Both are now out which is a shame as Max brought more attention to it and it's always a disappointment if the Dacia goes out. N24 is one of my favourite races.
Liking the M3 touring this year
it’s been good fun following the N24 - not a Max fan, but it’s a shame he’s out; he’s brought so much positive publicity to GT racing. It’s also shown just what a talent he is - seems he can jump into anything and go faster than anyone else!
Not really, they are driving totally different cars on a track the other drivers have driven on and raced on lots, Max has done some testing there but not anywhere near the amount of laps the regualr drivers have put in.
I really don’t get the fuss about max doing this. I know the content click creators are making as much as possible from it for income but I don’t get it. As it is he broke the car driving too hard and didn’t even finish despite the other amg cars winning the race.
Is a legitimate source saying that he actually broke the car?
It didn’t break on his stint did it! I just liked the fact that he did it - it’s so rare that F1 drivers do other things and show their talent compared to other top non F1 drivers - it shows what a step up they actually are in my view
Is a legitimate source saying that he actually broke the car?
It broke on his team mates second lap after max had done his stint
Are they really a step up in terms of ability? How come it has always been the case that rich dads have talented sons who can drive well? What sort of gene pool is that? Surely if you took a whole bunch of random council kids, gave them the best cars available and told them that they were brilliant for 20 years, just perhaps a good number of them will be? F1 drivers are good, but I'm not convinced that such talents couldn't be replicated outside of their small worlds.
It broke on his team mates second lap after max had done his stint
Ok, given that a lap is 10miles, when is the cut-off where it wouldn’t have been Max’s fault any longer? Also, it’s endurance racing (at the Nurburgring of all places), stuff breaks. I’m still to see anywhere other than comments sections saying that he broke the car.
Have a read of Bounce by Matthew Syed, does a good job of explaining this.Are they really a step up in terms of ability? How come it has always been the case that rich dads have talented sons who can drive well? What sort of gene pool is that? Surely if you took a whole bunch of random council kids, gave them the best cars available and told them that they were brilliant for 20 years, just perhaps a good number of them will be? F1 drivers are good, but I'm not convinced that such talents couldn't be replicated outside of their small worlds.
How come it has always been the case that rich dads have talented sons who can drive well? What sort of gene pool is that? Surely if you took a whole bunch of random council kids, gave them the best cars available and told them that they were brilliant for 20 years, just perhaps a good number of them will be?
Check this out. ROb Smedley reckons much the same and is trying to do something about it :
It broke on his team mates second lap after max had done his stint
Ok, given that a lap is 10miles, when is the cut-off where it wouldn’t have been Max’s fault any longer? Also, it’s endurance racing (at the Nurburgring of all places), stuff breaks. I’m still to see anywhere other than comments sections saying that he broke the car.
Given that it was the only AMG to break a drive shaft. Assuming they are all built to the same spec and installed by equally competent mechanics then the only difference your left with is the drivers. It is reported that Max came into the driver swap and said the car wasn’t right and the next driver went out hoping to drive round the problem.
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Assuming they are all built to the same spec and installed by equally competent mechanics then the only difference your left with is the drivers.
Even the best mechanics make mistakes, they are human, humans make mistakes.
Race cars are built to the absolute limit of performance. Ideally, they are just strong enough to finish the race, but no stronger. Any manufacturing is done to tolerances - the parts aren't identical, they vary slightly around spec. Even though the parts are built to the same spec, some will fail sooner and some will fail later, but it's impossible to predict the exact failure time of an individual component. To get absolute performance, you need to set an acceptable failure rate above zero. If you are running a three car team, having one car fail per race on average is probably worth it. So, just because the car broke soon after Max handed it over doesn't mean that Max broke the car. Bad luck is more likely.
Given that it was the only AMG to break a drive shaft. Assuming they are all built to the same spec and installed by equally competent mechanics then the only difference your left with is the drivers. It is reported that Max came into the driver swap and said the car wasn’t right and the next driver went out hoping to drive round the problem.
That’s not how failures work I’m afraid. Otherwise plane would all fall out of the sky because one had an issue once.
That article you link to doesn’t even blame Max, but does mention that the clash happened hours before the car gave out.
It’s endurance racing, stuff happens all the time and it can be anywhere between the first hour and the last
I've just returned from attending the race.
I cannot recommend this event highly enough.
The atmosphere between Karussell and Pflanzgarten during the night was magical.
It felt like a German Glastonbury.
tell us more! Sounds amazing, would love to go. We went to the Spa 6hr WEC race which was excellent but the N24 is really eye catching!
I'm also going to the Spa 24 in late June, so see how that compares.
Is about 90 mins from Spa (which you may drive past depending on your route)
Fairly cheap to attend. The full weekend tickets were €75 and full weekend camping was €90.
Ok, you have to add in the channel crossing + fuel, but its way less than going to Silverstone.
Fully open grandstands and paddock, so all the access you could ever need.
You can also stand at the side of the track at Hatzenbach for a parade lap if you wanted to.
Shuttle busses from the main camping area to various parts of the circuit.
Its held on a German bank holiday, so a lot of people make a week of it, and they certainly put the effort it.
Self built grandstands, fire pits, barbeques , TVs streaming the race, techno blaring out, fireworks and flares galore over night.
If you wanted to camp in the popular areas you'd need to get there on the tues/wed and need to be prepared for all the weather. At one point it was snowing!!
It sold out this year, and given the increasing popularity of the event (plus the poor F1 product - I can't be bothered watching it this year) i'd expect it to sell out again.
sounds like a cracking trip!!
Tsunoda rumored to be replacing Ocon?
GPFANS.COM Apparently Ollie Bearman and Yuki aren't exactly best mates either - I think as the result of some driving that Bearman described as dangerous at United States GP last year. Should be fun times.
