LeMans 24 hour 20: Ferrari and Corvette battle in GTE-Pro

The #63 Corvette is now ahead in GTE-Pro
The #63 Corvette is now ahead in GTE-Pro

The two Toyotas are still going at it as Kamui Kobayashi maintained the #7 TS050 HYBRID's near-two minute lead over the #8 car at the Le Mans 24 Hours.

Kobayashi took over from Mike Conway midway through the 20th hour while Sebastien Buemi took over in the #8 Toyota.

The gap is now five laps ahead of their nearest rivals.

LMP2 – Signatech-Alpine in lead

Following the problems for G-Drive in the 19th hour, Signatech-Alpine's Nicolas Lapierre continued to manage a one lap lead in LMP2 with four hours to go.

His nearest rival is Stephane Richelmi in the #38 Jackie Chan DC Racing ORECA, which took a new nose section at the top of the hour when Richelmi took over from Ho-Pin Tung.

GTE-Pro – Corvette fending off Ferrari

Corvette held the upper hand in its fight with Ferrari as the 20-hour mark came and went, with Antonio Garcia holding a lead of around 11s over James Calado.

The two cars continue to run on divergent pit schedules, with Calado taking over from Alessandro Pier Guidi and holding a 35s buffer over Gianmaria Bruni's #91 Porsche.

Currently fourth is the #93 Porsche, now in the hands of Nick Tandy and 15s down on Bruni, while Fords fill out places five through eight, Andy Priaulx leading the Blue Oval charge in the #67 machine.

