Despite losing the lead to Nicolas Lapierre’s #7 Toyota during the overlap between pitstops, the Audis were never really troubled by the Japanese machines.
Behind Lotterer and McNish third is held by Lucas di Grassi, despite the Brazilian taking a trip through the gravel at the exit of Indianapolis and losing a handful of seconds.
Anthony Davidson is now the leading Toyota driver in fourth; Lapierre having stopped for around 30s by the side of the track with an as-yet unidentified technical problem.
The hybrid machines are the only ones left on the lead lap; Nick Heidfeld now driving the best of the normally-aspirated cars in sixth in his Rebellion Lola-Toyota.
The battle for the lead of LMP2 is ultra-close. Alex Brundle took over the leading #24 machine from Olivier Pla and Ricardo Gonzalez is now behind the wheel of the second-placed #35 car.
Ryan Briscoe’s Level 5 HPD and Mike Conway’s G-Drive/Delta-ADR ORECA Nissan are keeping up the chase within 90s of the leaders.
Darren Turner continues to lead GTE Pro for Aston Martin, his 10s advantage being maintained.
His team-mate Rob Bell passed Romain Dumas’ Porsche for second after the second pitstops with Jorg Bergmeister holding on to fourth in the sister Manthey-run 911 RSR.
There was a nervous moment for Corvette driver Tommy Milner as the rain became more intense towards the end of the hour.
The American went off into gravel at Turn 1 – followed by Bill Auberlen’s #98 Aston Martin – and was forced to deliberately spin as he tried to rejoin the track in a bid to avoid T-boning the sister car of Antonio Garcia.
A left-rear puncture for Pascal Gibon robbed the #67 Imsa Porsche of the lead in GTE Am; the Frenchman having relieved Wolf Henzler of driving duties early in the hour.
Gibon had been battling with Marco Cioci’s #61 AF Corse Ferrari prior to then, but the Italian machine now holds a 26-second lead.
POSITIONS AFTER THREE HOURSPos Cl Car Drivers Laps Gap
1. P1 #1 Audi Lotterer/Treluyer/Fassler 40
2. P1 #2 Audi Kristensen/McNish/Duval 40 + 49.177s
3. P1 #3 Audi Gene/Jarvis/di Grassi 40 + 55.703s
4. P1 #8 Toyota Davidson/Sarrazin/Buemi 40 + 1m21.831s
5. P1 #7 Toyota Wurz/Lapierre/Nakajima 40 + 2m09.872s
6. P1 #12 Lola Prost/Jani/Heidfeld 39 + 1 Lap
7. P1 #21 HPD Leventis/Kane/Watts 39 + 1m54.146s
8. P1 #13 Lola Beche/Belicchi/Cheng 39 + 2m43.765s
9. P2 #24 Morgan Pla/Brundle/H Hansson 38 + 2 Laps
10. P2 #35 Morgan Baguette/Plowman/Gonzalez 38 + 51.521s
11. P2 #41 Zytek Rossi/K-Smith/Lux 38 + 57.097s
12. P2 #33 HPD Tucker/Franchitti/Briscoe 38 + 1m13.238s
13. P2 #46 Oreca Thiriet/Badey/Martin 38 + 1m19.051s
14. P2 #26 Oreca Rusinov/Martin/Conway 38 + 1m23.275s
15. P2 #38 Zytek Dolan/Turvey/Luhr 38 + 1m26.266s
16. P2 #49 Oreca P-Companc/Kaffer/Minassian 38 + 1m51.557s
17. P2 #34 Oreca Frey/Niederhauser/Bleekemolen 38 + 2m11.271s
18. P2 #42 Zytek Krumm/Mardenborough/Ordonez 37 + 3 Laps
19. P2 #32 Lotus Holzer/Kraihamer/Charouz 37 + 5.716s
20. P2 #36 Alpine Ragues/Panciatici/Gommendy 37 + 1m15.190s
21. P2 #43 Morgan Gachnang/Mailleux/Lombard 37 + 1m20.373s
22. GTP #97 Aston Mucke/Turner/Dumbreck 37 + 1m30.748s
23. GTP #99 Aston Makowiecki/Senna/Bell 37 + 1m41.875s
24. GTP #92 Porsche Lieb/Richard Lietz/Dumas 37 + 2m03.422s
25. GTP #91 Porsche Bergmeister/Pilet/Bernhard 36 + 4 Laps
26. P2 #30 Lola Mowlem/Burgess/Hirschi 36 + 24.433s
27. GTP #71 Ferrari Beretta/Kobayashi/Vilander 36 + 34.568s
28. P2 #48 Oreca Hartley/Chandhok/Patterson 36 + 41.913s
29. GTP #51 Ferrari Bruni/Fisichella/Malucelli 36 + 46.254s
30. P2 #45 Morgan Nicolet/Merlin/Mondolot 36 + 54.404s
31. GTP #53 SRT Farnbacher/Goossens/Dalziel 36 + 57.810s
32. GTP #73 Corvette Garcia/Magnussen/Taylor 36 + 1m01.743s
33. GTP #98 Aston Dalla Lana/Lamy/Auberlen 36 + 1m02.419s
34. GTA #61 Ferrari Gerber/Griffin/Cioci 36 + 1m13.943s
35. GTP #74 Corvette Gavin/Milner/Westbrook 36 + 1m14.394s
36. GTA #55 Ferrari Perazzini/O’Young/Case 36 + 2m51.923s
37. GTA #77 Porsche Dempsey/Foster/Long 36 + 3m42.496s
38. GTA #67 Porsche Gibon/Milesi/Henzler 35 + 5 Laps
39. GTA #75 Porsche Collard/Perrodo/Crubile 35 + 2m21.717s
40. GTP #93 SRT Wittmer/Kendall/Bomarito 35 + 2m42.599s
41. GTA #81 Ferrari Potolicchio/Aguas/Bright 35 + 3m08.382s
42. GTA #88 Porsche Ried/Roda/Ruberti 35 + 3m14.091s
43. P2 #40 Oreca Dagoneau/Downs/Younessi 35 + 3m20.137s
44. GTA #50 Corvette Bornhauser/Canal/Taylor 35 + 3m21.760s
45. GTA #96 Aston Goethe/Campbell-Walter/Hall 35 + 3m28.579s
46. GTA #76 Porsche Narac/Vernay/Bourret 35 + 3m35.936s
47. P2 #47 Morgan Imperatori/Howson/Tung 35 + 3m42.246s
48. GTA #57 Ferrari Krohn/Jonsson/Mediani 35 + 4m44.637s
49. P2 #39 Lola Porta/Brandela/Raffin 34 + 6 Laps
50. GTP #66 Ferrari Bertolini/Faisal/Qubaisi 34 + 21.508s
51. P2 #25 Oreca Graves/Hamilton/Nakano 34 + 45.748s
52. GTA #70 Corvette MacNeil/Rodrigues/Dumas 33 + 7 Laps
53. GTA #54 Ferrari Mallegol/Bachelier/Blank 33 + 2m01.533s
54. P2 #28 Lola Giroix/Haezebrouck/Ihara 19 + 21 Laps
55. P2 #31 Lotus Weeda/Rossiter/Bouchut 17 + 23 Laps
56. GTA #95 Aston Simonsen/Nygaard/Poulsen 2 Retired
Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/real-world-racing/3rdparty/h3-lotterer-maintains-audis-lead
David Carl Allison Gregory Jack Biffle David Lee Blaney Michael Duane Bliss
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