June 14, 20187 yr Guide to watching: https://jalopnik.com/heres-how-you-can-watch-and-stream-all-of-the-2018-24-1826780668 Spotter's guide: http://www.spotterguides.com/portfolio/18_lm/ Alonso is driving for Toyota in the only LMP1 Hybrid team in the field. There are other LMP1 teams but none are hybrids (unlike last year, where both LMP1 teams were hybrid). If the hybrids are equally reliable, then they'll win with 10 or 20 laps in the bag. But that's a big if. Toyota says they've had "NASA-like" prep for this one. But as costly as an LMP1 Hybrid is to run, I can't imagine they weren't doing the same last year or the year before (famously pulling over on the last lap) : Up against Toyota in LMP1 is Rebellion Racing, back with a 2 car effort after a year in LMP2 (using the Rebellion R13, a heavily reworked P2 chassis and engine combo), and the Russian SMP Racing/BR Engineering car driven by Jenson Button and Mikhail Aleshin is looking strong (US-based Dragonspeed racing is using the BR1 chassis as a customer car for its lone P1 entrant). There's a field of 10 LMP1 cars including the hybrids, but the non-hybrids will need to pit 1 lap more often (10 instead of 11), and so far are slightly slower despite balance of performance rules to give Toyota some competition. Toyota TS050 analysis Arguably, reliability has been the source of Toyota’s previous dramas at Le Mans, which is why the team focused its testing programme on reliability and coping with failure modes. Clocking a total of 21,000km at pre-season testing, both the drivers and teams practised dealing with a vast array of failure modes. Rebellion R13 analysis ‘The main motivator for Rebellion to come back into P1 is not to win the championship, it is to win Le Mans,’ says team owner Bart Hayden. ‘You have a car that looks similar to the ORECA 07 P2 car, but it generates more downforce for less drag, weighs 100kg less, has got 60 to 70bhp more than the P2, in Le Mans trim, so it should be pretty handy, but I am not sure that it is handy enough to keep up with the Toyota.’ SMP/BR1 analysis The BR Engineering BR1 car has been developed in collaboration with Dallara and together, using the LMP2 car as a baseline, an all new carbon fibre chassis was born. This chassis comes in two slightly different versions to cater for the three different engine configurations available to the LMP1 non hybrids. One variant allows a turbo installation to run with the Mecachrome or AER powerplant, while the other suits the normally aspirated Gibson engine. Edited June 14, 20187 yr by elfenix goddamn shitty editor decided that my close spoiler tag should be at the bottom instead of immediately after the video where i fucking placed it and now everything is fucked up.
June 15, 20187 yr Author 2 hours ago, 52-80 said: what are THOSE check out car 92 in the spotter's guide posted above edit: what the ever living fuck happened to my OP? Edited June 15, 20187 yr by elfenix
June 15, 20187 yr I'll wear my Rothman's liveried socks in the event that I have to wear socks tomorrow.
June 16, 20187 yr Author Warmup lap: "you don't want to do the Romain Grosjean job of putting it in the wall while weaving" Someone call the fire department
June 16, 20187 yr I miss Tommy Kendall, Bob Varsha, Andrew Marriott, and all the rest of the old crew, but if Fox was still covering the race, we'd have had to change channels twice by now.
June 16, 20187 yr Author really impressed by the quality of velocity's stream. they've got plenty of bandwidth, haven't fallen off the top resolution once, frames are very smooth with no apparent stuttering
June 16, 20187 yr Had to go out and run a few errands earlier. What happened to Jenny Butts and the #11? I assume that it's terminal and that the Marker of Doom is appropriate?
June 16, 20187 yr Author *feed is in car with alonso going into the 2nd mulsanne chicane* *feed cuts to a man in the pits* "now why would you cut away from that to focus on a man in adidas glasses?" really liking velocity's coverage, but they can't do shit about the world feed director. do wish they were rolling tape so they could show us things that happen in the commercials, like bourdais' pass earlier.
June 17, 20187 yr What caused the extra stop for the 8? Is that what put them behind? ETA: NM. I see it now. Buemi speeding penalty. Fuuuuurrrrrrk. Edited June 17, 20187 yr by wood
June 17, 20187 yr Holy shit...Alonso has taken a minute out of the 7 since I got home & started watching.
June 17, 20187 yr Amazing stint earlier by Alonso, taking 1:39 out of the 2:17 gap, & now Kaz finally gets the 8 back past the 7.
June 17, 20187 yr Author well now the commentators can't figure out the super season and just spent 10 minutes complaining about it. so not as impressed.
June 17, 20187 yr Just turned it on this morning to see the #7 exiting the pit after some kind of hiccup, I think fuel related. #7 now off the lead lap, Alonso and the #8 just 90 minutes from victory if they don’t have a problem.
June 17, 20187 yr Oh man. Kobayashi simply missed his pit entry and then had to do one extra lap at a slow pace to conserve fuel.
June 18, 20187 yr Author 23 hours ago, wood said: Patrick Dempsey was, uh, pretty dang happy. kinda looked like will power out there
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