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100th Le Mans Qualifying and Race Thread

Started by KWSN - DSM , Jun 06 2023 18:22

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#1 KWSN - DSM

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Posted 06 June 2023 - 18:22

This weekend the Centennial Le Mans 24 hour race will take place at the Circuit de la Sarthe.

100 years since the first race, a few no racing years makes it the 91st actual race.

Official website: www.24h-lemans.com

Full program all days, the actual 24 Hour Race pertinent times:

June 7th

02:00 PM - 05:00 PM Free Practice 1 : 24 Hours Of Le Mans

07:00 PM - 08:00 PM Qualifying Practice : 24 Hours Of Le Mans

10:00 PM - 12:00 AM Free Practice 2 : 24 Hours Of Le Mans

June 8th

03:00 PM - 06:00 PM Free Practice 3 : 24 Hours Of Le Mans

08:00 PM - 08:30 PM Hyperpole : 24 Hours Of Le Mans

10:00 PM - 11:00 PM Practice 4 : 24 Hours Of Le Mans

June 9th

Nothing happens at least relatively speaking, great chance to walk the ground, see the sights, drink the beers, ride the ferris wheel.

June 10th

04:00 PM - Start 24 Hours of Le Mans

June 11th

04:00 Pm - Finish 24 Hours of Le Mans

Profitons-en... Démarrez vos moteurs!!

Edited by KWSN - DSM, 06 June 2023 - 18:32.

#2 KWSN - DSM

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Posted 06 June 2023 - 18:32

The entry list in a not very user-friendly manner:

https://www.24h-lema...2023-entry-list

There is a lot of very good drivers on the grid through all the classes.

#3 KWSN - DSM

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Posted 06 June 2023 - 18:49

A little nostalgia, a little of what we will likely not see again, and some which we may

Wankel

Diesel

Hawaain Tropic Girls you can play with

The Original Pink Pig

https://www.stuttcar...m-2048x1324.jpg

#4 loki

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Posted 06 June 2023 - 19:09

Coverage for Yanks is on Motortrend TV and Motortrend+

https://help.motortr...-on-MotorTrend-

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Posted 06 June 2023 - 19:42

Belongs here:

Spotter Guide: SPOTTER_GUIDE_LM24-23_E24_v1.pdf (endurance24.fr)

#6 HuddersfieldTerrier1986

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Posted 06 June 2023 - 19:50

In the UK, the race is live on Eurosport 2 (none of the chanel hopping nonsense), as well as on Discovery+ (if I'm right, if you pick the correct stream, you get it fully uninterrupted, no adverts).

All sessions on Eurosport 2 except the first practice session (due to tennis and cycling), though the first session I believe is on Discovery+

Radio Le Mans of course have live commentary of all sessions and obviously the race (with the VERY handy Studiovision Youtube stream being in use again, which is what's needed for synching up audio and pictures)

Weather forecast is currently for bone dry conditions for all sessions on Wednesday and Thursday, with a few sites suggesting there's a reasonable risk of rain at times during the 24 hours of racing. Like all forecasts though, it's a few days away, but the signal has been the same for a while now, but obviously no guarantee of rain, but right now it wouldn't be the biggest shock if it did rain at some point

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Posted 06 June 2023 - 22:42

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Posted 06 June 2023 - 23:48

Belongs here:

The official end of the red-black-white brigade.

#9 jonpollak

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Posted 07 June 2023 - 00:26

KWSN….tak fordi du gjorde dette !!!!

Here's what was happening the last time I visited LeMans.

No wait, that's not true...We took a camping holiday in France back in 89 I think it was?....
I asked my wife to navagate, as she has unconquerable control issues, and to my absolute delight she threw down the map 10 minutes outside of Boulogne-sur-Mer and said...
YOU figure it out !!

So off to LeMans I drove with our young son in the back seat.
Not untill I parked the car did she dot cotton on to what I was doing when I strolled the two of them up into the old grandstands.

THAT was the last time I was at Le Mans
Jp

EDIT:
Hey Victor … what you up to?

Edited by jonpollak, 07 June 2023 - 02:47.

#10 George Costanza

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Posted 07 June 2023 - 01:44

I am very excited for this Le Mans. Should be awesome.

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Posted 07 June 2023 - 06:29

KWSN….tak fordi du gjorde dette !!!!

No wait, that's not true...We took a camping holiday in France back in 89 I think it was?....
I asked my wife to navagate, as she has unconquerable control issues, and to my absolute delight she threw down the map 10 minutes outside of Boulogne-sur-Mer and said...
YOU figure it out !!

So off to LeMans I drove with our young son in the back seat.
Not untill I parked the car did she dot cotton on to what I was doing when I strolled the two of them up into the old grandstands.

