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 2: Here's that incident involving the former GTE Am leader at the start of the full course yellow...
Hour 2: The LMPs are cycling through their second stops, with Conway again pitting a lap after Buemi in the lead Toyota. In LMP2, TDS Racing stopped a lap before Alpine, G-Drive, DragonSpeed, United Autosports and Jackie Chan DC Racing, so we'll see how that sorts itself out next time by.
Hour 2: A hairy moment for the third-placed No 3 Rebellion as he laps the No 31 DragonSpeed LPM2 on entry to the first Ford Chicane, only to get his line wrong and jump over the kerb on the right turn. Hopefully that won't have damaged the floor of the LMP1, but Anthony Davidson will not have been impressed with that overtake.
Hour 2:It's all going wrong for the GTE Am pole-sitter as the No 88 has gone off again at the first corner, but no need for another FCY as Moshino gets it going again.
Hour 2: With the LMP2 stops cycling through, it's the No 36 Alpine leading ahead of the No 26 G-Drive, the No 31 Dragonspeed, No 29 Racing Team Nederland and No 38 Jackie Chan DC Racing, which has overtaken the No 32 United Autosports. That's really hurt the No 28 TDS Racing entry that started on pole, and it may be that they decided to take tyres where their rivals went for a triple-stint as they have plummetted down the order to 10th in class.
Hour 2: Tincknell is busy trying to fight back up the GTE Pro order, getting by a coservative No 64 Corvette of Oliver Gavin whose just been given a track limits warning, and then the No 51 AF Corse Ferrari to move up to sixth in class.
Hour 2: An early issue for the ByKolles team forces the LMP1 car in from sixth place to have a door change, and driver Oliver Weeb confirms that the last pit stop saw the seal come loose to the point that it opened as soon as they reached the first chicane. However, the team turn it around pretty rapidly and get the No 4 back out ninth place overall and seventh in class.
Hour 2: You won't believe this...the No 88 Dempsey-Proton Porsche has suffered a THIRD off inside the first hour and 40 minutes, and this time the damage is much more serious as he's Satoshi Hoshino has clearly made contact with the barrier somewhere as there's damage to the front of the car.
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