At the half way point of the 6 Hours of Shanghai it is a Toyota 1-2 at the head of the field with the no8 Toyota TS040 hybrid of Anthony Davidson holding a comfortable 41.5 second lead over the no7 Toyota of Stephane Sarrazin. Marc Lieb is currently holding the final podium place in the no14 Porsche 919 with the two Audis in 4th and 5th places.
The nr12 Rebellion R-One of Nick Heidfeld finished the first half of the race in the lead of the LMP1-L field holding a 43s lead over the no13 Rebellion Racing R-One of Dominik Kraihamer. The no9 Lotus CLM-AER of Pierre Kaffer was 15th overall and five laps adrift of the two Rebellions.
The no26 G-Drive Racing Ligier-Nissan of Julien Canal was in the same position at the end of 180 minutes as it had been since the start of the race – at the head of the LMP2 field. Canal was 41.5 seconds ahead of Maurizio Mediani in the nr27 SMP Racing Oreca after the Italian had passed Ricardo Gonzalez in the no30 Extreme Speed Motorsports HPD-Honda.
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Jeff Carter
Race Facts – 180 Minutes
13:59:11 Audi #1 into pits Tom Kristensen into car
13:46:49 P2 leader #26 into pits
13:45:15 Front splitter from a Porsche on track at turn 15 local yellow flags
13:39:41 Both P2 ESM's into pits #30 and #31
13:32:29 Aston #98 takes lead in GTE Am from #95 Aston
13:31:21 Oreca #27 takes 2nd in P2 from #30 HPD
13:26:46 1:49.010 fastest lap for Davidson in Toyota #8
13:25:39 Cressoni into #90 Ferrari - making his WEC debut
13:19:31 Audi #1 passes Audi #2 for 4th place
13:16:43 Leading Toyota #8 into pits Davidson stays in
13:15:57 Timo Bernhard into #20 Porsche
13:15:09 2nd place Toyota #7 into pits Sarrazin into car
13:12:38 GTE Am leader #95 into pitlane
13:10:12 Lieb now in Porsche #14
13:08:52 1:49.210 fastest lap of race for Davidson in #8 Toyota
13:06:48 After 2 hours #97 Aston leads GTE Pro and #95 Aston leads GTE Am
13:05:15 Both Audi's in pitlane Treluyer in #2
13:04:03 After 2 hours #8 Toyota leads P1 #26 Ligier leads P2
13:02:30 Kaffer now in #9 Lotus-CLM
12:55:04 Canal takes over leading P2 #26 Ligier
12:53:59 Good battle for 3rd in GTE Pro between #71 Ferrari and #91 Porsche - Porsche lost lead in the category at Fuji and can score good result after demise of #51 Ferrari
12:50:33 Second round of stops for leading P2 cars #26 Ligier still leads
12:38:29 Porsche #20 back up to 6th after tyre problem
12:33:28 Toyota #7 takes 2nd from Porsche #14
12:31:32 Porsche #20 manager called to race control
Jeff Carter
