2018 24 Hours of Le Mans / 24 Heures du Mans (Live Stream)

[Red_Falcon]

Its not Audi Level bad at LMP1 yet, but its still a farce.

The EoT better get dropped immediately after the race...

 

[Mitja Bonca]

This GTE fight between the Porsche and Ford is simply fantastic, although tbh the Porsche needs to calm it down in the defending I reckon.

Still, 21 1/2 hours gone, and we are still getting wheel to wheel action! Epic

Can be, but not according to Bourdais's words, "BOP is a joke", he said, read between the lines. And I believe so.
This is the main problem in other series as well, GT3 for example.

 

[snyperal]

The stupid apps audio has stopped working.

 

[Red_Falcon]

People are always going to complain about BoP no matter what.

But i take it any day of the week and twice on Sunday over what we are seeing in the LMP1 this year.

2 hours left for Toyota...after this they can throw a BBQ in their Garage and still win

 

[Richard Dastardly]

Can be, but not according to Bourdais's words, "BOP is a joke", he said, read between the lines. And I believe so.
This is the main problem in other series as well, GT3 for example.

GT3 is a race between teams, who may use the same car - doesn't matter so much in that case ( if there was no BoP then everyone would just buy the fastest car anyway ). Doesn't matter quite so much in GTE-Am for the same reason.

I haven't heared a driver interview yet who hasn't been scathing about this race - I think even Mike Conway wasn't happy, but admittedly that was the only Toyota interview I caught.

 

[ltcars]

@RufGTI @Richard Dastardly Of course a race is won by the first to cross the line.
I did watch the 2017 le mans, though you can still be excited to see a close race in times of F1

 

[RMR1]

The stupid apps audio has stopped working.

The app works fine here.

 

[snyperal]

The app works fine here.

I think it might be my phone. Disappointed! I had it ib my pc for hours yesterday.

 

[Kenny Paton]

I've kinda given up, I remembered it's the 30th anniversary of Jaguar's win and watched highlights of that race.

 

[Red_Falcon]

Also, pretty shocking how LMP2 panned out this year. The #26 leads by 3 laps.wtf?!

 

[T04STY]

This GTE fight between the Porsche and Ford is simply fantastic, although tbh the Porsche needs to calm it down in the defending I reckon.

Still, 21 1/2 hours gone, and we are still getting wheel to wheel action! Epic

Yea, I'm a huge Porsche fan and I'm really happy for them finally being up to pace in WEC but that weaving around...totally hate when people do that on the straight!

 

[snyperal]

It was shifty, but I think they both were a little naughty.

 

[RMR1]

At least a warning could have come from race control...

 

[Koen Verlinde]

Last year Lotterer's Porsche was leading with 14 (or there about) laps, everything was fine with that.

Right now Toyota leads with 11 laps, and the world is somehow about to end cause of boredom.

Double standards galore.

 

[ltcars]

I wonder why Toyota should be punished for spending more money on an engine concept that is clearly faster. I don't want the other teams to be forced to spend ~150 million € on a hybrid, but if Toyota invests, why shouldn't they win

 

[Red_Falcon]

Last year Lotterer's Porsche was leading with 14 (or there about) laps, everything was fine with that.

Right now Toyota leads with 11 laps, and the world is somehow about to end cause of boredom.

Double standards galore.

Porsche had a 14 lap advantage last year?! was i in Coma or something?

Bet it had nothing to do with crazy people in the Pitlane, # 8 technical issues and the #9 being Lapierred by Lapierre

 

[Jozsusz]

This has to be a penalty for the #8. It will be its third one... They couldn't afford these mistakes in a competitive field...

 

[Richard Dastardly]

I wonder why Toyota should be punished for spending more money on an engine concept that is clearly faster. I don't want the other teams to be forced to spend ~150 million € on a hybrid, but if Toyota invests, why shouldn't they win

Wonder how much they spent at the ACO making sure they had such an advantage over the non hybrids? how about that it's in the rules that if a non-hybrid goes faster than the Toyotas they get a stop-go penalty?

Last year there were more than one LMP-H team - a win was on merit. This year...

 

[jpalesi]

GTE Pro: Porsche 'cause 70th anniversary so they are supposed to win .

Bingo. Between the BOP joke and the way Porsche drivers are allowed to drive, it's plain obvious who's supposed to win.

 

[Koen Verlinde]

Porsche had a 14 lap advantage last year?! was i in Coma or something?

Bet it had nothing to do with crazy people in the Pitlane, # 8 technical issues and the #9 being Lapierred by Lapierre

Just before the car mysteriously dropped dead they were leading by an insane margin yes.