martinfan5 Posted June 12, 2012 Posted June 12, 2012 (edited) This weekend 16/17th June, marks the 80th edtion of the 24 Heures Du Mans at La Sarthe. It should be a very interesting one, with some of the hybrids racing, Nissan is bringing there Delta wing, and Toyota is running their TS030 Hybrid. SpeedTv will be airing some of the race , coverage starts at 8:30 am EST. Here some links http://www.lemans.org/en/ http://auto-racing.s...video-streaming http://tv.audi.com/ Link to Toyota hybrid http://www.topgear.c...mans-2012-06-11 Link to Nissan Delta Wing http://www.topgear.c...wing-2012-05-23 Edited June 12, 2012 by martinfan5
Scuderia Posted June 12, 2012 Posted June 12, 2012 Nice, I can't wait for this one. Last years race was a nail biter down to the flag, so I'm hoping this one will be as well. For some reason i found myself rooting so hard against the Peugot team last yr and wanting Audi to win.
martinfan5 Posted June 12, 2012 Author Posted June 12, 2012 I know it was a little early with doing the thread, but I am excited, I have no idea what team/car I want to win, dont think I care, I hope its a good one like last year.
Scuderia Posted June 12, 2012 Posted June 12, 2012 Yeah i usually don't have a rooting interest but something just made me dislike them last year lol. Should be a good one again i'm sure.
Badluck 13 Posted June 12, 2012 Posted June 12, 2012 Jonathan thanks for the reminder,I will be watchin' what little SPEED covers.......
ffreak Posted June 12, 2012 Posted June 12, 2012 Thanks for the links Jonathan. I'm really looking forward to this one. I'm so over the Deltawing deal and all the hype with it. Too radical for me. I AM excited though to see the Toyota. I really like that car and it's ideas and theory. Plus the vids i've seen of it are awesome with the sound, and it's quite competitive timewise !! My son and I are doing another Lemans modelpalooza with friends. I'm building the Toyota Toms 88C that I had picked out for the Gr. C build we had talked about. And my son is building the Nissan R89C !! And yes, i'm cheating a bit with it, i'm getting the paintwork done prior to the race !! As before, the 2 and 3 color schemes of these cars are a hindrence to start to finish building of these. Much more fun to just apply decals while your fresh and just assemble and detail the thing. I'l post a link to the builds when finished.
Rob Hall Posted June 12, 2012 Posted June 12, 2012 (edited) Looking forward to it...last weekend was busy w/ F1, IndyCar, Rolex Grand Am and NASCAR to watch...looks like this will be a busy weekend also. Edited June 12, 2012 by Rob Hall
Junkman Posted June 12, 2012 Posted June 12, 2012 I guess it's going to be rather boring without the Peugeots.
martinfan5 Posted June 13, 2012 Author Posted June 13, 2012 (edited) Sorry for the crappy way I did the driver/car list, I was able to copy and paste the entire list, but the forum would not post it, to many images, I was not about to try and remove all the driver flags. I am not to found of NIssan's Delta wing project either, but I have not really read a lot on it. Edited June 13, 2012 by martinfan5
935k3 Posted June 13, 2012 Posted June 13, 2012 Don't forget to watch qualifying tomorrow and Thursday. on the net. TImes are 1-3 PM and 4-6 PM Eastern Standard Time in the USA both days. SPEED has a show on Friday night at 10:00 PM about the TS030 Toyota Hybrid and it's develepmont. I feel sorry for the racing fans that don't get this race or understand how important it is to the world's car makers. Sorry NASCAR fans but the DAYTONA 500 is not the greatest or most important race on the planet.
martinfan5 Posted June 13, 2012 Author Posted June 13, 2012 (edited) Don't forget to watch qualifying tomorrow and Thursday. on the net. TImes are 1-3 PM and 4-6 PM Eastern Standard Time in the USA both days. SPEED has a show on Friday night at 10:00 PM about the TS030 Toyota Hybrid and it's develepmont. I feel sorry for the racing fans that don't get this race or understand how important it is to the world's car makers. Sorry NASCAR fans but the DAYTONA 500 is not the greatest or most important race on the planet. I agree, I dont think a lot of people know what the 24 hour of le mans is really about, its where the manufactures test new technology, and that technology they test sometimes ends up in the road cars. The 24 hour race is a manufactures race more then it is a drivers race. A few weeks ago, Speed was airing the road to le mans for audi The 500 is in the top three Edited June 13, 2012 by martinfan5
ffreak Posted June 13, 2012 Posted June 13, 2012 Don't forget to watch qualifying tomorrow and Thursday. on the net. TImes are 1-3 PM and 4-6 PM Eastern Standard Time in the USA both days. SPEED has a show on Friday night at 10:00 PM about the TS030 Toyota Hybrid and it's develepmont. I feel sorry for the racing fans that don't get this race or understand how important it is to the world's car makers. Sorry NASCAR fans but the DAYTONA 500 is not the greatest or most important race on the planet. Can you post any links to the streaming sites to watch practice and quali. ????
