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durbster wrote:Nice pics Kev. Were you up on The Wing balcony to get the Rebellion shot? I can't quite figure out how you did it.
Yeah WEC let you go anywhere except the pitlane! For £40!

You were allowed on the left half of the balcony (looking across the track at the wing) and there's a decent width of ledge and then a glass bit to stop people dropping things in the pits but with a decent arm stretch you can get a camera far enough out. I happened to be right over the Rebellion pit when they came in :) I've got more pics to sift through yet but I've got some of the whole car in there too.
Jamo wrote:Did you get any of the Gulf 911 by any chance?
I only got a couple on the first lap or two and then later in the day I realised I hadn't seen it for a while. Wasn't until I got home that I saw the big crash and realised why :)
I'll sort out some more tonight. I took 1400 photos and I've narrowed it down to about 80 so far!
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Might have to right click > view, to see this properly. A pano I made from a series following the Audi through Becketts. Can't quite get the patching right in the centre of the curve but it's not far off!

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Brilliant shots Kev!!!
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Kev, Didnt even notice it out in the center till i read you text.
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Spa 6 Hour tonight

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:yes:

They are saying it's hot, it's 23C :rofl:
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I wonder if they put Hartley in for the first stint so he won't have to pass anyone for the first 5 laps.
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Dr. Pain wrote:Stream gone
Yep..YouPood just pulled it for copyright. Doh!
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Not the best quality, look under motorsport icon

http://www.vipbox.nu/motorsports/386182 ... nline.html
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Spa was epic. So much happening right through the field. Can't wait for Le Mans!

You guys are nuts.. Just buy a subscription in the app. Live plus full race replays.. It's awesome.
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Just got through Spa, what a crazy race! I kinda want Le Mans to be hot now, just to see how they might cope :)
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Hopefully these work for those who want to read (online) or grab a copy.
An analysis of the opening races of the 2016 World Endurance Championship and a look ahead to the future of the Le Mans 24 hours.
We also take a look at the tyre war between Dunlop and Michelin in LMP2 and at the issues of controlling the costs for LMP1 manufacturers.
The Le Mans 2016 Guide!
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Thanks Duke..
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Reigning World Endurance Champion Brendon Hartley will be paying tribute to Kiwi racing legends Bruce McLaren and Chris Amon at this year’s Le Mans 24 Hour race.

The New Zealand duo became the first Le Mans winners from their home country in 1966 and Brendon has created a special helmet design to celebrate the anniversary of his compatriots’ famous success.

“This weekend marks 50 years since they [Chris Amon and Bruce McLaren] won the big race and started the history book for Kiwis at Le Mans,” said Brendon.

“I have been lucky enough to swap Le Mans war stories with Chris, but unfortunately Bruce passed away before my time. I was honoured that Bruce's family and Chris were happy for me to commemorate their famous victory on my 2016 Le Mans Helmet. The Red and Blue stripes represent Chris's helmet, and the Grey background Bruce's.”


The helmet design will also feature the initials ‘TJA’ in a commemorative nod to one of the McLaren team’s founding fathers, Tyler Alexander, who passed away earlier this year. Tyler amassed an impressive personal collection of images over his long career in motorsport and the two featured on Brendon’s helmet are from his archives.

Mark Webber said of his team-mate’s tribute, “it’s fantastic that Brendon is honouring two such special racers in this way. Although Aussies and Kiwis traditionally have a fierce rivalry, we are very similar and I have a huge amount of respect for the likes of [Bruce] McLaren, [Chris] Amon, Jack Brabham and Frank Gardner – they are cut from the same cloth and it’s important to remember their hard-fought achievements.”

Mark and Brendon aim to become the next of their countrymen (5th and 4th respectively) to stand on the top step of the podium this Sunday as they take on the 84th running of the 24 Heures du Mans alongside their teammate Timo Bernhard.

Watch a video about Brendon’s helmet design here.
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This is truly amazing & awe-inspiring!!!
Since the introduction of Garage 56 in the 2012 running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans the project has seen many gripping stories and dramas.

