24 Hours at the Nürburgring - 2007

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I read on another forum that the clock stops if the race stops but I don't know if there is a point where the clock re-starts.
 
The race was stopped at 03.55 because of fog and campfire-smoke, oddly camp-ferme wasn't enforced, so pit crews had their cars repaired during the break.

The results can be found here. Notable is the Mercedes-Benz 126C (Car #20, 111th). Because of its engine it ran in the fastest class, SP8, a long with the Vipers, 911s, DBRS 9/8s etc. It's low overall position had more to do with the car being a road-legal, stock 500SEC, with automatic transmission and road tyres. The radio jockeys at Radio Le Mans said that their pit-stop routine was kicking the tyres, and changing the CDs in the cd-changer to the driver's taste.:lol:👍

And it still finished in front of cars which are much faster and better.:dopey:
 
@ Schrodes: The clock was deffinitely stopped during the fog out.

@ Freddie: I saw that Mercedes several times and it made me laugh each time. The best part was during the restart. The Mercedes was somehow put at the very front of the third or fourth group during the restart, which was all little hatchback cars. Before they even reached the first turn, 7 or 8 cars had passed it, but the car was like a giant roadblock and watching all those little hathbacks try to squeeze around it was absolutely hilarious.

Did anyone else think the winning Porsche got away with a LOT of dirty racing? He was brake checking a whole column of cars right before the restart. Furthermore, shortly after the restart, the #1 and #25 Porsches were in a dogfight. The #25 was obviously faster, but the #1 was taking up the entire track to keep him from passing. To cap it off, after losing some speed by losing his racing line through a turn, the #1 let off the gas right next to a backmarker effectively creating a moving roadblock. The #25 couldn't slow down in time and rear-ended the backmarker. This resulted in the #25 having to pit and replace a radiator and losing another lap. I have no doubt that the #25 could have challenged for the win if he would have gotten around the #1 car after the restart but the #1 effectively took him out of the race.
 

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