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

[Phoenix]

Green flag! GO!

 

[Panoz]

#1 Audi was become the guinea pig of the team.

 

[CarBastard]

Audi #1 has slicks on while #2 and #3 have intermediates... Risky move by the #1 because the track will be hell slippery.

It's most likely reduced to guinea pig car now. It has a very slim chance of winning, so it will serve it's purpose as a test bed.

 

[ICEYOU]

The track looks just like GT5 at night! Amazing!

 

[Tornado]

Oh my. Actual racing is actually occurring.

 

[Cano]

Greeeeen

 

[Yukon]

Good to see the #3 Audi getting itself back on to the same lap as the Toyota. Battle's on.

 

[GOTMAXPOWER]

Did the Audi and Toyota just pass a bunch of cars at a yellow light?

Penalty time...

 

[Phoenix]

Looking at the #51 Ferrari in the pits, it's pouring down rain now!

 

[CarBastard]

Gah! 🤬! My stream is seriously delayed!

While you guys are enjoying racing, I'm still seeing a safety car...

 

[Prince.M5]

It's most likely reduced to guinea pig car now. It has a very slim chance of winning, so it will serve it's purpose as a test bed.

Definitely.. The #1 car is down by 10 laps already anyway.

 

[Deutsch Rennen]

#1 Audi on slicks passing #8 Toyota on inter. tires in the rain.

 

[R5]

ALLONS-Y!

Also. Those lights are bright :-|

 

[-Fred-]

What's with the Nurburgring24-esque blue light on the #88 Porsche? It's the only car I've seen with it.

I know it's for the top 40 qualifiers at the 'Ring, but here?

 

[Wardy 944]

Manthey lead GTE Pro

 

[Prince.M5]

#1 Audi has a broken windscreen wiper.. Aha. Not ideal in these conditions. Just saw one of the Audi passing the #8 Toyota. Must be a mistake.

 

[Wiegert]

Eurosport still can't help themselves from waiting for the race get to going again before switching to adverts, after two almost-ad-free SC periods.

 

[TheDabbinDave]

And now the rain is lightening...

 

[ICEYOU]

What if the drivers are too tired to drive at a certain point?

 

[RACECAR]

Eurosport still can't help themselves from waiting for the race get to going again before switching to adverts, after two almost-ad-free SC periods.

I seem to be hearing a lot of negative things about Eurosport's coverage. Is it that bad?

 

[Shoe67]

What if the drivers are too tired to drive at a certain point?

They switch drivers. That is why there are 3 drivers.

 

[Phoenix]

I seem to be hearing a lot of negative things about Eurosport's coverage. Is it that bad?

The coverage is great... The commercial breaks every 15 mins is bad!

At least on my channel.

 

[Wiegert]

I seem to be hearing a lot of negative things about Eurosport's coverage. Is it that bad?

Ridiculous advert timing aside, the coverage and commentary is pretty good overall.

 

[Com Fox]

The coverage is great... The commercial breaks every 15 mins is bad!

At least on my channel.

I'm watching it on Channel Tens website, it's free and no adverts. No commentary makes it better too, to me .

 

[Prince.M5]

I'm on Eurosport International and it's not bad at all.. Just bad timing for commercial break sometimes.

 

[-Fred-]

The Toyotas seem to be struggling quite badly with traction right now.

But they sound glorious.

 

[Phoenix]

Good thing though, the commercial breaks is "only" 1-2 mins during nighttime, and about 5 mins at daytime.

 

[Prince.M5]

The Toyotas seem to be struggling quite badly with traction right now.

They're currently lapping around 3'56".. About 6 seconds slower than the #2 Audi. Audi #3 is another 2 seconds slower than both Toyotas.

 

[Yukon]

What if the drivers are too tired to drive at a certain point?

All drivers will no doubt get tired, but probably not so much where they're unable to drive. They have three drivers to switch between which allows those who have just been driving to rest up and be ready to go back in. A driver can only drive for 4 hours at any time, have a 2 hour break, and then go back in again for another max of 4 hours.

Some teams are unfortunate enough to only have two drivers, due to one maybe not qualifying for his drive, or pulling out for one reason or another. I remember in 2011 this happened to a team.

It's not like it was back in the 1920's and 30's, when drivers would do the entire thing on their own.

I seem to be hearing a lot of negative things about Eurosport's coverage. Is it that bad?

Eurosports coverage is good compared to most things you'll see. Although, the ads seem to be coming at the worst possible times this year, and they seem longer than usual. The entire race in full HD though? Can't complain.

 

[Shoe67]

Does anyone know who has the fastest lap of the race so far?