Le Mans 2019 results: Positions and standings as No 8 wins 24 Hours after Toyota changed wrong tyre on No 7
Re-live all the action from the 87th running of the Le Mans 24 Hours at the Circuit de la Sarthe
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Your support makes all the difference.Toyota took an expected victory in the 2019 Le Mans 24 Hours, but noe was prepared for the controversial ending that saw the No 7 car lose the win an hour from the finish after the team replaced the wrong wheel during an unscheduled pit stop, leaving the car that had led for nearly 12 consecutive hours limping around the circuit with a punctured tyre.
The No 7 car of Conway/Kobayashi/Lopez lost the lead of the race to the No 8 of Buemi/Alonso/Nakajima at the start of the final hour after it picked up a puncture, only for a faulty sensor telling the team to change the wrong wheel when it pitted from the lead to gift the sister car the win, with the No 11 SMP Racing BR1 of Petrov/Aleshin/Vandoorne finishing in third. A series of safety car periods throughout the night saw the No 26 G-Drive Racing move clear in LMP2 only to suffer a 20-minute delay in the pits to leave the No 36 Signatech Alpine in the lead, while the GTE Pro lead is with the No 51 Ferrari after its nearest rival, the No 63 Corvette, spun out with three hours to go with the No 91 and 93 Porsches in second and third, while the No 85 Ford is clear in GTE Am.
However, both Aston Martins crashed out of the GTE Pro battle inside 20 minutes of each other, with the GTE Am class No 98 already out, while Corvette Racing saw the No 64 become the first official retirement after a heaving crash early on. Re-live the live updates below.
What time does it start?
The 2019 Le Mans 24 Hours starts at 2pm BST (3pm CET) on Saturday 15 June.
When is the finish?
The chequered flag will drop at the end of the first lap after 2pm on Sunday 16 June.
How to watch
The 24 Hours of Le Mans will be shown live on Eurosport, along with a number of other sessions during the week.
Twenty-four-hour race coverage will be shown from the moment the flag drops to the chequered flag on Sunday, along with pre- and post-race analysis.
Viewers can watch the race coverage online by subscribing to the Eurosport Player, which comes with the added bonus of no advert breaks for uninterrupted Le Mans coverage. Viewers can buy a monthly pass for £6.99, sign up for a monthly subscription for £4.99 a month or buy a discounted annual pass for £39.99.
There will also be regular 10-minute catch-up shows screened every two hours until 11pm on Saturday, and again from 8am on Sunday morning.
Hour 16: FULL COURSE YELLOW
The No 50 Kessel Ferrari is off on the entry to the Porsche Curves, and needs to be winched out of the gravel that results in the FCY. At the same time, the No 86 Gulf Racing Porsche of Michael Wainwright has run on at Indianapolis, but miraculously kept it out of the barrier and after being recovered to the track he's on his way back to the pits.
Hour 16: BACK TO GREEN
The 86 Porsche is back into the pits, and after a new set of tyres their away without any further dramas as we go back to green running.
Hour 16: Here's how the No 86 Porsche and No 60 Kessel Ferrari came unstuck
Hour 17: We're into the final third, and the No 51 Ferrari has pitted to swap drivers from Calado to Daniel Serra. The pit rotation sees the AF Corse No 51 drop to fourth, but the 91, 63 and 93 all need to pit again that will see Serra retake the lead.
Hour 17: Lopez pits in the lead No 7 car and he'll continue for another stint after taking on fuel only, with the Argentine stretching the lead to 80 seconds over the No 8.
Hour 17: SAFETY CAR
The No 31 DragonSpeed of Pastor Maldonado has crashed heavily at Tertre Rouge!
Hour 17: SAFETY CAR
We'll need a bit of a clean up here as Maldonado has ripped part of the tyre barrier arcoss the track with him, having lost control on the exit of Tertre Rouge, the sharp right-hander that's taken at speed at the start of the Mulsanne Straight. He stays in the car in the hope to get it running again and drag it back to the pits, but the gloves are off and that looks like that for the fourth-placed LMP2.
Hour 17: SAFETY CAR
As expected we're waiting for barrier repairs at Tertre Rouge before we get underway. A number of cars are taking the chance to pit, but one who hasn't is the No 93 Porsche of Patrick Pilet who responds to the offer of new tyres with "I don't need new tyres, I just need clean tyres". After 16-and-a-half hours of running, the track is littered with marbles off the racing line that the remainng 50 cars are picking up all the time.
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