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Does anyone else just not give a gently caress about Le Mans this year? Even Gareth Jones isn’t going and didn’t seem sad about it.
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I'm pretty stoked. Biggest starting grid ever, P2, GTE Pro and GTE Am all look to be good battles, and the P1 privateers should make a good battles, will be interested to see how far they've come from last year. Just because the Toyotas are still likely to walk away at the front doesn't make the rest of the race any less interesting. Just sad we're not gonna see Ginetta with the new engine
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I mean I'd like to see a front-engined Corvette win Le Mans one last time before they go away for good or maybe Jon Bomarito ride the #66 to a win as his career in the very early stages of winding down, but otherwise I think you have to be a pretty serious ELMS fan to be really hyped for the field as a whole
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an oddly awful oud posted:I mean I'd like to see a front-engined Corvette win Le Mans one last time before they go away for good or maybe Jon Bomarito ride the #66 to a win as his career in the very early stages of winding down, but otherwise I think you have to be a pretty serious ELMS fan to be really hyped for the field as a whole Same reason I'm interested. Isn't it also the end of the factory Ford GT program?
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drgitlin posted:Does anyone else just not give a gently caress about Le Mans this year? Even Gareth Jones isn’t going and didn’t seem sad about it. I’m going to be jet lagged out of my brain watching it this weekend, and I don’t have anything to do but “laundry” and “not work,” so at least it will be entertaining. And I live in a country where the app works so 
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Jun 12, 2019 15:14
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I'm always hype for Le Mans but I work this weekend so I'm going to miss a lot of it 
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Jun 12, 2019 16:21
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Red flag in practice 1 for a huge crash involving Tracy Krohn
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Jun 12, 2019 16:41
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mactheknife posted:I'm always hype for Le Mans but I work this weekend so I'm going to miss a lot of it
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Jun 12, 2019 19:10
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That was incredibly dumb.
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mactheknife posted:I'm always hype for Le Mans but I work this weekend so I'm going to miss a lot of it I normally work Saturdays but remembered to ask for the day off for both Le Mans and Nürburgring.
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Jun 12, 2019 22:44
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CactusWeasle posted:crash involving Tracy Krohn here is my shocked face -> 
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Jun 12, 2019 22:45
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CactusWeasle posted:Red flag in practice 1 for a huge crash involving Tracy Krohn Le Mans getting off to a good start
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Jun 12, 2019 23:09
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It was Krohn's first lap out and he said an LMP2 car came across his nose - on the straight - and hit him, causing him to crash There is no video footage 
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Jun 12, 2019 23:22
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Is the commentary team on the FIAWEC broadcast any good? I muted them for Radio Le Mans last year and synching wasn't too bad, but I didn't like having to piece together replays of crashes / etc. I'm still pumped for this even if Toyota will probably run away with the overall win. GTE Pro never fails to be exciting. Is it worth buying tickets to the 2020 or 2021 race? I want to see a race with the new specs but from the last page or so it sounds like it'll be a mess with no factories. Shumagorath fucked around with this message at 11:22 on Jun 13, 2019 |
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Jun 13, 2019 02:02
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Even if the racing isn't great you'd still be in France on vacation.
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Shumagorath posted:Is the commentary team on the FIAWEC broadcast any good? I muted them for Radio Le Mans last year and synching wasn't too bad, but I didn't like having to piece together replays of crashes / etc. Personally I think the WEC commentary is good. They're not as good as Radio Le Mans but that's a pretty high bar.
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Jun 13, 2019 04:17
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Allan MacNish and Graham Goodwin are pretty dang good. Not a huge fan of Martin Haven but he's okay. They've also got Peter Dumbreck (flippy Mercedes lad that isn't Mark Webber) and Jim Roller (fmr. IMSA pit lane reporter) for LM this year.
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Jun 13, 2019 04:27
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Absolutely nothing can be worse than the Eurosport crew.
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Jun 13, 2019 09:49
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The WEC purchase server has poo poo the bed so I can't even give them money.
