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82nd Running Of The Le Mans 24 Hours - 14/15 June 2014.
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But if the Ferrari was much slower it can't have hit the Toyota from behind, the damage on the rear of the Toyota is probably from one of the hits with the barrier when it was spinning down the straight.
I think its more likely that Lapierre had aquaplaning (like Chandhok was talking about in the second storm) and assumed he had been hit because he was on intermediates.
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Fixed it for you.
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Because a dominant team kills the sport for most people. Just look at Red Bull (although nowadays it's Merc, a prime example of the stupidity of this mentality) in F1.
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No need to worry. It's simply to make sure the car will be perfect for the last part of the race. No problems or anything like that.
The Aston #95 is fine people. This garage stop was planned.
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I hope they let them race until the last lap instead of having the ceremonial finish, LMP2 deserves to run to the flag.
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Rebellion gonna end above Porsche! 
Simplicity, I tell you...
Simplicity, I tell you... 
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Toyota didn't won a gazillion of LeMans races almost consecutively. If Toyota manage a win it would have been like David vs. Golia. I know some people always cheers for the richest and strongest but still.
I guess they prefer you watch Audi advertising over and over again.
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Power Steering issues for #95??? 
Ohhh come on, that's just not true. A David Vs. Goliath story would've been Pescarolo Sport beating both of them, or Rebellion Racing. Toyota a "David"? Did David had the budget of one of the world's most massive manufacturers? Did David had a cheat rear wing assembly? Was David the fastest car on track in qualifying and had the fastest laptime? Did David had the HUUUUUUUUUGE facilites of TMG at Cologne? Was David operating with one of France's leading racing organizations, Oreca, and with some of France's fastest drivers? 👎
I love an underdog story as much as anyone else, if not more, but it's a stretch calling Toyota an underdog. They haven't won yet, that's one thing but they have all the resources to do it.
Ohhh come on, that's just not true. A David Vs. Goliath story would've been Pescarolo Sport beating both of them, or Rebellion Racing. Toyota a "David"? Did David had the budget of one of the world's most massive manufacturers? Did David had a cheat rear wing assembly? Was David the fastest car on track in qualifying and had the fastest laptime? Did David had the HUUUUUUUUUGE facilites of TMG at Cologne? Was David operating with one of France's leading racing organizations, Oreca, and with some of France's fastest drivers? 👎
I love an underdog story as much as anyone else, if not more, but it's a stretch calling Toyota an underdog. They haven't won yet, that's one thing but they have all the resources to do it.
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If the 458 hit the Toyota to initiate the incident, he must've been going faster than the #8, hit the back of him, decelerated in a thousandth of a second, stood still on track, gone back in time down the Mulsanne, accelerated to 150mph, and reappeared 5 seconds later.
Because that happened
Let's do frame by frame...
Toyota flies in way too fast, note no rear damage.
Toyota hits front first. We see the front here. Audi to the left, Aston to the very left.
Ferrari appears now, going stupidly fast. Back of Toyota visible, tail lights of the Audi are visible too.
Toyota sideways. About to spin with the front facing us. You can clearly see a large gap between the front of the Ferrari and the back Of that Toyota, and the Ferrari is heading straight into the Audi's path. In order for the Ferrari to have caused the Toyota to crash, he would have had to defy physics.
Since the Toyota had his nose on the wall, the only way the Ferrari could've caused the rear wing damage (even though it was blatantly the wall collision) was if the Ferrari was coming the other way down the Mulsanne.
Wing damage = driver's left only. Wall contact = drivers left only.
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Well that's how sport is. The best team get's the victory. And Audi is the team that puts more hard work, time and passion into their Le Mans cars than any other team.
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I never said otherwise. I was answering your question
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I'm not saying the rearwing damage was from a contact, I'm just saying you can't say the car didn't have any damage on the rear at all. It's possible the Ferrari (or whatever) hit the Toyota slightly on the left rear and Lapierre lost control of that. Again, if both the driver and the teamboss say the car got hit, it got hit, from whatever.
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Audi have more experience than anybody.
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