Endurance Racing News Thread

Grim.

Interesting to see Rast in the Sebastien Loeb car, I wonder are Audi readying him for LMP1?

Killinator

Pescarolo have been wound up due to lack of assets:(

They are/were an institution at Le Mans and gave dozens of French drivers a chance.

Was really hoping they'd get things together again but that Pescarolo 03 really took it out of them.

Hope Henri still continues his presence at Le Mans.

smellslikeshoes

Pictures of the Porsche have made their way out today. http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/geneva-motor-show/porsche-919-hybrid-racer-gets-early-debut

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SniperSight

Decent.
That said, it could be nicer, especially given some of the rumors that had been going around.

Frank Bullitt

YIKES!

Killinator

The new Ligier

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Killinator

Facking hell! The 919 makes the 911 look massive, how small is it:)

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Audi and Porsche testing at Sebring

smellslikeshoes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnbPDrKp31c

Webber interview.
Has some good views of the new car, also illustrates how small the 919 is.

Grim.

Footage of the cars testing at Sebring along with some of the TUSCC Cars

Dat BMW :eek:

Killinator

That R18 now looks and sounds like a car that the grim reaper would fear taking a spin in:D

Grim.

Cal Crutchlow trying out the R18 at the Ducati MotoGp team launch




And TK on Dovi's Desmosedici

Grim.

seems to have been left it in some dodgy neighborhood in this pic

Larbre34

I presume Greg Murphys name in as Driver 1 on the LM entry list is an administrative thing and he doesnt want to be the next Pat Dempsey!

Killinator

Work underway at Tetra Rouge and Corvette Corner at LM:
http://www.dailysportscar.com/?p=25397

Zcott

Any idea what the actual work at Tetre Rouge involves?

Killinator

Zcott wrote: »

Any idea what the actual work at Tetre Rouge involves?

Not overly sure what they are doing or even what they can do,
There's a road that goes underneath the track and it's quite sloped by the trees, maybe they'll cut them down and put in safer barriers( I believe the trees played a major part in the accident), with that said, that is a main road on any other week (have driven on it) so it's hard to see it being majorly overhauled.

Zcott

Killinator wrote: »

Not overly sure what they are doing or even what they can do,
There's a road that goes underneath the track and it's quite sloped by the trees, maybe they'll cut them down and put in safer barriers( I believe the trees played a major part in the accident), with that said, that is a main road on any other week (have driven on it) so it's hard to see it being majorly overhauled.

Yeah, the DSC article suggested that the trees are property of the council and can't be cut down. Simonsen's accident really was a freak accident but even reinforcing that Armco would be a good idea.

Grim.

Zcott wrote: »

Any idea what the actual work at Tetre Rouge involves?

work now complete http://www.dailysportscar.com/?p=25606

SniperSight

Thats good, would have been a shame for the iconic trees to be removed.

That said, its more a shame Alan Simonsen died before these fairly common sense changes were made.

Grim.

R18 launch about to begin http://www.audimedia.tv/

demixed

Lets hope it works better than there mic's are

Grim.

wearing headphones here, my poor ears

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So Engine capacity up from 3.7 to 4.0 litres and only going for 2MJ of the 8MJ allowed

smellslikeshoes

Tis a beaut http://www.topgear.com/uk/photos/new-audi-r-18-pictures-2014-3-25

kierank01

demixed wrote: »

Lets hope it works better than there mic's are

I was still able to understand yer man better than yer wan with the ipad...they should have let her rabbit away in French, and then translate it.

Killinator

SRT drop out of LM24 with their 2 Vipers
And they sounded sooooo good!

Check out @24hoursoflemans's Tweet: https://twitter.com/24hoursoflemans/status/448819476683698177

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The three factory cars at Paul Ricard today