24 Heures du Mans

[Alpine Autowerks]

a diesel 5 laps in the lead ? with 15 hours to go.

thanks Speedvision for the coverage

[iceburns288]

Yeah I'm glad we have great coverage. Still at night now, 12:15 left. I really want to hear the diesels, but it's hard because they're so easily drowned out by other cars!

These cars have incredibly bright lights:eek:

[Alpine Autowerks]

chris


as you can see from the activity in this thread ...calgary is purely a stick and ball sports town

restrictor racing has come to a new era. Peugeot is bringing their diesel next year...wonder if they can get Jean Todt back?

[AllGoNoShow]

Damn the TDI won, thats sweet :D:D


Tried to watch a couple hours of it, made it till about 1am then fell asleep on a buddies couch till I got a phone call.


THe vette won G2 right?

[bart]

TDI racing started because of me a few years back :) remember that folks!

[A2VR6]

Originally posted by AllGoNoShow


THe vette won G2 right?

yep, the aston had clutch problems about 3 hours before the finish.

[frostyda9]

Originally posted by Alpine Autowerks

as you can see from the activity in this thread ...calgary is purely a stick and ball sports town

no kidding :eek:

Anyways, belated congrats to the R10 for doing what I knew it would. The R8 was just about unbeatable, R10 looks ready to follow in it's footsteps albeit in a completely different way :thumbsup:

[Redlyne_jr]

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[Alpine Autowerks]

I hope the diesel era is short lived; ACO gave too many advantages to AUDI

The diesels were allowed a 38mm restrictor instead of 33mm for gasoline

Audi was allowed to supply their own fuel ...everybody else at Lemans uses ACO supplied fuel from a common reservoir.

They allowed more displacement, boost and variable geometry turbos

It was not a fair race because the rules were not the same for everybody

[nismodrifter]

The audi is not making nearly as much power as it could though. The TDI puts out no smoke! They need to put in more fuel :)

[BerserkerCatSplat]

Originally posted by Alpine Autowerks
I hope the diesel era is short lived; ACO gave too many advantages to AUDI

The diesels were allowed a 38mm restrictor instead of 33mm for gasoline

Audi was allowed to supply their own fuel ...everybody else at Lemans uses ACO supplied fuel from a common reservoir.

They allowed more displacement, boost and variable geometry turbos

It was not a fair race because the rules were not the same for everybody

Agreed, I think we'll see some rule-tweaking next year. I suspect the ACO underestimted the TDI, hence the lax rules.

[frostyda9]

They'll probably make the diesel powered cars fuel tanks smaller, to counter the extra mileage. I just want to see the R10 win again next year, but with Tom Kristensen behind the wheel :D