Le Mans 24 hour race - 2015
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I just found out the Vulcan flies over my house twice today, 10 minutes after the finish of the race is first time. It's like it was arranged. Ive just sent them a ******* asking them to wing wobble. You may laugh, but last time it flew over it gave me a wing wobble!!!!
Bit tenuous but thing I got a Le Mans mention in
Bit tenuous but thing I got a Le Mans mention in
It's a double-edged sword for WEC. On the plus side they can get hold of good drivers who are recognised names but I think they need to be wary of over-doing it as it may perpetuate the impression that WEC is "easy" compared to F1 and something F1 drivers do as a kind of hobby on the side or retirement plan.
F1 loves to keep promoting itself as the pinnacle of motorsport, despite this being total nonsense these days and I do think there's a perception amongst many that other forms of motorsport are "inferior" in some way and F1 drivers only do them when they can't do F1.
Of course this is utter rubbish. F1 is easy these days. Physically, endurance racing is far more of a challenge and, in terms of pure driving skill, the top WRC drivers are better than F1 drivers IMO.
Agreed. The best way to counter that is to have decent drivers doing Le Mans and bigging it up as a challenge and competition above F1 in areas.
Hulk should be good at that, as is Webber. I've said for a long time that Button would be an abslutely amazong endurance racer.
However if childish brats like Massa or Grosjean, or even Hamilton, start going to Le Mans as "something to do at the weekend" then it will all fall down.
Exactly - I can't ever see Hamilton doing endurance racing, let alone crash-prone whiney muppets like Massa or Grosjean.
Alonso would be interesting in a year or two if he finally gets fed up waiting for McLaren to stop being a total joke.
What I really don't want to see is WEC start recruiting F1 drivers at the expense of "home grown" talent, so to speak. Imagine if the next McNish never got their shot because the top teams preferred to use a recognised name from F1 instead?
Alonso would be interesting in a year or two if he finally gets fed up waiting for McLaren to stop being a total joke.
What I really don't want to see is WEC start recruiting F1 drivers at the expense of "home grown" talent, so to speak. Imagine if the next McNish never got their shot because the top teams preferred to use a recognised name from F1 instead?
McNish was ex F1. As is Davidson, and Buemi. Plus a load of others up and down the grid.
The problem isn't F1 drivers going to WEC, its current F1 drivers, for the exact reason you say, because they think its "easy".
Ferrari keep threatening it but I can't see them doing it. Mercedes have shown zero interest. Personally I hope that Honda sort their hybrid tech out, and then go to Le Mans to take the fight to Toyota and Nissan, and bring Alonso and Button with them. That would be fantastic!
McNish won Le Mans before he was in F1 so he went the other way. Guess he wanted to try to get into F1 like most drivers do but, when it didn't work out, came back to endurance racing and I'm glad he did as that's obviously where his real talents were.
He's a good example tbh - his F1 career may have come to naught but does that mean that he's not "as good a driver" as successful F1 stars? Not a bit - I'd put him up there as one of the greatest British drivers we've had, easily up there with any British F1 world champion.
**** still sitting in that Nissan!!
I'd be miles away by now if flames start licking up the windscreen!
Tis but a scratch!! //try's to turn it back on again as flames get bigger//
The Eurosport commentary team picked that up too. The front wheels on ICE power alone can't get the grip they need to haul it out of the bends.
Once they get the rear wheels powered by the electric motors plus the front torque filled with its own electric power they should have much more available to them in terms of scope to tune traction.