I'm pretty sure Romain Dumas can drift with his Porsche GT3R. Anyway he was drifting with Porsche 911 GT3 RS on french TV last time so Romain Dumas is a drifter ! and his Porsche 911 GT3 R is a drift car (based on the 911 GT3 RS) but with aero for race track (pikes peak this time) and suspension set to be hard.

This Porsche wasn't a factory one. Porsche Motorsport have enough work with 991 GT3 RSR and LMP1 to deal with a GT3R (which is kind of low cost RSR tbh) for Pikes Peak.

It was a car developed by Romain Dumas, PKM consulting (suspension) and other french expert from south of France. Nothing official, nor factory.

As it was Romain Dumas first time in Pikes Peak, he will be probably faster next year.

Poor guy, one day you might understand something in motorsport

EDIT : proof that GT3 RS is a drift machine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdOQHvpTBGY

Last edited by MoMo92i, Fri, 17 Aug 2012 07:21.

Quote from seniecka :

The classic era of Formula One was a very different time — before Bernie.

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Nice vid once again !

I think TBO are funnier ! Funnier to drive (less grip than FX3 and so nice slide with XRT), some really close fight without the big advantage of draft for the car that wanna overtake = real racing. Much more interesting, driving skills are more important on it aswell so for me it would be definitely TBO !

I vote for BTCC aswell

teamName: spdoRacing
car: XRR
class: GT2-Pro
number: 03
drivers:
- {fadeaway, Veljko Belenzada, Serbia}
- {egon-est, Egon Liibeon, Estonia}
- {vtiracing, Reno Kööts, Estonia}

Quote from boothy :

Had to mute the video due to the yanks, give me John and Jeremey :rolleyes:


Cover the air intake(s), if it doesn't stall then DQ.

It is a bit more complicated than this one. Engine should stall and the pressure mesured by ACO manifold pressure should not be higher than a certain amount.

Basically this is quite an hard test because in those race it is still possible that some damage occured on the airbox than can make the engine not to stall (which is in Porsche RSR 2012 really possible when you see how long it is). Back in 2007 IMSA Performance have lost an LMS win because ACO sensor connectors have broken during the race.

Quote from deggis :

Oreca is of course the best bet since they already provide most of the LMP2 field and have capabilities to do it for LMP1 too, but they have sort of indicated that they have happy and too busy with Toyota.

Oreca is using for its Oreca 03 the "old" Courage LC75's one. They have lot of improvment on the Oreca 03 but the LMPC car is a Courage with Chevy engine and shock absorber from PKM. LMP1 is a different stuff than LMP2 and tbh no privateer is made for it. I mean only a work factory team can compete on it. As every other racing category where constructor are allowed and where there is a technical regulation (not based on any BoP), a privateer cannot win because it has such a poor budget compared to factory team.

A privateer could have win in LM2002 maybe but not in 2012 when you see Audi weapons at Le Mans. The thing is Peugeot vs Audi was so hard (+diesel regulation) that privateer were really outdated!

Btw gratz Karl!

This week end it's Le Mans Classic! Amazing to see so many GT40's, 917, 908 (Porsche's one but the Peugeot is still in LM24 museum), those Bentley 'Tank', Ferrari GTO and BB512! Only Matra V12 is missing

You missed GTE AM fight and GT huge close fight in first hour but that's pretty normal as TV coverage was focusses on Audi leading the race alone. Still a good movie good job mate!

In fact not really or maybe some french from 1600s...nice google failure ^^

btw Romain Dumas is probably the best endurance racer, as he is human he has just made an error. McNish has crashed an Audi again, really racing without brain ! He has also clipped another car that tv didn't seen.

Quote from MoMo92i :

#24 was on pole not #03

Next time by I will close my mouth down gratz GenR! Was a nice season! Gratz Vires aswell for great pace and fight!

See you on track!

