Toyota leads one-two at the end of the first hour of the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
The #7 of Mike Conway leads the #8 of Sebastien Buemi ahead of the #3 Rebellion of Gustavo Menezes.
The Californian spent the first hour battling with SMP Racing's Vitaly Petrov in the #11 BR Engineering BR-AER1. The other Rebellion was seen hobbling back to the pits towards the end of the hour with a tyre issue.
In LMP2, Nicolas Lapierre has claimed the LMP2 lead from polesitter Matthieu Vaxiviere after the pitstops, with G-Drive's Jean-Eric Vergne in third. Racing Team Nederland's Giedo van der Garde had prosperous first stint in his #29 Dallara P217-Gibson and is currently running fourth after starting eighth.
In GTE Pro, Antonio Garcia currently leads the Porsche pair of Michael Christensen and Nick Tandy. Garcia captured the lead from Aston Martin's Nicki Thiim with a daring overtake into Indianapolis in the opening half hour.
GTE Am saw the Dempsey-Proton pairing running one-two until the #88 of Sastoshi Hoshino was seen spinning across the track. The lead in GTE Am is now in the hands of the #54 Spirit of Race Ferrari of Giancarlo Fisichella ahead the #77 Dempsey-Proton Porsche and the Gulf Racing Porsche.
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