The sun is slowly setting on the drivers of the FIA World Endurance Championship, who have just completed the 6th of the 24h of Le Mans.
At the beginning of the fourth hour a spin by Nicolas Leutwiler sent the # 46 Porsche of Team Project 1 to the gravel and then to the pits with flat tires, which had been in the lead with Matteo Cairoli at the start.
Shortly after, Ryan Cullen hit the wall at the first chicane of the straight ‘Hunaudières’ with Vector Sport’s Oreca # 10, then managed to regain the pits and fix the damage to the nose.
Excursion in the gravel (without major consequences) also for Christophe Ulrich with the Ferrari # 21 of AF Corse, while a notable thrill was given to Sarah Bovy (Ferrari # 85) and Rodrigo Sales (Nielsen Racing # 24) at the ‘Porsche corners ‘, with a collision that also forced Ferdinand Habsburg to veer onto the gravel to avoid them.
Start of the race
Photo by: Nick Dungan / Motorsport Images
On an absolute level and in the Hypercar Class the undisputed domination of the Toyota continues: the GR010 Hybrid # 8 of Buemi / Hartley / Hirakawa is now back in front of the # 7 of López / Kobayashi / Conway, but it must also be said that the two Japanese cars run closely together. and without rivals, therefore they can do the good and the bad weather as they want.
This is because the Glickenhaus 007 LMH # 708 of Pla / Dumas / Derani and # 709 of Westbrook / Briscoe / Mailleux remain behind them, but with a decidedly lower pace and therefore intent on holding their respective positions aiming for the first podium on the Circuit de the Sarthe.
The Alpine A480 LMP1 # 36 of Team Signatech fell to fifth place with Negrão / Lapierre / Vaxivière, as at the fourth hour it had to observe a Drive-Through and then stop for a few moments in the pits to solve a suspected clutch problem.
![# 83 AF Corse Oreca 07 - Gibson LMP2 by Francois Perrodo, Nicklas Nielsen, Alessio Rovera](https://cdn-2.motorsport.com/images/mgl/254OxPD0/s8/83-af-corse-oreca-07-gibson-lm-1.jpg)
# 83 AF Corse Oreca 07 – Gibson LMP2 by Francois Perrodo, Nicklas Nielsen, Alessio Rovera
Photo by: Nick Dungan / Motorsport Images
Great tussle regarding the LMP2 Class, where the Oreca 07-Gibson # 38 of the Jota (Da Costa / Gonzalez / Stevens) is confirmed, now chased by the # 9 of Prema (Kubica / Colombo / Delétraz) and the # 28 of their comrades Aberdein / Rasmussen / Jones.
At the foot of the podium there is Panis Racing’s # 65 (Canal / Jamin / Van Uitert), which overtook Cool Racing’s # 37 (Ye / Taylor / Kruetten), which is now behind Inter’s # 34 Europol Competition (Brundle / Gutiérrez / Smiechowski).
The # 5 of Team Penske (Cameron / Nasr / Collard) instead wasted time in the pits to fix a problem in the front left by removing the nose, so she dropped seventh.
Team WRT # 32 (Bortolotti / Ineichen / Vanthoor) also lost ground, eighth ahead of # 1 of Richard Mille Racing Team (Ogier / Milesi / Wadoux) and # 23 of United Autosports USA (Jarvis / Lynn / Pierson) that is slowly climbing the slope.
Among the PRO / AM of LMP2 even before the AF Corse (# 83 Perrodo / Nielsen / Rovera) with behind the Oreca of Graff Racing (# 39 Droux / Page / Trouillet) and DKR Engineering (# 3 Glorieux / Cougnaud / Horr), who took a little edge on the # 45 of Algarve Pro Racing (Thomas / Allen / Bonder and the # 44 of ARC Bratislava (Konopka / Viscaal / Vautier).
![# 64 Corvette Racing Chevrolet Corvette C8.R LMGTE Pro by Tommy Milner, Nick Tandy, Alexander Sims, # 63 Corvette Racing Chevrolet Corvette C8.R LMGTE Pro by Antonio Garcia, Jordan Taylor, Nicky Catsburg](https://cdn-4.motorsport.com/images/mgl/0k7rnn80/s8/64-corvette-racing-chevrolet-c-1.jpg)
# 64 Corvette Racing Chevrolet Corvette C8.R LMGTE Pro by Tommy Milner, Nick Tandy, Alexander Sims, # 63 Corvette Racing Chevrolet Corvette C8.R LMGTE Pro by Antonio Garcia, Jordan Taylor, Nicky Catsburg
Photo by: Nikolaz Godet
There seems to be no history in the LMGTE PRO class because the Chevrolet Corvette C8.Rs developed by Pratt & Miller are much faster than all of them.
The # 63 of Garcia / Taylor / Catsburg is firmly in the lead, the # 64 of Milner / Tandy / Sims instead suffered a slight problem in the phase of downshifting during the fifth hour that he had slipped it into fourth.
At the moment the US car is pursued by the Porsche 911 RSR-19 # 92 of Manthey entrusted to Estre / Christensen / Vanthoor, which passed the # 91 Bruni / Lietz / Makowiecki, forced to serve a Drive Through for abuse of Track-Limits .
The AF Corse Ferrari 488s are struggling, penalized more than necessary by a BoP that is absurd to say the least. Fuoco / Molina / Rigon (# 52) remain fifth ahead of their teammates Calado / Pier Guidi / Serra (# 51), who are the fastest of the Reds, but just 1 “better than the fastest LMGTE AM Class, which says a lot about the difficulties they are experiencing.
The very distant group closes with the Ferrari # 74 of Riley Motorsport driven by Bird / Van Gisbergen / Fraga.
![# 98 Northwest AMR Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGTE Am by Paul Dalla Lana, David Pittard, Nicki Thiim](https://cdn-7.motorsport.com/images/mgl/6VR11V76/s8/98-northwest-amr-aston-martin--1.jpg)
# 98 Northwest AMR Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGTE Am by Paul Dalla Lana, David Pittard, Nicki Thiim
Photo by: Rainier Ehrhardt
In the LMGTE AM class, the Porsche # 79 of WeatherTech Racing / Proton (MacNeil / Andlauer / Merrill) remains first, but watch out for the Aston Martin Vantage # 98 of NorthWest AMR (Dalla Lana / Thiim / Pittard) and # 33 of TF Sport (Keating / Chaves / Sørensen) who took the podium, overtaking the Porsche # 77 of Dempsey-Proton Racing (Tincknell / Ried / Priaulx).
Top5 for the Ferrari # 61 of AF Corse (Abril / Prette / Grunewald), followed by the ‘little sister’ # 54 of their teammates Cassidy / Castellacci / Flohr, who passed the Porsche # 99 of Hardpoint / Absolute Racing (Haryanto / Picariello / Rump).
Eighth was Porsche # 56 of Project 1 / Inception (Iribe / Millroy / Barnicoat), followed by Ferrari # 71 of Iron Lynx (Dezoteux / Ragues / Aubry) and Aston Martin # 777 of D’Station Racing / TF (Hoshino / Fujii / Fagg).
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