Quote from seniecka :

The classic era of Formula One was a very different time — before Bernie.

Fixed

Nice vid once again !

I think TBO are funnier ! Funnier to drive (less grip than FX3 and so nice slide with XRT), some really close fight without the big advantage of draft for the car that wanna overtake = real racing. Much more interesting, driving skills are more important on it aswell so for me it would be definitely TBO !

I vote for BTCC aswell

teamName: spdoRacing
car: XRR
class: GT2-Pro
number: 03
drivers:
- {fadeaway, Veljko Belenzada, Serbia}
- {egon-est, Egon Liibeon, Estonia}
- {vtiracing, Reno Kööts, Estonia}

Quote from boothy :

Had to mute the video due to the yanks, give me John and Jeremey :rolleyes:


Cover the air intake(s), if it doesn't stall then DQ.

It is a bit more complicated than this one. Engine should stall and the pressure mesured by ACO manifold pressure should not be higher than a certain amount.

Basically this is quite an hard test because in those race it is still possible that some damage occured on the airbox than can make the engine not to stall (which is in Porsche RSR 2012 really possible when you see how long it is). Back in 2007 IMSA Performance have lost an LMS win because ACO sensor connectors have broken during the race.

Quote from deggis :

Oreca is of course the best bet since they already provide most of the LMP2 field and have capabilities to do it for LMP1 too, but they have sort of indicated that they have happy and too busy with Toyota.

Oreca is using for its Oreca 03 the "old" Courage LC75's one. They have lot of improvment on the Oreca 03 but the LMPC car is a Courage with Chevy engine and shock absorber from PKM. LMP1 is a different stuff than LMP2 and tbh no privateer is made for it. I mean only a work factory team can compete on it. As every other racing category where constructor are allowed and where there is a technical regulation (not based on any BoP), a privateer cannot win because it has such a poor budget compared to factory team.

A privateer could have win in LM2002 maybe but not in 2012 when you see Audi weapons at Le Mans. The thing is Peugeot vs Audi was so hard (+diesel regulation) that privateer were really outdated!

Btw gratz Karl!

This week end it's Le Mans Classic! Amazing to see so many GT40's, 917, 908 (Porsche's one but the Peugeot is still in LM24 museum), those Bentley 'Tank', Ferrari GTO and BB512! Only Matra V12 is missing

You missed GTE AM fight and GT huge close fight in first hour but that's pretty normal as TV coverage was focusses on Audi leading the race alone. Still a good movie good job mate!

In fact not really or maybe some french from 1600s...nice google failure ^^

btw Romain Dumas is probably the best endurance racer, as he is human he has just made an error. McNish has crashed an Audi again, really racing without brain ! He has also clipped another car that tv didn't seen.

Quote from Tango :

thats why they have 2 or 3 drivers,max stint maybe 3 hrs and only porsche curves are high g,Mcnish is known to be aggressive amongst traffic,probably his fault again,just like last year.
Tango

Man you have simply no idea at how this track is challenging. Dunlop curve isn't really easy, La chapelle and Esses de la Foret aswell. Indianapolis is a big challenge aswell. Plus this track, which is a normal road, change so much during the race! There are a lot of G on it and it is hard for a driver to be fast as the track is 13,629kms long and the average speed is 200kph up

LMP1 #3 Audi
LMP1 privateer #17 Dome
LMP2 #24 Morgan (I couldn't say something else)
LMGTE-Pro #74 Corvette
LMGTE-Am #67 Porsche

When I see how faster are the GTs and LMP2, I can't believe Audi is that "slow". Toyota probably not for this year, let's see tomorrow if they can do as good as Peugeot in 2007.

LMP2 is full of gentlemen drivers and young talent that are not for Le Mans, as the class is close, definitely #24 as they have big experience. Just worrying about PKM shock absorbers to do 24hrs as they failed last year and this year at Spa.

GT class is awesome, but Porsche might not have shown their best as Patrick Pilet have setted a faster lap with 2011 car. Ferrari's and Aston can't do 24 hours without problems like last year. Corvette should get this one as they have reliability and speed for it. Let's see what drivers do.

In Am it is completely different. 99 has the best line up but Aston...I see no strong Ferrari with a full fast line up. #75 have a fadt driver with Edwards but Al Faisal struggle with night and darkness. #79 has aswell a fantastic line up with Pilet and Pumpelly both under 4.00 but Neiman is slower and Flying and LM :s 67 have a good line up and a good experience of this race. Should be quite a close and entertaining class as LMP2 is.

