of those Twitches as a racist right here you've gone by your reaction it's just a pure avoidance it will be the investigation I think that's confirmed it was an overtake off the track so it'll be interesting to see exactly what comes out from from that well they will look at the data and see how much more slowly the project one car was going on the previous lap and the team may have told Brendan Carr leaving the pits right in front of you watch out he's going to be slow but even so you're not sure how slow he's going to be I think Nielsen getting ready to get aboard the number 50 car so it's gonna be interesting because we haven't really had eyes on the 50 cars fuel strategy where they are if they're in the same Pit Stop rotation I'm not sure that 51 and 8 are due in just yet [Music] [Applause] [Music] let's take a look at the energy Graphics boys and girls in a truck and uh see what it looks like it's not it's not like you're fuel gauge in your car if you drive a if you drive the mild hybrid then it's much more like that you've got an ice and an electrical power source and it's that total energy that is the maximum for the car that is what we uh what we represent in what percentage of this basically of their power for the stints they've got left now back in the LMP one hybrid rules you used to have a maximum that you could deploy per lap that's no longer the case okay everybody doing a great job Gap is 5.9 last time around car ahead 28-2 Euro 28.5 you're doing awesome man [Music] I really encourage them they're really kind of not coaching him but they're really supporting him and giving him some positive feedback keeping his uh survive yes that's exactly right and keeping him in the right mind frame keep attacking he's getting away from me it's okay he's not getting away he's just creeping away and he's got fresher rubber it'll come back to us and it's all those things that stop you as a driver doubting yourself and what's wrong with my car why is he getting away I was quicker than him last time yeah it's all of that it's all part of the psychology of the of the sport and a lot of the time the best relationship between the driver and the engineer is all about that yeah we know it sucks to save fuel but you're doing exactly what you need to do and this will pay off for you just you know it will we know it will we discussed it we just know it hurts a lot right now you know there's that sympathy level and you can see the um the 50 card caught up to the back of the number eight but because it didn't get the pass done it's kind of lost momentum you get to that point where if you don't get it done within the first couple of laps you find here in their dirty air and you start to lose a little bit of downforce they'll be working front tires a little bit harder and it then becomes harder to make that pass but then hardly purple per sector on this lap wow beginning of the entire race potentially yeah that's now held by Antonio fuerco in the 50 car for a long time it was Sebastian borde in the number three Cadillac that was set on lap three of the race floco set his fastest lap 220 27 laps later significant penalty by the way coming before the 709 Glick in the house that's the covering position that puts on aboard the car speeding in the pit Lane a stop and 30 second hold for that car and that will lose it in position to its sister car yeah drop it back down to Ninth Place [Music] unlikely there'll be a repeat of last year's Podium finish for blicking house Brendan any further feedback on the tire how the tire feel question did quite get that one I'm afraid I think he said it's so stabilized I think he clearly feels good in the car this is them trying to claw back 10 or 15 seconds without having to make that that tire change well you've done the fastest first sector and the fastest personal yeah sector two so clearly he uh yeah well this could be a new fastest race lap his last lap was a 328.3 the fastest race lap of 327.4 he doesn't have to be an awful lot faster in sector three and the road is relatively clear this Aston Martin in the wrong place this could be the fastest lap of the race for Brendan Hartley now what that means for the longevity of the type means it's in a in a good place now in the second stance but when they do a third ties coming for the number 50 car yeah for attack but for the moment uh he said the Ferrari got really bigger balls that's cost him that takes the pressure Brendan Hartley doesn't it in a big way Nicholas Nielsen we know he's standing by to get aboard this car is it gonna be this lap or the next looks like it's this is that you wouldn't be taking the tires out of their blankets and rolling them through the front of the garage unless he was doing imminently you're not going to leave them sitting there for two or three laps [Music] come in if somebody did yes Brendan Hartley in Pursuit under six seconds the Gap 50 car rolls down pit Lane first time under three minutes 28 for that car will be Nicholas dilson man with an extraordinary record of success with Ferrari where they of course in recent years I think I said earlier in the show at least one major race win or title every year since 2018 and right in front of him was the a of course a 54 Ferrari the silver car that is currently in fourth place in gtem David Regan I think getting towards the end of his team we saw Thomas floor sitting in the garage I wouldn't mind betting that he's about to get back into the car we just double check is if we have to as he has to uh the Corvettes worked his way to the top of the uh GTE as well now yeah that's a run over any rival drivers recently yeah Thomas does need a further 54 minutes yeah so it'll be a a another stint for Thomas floor I'd die kind of imagine this might be the right time to put him in track is cleanish weather is good-ish he's rested-ish and by the way we saw the orange Aston Martin that uh the title managed to clear that is uh with the pit stop four the 54 that means both the 25 and the 56 move ahead absolutely 93. beat Peugeot this is the fifth place car that's bad news it's not always really bad news essentially when the car is on the pit apron you're allowed a limited number of people to work on it if you need to do anything other than routine service back in change the nose change the tail that that comes under you know the stuff you do on the petrol Floor Court anything else back into the garage then you can throw unlimited number of people at it the nose is off hose is blowing stuff out of air holes is this power steering issue we're working at the back of the car as well there we go warning flag for car number eight for overtaking beyond the track limits okay so it was a warning we know why you did it but it is illegal just don't do it again okay fair enough that's pragmatic to me yeah you know it was either that or risk a very big accident because he had a 50 car right behind if he got sideways the 50 car would have been right in there as well uh meantime Nick of Roni is putting the hammer down and has put in the fastest lap of the race so far for the 33 car 350.439 now 78 seconds the good over Sarah Bovi still working her bronze driver time in the 85 I'm James car now when she finishes this step will she be done that's our apologies when she finishes this dish yeah she might be very orientated through and then we'll go to Michelle gatting the silver raced uh silver graded driver and then the gold Louise Beckett is at Peter Peugeot but the 93 is back out uh and on its way to Trek now okay so whatever it was it was Swift if you could ask but uh I know obviously that'll be in your remit uh it was a fairly quick in and out kind of been much more than about 90 seconds yeah cerebri four minutes from the end of her required minimum of six hours okay it's a drive-through penalty for the lmp2 leading car probably taking on the safety car can leave it Mighty tights for the lead of lmp2 with under three and a half hours to go and that's why he's been rocking on like a man possessed but I mean he has anyway but even more so Miguel Molina looked like he'd been working hard for a living there it's uh it's pretty warm in the cars Cadillac number three and there's a ring of under Zander when it came in but it's a driver change there and I'll be a little Bamber I think the white helmet I know he's the number two car confirmed boxes left for fuel bag so that we've got Dixon taking over that cart and Bob takes that for Brendan Hartley there's the 34 Carl Fabio has another two laps to comply yeah we're behind drive through penalty fully twitched up but of course what you can't do is combine it with a routine pit stop so if they need one when they need one they'll have to do that separately Meanwhile by the way as uh gets uh late exclusive uh abusive track of its warning flag but he's out of the car now but there is a battle firmly underway for third place in lmp2 because Neil Jani is being caught by a flying ballup chatan pole sitter last time around uh two seconds to take it out to advance advantage and it is a two second Gap new nose going on to the front number three caddy I don't know if it's new new or just a replacement of those seem to have gone through a few body panels most of the caddies have an eye glicking house in the pit Lane with Nathaniel bear Tom at the wheel serving that penalty there is 41 the remaining healthy lmp2 wrt car Louis delatras comes in and hits his marks he comes in from second place if you said Graham the Gap was very small and Louise Beckett was there I'm at Peugeot 93 they had a lack in hydraulic pressure so they just needed to bring it in get it re-sorted and back out again a team have just said to me they did a fantastic job to do it so quickly thank you very much Lou and that's a change to their transmission system selection they went from Electronics to hydraulic it is a transmission that Peugeot build themselves they didn't do what Audi did go to Ricardo they haven't gone to extract they well may have had some input from extract we saw extract guys in the garage with the team but it is a predominantly self-constructed transmission and that's being really the Achilles heel of the car in terms of reliability since its debut in monter last summer so the pits is our GTE amp leader over only stays in see his knees tucked up right behind the steering wheel there he's a considerably different height to Ben Keating Mickey katzberg both a bit taller than France rated teammate so we have to attack themselves in into the convoluted space out goes Robert kubitzer in the 41 wrt car pets are part of the team of the car that failed on the last lap of Le Mans two years ago then at the wheel they went from being briefed by the ACO officials in the garage okay now what happens now is when the car passes The Checkered Flag we'll go with you and we'll stand by underneath the podium then the drive will coming in the car they would oh hang on a minute and they walked over to the other side of the garage I mean that's how close they were to winning Le Mans that's tough isn't it and you can imagine that the same was probably happening with Toyota back in 2016 as well I mean yeah everything was in place ready to go the pits and receiving service number eight Toyota Brandon Hartley stays in no change of tires it's on the medium they'll be good for three stints maybe even four we heard his race engineer saying they wanted to Triple them looks like that's exactly what they're going to do and actually guy Smith his Pace has been pretty good all the way through the stint hasn't it so that might well work all right let's catch up with Louise Beckett in the pit Lane I know it's probably old news but the uh 911 proton competition of Michael Fassbender the door has just gone down such a shame when I came back this morning and saw they were still in the running I was really happy for them [Music] 11 confirmation of its retirement all the body language I'm afraid when the car came in was that ain't going anywhere it had a big hard slap on the wall now the first part of the portion curves there's many cars have that's cut there's been some parts of this track they've claimed more than a fair number of victims this year I mean the race of attrition in that particular element of the portion curves and the first she came on them all star boy the number of people who've not had an incident there is probably smaller than the number that have and Indianapolis as well as the accent of Indianapolis has also just go back to the tires we said about Brendan Hartley now on his uh I'm gonna be his second stint on these days so the car can feel pretty good by the end of the stint when you're on low fuel but now you fuel the car up you've got a lot more weight um the tires are obviously are getting older so it becomes more and more difficult um as the stick goes on obviously but uh his Pace has been good and um you know absolutely no reason to be changing tires at this point Fabio share it in the pits that was a fuel stop he will be in again next lap he still has not served his penalty let's drive through isn't it that was not the drive through so we have to do it yeah because he's already passed by once that's the second time past the line it will need to be this that way in fact it won't be Fabio because there is Fabio you can tell not looks like Fabio but also because he's limping like John Wayne on a bad day so he is out of the car and he's been driven Again by Albert cost here and yeah look he can barely even stand on the foot when he's been running around the car gym for the pit stops he hasn't been running he's been hopping that's right I missed it well actually what happened he was run over by his foot his left foot was run over by the Corvette oh my God yeah yeah yesterday is this evening is this drive through just I'm catching up no that's just the driver change that's full service driver change they still have a drive-through penalty for forcing another car under the safety car okay yeah have we still had anybody uh get a penalty yet for track limits there's been don't go there well actually there hasn't been actually that led to the demise of Michael fassbender's car because he was coming into that first left a really fast entry into the 40 curves and knew he was going to run out wide and tighten the line and spun the car and he on the radio hit Peter was saying yeah he was trying to avoid track limits and on the road he said sorry guys I'll hit the wall damn it track limits yeah that's what he was trying to avoid so and it's a combination of you putting the lock on because you're going to tighten the corner and then you think okay I'll need to lift as well so you lift off suddenly the car issue with the Porsche absolutely yeah all that unsprung wheat in the back even though the engines were still been moved way up he was really lucky he was just trying to do the right thing and it unfortunately called him out and he almost climbed the wall there too that was the other thing that Nicholas Nielsen Ferrari the number 50 he's just done the fastest lap of the race on a 327.3 so they are pushing hard still they are six laps down to our leader [Music] there is the number eight Toyota just freshen off a fuel stop there goes the 51 back out of the irritant the uh the crane in of sand in in the shoe of Brendan Hartley that was the 50 Ferrari because that stopped slightly out of sync and it dropped back a little Nick Nielsen's no longer in the position right behind that second place Toyota that Miguel Molina was so so that annoyance for Hartley is gone he was able to just distance himself a little bit got a couple of breaks in traffic and then he was gone and then that sort of that magnetic attraction was broken wasn't it yes and the 50 car never got back up to him again I think every time Hartley has been in the car he has made quite a difference to to the way that the balance of power is swinging and it's it's like a it's like Newton's Cradle is like going from one side to another it's just constant motion right now hard to tell which is actually in the better place the Ferrari which has got a cycle fresher tires and Brendan Hartley in the Toyota [Music] the Gap is 10 seconds the Gap is 10 seconds it's actually what's the Gap I don't see it yeah three hours to go and uh we're I don't see them that's fantastic but I mean they're close enough he thinks he should be able to see him he he could before they both stopped so let's hear from the Porsche team see what's going on with them foreign [Music] car but still remains in second place 85 beggar pardon uh in the GTE am class it's still the Corvette leaving with Nico veroni Sarah bovey at the end of this didn't we'll have done her drive time so her silver and gold rated teammates Michelle gatting and Rahel Frey can finish the race remaining three and a quarter hours or three hours or so as it'll be then an Amad al-harty ort by TF now he claimed the first ever World Championship pole position for an Omani driver when he put the car on an amazing pole at spa we were watching the battle as we often do between Ben Keating the sarabobia and then boom yeah most astonishing lap from al-hati now he's got plenty of experience as far from his British GT Racing days but that was a that was a proper run yeah and he might be in a position now where he becomes the first Omani driver to stand on the podium at Le Mans they are in third place and very much in contention in comes the number two caddy Alex Lynn at the wheel and this car well it's in the old Cadillac battle for the final Podium spot that's going to have to be a tough one there there are actually a few laps apart but it doesn't take much to happen to the number two car to swing the balance to number three well I guess either way it would be a caddy on the podium which would be I think all things considered a great result I'm sure they were the lights have been fighting for the win but I think um they're just not quite uh got the pace of the of the leading two cars but uh still third place would be no and they've not had the luck either both if at all of The Cadillacs have had an incident or or two or three or four so that's taking them out of the hunt we saw the number two car open for viewers that of a certain age no that is not Derek Bell it's a Derrick Bell replica helmet including down to where he had the Union Jack on the top of the forehead that is Alex Lane he wanted a helmet so many drivers have got different helmets specifically for Lamar see Miguel Molina's got uh his regular pattern but where it would normally be white it's got monochrome representations of Ferrari's racing history here Alex Lin has gone for this um who was it who in the panis car jop vanity instead of having his own regular helmet secretly had had his helmet painted in the livery of team owner Olivio panis in the helmet he wore when he won the Monaco Grand Prix and Alicia so that was a little touch so some of it is lemon relevant the guys in the 50 car have all got red and yellow Ferrari Livery like on the car and a 50 on it as well they've sort of taken their own Livery off for this race so there's a lot of that going on a nice little touch from Alex Lynn clearly Dinger is a bit of a Boyhood hero for him as as he is for many of us try not to remind him too often of the fact that he was in the in his pride when we were still young but he's he's still very much in his prime and I have clearly Alex yeah reflecting that number two car rejoined still in set in third place it is a lap behind the leaders a safety car could change that in a heartbeat with the new safety car regulations if he ends up in a queue and a safety car with the leaders behind him and there's a two-thirds chance that that would be the case because we have three safety cars and the way they fall is kind of arbitrary and he could end up on the back of the hypercar field and on the Lee lap and suddenly that could change the dimensions of this race and the Dynamics of this race and Guy kept the race more alive even maybe than it might have been in all three classes yeah I mean all the way through the the grid there's there's action um at the front we've got a great battle we've got the uh it's a Europa car um I believe it's now done its drive through so uh we'll see exactly where that shakes out whether it stays in the lead or not yeah it should have done shouldn't it right now and its last Pit Stop was 32 seconds well there you go that's where the pit Lane Delta is 32 seconds so yeah drive through 32 seconds anything beyond that there's been work done out of standstill [Music] yeah so that 50 seconds that he had in hand after the pit stop was very very important aboard with Andre Lotter just for 10 wins in World Endurance Championship racing engineering that the chassis number of the 963 963 number 111 not that they didn't start at zero zero one and have built 110 before they got to this one but that'll be great for um for chassis number Geeks in many years to come because he won't just have it written down on a piece of paper in scrutineering they'll actually be video evidence that's right off the car go around the outside here but you see you have to keep it more in the middle of the road because of all the marbles at the beginning of the race he would have been a no-brainer but um and what a great demonstration of what happens when you when you're traffic the exact wrong spot you can hear that you can hear them back off you can see that changing down again yeah exactly totally changed the way he took that part of the racetrack it's not being a you know in your golf GTO on a country road and you come up behind somebody enjoying a you know Sunday driver granny you know you change down a couple of Gears ready for the Gap to come and then yeah it it definitely affects the speed of the car of course this Sunday drive is a little quicker than most hopefully hopefully not that there's quicker the most hopefully hopefully most Sunday drives the slower than this [Music] and you can see how recently he has been in the pit Lane the alpha male Graphics down the right hand side of your screen showing brake and throttle application and also the energy state of the car so that will be its mild hybrid system and also its internal combustion engine and on the left-hand side the gear selector position five up to six goes up to seven and on the left watch the Speed 321 is the magic number that takes you to 200 miles an hour anything north of that is into slight police get Airy territory modding right up to the limiter not quite to The Limited guy what is actually the fastest point on the circuit and the reason for that is because if you get into the slipstream with the car at those speeds you want to have a little margin so that they can take advantage yeah because as soon as you hit that limiter the card just stops accelerating which is obviously not what you want when you're trying to make a pass so that'll be set at sort of 77 7800 RPM with another 250 300 RPM in hand because when you're in the turbulent air behind the car close behind it it's less hard if you like for the car to push its way through than than standing air and so you get that little Advantage you will have felt it yourself in on in a road car behind a big truck I mean especially when you go past a truck you feel the bow wave you feel the wash you know you can see it with a boat it's no different with a truck that's why that's why aerodynamics is called fluid dynamics because air is a acts the same way as very thin water very very little but but it's got that you know you see cars side by side on the straight and they're bobbling around well that's why because if you imagine two boats they both be bouncing off each other's bow waves so so that weight that Airway is very much a even though it's tidied up in boats it's tied up even more in racing cars to help generate grip and to help take hot air out of the car and all of that it's still you still bouncing around on these cushions of air and that must be when you first get into this when you first get into high aerodependency cars that must be an absolutely mind-warping experience to to get to grips with why these weird things happen that are invisible and again it's you know when he with these cars in theory the faster you go through the corner the more downforce you have so the more the car has been pushed into the ground and and uh it's getting your head around that Louise Beckett uh I don't know if you've seen you've seen yet but the 38 Hertz team jota is in the garage the driver's out of the car they're not going anywhere they're cleaning the car up and what they're doing is waiting for the car um waiting towards the end and aiming for the car to be classified okay and can you ask Sam how close to the end of the race does he need to go to actually make sure the car is classified because that that will be the main thing I'll come back to you on that when they're expected to go back up yeah enjoy the tea while you're there oh he's at uh Hertz team jersey yeah the 38 car has had a trying time it is fair to say that uh hybrid the first car in private hands next time out for the World Endurance Championship Monza in July if you quite fancy a bit of watching this stuff track side and particularly actually there were fans in Baltimore who could not get who could not get uh tickets for Le Mans there may well be other fans from Europe who couldn't get tickets from Oman who decided to go to Monza instead um that's yeah you can you can watch these cars tracks are and you'll be able to see all of that going on you'll also be able to see proton racing their customer Porsche as well into the garage again problems for Porsche last time it was 93 this time it's 94. now the 94 car was crashed earlier on as well by Gustavo meno says so both cars have been in the barriers 93 was crashed by John Eric Van had a brief chip into the garage they had a hydraulic pressure problem and their hydraulic gear selector shifter I would think would be the problem there and I wonder if that is the same deal with the 94 car generation curve see the the wear and tear that these cars go through the wrap coming off the right front fender yeah live your life this car and bugs we slap box box driver Champion okay so he will come on that look at the Pito tube on the left-hand side there barely even attached it's bending right back now that measures air speed why do you need that well you correlate it with the wheel speed but wheel speed can be affected by weather so aircraft have a pitot tube to measure their speed over the ground whether there's a headwind or not they correlate their air speed with actual ground speed and that's exactly what you're doing here is that Valentino Rossi backing the Toyota in Brendan Hartley taking some tips from the doctor but he needs to stay on the other side of that white line because it's not just the marbles it's the gravel as well guy Smith that is such a big factor late in the race every gravel trap has been visited by everybody corner that's a handful yep okay Brendan you need to control brake pressure you need to control brake pressure in those places I know it's difficult the tires are getting old apprentices there it's tgr what did you say as a driver what did you take from that controlling brake pressure so he can't play with the balance anymore or the harvesting anymore that all seems to be optimized and these things take a lot of stuff and there's a lot of pedal pressure yeah you can actually modulate the pedal so usually with a downforce car the first hit is normally a hard hit of of pressure when you've got the downforce on the car and then you actually bleed off the brake pedal as you go into the corner and as you roll off the pedal you carry momentum and roll speeds with the corner but that first input is so important and it just seems that while the grip of the tires are going away perhaps that first input been aggressive is just on balancing the car so it just needs to be a little bit more possibly break a fraction earlier and a little bit lighter oh John Elkin the CEO of automobile Ferrari has changed out of his Hawaiian shirt of yesterday is a little bit more dressed up Sunday if he's off to church later so he has that look about him looking very sharp this morning he was looking very chill and uh I didn't quite we didn't really quite get a look at the shirt close enough to see what all the various different colored patterns on it were I'm sure it was very Ferrari Le Mans related let's hear again from the eight Toyota crew okay Brendan we have a question for you is four stints possible for you physically is forcedence possible for you question the cultural to which is as long as I don't stay on these doggy old tires if you give me fresh rubber I'll do it Louise Beckett well if you remember that's exactly the same call that we heard earlier in the race right at the beginning in exactly the same answer yes I can stand and I'm not sure if the tires will last yeah put me in coach definitely he's up for the fight and and you know he knows what it means to win Le Mans he's won it with Porsche he's won it with Peugeot and he wants to win it again and he wants to win as tough a lemon