Club Arnage the Le Mans 24 hours LIVE coverage

Live Updates
Sunday 01:00hrs -02:00hrs
By: Jock Simpson and Mathew Coutard

As we write the number of official runners sinks to 34!

01:01 #15 in and out of pits routine stop.

We have heard from team manager Doug Fehan, he tells us that #63 Corvette is without any telemetry so they are flying blind! He also put the record straight regarding why the back end was taken off the car, it seems that the belt came off the pulley for transaxle oil pump, they have now replaced belt and is now fine.

#2 Audi down the escape road at Playstation curve and rejoins ..
Leading #1 in and out of pits in 54 secs!!!
01:05 Bentley in for 9.5 minutes .. rear body work off etc.
#79 spins at Arnage
01:07 #6 Cadillac in and out in 56 secs .. not so dusty.
01:08 #38 ROC Reynard in for routine stop.
01:08 #16 Chrysler in for 60 secs
01:10 #83 Seikel Porsche came in and it is still there five minutes later
01:12 #62 RML Saleen in for two minutes and
#9 Dome for four minutes .. so does #72 Porsche and #63 Corvette and Ascari #20.
01:18 #14 Chrysler in
01:19 #75 and # at 76 after they drove into each other ..or maybe more accurately #76 into #75
#20 is back out
#83 Porsche back out

#01:21 PK Sport #76 into the garage

Blimey .. that was a bit busy !!

01:22 MG #33 driver change .. no apparent problems this time out, so again after four minutes.

#77 Freisinger Porsche in and out again

01:31 #17 Pescarolo Courage in …
01:31 #2 Audi in for routine stop, fuel … 56 secs.
#33 in again after a couple of laps
#12 Panoz creeping round the track slowly and reached the pits and into hiding, front left damaged, sounded dreadful.
01:35 #60 Saleen in pits
#17 still in , rear body work back on and it is out again
#11 Panoz is stuck out by the Go Kart track and has been there for a while.
01:37 #2 Audi did it slow up? It looks OK to us!
#12 has now been in a total of two hours and twenty seven minutes.
#33 they are fiddling with it in the garage, driver out of the car, they also have a oil leak.

#36 Dick Barbour Reynard routine stop, … I might have suggested that we had run out of Barbour cars some time ago .. I was misled.
#17 in
#70 and #75 both now back out again after a long break

01:41 Porsche pits, routine.. now .. a number might be nice ! Screwed that up .. sorry!

01:42 #15 pits…routine
#12 Panoz has gear selection problems and # 11 had a big off and shook himself up a bit.
#79 in and out.
01:46 #32 Rook Lola Nissan into pits driver change and back out
#20 Ascari pits and running along fine.

Hugh Chamberlain tells us that #33 .. water problems, light problems, alternator changed, found an oil leak.

01:51 #16 Chrysler spins Ford Chicane.. missed everything and rejoined, bit lucky!

#64 Corvette pits routine

#11 Panoz Officially withdrawn

01:53 #2 Audi has big spun at Mulsanne .. no damage, all on his own!!

#76 PK Sport Porsche is still in pits .. team looking busy, we think it may be a new radiator going in, won't be long now.

01:56 #12 Panoz has been withdrawn so that means for the first time in their history a Panoz won't be at the finish.

We also hear that the rain might have stopped but the now the temperature is dropping and the wind increasing .. after all it is June !!

01:58#70 Calloway Corvette back in.

PK Porsche #76 is mended and left the pits… great job …

Positions at 02:00 hrs.

1.2.15.8.14.63.38.16.20.17.6.64.83.62.60.9.77.74.80.75.82.72.79.70.36.58.33.30.32.21.18

32 cars officially still running.