***Official Le Mans 24 Hours Thread***

The Delta Wing driver spent 90 minutes trying to get the car back to the pits before eventually admitting defeat. Such a shame that they are out through no fault of their own :(

I wonder if that car will ever appear again, or if it will now be locked away and all its ideas and concepts forgotten...
 
Really disappointed for Dindo, he was in with a decent chance of a win in his last Le Mans but I don't see it happening now.

The safety car is really playing into Audi's hands though, it's unlikely but there's still an outside chance of a 1-2-3-4.
 
This was probably the only lemans for the past 8 years that I have turned off by dawn, a bit dull now to be honest and every car I currently support has decided to have a bad race.
 
Woah. McNish spun it at the Porsche Curves trying to get past a Ferrari GT car - went into the barrier on the left and went across the track to the right hand barrier.

I thought there was some damage on the rear of the car.
 
Flibster said:
Woah. McNish spun it at the Porsche Curves trying to get past a Ferrari GT car - went into the barrier on the left and went across the track to the right hand barrier.

I thought there was some damage on the rear of the car.
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McNish's weakness is he makes too many mistakes, often in trafic.
 
dalin80 said:
This was probably the only lemans for the past 8 years that I have turned off by dawn, a bit dull now to be honest and every car I currently support has decided to have a bad race.
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It's a shame isn't it. If only they reigned the diesels back a bit meaning all the privateer petrol teams could challenge them it would be far more exciting. Allowing P1 to become a 2 tier class has numbed the battle at the front.

Yes there is a close 3 way fight at the front, but for everyone not in the Audi team its just 3 of the same.
 
Le Mans has always been at it's best when two or more top manufacturers have been involved, it's rare that non works teams make for great races. Group C was so good in the last few years, prior to 3.5L rules because of the sheer volume of works efforts, Jaguar, Mercedes, Nissan, Toyota, Mazda, Aston Martin made for great racing with some great cars. It only really needs 2 teams a Porsche and Ferrari have shown in the past and even Audi and Peugeot more recently but when it becomes a race for non works teams it usually becomes less appealing.
 
Skeeter said:
Did i hear the commentators say that Porsche are coming back to P1?
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Porsche are due back in 2014, not sure if its LMP1 or LMP2 though, I would imagination its LMP1.

EDIT: LMP1[1] - intended especially for manufacturers, so I guess its LMP1
 
Porsche coming back is great news, not least as it's a LPM1 car, which is where they MUST be and it is this approach of building a race winning car that gave us the 956.
 
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