as there's been in a decade and more and probably certainly in his knowledge of lamanna I'm struggling now to think of another one where it's been so Cutthroat and so cut and thrust all the way through [Music] 94 Peugeot still in the garage let's hear from Louise again yes I don't know if you saw what happened on track I didn't um the 93 Peugeot came in and had a nose change now that's the one that had the Hydraulics issue as well which was a quick turnaround but I don't know if you've heard anything or seen anything other than that on that one foreign Toyota stopped out of sync a little earlier was to come in while there were two long slow zones on the track which reduces the speed of everybody else on the track which then means that your pit stop quote takes less time so it was a shorter stop top themselves up but again you know Fuel and track position both in that equation that's the Battle Cats car throwing off a bit of the uh no's the Peugeot so that was where it lost bits of its nose and that the replacement is on but the onboard we saw a little earlier still had the 93 car with bits peeling off so there's Carlos Tavares himself a racing driver I think I'm writing remembering that he's raced here at Le Mans maybe one of the Support classes now a few moments ago we saw the Ferrari number 50 starting to close in on the back of the Toyota the marine and earlier you guys were talking about how the 50 had been hounding Sebastian bleming or it may have been Brendan Hartley how much of that is is bothersome or can you just put that out of your mind I think it's quite it's a real pain to be fair because I'm just saying I think that um you know Brendan just wanted to focus on on uh the lead Ferrari and when you've got the sister car behind you flashing his lights basically just been a nuisance it means that you're then why not why not let him go he's six laps there because then you've got another car between you and the leader so yeah [Music] less than three hours to go we're just past one o'clock here at the Circa de lassar the Centennial of the 24 hours of the month we're going to enjoy leaving you to do your own commentary for 10 seconds while we swap Jim into the uh Commander's chair and and Davidson will join with guy Smith so we will have our world champion and are the mod winner in the crew uh none of the rest of us have done either no no just those two exactly so uh we'll take a quick pause we want to do in just a second [Music] all right foreign [Music] hello what's been going on give us an update well we are pretty much the same position as before with the Ferrari leading the Toyota still pretty close about sort of 14-15 seconds it's kind of ebbed and flowed a little bit but looks closer though than the last time I left when there was a minute distance between the two of them so what happened there um the Toyota made a short stopped and did a pit stop under a slow Zone and gained a little bit of time actually got down to about two seconds from sort of about 10-12 seconds down to two so that was a smart move but they gained a little bit of track position but um obviously uh [Music] looks like the 94 Peugeot that is in the pits is getting a new shoes with with the steering very early on in the race we had uh was it jean-errick Vern after the moment only went off in molsan and got it beached in the gravel for quite some time and he had a message saying we need to cool down the power steering rack oh really yeah so uh it's clearly a bit of an Achilles heel on that car [Music] like it needs to play something that doesn't sound like a short yeah a short bit of work down there does it Jim no not at all not at all so your heart is uh heart is hanging in there it's um he's on um it's on his third stint on the tires and they've asked him to stay in now for a Boston um whether I doubt he'll stay on the tires for a full stint but you never know they can do it I mean it's not unheard of uh to be able to do the quadruple on particularly the medium Tire yeah with the with the Michelin Runners so yeah it can be done you obviously need to do quite a bit of time management as well and therefore you know run a high speed core and it's just throttling back a little bit not pushing them over stressing them and those are higher energy corners and you can see there the uh the conversation going on down at uh Peugeot with uh Lloyd Duval in the background suited and booted with helmet on there's the glicken house technical team yeah an eye on the data still got there two cars in the mix I mean they're p8 P9 the car we see on screen there running in P9 and uh they've yeah they've had reliability but like many other drivers out there there's their drivers have suffered as well been a mistake or two hasn't it yeah but you know it's it's to be forgiven because I've never seen a Le Mans like this it's it's it's calmed down in terms of the conditions now but uh the problem is now the drivers are so tired they're absolutely fatigued from what they've been through this Relentless changeable conditions and uh yeah this is a hard enough race anyway but this has been absolutely Savage for them it's just the type of time when it's just adrenaline that gets you through it when you're really when you're that tired this is where you are digging in you're digging deep into your Reserves at this point because you are tired you know you've not slept physically mentally tired and um you know but you know that the end is close so you've got you know what the end game is so he keeps you going particularly when you're in Broad in a a immense battle like we got with uh Toyota and Ferrari they're essentially just down to the two cars the Ferrari 50 you know still that six laps behind so you can count them out so it does come down to just you know those two Mighty brands fighting it out right through to the end with two hours 54 minutes to go 14.6 seconds separates them with two Cadillacs lurking they're lurking yeah and that's that's uh they're they're lurking I like the vultures just circling around waiting to pick up the scraps that's uh you know it's all they can do really they they have had the Speed they put themselves in a position to be able to do that absolutely especially for the three car which is really had to work hard to get back into fourth position it's not been easy for those guys they've had their their issues but um but they're still running and uh anything that happens to the guys in front they are right in the the pound seats to so just with just under three hours to go as Anthony just said we've got 14.7 seconds separating first and second overall in lmp2 we've got 23.7 seconds separating first and second and then down in gtem where we see the number 33 Corvette with Nicholas veroni behind the wheel we've got three cars within a minute all on the same lap so it's the Corvette then the iron Dames with Sarah Bove in second position 23 seconds back and then the ort by TF Aston Martin number 25. with Ahmed Al harty behind the wheel of that car a minute and eight seconds back so it looks like Michelle gatting is going to be uh next in on the next round of pit stops and she will take the the next stint uh Sarah Bove has now completed all of her drive time as has been Keating so we will probably see the pro drivers in these cars the rest of the way Ben has been formidable this race hasn't he absolutely I mean we call him you've heard of super Silvers we call him the super bronze and I said it after qualifying he's better watch out because he's going to be elevated to a gold if he's not careful his performance has been that great actually I remember exactly what you said because it made me laugh out loud he says that gets you an instant gold territory exactly so I mean such was his performance in qualifying but there you're only comparing bronze for bronze yeah uh as in the GTM category you need to qualify in the hype in the hyper pole your bronze drivers and uh yeah fortunately for them at the time the uh the car we're looking at 85 the iron Dame they weren't in hyper pole uh so yeah Sarah bovey still at the wheel like you say Jim and uh so that's the bronze driver in uh in the iron Dame so uh Ben has done his time you know it goes without saying of course the uh the pro drivers the the platinums the golds they do have a natural speed Advantage still over over Ben Keating um you know I only joke when I say he's uh gold status he's not you know he's he's just a fine bronze driver and uh he really has made the difference though today he's not single-handedly of course but he's clawed back and got that car from barely even being on the on the timing page I mean it's bottom of the second timing page I think it's about fighting your individual battles so you know it's when he's against the other bronzes can he win that battle against the other bronzers and I think it's the same with the goals against the other Golds or the silvers against Silvers [Music] well unfortunately it's not looking good for Peugeot at this hour the 94 is in the garage I think you've seen the team are working hard on that but they've just cleared that's the steering rack apparently and they've just cleared the 93 garage area looks like that one is coming in as well I can't speak to the team at the moment but when I get anymore yeah it'd be really interesting wouldn't it to find out how long that steering rack change would be I mean if it doesn't seem like it can be done in in a in a blink of an eye at all it sounds like pretty hefty work to me but uh and you know with that are they even considering changing the steering rack having said that because just set this fastest sector one of the Persian [Music] so more vibration issues being reported for the Toyota this time it's Brendan Hartley he definitely wants to get off those those boots at this point well that's the thing you know that even if you don't suffer any lock-ups and flat spots you can easily end up getting your tires out of balance just the way they naturally wear and uh so the longer you take them in you know three stins maybe even four stints is Pretty Natural to get some vibrations particularly through the fronts because that you feel that through the steering um rather than the the seats your pants with the with the rear tires uh you feel the the rear tires vibration uh the vibrations a lot less than the front tires I was I was gonna say uh before the camera switched to something else that one of the things also about Ben Keating and we just saw it right there and that's what made me remember it is his enthusiasm is infectious so even if the team is down had some trouble I'm sure he's the kind of guy that okay boys we can do this and then goes out and throws down some really fast laps like see we're all in this follow me he's going to America brothers and not abandon you yeah that American can do actually you know it is infectious you're absolutely right and uh and that's what you need within a car crew you need somebody you know it's that relationship you need to when you're down you need someone else sometimes to pick you back up and and every team member has their has their chance to to to do that and uh that's part of the joy of uh of Le Mans and uh and sports car racing in general it's not a it's not a selfish game it's not you're not out there alone as you see down there 93 getting pushed back in as Louise predicted car going back into the garage while the steering rack continues now some teams will tell you that a steering rack could take as much as three hours so they did this out of your water they took the Bodywork off and then they were blowing cool air so it's almost like it was getting too hot so they're trying to cool it down when the car's stationary the end of pit Lane I've heard it myself where it makes this incredible high pitch noise it's almost like radio interference or something and I asked uh I asked one of the drivers said what's that with that noise about what was is it like there's a motor wearing or something in size it's something to do with a the hybrid system or what is it I said no it's to do with the power steering wow that was that was a long time that was last year yeah yeah I think last year I noticed it whether it still does that or not I don't know but uh yeah I just thought at the time I thought that sounded odd s benching in these brakes working on that Corvette and also the aerodynamic effect as well for all the rain that we've had and the dirt it gets spread over the Bodywork very cool model makers take hours trying to perfect that that Fatina when they when they're gonna make a car that has got the dirt on it yeah I'm sure that's that's one of the cool things about Lamont is that afterwards if you do the winning car is uh tradition to just leave the dirt all the all the damaged Bodywork flies everything yeah the Battle Scars yeah and I think Audi even lacquered the car over once yeah yeah what did they do to your one guy oh there's a story behind that in your garage is it no there's a story behind that they actually wanted to keep it um as you said with all the battle scars on and it went to a show and somebody cleaned it you're joking it went to a car show and there was somebody cleaned the car and we can't have it because it looked dirty no no and you can't you can't it's not like this where you can fake it just let's just throw some flies and some some dust on it make it look dirty so it's it's it's still got a few bad scars but it's uh hasn't quite got the full wall paint on it here comes that driver change for the iron Dames it'll be Michelle getting in so they getting out so yeah like you said earlier on guys so driver the driver becomes driver helper in GTS and uh you could see the the shoulder straps going on into place and buckled in and then they also do the radio as well I've seen on the outside edge of the seat like where the the headrest is quite quite often yeah you have the radio on actually into the seat because it's obviously it's accessible that way yeah but it's interesting these girls have done fantastic again all day they've been they've been fighting all through this 24 hours but you just can't help but feel that the sort of balances swim now towards the Corvette it's worked its way up to the front and it it seems to have been the the quicker car it's going to take some beating yeah especially now that we've got uh you know the pros in the car I think it's going to be uh attained uh Barone and katzberg very very quick two drivers I mean there's getting poor position and we've all said oh it doesn't really mean anything in the lawn anyway it's just a little bit of showboating but uh when you see the margin that Ben Keating to pull by well over a second you think okay if they can have a reliable car surely when he's in the car like so guys when it's bronze for bronze yeah that is good Advantage it's got a massive Advantage I think that's what he's had around here usually they're fairly evenly matched we've seen that with uh sorobi all year long actually in qualifying in the World Endurance Championship the first three rounds we've had there it's always comes down to those pretty much down to those two in quality and it's separated by the few tents and and the race you know they in wek they have to start the race as well Palms drivers so uh and it's always a bit of a showdown between those two but not here it seems like Ben's just had the advantage the whole time and the other thing that was interesting about hyper cool was that he had the the pole sewn up and went back out and just you know hold my beer I can beat that and and basically did I mean I'll just be thrashed yeah yeah annihilated his own lap time so yeah look the car is clearly hooked up but uh bad luck certainly struck them at the start of this race but my goodness since then they have more than taken the fight to the rest of the field and now head them with uh what have they got uh about a minute leads yeah 13 seconds wow yeah into your report again doing a great job 21 seconds ahead of the uh wrt car so uh yeah just maintaining that lead I should say that's kind of how that's pretty much level out that's pretty much staying constant so is the 17 second margin between collado and Hartley out in front now since we've been talking about the GTS and other categories and peugeot's problems it was 17 seconds it still is it's kind of it's kind of like half a second lap just just chipping away just add in a little bit each time just a little bit quicker and gradually building that lead up so I think um Hartley will be Keen to get these tires off and get some new tires on and see what pace he's got and go about trying to uh close that gap down to uh collado how does uh Ferrari answer at this point if they do start to show some speed with those new tires do they do they just stick to their uh Tire strategy I think at this stage they've got to stick to the the plan uh it really depends if Hartley comes back with with some real pays and it's a concern at the speeding which is catchy then they will have to go with tires I'll be a bit more aggressive but I can't help but think that they've still got that Advantage even with with the older tires they seem to sausage to have to pay so yeah it does it so the start of the race you know obviously not as much rubber down as there is now a slightly different wind condition cars in a bit of a different state they've taken a bit of a beating all of them out there but uh the Toyota more than held its own at the start of the race when we were in the hottest conditions we're now back into the hottest conditions at uh quarter past or 20 past one in the afternoon here so hotter conditions the sun's actually yeah it's probably warmer now than it was at the start of the race actually and I feel like that's where the Toyota's at its best and now they're on the medium tires and yeah I you would naturally expect the Ferrari on fresher tires to be engine weight is it is there any advantage and I certainly wouldn't expect them to do this for two hours and 40 minutes to go but on the last stint if they're close you know if they're if they're almost the single digits maybe they're they're only 11 seconds back or something like that is it worth throwing a set of softs on and trying to get it or is it is it a misnomer that the softs are going to get you more speed even if they don't last so the softs I mean it's more complex than that the soft so it's not necessarily just soft medium and hard in terms of compound it's uh that there's there's heat element to it as well so you can have a soft higher temperature Tire or a soft lower temperature attire we've got a team radio here from Martin first [Music] copy it okay Brendan marks this lap fit confirmed boxes lap fit confirm vibrations are not a concern from the number side so the team can see yeah exactly so he look the driver has to relay the information obviously he's concerned sure the it might be damaging the car so the driver can take you know quite a bit of vibration through the body and the hands whatever but he's more concerned for the car you know there's still right why is this doing it yeah I don't want this thing to shake itself to bits so I relay the information you look where you need to on the data they have the load cells through the suspension and they can see and report back to the driver don't worry it looks good we can take a certain amount of frequency and it's well within that at the moment so chill out it's cool just carry on driving as fast as you can but we'll if it's hindering lap times we'll bring you in we'll get you on another set you know when the time comes which I think we can't see the energy levels at the moment but I assume they're getting to a point where yeah they'll change the tires and I suspect they'll keep him in the car that's that seems to be the plan but I didn't know whether it was because of the energy level like the fuel low the fuel level at the point or because of the vibration that's the thing I I yeah I need to confirm so I assume it's their energy levels um so yeah he'll get on a different set and he'll he'll be he'll be fine but um Louise confirms from the pits that it's mediums that will be going on the number eight car is uh Hartley comes in we saw the three-car come in and make their Pit Stop no driver change there so Brendan Hartley will stay in the fuel goes in gonna take a a tear off off the uh windscreen saw them reaching up there you can see just above the wheel well those little white tabs just going off the top of your screen there that's where they reach around and pull off one of the tear offs 12 per windscreen and the windscreens come to the track with those already reply tear off request has been answered he wanted a towel and some water ah energy Joe he took some energy gel as well yeah that's that stuff's well man that's that Better Living I had a story about AJ for the Daytona 24 hours and he came in he asked for a burger and a coke and he came in and he literally had a swing of coke what left the pit Lane with a burger in his hand and apparently when he came at the end of his his stint it's like mustard all down his white overalls it's a ketchup you think he's kidding yeah you can imagine I'm surprised if it had a wrapper if the last thing that didn't come out of the car before the door went down was the wrapper that's amazing very different I mean that's the only thing missing from that uh Nascar car entry okay Brendan new set of mediums new set of mediums on the cart go get him that's the message yeah exactly a minute and 41 seconds down at this point but obviously the that will change drastically when the 51 car James collado has to come in for his pit stop so this is the this is the that classic racing the the in lap the outlet you know this is this is yeah this is especially this time of the race absolutely 22 21 and a half hours in yeah it's hot out there you're sweating you feel it running down your face inside the helmet you're so tired or drained you're nothing left but somewhere within you you have to dig even deeper in these moments to try and find that lap time that you know the car can do but probably the only better radio transmission you're gonna get from your engineer is is that you're the winner then go get them in this day and age of oh we need to save fuel or we need to conserve this or don't do that and easy on this no go get him it's a head game yeah you know you've got two cars very evenly matched in performance very evenly match then you've got two drivers very evenly it comes down to a head game it's the slap boxer slap driver driver so driver change Colorado will come out interesting uh two American voices as lead Engineers on on these cars yeah he's uh he's been a bit of a revelation this year to us in the World Endurance Championship Justin Taylor the uh yeah car 51s engineer he's come out with some quality quotes is he fought my Audi is it Audi I think before I believe yes and he was uh he he was kind of an understudy to um oh I'm embarrassed here's some more rating radio drinks tube radio [Music] that's nice of pizza so yeah so I mean you you get reminded obviously when you come down the pit Lane to detach the radio and uh remember your belts as well because when your car stops you need to loosen them before you unbuckle so that the next driver getting in isn't compromised with the seat belt still in the the tight position because the driver helper won't be able to buckle them in so uh yeah all those things can really uh hold you back you see there Pierre greedy uh sorry uh Joe bonati in and he's pulling down on the shoulder straps getting himself comfortable making sure they're on the hands device in the right way you don't want them slipping underneath the hands device or twisting in any way um you don't want anything to to compromise your uh your focus and with the Ferrari bit at the beginning of the pit Lane it gives you the option to be able to tighten your belts while you go down the pit Lane you can tighten them up Brendan reporting that the car feels much better with these tires so maybe he flat spotted or something like that the name I was trying to get a guy helped me get Brad Kettler he was an understudy at Brad Kettler at Audi yep Champion racing yesterday yep a set of soft tires so Brendan is obviously he's on the mediums as is uh Joe bonatsi and the reason for that is this high-speed circuit I mean there's only one or two relatively slow corners on a high speed circuit you get a lot of movement within the shoulder of the tire the softer Tire in its construction by Nature flexes around a lot more and it Spooks the driver it's part of what makes it softer exactly it's just basically more squidgy so that's why they put it on in the the wet damp conditions it's your best chance of survival in those in those lower temperatures and because you then you need the pliable nature of the tire meter yeah and it Heats itself up a bit like a squash ball you know you're walking against the wall and it heats up physically it heats up through the kinetic energy and that's what the tires are doing um but the hotter it gets ambient and track and the faster you can go and the less moisture on the track there is you can then afford to start running a stiffer construction type okay the I.E the medium or a stiffer a stiffer compound an effectively that gives you more of a platform so when you're in the corner in the Porsche Corners the tire is a little bit stiffer the shoulder ties a little bit more solid so you can feel effectively it's almost like feeling the grip because when the tire is moving that's when the car feels like it's squirming around and it doesn't feel like it's taking a set it it makes your contact patch bigger does it it does yeah yeah [Music] so after the after the exchange of pit stops it's now 16 seconds so Brendan Hartley's out laps and his uh time on those new tires let's see how jovenazzi can respond as he can is about halfway through his Outlet I'll count Jim let's dramatize this bit it's 15.8 Seconds come on let's get into the driver's heads here 50. now forget it let's just call it 15 seconds Brendan you're 15 seconds behind I used to tell her announcers in the United States when somebody says well that's you know they pretty much got this in the bag it'd be like well that loud click you heard was everybody turning off so they go to the white stuff exactly [Music] not in this case nobody will be going anywhere this is going to be right down two and a half hours remaining in the Centenary celebration of Le Mans The 91st running the 100th anniversary 1923 was the first time that they got together to try and improve the automobile and prove that the Innovations and the technology was safe and that the car was car automobile was going to be reliable well we're doing the same thing today it's all about Innovation 100 years later the first fully subscribed year for the hyper car here at lasard and they have delivered they have delivered the front of the field both Ferrari Toyota Two Cadillacs a Porsche two glicken houses a Ferrari and a pujo all in the top nine so absolutely Stellar first first time out here at Le Mans for a full hyper Garfield not not the first time for hyper cars but clarify it full time for the hypercar field yeah literally all of the major manufacturers Ferrari Toyota Cadillac Porsche uh Peugeot of all had a chance to lead this race that's something I didn't think we would see honestly speaking Yeah in this event and the Centenary I didn't think based on what we've seen so far in the World Endurance Championship you you wouldn't have put money on the fact of that happening so I joked earlier on when I said that the first two hours of the race I thought I can't I don't think I can keep up doing this for 24 hours like [Music] positions all the all the way through 33 car out of the lead of GT Am driver change Nicholas Baroni out Nikki katzberg in and they show you how it's done then they yeah the Corvette garage crew they really show you how it's done this year it's a combination of not only the Pratt and Miller guys but some of the labra competition guys who for many years were kind of the European answer to Pratt Miller in the United States with the quarterback when it was the the C6 models but the C8 here is the c8r is being run by a combination this year [Music] 329.5 so it's a pretty impressive lap time you know not not a million miles away from from the uh the rest of the hyper car so you know Well Done To those guys and that guy doesn't give up I don't care if he's racing here in the clicking house or he's in a galaxy 300 at Goodwood Revival he does not give up and there you see handshakes all around for uh Nicholas Barone that's a great feeling you know yeah and the whole crew is high-fiving you I suspect he's done well you're done but also you know that's his job well done yeah it's um you know there's no better feeling than that and you know it's thus is that marks the difference really for me and highlights exactly what sports car racing is all about that real family feeling within the team and you can share that emotion with your other teammates as well and success is is trebled in that way yeah [Music] as