LM24 Race Le Mans Test Day - 3rd June 2018 - Page 9

Mike E · 4 Jun 2018, 19:58 (Ref:3826842)

What a great pic this is, all loaded up in the right hand kink before Indianapolis.

https://twitter.com/StefRike/status/...260695552?s=19

jimclark · 4 Jun 2018, 21:04 (Ref:3826851)

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Originally Posted by GT6

i am not sure either, but someone will know

As per the regs. (specifically, 10.6.1), the starting driver must be declared "on the occasion of the administrative checks by filling in the appropriate form".

'Goes on:
"Unless a notificatuon of a change of driver is made in writing to the stewards
at the latest 30 minutes after the end of qualifying practice," ...the driver must be the aforementioned one.

Gilles lives! · 4 Jun 2018, 21:51 (Ref:3826856)

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Originally Posted by Mike E

What a great pic this is, all loaded up in the right hand kink before Indianapolis.

https://twitter.com/StefRike/status/...260695552?s=19

Yes I would love to be able to shoot from that spot ! I've just been looking through YouTube videos shot from the Indianapolis/Arnage section, to see what the photo vantage points would be like, but couldn't really take much from them.

TF110 · 5 Jun 2018, 18:59 (Ref:3827014)

I found a few youtube videos from the test day but most are from the stands so it's all the same vantage point.

**Aysedasi** · 5 Jun 2018, 19:01 (Ref:3827015)

Most of them are probably Eric's!

Mike E · 5 Jun 2018, 19:30 (Ref:3827022)

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Originally Posted by TF110

I found a few youtube videos from the test day but most are from the stands so it's all the same vantage point.

Try this one

https://youtu.be/nS9BUHfc87c

Or better still

https://youtu.be/lGgHR9SVLyI

Mike E · 5 Jun 2018, 20:27 (Ref:3827026)

some unusual angles in this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTc9lWdDTxE

And this is hilarious at about 2:13. Two Porsches squirm through the shot on the ragged edge followed by a Toyota which is apparently being pushed around by the hand of god or something.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9vbnzwTL64

**skycafe** · 5 Jun 2018, 21:58 (Ref:3827039)

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Originally Posted by Mike E

And this is hilarious at about 2:13. Two Porsches squirm through the shot on the ragged edge followed by a Toyota which is apparently being pushed around by the hand of god or something.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9vbnzwTL64

the Porsches are great, but that Toyota clip makes your jaw drop. Awesome stuff!

The videos above of the cars going away from the camera are great, and I will admit to being a total Porsche nut, but honestly can you beat the sounds coming from the Porsches as they exit and go off down the straight?

jimclark · 6 Jun 2018, 05:19 (Ref:3827071)

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Originally Posted by skycafe

but honestly can you beat the sounds coming from the Porsches as they exit and go off down the straight?

As a matter of fact, yes. As much of a Porsche fan that I am, give me a Matra or Ferrari V-12, 7 litres of good ol' 'Muricun iron Ford or Chevy V-8s or even a Cossie or screamin 'Bimmer straight six...

**batmobile** · 6 Jun 2018, 14:09 (Ref:3827158)

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Originally Posted by Aysedasi

Most of them are probably Eric's!

Unfortunately mines are only on Facebook excepted if someone too them over.

Envoyé de mon SM-A300FU en utilisant Tapatalk

Mike E · 6 Jun 2018, 15:49 (Ref:3827188)

Aston banking on a BoP break.

https://www.motorsport.com/lemans/ne...mpression=true

GT6 · 6 Jun 2018, 16:40 (Ref:3827202)

Well after watching the new Astons at Spa and after what can only be called a complete failure to show anything required to be competitive at the test day, the only hope is for a fairly large adjustment in their favour, but not sure they will get it.

TF110 · 6 Jun 2018, 17:42 (Ref:3827214)

I don't think they're going to get much of a boost. I think they're holding back a little bit. The others could be too but I have a feeling Aston isn't being completely honest about their pace.

