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So just coming down with two, just under two hours to go.

We're on a full course yellow here at the Michelin 992 Endurance Cup at Spa-Francorchamps, let's say for 2024.

So all bets off now, Joe, because it's all up in the air about who can do what and when.

Coronel's come in. He's going to have to stop once more.

And then you've got Muller and Breukers. Breukers can probably go through the whole way.

Let's see where they sit.

So it is.

And after 10 hours, it is the Black Falcon Team 48 Lush that's leading by four minutes and six seconds.

It's pretty useful to know that.

They're basically leading by a lap and a half from the Red Camel Jordans of Luke Breukers.

Tom Coronel in the pits, making his penultimate stop for Max Cruise Racing,

a fantastic comeback for the number eight machine from nowhere at the end of the first stop.

Neuhofer Racing, the 86, they are cursing the fact there's now a full course yellow.

It's taking them out of their chance of getting second unless things really turn around.

Then it's in the first, the Pro-Am car.

It's Tierra Outdoor Racing by HWM.

Hans Weiss, they are leading quite comfortably in the Pro-Am class.

Then it's the fifth place in Pro, Matthew Detroit, in the H2H Racing.

They've also got one more stop after this one to make.

Then Muller Motorsport are the sixth place in Pro with Martin Rump.

In seventh place, so second place in Pro-Am is Belgium Racing and Sacha Norden.

That's the 99 car.

And the final in seventh place in Pro, it's Max Cruise Racing and Nico Otto.

They've had a very quiet race, actually.

Ten car.

They haven't been pushing the limits at all, but they just seem to lack a little bit of pace.

Next place, tenth overall, is our leader in the Am class.

And that's the Neuhofer Rennsport and Dylan Yip.

He is about 40 seconds ahead of the second place in that Am class.

That's a 31 QMF by HRT.

Currently, Julian Hans is at the wheel.

And then we have our third place in Pro-Am, the second Belgian racing car.

And that's Michael Kool, 98, who has, let's say, exceeded track limits on several occasions.

Triple eight, a celebrity racing.

I do.

We're racing with Laurent Misbach in the car.

This car has the potential to be very fast.

It has the fastest lap in the Am class.

And it's the number five black Falcon car that had all sorts of problems at the beginning of the race.

Now on a bit of a recovery drive.

Up to 14th, I think fourth overall in Pro-Am with Gabriel Piana.

And it's the 992 amateur car of PTE operator Manfe Racing.

16th is the Elfa Motorhome.

They got the number they wanted, 911.

They're also in the pits at the moment.

And they have in 17th, the 29 car that's been down the pit lane more off of the pelagis than anybody else.

That's Tora Racing by H2.

HRT Performance.

At the moment, they have Adam Kristozulu driving that machine.

Then 18th is the 233.

That's the Team Laptime Performance Am car.

Another Am car in 19th, the 56 Ansel Motors by Porsche Laurent Racing.

And in 20th, it's the Pro-Am Molnar Motorsport machine.

21st is Speedlove with Kurt Henson.

They're in Pro-Am.

22nd is Team GP Elite.

We've begun to get the cars that have started having problems.

Speedlove has a small amount of problems.

The rest of the cars now have suffered greatly at various parts of the race.

Team GP Elite.

Team GP Elite calls one of our other full-course yellows.

It's with the number 12 car.

Then the MRS GT Racing pair of 89 and 88.

Currently, it's Marti O'Mara, who we believe actually is the person who's called this full-course yellow.

He's classified 23rd.

24th, the Edward Menossi piloted GT Racing.

Kate Kramer had all sorts of issues, but Carson Kramer is in the car that bears his name in 25th.

That's the 36th.

And in 26th place, the amateur car.

It's the 21.

It's Molnar Motorsport, Glenn McGee.

And the bottom two.

The bottom two cars.

It's the 935 and the 90, both in Pro-Am.

And that's JW RaceServe and MRS GT Racing.

Two hours to go.

All to play for.

Yeah, it's wide open as well.

I mean, all right, the Black Falcon car 48, it's got a strong lead.

And currently showing us two laps, but that will come down to one when they come back around.

It's pretty strong.

I mean, a one-lap gap isn't usually as strong as it could be.

But with every car.

Which is a 992 Cup car, then that does have a bit of strength, because it's very, very hard to pull back onto the lead lap.

However, we are going to close the field up.

We are going to see any word of a safety car, Nick?

No, they've kind of run the full course yellow through, and then they say safety car procedure.

Right.

And you see Jose Closet sneaking out of his Porsche 918 going, yay, more laps.

But yeah, so I think the issue is, and we haven't had a look at this, but I think it's going to be a bit of a challenge.

The outside of Arradiant, whether there's been some tire derangement, you say, and there needs to be some rebuild.

Yeah, we can try and build false excitement, but Tobias Muller and his Black Falcon team are in an incredibly strong position at the moment.

They will be, at the end of this process, a lap ahead, and only need to do one more stop.

So at this point, it becomes a situation where the only way they're going to lose this, and it's quite an easy way, is by having a technical issue.

And that could be a bad pit stop.

It could be that they've suddenly run out of brakes.

But they will have that.

Now, the battle for second is going to be way more open between Red Camel Jordan, Max Cruise Racing, Neuhofer Rennsport.

All of them have different strengths and weaknesses.

It does seem to me at the moment that because Red Camels, due to this course, this FCY, could stretch to just needing one more stop,

you think that's playing into their hands, but all these gaps will be gone.

So Renault and Maia, Max Cruise Racing, Neuhofer, will be right behind them and also needing one stop.

So it's suddenly...

You think, oh, they've cruised through this one.

No, they haven't, because it's, again, it's coming together.

So the battle for second is going to be momentous.

Now, this is obviously for the safety car.

They all get pushed together.

Yeah.

It's going to be really, really close.

As long, of course, as they are, all three of them, the correct side of the 48, which I'm not totally sure at the moment.

I'm going to have to study the track.

Well, the number nine is just coming out of Lecom, which is the Red Camel car.

That's currently second.

And the 48 is just going through Stavolo.

Yeah, so the 48, the nine is in the correct position because he is just behind.

He's a lap and a bit behind.

So he's just behind the, or two laps and a bit behind.

I just want to see where the 86 is on the track and possibly where the...

Yeah, go for it, Di.

The 89 MRS GT Racing, Mauricio Mauro, that you chatted about earlier,

he is conscious.

But he has gone to the medical centre.

I've just gone in to check with the team.

Obviously, they were a bit concerned to start with, but he is conscious and in the best hands now in the medical centre.

Great, I think that update is very much appreciated, Di.

Thank you indeed.

So the nine and the 86 will get shuffled together.

That's the Neuhofer Rennsport and the Red Camel Jordans.

If they have a safety car, they will be effectively separated by a few cars' lengths.

I'm just wondering whether that might start playing things into the Neuhofer.

But it's going to be difficult to predict this until we actually get down that last hour and 20

and people start doing their last stops and then we'll know where we're going to get to.

Whose hands do this play into, Nick?

Well, it's not in any way affecting Tobias Muller and Black Falcon.

Black Falcon will have a lap lead, whatever happens.

Yeah, but does that get them...

And they have to do one stop as well.

Right, so they're back into the one stop.

