2008 24 Hours of Le Mans

[Muzaffar]

Well just watched the warm up session on Eurosport, and bloody hell, the Peugeot are dominating warm up! Frank Montagny set the fastest time of 3.20.xxx!!!! What on earth are they showboating for, you know they will have mechanical problems running like this. The Audi of Allan McNish was only 3.26.xxx and is the fastest of the Audis.

Also, can't believe I don't have Eurosport 2 on my tv..... But I think I just found a Eurosport 2 stream on the internet, so for you guys who didn't get to watch the race and have a fast internet connection, your lucky to get to watch this for 24 hours.....
http://www.online-television.tv/channel/Sport/2564/EuroSport_2/

 

[daan]

McNish's Audi went half a second faster using race trim in the warmup, than it did in qualifying.

I'd like to see Peugeot winning, but I think they'll break, and Audi will come through for the win.

EDIT:

Well just watched the warm up session on Eurosport, and bloody hell, the Peugeot are dominating warm up! Frank Montagny set the fastest time of 3.20.xxx!!!! What on earth are they showboating for, you know they will have mechanical problems running like this. The Audi of Allan McNish was only 3.26.xxx and is the fastest of the Audis.

McNish was 3'23.319

http://www.lemans.org/24heuresdumans/chronos/pdf/warmup/warm-Up.pdf

 

[prisonermonkeys]

Well just watched the warm up session on Eurosport, and bloody hell, the Peugeot are dominating warm up! Frank Montagny set the fastest time of 3.20.xxx!!!! What on earth are they showboating for, you know they will have mechanical problems running like this.

Maybe they're not showboating. What if they've found a way to run at tht pace whilst remaining consistent? Back in the 1920s when the event was first held, the cars were covering just over 2000km; since then, we're comfortably and consistently doubled that. Since 1953 the race winners have done over 4000km, and the 5000km mark was broken in 1967, has been broken 14 times in the thirty-eight races since, and the past six events have all covered that mark. The cars have clearly gotten faster whilst maintaining reliablity. What if Peugeot have just taken the next evolutionary step in sportscar racing? There's nothing to say such evolution has to follow a consistent trend; it can come in leaps and bounds just as easily.

 

[Motominded]

http://www.badboyvettes.com/pitcam
chat room with johnny o coneal right now from the c6r!

live timing and scoring
24 Heures du Mans-24 Heures-Race

new video stream - crap quality
Watch Live Online TV Channels - Eurosport 2 - Free internet Television

Live Directory - Sports - Most Viewers - Justin.tv
will resume live stream at 6:15pm france time

anyone else have a good stream they found that works on vlc or is a tube link?

 

[Bram Turismo]

Peugeot kicking ass, Dome in 8th! 👍

 

[Appie]

I heard the Dutch commentator saying that Dome might work with an big Japanese manufacturer like Toyota and their also planning to release an Japanese GT1 car. I really hope that can come true:tup:

 

[GT4 genius]

Is there anywhere to watch this?

 

[Bram Turismo]

Currently following through SpeedTV stream, but Speed has way too much commercial breaks, every 15 minutes or so 👎

Motors TV still remains my favourit

 

[Muzaffar]

Oh great, I'm missing a lot on Le Mans.... 👎 But good thing I'm listening to Radio Le Mans.... 👍
Is there any other live stream out there? I'm tried finding it, but most of them won't even start.....

 

[Loon]

http://www.justin.tv/chrizzzie

 

[Bram Turismo]

Oh great, I'm missing a lot on Le Mans.... 👎 But good thing I'm listening to Radio Le Mans.... 👍
Is there any other live stream out there? I'm tried finding it, but most of them won't even start.....

TVUPlayer 👍

 

[daan]

That doesn't look much like a "flying" lizard...

 

[Motominded]

http://www.corvettemotorsport.com/media.htm

video stream!!

 

[Loon]

Dang, the one I was watching just quit broadcasting.

EDIT: Back now, yay!

 

[Bram Turismo]

That doesn't look much like a "flying" lizard...

Yeah too bad, but what happened to the AM Lola? I haven't seen the crash of that car...

 

[daan]

Yeah too bad, but what happened to the AM Lola? I haven't seen the crash of that car...

It spun off at the first corner, hitting both ends off of the tyres.

Good fight between the Astons and Corvettes as usual. 👍

 

[Loon]

It spun off at the first corner, hitting both ends off of the tyres.

Good fight between the Astons and Corvettes as usual. 👍

Yeah, I'm not sure who to root for. I like the Astons, but being American I want the Corvettes to win as well.

 

[Speedster502]

Astons behind the Vettes at the moment, very close battles at the moment.

 

[daan]

Best nickname ever.

