Silverstone WEC - who's going?
Silverstone WEC - who's going?
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JonChalk

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6,469 posts

126 months

Thursday 16th August 2018
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Up there Saturday - weather looks really good - looking forward to a whole day taking pics, with the free WEC pit walk at the end of the day.

24lemons

2,862 posts

201 months

Friday 17th August 2018
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I’ll probably go up on Sunday. It’ll make a nice change not having to dress like an arctic explorer for once!

olliethehut

135 posts

189 months

Friday 17th August 2018
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I'll be there for Saturday and Sunday dragging a 7 year old off the rides and trying to concentrate on the race!
As for the weather, it always rains at Le Mans (and its always wet and windy at Silverstone!)


anonymous-user

70 months

Friday 17th August 2018
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24lemons said:
I’ll probably go up on Sunday. It’ll make a nice change not having to dress like an arctic explorer for once!
You're not wrong there laugh

DeanHelix

135 posts

171 months

Friday 17th August 2018
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A friend and I are there for both Sat & Sunday, via a detour for a Hyundai N experience at Milbrook on the Sat morning.

Any of you guys know a good webchannel with updates of qualifying and suchlike?

rlw

3,476 posts

253 months

Friday 17th August 2018
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Radio Le Mans?

FredericRobinson

4,383 posts

248 months

Friday 17th August 2018
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Daily sportscar, the wec app

Johnrosk

128 posts

141 months

Saturday 18th August 2018
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Yep, there for the weekend. Some good viewing areas have screens or advertising in the way. mad Porsche 911 sounds epic. smile

Edited by Johnrosk on Saturday 18th August 07:42


Edited by Johnrosk on Saturday 18th August 07:43


Edited by Johnrosk on Saturday 18th August 07:44

Allyc85

7,225 posts

202 months

Saturday 18th August 2018
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Around an hour and half to go in the ELMS, which is being streamed on Facebook..

https://www.facebook.com/EuropeanLMS/videos/291967...

SGirl

7,922 posts

277 months

Saturday 18th August 2018
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Went yesterday - makes a change to get sunburn at Silverstone instead of frostbite!

Good day out for a tenner.

sly fox

2,309 posts

235 months

Saturday 18th August 2018
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Yep heading there for tomorrow.

Will check into SRC between Luffield/Woodcote for decent food/tea/ viewing facilities at some point. Always worth the £15/20.

sly fox

2,309 posts

235 months

Sunday 19th August 2018
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Like many others, i left half way through. Watching the Toyota's lap all the other cars took the fun out of it and the rest of the classes were processional.
You couldn't hear the tannoy announcements so had little idea what was going on unless you were near one of the few large screens.




Blink982

819 posts

120 months

Sunday 19th August 2018
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Was there no radio le mans coverage? It's invaluable at the 24hr. I watched the race this afternoon on bt sport on/off as I was busy doing other stuff but I enjoyed what I watched.

Pericoloso

44,044 posts

179 months

Sunday 19th August 2018
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sly fox said:
You couldn't hear the tannoy announcements so had little idea what was going on
You could say that about every race at every circuit ,once a field gets strung out a bit.

Apart from Formula bore ,sorry E.

Zed 44

1,288 posts

172 months

Sunday 19th August 2018
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yes there was. before I went I ordered a radio picked it up at the site and it was excellent coverage kept me informed all the time

chunder27

2,309 posts

224 months

Sunday 19th August 2018
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They were sort of at VIR covering what turned out to be a thrilling Gt kind of sprint race, top 3 covered by chuff all in both classes.

Allyc85

7,225 posts

202 months

Sunday 19th August 2018
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Both Toyotas disqualified for skid block infringements!

ajprice

30,850 posts

212 months

Sunday 19th August 2018
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Allyc85 said:
Both Toyotas disqualified for skid block infringements!
Yep! Rebellion finish 1-2 now. https://www.autosport.com/wec/news/138132/both-toy...

Truckosaurus

12,692 posts

300 months

Monday 20th August 2018
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Blink982 said:
Was there no radio le mans coverage? It's invaluable at the 24hr. I watched the race this afternoon on bt sport on/off as I was busy doing other stuff but I enjoyed what I watched.
The RLM/RS Ltd team were providing the commentary over the tannoy and FM radio. I watched the start from the main Wing pit straight and the public speakers were turned off for a large part of the build up for some reason.

You can clearly hear the tannoy once you are out in the wild but in the stands it is drowned out by passing cars.

2fast748

1,200 posts

211 months

Monday 20th August 2018
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ajprice said:
Allyc85 said:
Both Toyotas disqualified for skid block infringements!
Yep! Rebellion finish 1-2 now. https://www.autosport.com/wec/news/138132/both-toy...
Ha! Teflonso can't even win a 1 horse race!