The project designed to allow the promotion of new and innovative technologies was first endowed to Nissan, who gave Garage 56 widespread notoriety in the form of the Deltawing. Right out of the blocks the project proved a huge success, especially in the form of capturing the wider racing community's support and unified heartbreak.

After colliding with Kazui Nakajima's Toyota just five hours into the 2012 24 Hours of Le Mans, Satoshi Motoyama spent the next two hours of the race valiantly attempting, along with assistance from his engineers who were trapped behind a chain link fence, to mend the broken suspension on his car. Ultimately his attempts proved fruitless. But the debut of the Deltawing gave the new era of the Garage 56 entry the recognition it so richly deserved.

Since then only Nissan has occupied the 56th slot on the Le Mans entry list. But, after a year's absence, it's once again time for the return of Garage 56.

In July 2012 Frederic Sassuet, a few weeks after attending the 24 Hours of Le Mans as a spectator, suffered a small scratch whilst on holiday in the south-west of France. A few hours later his scratch became infected, and a condition known as Purpura Fulminans set in.

Purpura Fulminans, also known as Purpura Gangrenosa, is a particularly nasty infection which in many cases is unfortunately very often fatal. After falling into a coma at a hospital in Bayonne, Sausset was transferred to a specialist unit in Tours where doctors where eventually forced to make the incredibly difficult decision to amputate both Frederic's hands and both his legs from just above his knees. After the operation Frederic spent the next few weeks, by his own admission, on the brink of death before thankfully waking from his month long coma in late August.

However, not only did the procedure save Frederic's life it also left the Frenchmen with an incredible new found determination which this year has come to fruition. This weekend Frederic will lineup as a professional racing driver on the grid for the world's most famous endurance race.

Despite having no professional racing experience prior to his infection Sausset became determined to achieve his goal at competing at Le Mans almost immediately after leaving hospital. Since his recovery Sausset took to working out relentlessly, swimming an hour and a half each day alongside rigorous physiotherapy and muscle training which by now allow him to comfortably complete hour long stints in his racing car.

Driving-wise, after initially testing an Audi controlled using a joystick, Sausset instead opted to develop his own system, an evolution of which will allow him to drive his Morgan LMP2 car in the race this weekend.

A prosthetic limb attached to his right arm, combined with a brake and an acceleration pedal placed underneath his thighs, has allowed Sausset to regain much of the same sensation of driving which was taken away him following the infection. Meanwhile the assistance and guidance from fellow Le Mans team mate Christophe Tienseau has allowed Sausset to race competitively, having already taken part in the ELMS event at Silverstone whilst he continues to compete in the French VdeV endurance racing championship. For Le Mans, Sausset has been given special compensation to use an automatic gearbox and an ABS braking system which can be disabled when his team mate's take their turn at the wheel.

At the risk of descending in to realms of hyperbole Sausset goes down in history as a unique pioneer in the wonderful new age of technology.

Whilst others such Clay Regazzoni and Alessandro Zanardi have continued to compete after either being left paralysed or with amputated limbs, it is a definitive fact that never before has a quadruple amputee competed at such a high level of motorsport. Furthermore, there are currently no records to show that an amputee with Sausset's level of injuries has ever competed in any form of motorsport in history, never mind one who prior to his injuries had never competed in a professional race.

Regardless of where Frederic Sausset and his fellow SRT team mates finish in this year's 24 Hours of Le Mans, the fact that he will start the race on Saturday is an unheralded and unparalleled achievement of what the human mind is capable of if we simply put our minds to it.
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Porsche doing what they do :)
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Even RD have a live stream apparently.

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So, Scottie went and got the FIAWEC live app, 9.90 EUR, looks well worth it for me.
Threw one of my monitors on its side in portrait and now can see the stream and the timing just below it!

I surely can't be the only one watching?
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Shame they didn't line the cars up on the side of the main straight for their traditional start :( but safety car start is correct I reckon.
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