Hour 20 Standings

Pos Class CP No. Team Current Driver Behind Laps Pit Status
1 LMP1 1 #7 Toyota Gazoo Racing Kamui Kobayashi 0.000s 320 29 Run
2 LMP1 2 #8 Toyota Gazoo Racing Sebastien Buemi 2:00.519 320 28 Run
3 LMP1 3 #11 Smp Racing Mikhail Aleshin 6 LAPS 314 33 Run
4 LMP1 4 #1 Rebellion Racing Andre Lotterer 9 LAPS 311 32 Run
5 LMP2 1 #36 Signatech Alpine Matmut Nicolas Lapierre 15 LAPS 305 30 Run
6 LMP1 5 #3 Rebellion Racing Nathanael Berthon 24.185 305 36 Out
7 LMP2 2 #38 Jackie Chan Dc Racing Stephane Richelmi 16 LAPS 304 30 Run
8 LMP2 3 #28 Tds Racing François Perrodo 17 LAPS 303 30 Run
9 LMP2 4 #30 Duqueine Engineering Romain Dumas 18 LAPS 302 30 Run
10 LMP2 5 #22 United Autosports Filipe Albuquerque 19.747 302 31 Run
11 LMP2 6 #48 Idec Sport Paul Loup Chatin 1:23.311 302 31 In
12 LMP2 7 #26 G-Drive Racing Jean-Eric Vergne 19 LAPS 301 30 Run
13 LMP2 8 #39 Graff Jonathan Hirschi 20 LAPS 300 31 Out
14 LMP2 9 #23 Panis Barthez Competition William Stevens 17.434 300 30 Run
15 LMP2 10 #29 Racing Team Nederland Nyck De Vries 24 LAPS 296 31 Run
16 LMP2 11 #25 Algarve Pro Racing Andrea Pizzitola 25 LAPS 295 31 Run
17 LMP2 12 #20 High Class Racing Mathias Beche 28.002 295 32 Run
18 LMP2 13 #50 Larbre Competition Romano Ricci 26 LAPS 294 32 Run
19 LMP2 14 #43 Rlr M Sport/Tower Events Arjun Maini 28 LAPS 292 31 Run
20 LMP2 15 #47 Cetilar Villorba Corse Andrea Belicchi 29 LAPS 291 33 Out
21 LMP2 16 #34 Inter Europol Competition Nigel Moore 31 LAPS 289 29 Run
22 LMP2 17 #32 United Autosports Alex Brundle 34 LAPS 286 31 Run
23 GTE-Pro 1 #63 Corvette Racing Antonio Garcia 36 LAPS 284 20 Run
24 GTE-Pro 2 #51 Af Corse James Calado 11.443 284 21 Run
25 GTE-Pro 3 #91 Porsche GT Team Gianmaria Bruni 37 LAPS 283 19 Run
26 GTE-Pro 4 #93 Porsche GT Team Nick Tandy 16.356 283 19 Run
27 GTE-Pro 5 #68 Ford Chip Ganassi Team Usa Sebastien Bourdais 1:25.732 283 19 Run
28 GTE-Pro 6 #67 Ford Chip Ganassi Team Uk Andy Priaulx 1:59.089 283 20 Run
29 GTE-Pro 7 #69 Ford Chip Ganassi Team Usa Ryan Briscoe 38 LAPS 282 21 Run
30 GTE-Pro 8 #66 Ford Chip Ganassi Team Uk Billy Johnson 2:03.433 282 20 Run
31 GTE-Pro 9 #89 Risi Competizione Oliver Jarvis 39 LAPS 281 22 Run
32 GTE-Pro 10 #82 Bmw Team Mtek Augusto Farfus 2:02.610 281 20 Run
33 GTE-Pro 11 #94 Porsche GT Team Mathieu Jaminet 40 LAPS 280 21 Out
34 GTE-Pro 12 #92 Porsche GT Team Kevin Estre 42 LAPS 278 20 Run
35 GTE-Pro 13 #81 Bmw Team Mtek Martin Tomczyk 43 LAPS 277 21 Run
36 GT-AM 1 #85 Keating Motorsports Felipe Fraga 1:23.364 277 19 Run
37 GT-AM 2 #56 Team Project 1 Egidio Perfetti 44 LAPS 276 19 Run
38 GT-AM 3 #84 Jmw Motorsport Wei Lu 1:00.584 276 19 Run
39 GT-AM 4 #61 Clearwater Racing Luis Perez Companc 1:55.798 276 19 Run
40 GT-AM 5 #77 Dempsey – Proton Racing Matt Campbell 45 LAPS 275 20 Run
41 GT-AM 6 #62 Weathertech Racing Robert Smith 1:27.327 275 21 Run
42 GT-AM 7 #57 Car Guy Racing Côme Ledogar 2:18.570 275 20 Run
43 GT-AM 8 #78 Proton Competition Louis Prette 46 LAPS 274 20 Run
44 GT-AM 9 #54 Spirit Of Race Giancarlofisichella 2:33.023 274 20 Run
45 GT-AM 10 #86 Gulf Racing Thomas Preining 47 LAPS 273 23 Run
46 GT-AM 11 #83 Kessel Racing Rahel Frey 48 LAPS 272 20 Run
47 GT-AM 12 #70 Mr Racing Olivier Beretta 49 LAPS 271 23 Run
48 GT-AM 13 #90 Tf Sport Charlie Eastwood 50 LAPS 270 21 Run
49 GT-AM 14 #60 Kessel Racing Andrea Piccini 52 LAPS 268 21 Run
50 GTE-Pro 14 #97 Aston Martin Racing Alexander Lynn 53 LAPS 267 21 Run
51 LMP2 18 #31 Dragonspeed Pastor Maldonado 75 LAPS 245 24 Stop
52 LMP2 19 #37 Jackie Chan Dc Racing Ricky Taylor 121 LAPS 199 21 In
53 LMP1 6 #17 Smp Racing Egor Orudzhev 157 LAPS 163 16 Stop
54 LMP1 7 #4 Bykolles Racing Team Tom Dillmann 2:35:00.370 163 22 Stop
55 LMP2 20 #49 Arc Bratislava – Kaneko Racing Miro Konopka 160 LAPS 160 19 In
56 GTE-Pro 15 #71 Af Corse Miguel Molina 180 LAPS 140 11 In
57 GTE-Pro 16 #95 Aston Martin Racing Marco Sørensen 188 LAPS 132 9 Stop
58 GT-AM 15 #98 Aston Martin Racing Pedro Lamy 233 LAPS 87 7 Stop
59 GTE-Pro 17 #64 Corvette Racing Marcel Fässler 238 LAPS 82 5 Stop
60 GT-AM 16 #88 Dempsey – Proton Racing Matteo Cairoli 241 LAPS 79 9 In
61 LMP1 8 #10 Dragonspeed Renger Van Der Zande 244 LAPS 76 14 Stop