Tomas "the tank" Enge

 

[Sonzilla]

http://www.corvettemotorsport.com/media.htm

For some reason I cant get any audio.

 

[Sonzilla]

My Firefox browser isn't allowing any audio from Justin.tv stream but IE works just fine.

 

[Bram Turismo]

It spun off at the first corner, hitting both ends off of the tyres.

Good fight between the Astons and Corvettes as usual. 👍

It could've been better if the Saleen was mixed up with them as well, I really miss the competitiveness from this car

 

[McLaren]

LIVE STREAMS UPDATES......

These are visable in the USA.

What looks like a stream from Eurosport.

http://www.justin.tv/giac2007

The badboycorvettes pit camera

http://www.justin.tv/badboyvettes


Im still looking for more.

This was working. Now it's always this.

"The...Au..di...is...curre...ntly...tr...ying to...cat...ch the...Peu...geot."
Sounds like someone with a damn speech impediment because the video is always buffering.

 

[GT4 genius]

This was working. Now it's always this.

"The...Au..di...is...curre...ntly...tr...ying to...cat...ch the...Peu...geot."
Sounds like someone with a damn speech impediment because the video is always buffering.

Yeah it was fine at the start of the race but now its unwatchable.

 

[McLaren]

Yeah it was fine at the start of the race but now its unwatchable.

Seems to be fine now, with a few skips. It's super annoying though.

 

[Sonzilla]

Rugby again

How do I get it to stop switching over?

 

[McLaren]

Rugby again

How do I get it to stop switching over?

You can't. EuroSport 2 is now covering LeMans.

 

[Metar]

There's another feed here, which appears to be commentary-free. I just combine this and the official timing screens.


Montagny is on fire, he made up a second or two on Villeneuve every lap until the latter got replaced by Gene. He made almost 45 seconds in one hour.. Too bad Lamy's efforts will go to waste, the car is driven on the limit (within the 3'22s), but 5 laps on the Audis is too much. Hopefully they'll make it through the night. They're absolutely destroying the field, but they might be destroying their cars at the same time..

 

[Motominded]

The http://www.corvettemotorsport.com/media.htm

seems most reliable for me, i got that hooked up to the big screen, and radiolemans on the speakers.

If they video does have a couple of slow downs, its not too bad cause the radio lemans coverage makes you miss the little faults completly.

After 7 hours

24 Heures -- Race

Pos N° Team Cls Driver in Pit Laps Gap LastLap BestLap Now Stop

1 9 Peugeot Sport Total LMP1 KLIEN C. 117 3:30.160 3:20.600 Run 13

2 7 Team Peugeot Total LMP1 GENE M. 116 1 Lap 3:28.193 3:21.438 Run 12

3 2 Audi Sport North America LMP1 KRISTENSEN T. 116 1:24.326 3:29.443 3:24.152 Run 9

4 1 Audi Sport North America LMP1 BIELA F. 115 2 Laps 3:32.125 3:25.166 Run 9

5 3 Audi Sport Team Joest LMP1 ROCKENFELLER M. 115 6.985 3:36.647 3:23.939 Run 10

6 5 Team Oreca Matmut LMP1 AYARI S. 112 5 Laps 3:34.842 3:31.138 Run 9

7 17 Pescarolo Sport LMP1 PRIMAT H. 111 6 Laps 3:38.203 3:30.610 Run 9

8 8 Team Peugeot Total LMP1 SARRAZIN S. 111 5.571 3:21.524 3:19.394 Run 10

9 11 Dome Racing Team LMP1 ITO D. 111 11.514 3:36.844 3:29.504 Run 10

10 6 Team Oreca Matmut LMP1 PANIS O. 111 29.664 3:36.673 3:30.147 Run 10

11 16 Pescarolo Sport LMP1 BOULLION J.C. 110 7 Laps 4:52.590 3:31.114 Run 10

12 34 Van Merksteijn Motorsport LMP2 VERSTAPPEN J. 110 1:49.401 3:36.452 3:34.188 Run 8

13 18 Rollcentre Racing LMP1 GREGOIRE S. 109 8 Laps 3:39.436 3:35.601 Run 9

14 31 Team Essex LMP2 NIELSEN J. 109 50.018 3:42.918 3:37.229 Run 9

15 20 Epsilon Euskadi LMP1 DE CASTRO M.A. 108 9 Laps 3:42.439 3:35.401 Run 9

16 33 Speedy Racing Team Sebah LMP2 ZACCHIA S. 107 10 Laps 3:47.793 3:37.472 Run 12

