The 80th Le Mans 24 Hours 2012

[ioan]

stupid nakajima

given a fast car and plenty of laps behind the SC to get warmed up and still manages to drive recklessly, causing body damage, bumping into the delta wing and pretty much undoing all the work wurz and lapier did to get this car into the #1 spot. Davidson is fine. Shocked and suffering some mild back pain and other dings, but overall he's ok.

The car was handed over to Nakajima in 2nd place not in 1st.
Can't fault Nakajima for a nudge when they were all over each other after the restart trying to get around the lapped cars, like the Delta Wing for example.
More like why the F did it take the Toyota mechanics 2 minutes to figure out how to remove the rear of the car?!
The good part is that the car is fast in racing trim, but then again their stints are also 1 lap shorter then those of Audi.
There's work left to do for next year.

[AndyRAC]

Well that's it - back to the Audi demonstration run. Not sure that's what the race needed...Again!!
However, there's plenty of promise for Toyota, still only halfway through the WEC season, so hopefully they'll improve.

The other classes are looking good though, so may yet stay up to watch it.

[BleAivano]

C'mon ioan it was more then a nudge.

Naka had cars infront of him and the DW to the right. The DW could not go any further out or it would have gone off.

Naka just throws his car into the corner and then changes his race line to the right where the DW already was.

Naka should have backed off until after the bend. Its a 24 hour race and this was just stupid and reckless.

[truefan72]

Well, that was it. Toyota No 8 crashed, and no 7 has lost about 5 laps already and still in the pits.
This has got Audi 1 2 3 written all over it. Also Live timing is dead so I can go to sleep now.

yup game over

until 2013 then
still don't understand why Peugeot pulled out,
I'm about to shut down the speed tv live stream myself
no point in watching an audi procession for the next 16 hours

[ioan]

C'mon ioan it was more then a nudge.

Naka had cars infront of him and the DW to the right. The DW could not go any further out or it would have gone off.

Naka just throws his car into the corner and then changes his race line to the right where the DW already was.

Naka should have backed off until after the bend. Its a 24 hour race and this was just stupid and reckless.

Sure Nakajima should have done this and that and third and left right and middle.
Nakajima avoided running into the cars ahead of him what about the Delta wing?
It was a racing accident where both might have been able to do better.
Anyway the Toyota doesn't look ready yet.

[ioan]

still don't understand why Peugeot pulled out,

All of a sudden management thought that 10 million Euro for a season of racing is too expensive.
In the end it was just an image exercise.

[ioan]

Toyota no 7 is out again.
It took them 90 minutes to change an alternator!
Oh wait it didn't even get as far as the pit exit this time.

[ioan]

No 7 going back to the garage again! This is getting painful now.

[steveaki13]

Well, that was it. Toyota No 8 crashed, and no 7 has lost about 5 laps already and still in the pits.
This has got Audi 1 2 3 written all over it. Also Live timing is dead so I can go to sleep now.

Someone should bring in a drag reduction system so people can pass these Audi's

[steveaki13]

I have had to be away for about 3 hours. Is there anywhere or anyhow I can get a read through of what has gone on in the last few hours???