They have been in the pound seats, they stay in the pound seats.

Luke Breukers will only need to do one stop.

Because they weren't going to get there on one more stop without this.

They will now.

Robert Renau will only need to do one stop as well.

And Paul Meyer and Max Cruz Racing will only need to do one more stop.

But what will happen is, I think certainly Breukers and Renau will be next to each other.

So the fact is obviously that Breukers will stop quite a bit before Renau does.

But they will be next to each other.

So it's hard to tell.

I kind of think Neuhofer Racing might, if they do run the safety car and they do close them up,

come their own and get the favourites to come second.

Yeah.

Who might...

Who went off, sorry?

It was the 88 MRSGT racing car.

Eduardo Menazzi.

He went off at the outside of a radial, hit the barrier.

The car looked OK.

I think it was the 89, was it?

OK, Matteo Mirai.

I think it was Matteo Mirai, sorry, the 89.

Thank you, Joe.

Who went off and he's apparently shaken but OK.

OK.

So we are in full course yellow at the moment with the intervention vehicles

just leaving.

The...

And the medical cars just leaving the area.

Thank you.

Whilst we're in this particular part of the race.

Let's just say thank you to all of our volunteers who have done such a grand job this past week or so.

Whilst Porsche and Creventic have been on site for the Michelin 992 Endurance Cup

Thanks.

To Joe Bradley,

Dai Binks,

Nick Damon

and our production team from Radio Show Limited, RSL.

And thank you to John.

Tim and Kerry.

I've had the easy bit.

I just had to drive the safety car a couple of laps and that was it.

I'm surprised you're here now because I'm sure Jose's itching to come out to jump into that car and get out and do a couple of laps.

I said, look, if you don't go out quickly, I'm going to have to go back because we're inside the last hour now.

And, you know.

Well, Aaron.

50 minutes.

Yeah.

I'm on 50 minutes.

Oh, I could have stayed out.

You see.

Yeah, you could.

You're fine.

I'll wait a couple of years.

I keep wanting.

I'm adding an hour onto this all the time.

You are for a 14 hour race.

Are you a 16 hour race?

Oh, there he is.

There's Jose.

We are going to get the safety car.

Yeah, he's out.

He's picked up the leader already.

But hasn't he officially said it is a safety car procedure?

No, because the lights aren't on on the safety car yet.

So it isn't a safety car.

Right.

So the safety car is out.

There's your answer.

And it's driven through the field.

I do like a safety car having the ability to drive through the field and pick up the

leader.

That's a much better idea than having to wait and hope to get the right person to exit.

Yeah.

I mean, it helps.

Obviously, it's the fastest car here.

Yeah.

Obviously, everyone is running at 50 miles an hour.

So right in front of the safety car, a car that's going to get a lap back is the Milner

Motorsport number four car.

But they're three.

Actually, they're two laps down.

So they'll come back to a lap down next time by.

Once they are released, the safety car won't put its lights on until the safety car won't

put its lights on until race director deems it is safe for cars to go faster than full

course yellow to catch back up again.

Well, they might not put the safety car lights on until the barriers are repaired or nearly

repaired because they only want to do a maximum of two safety car laps.

At the same time, the organisers and the track sensibly taking the time to do a bit of track

brushing and track blowing.

I'm not going to say what I was going to say.

Thank goodness I stopped myself.

Excellent.

Well done.

Yeah.

How did Jürgen get on today?

I lost.

Oh, really?

One nil.

Yeah.

Two.

Away.

The dons.

I think I'm not quite sure, but I think Doncaster might be the new leaders.

New leaders, yeah.

Doncaster Rovers.

What can you do?

Where you meet the might of Doncaster.

Those football leviathans.

Exactly.

It's a nightmare.

All right.

Excellent stuff.

Sorry about that.

So, waiting for race control to tell the safety car to put its lights on, but it's sitting

right in front of the leader, and travelling at the F.C.Y. speed of 80 klicks.

Probably ticking over that.

Do you think he just puts the cruise control to 80, and then just drives around?

It might be on hybrid power.

Yeah, it could be on hybrid power.

It might be on the electric.

There is a big charging station here, I noticed.

Oh, you're not kidding.

2.1.

Giggle.

I'm not sure it's quite enough to get Michael J. Fox back to the future, but it's a pretty

big charging station, put it that way.

It had, was it 8 or 12?

It had 12.

12 take-hands on it.

Yeah.

So, this is bleeding into daylight as well.

It is, again, I'll say this as we said on Friday, it is darker outside than our camera

is sure.

I've just walked back down from La Source.

In fact, the...

The building on driver's left that the safety car is coming to now is the catering, the Porsche

hospitality, old-school cool, and there's a lovely set of cars parked up there.

I'm beginning to...

I'm surprised you managed to tell yourself where you're going.

I'm beginning to form an attachment to Lava Orange, and I never thought I'd hear myself...

Who climbs in Lava Orange?

The GT3 RS?

Some of the GT3s down the side, the RSs.

Right, the RSs.

And I never thought I would say that.

I thought you were a Miami Blue person, like Shane.

There's a Maritime Blue one there.

I prefer slightly darker blue, if I'm honest.

I know you don't.

No, I don't mind blues.

I'm not allowed to have blue car, you know.

Right.

Oh, it's Joe that doesn't like the blues.

So, the 918, travelling at full course yellow speed.

Note, the lights are still not on, because the...

Clark, of course, the race director, deems it not safe yet for cars to come round and pack up behind the leaders.

This is great, though, because they're just burning time and saving fuel at the front of the field.

It's going to be really tight for second place.

Between the three cars that are up for it, which is...

It's going to do...

Well, there'll be nothing between them on the track unless there's cars.

There'll be nothing between them on the track unless there's cars.

So, let's start taking a look at that now, shall we?

Because before we start the pit stops, and again, the team managers were told,

guys, if you're going to do a pit stop whilst we're neutralised, do it under full course yellow.

We do not want to add extra safety car laps, because you wait until everybody packs up.

Now, there will be some people who want to do that, because they want to get the better part of their lap back.

Yeah.

Before they pit.

But surely, anybody who's out there at the moment at the front of the field will want to stay out there as long as possible.

To get towards that last pit stop at an hour twenty.

Well, no, you want to go...

Realistically, if you assume it's going to run at full speed, you want to be going in about an hour and thirteen.

Because don't forget, you've got two minutes of extra potential time, because the last lap isn't going to...

Your last lap is not going to end exactly on the top of the hour at 9.45.

9.45, yeah.

9.45.

So...

You're trying to...

You're trying to take an hour away, aren't you?

A bit of discount for you there, Nick.

There we are.

Thank you very much.

I've got eight percent off.

Brilliant.

Yeah, so it's...

You know, but this just makes it very doable.

It was kind of touch and go for Luke Broikers, but because of the squishing back down the field,

and the fact that Robert Renard and Paul Meyer and the gang and Matthew Detroit also will only need one more stop,

is it possible?

I'm not totally sure about Detroit, because he stopped at a different point when he had the issue with his brakes.

He needs one more stop.

And then that will probably shuffle them all together.

And at that point, I think it'll end up being just about the pace of the person in the car.

Because whilst they'll stop for the final time at different points,

if it runs green,

then they'll just be racing at the end for second place.

