Le Mans 24 hour - 2023

[PinkFloyd]

These hypercars look great, and good to hear there's more teams joining in the next year or so!

 

[Flibster]

Aha. That's gotta be embaressing for the driver!

Especially when you had Buemi as the other driver.

 

[Flibster]

Someone really wants the #34 Racing Bakers penalised.

 

[Flibster]

Congratulations to the 51 Ferrari.

 

[GravyMonster]

Congrats Ferrari. Happy that if it couldn't be Porsche, it was them.

 

[Stu999]

Well done Cadillac too. Hoping they bring WEC back to Silverstone for 2025.

 

[Flibster]

If Hirakawa hadn't have binned it on his out lap, they probably would have won.

That's not going to weigh on his mind or anything...

 

[Flibster]

Iron Dames P4 and Rexy P7.

 

[Flibster]

Caddy leaving some of his tyres behind...

 

[.:MBK:.]

Ooof, Ryo looks to be beating himself up.

 

[Flibster]

Hirakawa looks absolutely gutted.

 

[cuke2u]

I guess he feels responsible but it wasn't his fault at all as he was told to take maximum risks https://www.autosport.com/le-mans/n...o-take-full-risk-in-ferrari-pursuit/10481640/

 

[ianh]

Scott Mansell of Driver61 did a very good video on the "NASCAR" and I had no idea just how utterly custom it was compared to what a "real" NASCAR is, almost to the point of asking "is it really a NASCAR anymore?" but I guess if it helps gain more viewers from the US then it's OK I guess.

 

[KiNgPiN83]

Scott Mansell of Driver61 did a very good video on the "NASCAR" and I had no idea just how utterly custom it was compared to what a "real" NASCAR is, almost to the point of asking "is it really a NASCAR anymore?" but I guess if it helps gain more viewers from the US then it's OK I guess.

I didn't realised they killed the gearbox and were then allowed to replace it. Makes sense as they were in the pits for a while. I think at the time they called it a driveline issue.

Custom or not it sounded amazing though! But you're right i think it was more a publicity thing than anything else. Listening to all the stuff that was changed an actual Nascar setup would've been incredibly slow and suffered from extra pit stops.

 

[MissChief]

I didn't realised they killed the gearbox and were then allowed to replace it. Makes sense as they were in the pits for a while. I think at the time they called it a driveline issue.

Custom or not it sounded amazing though! But you're right i think it was more a publicity thing than anything else. Listening to all the stuff that was changed an actual Nascar setup would've been incredibly slow and suffered from extra pit stops.

They won the pit crew race despite using a manual lift jack. Other cars had air jacks.

 

[ianh]

I suppose it shows that, as the team can only change the tyres one side at a time, an air-jack system which lifts the whole car isn't actually faster than a beefy lift jack and therefore the air jacks only seems to add extra weight/complexity rather than speed. So I wonder if any teams seeing this might be tempted to swap back for that small but possibly useful extra weight saving?

 

[KiNgPiN83]

They won the pit crew race despite using a manual lift jack. Other cars had air jacks.

If i remember rightly they had to modify that jack too.

 

[Basill]

Scott Mansell of Driver61 did a very good video on the "NASCAR" and I had no idea just how utterly custom it was compared to what a "real" NASCAR is, almost to the point of asking "is it really a NASCAR anymore?" but I guess if it helps gain more viewers from the US then it's OK I guess.

With all those changes, its basically just a custom built car for the garage entry