A Ferrari wins Le Mans (hypercar, prototype). First time in quite a while.
https://www.ferrari.com/en-EN/hypercar
Ferrari Wins Lemans!
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Cadillac Racing finishes 3rd and 4th in Hypercar.
Corvette Racing's C8 wins the GTE class. Yes, first in class.
Hendrick Motorsports Camaro as Garage 56's entry won its class (only car running) and finished 39th overall. Not too shabby.
Jimmie Johnson, Mike Rockenfeller and Jenson Button driving.
Corvette Racing's C8 wins the GTE class. Yes, first in class.
Hendrick Motorsports Camaro as Garage 56's entry won its class (only car running) and finished 39th overall. Not too shabby.
Jimmie Johnson, Mike Rockenfeller and Jenson Button driving.
Binkman
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I watched on and off and when the rain really set in so did the wrecks and gravel trap carnage. Heaven knows just how many sector safety calls there were in addition to the 3+ hours of full course safety car.
To note; Toyota was only like 1:45 sec. behind Ferrari, Cadillac 1 lap down.
To note; Toyota was only like 1:45 sec. behind Ferrari, Cadillac 1 lap down.
Great job
That Camaro was flying all day
That Camaro was flying all day
Yep. I saw it running early Sunday morning with a bunch of LMP2 cars. The Camaro was right behind them and when they approached a chicane, of course the LMP2 cars scooted ahead. But, after that on the straight the Camaro cruised right up behind them again. Quite impressive.
Great sound from that Camaro.
Murray
That thing had a bunch of torque off the corners
It was pulling away from a lot of faster cars
Of course they chased it down eventually
The C8’s were on a missionCadillac Racing finishes 3rd and 4th in Hypercar.
Corvette Racing's C8 wins the GTE class. Yes, first in class.
Hendrick Motorsports Camaro as Garage 56's entry won its class (only car running) and finished 39th overall. Not too shabby.
Jimmie Johnson, Mike Rockenfeller and Jenson Button driving.
ra7c7er
Hoarding records since 1990
If the Toyota wouldn't have hit a squirrel the Ferrari didn't have a chance. But that's endurance racing. Congrats to Ferrari.
I wasn't impressed with the Nascar personally. Everyone it touting it as being "surprisingly better" than the GT AM cars but it was built to be better than those cars. That was all just marketing BS for the American audience. The fact that it didn't "win" the AM class tells you everything. 150+ more horsepower better all around purpose built from the ground up and you couldn't even beat production homologation cars. I did think it was funny that the European broadcasts and Radio Le Mans (outside of a mandatory driver interview) nearly completely ignored the G56. Nobody cared. Just another HA HA dumb Americans moment for modern Le Mans. Ugh I still remember the farce that was the whole Darrel Waltrip stuff from a few years back.
If WEC wants to make endurance racing more popular in the US they just need to make it more accessible don't lock it behind a paywall (at least until you build the audience). Back when the first 4 hours and last 4 hours were on speed channel Le Mans got great viewership. Since speed channel went down nobody else has ever picked it up well enough and now having it locked behind a paywall nobody new is going to stumble upon it only those who already know.
I wasn't impressed with the Nascar personally. Everyone it touting it as being "surprisingly better" than the GT AM cars but it was built to be better than those cars. That was all just marketing BS for the American audience. The fact that it didn't "win" the AM class tells you everything. 150+ more horsepower better all around purpose built from the ground up and you couldn't even beat production homologation cars. I did think it was funny that the European broadcasts and Radio Le Mans (outside of a mandatory driver interview) nearly completely ignored the G56. Nobody cared. Just another HA HA dumb Americans moment for modern Le Mans. Ugh I still remember the farce that was the whole Darrel Waltrip stuff from a few years back.
If WEC wants to make endurance racing more popular in the US they just need to make it more accessible don't lock it behind a paywall (at least until you build the audience). Back when the first 4 hours and last 4 hours were on speed channel Le Mans got great viewership. Since speed channel went down nobody else has ever picked it up well enough and now having it locked behind a paywall nobody new is going to stumble upon it only those who already know.
Agreed. The Nascar thing was a novelty. I think they covered it (on Radio Le Mans) as it should have been. A mention here and there, but it's not really racing anything but the clock, so I didn't pay any attention to it.
I used to have a subscription to Motortrend TV or whatever they were calling it. Got to watch the original shows, which I liked, and the mountain of your run o' the mill garage shows were bought/added too, which I didn't care about.
When I tried to access Motortrend TV to watch the race, they requested info on my TV subscription, which I don't have. Tried to figure out how to subscribe, but there isn't a way to do it I could see. That seems like it restricts your audience, but they're running with it so I figured out an alternative.
Every year it seems like I go through the same thing. I have to scramble to figure out how to watch. When it was on Motortrend (subscription service) it was fine, but that was only a few years. Prior to that it was buying access to watch from FIA/WEC, although I can't recall if someone else owned the rights to the race in the US. I was always using VPNs and proxies. Don't remember details.
MotorTrend TV is easy to subscribe to if you have a Roku or Amazon Firestick.
ACo handicapped the hypercar category, the Toyota was carrying an extra 81.5 lbs to slow it down some (it was the quicker car going into this event, vs. the Ferrari's). All of them got some weight added except the Peugeot (they were anchoring the bell curve) but in varying amounts with Toyota GR having the most added, then Ferrari, Cadillac, Porsche etc.
The article I read said the added weight knocked 15 seconds a lap off the Toyota's performance.
So, to some extent it was pushed to end the way it did. Whether the added weight also contributed to any of the shunts, who knows... but this was not entirely an unassisted triumphant Ferrari return.
John
The article I read said the added weight knocked 15 seconds a lap off the Toyota's performance.
So, to some extent it was pushed to end the way it did. Whether the added weight also contributed to any of the shunts, who knows... but this was not entirely an unassisted triumphant Ferrari return.
John
I have neither. Ended up firing up a web proxy in Ireland that worked well. I do appreciate the suggestion.