Not so close in Pro-Am,

where there's a lap and a half between first and second,

such as Norden from Belgium Racing and Hans Weiss from Tierra Outdoor Racing,

so that's something to be aware of.

So, Weiss has been in for an hour, but I think they may have stopped and it's half an hour, so I think that's OK.

Dylan Yip leads in the AM class by 42 seconds from Julian Hanses,

and I think neither of them has come in, because that lead hasn't changed,

but they are a little bit on the edge, actually, if they can make it in one stop.

They've only got about 25 minutes of field, probably can, yep.

So, this bit of yellow has thrown the...

It's changed the character of the race.

Well, it's meant all the people who were risking it, it's all come off of it,

but actually, the way it's happened, it's actually meant some people who weren't risking it

are equally not being particularly penalised, because of the joining up of the field.

Yeah, Neuhofer-Renspoort might be a little bit aggrieved,

but I think they would have ended up in a clear second,

because they had one stop fewer to do than anybody else.

Don't think they would have caught the leader, but for a while, they would have been on...

I think they might have got to the lead lap.

I don't think they would have caught the leader, but until their last pit stop,

if this had come a bit later, then Neuhofer, the 86 car, with Robert Renard behind the wheel,

that would have worked nicely in their favour.

Yeah.

It's actually quite dark outside now, Dick.

And there are no additional lights here, by the way.

No, it's pitch round the back, absolutely, very dark.

The other thing that I've noticed as well, when I was walking down,

and it's even more obvious now, looking down towards La Source from our commentary position here,

which is the last commentary box on the way down to pit out and turn one at La Source,

how bright the panels are.

I think they're too bright, if I'm honest.

I think they need to have a dim setting.

Do you know what, you're absolutely right.

They're way too bright.

Because I now can't see whether that says FCY or FC.

Now, it says FCY at the moment, it doesn't say FC,

and I know that because of what's on the screen, the driver information display.

Yeah.

The driver information display.

The driver information display, which all of these cars have to have.

I love the way everybody's cruising around in fourth gear, just letting the car tick over.

Benjamin Leichter, 10th position in the number 10.

Is there a rev reading there that we can see?

How many revs is that car doing?

I can't see it anywhere, because he's got a clock on there, unfortunately, at the moment.

He's got FCY.

I assume he's on a FCY setting, which is holding him at 80 clicks.

He's basically on cruise control, isn't he?

He's on intelligent cruise.

He's on the FCY setting, doing 80 clicks.

Yeah, 80 clicks, spot on.

Yeah, as he comes down through the gear box.

But he can't do 80 around the chicane.

I bet the safety car can.

Oh, he can, yeah.

No, I bet he can't.

He went all the way down to about 50, 55, 56 clicks, yeah.

Back up, and it'll click in again at 80, so he doesn't get himself into, oh, 84.

Well, no, but that's fine, because he went down, so it'll be on the delta.

Yeah, that delta will be fine.

So he'll have a time...

To hit, which he knows what it is.

See, Code 60's easy, because all you need to know is how many kilometres around it is,

and then...

Yeah, that's the delta time, yeah.

Yeah.

Safety car deployed.

So we're now down to two laps.

Right.

So, and it's changed on the driver information display in front of Benjamin Leuchttet, and

I can't tell whether that's changed at all.

He's picking up his pace, and he's up to 160 clicks.

Right.

If I squint now, I can see that that says SC.

Yes, I can squint.

But that's mainly because it's changed colour.

So he's now, what, running to two-thirds speed, you think?

Not on the dash.

Do you think he's in his overall, how fast can I actually go?

He can go as fast as it is safe to do so, to catch up to the back of the spur, to the

train.

Well, he's just hitting 150, 130 miles an hour now, not quite 150.

That's 150, not quite, no, he's at 135.

So they're clogging on.

They'll want to get this done quickly.

The leader...

Is...

Where is the leader?

Oh, the leader is just coming down to Malmedy.

There are cars just ahead of the leader.

Yeah, it's eight and a four.

So they're going to have to get their foot down.

It's Paul Meyer, Max Cruise Racing, and they get almost a lap back from fifth place.

Yeah, correct.

As is the four car, which is Martin Rump.

So two of the cars, two guys on the front row at the start of the race, and they get

best part of a lap back due to this four-course.

They haven't been anywhere near the front of the race after the first, what, 35 minutes,

but they're now moving in.

They will...

They were almost two laps down.

There will now be just...

A lap and a half.

Well, not even that.

No.

There'll be a lap and the length of 28 cars.

No, I think it'll be two laps, because if you look at it, they...

No, no, no, they've got...

Tobias Muller has scored at 236 laps.

Luke Broich is at 235 laps, and Hans Weiss at 234 laps, and they're behind Hans Weiss.

It might be there on 235.

No, no, but they've got to come through the line.

Oh, okay.

Paul Meyer and Mathieu Dutray...

Oh, yeah, you're right.

...have got to come through the line.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right.

They're going to go into 235, yep.

So there'll be a lap and 10 cars behind.

Joe Bradley...

Sorry, Diana Pink's down in the pits.

I know that it can't be Joe, because he's taken his suit off.

Let's put it back on again.

Oh, he's put it back on again, has he?

Are you back in the plane, Joe?

Hello.

Yes, I am.

That was me putting my suit on, Jonny.

Naked Bradley was putting his suit on behind you.

We've got the number 89, the MRSGT team car that's caused this safety car.

It's made its way back to the pit lane, albeit on the back of a flatbed, and it's showing

extensive damage on the left-hand side of the car, pretty much from the front all the

way to the back.

A heavy hit on the rear, showing signs that it's gone in very, very deep to that very

red-painted tire wall up at Radeon, and this car's not going to take any further part in

the proceedings.

It was already having a nightmare of a race.

It hasn't been MRSGT's finest...

Oh, it's not, yeah.

...event, and it's just sort of been one nightmare.

One after another, and that's continued for the 89.

But the 89's nightmare has completed, and it's completed in a very nasty way, damage-wise

to the car.

If you are getting Seb's pictures...

Not quite, yes.

...you'll be able to see.

Right, OK.

You'll be able to see eventually when...

Describe, love.

Pictures with words.

Well, I've kind of done that.

It's heavy impact at the rear.

Red paint all over the grey silvery paint of the MRS car, showing signs that it's gone

in deep.

Because it's kind of like had a bit of a re-spray or a re-wrap.

It's had so much paint off the barrier, displaced onto its bodywork.

And rear suspension damage, exhaust folded at the rear.

Of course, 911 is the engine, the important bit at the back.

And you know what?

I wouldn't be happy.

The left rear wheel was all flopping.

Suspension is broken.

So that energy would have transferred through to the diff and into the drive shaft.

Three in the gearbox, et cetera.

And yeah, I mean, it's not going to take any further path.

Stuart Bradley in the lane.

He's the only car in there.

So everyone else is now running.

But the other coming out is his teammate, the MRS GT racing number 90 car.

So we started 28 cars.

It looks like we're going to hopefully finish 26, which is pretty impressive.

I am super impressed by that.

Adam Christodoulou saying, you know what?

I'm going to do it.

Yeah.

So we started off with almost nothing, which is the same earlier on.

