2024 Sportscar Thread (WEC, IMSA, NLS, GT World Challenge)
Discussion
IanUAE said:
Very few teams (if any) that compete in the Daytona 24hr event also compete in the Dubai 24hr race. The same goes for the drivers, so there shouldn't be much of an impact having both races on at the same time (apart from people watching the races online).
I will be at the Dubai 24hr race (the track is 10 minutes down the road from where I live).
Same here. Will be in the grandstand to watch the start, walk a lap for the first couple of hours tomorrow, then get up early on Sunday morning and go back for the sunrise, home for breakfast, then back for the finish. I will be at the Dubai 24hr race (the track is 10 minutes down the road from where I live).
The IMSA data presentation is very good this year:
https://www.imsa.com/scoring/
https://www.imsa.com/gtp-telemetry/
The stream has been rock solid and looking great in HD.
The race hasn't been bad either :-)
https://www.imsa.com/scoring/
https://www.imsa.com/gtp-telemetry/
The stream has been rock solid and looking great in HD.
The race hasn't been bad either :-)
flatlandsman said:
Some of these prototype amateurs really are a joke, this cretin in the Ligier has spun twice in about half an hour, I am sorry but you need to know your place, idiots like this are dangerous, why put the man in the race when the sun is going down for goodness sake, so stupid
Or, the car has a rear brake issue.BOP appears to have shafted the Porsches.
Some chaotic scenes in Dubai this morning, as a brief and unforecast rain shower appeared over the track for a few minutes. Many of the teams didn’t even have rain tyres mounted! A few cars went off before a Code 60 was called, thankfully no-one was hurt.
The race just finished a few minutes ago, the Audi R8 GT3 was the winner.
https://livetiming.getraceresults.com/24hseries#sc...
The race just finished a few minutes ago, the Audi R8 GT3 was the winner.
https://livetiming.getraceresults.com/24hseries#sc...
And a farcical finish easily time for another lap, dont know what that was all about, but a fairly tame race, far too many retirements i some classes and BoP was miles off as usual in GT, and to a lesser extent in GTP, P2 fabulous as always as was GTD, Merc had no right to win that fair play to them.
Was a surprise that Nasr managed to hold off the Cadillac for that last half an hour, for the majority of the race they had a big straight line advantage. Nicely done by Nasr though
The early chequered was amateur in the extreme, it’s not that difficult, nor was it only a couple of seconds out. Fortunately it had no impact on the outcome
BOP in GTD was a farce, with Lexus walking away from everyone, only losing Pro due to bad luck and am due to a car failure
On another note, I’m not sure how Keating was allowed to drive two cars in different classes. Seems at odds with trying to reduce driver hours/fatigue. Was also hilarious listening to them blow smoke up him just after he took over the 963 for the first time. Westbrook had driven brilliantly and taken the car to 3rd. Keating took it from 3rd to 10th in about half a dozen laps…
The early chequered was amateur in the extreme, it’s not that difficult, nor was it only a couple of seconds out. Fortunately it had no impact on the outcome
BOP in GTD was a farce, with Lexus walking away from everyone, only losing Pro due to bad luck and am due to a car failure
On another note, I’m not sure how Keating was allowed to drive two cars in different classes. Seems at odds with trying to reduce driver hours/fatigue. Was also hilarious listening to them blow smoke up him just after he took over the 963 for the first time. Westbrook had driven brilliantly and taken the car to 3rd. Keating took it from 3rd to 10th in about half a dozen laps…
Edited by freedman on Monday 29th January 05:26
Sandpit Steve said:
Some chaotic scenes in Dubai this morning, as a brief and unforecast rain shower appeared over the track for a few minutes. Many of the teams didn’t even have rain tyres mounted! A few cars went off before a Code 60 was called, thankfully no-one was hurt.
The race just finished a few minutes ago, the Audi R8 GT3 was the winner.
https://livetiming.getraceresults.com/24hseries#sc...
To be fair, in the 8 Dubai 24hr races we competed in (last entered in 2018), we never had wet tyres fitted to wheels. In fact I don't think I ever saw Dunlop / Hankook bring wet tyres to the evemt.The race just finished a few minutes ago, the Audi R8 GT3 was the winner.
https://livetiming.getraceresults.com/24hseries#sc...
flatlandsman said:
I never saw or heard Button drive either, presume he drove in the night? I did see Massa drive, he loved it and was pretty quick
Yep, I watched a fair bit and never saw him in the car. Real shame about the farce at the end of the race, took something away from a pretty good race overall (even though Nasr was gone and wouldn't have been caught even with an extra lap). flatlandsman said:
I think Porsche clearly found something in tyre pressures or whatever,m the other car was incessantly penalised for over using power too, penalties surely need to be ever stronger as no other car was doing it.
I wonder if they had a word with Meyer Shank Racing...... (Ref Daytona 24hr 2023).Well I'm glad IMSA have told us why, even though everyone watching knew it was an error at the time
https://www.motorsportweek.com/2024/01/29/imsa-con...
I could see it in an amateur event with volunteers, but this really shouldn't be happening in top level Motorsport, its not that difficult to look at the countdown and work it out
Fortunately it had no impact on the result, the Cadillac never really got a shot at passing the 7 for the whole of the final stint
https://www.motorsportweek.com/2024/01/29/imsa-con...
I could see it in an amateur event with volunteers, but this really shouldn't be happening in top level Motorsport, its not that difficult to look at the countdown and work it out
Fortunately it had no impact on the result, the Cadillac never really got a shot at passing the 7 for the whole of the final stint
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