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

[Savolainen83]

Precisely, this has been used in a lot of races, actually. ALMS, for example:

If I'm not mistaken, ALMS is where the whole light feature originated. I might be wrong thou.

 

[CarBastard]

One thing I've been wondering is how much of Toyota's problems have been caused by the crash with the Deltawing. The way they were describing the problems, it sounded like what happened to it to keep dragging it into the pits was unrelated to the crash.

That was something I was thinking too a while ago. I mean, how bad could've been the crash for the car to be stuck in the garage for that much time? Either the crash was much more serious that how it looked, or the TS030 is made out of papier mache and tinfoil, or the mechanics at Toyota are completely inept.

 

[Furinkazen]

#97 Aston is still going! Just gone into 5th in class

 

[LMSCorvetteGT2]

Dude. Do you even drive a real car in real life?

How do you overtake a normal car, in a public road? On a moterway or a dual carriageway?

Why, you move out onto a different lane to overtake them!

Wow, you take a different line, that ISN'T a racing line!

Also, on normal, single laned roads, you also move out onto the DANGEROUS side of the road to overtake them.

Because you are travelling FASTER than the slow-ass geezer in the other car.

This is the SAME thing that is being used in this endurance racing and OTHER series.

It is only in F1 (and DTM as someone pointed out) that slower drivers are FORCED to slow down and go off the racing line. All the other racing series, the slower cars are warned of a faster car, which means they make smooth adjustments to their lines if required and allow the faster cars, to overtake them off the racing line.

You have to remember, these cars can have a speed difference of over 50+mph. In corners. That's insane to comprehend it to most average people.

Dude, you're just totally being completely anal for no apparent reason apart from attention. Just cut it out and just watch the god-damn race in peace.

Don't you see the guys on the side of the road with the blue flags to show the slower cars to move

 

[G.T.Ace]

One thing I've been wondering is how much of Toyota's problems have been caused by the crash with the Deltawing. The way they were describing the problems, it sounded like what happened to it to keep dragging it into the pits was unrelated to the crash. I suppose we'll never really know, but it honestly sounded like they were having electrical problems more than anything (sensors and whatnot).

According to one from the team, there was an issue with the generator and another "part" of the car broke due to the crash, "a part we never thought of could break" or something he said.

 

[Downhill Dino]

#97 Aston is still going! Just gone into 5th in class

Go Aston go! You can do it!

However, I'm a Porsche fan. Don't kill me!!! D:

 

[G.T.Ace]

Don't you see the guys on the side of the road with the blue flags to show the slower cars to move

Don't you see in the video I posted how he moved completely away from the racing line?

 

[Furinkazen]

#40 to garage.

 

[Tintorera]

Thanks 👍. Is there a way to use it without having to watch the video stream on the site? It's in french and I prefer the one I'm using, but I can't run both because my internet sucks.

Click the stream to pause.
I also have a crappy connection. GTPlanet, Live ticker and radio lemans is my setup

 

[Desmo46]

Say what?

It's a figure of speech. You essentially spoke your mind.

 

[TankAss95]

According to one from the team, there was an issue with the generator and another "part" of the car broke due to the crash, "a part we never thought of could break" or something he said.

Didn't they say they replaced the alternator?

 

[Racingworld68]

According to one from the team, there was an issue with the generator and another "part" of the car broke due to the crash, "a part we never thought of could break" or something he said.

correct, the reason it took a long time to repair, was because a part broke (alternator) that normaly never gets replaced. Strange as they ofthen brake down in endurance racing.

Great job of Eurosport, The HD images are splendid 👍

 

[CarBastard]

According to one from the team, there was an issue with the generator and another "part" of the car broke due to the crash, "a part we never thought of could break" or something he said.

That's what Peugot said about their conrods... .

That's the thing with Le Mans. You gotta be prepared for everything. You have to be prepared for the moment when that part, the one you think will never break, gets broken. Your team must be able to assemble and dissasemble the car efficently if you want to survive the race incidents.

 

[That90sGuy]

Precisely, this has been used in a lot of races, actually. ALMS, for example:

I thought the lights meant to show which of the three drivers was driving the car?

 

[Luminis]

I thought the lights meant to show which of the three drivers was driving the car?

Nope, they're just showing the position the car's in at the moment.

 

[Furinkazen]

No 35 Morgan - Nissan rejoins after suffering electrical problems

 

[Dennisch]

There are between the 4 and 500,000 spectators at Le Mans.

Nr 24 is leaking oil, probably a hole in the block.

 

[Desmo46]

49 out of 56 still running. Not bad at all.

 

[Furinkazen]

No 80 Flying Lizard Porsche has retired, McNish out, TK in for Audi.

 

[Racingworld68]

No 35 Morgan - Nissan rejoins after suffering electrical problems

Yeah, afther a good start my fellow countrymen fell back

 

[obsessive rules]

I may try to stay up for it.

 

[Dan360]

The #7 Toyota is 31 laps behind the leading Audi, and 46th overall. The car is buried in GTE amateur cars.

 

[Racingworld68]

I may try to stay up for it.

only little under 14 hours to go, good luck

 

[Luminis]

Watched the R18 e-tron doing two laps on Audi's stream, and that's really incredibly soothing. I should record a lap or two and use that as a lullaby, really

 

[CarBastard]

I may try to stay up for it.

Join the dark side! We've got junk food and Red Bull

Watched the R18 e-tron doing two laps on Audi's stream, and that's really incredibly soothing. I should record a lap or two and use that as a lullaby, really

If I ever have a child, that's the lullaby he'll sleep to .

 

[Furinkazen]

I've managed 10 hours now phew.

 

[maxi25]

So why do the Audi's have those colored lights around their headlights? Visual impact?

 

[Racingworld68]

So why do the Audi's have those colored lights around their headlights? Visual impact?

correct me if i am wrong, but they all got an other colour so it would be to tell who is who in the dark...

 

[HKS racer]

Yeah. Make the speed difference between the two cars even greater. Brilliant idea!

They are professional drivers they don't just smash brakes as some genious said. They should react to the situations, restart race, 4 leading cars behind you, 3 cars passed you, approaching corner, where's the 4th car? Oh crap, too late. I say 35% Naka's fault 65% Delta's fault.

Can we have some advanced notice about how you will change your argument next? Always help to be prepared.

I just think safety should be improved. Delta-Naka was a silly crash, but the Davidson-old man was a huge one. It's time these LM french move their ass. Every year people risk to die at LM.

One thing I've been wondering is how much of Toyota's problems have been caused by the crash with the Deltawing. The way they were describing the problems, it sounded like what happened to it to keep dragging it into the pits was unrelated to the crash. I suppose we'll never really know, but it honestly sounded like they were having electrical problems more than anything (sensors and whatnot).

Yes they are related. On Italian Eurosport some minutes after the Toyota went to pits they interviewed a Toyota PR who said something elettronic placed on the lower end of the car was damaged. So they had to bring car back pits, disassemble the "lower deck" (or whatever you call it) and fix the electro thing before going back to track.

Commentators wondered if placing elettronic parts that low was a good idea. Maybe you gain on balance but you loose time if a crash happen.

 

[bermudakid]

So why do the Audi's have those colored lights around their headlights? Visual impact?

They also light up more left or right depending which way the car is turning.