Le Mans 2023

MadYaker

Anybody else watching this?

Official website 24 Heures du Mans | 10-11 june 2023 (24h-lemans.com)

Free practice 4 just starting now. I'm looking forward to seeing how Jenson Button's Nascar cup car does. I reckon the engine will blow. Looks cool though.

Harika

What a grid. Ferrari the quickest in qualifying what was to be expected. Toyota has the experience to endure the 24 hours and their drivers made fewer mistakes than the Ferrari ones during the season so main favorite. Still we have the Penske & Cadillac as dark horses in there. Peugeot lacking the speed, Glickenhaus & Vanwall as privateer entries.

Hypercar

1. #50 FERRARI AF CORSE Antonio Fuoco 3:22.982
2. #51 FERRARI AF CORSE Alessandro Pier Guidi +0.773
3. #7 TOYOTA GAZOO RACING Kamui Kobayashi +1.285
4. #8 TOYOTA GAZOO RACING Brendon Hartley +1.469
5. #75 PORSCHE PENSKE MOTORSPORT Felipe Nasr +1.549
6. #2 CADILLAC RACING Earl Bamber +2.188
7. #5 PORSCHE PENSKE MOTORSPORT Frédéric Makowiecki +2.194
8. #3 CADILLAC RACING Sébastien Bourdais +2.539
9. #6 PORSCHE PENSKE MOTORSPORT Kévin Estre 3:26.900
10. #93 PEUGEOT TOTALENERGIES Mikkel Jensen 3:27.260
11. #94 PEUGEOT TOTALENERGIES Loïc Duval 3:27.850
12. #311 ACTION EXPRESS RACING Luis Felipe Derani 3:27.960
13. #708 GLICKENHAUS RACING Romain Dumas 3:28.497
14. #709 GLICKENHAUS RACING Esteban Gutierrez 3:29.082
15. #4 FLOYD VANWALL RACING TEAM Tom Dillman 3:29.745
16. #38 HERTZ TEAM JOTA Will Stevens NO TIME SET (61 overall)

tigerboon

Peugeot were 3 seconds quicker than Audi for practice and pole one year. Didn't matter in the end. The top 9 are within 3 seconds on a 14.5km circuit. That's close.

Harika

Great race , but the hypercars taking over the TV schedule. Rarely anything else than them on the screen.

Ghost Train

Seem to be a lot of incidents, slow zones

LIGHTNING

Who is showing the race? Cant find it on the usual channels

Harika

Eurosport

Harika

If you have a VPN and don't mind German French can be watched too.

Harika

Rainchaos now, still 12 hypercars on the lead lap

LIGHTNING

Bedlam now, that Ferrari nearly wiped out two cars going off

Arthur Daley

Crazy acqua planning. Squirm at them sliding off.

Alex Brundle sounds just like his Dad.

bennyx_o

Hadn't watched much of the build-up this year and Sky+'d the start of the race, thought Toyota would run away in the Hypercar class but doesn't seem the case. Half watching it at the moment so not sure how the stints are and if they're all out of sync & what not. Good race so far though (except all the safety cars, but not much that can be done about that)

Really like the look of the Peugeot with no wing, even if it is lacking downforce. Ferrari & Porsche hypercars look good too

Live timing is actually pretty good, especially if you select 'Expert' mode.

MadYaker

Big off and crash for the leading Porsche there. That car is goosed.

Larbre34

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120699111#Comment_120699111

Not a bit of it, off and running again 10 or 15 mins later. All he had was cosmetic damage to snap on panels, lucky for him.

So long as the chassis is straight, it can be fixed. The only things that will end it are, being stranded in an unrecoverable location, no drive out on circuit, or fire. Pretty much everything else is replaceable, until you run out of spares.

MadYaker

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120699244#Comment_120699244

Yeah the crash looked bad at first but it was just body panels. The car looked epic with no rear bodywork.

Larbre34

Porsche 963 El Camino.

MadYaker

Parts of the track are getting some rain I think. I'm glued to this, might have to have a few coffees.

LIGHTNING

God Kristennsen is terrible on comms "Oh yoi yoi yoi" every 2 mins.

Larbre34

That's just a speech affectation from his native Danish, relax.

He's a brilliant addition to comms, knows more about modern sportscar racing than pretty much anyone alive.

LIGHTNING

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120699489#Comment_120699489

Well he hasn't said anything even remotely interesting/useful. Would expect some useful insight from him but alas we get "drivers arent driving for the conditions"

Harika

That race will come down to the last hour. I hope I can sneak out of the kid's party. Lol

Ghost Train

Very tricky conditions, plenty sliding off, seems most got away without too much damage

Larbre34

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120699498#Comment_120699498

You're talking nonsense now.

