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Le Mans

noddy

noddy

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Nice to see Audi get pole for the first time since 2006.

The cars looks real strange with the fins, but guess they have to try anything to get more speed etc now the engine size has been reduced.

Looking forward to the race, think it will close but Audi might just have the edge.
 
In our neck of the woods we get virtually no media coverage of le Mans.
Is there a good web resource with live updates?
 
Big Motorsport TV coverage over this weekend for us Wombats.

British MotoGP qualifying - Saturday 23:00-00:10.
Le Mans 24 Hour race start - Sunday 00:10-02:50.
Canadian F1 qualifying - Sunday 02:50-04:10.
NASCAR (BFD!) - Sunday 04:10-05:30
Le Mans 24 Hour overnight - Sunday 05:30-10:00.
Le Mans 24 Hour day - Sunday 13:00-17:30.
British MotoGP race - Sunday 20:00-00:30.
Le Mans 24 Hour finish - 00:30-02:00.
Canadian F1 race - 02:00 - 05:00.

Good thing Monday is a public holiday.
:kilroy:
 
Thanks for the link, noddy.
Interesting to read in (British) CAR magazine that the AMLS offers possibly the best motor racing available in America!
 
The first Aston Martin is already out, and McNish wrote off an Audi after only 55 minutes..
 
ARRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!:redfire:
Our coverage is via SPEED!!!
After Eurosport for the past week SPEED really sucks.
:banghead:
 
Video of the McNish crash; some lucky photographers behind that wall!

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Racing now resumed after an hour-long safety car period.
 
WOW! They were very lucky, a split second from death for some of them. If the car had cleared the barrier instead of bouncing back onto the track side it could have been a whole different story.
 
The #1 Audi just went head-on into the armco just before the Indianapolis corner... Doesn't look good..

Edit: This car crashed after contact with a Ferrari as well and hit the armco on both sides of the road..

Edit2: Rockenfeller left the car himself, the car is unrecognisable..
 
Whew! le Mans still has that sense of sheer terror, anything seems possible.
As an aside, after Ferry's link above, one of the other clips shows the Peugeot in wet track testing.
It looks and sounds absolutely sensational...
 
one Audi...in the lead...

three Peugeots 2,3&4....hmmm

about 5.5 hrs left...
 
2 hours 45 minutes to go, and the remaining Audi is still fighting with one of the Peugeots for the lead.. This could go on all the way to the finish! :applause:

Two more clips from earlier on:

The Rockenfeller crash (Replays from 4:40):

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The class leading Corvette driven by Jan Magnussen makes a mistake and collides with the Felbermayr Porsche:

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BTW Beginning to rain heavier now and cars are sliding off all over the track..
 
The remaining Audi takes the win with only 13.8 seconds over the #2 Peugeot after 355 laps and 24 hours! :applause:
 
Interesting: the winning Audi needed 31 pitstops, the #2 Peugeot only 28 but the Peugeot needed more new tires, but since you are not allowed to refuel and change tires at the same time their stops lasted longer. The Audi managed up to five stints on one set of tires, the Peugeots only four. One stint is the time between refueling stops, about 9-11 laps so the Audi managed to do almost 700 kilometers on a single set of tires!
 
A good win for Audi considering what happened earlier in the race. It was close racing from start to finish and I really enjoyed the 8 hours or so that I watched covering the overnight period and the post-dawn period. The lead changed at almost every pit stop for hour after hour. I was sorry to see the '7' car had been off when I got up this morning as they had been challenging hard through the night along with the '9' car.
 
A few observations: Regulations governing visibility in the 'Prototypes' need serious revision.
Areas of glazing and windscreen rake are poor, the screens should be far more upright and of a greater area, while side and rear windows must be vastly enlarged.
Minimum height for these closed cars needs to be raised at least 300mm or even 400mm.
While I'm at it, IMNSHO the area between the wheel fairings should be raised as well, maybe 150mm at least, better if it were 300mm.
And those ridiculous fins must go!!
They obscure rear vision and are pig ugly.
:kilroy:
 
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