Time: 6pm

Weather: Incredibly changeable. Flashes of lightning, thunder and heavy rain experienced at the Ford Chicane. Heavy rain experienced throughout the circuit.

Current temperature: 19° C

Forecast temperature overnight: 10° C

Overall positions after two hours:

MG Lola EX257 Car 33 14th

MG Lola EX257 Car 34 40th

MG Lola EX257, Car 33

Mark Blundell: "That’s the longest time the car has run in one go with the mileage we’ve accumulated – so we’re starting to find things out."

"Le Mans is at its best – it throws everything at you! You’d not want to go these five minutes every day in your life! Our performance so far gives us something to cheer about."

MG Lola EX257, Car 34:

Anthony Reid: Having stepped out of the MG Lola EX257 : "You cannot believe what it was like. It’s my fourth appearance here and I’ve never had an experience like it! Up to this point we’d made a really good start and overtaken a few cars and the car was performing fantastically well. The MG Lola race chassis is so good. But then the heavens just opened and I survived the immediate incident where cars were crashing left, right and centre. I slowed up, coasting – hardly accelerating. But following a car in front, the car suddenly aquaplaned, throwing me sideways and then it was the other way. I spun around. The rear wing kissed the barrier. I kept it going but we lost a lap or two, replacing the rear wing.

"I then had more dramas as the track dried. I pitted for slicks and then I had a puncture – unbelievable!"

"Then Mark (in car 33) and I circulated together - at great pace with both cars performing well. Then I lost power from the engine – and we had a broken right hand exhaust pipe – which on a turbo-charged engine is crucial for power. That’s the state of play – I’ve described just two hours of what seems like the whole 24 hour race!"