Le Mans Le Mans and the WEC

[Titch]

What does Ewaermint mean ?

 

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The new season has just started and the Sebring race is live in Eurosport if you want to watch it.

 

[F1Brits_90]

Le Mans is back this weekend, i cant say that i know much about the season bar the results & in that for 1st time in many many years, toyota arent leading instead they are 3rd & 4th in championship behind the alpine & Glickenhaus. but in the final year before the new hypercar era begins in the the centenary year in 2023 with 10 manufacturers with the likes of Alpine, Audi, BMW, Ferrari, Porsche, Peugeot & Toyota going to be competing for overall glory. we could have a real race on our hands between the Alpine & Toyota for the 1st time in 6 years

this was a interesting review

Preview: 2022 24 Hours of Le Mans - The Checkered Flag

Get ready for the 90th 24 Hours of Le Mans with TheCheckeredFlag.

www.thecheckeredflag.co.uk

 

[F1Brits_90]

This is the line up for le mans 24 hrs. you have in the race recognisable drivers, like Robert Kubica, Kamui kobayshi, Esteban Gutierrez, Giancarlo Fisichella , 7x rally world champion seb ogier, ex winner Nick Tandy, Seb bourdais Jack Aitken Sophia floersch, & FE competitors Alex Sims, Sam Bird, Robin Frijins, Antonio Felix da costa,

 

[F1Brits_90]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1534968137078165510

 

[F1Brits_90]

im torn now in watch to do at work. either eurosport on sky go or radio le mans & as im still scarred over the hourly weather forecasts from the Cayman Islands from 2021

https://twitter.com/x/status/1429456076542464004

 

[F1Brits_90]

Weird start to the Le mans 24 hrs long & the 22 & 47 already having incidents within 10 seconds

 

[sobriety]

Just a heads up, Eurosport online is televising LeMans, and it's £6.99 per month rolling and you can cancel after the event.

 

[F1Brits_90]

after alot of hope that Toyota could be challenged it. dejavu & is just 1 horse race for the outright lead again

 

[cider_and_toast]

with only 5 cars, and 2 of them having spells in the garage, was it going to be anything else?

LMP2 is having good knock about though and I'm happy with the 'Vet's doing well. The C8R is a lovely car.

 

[F1Brits_90]

Roll on 2023 for the 1st race since 2016. im amazed they hadnt after a few years just got rid of LMP1 as nobody likes a 1 horse race. just had field of LMP2

incredible comeback from cars taken out in the 1st 24 seconds. gained a lap back

https://twitter.com/x/status/1535692600165994499

 

[F1Brits_90]

watching a 1 horse race is depressing enough nevermind when the 8 toyota doesn't even put a fight. lifts off & hands the 7 toyota the lead

at least keep up the pretence Toyota. that a race is happening

 

[F1Brits_90]

Pole sitter in LMP 2 gone. & in GT shame about sims & tandy Corvette i was rooting for them

https://twitter.com/x/status/1535914012138950657

 

[F1Brits_90]

im at work. so listening to finish on radio le mans & im glad the worlds most nicheist weather forecast is still going for 2022. as they tell me what the weather is like on the cayman Islands

 

[F1Brits_90]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1535920555962015744

 

[F1Brits_90]

how does the balance of performance work in LMP1 because i thought they brought it in 2021 & were supposed to be making so that Toyota arent supposed to dominate. but 2 years & both years Toyota are in a different league

 

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The Toyota's are very different cars to the Glickenhaus, and the Alpine is puffed up LMP2 car. Peugeot will debut their Hyper car at Monza, then we can look forward to Cadillac, Porsche, Vanwall, and Ferrari entries for next year. But a note of caution, some of these are LMH (Toyota), and others are LMDh, so there will be performance differences even within the same category.

This is the best article I can find to explain what is going on - 13 things to know on Le Mans Hypercar and LMDh classes

Don't blame Toyota if the other teams can't be bothered. They have been supporting Le Mans almost continually since the mid-80's whilst others have come and gone - History of Toyota's Le Mans race cars - Toyota UK Magazine

 

[sobriety]

Alpine did get BoP'd into sometime last week though.

 

[F1Brits_90]

Don't blame Toyota if the other teams can't be bothered. They have been supporting Le Mans almost continually since the mid-80's whilst others have come and gone

its not toyotas fault they are dominant & budgets are probally double/treble the other 2 combined. but balance of perfromance is non existant from what i see as it been a 1 horse race. thankfully thats it & we get a proper race from next year. even next race as appartantly peugeot are here at the next race

 

[F1Brits_90]

Kobayashi: Le Mans organisers didn’t want Alpine LMP1 to win

Toyota’s Kamui Kobayashi believes Le Mans 24 Hours organisers gave Alpine a last-minute Balance of Performance change because it did not want a grandfathered LMP1 car winning the race.

www.motorsport.com

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