85th Running Of The 24 Hours Of Le Mans, 17-18 June 2017Sports Cars
- Thread starter Furinkazen
- 2,715 comments
- 119,940 views
- 2,982
- Nowhere
- TheSweeney_
The Ford sounds dreadful imo but to each their own!
Yea exactly, each to their own, the Ford seems to more divisive, but I love deeper, more guttural sounding V6's, like the GT LM, or Mitsubushi 3000GT/GTO for another example.
It's like that for me with the 488 GTE, I think that sounds really quite dull and cack, but different strokes for different folks I guess
.
Last edited:
- 9,055
- Murica
- BasedAckbar
You're not wrong, it does sounds fantastic doesn't it.
Mind you, I'm in love with the deeper, guttural growl of the Ford GT LM's 3.5 TT V6
And on-board, gives an even better sense of that growl IMO.
I like how the Ford gets passed by the Toyota effortlessly. "See ya" then just scaddadles on out of there. The Ford GT though sounds nice.
- 2,694
- BurnoutLogicville, USA
- INF_Mike458
The Ford sounds dreadful imo but to each their own!
My opinion of four GT cars (GTE PRO) (soundwise)
Corvette: Big growl. Big fast. Might win. Sounds amazing.
Porsche: Flat 6 with quite a bit of growl to it. Best sounding car of the lot. Want this car to win.
Ferrari: Sounds a bit too much like the 458, but still sounds pretty damn good
Ford: The ultimate fart-rocket. A fast one though...
- 9,554
- Vermont
- catamount39
- 1,561
- United States
Actually I can cope with the BOP game, but I mean just the way Ganassi tried to get the one competitive Ferrari pulled because of some door-card lights that weren't working properly (basically trying to remove the main competition after they'd battled for 24 hours). I'd love to see Ferrari beat the pants off Ford this year.
- 1,392
- Satellite of Love
- flip157
After seeing IMSA at Lime Rock last year, that is my memory of what the previous Porsche GTEs sounded like. Or at least the ones that raced in the States. Trust me when I say it's even better in person.
Same guy also posted a video of the cars at Tertre Rouge. The speed...
(1:45 is particularly hair raising)
- 1,328
- NRW
- Vinylshark
Nice to see that Ford still get's hated so much for whatever reasons 👍
- 2,982
- Nowhere
- TheSweeney_
Looks like I'll be the/one of lone rangers supporting Ford then .
Either way, will be interesting to see if the ACO have got the BoP right (wishful I know), so that GTE Pro at least, will be closely fought. As whilst it was great to see Ford being quick last year with Ferrari, it'd be great if the BoP was for once, correct, but this is the ACO we're talking about.
.Either way, will be interesting to see if the ACO have got the BoP right (wishful I know), so that GTE Pro at least, will be closely fought. As whilst it was great to see Ford being quick last year with Ferrari, it'd be great if the BoP was for once, correct, but this is the ACO we're talking about.
Last edited:
- 9,055
- Murica
- BasedAckbar
I kinda hope Ford wins GTE again, just to see the salt. 
- 3,264
- Salt Lake City,
Rumors around the internet from witnesses at the test day that Kobayashi lifted on his flying laps. Some say that's because of fuel flow, but no way he has to lift that much that GTE's can pull on him. I think Toyota only showed a glimpse of what they can do. Don't forget they set a new lap record at Spa with a 1:53.6 in the same LM package. That was easily faster than the record setting 2015 Porsche 919... interesting!
- 9,055
- Murica
- BasedAckbar
- 6,992
- United States
Faux sports presents the 21 or so hrs of the 24 hr Le Mans with our announcers sitting in a storage closet next to the old Speed set in Charlotte.
FOX Sports 24 Hours of Le Mans schedule (all times ET and subject to change):
June 17 – FS1 8:30 AM to 10:00 AM
June 17 – FS2 1:00 PM to 1:00 AM (June 18)
June 18 – FS1 1:00 AM to 9:30 AM
The entire race is streamed live on FOX Sports GO
FOX Sports 24 Hours of Le Mans schedule (all times ET and subject to change):
June 17 – FS1 8:30 AM to 10:00 AM
June 17 – FS2 1:00 PM to 1:00 AM (June 18)
June 18 – FS1 1:00 AM to 9:30 AM
The entire race is streamed live on FOX Sports GO
Silver Arrows
(Banned)
- 4,715
- Brandon, MB
- Silver-Arrows21
- 24,627
- Anoka, MN
I recommend the WEC stream, I've done it the last 2 years and it's worth every penny!
- 6,992
- United States
I paid the ransom for the WEC season already, and will stream that, have the TV when they aren't showing Nascar, and RLM on to hear Trussers breaking down the strategy.
DesertPenguin09
(Banned)
- 7,398
- Long Island, New York
- DesertPenguin09
There's usually a stream available somewhere whether legal or not. I've heard people pay for the WEC app but still have issues with it and I don't wanna waste money in case that happens.
- 6,259
- Tecumseh, MI
- I_Fail_At_FPS
- 2,982
- Nowhere
- TheSweeney_
- 9,055
- Murica
- BasedAckbar
I'm placing a bet that the Krohn Ferrari will have an off within the first 3 hours.
- 5,851
- Dublin
- Paul2007
The annual Krohn crash prediction discussion. It is now Le Mans tradition!
- 35,334
- Addison,Texas
- GTP_RACECAR
Looks like I'll be the/one of lone rangers supporting Ford then
Either way, will be interesting to see if the ACO have got the BoP right (wishful I know), so that GTE Pro at least, will be closely fought. As whilst it was great to see Ford being quick last year with Ferrari, it'd be great if the BoP was for once, correct, but this is the ACO we're talking about.
I'm not exactly confident about it, they've somehow struggled to balance a class of mostly the exact same cars that race in IMSA and haven't gotten it nearly as close.
I kinda hope Ford wins GTE again, just to see the salt.
You know, I surprisingly didn't get as much as I was expecting from Detroit last week so maybe we're gonna get quite the haul from the French countryside.
Silent Drifter
Premium
- 1,332
- Wisconsin
- SilentDrifterGT
- SilentDrifterGT
Similar threads
