83rd Running Of The Le Mans 24 Hours - 13/14 June 2015.

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AJ
Hour 9 Lap Analysis

- a few annotations added.
- rain due in the next 30 minutes (source Le Mans aerodrome).
- looked like the #22 hit a sheep shaped object.

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So 5 laps behind the distance record at this point of the race so will need to gain around 17 minutes over 250 laps at roughly 4 seconds per lap for the next 15 hours

And the #23 stops on track
 
Replay does look like a tyre... but where did it come from?
 
Looks to be some smoke coming from it.

R1600Turbo
#23 is stopped now. When it rains it pours it seems. *sigh*
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All the bad luck all at once. Really feeling for Nissan right now.
 
#23 frying itself?
 
Mattzel89 is speculating that the 'debris' may have been an animal rather than a tyre.
 
Man, the Nissans just can't catch a break can they.
 
Nissan are have a very eventful race so far... and only just over nine hours in...
 
GOTMAXPOWER
Mattzel89 is speculating that the 'debris' may have been an animal rather than a tyre.
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Whatever it was it was very solid. WEC stream don't see much on front of Nissan though.
 
ECGadget
Nissan are have a very eventful race so far... and only just over nine hours in...
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To be fair they've gone a lot further than most people expected them to. I still stand by one car finishing, maybe two.

#23 in the garage now.
 
Anyone else severely irritated by the commentators on Eurosport? They continue talking during real time action about **** nobody cares about.
 
GOTMAXPOWER
Mattzel89 is speculating that the 'debris' may have been an animal rather than a tyre.
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Well they didn't showed any car going around the track with a missing tire. So I guess he didn't hit a tire, but are there even badgers in Le Mans?

Is the 3rd Nissan even still running?
You always just see #22 and #23.
 
chrisjohnson93
So 5 laps behind the distance record at this point of the race so will need to gain around 17 minutes over 250 laps at roughly 4 seconds per lap for the next 15 hours

And the #23 stops on track
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- If they do 17 laps per hour for the rest of the race they will get to 396.

- Need to do some more 18 lap hours. We did have one in Hour 5, so it is still technically possible, but it won't happen now, the margin has gone.
 
Eunos_Cosmo
Anyone else severely irritated by the commentators on Eurosport? They continue talking during real time action about **** nobody cares about.
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Although I sound like a broken record, complaining about them, yes.

Absolutely yes. "Did you know I raced in LMP2"
*Vital team radio to the leading cars*
"What did he say?"
"No idea."
"As I was saying..."
 
Thankfully that aftershave ad didn't show on Eurosport again with that wally on the bicycle. I wish he'd get a puncture!
 
Welll...they are Japanese cars...

#BuiltInMassNotToLast

:lol:

Still suprised they made it that far without serious issues.
 
hsv
Great, fuel for the people who feed off Nissan's trouble to give themselves a bit of personal delight. Motorsport "fans". :rolleyes:
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Shhh they weren't supposed to know.
 
Furinkazen
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Hard to say. Could it be a backpack? I don't see how an animal that seemingly large could get on the track with armco everywhere.

Pretty sure the commentator just said the LMP1 cars are comfortably north of 250mph. :odd::rolleyes:
 
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