This segment of the 24‑Hours of Le Mans 2013 night‑time onboard broadcast features John Hindhaugh, Jeremy Shaw and several field reporters discussing the race’s evolving situation. The commentary highlights Tom Kristensen’s five‑lap stint and the upcoming long stint for Allan McNish, noting Audi’s tradition of keeping drivers in the car for over three hours while changing tires mid‑stint. It details the mishap involving the #8‑star Ferrari (Enzo Podliczko) that repeatedly got stuck in the gravel at Mulsanne Corner, requiring a long tow and dropping the car to the back of the field. The segment also reports on the positions of the factory‑backed Porsche entries (Mark Lieb’s #92 in third, a 50th‑anniversary 911) and the Aston Martin #99, emphasizing that the leading Porsches are now on the lead lap and poised for a battle through the race’s final hours as night gives way to daylight. The tone is live, conversational race‑reporting with occasional repetition for emphasis.
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Just finishing it off, and McNish will go back into the lead of the race to start his stint. How long will he stay out for? Let's see. That was 5 runs for Tom Kristensen, giving number 2 to Alan McNish.
Yeah, we blaggingly talk about, uh, 5 stints. Of course, they're a lot shorter than they used to be, but still well over 3 hours for TK is a pretty good, uh, a pretty good run. Enzo Pontalicio continues the dismal run for the 8-star Ferrari. He's been in and out of the gravel at Mulsanne Corner as taking a very unconventional airline into the pit lane was, I think, the 39 car.
Was it?
It's Olivier Porter. It came all the way through the Ford chicane and then cut across where the safety car would normally come in via parts of the gravel trap, the grass and everywhere else to go and see if only Frank Behler had done that. Of what went wrong. Yes. Meantime, John, we've got trouble again, I'm afraid, for the ill-starred 8-star car. Enzo Podliczko does not look like he's gonna get a second-class win in a row as we see the 42 Grease Motorsport car. Lucas Adonis at the wheel pitting in front of us, but the 8-star car stranded in the gravel at Mulsanne corner. It's a long tow out from there as well, so he's gonna be rather delayed. And already really trailing the pack right at the back of the field, I'm afraid, for the very pretty number 81, the orange car, the orange 458.
Yes, it was 3 hours and 20 minutes, 3 hours 22 minutes. It's a pretty good stint, isn't it? Right, absolutely. Loïc Duval was more than that as far as I remember. I need to go back actually and check on Loïc's stint, but I think he was 3 hours and 42 minutes if my memory serves. But they really have— I mean, this is a kind of tradition with Audi that they run their drivers for as long as they possibly can. But the drivers actually last longer than the tires do at Audi. So they changed the tires in the middle of TK's stint. And just thinking forward to Allan McNish, by the time he gets out of the car, it'll be daylight. It makes the race seem like it's nearly over, doesn't it?
Uh, into the pit lane has come the 92 Porsche, which is sitting in 3rd place for Mark Lieb. And Jeremy Shaw is down by the 50th Anniversary 911 Porsche Garage.
Routine pit stop.
Routine.
All right, yes indeed. Uh, for Mark Lieb, I think, is in the car at the moment. It was, yes indeed. Uh, just Fuel only there, completely drama-free down here. These guys at Olaf Mantai Racing know what they're doing. Porsche AG, of course, it's a factory-backed effort, and both these two cars really running very nicely indeed. Both of them on the lead lap. It's still the Rob Bell in the 99 car for Aston Martin and the number 77— 97 car in second place. But these two Porsches are right there, and this is a battle that is going to wage, we hope at least, through the end of the race. If you remember a long, long time ago, right at the very early stages of the race, there were just 3 cars that were pretty much in contention in this class, because everybody else was caught behind a safety car, including one of the Porsches. But they are now at least all 3 or 4 cars on the lead lap.
And John, we've got another class leader in the pit lane as the 76 car, Jean-Carl Vinet, we were talking about just a little while ago, followed down pit lane by the 81 car, has been newly released from Mulsanne Corner and the gravel trap there.
