Three hours after the finish of the Le Mans Anniversary Marathon, the #51 Ferrari hypercar, now driven by James Calado, is still in the lead for the decisive leg of the race.
But Brendon Hartley, the factory Toyota driver, is chasing him, losing just over ten seconds, so a lot could change. At the end of the 21st hour of the race, both participating teams had the same number of pit stops, both had completed 287 laps so far and their pace was about the same, but the New Zealand rider visited the pits again, after which his gap grew to almost 1 minute 23 seconds.
However, Kalado also pitted, narrowing the gap to about 10 seconds.
The 3rd and 4th positions are occupied by two factory Cadillac hypercars, but the best of them, driven by Alex Lynn, is already losing a lap to the leader.
An interesting situation is developing in the LMP2 category: it seems that the leading crew of the Europol team has received a penalty passage in the pit lane for some offense, at least say the commentators of the Eurosport TV channel, but so far it hasn’t left and remains first in class.
But he is chased by Team WRT’s Robert Kubica, 17 seconds back, and everyone is wondering how it will turn out. By the way, Europol’s yellow-green car occupies 11th place in the overall ranking.
Among the LMGTE Am-class sports cars, the No. 33 Corvette with Argentina’s Niklasov Varrone at the wheel leads the way, but the Iron Dames crew’s Porsche 911, driven by Sara Bovi, is second, losing about 20 seconds, ie a lot more can happen here too.
The total number of retirements due to certain accidents or technical problems is already approaching two dozen.
Source: F1 News
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