Club Arnage the Le Mans 24 hours LIVE coverage

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By: Stella-Maria Thomas and Lynne Waite

It's not funny being out in a car where the windscreen wiper simply fails to make contact with the windscreen when it use at around 200 mph, especially when you are driving the No. 8 Bentley down the Mulsanne Straight on Sunday morning at around 10 a.m. as happened to Butch Leitzinger just now. There are a mere six hours of the latest edition of the Le Mans 24 Hours still to run and there are not many cars left out there. Most of the ones that are still there are now running on wet weather tyres after a heavy downpour a little before the hour. The inevitable Audi steamroller does seem to be occurring and the No. 1 and No. 2 cars are running in first and second with the remaining Bentley in 3rd. It's now raining steadily and people seem to be getting more than a little excitable. The question that needs answering first is why Tom Kristensen insists on driving the No. 1 Audi so very fast in these conditions.
The cars that are left now look very second hand, and are probably being slowed down by the amount of dirt on them.
The No. 74 Alphand Porsche is still in the pits for a clutch change. They've been in there for 49 minutes now so they obviously aren't as fast to do as on the prototypes.
Nos. 77 and 83 have just swapped places for the GT class lead as Roman Dumas decided he had his chance and was going to take it. He startled Tom Kristensen badly in the process. The Audi then muscled through on the outside and managed to get away.
The rain is easing a little though the umbrellas are staying up.
On Radio Le Mans David Addison has just been thrown out of the pit lane for having the wrong colour bib, even though he says he has seen other people in there wearing the same ones. Maybe it's just that the security people are aware of how awful some of his puns can be.
The No. 8 Bentley is coming in for a stop and seems to be refuelling and changing to wets or intermediates.
The No. 1 Audi is pulling out a gap from the No. 2 Audi.
There's a car off the track at the exit of Tertre Rouge and there are waved yellows but it can't be identified yet. Meanwhile, a lot of umbrellas have been furled in the grandstand and there is reported to be no rain at Indianapolis now.
The No. 74 Porsche gets back out with its new clutch after a little over an hour spent on repairs.
It's gone strangely quiet out there. It may just be the lull before the storm of course.
The No. 6 Cadillac comes in for a stop - with the problems they have been having restarting the thing this could go very wrong. They refuel and then try to start it. It fails to start again and Tinseau is shaking his head in despair. They have the covers off again and are peering into the engine. The car is still refusing to start and so it is pushed into the garage again. The No. 14 Chrysler is probably about to take their place away as it is already on the same lap.
No. 2 Audi comes in for a scheduled pit stop with Pescatori aboard. They refuel and send him out again.
No. 6 is still in the garage while they try to start it yet again and the No. 14 Chrysler has now dropped the Cadillac a lap down. Of course, they are also having starter motor trouble so it could be academic.
It is now definitely not raining, at least in the pits. Of course as everyone dived in for wets at about the same time, they are now all coming back round about the same time for another pit stop. The No. 2 Audi just clips the No. 38 Reynard as he laps him, Fabre may not have seen him as he had just been passed by the Bentley.
Richard Lloyd (Bentley Team boss): "It's that sort of strange limbo land where we don't know what to do. The driver's doing a good job. Half of the guys are comatose right now but the other half are alert."
No. 14 comes in for a routine stop and gets fuel but no tyres. And it starts first time.
The No. 63 Corvette (GTS Leader) comes in for a stop. He takes on board fuel and wet tyres and goes out again.
The No. 6 Cadillac is wheeled back out of the garage. This time it starts on the first attempt but it has lost 14 minutes. Meanwhile, the No. 14 car is off on the Mulsanne Straight and has banged into the barrier very hard. This may give the Cadillac its place back.
No. 16 comes in for a stop. Wendlinger is at the wheel at the moment. They take on fuel and nothing else.
No. 17 Courage is in too. It takes new tyres and Sebastien Bourdais goes out.
