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The 24 Hours of Le Mans 2015 |OT| Nissan enter the fray
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nature boy
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Fucking hell. 3.16 (!).
Spaceman Spiff
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Holy shit, a 3:16.8 for Porsche on its first flying lap.
LoveCake
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They have three qualifying sessions & one has to be at night, they used to take the average time of each of the drivers to get the qualifying time (i don't know off hand if they still do this) but each driver must post a time in the qualifying sessions.
Spaceman Spiff
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They streamlined the format a bit this year. Qualifying times are still an average, but only of the two best laps, (one for each nominated driver).
Don't worry mate, I've watched Le Mans for years. I know what the deal is
The Nissan GT-R LM's don't seem to be posting fast times
Actually that is fast for them, the car simply isn't ready for this.
Spaceman Spiff
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Almost WEBBAH time.
Roude Leiw
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so why wasnt Nissan not able to fix the hybrid system? i suppose it was not working during practice 2 weeks ago because they had similar lap times.
Kind of, it was to make the rear aero and diffuser much more efficient allowing much skinnier aero and a higher speed. Which has worked as the car running with no hybrid power is still hitting a mighty 330kmh. The hybrid system coupled with 4wd should have been enough to drag it around the corners and make up for the low downforce but that as we all now know simply isn't working for this year.
LoveCake
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I think it may have been better if they had put one of the cars into either Spa or Silverstone in hindsight though.
I just have the feeling that they are going to be at the back & then end up not finishing through issues, i hope i'm wrong though.
Whats the news on the hybrid? i have seen people on twitter etc saying that they are not using the hybrid but still carrying the weight, i cannot find any confirmation though?
They have to keep the Hybrid system in the car.
Yeah, Eurosport have confirmed it
Spaceman Spiff
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Hybrid woes aside, at least the GT-R is finally running in the 3:30s, albeit just.
I may be wrong on this as it's an odd political situation. I think the FIA head the WEC and can determine the rules for that but the ACO run and dictate lemans, as lemans is the jewel of the series if it came down to it the teams would build their cars to ACO standards and tell the FIA to go jump.
The ACO is a major reason why lemans is so far removed from F1, very open to the public, social media and the internet with flexible common sense rules.
*I think* anyway.
LoveCake
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The current rules are in place for a few more yet i'm sure they only brought the current rules in last year?
I think the only reason they would try to slow the cars is to try & stop cars flipping over, but with the mandatory vents/holes/aero over the wheel housings i think they have solved this issue, also there is too much diversity in the cars at the moment they cannot do any thing drastic to change the cars, maybe bigger restrictors but that's all.
in 2012 they announced the rule changes that would come in to place in 2014 http://www.autoblog.com/2012/06/17/le-mans-rule-changes-for-2014-announced-engine-restrictions-eas/ they don't change the rules very often from what i remember as the constructors have to know that if they design & build a car it will be eligible for a set number of years.
Spaceman Spiff
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#7 Audi is off at the first chicane.
Roude Leiw
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hmm stream on eurosport player isnt in HD. same stream through an unofficial source is. what gives -.-
Roude Leiw
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#9 spun too.
Roude Leiw
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people living right next to the track wont appreciate the noise ;P
LoveCake
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They must like it & the race otherwise they wouldn't live there?
They need to hurry up & fix that armco!
Spaceman Spiff
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They're estimating at least 15 more minutes of repair work.
Edit: Sounds like we'll be getting underway at :25 after.
Edit: Sounds like we'll be getting underway at :25 after.
mmazurkiewicz
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any streams?
not on tv in USA.
not on tv in USA.
Hello LeMansGAF!
I fucking love this race. I try to go as often as I can, but taking a year off this year. Fun fact: I proposed to my wife during the 2010 race, right at the top of the ferris wheel!
This is the most excited I've been about the race since that weekend. Should be an epic LMP1 battle! Rooting for Porsche, but I'd like to see Nissan bring their cars home.
I fucking love this race. I try to go as often as I can, but taking a year off this year. Fun fact: I proposed to my wife during the 2010 race, right at the top of the ferris wheel!
This is the most excited I've been about the race since that weekend. Should be an epic LMP1 battle! Rooting for Porsche, but I'd like to see Nissan bring their cars home.
Psychotext
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Awesome. Was fucking freezing when I went up there, not particularly romantic!
nature boy
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Duval thinks that Porsche can go even faster.
I think the ACO will want to curb these lap times.
I think the ACO will want to curb these lap times.
I hope not!
The v max is still the same or slightly faster.
Its just that the Porsche can get to v max so much faster with the 8MJ KERS.
Its acceleration is just insane, watch the Spa highlights for reference.
NoFaceNico
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I hope the Toyotas cut their times down. It's not out of the realm of possibility, Audi has been known to bluff their qualifying times. And the leading Toyota was consistent as hell last year before an electrical failure knocked them out.
The Porsches might be fast, but as the last hours of 2014's race showed, they can suffer crippling reliability issues (I still give them credit for it having been their first year back in LMP1). We've had a couple close finishes in the past few years, it's still an endurance race. You can have the fastest car on the track but if your pit strategy sucks or something breaks on your car, then you'll still lose. Even when you subtract Nissan there's still so many entrants in LMP1 that the winner is probably going to be whomever has the fewest failures, they can't afford to have even one.
As for Nissan, it sucks that they're not going to be competitive but they only have themselves to blame. I really wanted to see if the front wheel drive idea would work as they hoped.
The Porsches might be fast, but as the last hours of 2014's race showed, they can suffer crippling reliability issues (I still give them credit for it having been their first year back in LMP1). We've had a couple close finishes in the past few years, it's still an endurance race. You can have the fastest car on the track but if your pit strategy sucks or something breaks on your car, then you'll still lose. Even when you subtract Nissan there's still so many entrants in LMP1 that the winner is probably going to be whomever has the fewest failures, they can't afford to have even one.
As for Nissan, it sucks that they're not going to be competitive but they only have themselves to blame. I really wanted to see if the front wheel drive idea would work as they hoped.
Is that 2 seconds across the entire 24 hours?
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