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Re: WEC (World Endurance Championship) 2014
Posted: 15 Jun 2014, 13:59
by AnthonyG
Audi 1-2, so an Audi will win
Re: WEC (World Endurance Championship) 2014
Posted: 15 Jun 2014, 14:01
by zgred
oT v1 wrote:Ahhh I'm stuck on a coach on the way to Luton airport, who's likely to win guys???? Are the audi's broken? #8 coming through??
At the moment:
1. #2 Run TRÉLUYER B. AUDI R18 E-TRON QUATTRO 360
2. #1 Out KRISTENSEN T. AUDI R18 E-TRON QUATTRO 357 3 Laps
3. #8 Run DAVIDSON A. TOYOTA TS 040 - HYBRID 355 5 Laps
4. #14 Pit LIEB M. PORSCHE 919 - HYBRID 347 13 Laps
5. #20 Pit WEBBER M. PORSCHE 919 - HYBRID 346 14 Laps
Re: WEC (World Endurance Championship) 2014
Posted: 15 Jun 2014, 14:07
by oT v1
Thanks guys, I'll go check the GTAm/Pro times too, looked like a good battle
Re: WEC (World Endurance Championship) 2014
Posted: 15 Jun 2014, 14:30
by mep
The moment Webber sits in the car it breaks down.
Re: WEC (World Endurance Championship) 2014
Posted: 15 Jun 2014, 15:11
by zgred
Re: WEC (World Endurance Championship) 2014
Posted: 15 Jun 2014, 15:40
by Pierce89
[-o<
Bob Brown wrote:Bad Luck for Toyota as always. That really sucks for them....... so dominant
No point watching anymore.
Yeah the 2014 TS040 is really a special car. It and the Peugot 908 are the two cars that define a modern LMP to me, because Audi hasn't really built a "standout" or "special" LMP since the R8, in my book anyways.
Re: WEC (World Endurance Championship) 2014
Posted: 15 Jun 2014, 15:55
by Bob Brown
Pierce89 wrote:[-o<
Bob Brown wrote:Bad Luck for Toyota as always. That really sucks for them....... so dominant
No point watching anymore.
Yeah the 2014 TS040 is really a special car. It and the Peugot 908 are the two cars that define a modern LMP to me, because Audi hasn't really built a "standout" or "special" LMP since the R8, in my book anyways.
Heck, even Porsche did a great job this year with their V4 battery setup. I don't like them much, but at least they made an effort to do something different in LMP1.
Re: WEC (World Endurance Championship) 2014
Posted: 15 Jun 2014, 16:27
by Powerslide
Amazing AUDI's, fast until the end. Toyota 8 was catching all the time but just not enough time, eventhough 24 hours. As tough as it was, there seem to be an air of confidence in AUDI, a calculative win? Maybe going diesel and opting for less strenuous electric 2Mj seems to do the trick while the others were suffering temperature on high electric power dependency. Nissan ZEOD, that was sad, so much effort, was it the gearbox?
Re: WEC (World Endurance Championship) 2014
Posted: 15 Jun 2014, 17:24
by Bob Brown
Audi was lucky, that's all.... and 1 extra car.
Weren't the fastest, weren't the best.
Re: WEC (World Endurance Championship) 2014
Posted: 15 Jun 2014, 18:06
by FW17
the number of sub 3.30 laps that audi 1 and 2 reeled out were amazing, it was almost like every lap, that was quiet amazing when you consider their qualy lap was 3.23
Re: WEC (World Endurance Championship) 2014
Posted: 15 Jun 2014, 18:22
by Pierce89
Bob Brown wrote:Audi was lucky, that's all.... and 1 extra car.
Weren't the fastest, weren't the best.
I have to agree. Audi wasn't even reliable, its just that their breakdowns weren't terminal. The Porsche disappointed me, as Peugot and Toyota both had a more competitive pace their respective first years(hell, the Peugot was the quickest car out there in its first year).
Re: WEC (World Endurance Championship) 2014
Posted: 15 Jun 2014, 20:03
by acosmichippo
Pierce89 wrote:[-o<
Bob Brown wrote:Bad Luck for Toyota as always. That really sucks for them....... so dominant
No point watching anymore.
Yeah the 2014 TS040 is really a special car. It and the Peugot 908 are the two cars that define a modern LMP to me, because Audi hasn't really built a "standout" or "special" LMP since the R8, in my book anyways.
To be fair, there wasn't nearly as much competition for the R8. Really just Bentley, and only for three of its five years at Le Mans.
Re: WEC (World Endurance Championship) 2014
Posted: 15 Jun 2014, 20:44
by Lycoming
What happened to Porsche was not entirely unexpected given their woes during testing.
As for toyota... the way the race played out between them and Audi is almost a carbon copy of how races went in the Peugeot era.
Re: WEC (World Endurance Championship) 2014
Posted: 15 Jun 2014, 21:58
by Holm86
Fantastic race this year
Too bad that Tom didn't get his 10'th but very happy that car #95 won the GTE am. It was a very emotional victory for the team
Re: WEC (World Endurance Championship) 2014
Posted: 15 Jun 2014, 23:57
by Cam
Top Gear has - in honor of the 2014 Le Mans - put together its list of the greatest ever cars to grace the track. Beautiful images and short bio of each. A nice way to end a great race by reflecting on all the great predecessors.
From Bentley Speed Sixes to Ferrari 250s, from Ford GT40s to Porsche 956s, the list of Le Mans winners stands not only as a roll-call of the greatest cars in history, but also as testament to the human race’s obsession with finding new, clever ways to go ever faster.
So, to whet your appetite for this weekend’s race, we’ve cobbled you together a gallery of the very greatest Le Mans racers of the last ten decades, no fewer than 20 cars spanning the epic endurance race’s history.
http://www.topgear.com/uk/photos/the-gr ... -2014-6-12
