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

[Wiegert]

Seeing the Toyota garage all smiles seconds before their car gave up makes it all the more crushing.

You couldn't write this.

 

[sumbrownkid]

Brace yourselves boys you know the Crying Jordan memes are gonna start flooding in.

 

[Coiler]

Really hope Risi can contest against this penalty. All that to be just wasted because of some lights.

After the podium decoration who cares?

 

[LMSCorvetteGT2]

Damn I missed the start of F1 because of this shocker...just wow. Le Mans always shows it's true nature despite how much the ACO tries to screw it up.

 

[NW48]

I just... can't even. Just wow...

 

[Christian_C]

I might buy a 1:43 TS050 just to stamp on it.

That's the most crushing thing I've ever seen happen in a race.

 

[Silent Drifter]

#5 just finished in 2nd

 

[MR_COMMANDER]

Emotional RollerCoaster. This is le mans. This is truly unbelievable...

 

[2clicks]

That was incredibly anticlimactic.. Where was the communication between Nakajima and his team? I was expecting Jani to come in hot and meet up neck and neck coming into the home stretch. I cannot fathom how horrid Toyota must be feeling to not push it for the last lap.

This is my first time watching the 24h race since 2009, I finally got behind a manufacturer that had potential to snatch a maiden victory, only to have the victory cruelly snatched from them. Those melancholy faces in the Toyota paddock will stay with me for a while.

 

[lxmmy]

 

[comu]

Feel really sorry for those Japanese guys in the garage

 

[SiriusR]

If you were in the Porsche pit and you won like this, would you really be jumping and cheering like that?

I totally would.

 

[Panoz]

Last 5 minutes will down as Le Mans' greatest moment, the mixture of emotions during that period of time.

 

[CarBastard]

Ok, now that the #5 crossed the finish line I'm in tears. Seeing the crowd clapping...Hughes de Chaunac about to kill himself...****. This is absolutely soul-crushing.

 

[Vegard]

So, both the 2016 24H of Nurburgring and the 2016 24H du Mans were won on the final lap!

 

[Liquid]

Someone investigate whether Mazda have several TS050 voodoo models with pins in them.

 

[MustangManiac]

Le Mans...she never ceases to excite and amaze! Good spending the day/night/day with you all here at the planet, but I am toast. I have been up for 25 of the last 29 hours...I gotta get some sleep 👍

 

[IforceV8]

So, both the 2016 24H of Nurburgring and the 2016 24H du Mans were won on the final lap!

And the photo 1-2 finish at Daytona for Corvette.

 

[CarBastard]

Someone investigate whether Mazda have several TS050 voodoo models with pins in them.

As a Mazda-philiac, no, I didn't. I was in for a JDM YO! win

 

[[Nor]MclarenF1]

This is just too cruel. Considering how many times Toyota have been oh so close to victory, I wouldn't blame them for saying **** this and never set their foot at le mans ever again. Let's hope fate is on their side come 2017.

 

[McRae555]

I can't even believe this... My tears goes to Toyota and Hughes de Chaunac.

 

[IforceV8]

 

[GTracer98]

In any case, as much as I (and many others) wanted Toyota to be victorious...
Congratulations to Porsche! They still deserve an applause.

 

[LMSCorvetteGT2]

That was incredibly anticlimactic.. Where was the communication between Nakajima and his team? I was expecting Jani to come in hot and meet up neck and neck coming into the home stretch. I cannot fathom how horrid Toyota must be feeling to not push it for the last lap.

This is my first time watching the 24h race since 2009, I finally got behind a manufacturer that had potential to snatch a maiden victory, only to have the victory cruelly snatched from them. Those melancholy faces in the Toyota paddock will stay with me for a while.

Don't worry, give it a few more Le Mans and you'll be arguing with the rest of us, being a fan of this race changes you...

 

[G.T.Ace]

I never hoped that much that someone will be disqualified in the end.
I can't be happy for Porsche, I just can't. Toyota is getting screwed over since decades and a god damn VAG car wins again. This is not fair, just not fair. Porsche didn't deserve this win as much as Toyota, not even remotely.

 

[IforceV8]

#5 Toyota DQ'd

 

[CarBastard]

I never hoped that much that someone will be disqualified in the end.
I can't be happy for Porsche, I just can't. Toyota is getting screwed over since decades and a god damn VAG car wins again. This is not fair, just not fair. Porsche didn't deserve this win as much as Toyota, not even remotely.

My thoughts exactly. There's nothing to celebrate from a gentleman's point of view, you were handled the victory but you were inferior in every respect.

If I was one of the guys in #2 I'd just hand my bitchin' new Rolex to Nakajima and bow down to him.

 

[FoRiZon]

Fun fact:

The famously Le Mans live streamer in Youtube ends his stream in dissapointment 10 seconds after Porsche crosses the finish line.

Indeed. The whole race felt like a giant middle finger for Toyota and its fans.

 

[LMSCorvetteGT2]

I never hoped that much that someone will be disqualified in the end.
I can't be happy for Porsche, I just can't. Toyota is getting screwed over since decades and a god damn VAG car wins again. This is not fair, just not fair. Porsche didn't deserve this win as much as Toyota, not even remotely.

I mean I agree Toyota deserved it, but you know Porsche worked just as hard. IT isn't Porsche's fault.

 

[Cano]

#5 Toyota DQ'd

Just saw that.All the more heart-breaking.