No. 1 Audi comes in and takes fuel
No. 60 Saleen comes in - Gavin stays on board.
No. 14's team are getting wishbones and rear suspension parts ready. The car has restarted and is on its way back to the pits.
There is a suggestion that the Audi No. 1 left some sort of liquid deposit behind after its last stop.
No. 64 comes in for a routine stop (2nd in class) as No. 14 comes back and drives into the garage. There seems to be damage to the left-hand corner. The team dive on top of it and start taking the damaged bits away.
No. 58 has a routine stop too.
No. 38 comes in to the pits - obviously not too troubled by being shoulder-charged by Pescatori in the Audi. They refuel and Gene gets in.
No. 14 is back out again, looking a bit battered. He has a map of the circuit on his dash, which confirms out suspicions about some drivers at least. It has hand-cut slicks on now instead of the wet weather tyres it had previously. He has one lap in hand over the Cadillac.
No. 30 comes in too for a routine stop.
More liquid being added to No. 38 - it seems to be very thirsty now. It goes out after quite a while.
Kristensen is taking no chances and is circulating with all lights blazing, just in case the people he wants to lap are asleep.
At Bentley, Andy Wallace is suited and helmeted and waiting for the car to come in. However, Leitzinger stays out this time round.
The No. 6 Cadillac is catching the Chrysler again for 5th place in the LMP900 class but may lose it again at pit stop time.
Placings at 11:00:
1, Audi Sport Team Joest (LMP900), Frank Biela (D), Tom Kristensen (DK), Emmanuele Pirro (I)
2, Audi Sport Team Joest (LMP900), Laurent Aiello (F), Rinaldo Capello (I), Christian Pescatori (I)
8, Team Bentley (LMGTP), Andy Wallace (GB), Eric Van De Poele (B), Butch Leitzinger (USA)
16, Team Playstation (LMP900), Olivier Beretta (F), Karl Wendlinger (A), Pedro Lamy (P)
17, Pescarolo Sport (LMP900), Sebastien Bourdais (F), Jean-Christophe Boullion (F), Laurent Redon (F)
63, Corvette Racing Gary Pratt (LMGTS), Ron Fellows (USA), Scott Pruett (USA), Johnny O'Connell (USA)
14, Viper Team Oreca (LMP900), Ni Amorim (P), Seiji Ara (J), Masahiko Kondo (J)
6, DAMS (LMP900), Wayne Taylor (USA), Massimo Angelelli (I), Christophe Tinseau (F)
38, Roc Auto (LMP675), Jordi Gene (E), Pascal Fabre (F), Jean-Denis Deletraz (CH)
60, Saleen (LMGTS), Franz Konrad (D), Oliver Gavin (GB), Terry Borcheller (USA)
77, Freisinger Motorsport (LMGT), Gunnar Jeannette (USA), Romain Dumas (F), Philippe Haezebrouck (F)
83, Seikel Motorsport (LMGT), Gabrio Rosa (I), Fabio Babini (I), Luca Drudi (I)
64, Corvette Racing Gary Pratt (LMGTS), Andy Pilgrim (USA), Franck Freon (F), Kelly Collins (USA)
80, Larbre Competition (LMGT), Patrice Goueslard (F), Jean Luc Chereau (F), Sebastien Dumez (F)
75, Perspective Racing (LMGT), Thierry Perrier (F), Michel Neugarten (B), Nigel Smith (GB)
82, Seikel Motorsport (LMGT), Tony Burgess (CAN), Max Cohen-Olivar (MAR), Andrew Bagnall (NZ)
