Damn.
They deserved it for introducing that ugly duckling of an update to an already forgettable design of the Vantage 
Yeah, after some review of the live stream I heard the English commentators saying that there could’ve been an incident between the #28 Lambo and #65 Mustang in the run up to the chequered flag after Dottinger-Hohe that allowed the #28 to leapfrog the #65 in the final order. Really wishing they could’ve shown that battle instead of only showing the ROWE crew celebrating/Manthey in that disappointed state for 3 minutes straight…There was a pass for that position somewhere at the end of that last lap but the broadcast didn't show it...
That “ouch” is referring to the brain injury he gets from people constantly bombarding his posts on that X of a social media asking for new cars in GT.
Damned if they did, damned if they didn't. The penalty was issued with about 3'ish hours to go, serving it would've handed the win to ROWE on a platter so the only hope they had was a reversal of that decision, slim a chance as it was. The result on the road showed they didn't have the pace to pull in a 2min gap that quickly.
That's what is annoying, they're more than capable of showing split-feeds but they didn't for that section after the chequered flag, to be honest the TV direction was a bit scattergun the entire race...
So... kinda maybe but also maybe kinda not.
He looks so happy !
Watch out for them at breakfast just in case they bash into you and leave you upside down in the hash browns.
Hindhaugh said during the commentary that the N24 doesn't operate on a strict offence-not-outcome basis, with stewards making it clear that if you end someone else's race you will be more harshly penalised.
To be fair in that hypothetical scenario Estre would not have been shown blue flags twice and would have been overtaken in a fight for position and not lapped like the Aston was.
Neither of those things change anything, the cars don't have to yield to Blue flags, and it's still down to the overtaking car to make the move cleanly. You might disagree that either of those things should be the case, but at the end of the day, that's how it is - and Estre, and Manthey, know that.
It seems less about yielding and more about simply holding the outside line when you're being lapped, doesn't it? I get that Estre wasn't fully alongside, but he did make contact with the side, not the rear - he had his nose in.
Then perhaps they should make that the rule, and Estre can make that assumption in future. But for now, the car in front is entitled to hold the racing line, which the Aston did. It's simply not the responsibility of the car in front to jump out of the way - so it should not be an assumption the following driver makes (unless the car in front is signalling or has clearly pulled off line before hand)
I have no idea what the overlap requirements are in GT3/N24, but just having your nose in doesn't seem like enough - even on blue flags, or perhaps especially on blue flags as the onus is on the leading car to make the pass on the lapped car safely while the lapped car is supposed to stay on its regular line. Which it did.
I'll say!
I only caught it briefly but it looks like the second - so the Aston missed the first apex as it ought and turned in for the second, and the Porsche appears to have interpreted that as room being left on the right and aimed to make the pass at, as these things go, Hit.
Estre always takes a lot of risk while overtaking slower cars. I remember seeing him multiple time overtaking cars with 2 wheels on the grass.
