Renger van der Zande led at the halfway point in the #01 Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac DPi after re-taking the lead from Oliver Jarvis’s #55 Mazda just before the end of the fifth hour of the race which has run under green flags since the end of the caution period for the double GTD incident in hour four.
The #52 PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports Oreca still leads LMP2 with no immediate threat on pace though the #8 Tower Motorsport car is still well in touch.
The #3 Chevrolet Corvette C8.R with Antonio Garcia aboard heads Phillip Eng’s #25 BMW M8 GTE in GTLM with the sister #24 BMW also on the lead lap.
A topsy turvy GTD class was led again by the #16 Wright Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R with Trent Hindman now at the wheel having taken the lead from the #9 Pfaff Porsche. Up to third after a fine battle with the #12 Lexus was the #23 Here of racing Aston Martin with Ross Gunn at the wheel.
The Hardpoint EBM team meanwhile confirmed that their twice damaged #99 car has retired from the race.
