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

[GTRacer22]

Wut is that?

A pond shaped like Silverstone inside of Le Mans.

 

[Roo]

What track is that? looks a bit like silverstone.

Wut is that?

It's a pond in the shape of one of the old Silverstone layouts in the centre of the Le Mans circuit. (Zoom out.)

 

[Northstar]

#99 has been beechd!

 

[Bram Turismo]

That Aston living up to its name.

 

[Tired Tyres]

Porsche just did a 14 lap stint.

 

[catamount39]

#99 has been beechd!

Stop.

 

[TheBook]

Porsche just did a 14 lap stint.

That may have just changed the entire dynamic of this race.

 

[Silent Drifter]

#63 Corvette Spun, Timo Bernhard, got held up from it.

 

[20832]

I'm very impressed by the pace of the Ford GT and the Toyota! So far it has been quite an interesting race, but that is to be expected from the WEC.

 

[Tired Tyres]

#99 has been beechd!

Reported for not taking your coat when leaving. Expected ban from the Internet: 17:17.19 hours.

 

[IforceV8]

Brian Till on faux does not understand that the Alpine is a Oreca 05.

 

[GOTMAXPOWER]

Has the sun been out at this time at any point this week other than now?

I'm not sure, it might've been right between the qualifying sessions (the late one was starting at 22:00CET, about half an hour later than those incidents). If they have done any running it was probably under cloud cover or rain.

 

[GTFan24]

Brian Till on faux does not understand that the Alpine is a Oreca 05.

At least he didn't call the GT's "Sedans" like Scott Goodyear does.

 

[GTracer98]

Porsche just did a 14 lap stint.

Although there's most of the race still to happen (and with that, very possibly mechanical failures), this is all setting up to be extremely close and tense.

 

[optiongamers]

#67 Ford in the gravel.

 

[Silent Drifter]

#67 Ford GT into the wall

 

[RandomCarGuy17]

Dammit, the #67 car had enough problems, it really didn't need this.

 

[Tired Tyres]

#67 in the barrier. Why couldn't that have been the other three cars.

 

[GTFan24]

Out of all the Ford's having luck, the #67 has had the WORST in this race

 

[CarBastard]

Seems like Marino Franchitti wasn't hable to break properly for Mulsanne corner and went straight into the gravel.

PS: Silverstone was my first thought as well but I couldn't fathom if it was a lake or a kart track or something, VERY fun fact! Whoever did that is a genius.

 

[Vinylshark]

Ugh. I absolutely hate the "24h minutes" programm from Eurosport. The race is going on, who the hell cares about the damn safety car or an onboard lap with it around the track recorded between practice sessions?! Just get back to the race

 

[ukfan758]

If that was all asphalt, would the car have not hit the barriers?

 

[Tired Tyres]

If that was all asphalt, would the car have not hit the barriers?

It would have hit harder. Gravel slows you down. Tarmac doesn't.

 

[DesertPenguin09]

But on tarmac he may have had a chance for the tires to bite and the turn or at least spin to avoid the barrier

 

[Telstar]

Ugh. I absolutely hate the "24h minutes" programm from Eurosport. The race is going on, who the hell cares about the damn safety car or an onboard lap with it around the track recorded between practice sessions?! Just get back to the race

Absolutely. I'd rather see the action on track than those boring interviews, especially now with this beautiful sunset.

 

[Bram Turismo]

Ugh. I absolutely hate the "24h minutes" programm from Eurosport. The race is going on, who the hell cares about the damn safety car or an onboard lap with it around the track recorded between practice sessions?! Just get back to the race

I have changed to Eurosport 2.
I am missing onboard footage of the Toyota's though, the new V6 sounds so good.

 

[Tired Tyres]

But on tarmac he may have had a chance for the tires to bite and the turn or at least spin to avoid the barrier

Did you miss the bit where he no longer had brakes? If he could have stopped he would have taken the apex.

 

[Panoz]

Driver in the #35 Alpine flipping a bird.

 

[Silent Drifter]

I thought that was hilarious! "We know he can count to one"

 

[CarBastard]

Driver in the #35 Alpine flipping a bird.

Saw that, very fun. I still don't get why he did though, he flipped the bird to a Toyota aparently because of the Toyota braked hard in front of him but I didn't see the complete replay. Still, you're an LMP2, just get out of the way!