In fairness, I think that the dry weather has played its part.

But given what have we been talking about all the time?

All the cars have got the same potential.

When you look at Spa 24, where all the GT cars are out there, there's a lot more of them.

Absolutely.

But they're all GT3 cars.

They all have the same performance potential.

It's carnage all the time.

Yeah.

Everything has to happen between turning and apex.

turned in an eight mix and it's on the same circuit and you have some very professional

drivers some quite professional drivers and some not so professional drivers aren't as professional

in terms of their experience we've got exactly the same type of mix here and these this is

literally all the same car in terms of performance i i think this is a pretty good advertisement for

not only the michelin 992 endurance cup powered by porsche motorsport but for the cars the drivers

and the teams i've done a good job here i really do safety car in the end of this lap as we expected

the eight and the four have uh just about got to the back of the train that's the paul meyer

max cruz racing the martin martin motorsport they will have several cars to get through

before they get to i don't know how many second place yes go on then

well uh i reckon how many is still running 26

so they're they're two would be 25 24 i think there's 22 cars between them and the leader and

the lap a lap and 22 cars a lap and 22 but more importantly 9 11s for second place they are about

uh 16 cars behind luke broikers on the same lap and about 12 or 11 cars behind robert renault on

the same lap yeah so four cars now are scrapping for second place overall in the pro class

i don't

um yeah actually we also got hans vice as well who's in pro-am will be in that battle as well

on that lap oh yes absolutely so there's uh that's the number 33 uh max uh tiara outdoor racing and

i've also forgot about matthew to try as well so actually there's gonna be one two three four five

six cars linus turn second place no detray detray is uh one lap further back oh so is

martin rump as well then yes correct i didn't realize that okay so um detray in the first place

and Mühlen Motorsport Martin Rump in the

four are both

one lap further back

so Tobias Müller

takes over Contre

he's gone, he's absolutely nailed

it and why wouldn't you, he's got

I think the PTE

Manti Juncker Honka Vore

car is in there behind him, he's not battling

any of those cars, he's got

nobody who's only one lap behind him

who is battling

so as they come to the line, it is the leader

the Black Falkham Team 48 that goes

across the line

followed by, what car was that

I couldn't even see it, it's getting so dark

outside, I think it was the Neuhofer

Dylan Yip car, it was

the 9th place car which is the leader in

AM and that car is leading

AM by hardly anything at all

from Julian Hanses in the

QMMF by HRT

in 2nd place

and they've got a lap over

Seb Lajou racing the 888 Laurent Mishbach

in that top 3

battle in the

AM category, so there's plenty

to play for here

as we are waiting to see

how the cars play out

with an hour and 31 minutes

to go, round about 20 minutes

before you can

honestly say you can get to the end

on your fuel, Nick Damon

29 minutes and 20 seconds of

controlled pace there

combining the 4 course yellow

and the safety car, which effectively

gives you at least 15 minutes extra run time

if not more, perhaps 18 minutes

and that's going to mean a lot of people

will be able to do it with one stop more

most people who are trying to stretch

will be able to stretch now

18 minutes is going to put it into the

zone for virtually all the cars

who are running quite long into stints

I can't help thinking

that everything

that I like

about getting back to green

off the back of a Chord 60

we sort of give away

behind the safety car

and having two extra laps

another 7 minutes

behind the safety car each time

however, interestingly

the team seem to like it

because it brings everything back up again

unless you're the person who's leading

everyone else is going to like it

because it gives them some sort of gain

on the person who's ahead of them

in class or in the race

so effectively unless you're

there's 3 cars going, oh no

and there's 23 cars going, yes

what are they doing? yes

what are the other ones doing? oh no

it's gone by the way, it's now officially dark outside

according to the stewards

well that means the driver

there has to be a driver in the car who's qualified

in night time practice

so that might actually throw

some

spanners in works

but I'm sure they would have got at least 2 guys

you had to do 1 lap didn't you? 2

2 flyers

they're 45 minutes so they could have

could have qualified 3 people

I did look at the results from the hotel

last night and it did seem a lot of people turned a lot of laps

so I think they did

go out and just do the bang bang 4 laps

and run it through

wasn't particularly pleasant last night

in fairness weather wise, it was all over the shop

but the track was relatively

clean after a bit of luck

it's really really interesting

Tobias Muller

has got our leader

has got I reckon

the arm leader Dylan Yip

right on his tail, yeah he has

they go to the top of Radion

and the QMMF

a maroon

Qatari coloured car

is right there

now Dylan is

4 laps

off the lead but crucially

he is

only

his lead is

he's second

he's second in arm

he wants to get

he's first

in the head of Julian Hanses

the battle is Hanses and Yip

he has been at your right

Yip's gone through, that's what's thrown me out

Benjamin Leichner went past

Max Cruze Racing I think in a different class

has Yip gone past

no, Yip hasn't gone past Hanses

that's the 99 on screen

if you can see the pictures which is

Sacha Norden and Belgium Racing

down in 8th place

Hanses

in the QMMF by HRT is behind

the Neuhofer Dylan Yip car

last time round by 0.3 of a second

right, ok

but I don't know where it is now obviously

because we're significantly further on in the race

and there's

now there is somebody

unlapping themselves from the leader

that was the 15th place car

oh it's his team mate

well that's sensible actually

because he is

off up the road

he's got a couple of laps to make up

he's only got a lap actually

on the third spot

in the podium lap in Pro-Am

which is Belgium Racing

the number 98 Michael Kuhl car

so that's actually quite sensible

that

yeah good move there

Gabriel Piana in the 5 back car

terrible first couple of hours

often facing the wrong way

off in the pits when it shouldn't be

but has been pretty solid for the next 8

so they are now running across the line again

chance to get an idea of where people are

Muller is your leader

and he has a lap

and something in charge on Luke Breukers

Breukers crosses the line now

did a 2.25.2 half a second faster than Muller

who of course let his team mate through that time round

just waiting for Ronao to come over the line

he's 8 seconds behind

the gap is 8 seconds

Paul Meyer is just 6 tenths of a second behind

third and fourth is just 6 tenths of a second apart

so if Muller wants to go

to his 32 laps

which he should be able to get to

with all of that

that will take him

to an hour and 6 minutes

he can go I think

at least 2 or 3 laps further than that

easily

if you take your final pit stop

with an hour and 13 left

you will comfortably get to the end

do you put tyres on?

absolutely

you put tyres on whenever

especially with the temperature going

and the chance you need as much grip as you can get

actually I think everybody changed

tyres last time around

because Luke Broit

has just got in the car

didn't he?

