[WEC Race] WEC 2017 Round 1: Silverstone

[Spyderman]

Originally Posted by Acid09

Try to switch to French, that worked yesterday.

English one working fine for me.

Thank you kindly. Im currently in the US and that might have something to do with it. I simply cant get my head aroundthis new site. I'll just follow live timing.

[J Jay]

Originally Posted by XtC24

I'm watching via Eurosport Player, everything works perfectly but there is no commentary at all.

Consider yourself lucky. McNish is doing his best (which is actually pretty good), but I'm just about ready to go back to RLM.

[sssssssss]

this is really sh*tty, but it's more than nothing: http://www.watchlivestreamtvonline.c...kzQ8uSRuu.html

[Acid09]

Originally Posted by J Jay

At the current rate of 1s a lap (traffic and slowdowns notwithstanding), the Porsches will be on the cusp of being lapped twice.

In traffic, the Porsche's seem to lose much less as the gap has stabilized pretty much. Kind of surprising, the high df aero should give Toyota an advantage in traffic.

[Akrapovic]

Are RLM doing radio? For those on Eurosport player it might be worth loading RLM along with it.

Or maybe we could just get someone who isn't crap on the main comms. This reminds me of when IMSA tried do their own international commentary for the first year, and after a year of complaints we got RLM.

[Akrapovic]

Surprised they're allowing the Ford to continue with the door open.

[J Jay]

Originally Posted by Akrapovic

Surprised they're allowing the Ford to continue with the door open.

They're pulling him in now. Perfect timing for your comment!

[Akrapovic]

Perfect timing for the TV director to ignore it too. This is like a bad twitch stream.

[Akrapovic]

David Cheng is 90 seconds back on the rest of the P2 field. The whole field has improved, apart from Cheng apparently.

[J Jay]

Most of the LMP2 field is pitting on the same lap.

Edit - Rain reported and visible on cameras.

[Akrapovic]

2 Toyota pit together. Suggests they ran as long as they could. Both Porsche stay out longer.

[bentley speed 8]

The High Downforce package may be increasing the fuel consumption a little

[Akrapovic]

From the helicam it's impossible to tell cars apart. In the entire LMP1 and LMP2 grid, 11 out of 14 cars are red white and black. Only ByKolles, Signatech and G-Drive are not using those colours.

Moody doesn't seem to know what pit lane were using. And he's asking ridiculous questions about tear offs.

[jc_nl]

It's a real shame there is only the Oreca in P2, the battle between the chassis was fun yesterday.

On a positive note, the picture quality and McNish have been very good and acceptable so far (using the app)

[sssssssss]

porsche seem to be able to keep up the pace now with the toyotas, also the best lap gap decreased to just about 1 second in race trim.

[Akrapovic]

Originally Posted by sssssssss

porsche seem to be able to keep up the pace now with the toyotas, also the best lap gap decreased to just about 1 second in race trim.

Are Toyota just holding the gap?

[J Jay]

Looks like the Porsches are as good on used tyres as the Toyotas are.

[bentley speed 8]

Doesn't seem like the Toyotas are walking away from the Porsches

[JoeW04]

Porsche seem to able to hold the gap surprisingly well, maybe just Toyota keeping them at arms length?

[MaskedRacer]

So who has the leg up in GTE right now?

[J Jay]

Buemi is holding Conway up. Hartley is catching them now.

Edit - Conway gets past.

[sssssssss]

so, around 276 km/h top speed for the toyota here, when no slipstream is involved.

[Akrapovic]

Originally Posted by MaskedRacer

So who has the leg up in GTE right now?

Porsche and Ford appear to be fast. Ford ran off at the start due to track position but porsche caught them quickly when they got through the Ferrari. Ford look in slightly better shape.

[JoeW04]

Porsche catching the Toyotas quickly now

[kvenom]

Buemi not happy with team orders.