Whether you’re a die-hard GT fan, a Forza fan-boy, or an iRacing snob, anyone who calls themself a “sim-racer” or “gamer” should take special interest in this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans. Starting from class pole, GT Academy winner Lucas Ordoñez has an incredible opportunity to publicize and legitimize our niche hobby on the world stage. Here’s a batch of links and resources to help you follow along throughout the weekend. Good luck to Lucas and the Signatech team!
Facts & Guides
- Car Number: 26
- Team Name: Signatech Nissan
- Drivers: Soheil Ayari, Franck Mailleux, Lucas Ordonez
- Car Spotter’s Guide
Race Coverage
- Starting Time: 1:00PM UTC/GMT (convert to your local time here)
- Official Live Timing (also available in the official iPhone app)
- Radio Le Mans
- Baekdal’s 24 Hours of Le Mans Live Tracker (Android, iPhone, & iPad apps available)
- Speed TV Coverage
- Eurosport TV Schedule
Community Discussion
- Join the discussion in the 24 Hours of Le Mans 2011 thread in the GTPlanet Forums.
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So, any chance we can play this car in the game? Would be awesome, even if it comes as the Ferraris F1 (pratically unplayable…)
Big congratulations to Lucas and the other drivers, and the Signatech team for finishing 2nd in class, and 9th overall. I was at work checking on my phone, and holding my breath, you’d get the car home. Really pleased for you all…;-)))…
um the pic on the to is real life on right ??? ;)
Congratulation to Soheil Ayari, Franck Mailleux and Lucas Ordonez for Finishing 2nd in LMP2 class…
GT5 makes real racers!
Contratulations! Simply amazing!
+1…and “they” say nothing good ever came from a video game! :)
And some says gt5 isnt a real simulator.
“GT5 makes real racers!”
Yah, couldn’t have possibly have been the hours and hours of real world training and practice that did it.
Lucky mcnish wasnt injured because that car was doing at least 120 into the wall. If the roof hit the wall 1st then his head would have snapped off
Peugeot took second….:( wanted to first..but better luck next year…one of topic question…the 24 of Nurbugring are on??…month…xD
Yea, 25th & 26th June :D
I’m so tired and simply disappointed; not with the race or it’s breathtaking action, but the fact that Peugeot came up short once again. :*(
Congratulations to the Signatech Nissan team!
Lucas got mentioned multiple times on Eurosport.
Great achievement for a 3+- year career being as fast as the pros!
The Peugeots haven’t changed much since they started running the 908 lmp1 car. The biggest difference I saw was the “fin” behind the cockpit.
And lower rear deck as a smaller engine is fitted
The Peugeots haven’t changed much since they started running the 908
what a Race that was. WOW congrats to all who participate.
We now need the R18 in the game! Congrats Audi and congrats to Lucas! Awesome race:D
Awesome Race!
Congrants to the Audi, Peugeot, Sigmatec, and Vette teams!
Now looking foward to the Nurburgring 24H
I think the R18 will make it in to a GT game. Whether its 5 or 6 but because of this years showing and history in the making
1st – Audi Sport Team
2nd – Team Peugeot Total
3rd – Peugeot Sport
Congratulations to all teams!!
They need to now put the car in dlc AND the next GT game, seriously. They follow the pescarolo team for putting playstation logos on, why not have the GT academy winner’s car, which took 2nd in it’s class
Congratulations Audi! An epic race, Peugeot only 13 seconds behind. Now I’m gonna put together an Audi inspired racing outfit to celebrate the winners ^^
Yeah Audi won!
Congrats to the signatech team. Wooo Corvette victory!
WOOOO AUDI VICTORY!!!!!!!!!!
LESS THAN A MINUTE!!! :o
Lucas
From pole to last, back up to second. You and your team have done an absolutely amazing job! Congrats!
As for P1 WOOOO AUDI!!! :D
As for GT, better luck another year BMW!!
Way to Lucas second in class and in the top10 overall. Just like seeing the gtplanet.net logo on the helmet from the onboard shots
Awesome race so far :) best 24 hours I have seen (haven’t seen much. For me the 24 hours of le mans/Nürburgring are the only interesting races.
