82nd Running Of The Le Mans 24 Hours - 14/15 June 2014.

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How lucky For Antonio Garcia, He gets a Father's day present in only the first two days of him being a Father.
 
It was really bad too. Officials penalized a white GTD Porsche 911 for spinning a Ferrari. However the replays showed 2 different incidents where both the factory Porsche's spun the same Ferrari twice in separate incidents. They penalized the wrong white Porsche's and the factory Porsche's ended up finishing 1-2 with the Viper in 3rd. Had the penalties been correct SRT Viper would have won. IMSA admitted they were wrong, but nothing was done about it and Viper pulled its Le Mans entries due to lack of funding.
 
Being 15 I'm playing the drinking game with banana milkshake and cola .
 
Amac500
Ferrari should have a 458 replacement with in the next year or so shouldn't they? Don't know how soon that will translate to the race version, I'd imagine 2016.
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The 458 replacement is rumored to be a V8 Turbo, still based on the current 458 (the body will probably get a refresh though). Given the engine (same as the new California) and car are pretty much done already I'd expect road and race versions very soon.
 
Amac500
It was really bad too. Officials penalized a white GTD Porsche 911 for spinning a Ferrari. However the replays showed 2 different incidents where both the factory Porsche's spun the same Ferrari twice in separate incidents. They penalized the wrong white Porsche's and the factory Porsche's ended up finishing 1-2 with the Viper in 3rd. Had the penalties been correct SRT Viper would have won. IMSA admitted they were wrong, but nothing was done about it and Viper pulled its Le Mans entries due to lack of funding.
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Never heard about any of that, really sad. New Viper races for 1 season and BAM they're gone just as fast as they came. Now Corvette doesn't have any real competition!

ProjectWHaT
Drink every time a 458 gets into an accident.
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lmao!
 
NFSCARBON1
The 458 replacement is rumored to be a V8 Turbo, still based on the current 458 (the body will probably get a refresh though). Given the engine (same as the new California) and car are pretty much done already I'd expect road and race versions very soon.
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I heard rumors it would be a V6 turbo because Ferrari is still trying to use F1 to validate street cars... even though everybody doesn't want to see it be a V6 and F1 is so far from anything street relevant, unlike Le Mans.
 
Toyota's gonna win this lol go home y'all

ProjectWHaT
Anyone know why 458s are always involved in accidents?
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cos Ferraris are only good at crashing (^:
 
Antonisbob
Wow. That's sad.
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annoyingly true, wasn't sure if there was a customer entrant, shame the Rahal Letterman Z4s aren't there too,
 
I'm trying to figure out how getting "screwed over" at Sebring in a completely different series somehow ran SRT out of budget and made them pull out of Le Mans... There were many more factors.
 
uMadson?
Toyota's gonna win this lol go home y'all



cos Ferraris are only good at crashing (^:
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According to my own rules, you've made me have 2 more drinks.
 
I'm delighted by the relatively small gap at the lead. Here's hoping Mark wins this!
 
ProjectWHaT
Anyone know why 458s are always involved in accidents?
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I think they're one of the cheapest GTE cars so that attracts the gentlemen drivers to them, less talented drivers crash more.
 
SniperRed3
Why don't they have the 599xx as a gt car?
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It's not built to regulations, it's an experimental car. Like the FXX or the Zonda R.
 
Why don't we ever see audi lms ultras or nismo gtrs or sls gt3s
 
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