3 mai 2014 12:11:39
Just found this live stream for those who are interested: http://backvideo.ampi.tv/embed/8ialzp
From AUTOSPORT
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Toyota drivers Nicolas Lapierre, Sebastien Buemi and Anthony Davidson made it two wins from two starts in this year's World Endurance Championship at Spa.
The drivers of the #8 Toyota TS040 took the lead of the race from the pole-winning Porsche 919 Hybrid in the second hour.
Buemi stayed in the car and did not take tyres, whereas Marc Lieb took over from Neel Jani in the Porsche and left the pits on a new set of Michelins.
The Toyota driver was able to extend an initial lead of just under nine seconds to 18s and stayed in the lead even after the next round of stops when the Porsche kept the same tyres.
The Porsche was approximately 50s behind when Romain Dumas climbed aboard shortly after half distance and was almost immediately hit with a hybrid system problem that resulted in two slow laps.
The winning Toyota was never headed thereafter on the way to a 1m13s victory.
Lapierre said: "The beginning of the race was very tough. After the Porsche had problems, it was easier for us.
"A second win in two races is the perfect start to our season."
Audi claimed second place with the best of its R18 e-tron quattros shared by Loic Duval, Tom Kristensen and Lucas di Grassi.
All three Audis struggled initially, but picked up pace as the race wore on.
The #1 car came out on top in a battle for second with the #7 Toyota of Stephane Sarrazin, Kazuki Nakajima and Alex Wurz that raged for much of the second half of the race.
The Porsche, in which Jani and Lieb were joined for one stint by Dumas, was in the hunt until it hit its hybrid problems and had to settle for fourth.
Dumas was told to cycle through various systems and was able to clear the problem.
The car lost more than an minute in the process, which ultimately cost it a place on the podium.
The best of the new Rebellion-Toyota R-Ones driven by Nicolas Prost, Mathias Beche and Nick Heidfeld ended up seventh on what the team billed as an extended test session for the ORECA-built car.
OAK AND AF CORSE WIN CLASSES
The OAK Racing-run G-Drive ORECA-Nissan 03 of Olivier Pla, Roman Rusinov and Julien Canal took a second straight victory in LMP2.
It dominated the race from the second hour when it took over at the head of the class from the KCMG ORECA on the way to victory by more than a minute over the Jota Sport Zytek-Nissan Z11SN shared by Harry Tincknell, Simon Dolan and Marc Gene.
Gianmaria Bruni and Toni Vilander took a dominant GTE Pro victory for the AF Corse Ferrari team after a clean run.
Bruni led from the start, but fell behind the best of the Aston Martin Vantage GTEs of Stefan Mucke and Darren Turner, which was able to double stint its tyres.
The Bruni/Vilander Ferrari had a clear advantage on pace and was in control from the second round of pitstops.
AF Corse also won the GTE Am class with Marco Cioci, Mirko Venturi and Luis Perez Companc.
Results - 171 laps: Pos Cl Drivers Team/Car Time/Gap 1. P1 Davidson/Lapierre/Buemi Toyota 6h01m31.675s 2. P1 Di Grassi/Duval/Kristensen Audi +1m13.926s 3. P1 Wurz/Sarrazin/Nakajima Toyota +1m20.861s 4. P1 Dumas/Jani/Lieb Porsche +1 lap 5. P1 Fassler/Lotterer/Treluyer Audi +1 lap 6. P1 Albuquerque/Bonanomi Audi +2 laps 7. P1 Prost/Heidfeld/Beche Rebellion-Toyota +10 laps 8. P2 Rusinov/Pla/Canal OAK Morgan-Nissan +11 laps 9. P2 Dolan/Tincknell/Gene Jota Zytek-Nissan +11 laps 10. P2 Howson/Bradley/Matsuda KCMG ORECA-Nissan +12 laps 11. P2 Ladygin/Shaitar/Ladygin SMP ORECA-Nissan +13 laps 12. P2 Zlobin/Minassian/Mediani SMP ORECA-Nissan +13 laps 13. GTE P Bruni/Vilander AF Ferrari +19 laps 14. GTE P Pilet/Bergmeister Manthey Porsche +20 laps 15. GTE P Rigon/Calado AF Ferrari +20 laps 16. GTE P Turner/Mucke/Senna Aston Martin +20 laps 17. GTE P MacDowall/O'Young/Rees Aston Martin +21 laps 18. GTE A Perez Companc/Cioci/Venturi AF Ferrari +22 laps 19. GTE A Poulsen/Hansson/Stanaway Aston Martin +22 laps 20. GTE A Dalla Lana/Lamy/Nygaard Aston Martin +22 laps 21. GTE P Holzer/Makowiecki Manthey Porsche +23 laps 22. GTE A Ried/Bachler/Al Qubaisi Proton Porsche +23 laps 23. P1 Bernhard/Webber/Hartley Porsche +23 laps 24. GTE A Wyatt/Rugolo/Bertolini AF Ferrari +23 laps 25. GTE A Perrodo/Collard/Vaxiviere ProSpeed Porsche +25 laps 26. GTE A Mann/Giammaria/Case AF Ferrari +26 laps 27. GTE A Potolicchio/Roda/Ruberti 8Star Ferrari +29 laps Retirements: P1 Kraihamer/Belicchi/Leimer Rebellion-Toyota 47 laps
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WOLFGANG HATZ, “PORSCHE IS PART OF LE MANS, AND LE MANS IS PART OF PORSCHE”
1 juin 2014 16:11:51
This is also very interesting (this is from yesterday, May 31st):
http://www.racecar-engineering.com/news/porsche-919-legality-questioned-at-le-mans/
Nice video from Audi for Porsche
Suzy
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SuzyF:
Nice video from Audi for Porsche
Love the amicable 'rivalry'
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Porker:
SuzyF:
Nice video from Audi for Porsche
Love the amicable 'rivalry'
I thought for a second that he was drawing 4 rings on road! That's what I would've done. Also a lot easier to do BTW
The one that hast the last laugh in this whole Le Mans adventure is Mr. Winterkorn
Suzy
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15 juin 2014 09:40:36
The race is going to be exiting till the end! right now the #20 Porsche 919 (Webber's team) just took the lead as the #1 Audi had a turbo failure and lost 17 min in the pits, while the #2 Audi is chaisng down the Porsche only one lap behind! and only 3:26 to go! Toyota fourth 7 laps beghind
15 juin 2014 10:16:42
15 juin 2014 10:22:56
Jeannot:
Amazing race! Come on Porsche, only 2h45 to go!
Let's hope they are on same #stops until flag
Tecnically no, the Porsche should do 3 more stops while the Audi has only two, but seems like the Porsche is trying to extend its fuel to try to do only 2 stops, and conserve the lead but in doing so the Audi has a much faster pace (the had faster pace all throughout the race) and will probably eat up Porsche lead anyway
Jeannot:
...and almost 5 stints on a set of tires....This 24h race is so much more interesting than a F1 race...sorry :-x
+1
Much more interesting.
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15 juin 2014 10:26:44
Carlos from Spain:
Jeannot:
Amazing race! Come on Porsche, only 2h45 to go!
Let's hope they are on same #stops until flag
Tecnically no, the Porsche should do 3 more stops while the Audi has only two, but seems like the Porsche is trying to extend its fuel to try to do only 2 stops, and conserve the lead but in doing so the Audi has a much faster pace (the had faster pace all throughout the race) and will probably eat up Porsche lead anyway
Yes...that is their dilemma...Although not sure how Porsche can save fuel, they are anyway slower than the Audi...Will be a close one. Very cool.
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15 juin 2014 11:47:28