2016 Le Mans 24 Hours - 15th to 19th June 2016

[Vinylshark]

Maybe they should consider to rename that corner.

 

[Tired Tyres]

Slow zone. Better than a safety car.

 

[Panoz]

Pegasus Racing hates Mulsanne Corner.

 

[catamount39]

Wanted a SC...

 

[GTFan24]

Last snack, ACTIVATE:
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HUNGER INTENSIFIES

 

[Savolainen83]

By the way, is there any way to change the setting for how many post one can see in one page? At the current pace the messages keep coming in faster than i can read them, even when using auto refresher because I still need to manually change the page?

 

[Tired Tyres]

Wanted a SC...

Boo. SC is pure fakery. I totally hate them in endurance races.

 

[GTracer98]

Wanted a SC...

No.

 

[IforceV8]

Pegasus have passed the audition and will now enter the Imsa PC class starting at the Glen in two weeks.

 

[Bram Turismo]

Plebs gonna pleb I suppose.

If Ford want an empty victory that much, they can have it. Maybe it'll move metal on the showrooms, which is what they're after obviously, but every race-fan will know and remember what happened here 👎. As far as history is concerned, this has been a pretty pathetic race with the artificial rivalry between Ford and Ferrari.

Ford and Ferrari just have better cars, end of story.

It's up to the competition to build better cars. For all I care, there wouldn't be such things as BoP's. If you can't keep up, come back with a better product.

 

[comu]

What happened to the Ferraris?

 

[Nexus]

The Porsche stream starts lagging after about a minute for me, and I can't get the Corvette stream working at all. Anyone else having these problems?

 

[SiriusR]

What happened to the Ferraris?

You mean AF Corse's 488s? What happened to them is Italian car quality.

 

[catamount39]

The Porsche stream starts lagging after about a minute for me, and I can't get the Corvette stream working at all. Anyone else having these problems?

Considering the race's they've had, doesn't surprise me.

 

[Bram Turismo]

That female racing driver is the prettiest thing I've seen this race. Too bad we see so few of them

 

[CarBastard]

Ford and Ferrari just have better cars, end of story.

It's up to the competition to build better cars. For all I care, there wouldn't be such things as BoP's. If you can't keep up, come back with a better product.

See:

Don't get me wrong, I like the Ford GT and I think it's a wonderful piece of kit. If I had it my way, it'd be a "run what you brought" kind of race with almost no limits. But I don't call the shots, the ACO does and that's why I disapprove what Ford and Ferrari (specially Ford since they had the cheek to say "Oh BS, we're not sandbagging! The others are just whinning") have done this year.

If the category was called "Build the baddest, fastest mutha that has ever lapped La Sarthe and build a few homologation specials", then by all means Ford should win. But that's not the reasoning behind LMGTE, or is it?

I agree with you, it's a lovely ideal. But it's not the name of the game according to the ACO, you're not supposed to build a vastly better product so your rivals come back with a better product to best the vastly better product, even if it costs a :censored:load of money to develop. The BoP is there precisely to avoid that, to avoid escalating costs a la late 90s with the LMGTPs and to avoid thin grids like in GT1 (where it was a two horse race between Aston and Corvette). Would I send the BoP packing and return to the good 'ol GT1 days? Sure. But that's not the point and it's not our call.

 

[GTFan24]

The dream lemans race: Tracy Krohn, Vadim Kogay,Pator Maldonado, Pegasus Racing all in Ferraris

 

[UnkaD]

I'm glad I got up early to watch the end live, 'cause Faux Sports changed their schedule again! I would have been greeted by a recording of golf.

Fingers crossed for Toyota.

 

[Silent Drifter]

1 more hour

 

[MR_COMMANDER]

The driver who had 4 limbs amputated.. What a hero. What a team effort.

 

[GTFan24]

1. Hour. Left!

 

[LMSCorvetteGT2]

Ford and Ferrari just have better cars, end of story.

It's up to the competition to build better cars. For all I care, there wouldn't be such things as BoP's. If you can't keep up, come back with a better product.

In what sense? I mean the cars are built to the spec of the sport, and fit in with that. If teams like Porsche, Aston, and Chevy don't have a V8 tt or V6tt why should they go back and spend tons of money R&D wise to do it. It's quite the cop out to say "they just built a better car" when realistically in the real world the GT isn't anywhere near a Z06, 911 turbo or V8 Vantage... The 488 might be.

They brought a car that fit the rules, and what failed them was that the ACO some how forgot how to BoP NA vs Turbo. When they've done it for years at the very top of the ladder. So does this mean that Chevy should be allowed to bring a Supercharger next year, and Porsche a tt inline six mid mounted? And what happens when they go unreasoanblly fast after not seeming so, would you say the same thing? Cause I wouldn't I'd be mad if my team deviated from what I've seen them do for year after year which is go out there show what they have and race hard to win.

Ferrari, not surprised by this, they pull this crap everywhere they go. Ford I expected better.

 

[Savolainen83]

That female racing driver is the prettiest thing I've seen this race. Too bad we see so few of them

Google is your friend: http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=ines+taittinger

 

[Silent Drifter]

The driver who had 4 limbs amputated.. What a hero. What a team effort.

Yes, and far as I know. They've stayed out of trouble too.

 

[CarBastard]

The dream lemans race: Tracy Krohn, Vadim Kogay,Pator Maldonado, Pegasus Racing all in Ferraris

If those got together to form a team it wouldn't be a racing crew but a wrecking crew!

 

[Cobra_GT500]

1hour to go guys been a really great race. A shame about the Pegasus team . Come on Ford GT.

 

[Bealdor]

Toyota lead down to 28 seconds...

 

[Vinylshark]

Last hour already
A whole year you keep waiting for the race, getting more and more excited with each week that passes and then when the race is finally here - poof - it's already over again and you have to wait for next year again

 

[GOTMAXPOWER]

The dream lemans race: Tracy Krohn, Vadim Kogay,Pator Maldonado, Pegasus Racing all in Ferraris

I nominate replacing Maldonado with BTCC legend Mark Howard, the man who consistently manages to spin a front wheel drive VW at least once every race.

 

[NW48]

Last hour already
A whole year you keep waiting for the race, getting more and more excited with each week that passes and then when the race is finally here - poof - it's already over again and you have to wait for next year again

My thoughts exactly.