Jota binned it 🤦🏻‍♂️

It’s been a bad hour for Porsche 🙁

Think it was just the Porsche Curves being the Porsche Curves, tiny mistakes tend to get punished hard (and probably still damp when well off line)

75 Porsche missed a trick there

Listening along on Radio LeMans (didi have a dodgy stream going for a while but they’ve all been shut down!) and it just sounds like carnage. The rain is really playing hardball with everyone, it’s a race of survival.

Porsche 75 looking a bit dead. Very impressive that, if it is dead, it’ll be the first Hypercar retirement!

Glad it’s stopped raining. That looked terrifying.

Hope they get the #75 car back. Can’t see it happening but you never know.

Still a fascinating race.

had a break, what happened to the 75 Porsche?

Looked like a tech-style shutdown.

Finally got a good look at the rain tyre – pretty sure I have that tread pattern on my car outside. Looked absolutely bog standard

This race is melting my little brain

Yup! Wouldn’t usually be rooting for Toyota but want to see a good race. Looks like the Ferrari (GTE) driver was caught out by the yellows

Someone wrote earlier that there would be no Peugeots running after 6 hours, ones in the lead by over 2 minutes now I think it is.

What happened to Kobayashi? I was too busy mending relations with our French cousins and watching an ACDC tribute to notice. I also appear to have been in Tertre Rouge drinking since 1615 🤣

It got rear ended going into a slow zone, looked like 3 cars involved but don’t know who was at fault but wasn’t the Toyota

Someone wrote earlier that there would be no Peugeots running after 6 hours, ones in the lead by over 2 minutes now I think it is.

That was me. Currently eating my hat for supper

#7 out 🙁

Le Mans serving up a classic – no idea who is going to win this!!

I don’t think it’ll be there at the end but for now I hope they’re enjoying it!

I was hoping for Jota for the overall, Inter Europol for LMP2 and Iron Dames for GT.

See how it ends up

Safety car snooze time. Peugeot lose their time advantage.

I have no idea what is happening in the race but the entertainment is good 👍

Kevin Ester seems too hot headed to be a hyper car driver 🤷‍♂️

One thing that has annoyed me about the coverage this year is when they have the wee interludes which I don’t mind if nothings happening on track but they don’t seem to be able to interrupt them when like just there the JOTA binned it again.

They’ve also been talking over the team radio.

I might find other things 🙂

Ferrari taking after the F1 team…

Pissing away a 1+ min lead not being able to start the engine in the pits.

The on screen graphics are poor too. Takes to long to cycle through so difficult to tell who has retired or who is driving. Not sure they even have any graphic to show the driver lineup for each car?

I should really just have Radio Le Mans on at the same time

They do have graphics to show all 3 drivers but only seen it when in the puts or if they show the cars at the bottom of the screen. I used to listen to radio le mans and watch Eurosport but can’t remember why I don’t any more, maybe there was a delay.

Pissing away a 1+ min lead not being able to start the engine in the pits.

That’s standard “been racing for 19 hours” stuff

Just need to see if it happens again. On pace the 51 should have it but Ferrari will be Ferrari.

Commentators seem to think that’s it over but it’s still got an hour 40 to go

Yup, wouldn’t be the first lead car to burst into flames* in the last hour

*other failure modes available

Edit: very good work to ensure they didn’t go a lap down

Yeah, just needs a safety car for it all to be reset.

Oooofffttt

Good god ….. Heart in the mouth time

AWESOME!!!!

Forza Ferrari!!! 😀😀😀

🏁🏁🏁

Well done Ferrari!

Toyota have never won Le Mans when they’ve had actual competition 🤷‍♂️

That was a good one! Bit too much safety car but if they will wreck the barriers they need to be fixed.

Disappointed for Iron Dames not sure why they slowed so much in the last few hours.

What did happen to iron dames? They were leading GTE am, I went and mowed the lawn, and when I popped back in they were in fourth

Overall fantastic race👍

@simondbarnes what did you make of the event this year then? Been reading reports saying; more expensive, bigger crowds, zero increase in resources to handle the increase in numbers, uncomfortably packed at certain times/places. Your experience any better?

I enjoyed the race this year on the TV. Should hopefully be going back next year. Just hate the camping (and crowds).

Congratulations James Calado!

Been a good 15yrs, but rode MTB with him a few times when he was a teen, had just moved up from Karts to Formula Renault at the time… His uncle is/was on here as “The Swede”…