Le Mans Hour Eighteen:
The #75 Prospeed Porsche lost a door during a pitstop, which cost the team a little time before they got going. Out front in GTE PRO, Stefan Mucke had closed up to Fisichella in the #51 Ferrari, and made the made the move on the AF Corse driver on the approach to the first Mulsanne chicane, and then proceeded to break away from the Ferrari once more.
Meanwhile, the #75 Prospeed Porsche of Emmanuel Collard had ground to a halt, shedding a tyre and wheel on the exit of the second Mulsanne chicane.
Marc Gene was lapping quicker than Mark Webber, and soon lapped him again at the start/finish straight. This meant the Aussie was now two laps down on the leading Audi, with the third place car (Audi #2) six seconds per lap quicker than the Porsche driver, albeit five minutes behind.
Bruno Senna was now in the #97 Aston Martin, the PRO leading car, in place of Stefan Mucke. Senna was now less than a half dozen seconds clear of Bruni in the #51 Ferrari. Bruni was drawing ever closer to Senna, and the AF Corse driver seemed determined to take the GTE PRO lead. The Italian had a scare at the first Mulsanne chicane with the #90 8Star Ferrari cutting the #51 off, but fortunately it did not cost him much time, and he continued to chase down Senna.
The two began to dogfight down the straight, and as the hour draws to a close Bruni takes the lead at the Mulsanne Corner.
So the #1 Audi of Marc Gene leads in LMP1, while Mark Shulzhitskiy is in control of the LMP2 class. The Ferrari of Bruni leads in GTE PRO, while the #95 Danish Aston Martin leads in GTE AM.