80th running of the Le Mans 24 Hours - 16–17 June 2012

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CarBastard
Please, PLEASE, don't let Nakajima drive in the rain...
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Why? He scored points at wet races at Monaco and Silverstone in 2008 and beat his teammate in the wet at Monza 2008? He doesn't seem to have a problem with wet conditions.

In fact, his F1 retirement record is remarkably low. People give him far too much stick than he deserves. Sure he wasn't brilliant and was always out-paced by his teammate but he isn't as accident-prone as people are suggesting.
Give the guy a break, its his first Le Mans.
 
By the way, the TS030 seemingly just got a new nose. Is there something wrong, again?!

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Never mind,eurosport was trolling. Old footage.
 
From Chandhok at JRM:

Just woken up from quick nap... Hope @antdavidson is ok ! @brabsracer in now, I'm getting in at next stop for sunrise stint
 
HELLAFLUSH240SX
Oh no mechanic forgot the nut!
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Here's the sketch of the mechanic:

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Ardius
Why? He scored points at wet races at Monaco and Silverstone in 2008 and beat his teammate in the wet at Monza 2008? He doesn't seem to have a problem with wet conditions.

In fact, his F1 retirement record is remarkably low. People give him far too much stick than he deserves. Sure he wasn't brilliant and was always out-paced by his teammate but he isn't as accident-prone as people are suggesting.
Give the guy a break, its his first Le Mans.
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All of what you've said is true. I apologize if my joking sometimes goes to far.
 
Ardius
Not surprising if true as its the exact reason most manufacturers pull out eventually..and usually the reason they get involved in the first place. If you have people who like motorsport on the board, you're going to jump in eventually..and when they leave the board you're going to leave motorsport eventually.

There have been consistent rumours that some board members at Mercedes-Benz are not happy being so heavily involved in motorsport.
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Unless you're Ferrari.

I remember some talk during last year's race that Dr. Ullrich had to pitch hard to the Audi board to retain the LMP program.
 
scalage
how cool that would be, i don't believe you one single bit :p
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:D

We've had a Corvette lose a rear wheel. The Delta wing will not come back, the Toyota is back out on track, and the nr 24 (was leading LMP2) is in the box because of an oil leak.
 
Luminis
Or Porsche :D
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Thing is that those two are brands that depend on motorsport. It helps a lot their image. They can sell you cars saying "Oh, the GT2 version of this car just won Le Mans" and "The gearbox in this car is called F1, and we race in F1". What can Peugeot do in the other hand? "Erm...here's a 1001 HDi FAP and erm...a car loosely based on it blew it's conrods in Le Mans". That's not gonna work.
 
Luminis
Or Porsche :D
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Have Porsche really backed motorsports fully though? The last decade they've been pretty low-key really, selling GT cars and running the various national Cup series and international SuperCup series.

Its a big shame they never followed up on the LMP2 programme with the RS Spyders. Rumour is they are coming back for LMP1 finally though.
 
Thanks guys for scaring me, I'm hoping the sister car gets that ferrari. I can't be happy with a Ferrari win, if any thing I'll live with Aston Martin
 
Ardius
Have Porsche really backed motorsports fully though? The last decade they've been pretty low-key really, selling GT cars and running the various national Cup series and international SuperCup series.

Its a big shame they never followed up on the LMP2 programme with the RS Spyders. Rumour is they are coming back for LMP1 finally though.
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Isn't that enough? I mean, Porsche Cups are still pretty big. All they'd need would be some factory teams for their RSRs.

But they'll return to Le Mans anyways...
CarBastard
Thing is that those two are brands that depend on motorsport. It helps a lot their image. They can sell you cars saying "Oh, the GT2 version of this car just won Le Mans" and "The gearbox in this car is called F1, and we race in F1". What can Peugeot do in the other hand? "Erm...here's a 1001 HDi FAP and erm...a car loosely based on it blew it's conrods in Le Mans". That's not gonna work.
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Well, blowing conrods all over the track is never going to be a selling point, I suppose :lol:
 
Ardius
Have Porsche really backed motorsports fully though? The last decade they've been pretty low-key really, selling GT cars and running the various national Cup series and international SuperCup series.

Its a big shame they never followed up on the LMP2 programme with the RS Spyders. Rumour is they are coming back for LMP1 finally though.
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It was confirmed a while back that Porsche would have an LMP1 entry in 2014.
 
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