Three hours to go in the Rolex24Hours and it's the Meyer Shank Racing Acura back in front, pursued hard by a pair of CGR Cadillacs: IMSA Rolex24
After a 5hr45min green-flag stretch was brought to an end by a shunt for the High Class Racing LMP2 car of Anders Fjordbach in the 21st hour, the two Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac V-LMDhs and the MSR Acura ARX-05 were bunched together by the ninth full-course caution of the race.
Pagenaud immediately went on the attack against countryman Bourdais, the pair going side-by-side into Turn 1 before the Acura nosed in front exiting the International Horseshoe. BMW's top runner, the #24 M Hybrid V8, was sixth and a further three laps back in the hands of Colton Herta, while Jack Aitken was a distant seventh in the AXR Cadillac following that car's earlier gearbox dramas.
Drama struck the long-time leading car in the LMP3 class, the #33 Sean Creech Motorsport Ligier, which lost 35 minutes in the pits due to a gearbox problem.
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