2024 Sportscar Thread (WEC, IMSA, NLS, GT World Challenge)

[FredericRobinson]

MikeGTi said:

Does anyone know where it's being shown? I couldn't see it listed on Eurosport

Discovery plus or the WEC app

[FredericRobinson]

FredericRobinson said:

Discovery plus or the WEC app

And Eurosport 1, at 9.30pm

[Silver3ides]

FredericRobinson said:

FredericRobinson said:

Discovery plus or the WEC app

And Eurosport 1, at 9.30pm

It's confusing with Eurosport ..If using the Discovery TV app for TNT/Eurosport , Click on Sports (On now) , has been live there from 18.30 .

[freedman]

Incident packed race

Pleased to see Buemi properly penalised for the ridiculous move on Estre

Porsche really suffered from the BOP cahanges

[Silver3ides]

[Truckosaurus]

Seems odd to use the Genesis brand rather than Hyundai 'N', but I guess they are thinking they are competing alongside other 'luxury' brands in WEC eg Porsche, Fezza, Cadillac, (historically Bentley), etc.

I once had a Genesis rental car in America, it was perfectly adequate.

[freedman]

Some weekend for Porsche at the Fuji WEC 6 hours

Manthey Pure wrap up the GT3 Championship with a round to spare

Jota seal the privateer championship in their 963

Championship leaders Estre/Vanthoor and Lotterer drive a perfect race to win and bar a disaster at the last round should bring home the world championship

All the other contenders get things wrong, including a poor show from Toyota.

Great results for BMW and Alpine too

[CLK-GTR]

Not sure what Toyota are up to with their aggressive driving this season.

Feel sorry for Cadillac today.

[trevalvole]

CLK-GTR said:

Feel sorry for Cadillac today.

In my opinion most of Cadillac's problems were down to Earl Bamber's mindset when driving e.g.

1. Do a risky move around the outside of a corner, when he could have just waited for a straight and blasted past them then;

2. Expect good grip on the marbles and the Alpine to not try and pass the GT3 traffic;

3. His wild drive back to the pits didn't speak of someone in a good place.

He seemed to expect other drivers to be perfect, where, as we know, they are just human and also seemed to expect good grip on the marbles, where, in fact, he was taking a risk.

[CLK-GTR]

trevalvole said:

In my opinion most of Cadillac's problems were down to Earl Bamber's mindset when driving e.g.

1. Do a risky move around the outside of a corner, when he could have just waited for a straight and blasted past them then;

2. Expect good grip on the marbles and the Alpine to not try and pass the GT3 traffic;

3. His wild drive back to the pits didn't speak of someone in a good place.

He seemed to expect other drivers to be perfect, where, as we know, they are just human and also seemed to expect good grip on the marbles, where, in fact, he was taking a risk.

All that maybe true but it was down to the BMW pushing too deep into Turn 1 and not leaving any room when overtaking. Lots of cars were doing it at Turn 1 and i think it should have been penalised.

[trevalvole]

CLK-GTR said:

trevalvole said:

In my opinion most of Cadillac's problems were down to Earl Bamber's mindset when driving e.g.

1. Do a risky move around the outside of a corner, when he could have just waited for a straight and blasted past them then;

2. Expect good grip on the marbles and the Alpine to not try and pass the GT3 traffic;

3. His wild drive back to the pits didn't speak of someone in a good place.

He seemed to expect other drivers to be perfect, where, as we know, they are just human and also seemed to expect good grip on the marbles, where, in fact, he was taking a risk.

All that maybe true but it was down to the BMW pushing too deep into Turn 1 and not leaving any room when overtaking. Lots of cars were doing it at Turn 1 and i think it should have been penalised.

Bamber did put himself in a position where he was vulnerable to other drivers' actions, though, when he could have just passed down the pit straight with little risk.