Motorsports Thread

[biggs682]

A big thanks to @figbat

 

[Beebo]

Ferrari win Le Mans for first time in 58 years.

 

[Reynard]

I stuck to Radio Le Mans, the live timing screen on the WEC webpage and the live text updates from the Autosport website.

Shame "my" team aka United Autosports had a stinker, but congrats to Inter Europol on winning LMP2. Gutted the Iron Dames lost out on a podium in GT Am - they were in the mix for that all race long.

Cadillac done good, Peugeot were a "what might have been", Porsche underperformed, and Glickenhaus surprised the critics.

 

[Beebo]

I read that the budget cuts in F1 is the main reason that Ferrari could launch a successful bid for Le Mans. As they had the unused manpower and facilities looking for something to do.
Hopefully the trickle down from F1 helps the other formulas and series

 

[Reynard]

Some of the "Ferrari moments" followed them across to sportscars - and their inexperience in the category showed. The #50 car came into the pits in the wee hours of Sunday morning with a holed radiator - unsurprising given how much rubbish was on track after the #94 Peugeot binned it, and after the pile-up between the #35 Alpine, #66 GT am Ferrari, #7 Toyota and another car I can't quite remember.

The radiator (for the hybrid system cooling) was in a carbon housing, and they had to remove the housing, and then remove the radiator from inside, put the new rad in, reassemble the whole shebang and fit it back in place.. The replacement radiator didn't fit into the housing, which is why the car lost 40 mins in the pits.

 

[biggs682]

An old boss of mine who competed in motor sport would always check that any spares carried would fit before them being added to the spares package. This often meant we had to de assemble big chunks of his cars just to double check and then re build using the original part .

 

[Reynard]

An old boss of mine who competed in motor sport would always check that any spares carried would fit before them being added to the spares package. This often meant we had to de assemble big chunks of his cars just to double check and then re build using the original part .

Particularly wise for things like rallying and endurance racing where work is done either under the clock at a service halt / service point, or in endurance racing, where the objective is to get the work done as quickly as possible to avoid falling too far behind.

The most entertaining was the 2CV 24 hours that used to be held at Snetterton - took about 15 mins to change an engine.

 

[Illaveago]

An old boss of mine who competed in motor sport would always check that any spares carried would fit before them being added to the spares package. This often meant we had to de assemble big chunks of his cars just to double check and then re build using the original part .

I hope there wasn't a shortage of gaskets !

 

[Beebo]

An old boss of mine who competed in motor sport would always check that any spares carried would fit before them being added to the spares package. This often meant we had to de assemble big chunks of his cars just to double check and then re build using the original part .

The problem, as we saw towards the end of the 24h is that parts which fit the A car may not necessarily fit the B car as they are hand built and all slightly different.
One car needed a new front end and they had to use a spare from the other car, and it wasn’t a good fit.

 

[figbat]

I was at Le Mans in 2018 and was given a back-stage tour of the Chip Ganassi Ford GT garage. They showed us their brake assembly, which allowed them to replace the rotor and calliper as one whole unit.

 

[Jenkins]

I was at Le Mans in 2018 and was given a back-stage tour of the Chip Ganassi Ford GT garage. They showed us their brake assembly, which allowed them to replace the rotor and calliper as one whole unit.

Similar thing is used in Aussie Supercars where there's a compulsory brake change at Bathurst - there's a good video of the change here: https://www.supercars.com/videos/championship/djrtp-and-t8s-different-approaches-to-brake-change/

 

[Jenkins]

Quick reminder for anorak BTCC watching types - the first part will be on ITV1 this Sunday before switching over to the normal ITV4 channel at 2pm.

Meanwhile I will be at Snetterton for the British GTs - both races should be live streamed if you search for the GT World YouTube channel.

 

[Reynard]

Quick reminder for anorak BTCC watching types - the first part will be on ITV1 this Sunday before switching over to the normal ITV4 channel at 2pm.

Meanwhile I will be at Snetterton for the British GTs - both races should be live streamed if you search for the GT World YouTube channel.

I was thinking about posting a reminder, but you beat me to it...

Looks like we'll all be dodging the showers on Sunday.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Quick reminder for anorak BTCC watching types - the first part will be on ITV1 this Sunday before switching over to the normal ITV4 channel at 2pm.

Meanwhile I will be at Snetterton for the British GTs - both races should be live streamed if you search for the GT World YouTube channel.

Thank you I will check my recording device as it normally only looks for ITV4 'I think'

 

[Reynard]

Whoopsssssss...

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertain...ar&cvid=0fc4c4ec41d84e23c2272ebdc7c7c59b&ei=9

Edited to say now we know why Jack Nicholls has been absent from the F1 and FE commentary boxes.