THAT was the last time I was at Le Mans
Jp

...

KWSN and I were there in 1988. Took train down to Paris. Went to the train station's Hotel info and asked them to book us a room. The nice lady pointed to a sign with 1 to 6 stars and asked what level we were looking for. Feeling flush we decided on 2 stars. She shrugged, gave us the reservation and off we went to find it. It was one of those converted private homes with card board walls between rooms. There was a shower, but only cold water. During the night, it was obvious that one could also rent rooms by the hour..... Now, what I have always been curious about is; what would a 1-star room have been like.....

So, took train down to Le Mans and not knowing our way around we ended up walking from station to track camp site. With detours around 10km walk with baggage including tent. And it was HOT. Believe we landed on Thursday afternoon. British had come down in droves for Jaguar and had been camping out for a day or two. There were sizeable stacks of empty beer cans in front of all their tents. At that point in time the loos were of the 'rudimentary' kind. And not many of them at the camping site. You only went there when necessary.

Same evening we walked around and saw a lot of hooning (there was a bar up to an infield road, where a mass of people had gathered. And they wouldn't let any car through unless the car made a burn-out. Lots of tire smoke, applause and generally just a good vibe. These were the days of the worst football hooliganism and being with motor sport enthusiast was a completely different experience. Everybody were in good mood and even if there was tribalism between the Porsche and Jaguar fans it was all good natured.

I have earlier shown some of the pictures we took in the paddock and will just say that on Sunday afternoon we ended up on top of the Marchal sign (not sure it was Marchal in 1988 but it was at that spot) to watch the Jaguars triumph and the 35.000 brits going nuts.

Oh, one more thing. During the night in the race we went to see the circus or whatever you call the entertainment place outside the Dunlop bridge area. And my abiding memory is a caller (that guy in front of the tent trying to lure people in) showing a pair of absolutely enourmous panties promising that for just 5 francs we could get in and see the worlds fattest lady in person. Alas, we didn't since we were on a budget....

#12 Henri Greuter

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Posted 07 June 2023 - 08:43

Oh, one more thing. During the night in the race we went to see the circus or whatever you call the entertainment place outside the Dunlop bridge area. And my abiding memory is a caller (that guy in front of the tent trying to lure people in) showing a pair of absolutely enourmous panties promising that for just 5 francs we could get in and see the worlds fattest lady in person. Alas, we didn't since we were on a budget....

I was there the year before and saw the same attraction.

The three numbers of her vital statistics all started with a 2, followed by 2 more numbers.

We went in because we didn't believe this could be true and wanted to see how it looked if it was true or otherwise how you were fooled.

And I can't reproduce the comment I heard one Englishman say to his buddy who were standing just ahead of us. Buyt my friends and I couldn't help laughing.

Nowadays you only have to watch TLC "my 600 lbs life" to get an idea as of what was then still a rarity.

#13 KWSN - DSM

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Posted 07 June 2023 - 09:20

KWSN and I were there in 1988. Took train down to Paris. Went to the train station's Hotel info and asked them to book us a room. The nice lady pointed to a sign with 1 to 6 stars and asked what level we were looking for. Feeling flush we decided on 2 stars. She shrugged, gave us the reservation and off we went to find it. It was one of those converted private homes with card board walls between rooms. There was a shower, but only cold water. During the night, it was obvious that one could also rent rooms by the hour..... Now, what I have always been curious about is; what would a 1-star room have been like.....

So, took train down to Le Mans and not knowing our way around we ended up walking from station to track camp site. With detours around 10km walk with baggage including tent. And it was HOT. Believe we landed on Thursday afternoon. British had come down in droves for Jaguar and had been camping out for a day or two. There were sizeable stacks of empty beer cans in front of all their tents. At that point in time the loos were of the 'rudimentary' kind. And not many of them at the camping site. You only went there when necessary.

Same evening we walked around and saw a lot of hooning (there was a bar up to an infield road, where a mass of people had gathered. And they wouldn't let any car through unless the car made a burn-out. Lots of tire smoke, applause and generally just a good vibe. These were the days of the worst football hooliganism and being with motor sport enthusiast was a completely different experience. Everybody were in good mood and even if there was tribalism between the Porsche and Jaguar fans it was all good natured.

I have earlier shown some of the pictures we took in the paddock and will just say that on Sunday afternoon we ended up on top of the Marchal sign (not sure it was Marchal in 1988 but it was at that spot) to watch the Jaguars triumph and the 35.000 brits going nuts.

Oh, one more thing. During the night in the race we went to see the circus or whatever you call the entertainment place outside the Dunlop bridge area. And my abiding memory is a caller (that guy in front of the tent trying to lure people in) showing a pair of absolutely enourmous panties promising that for just 5 francs we could get in and see the worlds fattest lady in person. Alas, we didn't since we were on a budget....

