2017 FIA World Endurance Championship
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Re: 2017 FIA World Endurance Championship
LMP1 may have a limited future if this race continues in the same vein.
They are just too complicated, too irrelevant (electric is the future not hybrid) & too expensive even for manufactures, so the small fields will remain. Then add that the LMP2's have a faster terminal speed than the LMP1's now.
Good thing the LMP2 & GTE categories remain close.
They are just too complicated, too irrelevant (electric is the future not hybrid) & too expensive even for manufactures, so the small fields will remain. Then add that the LMP2's have a faster terminal speed than the LMP1's now.
Good thing the LMP2 & GTE categories remain close.
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Re: 2017 FIA World Endurance Championship
I still think the #2 Porsche can get back to second overall and then will anybody really care about the Toyotas failing?
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Re: 2017 FIA World Endurance Championship
OMG what a farce LMP1 is this year.
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Jesus some of the passes.
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Re: 2017 FIA World Endurance Championship
Hartley is win it or bin it atm
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What a race.. Poor Toyota.. They just aren't meant to win this race.
Great battles in GTE.. Le Mans never disappoints.
Great battles in GTE.. Le Mans never disappoints.
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Aston, booooooooo.
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Re: 2017 FIA World Endurance Championship
Harsh, but fair.
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Re: 2017 FIA World Endurance Championship
Didn't go this year
Another great race though.
Another great race though.
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I'm in the UK but couldn't swing a pass. Even drove past the Prodrive factory today!
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Looks like the Toyota clutch failed because a driver from another team tricked him into leaving the pit early
http://sportscar365.com/lemans/wec/vass ... portunity/
http://sportscar365.com/lemans/wec/vass ... portunity/
Post from reddit:Kobayashi pitted for routine service while under the race’s second safety car period before going into the queue at pit exit, where Vasselon said he was signaled to re-enter the track by a fake marshal, believed to be a driver from another team.
“It’s amazing… Someone came to tell him, and we have it on video: ‘Go go go!’ And normally, our drivers are used to the human action dominate signs,” Vasselon explained.
“From our side, we told him stop because the safety car queue was coming, and it was not possible.
“There has been, as you can imagine, some confusion. Start, stop, start, stop.
“So he had done several restarts with the clutch and the combustion engine… and burned the clutch because he has been thrown into a situation which should not exist.”
Kobayashi ground to a halt moments later and was forced to retire the car at the Porsche Curves.
In the german article, it says that the clutch is designed to only engage at at least 80 kph after accelerating with the electric engine, and not while the car is standing with the combustion engine running. Normally, they use the electric motor to accelerate out of the pits and then engage the clutch to use the combustion engine when the car left the pit.
Because the car had to start several times and the combustion engine was already running because he left the pits early, the clutch was engaged more often at speeds it isn't designed for while running the combustion engine and subsequently broke.
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Re: 2017 FIA World Endurance Championship
Sounds like sour grapes to me & I can't stop LMAO. It's pretty obvious that's a driver playing a joke & not a marshal but I get why Kobyashi would think it was. :lol
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Yeah I don't think it was intentional.. I watched that live and thought it very odd but was listening to RLM and they missed it unlike the WEC commentators.
I can't begin to describe how much I love that race. The determination of teams to just finish and the massive emotions it stirs is just incredible. Watching the faces in the Toyota garage as two cars went out in 30 minutes and then watching the LMP2 guys daring to dream as the Porsche tried to catch them... and then the GTE-Pro finish..
Just awesome.. and it does it every year (well most)..
I can't begin to describe how much I love that race. The determination of teams to just finish and the massive emotions it stirs is just incredible. Watching the faces in the Toyota garage as two cars went out in 30 minutes and then watching the LMP2 guys daring to dream as the Porsche tried to catch them... and then the GTE-Pro finish..
Just awesome.. and it does it every year (well most)..
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Re: 2017 FIA World Endurance Championship
I thought the GTE race was best, watching Jordan Taylor trying to hold off the Aston was great. Pity it went tits up for him. He's a funny fucker on Instagram so hopefully he finds the lighter side of it all.
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Norbs was great value on discord at the end of the race with GT-E pro
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Dr. Pain wrote:Norbs was great value on discord at the end of the race with GT-E pro
That Aston fucked up the Corvette when he launched that bansai move.
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The move was late but I don't think he got the damage there... It happened on the next lap when the vette broke too late for the chicane and bounced over the gravel trap..?norbs wrote:That Aston fucked up the Corvette when he launched that bansai move.
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Re: 2017 FIA World Endurance Championship
Yeah maybe Pix. But I think it was both some contact and going on through the chicane.
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Just showing support... apparently...DarrenM wrote:Looks like the Toyota clutch failed because a driver from another team tricked him into leaving the pit early
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Re: 2017 FIA World Endurance Championship
So now that Porsche has confirmed they're leaving the LMP1 at the end of THIS season. That pretty much kills it.
Thankfully the GT cars provide the bulk of the good racing.
Thankfully the GT cars provide the bulk of the good racing.