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Tracey Krohn has been told he can't race, astonishingly because of the accident rather than his general garbagemanship. So the car has been withdrawn because if he can't drive it, he won't pay for it.
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Jun 13, 2019 19:13
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Not ten minutes ago Eurosport said Krohn was passed fit to drive. Welp thats enough Eurosport for this year.
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Jun 13, 2019 19:27
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Well that screws Pat Long's attempt to set the consecutive starts record for an american.
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Jun 13, 2019 19:42
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Cursed image https://twitter.com/NickiThiim/status/1139098045713399808?s=19
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Confirming I'm 100% better off going with a VPN + FIAWEC's notorious failures at start over Motortrend on Demand?
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Shumagorath posted:Confirming I'm 100% better off going with a VPN + FIAWEC's notorious failures at start over Motortrend on Demand? FWIW I've not had to use a VPN all week for the wec site from the US.
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So it looks like the new Yeepercar (I learned this pronunciation from Radio Lemans and I'm sticking with it) class is confirmed for next season. http://www.dailysportscar.com/2019/06/14/aco-confirms-le-mans-hypercar-prototype-regulations-for-2020-21-season.html I don't think I can manage staying up all night but hopefully I'll manage to watch a good chunk of LeMans, mainly because for some reason I bought the full superseason pass ages ago. Edit: apparently Aston Martin are already confirmed? https://twitter.com/astonmartin/status/1139462575396139008 I mean it couldn't be worse than their last LMP1 car right? right??? track day bro! fucked around with this message at 11:33 on Jun 14, 2019 |
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Jun 14, 2019 09:39
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Toyota is also coming in with another hybrid but that shouldn't surprise anyone. https://twitter.com/Toyota_Hybrid/status/1139489876628451329?s=19
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https://twitter.com/AKociok/status/1139485620378767360 Anyone want to weigh in on this tweet? I mean he's talking about LMP1 non hybrid right? Surely the motorsport world will be rocked by the lack of Bykolles???? Although this sucks pretty bad and doesn't bode well for the new spec cars being as mental as the current LMP1H https://twitter.com/Pitlaneandy/status/1139470971881107461
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Jun 14, 2019 13:23
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I think he's talking about the fact they're restricting the top class to manufacturer only and then BoPing it to gently caress so everyone wins. And I'm a little lost what this gives us over just making LeMans GTE only and having 62 of those fuckers running around, especially if they're going to restrict the LMP2s to be barely quicker than GTE anyway.
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Well it's not like LMP1H was full of privateers, or even manufacturers (plural) But it does sound like this new hypercar class is going to suck rear end. I mean we only recently got LMP2's that had enough power to pass the GTE cars and now they want to slow them the gently caress down again.
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Jun 14, 2019 15:13
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The ACO is so bad
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Cygni posted:The ACO is so bad
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Jun 14, 2019 15:46
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Well Ford is definitely not in the new hypercar class. https://sportscar365.com/lemans/wec/ford-rules-out-hypercar-program-dpi-2-0-regs-going-in-right-direction/ quote:Rushbrook, who was present at Friday’s ACO press conference that confirmed its Hypercar direction, has declared Ford will not pursue an entry in the yet-to-be-named class.
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Work has sent me on a last last minute trip to the circuit, so I'm currently poo poo posting at you all live from the eurotunnel. I'm so loving pumped I wasn't planning to go this year at all.
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These rules are complete garbage and I’m sorry, 750hp doesn’t cut it as a “hypercar” when the Corvette C8 Z06 is going to make that much power as a street car. These things will be slower than current DPi cars, never mind DPi 2.0. The ACO are such tossers.
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Just chiming in to agree that the ACO sucks, these rules are bad and they're not gonna accomplish any of their goals.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_fTSnvs9rc oops https://us.motorsport.com/lemans/video/toyota-7-crash/447702/
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Zaphod42 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_fTSnvs9rc Crashes follow Maldonado everywhere, huh.
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Zaphod42 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_fTSnvs9rc jesus christ loving black flag him
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