
Once the race restarted following the caution caused by a crash for the Era Motorsport LMP2 ORECA, the Ally-liveried Action Express Racing Cadillac DPi-V.R that led at the one-hour mark in Kamui Kobayashi's hands continued out in front following its handover to Jose Maria Lopez.
Lopez survived contact with the Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac of Sebastien Bourdais approaching Turn 1 - which caused the #01 machine to later have its nose section changed - but the Argentinian later made a mistake on cold tyres starting his second stint and ran wide at Turn 6.