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Livery of the Viper. Love the little nod to the Oreca colors.
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The 24 Hours of Le Mans 2014 |OT| Audi, Porsche, Toyota. One Winner.
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Livery of the Viper. Love the little nod to the Oreca colors.
Silver Arrows
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Agreed. Though I wished that Dodge would go the full monty and be like this Camaro in the Continental Sportscar Challenge:
Just to complete the 'murrrriiiccca-ness of it all.
Edmond Dantès
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Edmond Dantès
Dantès the White
Grid photo shoot:
Psychotext
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Hype!
Roude Leiw
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is someone making a thread for 2015?
Spaceman Spiff
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I take it there's no video coverage of the Test Day? I've been following along with Radio Le Mans and the live timing.
Shame about the rain; earlier Porsche managed to clock a 3:21.9, (two tenths off last year's pole time), and with any luck, there will be some more dry running in the second session. As might be expected, electrical gremlins have pretty much sidelined the GT-R LMs thus far.
Shame about the rain; earlier Porsche managed to clock a 3:21.9, (two tenths off last year's pole time), and with any luck, there will be some more dry running in the second session. As might be expected, electrical gremlins have pretty much sidelined the GT-R LMs thus far.
Edmond Dantès
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Yes, I'll be making the thread again. It'll be up a week or so before the race.
Edmond Dantès
Dantès the White
Test session 1 (top 20) results:
Session 2 starts at 2:00pm CEST.
Session 2 starts at 2:00pm CEST.
Roude Leiw
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Edmond Dantès;165874463 said:
nice!
PS. DTM is on.
Edmond Dantès
Dantès the White
Two options:
- The Eurosport online player (pay a one-off fee for the month of June and enjoy all their coverage).
- The WEC app (a subscription service, offering live coverage and other benefits during the week of the race and coverage of the remaining WEC races).
Not really. They have the two highest speed trap speeds and they have specifically stated beforehand that this test day would go according a certain plan because they have zero data, it would never be about setting times.
Though that doesn't hide the fact the gap is quite big, but it's far too early to make a real statement.
Edmond Dantès
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Testing round-up:
Roude Leiw
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Edmond Dantès;165877655 said:
so which one of these two is better?
Edmond Dantès
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It does rather depend on what you're after; the 'tv experience' with the Eurosport player with the added benefit of being able to watch all the other sporting events on the channel or the WEC app which has a specific focus on the Le Mans 24 hours, with a choice of live feeds, timing screens, technical data etc.
They both have benefits, but the WEC app along with Radio Le Mans commentary is probably the best combination.
Radio Le Mans you can listen to on their website:
http://www.radiolemans.com/
Edmond Dantès
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There won't be any broadcast quality footage due to the rules in place. Footage recorded by spectators should start appearing in the usual places over the next few days.
Elfforkusu
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[heavy breathing]Edmond Dantès;165862133 said:Grid photo shoot:
Elfforkusu
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Silver Arrows
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Talk about a save, good god
Elfforkusu
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Looking at the splits (http://fiawec.alkamelsystems.com/index.html), Nissan really put themselves behind the 8 ball here. Barely any track time (compared to the other guys), will be interesting to see how much ground they can make up over the week.
Toyota looks like they need it to rain all day Saturday.
Toyota looks like they need it to rain all day Saturday.
nature boy
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Easily the race of the season, F1 included, for me. Can't wait.
Hard to see beyond Audi, Porsche will probably take pole but Audi doesn't have the reliability gremlins that seem to plague the 919. Toyota and Nissan don't have a hope.
I'm sure Audi will remain in Le Mans until they beat Porsche's overall number of wins. The rivalry is intense.
Hard to see beyond Audi, Porsche will probably take pole but Audi doesn't have the reliability gremlins that seem to plague the 919. Toyota and Nissan don't have a hope.
I'm sure Audi will remain in Le Mans until they beat Porsche's overall number of wins. The rivalry is intense.
Edmond Dantès
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The Eurosport player is slightly cheaper (under 10/$10/£10). The WEC app's Le Mans Premium Pack is 9,99 ($13.80).
Dave_6
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First video I've found. Great angle to see many of the cars sliding out under acceleration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PugOWVg_WpA
I've used the official WEC PPV stream (http://www.fiawec.com/live.html) for the last year and a half here in the UK and aside from it being just a stream and live timing, I'm really happy with it.
The stream itself is great quality. I'm in the UK with non-fibre internet and it runs in HD without buffering for the whole six hours of a WEC race perfectly with the Radio Le Mans commentary included. I just hook my laptop up to my TV and watch the races with my girlfriend (who's a bigger endurance racing fan than me!).
