Le Mans Hour Twenty-Two:
Soheil Ayari clipped a curb at the Ford Chicane, clipping the new sausage curb and spinning out into the gravel, and it took several minutes for the Ferrari to be retrieved. The #97 Aston Martin was back into the pits, dropping further down the order with what looks to be another issue for the AMR team. The #91 Porsche 911 RSR of was now in second, recovering from woes earlier in the race.
Andre Lotterer stopped quite early into the twenty second hour, and it took a long time for Timo Bernhard to get out of the pits, allowing Lotterer to have a gap of almost a minute over Bernhard.
The battle for the win in LMP2 was still in the hands of the OAK Racing Ligier team, and Alex Brundle. However, the Tristan Gommendy Ligier was not a million miles back…
Something was definitely wrong with the Porsche of Webber, which was easily passed and left behind by Neel Jani in the sister car. Will the #20 even make it to the finish? Andre Lotterer was staying in the car yet again as he brought it into the pits. This means five stints for the Audi driver, who’s clearly enjoying himself in there.
And with seconds of the hour remaining, Mark Webber is slowing massively with low-power and a mis-fire, according to the Aussie. The car is crawling, and this could change the race massively!
So Audi lead, with Porsche limping in second. Brundle still leads in LMP2, with GTE-PRO being headed by Giancarlo Fisichella in the #51 Ferrari. The #95 of Thiim still leads in GTE AM.
