80th running of the Le Mans 24 Hours - 1617 June 2012

Furinkazen · May 20, 2012

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2012 is the 80th running of the Le Mans 24 Hours, the greatest endurance race of all! Last year Audi won despite losing two cars in the most horrific crashes seen at Le Mans for years. Audi have 4 cars entered for this years race that also runs as a round (the 3rd to be exact) of the World Endurance Championship. Audi however have competition, the return of Toyota, with the TS030. Le Mans will be the debut for the two Toyota's, and so all eyes will be on the japanese cars. The unofficial petrol class in LMP1 also see's the british Strakka and JRM teams (JRM with David Brabham as one of the drivers), as well long time Le Mans favourite Henri Pescarolo running one of his Pescarolo prototypes as well as a reworked Dome prototype.

LMP2 will see some interested GTPlanet fans. GT Academy graduate Jordan Tresson is in a Oreca prototype for Signatech-Nissan in car #23. The very first GT Academy Graduate Luca Ordonez is in the #42 Greaves Motorsport Zytek. Also the french OAK Racing team are running two prototypes badged using the British Morgan name. Lotus and HPD also appear on the entry list.

GT cars may be the slowest but are by no means the least exciting. BMW may have left, but 4 Ferrari's, two Corvette's, two Porsche's, and a Aston martin V8 make up the field in the premier GTE PRO class. the second GT class GT-AM as well as a strong field.

Garage #56 is an interesting addition to Le Mans this year. This garage is for a special experimental vehicle not covering any particular regs. This year it goes to the Nissan Deltawing, based around a failed Indycar concept this unique car will make its debut at Le Mans. GTPlanet has been following it's progress here.

FULL QUALIFYING GRID

Code:

Pos  Cl     Drivers                             Team/Car                     Time
 1.  P1     Fassler/Lotterer/Treluyer           Audi e-tron                  3m23.787s
 2.  P1     Dumas/Duval/Gene                    Audi Ultra                   3m24.078s
 3.  P1     Davidson/Buemi/Sarrazin             Toyota                       3m24.842s
 4.  P1     Capello/Kristensen/McNish           Audi e-tron                  3m25.433s
 5.  P1     Wurz/Lapierre/Nakajima              Toyota                       3m25.488s
 6.  P1     Bonanomi/Jarvis/Rockenfeller        Audi Ultra                   3m26.420s
 7.  P1     Leventis/Watts/Kane                 Strakka HPD                  3m29.622s
 8.  P1     Prost/Jani/Heidfeld                 Rebellion Lola-Toyota        3m29.837s
 9.  P1     Belicchi/Primat/Bleekemolen         Rebellion Lola-Toyota        3m31.866s
10.  P1     Ara/Minassian/Bourdais              Pescarolo Dome-Judd          3m33.066s
11.  P1     Brabham/Chandhok/Dumbreck           JRM HPD                      3m35.421s
12.  P1     Montagny/Baguette/Kraihamer         OAK Pescarolo-Judd           3m35.584s
13.  P1     Collard/Boullion/Hall               Pescarolo-Judd               3m37.485s
14.  P2     Martin/Charouz/Graves               ADR ORECA-Nissan             3m38.181s
15.  P2     Nicolet/Lahaye/Pla                  OAK Morgan-Judd              3m38.598s
16.  P2     Panciatici/Ragues/Rusinov           Signatech ORECA-Nissan       3m39.152s
17.  P2     Beche/Thiriet/Tinseau               TDS ORECA-Nissan             3m39.252s
18.  P2     Perez-Companc/Ayari/Kaffer          Pecom ORECA-Nissan           3m39.711s
19.  P2     Firth/Hughes/Hartley                Murphy ORECA-Nissan          3m39.877s
20.  P2     Heinemeier Hansson/Leinders/Martin  OAK Morgan-Nissan            3m39.899s
21.  P2     Sims/Buurman/Iannetta               Status Lola-Judd             3m40.280s
22.  P2     Potolicchio/Dalziel/Kimber-Smith    Starworks HPD-Honda          3m40.471s
23.  P2     Briere/Petersen/Nakano              Boutsen ORECA-Nissan         3m40.727s
24.  P2     Ordonez/Brundle/Brundle             Greaves Zytek-Nissan         3m40.738s
25.  P2     Dolan/Hancock/Kurosawa              Jota Zytek-Nissan            3m41.287s
26.  P2     Mailleux/Lombard/Tresson            Signatech ORECA-Nissan       3m41.982s
27.  P2     Tucker/Bouchut/Diaz                 Level 5 HPD-Honda            3m42.224s
28.  P2     Zugel/Gonzalez/Julian               Greaves Zytek-Nissan         3m42.292s
29.  CDNT   Franchitti/Krumm/Motoyama           Highcroft Delta Wing Nissan  3m42.612s
30.  P2     Frey/Hirschi/Meichtry               Race Performance ORECA-Judd  3m43.619s
31.  P2     Holzer/Schultis/Moro                Kodewa Lola-Lotus            3m45.664s
32.  P2     Giroix/Johansson/Badey              Gulf Lola-Nissan             3m47.244s
33.  P2     Haezebrouck/Thirion/Rosier          Extreme Limite Norma-Judd    3m48.025s
34.  GTE P  Makowiecki/Melo/Farnbacher          Luxury Ferrari               3m55.393s
35.  GTE P  Fernandez/Mucke/Turner              Aston Martin                 3m55.870s
36.  GTE P  Gavin/Milner/Westbrook              Corvette                     3m55.910s
37.  GTE P  Bertolini/Beretta/Cioci             AF Corse Ferrari             3m56.484s
38.  GTE P  Taylor/Garcia/Magnussen             Corvette                     3m57.181s
39.  GTE A  Neiman/Pilet/Pumpelly               Flying Lizard Porsche        3m57.594s
40.  GTE P  Lieb/Lietz/Henzler                  Felbermayr-Proton Porsche    3m57.606s
41.  GTE P  Alfaisal/Curtis/Edwards             IMSA Porsche                 3m58.035s
42.  GTE P  Bergmeister/Long/Holzer             Flying Lizard Porsche        3m58.717s
43.  GTE A  Simonsen/Nygaard/Poulsen            Aston Martin                 3m58.725s
44.  GTE A  Ehret/Montecalvo/Jeannette          Luxury Ferrari               3m58.800s
45.  P2     Rostan/Ihara/Deletraz               Gulf Lola-Nissan             3m58.895s
46.  GTE A  Ried/Roda/Ruberti                   Felbermayr-Proton Porsche    3m59.181s
47.  GTE A  Bornhauser/Canal/Lamy               Larbre Corvette              3m59.192s
48.  GTE P  Walker/Cocker/Wills                 JMW Ferrari                  3m59.638s
49.  GTE P  Fisichella/Bruni/Vilander           AF Corse Ferrari             4m00.025s
50.  GTE A  Perazzini/Cadei/Griffin             AF Corse Ferrari             4m00.288s
51.  GTE A  Armindo/Narac/Pons                  IMSA Porsche                 4m00.332s
52.  GTE A  Kauffman/Aguas/Vickers              AF-Waltrip Ferrari           4m00.691s
53.  GTE A  Krohn/Jonsson/Rugolo                Krohn Ferrari                4m02.323s
54.  GTE A  Rodrigues/Ferte/Illiano             JMB Ferrari                  4m02.461s
55.  GTE A  Bourret/Gibon/Belloc                Larbre Corvette              4m02.969s
56.  GTE A  Camathias/Daniels/Palttala          JWA Porsche                  4m03.661s

