LinkBack URL
About LinkBacksWatching the race right there in Le Mans was a great experience! I'm going to post the promised pictures in the next days!
when the flagg drops - the bullshit stopps
13Watching the race right there in Le Mans was a great experience! I'm going to post the promised pictures in the next days!
164Well... Le Mans is over, but the LMS and ALMS seasons have yet to run their full course.
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/76274
Monteiro to rejoin ORECA at Algarve
By Matt Beer Thursday, June 18th 2009, 10:11 GMT
Tiago Monteiro will rejoin ORECA to contest his home round of the Le Mans Series at the new Algarve circuit on 2 August.
The Portuguese driver had made his debut with the team in the Le Mans 24 Hours last weekend, sharing a car with Stephane Ortelli and Bruno Senna. The trio had to retire after several incidents.
"The Le Mans experience was really positive and I'm proud and delighted that [team boss] Hugues de Chaunac has invited me to participate to the 1000km of Algarve," said Monteiro.
"The Oreca 01 is a fascinating car which gives you similar sensations to an F1 car. I will know the car better in Algarve and I'm looking forward to seeing how it behaves on such a spectacular track like Portimao. The fact that it's a night race spices up the challenge and I am keen to race at night."
Monteiro is free to race at Algarve as the event does not clash with the World Touring Car Championship, in which he is part of the factory SEAT line-up.
9Is it true that Peugeot will race in the Petit Le Mans this year?
164It's neither officially official nor confirmed, but rumours that were floating around during the Le Mans weekend pinpoint to all of the top three teams at Le Mans lodging entries for Road Atlanta, a.k.a. Peugeot, Audi AND Aston Martin Racing.
9Ah, I see. God, I hope it's true. Is there a time frame for when the teams are confirm if they're gonna race?Originally Posted by vikiradTG2007
15lets hope they bring them over.
33A video of the Benoit Treluyer accident has found it's way to youtube...
+ YouTube Video
Bloody hell... It's just as massive as one would have expected from the wreckage
273
^Ouch...
164^ Oh. My. God. That is huge. No wonder the car was a write-off.
Judging by where it crashed, it seemed to keep turning right out of the first part of the Esses, which points towards the power steering having seized through the corner, or simply to the car oversteering through the exit of the right-hander from underneath the Dunlop bridge.
33Could have been just cold tyres on cold track (as he had just left the pits) but it is a strange angle to go off.
164Yeah, especially since even the torquiest of diesels have been reigned in with traction control. Audi didn't have it in 2006, but since '07 all the diesel LMP1s had TC, so losing it like that in that area would be hard to explain with TC in the mix.
49Thank god someone recorded it, now we have an idea what happen. Thanks for sharing
13Just a little teaser:
I am going to post some more Le Mans pictures this week.
164There is growing discontent between the ACO and the LMP2 teams that use Mazda/AER's turbocharged 2-liter four-bangers. Apparently the fuel regulations yield a fuel which is of horrendous quality for turbocharged engines; they can't stomach it properly and, unless they de-tune it, meaning they run 50-60bhp less power than the Judd and Zytek 3.4 V8s, the engines are prone to blow-ups. For example, RML's Lola-Mazda raced three times this year and ended all three races with major engine failures.
164http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/76692
Well that was a storm in a teapot... Right, 29 days until the 1000 km of Algarve. No Peugeots entered, unfortunately, but Reiter Engineering is likely to enter the Gallardo LP560 GT2 for this race.Peugeot drops Audi protest
By Matt Beer Saturday, July 4th 2009, 11:51 GMT
Le Mans winner Peugeot has dropped its protest against main rival Audi's R15 TDI.
The French manufacturer had believed that flaps and appendages fixed to the R15's front wings were in violation of the rule that parts of the bodywork cannot be fitted with the sole purpose of generating downforce.
When Le Mans organiser the ACO declared the Audi legal, Peugeot announced that it would take the matter to the FIA, but it has now issued a statement saying that it has dropped the protest in favour of working with the ACO to ensure that grey areas such as this were resolved in future regulations.
"The ACO has announced its intention to develop its communication with all the manufacturers involved in the Le Mans Series, the Le Mans 24 Hours and the Asian Le Mans Series," said the Peugeot statement.
"This communication will ensure transparency between all the discipline's players, which is key to guaranteeing the spirit of endurance racing.
"As a consequence, Peugeot Sport has decided to withdraw its appeal with immediate effect."
After rejecting Peugeot's original protest during the Le Mans weekend, ACO president Jean-Claude Plassart had admitted that the nature of the event's rules meant such rows were always possible.
"The Le Mans regulations are not always as precise as perhaps they should be, but we don't want all the cars to be the same," he said. "The teams interpret the regulations and the ACO arbitrates."
77If no bits can be added to generate downforce, how they justify all of the bits that are on the car (wings, splitters, diffusers)?
164Those bits are allowed, it's the two flaps on the Audi's front spoiler that were the issue in question. They're easily spottable, since they carry a Michelin logo.
However, Audi have shot themselves in the foot a bit with the R15. Its issue is simply that it generates a lot of downforce, and that makes setting the car up rather tricky in order to minimize tire wear/load and drag. Another case of this issue was the Peugeot 905 Evo 2, which wasn't any faster than the Evo 1B which finished the 1992 WSPC, but was generating a lot more downforce. It needed a set-up sweetspot, and combined with the cancellation of the WSPC for '93, this meant that the Evo 2 was never raced.
73How does pushing the tyres into the ground more mean they are harder on the tyres? Also creating downforce does not automatically mean you create more drag, a good aero package will increase downforce but only create a little extra drag/ no more drag.
164Creating more downforce does equal some kind of drag if you're not using the underbody as well to produce it. And for the "hard on tires" statement, the proof was emphatically given at Sebring, where the Peugeots managed to double-stint their tires all the way from the beginning, whereas the Audis had to change tires at every stop until it got darker and the temperatures meant less strain on the tires.
73You can't use that as proof. You have no idea what the downforce figures are for each car and aerodynamics isn't the sole factor on tyre wear. The only conclusion you can draw from that observation is that the 908 in race setup is easier on the tyres then the R15 at Sebring.
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)
Posting Permissions 
Reply With Quote