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

[Furinkazen]

Wait. Who died? What team/car was he in? When did the accident happen?

Allan Simonsen, GTE AM leader in the Aston Martin.

 

[Shoe67]

Is there a live stream for the helmet cam on the Audi windscreen washer?

 

[TheDabbinDave]

Toyota's windscreen washer is also working very well. 👍

I'd rather do that than have to snap in the belts of a dude!

 

[Furinkazen]

Lemansrace.com @Lemansrace
RT @radiolemans Aston Martin will continue with the race as a tribute to Allen Simonsen.

 

[chrishan]

How much do they get payed, I wonder?

I'd even pay to work as window cleaner during the race, lol.

 

[LMSCorvetteGT2]

Everyone is moving on because they have to keep going on and they will address this more appropriately after the race is over.

 

[GTracer98]

Is there a live stream for the helmet cam on the Audi windscreen washer?

Seriously??

 

[Accro2008]

http://www.lequipe.fr/Sport-auto/Actualites/La-course-endeuillee/380634



RIP Simonsen.

 

[CarBastard]

Is there any other live timing board besides the one on the 24's official website?

http://thomasbaekdal.com/mini-sites/lemans2013/

Wait. Who died? What team/car was he in? When did the accident happen?

Allan Simonsen driving GT-AM Aston Martin #95. He spun at Tertre Rouge in the first 15 or so minutes of the race.

 

[R5]

Dr. Ulrich yawning, I guess that says it all really

Did you notice how he quickly stopped when the two guys walked past, like he was thinking "Better play it cool"

 

[ICEYOU]

So the winners of each individual class get a le sarthe trophy?

 

[NotThePrez]

http://thomasbaekdal.com/mini-sites/lemans2013/

Much appreciated! 👍

 

[LMSCorvetteGT2]

http://www.lequipe.fr/Sport-auto/Actualites/La-course-endeuillee/380634



RIP Simonsen.

Read the last five pages, we broke the new and everyone concurred, sadly this has happened.

 

[CarBastard]

So the winners of each individual class get a le sarthe trophy?

Yup, pretty much. We have 4 winners, but one of them, the winner of LMP1, is the BIIIIIIG winner.

 

[Müle]

Basically, the guy hit a metal tree. You could see during the Safety car where the tree behind the Armco had bark stripped off of it. Completely bent the frame of the car.

 

[LMSCorvetteGT2]

I forgot about the Thomasbaekdal timing, thanks for that

 

[comu]

http://thomasbaekdal.com/browsercache/chronos.html

Here's the same living timing without the twitter stuff on the right

 

[Bram Turismo]

The guy interviewing Lapierre is the same guy who used to deliver commentary during Le Mans back in the late 90's.

The memories!

EDIT: No it isn't. Silly me.

 

[Shoe67]

So the winners of each individual class get a le sarthe trophy?

Yes. All three drivers of the top three teams in each class get trophies

 

[Tornado]

Movable systems as the same they use already on road courses.
Correction street courses.

Like on the Circuit du Monaco.

Monaco has foam walls and tires at places where drivers are expected to run off on. Sharp turns, chicanes, etc. The entire rest of the track is still Armco.


Le Mans is set up the same way; and in fact most of Tetre Rouge has tires on it. Simonsen shot straight off at an unusual spot just past the tire wall and hit the Armco on the access road and the tree behind it. It's unfortunate that the access road didn't have some sort of energy absorption (but it has to be said that they can't just surround the entire track with foam and especially not tires), but I'm sure they will have that taken care of next year as well as some other spots that they determine have a chance for a similar accident (I suspect the far left portion of Mulsanne).

 

[ICEYOU]

Yes. All three drivers of the top three teams in each class get trophies

Do all the drivers have a victory lane and wear plants around their neck or is that only reserved for the LMP class winner?

 

[nostuner03]

R.I.P. He died doing what he loved.

 

[GregTheStig]

http://thomasbaekdal.com/mini-sites/lemans2013/

That's way better than the one I was using, thanks!

And what happened to Allan is horrible. It didn't really seem like a "freak accident" at first (in that it seemed like a pretty usual spot to go off from the Corvette's angle)so I thought nothing of it at first. But man... absolutely horrible.

 

[LMSCorvetteGT2]

Just great the 97 car is pulling out a session of fastest laps in the GTE-Pro

 

[GTracer98]

Monaco has foam walls and tires at places where drivers are expected to run off on. Sharp turns, chicanes, etc. The entire rest of the track is still Armco.


Le Mans is set up the same way; and in fact most of Tetre Rogue has tires on it. Simonsen shot straight off at an unusual spot just past the tire wall and hit the Armco on the access road and the tree behind it. It's unfortunate that the access road didn't have some sort of energy absorption (but it has to be said that they can't just surround the entire track with foam and especially not tires), but I'm sure they will have that taken care of next year as well as some other spots that they determine have a chance for a similar accident (I suspect the far left portion of Mulsanne).

Well, another idea is to remove the trees that are too close to the track but that would ruin the beauty of the track.

 

[Tired Tyres]

Lots of cars sliding off the track at the moment.

 

[Furinkazen]

Interesting LMP2 braking there.

 

[CarBastard]

Do all the drivers have a victory lane and wear plants around their neck or is that only reserved for the LMP class winner?

The only "showcased" car is the overall winner as far as I know, but everyone that steps on the podium gets plants around their neck.

 

[Shoe67]

Do all the drivers have a victory lane and wear plants around their neck or is that only reserved for the LMP class winner?

No victory lane like there is in NASCAR. There is a podium.

 

[Dan]

SPEEDtv's coverage is total crap! Stop showing LMPs and give us GTs for once! Also, could you at least show a ticker with the drivers and cars?