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

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Damn KCMG :( , that could have been costly...
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Luminis
I'm saying that the showing isn't a good one for a big manufacturer with a big budget and it's not gonna have the desired effect in terms of PR.
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Read what I said before, and Famine said it yesterday too:
hsv
To expand on this, your average Joe (AKA 99.9% of people looking to buy a Nissan) will never see articles detailing its results or competition success. All they will see are the generic adverts that talk about their revolutionary technology.
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The "it's bad PR" argument is absolutely worthless. The people this is designed to grasp will not even likely know a race is going on this weekend - all they know is that Nissan have made a race car that apparently has some exciting technology. You're making the massive presumption, and so is everyone who claims it's a marketing disaster, that everyone in the market to buy a new car is a keen WEC follower. When you put it like that, you can see how odd it sounds - the results of this car will only become relevant in their marketing if they decide to say "oh look, our tech-y racing car has got some good results!". People won't know what Le Mans is, they won't know the WEC, they won't understand the car concept, but if they see something related to success, that's an instant extra purchase incentive.

I'm not blindly following Nissan, I'm not trying to make excuses for a broken car, but you categorically cannot say that their performance this weekend will have a negative impact on their international marketing strategy.
 
NW48
What was that? The #17 & #19 Porsche's are utterly dominating? No way they can be stopped?

I wouldn't think I'm jinxing them, nothing I do or say happens as it should, right @Spacegoat? :lol:
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Except there's Ferrari's and a Krohn in the same race.
 
NW48
What was that? The #17 & #19 Porsche's are utterly dominating? No way they can be stopped?

I wouldn't think I'm jinxing them, nothing I do or say happens as it should, right @Spacegoat? :lol:
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Ive watched every hour so far and I agree Porsche is unstoppable. There was some worry about the batteries going into the night. But they dont seem to have faded at all.
 
In order to classify as a finisher at lemans you must cover 70% of the race distance of the winner. The two nissans are currently at about 65 and 60%. If they can stay on track for the next two hours they should be fine but currently they will not finish the race. While they are not competing for anything it isn't a big deal but as is they will miss out on one of the few honours available.
 
I know some don't think to highly of Autosport, but it's just one of the many outlets I'm checking for race info. Posted in their live commentary:

Sun 10:19 The #22 Nissan of Tincknell is being declared slow by race control. It's down in 22nd place with no hope of being a classified finisher even if it reaches the chequered flag.

Edit: I'm grammar nazi myself. TOO highly of Autosport.
 
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Audi fans forgetting Porsche are part of the same group so who wins only matters for the big statistics and doesn't matter for their overlords.
 
Aloha62_2
In order to classify as a finisher at lemans you must cover 70% of the race distance of the winner. The two nissans are currently at about 65 and 60%. If they can stay on track for the next two hours they should be fine but currently they will not finish the race. While they are not competing for anything it isn't a big deal but as is they will miss out on one of the few honours available.
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Atm their purpose should be to get that 70% of race done, Porsche is doing great, i didn't really expected this but again the race is far from over
 
redsoxboy80
I know some don't think to highly of Autosport, but it's just one of the many outlets I'm checking for race info. Posted in their live commentary:

Sun 10:19 The #22 Nissan of Tincknell is being declared slow by race control. It's down in 22nd place with no hope of being a classified finisher even if it reaches the chequered flag.
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Dang.
 

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