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Ah, I thought qualies were cancelled as well like in New York and it'd be a three week tournament, for some reason. Misunderstood that

Order of play for the first five days is going to be a matter of guessing, where players have to try and show up in a random court to see who they'll play? Or what?

#1 Rebellion going backwards into the garage

Van Uitert is going balls out, 3:27.5 now. Giedo van der Garde is the only other LMP2 driver who's had a single lap under 3:29 (barely), under 3:30 is still very rare. What a stint, such a shame they had the oil issue.

After half an hour in the box, Van Uitert comes out with a 3:28.2 in his first flying lap after the stop...the fastest lap in the race (LMP2) by almost three quarters of a second Wow.

Oil problem for the #32 United Autosports and with Job van Uitert coming in, their chance for the win is now definitely over. That's such a shame, they were having a terrific battle with teammates of the #22 United Autosports for the win Also the #98 Aston Martin with Paul Dalla Lana in with problems. They've been in from the lead for 6+ laps now, so once again Dalla Lana has the pace to win, but runs into trouble.

Weathertech thanks to Toni Vilander not paying enough attention and Nyck de Vries not having the patience to wait a few more seconds to pass him. Too bad, that was an unfortunate incident for both.

With the #63 Weathertech and #21 Dragonspeed retiring, that's 10 cars that have undergone the Marker of Doom treatment.

Usually it'd be Happy Hour by now, but you know, September. Around an hour to go I think for it to slowly start getting light again.

More than 10 minutes later and now the #1 Rebellion has taken second place from #7, which already lost the lead to the #8.

And there is the #7, backwards into the box for checks and repairs.

Possible engine problems for the so far absolutely dominant #7 Toyota, which isn't going faster than 300km/h on the straights.

The car stopped on track, the driver exited the car and phone called his team. A member of the team met the driver and supplied a component which the driver fitted to the car. The car was then able to continue. During the hearing the team representative admitted to these facts. He also stated that the car would not have been able to continue without this fix. This is a breach of Art. 12.3.9 of 24 Hours of Le Mans Supplementary Regulations. The penalty in the Regulations is disqualification. That's it for the #37. Fighting for the win for a good amount of hours, but they had already fallen far behind after spending more than an hour in pit lane.

And now ByKolles is officially done: the garage door is closed.

7th and 9th in their debut year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ByKolles_Racing Today I Learned Christijan Albers apparently has raced at Le Mans. Huh.

Rain!

Wow, the #37 is standing in the dark and driver Gabriel Aubry is out. There goes the LMP2 leader

Or not, Spengler wants to get back in the car His rear wing suddenly broke off and he went off into the gravel, but the crash itself luckily wasn't that hard.

That's it for ByKolles.

Pescarolo gave them a bit of a fight sometimes. You know, a bit. Not much, but a bit. They were at least not struggling to stay in the top-20 of the second-tier class

I don't think JOTA deserves that title. They were not great, but in LMP2 they definitely showed to be a strong team with a good number of podium finishes and the lead at this very moment. They nearly won the overall thing while driving an LMP2 car a few years ago

So far the Toyota's are half a lap apart, the Rebellions are a lap behind and the ByKolles is already 10 laps behind. Jackie Chan DC and G-Drive in the lead lap in the LMP2, two AF Corse Ferrari's and an Aston Martin within 15 seconds in the lead in the GTE Pro.

Even more so when the resulting winner is someone who lost a whole lot of time due to failing in the echelons, but then clawed it back bit by bit with attacking while basically having nobody to help him (besides De la Cruz - a little bit - and the opponent's team ), followed by going into the do-or-die time trial like an absolute madman and managing to just not collapse at all

Only one way this disastrous Tour of Luxembourg could end (or well, not 'end' yet ).

You mean that one punch Dumoulin did in the first real mountains? That was not their decision at all