Looks like Grosjean DNF in T1 or achieve a podium ^^ nice last few laps sad that no french tv were covering the race live as a frenchman did an awesome race...

I still don't get why Alonso didn't pit one lap after Hamilton...

A bit too wide front

Anyway Le Mans gonna be wet this year ^^

It was fun to see an Audi Hybrid running out of gas ^^

Quote from (-Mark-) :

Toyota a second off the pace after doing more laps, not really a good sign, although i suppose it's abit early to tell.

To be honest laptime done on prequali at Le Mans means nothing because the track is shitty. There will be no grip on it until wednesday evening. Le Mans race track is a normal road circuit so the track need to be "clean" before being good but today with all these small rain period almost everywhere in the track, this was not possible and grip increased then dropped, increased, then dropped...Furthermore the whole mulsanne straight have been renewed so this part of the track was really bullshit especially the chicane and we have had lot of macadam on the wheel arch of the cars which means macadam being pretty bad atm. So let's wait for real test to happen.

Last thing, last year Peugeot was faster than Audi during the night because they had better soft tyres, and Audi faster on the day because their medium tyres were better...Le Mans is 24hours long and this race really start after 12th hours

Sarrazin, Lapierre, Wurz, Davidson, looks like Peugeot aswell^^

teamName: spdoRacing
car: XRR
Class: GT2-PRO
number: 03
drivers:
- {egon-est, Egon liibeon, Estonia}
- {Kristi, Kristof Kerekes, Hungary}
- {reigga, Mikko Meriluoto, Finland}
- {fadeaway, Veljko Belenzada, Serbia}

ThxVires for great battle in GT3TCC (with genR). That makes this season enjoyable finally

Gratz GenR ! It was a nice battle for the whole season ! Thank you for the great racing !

Quote from krkriv :

All of you are saying KY3 is boring with Baby UFR, but im 2312312 sure many of you will be offpaced Also you really realize that there is almost not difference between GT2 and GT3 and it will be disaster for overlapping??

It is almost the same in real life and GT Open which is the only championship running both classes irl has the strongest GT2 field in Europe atm.

It looks to be quite a mess. In fact Pescarolo have explained that no contract were signed but luxury have send some money as it was specified in the contract they were supposed to sign. According to french laws, it serms that that kind of transaction is like a pre contract. Quite a lawyer thing, I've found an article about that but it is whole in french.

Anyway twice belgian and french lawyer have concluded that Luxury cars and tools should be hold at Spa and that was done few minutes after parc fermé ended at Spa. I dunno what's going on now, anyway something sure is that there will not be the two F458 and the Pescarolo 03 (or a miracle happened for Pescarolo like 2 millions €).

Although it is quite funny to read, it is obvious that it is a bit too long for an argue. Everyone has his own opinion about everyone, I'm not sure it is really useful to share it like that. Keep that for PM guys.

To come back to the topic, gratz N I K I and TRR, quite a surprising one but anyway good luck and congratz Tommy for helping TRR to improve with fast driver. I hope that this will help the whole team to improve.

Posted by the french, frog eater that is currently drinking a beer watching football on tv, which is slow but (i hope) friendly

After Spa WEC both F458 from Luxury Racing has been taken by Belgian's police. It looks like Pescarolo-Luxury contract have not been respected by the Ferrari team. Some rumors also says that those car will not be racing at Le Mans and the Pescarolo 03 might withdraw aswell because of the lack of budget of Team Pescarolo. Poor Henri Pescarolo, once again his team is endanger because a buisnessman didn't respect his contract...

I would rather see Pagenaud for that. What he is doing with one car team is really astonished. I wouldn't be surprise to see him win a race this year. Unfortunately he has no experience of oval racing but I'm pretty sure he will be one the star of Indycars in next few years like Bourdais WAS in champ car. Btw we need to admit that Bourdais is a top driver but he is in a part of his career where he has lot of experience (probably more than his engineer) and only a tight improvment possibilty. In general those kind of drivers interest more teams that wants to grow up and improve using the driver skills than top teams that try to build the champion of tomorrow. Byw that doesn't be he can't be competitive but he has probably more to bring to a team than what a team can bring to him.

Haha ^^

congratz LLM! Keep it up!