gorsad · May 20, 2012

Hope for another great race, with (hopefully) the Toyotas winning. I've just noticed that the new Toyotas have a very flat front.

Any reason for this, surely a smooth front end leads to better air flow.

Wardy 944 · May 20, 2012

That looks a packed couple of weeks

👍

'Click to Enlarge' boy your not wrong there.

Tired Tyres · May 20, 2012

Looks like my annual one month subscription to the Eurosport Player is approaching.

Subject to confirmation of their coverage of Le Mans that is.

Chqr · May 20, 2012

Awkward moment if a driver of the Nissan Deltawing crashes.

Northstar · May 20, 2012

Hoping for a Corvette repeat.👍

Patrick · May 20, 2012

Justin
Hoping for a Corvette repeat.👍

Agreed. 👍

IceMan PJN · May 20, 2012

As an Audi fan (at least in terms of LMP), I'm hoping to see R18s on the podium.

I finally got mine in FM4 the other day. I wanted it for months but never coughed up the money for the DLC until recently.

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With a little luck, maybe they can sweep the podium.
*fingers crossed*

Furinkazen · May 20, 2012

IceMan PJN
As an Audi fan (at least in terms of LMP), I'm hoping to see R18s on the podium.

I finally got mine in FM4 the other day. I wanted it for months but never coughed up the money for the DLC until recently.

With a little luck, maybe they can sweep the podium.
*fingers crossed*

Audi will win this year, but its just how many have run-ins with Ferrari's... :rolleyes:

Toyota and Deltawing both could not have picked a more public debut, which is either going to very well or very bad.

Patrick · May 20, 2012

Can't wait to stay up for the whole race and chat with you guys. It was a blast during the Daytona 24.

Tired Tyres · May 20, 2012

IceMan PJN
As an Audi fan (at least in terms of LMP), I'm hoping to see R18s on the podium.

