H+2: Audis keep the advantage

Audi continues to hold the lead after the two-hour race in Bahrain. The No. 18 R7 of André Lotterer took the advantage against the No. 8 sister car now driven by Oliver Jarvis, the two LMP1s at the Rings remaining separated by a few seconds.

While Porsche n°2 de Romain Dumas a repris la 6e place après sa crevaison dans la première heure, la voiture soeur n°1 de Brendon Hartley reste en 3e position à plus d’une demi-minute des premières LMP1 allemandes en devançant les deux Toyota. Si la n°5 de Kazuki Nakajima is one second behind the New Zealander, the n°6 of Mike conway completes the top five by being further behind. His teammate Sébastien Buemi explained that the temperatures forced the team to reduce power.

RGR Sport by Morand took the lead in LMP2 with Bruno Senna at the wheel of the Ligier JS P2, five seconds ahead of theAlpine n ° 36 of Nicolas lapierre. The #2 ESM Ligier JS P31 of Ryan Dalziel completes the top three in the category while Sean Gelael's sister car has fallen to 6th position behind the #05 Manor Oreca 44 of Richard Bradley and the Oreca 05 G -Drive Racing by Roman Rusinov.

In GTE Pro, theAston Martin No. 97 by Darren Turner remains at the head of the category, preceding the Ferrari #51 of Gianmaria Bruni, while the #95 Vantage of Nicki Thiim remains in 3rd place. The #98 of Paul Dalla Lana took the lead in GTE Am despite Mathias Lauda going off the track.