The 2018 24 Hours of Le Mans at Circuit de la Sarthe has reached the halfway point. Here are 24 numbers of interest as the race enters its second half.
(Click here for the recap of the race thru the first six hours.)
By The Numbers – 24 Hours of Le Mans Thru 12 Hours
1 – It took all but one turn for the first incident of the race to occur. Three-time race winner Andre Lotterer made contact with Sebastien Buemi in the first turn of the first lap, which dislodged the No. 1 car’s front bodywork and caused the bodywork to come off moments later in contact with another car. Lotterer also made contact with Ben Hanley moments later, sending Hanley into a spin as well. Lotterer pitted for new bodywork and has run in the top five much of the race.
3 – There have been at least three cars with lengthy pit stops due to contact damage, two from the LMP1 category and one from the LMGTE-Am class, though only one has been officially retired. The No. 4 ByKolles Racing Team ENSO CLM P1/01 crashed during the fifth hour, while the No. 17 SMP Racing BR Engineering BR1-AER – which ran in the top three for much of the first eight hours – crashed a couple hours later. Paul Dalla Lana, driving the No. 98 Aston Martin Vantage GTE, crashed head-on into a tire barrier in the Porsche Curves during the seventh hour, marking the only official retirement.
3 – Three of the four class leaders have at least one French-born driver.
3:17.658 – The fastest lap of the race was set in the No. 8 Toyota Gazoo Racing TS050 Hybrid, at 3 minutes, 17.658 seconds.
4 – The lead Toyota Hybrids hold a lead of more than four laps over the third-place running No. 3 Rebellion.
5 – The top LMP2 car, the No. 26 G-Drive Racing Oreca 07-Gibson, runs fifth overall.
6 – All six of the drivers from the Nos. 7 and 8 Toyota Gazoo Racing TS050 Hybrids have led: Mike Conway, Kamui Kobayashi, Jose Maria Lopez, Sebastien Buemi, Kazuki Nakajima and Fernando Alonso.
7 – The top seven cars in the LMGTE-Pro category are all running on the lead lap.
8 – The last time the No. 8 car won the 24 Hours of Le Mans was the 2006 race, who by Audi drivers Frank Biela, Marco Werner and Emanuele Pirro.
18 – Number of pit stops made by the lead No. 7 Toyota Gazoo Racing TS050 Hybrid.
24 – The No. 92 Porsche 911 RSR is running 24th overall and first in the LMGTE-Pro class.
26 – The No. 26 G-Drive Racing Oreca 07-Gibson has led almost the entire way in the LMP2 class, with Jean-Eric Vergne, Andrea Pizzitola and Roman Rusinov all spending time up front in the car, which has led at every one-hour increment through 12 hours.
47 – There have been two safety car periods for a total of approximately 47 minutes.
59 – Fifty-nine of the 60 cars that started the race at 3 p.m. local time Saturday are still officially in the race. That’s still on pace to break the record of most finishers, 48, in 2017.
60 – Sebastien Buemi served a stop-and-go for 60 seconds for violating the slow zone speed limit. That put him behind, but not out, of the race.
65 – Number of laps completed by the No. 4 ByKolles Racing Team ENSO CLM P1/01 – the first car to retire from the race. The No. 4 crashed during the fifth hour of competition, with Dominik Kraihamer behind the wheel, while attempting to overtake a GT car. Also competing in the car was Tom Dillmann; Oliver Webb did not compete in the race.
67.298 – Length of time, in seconds, separating the top two cars overall.
77 – The leader of the LMGTE-Am class is the No. 77 Dempsey-Proton Racing Porsche 911 RSR, co-driven by Matt Campbell, Julien Andlauer and Christian Ried. The trio has led at every one-hour interval since the end of the third hour.
80 – The speed limit in the slow zones, an area in which drivers are required to slow down due to a particular incident, is 80 kilometers per hour.
107 – If the class leaders in LMGTE-Pro and LMGTE-Am hold on to win, Porsche will leave Circuit de la Sarthe with two more class victories in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, boosting its all-time class total to 107 wins.
195 – Number of laps completed by the overall leading No. 7 Toyota Hybrid. That’s also the same number of laps led combined by the two Toyota Hybrids.
720 – 720 minutes down, 720 minutes to go.
883 – Total number of pit stops by all cars in the race.
2,657.07 – Kilometers completed by overall leaders, which is just short of being on pace to break the record of 5,410.713 kilometers, set in 2010.
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