WEC Round One: Qatar - March 2nd, 2024

[v8supes]

#8 Toyota seems to have quite a vibration, not as bad as the Porsche earlier however.

[veeten]

Got him!!!

[Aysedasi]

#93 Peugeot still hugely impressive.....

[veeten]

Suspension problem for the IF, rolling back in the garage...

[veeten]

Proton chasing the Alpine...

[Adam43]

Finally got up. Turned on. Lotterer is pushing!

I could do with the hourly update to get me up to speed.

Anything I should know about tyres, or stints?

[Aysedasi]

Peugeot #94 in trouble...

[Aysedasi]

Originally Posted by Adam43

Finally got up. Turned on. Lotterer is pushing!

I could do with the hourly update to get me up to speed.

Anything I should know about tyres, or stints?

Far too technical for me, I'm just enjoying the race.....

All I know is that teams seem to be routinely only changing one side or the other.

[veeten]

Well, Porsches and Peugeot are making great progress...

AF Course (yellow) has been leading the red Ferraris...

Toyota has looked mortal, and has been passed at times...

GT is quite competitive...

[GT3_Fan]

Rossi in the BMW of all cars and drivers chasing the Ferrari 296's right now. I figure AF Corse and WRT would be the top GT3 teams. They got the experience with those cars.

[Aysedasi]

Rossi was impressive....

Toyota looking pretty ordinary....

Here's your review Adam....

[J Jay]

Rossi was good in Bathurst too. He was never a liability, but it looks like he is more or less on-pace, albeit not quite on the level of the top pros.

[Adam43]

Originally Posted by Aysedasi

Here's your review Adam....

The very useful hourly update:

• Spinning Peugeot at the start! Fighting through the GT3 in the early laps!
• While the GTs going mad! Porsche Corvette going at it for the lead.
• Ferrari lead early, but Peugeot round the outside! - wonderful.
• #50 Ferrari penalty - white line into pit lane. Simple mistake there.
• #6 having a break in traffic - good move.
• Ferrari into a McLaren GT - that's why they are down a couple of laps.
• Rossi sounds like he's had a good stint.
• FCY - some debris. Just a quickie.

[joeb]

Originally Posted by Adam43

The very useful hourly update:

• Spinning Peugeot at the start! Fighting through the GT3 in the early laps!
• While the GTs going mad! Porsche Corvette going at it for the lead.
• Ferrari lead early, but Peugeot round the outside! - wonderful.
• #50 Ferrari penalty - white line into pit lane. Simple mistake there.
• #6 having a break in traffic - good move.
• Ferrari into a McLaren GT - that's why they are down a couple of laps.
• Rossi sounds like he's had a good stint.
• FCY - some debris. Just a quickie.

For the first time in my life I actually did find that useful, as I just woke up and missed the first 5 hours of the race!

[Adam43]

Ferrari finally gets past the Cadillac. I hear it is on old tyres. Have Ferrari sorted their tyre issues? How have they been warming up the tyres?

Lotterer with a little off again. Pushing...

[Adam43]

How are we looking for Distance or Time?

It is distance:

Hour	Laps	Time	Leader #	Laps Simple Projection
1	34	1:00:00.491	93	335 (340)
2	67	2:00:47.174	6	333 (333)
3	101	3:00:24.001	6	335 (336)
4	135	4:00:22.984	6	335 (337)
5	169	5:01:29.360	6	335 (337)

In the simple projection we see the prediction of number of laps. The number in the brackets is the number of laps if we went to the ten hour limit.

So for hour five we are looking for 335 laps (distance) and there is a two lap buffer for that. We are doing well because it is a very green race.

This makes the count back slightly easier for the teams.

[Aysedasi]

It has of course been very green indeed. 2-3 short FCY's only.

[Aysedasi]

I really wish they could make those energy indicators a more permanent thing on the screen....

[Adam43]

Originally Posted by Aysedasi

I really wish they could make those energy indicators a more permanent thing on the screen....

At Daytona 24 hours there was a online feed of it. It was useful.

The standard live feed is pretty good and improved for this year - we have driver times and some other nice stuff, but no energy data:
https://live.fiawec.com/en/session_stats

They've taken a leaf out of Timing71, but I guess has the advantage that if the feed goes down it doesn't have blank spots.

[Aysedasi]

Originally Posted by Adam43

At Daytona 24 hours there was a online feed of it. It was useful.

It just gives you a better idea of strategy and how cars are comparing when the stops become mixed up.

[Aysedasi]

IF out...... shame.

[Adam43]

Originally Posted by Aysedasi

It just gives you a better idea of strategy and how cars are comparing when the stops become mixed up.

The pit time part of the official timing does that too, but I agree the energy stat is a quick way to get the info.

[Simmi]

Had to do some work so just trying to stay across things.

Muller zeroing in on the lead Porsche. Are they on equivalent tyres/strategy do we know? As in, is this pure pace?

[joeb]

Originally Posted by Aysedasi

I really wish they could make those energy indicators a more permanent thing on the screen....

I would also appreciate an accounting of the gap between the cars on the screen. Yes I know I can open the timing and scoring, but sometimes I like to keep my eyes on the video.

[Adam43]

UPDATED from timing sheet:

Hour	Laps	Time	Leader #	Laps Simple Projection
1	34	1:00:00.491	93	335 (340)
2	67	2:00:47.174	6	333 (333)
3	101	3:00:24.001	6	335 (336)
4	135	4:00:22.984	6	335 (337)
5	169	5:01:29.360	6	335 (337)
6	202	6:00:06.988	6	335 (337)

It's 335 distance.

There are fluctuations deepening on when stops happen - it is just a simple projection and doesn't allow for this. The leader had stopped 14 minutes before the hour.