LeMans...GO AUDI!

Well, bon jour French pit reporter.

 

I was away just now, did I miss something?

 

Olivier Beretta has CO2 poisoning (?)

 

I caught that 2. What's a 2 between friends?

 

double the oxygen, double the fun!

at any rate, hope he's okay

 

finally back to green!

 

While I certainly don't claim to be "an old hand", my 02c;

- Better! - "Back in the day" an amateur jockey needed a pile of gold and he could get a ride. Even better was if he had the big $ to build a team to go to Le Mans - Pro drivers would line up - They all wanted Le Mans on their resume.....

Nowadays, the price of entry is *huge*.... And the amateurs have good DA, good "coaches" (when did they go from "instructors" to "coaches" btw? ), live telemetry etc.

While it can produce some great racing (and *huge* accidents), comparing it to F1 (which also currently features many pay drivers as we know ) is a bit like comparing the EPL with MLS.

Cheers,
Ian

 

According to Tom crash number one was just a racing incident. Maybe triggered by poor visibility from the AUDI's. They apparently have some "blind" angles. And the Ferrari driver may not have realized he was being attacked on both sides at the same time.

Crash number 2 (not according to Tom, but two other drivers) was maybe triggered by blindness. Ferrari driver look up in the mirror and it blinded by the flashing AUDI and looses orientation for a few miliseconds when he look on the road again. The new lights on the AUDI's are extremely sharp and (again according to Tom) much much better than on the last model. And again, maybe an orientation problem for the AUDI driver.
So the blindness by flashing lights and orientation may be the reason for the second crash.

Both racing incidents.

 

Oreca Matmut Pug in pits with damage. That's the only Pug I don't mind winning.

 

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WTF was McNish thinking with that pass attempt?!?!?!? He is a great driver imo but jeez wtf were you thunking man!!

 

Woohoo, Corvette leads class. 458 looks nearly as sexy.

 

Good to see some Ferraris still hanging in there.

 

Ferrari destroys two AUDI cars, Ferrari drivers in this race are lame
the ferrari driver should have get his racing licence revoked. he could have killed Rockenfeller, what an amateur!

 

I think that was the team owner driving - Robert Kaufman. Look at the side of the car - sponsor - RK Motors, check out their website, they have a ton of nice but somewhat overpriced cars. Warning: only one Ferrari for sale (F40). TONS of american muscle.

 

A Ferrari currently leading the GT class.

 

some Ferrari cars should be disqualified

 

Pretty hard racing with just over 6 hours to go. Tough crash with the GTE Pro Corvette going out while leading with the Porsche.

 

rain on its way with less than 4 hours to go....

 

Less than 1/2 an hour to go and an under 30 sec lead. Good stuff.

 

Glad to see Antonio leading GTE Pro, Robertson's on podium only to other cars going out, their car boxed Peugeot during the night when they were right with Audi, disappointed that Strakka went out early and didn't claim P2 again this year - that's the best of the entire P2 group. Onto Imola - 53 on entry list - leading Audi here is not on list.

Carol

 

Congrats to Audi, great result made even better considering they lost two of their cars.

Mark