Le Mans Live Streams??
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Soldato
agh, 009 is out as well. At this rate the Audis are going to be the only LMP1 cars finishing
Poor frenchies, my hearts go out to them... 
Shame they couldn't run that bit longer and give a bit of competition to the Audis through the 24h. Shame the Aston couldnt keep going. Goes to show how complete the Audi team is though having very little practise races and coming here and beating the pugs who have done that much more prep.
Also lol at the synchronised pitstops there.
Shame they couldn't run that bit longer and give a bit of competition to the Audis through the 24h. Shame the Aston couldnt keep going. Goes to show how complete the Audi team is though having very little practise races and coming here and beating the pugs who have done that much more prep.Also lol at the synchronised pitstops there.
Man of Honour
Well that was a bit of a turn up for the books. Didn't expect to see two Audi's in front at 7am and certainly not a clean sweep at the end.
Absolutely gutting for Peugeot - Wurz, Gene & Davidson certainly had the pace to catch the lead Audi had the car not let them down. Fair play to them heading down to congratulate Audi before the finish though.
Absolutely gutting for Peugeot - Wurz, Gene & Davidson certainly had the pace to catch the lead Audi had the car not let them down. Fair play to them heading down to congratulate Audi before the finish though.
Soldato
I had every intention of attending the race this year for the first time since 1990 but as it got closer I lost the appetite even though I had the offer of a gite rather than a tent or camper van. Lots of mates still go and they tell me how the event has changed beyond all recognition since we used to go in the Group C era. It was always a good opportunity to top up the beer levels but it never got out of hand and we never saw any of the loutish stuff more common these days with wheel spinning cars, spraying water and general drunken mayhem. Now I am far from prudish but to me this detracts from the events appeal.
I spoke to a friend on Saturday morning who was competing in one of the support races and when he finished I said go relax, grab a beer and chill out for the 24 hours. His response was "you must be mad, I've had a gut fill of this place I'm heading home". Like me he had been in the past but not for sometime and he felt it had simply lost, to him at least, its appeal. Le Mans Classic is perhaps the event for me now. God I hate being old
Shame as I'm not into drunken debauchery. Mmm do I give it a miss...
This is the 2nd time that Peugeot have turned up with a car which though faster than the Audi can't run at that pace for the entire race, though this time they tried to make a race of it instead of cruising from the outset.
After his move on the GT2 leading 'Vette and his comments afterwards I don't really feel sorry for Anthony Davidson.
Associate
was an interesting race most the way through, had a feeling the pugs might not be able to keep the reliability up all the way though. watched most the race through the audi tv website which had incar footage all throught the race. Ive been up since 9am yesterday so im quite looking forward to bed tonight 
Indeed. Maybe it's about time Peugeot learned that speed is nothing without reliability. I get the impression Audi suspected they couldn't run at or even near their qualifying pace for the whole race and they were right.
Agreed. I actually quite liked Davidson prior to this but he could do with showing a bit of humility and being a bit more apologetic for a Le Mans "newbie".
Soldato
I've seen it stated that Peugeot ran a couple of 30hr+ enduro runs at full pace to make sure the revised car was tickety boo. Discounting the #3 car that had a strange suspension pickup fault the others all went out with a similar engine problem. Obviously more than just a blown turbo otherwise I suspect they'd have fixed them.
Davidson was blisteringly quick, just seemed to be taking the odd risk too many for a 24hr race.
Re-watching the video of the crash, Davidson came hurtling up the inside on the left-hander and just expected the Corvette to stay out of his way, rather than ensuring the driver had seen him coming before attempting the pass.
As an LMP1 rookie, it's sort of understandable that he's not used to racing with other cars so much slower than he is. I could almost excuse it if he'd actually shown a bit of remorse and been more apologetic for wrecking the race of the GT2 leader but his complete defiance is pathetic. Pretty much everyone else seems to agree it was his fault, yet he's showing no humility over the matter at all.
As an LMP1 rookie, it's sort of understandable that he's not used to racing with other cars so much slower than he is. I could almost excuse it if he'd actually shown a bit of remorse and been more apologetic for wrecking the race of the GT2 leader but his complete defiance is pathetic. Pretty much everyone else seems to agree it was his fault, yet he's showing no humility over the matter at all.
It is an expectation of multi class racing that the faster cars have to overtake the slower vehicles properly, and not expect them to just move out of the way or bully them off the track. If this had been an ALMS race the Pug would have received an almost instant stop and go penalty.
Anthony Davidson was in complete contrast to Andy Priaulx. After finishing his stint Andy went straight down to the Audi pits and apologised to Tom Kristensen, whereas Anthony apparently hid at the back of his pit area and then emerged to bad mouth the Corvettes.
Soldato
"I turned to the second left in the Porsche corner and the Peugeot was on the inside," Collard said. "I didn't know he was there, I was focused on my driving. There was no contact, but he was there on the inside and I missed the right line. The car lost grip, and I crashed."
Soldato
I reckon the suspension issue was due to Seb clattering the humps / kerb in Quali