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Old 06-17-2012, 09:46 AM
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Originally Posted by budge96

Very nasty friggin ferrari turned right into the toy!
Originally Posted by Mike in Chi

As scary as the Prosche GT1 backflip at Road Atlanta
No. 8 Toyota TS030 driven by Anthony Davidson; No. 81 AF Corse Ferrari 458 Italia driven by Piergiuseppe Perrazini.
Davidson took the inside line down the Mulsanne Straight, when Perrazini turned into him.

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Originally Posted by Quadcammer

nasty accident.

seems like all parties are ok though.
Unfortunately, reports indicate Davidson has two fractured vertebra.

Wishing him a SPEEDY recovery.

Anthony's tweets:

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Well that was a big one!

Lying in a French hospital with a broken back wasn't what I had in mind at this stage in the race...
Originally Posted by @antDavidson

Feeling a bit sore today, but generally just happy to be alive!

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Lemans on HD was awsome. Congrats to Audi.

I love watching the race and pits at dusk and dawn. The superslow shots were awsome!!!

I do hope the delta wing makes it back next year. Looks so cool.
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+1^^

No. 7 TS030 driven by Kazuki Nakajima drove into Satoshi Motoyama's Nissan.


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Originally Posted by Ed Hughes

Sad to see the Delta get creamed.
It looked to take the impact pretty damned well. While it hit at an angle, there was some momentum when it struck.
Originally Posted by Quadcammer

I think they'll get back into the race fairly soon. It was a shame.
Long "B-roll" type footage of Motoyama attempting repair:


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Originally Posted by Quadcammer

the delta wing retired. sucks
Ironically, TopGear had "spare" there.
Originally Posted by topGear.com

Andy Saunders is trying to help us build a replica of the groundbreaking Le Mans racer, the Nissan DeltaWing.

Why? Because as you'll have read over the last weeks and months, we're massive fans. As well as potentially changing racing cars forever, the experimental jet-shaped racer is also utterly, deeply mental. Which is a Good Thing. So good in fact, that for some weeks now we've been pondering a plan with Nissan, which is only now coming to fruition.

We thought we'd join forces and pay homage to what could be a game-changing car by building our own road-going version. Then we're going to try and bring it along with us to the car parks as part of covering this year's race for TopGear.com and TG magazine. Just for fun, you understand - this isn't going to be hitting Mulsanne at any point, nor appear on TV.





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Originally Posted by race911

Delta Wing. How many owners expressed interest in it?
^^ Definitely Top Gear:




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Originally Posted by Ed Hughes

One can't help but wonder what this race may look like in another 10 years.
New video of what it looked like 30 years ago...

9Magazine.com's "Vintage LeMans Footage Posted To Porsche Channel Featuring the 956:"

Originally Posted by 9 Magazine
June 15, 2012

The 80th Anniversary of the 24hrs of LeMans and what better way to enjoy this milestone with some vintage Porsche racing footage! Porsche has recently posted some LeMans footage on their youtube channel for us all to enjoy!

In this clip from 1982 the brand-new Porsche 956 celebrates an impressive triple victory. Get behind the scenes in this contemporary documentation which shows a rare glimpse of Porsche wind testing the new 956 body design overseen by then Porsche CEO Peter Schutz.

Originally Posted by Porsche Channel
Published on Jun 14, 2012 by Porsche

Get behind the scenes in this contemporary documentation.

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An interesting thing to me is that the Deltawing is built by Dan Gurney's AAR shop in California.
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You have to hand it to audi. These men know how to build race cars and strategize race teams.
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And they seem to have the new Dream team on the rise to replace Kristensen, McNish & Capello.
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I was quite surprised that the LMP1 Audis were allowed to be so aggressive in their passing of the other class cars. It was sad to see the Deltawing "Batman" car go out so soon after the start of the race and the Corvette pit crew "Oh Oh!! Oh ****" moment when he forgot to install the wheel nut! Can't wait to see the Porsche 918 compete at LeMan.
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Originally Posted by H.H.Chinn
I was quite surprised that the LMP1 Audis were allowed to be so aggressive in their passing of the other class cars. It was sad to see the Deltawing "Batman" car go out so soon after the start of the race and the Corvette pit crew "Oh Oh!! Oh ****" moment when he forgot to install the wheel nut! Can't wait to see the Porsche 918 compete at LeMan.
Racing is racing. Unless they are to hit or cause a wreck, there is nothing to tell them how to drive, unless they continue to cause a stir-then they'd get a warning first, penalty or removal the next steps. Le Mans always seems to let things go more than other races. I didn't see anything crazy out of Audi-except maybe McNish's pass of the Toyota on the first lap, the same place he piled it in last year.
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Originally Posted by H.H.Chinn
I was quite surprised that the LMP1 Audis were allowed to be so aggressive in their passing of the other class cars. It was sad to see the Deltawing "Batman" car go out so soon after the start of the race and the Corvette pit crew "Oh Oh!! Oh ****" moment when he forgot to install the wheel nut! Can't wait to see the Porsche 918 compete at LeMan.
It was a Toyota that punted the Deltawing.
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Old 06-18-2012, 11:14 AM
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Awesome race!

Funny to think just 10 years ago I was working in Venezuela during the race and my wife set and fed 6 hour VHS tapes into the VCR for the entire race for me to watch when I returned. How technology has advanced!

Can't wait to see Porsche and Audi go at!
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