2014 Le Man 24 Hours Thread

[steveaki13]

The Toyota's have some incredible pace. 3:23's already and most other cars in 3:24's/25s

[steveaki13]

I like the new Yellow Slow Zone. Great way to clear gravel or debris on a small scale without SC are endangering Marshalls

[MrJan]

Are you able to watch much of it MrJan. You said you may miss a fair bit?

I have no streams and it appears no one else is around.

I will probably be watching up to about 1am and then will have to go to bed. Will try and catch a couple hours in the morning but from 10am onwards I'll be relying on a decent 3g connection on my phone and Radio le Mans on TuneIn.

Official Le Mans site has a much better stream than in previous years.

First safety zone used, great idea to deal with the minor problems that normally just get left (such as gravel all over the track at the chicanes).

Gutted to see the Zeod fall by the wayside, was looking forward to that.

[steveaki13]

Gutted to see the Zeod fall by the wayside, was looking forward to that.

Me too

It seems terminal. Sad

[MrJan]

Me too

It seems terminal. Sad

Yep, gearbox stuff apparently. There's a certain irony that it's the old fashioned mechanical part of the car to fail, not the fancy dancy electrical stuff.

First hour flew by, only another 23 to go! Seems like Toyota have the pace but will be interesting to see how fuel stops and reliability shake out. Seem to remember Toyota suffering a bit from the later over the last two years. Plus the 7 car has just been reported for unsafe release so a possible penalty to come which negates a lot of what they gained while the 2 & 3 cars were getting themselves by the Porsches.

[MrJan]

Rain! Cat, pigeons, chaos.

[steveaki13]

Wow. Toyota and Audi off in the aquaplaning.

SC out and chaos

[MrJan]

Audi #3 looking in a pretty bad way. Got mixed up with the #8 Toyota and a Ferrari on Mulsanne. Poor barriers look like they will again cost us a good 30 minutes plus of race time.

[steveaki13]

Where is everyone else on this forum. We at least had about 5 or 6 on here last season. Seems like only us 2 now, sad state of affairs.

[MrJan]

Never seems that popular and it's nice weather out. If I wasn't supposed to be working then I'd be outdoors too. Suspect we'll get a few more later in the day when it reaches a better time of day in the US and Aus.

Amazing reply onboard that Porsche of the Toyota skittling out all the others. Looks like someone up ahead had slowed and all the others were slowing down but Lapierre didn't spot it until too late.