Veloqx loses lead, Rollcentre crashes out.

The lead has changed at Le Mans, with the #88 Audi UK Team Veloqx entry, which had headed the field throughout the night, succumbing to the chasing Team Goh R8 while it underwent a cure for handling problems.

Johnny Herbert brought the leading car into the pits for a regular driver change, but the Sam Li-run team opted to try and effect a cure for understeer that had plagued the #88 since the halfway point.

In all, seven minutes were lost, allowing Team Goh to make up its one-lap deficit and move into the lead. However, Jamie Davies has already begun to lap close to the ultimate pace, ensuring that the fight will continue for a while yet...

Further back, the battle for third, fourth and fifth took a twist when the Rollcentre Dallara found itself in the Dunlop gravel trap after a brush with the Frank Biela Veloqx car and the #17 Pescarolo. The French car's sister entry had held third spot throughout the hours of darkness, and now opened a two-lap advantage over its biggest rival.

The gap to its immediate pursuer changed again with the eventual demise of the Rollcentre car just a handful of laps after its off. Martin Short retook the track after a cursory investigation into the effects of his trip into the gravel, but the engineers were unable to detect what appeared to be a breach of the car's rear suspension, and Short was pitched off the road and into the wall, thankfully emerging unhurt from the impact.

The #6 car's exit has promoted the recovering Champion Audi into fourth spot, four laps adrift of the third-placed Pescarolo.