Corvette 5 Secs faster than Ferrari

[vetteheadracer]

Le Mans practice times from yesterday.

18. Fellows/O'Connell/Papis Corvette Corvette C5-R 3min 49.982secs**
19. Gavin/Beretta/Magnussen Corvette Corvette C5-R 3min 50.079secs**
20. Belmondo/Gosselin/Saviozzi Belmondo Courage-AER 3min 52.453secs
21. Bouchut/Goueslard/Dupard Larbre Ferrari 550 3min 54.105secs**
22. Enge/Kox/Menu Prodrive Ferrari 550 3min 54.115secs**
23. Frei /Goossens/Belloc Courage Courage-JPX 3min 54.462secs*
24. Rydell/Turner/McRae Prodrive Ferrari 550 3min 56.026secs**

[blackzr]

Kind of interesting that there is a mixture of classes there. Do you know if this was final practice?

[malc350]

I was wondering if the Ferrari 550 was in the same class as the 'vette as it's a bit of a big old lump! What about the 360s?

[vetteheadracer]

This was final practice from yesterday afternoon. The vette and ferrari's where all running about 3:55 in the morning, but the vettes ran 5 seconds faster in the afternoon. I suspect that they ran the vettes on a full fuel load in the morning and then ran a more qualifying setup in the afternoon, either that or the new Michelins work better after a good French lunch!

Hope you enjoy the trip back from Austria.

BTW Malc the 550s and the 575s are in the GTS classs the same as the C5-Rs, the 360s are in the GT class the same as the Porsches and TVRs. Best time that they tend to manage is 4 minutes plus.

[anonymous-user]

Excellent news! That's a lot of minutes over a few hundred laps. Taking Corvette reliability as read of course. Fingers crossed!

>> Edited by 5USA on Monday 26th April 22:27

[jaytee368]

Noteworthy that the 550's (assuming they are the Prodrive developed cars) are still faster than what I understand to be the factory 575's.