I sure wish all these GT cars were in GT5…
Go Tommy Milner!
Back out!
Its moving :D
And interview yay.
Uh-oh, dead on the road!
3 hours to go and the #26 Nissan has to limp aaaaalllllllll the way around the track on another bad tire.
Ah so I didn’t mistake it with another.
Bad luck for a good position.
2 Lap margin between the car behind.
Tire coming off!
i posting links that are already here.i should fread it first.hm
I’m an iRacing snob, ;)
All of the teams I’m rooting for are in 2nd! It’s too bad about the #74 Corvette. Hopefully #73 can come up and say something about it. Ayari and Mailleux are keeping the Nissan at a good pace for Lucas. Go Peugeot!
6 and a half hours to go. Lucas is in second in LMP2. The Stig is in fifth.
LETS goooo!! LUCAS Team Signatech NIssan GT5 academy.
LUCAS 2nd place OMG. just jump in 8hr to go.
Lemans local time – 04:57am
P01 – No.9 Peugeot 908 – Lap 199 – Leading – Pit 15 times
P02 – No.7 Peugeot 908 – Lap 199 – +23.699sec – Pit 15 times
P03 – No.2 Audi R18 TDI – Lap 199 – +27.654sec – Pit 17 times
P04 – No.8 Peugeot 908 – Lap 199 – +1Lap – Pit 15 times
P05 – No.16 Pescarolo Judd – Lap 192 – +7Laps – Pit 17 times
PS: The other 2 Audi R18 TDI have retired, No.2 R18 is the only LMP1 Audi up and running.
Amazing race so far!! watching it all :)
Signatech team LP2 Now 3rd place 11 hours to go.
Now in P3 really excited for the team hope they can finish it off
yea I’m in 6hr into the race cheering for Lucas man he deserves it.
Can’t believe how well the team is doing since I started watching. They were 10th or 11th in the class due to mechanicals and now they are running 4th in LMP2.
Lucas is NOW in the car!
Haha yeah ironically both Audis crashes trying to overtake a Ferrari.
Good race so far, shame about McNish and Rockenfeller’s huge accidents.
Ferrari seems to hate Audi…
lol i think that Peugeot have paid Ferrari a little $$$!!!
I don’t think the Ferrari’s are to blame really, McNish tried passing two cars at once and the Ferrari would’ve only seen the first Audi not the one passing him at the same time, the second crash was definitely Kauffman turning infront of Rockenfeller but could he see him there with such bright HID lights on the Audi?
Yeah, the Audi’s were at fault in both crashes, but still…
I’m pulling for the remaining Audi to take it all!
hmmmm the 1st crash yes Audi was to blame, but the 2nd wasn’t and Rockenfella did flash his headlights a number of times BEFORE he went to overtake, and then the Ferrari turned into him…!
but yerh just gone half distance and number 26, 13th overall but 4th in the LMP2 class!
The rule states that the slower cars stick to the racing line. It is up to the faster cars to pass around the racing line. This allows some level of predictability on what the slower car will be doing. The Ferrari stuck to the racing line and the Audi ran into him. The Audi driver mis-judge the amount of track he had left to pass on the inside.
@N99GT but could he see him coming? from the headon camera you could only see the Audi lights they’re so bright, drivers have been saying they could see the lights from a mile away on the Mulsanne
@GOTMAXPOWER true…he didnt do the mirror,signal,maneuver like my driving instructor thought me!!! lol but then again theres only 30mins to go and Audi are still leading! Wooop!!
I feel Mcnish (THe first Audi) was at fault. But at the same time Ferrari just didn’t see him. SO on that case its just “These things happen”
The second case i felt the Audi gave enough warning ahead and the Ferrari was wrong to take that line.
Team RML in the same class has Ben Collins as a driver. How cool would it be if Lucas beat the Stig!
Guess Turn 10 couldn’t have a contest like GT Academy. Unless their was a car painting challenge, & the ability to yell “FAGGOT NIGGER” at each other while you raced real cars(cuz in-game-chat is sooo important).
haha. Spot on!
Maybe when Lucas gets in the Signatech Nissan he’ll bump up his position in the grid.
