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 10: Buemi brings the No 8 Toyota in to the pits after using the safety car to stretch the stint to an extra 12th lap, though it's possible that Conway will be able to do exactly the same to keep the two-lap pit difference. The gap still isn't clear due to the stop, but once it balances out the gap could be as much as two minutes, such has been the impact there.
Hour 10: This is getting a bit silly now, the No 97 Aston Martin has been hit with a 10-second time penalty for speeding in a slow zone - the one that Alex Lynn caused by spinning off. He made his way back to the pits from the Porsche Curves in excess of the 80kph limit that was enforced to the start/finish line.
Hour 10: Patrick Pilet takes full advantage of an LMP2 compromising the No 63 Corvette on the exit of the final corner to get the No 93 Porsche past heading up to Turn One and move into third, making it a Ferrari-Porsche-Porsche top-three.
Hour 10: Conway pits the No 7 lead car and it's a simple fill-up-and-go, with the No 7 resuming the lead with its healthy lead over the sister car. We'll now see what the actual gap is for the first time, and it's clocked at 1:13.667s, meaning that safety car period has put a minute into the lead gap.
Hour 10: The saftey car has also hurt the LMP2 battle as the lead three cars were all behind different safety cars, meaning that G-Drive Racing now lead Signatech Alpine by more than a minute, with the No 38 Jackie Chan DC Racing Oreca a further minute behind.
Hour 10: The No 10 DragonSpeed LMP1 is back out in the hands of Renger van der Zande, but it's crawling round and whatever they've tried to do to fix it simply hasn't worked. It's down in 60th position, 82 laps behind the leader.
Hour 10: Yellow flags are out at Arnage and it's for the No 10 DragonSpeed, that has ground to an unsurprising halt.
Hour 11: So where are the GTE Pro battles? Out in front, Calado leads Christensen by under two seconds, with Jan Magnussen's Corvette 1:28.195s off the led and with Jonathan Bomarito in close company in the No 67 Ford. Behind, the No 69 Ford heads a tight pack of cars that includes the No 93 Porsche, No 91 Porsche, No 68 Ford and No 94 Porsche.
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