85th Running Of The 24 Hours Of Le Mans, 17-18 June 2017Sports Cars 

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A,h thanks to Fox's (bad) highlight reel, looks like Toyota's in deep crap. Not good.
 
#9 and dead again. These cars are fragile again. We've got used to 24 hour sprints in recent years. This is old school stuff.
 
Silent Drifter
It would make this race even more interesting.
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Plot twist: The #1 suffers a catastrophic hybrid failure like the rest, promoting the leading LMP2 into the overall lead, with the #2 trying to chase down LMP2 in the dying hours, a-la LM 1995.
 
AMPMROCKETFANN
Plus, how are all 3 Corvettes doing? I wanna see the home team pull this out
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Not great.

The 63 is still on the lead lap, but quite a ways back in 8th place.
The 64 is 4 laps down.
The 50 Larbre is also 4 laps down in GTE AM
 
Have they actually ever shown what happend to the Manor?
 
#7 and #8 were mechanical problems. #9 is totally driver error, Lapierre's inlap was massively over-ambitious and it has thrown away a very good shot at a 2nd place finish.
 
To be honest, all this is doing is making me even more of Toyota fan, more than what I already am, and I've been supporting Toyota, especially at Le Man, for some time...
 
After seeing the replay, the whole increased speed of the P2 class that the commentators were talking about at the beginning of the race has really got me scratching my head.

When the hell did P2 cars get so damn powerful in a straight line? I remember when P1s were blowing past em in their sleep.
 
Wiz
Not great.

The 63 is still on the lead lap, but quite a ways back in 8th place.
The 64 is 4 laps down.
The 50 Larbre is also 4 laps down in GTE AM
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Ah 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
 
Amac500
I don't care who you are or who you're a fan of, if you're a fan of motorsports you need to feel for that camp.
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They literally couldn't even do half the distance. It's their fault the car isn't reliable.
 
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Do we know that it's the 25 car that's off and what side of the Dunlop bridge is it? The 25 and 24 are next to each other on the leaderboard, so do we know for sure it's the 25?
 
wowbaggerBR
It seems to me that nobody. The tyre simply went off when he leaned into it.
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No, in one of the replays, you can see him passing the #25 into turn 1. He went wide in the corner to avoid the car exiting the pits and lazed into the side of #25. This punctured the tyre and also sent the Manor into the wall.
 
Jimlaad43
No, in one of the replays, you can see him passing the #25 into turn 1. He went wide in the corner to avoid the car exiting the pits and lazed into the side of #25. This punctured the tyre and also sent the Manor into the wall.
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Yeah, but by the time that the car spun, he'd be far away from whoever he was passing.
 
wowbaggerBR
Yeah, but by the time that the car spun, he'd be far away from whoever he was passing.
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He spun because the contact punctured the tyre. #25 was then sent straight-on, out of sight of the camera from the Toyota. it would be nice to see another angle of it.
 
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