The Official Le Mans 24 Hours 2011 ***Spoilers***

[Dancin]

Never started one of these before!

Really looking forward to it, especially as I'm laid up with a stress fracture in my left foot.

The 24 minutes of Le Mans on Eurosport are good, espicially "Go Johnny Go" LOL

Edited by Dancin on Tuesday 7th June 18:54

[StuartMcKay]

Agreed! Can't wait and the fact that it's in HD this year too is wicked! Although the Misses isn't happy about the fact that the weekend/tv has been taken over by F1, Moto GP and Le Mans!

[Mini1275]

StuartMcKay said:

Agreed! Can't wait and the fact that it's in HD this year too is wicked! Although the Misses isn't happy about the fact that the weekend/tv has been taken over by F1, Moto GP and Le Mans!

It's a brilliant weekend for a Motorsport fan .

So who's everybody putting their money on for the overall win?.

[Dancin]

Loving the Flying Lizard Porsche design (paint).

http://www.lizardms.com/news/index.htm

[FourWheelDrift]

Dancin said:

The 24 minutes of Le Mans on Eurosport are good, espicially "Go Johnny Go" LOL

The host, anchorman is useless though. Very amateurish, I seemed to recall it was also bad last year.

[Dancin]

FourWheelDrift said:

Dancin said:

The 24 minutes of Le Mans on Eurosport are good, espicially "Go Johnny Go" LOL

The host, anchorman is useless though. Very amateurish, I seemed to recall it was also bad last year.

Who is he? He makes me laugh with his stupid questions to the vastly experienced drivers! ;>)

[FourWheelDrift]

Robbie Nock.

From what I can make out he's Eurosport's basketball commentator.

[weyland yutani]

I remember this guy from last years magazine show because he was so poor. He seems very awkward and nervous in front of the camera.

Good programme otherwise, Herbert is ace and it was good to hear from Fisichella.

[LLTallJay]

Tried in vain, to explain what it's like, to my girlfriend the other day.....needless to say, she just doesn't get it! Still, she gets rid of me for 24 hours, she can go shopping and watch her desperate housewives dvd's....everyone's a winner!

Will be rooting for the AMR team but I think reliability will scupper them this year. Second to that, the Strakka boys get my backing and Oli Gavin in the Chevvy.

It's just a totally unique experience for petrolheads, you either get it, or you don't, it's one hell of a buzz!

[groomi]

Is there any other coverage other than Eurosport (which I don't have)?

[FourWheelDrift]

Other than http://www.radiolemans.com/ I don't think so.

[anonymous-user]

Eurosport Player will show every second of track time from Le mans and i believe there will be a no commentary option as well.
Both Audi and Peugeot will show the race live and free at http://tv.audi.com/#/01 and http://www.peugeot-sport.com/fr/accueil.html

Of course there will be the usual Justin.tv streams too!

This site is really cool http://www.thomasbaekdal.com/mini-sites/lemans2011...

Radio Le Mans link http://rlm08.0157.org/main.php

[ArnageWRC]

The World's Greatest Motor Race!!
Should be a fantastic race, hope it's better than last year though. Would be nice to think AMR could challenge - there isn't a cat in hell's chance.
I suppose there is a chance that the Oreca Peugeot could be the stalking horse - and a few on RadioLeMans actually fancy this car to possibly win.

One thing which is noticeable nowadays regarding Le Mans - it's yet another Motorsport that seems to have fallen off the mainstream radar......and there's a bloody F1 race on the same weekend.

[groomi]

tux said:

Eurosport Player will show every second of track time from Le mans and i believe there will be a no commentary option as well.
Both Audi and Peugeot will show the race live and free at http://tv.audi.com/#/01 and http://www.peugeot-sport.com/fr/accueil.html

Of course there will be the usual Justin.tv streams too!

This site is really cool http://www.thomasbaekdal.com/mini-sites/lemans2011...

Radio Le Mans link http://rlm08.0157.org/main.php

Excellent. Thanks.

[Richard-G]

Take away the wheel cowlings from this and you basically have an F1 car with a canopy!

any idea (on full attack mode) how much slower the new 908 would be round SPA compared to current F1 regs? its hard to tell from the qually times for this years spa 24 as they didnt push to the maximum.

[weyland yutani]

I'd love to see Aston Martin win, or even Pescarolo but the fight for outright victory is always going to be between Audi and Peugeot. I'm hoping for AF Corse to win GTPro with Fisichella in the 458.

Free practice is tonight, there's something magical about Le Mans at dusk and night.

[anonymous-user]

Richard-G said:

Take away the wheel cowlings from this and you basically have an F1 car with a canopy!

any idea (on full attack mode) how much slower the new 908 would be round SPA compared to current F1 regs? its hard to tell from the qually times for this years spa 24 as they didnt push to the maximum.

Fastest lap from warmup around Spa this year from a 908 was a 2:03,, Last years f1 pole was 1:45 Both were in dry.

[FourWheelDrift]

ArnageWRC said:

One thing which is noticeable nowadays regarding Le Mans - it's yet another Motorsport that seems to have fallen off the mainstream radar......and there's a bloody F1 race on the same weekend.

It's a busy weekend for motor racing.

Le Mans
Canadian F1 Grand Prix
British MotoGP from Silverstone
World Superbikes from Misano

[Richard-G]

tux said:

Richard-G said:

Take away the wheel cowlings from this and you basically have an F1 car with a canopy!

any idea (on full attack mode) how much slower the new 908 would be round SPA compared to current F1 regs? its hard to tell from the qually times for this years spa 24 as they didnt push to the maximum.

Fastest lap from warmup around Spa this year from a 908 was a 2:03,, Last years f1 pole was 1:45 Both were in dry.

cheers tux, so quite a big difference, if we assume the pugs were sandbagging for le mans then i guess you can say they are about 15 seconds per lap slower. Still impressive when you consider these things do what they do for 24 hours!

[weyland yutani]

No way would an LMP1 get close to an F1 car for pace. The Le Mans 24 hours alone covers more miles than an entire F1 season so the engines have to be built to last which compromises performance. They weigh alot more too no doubt.