After 8 hours of racing at Le Mans Toyota continues to build up an advantage over rivals

Arnau Viñals

10 years ago

Kazuki Nakajima even more away from the opponent in the eighth hour marathon “24 Hours of Le Mans” and is now ahead of his nearest rival Marcel Fässler early two minutes.

Marc Gene goes and plays third-mate Audi about one minute with a small, while Mark Webber continues to lose momentum behind the wheel of Porsche 919 Hybrid.

Yan Mardenboro of OAK continues to lead the category LMP2: he is ahead of the pilot TDS Tristan Gommendy more than one minute, Franck Mailleux of Race Performance – another forty seconds.

KCMG is now officially on the list after a crash derailed Alexander Imperatori, and crew number 48 Murphy Prototypes was again in trouble: the car stopped on the highway because of problems with the steering.

In class GTE Aston Martin strengthened its leadership: the drivers remain at the brand first in both categories of Gran Turismo.

Darren Turner missed ahead of Giancarlo Fisichella on the 458 Italia, but then beautiful maneuver regained second position. Subsequently, the Italians are having problems on a new set of tires, causing the Briton also created a decent gap.

Fisichella driving a sports car Gianmaria Bruni changed because of what AF Corse passed forward and Oliver Gavin of Corvette.

In the class Am Pedro Lamy continues to go ahead mate Nicky Tim Aston Martin. Andrea Bertolini of SMP Racing in third place and gradually reduces the gap with the leaders.

Race situation:

Pos.	Car Nº	Category	Drivers	Team	Gap	Diff	Laps	Pits
1	7	LMP1	Wurz – Sarrazin – Nakajima	Toyota Racing	8 hours		123	9
2	2	LMP1	Fässler – Lotterer – Treluyer	Audi Sport Team JOEST	+ 1 Lap	+ 1 Lap	122	9
3	1	LMP1	Di Grassi – Gené – Kristensen	Audi Sport Team JOEST	+ 1 Lap	+ 2 Laps	121	10
4	20	LMP1	Bernhard – Webber – Hartley	Porsche Team	+ 1 Lap	+ 3 Laps	120	9
5	14	LMP1	Dumas – Jani – Lieb	Porsche Team	+ 3 Laps	+ 6 Laps	117	8
6	12	LMP1	Prost – Heidfeld – Beche	Rebellion Racing	+ 06,194	+ 6 Laps	117	13
7	8	LMP1	Davidson – Lapierre – Buemi	Toyota Racing	+ 4 Laps	+ 10 Laps	113	11
8	35	LMP2	Brundle – Mardenborough – Shulzhitskiy	OAK Racing	+ 37,256	+ 10 Laps	113	10
9	36	LMP2	Chatin – Panciatici – Webb	Signatech Alpine	+ 2:22,585	+ 10 Laps	113	10
10	34	LMP2	Frey – Mailleux – Lancaster	Race Performance	+ 2:29,190	+ 10 Laps	113	11
11	46	LMP2	Thiriet – Badey – Gommendy	Thiriet by TDS Racing	+ 2:59,992	+ 10 Laps	113	11
12	26	LMP2	Rusinov – Pla – Canal	G-Drive Racing	+ 1 Lap	+ 11 Laps	112	12
13	38	LMP2	Dolan – Tincknell – Turvey	Jota Sport	+ 45,828	+ 11 Laps	112	11
14	43	LMP2	Klien – Hirsch – Brandela	Newblood by Morand Racing	+ 1 Lap	+ 12 Laps	111	10
15	24	LMP2	Rast – Charouz – Capillaire	Sebastien Löeb Racing	+ 1 Lap	+ 13 Laps	110	13
16	33	LMP2	Cheng – Tung – Fong	OAK Racing – Team Asia	+ 5:10,606	+ 13 Laps	110	11
17	50	LMP2	Ragues – Taylor – Ihara	Larbre Competition	+ 1 Lap	+ 14 Laps	109	14
18	97	GTPro	Turner – Mücke – Senna	Aston Martin Racing	+ 1 Lap	+ 15 Laps	108	10
19	74	GTPro	Gavin – Milner – Westbrook	Corvette Racing	+ 1:10,896	+ 15 Laps	108	9
20	51	GTPro	Bruni – Vilander – Fisichella	AF Corse	+ 1:22,939	+ 15 Laps	108	10
21	92	GTPro	Holzer – Makowiecki – Lietz	Porsche Team Manthey	+ 1 Lap	+ 16 Laps	107	7
22	91	GTPro	Pilet – Bergmeister – Tandy	Porsche Team Manthey	+ 1:22,884	+ 16 Laps	107	9
23	98	GTE Am	Dalla Lana – Lamy – Nygaard	Aston Martin Racing	+ 2:57,084	+ 16 Laps	107	8
24	73	GTPro	Magnussen – García – Taylor	Corvette Racing	+ 1 Lap	+ 17 Laps	106	9
25	95	GTE Am	Poulsen – Heinemeier-Hansson – Thiim	Aston Martin Racing	+ 00,488	+ 17 Laps	106	9
26	29	LMP2	Schell – Leutwiler – Roussel	Pegasus Racing	+ 1:15,446	+ 17 Laps	106	11
27	72	GTE Am	Bertolini – Shaitar – Basov	SMP Racing	+ 1:30,474	+ 17 Laps	106	9
28	88	GTE Am	Ried – Bachler – Al Qubaisi	Proton Competition	+ 1 Lap	+ 18 Laps	105	8
29	61	GTE Am	Companc – Cioci – Venturi	AF Corse	+ 49,348	+ 18 Laps	105	7
30	77	GTE Am	Dempsey – Foster – Long	Dempsey Racing – Proton	+ 1:04,139	+ 18 Laps	105	7
31	42	LMP2	Kimber-Smith – McMurry – Dyson	Caterham Racing	+ 1:37,846	+ 18 Laps	105	12
32	90	GTE Am	Montecalvo – Roda – Ruberti	8 Star Motorsports	+ 1:38,524	+ 18 Laps	105	8
33	57	GTE Am	Krohn – Jönsson – Collins	Krohn Racing	+ 1 Lap	+ 19 Laps	104	7
34	70	GTE Am	Nakano – Ehret – Rich	Team Taisan	+ 13,854	+ 19 Laps	104	7
35	67	GTE Am	Maris – Merlin – Helary	IMSA Performance Matmut	+ 2:08,684	+ 19 Laps	104	7
36	60	GTE Am	Mann – Case – Giammaria	AF Corse	+ 2:39,218	+ 19 Laps	104	11
37	58	GTE Am	Barthez – Pons – Ayari	Team Sofrev ASP	+ 1 Lap	+ 20 Laps	103	10
38	75	GTE Am	Perrodo – Collard – Palttala	Prospeed Competition	+ 58,242	+ 20 Laps	103	9
39	66	GTE Am	Turki Alfasail – Neiman – Pumpelly	JMW Motorsport	+ 1 Lap	+ 21 Laps	102	10
40	76	GTE Am	Narac – Armindo – Hallyday	IMSA Performance Matmut	+ 1:07,929	+ 21 Laps	102	8
41	27	LMP2	Zlobin – Salo – Ladygin	SMP Racing	+ 2:00,297	+ 21 Laps	102	15
42	79	GTE Am	MacNeil – Curtis – Bleekemolen	Prospeed Competition	+ 3 Laps	+ 24 Laps	99	8
43	62	GTE Am	Mallegol – Bachelier – Blank	AF Corse	+ 1 Lap	+ 25 Laps	98	9
44	53	GTE Am	Mowlem – Patterson – Hamilton	RAM Racing	+ 5 Laps	+ 30 Laps	93	8
45	52	GTPro	Griffin – Parente – Leo	RAM Racing	+ 9 Laps	+ 39 Laps	84	9
46	48	LMP2	Berthon – González – Chandhok	Murphy Prototypes	+ 11 Laps	+ 50 Laps	73	8
47	47	LMP2	Howson – Bradley – Imperatori	KCMG	+ 42 Laps	+ 92 Laps	31	10
48	13	LMP1	Kraihamer – Belicchi – Leimer	Rebellion Racing	+ 3 Laps	+ 95 Laps	28	11
49	41	LMP2	Munemann – Latif – Winslow	Greaves Motorsport	+ 3 Laps	+ 98 Laps	25	5
50	71	GTPro	Rigon – Calado – Beretta	AF Corse	+ 3 Laps	+ 101 Laps	22	3
51	3	LMP1	Albuquerque – Bonanomi – Jarvis	Audi Sport Team JOEST	+ 3 Laps	+ 104 Laps	19	2
52	81	GTE Am	Wyatt – Rugolo – Bird	AF Corse	+ 4 Laps	+ 108 Laps	15	1
53	37	LMP2	Kadygin – Minassian – Mediani	SMP Racing	+ 1 Lap	+ 109 Laps	14	2
54	0	CDNT	Ordoñez – Reip – Motoyama	Nissan Motorsports Global	+ 1 Lap	+ 110 Laps	13	0