H20: Kristensen maintains Audi lead

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Tom Kristensen leads the Le Mans 24 Hours with four hours remaining as he chases a record-setting 10th victory.

The #1 Audi that Kristensen shares with Lucas di Grassi and Marc Gene moved into the lead when the sister #2 machine had its turbo changed earlier this morning.

It now has an advantage of more than a lap over the #20 Porsche of Timo Bernhard, with Mark Webber having completed a quadruple stint in that car.

The #2 Audi remains on track in third place, although the #3 Audi crashed out early on in an incident that also ruined the victory chances of the #8 Toyota that currently runs a distant fourth.

The #46 TDS Ligier, which started on pole, holds first in LMP2 after the G-Drive-backed OAK Racing Ligier that led for so long had to pit with a rear brake problem in the previous hour.

But at the end of the hour, with Tristan Gommendy, the car suffered a puncture and crawled to the pits, which will elevate OAK once again.

Mark Shulzhitskiy is second in that car, currently a lap down on the leader, with Simon Dolan moving the #38 Zytek up to third in class.

Toni Vilander now has a lead of over a lap in GTE Pro in the #51 AF Corse Ferrari after the #97 Aston Martin that it had been fighting with dropped back in the last hour.

The #95 Aston Martin still leads GTE Pro in the hands of Nicki Thiim, well ahead of the #88 Porsche of Christian Ried.