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Old 14 Jun 2012, 00:24 (Ref:3090481)   #1426
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Old 14 Jun 2012, 02:31 (Ref:3090499)   #1427
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Old 14 Jun 2012, 03:37 (Ref:3090505)   #1428
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Thank you for the timing page reference gwyllion.
Not much strikes me about the times the Delta has recorded.
Does not appear freakishly good at some things and poor at others from the times.
Didn't seem to move away from the GT through the corner in miatanut's (thanks for vid miatanut) youtube clip, only jumping clear on the straight.
Will be interesting.
I haven't had a chance to look at the details on qualifying yet, but during testing it looked like it was really good on the straights, but a little slow on the twisty bits, but Don Panoz pointed out they were staying away from curbs, and curb jumping can gain you a couple seconds.

Now it appears they also want to stay away from curbs for the race!

It would be very annoying if stupid stuff like this took them out of the race, but given they have probably been very busy sorting through issues with new technology, there are probably all kinds of old tech things like this that haven't gotten adequate attention.

I think they have already made the basic point the car was built to make.

There can be a better way!
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Old 14 Jun 2012, 06:02 (Ref:3090524)   #1429
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According to the ACO and Michelin, the car has so far logged, through the periods of track running at Le Mans, a total of 1500 km ON A SINGLE SET OF TIRES.
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Old 14 Jun 2012, 06:05 (Ref:3090526)   #1430
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Old 14 Jun 2012, 08:20 (Ref:3090561)   #1431
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You really need to see this thing in the flesh - it's very impressive. I'm not saying I'm a total convert, by any means, but I am glad it's here.
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Old 14 Jun 2012, 09:26 (Ref:3090599)   #1432
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On lemans.org a story of Michelin's new tires for hybrids gives a mention of the DW- their target is 10stinting a single set of tires!
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Old 14 Jun 2012, 09:39 (Ref:3090617)   #1433
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Apparently they wont be using the trick torque vectoring. They have run out of time dealing with the gearbox issues to incorporate it into the car. It sounds like it is already getting through the corners quite well without it but there was surely some potential lost there.
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Old 14 Jun 2012, 10:40 (Ref:3090685)   #1434
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It certainly looked mighty impressive around Tertre Rouge, although there was a significant tank-slapping moment we saw......
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Old 14 Jun 2012, 13:02 (Ref:3090826)   #1435
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Just out of interest has anyone seen the Top Gear version of the Delta Wing, it's allegedly at Le Mans this week

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Old 14 Jun 2012, 18:28 (Ref:3091015)   #1436
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Did I just see that the DW front wheels only have 3 lug studs?
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Old 14 Jun 2012, 22:31 (Ref:3091148)   #1437
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It certainly looked mighty impressive around Tertre Rouge, although there was a significant tank-slapping moment we saw......

Would like to hear more about this ... how it got out of shape, what it did, and how it recovered.
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Old 15 Jun 2012, 00:20 (Ref:3091179)   #1438
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Did I just see that the DW front wheels only have 3 lug studs?
yes, they do.
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Old 15 Jun 2012, 00:58 (Ref:3091188)   #1439
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Does anybody know why it was so much slower today?
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Old 15 Jun 2012, 01:02 (Ref:3091190)   #1440
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Since they only did three laps in wednesday's night session, all drivers still needed to do their night qualifying laps. They probably didn't want to risk any problems.
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Old 15 Jun 2012, 09:49 (Ref:3091333)   #1441
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Does anybody know why it was so much slower today?
from twitter it sounded like they were focusing on race prep and setup's, and of course getting the drivers qualified. They did run into some issues with the brake system last night. Air was getting into the system and they weren't sure where

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Old 15 Jun 2012, 17:04 (Ref:3091554)   #1442
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from twitter it sounded like they were focusing on race prep and setup's, and of course getting the drivers qualified. They did run into some issues with the brake system last night. Air was getting into the system and they weren't sure where

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After my post I bumped into Bowlby's comment on that somewhere.

That's what's going to be maddening about this. When it does go out, it will be over something where it's similar to all the other cars, except for possibly the gearbox. The other stuff, where it's really unusual, will do fine.
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Old 15 Jun 2012, 17:08 (Ref:3091557)   #1443
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'When it does go out.......'

Maybe we should be optimistic, eh?
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Old 15 Jun 2012, 17:58 (Ref:3091583)   #1444
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'When it does go out.......'

Maybe we should be optimistic, eh?
If it's around at 24H, I'll be dancing on the ceiling!

I'd like to see them put down a few all-out laps in the first couple hours to show everybody what it can do, and then just try to stay out of trouble.
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Old 15 Jun 2012, 18:02 (Ref:3091585)   #1445
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breaking into the “30s” until the car’s on-board fire extinguisher
went off after striking a kerb at Tertre Rouge
Well that puts to bed the earlier suggestions that they weren't allowed to go below 3:45... clearly in that session they were trying to go as fast as possible -including using the kerbs....
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Now we know the real reason for not going below 3:45; if by chance you hit the curb the fire extinguisher goes off.
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Old 15 Jun 2012, 19:18 (Ref:3091604)   #1447
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Well that puts to bed the earlier suggestions that they weren't allowed to go below 3:45... clearly in that session they were trying to go as fast as possible -including using the kerbs....
They were supposed to be between P1 & P2 and apparently ACO thought that was going to be 3:45 and it turns out it's really at 3:38. Maybe the ACO is now OK with it going 3:38.
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Old 15 Jun 2012, 19:51 (Ref:3091610)   #1448
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They were supposed to be between P1 & P2 and apparently ACO thought that was going to be 3:45 and it turns out it's really at 3:38. Maybe the ACO is now OK with it going 3:38.
Half way between the P1 and P2 leaders is about 3:30.....
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Old 15 Jun 2012, 19:57 (Ref:3091612)   #1449
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Half way between the P1 and P2 leaders is about 3:30.....
Slowest P1 car qualified at 3:37.5, fastest P2 car at 3:38.1.
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The ACO also assumed people would get what they meant about target times. They are wrong quite often.
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