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

[Phoenix]

Hah, the Toyota just put on another set of slicks, in the rain! Madness!

 

[CarBastard]

#3 Audi eating a bit of gravel at Indy corner. No contact. Local Yellow on the second chicane, Lotus LMP2 apparently against a barrier.

 

[Wardy 944]

#7 in the pits. Let's see if Lapierre gets new tyres.

Lapierre gets new...SLICKS!!!

Brave, very very brave.

 

[Dean]

Yellow flag in 2nd chicane.
#31 is being removed from the chicane now.

 

[comu]

are Peugot planning on returning?

 

[GTracer98]

are Peugot planning on returning?

Maybe... After 10 years or so!

 

[Furinkazen]

Bad place for the #31 to go off.

 

[LMSCorvetteGT2]

The Vette is catching Lamy

 

[CarBastard]

Brave, very very brave.

It's indeed a very risky gamble. Surely they're using it as guinea pig to see what tyres will they get on #8 next. My guess is that rain will only get worse in the upcoming minutes.

 

[Tired Tyres]

#7 in the pits. Let's see if Lapierre gets new tyres.

Lapierre gets new...SLICKS!!!

They might have been the no groove intermediates.

 

[Panoz]

Damn, what a bad place that Lotus is at.

 

[ExplodeTheApex]

Hi guys! Are the only livestreams onboard cams? How are you guys enjoying the race?

 

[RACECAR]

Now this year at Le Mans, the ALMS GTE teams have for the most part been penalised with performance restrictions (Corvette, Viper SRT) or banned altogether (BMW RLL). Whereas by contrast, the WEC GTE teams such as Porsche, Aston Martin and AF Corse are flying.

Unless I missed something here, The Z4s weren't banned, they just haven't been invited.

 

[Luminis]

are Peugot planning on returning?

Nothing to that extend has been said. Sadly.

 

[CarBastard]

They might have been the no groove intermediates.

Would you please explain the difference? Softer compound?

 

[GTracer98]

They might have been the no groove intermediates.

Still don't understand how can intermediates have no grooves...

 

[Wardy 944]

Intermediate tyres don't have groves, well thats just stupid

 

[Prince.M5]

How did the Lotus ended up that way?

 

[Tornado]

I don't know about that - when the FIA first aunched the calendar and only included one American round on it, they made it pretty clear that they didn't want the series to be too dependent on ALMS for its survival. Likewise, they didn't want the series to be seen as trying to hijack the ALMS, so they made a conscious decision to limit the series to one American round, and chose Sebring as the nominated race. If they had taken Petit Le Mans, then Sebring would not have been included.

Yeah, but then they dropped Sebring too.

 

[Tired Tyres]

Would you please explain the difference? Softer compound?

Still don't understand how can intermediates have no grooves...

Intermediate tyres don't have groves, well thats just stupid

You people haven't been keeping up with tyre progress in WEC have you?

 

[Furinkazen]

Guy Kilbey @Guy024
@SpencerPumpelly @Lemansrace The word from the media centre is that he is Ok, just a bit shaken up.

(About Allan.)

 

[Eks]

Lucas (Nissan, LMP2) is in 9th place in his class, I believe.

 

[CarBastard]

Does anyone know how the Michelin Green X Challenge is scored? AMR Middle east winning it.

 

[TypeRDC5]

Changeable conditions make any race exciting but it's whole different level of excitement on a long track like le mans. One of the many reasons why i think this is the best motor race there is.

Also the first 20 minutes of the race was more exciting than the whole F1 season so far...

 

[CarBastard]

You people haven't been keeping up with tyre progress in WEC have you?

Honestly, not closely

 

[Yukon]

Would you please explain the difference? Softer compound?

Still don't understand how can intermediates have no grooves...

I have no idea how they work, as they were only just recently introduced by Michelin. They are however, Intermediate tyres, without the grooves. That's why some are mixing them up with being Slicks. That's what the #7 Toyota started on at the beginning of the race, which is why they managed to keep up to the lead and out pace the Audi's so well.

 

[Prince.M5]

Does anyone know how the Michelin Green X Challenge is scored? AMR Middle east winning it.

I believe it's based on pit stops and fuel consumption..

 

[witham]

You know your car has serious downforce when you put slicks on and it is raining

 

[RACECAR]

Ah, so it was Toni Vilander that made the contact with the Porsche. Why am I not surprised?

 

[Shoe67]

You know your car has serious downforce when you put slicks on and it is raining

Almost like the old F1 cars running slicks in the rain