2024 Le Mans race thread

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airbusA346 said:

#60 Lambo stopped at MP17.

Binned it.

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Safety car.

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Clockwork Cupcake said:

Jonny_ said:

Cock. That'll be it for the #15 BMW.

Depends if they can limp it back to the pits or not.

Remember a couple of years ago when a car limped back to the pits, had an entire front end replaced, and back out on track again, before the SC had even been deployed?

Not now, he's moved too far away from the car.

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Clockwork Cupcake said:

Is this really the first SC of the race? I was sure it had been out already but maybe I'm getting muddled up with the formation lap.

Yes, we've had yellow, full course yellow and slow zones but this is the first safety car.

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Monsterlime said:

The onboard feed for the #20 BMW has been turned off.

It's not over until the garage door is pulled down.

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snotrag said:

ecsrobin said:

3 groups should be kept separate if I’ve understood the rules correctly.

Seperate while the barrier is fixed.

Once the trucks are moved, they bring the whole field together 'as they are on the track' as it were, and then a full field, rolling, mass start.


It will be carnage (at arnage!).

There's some form of pass-through manoeuvre, but I'm not sure I fully understand it.

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1. 9 and #15 have officially retired.

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Car #30 on fire.

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Ikemi said:

Good race so far! Not sure if I'll stay up all night though. How many people here are watching throughout the night, to watch the full 24 hours?

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Mustang #77 and Oreca #24 have a coming together.

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Possible rain in ten minutes.

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LMP2 #24 in the gravel again.

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And #45 loses a wheel.

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Safety car.

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Car #45 officially retired.

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Have Toyota pulled a blinder by pitting early under the safety car?

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Halfway.

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Red9zero said:

Clockwork Cupcake said:

Just awoken after a few hours sleep to find that the drivers have been sat behind the SC for over an hour.

Back to sleep for me I think

Same, only I'm at Le Mans Where did summer go ?!

Hasn't started yet.

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Jonny_ said:

Presumably the last ~3 hours have passed without a moment of racing?

At least it permitted a nap without missing anything...

Yes, they could have run three hours of advertising and given us no ads for the rest of the race.

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Just over four hours now.