LMS/ILMC - Silverstone 1000kms - Hour 1 Its bright, but cloudy and - astonishingly we have a crowd of significant proportions! 1000km equals 170 laps of the Arena circuit and we have a light shower is predicted towards the end of the race. Bernhard spins at Becketts, losing grip as he goes over some oil dry (as does the #30 MIK Lola Judd - both rejoin in their allotted grid positions but Becketts on lap one could be interesting! Bernhard has a poor start and Davidson gets the jump on the #8 car, looks to challenge McNish into Copse - No joy there though, the Scot makes it count and the field pours through a cloud of oil dry with no real drama. Rob Bell has had a flier in GT2 - 2.5 seconds ahead of Vilander after lap 1 Fernandez is making his way through the GT2 field - he gains 13 places on lap one. Davidson is pressurising McNish, this pair getting away a little. 12:04 - Melo passes Lieb for third in GT2 - Zacchia leads FLM he'd clear of a three car battle for second. The Pegasus Courage is in trouble - very smokey and looking terminal. It's in the garage. It is a confirmed retirement Jonny Kane is getting away from the pack in LMP2 - 11th overall and 5 seconds clear of Pla in the second placed Quifel ASM GZ - 1:50s for the Strakka HPD against 1:52s for the rest. 12:07 - All four diesels are in the 1:45s, the chasing petrol LMP1s in the 1:47s. Mucke is up to fifth ahead of Belicchi, Fernandez meanwhile is up to 20th place. Davidson is pushing very hard indeed but McNish is having none of it - The 908 gets alongside into the complex but McNish toughs it out and they complete lap 6 in the same close formation. Moreau and Lahaye are making their way into the LMP2 pack from their back of the grid starts. Both are into the top 20 by 12:10. The lead battle meanwhile is a real dogfight - Davidson pushing very, very hard in his quest to find a way by the leader. The race director has his eye on the Peugeot "Car #1 not respecting track limits - Davidson though, does it again as the pair go by the new pits - he jinks to the inside, across the white line and through the dust and finds space where there really was none - Davidson makes it stick and Peugeot lead. The Oreca 908 is up to third as Bernhard hits trouble in traffic and has an off track moment. The KSM Lola has a moment with an FLM car, #39 pits an a wheel is changed but the crew are also checking the rear suspension and the car is into the garage. The suspension is damaged and the car needs a new toe link. Cocker is looking for a way by Belicchi in a developing battle of the Lola's. 12:19 Up front though Davidson is looking to get away - 1:45.117 on lap 11 puts him 1.8 seconds ahead of McNish. The JMW Aston has lost the lead in GT2 but the top three are very close together indeed - Vilander leads Bell and Melo. The #31 RLR MG Lola is in the gravel at The Vale - Barry Gates at the wheel - the car is recovered and pits. Belicchi's left rear legality box is loose - contact from the closely contending Cocker? Jani is closing in on this pair too as they make their way through a huge GT2 gaggle. Zacchia has stretched the lead in FLM to 12 seconds over Hollings by 12:26 12:23 - The lead gap is up to almost 6 seconds with Lapierre closing in now on McNish. But McNish is in trouble - #7 is crawling - "No drive" - The car stops and McNish is out of the race - a real shock, Ralf Juttner believes the issue may be a broken input shaft - either way we're down to a single R15. Cocker is up to 5th ahead of Belicchi. Case has contact with the Larbre Saleen - the Lola man's fault it seems, #30 spins but rejoins. The Beechdean Mansell Ginetta Zytek has had an early stop - a left front puncture. A similar issue puts the Hankook Ferrari into the pits soon afterwards - Farnbacher in for Simonsen and the car rejoins. Bernhard has a very poor lap at around 12:38 - a 1:55 looks like he's had a problem in Sector 2 - He's back up to speed though. Kane is up into 8th overall and in complete control of LMP2 at the moment 50 seconds clear of Pla! Olivier though is pulling away from the pursuing Ebbesvik. Cocker pits for what looks like a routine stoop, Mowlem follows suit soon afterwards, as does the #12 Rebellion Lola. The #45 FLM car looks like a retirement out on track, Nicolas de Crem out of the car. - Not so - the car finally gets to the pit. Contact between the leader and Thomas Erdos through Copse. Ebbesvik, Mucke and Belicchi are the latest routine pit stoppers. Davidson pits - 27 laps in at 12:47 - no tyres and its a 53 second stop. Moreau is up to third in LMP2, albeit helped a little by a couple of pit stopping rivals. Lapierre pits after 28 laps - Sarrazin takes over.
