2021 Le Mans 24 Hours: Streams, Links, and DiscussionSports Cars

[Tired Tyres]

Very nearly half way now. To be honest, I expected an LMP2 to be in the lead by now.

 

[Savolainen83]

How many people awake and on this thread?

 

[David]

Everyone going off track all at once again.

 

[Savolainen83]

#7 Toyota stopped trackside. EDIT: got it going again.

 

[MSZ]

How many people awake and on this thread?

10:34pm here, still too early for me to sleep.

 

[David]

Hah he was surprised to still be in the lead .

 

[Tired Tyres]

Second time he's gone off there this year.

 

[David]

Well that sucks for the Mags.

 

[Silent Drifter]

Geeze, I've been watching for the last 3 hours, being two hours behind the action. Stupid MotorTrend app, lol. Went from 13 hours left to 11 hours left. Was curious on why when Corvette Racing posted, being half way through the race, and I was still with 14 hours remaining yet.

 

[sk8er913]

#7 Toyota is complaining about low brake temps, think this could jeopardize their lead?

 

[Jezza819]

Here comes the dawn.

 

[Nielsen]

Here comes the dawn.

And the fatigue. 23 hours since I’ve slept properly. Since then only two brief naps, but it’s worth it.

 

[Savolainen83]

It appears that Toyota #8 might be having some technical niggles, strange vibrations from gearbox or something like that.

 

[Jezza819]

#8 Toyota stopped on track but did the cntrl+alt+del thing and got going again.

 

[Silent Drifter]

#8 is slow again

Edit: Now back up to speed

 

[Touring Mars]

Big blow out for Sam Bird in the #52 Ferrari, and its ripping a good chunk of the front of the car off.

That's going to take ages to get back to the pits...

 

[GBalao888]

I honestly hope the #8 wins, so that Nakajima and Buemi would get their fourth Le Mans victory in a row. The gap behind the #7 is getting quite worrisome.

But in the end, it's still Toyota who wins.

 

[Savolainen83]

Full course yellow. Track cleaning and restoration being done.

 

[Savolainen83]

Slow zone at the Playstation chicane. Someone has hit the tyre barriers, no info yet who was the culprit.

 

[Firehound427]

Slow zone at the Playstation chicane. Someone has hit the tyre barriers, no info yet who was the culprit.

It appears to have been the Rinaldi Ferrari backing into the barrier hard.

EDIT: Eurosport commentary mentioning potential gearbox issues for both Toyotas. Could this end up costing TGR? Maybe not, but it'll still make things interesting as we head towards the final three hours...

 

[Tired Tyres]

It appears to have been the Rinaldi Ferrari backing into the barrier hard.

EDIT: Eurosport commentary mentioning potential gearbox issues for both Toyotas. Could this end up costing TGR? Maybe not, but it'll still make things interesting as we head towards the final three hours...

The wec feed says it's a fuel pickup problem.

 

[Firehound427]

Interesting way for the WRT mechanics to check the suspension there...

 

[Touring Mars]

The race leader was mighty close to being taken out by a spinning GTE AM car about 15 mins ago, but the commentary team seemed more interested in the other GTE AM car that also went off as the #95 car spun at the Dunlop curves, but it was the #7 Toyota that was first on the scene and had to take evasive action to avoid a collision...

 

[Savolainen83]

It would be really unfortunate if the Toyota #8 would drop out of the podium because of the problems they have.

 

[Touring Mars]

The leading LMP Pro/Am car (Dragonspeed/JP Montoya's team) is going slow and at risk of losing the class lead...

... looks like they ran out of fuel but have managed to get out of the pits still in the lead.

 

[GTracer38]

Missed a section of the race.

What happened with the #31?
Were they just running out of sync earlier, because the seemed to have dropped a fair bit on the #41 and #28.

 

[Savolainen83]

Missed a section of the race.

What happened with the #31?
Were they just running out of sync earlier, because the seemed to have dropped a fair bit on the #41 and #28.

i believe there was contact with #41 at some point, and it still affects the car. I might be wrong thou.

EDIT: Porsche #91 cuts the Ford chicanes and loses its diffuser and scatters bits and pieces along the way, resulting in a full course yellow.

 

[Ether]

Porsche upgrading its aero package mid-race with a bumper/defuser delete...actually looks really cool.

Now FCY...

 

[Firehound427]

#91 Porsche giving us a good look at the latest RSR's center-exit exhaust there.

 

[VulcanSpirit]

Back to green with 58 minutes on the clock; #91 Porsche has received the meatball flag.