72, Team Taisan Advan (LMGT), Hideo Fukuyama (J), Atsushi Yogo (J), Kazuyuki Nishizawa (J)
76, PK Sport Ltd (LMGT), Mike Youles (GB), Stephen Day (GB), Dave Warnock (GB)
74, Warmup Luc Alphand Adventures (LMGT), Luc Alphand (F), Michel Ligonnet (F), Luis Marques (F)
30, Welter Gerard (LMP675), Yojiro Terada (J), Jean-Rene De Fournoux (F), Stephane Daoudi (F)
58, Larbre Competition (LMGTS), Christophe Bouchut (F), Jean-Philippe Belloc (F), Tiago Monteiro (P)
79, Noel del Bello (LMGT), Sylvain Noel (F), Georges Forgeois (USA), Jean Luc Maury Laribiere (F)
21, Team Ascari (LMP900), Scott Maxwell (CAN), Klaas Zwart (NL), Xavier Pompidou (F)
18, Pescarolo Sport (LMP900), Didier Cottaz (F), Boris Derichebourg (F), Emmanuel Clerico (F)

Retirements:
62, RML (LMGTS), Bruno Lambert (B), Ian McKellar (GB), Johnny Mowlem (GB)
9, Racing For Holland (LMP900), Jan Lammers (NL), Val Hillebrand (NL), Donny Crevels (NL)
20, Team Ascari (LMP900), Werner Lupberger (RSA), Ben Collins (GB), Harri Toivonen (SF)
15, Viper Team Oreca (LMP900), Yannick Dalmas (F), Franck Montagny (F), Stephane Sarrazin (F)
70, Aspen Knolls (LMGT), Cort Wagner (USA), Bob Mazzuoccola (USA), Vic Rice (USA)
36, Dick Barbour (LMP675), Didier de Radigues (B), Sascha Maassen (D), Hideshi Matsuda (J)
32, Roock-Knight Hawk Racing (LMP675), Claudia Hürtgen (D), Christopher Gleason (USA), Rick Fairbanks (USA)
33, MG Sport & Racing Ltd (LMP675), Mark Blundell (GB), Julian Bailey (GB), Kevin McGarrity (GB)
11, Panoz Motor Sports (LMP900), Klaus Graf (D), Jamie Davis (GB), Gary Formato (RSA)
12, Panoz Motor Sports (LMP900), Jan Magnussen (DK), David Brabham (AUS), Franck Lagorce (F)
3, Champion Racing (LMP900), Johnny Herbert (GB), Ralf Kelleners (D), Didier Theys (B)
10, Team Den Bla Avis (LMP900), John Nielsen (DK), Hiroki Katoh (J), Casper Elgaard (DK)
55, Paul Belmondo Racing (LMGTS), Vincent Vosse (B), Vanina Ickx (B), Carl Rosenblad (S)
7, Team Bentley (LMGTP), Martin Brundle (GB), Stephane Ortelli (F), Guy Smith (GB)
5, DAMS (LMP900), Eric Bernard (F), Emmanuel Collard (F), Marc Goossens (B)
19, SMG (LMP900), Philippe Gache (F), Anthony Beltoise (F), Jerome Policand (F)
56, Paul Belmondo Racing (LMGTS), Anthony Kumpen (B), Gregoire de Galzian (F), Jean-Claude Lagniez (F)
71, Racing Engineering (LMGT), Robin Donovan (GB), Chris MacAllister (USA), Terry Linger (USA)
4, Johansson Motorsport (LMP900), Tom Coronel (NL), Stephan Johansson (S), Patrick Lemarie (F)
34, MG Sport & Racing Ltd (LMP675), Anthony Reid (GB), Warren Hughes (GB), Johnny Kane (GB)
37, Dick Barbour (LMP675), John Graham (CAN), Milka Duno (VEN), David Murry (USA)
61, Konrad Motorsport (LMGTS), Walter Brun (CH), Toni Seiler (CH), Charles Slater (USA)
57, Equipe De France FFSA (LMGTS), Davide Terrien (F), Jonathan Cochet (F), Jean-Philippe Dayraut (F)
35, S+R Rowan Racing Ltd (LMP675), Martin O'Connell (GB), Warren Carway (IRL), Francois Migault (F)