2023 Sportscar Discussion - WEC/ELMS/AsLMS

StanV · PostPosted: Sun Sep 06, 2015 3:15 pm

Yeah no, I always have to put some extra effort into watching any kind of racing at Paul Ricard. Luckily they're making it worthwhile at the moment.

StanV · PostPosted: Sun Sep 06, 2015 3:51 pm

The Eurasia Oreca through its suspension 10 mins from the end.

Tough luck, Reece :C

Gaara · PostPosted: Sun Sep 06, 2015 4:07 pm

Jota wins

Reece · PostPosted: Sun Sep 06, 2015 5:45 pm

StanV wrote:

The Eurasia Oreca through its suspension 10 mins from the end.

Tough luck, Reece :C

Yeah not a great day for us, lower wishbone weld failure, threw it away with a spin on the first lap anyway for any kind of result . Had some fun post race when the Murphy's guys came in about the tangle with us during the race but were all mates again by the end. Their car is a royal mess after that shunt.

StanV · PostPosted: Sun Sep 06, 2015 7:00 pm

What do the teams think of having a race at Paul Ricard, by the way?

My media friends usually only bring up the weather as positives :lol:

Gaara · PostPosted: Sun Sep 06, 2015 7:12 pm

Jota got a time penalty because Alberquerque acceded the drive time limit. they drop to third in the results and Greaves inherits the win.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/120695

Reece · PostPosted: Mon Sep 07, 2015 7:00 am

StanV wrote:

What do the teams think of having a race at Paul Ricard, by the way?

My media friends usually only bring up the weather as positives :lol:

It's not great for spectators or on TV and there's little atmosphere there either but the layout is pretty fun, signes flat out is a spectacle. No teams would complain if it was removed from the calendar though.

Next year with Renault supports will be an improvement, the series doesn't have the draw it needs to survive on its own without support racing.

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We've ordered an 05 which gets delivered in December and have signed a technical partnership with David Cheng Racing to run their Ligier LMP3 in AsLMS this season. Fuji is going to be hectic, learning the P3 systems and getting an unfamiliar P2 set up and working which always has its hiccups. Busy busy.

deggis · PostPosted: Sat Sep 12, 2015 10:52 pm

http://sportscar365.com/lemans/wec/2016 ... aks-cover/

StanV · PostPosted: Fri Sep 18, 2015 6:40 pm

Looks like JP Montoya *is* planning to go for that Indy - F1 - Le Mans hattrick!

Quote:

"Talks are taking place about a possible test," Porsche confirmed on Friday.

Fresh from a second-place finish in the Verizon IndyCar Series championship, and his second Indy 500 victory, the 39-year-old Colombian – who turns 40 on Sunday – was seen visiting the Porsche garage at Circuit of The Americas where Saturday's Lone Star Le Mans race takes place.

http://www.racer.com/wec-le-mans/item/1 ... -lmp1-test

Gaara · PostPosted: Sat Sep 19, 2015 10:18 pm

WEC 2016 calender released

http://www.24h-lemans.com/en/news/2016- ... 22044.html

Nurburgring in July then and Mexico at the start of September.

deggis · PostPosted: Sat Sep 19, 2015 10:25 pm

Yay.

deggis · PostPosted: Wed Sep 23, 2015 1:37 pm

http://sportscar365.com/lemans/wec/wayn ... -for-2016/

Larbre w/ Taylor wants to run in GTE Pro next. That's what Larbre has attempted to do before too but Ford's presence might have something to do with it now.

Fish88 · PostPosted: Thu Sep 24, 2015 1:45 pm

LOL screw P1, GTE PRO is going to be the class to watch next season (if it isn't already).

deggis · PostPosted: Wed Sep 30, 2015 6:48 am

Fish88 wrote:

LOL screw P1, GTE PRO is going to be the class to watch next season (if it isn't already).

Funny...

Quote:

In a situation like this [the dieselgate], companies usually curtail non-essential marketing expenses, which ratchets down their profile, and saves money at the same time. Reuters reported last week that the “hundreds of millions of euros invested in German football annually” could be under serious review at VW. In motorsports, insiders fear a withdrawal of Volkswagen Group companies from the World Rally Championship WRC, and the World Endurance Championship WEC. WEC is firmly in the hands of the world’s largest automakers Volkswagen and Toyota. Porsche and Audi currently are on top of the WEC standings, with Toyota in 3rd place. If Porsche and Audi would leave WEC, Toyota would soon follow, the guessing goes. “Akio doesn’t want to race against himself” said a Toyota insider.

http://dailykanban.com/2015/09/dieselga ... adio-says/

A bit pessimistic doomsday scenario and Porsche isn't part of the scandal (in form of models, at least not yet), but still scary that it is even mentioned. And should be an alarm that while everything is now fine and dandy WEC is pretty fragile.

Hank Hill · PostPosted: Wed Sep 30, 2015 9:38 am

With how quickly things have been falling for VW, I would not be shocked at all to see atleast one of the 2 VW brand WEC teams to pull out. I'd expect it to be Porsche first. They could probably atleast keep Toyota around if its just Audi I guess, who knows about Nissan.

EIB Fan · PostPosted: Wed Sep 30, 2015 3:59 pm

This sucks how big of a deal our EPA is making of this. I love WEC more than any other form of motorsports now and it feels like it is back on the precipice.

Fish88 · PostPosted: Wed Sep 30, 2015 4:06 pm

I didn't mean it that literally :lol:

Not a fan of Audi, but losing them would be a massive blow. You have to respect them for staying in LMP1 since 1999, with or without competition.

deggis · PostPosted: Wed Sep 30, 2015 4:45 pm

EIB Fan wrote:

This sucks how big of a deal our EPA is making of this. I love WEC more than any other form of motorsports now and it feels like it is back on the precipice.

You're looking at this pretty selfishly (from a racing fan pov) if you're blaming EPA for this instead of what the defendant did (whether there is some protectionism going on is another matter, but similarly diesel gained 50% market share in Europe with more relaxed non-CO2 emission regulations lobbied by OEMs...).

EIB Fan · PostPosted: Wed Sep 30, 2015 5:10 pm

I understand the ramifications of what VW did, but it must be compared with deadly defects found on other, domestic US vehicles that resulted in a financial slap on the wrist.

Woodski · PostPosted: Wed Sep 30, 2015 6:01 pm

deggis wrote:

Fish88 wrote:

LOL screw P1, GTE PRO is going to be the class to watch next season (if it isn't already).

Funny...

Quote:

In a situation like this [the dieselgate], companies usually curtail non-essential marketing expenses, which ratchets down their profile, and saves money at the same time. Reuters reported last week that the “hundreds of millions of euros invested in German football annually” could be under serious review at VW. In motorsports, insiders fear a withdrawal of Volkswagen Group companies from the World Rally Championship WRC, and the World Endurance Championship WEC. WEC is firmly in the hands of the world’s largest automakers Volkswagen and Toyota. Porsche and Audi currently are on top of the WEC standings, with Toyota in 3rd place. If Porsche and Audi would leave WEC, Toyota would soon follow, the guessing goes. “Akio doesn’t want to race against himself” said a Toyota insider.

http://dailykanban.com/2015/09/dieselga ... adio-says/

A bit pessimistic doomsday scenario and Porsche isn't part of the scandal (in form of models, at least not yet), but still scary that it is even mentioned. And should be an alarm that while everything is now fine and dandy WEC is pretty fragile.

That's how it always goes when you get the manufactures in.

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