Le Mans 24 Hours Live Commentary and Updates: #5 Porsche leads | Live text – Autosport

Live Commentary By: newboldjsl, ewangalesport, Benjamin Vinel, Haydn Cobb Correction: Molina is now in the #50 and he is right in the middle of an unneeded battle with Vandoorne in the #94.  The pitstops continue to cycle through as the #8 and #4 box – Hartley departing the Toyota for Hirakawa. Now the race leader is in: the #50 changes tyres and Fuoco gets back underway. The #311, #5 and #99 all stop as well. There are a lot of tyre changes early on in the race as the #94 Peugeot attacks the Ferrari as it tries to get its new rubber up to temperature. The pitstop cycle for Hypercar is open and the #51, #20 and #7 are all in.  New tyres go on the #51 which was third before Pier Guidi gets going. That leaves the #6 in third but eight seconds down on the #83. A quick tyre update for the Hypercar class – all cars are in mediums except the #35 Alpine, which is on softs. The #7 Toyota has one soft tyre after Kobayashi’s off at Mulsanne earlier. Expect plenty of quadruple-stints through the evening and into the night. I wonder how much of Cadillac’s
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