GT6 · 6 Jun 2018, 17:48 (Ref:3827217)

Well as two of the cars did very little on test day and the other two were propping up the field they did a very good job of looking like they were holding back.

TF110 · 6 Jun 2018, 18:01 (Ref:3827219)

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Originally Posted by GT6

Well as two of the cars did very little on test day and the other two were propping up the field they did a very good job of looking like they were holding back.

Maybe they are that slow. I think the aco has to be cautious either way. Don't want them in no-man's land but neither blitzing the field.

**Aysedasi** · 6 Jun 2018, 18:24 (Ref:3827226)

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Originally Posted by GT6

Well after watching the new Astons at Spa and after what can only be called a complete failure to show anything required to be competitive at the test day, the only hope is for a fairly large adjustment in their favour, but not sure they will get it.

And as past masters, that's almost certainly what they'll be aiming for.....

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Originally Posted by TF110

I don't think they're going to get much of a boost. I think they're holding back a little bit. The others could be too but I have a feeling Aston isn't being completely honest about their pace.

Completely agree. OK, they had a dreadful test day, but I refuse to believe that their new car is that slow....

Mike E · 6 Jun 2018, 18:35 (Ref:3827234)

Seems a bit odd to me. They know how quick the opposition are and have done loads of testing. Why are they slow?

**Aysedasi** · 6 Jun 2018, 18:38 (Ref:3827238)

Exactly.

jimclark · 6 Jun 2018, 18:50 (Ref:3827242)

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Originally Posted by Mike E

Seems a bit odd to me. They know how quick the opposition are and have done loads of testing. Why are they slow?

May as well ask the once great Team McLaren that one. They've had plenty of time to come up with an answer......

Badlands99 · 6 Jun 2018, 19:17 (Ref:3827247)

Way, Way too much sand ............

Problem is, the ACO have been hoodwinked by too many others before (FORD!) to be fooled again!

should have left the V12 in the front ......... then some sympathy might have come there way just because of the noise!

Deleted · 6 Jun 2018, 19:29 (Ref:3827252)

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Originally Posted by Mike E

Aston banking on a BoP break.

https://www.motorsport.com/lemans/ne...mpression=true

Of course they'll get it and magically end up third fastest of all after qualifying 3

Like every year if they're not already been gifted over winter (which to be fair is usually more the case)

They build moderately crappy cars (this being the first new car since AMR-One LMP1 mind you, the old Vantage was just mildly modified rehash of the under performing 2008 GT2 car) and expect the organizing body to do everything for them. It's been the same exact thing all decade

Which to be fair is INTELLIGENT. Why would you waste money and time when you can just do it this way in a broken system

**PascaLM** · 7 Jun 2018, 09:39 (Ref:3827343)

Yes. Embarrassing again to see how the BoP hides the real potential of the car.

Brake dust · 7 Jun 2018, 10:50 (Ref:3827365)

FIA/ACO need to wait to after Le Mans for BoP adjustments upwards on performance. Am still mad about the Ford farce. At Spa, the Aston AM car looked nearly as quick as the near car. Surely Aston would have worked to develop the new car to be more competitive.

Brake dust · 7 Jun 2018, 10:56 (Ref:3827369)

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Originally Posted by jimclark

As a matter of fact, yes. As much of a Porsche fan that I am, give me a Matra or Ferrari V-12, 7 litres of good ol' 'Muricun iron Ford or Chevy V-8s or even a Cossie or screamin 'Bimmer straight six...

My all time favorite is the Aston Martin LMP1. Am a big Porsche fan - like the Mezger flat six engine note better than the current RSR. The new RSR engine sounds too much like the old NA Ferarri engines. Guess I'm a slow adaptor to change.

andrewn7 · 7 Jun 2018, 17:10 (Ref:3827443)

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Originally Posted by Brake dust

like the Mezger flat six engine note better than the current RSR. The new RSR engine sounds too much like the old NA Ferarri engines. Guess I'm a slow adaptor to change.

Sacrilege - how can you say that!? That new RSR sounds GORGEOUS

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