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I think that's a smart idea, make the 9 car the tortoise and the 7 the hare.
85th Running Of The 24 Hours Of Le Mans, 17-18 June 2017Sports Cars
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Clear your cache and cookies and try the Dutch one again.
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Yes. The left rear came off when he hit the wall, and then it spun entering the pits on the first right hand turn. So basically it spun the first time he shifted the weight under a right hand turn without the left rear wheel.
EDIT:. Corvette camp thinks the left rear maybe wasn't tight all the way when it left the pits. Milner had just got in the car.
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I know this is pure speculation, but had the guys in the pits listened to Buemi a bit earlier and brought him in, would the damage on #8 be less severe, if not non-existent?
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Who knows, it's a brake issue, the temps are pretty hot this year, and mix that with the hybrid system. Something may go without much intervention.
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If the fault originated from a sticky brake caliper, then yes. It probably could have prevented a front motor failure if they called him in sooner.
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If they were smart enough to diagnose what it could potentially be without the data. Otherwise it would've cost them a lot of time figuring it or they would've guessed an not know. If there was smoke like that they would've found it easily though. Can usually be pretty sure that catching it early minimizes damage.
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RLM brings up a good point. Where's the wheel that the Corvette lost? 
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The Eurosport Corvette interview has just confirmed what I suspected, the initial Milner spin into the wall was not driver error, the left-rear wheel fell off.
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Yea, it got me wondering about, however with all that said, they said they couldn't find anything on the telementary data, and at the time, it didn't seem to be affecting the performance of the #8 significantly. And at the end of day I'm nowhere near as clever or cut out for the job, that the boffins in the Toyota garage do.
Just thought it might've been worth "gambling" and bringing the #8 in earlier to be better "safe than sorry", especially after the #1's hybrid issues.
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Oh dear. #7 under investigation.
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More HP vs better chassis?
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not good, because he may have over took someone under yellow
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Overtaking under yellows by the sounds of it. I thought I had seen the #8 do that on Jani earlier.
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For sure, and since we were seeing smoke while Buemi was complaining they probably would've been able to figure it out earlier the same way they ended up finding it.
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Odd. I just checked through a Finnish proxy and I still get a picture.
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They are handing this race to Porsche.
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