The Le Mans General Discussion Thread

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hawkeye122
I wouldn't call McNish a bad driver. He makes some close calls in traffic, but for the most part, he knows what he's doing. Look at Daytona a few weeks ago. He could put multiple GT cars between himself and AJ, and that was enough to keep him honest on the oval bits. I'm sure he felt horrible for wrecking the Audi that early.
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I like him too. But sometimes.................he just doesn't use his head :lol:
 
Crashbroke23
They are using Yokohama tires which looks to be a gamble.
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Yeah. A big one. Yokohama seems like its not the best tire. It must be cheaper evacuee I notice a lot of the smaller teams use them.
 
Yokohama is used as the spec tyre for the US GT3 Porsche Cup series so they're not that bad, just cheaper and not as well developed.
 
Peter.
There is a tad less meaning in that with the new rules making points only count for the highest finishing car. It will give Toyota a better chance with 1 car(2 for Le Mans only), of challenging Audi with 3 for WEC glory, and any other manufacturer that doesn't want to start LMP1 with such a huge programme initially.
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More cars is always better for your chances of success. Always. Even with the new WEC points system. More cars raises your chances of winning races and collect more individual points.

And fielding more cars is especially benficial at Le Mans. As much as I may not like it, Le Mans transcends the WEC; Les 24 Heures du Mans is what matters. And three cars gives you a better chance to win in a long race of attrition. I fully expect to see 3 Toyotas on the Le Mans grid in 2013, even if just 1 or 2 TS0130s is entered into the rest of WEC 2013.
 
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Peter.
There is a tad less meaning in that with the new rules making points only count for the highest finishing car. It will give Toyota a better chance with 1 car(2 for Le Mans only), of challenging Audi with 3 for WEC glory, and any other manufacturer that doesn't want to start LMP1 with such a huge programme initially.
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New, but likely temporary (2012 only) rules.

R1600Turbo
This thread covers ALMS too, right?

http://www.autoweek.com/article/20120220/ALMS/120229993

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That's refreshing! To see the livery on a car that is actually a Lotus. :D:D:D
 
SagarisGTB
More cars is always better for your chances of success. Always. Even with the new WEC points system. More cars raises your chances of winning races and collect more individual points.

And fielding more cars is especially benficial at Le Mans. As much as I may not like it, Le Mans transcends the WEC; Les 24 Heures du Mans is what matters. And three cars gives you a better chance to win in a long race of attrition. I fully expect to see 3 Toyotas on the Le Mans grid in 2013, even if just 1 or 2 TS0130s is entered into the rest of WEC 2013.
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Peugeot. *cough, cough* :lol:
 
I can understand that Rebellion want the red bits but its getting a little tiresome seeing what was once a great livery ruined by these stupid flashes of red. Though its quickly getting old seeing black+gold plastered on every race car now but eh better than the past few years of white+red race cars dominating every race series.
The car would look amazing without the red bits.
 
So is Lotus still rebranding an LMP2 car as well?

It was cool at first but now it's at the point of overkill, at least the Evora is actually a Lotus product.
 
It doesnt grow sportscar racing....only 1-2 cars of the 5-6 sponsored by Lotus are actual Lotus products, 2 are an existing team in LMP1 and the other team is a new team run by a previous team owner in LMP2.
 
It does. The Alex Job Evora replaces an AJR gtc porsche that not many people give a hoot about...

Regardless of whether its a badge job or not. The name lotus grows sports car racing. Not literally since they are using established teams but in the eyes of viewers, sponsors etc. When big names are clammering like they way they are in WEC people want to know what is going on. and they get interested. JRM and there sponsors for example.
 
AJR makes money by renting seats out in its GTC Porsches, they're no doubt getting money to ru the Evora so theyll keep their 2 Porsches running to make money and make more renting out the Evora seats.

And yes, the Rebellion car is now my new desktop :D
 
Listened to MWM S7 E6 this morning, AJR will only have 1 GTC Porsche running and have the option for a second Evora with it being a multi year program.
 

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