Quote from Tango :

thats why they have 2 or 3 drivers,max stint maybe 3 hrs and only porsche curves are high g,Mcnish is known to be aggressive amongst traffic,probably his fault again,just like last year.
Tango

Man you have simply no idea at how this track is challenging. Dunlop curve isn't really easy, La chapelle and Esses de la Foret aswell. Indianapolis is a big challenge aswell. Plus this track, which is a normal road, change so much during the race! There are a lot of G on it and it is hard for a driver to be fast as the track is 13,629kms long and the average speed is 200kph up

If I understand it correctly, this would be a several round competition as we can see in european football league or (I guess) american basket play off? Kind of quarter final, then semi-final and final to decide the champion?

This kind of league is atm not really supported by event database as it has never been submitted. Josh would make the final decision but I think this would'nt really match with spdo database as someone completed a 4th position in the event would finally most probably have something like 3 wins in spdo database for this event.

LMP1 #3 Audi
LMP1 privateer #17 Dome
LMP2 #24 Morgan (I couldn't say something else)
LMGTE-Pro #74 Corvette
LMGTE-Am #67 Porsche

When I see how faster are the GTs and LMP2, I can't believe Audi is that "slow". Toyota probably not for this year, let's see tomorrow if they can do as good as Peugeot in 2007.

LMP2 is full of gentlemen drivers and young talent that are not for Le Mans, as the class is close, definitely #24 as they have big experience. Just worrying about PKM shock absorbers to do 24hrs as they failed last year and this year at Spa.

GT class is awesome, but Porsche might not have shown their best as Patrick Pilet have setted a faster lap with 2011 car. Ferrari's and Aston can't do 24 hours without problems like last year. Corvette should get this one as they have reliability and speed for it. Let's see what drivers do.

In Am it is completely different. 99 has the best line up but Aston...I see no strong Ferrari with a full fast line up. #75 have a fadt driver with Edwards but Al Faisal struggle with night and darkness. #79 has aswell a fantastic line up with Pilet and Pumpelly both under 4.00 but Neiman is slower and Flying and LM :s 67 have a good line up and a good experience of this race. Should be quite a close and entertaining class as LMP2 is.

Looks like Grosjean DNF in T1 or achieve a podium ^^ nice last few laps sad that no french tv were covering the race live as a frenchman did an awesome race...

I still don't get why Alonso didn't pit one lap after Hamilton...

A bit too wide front

Nah you should use the [code] command. Before your edit you have only forgotten to close it.

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Yes it is thank you Cornys

It seems that there was a small bug with OLFS replays. Then spdo database require a small amount of time to update every statistics. For the record check how many drivers are listed in the database

Quote from edge3147 :


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Note: This series has car restrictions. FXO: 6% XRT: 2% RB4: None

Still wrong format. As this is an automatic parser, please follow perfectly the example. Need to have the correct number of space and the correct format for race calendar...

Please correct your first post and delete your last one as it is confusing other people like M.Provost that is the following the same uncorrect format.

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Anyway Le Mans gonna be wet this year ^^

It was fun to see an Audi Hybrid running out of gas ^^

Quote from (-Mark-) :

Toyota a second off the pace after doing more laps, not really a good sign, although i suppose it's abit early to tell.

To be honest laptime done on prequali at Le Mans means nothing because the track is shitty. There will be no grip on it until wednesday evening. Le Mans race track is a normal road circuit so the track need to be "clean" before being good but today with all these small rain period almost everywhere in the track, this was not possible and grip increased then dropped, increased, then dropped...Furthermore the whole mulsanne straight have been renewed so this part of the track was really bullshit especially the chicane and we have had lot of macadam on the wheel arch of the cars which means macadam being pretty bad atm. So let's wait for real test to happen.

Last thing, last year Peugeot was faster than Audi during the night because they had better soft tyres, and Audi faster on the day because their medium tyres were better...Le Mans is 24hours long and this race really start after 12th hours

Sarrazin, Lapierre, Wurz, Davidson, looks like Peugeot aswell^^

teamName: spdoRacing
car: XRR
Class: GT2-PRO
number: 03
drivers:
- {egon-est, Egon liibeon, Estonia}
- {Kristi, Kristof Kerekes, Hungary}
- {reigga, Mikko Meriluoto, Finland}
- {fadeaway, Veljko Belenzada, Serbia}

ThxVires for great battle in GT3TCC (with genR). That makes this season enjoyable finally