FIA WEC 6 Hours of Nurburgring

[Sinovac]

Practice starts today

http://performance.ford.com/series/...erman.html?cks=1849177721&emailid=FP_FASTNEWS

 

[Sinovac]

Live timing

http://live.fiawec.com

 

[Cobrar]

Most critical turn on the circuit IMO is the last turn onto the main straight. Done incorrectly, it kills an entire (last lap) time. But when you do it correctly, you sure feel/know it!

 

[dbk]

The remaining schedule for the weekend:

Saturday July 23

Free Practice 3 - 09:15

Qualifying

Saturday July 23 - 14:15

Sunday July 24

Race - 13:00

Results from Free Practice 2:

97 Aston Martin Racing 1:56.908
51 AF Corse 1:56.982
71 AF Corse 1:57.187
95 Aston Martin Racing 1:57.258
66 Ford CGR UK 1:57.461
67 Ford CGR UK 1:58.539
77 Dempsey Proton 1:58.923

Full Results

 

[Sinovac]

Thanks for cleaning up the thread title Dave.

 

[fordification]

Qualified P2 and P5. 66 car was P1 but went off at the end of qualifying and took top time.

 

[dbk]

Here we go. Coverage in the US is on FS1 for the full race.

 

[GKW05GT]

tuning in

 

[GKW05GT]

That was close

 

[dbk]

Jesus. That was no good. 67 remains star crossed.

Fuel spilled out during pit stop, caught fire right as Priaulx got in the car. Big flames. Luckily they were right there to put it out but a shame because the car was running well.

It's up to the 66. Neel Jani in the Porsche LMP1 lost control fighting against an Audi and clipped the front end of the 66 while Stefan Mücke was in. Knocked one of the dive planes off, so not sure how that's impacting the car's performance right now. Running in P3.

Aston #95 comically running away from the remainder of the GTE field.

 

[THamonGT]

Wow, Pit Fire, overspill refilling. Driver out of #67, OK. Car taken to garage. Looked like overflow cutoff valve malfunctioning.

 

[dbk]

 

[dbk]

67 is back out on the track after getting it cleaned up from the campfire.

 

[GKW05GT]

67 running competitive lap times with leaders after fire

 

[Cobrar]

Ferrari off course. Reset, return Ferarri to front. ;-))

 

[dbk]

And now it appears a Porsche was on fire in the pits.

 

[Ed Sims]

I just woke up & tuned in. It's early here in CA. A lot of drama already. Go Ford!

Ed

 

[dbk]

3 hours done, 3 hours to go.

#66 Ford GT P1
#95 Aston Martin P2
#51 Ferrari P3
#71 Ferrari P4
#77 Porsche P5
#97 Aston Martin P6
#67 Ford GT P7

Good racing. Mücke in the midst of another nice stint.

 

[Indy GT]

Most critical turn on the circuit IMO is the last turn onto the main straight. Done incorrectly, it kills an entire (last lap) time. But when you do it correctly, you sure feel/know it!

Rex, this is generally true at any track. The more speed you can carry onto the longest straight at a given track leads to the lowest track time (and highest speed at the end of the straight).

Thus the most critical turn on a track is the one leading to the straight away.:biggrin Just ask Andy (or Rocketman)....

 

[dbk]

Pretty good race so far. 66 Ford GT is on a different fuel strategy and is trying to finish on 1 fewer stop than everyone else. Currently P5, but Oli Pla is all over Darren Turner in the Aston Martin.