The Brewmeister

Not as cool as the Pink Pig. That graphics scheme is so ugly that it's cool, and they won the class!
Hope one of the model companies makes it in 1/18 scale.

The Brewmeister

He spun the Corvette of Tommy Milner with only a few minutes left in the race at Long Beach in 2016. He put himself (the 912) out of the race while the 911 car squeezed through and went on to win.

LexVan

Slightly off topic, but I figured you guys would know best. Did you notice what the Pink Pig was doing on it's victory lap? It was driving w a y off the race line to deliberately pick up race rubber and rubber debris. The announcer said they did this to help raise the car for tech inspection at the end of the race. This is REALLY a concern? I didn't see Toyota doing that. I didn't see Dr. McDreamy's car doing that. Strange.

PGas32

Not sure if it actually makes a difference, but I know that F1 cars do the same to try to pick up some weight.

Scooby921

Yeah, I think it's more weight than ride height. Pick up a bunch of rubber bits on the tires to add a few pounds just to add margin at post-race scrutineering.



​​​​​​Didn't someone punt Magnussen as they came to the finish line at Laguna Seca a few years ago as well? Not sure who / what the other driver and car were. I just remember a big battle and the Corvette hitting a wall meters from the finish line.

LexVan

Thank you guys. But it seems like if it was a weight thing, it would have been a lot easier to add an extra gallon of fuel to the final "splash & go" pit stop. The announcer specifically said to "raise the ride height". Oh well.

Thundermoose

Saw the same thing at PWC broadcast at LRP.

Bull_D

As mentioned in the original post, some of the defending was just that....hard defending. But I respectfully disagree that all of it was just business as usual. If you watched the WHOLE battle, there are times when Bourdais had car overlap and was pushed across several lanes of public road and onto the grass/dirt. THAT is not defending. When the situation was reversed during this battle, Bourdais defended hard, but made only one move and always left a car width to the edge of the track. In his post stint interview his irritation was pretty clear.

My993C2

The race in the LMP2, GTE PRO and GTE AM classes was good. But with only 4 LMP1 cars in the field, 2 being uber fast Hybrids and 2 not. It was a snoozer of a race up front. So yeah LMP1s were irrelevant.

Congrats to Toyota, congrats to Fernando (who now has 2 of the three triple crown racing achievements), but for them to win this year, it is not the same as when Toyota actually had another car to compete against.

The technology behind the Hybrid cars is awesome, but it's also too expensive. Something needs to happen if LMP1 cars do not go the way of the Dodo birds.

My993C2

I remember that. It was one of the best race finishes ever at least for us fans.

al@cpt

https://www.motorsport.com/lemans/vi...erview-110924/

K964

cosm3os

You don't want to carry the weight during the race, you just want to have it after the race!

Streak

Huh? I must have missed that.

Speeds5

He's complaining about BOP now? really? Sour grapes if you ask me.