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 7: SAFETY CAR
The FCY has been upgraded to a full safety car due to the necessary barrier repairs that need to take place.
Hour 7: BACK TO GREEN
The safety cars are in but slow zone remains in place between the two chicanes on the Mulsanne.
Hour 7: LEAD CHANGE! Amid all that, the two Toyotas have changed position after Kazuki Nakajima made his ninth pit stop the lap of the FCY, meaning that he got a free stop compared to ose Maria Lopez in the No 7 who had to pit under yellows. They are line astern though and the battle for the lead is well and truly on!
Hour 7: Nakajima is just pulling a slight gap on the No 7 by 2.352s, but with slow zones still in place it's hard to get any momentum going and we're not realy seeing the true pace of the long-time leader.
The LMP2 lead remains in the hands of Signatech Alpine, now by 12.105s ahead of the G-Drive Racing entry, with Ho-Pin Tun in the No 38 Jackie Chan DC Racing LMP2 in third 1:21.532s behind and just 1.623s ahead of the No 31 DragonSpeed.
The GTE Pro battle continues to rage in the order that we left them, with the No 92 Porsche, No 51 Ferrari, No 63 Corvette, No 93 Porsche, No 91 Porsche and numbers 67, 68 and 69 Fords split by just 8.593s. Gulp...
And the No 85 Keating Motorsports Ford is out clear in front of GTE Am, 2:21.465s ahead of the JMW Motorsport Ferrari and the Team Project 1 Porsche that's in danger of going a lap behind.
Hour 7: Penalties for the No 22 United Autosports Ligier and No 37 Jackie Chan DC Racing Oreca LMP2s for overtaking under the safety car, which has seen both hit with drive-through penalties. They're running fifth and sixth in class, and that will hurt their chances.
Hour 7: Confirmed - the No 64 Chevrolet Corvette has retired from the race.
Hour 7: As expected, the slow zones are over and the No 7 Toyota is straight back on it, with Lopez cutting the lead to under a second within a lap. The race is on out in front.
Hour 7: LEAD CHANGE! Nakajima gets caught in a load of GTE Pro traffic, and it hands Lopez the run he needs to get by on the Mulsanne and retake the lead of LPM1 and overall fo rthe No 7.
Hour 7: Confirmed - the No 88 Dempsey-Proton Porsche has retired, after amateur driver Satoshi Hoshino has informed the team he no longer wishes to drive following his four incidents so far. With his two teammates unable to do the rest of the race within their driving limits, the team has no other option than to withdraw.
Hour 7: Approaching the end of the seventh hour, Nakajima brings the No 8 Toyota in for fuel only as he triple-stints, falling more than a minute off the No 7 lead car who is no longer pitting a lap later due to the change in pit strategy. The No 17 SMP Racing LMP1 was the main benefactor from the Rebellion and SMP NO 11 crash, moving up to third with Sergey Sirotkin, with the No 11 in fourth and No 3 Rebellion fifth. The No 1 Rebellion, which had all those early issues, has fought its way back up to sixth place ahead of the LPM2 field.
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