At 12:11 the #6 Toyota pitted and left nine minutes later with a new bonnet and side. It remains in third place while the #8 Audi just behind has more new brake discs. At 12:42, the #2 Porsche 919 Hybrid driven by Neel Jani refuelled without changing tyres. A minute later, Kazuki Nakajima took over from Anthony Davidson in the #5 Toyota in P1. Mark Webber in the #1 Porsche 919 is making up lost ground and is now in sixteenth position.
No change in LM P2: the #36 Alpine A460 still leads, with Stéphane Richelmi at the wheel. The #48 Oreca 03R fielded by Murphy Prototypes resumed the race after an hour in the garage for electrical repairs.
In LM GTE Pro, the #68 Ford GT by Ford Chip Ganassi Racing made a routine pitstop at 12:50. Dirk Müller replaced Joey Hand.
No change in LM GTE Am. Stuck in sixth gear, the #98 Aston Martin Vantage stopped in the Dunlop chicane. Mathias Lauda managed to squeeze an extra few metres but ground to a halt again. The #60 Ferrari was hit with a drive-through for refuelling without switching off the engine. It was signalled slow in track and had to change the front splitter.
LM P1
1 - Toyota Gazoo Racing (Toyota TS050 Hybrid #) Sébastien Buemi - Anthony Davidson - Kazuki Nakajima
2 - Porsche Team (#2 Porsche 919 Hybrid) Romain Dumas - Marc Lieb - Neel Jani
3 - Toyota Gazoo Racing (#6 Toyota TS050 Hybrid) Mike Conway - Stéphane Sarrazin - Kamui Kobayashi
LM P2
1 - Signatech Alpine (#36 Alpine A460-Nissan) Gustavo Menezes - Nicolas Lapierre - Stéphane Richelmi
2 - G-Drive Racing (Oreca 05-Nissan n°26) Roman Rusinov - Will Stevens - René Rast
3 - SMP Racing (BR Engineering BR01-Nissan n°37) Vitaly Petrov - Viktor Shaytar - Kirill Ladygin
LM GTE Pro
1 - Risi Competizione (#82 Ferrari 488 GTE) Giancarlo Fisichella - Toni Vilander - Matteo Malucelli
2 - Ford Chip Ganassi Team USA (#68 Ford GT) Joey Hand - Dirk Müller - Sébastien Bourdais
3 - Ford Chip Ganassi Team USA (# Ford GT) Ryan Briscoe - Richard Westbrook - Scott Dixon
LM GTE Am
1 - Scuderia Corsa (Ferrari 458 Italia GT2 #) Bill Sweedler - Townsend Bell - Jeff Segal
2 - Abu Dhabi-Proton Racing (#88 Porsche 911 RSR) Khaled Al Qubaisi - Patrick Long - David Heinemeier Hansson
3 - AF Corse (#83 Ferrari 458 Italia GT2 ) François Perrodo - Emmanuel Collard - Rui Águas
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