2015 Le Man 24 Hours Thread

[AAReagles]

The endurance championship and now Le Man continues to upstage F1 this season...

Good. Let F1 & the IRL fold like the cheap, rat-b$stard suits that run them, or ruin them more like.

Hope more fans take notice, and take action as a result. Seek and enjoy a better product, while taking their money away from those other parasite series, saying "It's been nice knowing ya and all, but hey man, good luck... and I do mean good luck."

[steveaki13]

I have to say, the Nissan's reminded me of something from years back, but I actually really liked the design. Interesting concept and quite unlike the top cars.

Hope they persist and improve.

Toyota need to do the same. Reliable but way off the pace.

[steveaki13]

Speaking of reliability. All 8 top cars finishing is insane enough, but without even one of them losing 30 laps or something.

Incredible.

[AAReagles]

Speaking of reliability. All 8 top cars finishing is insane enough, but without even one of them losing 30 laps or something.

Incredible.

Those guys running in the LMP1 class, are they running the same RPMs as F1?

[anfield5]

Great day for New Zealand motor sport. Earl Bamber 1st, Brendan Hartley second. Only second time a kiwi has won and 1966 doesn't really count, although if that finish had gone to plan Amon would have won anyway,

Add to this Hayden Paddon finishing second in Rally Italy (should have won but for a gearbox issue) a truely memorable weekend for us little kiwis

[Mekola]

Greetings to New Zealanders with the 1-2 at today's Le Mans 24 Hrs. Also to Australians, with the 2nd position of Mark Webber.

[anfield5]

Had to smile at the BBC. Headline was along the lines of Nico Hulkenberg wins LeMans from Mark Webber - odd headline as Nico didn't drive on his own.

Then there was a subheading like this 'Nico Hulkenberg became the first active Formula 1 driver to win Le Mans for 24 years as he partnered England's Nick Tandy to victory in a Porsche.'

They then gave an account of how Tandy and Hulkenberg drove the race and didn't ever mention Earl Bamber again

Buried in the story was a mention of the other driver. Well done BBC fair and acurate as always.

[steveaki13]

Typical BBC.

Hulkenberg gets attention as the "star" as they seem to think no one actually watches 24 hours and understands it. Then as you say make it out that he drives on his own.

Oh yes and then make it all about a Brit.

The Kiwi barely did anything noteworthy (Just won Le Mans)

[journeyman racer]

Greetings to New Zealanders with the 1-2 at today's Le Mans 24 Hrs. Also to Australians, with the 2nd position of Mark Webber.

I don't care for Mark.

Great day for New Zealand motor sport. Earl Bamber 1st, Brendan Hartley second. Only second time a kiwi has won

I forgot about that. And there I was, all day thinking that Earl was the first NZer to win LM

and 1966 doesn't really count, although if that finish had gone to plan Amon would have won anyway,

Why doesn't it count?

[tbtstt]

So gutted I wasn't able to get there this year. Great race though, not quite as close to the flag as I was hoping, but still brilliant to watch.