[LM24 Race] Mercedes vs Toyota take your pick...

[miguel1810]

Yep, you heard me right...

MERCEDES vs TOYOTA!!!

I am of course going back in time 10 years ago... I have, like many of you on here been following Le Mans for many years... (My first was in 1995 (JJ Lehto and his awesome display in the Ueno Clinic McLaren F1 - yes it was wet.. but crikey what a display... I will never forget Ian Titchmarsh doing the commentary on Radio Le Mans... and how he was staggered to be reading the timings from Lehto's laps and they were getting QUICKER!!! in the wet... - as we know rain is a great leveller and if it rains then this will make things interesting... but I hope it doesn't rain...

Anyway... back to my first proper post... 10 years ago the main focus was the Mercedes vs Toyota battle for overall honours. Yes, you had Audi going there as well with the untried R8R and RLR (top chap - sadly missed) prepared R8C's and there were the BMW LM's. The smart money was on either a Mercedes or Toyota winning. Of courses Mercedes withdrew their 3 cars after the 'flipping' incident on the Mulsanne. So that was three out of the way... so then people expected a Toyota cake walk to the title... The BMW's didn't really expect to do well... let alone WIN!

My point is that everyone is talking about the diesel Audis and Peugeots slugging it out for the race win... the Astons and the Oreca are expected to do well but not challenge for the overall win...

I expect the Diesels to run away for the first 2 to 3 hours... it would be great if a petrol LMP1 was mixing it with the 'Hare' diesels and I'd reckon both Audi and Peugeot will have a 'hare' in the 3 car team...

But over 12 hours... The Aston (out of the Aston & the Oreca AIM) could be in the top 5 and in with a shout... An awful lot can happen in 24 hours.

And I'm not discounting an AMR win...

And if your off to the 24 Heures this year, I reckon your in for a cracker of a race... See you there

Miguel1810