Le Mans Le Mans and the WEC

[Lewywo4]

It looks as if Sky tv is well represented at Le Mans, with Brundle and Davidson......good for them...

 

[Jos the Boss]

Blinding stints needed by Brundle to gain 3 laps!

 

[Slyboogy]

Oh this is terrible for Buemi

 

[Jos the Boss]

He was on Ant's team right?

 

[Slyboogy]

Wrong.

The little ant, was in his team.

 

[Jos the Boss]

Who's first? And who's the first F1 related guy?

 

[Galahad]

The #1 Audi leads with Marcel Fassler, Benoit Treluyer and Andre Lotterer driving. Audi #2 is second, with the senior crew of Tom Kristensen, Rinaldo Capello and ex-F1 driver Allan McNish. Audi #4 completes the podium driven by young driver Oliver Jarvis, Marco Bonanomi and Mike Rockenfeller. The Heidfeld Lola-Toyota is fourth.

 

[Slyboogy]

Anyone know where I can catch the highlights? I checked Eurosport, couldn't find any.

 

[Galahad]

There's a 'Le Mans 24 Minutes' show that shows highlights ofnthe race so far. There's one on now on British Eurosport main channel.

 

[Jos the Boss]

Go McNish, Rockenfeller, Heidfeld and Brundle!

 

[Galahad]

After an hour being taken apart and reassembled in the pits, Alex Wurz takes the no.7 Toyota out and he doesn't even get to the end of the pitlane before stopping!

 

[tooncheese]

This is a good site if you haven't seen it

http://thomasbaekdal.com/mini-sites/lemans2012/

 

[tooncheese]

I see the deltawing is out, hit by the only functional toyota, which looks like its dying.

 

[gethinceri]

Ant Davidson has a fractured spine according to a Eurosport pundit, and is in hospital.

 

[Speshal]

That was a biggie.

 

[Speshal]

Yup, still watching it.

Took me ages to work out who this reminded me of.

 

[Incubus]

Autosport's updates are actually fairly comprehensive: http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/100453

 

[Abnash24]

Can anyone tell me what happened at the second part of the crash where he's in the air and all of a sudden he is jerked to the left of the screen? 0.26-0.27 seconds

 

[FB]

I think it's just the way the air hits the car as it turns over Abnash24

 

[Galahad]

Sorry to hear about Davidson's injury - just goes to show I shouldn't assume anything even if the driver climbs out of the car unaided.

Tom Kristensen currently leading, potentially on for victory number nine!