Elfforkusu
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Well, on the plus side... they'll fix it now?
Lot of big wrecks during dawn. Not so happy hour today!
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The 2016 24 Hours Of Le Mans |OT| Includes a support race in Baku
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Lot of big wrecks during dawn. Not so happy hour today!
bobnowhere
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Yeah, it's going off atm!
They still had 54 on track about 30 mins ago, pretty amazing, less now.
They still had 54 on track about 30 mins ago, pretty amazing, less now.
AlmostMilk
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Cars are dropping like flies right now...
Spaceman Spiff
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After 17 hours, the top 3 overall are within 3 seconds of one another.
Elfforkusu
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#5 Toyota took off like a rocket when the sun came up. Goddamn.
This one was a looker also:
Yep, that's a beauty.
Toyota still appear to be leading, nice?
Elfforkusu
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Porsche #2 caught up during the night, sun rose and Toyota regained control.
Slightly weird. Because the #6 has fallen off a bit, but the #5 has shot up into the lead.
Spaceman Spiff
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Might have something to do with the contact Kobayashi had with a GTE AM in the night. Damage was slight, but it required an extended stop to fix and the car hasn't quite been the same since.
Yep I noticed the switch, Ant Davidson's car has flipped the situation from when I fell asleep.
I hope they can hold it together.
aspiegamer
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The radio LeMans people have had an interesting discussion about battery complication on all the hybrid cars being a reason why times haven't dropped at all since sunset. Ironically, caused by the cars creating too goddamn much power normally and needing to be limited here.
PjotrStroganov
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Porsche is one step behind. It will be a done deal if Toyota keeps this up.
Elfforkusu
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4:33:00 left.
Top 3 separated by 20 seconds.
Top 3 separated by 20 seconds.
Elfforkusu
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Audi #8 in the garage now.
bobnowhere
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Lucky for Kamui there.
Still can rip off the body and return to the box.
Porsche curves aint no place to be getting out of a car to pull off the bodywork.
Fastest corners on the track.
Spaceman Spiff
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#82 Ferrari pulling a Kobayashi.
Looking better and better for Ford.
Looking better and better for Ford.
Roude Leiw
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toyota did a bad job with that tape.
bobnowhere
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#6 in the pits! Probably settling for 3rd, fixing the issues they are dealing with.
Spaceman Spiff
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Damn, did Davidson blow through a slow zone? Dude sounded pissed that he didn't get a heads up from the team. With the #6 in the garage, Toyota can't throw this away potentially with such a careless penalty.
Edit: Never mind, sounds like he was upset he wasn't told when the slow zone ended and lost a bit of time being on the speed limiter too long.
Edit: Never mind, sounds like he was upset he wasn't told when the slow zone ended and lost a bit of time being on the speed limiter too long.
nature boy
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Good to see the VAG CEO at Le Mans.
Make it 3 cars next year!
Still a fight for the win.
Make it 3 cars next year!
Still a fight for the win.
Roude Leiw
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He seems ok. He is a car enthusiast.
If i would be VAG CEO i would attend every race ;P
nature boy
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He's been to several WEC races this year and last year, so yeah he's a big fan.
wowbaggerBR
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And make some heads roll at Audi also. They are unrecognizable.
nature boy
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Yes, first time they're not on the podium.
Bad Le Mans for them.
Bad Le Mans for them.
wowbaggerBR
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They are in a decline since 2014. Lots of reliability problems for three years now (not to mention strategic errors and lacklustre development - but I blame the diesel for the last one).
Bustanen
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Yeah it's time to ditch the diesel, it's not just good enough anymore.
Roude Leiw
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They also werent very succesful at the 24h of Nürburgring.
LoveCake
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It is close in all LMP1, LMP2, GT Pro and GT Am, only one lap at the most between them all, with 1 1/2hrs to go!
The Morgan LMP2 - NISSAN #84 with Frédéric Sausset (disabled driver) is still running and doing well in 39th place 66laps behind, and doing good lap-times and is also in front of a few new LMP2 cars by a couple of laps (I know #84 is a older spec car) I hope that Frédéric is in the car for the final stint to take the checkered flag.
The Morgan LMP2 - NISSAN #84 with Frédéric Sausset (disabled driver) is still running and doing well in 39th place 66laps behind, and doing good lap-times and is also in front of a few new LMP2 cars by a couple of laps (I know #84 is a older spec car) I hope that Frédéric is in the car for the final stint to take the checkered flag.
Yeah hearing about his story was amazing. That would be awesome if he was able to cross the line.
wowbaggerBR
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Practicing heavy braking would go a long way too.
Her left rear was off even before she hit the gravel so as the announcers were saying, the braking issue may have been because of a tire failure.
wowbaggerBR
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But this isn't true for the other four overshoots on the same corner, plus some on the Arnage.
nature boy
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Well Toyota deserve the win, they were essentially flawless.
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