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The Le Mans General Discussion Thread
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About Ferrari and Le mans... http://www.motorsport.com/lemans/news/ferrari-to-decide-on-2015-le-mans-prototype/
I really hope they decide to go forward with this. Would be epic!
I really hope they decide to go forward with this. Would be epic!
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Hmm... If we have Ferrari return to Le Mans, and BMW return to Le Mans, then all we'll need is McLaren and Honda to get together and pitch an entry... Hmm... This could be epic.
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Schumacher is still contracted by Mercedes, is he not?
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Yeah and Davidson is contracted by Merc GP too, doesn't stop him from driving a Toyota P1 car.
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Whoever is contracted by who Ferrari coming back to the top class in sportscars would be incredible. Would love to see this happen.
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Even if he could drive for them, I don't think Schumacher would.
If the whole Ferrari P1 program is real (which I don't think it is), I'd say Kobayashi, Fisichella and Rigon would be the no-brainer drivers for the program. Fisichella in particular could benefit from LMP1, as he hasn't proven to be a particularly quick GT driver, a move to something closer to F1 cars could do him a lot of good.
If Massa was leaving his F1 seat at the time, that would be the biggest fish they could get, but the timing would have to be right. Otherwise, there's still a decent selection of in-house Ferrari drivers to chose from: De La Rosa, Bruni, Vilander, Kaffer, Filippi, Ramos (?), Zampieri (?), and outsiders like Chandhok, Hartley, Pla, Heidfeld (if Porsche don't pick him up), etc.
If the whole Ferrari P1 program is real (which I don't think it is), I'd say Kobayashi, Fisichella and Rigon would be the no-brainer drivers for the program. Fisichella in particular could benefit from LMP1, as he hasn't proven to be a particularly quick GT driver, a move to something closer to F1 cars could do him a lot of good.
If Massa was leaving his F1 seat at the time, that would be the biggest fish they could get, but the timing would have to be right. Otherwise, there's still a decent selection of in-house Ferrari drivers to chose from: De La Rosa, Bruni, Vilander, Kaffer, Filippi, Ramos (?), Zampieri (?), and outsiders like Chandhok, Hartley, Pla, Heidfeld (if Porsche don't pick him up), etc.
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I have immense respect for privateers in LMP1, but unfortunately I think Henri Pescarolo will just blow away money on it. Especially with the new rules next year, the manufacturer teams and their huge budgets will just be way too far ahead of anything else, like it has been since Audi vs Peugeot and Audi vs Toyota.
Didn't Henri ran his team with a Peugeot 908 at Le Mans some years ago? Wasn't it the Playstation sponsored 908? It's too bad that race was a disaster for Peugeot as I've always cheered for the privateer teams running a 908.
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'That race' wast a disaster for Pug. Pescarolo ran the 908 in 2009 (Oreca in 2010), the year in which Marc Gene, David Brabham and Alex Wurz won for Peugeot in one of the factory cars.
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Privateer cars get less weight and more 'fuel flow'. The DOME probably has better aero properties than any 2014 car revealed so far. At least the experts agree DOME has very strong abilities in this area.
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I wouldn't have said 2009 was a disaster, 2008 and 2010 are too races they shouldn't easily won, especially 2008.
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We'll see, but I doubt Schumacher wouldn't be looked at, he does have Sport car experience and to gain a 24h LeMans to his already extensive record holding in F1 would be nice. He was somewhat fast still in the Merc GP car so I think he still has juice to run, I mean there are plenty of drivers around his age that race the event so...
I do agree with some of the other names and from what I read there is enough evidence to think that a program at Ferrari is being worked on.
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I wonder if Ferrari won't just use one of the already developed cars.
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Even if there was any 'already developed cars' of which their aren't any for the 2014 regs. Ferrari wouldn't use a customer chassis in a million years.
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Where'd you read this Seth? I'd like to read up on it too. With regards to the DOME's aero properties.
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Here's an article regarding about the ACO rules in 2014 for easy viewing.
http://www.motorsport.com/lemans/news/aco-prepares-for-2014-with-lm-p1-rules-revealed/
Additonal info on fuel regulations on LMP 2014 by Racecar Engineering.
http://www.motorsport.com/lemans/news/aco-prepares-for-2014-with-lm-p1-rules-revealed/
Additonal info on fuel regulations on LMP 2014 by Racecar Engineering.
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Depends what you mean by developed, none of the cars will be fully ready and have the problems ironed out. So according to my interpretation of the word 'developed', they're aren't any cars yet.
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No manufacturer would use a customer chassis for a factory effort. But they do outsource, usually quite a lot. Ferrari themselves outsourced the 333 SP to Dallara/Michelotto and Ferrari's V8 GT cars (360 GTC-458 GT2/458 GT3) have all been built and developed in Padova by Michelotto.
If Ferrari was to commission an LMP1 project though, it would find a partner from the start and the project would be for Ferrari and Ferrari only. So it wouldn't be with any of the groups that are currently showing off/advertising their conceptual/prototype prototypes.
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Irony.
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A car is fully developed when every ounce of performance is extracted from the car. I'd call the Audi R8 fully developed, or the Porsche RS Spyder, or the Audi R15 and it's + variant.
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Corvette C6.R jumps to mind as well. Seems as though it's a bit tired at this point but it sure had its runs despite class and rule changes over the years.
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Fellow Le-Mans loving GTPers:
I'm looking forward to attending the race next year. I know I have around...11 months until then but I just want to make sure I make everything all right and with enough preparation. Has anybody from here attended the race? Am I in time for making arrangements for next years race? I'm needing some advice in terms of costs, tickets, lodging, etc. Also, I'm open to the possibility of joining or being joined by another GTPer who plans on attending 👍.
Thanks in advance for your answer
I'm looking forward to attending the race next year. I know I have around...11 months until then but I just want to make sure I make everything all right and with enough preparation. Has anybody from here attended the race? Am I in time for making arrangements for next years race? I'm needing some advice in terms of costs, tickets, lodging, etc. Also, I'm open to the possibility of joining or being joined by another GTPer who plans on attending 👍.
Thanks in advance for your answer
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Ive been 4 times, including this year. You've definitely left yourself enough time to prepare! Check out travel destinations or 1st tickets for pricing.
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