So who else is watching the 24 hours of Le Mans on speed?

I dunno if I'll stay up til the end, but maybe I'll dvr it. Lots of good racing and car shots...

Andrew

It's on my telly at 11:50pm (EST), but I've no intention to stay-up for the duration.

Fortunately, my internal clock will make me get out of bed a few hours before the finish.

There's no way I'll end up watching the whole thing, but I'll watch as much of it as I can.

Well, I was watching it til you called me away.

Had Radio LeMans on the headphones out in the yard all day. Now I'm trying to stay up and watch. It'll be hard getting up for the finish here on the left coast.

But I'll try...

Joe

Is it weird that when I saw this I first though of the 24 hours of LeMons?

I've been checking in on Speed, and listening on RLM. I'll probably crash on the couch with the TV on when my roommates go to bed, and set an alarm so I wake up in time for the finish.

I wanna be there so bad.

Still watching...

Its a good weekend for autosports. 24 hours of LeMans and then the Canadian F1. Good stuff.

Just watched the finish.

The Peugeot taking out the GT2 leading Corvette sucked. Sure they were trying to make up time after all their problems, but still... Valiant effort by the Corvette guys.

I see Leh Keen cleaned up his act.

New mileage record.

I watched the start live, DVR'd the rest, tried to watch some overnight coverage, but got WAY too bored. fell asleep with an alarm set for 3 hours before the finish.

overall, it was a pretty boring race...unfortunately.

all Pugs out, both corvettes out, both Ferraris out, Mansells out, BMW art car out, plus, the art car shoves the number 7 Audi into the gravel...

I plopped my wife Janel on the couch in front of the TV at around hour 12 and said "check this out!". Now she wants to go to Le Mans next year

Fell asleep in front of it last night, I guess now I have to go find out what happened. Cars failing to finish is part of what makes endurance racing interesting, really.

dont forget the continental sports car challenge at 2pm est on speed

I watched all of it. . . Mrs. Zero gave me the evil eye since I'm supposed to be packing

amazing what good luck can do in motor racing.

Audi Diesels 1st 3 positions, go figure. 28 laps ahead of closest gas car.

do you think diesel got a future in racing???

Keith wrote: I plopped my wife Janel on the couch in front of the TV at around hour 12 and said "check this out!". Now she wants to go to Le Mans next year

Does she have a single sister?....one who would like to live in sunny Florida?

I listened to some of it, including the finish, on radiolemans.com in iraq. Wish i couldve watched some of it.

Spent Saturday with a friend in his garage, and we had the race playing (plus F1 qualifying and the end of the NASCAR Truck race). Nice to hear a few familiar names in the field.

Stayed up late enough to see the #2 Pug "blow up real good". Kinda knew that the rest of them would follow. Went to bed after official (ACO) T&S showed two Audis in the lead.

No Speed Channel nonsense for me, I found a link to Eurosport's coverage on the internetz. Also loaded & played RLM, since the E-sport vid link I found was in some sort of Eastern European language.

Got up early enough to watch the last hour, just because I suspected the rest of the Peugeots would expire, and Audi would actually do the deed. I was pretty worthless at work Sunday, since I'd only had about 4hrs sleep.

I've been suggesting elsewhere online that Peugeot actually name their 2011 (new rules) chassis the "DNF", and be done with it.

The poor French loose once again to the Germans.

When I went to bed on Saturday, I would have sworn that the Pug's would have won- they were not only faster in pace, but faster when pace mattered, and were able to go an extra lap between fuelling.

And none of that mattered.

I also though that the Vette's were a shoe in for GT2.

Next year should be very interesting- sinec the current P1 cars are going away, and the current P2 cars will be P1, whereas P2 will be more production based engines. Which would be super cool to see an EcoBoost in one of them (It's been asked- I have no info, and just want to see it happen).

IMHO, I also think that the GT classes favor "supercars" more than they should. I think GT1 should be BARELY what GT2 is now, and GT2 should be for smaller engined cars- like back in the day when Austins and Loti were competetive. While I like P cars, and Vettes, I have to be realistic that exactly zero of any of the GT cars are on my radar for eventual ownership. As opposed to the Alfas and Loti and Austins and Panhards and etc etc etc.

And with P1 slowing down some, it's possible.

but thats just me.

alfadriver wrote: and GT2 should be for smaller engined cars- like back in the day when Austins and Loti were competetive.

I'd be all for it, except that I think that it would start to border on the unsafe due to the huge difference in speeds between the P1's and GT2's.

klipless wrote:

alfadriver wrote: and GT2 should be for smaller engined cars- like back in the day when Austins and Loti were competetive.

I'd be all for it, except that I think that it would start to border on the unsafe due to the huge difference in speeds between the P1's and GT2's.

I kind of figured that they would be a lot closer than they were in the 50's. The new P1's will be down to P2 speed, since that's where they are going next year.

And one can allow my small GT2 cars to be pretty open- just keep the restrictor big enough.

But you are right- it's all relative, and they'd have to make sure the closing speeds were not too obnoxious. There are smaller choices, though, than the P, F, B, and V cars. Part of what made an Austin Healy so cool was that they raced Ferrari's at LeMans.

alfadriver wrote: The poor French loose once again to the Germans. When I went to bed on Saturday, I would have sworn that the Pug's would have won- they were not only faster in pace, but faster when pace mattered, and were able to go an extra lap between fuelling. And none of that mattered.

One thing I noticed (well, after the guys at Radio Le Mans brought it to my attention ) is that Peugeot actually had their guys slow down when they were not under threat. I also had the T&S called up, and they'd run 3:24s to 3:26s (without traffic) and when it looked like an Audi was about to get a lap back, Sebastien or Nic would cut four or five straight 3:22s (again, without traffic) and hold Audi off for the rest of the stint. IIRC, one of the 908s (can't remember who was driving at the time) actually cut a 3:19 at one point! I'm an Audi fan (VW guy), but I'll admit...the Pugs were FAST. When they started breaking, I joked that perhaps the Pug mechanics should check the Warp Drive first..

And I didn't pay enough attention to the blurb about Audi breaking the mileage record. I thought it was just the record for the current course...didn't realize they'd actually broken the real record from 1971 (Marko/van Lennep, Porsche 917-no chicanes on the Mulsanne, and the original high speed section through Maison Blanche). Now that's an achievement.

screw the french and their pukegeot....thanks a lot for knocking the lead Corvette right into the guard rail.