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I think Audi 'sort of' ruined Endurance racing with a lot of clever thinking and making their cars durable and easy to mend or even making tactical component changes mid-race in the matter of minutes, when previously it would have taken hours. The expectation is that all top-flight teams can achieve this, but it's just not the case and the spending caps and new regulations mean that the cars are a little more fragile. |
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the brand perhaps had it easy because there was no credible opposition but you bet your arse every single person gave absolutely everything they had to make it happen. it only takes one person to cock up for it to all go wrong. assembling a team capable of winning is no mean feat, and it sounds odd to say it but the only real opposition is yourselves. your yardstick is your driver feedback, your data and your own pitstops.
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24 Aug 2021, 13:37 (Ref:4070128) | #1803 | ||
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Could anyone help me please?
I was just wondering when was the last time that the pole-sitting car won the race? It did not happen many times, that is for sure! |
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Can't remember if I've mentioned it elsewhere, but yeah finishing the race let alone winning is an achievement. Us nerds will look at who won what year and what competition they had or didn't have, but even the media doesn't treat it like that. HOWEVA..
Toyota's moaning all season long until Le Mans gets under my skin personally. I don't really have specific team/manufacturer favorites, I just want to see a close race. Toyota all year long will talk about how gaps to competitors and this year gaps to a lower class are just too small and just something must be done! Then they show up to the green flag of the important one and those gaps are now large enough for the Evergiven to sail through completely sideways. It's happened the last few years. Some call it sandbagging, others say well of course they're going to find time as they learn. It's the hope I have for a close race that fails me. And it's because Toyota couldn't find those gaps at any of the other tracks throughout the year until Le Mans. Same thing roughly happens in F1 with Mercedes and Hamilton. This year is closer, but previously it's like, no. Red Bull isn't actually faster than you and Hamilton's tires aren't actually dead prior to the fast lap. Close race hopes dashed again. Then Monday morning a Toyota Camry decided they needed to not get caught for another red light and parked their car in the middle of an intersection blocking the next few light cycles for the less heavy traffic directions. Screw you buddy. I don't have favorites, but it's definitely not Toyota. But that group of people worked hard at Le Mans either way. |
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Just read news that Cadillac is coming into the hyper class in 2023!!! Man!! Exciting years ahead for the sport guys!! Toyota is going to have heavy competitions ! Can’t wait
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Toyota, audi, Porsche, Ferrari, Peugeot and Cadillac + glickenhaus, alpine and hopefully bykolles.. this might get better then the lmp1 era..
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Just to shared a quick story with you. I used to dislike Audi because they used to win all the time( they were really good ) and had no competition ( very similar to Toyota now I guess ). Later when Toyota came back to the WEC and I’m not sure if they ( Audi) were humble down by Toyota being faster then them that very first year that they ran at Le Mans . But my point is that Audi from that very first race at leman until they left the WEC, they showed Toyota the upmost respect, specially dr Ullrich. And from there and on I started to like audi till today . So hopefully one day you learn to like Toyota too. Lol |
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i'm too scared to work out how many hours i worked from arriving pre-test day to monday lunchtime. it might make me reconsider everything i don't think anyone at LM has two shifts - the pit team and everyone else works together better than anyone else can. if you're unlucky enough to have a retirement it means you can kinda do pack up in shifts depending what time the car stops. |
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26 Aug 2021, 11:30 (Ref:4070469) | #1820 | |
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Small random thing I noticed when looking around Alkamel. High Class Racing made a clarification request at the end of July about what the regs were if a car was slow or delayed leaving the grid for the formation lap.
And then in the race the #20 got left on the jacks on the grid and had to start from the back. What are the chances of that!? The committee decisions page is pretty interesting btw if people haven't seen it before - http://fiawec.alkamelsystems.com/committe.php |
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The LM officials know how to keep discipline
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no they don't, the team managers on the whole just know how to argue their way out of penalties (for the good of the sport in a lot of cases, lbr) and pit crews are skilled and practiced enough not to do something they're not supposed to...
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