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Great race as always at Le Mans. Happy for Porsche, Happy for Huelkenberg and now of to bed

I'm most disappointed at not even coming close to 100 pages.

TBH this year's was good but not great.

iono, I liked this one more than last year. For almost half of the race we had 6 cars still in the hunt for the win, with 3/4 of them within 3 minutes. Same for GTE Pro.

I've slept 1,5h and still feel pretty fresh. Means that it was pretty damn exciting enough to keep me up

Yeah that's on point, first half was great. But a lot of good fights where cut short halfway in the race. Especially in classes like P1 and GTE-Pro (I don't care that much about P2 and GTE-AM), it made the second half not as exciting.

Would still give it a 8, but I guess we have been spoiled too much in the last years with the exciting lasting till the end .

is been 24 years since the last time a full time F1 driver won Le Mans

glad Porsche still knows how to do it, Norbert Singer must be very proud

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263 500 spectators over the weekend, which is a record (of course)

From the BBC. This is what Hindhaugh was talking about. So many people just talking about Hülkenberg as if Tandy & Bamber did not participate, ugh.

You're wrong.

All the mainstream media care about is Patrick Dempsey

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24 Heures du Amateurs

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This would only better if Le Mans was mispelled, "Le Man" etc.

I was pretty shocked with Toyota. They really got it wrong this time and were never competitive.

I had also expected to see the new Nissan a little closer. Obviously they were never going to be close to the Top 5, but still to see them that far is a little discouraging.

I suppose there will be some unhappy people in the boardroom in Tokyo of both companies this morning.

Le Men

I saw it spelt Le Mon

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Apparently that was actually a press release by the Associated Press, which makes it a whole lot worse. *facepalm*

I agree with you. The race was not boring but wasn't that exciting either. I only got hooked to it because I'm a diehard fan. I wasn't expecting a great race, though. I knew that the chances of them spreading out would be much bigger on a 24 h race. On the WEC races, 6 h is relatively too short, so we get them closer together fighting it out. Silverstone and Spa were absolute 10/10 races, so you can't expect Le Mans would be on par. This race was like a 6 to me.

No surprise BBC covered Le Mans that way. UK, as every other country I know, is a fanboy country with very little appreciation for racing. When there is a boring british driver domination, F1 rating reaches it's peak there. When there is a fierce battle between two foreigners, rating drops massively.

All the average Joe knows about is pretty much F1, so it's understable they cover it that way.

For reference, Le Mans had 150-170k peak viewers and average of 70k on UK Eurosport, in the last years. Indy 500 had 23k viewers even when Franchitti won it. F1 currently reaches 700k on Sky and the highlights on BBC is said to achieve 2 million viewers

If there was no F1 driver(known to the big public like Webber and Hulk), very likely Le Mans wouldn't have been even mentioned on BBC. Afterall, journalism is just a business like any other.

Great run from the 64 Vette, albeit in a greatly depleted category. Still, you have to make it 24hrs and there was stiff competition for a long while.

Say what you want about Dempsey, but that team performed well and had Porsche support and were running in P3 on merit when the lead Aston ran out of talent and promoted everyone a spot.

Audi, well, can't win'em all.

Toyota, pathetic really. I always get the feeling that they just don't devote enough resources here. They did once ('99) but bad luck got them. Now, I don't know. The Japanese manufacturers seem to fall on their face a bit when they leave the islands. Great engines (mostly) but when they have to build the whole car they just never seem to get it all together.

Nissan, year one. Get the hybrid together and working right then I'll judge. Mostly though, see the back half of the Toyota rant.

Despite my best spamming efforts through the night

I enjoyed the race for the most part, but I'm a little ashamed to admit that I was mostly focused on LMP1. The other classes pretty much only got a passing glance every now and then. Having said that, I don't think I've managed to keep such a close eye on the actual race before, and that played a large part in my enjoyment. Part of me thinks I might enjoy hanging out in a control centre opposite the pits for 24 hours, so I can see with my own eyes if a car is taking on fuel/tyres/new driver

Having been largely out of the motor racing loop for the past year, Le Mans was just the ticket. From hereon out, I vow to at least follow sportscars more closely. Certainly keeping an eye out on the developments with the GT class(es).