Did we not take the Ferris Wheel as well?

Was that the year when a beautiful Lancia were completely wrecked the next morning?

#14 king_crud

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Posted 07 June 2023 - 09:20

Tuesday Documentary, 24 Hours at Le Mans: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p05bxkyd via @bbciplayer

For those in the UK the BBC has this excellent Le Mans documentary from 1982. There's a short section in it showing the on circuit night time entertainment for spectators, which includes a German beer hall and from memory also has the caller and the tent mentioned above

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Posted 07 June 2023 - 10:52

Did we not take the Ferris Wheel as well?

Was that the year when a beautiful Lancia were completely wrecked the next morning?

Yes, we rode the Ferris wheel

Don't have a specific recollection of the Lancia

#16 ferrarista

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Posted 07 June 2023 - 11:36

https://www.motorspo...p-hit/10479739/

I don’t know what Lopez is alluding to when he says that the top speed of Ferrari is strange, apparently the good results obtained through hard work are strange.

I would wait before saying that Ferrari is fastest.

#17 KWSN - DSM

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Posted 07 June 2023 - 12:28

Cars on track, currently best time Toyota # 7 at 03:28.290

Toyota # is the Kobayashi, Lopez, Conway car.

#18 KWSN - DSM

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Posted 07 June 2023 - 12:37

Bought the official Le Mans TV, after taking my money I can not watch it for legal reasons in my country... They could have said that when I told I am in the US before I press pay, at least I have the timing in a solid easy and detailed display, including sectors, hopefully that is how they will show during race as well.

#19 JHSingo

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Posted 07 June 2023 - 13:05

I propose we start a "Peugeot watch", to count how many issues each car has over the next few days. 93 is already on the board, being up on high-jacks in the garage before the first practice session has even completed an hour.

But in better news, they are second and third fastest at the moment...

#20 ARTGP

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Posted 07 June 2023 - 13:14

Cars on track, currently best time Toyota # 7 at 03:28.290

3.28 is not surprising to me. Plenty of lap time yet to come. :lol:

Edited by ARTGP, 07 June 2023 - 13:15.

#21 ARTGP

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Posted 07 June 2023 - 13:29

Oof. D'Station Aston big hit in the barriers before Tertre Rouge, then an LMP2 car collected it, completely ignoring the waved yellows... :rolleyes:

The Aston will need a spare car by the looks of it.

Edited by ARTGP, 07 June 2023 - 13:31.

#22 KWSN - DSM

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Posted 07 June 2023 - 13:38

Oof. D'Station Aston big hit in the barriers before Tertre Rouge, then an LMP2 car collected it, completely ignoring the waved yellows...

The Aston will need a spare car by the looks of it.

Do they have a spare? Or will we see the Montoya's get a chance now?

#23 KWSN - DSM

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Posted 07 June 2023 - 13:40

Oof. D'Station Aston big hit in the barriers before Tertre Rouge, then an LMP2 car collected it, completely ignoring the waved yellows...

The Aston will need a spare car by the looks of it.

Working or at least pretending to, which LMP2 was that? Looks like something a hefty penalty should be handed out for.

#24 ANF

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Posted 07 June 2023 - 13:42

Oof. D'Station Aston big hit in the barriers before Tertre Rouge, then an LMP2 car collected it, completely ignoring the waved yellows...

The Aston will need a spare car by the looks of it.

Video: https://mobile.twitt...438547677622273

Stupid question: Why a single yellow flag and not double yellow flags?

#25 ARTGP

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Posted 07 June 2023 - 13:42

Working or at least pretending to, which LMP2 was that? Looks like something a hefty penalty should be handed out for.

It was the Tower Motorsport LMP2

#26 Sash1

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Posted 07 June 2023 - 13:47

Can't see it, besides the lemans twitter vid. Driver of the AM ok?

#27 potmotr

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Posted 07 June 2023 - 13:47

It was the Tower Motorsport LMP2

Whoever was driving that thing shouldn't be allowed to start the race, what a chump.

#28 KWSN - DSM

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Posted 07 June 2023 - 14:03

Whoever was driving that thing shouldn't be allowed to start the race, what a chump.

Steven Thomas it seems form timing.

#29 ARTGP

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Posted 07 June 2023 - 14:05

I like the way the Cadillac leaves the pitlane. It first goes on electric, then switched to petrol as if to say "Look at me, I'm electric!.....Just kidding" :lol: . What a noise.

Edited by ARTGP, 07 June 2023 - 14:06.

#30 Sash1

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Posted 07 June 2023 - 14:44

This track limit stuff is getting absurd.