Peugeot leads crash-filled Le Mans at hour 8.
After eight hours of running, the hotly-anticipated 100th anniversary 24 Hours of Le Mans has taken a few strange turns. Sporadic rains covering only parts of the track, mechanical issues, and mistakes entering the Slow Zones resulting from other problems have left a significant portion of the field worse for wear already. And, through it all, a surprising leader has emerged at the front of the field.
At least one car from all five of Ferrari, Toyota, Porsche, Cadillac, and Peugeot has already led this race. With each car showing enough pace to fight for the win, the story of the race has quickly become surviving long enough to factor into the end. Unfortunately, many of the leading Hypercar contenders have already suffered some losses.
A few laps behind the leaders, the No. 38 customer Porsche 963 run by Jota Sport has also suffered a major disappointment. Driver Yifei Ye took the lead on a restart and built a ten second lead before going off on the Porsche curves, eventually hitting an outside wall hard. That car is now four laps behind the leaders.
That leaves a somewhat shocking overall podium through hour eight. The No. 50 Ferrari and No. 2 Cadillac are enjoying relatively quiet early running in second and third respectively, leaving the overall lead to a No. 94 Peugeot 9X8 that has run merely respectable, not competitive, lap times in all of the weekend's testing, practice, and qualifying sessions. That car came alive in the semi-wet conditions, and as darkness has fallen it has not faded in the slightest. The No.
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