Endurance Racing News Thread

Grim.

confirmed Nissan in LMP1 with the GT-R LM Nismo from 2015 onward

PopePalpatine

As a GT-R fanboy, I'm hella hyped for this!

Killinator

These are good times to be a sports-car fan!

Killinator

Strakka withdraw their Dome Nissan from LM24 after big accident testing at Spa(Danny Watts unhurt)
They say they don't have enough time to assess, repair and get new spares before LM24.

They will be replaced by Krohn Racings F 458.

Larbre34

Pity about the Strakka, its a lovely looking machine. Oh well, one less P2 competitor for Murphys!

Is it usual to add a reserve car from another class if the reserves of the original class have been exhausted?

Killinator

Larbre34 wrote: »

Pity about the Strakka, its a lovely looking machine. Oh well, one less P2 competitor for Murphys!

Is it usual to add a reserve car from another class if the reserves of the original class have been exhausted?

Ya that's standard enough, though I believe all reserves from all classes are used up now.

Grim.

Some sort of announcement this Sunday from an American company thought to be Ford, whether its LMP1/P2 or GTE i'm not sure.

There's also a rumor that Honda and McLaren are working on an LMP1 entry based out of Honda's new facility in Milton Keynes.

Killinator

Grim. wrote: »

Some sort of announcement this Sunday from an American company thought to be Ford, whether its LMP1/P2 or GTE i'm not sure.

There's also a rumor that Honda and McLaren are working on an LMP1 entry based out of Honda's new facility in Milton Keynes.

Rumours of Flying Lizards returning aswell, they'll have to add a few grid slots next year at this rate

Grim.

Racecar engineering saying LMP1 for Ford

Killinator

Grim. wrote: »

Racecar engineering saying LMP1 for Ford

Niiiiice!

Killinator

I'd said I'd post it, so here it is, my car is ready to go to France:)

Grim.

Killinator wrote: »

I'd said I'd post it, so here it is, my car is ready to go to France:)

class lol

Grim.

Grim. wrote: »

Racecar engineering saying LMP1 for Ford

not so sure on this now have seen it mentioned in a few forums but when i went to look for the source myself i could find no tweet, still be it P1/P2 or GTE its another manufacturer and things just keep getting better for endurance racing.

Grim.

Massive shunt for Loic Duval exiting the Porsche curves in practice, car is destroyed no word yet on Loic's condition

h3000

Looks like it was a massive shunt. Lets hope he is okay.

Grim.

Wolfgang Ullrich reporting Loic Duval is Conscious and Talking.

Grim.

some more photos of the crash here

http://www.lemainelibre.fr/actualite/24-heures-du-mans-enorme-accident-de-loic-duval-sur-laudi-n-1-11-06-2014-93495#2

Grim.

Amazingly Loic Duval escaped with only a couple of grazes after his massive crash in first practice, Great News!

Zcott

Unbelievable. Hard to imagine a driver surviving an accident like that even 15 years ago.

Grim.

Duval is ok but hasn't been cleared by doctors to race so will be replaced by Marc Gene, Audi are rebuilding the #1 car tonight to run in qualifying tomorrow.

Edit: no word on what caused the crash yet

Frank Bullitt

How he only had a few scrapes is beyond me, and they will be back on track tomorrow, very impressive.

h3000

Duval has been ruled out of racing the weekend by the Doctors. Marc Gene will take his seat.

Grim.

#1 car nearly ready to go

Sterling Archer

That's just simply amazing

afatbollix

Did they change the chassis? or was the old one repaired?

_rebelkid

How he got out of this I just don't know. Simply Amazing.

Zcott

Genuinely terrifying. Any word on how it happened?

Grim.

afatbollix wrote: »

Did they change the chassis? or was the old one repaired?

new chassis, old one was a write off

frostie500

Landed yesterday and I'm really looking forward to this weekend. It's always a great week of festivities so if there's any other boardsie's over here let me know and hopefully we can arrange a meet up at some point!

Couple of pictures from yesterday of the LMP1 cars:






And of course it's always good to see Murphy Prototypes flying the tricolour!

Grim.

Unfortunately the Craft Bamboo Racing Aston Martin #99 has withdrawn from Le Mans after last nights crash wrote the car off.

http://sportscar365.com/lemans/lemans24/craft-bamboo-racing-withdraws-from-le-mans/

Grim.

and

Zcott

Great pictures as always Frostie, love the shot of the no.7 Toyota!

