24 Hours of Le Mans – H+8: The #51 Ferrari in the gravel, the #7 Toyota retires, Peugeot in the lead!

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• Spectacular turn of events ! Alessandro Pier Guidi (Ferrari) got stuck in the gravel at the Daytona chicane in Les Hunaudières. The Italian was disturbed by a Glickenhaus and a Porsche of the GTE AM who touched each other while braking and lost control of his Hypercar while braking just behind. Pier Guidi lost several minutes in the incident.
• A few moments later, a pileup took place in the Esses du Tertre Rouge. As a Slow Zone was set up, several cars braked, including the Toyota n ° 7 of Kamui Kobayashi. The Japanese was hit from behind by the Ferrari 488 GTE of Louis Prette (n°66, retirement), which took off partly on the Oreca of Giedo van der Garde (Graff Racing). L'Alpine No. 35 by Memo Rojas was also hit and returned to the pits.
• Kamui Kobayashi is stopped at the side of the circuit and has not been able to restart his Toyota for around ten minutes. The Japanese got out of his car, it was abandoned!
• All this commotion is the business of the Peugeot 9X8 n°94. Driven by Nico Müller, the car without a rear wing now occupies 1st place overall with a 1 minute margin over the Ferrari 499P of Nicklas Nielsen.

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