H+4: Porsche maintains the advantage in Shanghai

Porsche seems well on its way to winning the 6 Hours of Shanghai with the No. 919 1 Hybrid of Hartley-Webber-Bernhard already winning in 2015. The car of the reigning world champions currently driven by Mark Webber has a half-minute lead over there Toyota n ° 6 of Mike conway. The Porsche n°2 of Neel Jani and the second TS050 Hybrid of Sébastien Buemi are fighting for third place.

The race is more complicated for Audi, which is outside the top 4. The No. 18 R8 of Oliver Jarvis seems to be the only one that can still get a good result, the No. 7 of Benoît Tréluyer having just returned to the garage for repairs. a flat bottom problem following contact with the sister car.

Oliver Webb occupies 7th place in the general classification in the CLM01/P1 of ByKolles Racing which has a good lead over the Rebellion R-One of Dominik Kraihamer.

G-Drive Racing dominates LMP2 with Will Stevens' Oreca 05 ahead of Sean Gelael's Ligier JS P2 by half a minute. L'Alpine A460 n°36 of Stéphane Richelmi is well placed in third position, ahead of the Ligier JS P2 of RGR Sport by Morand driven by Filipe Albuquerque by half a minute after his teammate Bruno Senna suffered a drive-through for a contact with Gustavo Menezes.

The Ford GTs are still in the lead in GTE Pro. Harry Tincknell's No. 67 is in first position in the category with a good lead over Olivier Pla's sister car. There Ferrari 488 n°51 of AF Corse  led by James Calado however threatens the Frenchman, but the n°71 of Sam Bird was penalized after Davide Rigon was caught undoing his harness too early. L'Aston Martin Vantage n°98 of Pedro Lamy is once again at the head of GTE Am.