17 45 Embassy Racing LMP2 KANE J. 105 12 Laps 3:44.085 3:42.676 Run 9

18 35 Saulnier Racing LMP2 RAGUES P. 105 2.258 3:48.431 3:44.293 Run 9

19 63 Corvette Racing LMGT1 MAGNUSSEN J. 104 13 Laps 3:51.067 3:50.650 Run 7

20 32 Barazi Epsilon LMP2 VERGERS M. 104 29.064 3:44.572 3:39.082 Run 8

21 4 Saulnier Racing LMP1 HEIN R. 104 48.207 3:47.676 3:44.819 Run 8

22 12 Charouz Racing System LMP1 GRAF K. 104 50.521 3:36.154 3:35.596 Run 10

23 009 Aston Martin Racing LMGT1 GARCIA A. 104 1:05.574 3:52.016 3:50.194 Run 8

24 007 Aston Martin Racing LMGT1 PICCINI A. 103 14 Laps 4:02.094 3:50.957 Run 8

25 40 Quifel ASM Team LMP2 SMITH G. 103 2:54.078 4:41.363 3:41.064 Run 9

26 64 Corvette Racing LMGT1 GAVIN O. 103 3:39.162 3:51.951 3:50.623 Run 7

27 10 Charouz Racing System LMP1 CHAROUZ J. 103 4:26.547 3:31.149 3:28.131 Run 10

28 72 Luc Alphand Aventures LMGT1 MOREAU G. 102 15 Laps 3:56.177 3:54.006 Run 8

29 59 Team Modena LMGT1 MENTEN J. 100 17 Laps 3:57.605 3:54.127 Run 10

30 82 Risi Competizione LMGT2 MELO J. 99 18 Laps 4:04.682 4:02.086 Run 7

31 73 Luc Alphand Aventures LMGT1 BLANCHEMAIN J.L. 99 16.217 4:05.676 3:57.217 Run 9

32 77 Team Felbermayr-Proton LMGT2 DAVISON A. 99 24.815 4:01.293 4:00.709 Run 7

33 96 Virgo Motorsport LMGT2 BELL R. 98 19 Laps 4:05.135 4:01.559 Run 7

34 78 AF Corse SRL LMGT2 BIAGI T. 98 13.346 4:09.131 4:04.091 Run 7

35 97 BMS Scuderia Italia LMGT2 RUBERTI P. 98 2:48.014 4:05.205 4:02.776 Run 8

36 90 Farnbacher Racing LMGT2 KAFFER P. 97 20 Laps 4:53.160 4:03.381 Run 8

37 99 JMB Racing LMGT2 FERTE A. 95 22 Laps 4:08.471 4:04.738 Run 7

38 25 RML LMP2 NEWTON M. 94 23 Laps 4:18.793 3:43.082 Run 10

39 23 Autocon LMP1 McMURRY C. 89 28 Laps 3:55.592 3:43.217 Run 10

40 26 Bruichladdich Radical LMP2 JEANNETTE G. 87 30 Laps 3:49.922 3:46.031 Run 10

41 14 Creation AIM LMP1 GOOSSENS M. 86 31 Laps 3:46.035 3:39.052 Run 11

42 50 Larbre Competition LMGT1 BORNHAUSER P. 86 11.998 4:01.119 3:51.727 Run 8

43 44 Kruse Schiller Motorsport LMP2 de POURTALES J. 84 33 Laps 3:54.371 3:46.061 Run 10

44 53 Vitaphone Racing Team LMGT1 LEVENTIS N. 82 35 Laps 5:39.834 3:55.102 Run 7

45 22 Tokai University YGK LMP1 SUZUKI T. 76 41 Laps 4:08.754 3:52.274 Run 10

46 94 Speedy Racing Team LMGT2 ALEXANDER-DAVID I. 72 45 Laps 4:11.369 4:07.980 Run 8

47 55 IPB Spartak Racing LMGT1 RUSINOV R. 69 48 Laps 4:04.229 3:55.713 Run 6

48 21 Epsilon Euskadi LMP1 NAKANO S. 62 55 Laps 6:21.266 3:37.638 Run 6

49 80 Flying Lizard Motorsports LMGT2 VAN OVERBEEK J. 61 56 Laps 4:36.008 3:59.887 Run 8

50 19 Chamberlain Synergy LMP1 BERRIDGE B. 59 58 Laps 3:45.648 3:41.859 Run 6

51 24 Terramos LMP1 KATOH H. 56 61 Laps 3:49.258 3:41.589 Run 7

52 85 Snoras Spyker Squadron LMGT2 DUMBRECK P. 43 74 Laps 4:28.543 4:07.225 Run 5

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[Metar]

Just a question, who are those lame Tokai University guys? They're about 30 seconds off the pace, or 20 if you look only at the petrols.