Canadian Grand Prix and Le Mans

[gordon]

Guys,

We have two successive weekends of 1/1 racing to look forward to, starting with the Canadian Grand Prix this weekend. Qualifying takes place tomorrow after lunch and the race is around the same time on Sunday.

The following weekend is the annual running of the Le Mans 24 hour race in France and is the premier endurance race in the calendar. This year the three big teams in LMP are Audi, Porsche and Toyota and anyone who saw the season opener at Spa will have to be excited about what will happen at Le Mans. It's already been predicted to be the longest distance ever covered and lap times the fastest ever. The race starts on the Saturday morning and finishes 24 hours later.

You can check TV listings for the exact broadcast times and channels.

Don't miss them!

Gordon

[RameshB]

Thanks very much your info is always very helpful in planning my day , and night my snacks have to always be replenished especially for the 24 hr races .

[gordon]

Here's the FOX Sports TV schedule for this year's Le Mans:

- Saturday, June 13 (8:30 a.m. to 12 p.m., FOX Sports 2)
- Saturday, June 13 (7 p.m. to 8 p.m., FOX Sports 1)
- Saturday, June 13 (11 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., FOX Sports 2)
- Sunday, June 14 (3:30 a.m. to 7:30 a.m., FOX Sports 1)
- Sunday, June 14 (7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m., FOX Sports 2)
- Sunday, June 14 (9 a.m. to 9:30 a.m., FOX Sports 1)

[gordon]

Here's the official Le Mans 2015 entry list (in PDF format) so you can follow the race with more information:

entry-list-24-heures-du-mans-2015.pdf

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[steveaca]

Should be a very exciting race, now with 5 teams in LMP1. Still prefer the sound of the GT cars though, whose power is all sourced from internal combustion.
If I want to experience powerful electric motors, I'll come to FRC !

[gordon]

I'm sure that I'll always prefer internal combustion engines to electric motors Steve.

Here are pics of this year's LMP1 cars:


TOYOTA  TS  040  -­‐  HYBRID


CLM  P1/01  -­‐  AER


AUDI  R18  E-­‐TRON  QUATTRO


REBELLION  R-­‐ONE  -­‐  AER


PORSCHE  919  HYBRID


NISSAN  GT-­‐R  LM  NISMO

[Luke]

Hello Gordon, Ramesh and others,

Real exciting looking LMP machinery (especially the TOYOTA) but I find the wheelbase proportion on some of the cars looking longer than normal ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zieVq1JDAEo

Anyway - here's a youtube vid of the frightening 2011 Audi car crash we talked about @ Thursday race night. Imagine nobody died (even the driver) in this horrifying accident. I believe it was God's intervention nobody died - if you look closely, you will practically see God's hand holding back the car just about to go over the tyre barrier hitting all persons up against the wall and how they had nowhere to go.

When looking at the vid, what's that white glowing light at the top right hand corner and notice how its always in the path of the car all the time

Thanking God here, through is Son for the protection.

Luke

[gordon]

Yes Luke, that was quite an accident and amazing that no one was hurt. With respect to this year's Le Mans, it was an exciting race in all four categories - LMP1, LMP2, GTE Pro and GTE Am. Here are the full results courtesy Wikipedia:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_24 ... of_Le_Mans

Here's an easier to read synopsis:

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2494 ... s-and-more

Gordon