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 11: LEAD CHANGE! Michael Christensen brings the No 92 Porsche in and gets out in front of the No 51 Ferrari, which had already pitted, retaking the lead from Daniel Serra.
Hour 11: SAFETY CAR!
A big crash in the Porsche Curves for the No 17 SMP Racing that was running in third!
Hour 11: SAFETY CAR
It's Egor Orudzhev at the wheel of the No 17, which much like Alex Lynn's crash lost the back end and smashed into the outside tyre barrier on the exit of the Porsche Curves. Orudzhev looks fine as he's quickly out of the car and ripping chunks off it to try and get it in a moving order back to the pits, but a medical team is already on scene and he may not be allowed to do so. He's only two corners away from the pits though and you hope that they'll let him try to get it back.
Hour 11: SAFETY CAR
LEAD CHANGE: This will no doubt shake up the order again as the lead No 7 Toyota has been caught at the end of the pit lane, with the No 8 of Seb Buemi already making his third stop of his quad-stint. Mike Conway finally gets the green light to rejoin the track, and the No 8 is into the lead!
Hour 11: SAFETY CAR
We're still in safety car conditions, though the lights are off and we should be about to go green again. The No 17 SMP Racing BR Engineering suffered heavy damage in the crash and has not made it back to the pits, and that looks like it could be that for what was the third-place car. In the meantime, the No 3 Rebellion of Nathanael Berthon is back up into third, but it's on the same lap as the No 11 SMP of Stoffel Vandoorne.
Hour 11: Here's what could be a race-ending crash for the No 17 SMP Racing.
Hour 11: With the Toyotas forced to work incredibly hard to clear the traffic in the safety car train, they finally emerge with Buemi 1.472s ahead of Conway and both free to race.
The LMP2 lead gap is currently distorted as we're in a pit stop cycle, where the G-Drive and Alpine have finally been forced off their matching cycle.
The safety car did not help the chasing pack of the No 93 and 91 POrsches, No 68 and 69 Fords and No 63 Corbette catch the lead two in GTE Pro as Laurens Vanthoor leads Daniel Serra by 6.138s.
Meanwhile the GTE Am lead remains with the Keating Motorsports Ford, with the No 77 Dempsey-Proton back into second and Team Project 1 Porsche third.
Hour 11: The two Toyotas are within 0.3s of each other, and there is definitely something coming from the back of the No 8 car that is covering the windscreen of Mike Conway's car. Toyota don't seem overly concerned by it, so it might be coolant or overflow tat isn't affecting the performance of the car.
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