we said before it goes back to the attitude of the of the team leader but not only that that is the you know you used to see the same thing when it was the full Factory effort you know Dan Banks and and and and and the guys in in the Corvette Squad that was the kind of reception that the drivers would get after a job well done there's our our lmp2 leader the interior poll competition entry number 34. Albert Costa behind the wheel of that car they have uh had a running race with the team wrt Robert coopenson number 41. for gosh at least the last uh eight hours or so there have been others that have tried to come up and challenge uh Paulo jutan now is in third place in the number 48 car for the uh edec Sport and the other team that's been been right there in the hunt for the podium has been Neil Yani in the decaying team number 30 but everybody's been chasing 34 and 41 for for the last little bit and it continues on with just under two and a half hours remaining I wonder if they'll ever change their car back to that luminous yellow and green concept that they had the whole time but more like their their garage Holdings actually yes yes that's the colors well there has been running but that's the color of the other car remember they started two cars in this race yeah but usually the solid colored car the is the Luminous yellow and I always felt like it really clashed and I do prefer this tell you what if they win this thing they're never going back on those colors that's the difference right there surely I think the only people in in the Sports World who are more superstitious than race car people are uh NHL hockey hockey really oh yeah you make the playoffs you're not allowed to shave until you get until you get knocked out of the playoffs so all these guys look like Lumberjacks like by the end of the playoffs so they're gonna wear the same set of socks until they they fall apart I mean it's it's insane the car is going to grow a beard and they're never going to uh change back from that golden golden yellow color still two hours 25 minutes to go though and there is the uh the competition the number 41 wrt behind his sister car actually 31 that is in where this is what is fit fit yeah not that far off the hunt wow I'm in front there's the uh the Jonah Squad they had such high hopes at one point they were leading overall and they were leading lmp2 and what an accomplishment that would have been but it's going to be an accomplishment just to get these two cars to the Finish Line as they have those crew guys they're gonna they're gonna deserve their uh their post race adult beverages after this one because they sure have earned it yeah and at the front the Ferrari uh on the Toyota the Gap now is 15 seconds it's pretty much kind of being 15 seconds full well since they did the pit stops it's maybe gone down to sort of 13 14 back to 15. so art is not really making any inroads into givenazi's lead at the minute [Music] yeah High 28 for Brendan slightly lower 28 for jovenazzi and it's really you're in the hands of the traffic I I feel that the two cars are so evenly matched on Pace at this point in the race that uh you can have as we often said as drivers you can have the Golden State where every car you come up you just started taking a straight line yeah and you get the slipstream off them as well for good measure you're coming you go honestly I had the golden skin I always used to joke with uh boiling about it and him too you won't believe it man I had the Golden State okay okay don't worry about the fast lap times it was it's not me it was the traffic yeah and then there's a stick where traffic just appears from nowhere every time [Music] that's what you pray for when you're inside the car you're constantly thinking okay right I've ever taken another car here that was a good one that's a semi-bad one there but I wonder all the other car and runs going through hopefully they're having it worse than I am like the battle at the front that has kind of settled out in 15 seconds this battle here in lmp2 is settled out at 22 seconds there you see the uh the large delivery it's amazing when you're in traffic how you become a mind reader because you're always thinking what are they thinking yeah I was trying to put yourself in the car up a heads position and what are they thinking what are they going to do because you're trying to second guess all the time what what are they gonna do and I'm going to do the opposite and you're constantly hearing the Gap if you're over Nazi you're hearing partly behind 14.5 seconds and partly we'll be hearing the the opposite of that and uh how much further ahead the car is and and you're just you're trying to assess you know okay right they've just I've caught the Gap a little bit there but I was a bit Lucky in traffic so maybe that's because they were a little bit more unlucky than me that time around and then you hear the next app and the Gap creeps up a little bit you go no okay it is and my traffic wasn't so bad that means that yeah it was traffic the lap before for him oh no I'm not quite as fast compared to him as I thought I was and you're constantly going through that thought process in the car this is our third place car in lmp2 you may recognize the badge on the nose of that car the lodge if you're a student of history here at the 24 Hours of Le Mans that is a name plate that dates all the way back to the beginnings of the French motor industry and of this great race in the in the 20s and 30s [Music] here's your fourth place car in the class the team Duquesne car with Neil Yani behind the wheel understand Neil is going to be moving on from this ride to the proton portion which is a great opportunity for him to get back inside the get back in a Porsche uh I'm sure he'll bring a lot of experience to that team a lot of prototype experience yeah I know for another prototype experience and the uh the number 30 car there as you say Jim to Kane meanwhile Matthias Kaiser has had a bit of a shortish stint in the vector sport number 10 and it's now uh Gabby Aubry behind the wheel of that car and he's in now apparently until the end of the race [Music] export Porsche Factory driver the links that he has with Porsche will help smooth the way with the proton team and that kind of development pass I I think I think they uh proton themselves as as you will know have great links to Porsche themselves but what he I think it will add to that is the Prototype knowledge and also um I saw that uh proton are going to be the first customer of the Ford GT3 for the Mustang so really yep so they're going to be running the the so they could potentially have the the push in hypercar and the Mustang in the gtc3 wow do you think we'll see a Ford hyper car if we're going to see a Ford GT3 car here comes the 93 account three back out much faster change than we uh than we feared yeah now is that the one that had that had the steering rack yeah it is okay so out there you go great good team effort there they both had enough problems they're starting to get them confused yeah that's probably not what the team are going for this is this race but uh you know sorry I did fear though and uh sure the team felt the same that they've been riddled with lots of different reliability problems so far this year and well since they've come back to sports car racing Frontline sports car racing and uh so yeah we I didn't expect them to to be quite as reliable in many ways as they've been let alone the pace that they've had so there is uh Gabby Aubry that I spoke about earlier on in the number 10 Vector sport against laps by the number 50 Ferrari with Nick Nielsen he started this race did Nick [Music] and he was in the lmp2 category of course last year in the AF courser and Sean he had a an early Pole Position made a real name for himself and uh here he is now now we're just a few minutes ago had a very interesting discussion but I thought was a great explanation for new Anthony and guy about about the soft tire and then we see the the lmp2 car the graphic came up showed that they were as we see the uh the Camaro the number 24 car having some work done uh looks like uh looks like that's almost exploratory like they're trying to figure out what might be going on as opposed to trying to fix what they know is going on I wonder why I did drop down the order now in 39 because it sits in the pits getting lapped the gearbox is what we're hearing a gearbox issue so [Music] that would be that makes that you know that's that's going to be stressed on that car but my point while we're still on the on that car just a question uh for all the fans that don't follow NASCAR how so obviously the ovals you're not you're not really changing gear that much but what about Street how long is a street course race for those competitors um normally a couple hundred kilometers like an hour an hour oh no more than that now two and a half hours okay yeah so like the length of a a Grand Prix or something a little bit longer a little bit longer than a Grand Prix but no way as long yeah so it's quite a good proving game for it then to come here in 24 hours this thing is probably lasted eight Cup races right so you know and how long would they usually keep the gearbox in do they have restrictions on that in the series no you don't okay it's just whatever your maintenance plan is I'm sure a new one comes at every event that sort of thing but like you say I mean on a noble depending on the on the oval certainly on the super Speedways they're very seldom shifting but on the mile and a half there's a lot of times you'll shift certainly on the short tracks there's there's a little bit more shift but like you're saying not like it is here so Brendan Harley now has just done the fastest lap of the number eight on a 337 oh sorry 327.8 and the gap's now down to 11.8 so whoa he's starting to to Chip Away now at that lead and make some inroads we've got a race in our hands yeah here we go two hours and 16 minutes to go just to put a and finish what that what I was trying to say we saw the graphic come up of the lmp2 car with hard tires on now what we need to point out is is that they are not michelins they are Goodyear so Goodyear comes at this from a completely different standpoint it's a controlled tire so they really just have kind of a soft and hard they don't have a they don't have that Medium option yeah exactly Jim so you know control tie like you say you can you can go out and buy those diets if you're register you can buy them you can keep them you know the technology is still very high but it's uh you know there's no tire wall in lfp2 it's part of the reason that gets expensive yeah exactly is to keep costs down you know it is uh they have the Monopoly there as a tire manufacturer you know many ways for good reason because it it's a it's a privateer category it should be a privateer category with amateur drivers paying their way to go racing uh so it makes a lot of sense you just have the one slick Tire the one wet tire and uh you know they brand it as a as a hard Tire it's a nice bit of marketing as well and sure it's it's great for them um that they have lnp2s as their category it's great to have Goodyear involved of course for the World Endurance Championship but the tires that you see on this car yeah number eight the michelins you can't go and buy those tires they are there's a lot of tech in there and uh you know and if one comes apart the engineers are out there looking for the pieces oh yeah afterwards technically they're a confidential tire so you know they actually the teams have to sign a contract yes to basically say that they will not um yeah the tie had to be returned because they've got all their Tech and their IP in that tire oh and the last thing they want is that to go to another manufacturer so proprietary information now here we go uh we talked earlier uh I asked kind of just maybe it was a silly question I don't know how much it bothers you when when the car that a couple laps down is behind you harassing you well now the tables are turned the 50 car is now ahead of the eight car the eight car is catching with 50 car how wide is this Ferrari suddenly going to become I don't think about as wide as the um the circuit as wide as as wide as the uh the blue flags will allow yeah I mean you gotta you gotta be careful but uh yeah you can make life a little bit difficult get yourself the next driver be careful that you put too much brake pressure screen information great information so uh Brendan referring to turn 14 yeah uh I believe unless they've changed things since I was there turn 14 for them unlike I'll turn 20. Corner okay where he had the rear locking so it makes sense to me so that that's you know everything every team I've ever driven for has their own uh references for which corner numbers or names they can get around here so uh yeah we we go by the uh the ACO and fia's version of the track so for us it's turned 20. but that's very interesting to me as a Layman you know tell the next driver be careful of brake modulation and that's that's the that's the kind of things you might talk about those are the things you might talk about uh on an old driver exchange it might be that you know we've seen before the under break-in the cars maybe stepped out as you break into mulsan corner and he's just basically warning the next guy that this might catch you out the last thing he wants to do is not warn him and uh the next driver has an issue let's hear from uh Nick Nielsen oh that Toyota is coming behind we'd like to stay in front and they will ask her blue flag suits so let's push as much as you can for those last three laps and we stayed in front of the Toyota let's give it all right you can stay in front but within reason within the allowance of what the blue flags which is much different stay in front is a much different command then don't let him buy exactly and uh you know there's no it's not like a single-seater racing where you've got huge wings that get affected from even this far back but right now uh you can get a lot more a lot closer than that as this now switches to the car 51 with Joe vanazzi not to be confused with the uh number 50 car that's further down the road 11 seconds down the road Nicholas Nielsen behind that wheel of the 50. so out of the racetrack right now we've got Antonio giovannazzi leading in the 51 Brendan Hartley trying to chase him down 11 seconds back and then in The Cadillacs or Richard Westbrook is in a two-car Ranger Vander zanda is in the the three car that's one of my favorite names Christoph bushu and Ranger vendors and it doesn't give much better than that Frank mcaviki is uh in the number five car Romaine Dumas is in the 708 709 is Nathaniel baton and Mikhail Jensen is in the number 93 Peugeot and when he said about the the maps the circuit Maps um quite often well most of the time actually the team will print out a little map and they'll put it inside the car whether it be on the steering wheel or and then whenever I've had it where people have sat in the car they've seen this little map of the circuit say Lamont fragment's sake and then we said why have you got a map do you not know where you're going do you know where where the circuit goes and basically it is for that very reason because when you're discussing the the the the circuit to the engineers they may is to make sure that we're all calling the corners the same so if they said it's 10 10 I look on the map and I know where they make or if I've got an issue and the car stopped they know where we're all talking from the same page yes it's more so for you know when you're in the garage and you're doing the debriefs between free practice session or during a free practice session when you're back in the garage you can even point if you need to yeah yeah and the engineers got the you know got the circuit map usually just Plus on their laptop somewhere and so yeah you're uh you're referring to the same corners but yeah the reason you have it in the car for the race is like say guy if you've had a mechanical failure like we saw with Kobe Ashi it's due to that I still I can't believe he's out of the race from what happened for those of you who missed it yeah the dead of the night uh there was a slow Zone a next slow Zone on the run-up towards tetrouge but uh he was about to overtake a slow moving and driver in there in the lmp2 car so it's after this sequence of Corners here the s's on the straight towards uh tetger Rouge Kobe Ashi goes to overtake the lmp2 realize he's a he's in a next slow at this point here Slams on the brakes two racy lmp2 cards coming behind him one of them Guido Van de Garda in the 39 car and there was a unfortunate GT Ferrari that was in there number 66 he got completely yeah sent the car flying the Ferrari as a result smashed into Kobayashi then the Alpine on the right hand side smashed into Kobayashi as well [Music] there's the map so when Kobe actually did pull over he would have been looking at the map and uh the team would have had their map and they would have been saying hey if you can get to such and such corner or such and such barrier near such a then you can get into a recovery position try this with the car try that with the car but the car just didn't respond it was uh the red lights came on The Telltale sign that there was a serious hybrid issue and had to be taken away on the on the low loader and dropped off in Area 51 as they called it there's a United 23 of Tom bronquist working his way back up the field after uh some problems earlier in the race but doing a great job [Music] yeah let's check in on the other United card with Stephanie down in the pits well I'm in the garage with that 22 car at the minute and it was in the garage a little bit earlier on for uh New Look front Wing right now let me just move out of the way but that car went out for one lap and has come back in so clearly whatever fixes they have done have not worked sufficiently driver in the car shake in his head don't know how long this is going to be well anytime at this point it's going to be uh disappointing for those guys Philippe Albuquerque was the one who was behind the wheel he brought the car in there is the Alpine number 36. that uh Goodyear is going to go on that car Phil Hansen Frederick Lubin and Philippe Albuquerque sharing that number 22 car looks like they may be ready to come back out indeed they are and wheel the car out drop it down off the dollies fire up put some new Goodyear rubber on that car set it on it let's go down to uh Stephanie at just online it seems that they've changed the front Wing back to the one that they came in to replace there is a little bit doesn't look too structurally unstable so they've put that Wing back on after going out and doing one lap on the replace wing [Music] so it looks like Brendan Hartley now is uh closing in even further he's got to try and get by the 50 he hasn't got time yet he's apparently reportedly on the radio asking for the blue flags yeah I bet he is I'd like to see another shot uh can't wait to see that when it comes but uh yes clearly he's uh catching up now he's just dipped inside the 10 second bracket 9.996 seconds behind 9.871 it's just changed and he's yeah he's properly got the bit between two he needs this little bit of uh aggro I feel yeah and although you know he's doing a brilliant job anyway but this is the fire that he needs to uh fuel him on in his bid to try and catch jovanazi and that's only two tenths of a second off the fastest lap of the race by the Ferrari of Nielsen so you know the fan isn't Pace in the late stages here they're really kind of uh as you say got the bit between the teeth and the fight is on definitely seems so I wonder which drivers they have left to cycle through I think it's going to be Rio hirokawa in the calm next but uh you never know if if the team feel like Seb is the one to uh bring it home and take this fight to Ferrari then then you can always adjust your plans and do whatever it takes basically [Music] I think this is Hartley's fourth step now in the car I believe so he's doing a great job yes it is remember they came on and asked him if he could physically do it and he says I sure can now he is and here we go yeah you need you start needing blue flags now for this moment yeah where he was before uh he wasn't getting affected by the dirtier but you are now so I think for a fair fight I think the stewards have to do the right thing the race director yeah he is close enough now he has to back out of it I suspect the 50 cars should be in either this lap or the next lap um you could have a little slow slow ride through the Porsche curves yeah you just want to see in fair fight and uh you know that it's not his race it's um here we go let's hear what Brandon thinks about this situation it will box this a lot but normally the car head will box this lap even if he doesn't get out of the way oh there you go and I don't think it's gonna as they go around the number 33 car with uh Nikki katzberg behind the wheel imagine the penalties that would be coming uh becoming call 50s where Nick neilson's way in Formula One right now a lapse car and the blue flags is one thing in uh in whack that would often frustrate me as a driver and be like oh you know the blue flag's there the blue flag means Get Out The Way of the lapping car well but I I also think and this is just my personal opinion I think some of the blue flag stuff in Formula One while it's necessary for some of the cards I think some of it's a little over you know why should you have to roll over and play dead you know especially if you're in a battle with somebody else you know you know I mean this is a class in case he's not in a battle with anybody else oh no but if you're in a battle with somebody else why should you have to roll over and play dead because Lewis is coming through but no that Oh you mean if you're a battling car with somebody else yeah that's what I mean the problem is the problem is Jim is that it's it's all to do with the aerodynamics well I understand and just because you can't see the effects you oh yeah the outside it doesn't mean that it's not there it is this invisible barrier and it's you know you you start hemorrhaging downforce when you get even you know within three seconds of the car in front uh you can't believe how it feels so uh I think that's why you know they aren't there the engineers get involved in their overly vocal and yeah they're trying to make a point about it but yeah there's there's a time and place definitely but most of the time I think I stand by it I think that it's you know you want it to be as pure as possible and as Fair as possible you and I need to have a bottle of wine sometime I don't disagree with you but I I I think it's a little too new on entertainment wise yeah you know Let Them Fight well and I don't even think it's entertainment wise I think it's more uh again if you're if you're battling for that last uh points paying position that's that's important to you um absolutely monetarily and everything else to get over here to talk about Formula One we're here to talk about the the uh race at hand which is Brendan Hartley now less than 10 seconds you're behind our race leader and in in the American vernacular of what we call stick and ball Sports which is anything but car racing when you can get that if you're trying to come from behind if you can get the uh the number of points you're behind into single digits it's it's very much yeah it's it's very much a mind game and it encourages you there you go and there it is yeah how far out is he I can't see him well now he can see him how do you keep the Red Mist from coming in when you can see it yeah is it red car or is it Red Mist and the two front cars in the 27s they are really the pace is really hot almost matching the fastest laps of the of the race oh yeah Joe Bernard and jovanazi is not hanging around he's not he's not lifted off trying to see if you're trying to see if tires trying to save the car he's he's uh doing his best we are now under two hours under two hours to the end of this race and it is all to play for still all to play for just nine seconds separating our leaders in the overall category the hypercar category in lmp2 27 seconds separates our leaders and we still have in GTM five cars all on the lead lap now the Corvette has a substantial lead of a minute and 19 seconds but any sort of issue on the racetrack that lead will evaporate and that will open the door for the iron Dames who are in second place and or the number 25 Aston Martin who is in third so with two hours to go there's a look at the full running order there you see that uh GTM battle down in 27th position looks like the um garage 56 car is back on track again yes he's got they've gone back out they had some transmission issues we've had uh 20 cars retire from the race which is probably a little bit more than than if I had been forced to pick a number before the race I don't think I I would have picked 20. um although with with 62 entries that's not it doesn't seem to me to be an overly large number but I didn't think we'd see 20 retirements hey if you want to win this race uh I'm feeling pretty fresh right now uh yeah I'm kind of light it's got my helmet and boots out in the trunk yeah a pretty lean and light yes a bit of an advantage which for those of you don't know the car has its weight will emit in uh in in uh hypercar yep at uh 1030 kilogram minimum weight it can be higher than that obviously with the Bop adjustments but that's the minimum weight Target for all the cars so you can't be under that but uh the driver is just on top of whatever that weight is oh really ah so a guy like me would be out alive unfortunately you get to the bar first though so what goes around comes around okay Brendan box this lap pick confirm a box this lap change driver to deal okay all right all right that's nice that you've got uh Sev there with Rio help him out even getting ready and uh sure giving him every bit of advice that he can give him I'm sure Rio doesn't need it but nice to see that uh support sister car as well found himself in a bit of traffic here he's completely boxed in look you're just waving goodbye to speed on the straight it's the worst situation you've got the GT there and the lmp2 and you're much faster than that's where the hyper car really makes it speed up on this track in a straight line so yeah lose is a bit there the Gap Rose to 10 spec to 10 seconds now [Music] amazing stuff between these two in lmp2 have all just come and got through the pit Lane as well we're starting to get into the nitty-gritty aren't we where as both of you guys will know on the pit wall they know exactly how much fuel they need in the car now and how much they're going to need to get to the end of the race two hours to go two o'clock Central European Time 22 hours down two hours to go hands up everybody who knows who's going to win this one yeah us neither Ferrari Toyota just if something really screwy Kappa happens maybe even Cadillac I was going to come out with a really cheesy comment there I know I know fans yay they win well 100 and also an awful lot more fans than may have watched it in the last few years because of the influx of Manufacturers into the hypercar class the influx of competition and particularly I mean particularly and especially the car that leads the race now the f word that we are allowed to say on air for Ferrari that is going to bring eyes has brought eyes I'm sure lamonda have probably barely even heard of the race and have certainly never seen it Brendan Hartley brings in the number eight Toyota after a valiant quad stint we cohere a career here akawa will take over the young Japanese driver who joined the team last season and right now this is Coke versus Pepsi this is whoever blinks first loses this race and right now Toyota and Ferrari are trying desperately to think of a way of out fumbling the other guy to gain some kind of material advantage because we've heard from drivers in both cars it's just hearing from James collado after his last end he said there is nothing between us they haven't got an advantage over us we haven't got an advantage over them in the long run sometimes you're on fresher tires sometimes you've got a fresher driver but the cars are packed exactly as the rules had hoped to produce this is the beginning of platinum era of sports car racing and it features the biggest name of motor racing but it does feature Antonio giovanati and what a time for this young driver to get into a top-fight Ferrari program wow yeah so uh let's see how Ferrari play this one and also all eyes are on you Rio hirokawa now if there's ever been a time to shine this is your moment boy well to answer a question from somebody who said I've just woken up after watching them on the only question I want to know is is Rexy still racing answer yes Rexy is still face on cue right on cue exactly exactly so the uh that is the project one AO Porsche which has spent time in the Lee trouble for the uh edek car that started on Pole Position left rear puncture that will be from David Colby rather than contact and that car with Lawrence