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      05-28-2014, 03:14 PM   #1
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24 Hours of Le Mans (6/14/2014)

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Well, it is that time of year again to begin discussing the 24 Heures Du Mans. I do not know how many that visit this area of the forums are interested in 'the 24' but if there is anyone, just know we are only 2 weeks away! This is an FIA World Endurance Championship sanctioned event with other stops during the season, this being the 3rd stop. This track is Circuit de la Sarthe, in Le Mans, France and is the 82nd anniversary. The remain races at COTA, Fuji, Shanghai, Bahrain and Sao Paulo will be 6 hours long.

Mr. Fernando Alonso will be giving the start of this year's '24'
Guess who else will be there .... Mark Webber!
in this beast from Porsche:


Here is the link to the schedule, entry list, programming and all you'd want to know:
http://www.24h-lemans.com/en/program..._2_2_1736.html







Audi R-18 e-tron - this is the team to watch as is this driver: Tom Kristensen


Even at 2 weeks out, prep work has already begun:




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I tape it and watch it later. I like the hybrid sound.
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I tape it and watch it later. I like the hybrid sound.
I do the same, don't know how people did it without DVR
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This Sunday is the official test day. So every team needs to be there to get their drivers some laps. This is the best race of the year in motor racing. Now with Porsche joining this year and Nissan just confirming they will join next year this is only going to get better and better.

Now we just need to get BMW to stop kicking the LMP1 tires and join in already.
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This Sunday is the official test day. So every team needs to be there to get their drivers some laps. This is the best race of the year in motor racing. Now with Porsche joining this year and Nissan just confirming they will join next year this is only going to get better and better.

Now we just need to get BMW to stop kicking the LMP1 tires and join in already.
Nope. Why? So they can come in and quit like F1 and WSBK? Stay home.
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Nope. Why? So they can come in and quit like F1 and WSBK? Stay home.
Exactly...BMW will come in and whine to the officials. Then quit because they didn't get their way.
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I do the same, don't know how people did it without DVR
I used to never get to watch anything. Now I get to see all kinds of races.
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Here's are a couple Nissan prototypes:





But what will 2015 bring for Nissan?? What does the Nissan GT-R LM NISMO look like?




The race also has an app so in addition to DVR it should be even easier to follow along this year AND IT WILL STREAM THE ENTIRE RACE LIVE
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Strakka Dome LMP2 has withdrawn from the race because they has a serious accident recently at Spa:


But the field will remain at 56 as written here:
"The entry for Le Mans on June 14/15 will remain at 56 cars after the US Krohn Racing Ferrari team, which is run out of the Risi Competizione workshops in Texas, accepted a late invite from race organiser the Automobile Club de l'Ouest to take part in the GTE Am division.

Its Ferrari 458 Italia will be raced by team owner Tracy Krohn, long-time team-mate Nic Jonsson and Briton Ben Collins, who was replaced by Archie Hamilton in the Ram Racing Ferrari line-up earlier this month."
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"The Ligier JS of OAK Racing Team Asia China has turned its first wheel ahead of the 2014 Le Mans 24 Hours after a shakedown at Magny-Cours.

A return to Le Mans for the iconic Ligier name, the Honda HPD-engined, Michelin-shod JS LMP2 machine was successfully rolled out in France by development driver Olivier Pla and in the presence of its all-Chinese driver line-up of Adderly Fong, Ho-Pin Tung and David Cheng. "
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Le Mans 24 Hours - Full updated entry list LM P1

1. Audi Sport Team Joest Audi R18 e-TRON Quattro Hybrid Lucas di Grassi/Loic Duval/Tom Kristensen
2. Audi Sport Team Joest Audi R18 e-TRON Quattro Hybrid Marcel Fassler/Andre Lotterer/Benoit Treluyer
3. Audi Sport Team Joest Audi R18 e-TRON Quattro Hybrid Filipe Albuquerque/Marco Bonanomi/Oliver Jarvis
7. Toyota Racing Toyota TS 040 Hybrid Alexander Wurz/Stephane Sarrazin/Kazuki Nakajima
8. Toyota Racing Toyota TS 040 Hybrid Anthony Davidson/Nicolas Lapierre/Sebastien Buemi
12. Rebellion Racing Rebellion-Toyota R-One Nicolas Prost/Nick Heidfeld/Mathias Beche
13. Rebellion Racing Rebellion-Toyota R-One Dominik Kraihamer/Andrea Belicchi/Fabio Leimer
14. Porsche Team Porsche 919 Hybrid Romain Dumas/Neel Jani/Marc Lieb
20. Porsche Team Porsche 919 Hybrid Timo Bernhard/Mark Webber/Brendon Hartley

