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2023 Sportscar Discussion - WEC/ELMS/AsLMS
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Author:  Gaara [ Sat Apr 13, 2019 3:43 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 2018 Sportscar Discussion - WEC/ELMS/AsLMS
Nasty backwards hit in the Le Mans Cup race at Paul Ricard.
Author:  Gaara [ Sat Apr 13, 2019 4:27 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 2019 Sportscar Discussion - WEC/ELMS/AsLMS
TWELVE cars given a 2 minute penalty for passing the red light.
Author:  Gaara [ Tue Apr 16, 2019 12:02 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 2019 Sportscar Discussion - WEC/ELMS/AsLMS
Two more cars get into Le Mans as they've added two more garages

https://www.autosport.com/wec/news/1428 ... entry-list
Author:  Cheeveer [ Tue Apr 16, 2019 12:13 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 2019 Sportscar Discussion - WEC/ELMS/AsLMS
A 62 car grid is epic.

Just ironic that in the largest field ever in the event's history, it is the fewest number of cars ever that have a legit chance at winning.

I'm starting to be in favour of scrapping the prototypes alltogether and just have it a GT race.
Author:  Chris A [ Tue Apr 16, 2019 3:17 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 2019 Sportscar Discussion - WEC/ELMS/AsLMS
Would be fun to see GT1 reborn to replace the prototypes. JR Hildebrand actually wrote an interesting blog about the idea early last year: https://medium.com/@jrhildebrand66/the- ... 60216e2257
Author:  deggis [ Wed Apr 17, 2019 1:03 am ]
Post subject:  Re: 2019 Sportscar Discussion - WEC/ELMS/AsLMS
Chris A wrote:
Would be fun to see GT1 reborn to replace the prototypes. JR Hildebrand actually wrote an interesting blog about the idea early last year: https://medium.com/@jrhildebrand66/the- ... 60216e2257

That article seems to be have been written at the time when there was a lot of talk about the "hypercar" regs in planning, which were then announced last summer. Despite the "hypercar" moniker originally the idea was LMP-like purpose-built cars with only "road car styling cues" - no actual road going homologations. The freedom in styling is supposed to be possible because most performance figures are strictly capped (power, downforce and even drag).

No OEM signed up despite further changes to cut costs, so now couple of weeks ago they bent over even more and plan to include homologation of existing road legal hypercars. 20 cars woud need to be built within 2 years (great rule: if less than that are built are they going exclude the car from results retroactively? yeah sure). This also means there has to be heavy performance balancing between these road car based and the purpose built ones.

So currently the idea for the top class from 2020-21 onwards is a car that almost as heavy as GTE and only slightly faster than GTE, with BoP, performance caps and on top of all of this they also came up with a success ballast system.

And still no OEM has signed up and the cars are supposed to be on the grid next year in September.
Author:  deggis [ Fri Apr 19, 2019 6:39 am ]
Post subject:  Re: 2019 Sportscar Discussion - WEC/ELMS/AsLMS
As expected, Ford GT program comes to an end both in WEC & IMSA.

https://sportscar365.com/lemans/wec/for ... t-program/

Semi-works or private cars are still possible.
Author:  Cheeveer [ Tue Apr 30, 2019 9:16 am ]
Post subject:  Re: 2019 Sportscar Discussion - WEC/ELMS/AsLMS
Will be at the Spa 6 hours this weekend! :flag:

It will be 5 degrees warm and rainy. :thumbsup:
Author:  Omega [ Tue Apr 30, 2019 12:11 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 2019 Sportscar Discussion - WEC/ELMS/AsLMS
Dicksplaash wrote:
Will be at the Spa 6 hours this weekend! :flag:

It will be 5 degrees warm and rainy. :thumbsup:

WEC at Spa is a yearly tradition, but with weatherforecasts like this, I might skip a year.
Author:  codename_47 [ Tue Apr 30, 2019 10:10 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 2019 Sportscar Discussion - WEC/ELMS/AsLMS
Is there a reason this race always takes place on a Saturday instead of a Sunday :?
Author:  Omega [ Tue Apr 30, 2019 10:35 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 2019 Sportscar Discussion - WEC/ELMS/AsLMS
They race until 21 or 22h, which would be late for people on a Sunday.
Author:  Juihi [ Wed May 01, 2019 9:22 am ]
Post subject:  Re: 2019 Sportscar Discussion - WEC/ELMS/AsLMS
So Hartley is replacing Alonso at Toyota, not a phrase I thought I'd ever say
Author:  Omega [ Wed May 01, 2019 10:39 am ]
Post subject:  Re: 2019 Sportscar Discussion - WEC/ELMS/AsLMS
Whaaaaat? Why is Alonso not coming?

Edit: ah, after le mans

They are expecting snow on Saturday morning, 4 to 5 degrees in the afternoon, 1 degree by the time the race ends. Good luck to the brave visitors, but I can imagine they'll cancel the race.
Author:  Cheeveer [ Thu May 02, 2019 3:45 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 2019 Sportscar Discussion - WEC/ELMS/AsLMS
codename_47 wrote:
Is there a reason this race always takes place on a Saturday instead of a Sunday :?


Has always been like this, as far as I can remember.

Yay, 5C and light snow is not ideal for a day at the race track.
Author:  MotoKris1 [ Sat May 11, 2019 4:41 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 2019 Sportscar Discussion - WEC/ELMS/AsLMS
Getting very dark in Monza with 20mins to go


Image
Author:  Gaara [ Sat May 11, 2019 4:47 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 2019 Sportscar Discussion - WEC/ELMS/AsLMS
Rain!
Author:  MotoKris1 [ Sat May 11, 2019 4:52 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 2019 Sportscar Discussion - WEC/ELMS/AsLMS
James Bond opening camera style in T1
Author:  Gaara [ Sat May 11, 2019 4:56 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 2019 Sportscar Discussion - WEC/ELMS/AsLMS
Getting pretty wet out there
Author:  Gaara [ Sun May 12, 2019 12:28 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 2019 Sportscar Discussion - WEC/ELMS/AsLMS
Big crash in ELMS
Author:  fede999 [ Sun May 12, 2019 1:31 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 2019 Sportscar Discussion - WEC/ELMS/AsLMS
Great racing in ELMS!

Yesterday I was really surprised I left them racing in those conditions in Le Mans Cup.

I think it's the first time I see racing with lightning strikes visible on camera!
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