Herr at the wheel a multiple winner here at Le Mans in lmp3 Machinery road to them on with the DKR engineering team that car will creep back it is actually on an outlet as well so that is double pain for them jovanax is just about to uh come up on that car and this is where you don't want a tire to come off the car in front of the Ferrari it's also exactly the corner you were talking about earlier guy Smith the the corner you do not want to catch a car in the Porsche curves because you're going to have a big accident if you run out on the loose yeah you can see how it really compromised his entry to the Porsche curves is turned 19 had to go wide get a little bit onto the marbles and you've seen like we said before guy you're reading the body language of the other car and you think hang on a minute that lmp2 car they're usually much faster than that it's moving around a lot yeah just give that an extra wide berth now then inside the final two hours these cars will need at least another two stops to make it to the Finish Toyota will stop earlier meaning they will need more fuel meaning they will spend a fraction more time stationary than Ferrari and it's on those tiny little twists of Fate through the race that sometimes very close decisions get made leader in Antonio who's only into the car last time round seen a couple of times they've topped up the pressurized oil system in the car some tension around the fuel rig just checking the tire Wells getting rid of bits of buildup of tire rubber in there you don't want a a big fist-sized be shaking itself loose and attaching itself to your slick and then thumping its way around and round and round for lap after lap seems like an eternity when you're sitting in the car leading the race and the fuels going in and that man in the fuel helmet could be really critical at the end because when they're going for a full tank it's a full tank when they're not it's got to be to the tenth of a second you don't want to put in a drop more than you absolutely have to because this is this is going to probably be as close a top class finish in the real world as we have seen I mean this could be down to meters and in terms of Le Mans finishes do we know what the closest one was we do I think the closest is the closest real one still 1970 when 1969 when Jackie X ran across the track started walked across the track refused to run started last and won by meters there is just being from the puncture Tire for that is a brand I know it's a brand new set of tires he is on an outlet there's a DKR engineering car they've been in the wars these guys yeah they've run a tough race it's been a torrid Time Charlie Claire watching the action from the Ferrari garage that's an unusual position for him isn't it to be in the Ferrari garage watching a race that he's he'd never be in a good mood normally if that was the case it's quite often the other way around though I see a lot of the uh the wet Ferrari drivers out the F1 events they they work them hard the Gap is 16.0 the gap is 16.0 let's hunt them down again really calm voice on number eight cars race engineer there's been a change in their engineering setup for a number of years they've had a different engineer on the car but this is working really well there's the relevant positioning on this track Antonio foco in the number 50 Ferrari what's that 26 laps ago who said the new fastest race lap so that car although it's not on the lead lap is still going very quickly had a really good lap that's brought the Gap up to 16 seconds really good in lap and a good stop okay we've heard this all the way through either with the eight or the 51 doing all the right jobs you're hitting all the right numbers excellent work keeping up you're going great you know and it as a driver what does that mean you know when you're because you are sort of isolated you don't have all the data if you don't have the big picture inside the cockpit with you unless you're really following somebody or they're really behind you you need that continual update of how things are progressing right yeah what is as close as this you need all the information because you know you need to know if you need to be pushing harder if you are you know making roads on them so any information this stage is super important [Music] well I know the battle is super hot in hypercar right now but it's also going off in LMP mp2 65 panis racing Cadillac coming your way tell us about panace the lmp2 car so this is kind of a battery issue and it's actually been in the garage for quite some time it looks like it's getting ready to go back out a cut down as well there is an issue with the 39 bike front right axle damage but it seems like they're immediately heading back out tires are going back on the car and they should be running up very soon okay one of your colleagues in the pit Lane wearing a suit white suit for their keep is the wife of driver Patrick pla of the 39 graph racing car so undoubtedly they will have an inside line onto what's coming with that car as well you can see Old Amber waiting to take the number two caddy former race winner for Porsche in Lamont and the number two car his teammate Richard Westbrook has that in third place first time at Le Mans with this program first time at Le Mans with the Cadillac Racing Organization for GM racing Chief Laura one drop Clouser and if they can pull off that result here for chip ganassi and all of the team that's going to be an enormous result you know you look at guys like chip ganassi and Roger Penske and the you know the big names in U.S racing they don't just race in single seaters in Indy cars they don't just race in Nascar they race in the into Weather Tech series as well and you know that they know the weight and the the gravitas of Lamont and you know that they want to win it and here's the first chance they've had him half a lifetime to come and do so on an equal footing with the same machinery and look how well they've stepped up to the plate the Porsche Penske Cruise the Cadillac racing Crews have been right in there swinging from the moment they arrived comes in stops in the pit box saw elbamber limbering up getting ready let's drive a change with Richard Westbrook you see just unplugging we've got this driver uh helmet cooler in that car I know he's having a he's having a drink there so he's staying in so Earl was ready in case he decided he would get out and he's obviously going for another stint you're all number three going very slowly the only luck this car has had is bad like now what happened there has he had a little moment or did the car need a bit of a reset [Music] Sebastian borde at the wheel this car set light to itself not in a major way but no fire in a race car is ever trivial because there's so much wiring that is potentially going to get damaged that was in hyper pole and didn't get settle up or not as fast enough wide in our nose yeah possible it looked like recovering from a moment Financial maybe you know [Music] there's no rattling from underneath the car but then the stones will probably be long gone doesn't dive into the pits and he's back up to full racing speed either a Transit van or the garage 56 NASCAR going into the pit Lane in front of him is that car running again though it's still in the garage so I'm not sure quite well that was oh there's a trouble Toyota there is trouble that is Arnage is there fluid down there he's been hit in the rear left he has been hit or has he hit him on the rear oh he's hit the rear oh my goodness Rio hirokawa now again forwards and backwards forwards and backwards forwards and backwards he does not want to put the car in the gravel he's missed the Terra Firma he has been off backwards where's he been well we heard uh the information getting relayed to him via Hartley don't he's about that very Corner saying watch out for the rear because it's true that wasn't a Cadillac avoiding a stationary Toyota [Music] we saw the recovering board a that was coming out of Arnage before Porsche curb so this is a separate starting it's only just happened because I saw the yellow here we go [Music] it is the rear so yeah sorry it is Arnage but it was the rear oh off the barriers that's exactly what Harley was talking about so uh Cadillac's up to second [Music] you saw when the car stopped did it have three marker lights on or two Charlotte Claire you know this is where this is where you cannot let your emotions take it all away from you you know you've both been in a situation where you're getting close and you're getting closer and you're getting closer don't focus on what you're doing because that's when it all comes on stitched let's hear from the Toyota [Music] yep no that's not how I thought it was gonna come to an end Toyota's challenge today 16 seconds behind he was keeping the Gap around 16 seconds but clearly driving so hard to maintain that Gap and uh exactly I think they've been struggling with the rear brakes or something with that car from very very early on in this race they've been managing it well I've been chasing the balance a lot we've heard a lot of conversations more front less front more roll bar less roll bar changes made changes reversed as as the track has changed and and again we talked about this earlier the same May well have been going on guy with [Music] with the Ferrari team we're just not hearing every message from every car so it may be that some of theirs haven't been relayed on air and they may have been doing similar work yeah the number eight car the radio traffic has been pretty busy hasn't it back and forth so they've been they've just been struggling um with the balance pretty much for the second half of this race but they've done a good job to keep the Ferrari in uh you know in Striking Distance but uh yeah it's a real shame for uh Faria there now number two caddy on an outlet Richard Westbrook still at the wheel you saw oh man they're watching the monitors so it's on the same lap as the number eight Toyota but it has not yet passed it so it is not yet up to second place but there's Earl wondering what might happen there is the number two car still showing three red lights on the side red is the color for hypercar that's the backing number on the illuminated panels on the nose and on the doors three of course means it's in third place two in second place rejoins fresh nose fresh tail and hopefully nothing damaged in between but the caddy is on the lead lap we now have three cars on the lead Lab at an hour and 40 minutes to go so a three-car Grand Prix with the fields spread out and Davidson this could be highly entertaining yeah it's just uh like I said though it wasn't it wasn't what I expected uh the team have done well to turn that car around but yeah bitterly disappointing career okay get back to the Cadillac is three minutes and 18 seconds three minutes more than three minutes we're okay so rather than the attention so without any attention being forwards it's now shifted to who's behind and that in itself is very telling but you know that's damage management that's making sure he knows he's not under attack from behind get your head down get up to speed go get the leader did you see in the background that shot you had uh kamui Kobayashi chatting with Pascal of a salon in the back of the garage just you know mimicking the overseer moment with the brakes and Pascal nodding along left pit Lane [Music] it's no risk no risk and that again is a critical damage limitation message in fact excuse me as the 51 car comes out of the chicane there he is the car in front of him is the number eight Toyota we talked when you're hunting with her Brendan Harley going what's the Gap where is he because he'd lost in in a change of pit stops he'd lost visual contact with the Ferrari in front now giovannazzi has eyes on the second place car just pace yourself with him make him do the work don't overthink it just relax and breathe into the Rhythm he doesn't have to think about the car in front of him he doesn't think about hirokawi this is the best radio message he could ever wish to hear you're almost a lap ahead just sail at home an hour and a half to go don't do any no heroics he doesn't have to care about going front just just bring this thing home that suddenly takes some of the fuel equations out of out of the picture because they've got a little margin in terms of time so if they need to spend time doing a splash and Toyota doesn't then they're good yeah both those teams were pushing hard as they could that's what was so enjoyable about it you you mentioned at the time guy like look at their lap times compared to anyone else they are they've elevated themselves they had elevated themselves to a whole new plane and something was going to give something was going to crack but give a Nazi cup can't relax now because he you know once you switch off you relax that's when the mistakes can creep in so you've got to keep the focus but then you start to listen to the car every gear shift what was that noise it's It's Tricky let's get down to the pit Lane and see what the temperature is among some of our contenders I am with driver of the number two Cadillac it's it's been a good route to you guys so far as you know it's not over until it's over is it no um I mean it's been a wild race we had a really good start we learned some Labs the first everlabs here for Cadillac racing uh in Le Mans so they was kind of proud and then we had the rain and the night we saw a lot of incidents a little bit cars crash out but we've managed to survive and still two hours to go and it's still one third of our normal wec racing we see what Madness happens and that so um yeah we just saw the Toyota finishing we can have our own issues so um trying to hold on there for that Podium position and you guys are on the lead lap now is there any chance of you guys surpassing Toyota we saw what happened to them no I mean I think they're throwing the trainers got a little bit more Pace than us um but I'm gonna jump in for the last two cents and it's been a crazy race the guys behind me have done I've done an intensive job um you know Cadillac's done an amazing job to develop the car in the last 18 months to arrive here and you know to lead and to be fighting is great well we look forward to seeing you back in the car thank you thank you thank you Steph Wentworth thank you Earl Bamba so yeah they're not getting their hopes up too much to the garage 56th Century still on the pit apron but it's out of the garage now Mike Rockefeller in the Henrik Motorsport Camaro there it is looks like their transmission swap fix has been made and they are ready to go back out our two comes to 93 Peugeot this car currently in ninth place in the hypercar class ninth overall there's uh Paul De rester watching internally from the garage Peugeot uh disappointing in qualifying they didn't manage to find a pace they wanted to get anywhere in the hunt pole shootout but as soon as the race came the car really came alive and showed the potential that it had shown in free practice and unfortunately incidents Rob them of a chance to challenge for the podium but it's been it's been a leader as His Cadillac I think the only brand uh Brands not to have led have been glicken house and the battlegrounds so all of the other main hitters in the hypercar class have been pretty much there on Pace and a number of the forces have led the race both torators approaches at one stage or another [Music] one factor that has helped keep the hot cars together the lmp2s together and the GT yams together particularly when the weather was vile is the new set of safety car regulations where the three safety cars that we've used for a decade or more here at Le Mans are all scrambled to bring the field under control and then once the major Incident That's required to save the car is fixed they will merge into one cue all the cars merge into one queue then they are waved around anybody who is in the queue ahead of their class leader gets to go around and join the back of the queue and then all three classes are organized in terms of speed so the hyper cars at the front lmp2s in the middle and the gtes at the back that's helped keep the racing alive it's stopped people losing laps unnecessarily just because of the uh the quibbles of foibles of fate and where you get stuck in the safety car queues now that could also bring our field back together if we get a safety car in the next half an hour because in the final 60 Minutes of the race if there is a safety car we will not have the merge we will not have the wave around we will not have the drop back so we will go with three safety cars because it will take a good couple of laps to merge and drop everybody back after the danger has been passed so that can no longer take effect after we get into the beginning of the final hour Nikki katzberg on board the 33 Corvette and he will do the final 90 minutes in that car there is the current Challenger in third place Rahel Frey in the iron Dames Porsche they've been in the lead battle and Rexy the project one T-Rex live Reed Porsche up to second place with the Corvette of Mickey katzberg retains the lead after that pit stop and the Oman racing TF support Aston Martin That's the orange car in the background of the shop that's fourth place so we're looking at the Gap there between matayo cairoli in Rexy and the iron Dames Porsche there's the challenge though the ort by TF sport Charlie Eastward driven Aston Martin is the Challenger for the final Podium spot Ronald Frey needs to keep that Gap alive yeah Charlie's has been uh absolutely flying Maurice Long in that car and he's slowly catching catching the whole time good graphics there at the bottom of the screen I'm putting an absolutely brilliant stint during the night you see the Bodywork still all skewed because it's uh taking a bit of damage at some point certainly not affecting the performance that that much for for Charlie yeah he's probably finding the extra few tents in himself that might be robbed by that you know the only the only slight issue when the aerodynamics or the Bodywork moves is the aerodynamics move and things like where the low pressure areas that help suck the hot air from out under the Bonnet if that disappears then you start to run problems with overheating because although you're going through the air at the same speed if the air is trying to be rammed in by the movement of the car but can't escape significantly then you yeah you stall the air in the radiators and if the air isn't flying in your radiators these cars don't have auxiliary fans so you run the risk of getting into an overheating problem so the TF support team watching there the ort by TF sport Oman racing team pole citizen Spa last time out and looking for a first Podium here at the moment for an Omani driver Ahmad al-hati is the key to that program young man from Armada now harty had a pole position then he took a fine Hole uh yeah yeah we were setting up the Ben Keating Sarah Bovi battle there he was watch this as quick as he like absolutely didn't quite find that pace here at Lamar but nevertheless the car has been very resilient in the race in fact the only TF sport car that has not been a right nut of pain all the way through as their only car remaining in the race out of three Aston Martins and an lmp2 car that they started and he is closing little by little on Rahal Freight Swiss driver in the pink car I have to hang on stay ahead I've lost them and Charlie Eastwood thank you so the iron links iron Dames garage the iron links car yellow car of Claudio ski have only out yesterday in the daylight house with an accident [Music] cardio the key behind a lot of this iron links program actually run by the Pacini Brothers they're The Joint team managers [Music] so it is back out of the pit Lane well my prediction was that we'd finished 19th it's currently 39th so I was even further away than that Davidson who reckoned 29th and it was jubilant for about two laps when it moved from 30th to 29th only for then to move up to 28th you've made the plan is we had a brief talk about Palace that is not what uh we definitely did not get that out so the master switch and started can't start the car yeah which means your dad stop it which means it's parked just a few years ago it's the same issue for I think it was a G Drive I've got a funny feeling [Music] no not really I'd have brought him a few smiles from the bus but uh was it was that the one where they drilled holes in the rear deck so they could stick a stick in them what year where they went to P2 so that's where your points against uh sorry no just said pit stop for car 34 under investigation so that is our long time leader in the lmp2 category still in front the interior Bowl card despite having to serve a drive through it served a drive through this morning for overtaking under the safety car and it turns out we find from the official notices that the offensive being committed at eight o'clock on Saturday and the penalty was applied so it's 9 A.M I think on Sunday oh see how Rahel Frey is responding to the pressure from the Aston Martin this is for a place on the podium the important result this would be can what mate because the results behind Corvette if indeed the 33 car specialty usually see is your mouth right as well it can be a very close indeed to the title the Corvette won't make it if we get the cars finishing broadly speaking where they do the bigger problems in terms of keeping the world championship to the WC alive is a large number of the Kentucky cars are out [Music] 41 have just been in and out of the pit Lane that's why material car only a looked slow going up through the Dunlop curves I thought oh is that the normal speed and B appears now to be fourth not second so this is now the battle for second place and Ames Porsche versus ort by TF Aston call that racing number 33 car still out front whatever happens here coming back 50 years afterwards and boy do they look happy about it but there's all sorts of other records one in particular about Nations and drivers and winning in this hundredth year of the Le Mans 24 hours should the 51 car win I believe I'm right that will put James glotto winning will mean that uh the same number of French wins per driver is equal by the UK oh wow well I bought The Living Daylights out of everybody by saying every year this is Britain's biggest motor race yep that's been well British entries private or factory have been a part of this since 1923 and against the advice of wo Bentley a group of well-heeled enthusiasts brought their Bentley over to take on the Continental makes and fly the flag for the British Motor industry and then seeing how well they did wo decided actually there might be something to that yes he was always always a man with a a great view on promoting the brand being a good thing and somehow there was just a little germ of an idea there and that led of course directly to guy Smith winning the morning it was a a direct response to the history of Bentley when Bentley changed owners most recently that generated the impetus to create to recreate success at the moment and to relive those Glory years and yeah you were part of it I mean to be a British Driver part of winning them on in a British car there's not many have done it over the years and there's been a century of trying yeah no absolutely there's a lot of discussion isn't it it's your appalled they're nervous about whatever's under investigation here well if they get a drive-through and they've got to drive through the tour it'll take 32 seconds they're currently 26 seconds ahead of the second place team wrt car of Robert kubitza yeah it's going to be very tight they have got the pace Advantage they've had that throughout this ladder part of the events so if it's called now there's an opportunity still for that battle they do stand by the way to beat the first ever polish class winners here as a team that I don't find hard to believe in the 1920s but 1933 okay there we go 90 years ago wow and that was a dnf and here's the battle for second then Rahel Frey in the pink four shirt Charlie Eastwood in the orange Aston Martin [Music] this is well last time Round Up to dunlops UK Rahel just too deep under braking trying really hard to hang on to this really really hard to hang on to this this is not about second place this may be in fact about any position on a Podium and Eastwood's got the speed Advantage pulls out of the slipstream guy he's put the car exactly where it needs to be on the racing line just gotta try and hang on there around the outside you know making a clean pass Brave stuff there by Charlie he's in a rich rainbow fan of form isn't it it just seems to be driving better and better throughout this year whatever he's driving with it's a P2 car he comes here as the overall age of the month Series champion there didn't he it's a fellow Pro I'm on the outside you can tag me into a big spin but I know you're better than that you know they've raced against this pink car for a number of years now and they trust the drivers and you have to have that trust when you are going on those outside passes you've got to have that respect especially at that kind of speed and and clearly that was there but she's fighting back she's not letting this go she she realizes this is a this is a fight for for a Podium finish if not a potential win if anything happens there to the Corvette so she's got to keep on the back of that uh Aston Martin and keep the pressure on look at the rate of attrition in GTE as fast it's I've never seen it nine cars running and okay the weather definitely paid its part we've had lots of wet races before but it was the sort of mostly dry absolute day large and dry again nature of the track I think that really caused the Havoc it wasn't just in GTM but they were there were cars off driven by very very well experienced and highly respected drivers even the three class four of those GTM cars were eliminated in two separate two-car entities 60 and the 16 um effectively took each other out it was the same with 55 GMB Motorsport Aston Martin and the number 21 for me of course at 66 car was part of a multi-car pile up as well he was an innocent victim of somebody else checking up in a Max slow rather than the slow Zone race leader goes by the class leader don't think that's diluted diluted in any way the enjoyment of Henrik where the sports crew Jimmy Johnson seven time NASCAR winner at last and I haven't had a chance to but I would like to bet that Jensen's relationship with this program didn't come because he's Jensen button Formula One World Champion I sense that it came and and I I don't remember it as a fact I know that Jimmy Johnson has done the race of Champions I know the Jensen button has done the race of Champions I sense it's off duty in a hotel somewhere where that friendship first has has started to grow and I think that was the link that brought them in the Rocky link not too sure but he's uh you know well known in North America good pair of hands I'm not sure if he's done road course races for Hendrick Motorsport before now but uh that was a good addition as well about who knows what it takes to win Le Mans it goes through our last 311 car just behind so 16 very American cylinders circulating in close formation um one other thing to watch we've got now in 20 minutes left in this race peugeot's information two the gap on track between the lead car and the second place number eight total is opening up again three minutes and 24 seconds that means like six or seven seconds on track between them and if the 51 car pushes and overtakes right there's a lap down then the safety car is not going to help them no unless by the vagaries of making a pit stop in the next 20 minutes somehow the Toyota stays out the Ferrari doesn't and then they end up but I mean that's all lifts and butts again a safety cards unlikely to be weather related [Music] 31 Robert frines has just been through and gone as well that wrt car their second car is fourth in lmp2 now they've got history with this track as well having nearly had a one two having had one car stop on the final lap and still claiming Victory by what's probably the tightest ever margin in that mp2 one of the tightest ever winning margins in any class here the Ferrari will obviously have to stop earlier they've fueled the Toyota when it came in for repairs another car on Pit Road it's one we've been quite quiet about in the last few hours but it means it's class it's the 45 lmp2 Pro amp car the valve Opera racing with attrition in the lmp2 class the Portuguese flag team coming around at the wheels that came in dominates that class right now actually still was at four laps the good over the second place called racing car that's the Atkinson out there still Junior driver third place smack the art class and what much further back is the DKR engineering car well I was looking at the DKR car and seeing because next on the timing screen in 31st Place overall rather than 34th is premer racings and that's not Pro app is it though uh the graph racing Prime Car Patrick pelay number 17 number 39 cars further back so third place looks relatively safe it's