Can't disagree, and that's not being salty. It's telling the truth. With Nissan's only running car being an NC, they have nothing to show for their effort.
The rebellion did well first time out....Given what Nissan had to work with and what they knew about the GT-R LM in terms of it's potential and capability, frankly what else could they have made Le Mans about? There is precious little that they could have realistically got out of it. Not saying it was about marketing a car or a brand name But they certainly could not have seriously thought the car was ever good enough to compete with the 919 and R18. Even the TS040, CLM and R-One. A brand new prototype with little knowledge of beating a car that has not just months but getting on for years on it? Really??!! I am not a racing nerd. I am not steeped in the technicalities of motorsport but what I do know is a new car with virtually no time spent on it has little chance against much more evolve machines.
Anything was and is better than nothing.
McLaren are going to join the battle? That class really is going to get very interesting....
It was disappointing for me trying to follow Le Mans this year. So next season, I may almost exclusively try to follow Le Mans online because TV coverage has been mostly disappointing trying to keep up with the FOX Sports 1/2/Go coverage. The first Le Mans I've followed was back in 2001. All congratulations to all winners both overall in all of the other classes. I think this is Porsche's first outright Le Mans victory since 1997.
Perhaps on the criticism side... be happy a car other than the Audis won Le Mans outright, or be a bit disappointed that yet another VW/Audi Group company win Le Mans outright? Either way, I'm proud learning of Porsche winning with their fine racing machine.
I certainly will be looking forward to the 24 Hours of Le Mans 2016. This race is my favorite for someone whom has always loved GT/Sportscar/Endurance racing. There are too many things to keep track of as far as why I love Le Mans and why I look forward to this race every year. But again... I may follow next year's race more online mostly because of disappointment trying to follow it on basic cable/satellite. I did, one time, follow the 24 Hours of Le Mans streaming Radio Le Mans during some time after midnight. I still was fairly disappointed not being able to see as much as Le Mans trying to keep up with the FOX Sports 1/2/Go footage of Le Mans.
Congratulations again to all winners- overall and in all classes.
So did the Porsche the Audi (there were more manofactors) Bentley, BMW, Toyota, Mercedes they all had lacking speed or some problems but were way better than nissan this year. Even the French where not too bad for their first race. The only one i can think of in the last 20 years which was close to that bad was the AMR one.
I just realized @Holdenhsvgtsr! Well... I can say it's the first PROTOTYPE victory for Porsche since 1997. I sincerely apologize for not remembering Porsche's 1998 victory. But of course, "I think" are the keywords from my previous post.
1997 was a TWR only had a Porsche engine.
If you're talking the last PROTOTYPE Porsche win then that would be 1987
Yeah! I'm happy that Porsche won this year. Here's to the next win!
I agree that the GT classes, albeit slower, were much more interesting than the Prototypes. I mean, there were chases and drafting duels that lasted for 6 hours straight.
It made me happy that they start to show more and more of the GT classes each year. Now throw in a couple of factory Vipers, Fords and McLarens into the Ferrari, Chevrolet and Aston mix and you've got some really epic endurance racing.
Congrats to Porsche, just shows even when they're relatively new, with proper planning and engineering Audi is there for the taking, dissapointed I didn't watch much of the race (GTacademy final) but man Toyota need to get back to the drawing board for next year.
Not sure what happened to Stanaway but sure he would've had the pace to win his class too.
Dammit everytime somebody says Nissan Patrol I think of the 4x4 car.Good to see the Nissan patrol took a break from replying to all of the posts mentioning the Nissan in negative light.
There probably wont be Factory Vipers for a while, unless you want to give Dodge the money to do it, since they care more about pulling out of racing after winning championships and then not coming back cause they can't figure out how to balance a check book..
Dreams yes...delusions...CAN'T A MAN HAVE HIS DREAMS?
It was disappointing for me trying to follow Le Mans this year. So next season, I may almost exclusively try to follow Le Mans online because TV coverage has been mostly disappointing trying to keep up with the FOX Sports 1/2/Go coverage. The first Le Mans I've followed was back in 2001. All congratulations to all winners both overall in all of the other classes. I think this is Porsche's first outright Le Mans victory since 1997.
Perhaps on the criticism side... be happy a car other than the Audis won Le Mans outright, or be a bit disappointed that yet another VW/Audi Group company win Le Mans outright? Either way, I'm proud learning of Porsche winning with their fine racing machine.
I certainly will be looking forward to the 24 Hours of Le Mans 2016. This race is my favorite for someone whom has always loved GT/Sportscar/Endurance racing. There are too many things to keep track of as far as why I love Le Mans and why I look forward to this race every year. But again... I may follow next year's race more online mostly because of disappointment trying to follow it on basic cable/satellite. I did, one time, follow the 24 Hours of Le Mans streaming Radio Le Mans during some time after midnight. I still was fairly disappointed not being able to see as much as Le Mans trying to keep up with the FOX Sports 1/2/Go footage of Le Mans.
Congratulations again to all winners- overall and in all classes.
The rebellion did well first time out....
I think that's about the pace the fastest P1s will be, give or take a few seconds. Again, people are so ready to exaggerate their deficit to try and give their doom and gloom predictions some gravitas.They wont do a lap under 3:25
It did not only have a Porsche engine, it started life as an Jaguar XJR-14.