Grim.

ahh bollocks big off at Indianapolis for Karun Chandok in the #48

_rebelkid

Chandhok binned the Murphy Prototype Nissan.

Grim.

Kazuki Nakajima puts the #7 Toyota on pole for the Le Mans 24h

Grim.

Full Qualifying results

LMP1
1. Wurz/Sarrazin/Nakajima JPN Toyota TS040 Hybrid 3m 21.789s LMP1
2. Dumas/Jani/Lieb GER Porsche 919 Hybrid 3m 22.146s LMP1
3. Davidson/Lapierre/Buemi JPN Toyota TS040 Hybrid 3m 22.523s LMP1
4. Webber/Hartley/Bernhard GER Porsche 919 Hybrid 3m 22.908s LMP1
5. Albuquerque/Bonanomi/Jarvis GER Audi Sport Joest R18 e-tron 3m 23.271s LMP1
6. Fassler/Lotterer/Treluyer GER Audi Sport Joest R18 e-tron 3m 24.276s LMP1
7. Kristensen/Gene/di Grassi GER Audi Sport Joest R18 e-tron 3m 25.814s LMP1
8. Prost/Heidfeld/Beche SUI Rebellion R-ONE Toyota 3m 29.763s LMP1
9. Leimer/Belicchi/Kraihamer SUI Rebellion Lola B/12 Toyota 3m 31.608s LMP1

LMP2
10. Thiriet/Badey/Gommendy FRA Thiriet by TDS Ligier JS Nissan 3m 37.609s LMP2
11. Dolan/Tincknell/Turvey GBR Jota Zytek Z11SN Nissan 3m 37.674s LMP2
12. Brundle/Mardenborough/Shulzhitskiy FRA OAK Ligier JS Nissan 3m 37.892 LMP2
13. Rusinov/Pla/Canal RUS G-Drive Morgan Nissan 3m 38.000s LMP2
14. Panciatici/Webb/Chatin FRA Signatech Alpine A450b Nissan 3m 38.089s LMP2
15. Berthon/Gonzalez/Chandhok IRL Murphy Oreca 03 Nissan 3m 38.207s LMP2
16. Howson/Bradley/Imperatori HKG KCMG Oreca 03 Nissan 3m 39.689s LMP2
17. Klien/Hirsch/Brandela SUI Newblood Morand Morgan Judd 3m 39.135s LMP2
18. Lancaster/Mailleux/Frey SUI Race Performance Oreca 03 Judd 3m 39.993s LMP2
19. Kimber-Smith/McMurry/Dyson MAL Caterham Zytek Z11SN Nissan 3m 40.035s LMP2
20. Rast/Charouz/Capillaire FRA Sebastien Loeb Oreca 03 Nissan 3m 40.407s LMP2
21. Minassian/Ladygin/Mediani RUS SMP Oreca 03 Nissan 3m 41.297s LMP2
22. Ladygin/Zlobin/Salo RUS SMP Oreca 03 Nissan 3m 42.131s LMP2
23. Schell/Leutwiler/Roussel GER Pegasus Morgan Nissan 3m 42.438s LMP2
24. Cheng/Tung/Fong FRA OAK Asia Ligier JS Honda 3m 42.988s LMP2
25. Ragues/Taylor/Ihara FRA Larbre Morgan Judd 3m 43.943s LMP2
26. Munemann/Latif/Winslow GBR Greaves Zytek Z11SN Nissan 3m 44.293s LMP2
27. Ordonez/Reip/Motoyama JPN Nissan Motorsports ZEOD RC 3m 50.185s Garage 56