back out and uh running in the lead it's a warning flight by the way for that cutting across underneath the Dunlop Bridge five yeah see that um race control make the same mistake and I keep making with the changes of numbers between various championships we've covered 83 and 85 has been something removable Feast yes it is the 85 car that gets the warning Corvette racing lead and within 32 seconds clear thank you katzberg from Charlie Eastwood for the 3.2 seconds now to Ralph right the podium positions into europol with a pit stop under investigation lead 41 Canal from Team wrt just out back on the track and that should mean there are one further full stop from home now the other thing is that wrt now stopping an Interpol into your Vault not having stopped now means that if there is a penalty applied immediately into into Europe I'll take it immediately they will emerge from the pits in the lead how they then get to the end on fuel compared to wrt I don't know but the longer it goes now the closer to the end and we talked about this with with the Ferrari and Toyota Toyota stopping a little earlier the earlier you are now in the fuel strategy the more it might hurt at the end of the race Louise Beckett in the pit Lane what do you know Louise I'm standing right next to the into Europa 34 team now that the lollipop guy is out he's calling the car in they've got a fresh set of tires for him I'm assuming they're going to do the stop foot on it they're doing a full service right now and there's a Hopping Fabio getting into the car you could at least have carried him oh that would be outside assistance I suppose so to explain why Fabio is hopping uh his foot run over by the Corvette We Believe yes yeah I I believe it was the Corvette Louise will just Downstream of them towards Pitt in is their sister car the garage is down on that what's the next one along so they've got Ida idec 48 [Music] 48 bets yeah I'm sure stop with us foreign [Music] [Music] it was exactly the same 29 so they lost nothing okay so now we wait and see whether there is a penalty coming for them in the last 75 minutes we were told that there is an investigation so we'll wait and see what happens there is the second place car number 41 wrt car 24 seconds is the camp Louie de la traz hustling now that means that if Albert Costa has to serve a penalty he will come out eight seconds behind as of now it's a 32 second drive through that's the pit Lane Delta [Music] okay Ferrari getting ready for driver changes actually been in is he on his second stink guy [Music] in a second I think Antonio floco might also be in the second [Music] was definitely on his second possibly it's third even actually and and back home when you're sitting on your sofa you go yeah because yeah but he's even me and you know leave him in no it's another 75 minutes to go and if he's been in there for an hour and a half already okay yeah I'm good to go I'm good to go except are you gonna be good to go in another hour when it might really really come down absolutely nitty-gritty just don't don't change things just for sort of some emotional reaction if it's if it's due for him to come in and jump out the car then swap drivers you're gonna be on the top step of the podium anyway or you're not well that is unlikely to be changed for the better by not changing drivers and keeping them fresh sometimes as a driver the best place to be is actually in the car because the time pass is faster and you're in control there's nothing worse than standing um watching the car with a final sort of Arrow so to go and not been in control so um it's a real sort of toss-up really which way to go but uh it's driven brilliantly so far the other Advantage is with fireproof clubs on it's much harder to chew your fingernails that's true and you tend to be basically Second Step at the moment they have both changed at the same time so our class leaders in hypercar Ferraris Antonio giovannazzi Fabio Sheriff into europol steel leading in lmp2 and Corbett racings Nikki hatsburg he's got a Texan hat like everybody else Nikki katzberg is leading in the Corvette car number 33. we have a total of do we only have do we have still 40 running cars I thought we might have 41. with the Johto car a long term yes I suspected there will be a last lap wander there ready to send it out but not long before the end so whatever else that car is clearly not going to last for long and that should be assuming nobody else Falls by the wayside our 40th and Final finish it at the moment we have lost 22 cars from our 62 starters that is a high rated position a good decade so yeah but it was inside can remember seeing this money out and a lot of it weather related lots of incidents lots of the multi-car incidents of that disliked for nothing in terms of drama of the welcome and unwelcome sword has it well it's been a hard one to walk away from guy whenever you had somebody Taps you on the shoulder and go all right sunshine off you go you're kind of oh yeah nobody can I I'll just watch another until actually one of the one of the great things that that's happened in our commentary lives in the last few years other than having fantastic guests in the in the booth like you is that we've now got a sort of double-sized room so we've got somewhere to sit and watch and listen absolutely not on there and actually that's that really helps with our understanding and living of the race because we like those you know all the fans at home who are sitting in the armchair where they were at lunchtime yesterday with a white gang are you going to sit there all day then well yeah if I can right I'm off there and I'll see you tomorrow and and the screens and the iPad with the timing and the the app and Ferrari's garage Cam and the Corvette garage it's like being at home isn't you wait for the adverts to come and you make a cup of tea well you know here you the adverts aren't coming we just want to watch the show so it's um I think whether you're a fan or you're you're a part of the show it's um it's just so exciting what we're seeing here yeah I'm watching the the tone on social media as well bumping into a couple of people between Coventry extens got 51 on the radio let's see what's going on for the race leader we've got to that point system okay Antonio box this lap box this lap as a mark of that level of nutrition last year eight cars plus one non-classified car this year 22. wow 22 what long classified cars 22 cars already retired yeah this race last year it was one non-classified car and eight retirements where it's almost three times the level but I and I don't think that is all weather related but uh yeah the incident reads incident reads into them where there's been a slow Zone that has actually caused uh or drivers have had incidents DKR in the pit Lane as well we've just seen them in there edexporter in so to action Express and the 94 Peugeot team they've come and gone Louis de la trans is closing on into europol and he's taken seven seconds out of that lead since those two pit stops just a couple of months ago wow so out is Antonio giovannazzi and Ian perhaps for the rest of the race is their Talisman Alessandro Pierre guidi three-time GTE Pro world champion with teammate James collado what a great pairing they have been in terms of cohesion and success and just pure speed and aggression behind the wheel I have a surgery by the way together with Antonio giovanazi with the 19th and 20th Italian winners of this fantastic race would take you their Nation ahead of the United States both have 18 winners at the moment 80 wins sorry then counted as U.S or Italian [Music] he was a U.S citizen so I'm assuming he would have raced with a U.S license check that's for you Luigi kinety one twice in Ferraris became Ferrari's North American distributor around his own team North America racing team for many years okay new mediums new mediums okay let's just get our free practice program underway here we are we got a 67 minute session let's see what we can learn let's get down into our lead battle in gtem [Music] with Ahmed al-hati from the 25 ort by TF oh my goodness how are this is a terrible question but how are you feeling right now I honestly this might be the first time where I don't think I can get the words out of my mouth to be honest it's uh wow what a way to Race 24 hours of lemon um you can see we we're really really fighting for this Podium and it means so much for everybody here the hard work that was happening throughout the last 16 years you know is here right now and everybody drove their hearts out the team is working unbelievable with the strategy all the other competitors are really amazing and they've all you know been driving at the best levels possible and you know we survived the first four hours and then we survived the night and the rain stability and now it's just about trying to survive this last hour in a bit so you know I don't like talking much before the race finishes but you know it's such a special thing and I hope I hope everyone's watching back in Oman and I hope that you know we can we can bring it in a very very decent position hopefully summed it up perfectly thank you thank you so much thank you I'm about Hardy with Louise Beckett the newly named OMG by TF the Hawaii racing team the orange car in second place in the GT amp class and you can hear he is definitely feeling very tired and emotional right now and again like our female racing drivers in the race you know there's a proud history of women racing in this event it dates right back to the very earliest days in the 1930s but again if you don't see it you can't be it you know he will inspire undoubtedly another whole bunch of young enthusiastic kids in a man in the Muscat and other regions around you know that part of the Middle East to go out and do things because they see it happening and guy you know we're used to that in the UK we're used to that in Europe we've got a century of Motorsport and more to draw and we're used to seeing it we grew up with it there's lots of parts of the world where it's it's a new thing and it encourages people to get involved absolutely and with this race as well being the Centenary you know we've got eyeballs we've got people watching Sport and hopefully we're going to create new fan base we're going to get new people Ferrari fans Cadillac fans from the US um racing NASCAR fans just racist just racist fans it's been an amazing event you know how could he not be um impressed and excited by by this race and this this Championship I think you talked about that racing fans NASCAR fans who would previously almost certainly unlikely to have been watching them on will have tuned in because of Hendrick Motorsport and Jimmy Johnson they're going what's this all about the same way that Formula One fans who are fans of Ferrari will have tuned in to see what's going on just because they know Ferrari are doing it and people who maybe not even Formula One fans but have heard that Ferrari is racing this crazy race there will be all sorts of eyes on it and if you are a first time fan and you've in any way enjoyed it tell your friends we raced these cars several times a year the next race will be at Monza in July we'll race them in Fuji in Japan and we'll race in Bahrain and then an eight race calendar next year yeah yep which so one of there is a lot of this stuff on air and online you can catch up with it all man just a little info from James uh he had a couple of times the power steering go a little hard in fast Indy so just take Extra Care there that's no what you want to hear that Graham you uh jumping up and down getting ready to tell us something about something a little earlier just simply you mentioned the NASCAR garage 56 effort and if you're watching you're an fan and I'm sure you're looking at the timing Springs as well and you're thinking yeah that's a bit disappointing don't be uh you've made friends here for your partner sport um all the cynicism about you know a novelty entry melted away in a nanosecond the technology the team spirit the attitude the aptitude the Outlook have all been warmly embraced here and you've flown the flag very proudly and damn it the noise oh yes you know like I said yeah in the midnight we're talking to him to President John Noonan who's been sort of responsible for making sure this program came together there's been 300 plus thousand Smiles every lap that comes around here Jimmy Johnson was saying early in the race when they were behind the safety car he realized that every time he was passing a big Bank of fans you know down in Indianapolis or on Ice Corner everybody was waving at him so he waved back two Cadillac on pit Lane now yeah Obama takes over from Richard Westbrook after a triple stint for Westie and that will take that car through to the end so listen to what's going on with Rio hirakawa and the chasing uh Turtle kazoo racing car [Music] clubs are the head of GM racing Bishop about some of the the women driving in this race are proud Heritage there are more and more and more female faces and voices from the cockpit through the garage the engineers team bosses corporate principles corporate bosses the head of Peugeot is female as well you know we've got race control with female race directors that again you know the more the more young women and young girls get to see people like them in in positions in motor race in the more it encourages them to come out and do something that they might be passionate about as well and and that again greatly helps to grow our sport in in all directions so correct yeah you're saying about uh female drivers here at Lemont Dorian Palm became the 65th female starter in this race she will not be finishing it sadly with the elimination uh of the 63 car accident for uh Danny kivian hearing from Louise monaway caddy on its way with all about the wheel that's a fresh set of mediums with almost precisely 60 minutes to go there are still going to be storylines to be written here gentlemen this is not done but in 10 seconds time one thing changes and that's the safety car rules yep we will be into the final hour of the 24 hours of the month right now you just saw the Corvette that leads in gtem OMG by TF the Oman Ross racing team Charlie East with that Aston Martin is in second and the iron Dames are our health right still in third place ahead of Rexy the green T-Rex Liberty project One Porsche of Mateo cairoli and he is getting on for 40 seconds behind and there it is three o'clock Central European summertime on the Rolex clock above the start Finish Line we have an hour to go in the Centenary Le Mans Century of History 23 hours of exceptional racing so far 60 more minutes to go [Music] here for from the number two Corvette Cadillac so one hour to go one hour to go bring it home no risk [Music] car car number three during my Sebastian bordet as you can see is two laps off the lead or two laps behind there a bit of height so uh four minutes 58 it's a three minute 28 lap so it's more than the lap behind so there will be no attack from behind but the yellow nose caddy I'm sure we'll try its best to close up in the final hour behind the blue nose caddy it comes the Toyota 311 is still going Toyota comes into the pit Lane it will need to do one more stop they cannot go 58 minutes on fuel but it stopped before the race leader or all laps after the race leader three laps maybe after the race leader out of sequence remember because of that incident because they they took a short stint very short stint when there were a couple of long slow zones they ducked in for fuel again trying to roll the dice trying to make a difference guys with when you're in this when you're in the clinch right right in the closing stages you know the cars are equal if you just do the same as the other guy it doesn't break the deadlock it doesn't break the stasis so you've got to try and make a change do something different and there are ways you can do it with fuel with track position yeah he's gonna be creative at the end of the day you know doing the same thing if you haven't quite got the pace you're not going to win the race so you've got to be creative so um whether it be as you say whether it be fuel tires stint length you've got to try and uh admit that difference up unfortunately we're not going to see that with the with the Toyota here you know losing so much time with that um accident but still it's in a great position anything happens to that Ferrari and uh as we know with Labon anything can happen right down to the last lap look we've done 23 hours there's two minutes in it [Music] it's barely more than the standard fuel stop but it's also one stoppage somewhere on track and recycled completely correct and and Toyota of all people need no reminding of that hello at Davidson and background uh Toyota need no reminding of a Nordic wrt for that matter or anybody else who's been here in the last decade leave any reminding of what can happen at this crazy race 57 minutes less to change in seconds as the number eight cart goes off in pursuit of Alessandro Pierre greedy hirokawa it is at the wheel and a B2 meanwhile 14 seconds is now the lead Gap Fabio being hunted less successfully at this point in the cycle by Louis de la Torres and it's now wrt23 with Robin fines having made his way by when he been doing a while ago in gtem at the 27th position icky katzberg has over a minute and a half of advantage over the charging Charlie Eastwood has pulled out nearly 17 seconds now over at Rahul fry and Turk Caroli in the project one AO Rexy the dinosaur Livery Porsche is on a now but will be the final routine stop for that effort all those four cars have been exceptional this weekend was just creeping away from Mateo kairoli which is not an easy job to do only is not in a Porsche by accident he knows how to Pedal those things as Porsche Junior Factory driver so much being groomed for Success 62 cars started this race 16 of them were in the hypercar class at the moment the top nine are still hyper car entries there are three other Runners at PACE at the moment in that uh in that that class field in amongst the lmp2s and the 38 Hertz team Johto car which is still on the in the garage and we expect to finish the race as a last lap wander or last couple of laps Wonder yeah it is currently the last car that is not retired 40 cars potentially could take the flag on board with Antonio Fuego has just been warned about attack limits and many more warnings so he's gonna have to be cautious that means by the way three retirement tonight we've got glass but we'll come to those will be wild but first we're going to go down to Louise who's in Petland with team wrt [Music] I'm with Vincent first team principal for wrt well this is interesting isn't it going into the final hour yeah well I mean at the moment things are going okay I would say I mean we always try to fight for the win and this is what we do at the moment there is a 13 seconds Gap we try to catch up let's see I mean it's it's how it is I mean uh I did forgot how long was a 24-hour race uh it's long let's see how to finish I mean especially how long that last hour is as well yeah especially the last lap yeah you've been there before so many things can happen thank you Vincent we hopefully speak to you later yeah closing in now on to unlap itself it is currently he was at five five laps back still [Music] we were wondering what would happen if you managed to make a pass and get by and that stage it didn't happen in traffic lots of lots of Danish Flags lots of flags of all Nations the first running of Lamar a century ago only four nationalities were represented France about two months expect here in the mall their entries from Belgian drivers British drivers and German drivers and now we have I think I remember correctly 32 different nations represented on the grid some major motor sporting Nations and some and the amino end of the scale and by the way radio that is into europol's put forward or not a pit board but uh just reminding him that Johnny Walker stands in the 70s as well Martin by the way with the exception Antarctica representing every continent six continents out of the seven you're right Antarctica do not well Antarctica don't have a nation state so they don't have a representation either but uh I suppose somebody could come from the Ross Eye shelf who might be a full-time scientist and part-time racer but that sounds little less than likely eating some of the debris out of the cooling grills this will be the final stop routine stop for the iron Dames will indeed what a run they've had yep great spirit of this this effort over the last few years but what a race they are having here they stop from third place and it's going to be tight for the podium in gtem into Europa leading in lmp2 Fabio Sarah back [Music] car two legs to Pedal so we'll have to come up with a better a better way of describing driving the car with a single foot now what he needs is Chaparral 2f not because the high Wing but because of the automatic gearbox yeah it's uh 12 seconds now the Gap it is still closing and we're still going to pit cycle to go for both of these cars and Louis delatras setting the wrt41 cars fastest first sector of the race box Fabio okay they probably don't need to write Fabio on it if you put 41 in box I think they'll probably he'll probably get it 34. 34 indeed it's been a long long day I had a long night and another long day I don't think writing on in Biro is going to really work he's coming past you at 160 miles an hour get a bit more gaffer I need to throw a bread roll at him hang on a minute box there's 50 minutes to go yeah can't do it I'll kill you can't do it on fuel box now so why is he boxing has an opportunity that's very early has he got a penalty well we haven't been informed of the penalty but the team may have it is the last hour of the race things might not happen now are they just preparing it yes it's not going to the pit bull it's going to the back of the garage I have a bit more gather on because if he hasn't got a radio they can't tell him oh and we don't have the signaling pits at Bulls heart Corner anymore there's Michelle getting lucky quite drawn as well Michelle yeah emotional yep and it's in a very emotional event this well their car has now dropped out of third place with its final pit stop but have we had the final pit stop for the Corvette have we had the final pit stop for GR racing and Ricardo pero and I guess if we haven't and if they need to stop again then again if the battle is on it would mean I would argue it would mean as much to the crew in that pink Porsche to finish on the podium Le Mans as it will to anybody else whether they're winning the Centenary lemon for Ferrari or anything else I think that crew have as much invested emotionally in this as any other team in the business be a an enormous enormous result for them and it is hanging in the balance to gain engineering just on the fringes of the top three of lmb2 let's hear from them car uh you're just getting ready to get back into the car now so it's going to be full attack I take it yeah full attack we had to look because of my four hours within six hour drive limit and I'm just like on the limit so now we just try to take over the tires from Renee and see if you can get that third place back so you're gonna stay on the tires but we're gonna swap the driver yes that's what we're gonna try uh yeah we didn't think that we have to fight that hard for P3 because at some stage it looked all good until our puncture so that's limo yeah so let's see sure is and you know it well it's good to see you here and I hope you see the end thank you edgy stuff all around and you can see the faces and it's europault they're worried and they should be 10 and a half seconds now Louis De La trazi's closing taking chunks of time out of their long long held lead as your mouth Turning Heads around the world with this sports car Pace on both sides at the Atlantic all sorts of weird things happened at the end of races like this as as we've seen in in Years Gone by wrt lost a 1-2 result a couple years ago when YIFY his car failed on the final lap they ended up with one car winning Robin frines winning the race just from Tom block Vista jota could it be that they might get that one too this year they've already had a win in the road to Le Mans the BMW GT3 car Valentino Rossi was driving that they run regularly for him in uh planetek GT series he had his first win in the GT3 car he was on the lemon Podium for the first time since 2008 but there's other stuff further away in seventh place overall Gabby Aubry was supposed to be going to the end for Vector sport in the woods of Fiona Miller entering her final hour as a pressure a press member of the press school here in the Lord he is toast so they're again a pit and put Matthias back in for the final what they think should be five to seven laps so Gracie by the way are now making that funnel pit stop that cycle the 85 ahead of the 86 with 47 minutes to go is the highest rated driver she's a gold-rated driver in the iron Dames car there you can see the ort by TF car there's the decaying car kind of a 30 we just heard that Neil Jani will be loaded in in place of Rene binder he'll take Remy's tires and then go hell for leather after a Podium spot but he's about to be put a lap down by the leader who is still absolutely flying Fabio Shara fastest lap of its race goes to the team wrt Carver 336 146 10.2 seconds that's the number 41 car in second place so again that's charge from Louis de la traz is bearing for or is that freins in the fur though that is de la Travis in the 30 or 41 yes as you can see 34-41 ahead of the 34 Car on the track but behind in the points the overlap there's not much in it there's the ort by TF car you are still running a comfortable second place so just about 100 seconds off the now dominance performance from Corvette racing and that's a car that's had its troubles this week I hope it was nowhere I mean it was pack up and let's go home and go to the pub tonight kind of territory early on in the race lap three laps to go okay and you can you can see there but you could see what Albert Costa was doing couldn't he they're closing they're closing they're trying desperately to communicate aren't they with Fabio Sarah how heroic you know look it's it's hopping into the car he's got no radio he's got no clue about caps he's left to find his own pace they can't even signaling into the box and not putting sticky tape on a piece of cardboard relate to a lot at that from his time with them so RTE 220. LRT by TF are they going to put a bit more gaffer on that Bonnet just in case the gaffe is sort of peeling off the ball it hasn't though the Bonnet pins at the front are holding there's the young audience there I wonder how many times that young man will come back to Lamar and I I wouldn't bet the old him being here maybe even for the 150th celebration there you go this is the 86 car with its commemorative Livery half and half and look at the fill from the track so half the viewers outside the track don't see any of that they just get the black side anybody who's on the inside of the track only gets the golf side it's it's quite bizarre they're looking at two different race cars for the entire race and unless it spins they never see the other side of it no uh not quite clear where we are with the Pit Stop Cycle by the way for the 54 Ferrari yeah I can't tell you is the battle for second place a third place rather in GTM is separated by six seconds and I think gr racing cars come out ahead of the iron games yes it has okay but it's being closed yeah battle is on well there is the Corvette that leads in gtam three class leaders as we get into the final three quarters of an hour here Ferrari of course a lead with number 51 in the hypercar class there is your GTM leader Vicky katzberg in the 33 Corvette and into your poll the green and yellow lmp2 car leading in that category Fabio in uh I was gonna say Serene silence I suppose probably not very silent in the mp2 car in comes the GTM leader but Cheryl with no radio comms they're desperately waving things at him to try and keep him up to speed make sure he doesn't come in too early or too late final stop for the 33 final stop for Corvette racing at the moment it will be a very different look to the Corvette president's next next year here in a different car the co6 gt3r and with a different team to be revealed get the focus for the GT3 Corvette will be on customer racing yeah and uh I'm sure there'll be a fair number of these men and women behind this effort and efforts over the last better part of quarter of a century with more than a couple of tiers in their eye this has been a an effort that has attracted so much attention so much royalty the most popular sports car team in North America has made a lot of friends here at Lamont also scared the living be Jesus out of a lot of people with the mid midday train horn that that we will miss as much as we will miss the sound and of these cars and and our our friends over the years have been part of the the Pratt Miller Racing Organization Corvette racing Doug Feehan particularly