Le Mans has reached the end of the tenth hour, and Toyota continue to lead a comfortable one-two as Aston Martin's race goes from worse to even worse.
The two Toyotas lead ahead of the SMP Racing machine of Egor Orudzhev, with the #7 of Mike Conway currently holding a minute over the #8 of Sebastien Buemi, with the pair swapping the lead through a pair of pitstops.
In LMP2, Dutch rookie Job van Uitert leads by a significant marging after being split from the chasing Signatech Alpine in a safety car caused by Marco Sorensen's crash. The polesitter, running in the low regions of GTE Pro, lost the car heading into Indianapolis and made heavy contact with the wall, ending the #95's race.
Shortly before, Alex Lynn spun the #97 at the Porsche Curves, damaging the car but making it back to the pits. To make matters even worse, the #98 GTE Am entry has been retired after suffering a multitude of issues.
Apart from Aston Martin's woes, the GTE Pro battle continues to excite as AF Corse's James Calado currently leads Porsche's Michael Christensen by just over a second. The rest of the pack, led by Corvette's Jan Magnussen, is over a minute behind.
GTE Am is still being led by Jeroen Bleekemolen and the Keating Motorsports Ford GT, with the Team Project 1 Porsche of Patrick Lindsey in second ahead of Wei Lu in the #84 JMW Motorsport Ferrari, despite a spin early in the ninth hour.
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