Looks like a good win out for the last GT1 Corvettes

[franv8]

With Corvette looking like leaving GT1 this year, it's good to see 3 C6R's leading the class convincingly (4th place Aston some 39 laps behind with three hours to go)... but I guess that's why they're leaving the class now they seem to 'own' it!

Good work chaps! Note our man Oliver is in second in class C6.

Hope everyone there is having fun!

[Vet Guru]

Nice to see Corvettes to out on top again!

[Godzilla]

What were the final GT1 and GT2 results?

Hard to find by searching!

[franv8]

Godzilla, you need www.lemans.org - in fact the link for just what you are looking for is here, already in Anglais pour vous

http://www.lemans.org/24heuresdumans/pages/accueil...

Look down to Chronos at the bottom of the page, you can go through other results clicking about.

Also, to get a flavour of excerpts of the race, they do short reports throughout the race - you will be able to find these elsewhere on the site.

Hope this helps

[vetteheadracer]

Godzilla said:

What were the final GT1 and GT2 results?

Hard to find by searching!

1. 64 gearbox blew up just about 2 hours from the end of the race leaving the #63 to take the win, Luc Alphand Aventures #73 came home second in GT1 ahead of the #66 aston which was classified 3rd despite the fact it completed less laps than the #64.....but no finish = no place.....thems the rules.

GT2 saw the #82 Ferrari finish ahead of more Ferraris!

1. 72 the Luc Alphand Aventures Corvette crashed badly on the saturday night about 10 p.m. and was retired, the worst accidents were the Pesca Peugeot that got reduced to "component parts" just before 4 a.m. according to Radio Le Mans and the #009 Aston which crashed at the start of the Porsche Curves completely destroying the righthand side of the car.

I think it was Stuart Hall one of the #009 Aston drivers that got excluded from the race after crashing into the Radical and effectively finishing that cars chances and Harold Primat was in the car when it crashed......because Stuart Hall had been excluded that meant the other two drivers had to do all of the driving......ACO need to look at their own rules as excluding a driver heaps a whole load of pressure and safety issues onto just two drivers especially when the exclusion came so early in the race.

A similar situation happened at Kolles Audi when Narain Karthikeyan wasn't able to drive after dislocating his shoulder meaning the other two drivers did all of the driving and amazingly they finished 7th overall in their R10....I had never heard of either of the drivers Charles Zwolsman and Andre Lotterer before!

Edited by vetteheadracer on Monday 15th June 23:44

[mulsanne64]

The 72 Alphand car was tagged by the 008 Aston driven by Darren Turner - it was a significant frontal impact with the barriers and may have damaged the chassis - steering column was moved back 20cm into the cockpit. LAA did remonstrate to the ACO but to no avail.

[Godzilla]

That's why these GT races scare me! Too high a speed differential to be safe.

Imagine adding some Formula Fords to an F1 race, just to spice it up...

Thanks for the info guys.
Gutting that Corvette Racing didn't make it a 1-2 finish in their last GT1 race.

GT2 is going to be exciting next year...

[vetteheadracer]

mulsanne64 said:

The 72 Alphand car was tagged by the 008 Aston driven by Darren Turner - it was a significant frontal impact with the barriers and may have damaged the chassis - steering column was moved back 20cm into the cockpit. LAA did remonstrate to the ACO but to no avail.

Hello mate you finally decided to join PH then!

20cm that's a hell of a movement Patrice was lucky it didn't take his head off! Whereabouts on the track did it happen?

[C5RagTop]

Luc Alphand crash pics here:
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[mulsanne64]

Hi Nigel - well, not very qualified to talk about Corvette ownership, but a passing knowledge of all things GT1! Photo sequence are only pics I've seen of the incident, but confirm how hard it hit :-(

Guess we all tend to focus on the mechanical side of racing, but brings it home the human side of it when you see Patrice's children giving him a big hug on his (thankfully safe) return to the pits, and his wife in tears....

Challenge to the the detectives out there - anyone know how many teams from the garage next to 64 have actually finished the race in recent years - apart from the RS Spyder last year, it has gained the nickname of the Garage of the Damned at P&M!