I can’t tell if the picture is real or if it’s GT5 lol
Make this car DLC if Lucas wins!
If he wins P2 class, i want PD to make the Nissan/Oreca car free DLC!
*maf, I mean mad
lol
About the crash I’m very happy nobody seems to get hurt by that, but I just want to say McNish is completely maf, he approached the turn trying to pass 2 cars at the same time, unbelievable, nosense move completely, the GT driver of course didn’t see him in time, and that’s what happen’d.
He was only expecting there to be one Audi and not a Ferrari as well
I’m using this link, decent enough picture
http://globalsportsstream.webs.com/Lemans.htm
http://microsites.audi.com/lemans/index.html#/telemetry
wicked telemetry
cosmetic damage,shoulda turned damage OFF,ferrari drivin like AI.ggrrr@delayed australian crap(i wont call it coverage
)
Well, very bad start for the Signatech Nissan. Went from pole to 10th place in the first hour. Mechanical problems I believe :(
I guess a left-rear tire falling off counts as mechanical. I’m surprised it didn’t fall further back.
No more Audi NR3 i guess. What an insane crash
I feel bad for those guys that were just behind that wall. Did you see that debris?
Oh wow, class pole? Very nice work!
Also, is that photo taken in GT5 or in real life? I can’t pick it! :\
Is that car actually in the game? cause that does look like it could be a game picture.
It’s already been 20 minutes and it’s already intense!!
Wow, it got even more intense now when the first Audi cars went to refuel! After just 30 minutes…
what a crash,gawd
Surely if Ordonez Drives like you can in GT5 he can just ram the other cars,bounce off,and continue on.he might even start straight lining chicanes.a “cannot connect to network” on his steering wheel “.and the P for PIT button might be mistaken for PAUSE.if he spins he will probably expect to be rammed from every car that passes.
Hahaha, if the car breaks does he radio in with a YLOD?
If you drive like you can in GT5 you can’t win GT Academy, so I think he knows what he’s doing :P
Good luck to all teams, will definitely supporting Peugeot Sport total. :)
Best of luck to lucas and the rest of the team, have a good race! Hopefully pescarolo and aston have a good race too :)
If you guys want to watch the race live from the peugeot team and cars view, you have a 26 hours coverage here and here, all for free ;) ! Enjoy !
http://www.dailymotion.com/sas/peugeot-24h-du-mans
and here
http://www.peugeot-sport.com/en/home.html
:cheers:
:gtpflag:
Audi team : http://tv.audi.com/#/01
I’ll be tuned in, but switching over to the Canadian GP during Qualifying and the Race tomorrow. Go team SignaTech Nissan!
Pathetic coverage in australia.Was great last year.
LSHunter also have a few links to most motorsport.Good story on official website titled “The Mazda 787B returns to Le Mans”im going to read it now,just found it.i see the MATMUT Peugeot is last years,the same that is in gran turismo 5(just bought it myself to complete modern lm cars) from the photo’s ive seen.what a race it will be.Go mikey WALTRIP,slowest F458 but he’s a great bloke
@pigboy
Try Eurosport player for full 24 Le Mans Hour coverage. 1 month Eurosport access for a cheap fee. http://www.eurosportplayer.co.uk/
Was wondering. Considering what they do to your games, if theirs a bad wreck, do the Australian authorities edit that out of the race you’re watching?
fastlanedaily – check out their 25 hour streaming coverage with audience participation via twitter/ustream. Sounds pretty cool.
Awesome! Is he starting?
I am a HARDCORE GT5/ Sim racer. I’ll look at it when i’ve time but i’m busy on GTP Forums and GT5.
I’ve never watched Le Mans before but when they show the view from the drivers seat, I know all the turns! I know Gran Tourismo has some awesome graphics but it’s very cool to see it on t.v. and know everything that is coming up. Great work PD!
Hello Eurosport :)
And hello tennis. :-(
And hello 24 hours again. :D
Lucas was a gamer ;)
Watch Le Mans live Here:
http://zonein.tv/462452
“,Whether you’re a die-hard GTfan, a Forzafan-boy, or an iRacingsnob”
LOLOLOLOL
Wonderful. LOL