2023 Sportscar Discussion - WEC/ELMS/AsLMS

bigears · PostPosted: Wed May 06, 2015 5:30 pm

Andreas Bertolini seems slow to me? He is a multiple FIA GT champion in the past with Maserati isn't he?

Cheeveer · PostPosted: Wed May 06, 2015 6:01 pm

bigears wrote:

Andreas Bertolini seems slow to me? He is a multiple FIA GT champion in the past with Maserati isn't he?

Fastest lap in AM?

Okay top line speed for the CLM, but I wonder how it stand against the LMP2's.

bigears · PostPosted: Wed May 06, 2015 8:50 pm

dicksplaash wrote:

bigears wrote:

Andreas Bertolini seems slow to me? He is a multiple FIA GT champion in the past with Maserati isn't he?

Fastest lap in AM?

Okay top line speed for the CLM, but I wonder how it stand against the LMP2's.

Hang on, more closer to the left, the faster you are? My bad, misinterpreted the table. You are right there.

Mattzel89 · PostPosted: Wed May 06, 2015 9:33 pm

This will please codename

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All TV cameras will be active for the FULL @24hoursoflemans in 2015 - first time ever we believe

Fabs · PostPosted: Wed May 06, 2015 9:35 pm

Ah mah gahd, Skype chat will be very active

bigears · PostPosted: Wed May 06, 2015 9:49 pm

Mattzel89 wrote:

This will please codename

Quote:

All TV cameras will be active for the FULL @24hoursoflemans in 2015 - first time ever we believe

Holy shit, that will be good. I will only potentially miss the start as I will be doing a 10K run race then I got all night to enjoy the full coverage including night time at the Hunaudieres Straight.

codename_47 · PostPosted: Wed May 06, 2015 10:24 pm

Mattzel89 wrote:

This will please codename

Quote:

All TV cameras will be active for the FULL @24hoursoflemans in 2015 - first time ever we believe

Hehe.....and I was planning just to sleep from midnight-6 am this year :whistling:

What about practice/qualy, any changes there?

Gaara · PostPosted: Wed May 06, 2015 10:45 pm

All-nighter is vastly improved then ^.^

Cheeveer · PostPosted: Thu May 07, 2015 1:05 am

I <3 LM24

deggis · PostPosted: Thu May 07, 2015 1:07 am

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A senior source from within the broadcasting community has informed DSC that the current plan is for all broadcast TV cameras to be manned and live throughout the whole 2015 Le Mans 24 Hours.

http://www.dailysportscar.com/2015/05/0 ... hours.html

the ost · PostPosted: Thu May 07, 2015 8:40 am

Fantastic news

deggis · PostPosted: Thu May 07, 2015 10:27 am

And I think that still means only the race, the roads need to be still opened between the practice+qual sessions and race day. I wonder what has now changed, increased media attention and maybe FIA told them to get their shit together. Watch some night footage from ~1999 on Youtube and there were definitely more cameras on, so quite perplexing how evolution ended up going backwards.

Ian-S · PostPosted: Thu May 07, 2015 10:49 am

^^ European Working Time Directive was updated in 2003 putting strick laws about shift length and night work into place, perhaps the FIA have finally ponied up the money to pay for a second crew to man the cameras overnight this year.

deggis · PostPosted: Fri May 08, 2015 11:56 am

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Sources in the paddock at last weekend’s FIA World Endurance Championship race at Spa indicated that Nissan may run with its internal combustion engine only at Le Mans after the chronicled troubles with its hybrid system in testing.

Rules stipulate that all factory LMP1 teams must run a hybrid system, although it’s understood Nissan may be able to get special dispensation should all LMP1 manufacturers be in agreement.

ACO Sporting Director Vincent Beaumesnil would not confirm such a possibility to Sportscar365 and said it’s up to the team to make any announcements.

http://sportscar365.com/lemans/wec/niss ... g-program/

:roll:

Artur Craft · PostPosted: Fri May 08, 2015 4:25 pm

Any kind of fail from Nissan won't surprise me, actually. For the record, even if they got their hybrid fully operational, I would be expecting them to be no better than 6s slower than pole(probably more like 8s if you ask me)

deggis · PostPosted: Fri May 08, 2015 4:41 pm

Also, Gene was suddenly dropped as a driver, instead he takes an advisory role (!?) and the replacement is Shulzhitskiy.

http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=3b7 ... db907b07dc

Cheeveer · PostPosted: Sat May 09, 2015 1:34 am

This would be funny, when we get to Le Mans:

Spoiler:

Cheeveer · PostPosted: Tue May 12, 2015 10:47 am

Any bet the all-time lap record will be beaten at Le Mans this year?

http://www.racingsportscars.com/photo/1 ... 16-002.jpg

deggis · PostPosted: Tue May 12, 2015 11:58 am

Eh? It is either from 1971 if one wants to nonsensically include every damn configuration ever or from 2010.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit_de_la_Sarthe (table in middle of the article)

Cheeveer · PostPosted: Tue May 12, 2015 2:47 pm

Oh, sry. Highest average speed is Stuck's 1985 lap however. This years' cars are in any way awe-inspiring. Porsche gained 5 seconds at Spa from last year. That's amazing.

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