The #7 entry - which was in front at the three-hour mark - ceded the le꧑ad to the sister #8 Toyota GR010 Hybrid soon afterwards as Brendon Hartley overhauled Jose Maria Lopez. 

However, after Hartley handed over to new Toyota sཧigning Ryo Hurakawa, the 28-year old - who has only started two 24 Hours of Le Mans back in 2016 and 2017 in the LMP2 class - was leapfrogged by far more experienced countryman Kamui𒈔 Kobayashi in the #7 car.

Nevertheless, the Toyotas continue to lap in relative p🔥roximity to one another, split by seven seconds to suggest they are managing their pace a🅰s the race enters nightfall. 

Glickenhaus continue to circulate reliably and with solid pace, with✨ both cars still on the lead lap in third and fourth (#708 leading #709).

However, the Hypercar battle has been reduced to four cars after Alpine drꦐopped back down the order with two lengthy stops to fix intermittent technical 🍌issues. The French car is now running 28th overall, seven laps off the lead.

In LMP2, the #38 Jota Sport stretched its advantage with Will Stevens building on Antonio Felix da Costa’s impressive first stint. Rodolfo Gonzalez is now in the car, a la🦂p clear of the fight for second place led by Cool Racing.

With the LMP2 cars starting to slip out of sync in terms of pit-stops, at the turn of the hour the Danish team had shuffled their way up to second, though will li൲kely slip behind the Team Penske entry. The American team is locked in a fight with the Prema Orlen car, while the second Jota entry follows in fourth.

Just as in LMP2, the GTE Pro class𓆉 lead is unchanged with the #63 Corvette of🌳 Nicky Catsburg, Antonio Garcia and Jordan Taylor two laps clear of the #92 Porsche in second and the #64 Corvette in third.

WeatherTech Racing consolidated its lead in GTE Am too, almost four minutes ahead of the second place Northwest Aston Martin and Dempsey-Proton Racing Porsche. There was disappointment for JMW Motorsport however after powe🐽r steering issues forced it inཧto the garage to drop it well out of podium contention.

With six hours down, all 62 starters are still classified as running though🐈 the Duqueine LMP2 car is circulating 20 laps off the lead after a lengthy pit-stop, while the Vector Sport LMP2 has also dropped down the order after an off that resulted in front-end damage.