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 14: Disaster for the Jackie Chan DC Racing No 37, with Ricky Taylor confirming that the gearbox has broken in a big way with fifth gear going through the casing midway through the Porsche Curves. "That's us done", says Taylor, as he pats the engineers on the back due to the fact that the gearbox casing cannot be changed.
Hour 14: SLOW ZONES
More trouble for Aston Martin, this time the No 90 TF Sport GTE Am entry of Euan Hankey that is running in second place in class as he's gone off at Mulsanne Corner and appears to be lodged in the gravel trap. They had a lap-lead on the third-placed JMW Motorsports Ferrari, but this could cost them dear as the slow zone is implemented.
Hour 15: The rain is back! There's light drizzle getting heavier in the pit lane, and we're seeing cars coming out of the pits finding things pretty slippery until they get some heat into their tyres. Again the two Porsches in second and third in GTE Pro stop together, freeing the No 51 Ferrari by more than a minute.
Catch up on the action overnight as we tick towards the final third of the race:
Hour 15: Bad news for those of you who have stuck with us throughout the night - the shutter is down on the No 49 ARC Bratislava LMP2, which made it back out for a single lap after the team repaired the wrecked front-left corner, only for the damage to prove terminal. That's another one on the retirement pile.
Hour 15: We're moving into the hardest phase of the race. Why? Well as the sun rises and the Circuit de la Sarthe reveals the scars of the night's racing, thoughts towards the finish of the race are quickly extinguised by the fact that there is still more than nine hours to go, meaning that in three hours and 17 minutes time, we'll still have a full WEC rac distance ahead of us. That is one daunting thought.
Hour 15: Alonso pits the No 8 and remains in the cockpit to commit to a quintet of stints as Buemi did before him, with the ex-F1 world champion attempting to take time out of Jose Maria Lopez who seems to be the weakest of the Toyota drivers. Lopez pits at the end of the lap and Alonso may have cut the gap to under a minute here.
Hour 15: After their time apart, the G-Drive and Signatech are back pitting on the same laps, albeit about a minute apart from each other. As long as they - and third placed Jackie Chan DC Racing No 38 - remain on the lead lap, a lucky safety car of reliability issue can completely shake up the LMP2 running order.
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