it was Fabian Dans before Luke

so he'll be on new Michelin

Robert Ronao got in

when Martin Ragenke got out

so he'll be on new tyres

Paul Meyer in fourth position

took over from Tom Coronel

so they're all beyond

you know what

it's not even

two full stints

if you're in a race for second Nick

and you're going to save 20 seconds

we saw what happened at the start of the race

with the two Belgium racing cars

they leapfrogged

everybody in the pits by not doing tyres

fuel only

a 60 second stationary stop

60 seconds stationary

there's still a few

I don't generally don't think

I'm not one for building up false jeopardy

I don't think that the Black Falcon Team 48

is in much jeopardy of not winning this race

but second place could go anywhere

could go anywhere

could go anywhere with five cars

it would be really great if we could see the

Breukers, Ronao and Meyer battle right now

if you remember I said

I'm quite happy to say that Black Falcon

are going to win this quite some time ago

you did it's very true

just the way the car was going

and when Luke Hartog

was in that car

I'm not going to say that's the stint that won it for it

because everybody has contributed

to the momentum at the front of the field

where everybody had been much of a muchness to that point

Hartog took it up a notch or two

compared to the people who he's racing against

well he did the same thing as Chris Meese did

in the first section

which was always wiped out by the first full course yellow

yeah that's a good point Chris Meese put

100 seconds in everybody

I assume Meese can do the last hour

well yeah could do

I think that's probably what's going to happen

so they went off the line last time

would you do that or would you just not leave Muller in

I think Muller can't go

he's got a 2.31 stint and he's got 20 minutes to go

he can't do 3 hours can he

only 3 hours and then 2 hours 31

he has to come out

his stint's 2 hours 31 at the moment

his stint started at

5 past 7

2 hours 31 is his stint

really

written writ large

in the

I think Breuker's stint's an hour and 13

what Renau's done 56 minutes

Paul Meyer's done 32 minutes

Renau now

2.2 seconds ahead of Meyer

in that gap between 3rd and 4th

7 seconds back from Luke Breuker's

I'm sure that Rick will be dropping in for that last run

for Red Camel

just 2 seconds further back

is our leader in Pro-Am

Hans Weiss

he's 10 seconds behind Luke Breuker's

obviously lap ahead for Thomas Muller

and then just a little bit gap

11 seconds back from

those are the guys on

there are only 4 guys on that second lap

1 guy on the lead lap that's back 4 guys

battling for 2nd overall

who are a lap down

in the battle

in the classes

Julian Hanses

has now been passed by

no has passed

has now passed

Dylan Yip

and has taken the um lead back

for QMMF by HRT

Hanses is comfortably the fastest driver

in that car or has been so far today

has done a 2.22 too

that's a good car

he can go to the end on stint time

I'm kind of wondering whether they will take him to the end

or they put one of the Middle Eastern drivers

in for the finish

Dylan Yip

has been powerful all day

and that's a good battle

just 4 seconds between those

at the moment Hanses is just extending the gap slightly

but that will all change

we expect when that final stop is made

by both the cars

in the Pro-Am Hans Weiss

leads that in

5th position

he's completed 240 laps

closest car to him

is the Sacha Norden driven

8th place car of Belgian Racing

on 2.39

but is he actually

a full lap behind him

so that means I have to look

for

Hans is

and Sacha is the 99

I've got a feeling

that there's not actually

a full lap between those two

at the moment

the big

the big issue will be

that we've got some cars

just in front of the leader at the moment

they unlapped themselves

Gabrieli Piana was one of them

and who was the other one

it's the 99

Belgian Racing Sacha Norden

I'm just wondering whether the situation

where perhaps a little bit of a minor error

by Tobias Muller right at the start and he rather than fighting it just let these cars go by