who was the figurehead for a quarter of a century and more and the Danny Binks and all the guys who were here through the early days of their alms and uh brought the cars back to them on Time After Time After Time 31 into the pits from third place okay that dropped it immediately down into fourth Rodman freins will stay in I can't imagine gel ignite would get him out of that seat right now in the final 45 minutes no the race last year ended badly didn't it with an error at Indianapolis having won the year before and that's the other side of the Lamont coin of course because forever even Tom Christensen for every win there's been a year when you haven't won although he's had a fair share of Podium finishes as well yeah it's uh Tom's record 18 starts four dnfs 14. uh podiums including nine wins really decent uh yeah not bad at all what goes through your mind either board the car in the garage at this stage guy I suppose it depends where you're on the race I mean 2003 what was that like in the final hour well I mean I was lucky to be in the car for the final sort of hour and a half so as I said before to my team I think it's probably the best place to be because you're kind of preoccupied you've got obviously to focus on driving the car but um at that point it can only go wrong really so um you obviously were just focusing on making sure you get the apexes don't make any mistakes and really just looking after the car because um it really is the longest hour I mean for uh for Alexandria greedy now it's just wanting to wish this next 40 minutes away because he just wants to get that Ferrari to the Finish Line in one piece and in many ways what we're watching here at this run for the last 40 minutes for Ferrari not dissimilar to the run you have for Bentley a famous make coming back after such a long time and it's all on the line was was more than half a century nearly three quarters of a century so it was a it was a long old time you just saw Ben Keating there in the Corvette racing garage saying thanks and well done to the guys not all of those crew members I'm sure will be with us in Monza I'm sure they've got extra crew who have come in here for the lemon 24 hour race and it's been a good partnership so far and actually if they finish on the top step of the podium here they will be within sniffing distance of the championship title it's going to depend on exactly what happened to the podium positions but I think if my math is correct there will be a maximum of three teams in with a chance of winning the title um and that's come particularly close to the fact that a number of other cars in the order haven't finished this race remember for the WC points as we've watched the Ferrari completing the lap the cars that are not the w entrance are effectively invisible Louise back in past the 65 racing garage and the car is in the garage but what they are thinking to do is the same as Hertz team jota and go out for the last half an hour of the race just to finish it all right excellent well if they've done enough laps up until now as long as their final lap was is within two minutes of the leader of their class this time there's now a final lap there is a vector maximum and that came actually after Peugeot waited for the flag with sepal day in the first year of the 908 program that by the way is what caught out about the catch up were caught out the uh Toyota in 2016 was the failure but that's why that car was not classified because they couldn't complete the final lap yeah in the minimum time 3 hours and 59 minutes you can do 24 24 hours and more but if you don't make it to the checkers correct you didn't start well you don't finish wrt's 41 is now on pit Lane Louis tele Torres comes in he was about seven seconds back from the into Europa cup into your polls penalty by the way was rescinded okay so they came in and served that drive through the penalty was rescinded which is why they didn't come in and serve a penalty so luckily they didn't do the penalty first and the drive-through at the and the pit stop afterwards they did the pit stop argued then how the penalty rescinded because once you've served it you can't unserve it then they can't give you that 32 seconds back now we don't yet know what uh we're going to see from wrt next season outside of Harvard we most certainly know that we're going to be seeing BMW with them as representatives for all the factory we've been liking cgt three cars too so this will be their final lmp2 pit stop at the long let's get down into our GTE field again gr racing in the podium contention let's hear from them I'm with Ben Barker from the 86 gr racing we are 37 minutes remaining of this 24-hour race and you're currently running in third this is tense very very honestly I don't want to speak too soon but we've had uh yeah a bad race um we had damage early on and and the guys did an amazing job to repair it we were almost down two laps we managed to get back onto the elite lap but um yeah now we're now we're going to third so everybody's just got to manage the Gap they're super close behind the iron Dames and um we just gotta hold off right thank you I'm not going to speak to you anymore because I know you can't say anymore I'll add this by the way uh with some news we saw earlier this week use the proton competition the uh dominance in terms of the numbers at least uh Porsche customer team in gtem are switching to Ford it leaves slots open for the GT3 cars we expect to see here next year and are good results here for GR racing could secure the future for that team yeah because they're racing Porsches now iron links are racing forces now Lamborghini next year that's their deal so it does open the door open leave the door open you know for maybe somebody up there maybe somebody like project one to be part of that maybe one and one but there's still a possibility that we may see two times one car for two teams rather than a two-car team that could just fall nicely for Mike went right and his very loyal crew finally stop for the number 50 Ferrari this car as you can see just slips down to sixth position as the better placed uh number five of course it goes by it phenomenal Outlet by the way from Louis de la traz odations in the team wrt 41 car chasing nmp2 leader Fabio sharer we have yet to see Sarah being waved in Cadillac number three will come in this lap and there'll be a few more pit callers before the end of the race I'm sure that we're gonna get yeah you if you fill now you'll get through 34 on pit Lane this is the critical pit stop as is the third place decaying team come up so final two contenders if this race finishes on Pace in lmp2 on pit Lane now it's all about what fuel is needed how quickly how trouble free can it be done all tire change as well on the 50 Ferrari there they had nothing to lose and everything to gain so Fabio Sarah is he going to get out or is he going to stay in then I want to give more notes in the door of the garage oh they're open the door so you can see the notes haven't they go go go you would think that maybe a team member or they could I was going to say they could talk to him on radio of course they can't talk to them later that's why they're waving notes at him and holding sticky tape Boards out is what I made earlier the most important pit stop in the history of this team it's done and we'll see when it clears the timing Beam at the end of pit Lane it comes the 41. at least again is the absolute definition of a family team Father and Son running it mikhovsky is the young man whose dad who runs into your opal huge Bakery concerned in Poland had the money to start racing they started in that small sub lmp3 cars in V to V races came up through the Michelin the mall company LMS and here they are looking to try and win the mon it is the the length of the pitch straight is the gap 33 minutes to go there's a lot of very nervous Polish people there the number five Porsche why is that going so slowly why is that going so slowly that's the number five car Michael Christensen he's got an issue that is not racing speed out of a Mozart corner he's racing speed out of malls on corner he was very low on fuel wasn't he let's take a look at the energy no he's not he's got two-thirds of his energy left so what's going on here this is the sixth place car remember here you've got to cross the line to finish this race his next threat on the clicking house cars behind currently seventh and eighth he is stuck in third is he stuck on the pit limiter for somebody on the on the it's he's doing 85 with it the limiter should be 80. yeah because 85 kilometers now that's it that's doing nowhere oh that was it was doing RPM though was it was down sort of similar prices said ballet will stay aboard the car loose and Flappy in there wasn't there in seconds is the lmp2 lead Gap and look at the huge size of the lumps of rubber coagulating together that gets thrown up into these cars and that's what we talk about when we talk about the beard lumps to get stuck on a tire and it suddenly feels like the car is going to shake itself to Pieces guy that's the huge amount of that you can run over without noticing and suddenly the car is like vibrating to bits yeah sometimes it sticks to the actual Tire it actually gets caught between the uh the tire itself and the wheel Arch it can do all kinds of Damages or get stuck inside the rim and becomes like an out of balance exactly wait on your road car and shakes your fillings very very slow crawl back to the pit Lane this is really cruel for Porsche Penske team about to be caught by the way by the lmp2 battle Yeah that's at the moment making its way down towards Indianapolis there's the sister car or one of the two sister Cars one already out the race half an hour there's these leading car GTM behind two it's the team's best placed car as well watch for the yellow and green into Europe or cargo pie then look for the red and white wrt car which I think is around 10 seconds back here it goes copy instead of eight now that was probably half a lap ago when he was crawling away from musan corner and on the data they will see what power is being transmitted to the wheels there are data sensors on there the FIA will be monitoring them in real time on all of the driven axles of all of the cars in the hyper car class just to make sure that nobody's exceeding their power delivery limits so the team should have that data as well he's obviously it sounds like has got maybe only one wheel of rear-wheel drive the nmdh hybrids they produce their Hybrid Power and that is directed to the rear axle so all the power goes through the wheels there's a second chicane foreign was revving he was fully lit going down into the second she came Anthony Davidson box of the neutrals it seemed as he was trying to get on power yeah a little bit Yeah and uh yeah I could see on the graphic as well when it came up the uh he wasn't able to put any Throttle Down so it's making it right back we're going to say a big thank you by the way to guy Smith for his contribution on this broadcast he's gonna leave he's made a fulsome contribution to the Centenary event valuable and uh welcome addition to this commentary team for the 2023 Centenary edition of the long 24 hours hope we see him again soon absolutely microphone and be on the wheel thank you so much guy indeed safe journey home and uh good night's sleep as well when you get home tonight I think everybody will get one of those so 51 Ferrari must be on its way in number eight Toyota will need to stop as well number five Porsche coming down pit Lane and 51 car will go around one more time it's a Toyota will stop after the 51 car for its final stop and we'll need to take on less fuel which will take less time real question now for Porsche Penske team at Davidson is can they fix whatever it is in 20 minutes to get it back out inside the final tent to try and make it a finisher well it was either drive shaft issue or gearbox issue I'm going for gearbox seemed to happen on the up shift can hear from uh Ben Keating [Music] this is always a tense moment going into this final hour [Music] it's hard for an old man's heart to watch Nikki katzberg in these races like this but uh we've had a a really crazy race lots of ups and downs so much drama uh you know with the weather and uh you know just all over the place I'm really grateful to be where we are right now uh and uh you know 30 minutes left to go fingers crossed uh and uh yeah there's a lot of emotion you know tied behind all of this so we'll see there is a lot of emotion I can feel it and see it um and we were worried that we weren't going to be seeing you again but you're just telling me now that you do intend to come back for Le Mans next year it's my hope uh you know I would really love to run in the Pro-Am class of lmp2 I run lmb2 and imsa and because I did a full season of Wick I did not use my automatic entry for lmp2 before uh so I'm hopeful that they'll have me back to running an lmp2 car I would love to do Lamar for a tenth time in a row in nine different cars that would be fun that would be some record and I think if anyone could do it you can yeah thank you thank you thanks Arch enthusiastic Ben Keating yeah a tenth of them on entry in nine different kinds of cars and in two different classes as well GTM and then and then P2 program but right now let's hope that if they end up in about an hour's time standing on the podium as Victor Victor's in GTM this time he gets to keep the trophy well the double winner because 2022 of course won the team sports in the Aston Martin but I will think about that uh that figure the uh nine different guitars who makes it back is he has that ideal opportunity if you can get a drive in Orica at zero seven because remarkably there's dominant current lmp2 whilst he races it and wins in it in North America he's never raced one here so the door is open for that yeah I think team has really been uh he's had such a solid performance here brilliant in qualifying as I said earlier on and I think the thing I'm most impressed by not just with his efforts but the whole team was that never give up attitude they'd prompted the uh suspension earlier on in the race and they just put their foot down got on with the job and Ben particularly you know brilliant effort to uh to get that car right back up to the shop and delete this races into the pit Lane comes to car 51 with five percent energy remaining you can see on the left-hand side of your screen there yeah inside the farm 25 minutes uh good thought from my buddy Ken Childs watching in Durham North Carolina would it be the second time only a garage 56 entry has finished them on if the number 24 car finishes signaling Metro Car 34 in the Sydney area under investigation that's waving the bit of plastic out because they didn't have any radio uh the answer is uh products oh so finished I think his last fight is a finisher yes he was uh I think the academy guy put together finished I'll check that okay in which case possibly the third now you can see that all the pit boards are on sort of swiftly arm things so they swivel out of the way and that's a presumably a safety rule you don't normally have somebody holding a pit bull out anymore and you saw the 34 team making a big plastic sort of name card from the top of the garage into a pit board for Fabio sharer because he's lost his radio I would sense or perhaps there might be a little fine he's going to have to recycle the car isn't it this could be drama for Ferrari of course uh it happened before the engine refused to stop about four hours ago refused to start again and they had to go through a power cycle and that time I think it was also our San Diego you can hear his engineer very calmly giving him the instructions it's right there in front of you do this do that wait there certain okay lights are on is anybody home yes they are okay so twice in this morning early afternoon or the early afternoon and mid-afternoon now the car yeah heart in the mouth moments at Toyota damn it they're saying but [Music] okay just a moment of worry there now they've had two or three two James go hard I can't bear it they've had two or three absolutely no drama pit stops since then no drama at all fired up boom gone and now it's done it again Louise Beckett and I'm looking at that picture time it's turned out okay and he's won but uh just that picture of his head in his hands yep that's a very it's a knot and again this guy Smith sitting again at Davidson will be the same when you are in the garage powerless and just watching and waiting for the ax to fall that must be a pretty tough deal now then nose cone being moved in the Ferrari garage I don't think that's to make room for the dancing and celebrating yeah Charlotte pit stop by the way underway or on Pit Road rather for the number two Cadillac books at the moment third place have not threatened on Pace from behind uh lnb2 by the way uh Papio sure is pulling away from the Adela trans but we have that pit signaling under investigation method of pet cycling which we saw was racer tape spelling out a message with no radio for the 34 getting him to box and also team member over the uh with arms over the wall trying to Signal how many laps two pits yeah I'd have to check if I'm not regulations this this stage lap of the Gods yeah that would be extraordinarily harsh penalty for that particularly given that it's not just a car trying to finish the race it's about victory in the class in the P2 cars you do have or any car you have meetings lots of meetings prior to the race you know full well when you have the fuel warning light coming on you know full well at which point on the circuit if it comes on there you have to box if it comes on in another place on a track you're okay to carry on it's 709 709 it's yeah 708 is in the pit Lane Olivier Park that car 709 is in seventh place and the car behind it the eighth place number five portions this first chicane I mean it's bone dry and it's still catching out cars it's always a tricky on that first you can because you're breaking turning into the right and then you carry on braking as you turn the car left and that change of uh body roll in the car really doesn't like it you come from such high speed of course down the most hands straight yeah now he's completely beached that car won't be able to reverse out of it he's gonna need external help yes and we've got under 20 minutes to go by the way the sister car just before it's uh pitted had a little up to sixth place because of the issue for the number five Porsche Penske Motorsport 963 so the lead cart the full season car 708 is in sixth the Seventh Place car remember to retain anything to possession you have to cross the line well he's in a position where they can easily push him back and put him onto Terra Firma relatively easily and relatively quickly yeah I think he's gonna need a lift Toyota team on their feet they will be ready I don't think this lap for the number eight Toyota gazu racing entry but maybe the next lap Sitting Waiting watching how many GT wins have they had collado caregrini here I don't think it would check um I'd have to go and check what other very uh quick thing to mention is gr racing in the hands of Ricardo Pera is gradually edging away from the iron damage to that final Podium position [Music] a face growing very slightly it's out to seven seconds now Rahal fry was taking time out to him well there you go call me alive number eight car comes down Pit Road yeah see I didn't think they needed to come in now 13 would have taken him round at least another lap but in they come 709 glicken house as well guys I think they might have come in because the uh there's a full course yeah the um slow zone is about to come out exactly right so you might as well do the pit stop now in hope that uh it won't be there by the time you get back out but I'm pretty sure it will be another one of those racing Vision tear-off visors being peeled off the windscreen I've got James collado and the Alexandra repair greedy uh for uh wins here in GT Pro the answer is um collado has two wins in 2019 and 2021 and three second places wow uh Sandra Pierre greedy um as the two wins and two second places okay GC Pro which which ceased to be part of the championship at the end of last season so they took the final title as well the third of their championship titles as Duo of course winning them on with double points 50 points for victory here that never hurts your Championship campaign number eight team is done 17 minutes to go in the Centenary Le Mans Anthony Davidson well they didn't go down without a fight did they Toyota I think that's what uh has impressed me the most with them their efforts this race here at the Centenary event at Le Mans they were they were you know fighting right to the end we're still 16 minutes still to go of course but I mean in terms of Pure Performance it was very evenly matched with Ferrari and to the point where they had to both push themselves into uncomfortable territory I'd say completely agree I think that's what's defined this race yeah I think that's you know it it pushed both driver and machine right over the limit at points and uh yeah like I say massively uncomfortable and something was going to give I had the feeling something was going to give they were they were trading fastest laps all the time uh it was at the time it was uh Brendan Hartley versus uh jovenazzi and it you just felt like you were gonna meet boiling point and uh yeah it was Rio when he got in the car warned by Brendan Hartley that the rear end was very unstable we had to be careful with the saturation of the brakes and how it was too much on the rear end he couldn't do anything about it there were clearly it was clearly the achillas here to that car this whole race or pretty much the whole race worn by Brendan but still the rear locked up into Arnage and uh and that effectively cost them the uh the chance to take the fight all the way to the dying seconds of this race of course Cadillac racing in third and fourth July to have those sounds of America delighted to have this sound of America awful lot of fans saying the only reason they've been able to stay awake through the night is that every four minutes there's a thundering V8 alarm until it comes comes rolling by I'm delighted also to have had on the team another Voice of America Motors called Jim Romeo it's I hope it's not being a disappointing race for your return to LeMans oh heavens no this is this is fantastic this has been everything I had hoped it would be uh it has been absolutely wonderful finally see these hyper cars in person and Anthony summed it up greatly I mean this is came down to the final 45 minutes you can't ask for more than that maybe they'll be second guessed about maybe who should have finished the race for uh for Toyota but I'll leave that to to other people there's a happy man right there and you're gonna have two American class winning cards yeah that's right that might be a first yeah with a Corvette winning in GCM at least at the moment and the Hendrick Motorsports Chevy Camaro winning in the Invitational class okay winning popular opinion wearing hearts and minds and uh in a huge number and they're not saying that they have one yet I mean if anyone knows better than anybody else it's me yeah YouTube 2016 Toyota then you'll know uh literally the last lap of the race we're in the lead by a minute and a half and we didn't win um so I'm not saying that's probably everyone but if they were to win then you want to beat the best you don't want it handed to you this race hasn't been handed to them they've had the Speed they were on pole position as front row lockout they haven't made strategical errors they've been right on the money all the time all the way through this race all the drivers driven brilliantly well one little wearer from Pierre greedy in the night but that I forgive him because there's a spinning car in front of him in that first chicane so he's he was actually one of the pivotal moments of the race where he really got that car into the lead and excelled and you want to beat the best that's like Toyota are the best they're leading the world championship we've had three races they're leading the world championship and they come here with the Target on their back and when you stand on that top step of the podium you want to look over your shoulder and know that the best is standing next to you and on that day you were better I completely agree you've taken some of the words out my mouth on this one the best thing about this race will come to the events that in due course is it's not been easy to win it could have been it's been very easy to lose for some people but it's not pleased to win the depth of of competition the scale of that competition um this is uh the 31 wrt card the third place cars coming through a garage it was a wrt coming through identifies the color so have they got a braking issue or a clutch issue it looked like they will work or a steering rack it should look like they were working on the master cylinder okay go through into a Podium position you saw the excitement and the no no no don't no don't yet don't yet everybody's holding their breath but the final thing it is thrown incident and it's thrown drama and it's thrown fantastic racing and uncertainty at us lap after lap after lap after lap after lap this is truly a worthy race for a Centenary and Jim roller it's been an epically talented field in the hypercar class you can't possibly thought this Choice over any of the drivers in the cars no in GTM in G in lmp2 as well it's just been such hard close racing my last trip here was 2019 before covid and in the intervening years I have seen an improvement in the GTE am category and and it really showed in this event not only with the way uh Ben Keating qualified the car but the way that team came back the great battle with the 25 car and the 85 car I've enjoyed the the Ben Keating Sarah bovey battle all season long and in the bronze category but Ferrari is going to uh in 11 minutes they hope their fingers crossed that they will will gather finally their 10th victory at this great race and that is uh that's a milestone that that they can hold proudly that's a massive result for Ferrari it's a massive result for this rule set it's a massive result for the 24 Hours of Le Mans ferraria back in the top class and in winning four we said after hyper pole that that would be a news item that would be in timelines otherwise would never have seen anything about this and boy are we gonna get another one the only manufacturers that have won more Porsche and Audi yep yeah it's uh I I mean again it's one of those things that happens in life that if you wrote it in the script yeah they come back after 50 years and they win one of the toughest races on record oh okay that's a bit far-fetched can you just put a bit more Jeopardy in there a few more failures listen from day one we knew that they had potential we went to Sebring and they shook Toyota I mean genuinely shook Toyota by taking Pole Position then Tory to full back and took the race win they won two in order now they won in Spa from Kishore but there's been a Ferrari on the podium at every race we started they returned to Le Mans with pole position in the hyper pole with a front row lockout how much of that was just Sprint race Pace how long would the cars last well the answer is they've traded blows with everyone around them slugged it out and they are still standing at the top of the pile and as a team as well we kept saying they were a test team when they arrived in Sebring they've done a lot of kilometers in testing obviously there's a new team you're allowed to do more testing miles than an established team like the likes of Toyota uh but still you're not a race team this race is the first time I've seen them be a race team take it easy take it easy no need to push slow laps are good [Music] you guys are turned off yeah nine minutes to go and uh we're closing in on history 1973 the last time a factory Ferrari team entered in 1965 the last time the Ferrari factory team won overall there Master Gregory and yoken rents and their Ferrari 250 LM I was one year old when I was minus twenty Thirty eighteen hurts team jota coming out as is the number five Porsche ready for the final lap 94 Peugeot should leave the pit Lane now as well they're gonna need to find some Pace to make sure that they are classified as finishes DKR have finished their final pit stop and it looks as though the number five four shirt unless it leaves is not going to make it well those two guys their teammates rear hirokawa they know what it takes to win them on they've done it plenty of times looks right now as if it may not be their turn for info if we do three minutes 38 lap times we reduce one lap from the race okay that seems like if you wouldn't order than a message yeah that seems like the definitely the right thing to do yes if you do three minute 35s we have to do another whole lap and we may not want to do that so just yeah lift and Coast lifting Coast not necessarily go slowly not lose your focus just lift and Coast so Ferrari 51 leads