24 Hours of Dubai 2012

[SuperShouden]

Out of the three Nissan GT Academy cars, the Gamer car is doing the best. the #120 370Z is 10th in class and the GT-R GT3 is last place overall.

 

[Famine]

The GT-R retired.

Also, Rob Barff's Ferrari 458 has had issues in 45th, 9 laps down on the #100.

 

[CodeRedR51]

The GT-R retired.

Also, Rob Barff's Ferrari 458 has had issues in 45th, 9 laps down on the #100.

I thought they retired already with gearbox issues.

 

[Morgoth_666]

I thought they retired already with gearbox issues.

No this is the other one. It's the car that spun to bring out the second Code 60... just after being repaired from getting cracked by the unpenalized Viper. The driver got out and the car is apparently still out off-track.

 

[DCSemi]

How come Jann is driving #120!?

I thought he was in the #100 Car team?!

 

[Morgoth_666]

How come Jann is driving #120!?

I thought he was in the #100 Car team?!

He's in two cars for extra seat time. I think Bryan is as well. Lucas mentioned something about it in an interview.

 

[SuperShouden]

The Viper is currently 3rd in class, but is the fastest. The #100 Z is running faster than the Mustang in front of it, but running some of the slowest lap times of the top five in class. So, either they're pacing themselves and hoping the 3-4 cars in front mess up, or they need to step it up. But not yet. save the sprint racing for the last 2 hours or so.

 

[DCSemi]

He's in two cars for extra seat time. I think Bryan is as well. Lucas mentioned something about it in an interview.

Sorry pal. I'm very noobish with those kind of races. I didn't know it was possible to do that hah!

Oh well! I'll learn ^^

 

[nitrorocks]

Schools almost over...I'm watching it when I get home! Who is leading overall?

 

[zocker_16]

News from Jordan via FB:

"Good night stint after a few issues (brakes then air filter) but the car is now perfect ! We are getting closer from the class leader !"

Also he said they had about 60 degree in car early in the race because of problems with the cooling system
Don´t think thats a nice temperature to drive an endurance race...

 

[C-ZETA]

Schools almost over...I'm watching it when I get home! Who is leading overall?

#3 Black Falcon SLS AMG.

 

[AlphaAndius]

Their rocksteady climb from 51st position to 38th position is impressive!

So far so good. XD

 

[Famine]

It might be worth noting that at one point the Guttroff Corvette was last in SP2 and 14 laps down. It's currently 3 laps down on the class-leading Megane...

 

[CodeRedR51]

The SP2 leader Renault Megane has been in the pits with body damage. That whole class seems to be closing up. Only a 6 lap spread from the lead to Bryan who is currently on track. That is much better than the 20+ laps when I started watching!

 

[Famine]

Indeed. The DNRT V8 stock car seems to be in a world of hurt though - it seems to have spent more of the race in the pits than moving.

 

[CodeRedR51]

It's actually 4 laps now.

The Viper will re-take the lead here shortly.

 

[Toyinster]

What's code 60?

 

[CodeRedR51]

Full course caution.

 

[Famine]

Full course caution.

Essentially it's an instruction to all cars on track to stick to a 60km/h (pitlane) speed limit, to allow safe recovery of vehicles without a safety car bunching the pack up.

SP2 Viper is now in the lead by a whisker from the Megane and Corvette (!) with Bryan a couple of laps back and the Mustang a couple of laps behind him Best lap still looks like Lucas's 2'12.2, though I saw Jann running 2'13s for a whole string of laps.

 

[JTSnooks]

Looks like they're only 4 laps behind the class leader now, they've caught up quickly (mostly thanks to the rest of the class having issues).

1st, 2nd, and 3rd are running 31st, 32nd, and 33rd overall. Close race.

 

[SuperShouden]

Gamer team 3rd fastest in class last lap!

 

[Famine]

Bryan's about to take the car back into its start position as he passes the Foerch Racing Porsche that's been in the pits for an hour...

 

[CodeRedR51]

Yep, up to 36th.

 

[Toyinster]

#103 Megane Team Manager called to Race Director - wonder what's happened.

 

[Famine]

Woo! Next up... an A2 class Integra and an A6 997 both in the pits - and then the top four SP2 cars are in successive positons

 

[JTSnooks]

Woo! Next up... an A2 class Integra and an A6 997 both in the pits - and then the top four SP2 cars are in successive positons

And all 4 are running very similar times. Well, except the Viper, who's running 2 seconds a lap faster than the rest.

 

[SuperShouden]

The commentators just mentioned the Gamer team has made up about 6 laps and is now only 4 laps behind the #101 GT3 Racing Viper.

 

[Aloha62_2]

Code 60 is a excellent idea and I really believe it should be brought in for all enduro racing, the pace limit and 'jokers' nonsense can go jump off a cliff though racing is already too artificial.

 

[JTSnooks]

Mustang has caught up and is on the same lap as the 370Z. Bryan's in the pits, so might get passed up. The Mustang is only running about a second slower than his quickest lap, 2 seconds quicker than the 370's quickest lap.

 

[Famine]

Bryan's been in the pits a while - 11 minutes right now, twice as long as a normal stop...