Three hours to go in the LeMans24 and it's still all to play for between Ferrari and Toyota: WEC
The race for the overall win took a fresh twist in the 19th hour when the leading #51 Ferrari 499P failed to get away immediately after its pitstop as Antonio Giovinazzi handed over to Alessandro Pier Guidi, requiring a power cycle to get going again.
Buemi handed over to Brendon Hartley at the next round of stops, costing the Toyota ground as Pier Guidi stayed on board the Ferrari, with the two cars then circulating around 20 seconds apart. The gap between the two leaders shrunk to as little as 1.4 seconds with four hours to go before Calado started to stretch his legs at the head of the field again, and the 21-hour mark, Calado was 14 seconds ahead of Hartley.
The #93 Peugeot 9X8 was fifth, four laps down, after taking a nose change as its last pitstop, while the best of the Porsche 963s, the #5 machine, was running sixth ahead of the delayed #50 Ferrari. Albert Costa had the distinctive yellow-and-green ORECA around 18 seconds ahead of the #41 WRT machine of Robert Kubica.
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