Nadal gets Le Mans started with Buemi leading from pole

Kamui's car is about 40 seconds ahead of Alonso's, I read a few minutes ago, as they head into the darkness of night, and they are four laps ahead of their nearest rivals.

Found a live feed from inside Rebellion Racing’s lead car, running third at the moment. What a beast of a machine, and kudos to those guys on maintaining their concentration all night at ludicrous speeds.

Alonso’s car now over a minute behind the other Gazoo car last time I looked. He had a puncture early on which would have slowed their car down for a while. Will Toyota finally be tempted to order the switch-around?

Buemi was judged to be speeding in the pit lane, handing them a stop-go penalty. Alonso has made up some of the gap though and last I looked was 90 seconds behind and closing.

Two Japanese drivers, 1 & 2, Kazuki in No. 8 leading Le Mans, as of now.

Watch this for a minute. Cockpit views from the two leading cars.

https://toyotagazooracing.com/jp/wec/special/2018-2019/lemans-onboard-live.html

@nandakandamanda.

Thanks for that link. Very enjoyable.

Yeah, that's totally awesome. I would love to do that.

These hybrids have massive acceleration. They make cars like the Ferrari seem cumbersome, unwieldy and slow.