from the number eight Toyota kazoo racing car that is the line now for what should be the antibiotic anti penultimate time Cadillac Racing's number two car in the moment completing the overall Podium positions in the classes into europol 16.3 seconds ahead of team wrt and the Kane team that's what it means to other Costa yeah focusing on the phone don't think about it don't look at it wait for it to happen yeah the problem is that the internal combustion engine doesn't know there are six minutes remaining the gearbox doesn't know there are six minutes right it doesn't know what time is it doesn't live by time it just does this thing and when it breaks it can break it's going to be okay beautiful how many times we have to have this race throw drama matters um before we stop making assumptions that's why I'm calling it as I see it at the moment in GTM it's this car magnificent run from the Corvette racing team All Season to this point double points for the wec that's less important right now to Ben Keating is watching the TV the the car tracker they are way ahead of the ort by TF Aston Martin John Eastwood uh lucky to bring the 25 car home what a date for the tiny nation of Oman like any uh like any gen Zeds would be doing just go straight to the phone you want to reoccupy yourself straight to the mobile phone what did drivers do before there was Twitter and and and and Tick Tock to watch and WhatsApp you know what did you do when you didn't have a phone to distract you couldn't focus they based and they went out back and smoked a cigarette oh yeah this is Keating this is how the youngins do it just go straight to the mobile phone this is how difficult this race was three safety Co-op periods three hours on the safety car and lots of full course yellow as well big Keating is just all over this is the before we forget the final Podium position at the moment in the hands of gr racing they have fought for that position all day all night and all day again uh Mike Wainwright Ricardo parrot who's at the will of the car at the moment and Ben Barker winning a battle and it boy was it a battle with the iron Dames yeah with five minutes to go and it is yeah that's going to be a tough break from the iron Dames they've been in contention for a Podium here at Le Mans all the way through the race they've LED they've been in the top three they've been in the top six always on the lead lap and just to miss out by 10 seconds that's gonna be a tough one for many many years one of the most popular sporting shows in America was ABC Wide World of Sports and it's famous opening was the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat well I don't think I have seen in a long time a better picture that shows Agony or defeat than the look in poor Brendan Hartley's eyes just moments ago getting as well very red-eyed Indiana's garage when it seemed that they were going to lose that Podium spot that they've been fighting so hard for for the last few years but just finishing this race you're a winner I know that sounds like you know it does sound trite but but this is one of the toughest things you'll ever do in sport and I learned that the first time like in 2000 when uh uh when I for my first time back after my since 1995 and it to see the teams that may have finished fifth or sixth but had fought back from great adversity or a crash to finish the race they were just as emotional and joyous at the end of the race as the winners yeah I think it it gets that point doesn't it where if you're in contention for a win of course it's going to hurt but there's a point for many of these teams where the objective has become get it home last lap for the 2023 24 hours of lemon Alessandro Pierre greedy on I'm sure what be will be a phenomenally emotional tour of the circuit de la South 12.626 kilometers to take it all the glory the headlines but most of all the win at this great race and what a race it has been an in-depth look at the tribunes absolutely rammed but how many of these cars have actually won Martin even bring him home 24 hours ago everyone was a winner one of the busiest grids I've ever ever senior Motorsport and what looked like one of the most relaxed everybody excited just to start the Centenary Lamarque to be part of a packed field of talent in gtem in lmp2 and especially in this burgeoning hypercar class and for everybody a capacity audience of more than three hundred thousand the celebrations that are built up to it it was just a big party waiting for the starting signal 24 hours later quite incredible history is going to be written here again at Le Mans the last time a factory entered Ferrari raced in the 24 hours it finished in second place 50 years ago 50 years later the team again started from pole position and they're on the final lap of this epic voyage less than 12 months ago beginning the physical part of this development program of the 499p and the Ferrari hey of course the team have worked relentlessly since testing formatting homologating the car and then bringing it to America taking it to Sebring to start the FIA World Endurance Championship season Ferrari Cadillac Porsche glicken house and Floyd Van Wall came here to take on the established benchmarks the multiple winners the five-time consecutive Lamont winners Toyota Gazoo racing and they all had a chance to lead almost every car in hypercar at some stage led the race Toyota lost a car early Ferrari lost a car early in the night time and Peugeot and Porsche struggled more perhaps than would seem fair but in the end one team only Can Come Away With Victory and Incredibly it seems that Ferrari will complete that fairy tale story half the history of this race has gone by without Ferrari one of its most successful marks and when they return they have got two GT multiple world champions in the car and they are going to end up with Victory here at Le Mans and we will have three different hypercar brands on the podium Ferrari Victors Toyota taking second and Cadillac racing in third position as the clock reaches four o'clock Central European summer time on Sunday in Le Mans it is going to be victory in the Centenary race for 51. Ferrari AF courser and it is Alessandro Pierre guidi I'm sure in floods of Tears who takes the checkered flag what an enormous moment for the team for Ferrari fans across the globe and for that Trio of drivers Ferrari wins Le Mans astonishing astonishing race in the lmp2 class the first ever polish winners into europol Fabio sharer who had his foot run over by the Corvette early in the race has hopped in and out of the car and with his teammates have brought this tiny literally family owned and populated team to the very highest Accolade in their division of the sport into your bowl competition win lmp2 from wrt with Duquesne in third place a huge result for that small French team but look at this just can't believe the celebrations Toyota Gazoo racing Rio hirokawa will bring the number eight car to the line in second place ahead of the numbers two and three Cadillacs Corvette racing will claim victory [Music] after 50 years we are back that will be clipped up and across social media while the caption is still on air Antonio juvenile C Ferrari have won lemon outright how does that sound to you you've all worked so hard oh yeah yeah it's really emotion um I have no water to be honest you know I said I think these since I was a kid now I'm here with Ferrari winning Le man is just a special day I thought Goosebumps so I just cannot imagine how you feel you can go and celebrate with your team now [Music] Louise Beckett there in the throng of a very Italian party and Cadillac racing what a result for these guys second third and fourth the number two in the number three cars three one one the action express car also running they get all three cars to the line what a great effort and great for GM great for Corvette racing their final among in this format and great for Ben Keating he wins again as Nikki katzberg brings the car across the line third place by the way secured after a late run uh trying to get to the back of the gr racing team five second shot though it will be gr racing behind the RT by TF and this is an Ireland B2 program winner yeah so Pro-Am Victory going to Algarve Pro Colin Brown bringing your car to the line congratulations to those guys again small team yeah colleague coming back after his last appearance here in 2008. Tracy Brown a week ago let a lady switched seats with the lady on the airplane because she was afraid of flying backwards and I told him when he did it I said you know you might get some good karma next weekend there you go there you go around what a sight this car when when it rolled out at Sea ring looked like a race car and boy has it behaved like one yeah 34 is the lmp2 Lemon winner that is just incredible for you to achieve just incredible as well it's a dream come true and I think it's all what we've worked for for the past years and it's it's just I'm just speechless that it happened really speechless I'm so happy for you joining the team this year and wow it's paid off please call me the route all this rukio on the championship I'm rookie I won a match now but I can say I'm lost a world this is amazing your family well done can be a huge number of Tears here that tiny team into europol they've barely been Racing for 10 years they have started in Regional sports car racing in Europe and it has grown and grown through the entire ACO ladder from the Michelin the modern Captain lmp3 they moved into lmp2 and then they have moved into the world championship and Chip ganassi gets a car on the podium at Le Mans and that's something that he will remember a very long time and he gets one over on it's all foreign by the way how much better did they do than we thought they would coming into this race yeah the other quick thing it is the first Polish team to ever win a class um at Le Mans and you're right family-owned team very proud indeed quick thought for Our Friend Martin Fleming who played a great big part in the development of this team and this by the way is only their second ever race win in lmp2 wow the first game earlier this year in Abu Dhabi yeah fantastic for them hi Takara and uh our thoughts as well and uh great thanks for more than a quarter of a century of helping us out helping me out particularly to Greg Fiona Miller who has just finished or will finish later this evening her last amount but there James collado he's been in Victory Circle he's been on the podium he's never been the first one out yes not like this not like the man behind this effort the man that's uh been tasked with delivering this and I'm sure for arguing with what's been required to make it tick and Charla Claire in there somewhere enjoying the Delights of a very different Ferrari team claiming Victory is it a thing and by the way we also saw the garage 24 the Innovative entry Hendrix Motorsports their NASCAR generation seven Camaro Le Boogity Boogity Boogity made it all the way through they might have had to have rebuild the but you know what's an American classic car if you don't have to rebuild the tree there you go I mean it I may never forgive you for a lady I wasn't my fault but I I'm taking that that was uh that was a great great addition to the field this year let's hear from Toyota Gazoo racing that was one hard lemon yep obviously yes I think we did everything we could do I think for a great job amazing job unfortunately we I think we have not enough space to race and Micah also had a very bad luck during the race it was not our day but definitely we will come back strong and I think the team this time made really strong everybody beat together it's only one goal to winning that really thanks all the team all day for from Japan from cologne and of course Mr toyotasam and uh our president santosan back in Japan yeah and this time our grandfather had with grandfather which Amazon has came as well it's really shame we couldn't win but uh yeah I think it has become strong thank you What's it gonna be like in Marinello on Aussie Tuesday when these guys show up with the trophy they'll still be recovering from their hangovers walk into the Formula One shop 24-hour trophy it will be a unique trophy the Centenary trophy will be very different they will get their own personal Le Mans 24-hour replica trophies what a what a wonderful moment for for fans of motor racing everywhere Ferrari is such an evocative name they've been part of the sport really you know since the post-war years they've been just that one of the dominant names in the sport to take victory at Le Mans and and not just in a single car field or you know with no opposition in one of the toughest races in years and years and years and actually to to my great Delight that's what the Centenary race will be remembered for yes all the fun and all the show and the old cars and getting great names back here and and and all of that wonderful absolutely wonderful but in the end we will remember this as wow do you remember that race when Ferrari came back well that was we said at the beginning this could be one for the ages it was I don't think we quite believed it didn't we I don't think we quite believed how good this could be the greatest thing about this race it's not the Ferrari I've won it if the Ferrari had to fight for it yep and then we've heard great winners of this race but great losers as well and in depth and what we've seen through the last 24 hours on this Fable track is ample evidence that there's more and better still to come and the fact of the bit Jim is that Toyota could have won it easily Cadillac could have won it easily Peugeot on pace could have won it easier you're gonna win actually probably glicken house couldn't probably almost certainly Floyd vanderwald didn't have the pace and Longevity but the five big hitters they all LED and they could all have been on the top spot they are the one shows these guys that's right and you you said that at the beginning of the show it isn't necessarily uh on paper who's gonna be best it's who does Lamar choose and Lady Luck is shined down and there's and don't get me wrong I'm not saying this is a lucky win but the difference between hero and second and possibly third look at that well the difference between 51 and 50 yeah is zero other than one Lady Luck that's right shows 51. one problem that's right that's all it is in a class that is now dominated by Factory entries can barely believe the same now all of them I've got headlines they can take over justify this all of them yeah glicken house bring home a headline that says we are still 100 top ten Le Mans finishes with every car we've ever entered there is one entry in one entry only that ends without a headline they'd like to write and that is the set of the four car but uh hurts team jota what could have won this race they do have the record for most starts without finishing it there you go absolutely right and the fastest lap of the race that went to Antonio foco in the number 50 Ferrari the Toyota number eight that had the fastest time in the first sector of the race but the fastest time in sector two and sector three both went to Antonio Fuego in the 50 car but for now it is all about three men and one car Antonio giovannazzi you can see James collado will give him the other door how many years do you think he aged while he was busy control deleting in the final pit stop in the final half an hour oh my God look at those images look at the stand the shot of colado just with his face in his hands this is back to the absolute Zenith of Group C but there are more grandstand seats and there is more standing area on the straight I can remember watching the beginning and the end of the race Jaguar vs Porsche vs Mercedes all of that it was like that it was shoulder to shoulder it was elbow to Elbow but there is more here there are more facilities now than ever before there's more viewing there's more you know toilet blocks there's more showers there's more catering there's more everything it's a better event it's a better event yeah more than 300 000 getting on for 350 000 people watching it and that's aside from all the cages all the security staff all the people working in franchises and shops and everything else and all the VIP guests worldwide audience yeah and that's that's before we even turn on the TV cameras yeah just just the crowd here alone justifies this as one of the greatest Le Mans races ever I just had to check for 10 seconds to just clear up one last thing in the inbox because there was one last investigation we hadn't called that was the interior report investigation and that's it for the pit board reprimand yep the the result will stand it it would have been beyond Reckless cruel and heartless to have done anything other than say guys we know why you did it you can see all the other pit boards they're all firmly fixed they can't be dropped in the track they can't be they can't come out and they hit a car something handheld and loose and wobbly so for safety reasons that's why it's not done any longer the old manual way and probably that's not a bad thing but yes we understand why it happened in the same way that when you go to track to avoid a much slower car and avoid an accident you know it's not legal but we know why you did it so you only get a reprimand and there is Matty pregnasco a man who has been instrumental in so much success for AF Corsa and Ferrari in the GT categories and now good Lord winslamon outright with this team of young men and this car yep a Ferrari race driver himself back at the beginning of the century batty and I'm sure he could not be more proud of what he's been a part of here now then three-time GTE Pro world champions James collado and Alessandro puer greedy and they have just added 50 fat points to their Championship could they also win the title okay that's a long way away we've got three more long races to go and right now they don't care but when they Rock up to Monza and by the way if you can get a ticket for Monster still come to monster can you just imagine question for Graham what is the status of the 33 in the championship the victory here I need to do it I need to Crunch the points but they're very close they can certainly clench in it monster and they came pretty close to doing it they've got a massive massive lead 325 000 people were here to watch this that is the official crowd figure and again 3 000 Marshals around the circuit thank you to every single one of them thank you to all of the organizing staff the security staff the people who checked us in and out when we're coming in and out of the circuit the people who looked after everybody on the campsites the people who have been supplying food and drinks to everybody to our caters and actually closer to home just want to say so much as ever thanks to amp visual without whom this would have been a radio show that only we would have heard there would have been no pictures no video no audio and to alcabel systems as well alcamel celebrating their 20th anniversary though provided graphics for the World Endurance Championship and for the ACO all the way through and they work constantly to improve what we can show you at home will continue to do that everything at the moment everybody is looking to improve and they do year by year and we will try and keep Pace with that and do the same so thanks to all of our partners to the championship Partners as well the Tire suppliers like Nissan and Goodyear to Total energies who've supplied the renewable fuels not just for all the cars racing here but also for all the tire heaters here as well that fuel has been supplied sustainable fuel free of charge there's Nikki katzberg may possibly wear a cowboy hat with pride again I think as he celebrates victory in the 33 car there you go and the shades there are your overall winners and you can see in the green and yellow overalls the guys from into europol as well I mean many men who have proudly waved the Prancing horse of this good area on the top step of the podium and these are just the latest three to be able to do that and in this particular branch of the sport it's been a 50-year Hiatus that's a long Waits by anybody's standards as for lnp2 Monday's first year in lmp2 other costs are moving over from his Lamborghini GT3 career Emmanuel his foot run over by another class winner and a bacon from Poland uh that is quite the fairy tale story The Baker's boy and there are the marshals applauding the fans the fans applauding the marshals and rightly so and again um you know every time we've been out and about in The Paddock and in the village and around the circuit it's just been joyful it's been beautiful weather really scorching hot weather all week actually until race weekend so the fans have had the best of everything here an exciting race fantastic atmosphere and uh a few really really astonishing results got a spare thought for the curvy iron Dames Porsche how far behind in the end five seconds after 24 hours off the podium and that is a tough tough one to take they will come back and they will win they are good enough they will do it Ferrari victorious in a Centenary Lamont Toyota gazu Racing Car number eight the defending Champions take second Cadillac third and fourth and then a second Ferrari ahead of the pair of glicken houses the better of the peugeot's in eighth position and in the end we only lost permanently two of our hyper car entries of our 62 starters 40 made it to the Finish Line including much delayed hurts team jotika the final car to be classified in the Centenary Le Mans or there will be a very great deal of high-fiving hugging celebrating going on forward rolls in the gravel champs yeah why not kids running world yeah why not all the gates have been opened what the organizers want more than anything else is for a sea of humanity that can't be beaten underneath the podium sure they're gonna get it and we've missed that and went through the covered years you took the words right out of my mouth the Sea of humanity is the classic Lamar shot this is what it's all about as Dom pain or said when he founded the American Le Mans Series in a quarter of a century ago for the fans that's why they do it that's why the teams come it's one of the manufacturers come they come for the glory but the glory helps them sell cars it helps boost their image that's why they're here for some manufacturers they've been doing it since day one you think of Porsche for some they've been doing it for more than most of them can remember you think of Toyota the Ferrari I haven't done this for a while there you go the gates coming in kids bringing the flags fans of all ages here so great to see so many and again because of the Centenary I'm sure even more people made even more effort to make it a family holiday or to bring friends to bring new friends to convert more to this glorious slightly crazy what am I talking about utterly Bonkers form of Motorsport I've been here with my kid from here this year with my kids yeah and uh close to 30 years difference between when we turned up through 1995 and this Centenary year And the emotions are still the same [Music] and always will be an absolutely world-class motor race and a world-class events as an event on a scale not very easily matched around the planet and the story lines they start now they're going to take a while for the ladies Gentlemen The Press Room and then the broadcast edit Suites to put together but they include of course that uh win for Ferrari two of the men that have taken this win are now winners in two separate classes including the overall Tom Christensen and Charlotte clerk there again you can see our guys filming for the all-access programs which will be out in around 10 days boy that's if you thought Leman was Sleepless wait till you try editing Le Mans and all of the different background footage you get into 40 minutes that's asleep there's 10 days my friends that's asleep this 10 days before we forget because we're going to get into the ceremonials list quite correctly very soon if you're a first timer watching the Lemont 24 hours you've enjoyed this racing guess what we do a lot more of it and we'll be racing again next month um and it's a big quiet provincial circuit where there's going to be no excitement whatsoever just outside Milan Monza greeting their Le Mans winners oh my gosh what is that going to be like well we said in qualifying the whole position surely would have put another 25 000 on the ticket sales I don't even want to think about it whilst it now I know all right Ferrari told us that the ticket sales are up five fold on last year that was before qualifying and that was before qualifying I I yeah it's it's going to be a sea of humanity and most of it wearing red with his back to us at that point yeah well turn the second place car in the program category yep so we have four podiums to get through GTE am and lmp2 Pro-Am lmp2 um the Invitational car does not get a podium what they do get though is 325 000 big broad smiles and a huge thank you for bringing that Chevy Camaro Gen 7 Cup car to a whole different audience there will be people here of course who know about NASCAR who probably are passionate about NASCAR about many other forms of Motorsport there'll be a whole bunch who never really gave it a second thought who have been noisily and excitingly converted to the possibility that going around on an oval in a pack of 40 plus cars might actually be really quite entertaining and dead hard work and all that president the ACA careful on the right hand side there Fred La cat in the Blazer who runs the FIA World Endurance Championship there as well greeting fellow Marinello representatives in that Podium room and one of the great Joys about Lamar because it's a team sport you don't get that staircase of awkwardness and the pre-podium room of awkwardness that you see so often in Formula One with two or three drivers who may not necessarily want to be that close to each other after perhaps a fractious race here even if the race is very very very tired tight in the end when you get into that room you're United by one thing conquered Le Mans the mom did not beat you and that is a tough thing to say it's a tough thing to achieve there's an awful lot of cars that came here fully a third of our grid didn't make the checkered flag and that is a high attrition rate it is of extraordinary I think for the modern era lots of cars breaking down and falling apart and catching fire and blowing turbos generally the scenery had more effect on the shape of the cars than any other itemi told us that we'd be fighting for the podium they did they've got there yeah the third place finish absolutely a little with ready minder and your Nico pinho a Chilean racer on the podium at Le Mans yet another nation's got to be a first hasn't it even without checking do you think that must be a first let's take a look at our overall classification then for our aaf quarter Victorious over Toyota gazu Racing Cadillacs finishing in third and fourth places ahead of the delayed second Ferrari clicker now sits on Seventh to get 100 top 10 finishing record ahead of the better of the Peugeot since you're a pole team wrt and Duquesne fill the podium in the lmp2 and in lmp2 Pro-Am Algarve Pros number 45 crew take Victory from 37 pool racing and the third co-amp card bkr engineering car number 15 Corvette racing ort by TF and gr racing are our Podium finishers gr taking the third spot in GTE and by just five seconds ahead of the iron games and you can see again The Agony and the Ecstasy the tears of joy and defeat in that pre-podium room for every winner it will be a whole host of teams that could have would have should have and that's what makes them come back because whether it's the mom that defeats you or a rival either way taking on the challenge and you don't want to stop until you succeed and it Smiles for Sebastian Remy and Brendan Hartley Brendan just really looking after Rio hirokara yeah he probably feels a degree of responsibility for the fact they're not on the top step of the podium in the end again it sounds slightly trite but winners a team loses a team and that is so much a part of this Sport and the Toyota crew kazaki Jima there in the center there to greet the winners Tom Christensen there to present the church as well to James collado Antonio giovannazzi Sandra Pierre greedy didn't go gray during that final refusal to fire up but I tell you what I bet his heart rate spiked to rape that he's previously almost never seen this is the point where everybody's waiting for the podium and then everybody doesn't want to go home but they know they've got to well you don't have to go home but you can't stay here well you can overnight but you need to kind of Shuffle off tomorrow what we're looking at is what is going to be one of the photographs of the year because you've got Ferrari winning Le Mans a sea of humanity and beautiful sunshine a beautiful weather and these photographs will go around the world and around the world and around the world they'll be on social media for days if not weeks if not months uh by the way Alicia Salazar from Chile but never