The battle to win Le Mans!
To really tell the battle for the win other cars could be included, but I've kept it simple and just those that finished on the podium. There is a second chart which is just the Top 2.
SC and FCY are shown. Slow zone laps are not. A spike up the car pitted before the leader, a spike down and it was after.
Spikes can be pitstops if they don't pit on the same lap. If you don't go back to the same gap from before the pitstop you gained or lost time in the stop sequence. You see this with the last stop for the Ferrari.
Generally the Toyota was losing out to the Ferrari through a stint. Except notably in the last Hartley stint.
After the FCY at 129 the Cadillac was losing about 1.8s/lap. Some of that was the top up of oil, but there was a steady drop off.
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