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: LEAD CHANGE! With Roman Rusinov out of the car and Jean-Eric Vergne back in the No 26 G-Drive, the battle is back on as he gets by the No 36 Signatech Alpine to retake the class lead.
Hour 8: LEAD CHANGE! The No 7 is off! Lopez locks up going into Mulsanne Corner and has to drive over the gravel and onto the recovery road, allowing Nakajima back past and into the lead of the race.
END OF HOUR SEVEN STANDINGS
LMP1
1. No 8 Toyota (Nakajima) 112 laps
2. No 7 Toyota (Lopez) +4.498s
3. No 17 SMP Racing (Sirotkin) +1 lap
LMP2
1. No 26 G-Drive Racing (Vergne) 108 laps
2. No 36 Signatech Alpine (Negrao) +4.927s
3. No 38 Jackie Chan DC Racing (+55.039s
GTE PRO
1. No 92 Porsche (Estre)
2. No 63 Ferrari (Garcia) +10.164s
3. No 51 Ferrari (Pier Guidi) +1:09.286s
GTE AM
1. No 85 Keating Motorsports (Keating)
2. No 84 JMW Motorsport (Segal) +2:23.385s
3. No 56 Team Project 1 Porsche (Bergmeister) +5:10.677s
Hour 8: FULL COURSE YELLOW
...and then we go back green immediately. The shortest of FCY periods is needed to collect some debris on track before racing recommences. However, just before that, Lopez went off AGAIN in the No 7, running long at Indianapolis and going across the gravel before rejoining.
Hour 8: Drama in the LMP2 lead battle as both cars pit together, but so does the No 47 Cetilar Villorba Corse car. Why's that important? Because that is the car that split their pit garage, meaning that the second-placed Alpine has to be jacked up and wheeled into place before they can commence refuelling. That hands the G-Drive car an eight-second advantage in the pits, stretching the gap out to a race-long high of 10 seconds.
Hour 8: A message from Oliver Gavin, driver of the No 64 Chevrolet Corvette that was taken out of the race by the No 88 Porsche in a big way.
Hour 8: The No 8 Toyota pits from the lead as Nakajima is running two laps ahead of the No 7 Lopez car, with the team changing the nose of the car before sending it on its way with the Japanese still at the wheel for his fourth straight stint. We'll wait until Lopez pits to see how the lead battle plays out.
Hour 8: The No 7 does indeed pit two laps after the No 8, with Lopez remaining at the wheel and taking fuel only. That could get it out in front of the No 8 that had the front end changed, but just as Lopez leaves the pits Nakajima flashes past to resume the lead of the race.
Hour 8: The gap is just 0.3s between the front two and if you needed proof that Nakajima is pushing, he locks up going into the first chicane with Lopez right behind him. Nakajima is able to pull away slightly on the run from Mulsanne to the Porsche Curves, but with lapped traffic everywhere the lead could change in a heartbeat.
Hour 8: The No 98 Aston Martin, which has only just come out of the pits on it's first lap back out, has ground to a halt with Pedro Lamy at the wheel on the exit of the second chicane. The car has a serious engine issue and had fallen 19 laps off the lead in GTE Am, second-last in class, and it's been wheeled behind the barrier that could be a permanent retirement if Lamy cannot rectify it.
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