No sooner had I posted my last update than everything went pear-shaped again. The leading Hypercar-class & overall leading № 51 Ferrari went off track, but soon recovered, only losing a few places. Soon thereafter, the № 7 Toyota slowed down on the Mulsanne Straight with mechanical gremlins & then was hit from behind by a G.T.E. Am. Ferrari. Driver Kamui Koboyashi could not refire the car & eventually had to abandon it, jumping from the roof so as not to become grounded while still in contact with the dangerously electrified GR010 Hybrid.
Meanwhile, the Radio Le Mans commentators, uncritical cheerleaders in the early running, lamented the imposition of yet another interminable safety-car period. The observation was made that it took seven & a half hours into the race for one hundred laps to be completed by the overall race leader; in 1988, it took six hours for one hundred laps to be completed by the overall race leader. Thirty-five years of progress!
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