I finally got mine in FM4 the other day. I wanted it for months but never coughed up the money for the DLC until recently.

With a little luck, maybe they can sweep the podium.
*fingers crossed*

Like that's a stunningly unlikely thing to happen isn't it. :sly:

Personally I hope Toyota lap all the Audi's at least ten times.

Cowboys965 · May 21, 2012

Tired Tyres
Like that's a stunningly unlikely thing to happen isn't it.

Personally I hope Toyota lap all the Audi's at least ten times.

No, I want a good race. Actually that might be better since they may film GT.

Müle · May 21, 2012

$25 on Brian Vickers wrecking a prototype (lets make it a Toyota, just because)

$10 on him coming back out after the fact, and punting a Corvette into a wall.

Earth · May 21, 2012

Though an Audi R18 will win, the fun will be in which of the 4 R18s win

Cowboys965 · May 21, 2012

Earth
Though an Audi R18 will win, the fun will be in which of the 4 R18s win

They would still probably show that for 24 hours instead of GT.

terminator363 · May 21, 2012

It sucks Peugeot wont participate

Mac K · May 21, 2012

Justin
Hoping for a Corvette repeat.👍

Same here. GT battle should be great, and hoping Toyota wipes the floor with Audi.

Prince.M5 · May 21, 2012

Shame as I will be confirmed to not catch this race. On that same day, I will be moving away to further my studies and will leave my TV and Laptop at home for the first week :indiff:

If nothing happens, I'm pretty sure the Audi will win this race. I'm still unsure if Toyota can somehow produce an 'Audi like' pace and started to challenge them. I'm a little big gutted that there will be no BMW in this race this year. I guess even if I have to miss it, won't be much of a heartbreak.

gtone339 · May 21, 2012

Sorry I have to say this but go Toyota!!

prisonermonkeys · May 21, 2012

gorsad
Hope for another great race, with (hopefully) the Toyotas winning.

I very much doubt Toyota will win, though Audi had admitted that they expect the TS030 to be faster than the R18 e-tron in terms of raw pace. Whether or not they can go the distance remains to be seen.

LancerEvo7 · May 21, 2012

MÜLE_9242;7113463
$25 on Brian Vickers wrecking a prototype (lets make it a Toyota, just because)

Just one?

karl53 · May 21, 2012

i think that Toyota may perform like peugeot in '07, fastish, but unreliable

TayTheDay · May 21, 2012

karl53
i think that Toyota may perform like peugeot in '07, fastish, but unreliable

Yeah I'd go with that assumption too, though I really hope they do well. I'm also looking forward to seeing how reliable the Deltawing will be. I can't wait

ItsHim · May 21, 2012

Personally I'm a sucker for the LMP/GT cars mix and looking very much forward to seeing them on the track (on telly unfortunately).

I'm a bit unsure about Audi: it's a great success story for them lately, but I get a bit annoyed by the fact it's so plain obvious it's the one manufacturer winning who can throw the most equipment (and money) at the challenge. Audi is admittedly the one manufacturer most successful with this strategy, and thus prone to criticism while the others tend to slip under the radar.

Anyway, as long as it's endurance, I'm looking forward to it!

Wardy 944 · May 21, 2012

Tired Tyres
Looks like my annual one month subscription to the Eurosport Player is approaching.

Subject to confirmation of their coverage of Le Mans that is.

Yes it on Eurosport, according to their website they are going to show every minute of the race, if only 'ring was so lucky.

Racingworld68 · May 22, 2012

Grenade
Yes it on Eurosport, according to their website they are going to show every minute of the race, if only 'ring was so lucky.

Both Eurosport and Motors tv will be covering the 24hrs of Lemans. The fact we can not watch the ring has al to do with the fact these rights have been bought by that german tvstation (sport1) wich is a pay channel in Germany.

karl53 · May 22, 2012

Grenade
Yes it on Eurosport, according to their website they are going to show every minute of the race, if only 'ring was so lucky.

hmm...best get the doritos in then :lol:

Furinkazen · May 22, 2012

OAK Racing appear not satisfied with running a P1 and P2 with Morgan badges... are running Nissan and Judd engines... confused yet?
Q & A with Don Panoz about the Deltawing

TayTheDay · May 23, 2012

Seems like a few teams are taking quite a 'gamble' at Le Mans this year then (through choice or not) ...Anything to make the running more interesting is all good for us

I can't wait till testing starts.

hawkeye122 · May 23, 2012

DeltaWing... I cant see this as anything but bad news for the whole Sports Car community. At least LMP cars (Ok... Audi and Toyota) are somewhat relevant to the road cars. But now the DeltaWing... thats just a new formula of race car. The costs, rules, development... I dont see it as worth it.

Why not open the regs up a bit and let the teams come to that sort of thing on their own?

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