LM P2

21. Strakka Racing Dome Strakka S103 Nissan Nick Leventis/Danny Watts/Jonny Kane
22. Millennium Racing Oreca 03 Nissan Fabien Giroix/John Martin/Oliver Turvey
24. Sebastien Loeb Racing Oreca 03 Nissan Rene Rast/Jan Charouz/Vincent Capillare
28. G Drive Racing Morgan Nissan Roman Rusinov/Olivier Pla/Julien Canal
27. SMP Racing Oreca 03 Nissan Sergey Zlobin/Mika Salo/Anton Ladygin
29. Pegasus Racing Morgan-Nissan Julian Schell/Nicolas Leutwiler/Stephane Raffin
33. OAK Racing – Team Asia Ligier JS P2 HPD David Cheng/Ho-Pin Tung/Adderley Fong
34. Race Performance Oreca 03 Judd Michel Frey/Franck Mailleux/Jon Lancaster
35. OAK Racing Morgan Nissan Alex Brundle/Jann Mardenborough/Mark Schulzitskiy
37. SMP Racing Oreca 03 Nissan Kirill Ladygin/Nicolas Minassian/Maurizio Mediani
38. Signatech Alpine Alpine A450 Nissan Paul-Loup Chatin/Nelson Panciatici/Oliver Webb
39. Jota Sport Zytek Z11SN Nissan Simon Dolan/Harry Tincknell/Marc Gene
41. Greaves Motorsport Zytek Z11SN Nissan Thomas Kimber-Smith/Chris Dyson/Matthew McMurry
42. Caterham Racing Zytek Z11SN Nissan Rudolf Nunemann/Alessandro Latif/James Winslow
43. Newblood by Morand Racing Morgan Judd Christian Klien/Gary Hirsch/Romain Brandela
8. Thiriet by TDS Racing Ligier JP S2 Pierre Thiriet/Ludovic Badey/Tristan Gommendy
47. KCMG Oreca 03 Nissan Matthew Howson/Richard Bradley/Alexandre Imperatori
48. Murphy Prototypes Oreca 03 Nissan Nathanael Berthon/Rodolfo Gonzalez/Karun Chandhok
50. Larbre Competition Morgan-Judd Pierre Ragues/Ricky Taylor/Keiko Ihara

LM GTE Pro

51. AF Corse Ferrari 458 Italia Gianmaria Bruni/Toni Vilander/Giancarlo Fisichella
52. RAM racing Ferrari 458 Italia Matt Griffin/Alvaro Parente/Federico Leo
71. AF Corse Ferrari 458 Italia Davide Rigon/James Calado/Olivier Beretta
73. Corvette Racing Chevrolet Corvette C7 Jan Magnussen/Antonio Garcia/Jordan Taylor
74. Corvette Racing Chevrolet Corvette C7 Oliver Gavin/Tommy Milner/Richard Westbrook
91. Porsche Team Manthey Porsche 911 RSR Patrick Pilet/Jorg Bergmeister/Nick Tandy
92. Porsche Team Manthey Porsche 911 RSR Marco Holzer/Frederic Makiowiecki/Richard Lietz
97. Aston Martin Racing Aston Martin Vantage Darren Turner/Stefan Mucke/Bruno Senna
99. Aston Martin Racing Aston Martin Vantage Alex Macdowall/Darryl O'Young/Fernando Rees

LM GTE Am

53. Ram Racing Ferrari 458 Italia Johnny Mowlem/Mark Patterson/Archie Hamilton
58. Team Sofrev ASP Ferrari 458 Italia Fabien Barthez/Anthony Pons/Soheil Ayari
60. AF Corse Ferrari 458 Italia Peter Ashley Mann/Lorenzo Case/Raffaele Giammaria
61. AF Corse Ferrari 458 Italia Luis Perez Companc/Marco Cioci/Mirko Venturi
62. AF Corse Ferrari 458 Italia Yannick Mallegol/Jean-Marc Bachelier/Howard Blank
66. JMW Motorsport Ferrari 458 Italia Abdulaziz Turki Alfaisal/Seth Niemann/Spencer Pumpelly
67. IMSA Performance Matmut Porsche 911 GT3 RSR Erik Maris/Jean-Marc Merlin/Eric Helary
70. Team Taisan Ferrari 458 Italia James Rossier/Pierre Ehret/Martin Rich
72. SMP Racing Ferrari 458 Italia Andrea Bertolini/Victor Shaitar/Aleksey Basov
75. Prospeed Competition Porsche 911 GT3 RSR Francois Perrodo/Emmanuel Collard/Mathieu Vaxiviere
77. Dempsey Racing Porsche 911 GT3 RSR Patrick Dempsey/Joe Foster/Patrick Long
Prospeed Competition Porsche 911 GT3 RSR Cooper Macneil/Bret Curtis/Jeroen Bleekemolen
81. AF Corse Ferrari 458 Italia Stephen Wyatt/Michele Rugolo/Sam Bird
88. Proton Competition Porsche 911 GT3 RSR Christian Ried/Klaus Bachler/Khaled Al Qubaisi
90. 8 Star Motorsports Ferrari 458 Italia Frank Montecalvo/Gianluca Roda/Paolo Ruberti
95. Aston Martin Racing Aston Martin Vantage Kristian Poulsen/David Heinemeier Hansson/Nicki Thiim
98. Aston Martin Racing Aston Martin Vantage Paul Dalla Lana/Pedro Lamy/Christoffer Nygaard
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Here's some more of the new Porsche 919 Hybrid:





With the 911 RSR:


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will dvr this and watch it from start to finish!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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This Toyota TS040 Hybrid needs to be watched too! In fact they beat the Audi R18 e-tron at the last WEC race.

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Aston Martin Racing is in the garage in Le Mans!

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Oh man I miss this so much. I used to drive to this from London before I emigrated to Seattle. What a blast, about 50000 Brits would flock over to this in convoy! The tent area was so much fun. Lots of exotica parked up beside the tents and once the beer was flowing all hell would break loose. Fantastic! Even my wife had a great time.
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Porsche has a long history with this race:


Here's an interview with Wolfgang Hatz of Porsche regarding the 24:
http://www.motorsport.com/lemans/new...wolfgang-hatz/
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