WEC 2023....LeMans

I think they should give the Garage56 team trophies just for finishing.

 

The Jota car looked scary for a moment there in the first quarter. Then the chinese driver mucked it up.

 

Wonder what 13kgs/28lbs translates to in lap time.
For the Toyota to have made up 81 seconds (which isn't really accurate, since the Ferrari wasn't pushing all out towards the end) they'd have needed to be ~0.24seconds quicker per lap over the 24hrs. Possible?

 

Even though it's not completely plastered with sponsors, I'd still love to see the 499p in nothing but red, black and yellow.
Gorgeous car.
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I heard in celebration Ferrari is offering 10% off on their $5000 leather jumpsuits in the Ferrari Store!

 

When I was at IMSA with my father in-law, the director of racing for GM and the corvette team stated they would bring on 4-6 cars. And they did mention e-ray

 

Peugeot had its 15 minutes of fame when one took the lead (!) during the first rainfall, when everybody else was skidding off track. Carlos Tavares had a smile from ear to ear and couldn't hide his contentment.
That was to be shortlived, and he soon came down to reality.

 

I always thought the Corvette, any Corvette, was terrific value for money?
Alas, they were not imported officially in Europe, so it was a struggle to register and insurance them in some countries. The C2 and C3 are my favourite. I often drove to Snodland, near Brands Hatch, at Claremont, the UK Corvette specialist to drool over some of his classic 'Vettes.
The C8 is in that tradition, but I regret it's not front engine.

 

Yes, he was the fastest of the trio, but I think he overdrove it and paid the price.

 

Very funny !

 

I don't know about that !!
Coming second when you have the habit of winning is still a hard pill to swallow. ask Mercedes !

 

You perfectly know what I mean !

 

I'm really happy for Ferrari and they won the race fair and square under very difficult conditions for everyone. One of my ex race engineers is one of the senior powertrain engineers on the project and this win has to be one of the highlights of his career.

I'm also thrilled for Corvette and the lesser known driver Nico Varone. Nico and I were both managed by the same guy and Corvette took a risk on this unknown kid who this year won Daytona, Sebring, and LeMans. Keep an eye on that name he is going to do great things in the future. Kid is insanely quick and smart too.

 

Vigna is already talking bullshits in the Italian press..

 

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The most impressive things for me:

Getting two cars to the finish - only those two (heart-stopping) starting issues for the 51 car; the 50 car's delay apparently being down to a stone piercing the radiator

The pace of the car - I'm not really a fan of BOP but it is difficult to argue the ACO/WEC got it wrong given how closely matched the Hypercar teams all were

The drivers, all six of whom seemed evenly matched and barely made a mistake the whole race, which is saying quite a lot given how many incidents there were

How calm everyone was when the lead car wouldn't start at the last pitstop (I wasn't!!)

Most of all, putting all those things together to take the win. Make no mistake, they did need to put everything together. With a different role of the dice, any of Porsche, Peugeot, Cadillac or, most of all, Toyota, could have won. But they all cracked one way or another and AF Corse/Ferrari and their drivers didn't. In the words of Kipling 'if you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs...'.

 

What does he say ?

 

« We make cars like no other, we want to win again. »

This lack of humility is really disappointing I think ..

 

yeah, stealing that

 

Lol

 

Yeah.
So many great people from Ferrari, AF Corse etc. behind that success, not to mention ORECA who built the chassis, and here we have one ******* on the forefront of Ferrari, who cannot even say anything but salesman's slogans for that precious moment.

 

If I’m not wrong this is Dallara who build the carbon tub ?

 

I thought so.
ORECA puts the 296GT3 together.

 

I stand corrected, thanks. Maybe I had misunderstood that ORECA took over preparations of both Ferrari racers , 296GT3 and 499P.
Because why bother to go to a chassis builder only for assembly of their new GT3 and not the hypercar class chassis.

Meanwhile, long-time Ferrari partner, Michelotto is engaged in Isotta Fraschini hypercar that is testing now and will race in WEC in 2024.

 

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