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    WEC Round 1 -Silverstone

    So the first of eight rounds coming up.

    Who is going to be watching and what do we think will happen.

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    2 threads about this? Anyway, my interest will be what effect 12 years of F1 (and a couple in F3000) has on the king of journey man racers. He was a dead weight in Mercedes's GT/Le Mans program in 98/99. Surely, he should assert himself as a top 2 driver in the class?

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    Oh yer I forgot I opened the other one.

    Whoops. If a mod wants to merge the two that's fine.
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    Just a snippet of info from Silverstone

    http://www.speedcafe.com/2014/04/19/...porsche-debut/

    Does anyone know if it is being streamed anywhere?

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    I would not call Aussie Grit a journeyman, he won 9 F1 GPs, a journeyman does not win any GPs in their F1 careers.

    I would not like to be sharing the car with him given his paucity of luck at times.

    Some comments I have read were not very encouraging about wec video livestreaming, so the default could be audio from radio lemans.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zeakiwi View Post
    I would not call Aussie Grit a journeyman, he won 9 F1 GPs, a journeyman does not win any GPs in their F1 careers.
    That is a fair point that has to be acknowledged. At the same time, without turning this into a argument about Webber, I am someone who thinks his ability is immensely overrated. His GP wins are a reflection of the overall lower standard, dumbed down F1.

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    An amazing start. The opening laps were like a 10 lap sprint rather than an endurance race.

    Also the pace of the front 6 is amazing. Lapped all the GT cars after 14 minutes.
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    Any news on how Mark performed on the track? The WEC site has been terrible to get any detailed info.

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    I have only just finishing watching yesterdays race.

    What a crazy and incident filled opening round that was. Audis Crashing several times, a Toyota 1-2 and Porsche claiming 3rd.

    Rebellion and Lola (in the last race maybe for a Lola car) claiming a nice 4th.

    LMP 2 was close too.
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