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: FULL COURSE YELLOW
It looks like the No 88 crashed on the Mulsanne once again, though this time on the approach to the second chicane as that's where the debris that has caused the FCY is. When the Porsche gets back to the pit lane, it's missing the right-front corner of the body as well as the headlight, and as the Porsche drops to last on the timesheets it's wheeled backwards into the garage for repairs. At the same time, the N0 70 Ferrari of Eddie Cheever has seen it's right-rear tyre go bang at high speed, and that's also left debris on the Mulsanne that will need cleaning. Cheever is at least slowly making his way back to the pits, but the FCY comes to an end and he's still got half-a-lap to complete.
The No 98 Aston Martin in GTE Am is also in the garage with a power steering issue.
Hour 2: BACK TO GREEN
The race resumes before the No 70 reaches Mulsanne corner, meaning they'll lose a boatload of time here.
Hour 2: For those who aren't aware, American actor Patrick Dempsey is the man behind the Dempsey-Proton Racing team, who have gone from the low of seeing the No 99 withdraw on Thursday to the high of taking GTE Am pole to the low of the No 88's struggles so far. However, with his third car running in second place, he's taking an optimistic approach:
It's tough start to the day. We'll get it fixed, we'll get back out and we're getting a lot of experience today.
I love being here, this is a tough race to win and this stuff happens. The team will get the car back together and we'll get out there, pound around and get to the end.
Hour 2: A flurry of cars come into the pits after either not being able to stop under the FCY, or stopping to take on a maximum of five litres of fuel to get them around for another lap before they have to come back in.
Hour 2: Remember those issues for the No 10 DragonSpeed LMP1 earlier? Well it's just been wheeled back into the garage, and it's confirmed that the smoke was being caused by the plank grinding down on the circuit to the point it is disentegrating away. The team have just gone too far on ride height, but that hopefully won't be a long delay.
Hour 2: It gets worse for the No 10 car as they've just been hit with a 10-second stop-and-go penalty for exceeding the maximum fuel allowance in one stint. When it rains, it pours...
END OF HOUR TWO STANDINGS
1. No 7 Toyota (Conway) 33 laps
2. No 8 Toyota (Buemi) +41.375s
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 1 Rebellion (Senna) +2 laps
7. No 36 Signatech Alpine (Lapierre) +4 laps
8. No 26 G-Drive Racing (Vergne) +4 laps
9. No 4 ByKolles Racing (Dillmann) +4 laps (LMP1)
10. No 29 Racin Team Nederlands (De Vries) +4 laps
11. No 31 DragonSpeed (Gonzalez) +4 laps
12. No 38 Jackie Chan DC Racing (Richelmi) +4 laps
Hour 3: Let's catch up on the GTE Pro battle. Incredibly, the entire field is still on the same lap separated by just 80 seconds, with the top eight separated by just 18 seconds. The No 63 Corvette remains out in front ahead of the No 93 Porsche, with the No 67 Ford now third after that strong second stint from Harry Tincknell. The 92 Porsche is fourth, ahead of the 91 Porsche in fifth and No 51 AF Corse Ferrari in sixth ahead of the sister No 71 car. The No 68 Ford rounds out the top eight, and after starting the race in pole, the Balance of Performance changes look to have severely hurt the Aston Martins with the No 95 now down in 13th and the No 97 17th and last in class. The punishment for qualifying first doesn't quite fit the crime, does it?
Hour 3: A good battle for fourth in LMP2 is developing between the 31 DragonSpeed and 38 Jackie Chan DC Racing, with Stephane Richelmi just half-a-second behind Ricardo Gonzalez. Remember, these two are also battling for top honours in the LMP2 championship, but they need to overhaul the lead No 31 Alpine car to do that.
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