#BONJOUR Everybody! 🏪 🙌🚦
Good morning to you #LeMans fans,
During morning session there have been many funny highlights! Welcome to the #best 24 hours of the #year here at the #Circuit des #24 #Heures in #Le #Mans. The #Sarthe track is in the full bright morning near to noon! Get ready for next news and #enjoy #spectacular #challenge...! ⚡⏩
Still two Toyotas on lead
6:33 Leader change !
The @Toyota_Hybrid #8 is now leading the race ahead of its sister #7#LEMANS24. #Nakajima in the #8 Toyota TS050 Hybrid has passed #Kobayashi at the wheel of the #7 to take the lead. What a pity!!!!
Link: https://twitter.com/24hoursoflemans/status/1008205424259158016
6:38 Three cars off track in the space of ten minutes! The Cetilar Villorba Corse #47 Dallara P217-Gibson driven by Giorgio Sernagiotto and the JMW Motorsport #84 Ferrari 488 GTE with Jeff Segal at the wheel are back up and running.
Hard day's night!
7:01 The 2018 @24heuresdumans isn’t being very nice to the #64 #C7R
About halfway through my second stint Vette started to experience a suspension issue.
While Gavin was running it wasn’t too big of a problem but when he pitted and Tommy Milner got in the, the problem got significantly worse. They lost 2.5 laps fixing the problem but then we had another issue with the floor. They stayed 4.5laps behind. Long way to go and we’ll keep battling to get ourselves back in the fight!
7:12 The #88 ProtonRacing goes into the tyres so a slow zone at Raccordement
Link: https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/1008215708491231232
7:22 Ben Hanley in the #10 Dragonspeed BR1-AER has crashed into the tyres at the Porsche Curves.
7:26 In the #10 #DragonSpeedLLC BR Engineering BR1-AER, Ben Hanley has crashed into the tyres at the Porsche Curves and is now making his way slowly back to the pits. Slow zone in place. #LEMANS24 #WEC
7:27 Despite the car's issues earlier in the race, Jenson Button has put in some fast laps overnight with a best time of 3:21.742 in the #11 SMP_Racing. Mikhail Aleshin has now taken over the driving duties.
7:40 The two leading Toyotas have been given a stop-and-go penalty of one minute each for speeding in the Slow Zone.
Reminder: in a Slow Zone, speed is restricted to 80 kph.
7:43 After its earlier spin, the #88 Dempsey-Proton Racing has now had to retire from the race.
7:57 Mathieu Vaxivière got the #28 back to the garage and Loïc Duval is back on track.
8:13 Game over for the DragonSpeed #10 BR Engineering BR1-Gibson following an earlier race incident for British driver Ben Hanley. it was caused after its earlier crash into the tyres.
- A total 10 cars have retired now.#LEMANS24 #WEC
8:33 Leader in LMP2, the G-Drive Racing #26 Oreca-07-Gibson stands fifth overall. Since the Strakka Racing Honda HPD stood in fifth place in 2010, we have seen LMP2 prototypes in the top 5 in 2014 (5th) and 2015 (5th) and of course last year 2017, when LMP2s took, second, third, fourth and fifth place behind the winning Porsche 919 Hybrid of Earl Bamber, Timo Bernhard and Brendon Hartley.
9:03 James Calado in the AF Corse #51 Ferrari 488 GTE EVO invents a new overtaking style, pushing the Porsche GT Team #92 Pink Pig 911 RSR out of the way!
Standings after 18 hours:
#Stay tuned...less than 6 hours to go... ⏩Next #headlines will come #shortly ⚡ #
Jack