Ray S

Audi on Pole

http://www.autoweek.com/article/20110609/ALMS/110609839

http://www.lemans.org/en/races/24h/update.html

http://www.lizardms.com/index.htm

Lizards are 3rd and 12th

The Brewmeister

GT is broken down differently this year with GTE-Am and GTE-Pro. I assume that Pro is for teams with more experience (Pro Drivers) while Am is for drivers with less experience. Can anyone elaborate?

Ray S

The Lizards have one car in each.

Flying Lizard No. 81 3rd in GTE Am and No. 80 Qualifies 12th in GTE Pro for Le Mans

IcemanG17

Last I checked the M3 GT was on the pole for GT pro......impressive with so many fast cars in its class

The Brewmeister

I am aware the the Lizards have a car in each. I was curious about the rules change that split the GT class and what the rules are.

brendo

here you go - AM has to have 2 amateurs, unless the rules have been changed. i think seth neiman in the lizards is an amateur technically, but is spencer pumpelly or darren law???

http://www.lemans.org/en/news/2011-L...TIONS_628.html

put another way

http://green.autoblog.com/2010/06/14...ions-now-with/

f8vr993

Anyone with TV coverage info? Speed?

brendo

By JAKE LINGEMAN on 6/08/2011


It's a big weekend for racing in Formula One, NASCAR and IndyCar. But starting Saturday, all eyes will be on the 24 Hours of Le Mans at Circuit de la Sarthe in France. Fans will be able to catch every minute of the daylong race with help from Speed, Chevrolet, Audi and Twitter.

Speed will have its usual helping of coverage starting at 8:30 a.m. Eastern on Saturday. Catch up on the story lines for 30 minutes before watching the cars take off at 9 a.m. (3 p.m. at Le Mans). The first block of coverage runs until 11:30 a.m.

Speed picks the coverage back up at 3:30 p.m. Eastern as the track goes from daylight to dusk and dangerous. The middle block of coverage runs for five hours. Later, at 11 p.m. Eastern, Speed will cover the final 10 hours of the race.

For the few hours that the race isn't shown on television, race fans can call on Chevrolet for the details. The automaker will provide streaming footage from the Corvette C6.R driven by Olivier Beretta, Tommy Milner and Antonio Garcia at www.speedtv.com/corvette. The Web coverage will also include a video tour of the Le Mans circuit with commentary from Oliver Gavin.

Audi will provide coverage of all 24 hours at www.audi-microsites.com/lemans. The feed will consist of in-car footage for the three Audi R18s competing, along with telemetry such as track position, speed and selected gear. Every two hours, Audi will also provide a race summary.

Over on the social-networking site Twitter, AutoWeek digital editor Andy Stoy will be keeping up with the action @andrewstoy. And five-time Le Mans winner Emanuele Pirro will assess how the race is developing for Audi and the other makers. Web channel Audi.tv will also air race reports.


http://www.autoweek.com/article/20110608/ALMS/110609867

The Brewmeister

^Speedtv.com has the full schedule. Full 24 hour coverage either on TV or streaming internet video. Streaming video will fill the gaps when the TV coverage breaks away for more important things like NASCAR practice, sheesh..

f8vr993

Danke shon!

Ray S

Good breakdown of the GTE players here

http://early-apex.blogspot.com/2011/...o-preview.html

http://www.automobilsport.com/race-c...-2011,news.htm

stuttgart46

This might as well be Father's Day weekend. My TV is getting a workout this weekend.

Ed Hughes

I believe Pumpelly is in as an amateur, as he is a Le Mans rookie.

dpressley

free iPhone app... lemans.org

Spyderidol

The BMW's have 32 waivers from the ACO.(Among some which includes allowing them to move the engine back towards the center of the car) They have also received a huge restrictor break and running with 29.8mm restrictors (as compared with Porsche's 28.9mm) A huge difference!
This is due to the supposed Balance of Performance, but what the ACO has actually done, is totally unbalance the performance .A shame really!
It's all BMW's to loose really.