24 hours of Le Mans 2014

Flibster · 14 Jun 2014 at 15:32

No3 Audi's gone into the tyre barrier by the looks of it. Looked pretty nasty.

Safety car deployed.

Ceryndrion · 14 Jun 2014 at 15:32

well, won't be #3 winning

Edit:- #8 in the wall too... ooops

Flibster · 14 Jun 2014 at 15:32

No3 Audi and No8 Toyota involved along with what I think was a Ferrari.

Ouch.

Ryan-3 · 14 Jun 2014 at 15:37

Flibster said:
No3 Audi and No8 Toyota involved along with what I think was a Ferrari.

Ouch.

It looked like they had slowed behind slower GT traffic while the Ferrari hadn't, ploughing its way through. The rain will make it very tricky for them and I expect a good few of the Am's having accidents.

Come on #7!

Edit: #8 is away, let's hope that#3 can get going, but it doesn't look good for #3. Rain also starting to stop.

Glaucus · 14 Jun 2014 at 15:37

Noooooooo, can we get a replay. Missed it at the shop or adverts. Not even 3hrs in. That leaves Webbers car to support #20. even if #8 gets going again I expect it'll be slow.

Edit - #20 out as well. same incident?
Edit2 - thank **** for that he's still in.

Flibster · 14 Jun 2014 at 15:38

No8 Toyota is moving. No3 Audi still stationary and pointing the wrong way.

Looks like No3 Audi is out. I thought he mentioned oil leaking over the radio.

Flibster · 14 Jun 2014 at 15:39

Glaucus said:
Noooooooo, can we get a replay. Missed it at the shop or adverts.

Cameraman missed it too. He did catch a couple of frames of it, but had to quickly spin the camera around.

Flibster · 14 Jun 2014 at 15:43

Looking at the live timing, it was Sam Bird in the AF Corse F458 involved too. He's plummeted down the order.

Ryan-3 · 14 Jun 2014 at 15:44

#8 in the pits. Wasn't looking great, but the #7 is still on slicks but cannot keep the car at idle. :eek:

The Toyota was at fault, spun through the slow movers and clatters the group. Bird follows the Toyota into the situation.

Glaucus · 14 Jun 2014 at 15:45

#8 is screwed, that's a lot of damage front and back.

Ceryndrion · 14 Jun 2014 at 15:46

looks like the toyota was the main car in the wreck..

Flibster · 14 Jun 2014 at 15:46

WOAH!

Toyota drops it avoiding a Porsche 911 in the wall, bounces along it and Sam Bird just drives into the Audi.

Glaucus · 14 Jun 2014 at 15:49

Yep, why was he going full speed, when everyone else is limping.

Ryan-3 · 14 Jun 2014 at 15:49

Shame #3 is out. No fault of their own.

More rain is expected.

Ryan-3 · 14 Jun 2014 at 16:01

Safety car should be in soon.

Vertigo · 14 Jun 2014 at 16:36

I want to see an interview with the utter moron that is Sam Bird as I want to know what he has to say for himself.

Flibster · 14 Jun 2014 at 16:44

That was some serious rain.

Nice to see the No8 Toyota back out on track too.

this_is_gav · 14 Jun 2014 at 16:47

Vertigo1 said:
I want to see an interview with the utter moron that is Sam Bird as I want to know what he has to say for himself.

To be fair, from the 2 replays we've seen, it looked like everyone else had slowed down (possibly due to the Porsche spinning into the barriers), it caught the #8 Toyota out (looked he spun when catching them unexpectedly), then Bird, behind him, just plowed into the #3. The first replay alone looked 100% Bird's fault, but the 2nd replay shows the Toyota also running at pace, and the Porsche seemingly causing the issue in the first place.

If Bird had tucked in behind the Toyota, he had no chance of avoiding it.

Vertigo · 14 Jun 2014 at 16:47

Heads-up btw, the official ACO app for iOS & Android is pretty decent with live timings, news & info and even live streams of the on-board cameras from each of the Audi, Toyota & Porsche cars.

Vertigo · 14 Jun 2014 at 16:58

this_is_gav said:
To be fair, from the 2 replays we've seen, it looked like everyone else had slowed down (possibly due to the Porsche spinning into the barriers), it caught the #8 Toyota out (looked he spun when catching them unexpectedly), then Bird, behind him, just plowed into the #3. The first replay alone looked 100% Bird's fault, but the 2nd replay shows the Toyota also running at pace, and the Porsche seemingly causing the issue in the first place.

If Bird had tucked in behind the Toyota, he had no chance of avoiding it.

I don't think the other cars had slowed due to the Porsche, just due to the appalling conditions. The Toyota & Ferrari should have done the same but obviously opted not to.

Sure you take some risks but those kind of speeds with those kinds of conditions and visibility is totally irresponsible and someone could easily have been seriously hurt or killed in a big shunt like that.