Did anyone else notice we lost Le Mans?
Discussion
sayerbloke said:
Though they did have to give up their other commitments for the year to concentrate on testing and preparing for LeMans entirely in order to do it...
....and get the ACO to throw a "weather safety car" how ridiculous in the final hour as Ron Fellows was hunting down the lead Aston.
VetteG said:
I think its a good thing, not just for the Aston's but now GM have a challenge for next year, just in case they were thinking of scrapping the race budget!
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Disagree it was a very BAD thing. Apparently a number of the team managers went to the ACO saying the weather was too bad for racing and they needed to deploy the safety car. The ACO should have told the team managers to politely feck off. It rains, get used to it, if you want your car to survive then get the driver to travel slower and avoid any other cars that have accidents. I go to watch cars race not lap behind the safety car.G
vetteheadracer said:
sayerbloke said:
Though they did have to give up their other commitments for the year to concentrate on testing and preparing for LeMans entirely in order to do it...
....and get the ACO to throw a "weather safety car" how ridiculous in the final hour as Ron Fellows was hunting down the lead Aston.
I had a look at some peoples' comments on their Le Mans experience this year, it looks like a few people bit miffed off, although more so about the corporate side taking over LM, so a contentious race result is not a great help. Also agree with Nigel, part of racing is running at a risk level you're happy with, so if it's wet, drive slower?
I'm with the Corvettes having the competition though, wonder who will replace Mr Fellows, and will they be able to generate similar performance.
And will someone at Corvette Racing please fix the drive shaft so we can watch two factory cars for more than two hours!
I'm with the Corvettes having the competition though, wonder who will replace Mr Fellows, and will they be able to generate similar performance.
And will someone at Corvette Racing please fix the drive shaft so we can watch two factory cars for more than two hours!
vetteheadracer said:
VetteG said:
I think its a good thing, not just for the Aston's but now GM have a challenge for next year, just in case they were thinking of scrapping the race budget!
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Disagree it was a very BAD thing. Apparently a number of the team managers went to the ACO saying the weather was too bad for racing and they needed to deploy the safety car. The ACO should have told the team managers to politely feck off. It rains, get used to it, if you want your car to survive then get the driver to travel slower and avoid any other cars that have accidents. I go to watch cars race not lap behind the safety car.G
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vetteheadracer said:
VetteG said:
I'm not arguing about the way the race was won just that the declared results are good for the sport.
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Doug Fehan declared at the after race wake that Aston would be back in ALMS before the end of theseason and Saleen were also likely to return to GT1.G
ALMS is a waste of time and money in GT1 atm.
Just got back - had a blinding time but the last hour of the race was an anti climax to say the least. A real shame really but I guess if Corvette were winning they would have asked for the safety car. Rightly or wrongly, that's racing tactics - it's the organiser's fault for deciding the outcome in this way.
Actually it was Audi that was asking for the safety car - and it was a fair call i think
but then the ACO was in a difficult situation as they couldn't finish under a safety car - so they had to bring it in !
None of the inter class battles were close enough to have made a difference (unless someone crashed) - no way Corvette could of made up a lap and a bit with the time remaining
Being realistic, Aston had Corvette beat safety car or not.
Yes it was a total anti climax to watch and yes 'anything' could have happened
under 'normal' racing in the wet and yes the Vette was charging down the Aston,
but Aston had almost a 2 lap lead at one stage which was never going to be bridged.
Long term I think it's healthy, while I don't like to see Corvette beaten, it
will only make the team more determined to get revenge next year.
Yes it was a total anti climax to watch and yes 'anything' could have happened
under 'normal' racing in the wet and yes the Vette was charging down the Aston,
but Aston had almost a 2 lap lead at one stage which was never going to be bridged.
Long term I think it's healthy, while I don't like to see Corvette beaten, it
will only make the team more determined to get revenge next year.
woof said:
Actually it was Audi that was asking for the safety car - and it was a fair call i think
but then the ACO was in a difficult situation as they couldn't finish under a safety car - so they had to bring it in !
None of the inter class battles were close enough to have made a difference (unless someone crashed) - no way Corvette could of made up a lap and a bit with the time remaining
I beg to difer! Ron Fellows was in the vette and it was his last Le Mans, he was on a win or bust pace and was taking 20 seconds a lap out of the Aston before the safety car came out. The Aston was just behind the vette on the SAME lap i.e. 12 laps and the vette would have been challenging the Aston for the lead assuming the Aston didn't fall off beforehand.but then the ACO was in a difficult situation as they couldn't finish under a safety car - so they had to bring it in !
None of the inter class battles were close enough to have made a difference (unless someone crashed) - no way Corvette could of made up a lap and a bit with the time remaining
Hugh Chamberlain amongst others was also calling for the safety car, but then he wouldn't run his car in the warmup in case it broke and what happened at the start of the race? It broke!
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