Le Mans 2024

Ferrari also lucky not to be penalised for a clear unsafe release 🤷‍♂️

Ferrari win for the second year in a row, further underlining the fact that Toyota can only win when there isn’t any competition.

Great race overall- so many cars in the fight in the last couple of hours- Hypercar is really delivering good racing.

Well that was wet and quite often cold too. We called it a night at 4am as the heavy rain started and the safety car came out. Kept the noise down at the campsite though 😆.

I’m looking forward to seeing some highlights as the weather meant there was a lot going on which I didn’t see (apart from the 4 hours of SC)

First time I’ve ever known a safety car have to pit for fuel…

Ferrari win for the second year in a row, further underlining the fact that Toyota can only win when there isn’t any competition.

that depends on whether competition means punting the likely leader into the sidelines to only get a 5s penalty for a 30s gain 🤣. Was decent spectacle and I probably watched more than enough. Sad for the privateer Ferrari though.

The Ferrari factory team will have to be careful, Fred Vasseur was there, no doubt talent spotting for his little project.

That penalty just seemed like a total joke but I don’t know the penalty rules well enough to know if they had much choice. A penalty that still leaves you with the advantage just isn’t a penalty at all, it’s like those £10000 fines they give sewage companies.

But a good if very disrupted race, and ridiculously tight at the end. Hypercar is bloody awesome now. Just a shame that the worst conditions came at the worst time, wet + dark must be incredibly difficult. I did like those spells when they were all mixed up on tyres and suddenly a hypercar on drys was barely faster than a GT because they’re so crippled at low speed (and I think the GT class has driver aids?)

I’d love to actualyl go one year but that looked pretty miserable 🙂 Plus, it always seems like you almost need the first year just to learn how to even spectate?

I’d love to actualyl go one year but that looked pretty miserable

Miserable? It was ace. Loads of wine, beer, cheese, BBQs, live music and a bit of car racing 🙂

Have to agree that 5 sec penalty for Ferrari didn’t seem enough!

Porsche over filled their no6 car on the last pit stop, I think they had 26% energy left at the end.if they’d put in 20% less fuel they’d have got on the podium.

Have to say i think the Ferrari penalty was OK. For me a racing incident and as it was at the point where the conditions were changing it probably played into their hands

if they caused a collision then it should be at least a drive through.  Hypercar is great though.  Apart from the useful SC interlude to get some snooze there was stuff going on all the time.

Spectating is easy provided you’re prepared for the camping side.  that was one of the worst weather weeks I’ve had there but it wasnt even that bad with the worst weather over the race.  But we have a gazebo to hide in and wet weather gear for when it rains trackside.  the last couple of years have been mid heat wave and have been unpleasant in other ways.