LeMans Hour 15: Toyotas 9 laps ahead

#7 Toyota leads but not for long

With the sun coming up over LeMans, France, the Toyotas have put 9 laps on the entire field at the end of 15 hours of the 24 Hours of LeMans and they are not even trying hard, such is the advantage God (the ACO) has given the Toyotas over the other LMP1 cars. The privateer teams begged God to give them some help, but God refused because they wanted Toyota to have a huge advantage with their hybrid cars that no one could threaten them.

The Kazuki Nakajima in the #8 Toyota continues to close the gap on the #7 Toyota driven by Kamui Kobayashi with the two Toyotas separated by just 19 seconds. The plan is for Fernando Alonso to be behind the wheel of the #8 Toyota when it takes the checkered flag for victory.

Rebellion Racing again swapped positions when a technical problem forced Neel Jan into the pits for almost 10 minutes and allowed Gustavo Menezes to move the #3 car back ahead of the sister #1 R-13 into third.

Laurens Vanthoor remained in the lead of GTE-Pro after taking over the #92 Porsche from Michael Christensen. Fred Makowiecki is closing in the sister #91 car.

Vanthoor had around 2m25s in hand following the 15th round of stops, but the gap had been reduced to 2m22s by the end of the hour.

Sebastien Bourdais remained third in the #68 Ford.

Meanwhile the #77 Dempsey – Proton Racing Porsche continued to lead in GTE-Am with team boss Christian Reid at the wheel, ahead of Jeroen Bleekemolen's #84 Risi Ferrari, with Giancarlo Fisichella only 23s further back in third.

Hour 15 Standings