LeMans 22 Hours: Kristensen 2 hours from record 9th win

Tom Kristensen, Allan McNish and Loic Duval are just two hours away from a dominant Le Mans victory and for Kristensen it would mean a record 9th overall win, a record unlikely to ever be broken.

Kristensen holds a one-lap lead over Anthony Davidson's 2-seond per lap slower #8 Toyota.

The #8 Toyota has lost third to Oliver Jarvis' #3 Audi but the fight is close.

The fight for GTE Pro honors continues to rage; Darren Turner having taken the lead in the #97 Aston Martin after making a fuel-only stop during the hour, to lead over Richard Lietz replacing Marc Lieb in the #92 Porsche car, which also had a fresh set of tires fitted.

With two hours remaining, Lietz is eight seconds behind Turner, but will be able to go to the end without another driver change, unlike his rival.

Bertrand Baguette's lead at the head of the LMP2 standings is now over two minutes. His OAK Racing teammate Olivier Pla continues to run second – as he has done since early this morning – while Mike Conway holds third in the #26 G-Drive/Delta-ADR ORECA-Nissan that led in the opening hour.

22 Hour Standings

Pos Cl No. Car Drivers Laps Behind
1. P1 #2 Audi Kristensen/McNish/Duval 321 +0.000s
2. P1 #8 Toyota Davidson/Sarrazin/Buemi 320 +1 Lap
3. P1 #3 Audi Gene/Jarvis/di Grassi 319 +2Laps
4. P1 #7 Toyota Wurz/Lapierre/Nakajima 319 +3.257s
5. P1 #1 Audi Lotterer/Treluyer/Fassler 311 +10Laps
6. P1 #21 HPD Leventis/Kane/Watts 305 +16Laps
7. P2 #35 Morgan Baguette/Plowman/Gonzalez 303 +18Laps
8. P2 #24 Morgan Pla/Brundle/H Hansson 302 +19Laps
9. P2 #26 Oreca Rusinov/Martin/Conway 301 +20Laps
10. P2 #42 Zytek Krumm/Mardenborough/Ordonez 301 +2m50.610s
11. P2 #49 Oreca P-Companc/Kaffer/Minassian 299 +22Laps
12. P2 #46 Oreca Thiriet/Badey/Martin 298 +23Laps
13. P2 #43 Morgan Gachnang/Mailleux/Lombard 295 +26Laps
14. P2 #48 Oreca Hartley/Chandhok/Patterson 293 +28Laps
15. P2 #38 Zytek Dolan/Turvey/Luhr 293 +32.238s
16. P2 #36 Alpine Ragues/Panciatici/Gommendy 291 +30Laps
17. P2 #34 Oreca Frey/Niederhauser/Bleekemolen 290 +31Laps
18. GTP #97 Aston Mucke/Turner/Dumbreck 290 +7.624s
19. GTP #92 Porsche Lieb/Lietz/Dumas 290 +17.800s
20. GTP #91 Porsche Bergmeister/Pilet/Bernhard 290 +1m35.931s
21. GTP #71 Ferrari Beretta/Kobayashi/Vilander 287 +34Laps
22. GTP #74 Corvette Gavin/Milner/Westbrook 286 +35Laps
23. GTP #73 Corvette Garcia/Magnussen/Taylor 286 +1m58.571s
24. GTP #51 Ferrari Bruni/Fisichella/Malucelli 286 +2m19.615s
25. P2 #41 Zytek Rossi/K-Smith/Lux 283 +38Laps
26. GTP #53 SRT Farnbacher/Goossens/Dalziel 281 +40Laps
27. GTA #76 Porsche Narac/Vernay/Bourret 281 +20.973s
28. GTA #55 Ferrari Perazzini/O'Young/Case 280 +41Laps
29. GTA #61 Ferrari Gerber/Griffin/Cioci 280 +1m50.506s
30. GTA #77 Porsche Dempsey/Foster/Long 280 +2m59.758s
31. GTA #50 Corvette Bornhauser/Canal/Taylor 278 +43Laps
32. GTA #67 Porsche Gibon/Milesi/Henzler 277 +44Laps
33. GTA #96 Aston Goethe/Campbell-Walter/Hall 277 +1m48.496s
34. GTP #93 SRT Wittmer/Kendall/Bomarito 277 +2m36.777s
35. P2 #40 Oreca Dagoneau/Downs/Younessi 276 +45Laps
36. GTP #66 Ferrari Bertolini/Faisal/Qubaisi 276 +1m41.258s
37. GTA #88 Porsche Ried/Roda/Ruberti 274 +47Laps
38. GTA #75 Porsche Collard/Perrodo/Crubile 274 +2m04.008s
39. P1 #12 Lola Prost/Jani/Heidfeld 273 +48Laps
40. P1 #13 Lola Beche/Belicchi/Cheng 271 +50Laps
41. GTA #81 Ferrari Potolicchio/Aguas/Bright 270 +51Laps
42. P2 #39 Lola Porta/Brandela/Raffin 257 +64Laps
43. P2 #45 Morgan Nicolet/Merlin/Mondolot 246 +75Laps
44. GTA #70 Corvette MacNeil/Rodrigues/Dumas 243 +78Laps
45. P2 #33 HPD Tucker/Franchitti/Briscoe 240 +81Laps
46. GTP #99 Aston Makowiecki/Senna/Bell 248 Retired
47. P2 #47 Morgan Imperatori/Howson/Tung 241 Retired
48. GTP #98 Aston Dalla Lana/Lamy/Auberlen 221 Retired
49. P2 #32 Lotus Holzer/Kraihamer/Charouz 219 Retired
50. P2 #30 Lola Mowlem/Burgess/Hirschi 153 Retired
51. GTA #54 Ferrari Mallegol/Bachelier/Blank 147 Retired
52. GTA #57 Ferrari Krohn/Jonsson/Mediani 111 Retired
53. P2 #25 Oreca Graves/Hamilton/Nakano 101 Retired
54. P2 #28 Lola Giroix/Haezebrouck/Ihara 22 Retired
55. P2 #31 Lotus Weeda/Rossiter/Bouchut 17 Retired
56. GTA #95 Aston Simonsen/Nygaard/Poulsen 2 Retired