Le Mans 24 Hours, Hour 18

Audi #2 having to wait at the end of the pit lane with lights on red - quite some smoke from the car.

8:04 - Safety Car in this lap.

Peugeots #7 and #8 pit - driver changes and full service.

8:07 Green flag! Audi on the end of the queue behind the Safety Car as the Peugeots are waiting at the pit exit. 

Da Rocha spins and hits the barrier at Indianapolis. Frederic Da Rocha pushed back, only to return just in front of a couple of Peugeot 908's that can only just avoid him!

OAK Racing #35 now in the pit and pushed back into the pit box.

Audi vs Peugeot battle is getting more intense. Just hope they won't take any innocent bystanders with them if it all goes wrong.

8:20 Slow Flying Lizards #81 (GTE Am leader) as the battle between the LM P1 diesels is getting insane.

8:23 The Lizards Porsche has stopped on the track.

Sarrazin unlapped himself once, getting his Peugeot 908 in between the #2 Audi and #9 Peugeot.

Coming out of the Porsche Curves Treluyer runs wide, around the GTE Am leader and passes Sarrazin again who had to brake. Pagenaud stuck behind the Oreca Peugeot now.

8:27 Mike Newton spun the RML HPD ARX-01d coming out of the Porsche Curves. Pits immediately after. Tyres, fuel and Ben Collins.

Treluyer moves back into the lead at the second chicane on the Mulsanne straight after going side-by-side all the way down the straight.

Sarrazin put in the fastest lap of the #8 Peugeot of the race so far and follows it up with a fastest overall sector 2.

8:41 another quick first sector time for the #8 Peugeot.

and the fastest second sector - in the meantime #81 Lizards Porsche is a confirmed retirement.

Treluyer and Pagenaud pit - slower sector for Sarrazin.

#80 Lizards Porsche into the pit box with a possible faulty injector wire.

#8 pits as the #7 Peugeot stays out for yet another lap.

End of lap 253 and the #7 Peugeot is in for a stop...as the Audi goes wide at the Porsche Curves exit again, nearly losing it.

8:51 Very slow getaway for the #7 Peugeot as the Audi comes onto the straight. Treluyer back to the lead.

Peugeot #8 has been given a one-minute stop and go penalty!

Flying Lizards #80 has returned with Lucas Luhr behind the wheel.

The Pescarolo can't be restarted, the team has pushed the car with Julien Jousse in it back into the box.

And now we have marshals crossing a hot track - wonder what Nicolas Prost thought when he saw that.

Engine cover off the Pescarolo, good news for Oreca and Rebellion. They can now make up some of the lost ground.

8:58 Sarrazin coming in for his stop-and-go penalty. John Hindhaugh reporting one of the mechanics not wearing goggles.