they're not his battle

there you can see the

8th car of Maia

battling hard for 4th place and 3rd place

under

now an hour and

21 to go

and it's dark

this is now officially dark

so we're going to have

I thought it would be about 90 minutes

there's a little bit of cloud cover

just over to the west

which is just dulling down

as we might have been getting

from the setting sun

but this is properly dark

do not be

fooled into thinking there's still some

ambient light out there

the drivers are driving on their headlights

right now

because it is fully dark

now one thing

about F1 tracks

this part might be a little bit different

but F1 tracks normally do not have reflective lines on them

I remember at Silverstone

when we did the 24 hours

people saying how difficult it was

to pick up the edges of the track

when it got dark

with having the 24 hour race here

maybe that's

something different

what I kind of need to look at

is when the cars come down the front straight

see if I can see the lines being reflective

no I don't think they are

so you've got to be

absolutely sure of where you're going

I have to say

I find driving on a race track in the dark

if not relaxing

I find that it concentrates my mind

because

you're looking at

where the headlights are

and where the track is

in some way it's like turning all the extraneous detail off

round about

and

you're just concentrating

on where you need to put the car

now individual laps don't mean very much

but Robert Renau is gaining on Luke Broy

because he gained

exactly 2 seconds

in the pits

yeah there's something not right with that car

that wasn't a very long stint at all

well it was a 15 and a 16

so no that was 31

no that was a proper stop that 15 lap

that wasn't a drive through

that was problems

well maybe Bradley can find this out

the number 15 H2H racing car

I wonder if they've got a fuel pump problem

it was too early with 1.18

he wouldn't come at 1.18

sorry Joe go ahead

straight out of the back of the garage

and he's going into the truck

I think this car is finished

leave it with me for now

they've put the car on the jacks

they've swivelled it round

it's gone backwards into the garage

the look of disappointment

on every single team member

they're taking their gloves off

they're taking their balaclavas off

at least the fuelers are

and yeah I think it's done

I'll find out why it's done in a moment

I'm going to say fuel pressure problem Joe

yeah I mean there's nothing apparent

there's not smoke coming from

anywhere that smoke shouldn't be coming from

for instance there's

smoke billowing from the left hand rear wheel

arch because that's where the brake is

that's where the brake is overeating

at the moment but that's not

to be worried

that's pretty standard stuff when these cars stop

I'll try and dive in there

and find out the reason

it might have something to do with that rear wheel arch I don't know

but there was no kind of urgency

towards doing anything

they knew it was done when it pulled up on the apron

they knew it was done before it even came in the back

so that's going to promote Mulder Motorsport

in fact it already has

Mulder Motorsport up to

sixth position and fifth

in class

they are not yet

challenging the

positions ahead of

however we have got a battle for third

in the overall Paul Mayer

has caught Robert Renault has Renault gone past him

it's actually a battle for second

and third because he's only three seconds up the road

from Renault to Luke Breukers now

Robert Renault was moving ahead quite quickly

I think he's got there's a car which isn't

involved in this second third and fourth battle between

him and Luke Breukers and that's

slightly held up Renault that last time I named Paul Mayer

to get a bit closer right so

Breukers is coming in the braking

area at Lecombe now there's no car

between him and Robert Renault but there's

2.7 seconds and then there's

nothing between Renault and

I think there was and they've just gone past it

I think right

I was looking around the source a minute ago I think there was

a car ahead of Robert

as they came over the line but now

got past it I believe

where's the number eight the number eight's right there

as well Gerald Bradley can

give us news on a heartbreaking

set of

news from H2H Racing

which has been at the sharp end of the field that number

15 car for most of the race

yeah NGT Racing

I think it is

the gearbox

gearbox temperature they think the

gearbox temperature has gone up and up

and up and up and they think it's the oil pump in the

gearbox they're pretty

they're pretty

solid on it being the

oil pump that has caused the gearbox temperatures

so the gearbox rather than

before it seizes they've brought it in

then they might be able to retrieve at least

you know bits and pieces

within that if it just needs a pump

so they

didn't just come here to take part

is what the team

unfortunately you get so far in a race

you've been so competitive certainly battling for the podium

and then it all goes wrong

with one hour and fifteen minutes to go

well effectively anyone coming in

not this lap but the

lap after they will get to the end

down to a minute and fifteen

don't forget when they come in they'll also

spend two minutes fueling and tiring

so they'll come out at about

an hour thirteen or an hour eleven

I expect they'll go as long as they can go

there goes Belgium Racing making up

another position in the overall

still second in

Pro-Am

and

this is all starting to get a bit interesting

this battle for second

third and fourth now

separated by

just on a second and a half

through La Source

and you can see the three cars

diving down the hill together

with currently

Luke Breukers just having

seven eighths of a second lead over Renau

and then Robert Renau being six tenths of a second ahead of Paul Maier

so the three cars

going by one point three seconds

it's Red Camel, Jordans, Neuhofer, Rennsport and Max Cruise Racing

Red Camel will be

pitting in the next few laps

the others have got a bit longer to go before they need to pit

they all do need to pit once more

probably four to six laps

from Breukers

Robert Renau can I think

do about fifteen laps

and Paul Maier can probably do about

twenty laps

so what do you take

do you take the track position

and if there's

another neutralisation in the darkness

you get in and do

your last pit stop

I think if I'm Max Cruiser Racing

I think I stay out

you stay out as long as possible because you'll get a cheap stop

under the yellows

you can't lose anything

your pace is good

the only reason you wouldn't do that

is if you had tyres that were going off

he does

he's got new tyres

not at this point

no one went in last time

so the first person to come

will be either Luke Breukers

or Tobias Muller

they both are at the further reaches of their stint

it's an hour and twenty four

don't forget

best part half an hour of that was under a controlled speed

effectively you get back a minute

for every two minutes you're running

absolutely now anyone coming in

can easily make the end

that's the leader isn't it being hassled

that is the leader being hassled by the red, white and black number

I think it's the eight car, that's Max Cruiser Racing

trying to un-lap himself

from the leader

so has Robert Renau and Luke Breukers already gone through

and un-lapped themselves

yes they have

does this mean that my car is suffering

or are they just going to go and stop

the Muller car

no the Black Falcon Racing

they've been dropping back

actually in fairness throughout this

run they've had

almost like they're not prepared to race

no it was the other Max Cruiser Racing car

it was the ten

it was the Benjamin Lloyd

that had just gone through

same colours the red, white and black

caught us both out

so you've learnt the colours

so yes by the way it's three tenths of a second

I haven't said that they aren't right there

no but what's happened is Breukers has gone down to fourth

both for an hour and Meyer have got past Breukers

those three cars battling at the exit of

course and coming down down to

Rouge and Radeon but they're all together

but the big loser well

in a couple of seconds and into fourth place

now has gone Luke Breukers third is

Paul Meyer second is Robert Renau

and now you kind of think what do we do

about fuel I'm absolutely certain that what's been

said on the radio by Paul Trustwell

to Luke Breukers, Luke just stick on his tail

stick on his tail we'll keep going to

out of fuel because at that point

we know we can't gain from

a yellow flag situation

...

we're here

and we're down with Joe

yeah the number 4 is on pit road

um it's having

tyres changed didn't see a

driver getting out I just make my way up there

as I do this now this is the

Multnomah motorsport car that you

guys have been mentioning about

was it is this one of the cars that have gotten a lap back

It was the other Max Kreuser racing.

It was Ben Leuchnett who got his lap back.

However, sorry, go ahead.

And then I want to come back to the pro-arm battle.

Go ahead.

Right, well, it's taking fuel on now, the number four.

It's had tyres.

That's all been done, I think, was driver's bottle.

There's no driver.

They haven't changed the driver.

I'm not sure.

Is it Martin Rundt?

It is Martin who brought it in.

It is one.

Yeah.

So I think he stayed in the car.

I'm pretty sure he stayed in the car.

Martin's still in the car?

Martin is still in the car?

Yes.

Yes, thank you.

Did they take tyres, Joe?

Fuel going in, tyres on, brand new, unscrubbed rubber going on.

So stick your tyres if you're in the States.

So this car's ready to go to the finish, isn't it?

Yeah, easily.

With an hour and ten.

Actually, they're one of the first people to make the last stop.

So that's interesting.

It's fired up.

And it's ready to go.

If you remember, it's the 60 seconds.

That's awesome.

We get so used to seeing the fuel hose come off and the car, you know, blasting out.

But it's kind of like you do a reset when the fuel hose comes off and nothing happens.

And then you realise you're waiting for the clock to tick down.

I do like this rule.

I do like these.

I do like the new regs.

Certainly the safety car this weekend has been a bit of a good thing.

Let's get to the arm battle.

Because in eighth position, QMMF by HRT, Julian Hanses,

leads that battle by 11 seconds from Dylan Yip.

And at the moment, he's got about half a second a lap.

The leader is pulling away at half a second a lap.

Third is Junker Honkavuri in the number 992 PTE,

operated by Mantae.

Racing car.

And he is another couple of minutes back.

Now, as far as the...

Oh, come on, John.

Use your brain.

The pit stops are concerned.

I reckon Honkavuri will be the first of those cars in

because he's on his 30-second lap now.

He can probably do at least a couple more because of the neutralisation.

As Nick says, at this point, you have to make your decision.

Do I come in?

Do I come in absolutely as early as I can and get it out of the way?

Or do I go long?

And those are the decisions that have been made on the pit wall.

It's an hour and 29 minutes for Luke Broikers.

It's an hour and 30 minutes for Hugo Honkavari since they last stopped.

But, of course, it's not in reality because we've had that long period of yellow.

What did you say? It was 29 minutes?

29 minutes.

So that's like another 15 minutes, isn't it?

15, 16, 17 minutes back.

Probably even more when you're running at 50 miles an hour.

Well, we did a lot of...

So let's say it's giving them 20 minutes back,

so they can probably run to 133.

Yeah.

Better part of 10 laps, probably.

And I suppose you would wait to see if you can get the stop done under yellow.

The only thing that would change that is in the second-place battle

where you've got the 86.9 for Rensport,

Max Kreuser, number 8, Red Camel, Jordan, number 9.

As in comes the leader for his last stop with an hour and 8 minutes to go.

So this will not affect the battle for second at the moment.

But if somebody does jump and put a new set of tyres on,

what you might be worried about is the undercut

because you can't short fuel to get back.

The vulnerability at the moment for Black Falcon Racing

is if we now go full-court yellow and safety car

because they are all off the...

People are unlapping themselves as we speak.

They all have to stop again.

If it runs normally, they will end up a lap behind.

But they are unlapping themselves.

As we speak.

Hang on, where are they?

Luke Broikers is in as well.

So Red Camel, Jordan are coming as well.

They are obviously...

That's interesting.

They can do with fuel.

That was it.

Michael Kool is coming from Belgium Racing.

So we've got three of the top ten in right now.

Renault stayed out.

The 86 Neuhofer racing car stayed out.

And when it comes around the next time,

it will lead the motor race.

And it doesn't need to stop for another 18 to 20 minutes.

Paul Meyer on Max Kreuser can go another 40 minutes.

Yeah.

At my...

But Meyer has to stay out as well.

And he has done.

So those cars separated by half a second.

There's still 50 seconds to go before the leader can roll.

So the battle for second and third.

