More safety car, full course yellow and slow zone periods punctuate the six-to-twelve-hour period of racing ensuring array of strategies play out. 

The #51 AF Corse Ferrari leads LMGTE Pro, while Team WRT take control of LMP2 in tight intra-team battle as they run 1-2. 

The #83 AF Corse Ferrari leads in LMGTE Am holding off the recovering #33 TF Sport Aston Martin. 

Hypercar  

• Toyota Gazoo Racing Hypercar in control of race at halfway point as #7 and #8 take turns in leading race after multiple slow zone, full course yellow and safety car incidents  
• #7 Toyota GR010 Hybrid with Mike Conway driving pulls out a 45-second gap after capitalising on a slow zone in ninth hour. 
• Kamui Kobayashi takes over from Conway as halfway point approaches 
• But Kazuki Nakajima and then Sebastien Buemi reduce gap to just 26-seconds after 12 hours. Brendon Hartley takes over cockpit just before 4am 
• Kiwi has three lap buffer over third placed Alpine ELF Matmut entry 
• Matthieu Vaxiviere had earlier spun into gravel at first Mulsanne Chicane in eighth hour and Alpine fell behind #708 Glickenhaus in to fourth in Hypercar 
• Nicolas Lapierre caught Olivier Pla and two engaged in entertaining battle which was resolved when Lapierre made a move stick at second chicane after wheel-to-wheel fight 
• Glickenhaus Racing continue to enjoy strong run on Le Mans debut as #708 and #709 run fourth and fifth in Hypercar class after clean runs in first half of race

 

LMGTE Pro

• Intra-manufacturer battle in LMGTE Pro hots up as Ferrari and Corvette take turns in lead while Porsche threatens to fight back after difficult start. 
• #63 Corvette driven by Jordan Taylor spends time in lead of class after taking advantage of some slow zone fortune for pit stops in off-strategy race so far 
• AF Corse Ferraris still running close together as #51 heads #52 car  
• Alessandro PierGuidi takes Taylor for the lead on track at 2.30am and slowly pulls a gap to the Corvette which is one off-set strategy 
• Nicky Catsburg applies pressure to Sam Bird in #52 Ferrari in tight battle for second place in class 
• Kevin Estre completes rapid double stint in #92 Porsche 911 RSR-19 after they are forced to adapt strategy by bringing in Neel Jani in early 
• Estre fights through to third but drops position after handing over to Michael Christensen in 10th hour and runs fourth but slow zone woes compromises progress 
• #91 Porsche driven by Richard Leitz at halfway mark places in fifth position ahead of the WeatherTech 911 RSR-19 shared by Earl Bamber, Laurens Vanthoor and Cooper McNeil 
• But McNeil crashes heavily at final corner after 10hrs 30mins and car suffers significant right-hand side damage and car is pushed back into its box 

LMP2  

• Team WRT takes control of LMP2 as they run 1-2, initially with #41 car out front 
• But sister #31 car takes the lead in eighth hour as Ferdinand Habsburg makes move 
• Robin Frijns extends lead with the gap over the #41 car stretched to 41-seconds after 12 hours of racing before Charles Milesi takes over for his second stint at the wheel 
• But Yifei Ye starts to reduce the gap to #31 Team WRT car just before the halfway stage, setting fastest lap of the class as he does so as advantage is reduced to just 5.6 seconds. 
• Panis Racing and #22 United Autosports cars battling for third place throughout early hours of the morning  
• At 12 hours the United Autosports car driven by Fabio Scherrer holds advantage over James Allen piloted Panis entry 
• #28 JOTA entry places fifth ahead of Inter Europol Competition in sixth as pair joust just 12-seconds apart with Tom Blomqvist and Renger van der Zande battling for position 
• #25 G-Drive Racing car crashes out of race as Rui Andrade impacts barriers under braking for Dunlop Chicane just before the ninth hour arrives 
• Dragonspeed leads the Pro/Am stakes as Henrik Hedman completes solid stints and capitalises on off track issues for #70 Realteam and #29 Racing Team Nederland entries 
• Felipe Nasr stars in early hours of morning as he sets succession of fastest lap in Risi Competizione Oreca-Gibson which is placed 10th in class after earlier rear-wing issues

 

LMGTE Am  

• Close battle rage throughout the LMGTE Am category as #83 AF Corse leads from #33 TF Sport Aston Martin 
• The TF Aston survives a double puncture which causes small impact with first Mulsanne chicane tyre-wall at end of seventh hour 
• Dylan Pereira, Ben Keating and Felipe Fraga fight back to briefly lead before Nicklas Nielsen in #83 opens small gap at the front to head TF Sport 
• #80 Iron Lynx Ferrari 488 GTE Evo battles for lead as Callum IIIot stars on his Le Mans debut  
• Matteo Cressoni places car third as halfway mark arrives holding off fourth placed #54 AF Corse Ferrari of Francesco Castellacci 
• But Cressoni speeds under slow zone conditions and has to serve a 10-secs penalty at scheduled stop, yet still holds on to third 
• Cetilar Racing Ferrari 488 GTE Evo forced to retire as Roberto Lacorte crashes car at Tertre Rouge while running fourth 
• #57 Kessel Racing Ferrari ran third but retired after Mikkel Jensen stopped on track with terminal technical issue