Sébastien Bourdais

Yeah.

And at the end of that race, Sebastian Bourdais won this race.

And the owner of his team was Paul Newman.

And my producer at the time was like, go interview Paul.

Will Stevens in the number 12 car to start fifth, alongside 83 AF Corsa Ferrari for Phil Hansen after times from Robert Kubica.

Jules Cunon starts the second of the Alpines from seventh position car 36 with Miguel Moliner at his home race alongside in the 50 Ferrari so the best of the two factory cars from Ferrari starting in eighth position the second of the Toyotas will be started by Nick De Vries he did the times as well from the inside of row five and the second of the Cadillacs with Sebastian Bourdais starting that Jack Aitken was the qualification driver car number 38 The sixth row is where we find the two Aston Martin Valkyries.

009 on the inside of 007.

Alex Ribera has to start 009.

Well, everyone that's been involved in incidents to this point has been able to sort themselves out.

We haven't needed the outside assistance from the marshals just yet.

One or two, remember, have already got pit stops in the bank, so they will be slightly... better off for energy than others and I'll remind you that Gray Newell's pitted, Alexander West has pitted, Stefano Gattuso pitted in their Aston, McLaren and Fords respectively but back to race speed for the race leader Sebastian Buemi and already the overtaking is about to continue with James Collado having a very good run on Sebastian Bourdais both cars are glued to the right hand side Will Stevens once more struggling through turn one and was up alongside an Alpine but that was the Alpine trying to take the place away from him Jules Gounon and Gounon in number 36 heading through turn four now or turn three rather and down into four so It's Buemi leading from Phil Hansen in second in the 83 Ferrari.

Big squirm from one of the Aston Martins.

You got four, you need two.

I got a left s- left curveball one, Sebastian Bourdais.

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You're right, he got on the podium multiple times.

Yeah.

And I, and I think that's what made it fantastic was, I think that's what really made it a great challenge, was because it was, well, these are the gods, and if they can't win, then they're not Superman anymore, you know? And, uh, that, that was really, I think it was the one time that, u- unless you were French, because of course you had the hometown hero, Sébastien Bourdais-

Yeah

... uh, in that Peugeot.

Endless messaging to the drivers, but that, it's little battle, fourth, fifth, and sixth.

Brendan Hartley, Toyota, Alex Riberas, Aston Martin, Sebastian Bourdais, second driver on board the number 38, uh, Cadillac.

Down the main straight, caught on the tail.

Again, more windscreen wiper action on the, on the 009 Aston Martin going out to see if Brendan Hartley's going round the outside of a GT3 car.

You just go boom, boom, boom.

Yeah.

It is incredible how, uh, th- these hypercars, uh, they look quick, but it's only when you put a GT alongside them and you go, "Oh, my word, they really are phenomenal out of some of these corners." The Cadillacs look so strong out of 16 all weekend, and no wonder that, uh, Sebastian Bourdais is able then to catch up with these two cars at a fair rate of knots.

There's a fair bit of debris on the screen as well, which I don't think is moisture.

Oh, yes, and a tag.

And Sébastien Bourdais says he could not understand the car under braking.

Now, I don't know whether he's talking about his own car under brakes or whether he was suggesting that the McLaren braked a little earlier and the car immediately behind it.

I'm just trying to work out whether that was the other Cadillac that may have been hooked up in that incident as well.