GTE
28. Bruni/Vilander/Fisichella ITA AF Corse Ferrari 458 Italia 3m 53.700s GTE Pro
29. Wyatt/Rugolo/Bird ITA AF Corse Ferrari F458 Italia 3m 54.665s GTE Am
30. Magnussen/Garcia/Taylor USA Corvette Racing Chevrolet C7 R 3m 54.777s GTE Pro
31. Turner/Mucke/Senna GBR Aston Martin Racing Vantage V8 3m 54.891s GTE Pro
32. Gavin/Milner/Westbrook USA Corvette Racing Chevrolet C7 R 3m 55.190s GTE Pro
33. Parente/Griffin/Leo GBR Ram Racing Ferrari 458 Italia 3m 55.347s GTE Pro
34. Holzer/Makowiecki/Lietz GER Porsche Team Manthay 911 3m 55.516s GTE Pro
35. Dalla Lana/Lamy/Nygaard GBR Aston Martin Racing Vantage V8 3m 55.644s GTE Am
36. Pilet/Bergmeister/Tandy GER Porsche Team Manthay 911 3m 55.745s GTE Pro
37. Poulsen/Heinemeier/Thiim GBR Aston Martin Racing Vantage V8 3m 55.944s GTE Am
38. Perez/Cioci/Venturi ITA AF Corse Ferrari F458 Italia 3m 55.977s GTE Am
39. Bertolini/Shaitar/Basov RUS SMP Ferrari F458 Italia 3m 56.063s GTE Am
40. Ried/Bachler/Al Qubaisi GER Proton Porsche 911 GT3 RSR 3m 56.974s GTE Am
41. Dempsey/Long/Foster GER Proton Porsche 911 GT3 RSR 3m 57.004s GTE Am
42. Montecalvo/Roda/Ruberti USA 8 Star Ferrari F458 Italia 3m 57.217s GTE Am
43. Macdowall/O'Young/Rees GBR Aston Martin Racing Vantage V8 3m 57.258s GTE Pro
44. Mann/Giammaria/Case ITA AF Corse Ferrari F458 Italia 3m 57.274s GTE Am
45. Al-Faisal/Neiman/Pumpelly GBR JMW Ferrari F458 Italia 3m 57.757s GTE Am
46. Mowlem/Patterson/Hamilton GBR Ram Racing Ferrari F458 Italia 3m 57.958s GTE Am
47. Rigon/Calado/Beretta ITA AF Corse Ferrari 458 Italia 3m 58.086s GTE Pro
48. Narac/Armindo/Hallyday FRA IMSA Performance Matmut Porsche 911 GT3 RSR 3m 58.398s GTE Am
49. MacNeil/Curtis/Bleekemolen BEL Prospeed Porsche 911 GT3 RSR 3m 59.012s GTE Am
50. Palttala/Collard/Perrodo BEL Prospeed Porsche 911 GT3 RSR 3m 59.394s GTE Am
51. Barthez/Pons/Ayari FRA Sofrev ASP Ferrari F458 Italia 3m 59.837s GTE Am
52. Krohn/Jonsson/Collins USA Krohn Ferrari F458 Italia 4m 01.006s GTE Am
53. Nakano/Ehret/Rich JPN Taisan Ferrari F458 Italia 4m 01.446s GTE Am
54. Maris/Merlin/Helary FRA IMSA Performance Matmut Porsche 911 GT3 RSR 4m 03.277s GTE Am
55. Mallegol/Bachelier/Blank ITA AF Corse Ferrari F458 Italia 4m 10.354s GTE Am

Zcott

And that Toyota is a fine looking car.

_rebelkid

James Calado suffered a mild brain haemorrhage from his off yesterday and will be held in hospital for a few days.

Grim.

some useful links for people watching the race

http://www.24h-lemans.com/live/en/

http://www.spotterguides.com/portfolio/2014-le-mans/

http://direct.sharp-stream.com/radioshow.mp3

http://player.gl-systemhaus.de/AUDI/2014/LeMans/

track map with marshals posts

Grim.

cars are rolling

TheChrisD

Ugh, commentators on the official Le Mans stream are terrible. I'll stick with my Eurosport stream of questionable legality.

frostie500

TheChrisD wrote: »

Ugh, commentators on the official Le Mans stream are terrible. I'll stick with my Eurosport stream of questionable legality.

Use radio le mans for commentary, always the best balance for comms at the race

Grim.

love that camera in the curb at Arnage

Sterling Archer

frostie500 wrote: »

Use radio le mans for commentary, always the best balance for comms at the race

http://www.radiolemans.com/ there lads

Jordan 199

I feel like sticking on Forza Motorsport 4 and having my own race at Le Mans and blasting down the Mulsanne straight.

Sterling Archer

Jordan 191 wrote: »

I feel like sticking on Forza Motorsport 4 and having my own race at Le Mans and blasting down the Mulsanne straight.

Try to do a endurance stint, then lapse in concentration and off you go haha, hours wasted

Sterling Archer

My Stream Froze, what happen the 14?

Grim.

Shane_ef wrote: »

My Stream Froze, what happen the 14?

slowed down heading towards indy, stuck at 60kph like the pit limiter kicked in very weird

Frankie Lee

The 7 Toyota isn't really stretching out as much of an advantage as it could. If the number 8 could get into 2nd it would be a big help.

Grim.

pissing rain at tertre rouge