WEC: 24 Hours of Le Mans after 15 Hours

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16.06.19

During the small hours of Sunday morning the race settled down with no major incidents, with the leaders in each of the four classes maintaining their advantage.

LMP1
The #7 Toyota TS050 Hybrid driven by José María López firmly settled into first place overall, with the #8 sister car of Fernando Alonso trailing by two minutes, and the #3 Rebellion R13 of Thomas Laurent in rounding out the podium ahead of the #11 SMP Racing BR01.

LMP2
The classification also did not change in LMP2, with G-Drive Racing still out in front but the gap had narrowed slightly to the #36 Alpine driven by Nicolas Lapierre. Jackie Chan DC Racing's #38 ORECA of Stéphane Richelmi still rounded out the podium after Pastor Maldonado the driving DragonSpeed's #31 ORECA snatched the spot for a briefly during the night.

LMGTE Pro
The Porsches seemed to be managing their fuel better than their rivals, but the advantage was minimal as AF Corse's #51 Ferrari continued to lead, 20 seconds ahead of the #91 Porsche of Richard Lietz, with one less pit stop. The Italian and German cars were trailed by the surviving Corvette, the #63 driven by Jan Magnussen, with the #92 Porsche falling to fourth position with an exhaust problem.

LMGTE Am
Keating Motorsports' #85 Ford GT, led by owner Ben Keating, held the lead on Team Project 1's #56 Porsche 911 and TF Sport's #90 Aston Martin. The latter lost its second place spot after a detour into a gravel trap.

for the result after 15 Hours of racing