80th running of the Le Mans 24 Hours - 16–17 June 2012

[Emptyone]

Well you have your idea, my idea is you can bring everything you want at Le Mans, green cars, ecological cars, delta wings, whatever you want as long as you try to actually COMPETE with the rest of the field.

IMO There's no point on going to Le Mans and being trolled by normal prototypes.

If you are not ready for competition make your private test, a good video promo and that' about it.

The point is it wasn't allowed to compete with the LMP1 cars by the A.C.O, because Audi and Toyota wouldn't allow it, thus they were limited to LMP2 pace. They were set a target laptime of 3:45.xxx by the A.C.O, so as not to compete. It was designed as a test of technology and it did well in that, pitting less and not changing tyres for many hours, which is fairly impressive.

 

[Demon Drone]

But it won't. Garage 56 is already taken for next year and there won't be any rule changes in anything to support it any time soon.

That's a damn shame then.

 

[Ardius]

Didn't Peugeot drop out due to money problems? I seem to recall the head of Peugeot (or whoever is in charge), say that he didn't find it fair to lay off people, in favor of participating in the 2012 Le Mans. They simply prioritized not having to fire people.

Nothing to stop them selling the 908 Hybrids to a privateer team (Pescarolo?) and injecting a lower amount of money. The way they have it now is that they have effectively lost all the money they spent developing the cars wth no return.

 

[Dennisch]

Nr 7 Toyota is back out!

 

[Fido_le_muet]

#7 Toyota back on track !

Or not...

 

[C-ZETA]

It lives 👍

 

[Cano]

Toyota out to race now. Like 86777347 laps later.

 

[CarBastard]

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Didn't Peugeot drop out due to money problems? Didn't the head of Peugeot (or whoever is in charge), say that he didn't find it fair to lay off people, in favor of participating in the 2012 Le Mans. They simply prioritized not having to fire people.

Yeah, that's true. Nevertheless, it's a shame they had to axe their racing program. I think one of the problems is that Peugeot only saw it as advertising for their crappy roadcars and that's why the management board didn't cared much about the Le Mans program. VW Group justifies the expense of Le Mans by actually using the technology in their roadcars, or at least thats what I naïvely believe

 

[SubaruWRC555]

bbc stream is pretty good, may watch this more than speed

 

[Furinkazen]

44th overall, 10th in class...

 

[karl53]

Car 7 back out...yay

 

[Mac K]

Well you have your idea, my idea is you can bring everything you want at Le Mans, green cars, ecological cars, delta wings, whatever you want as long as you try to actually COMPETE with the rest of the field.

IMO There's no point on going to Le Mans and being trolled by normal prototypes. You only "lessen" your technology.

If you are not ready for competition make your private test, a good video promo and that' about it.

Ya... Okay then Rather sad to see the Deltawing go out, the team seems pretty bummed.

 

[obsessive rules]

C'mon Toyota!

 

[Furinkazen]

And it won't start

 

[Cano]

Er. wtf.

HAHAHA the Toyota guys running to retrieve it.

 

[SubaruWRC555]

toyota mechanics running down pit lane

 

[Squach240]

But you are still RACING. Even if you are not in LMP1 class what Nissan proved with this Delta thing? The only thing they proved is they can run 14 second slower than top LMP1. What an achievement.

Worldwide marketing for running 14 seconds slower. Hmm.

 

[robert1]

#7 Toyota back on track !

if thats the 7 that just stoped .. didnt last long

 

[karl53]

run toyota, run

 

[Furinkazen]

LMP2 going off... Starworks?

 

[obsessive rules]

bbc stream is pretty good, may watch this more than speed

Link please.

 

[Downhill Dino]

Back ya go Toyota! Nissan got their wishes.

 

[bermudakid]

Reliability gets the toyota...

 

[Dennisch]

And the #7 is pushed back to the box..

 

[Jawehawk]

Nothing to stop them selling the 908 Hybrids to a privateer team (Pescarolo?) and injecting a lower amount of money.

Well, there was nothing stopping Team Oreca from using their first generation 908 HDI Fap's. I believe they chose to replace those with the TS030's?

perhaps Peugeot is holding the new 908's back until next year.

 

[C-ZETA]

It dies 👎

 

[TankAss95]

Yeah. The fantastic battle we had at that time would've continued seamlessly, but as Ferrari took the Toyota out, everything went down the drain.

Yeah. I feel really sad now. 👎

Epic race ruined.

 

[Odnomre]

Audi # 2 just took a bite of gravel on the 2nd chicane of Huandiers our whatever the straight's called

 

[Jsoccer9]

Shame, Toyota can't get anything right. The #7 car just stopped at the end of the pit lane

 

[hornet_burnout]

OMG, did another overtake on a Ferrari just happen in the same spot, without a crash? Again? How can this be?

/irony