WEC round 2, Spa 6H - 3, 4 & 5 May 2012 - Page 11

peebee2 · 4 May 2012, 08:18 (Ref:3069147)

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Originally Posted by Victor_RO

Status Lola unfortunately finished for the weekend in crash at Raidillon at the end of FP2, down to 41 cars...

Not really that much of a surprise. Someone needs a serious change of attitude. All weekend at Paul Richard he looked like a shunt waiting to happen.

TF110 · 4 May 2012, 08:28 (Ref:3069153)

Rebellion isn't too far off for this being their first race with the new car. Surprised the HPD's aren't faster.

alexkiller8 · 4 May 2012, 08:33 (Ref:3069155)

sincerly i thought that during the pratice audi kept on running around 2.04 to do a qualifying reaching an high 2.00, but now i won't be surprised if they will run under 2.00 (rain permitting)

TF110 · 4 May 2012, 08:57 (Ref:3069165)

Aston Martin in the 2:19's. Looking good. Also Audi in the 2:01's.

alexkiller8 · 4 May 2012, 09:00 (Ref:3069167)

that timelap of the aston is suspicious, but for sure tomorrow will be the slowest wec gt-pro. Red flag for some reason.

TF110 · 4 May 2012, 09:56 (Ref:3069223)

How do you figure it's suspicious? They did do the most laps along with the Felbermayer team. Maybe Aston is legit and you just don't agree.

alexkiller8 · 4 May 2012, 10:13 (Ref:3069234)

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Originally Posted by TF110

How do you figure it's suspicious? They did do the most laps along with the Felbermayer team. Maybe Aston is legit and you just don't agree.

i disagree because in sebring and more recently in long beach race, the car never had the pace of best gte cars, in my opinion the vantage marked that lap just before the short rain period that came in the middle of the session, after that only audi #1 improved the time lap. Trust, i really like aston martin cars but realisticly the vantage v8 meanwhile all gift received from bop, can just fight against the best pro-am teams and hope that someone of 3 458 and 1 997 than run in gt-pro will retire to finish in a better place.

The Badger · 4 May 2012, 10:24 (Ref:3069240)

Maybe they finally got it right . I dont feel its suspicious at all . Good team , brilliant drivers ..... maybe they found a tweek that worked .

There would be no point in doing that , as they will have to pass post qualy scrutineering , and would look like right nobs .

The Badger · 4 May 2012, 10:28 (Ref:3069244)

Signatech arnt doing such a brilliant job ..... for a supposedly Nissan backed outfit , while others have the same running gear .

alexkiller8 · 4 May 2012, 10:35 (Ref:3069250)

we will see during the qualifying and race; if AMR/prodrive really came back with a performant "gulfed" GT car i'll be the first to be happy

The Badger · 4 May 2012, 11:14 (Ref:3069268)

Hey , it may well be quick enough for a few pals , dont know about a 6 hour race distance ..... but I feel that they are now concentrating their attention correctly .

lms · 4 May 2012, 11:24 (Ref:3069272)

just a thing I noticed: looks like the vertical endplates are back on the hpd

http://www.motorsport.com/wec/photo/...id=1320733&i=8

this must be the low downforce set up

Victor_RO · 4 May 2012, 11:27 (Ref:3069275)

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Originally Posted by alexkiller8

i disagree because in sebring and more recently in long beach race, the car never had the pace of best gte cars, in my opinion the vantage marked that lap just before the short rain period that came in the middle of the session, after that only audi #1 improved the time lap. Trust, i really like aston martin cars but realisticly the vantage v8 meanwhile all gift received from bop, can just fight against the best pro-am teams and hope that someone of 3 458 and 1 997 than run in gt-pro will retire to finish in a better place.

The M3 GT2 (Schnitzer)'s first race was Paul Ricard in 2010, it qualified last there and was only in the running for a good place due to fuel economy, suddenly at Spa it was right up with the top 2-3 cars. It's just an example of how it's not just the car itself, it's also how it suits the track and how it's set up for it.

ep16 · 4 May 2012, 12:03 (Ref:3069286)

Remember the GT Astons have always been quick at the fast flowing circuits i.e. spa and silversone. That goes for the dbr9, dbrs9, and the v8 vantage GT2 and GT4, all of which have had good results at these tracks

Koenigsegg · 4 May 2012, 12:06 (Ref:3069287)

Remember that the Vantage at Sebring had one of the fastest race pace.

EverOne · 4 May 2012, 13:07 (Ref:3069310)

Qualifying start in 5 minutes and fiawec streming is private?.....
EDIT: works now

Deleted · 4 May 2012, 13:11 (Ref:3069312)

GT quali is on.

Anyone else getting tired with this ever-ending "it might be a small field but it's about quality, not quantity" and "everyone can win this, absolutely" talk whenever GTE-Pro is mentioned. I don't exactly expect RLM to scream that the class is somewhat in trouble but the praise still gets a bit tidious at times. And since it's my favourite class, that's saying something...

Deleted · 4 May 2012, 13:13 (Ref:3069313)

Larbre onboard coverage!!

Hopefully we get more of this in June!

e: terrible sound on stream (surprise) so mute that and listen the regular RLM feed instead

FordCosworthPanoz · 4 May 2012, 13:25 (Ref:3069318)

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Originally Posted by Chiana

GT quali is on.

Anyone else getting tired with this ever-ending "it might be a small field but it's about quality, not quantity" and "everyone can win this, absolutely" talk whenever GTE-Pro is mentioned. I don't exactly expect RLM to scream that the class is somewhat in trouble but the praise still gets a bit tidious at times. And since it's my favourite class, that's saying something...

"All is Well! All is well!"

Deleted · 4 May 2012, 13:34 (Ref:3069321)

They should've put Bruni in instead of Fisi...

IMSA was using run-off tarmac way too much (another reason why Spa isn't qute what it used to be)! Hope they won't get penalised though, if only because of my FRC picks

Also funny to notice how little difference there appears to be before the two Larbres, as the drivers in the #70 can be seen as much more gentleman

Spyderman · 4 May 2012, 13:35 (Ref:3069323)

Right. The GTE qualy results should quieten the hordes.

alexkiller8 · 4 May 2012, 13:35 (Ref:3069324)

it seems that i was wrong about vantage, the gt-pro performance level is almost the same (even if porsche and AMR have been advantaged a lot by bop, while ferrari was 15kg penalized)... at the end there were 2 men of personell of the track were trying to rape each other...

Spyderman · 4 May 2012, 13:38 (Ref:3069326)

Welcome to BoP. It stands for Balance of Performance.

Deleted · 4 May 2012, 13:51 (Ref:3069329)

All it tells to me that the Ferrari 458 is the best GT car of the field by a country mile and if all the cars were run to the regulations they were [supposed to be] built to, we would have Audi-esque difference between the prancing horses and the rest of the runners. Corvette would come second, then a big gap and a finally battle between Porsche and Aston for the final spot

Deleted · 4 May 2012, 13:59 (Ref:3069334)

I love it, three minutes to go and #2 is already posing in the pits for their pole... nicely orchestrated by Audi to get ther preferred car on top

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