There's contact between the #007 Lola Aston of Fernandez and Maurice Basso in the JMB FLM car - both spin but will rejoin. Cocker taps Prost into a spin - #11 continues unscathed. The #78 BMW has made good progress up through the GT2 order up to fifth #007 is in trouble in the pits - the car has failed to fire after its pit stop and is in the garage. It rejoins after around 5 minute's delay. 12:56 Rob Bell is the first of the GT2 front runners to pit after 27 laps - Turner into the car and tyres plus fuel. Positions after 60 minutes
1 1 LMP1 Team Peugeot Total Peugeot 908 HDi-FAP DAVIDSON Anthony 32 laps
2 4 LMP1 Team Oreca Matmut Peugeot 908 HDi FAP SARRAZIN Stephane +49 seconds
3 8 LMP1 Audi Sport Team Joest Audi R15 TDI BERNHARD Timo +4.372
4 009 LMP1 Aston Martin Racing Lola Aston Martin MUCKE Stephan +33.838
5 11 LMP1 Drayson Racing Lola B10/60 Coupé-Judd COCKER Jonny +1:19.288
6 12 LMP1 Rebellion Racing Lola B10/60 Coupé-Rebellion PROST Nicolas +1:31.516
7 20 LMP1 Team LNT Ginetta-Zytek 09S MOWLEM Johnny 1:46.319
8 008 LMP1 Signature Lola Aston Martin RAGUES Pierre 30 laps
9 42 LMP2 Strakka Racing HPD ARX-01 KANE Jonny 30 laps
10 5 LMP1 Beechdean Mansell Ginetta-Zytek 09S MANSELL Greg 30 laps
11 13 LMP1 Rebellion Racing Lola B10/60 Coupé-Rebellion BOULLION Jean-Christophe 30 laps
12 40 LMP2 Quifel - ASM Team Ginetta-Zytek 09S PLA Olivier 30 laps
13 24 LMP2 Oak Racing Pescarolo-Judd LAHAYE Matthieu 30 laps
14 41 LMP2 Team Bruichladdich Ginetta-Zytek 09S EBBESVIK Thor-Christian 30 laps
15 35 LMP2 Oak Racing Pescarolo-Judd MOREAU Guillaume 30 laps
16 25 LMP2 RML Lola HPD Coupé ERDOS Tommy 29 laps
17 30 LMP2 Racing Box Lola B09 Coupé-Judd CASE Lorenzo 29 laps
18 29 LMP2 Racing Box Lola B09 Coupé-Judd PERAZZINI Piergiuseppe 29 laps
19 007 LMP1 Aston Martin Racing Lola Aston Martin FERNANDEZ Adrian 28 laps
20 27 LMP2 Race Performance Radical SR9 - Judd FREY Michel 28 laps
21 47 LMP2 Hope Polevision Racing Formula Le Mans ZACCHIA Steve 28 laps
22 48 LMP2 Hope Polevision Racing Formula Le Mans HOLLINGS Charlie 28 laps
23 44 LMP2 Dams Formula Le Mans-Oreca 09 HUGHES Warren 28 laps
24 43 LMP2 Dams Formula Le Mans-Oreca 09 CICOGNANI Alessandro 28 laps
25 95 LMGT2 AF Corse Ferrari F430 GT VILANDER Toni 28 laps
26 92 LMGT2 JMW Motorsport Aston Martin V8 Vantage TURNER Darren 27 laps
27 96 LMGT2 AF Corse Ferrari F430 GT MELO Jaime 27 laps
28 75 LMGT2 Prospeed Competition Porsche 997 GT3 RSR WESTBROOK Richard 27 laps
29 78 LMGT2 BMW Team Schnitzer BMW M3 WERNER Dirk 27 laps
30 77 LMGT2 Team Felbermayr Proton Porsche 997 GT3 RSR LIEB Marc 27 laps
31 91 LMGT2 CRS Racing Ferrari F430 GT MULLEN Tim 27 laps
32 94 LMGT2 AF Corse Ferrari F430 GT RUSSO Matias 27 laps
33 90 LMGT2 CRS Racing Ferrari F430 GT KAFFER Pierre 27 laps
34 88 LMGT2 Team Felbermayr Proton Porsche 997 GT3 RSR RAGGINGER Martin 27 laps
35 85 LMGT2 Spyker Squadron Spyker C8 Laviolette GT2-R DUMBRECK Peter 27 laps
36 76 LMGT2 IMSA Performance Matmut Porsche 997 GT3 RSR NARAC Raymond 27 laps
37 50 LMGT1 Larbre Competition Saleen S7-R GARDEL Gabriele 27 laps
38 31 LMP2 RLR msport MG Lola EX265-AER GATES Barry 01min 27 laps
39 89 LMGT2 Hankook Team Farnbacher Ferrari F430 GT FARNBACHER Dominik 26 laps
40 99 LMGT2 Gulf Team First Lamborghin LP560 GIROIX Fabien 26 laps
41 46 LMP2 JMB Racing Formula Le Mans-Oreca- 10 BASSO Maurice 25 laps
42 39 LMP2 KSM Lola B08/47 - Judd de POURTALES Jean 22 laps
43 45 LMP2 Boutsen Energy Racing Formula le Mans-Oreca 09 de CREM Nicolas 21 laps
44 7 LMP1 Audi Sport Team Joest Audi R15 TDI McNISH Allan 15 laps Retired
45 36 LMP2 Pegasus Racing Courage-Oreca LC75 - AER SCHELL Julien 2 laps Retired | 