The number 86 Neuhofer car coming down through Pouhon now.

And through to the second part of Pouhon.

The car right behind that dark grey and highlighter yellow

is the...

The car that is fighting.

So that's 86 and 8.

And they are coming now down to the bottom of the hill

through Piff Paff now.

Still 20 seconds to go.

They're not going to lose the lead.

Off for 20 seconds.

We're at 10 seconds now.

The car is fired.

The car controller has given him the go-ahead

with 4, 3, 2, 1.

You love that, don't you?

Well, there should be a penalty

if anyone doesn't spiel off the apron, to be honest.

The Red Camels car has been in as well.

Hang on, Joe.

And I've just been told from that team

that the safety car messed up their plan.

Robbed them, I'm quoting.

Well, they obviously had decided they could save enough fuel

to do it on one stop.

The leader is back out.

And there was a car that went out right in front of him.

And that was Rick Broikers

that went out, I think, right in front of him.

So, Rick Broikers,

at the moment, one lap, but almost two laps down.

The leader is back out over the top at Radillon

as the battle for second and third

now on the lead lap goes through La Source.

And Luke Hartog is the man

to take the Black Falcon Team 48 Loshka to the end,

which makes me think that Chris Meese

might be doing the final few laps for the number five car

and attempt to get a couple of extra spaces back for them.

He can do a lot more good in that five car

than possibly can the 48.

New fastest ab lap of the race by Mathieu Gilbert.

Yeah.

He is quick in the triple eight,

fifth in the AM class at the moment,

but he's only five seconds away from Leo Piccola

and the Elfa motorhome car, the 911.

It's 14th and 15th.

And that is in an AM class battle

as well as an overall battle there.

And the good news for C'est Blasieux racing fans

is that Matthias can go to the end.

He's been in the car for seven minutes.

That car will get to the end of this tank

and he can ride the whole way.

The danger now for the leader

is that he is right behind Rick Broikers

and Rick will not want to go another lap down.

He will fight.

He will absolutely fight to stay there

just in case anything happens.

And also, let's not forget,

he is in fourth place at the moment in the pro category,

so he doesn't want to lose any time.

If if the leader goes past him again,

he's off the battle for second and third.

Yeah, absolutely.

I think it's a really good point.

I understand what the information we got there through from Joe,

because it's pretty obvious that Rick and the team

were working on a fuel strategy,

which meant

they would only have to stop once

where the others would have had to stop twice

and therefore they would have come through in second.

Woulda, shoulda, coulda.

But that half hour means they've now,

they can race for it still.

They can still race for it. Joe.

I've gotten Luke Broikers, very sweaty, Luke Broikers.

Luke, that was a crack and stint, but this has turned into a race.

Sorry.

Let's step out of the garage door here, Luke.

Sorry. Come on, follow me.

We're losing a bit of reception off the microphone.

Right, Luke Broikers, crack and stint, but that's it.

You're in a safety car.

All of that work that you put in to build that lead

has gone in a safety car.

We love safety cars, but you almost hit them.

I didn't like the safety car.

I was in a really good rhythm.

Things were going well.

It was starting to go dark, so I was...

So I was trying to get into the rhythm

and then the safety car came and everything just scrambled.

And I had the lights in the back and there was the pressure for P2.

So I had fast guys in the back, like Robert,

and Paul Meyer was also very quick, so...

But we're still in the race and there's still a chance.

And we got the fastest pit stop.

Yes, so you were meant to say something about that.

Yeah.

Go ahead.

Yeah, so I came in and it was the fastest pit stop.

But do you mean something else?

Yeah, thanks to your crew.

Yes.

For the fastest pit stop.

Yeah, but they are the best.

People think, because we are a hobby team made out of France,

that we're not on that level, but I think these pit stop times,

I don't see other teams doing them, so...

Yeah, I think you're right, Luke.

I think you're right.

So you're still in with the race.

Your job's done, though.

Rick has got to take this to the end, I would think.

Yeah, Rick had a good rest.

I'm sure he's fired up.

He has experience in the night here due to the 24 hours of spa.

So let's see what we will...

Let's see where we end up.

Great stuff. Thank you, Luke.

I'll let you go and cool off.

Yeah, and you remembered your message as well.

Thank your crew for the fastest pit stop.

Yeah, the number nine car of Rick Bruyckes

has pulled away from the leader.

And I think that's good news for both of them, actually.

Certainly good news for Luke Hartog.

He doesn't need to be embroiled in a battle with Rick Bruyckes

with his elbows out.

We've lost the 36 car.

There's an off at the exit of Pouhon.

And that car is off the side of the circuit at turn 11.

And that means that Fidel...

Leip for Kay Kramer Racing.

Well, they've replaced a fuel pump earlier on.

He's rolling again.

Rolling, but very slowly.

Looks like there might be a bit of damage on that car.

Yes, he's been off the circuit.

Left hand side of the car is damaged.

He's throwing all kinds of dirt and debris onto the road.

But at least he is rolling again.

And it's now white flags.

He's gone through the exit of Stavelot and heading back towards us.

Luke Hartog is 21 seconds ahead of Robert Renauer at the moment.

And Renauer was half a second slower last time around.

Renauer with probably 8 to 10 more laps.

Paul Maier with probably 14, 15.

Yeah, I think Renauer's got 6 to 7, actually.

And then I think Maier's got 14 or 15, if they want to take them.

I think you have to right now.

Rick Brueggers obviously has stopped.

So we want to know where his tackle will unwind until after an hour.

And Maier have made their final stops.

He's ahead of Jopp Ropanger.

And Sacha Norden is another lap back.

So the number nine car ahead of the leader.

And with a beautifully clear track all the way to half a lap.

And Marcus Vinicius.

So we have a couple of penalties come through.

For cars that are there or thereabouts, but not quite the front.

Both the five and the 10, which is Gabrielle Piano on the comeback Black Falcon.

And the 10, which is Benjamin Leitner, the Max Coombs Racing,

have got exceeding speed limits during full course.

That's a drive through.

That's effectively a 35 second penalty for the pair of them.

That is going to drop the...

I'm not sure it's going to...

Yes, it's certainly going to drop Benjamin Leitner away from Julian Hansen.

And therefore, I'm pretty sure he'll go behind Bao Jinglong as well.

The thing about Leitner is...

Leitner is the...

He's in the pro class.

Where's the next pro?

Oh, no, that's...

So he's not going to lose.

He's the last running player, effectively, isn't he?

Yeah, he is.

Yeah.

Detroit's not running anymore.

Yeah.

And what was the other one?

Did you see it?

The Black Falcon.

It was number five.

Black Falcon number five.

Right.

So the next one there is Toro Racing.

The number 29 car, which is a couple of laps back.

They're not going to lose a couple of laps.

They'll lose part of that.

I think they were trying to...

They were trying to move forward.

And that was the point.

I think that's why they...

That's the disappointing thing for them.

It's going to stop that progress.

The Kay Kramer car in the pits, it had a flat rear right.

I'm not sure if it was a flat rear right or a suspension collapse.

The fact they haven't wheeled the car straight back into the box

makes you think it was probably a puncture on that rear right for the car.

At RSL underscore studio inside the last hour of racing.

Hello, everybody.

