24 LeManns THIS WEEKEND!!

[ZR-1 Franz]

I think there are no V12s.
Aston Martin and Ferrari have V8s too, the Porsches have 6 cylinder Boxer engines
and the Viper has a V10. By the way, one of the Astons is out, heavy impact in the
side rails. The pace cars were out for more than one hour. They say there will be rain
again. Bad weather and keeping out of battles could be a chance for the Corvettes.
I hope they manage this situation. I keep my fingers crossed and I shall watch TV again.

Franz

[XfireZ51]

Watching. Looks like the Aston has the straightaway power over the C6R

[Kevin]

The driver of the 96 am died at the circuit.

[ZR-1 Franz]

Bad news from Le Mans. Allan Simonsen, the driver of the Aston Martin, which hit
the side rails very hard, died in the hospital. RIP.
The reason for such accidents is, just my opinion, that the drivers are forced to push
very hard from all the beginning, before they can get in the right rhythm. A long distance
race should be a marathon, but not a sprint! But there are teams, especially Audi, a typical German team, who
exactly goes this way with their agressive strategy!
About two hours ago, we could see Dr. Ullrich, the team leader of Audi, when he watched a TV screen.
One of the works Corvettes was out in the gravel and nearly hit the second Corvette, when it came back
to the track. Dr. Wolfgang Ullrich was more than amused!!!!

Franz

[ZR-1 Franz]

Aston Martin did not retire their cars! As a sign of respect they should have
done so. I don't understand this!

Franz

[gbrtng]

Originally Posted by ZR-1 Franz

Aston Martin did not retire their cars! As a sign of respect they should have
done so. I don't understand this!

Franz

Was it mechanical failure? The AUTOWEEK announcement I just received did not say.

[LancePearson]

Here are live feeds from the cars of car 73 and 74 for corvette via gm

http://stream.speedtv.com/corvette

[LancePearson]

reading the comments on the race restrictions...just about every pro circuit is limiting engine size and power to slow them down a little. it is so easy to add power now that either they dumb the cars down a little or more people will die with speeds no one can handle. One has died at Le Mans already...the Aston martin team. I looked at the live feed for the race running under the le mans . org site and it is one of the Audi cars. Looks as much like an audi as the Rolex DP corvettes look like corvettes...as in zero. Without the vette flags you'd never know it. I think the stock 2013 big Vettes are way too big in engine size for the Rolex series here now as well. Too powerful. You might know more in detail but smaller and smaller is the order of the day with still pretty big power coming out of them.

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by ZR-1 Franz

Aston Martin did not retire their cars! As a sign of respect they should have
done so. I don't understand this!

Franz

The family of the dead driver said not to. If they're ok with it so should we be

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by gbrtng

Was it mechanical failure? The AUTOWEEK announcement I just received did not say.

He got onto the curb on the run up to the mulsanne, car kicked right he recovered an the car made a hard left. I've heard reports that he hit a tree just past the Armco