martinfan5 Posted June 13, 2012 Author Posted June 13, 2012 Danny, try the links I posted, they may have it
ffreak Posted June 13, 2012 Posted June 13, 2012 I found this link that i'm watchin on : http://www.vipbox.tv/watch/56239/4/le-mans-24-hours---practice-live-stream-online.html
CAL Posted June 13, 2012 Posted June 13, 2012 (edited) Yeah, kind of sucks no Peugeot Audi mega battle, but Toyota has been running respectable times. #8 Toyota however caught fire in Free Practice. Q1 is tonight in France, later this afternoon today. Now, Audi has expressed some concerns about reliablity of there R18s and are running new technology on 2 of their 4 cars so there is a bit of a unknown in the Audi camp. Also there is a chance of rain both Sat and Sun, which may change everything. In dry running the E-Quattro is very strong but they say it may have trouble in the rain vs. the Ultras and Toyotas. Hard to say what is going to happen. If we knew we wouldn't have to run the race at all. LMP2 and the GT classes are very very close and might prove to have the closest racing. Edited June 13, 2012 by CAL
CAL Posted June 13, 2012 Posted June 13, 2012 (edited) Missed it ... its still going on. Audi Toy Audi Audi Toy Audi possible rain tomorrow night Q3. So this could be relevent. Edited June 13, 2012 by CAL
CAL Posted June 14, 2012 Posted June 14, 2012 Provisional Front 3 rows Audi Hybrid Audi Ultra Toyota Hybrid Audi Hybrid Toyota Hybrid Audi Ultra
CAL Posted June 14, 2012 Posted June 14, 2012 (edited) 1 1 Audi Sport Team Joest Audi R18 e-tron quattro LMP1 3:25.453 28 3:24.997 4 3:23.787 3 3:23.787 2 3 Audi Sport Team Joest Audi R18 Ultra LMP1 3:26.694 23 3:24.078 23 3:27.578 29 3:24.078 +0.291 3 8 Toyota Racing Toyota TS 030 - Hybrid LMP1 3:28.295 21 3:26.151 19 3:24.842 28 3:24.842 +1.055 4 2 Audi Sport Team Joest Audi R18 e-tron quattro LMP1 3:26.536 3 3:26.038 11 3:25.433 6 3:25.433 +1.646 5 7 Toyota Racing Toyota TS 030 - Hybrid LMP1 3:27.191 8 3:26.502 17 3:25.488 25 3:25.488 +1.701 6 4 Audi Sport North America Audi R18 Ultra LMP1 3:27.554 28 3:26.420 17 3:26.600 2 3:26.420 +2.633 7 21 Strakka Racing HPD ARX 03a - Honda LMP1 3:32.750 4 3:29.622 23 3:37.253 15 3:29.622 +5.835 8 12 Rebellion Racing Lola B12/60 Coupe - Toyota LMP1 3:33.211 9 3:29.837 28 3:34.476 6 3:29.837 +6.050 9 13 Rebellion Racing Lola B12/60 Coupe - Toyota LMP1 3:33.140 3 3:31.866 21 3:41.533 23 3:31.866 +8.079 10 17 Pescarolo Team Dome - Judd LMP1 3:34.716 9 3:34.925 12 3:33.066 3 3:33.066 +9.279 11 22 JRM HPD ARX 03a - Honda LMP1 3:37.088 5 3:35.421 13 3:35.421 +11.634 12 15 Oak Racing Oak Pescarolo - Judd LMP1 3:38.414 25 3:37.367 7 3:35.584 16 3:35.584 +11.797 13 16 Pescarolo Team Pescarolo 03 - Judd LMP1 3:37.485 17 3:48.716 16 3:37.485 +13.698 14 25 ADR-Delta Oreca 03 - Nissan LMP2 3:41.791 4 3:40.174 11 3:38.181 4 3:38.181 +14.394 15 24 Oak Racing Morgan - Judd LMP2 3:40.902 17 3:38.598 22 3:40.310 15 3:38.598 +14.811 16 26 Signatech Nissan Oreca 03 - Nissan LMP2 3:42.157 10 3:39.152 22 3:44.622 9 3:39.152 +15.365 17 46 Thiriet By TDS Racing Oreca 03 - Nissan LMP2 3:39.252 9 3:41.975 6 3:41.990 8 3:39.252 +15.465 18 49 Pecom Racing Oreca 03 - Nissan LMP2 3:41.916 12 3:39.711 16 3:40.292 5 3:39.711 +15.924 19 48 Murphy Prototypes Oreca 03 - Nissan LMP2 3:39.877 5 3:40.652 24 3:42.057 4 3:39.877 +16.090 20 35 Oak Racing Morgan - Nissan LMP2 3:41.721 18 3:39.899 20 3:41.707 11 3:39.899 +16.112 21 30 Status Grand Prix Lola - Judd LMP2 3:41.451 6 3:42.518 8 3:40.280 6 3:40.280 +16.493 22 44 Starworks Motorsport HPD ARX 03b - Honda LMP2 3:40.639 3 3:41.863 21 3:40.471 3 3:40.471 +16.684 23 45 Boutsen Ginion Racing Oreca 03 - Nissan LMP2 3:40.727 5 3:43.763 8 3:42.949 12 3:40.727 Edited June 14, 2012 by CAL
martinfan5 Posted June 14, 2012 Author Posted June 14, 2012 This is going to be boring. Maybe for you
CAL Posted June 15, 2012 Posted June 15, 2012 (edited) This is going to be boring. +1 maybe for you. There is a good chance of rain which tosses everything out the window. The Toyos have a 2+ lap fuel advantage. Peugeot only had 1 lap and they didn't always take it.... it was a 13 second margine at the end of 24. And the other classes are very competitive. The Toyotas have had historically bad reliablity, but Audi also expressed concerns about their own reliablity. These are basically new cars for this year, not last years cars at all. And it's the first time since the TDI have shown up that a Gasoline powered car has even come close to Audis pace. It could be an Audi blowout but I wouldn't bet money on that. Edited June 15, 2012 by CAL
martinfan5 Posted June 15, 2012 Author Posted June 15, 2012 Cal, thanks bud for updating this thread, havent had time to keep with everything this week, looks like its going to be a battle of the hybirds , that in itself should be interesting. Whats the range the hybirds can go?,
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