If you're in the UK, you can watch the WEC races on Motors TV on Freeview (except for my area, for some stupid reason...) while Le Mans itself is exclusive to Eurosport. But last year I used Eurosport player - thanks to someone recommending it in this very thread I think it was - and that was also great for the whole 24 hours of the race and easy to unsubscribe afterwards.
The only thing with Eurosport is that you'll be bombarded with the same 5-6 adverts being replayed on loop hundreds of times over the course of the whole race which is pretty annoying after just one hour, let alone 24, while the WEC stream is ad-free.
The stream itself is great quality. I'm in the UK with non-fibre internet and it runs in HD without buffering for the whole six hours of a WEC race perfectly with the Radio Le Mans commentary included. I just hook my laptop up to my TV and watch the races with my girlfriend (who's a bigger endurance racing fan than me!).
If you're in the UK, you can watch the WEC races on Motors TV on Freeview (except for my area, for some stupid reason...) while Le Mans itself is exclusive to Eurosport. But last year I used Eurosport player - thanks to someone recommending it in this very thread I think it was - and that was also great for the whole 24 hours of the race and easy to unsubscribe afterwards.
The only thing with Eurosport is that you'll be bombarded with the same 5-6 adverts being replayed on loop hundreds of times over the course of the whole race which is pretty annoying after just one hour, let alone 24, while the WEC stream is ad-free.
Hm. That "no ads" thing is tempting. Watching bootleg streams last year, they always kind of shat me. I'd almost pay for the privilege of not having to see them.
I tried looking up how to sub to WEC on their website but honestly couldn't find where to do it. But I think I found it via that link JB posted, so it's all good. $15AUD isn't too bad for a weekend's worth of fun, even if it is $5AUD more than the Eurosport coverage. I'd like to think there's other motorsports on Eurosport I could watch as well, so... hmm...
I tried looking up how to sub to WEC on their website but honestly couldn't find where to do it. But I think I found it via that link JB posted, so it's all good. $15AUD isn't too bad for a weekend's worth of fun, even if it is $5AUD more than the Eurosport coverage. I'd like to think there's other motorsports on Eurosport I could watch as well, so... hmm...
bobnowhere
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Roude Leiw
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but on the more expensive WEC stream you can pick vehicle cameras?
The no ads is really tempting.
They've had multiple on-board options (about five or six) during the first two races, although they're not labeled (just 'on-board 1', 'on-board 2', etc) and I never really bothered with them as I just had the main feed on my TV.
The other thing about the WEC stream is that they didn't offer it last year for the Le Mans 24 Hours, so I have no idea what it'll be like this year and I'm just assuming that it will operate like it does for the other WEC races I've watched on it.
Elfforkusu
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Ferrari making good use of the test day to get into top form:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzRWAVecpjo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzRWAVecpjo
That was fantastic. Thanks for sharing.
LMP-1 is hands down my favorite class of racing overall. I love seeing the innovations that manufacturers come up with when they get so much wiggle room.
Remember when F1 was the primary racing category for trickle-down tech to road cars?
It still is.
I recently installed an F-Duct into my girlfriend's Volkswagon Lupo, for example...
PjotrStroganov
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Has it ever been? I can recall reports from more than 10 years ago that F1 had very little influence on road car tech.
Silver Arrows
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Oh Ferrari...
Edmond Dantès
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2015 Le Mans 24 Hours: An exceptional exhibition recalls the Ford-Ferrari duel
Some of the cars on show:
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Some of the cars on show:
- Ferrari 250 GTO 1963, Replica
- Shelby Cobra Daytona 1964
- Ferrari 275 LM, 6th at Le Mans in 1965
- Ferrari 330 P
- Ferrari 330 P3 1966
- Ferrari 330 P4 Le Mans 1967
- Ford GT40 Mk I 1964
- Ford GT40 Mk I Le Mans 1965
- Ford GT40 Mk II, Replica of the 1966 winner
- Ford GT40 Mk II, 3rd at Le Mans in 1966
- Ford GT40 Mk IV Le Mans 1967
- Ford GT40 Mk II Le Mans 1968
Roude Leiw
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watched Truth in 24 II. even more hyped now for my first Le Mans.
Edmond Dantès
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If I may ask, are you attending the 24 Hours for the first time or is this the first Le Mans you're following on TV/online in general?
Roude Leiw
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Edmond Dantès;166203815 said:
first time following it online. I think i will pay for the subscription on the WEC site.
I am mainly into Rally, but i recently watched the 24h of Nürnburgring and i really enjoyed it. which led me to WEC.
Edmond Dantès
Dantès the White
It's always great to welcome new fans to the world of endurance racing, especially to Le Mans. I hope you enjoy the race and just a little tip; Le Mans at dawn is something very special.
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