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 1: The No 67 Ford is battling back as Tincknell retakes the No 93 Porsche to move into fourth, running right behind the struggling Aston Martin of Thiim. Remember, the GTEs are yet to make their first stops, and this could be a sign of how the stints will play out for different teams.
Hour 1: There's blue smoke coming out of the back of the No 10 DragonSpeed LMP1, and that looks like bad news as it's either oil fluid leaking or the engine starting to eat itself. Ben Hanley brings the car into the pits at the end of the lap, while at the same time the No 30 LMP2 leaves having changed the punctured left-front tyre that caused it to crawl around.
Hour 1: More reliability problems here for the No 1 Rebellion. The pace has dropped off the fifth-placed LMP1 car, with the No 17 SMP Racing LMP1 of Stephane Sarrazin almost certain to get past by the time he makes it round to the pits. Both Rebellions had engine failures in qualifying, and while the team eased fears over their reliability by revealing they were old engines, this doesn't look good.
Hour 1: The GTE Pros head for the pits en masse as Ford, Porsche, Aston Martin and BMW all come in, a lap after the bulk of the Ferraris.
Hour 1: The No 63 Corvette maintains the GTE Pro lead ahead of the No 92 Porsche, and the No 93 Porsche has a swift turnaround to get out in third place moving it up two positions in front of the No 95 Aston Martin and No 68 Ford. Nicki Thiim just gets out in front of Tincknell, but it looks as though the Ford gets past to take fourth at the Dunlop Chicane straight out of the pits.
The No 1 Rebellion makes it back to the pits, and it's just fuel and tyres before they send Bruno Senna on his way, so perhaps it was a deflating tyre?
Hour 1: The 93 Porsche passes the 92 Porsche on the Mulsanne to move up to second in GTE Pro, just as the 91 Porsche passes both the Aston Martin and Ford to move up to fourth in class. This GT battle has been fast and fierce throughout the first hour, and it looks like it's going to be a flatout 24-hour sprint for bragging rights in the GTE Pro class.
Hour 1: FULL COURSE YELLOW
Debris in the Porsche Curves brings out our first full course yellow...and there's drama as the GTE Am leader spins on the Mulsanne!
Hour 1: FULL COURSE YELLOW
So the initial yellow came out due to the track markers in the Porsche Curves lying in the middle of the track, but it appears that in trying to stop down for the FCY boards, the lead Porsche of Satoshi Hoshino spun after contact wit the No 56 Team Project 1 Porsche. Hishino gets going again after avoiding the barriers in what was a hairy moment, but it's allowed nine of their rivals past and he may have to pit for damage too.
END OF HOUR ONE STANDINGS
1. No 7 Toyota (Conway) - 18 laps
2. No 8 Toyota (Buemi) + 1 lap
3. No 3 Rebellion (Menezes) +1 lap
4. No 11 SMP Racing (Petrov +1 lap
5. No 17 SMP Racing (Sarrazin) +2 laps
6. No 10 DragonSpeed (Hanley) +3 laps
7. No 36 Signatech Alpine (Lapierre) +3 laps - LPM2 LEADER
8. No 28 TDS Racing (Vaxiviere) +3 laps
9. No 26 G-Drive Racing (Vergne) +3 laps
10. No 4 ByKolles Racing (Dillmann) + 4 laps (LMP1)
11. No 48 IDEC Sport (Chatin) +6 laps
12. No 31 DragonSpeed (Davidson) +6 laps
12. No 32 United Autosports (Brundle) + 6 laps
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