2007 Le Mans Race official thread !!!

congrats to Pescarolo and Rollcentre, that car is just amazing who reliable it is.

such a shame for the #2 Audi, they had the race in the bag and just had bad luck. at least though Audi did win.

ashamed of the P2 class, when I went to bed there were only about 3 of them out and I wake up and only 2 are left running.

tough break for Risi as they had GT2 wrapped up before troubles for them. hate to see Porsche win the class again.

congrats finally to Aston on GT1 victory, but our boys will get them back nex year :D

Yeah- shame about 2 audi DNFs and one peugeot DNF. But it's really a last-man-standing race i guess.

Loads to tell my freinds at school with le mans tommorow

To bad Jacques Villeneuve's 908 had engine problem two hours before end of race whereas he(with Minassian and Gen&#233 ;) was 2nd overall :down: ;(

Congratulations to the winners Frank Biela, Emanuele Pirro and Marco Werner :up:
Congratulations to Sébastien Bourdais, Stéphane Sarrazin and Pedro Lamy to bring the 908 on podium for its first 24 hours race :bounce:
Congratulations to the Pescarolo team, again best of the gasoline powered protos ;)

Fantastic to see three Aston-Martins and a Corvette in the overall top 10 too !!!

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Yeah- shame about 2 audi DNFs and one peugeot DNF. But it's really a last-man-standing race i guess.

Loads to tell my freinds at school with le mans tommorow

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Just hope they don't ask you if you saw Lewis, after all, all you get now is Lewis this Lewis that. You'd almost not know that Le Mans was this weekend, the lack of coverage was scandalous.

Yes- i know. What happened to channels like ITV putting the race on t.v? Ah, they were the good old days, but te next best thing is to buy the DVD of the race- coming out july 1st- i'm getting it.

What a week !! le mans this year was by far the best !! only manged to watch the race from 3am to 730am as we were so busy. Each night we were shutting the shop at about 2 am ! crazy as !!

Good to see the 997's win at Le Mans:


A quick look at the positions hour by hour will show that the Porsches lead the first 4 hours of racing, the first hour being lead by the IMSA Performance Porsche and the next 3 were lead by the Autorlando Porsche.

It was in the fifth hour that the Risi Ferrari sped up (together with the now 5th place Flying Lizard Porsche) to take the lead. It would keep that lead until the 15th hour. (Still 9 hours to go!)

Interesting to note, is that although the Ferrari’s were not the quickest cars (best lap times belonging to the Flying Lizard and IMSA Porsches) both the Risi and the Scuderia Ecosse Ferrari completed the most amount of laps in one hour (18).
Also interesting is that this was done in the 13th hour (the Porsches completed 17 laps in the same hour) and both Ferrari’s only lasted 4 hours after that.

The Porsches also posted higher top speeds on the Mulsanne straight than the Ferraris.
In conclusion, the Ferraris lead for 13 of the 24 hours (Risi 11, Scuderia Ecosse 2) and the Porsches lead for 11 hours (IMSA 8 and Autorlando 3)
Yes the Ferrari lead for a longer period, but domination? Hardly!

Nice pics !!!! :bounce: :bounce:

http://www.racingforever.com/phpwebg.../category/2109

Strange that no one on this forum mention that Lamy's Peugeot should have been disqualified as he stopped the car just before the finish line one lap before the 24th hour. It was forbidden unless the driver had no other choice. In this case, he could have gone for another lap but he wasn't sure he could make it and they knew they had to cross the finish line to be classified. Peugeot broke the rules. They have not been disqualified. No one heard of that?

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Strange that no one on this forum mention that Lamy's Peugeot should have been disqualified as he stopped the car just before the finish line one lap before the 24th hour. It was forbidden unless the driver had no other choice. In this case, he could have gone for another lap but he wasn't sure he could make it and they knew they had to cross the finish line to be classified. Peugeot broke the rules. They have not been disqualified. No one heard of that?

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Actually, no. I mean yes I heard about that but Peugeot deserve the 2nd place IMHO.

This (stupid BTW) rule states that it's forbidden to wait "on the track". The Peugeot 908 (Bourdais BTW) stopped close by the track itself (on the grass).

Besides, the sanction if the rule is broken is not specified and certainly not a disqualification. It could be a fine or something. The stewards decide.

So Peugeot deserve the second place.