Le Mans 24 Hours Live Commentary and Updates

Thank you and goodbye

That concludes our live coverage of the 94th Le Mans 24 Hours so we'll say goodbye there.

Congratulations to Toyota for its sixth Le Mans win in one of the closest races in history.

We hope you enjoyed it. Whether you managed the full 24 hours or dipped in and out, many thanks for joining us.

But the biggest cheers are reserved for the race winners, Kamui Kobayashi, Mike Conway and Nyck De Vries. Team boss Kajuki Nakajima joins them on the podium as the Japanese national anthem rings out.

Sheldon van der Linde, Rene Rast and Robin Frijns are presented with their laurels for finishing second. Don't forget they have extended their World Endurance Championship lead with this result, having won at Spa last month.

And now they begin to emerge on the podium, led out by Sebastien Buemi, Brendon Hartley and Ryo Hirakawa, the third-place finishers.

The podium finishers are gathering behind the scenes, celebrating or consoling as applicable.

The winning trio climb aboard their victorious TR010 Hybrid under the podium in front of a packed pitlane and the crowds gathering on track.

Kamui Kobayashi drives the winning Toyota through guards of honour formed by marshals, picking up Toyota flags as he completes his slow-down lap.

Mike Conway and Nyck de Vries are on hand to embrace Kobayashi as he pulls up on the start-finish line. They jump aboard the card to be transported to the podium celebrations.

The 10.9s margin of victory is the closest since Le Mans moved to measuring winning margins in time.

LMGT3 result

1.  #33 TF Sport Corvette
2.  #78 Akkodis ASP Team Lexus
3.  #23 Heart of Racing Team Aston Martin
4.  #87 Akkodis ASP Team Lexus
5.  #21 AF Corse Ferrari
6.  #34 Racing Team Turkey by TF Corvette

LMP2 result

1.  #43 Inter Europol
2.  #343 Inter Europol
3.  #29 Forestier Racing by Panis
4.  #26 Vector Sport
5.  #37 CLX Motorsport
6.  #28 IDEC Sport

Hypercar result

1.  #7 Toyota
2.  #20 BMW
3.  #8 Toyota
4.  #12 Cadillac
5.  #51 Ferrari
6.  #35 Alpine

The winning #7 Toyota started 14th on the grid - the lowest-ever start position for a Le Mans winner. And the seven cars that finished on the lead lap is the second highest ever.

TF Sport takes LMGT3 honours

Jonny Edgar takes the flag in the #33 TF Sport Corvette he shares with Nicky Catsburg and Ben Keating.

Inter Europol wins in LMP2

In LMP2, it's a third victory in four years for Inter Europol as the #43 of Tom Dillmann, Nick Yelloly and Jakub Smiechowski take the win ahead of their team-mates in the #343 car.

Jubilant scenes in the Toyota garage as the team secure a one-three finish. The #7 car won by 10.9s from the #20 BMW of Robin Frijns, Rene Rast and Sheldon van der Linde. Toyota's #8 car of Buemi, Hartley and Hirakawa is third.

On to the final lap... With seven cars still on the lead lap, there was no chance of Kobayashi backing off despite there being only 30 seconds left on the clock.

This race isn't necessarily over yet. Frijns is still nibbling away at Kobayashi's lead. He has it down to 10s before Kobayahsi responds to eke another second out.

The closest battle for a podium position is currently in LMGT3 where Jose Maria Lopez in the #87 Lexus is chasing down Eduardo Barrichello's #23 Aston Martin.

Into the final 15 minutes, and Kobayashi holds a 13.5s lead over the #20 BMW of Frijns. The top four are fairly evenly spread, with Buemi's #8 Toyota third and Stevens' #12 Cadillac still fourth.

Jonny Edgar holds sway aboard the #33 TF Sport Corvette in LMGT3. He's 15s clear of Jack Hawksworth's #78 Lexus. Eduardo Barrichello in the #23 Heart of Racing Team Aston is more than a minute further back.

Meanwhile, in LMP2, Tom Dillmann has a healthy 35s lead in the #43 Inter Europol car. Team-mate Nico Muller (#343) is second, with nearly another half minute in hand over Esteban Masson in the #29 Forestier Racing by Panis car.

So, with the final scheduled pitstops complete, the #7 Toyota of Kobayashi leads the #20 BMW of Frijns by nearly 20s. Buemi, in the #8 Toyota, is 14s back and not making much impression on the BMW. He's irate with his engineers, claiming he wasn't told the situation correctly. Is he tight on fuel? And therefore are both the cars in front, that pitted on the same lap, also tight on fuel?

Stevens is a safe fourth in the #12 Cadillac, another 9s back, but could he still threaten?

The Ferraris of Yifei Ye (#83) and Alessandro Pier Guidi (#51) complete the top six.

Frijns' BMW is now 23s behind race leader Kobayashi in the #7 Toyota. With similar strategies, that is surely too much to overcome in the remaining 45 minutes of this race.

Buemi worked wonders to keep Frijns behind him for so long but Frijns finally makes a move stick through the Porsche Curves after traffic helped him get a run out of Arnage. So the #20 BMW moves into second and the #8 Toyota's tyre gamble appears to have failed.

The #009 Aston Martin returns to the track after that stop for repairs. Great work by the THOR crew does the job in double-quick time and Roman De Angelis returns in 14th - last of the remaining Hypercars but only half a minute down on the #19 Genesis.

Hour 23 LMGT3 leaderboard

1.  #33 Corvette
2.  #78 Lexus
3.  #23 Aston Martin
4.  #21 Ferrari
5.  #87 Lexus

Hour 23 LMP2 leaderboard

1.  #43 Inter Europol
2.  #29 Forestier Racing by Panis
3.  #343 Inter Europol
4.  #26 Vector Sport
5.  #37 CLX Motorsport

Hour 23 Hypercar leaderboard

With just one hour to go, here's a summary of how things look at the head of the field:

1.  #7 Toyota
2.  #8 Toyota
3.  #20 BMW
4.  #12 Cadillac
5.  #83 Ferrari

In LMP2, Esteban Masson is on a charge in the #29 Forestier Racing by Panis car. He catches and easily passes Nico Muller who is struggling with old rubber on the #343 Inter Europol car. Dillmann still leads aboard the #43 car, 6s up the road.

The #009 Aston is being worked on by the Heart of Racing crew. They need to fix the lower wishbone front pick-up point and a transmission issue but expect to get the car back on track.

After a brief scare when De Vries's trip across the gravel was investigated by the stewards, before being given just a warning, Kobayashi is continuing to extend his lead in the #7 Toyota. It now stands at 15s. Buemi, with his well-worn rubber on the #8, is having to focus more on the BMW behind him - Frijns has narrowed the gap to just a second.

The two Inter Europol cars are tied together as they contest the lead in LMP2. Tom Dillmann in the #34 passes the #343 of Nico Muller to retake the lead into the first Mulsanne chicane.