Alessandro Pier Guidi leads Le Mans in the #51 Ferrari, with well under six hours to go, with an eight second gap to Yifei Ye in the #83 satellite Ferrari.
In the last hour or so, the gap has widened a bit. Ye’s teammate Robert Kubica originally had it around a second and was catching Antonio Giovinazzi, in the #51 at the time. However, after the most recent round of pitstops, he has dropped back to over eight seconds away from the Italian in the factory Ferrari.
Miguel Molina is third, around 40 seconds off the lead in the sister #50 Ferrari.
Porsche’s Kevin Estre is the best of the rest in the #6 machine. Porsche have been doing consistent 13 lap stints, a lap longer than the Ferraris for the most part. This may help Porsche save a pitstop compared to the Italian cars ahead, which may help catapult them ahead if things work to Porsche’s plan.
The #8 Toyota of Brendon Hartley lies fifth, getting on for two minutes behind the leading Ferrari of Giovinazzi. The polesitting Cadillac, the #12 car, lies sixth in the hands of Alex Lynn, the driver who put the car on pole on Thursday in Hyperpole.
In LMP2, Tom Dillmann leads in the #43 Inter Europol Oreca 07-Gibson. He has a 22 second gap to Ollie Gray in the #48 VDS Panis Oreca 07-Gibson, with Sebastian Alvarez in the #28 IDEC Sport Oreca 07-Gibson.
Richard Lietz leads in the #92 Manthey 1st Phorm Porsche 911 GT3 R, with a minute gap to Simon Mann in the #21 AF Corse Ferrari 296 GT3. Charlie Eastwood is third in the #81 TF Sport Corvette Z06 GT3R.
