Dunno who told you that the Ferraris would be my favorite cars, but sure, why not.your favorite cars were made fun of.
Man 2 hours before the end it's perfect, Webber leading, Mardenbrah leading, Brunno leading and then BAM!:|
Abandon Thread!
Toyota have built a car for wec, audi have built a car for Le Mans.
Fantastic experience was above the audi and aston pits and when the cars came out of the last corner there was complete silence till the cars crossed the line.
Also when the aston crossed the line a couple of the team members turned round and looked up and seen my simonsen tribute and gave me the thumbs up, easily the story of this years race.
Roll on next year.
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Dunno who told you that the Ferraris would be my favorite cars, but sure, why not.
Thought I actually mainly watch Le Mans to see LMP cars race.
That reminds me, I was at the Mazda Museum in Hiroshima a few weeks ago. Got a few shots of the 787B too. The guide said it was the car that won Le Mans but the wheels suggest otherwise.
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Anyway it was a fascinating race this year, I am disappointed that Audi won again but Porsche did well to be leading 22 hours into the race. Who knows what would've happened had Lapierre not binned the #8 Toyota.
Toyota being the Golia, right?
Do you know that they are the biggest car company of the world?
I wonder how many people know that Toyota puts little to no money into their F1 and Le Mans programs. Majority of the money came from one of their sister companies, Denso. This was explained to me by the Denso Michigan branch owner when I visited their factory.
I wouldn't be surprised if they did pull the plug, but I hope they don't. This year only poor luck (Toyota have always had rotten luck at LM) and Nico Lapierre prevented a probable win, the #8 finished 5 laps down despite losing 8 laps from a crash. They have a very good base to build on for the next two years. A bigger budget and a third car would go a long way towards winning this bogey race for them.I get the feeling, however, that Toyota will pull the plug on their program. That's the 4th different car they've built that showed promise but ultimately failed. They must be absolutely disgusted.
Actually, I think there was little to choose between the race pace of the Toyota and Audi this year. However, the #8 lost the least amount of time from reliability issues of any LMP1-H in the race (ignoring the early exiting #3). Seeing as how the car was both fast and reliable (as the #8 was), I feel this was another lost chance for Toyota. It just isn't happening for them at Le Mans. Whether the suits will be encouraged or discouraged by this half-full/half-empty display remains to be seen.Not to mention, as you said, they clearly had the fastest car this year, and I do think they can build off that accomplishment and come out even stronger in 2015.
But then again, the R18 (or E-Tron Quattro, but whatever) will probably get replaced soon... and that's something else to think about.
Requesting a video of at least 5 minutes long of those cars going by where you are.
They had one that was 75% done that was scrapped as it was looking like they were going to allow gt3 cars to enter LM from 2016.I don't think McLaren ever made a GTE version of the MP4-12C.
Really? Do we even have to make fun about the Ferraris after the race?
After all, those guys get paid year after year for driving race cars, while all you haters sit infront of your computer in a videogame forum.
That doesn't change the fact that they had one of the biggest budgets in F1 during their stint (the biggest by some accounts) I'm sure a few million of their own was in there but I dont doubt their major partner Denso gave a bigger donation. I'd also laugh at any suggestion that says their budget isn't near Audi or Porsche and they're the little man trying to win on some Lotus F1 shoe string budget
but I dont doubt their major partner Denso gave a bigger donation.
I personally thought Toyota only ran one Toyota in their first season because the No.8 received heavy damage at le mansReally? Take a look at the Toyota team in its first two seasons. Does that strike you as a team with a big budget?
Really? Take a look at the Toyota team in its first two seasons. Does that strike you as a team with a big budget?
From what I've been told by a few people who knew people involved in both programs heavily.
Toyota F1:
30% Panasonic
30% Denso
15% Driver 1
15% Driver 2
5% Toyota
5% Other areas
Toyota P1:
30% Denso
20% Driver 1
20% Driver 2
20% Driver 3
10% Toyota
But we're not tailoring it to the first season, the conversation is one of current events, if you want to take a trip down memory road we can. And I'm sure they didn't have as vast a budget considering they just left an F1 venture that yeilded much if any success (standards vary obviously) on a major budget. They weren't going to make the mistake again. However, from what I could find the number suggests that it isn't far off that of Porsche and Audi, though obviously no team gives an outright number, and you actually have to look around quite a lot. There are older number the 2012 suggest 30 million euros vs 80-90 from Audi. So during that phase I'd say it was David vs Goliath.
Where are you getting the data from?