Ferrari maintains 1-2 in LMGTE Pro with the #51 488 of Come Ledogar leading the #52 Ferrari of Sam Bird, but all change in LMP2 as #41 Team WRT car takes lead after multiple incidents occur as rain arrives. 

The #33 TF Sport Aston Martin to the fore in LMGTE Am category after the #98 Aston Martin Racing Vantage crashes heavily at start of fourth hour. 

Hypercar  

• The #7 Toyota Gazoo Racing Hypercar holds 70-second advantage overall and in Hypercar category after six hours racing at Le Mans  
• Brendon Hartley in #.8 Toyota closes gap to #7 car to 9-seconds in fifth hour 
• But Jose-Maria Lopez, who takes over from Kobayashi extends lead as Toyota splits cars tyre strategy with #7 on slicks and #8 on inters in changeable conditions 
• Andre Negrao takes over from Lapierre and drives solid triple stint to keep #36 Alpine A480 in third but after Mathieu Vaxiviere gets aboard Les Bleues drops to a lap down on Toyota pair in sixth hour 
• Glickenhaus Racing fourth and fifth as #708 car driven by Franck Mailleux and Pipo Derani take stints at wheel to lead sister car 
• Romain Dumas and Ryan Briscoe complete miles in #709 Glickenhaus 007LMH as they place fifth 

LMGTE Pro  

• Ferrari battle thrills crowds in second and third hours as Daniel Serra in #52 AF Corse Ferrari and Alessandro PierGuidi in N#51 488 GTE Evo swap places three times on same lap intense battle for lead 
• Serra pulls out advantage to enjoy small gap but safety car in fourth hour diminishes advantage 
• But #51 pulls gap before second safety car after Serra’s teammate Sam Bird in #52 car is contacted by #71 Inception Ferrari driven by Brendon Iribe 
• Come Ledogar takes over and extends lead for #51 as racing resumes after safety car period 
• #92 Porsche recovers from first hour incidents and runs third at six-hour mark with Michael Christensen and Neel Jani completing stints 
• Corvette Racing with Jordan Taylor driving in #63 car takes over at front at start of fifth hour as they capitalise on pitting under slow zone close to pit entrance 
• But car drops to fourth after scheduled pit stops with Nicky Catsburg getting first race laps

LMP2  

• Disaster strikes for #38 JOTA car as Anthony Davidson spins in gravel just after pit exit and loses full lap and falls to 19th in class at the end of the third hour 
• #26 G-Drive Racing Aurus of Nyck de Vris, Franco Colapinto and Roman Rusinov takes over in lead with Colapinto holding off Job van Uitert initially 
• But #28 JOTA car driven by Tom Blomqvist, after being started by Sean Gelael, picks up lead in fifth hour 
• They though suffer two penalties that drop it back down the order, the first for pit entry violation and second for safety car infraction. 
• #23 United Autosports USA car of Alex Lynn, Paul di Resta and Wayne Boyd briefly lead between pit stops in fifth hour 
• But sixth hour brings high drama as several incidents occur as rain shower arrives 
• Frits van Eerd spins Racing Team Nederland car into gravel handing Pro-Am lead to #70 Realteam car driven by Norman Nato 
• United Autosports USA then suffer damage to two of its three cars as Manuel Maldonado in #32 car loses control under braking for Dunlop chicane and spears in to di Resta’s #23 car 
• Di Resta re-joins after repairs but drops down to 12th in class 
• Shortly after Franco Colopinto collides with Sophia Floersch in Richard Mille car on approach to Porsche Curves. 
• Knock-on incident claims Richard Mille car after it is struck by #74 Racing Team India Eurasia car driven by Tom Cloet 
• Debris triggers second Safety Car of the race but after six hours Julien Canal in Panis Racing car leads from #22 United Autosports car with Fabio Scherer in cockpit 
• Panis Racing take over lead but pit just before six-hour mark handing lead to Louis Deletraz in #41 Team WRT entry 
• #22 United Autosports maintains second from #31 Team WRT car in third

 

LMGTE Am  

• #33 TF Sport Aston Martin leads LMGTE Am class as Felipe Fraga and then Dylan Pereira takes stints at wheel after Ben Keating completed opening stints 
• #98 Aston Martin entry driven by Marco Gomes was running second when he crashed heavily at Indianapolis 
• Brazilian treated by medical team at the scene but reported to have escaped injury 
• #47 Cetilar Racing Ferrari 488 GTE Evo runs second for a period as Giorgio Sernagiotto takes over from Antonio Fuoco in car they both share with Roberto Lacorte. 
• Car loses time at pit stop though as it has to make repairs to mirror but chose to replace entire door 
• But in fifth and sixth hours the #33 TF Sport still leads from #83 AF Corse which is driven by Alessio Rovera 
• #57 Kessel Racing Ferrari places third with Mikkel Jensen taking over at the wheel