2016 Le Mans 24 Hours - 15th to 19th June 2016

[optiongamers]

Mini poll:

Is "So24! by Lombard" the worst team name of 2016?

Absolutely.

 

[Furinkazen]

Settling in to begin my "night stint".

 

[Vinylshark]

#7 Audi in the garage again.
#2 Porsche overtook the #1 Porsche.

 

[Silent Drifter]

#7 Audi back in the garage

 

[acekev1983]

#7 Audi back into the garage

 

[Coiler]

Damn #8 needs some repairs..

 

[Vinylshark]

#7 Audi back on track.
Sounded like the #8 Audi has to go into the garage soon too.

 

[Furinkazen]

Nice shot of the Audi front there as the car heads back out.

 

[Silent Drifter]

Yup. They were mentioning, do it first on the #7, so when you do it on the #8. It should be quicker.

 

[Panoz]

Audi used the #7 as a guinea pig for a future repair job that going to happen to the #8.

 

[TheBook]

#8 has problems, so they bring the #7 in to practice what they need to do. That's... oddly genius.

EDIT: Methinks I've been treed a bit.

 

[FutureF1]

Oh boy... This race has not been good to me. Audi's running into major issues and Corvette has been BoP'd to perform in the MX-5 Cup... Hope things change in the night but things are looking ominous...

 

[Vinylshark]

This race hasn't been good to Audi so far. #8 into the garage.

 

[Silent Drifter]

#8 getting worked on

 

[Coiler]

Its because its so ugly- Just say'n

 

[AMPMROCKETFANN]

Oh boy... Corvette has been BoP'd to perform in the MX-5 Cup... Hope things change in the night but things are looking ominous...

me in a nutshell, even the B teams in AM are underperforming

 

[Tired Tyres]

Pedro Lamy takes the #98 Aston Martin into the GTE AM lead.

I hope he gets to stay there this time after what happened last year.

 

[aarror]

Back from autocross, now to settle down for a few hours of watching before dinner. Toyota vs Porsche looks like it should be a good fight.

 

[05XR8]

That view out the front of the Ford GT is awesome.

 

[Vinylshark]

Its because its so ugly- Just say'n

"Form follows function" as my teachers always told me in my apprenticeship.

 

[TheBook]

Audi saved an entire minute's worth of repairs on the #8 by bringing the #7 in first.

 

[MustangManiac]

Well that was a nice little nap, I guess I missed the day/night change by about an hour

 

[Northstar]

"Form follows function" as my teachers always told me in my apprenticeship.

Porsche and Toyota managed to make both faster and better looking cars though.

 

[Betty blue]

Its because its so ugly- Just say'n

Yeah ! Ugly cars never win

 

[Cano]

I had to leave for a few hours. What did I miss?

 

[Coiler]

"Form follows function" as my teachers always told me in my apprenticeship.

I heard the same about the shark nose of an F1 BMW. There is always another way to do it right

 

[Bo]

I had to leave for a few hours. What did I miss?

Not much. Toyota have steadily built their advantage at the front, the #47 KCMG is out, that's about it.

 

[Ameer67]

16 hours remaining.

1 TOY
2 POR
3 POR
4 TOY
5 AUD
6 REB

 

[Panoz]

The WEC stream commentators talking about much better Le Mans is than F1....drink.

 

[Vinylshark]

Porsche and Toyota managed to make both faster and better looking cars though.

While I agree that the Audi is ugly, it's always a question of taste, but at the end of the day a race car has to be reliable and fast and not aesthetic.