He's a colour commentator. The presenters deal with the facts and figures, Tom or Alex or Anthony or whoever deal with the occasion, the experience, the lessons.

If you don't find him interesting that's on you.

MadYaker

I love that Ferrari are streaming both onboards from their cars on youtube for this entire race.

Ferrari - YouTube

Ghost Train

Ferrari into the gravel and Toyota getting hit hard at the rear a lap or two later

Larbre34

That did for him, rotten bit of luck getting caught up in some elses drama, but #7 Toyota is done.

tigerboon

After the first few races this year, nobody would have said Peugeot would be leading this 8 hours in.

Ghost Train

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120700082#Comment_120700082

Pity to go out like that, seemed to be able to move a bit on battery power but not enough power to get back

Larbre34

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120700090#Comment_120700090

Especially Peugeot.

Just goes to show, many a Le Mans have been won by the tortoise over the hare, by simply keeping it on the road and pounding around.

Although this full safety car will have the Ferraris especially ready to pounce.

10-10-20

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120699717#Comment_120699717

Bit presumptuous there. @LIGHTNING might know a thing or two about track-comms. 😂

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120699524#Comment_120699524

It's a tricky one to follow when you're away from home. This might help as it's the official radio broadcast crew on-circuit (hit listen live):

http://www.radiolemans.co/

tigerboon

This new safety car system is a disaster.

Harika

Ferrari and Toyota too close to call. Porsche still in striking distance.

Harika

The live timing confuses me , is the Cadillac now on the lead lap?

Prediction: Ferrari to lead into the last hour only to loose against the Toyota. Before Toyota won they lost several races in the last hour and even laps.

Or Ferrari wins what explains their lacklustre campaign in F1

Harika

Drama in the pits, that race is better than anything else today on TV

Ghost Train

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120700676#Comment_120700676

Lost 1min and the lead. Need to power cycle the car. Next stop will be tense for them

Larbre34

Toyota had better hope the Italian electrics are on the fritz cos this Ferrari is fast when its on track.

Harika

Back in the lead with a ballsy overtake

Harika

Also live on Discovery+

Larbre34

Fassbender runs out of talent and bins the #911 911!

Sub-frame is cracked and they are out.

MadYaker

Sorry for Fassbender, The Nascar garage 56 car is also out, transmission failure, not sure when exactly I was asleep.

MadYaker

The #8 Toyota locks up and bins it, looks the Ferrari's race to lose now.

Larbre34

The Camaro is very much still running, just changed the tranny!

Our own Charlie Eastwood driving a blinder in the ORT Aston, still a possible win

Harika

Well deserved result. Always love it when a newcomer kicks the top dog off the top.

MadYaker

They earned it. The car is robust, very quick and the drivers barely put a foot wrong.

tigerboon

Toyota could have had it too. 9 seconds with about 2 hours to go. If they kept it on track they would have 20 seconds or so lead with Ferrari having the problem on the pitstop. Good race though. Lots of drama and chaos.

Flinty997

Where's the best streaming service to see the highlights.

Harika

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120702019#Comment_120702019

YouTube

Larbre34

Toyota were hoping to show everyone that their victories weren't just as a result of a scant field in P1/Hypercar and they could have done without a few errors and a bit of poor luck, but that's Le Mans.

Ferrari stepped up their reliability from the early WEC rounds and got their rewards with a durable and quick car in all conditions. Good day for the sport all round.

Great to see so many big factory cars back in the fight, will be even more crazy next year with Lamborghini, BMW, Isotta, Alpine and maybe Acura-Honda. A new golden era dawns.

And a big congrats to Charlie Eastwood and ORT Aston Martin for 2nd in GTE Am class

Flinty997

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120702077#Comment_120702077

Cheers. Anyone have favourite channels for Le Mans.

I usually watch and follow it, this year just wasn't possible.

MadYaker

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120702151#Comment_120702151

The WEC have their own official channel where they've uploaded loads of clips from the race.

I have to say I really enjoyed that, what an epic event it is. There was no way I s aw staying up to watch it all but I think I only missed about 5 hours. There was always something happening that was worth watching.

Eurosport made a ten minute highlights video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csUAKXrgCkE&ab_channel=Eurosport

Larbre34

I'd definitely recommend watching the extended highlights. The 10 min package doesn't capture the great racing in the Hypercar class early on in the race.