If you are just joining us, this is the denouement of the inaugural

Michelin 992 Endurance Cup

Porsche Motorsport.

The main event of this festival of flat six Porsches,

which has been running all week.

And one V8.

Actually, a couple of V8s, yeah.

A couple of V8s because there's a few V8s in the four-door cars.

So we are now waiting to see as Paul Maia has gone ahead of Renard.

That just happened.

That has just happened.

In the darkness, the number eight Max Kreuser racing, 24 seconds behind the leader.

So that was a slightly tardy lap from Robert Renard.

2 minutes 25.9.

And he's dropped to 25 seconds away from the leader.

A lot of final pit stops being done at the moment further down the field

that aren't affecting the three class podium places.

But that is...

That is a major change, because Paul Meyer, we know, can go the longest of the cars at the front of the field by some margin before he has to do his last stop.

It's their choice at this point.

It's a cracking comeback from this number eight car.

It was the middle of the field doing nothing after a terrible...

I don't even know what the problem was in that first in, but the car wasn't working effectively, well, it was.

And they had to do a five-minute stop, and then it was kind of trundling.

Obviously, quick trundling.

But it's really pushed through in the last three or four hours, and it's now up to second, and that is an actual second.

It's not a net second, that's an actual second.

Yes, there are stops to be made, and stops can go wrong, but that is where that car runs at the moment.

What do we think is the time gap for a stop?

It'll take them about two minutes and five seconds.

I'm not totally sure about the in and out.

It's only the out, but it's about 2.08 in total.

So here's the problem.

Rick Broikers has just done a 2.22.8, and the gap between Rick Broikers,

and the second place Max Cruiser Racing Paul Meyer car, is one minute, 57 seconds.

So they're in a net second now.

They are, yep.

Because both of the cars ahead have to stop.

And that's because they've held each other up with this battle.

Renau and Meyer have done 25s and 24s when they should be doing 22s, or 23s.

But when you're battling, you're going to lose time.

Now, this is Meyer's first lap with clear tarmac in front of him.

Let's see what he can do.

Rick Broikers has got half a lap.

He's got half clear track ahead of him, since he got out of the pits in front of the leader.

Gabby Alipiana is just behind the leader.

So he's got relatively clear track as well.

Pit stop for Robert Renau.

Renau in the pits from what was third position.

Rick Broikers coming up to Lecombe now.

So he should get around that car, unless they don't put tyres on.

That would be a, inverted commas, winning strategy.

But the tyres have been on for an hour and 17 minutes.

But they've only done 29 laps.

Yeah, that is true.

And only 55 minutes to go, not an hour and 20.

Correct.

They've had to run for a second stint.

I think they'll be considering that for Neuhofer.

I think Max Kreuser Racing don't change tyres in second place.

I think it's easier for them because there are another 25 minutes less on the tyre.

Yeah, absolutely.

Oh, was that a penalty?

No, I haven't got it for 86.

Oh, hang on, track limits.

Yes, ninth offence, track limits.

It was two minutes ago.

It was a track limit offence.

A T3.

Yeah, he just drove straight through.

I looked at the top one, which was 85.

That's not them, 86.

86 has come through on a track limit offence.

They've issued it and they've served it.

So, did you say 85 there as well?

Yeah, 85.

That's the other Neuhofer Racing car.

That's second in the AMP class.

That's Bausch & Lange.

That's got an exceeding speed limit.

It drew in full course yellow for the 85.

So, is that just a drive-through?

Yes.

Right, well, that's going to drop them back towards Juncker-Hunkevore and Seb Lejeu Racing.

Yeah, but that now means Rick Brogues is definitely net three, possibly net two.

Robert Renau is net four.

Don't think that's going to drop him into the clutches of the leader in Pro-Am,

which is the 33, Jop Rappange.

Well done.

Sasha Norden is...

I don't know how far...

I don't know how far behind Sasha Norden is from the 99,

but neither of those have been pinged there.

Sasha Norden is two minutes, near enough.

OK, so that's probably pretty much OK,

because actually Rappange has made his final stop as well.

So, I reckon that Rick Brogues, a 23.6 last time for Rick,

a 23.9 for Paul Mayer.

So, Paul Mayer's picked his pace up again now that he's on his own,

but he's got to get the hammer down here,

and they've got to make a decision about changing tyres.

I think you're right, no.

No is the answer, because that will keep them back in the lead.

Sorry, back in second place.

Back in second.

In the lead of the battle for second.

Rick, yeah.

They're only 25 seconds off the lead at the moment, of course.

But they have to make a stop.

But Luke Hartog's picked his pace up.

He's the fastest, 22.4.

So, he's absolutely flying.

He's done it again.

A few laps ago,

the...

fastest lap of the race was reset yet again

with 2.21.6.1.0.

And that's Mathieu Chaubert.

So, he has been absolutely outstanding.

That's an AM car.

He's very much the coming man in Porsche terms,

as far as driving is concerned.

Flying high in Porsche Carrera Cup Asia,

2.21.6.1.0.

2.21.7.2.6 by the best pro team,

which is the...

Black Falcon team.

Was that Luke Hartog's time?

I think it was.

And 2.22 flat

for the Black Falcon number five car.

So, Black Falcon's cars are going well.

And if only that Sebb,

as you're racing by duo racing,

was a little bit higher up the field,

we would have a cracking battle.

Absolutely.

Now, Bao Jinglong has done his drive-through.

So, we are...

next right...

We didn't have a single penalty for almost an hour, you know.

Well, that was mainly because they were sitting behind the safety car.

Even so, they managed to pick up the...

Normally, they managed to pick up things anyway.

78 car in the pits at the moment

that's the Jackson Verhoeven speed

lover machine, it's very dark

isn't it in the pit lane, you can see how

if you're working on the right hand side of the car

it's good news, if you're working on the left hand side of the car you need a head torch

you're not going to see anything

much much darker than some of the night lights we see

for example in Dubai, Joe

no? why?

there isn't any lights out on the pit

yeah

none of the teams have got lighting

over the pit

and there's no grandstands other than further

back down the pit lane even to cast any light

from the main grandstand

yeah there's very little light coming but usually

usually you get bright light

from the gantries overlooking

the apron but none of the teams have got that

obviously you didn't feel it was worth it for one pit stop

yeah for an hour

at the moment

I can't remember who it was who

described going down the

Mulsanne straight before the lights

were put up at Le Mans as being

thrown down a mine shaft holding

holding a very

small torch which I thought

was brilliant, it's going to be like that on

the Kemmel straight and indeed coming

back from Stavelo

Curvepole Frere

to Blanchemont at the

end of the lap

Bajin Long is back out for

Neuhofer and

they will I think

have they held on

to third

to second place in the

Amp

it's going to be a heck of a

slight take closer though

so that is the

85 and the 992

that we're talking about

and 992

they are

where

they're the blues aren't they

yeah

the pro ams are the blues and the ams are the

oranges

where are they

don't see them at all

who are you looking for

992 is in sector 2

no it's orange

sorry I was looking at the wrong ones because I'm looking at

blues and it's orange and what was the other number

sorry 85

right so the 992

85 has just crossed the line

and 85 has just crossed the line

ok so there's half a lap now

between second and third

in the Amcab