got on the podium remember because he was taken out of the car and switched between two Jaguars here we switched into the second car before lsao managed to start the car you're absolutely right should you at Dent I'm sure you were shouting at the TV to remind me I was here we were both here I should have remembered well there you can see the slightly different look to the 24-hour trophies below the Centenary trophy still on the four pillars but without the standard Le Mans 24 logo they've got a Centenary logo as well so those drivers will get an exceptional trophy as well just on the right hand side there you saw I didn't see that before the number 14 Nielsen pit board the number 14 Nielsen car was gold with a whole series of images from the history of Le Mans on the pit board the famous shot of Michael Delaney saluting one of his rivals in Steve McQueen's film Le Mans great I had not spotted that before if you didn't see it you'll have to look back and uh and get it there there's your Ducane Enthusiast on the podium hmm absolutely you think of another French Arch enthusiasts the man with most race entries here at the mall 33 inches as a driver and then a dozen more and more than that as a team owner and facilitator Omri pescarona our very best wishes go to him and best thoughts I'm sure from everybody in the booth and around the world Henry pescore one of the great names of racing at Lemont by the way 12 Podium positions of perhaps in these four classes 11 Nations across those 12. they'll get that repeated with two is going to be the United States of America plus Innovative car Corvette racing of course winning GTM Cadillac racing in hydrocar every other nation is a unique Nation on this Podium the tiniest to some of the very biggest and most powerful in this sport first time in a very long while that the overall trophy will be awarded and followed by the national anthem of Motorsport the Italian national anthem and that they're all looking quite happy now that will bring on the floods oh yes I'm sorry it's just absolutely will not from me if not from them so here come in third place leading the team out is Richard Westbrook there is Westie and he wasn't he I thought he was going to be the first out the door he wasn't so the team of the number two Cadillac they had released Misfortune of the three caddies they came home in third place the number two car Earl Bamba Alex Lynn and Richard Westbrook [Music] November on the left knows the view down from this Podium he's been an overall winner before of course with Porsche Alex Lane and Richard Westbrook Alex Lane carrying the colors off five times a month winner Derek Bell on his helmet as his little tribute to the center of this great race is this going to be the first time Martin the two school mates are still on the same overall Podium Brendan heart you know Bamba yeah both from grew up together near wanganui oh from wanganui good morning good Monday morning to my Frank Don and on point also from wanganui and uh there is the crew of the number eight Toyota Sebastian Benny Brendan Hartley and Rio hirokawa [Music] and for the first time in 50 years Ferrari wins Le Mans not in GT [Applause] the overall winners of the Le Mans 24 hours the Centenary Le Mans 2023 it is the crew of Ferrari number 51. now San Diego James collado and Antonio giovannazzi they came they saw they conquered and fittingly enough those were the words of Julius Caesar in the opening of his tales of the Gaelic Wars and Vani vidi vici 50 years since the last time it was done by Ferrari here 58 years since Ferrari have triumphed at Le Mans 50 years since there's been a factory entry in the 24 hours and the Centenary trophy will be lifted by a crew of the number 51. Ferrari 499p to prevent present the trophies is kefion [Music] presents the trophies to the crew of the number two Cadillac president of the automobile club de la West whose predecessors came up with this crazy idea back in the late Autumn of 1922. Team boss Patty bregliasco looking rightly happy whatever else happens in the remainder of the season this is the one this is it this is the whole shooting match this is the big ball game the second place trophies go to the team who could so easy bar one tiny twist of fate one turn of the cards have been on the top step president of the Department of the south of the South they are the local governing body they also the owners of the property maintain all the public roads around this region a state in which they can become the world's most famous race tracks include the number eight Toyota Brandon Hartley Rio hirakawa so close they fought like tigers throughout it was an epic battle for victory in all three classes Grand Marshal the most successful race winner here at Le Mans Tom Christensen presents the Victor's trophies unique Victor's trophies with the Centenary logo on the top to Alessandro Pierre guidi to James killado and to Antonio giovannazzi [Applause] the team boss gets the big one for Marinello and the Centenary trophy is going to need some lifting I think that is best left on its plinth Joy pretty much unlimited and you can see the looks of relief on one of the cruise uh faces can't you're down in the pit Lane yep [Music] what are we going to fill this with well the obvious answer is champagne because we are of course in France look at that yeah that's fantastic that's exactly what every photographer has been hoping for just an absolute sea of color and Humanity I see that gives you a pretty good indication of what the pit walk looked like in the autograph session put a few drivers tables out there and there you have it Rolex watches handed and a new deal signed between this Famous Brand and this great race long-term deal will mean the winners will continue to get to one of the most prized of their prizes come on it's top don't leave him hanging don't you have a Nazi leaving leaving leaving Tom Christensen hanging with a with a fist bump congratulations to all of them and to everybody who brought cars here who brought teams here who brought drivers here who brought hopes and dreams here [Music] the combination of every single one of them all 62 teams created quite a remarkable event [Music] [Applause] [Music] not going to be many faces in the photos when the therapies go up there such enormous things aren't they particularly for the winners photoshop's gonna be taking a beating tonight at media room the uh the overwhelming motion that you're looking at the faces of those three Ferrari drivers I don't think they could quite believe it I'm not sure what the Italian thought it hasn't really sunk in yet is but that's going to get banded around an awful lot I think amongst our drivers of course the Winner's selfie it's as much a tradition now on the podium as almost anything else we can already floated in as is the Japanese flag and now everybody gets to smell like a winner oh man's been down below thanking the lucky stars that somebody placed them down the wind behind a firm object otherwise they undoubtedly would be the subjects of some very sticky Champagne Showers do wealthier trumpet does it he doesn't I don't think a trombone slide would work particularly well full of sticky champagne in this temperature however [Music] beginning now of a long round of interviews and press calls and meet and greets that can only extend all the way you should think to Monza in a month's time because everybody will want to talk to the Ferrari drivers that won Le Mans in the white shirt Bruno stake he has been the speaker here at the circus art since 1992. his voice is instantly recognizable [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] remarkable remarkable sayings 50 years is a long time not to be doing something yeah and pick it up in this sort of manner [Music] for those of us that we're both lucky enough to be in 2020. lucky enough because we know a lot of you wanted to be here and I'm lucky enough because [Music] um this does your heart good that just does amazing to see all right and uh thank you thank you yes I love to read in that crowd isn't there see the photographers getting those shots of the drivers the trophies it already has and we'll keep doing it on the left three winning drivers in front of a ghostly proportion of the 325 000 people who are here to watch this astonishing race and this amazing trial for Ferrari air quarter and the number 51 Ferrari 499p once again Martin there's the result yep Ferrari Toyota gazu Racing and Cadillac amazing completing the podium in lmp2 Victors into europol ahead of team wrt and Duquesne what a result for two very small and very dedicated teams in GTM Corvette racing but ahead of ort by TF and by five seconds gr racing snatching the final Podium spot from the iron Dames and the garage 56 car coming home 39 spots the penultimate car running at the flag Jimmy Johnson fittingly bringing the Hendricks Motorsport car to the line Rick Hendrick and his crew spent nearly two years developing that car Chad canals Jimmy Johnson and uh Michael Rockefeller and Jensen button bringing the car through take a look at our lmp2 program category in a moment or two Toyota still lead the world championship from Ferrari that battle will tighten up and as you can see there is a 25 point spread one win between the crew of the number eight car and the number 51 car that makes life very entertaining look who's in third it's the crew of the number two Cadillac there you go it's Ferrari up to second place in the world championship now in Cadillac up to third it's game on a Toyota undefeated so far in the FIA World Endurance Championship this season but it could happen and again the way I think the thing that's impressed me the most about Lamar to differ they've just been defeated yeah yeah up to now uh the way that's impressed me most about them on and the way the Ferrari have taken it is on as it's as if they were never not here yes it just has been the most natural thing they've not been touchy or tight-lipped or or closed-doored or or nervous or you're overthinking or second guessing they just come in relaxed and flowing and gone and done it of course now coming back and doing it again it's another whole thing but I have been singularly impressed by the the genuine relaxed and almost Carefree attitude with which not unprepared not serious not professional but not stressed way in which they have dealt with the entire thing the history element of it the expectations the hopes all of that yeah they know it's there it's not stressing them out inside the team it's a little Oasis of happiness and Zen calm and that's a remarkable thing to achieve in a team that has not raced as a team until the beginning of the season so we've had already an Italian team of course winning overall Japanese Team Toyota kazoo racing in second and a US team in third overall we wait now I think it's on the P2 we're going to be seeing next well the band down below who are playing the anthems have got a couple of good choices okay uh Italian Anthem pretty standard stuff uh in GTM Star Spangled Banner okay most bands are gonna know that are lmp2 Pro-Am winner a Portuguese flagged team a little bit less of a familiar Anthem and our overall lmp2 winners a Polish black team one that they may not to play very frequently so cocaine teams number 30 Squad come to the podium has been on this Podium before on the top step of course Chilean racer Nico pinho is 2022 season finished with despair [Music] to stand on the third step on the other side the number 41 team wrt group they fought hard for this yep first angolan driver on the podium at Le Mans [Applause] pizza and Louis de la Torres but the winners extraordinary story this yeah absolutely extraordinary story in the sense they're really Android first angolian angolan driver to finish off the podium alarm there is Cuba schmichowsky the most unassuming racing driver I think you will probably ever meet s that whose career is just going to start getting vaulted into the stratosphere and Fabio sharer apparently I think eating has been down to apologize to him uh it that it seems he has broken a tower probably his big toe actually so Nikki katzberg I beg your pardon apologize to Fabio Cheryl there he is in the center well luckily he didn't have to hop onto the podium he can stand our lmp2 winners the Polish anthem wonderful stuff and by the way we didn't get Michael from the spender on the podium we did get Sasha fuss Bender team manager of interior block competition on the podium there his younger brother the battle scars on these cars even the ones that have been damaged they're just covered in filth Road filled dirt from all the cars and lines and trucks that use the public highways that gets thrown up in the rain and all the little black marks black smears all over the car from their marbles from the rubber that gets thrown off by the tires of the race cars Poland's biggest name in Motorsport on the second state of the podium but tomorrow morning the biggest name in Poland in the newspapers will be the team on the top step yep into Europa well thanks again as we have mentioned a couple of times to to tell energy the energy and fuel supplying partner of the FIA World Endurance Championship and of Lamont they're 100 sustainable fuel used not just in every racing car but in all the tire heaters in the paddock all the courage on the left rui Android in the center Angola's Roy Andrade Louis de la traz one of the many second generation racers in this field third generation as well with young Eunice Reed whose grandfather and father both raised here at the mom whose dad was also in the race Christian Reed the mayor of them all presents our winners the interior Bowl Trio with their trophy closest to us with the glasses is Kubo schmohoski Fabio in the middle and Albert Costa with the beard and the biggest smile amazing yeah what a remarkable achievement it is a very small family operation and into europol for those who don't know is not a european-wide police operation that's Interpol interior poll is europe-wide polish-based Bakery concern so racing Bakers have done it again for a jog I reckon yeah and actually if he's broken his big toe that's going to be hurting him a long while hopefully it's not too bad a little playing for the next few weeks every time it hurts he can look at his lemon winners Trophy and then they can feel just a little bit better they can feel a heck of a lot better not many people get to win them on in such exclusive company and very few do it without able being able to even walk to their car The Right Stuff those images will be played in 20 years time of the driver hopping around to get into a race can we go I've forgotten that even happened who was that it is it is going to be one of those images that will come back time after time you think by the way this is dramatically Alters the points in the FI World Endurance Championship and uh it's terrible competition won the few teams another P2 which is a class that will lead to WC at the end of this year that does not have as yet a clear path forward this isn't going to hurt is it no absolutely not see our class winning cars down there the over winning Ferrari front and center the lmp2 the lmp2 pro amp and GTM class winners they fought for that um two or three points I thought they got that one because the spirits in this little team from Poland amazing was a mirror of hypercar you could go almost literally From First to Last with a little incident or sometimes even a pit stop it was so close and so tight for most of the race partly resolved until we were pretty much at lunchtime on Sunday I think most of the race I was looking to the Spanish Flags some people saying [Music] thank you thank you so much for all the support to all the people around these days it's been amazing thank you Boku boys today I don't feel it and it's unbelievable Jacob congratulations I think it is the most beautiful day of your life from yes of course I mean my racing life at least it's the most amazing experience and I'm just so proud to have the Polish flag waving here on the top side of the podium it's uh it's a dream come true and I think it's it's just amazing I'm speechless thankfully for all the commentators at exactly the same as Antonio Felix DeCosta no confusion there whatsoever and in the same races it was the chosen uh moniker for other Costa but as you can see a massive enthusiastic as Martin said earlier the broadcast Cuba uh a very understated and private individual but you can see the emotion on his face that is the result through Twitter 28 laps completed uh by the 34 kilometer and it was eventually 21 seconds the good ahead of the second place team wrt car with the third place going to decane team after winning a bit of a duel with the number 31 team wrt that actually eventually fell behind the uh the arbinal 36 team wrt lead the world championship of the World Cup rather Four Points just now ahead of its Europe competition in the two United cars who did not have the Battle of this year oh that is a really tough battle and into europol claiming Victory with Team wrt's 41 car in second place that makes that a Supercar tight battle with half the season almost left to go so just four point spreads between those two Crews well this race in lmp2 was never a two-horse affair they were not yawning chasms in it nor were there in gtef the final Podium spot decided for the crew of gr racing by just five seconds they're jubilant the crew of The Iron Dames Porsche will be crushed so jail racing Mike Wayne Wright the tall figure of Ben Barker and Ricardo Pera who did the anchor leg there in the center okay what better at the last year fourth last year for this team and indeed this exact driving crew second for ort by TF Sports ort for Oman racing team and if you're listening and looking in from Oman I'm sure this is a very happy day for York Road Nation as well that's come courtesy of armadillo harty a massive flag carrier for this country or is Louise almost re-mamed them OMG by TN sport there is TF Tom the farrier himself former racer raised up to Formula Three standards in the UK then started running cars brothers and has never stopped since of the USA and Charlie Eastwood and our winners in the Corvette racing theater Mickey katzberg the very slightly taller figure of Nico veroni and the bullied Ben Keating I mean daily by the way the team manager on the other side of the podium for GR racing [Music] greatest [Music] once more on the top Step at Le Mans in a GT car built in America the win in the winds Ford GT didn't last long this one hopefully will stick around indeed nine years eight different cars he's one with well in fact one across the line with three of them he's kept the win with two of them for GT very popular car back in the day unfortunately losing its win so we're technically infringement the day after and uh it's your racing how important might this be for their future in the FI world of Jones Championship again another team that punches above its weight can't argue with a Podium at Lamont a huge result for them very big day indeed in Gamal ahead of Bosch Motorsport again one of the key suppliers to the FIA World Endurance Championship s the ort by team sport trophy I'm at Amad al-harty on the left-hand side of your shot there the first racing driver from Oman to claim an FIA World Championship pole position and now he claims his nation's first Le Mans trophy these are a better Ambassador for sports car racing than been heating anywhere in the world frankly just a sports car racing icon just a star star and he was the man who brought all the cowboy hats from Texas for the crew if you find their photo their team photo at scrutinous in the center of town they are proudly sporting those means you can't see any of them but a whole bunch of people in race suits and hats could be anybody frankly and a thank you to prep Miller and all the ladies and gentlemen that have entertained this so royally through two decades or more of Corvette racing and GTS and GT1 in GTE Pro and in GTE um would you and I can both remember back to the early days American Le Mans series when they were running Corvettes with opposition wanted written down the side of them and our position came and they have been part of the sports car for a month ever since relations to the crew and to the teams and drivers but in fact again as we say always of every team and every crew that gets an entry here and comes here it's a it's an illustrious deal to have a car entered for them on any year never mind the Centenary year and to get The Wretched thing to the Finish Line after and 10 days of toil and trouble and quite often 24 hours of extreme reluctance on the car's part is a huge deal it's an American car so of course a very important victory at lumos the 25th the last GTE race in Le Mans uh to be an American car an American team as an American driver is just incredible thank you to all the fans you made it special [Applause] they really do they really really do and on behalf of the fans gym I think we'd say sing to the teams he's getting some coaching there you go how do I say [Music] we've already welcomed the podium two drivers who since the 21st of May have won two International 24-hour races because both Nikki katzberg hello Bamber took the overall win with 24 hours ah just last month they are multi-paceted I'm very very popular [Music] so our final Podium should be for the enemy to Pro-Am but Corvette racing ort by TF and gr by 5.3 seconds over the iron Dames that's a tough blow for that crew of the pink Porsche but their time will come they will win Races they will win titles they may even end up winning Le Mans they are too good not too Corvette racing leads the overall teams trophy race ahead of our T by TF and the iron Dames just three points back in third spot it is now not quite a formality but Corvette racing have a very strong lead then Keating Nikki katzberg and Nicki varoni again likewise ahead of Avatar hearty Charlie Eastwood and Michael Diamond so it looks as though the title will go to the crew of the yellow Corvette and the battle for second is on not quite sure I understand those points but if that's correct uh Bank Keating and the Corvette team need four points to clinch the title in Monster well otherwise it's a little more than writing their name on the top of the entry list but they will be going for victory in the remaining three races of the championship and to remind you those are in Monza in July late September at Fuji in Japan and then in November in Bahrain the season finale Once More the jewel in the desert yeah so we've had one back-to-back winner here at Lamont on the podium already that was Ben Keating when last year with TF Sports in GTE and we're about to see another and it's the team and won the drivers with Alger Pro Racing back-to-back wins in lmb2 Pro amp we'll welcome the teas to the team to the podium they're gonna form that uh three Squad staircase of talent yeah DKR Engineering in third place they will come out first the all Belgian crew all in Belgium colors great to see their rewards after what was quite a trying race really quite hard work the car didn't really seem like it wanted to play ball very often no 43 crew pushed hard [Music] see now 10 familiar face and I would give this crew Livery of the race gonna get really good absolutely outstanding the Michael Delaney quote on the front splitter and of course the the homage to the to the three great uh Records at Lamar yeah on the Tailwind cool racing from Switzerland makes 120 Milton um Nico lapier always a popular figure here that don't need the team boss to go alongside the drivers because the team boss is one of the drivers can you get glass by the way the team boss of DQ engineering they're going to build that on that run boy and on the left Maxine Martin adds Podium at the mom to class wins and overall wins at spa 24 where his father and Uncle both won this is the winning crew from algo Pro Racing the cause of crowdstrike racing the team as they operate in the University sports car Championship George Kurtz Colin Brown back for the first time since 2008 and Rolex 24-hour winner now Le Mans winner for the second time James Allen and Stewie Cox there the team boss of algal Pro joined team boss of algarpro he put us on it quickly so second second almost most important person in our car Pro he's very happy to be up there it's me so gentle giant Stewie [Music] the Portuguese anthem for Algarve Pro Racing of course Dewey Cox knows that he's second to the car the team the mechanics the pets you know pretty much everything else but he's up there receiving the drug fee loving it yeah sure your caps on top of the heads of all of our Podium this is the class together with the granola B2 plus shot with Goodyear Robert [Music] engineering crew taking third place in lnt nmp 2 Pro Am easy for me to say after barely any time talking at all do I appreciate a vice president of the ACO presenting the trophies to the crew of the 37 cool Racing Organization machine [Applause] this group fill up your de facto team manager player manager drives the car [Music] organizes the team likes the theme tune I'll sing to see soldiers and the vice president of the ATO presenting the trophies to our lmp2 Pro Am winners here in the Centenary Lamont and again The Familiar shape of the Le Mans trophy with the Centenary logo and that will be very proudly displayed in aldar Pro Racing's truck office or wherever because you're never gonna win one like that ever again well there was a unique double uh picture of the war some Cox the other co-owner my fourth uh Stewie was up on the podium last year it's still he gets that opportunity this year they work extremely hard and have a very happy bunch of customers International Motorsport has not been easy over the last several years keep coming out with us foreign nice guys do come out ahead and actually one of the things about this year's Leman is that has significantly proved to be the case in a paddock full of nice guys Lady Luck chose some of the nice guys to be on the podium and to be on the top step we lost out just by thousandths uh Algarve pro at the Rolex 24 unfortunately uh well unfortunately Fair Street James Island was the man that took that one away from them George Kurtz finally gets to champagne cork out and Stewie Cox gets face full of Fizz with his dress for it dressed like for the weather and also for the champagne shower that he knew was coming [Music] what goes into the crowd and the final words curse of our track speaker Bruno this dick well done to him to his uh co-commentators Thomas Bastian and the English voice of Lamar Chris McCarthy who's kept the fans entertained and informed throughout the 24-hour race um so yeah pretty cool to come back and do one one better I mean it's uh incredible Ray super proud of these guys and it's such a good job driving with me and man great team effort great teamwork and uh wow it's pretty cool really cool thank you all the fans people of friends congratulations to everybody and all the 40 cars that finally made it across the line here at Lamar congratulations to everybody who got it together to start really really happy to be on the podium says Maxime incredible to experience the atmosphere here with all these fans and to be here at the Centenary race [Music] [Music] exceptions running in this race great to be on the podium it is truly been an honor to race in front of you to read here and thank you so much to all of food Racing for working throughout the last couple of weeks we have to receive um there's a lot of I have no words for this going around that's exactly what you heard there from Alexandria first time at the event and he's really experienced one of the good sides a race that was tough It's hard force and ended up with them [Music] so confirmation coming in a moment or two of our who I am finishes this will just be a race result of the fywc this class season 3 will be the professional results of the race only right until we get there Algarve Pro the winners with cool racing car number 37 in second place and DKR ramming out the podium with the number 43 machine ahead of Rivals premer and graph and that is it for the Centenary Le Mans thank you for joining us thank you to everybody for their input into everything that has gone to make this one of the most exceptional sporting events of the last decade and more on behalf of everybody who is in the audience I'd also like to extend our thanks again to our partners who have made this possible amp Visual and alchemel systems congratulations to all you guys for yet again producing super results and on behalf of all the crew behind the scenes the crew led by best sports art director Olivier dinner everybody in the trucks in the compound everybody out there operating cameras running cable and everything else and for those as you've seen and heard from from Louise Beckett Steph Wentworth guy Smith Peter dunbrick Jim roller Anthony Davidson and Graham Goodwin I'm Martin Haven saying thank you for joining us we'll see you in Monza in a month foreign [Applause] [Music]

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Published: Sat Jul 01 2023