Auto Racing Discussion Thread

[heywoodu 14,940]

Rain!

[Monzanator 4,475]

@heywoodu@Olympian1010 ByKolles is the laughing stock of LMP1 hands down. They never finished LeMans IIRC including some epic fumbles like the opening lap clusterfuck in 2017.

 

LMP1 is only marginally better than Colin Kolles' tenure at Hispania Racing Team   He made Gunther Schmidt of ATS fame look like Enzo Ferrari!

[heywoodu 14,940]

8 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

@heywoodu@Olympian1010 ByKolles is the laughing stock of LMP1 hands down. They never finished LeMans IIRC including some epic fumbles like the opening lap clusterfuck in 2017.

 

LMP1 is only marginally better than Colin Kolles' tenure at Hispania Racing Team   He made Gunther Schmidt of ATS fame look like Enzo Ferrari!

7th and 9th in their debut year  

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ByKolles_Racing

 

Today I Learned Christijan Albers apparently has raced at Le Mans. Huh.

[Olympian1010 7,951]

37 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Rain!

Le Mans rarely fails in that reguard. 

[heywoodu 14,940]

And now ByKolles is officially done: the garage door is closed.

[Monzanator 4,475]

38 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

7th and 9th in their debut year  

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ByKolles_Racing

 

Today I Learned Christijan Albers apparently has raced at Le Mans. Huh.

 

11 years ago? No wonder I didn't remember that

 

That's an impressive run of futility considering how relaibility has improved in XXI century

[heywoodu 14,940]

The car stopped on track, the driver exited the car and phone called his team. A member of the team met the driver and supplied a component which the driver fitted to the car. The car was then able to continue. During the hearing the team representative admitted to these facts. He also stated that the car would not have been able to continue without this fix. This is a breach of Art. 12.3.9 of 24 Hours of Le Mans Supplementary Regulations. The penalty in the Regulations is  disqualification.

 

That's it for the #37. Fighting for the win for a good amount of hours, but they had already fallen far behind after spending more than an hour in pit lane.

[heywoodu 14,940]

Possible engine problems for the so far absolutely dominant #7 Toyota, which isn't going faster than 300km/h on the straights.

[heywoodu 14,940]

And there is the #7, backwards into the box for checks and repairs.

[heywoodu 14,940]

More than 10 minutes later and now the #1 Rebellion has taken second place from #7, which already lost the lead to the #8.