LeMans 24 hour 7: #7 Toyota and #8 Toyota trade lead

The #8 Toyota is now in front

Seven hours in and the #7 Toyota still leads over the sister #8 Toyota in the 24 Hours of LeMans classic but the #8 Toyota will take the lead in a few minutes when the #7 pits.

For the first 15 minutes or so of this hour, the safety car neutralised the race. Both Toyotas came in during that time, with Fernando Alonso handing #8 Toyota over to Kazuki Nakajima and Jose Maria Lopez replacing Kamui Kobayashi in #7 Toyota. Both had to wait for the safety car trains to pass the pitlane exit, meaning the gap increased to around a minute.

The lead Toyota is still over one lap ahead of the 3rd place car – the #3 Rebellion with Sergey Sirotkin Berthon at the wheel.

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The #92 Porsche has taken the lead and has a 3-sec. lead over the #51 Ferrari. The first major incident of the race, as the #64 Corvette with Marcel Fassler behind the wheel came in contact with the #88 GTE Am Porsche, sending the Corvette heavily into the wall at the Porsche curves, taking heavy damage on both ends.

Naturally, the safety car was called and unlike the first safety car, the field was split behind two safety cars, with the first five cars being separated from the rest of the field.

Hour 7 Standings (Lead will change when #7 Toyota pits)