83rd Running Of The Le Mans 24 Hours - 13/14 June 2015.

[sk8er913]

#22 Nissan in the garage... @R1600Turbo do you know what's going on with it?

Gearbox.

 

[TheEnd35000vr]

Ok boys last few hours, what i've been missing up til now? i still can't see timings, even the app is offline (i really can't believe this...) so? who's out ? is audi still on top with all 3 cars?

I just woke up and the apps working for me on all devices (S6 Edge, Kindle Fire HDX, iPad Mini). Just keep refreshing it.

 

[sk8er913]

Oh yeah. It's kinda tough to watch considering they had the fastest car last year. This year comes around and they barely improved at all.

They improved by 2 seconds I heard.

 

[BROHAM]

Holy crap. 4 hours left. Feels so quick and yet it feels like they have been racing for weeks already.

 

[CodeRedR51]

It also has to be said, tho, that they took a big gamble with Bowlby's new weird-ass FWD design. A gambit that we won't be sure will pay off until 2016, at the very least.

Again, for the millionth time, the original design was intended to be FWD on straights only, where it doesn't matter what kind of drivetrain you are using, there's no advantage from one over another. Corner exit would be AWD via KERS to the rear. It's only FWD right now because the KERS isn't working. So when they do get it working, everything will be the way it was originally intended to be. Everyone complaining about the FWD seems to forget this or just simply doesn't know.

 

[Vinylshark]

Drive through for Audi #7

 

[Silent Drifter]

Drive through for car 7 for disrespecting slow zones.

 

[sk8er913]

Oooh car 7 penalty.

 

[redsoxboy80]

They improved by 2 seconds I heard.

Yeah I don't know the exact number. Audi and Porsche just improved way more than Toyota is a better way to say it.

 

[Speedracer8218]

Wtf is the #7 car doing????

 

[albteman015]

This is the nail in the coffin for Audi. What a shame.

 

[sk8er913]

The porsche should get penalty too

 

[Northstar]

What is going on with Audi? This race just seems so unlike them...

 

[prisonermonkeys]

Oooh car 7 penalty.

Yeah, it's for that incident with Tandy when the Strakka was immobile on the front straight.

 

[GTPorsche]

The porsche should get penalty too

The Porsche did nothing wrong. Fassler pulled up along side Tandy in an area where he shouldn't have done so.

 

[silverman_GT]

Nismo #23 is back on track.

 

[Nexus]

My awful Aussie internet connection has slowed down to a crawl...I can't watch any streams now

 

[sk8er913]

Yeah, it's for that incident with Tandy when the Strakka was immobile on the front straight.

The Audi broke safery zone for half a second next to the porsche and then the porsche forced him all the way to the wall and they even hit each other... they should both get a penalty for that.

 

[vrwmiaris]

It looks like the cousins from Stuttgart are going to win the race, too bad for Toyota and Nissan next year dr Ulrich is going to be pissed to win

 

[sk8er913]

My awful Aussie internet connection has slowed down to a crawl...I can't watch any streams now

What type of computer os do you have? WIN 7?

 

[Eva]

I see Porsche pulling a Peugeot. A glorious Le Mans win and then back to Audi for the next five years.

 

[TheEnd35000vr]

What is going on with Audi? This race just seems so unlike them...

Considering they've won 12 out of the 15 Le Mans they've finished so far I will gladly take Porsche finally winning today. (Especially as I was rooting for Porsche anyway )

 

[RACECAR]

What on earth was Lotterer doing?

There's no way he didn't see that and then the bump into the Porsche.

 

[Luminis]

Nissan has been awarded an small degree of credit but not been awarded the degree of patience they need to be given. As lovely as it is if more than a little bit unrealistic, it seems a few on here expected them to win and anything less than the win and they should quit WEC. Funny thing is unless you are a total moron nobody could ever imagine for a nanosecond Nissan could ever have earmarked the race to lay down any kind of goal.

Thing is, car makers don't go to Le Mans to get points for trying. Gathering data and all that jive, yeah, kinda. But they go there to sell cars.

From a business point of view, they're most likely not quite happy. They went all hipster with their car design for the sake of being different and ended with a car that's almost 20 seconds of the pace and has reliability issues. Remember what Andy Palmer said?

“You don’t go to Le Mans to just turn up,” Palmer said. “The brief to the team is to go with something different, go with something that brings new technology which is transferable to the road car technology and an approach that is innovative and exciting and of course, go to win."

It backfired and I don't think Nissan likes the PR they're getting. Someone at Nissan's probably sweating and losing a lot of sleep right now.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

The Porsche did nothing wrong. Fassler pulled up along side Tandy in an area where he shouldn't have done so.

Eurosport - who got very excited when it happened, only to forget about it when the penalty was given - suggest that Fassler and Tandy had already gotten a bit aggressive previously and this was Round 2.

 

[MarchingSaint]

Oooh boys Mathias Lauda is doing fairly well in GTEam, too bad for nissan..

 

[Bo]

The Audi ads are the awkward ones now.

 

[albteman015]

Why is the live feed not showing the GTE battle? There is 1.4 seconds between the top two right now!

 

[G.T.Ace]

Can't believe the Nissans are still rolling, fantastic news!
All the cars seem to be extremely reliable this year, all top cars still racing, only Rebellion had big issues tonight it seems. KCMG is impressive and the Vette still leading GT Pro, not bad. Just saw Roald Goethe's wreck though, looked nasty.

 

[Nexus]

What type of computer os do you have? WIN 7?

Windows 8.