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

[GravyMonster]

Here's an awesome link with live timing, weather, good links to more info and twitter feed of teams & journos at the track:

http://thomasbaekdal.com/mini-sites/lemans2012/

 

[OspreyO]

Excellent thanks for that.

 

[SDK^]

30 mins to go.
The conditions are currently wet.

 

[rpstewart]

Somebody please shoot the presenter bloke. He's both clueless and wooden, total waste of space...

 

[Matteysan]

Haven't watched this before but that Nissan Delta wing looks mean!

 

[SPARC]

This is the first time i've watched Le Mans, looking forward to this start

 

[Westyfield2]

Sky's looking a bit dark right now!

Think I might just spend the next 24 hours in the lounge!

 

[Flibster]

Don't like the centre lights on the Aston. Makes it look buck-toothed.

Aston's should either look elegant or aggressive... not like Bugs Bunny.

 

[Flibster]

Mazda coming back to Le Mans in P2 next year!?

With a diesel...

Bah.

 

[PinkFloyd]

Is that the hybrid flywheel charging that you can hear when the Audi e-trons are on the brakes? The Toyotas sound great good

 

[tigerstyle]

Don't like the centre lights on the Aston. Makes it look buck-toothed.

aerodynamic reasons to get air into the brakes? not too bad how it lines up with the livery.
> No just seen the other car has them on the edge, just to differentiate them then?

I should know this: they don't change brake pads/disks do they? Unless they have to that is?

 

[rpstewart]

Is that the hybrid flywheel charging that you can hear when the Audi e-trons are on the brakes?

The high pitched rising whine? That's the flywheel spinning up.

 

[PinkFloyd]

Think the commentators also confirmed that a while after I posted it. Wasn't expecting to hear anything like that!

 

[Flibster]

Was that someone in the wall?

Yes it was. Car 29

 

[rpstewart]

I think the fact that it's sat in the "passenger" seat right under the on board camera helps us hear it.

 

[rpstewart]

Ooh, the slow mo of the trip through the gravel is gorgeous in HD...

 

[Flibster]

I think the fact that it's sat in the "passenger" seat right under the on board camera helps us hear it.

I'm still not convinced by the safety of having a 5 or 6 kilo weight spinning at 100'000rpm in the cars.

Last I'd heard they had only been tested with impact tests of 20g. Predicted to be safe with an 80g impact.

Until it's exceeded impact tests greater than the highest survived impact g recorded *which is 180g* I don't want it near me.

 

[Flibster]

Deltawing in the garage.
Hope it's a minor issue.

 

[rpstewart]

I think you're right to be nervous - 500KJ is a heck of a lot of energy to have kicking about. At least with capacitors/batteries they can be grounded, a flywheel has to spin down by itself.

 

[tigerstyle]

I think you're right to be nervous - 500KJ is a heck of a lot of energy to have kicking about. At least with capacitors/batteries they can be grounded, a flywheel has to spin down by itself.

Or it has an emergency brake that helps stop it.
car flips = mercury tilt switch = brake stops flywheel... for example