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 21: Good to see that with Sebastien Buemi currently circulating in the No 8 Toyota, Fernando Alonso has found something else to keep himself occupied.
He's lined up to be next in the No 8 when Buemi finally jumps out.
Hour 21: And as if by magic, Buemi brings the second-place car in to end his 24 Hours of Le Mans and hand over to Alonso for the final time, with the car getting a new tail as well as four new tyres.
Hour 21:The No 91 Porsche in GTE Pro third place has been handed a 10-second time penalty for not respecting FCY procedures, though it has a 15-second advantage over the No 93 and they should retain the position there,
Hour 21: We have oil in the pit lane...the No 43 RLR M Sport LMP2 broke down in the fast lane as it made its way down towards its box, and when team members pushed it away it revealed a trail of oil that stretches down the entire pit lane that is currently being cleared up.
Hour 21: This could get tricky for Porsche as the oil in pit lane is straight through the middle of their box, with the 91 and 93 heading in at the end of this lap.
Hour 21: The 91 Porsche is in first and gets a slight wriggle on as ot runs over the oil, but Bruni averts the line of marshals and the line of oil to make a clean stop. The 10-second penalty allows Nick Tandy to close in on the 91 by quite some distance, and Richard Leitz has taken over from Bruni. Meanwhile, the No 69 Ford has also been handed a 10-second time penalty for the same FCY infringement.
Hour 21: SAFETY CAR
That's another big crash at the Indianapolis kink very similar to the Aston Martin's last night and it's for the No 28 Racing Team Nederlands LMP2 of Nick de Vries, though he's got into the barrier head-on and we can only hope he's ok there.
Hour 21: SAFETY CAR
Thankfully the impact wasnt quite as hard as Marco Sorensen's yesterday, and it appears that De Vries is remaining in the car in the hope of getting is back to the pits.
This could have a major impact on the GTE Pro battle by the way as the Corvette pits and hands the No 51 Ferrari the lead, with the No 63 held at a red light at the end of the pit lane! That will put him around a minute and a half behind the Ferrari, and it's playing into James Calaldo's hands.
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