90th Anniversary Running Of The Le Mans 24 Hours, 22-23 June 2013.

[GOTMAXPOWER]

When the driver is possibly injured, it can take a while to safely extract them from the car.

The issue now is the barriers.

 

[Shoe67]

With zipties!

I was wondering what was going on

 

[Mac K]

SPEED seems to think a car that is fast on the first lap is going to win..

 

[Furinkazen]

Strakka P12.

 

[Falcon787B]

Interesting how a few years ago, the track was covered in Playstation and Gran Turismo banners...now it's Forza Motorsport and Xbox. Worries me how GT continues to loose ground on Forza whilst faffing around with niche cars no-one cares about...but that's another issue for the News articles.

 

[Adam41]

The issue now is the barriers.

Yeah. He was out the car quite quickly.

 

[LMSCorvetteGT2]

Can someone explain why the safety car split the field and is with the lead car?

 

[Furinkazen]

Can someone explain why the safety car split the field and is with the lead car?

3 safety cars in all, for the whole 8 mile circuit. Top 3 GT cars have got a head start over the pack as a result.

 

[CarBastard]

SPEED seems to think a car that is fast on the first lap is going to win..

Trust me, nothing is worse than the guys who comment for the latin american broadcast. They know even less than us average forum users. And they switch to stupid low-categories of NASCAR and repeat programming after a couple of hours 👎.

 

[Shoe67]

SPEED seems to think a car that is fast on the first lap is going to win..

They seem to forget that almost every year Audi didn't have the same early pace as their competition.

 

[Eks]

Making sure the driver is okay is a far greater priority than getting the car off the track.

👍

 

[Crazyguy1990]

Apparently, one of the drivers is named Bertrand Baguette....
I love it.

 

[LMSCorvetteGT2]

3 safety cars in all, for the whole 8 mile circuit. Top 3 GT cars have got a head start over the pack as a result.

yeah I saw that, hence why I'm slightly annoyed but it is a 24h race so I'll try to keep relaxed for now.

 

[RACECAR]

Interesting how a few years ago, the track was covered in Playstation and Gran Turismo banners...now it's Forza Motorsport and Xbox. Worries me how GT continues to loose ground on Forza whilst faffing around with niche cars no-one cares about...but that's another issue for the News articles.

Your worried about GT "losing ground" based on Billboards at a race track? Pretty sure that has more to do with who threw the most money in the sponsorship then Losing ground.

 

[CarBastard]

Toyota has it's own commercial as well, which states, quite truthfully: Raising the excitement.

I cherish the succes of my rival. Thanks Toyota for picking up where Peugeot left and offering Audi some tough competition!

 

[Furinkazen]

Armco heavily damaged. Gonna be a long one.

 

[Prince.M5]

Brandon Hartley's car has got some sort of electrical issues..

 

[Panoz]

Interesting how a few years ago, the track was covered in Playstation and Gran Turismo banners...now it's Forza Motorsport and Xbox. Worries me how GT continues to loose ground on Forza whilst faffing around with niche cars no-one cares about...but that's another issue for the News articles.

They kind of switch every few years with track banners between the two, but GT have drivers actually racing!

 

[Furinkazen]

Aston Martin reporting that Allan Simonsen is out of the car and conscious.

 

[CarBastard]

#48 Murphy LMP2 in the pits with electrical problems, reports Eurosport.

Maybe they're running Lucas'

 

[MustangManiac]

Might as well go put another pot of coffee on.

 

[witham]

Looks like its going to be a pretty good race this year, we just need the safety cars out of the way and get going again

 

[Wardy 944]

Armco heavily damaged. Gonna be a long one.

I've just seen that too, how hard did he hit that

 

[Yukon]

3 safety cars in all, for the whole 8 mile circuit. Top 3 GT cars have got a head start over the pack as a result.

I was hoping they'd have this Safety Car issue sorted out after what happened last year. It totally messes up the class battles. 👎

 

[Mr.Skyline09]

That's fantastic news to know he's ok

 

[Shoe67]

We still haven't seen a replay of the actual incident yet

 

[Furinkazen]

There's only one SC out on track at the minute and it's got the entire field of cars behind it. But, as you said above with certain cars getting ahead of others. I'm hoping they have this Safety Car issue sorted out after what happened last year. It totally messes up the class battles. 👎

One of the twitter feeds said the top 3 GTE cars have been separated from anyone by a SC.

 

[Dean]

SC will probably turn off the lights when crossing the finish line next time, latest.

 

[CarBastard]

We still haven't seen a replay of the actual incident yet

Quite annoyed by that as well. We'll have to wait until Simonsen himself reports.

 

[Furinkazen]