24 Hours of Le Mans 2016

[fordification]

 

[07XL0027]

Good Luck Ford

 

[partssmann]

Coverage of race is excellent on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq8Slcs84Ic . remember First On Race Day (FORD).

 

[BlackICE]

Coverage of race is excellent on www.fordperformanace.tv . remember First On Race Day (FORD).

Seems like a dead link.

 

[MAD IN NC]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq8Slcs84Ic

 

[BlackICE]

https://fordperformancelive.fordlivead.com/

This one lets you selected which FGT to view from an on board camera.

 

[KJRGT]

https://fordperformancelive.fordlivead.com/

This one lets you selected which FGT to view from an on board camera.

Thanks Clinton. Awesome way to follow the race!

 

[fordification]

What a race!
Congrats to all the winners!
And to FORD for finishing 1st and 3rd!

 

[KJD]

Amazing endurance race, amazing men and machines!

Congratulations to Ford, very, very strong work!

All guts, much glory!!

 

[Saint Ho]

FORD IS BACK !

Ford succeeded his return in the class GTLM PRO, 50 years after the victory of 1966.
The four cars are involved on arrival.
- The top three have te FIRST, THIRD and FOURTH places. (Note that Ferrari ranked second, will most likely downgraded for not complying with an order of the race stewards, which forced it to go into the pits to repair a door that would not close more).

Comments and pictures on my return to Paris.

 

[FrankBarba]

I herd that they slapped Ferrari with a penalty because the dots would not light up indication of placing 2nd.

 

[SYCO GT]

Ford.

FIRST ON RACE DAY! The only thing that matters when all is said and done.

 

[LOVE CHP]

Ford.

FIRST ON RACE DAY! The only thing that matters when all is said and done.

I agree! We returned with family from Hawaii at midnight and I stayed up till 6am (3 pm) LeMans time to watch finish. So worth it to see the GTs win and place 1,3,4. Hope Ford keeps racing and winning. Great company and very nice family (Ford) . Thank you!

 

[Saint Ho]

W lived a HISTORIC DAY.
Thank you to Ford and all its teams.

 

[fordification]

Here's the end of the race. If you look at 3:45, the 68 passes the Porsche and Alpine and then slows down to get over taken. I wonder if that was for a more suiting photo finish. At first I thought something happened to the 68 but then realized they weren't reporting anything so must've been decided.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy1BtPEEjEQ

 

[FordGTGuy]

I love the logic that the Risi team should be allowed to ignore a mandatory pit and only receive a 20-second penalty because there was only 20 minutes left in the race.

What kind of precedent does that make?

What about the teams that complied with the mandatory pit in order to repair the AOC provided lights?

Are teams now just going to ignore mandatory pits just so they can take the lesser punishment of 20-seconds? A drive through of the pit is longer than that. Why should a team that ignores a mandatory pit rather then complying with it receive the lesser punishment?

 

[fordification]

Probably something to do with it only being 20 minutes left.

 

[BlackICE]

Probably something to do with it only being 20 minutes left.

What is there an exception to the rules during the last 20 minutes? :confused

 

[fordification]

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[stuntman]

I love the logic that the Risi team should be allowed to ignore a mandatory pit and only receive a 20-second penalty because there was only 20 minutes left in the race.

What kind of precedent does that make?

What about the teams that complied with the mandatory pit in order to repair the AOC provided lights?

Are teams now just going to ignore mandatory pits just so they can take the lesser punishment of 20-seconds? A drive through of the pit is longer than that. Why should a team that ignores a mandatory pit rather then complying with it receive the lesser punishment?

Real bummer the 66 stopped to fix their lights and lost 2 laps. Should have been a Ford 1-2-3