[ELMS Race] 2016 ELMS Round 5: 4h of Spa-Francorchamps

[Akrapovic]

The list of P2 teams that got that wrong is embarrassing.

[J Jay]

Fuel only for Greaves and Jota, both drivers staying on board. Full change (Beche) for TDS. Wirth leads from Dries Vanthoor.

[Ephaeton]

Originally Posted by J Jay

(...) the other LMP2s should be pitting ASAP.

Yeah nice queue of P2s into the pits on the restart

[tux]

The G drive car went over the white line on pit exit didn't it? If not it was very close to doing it.

[Akrapovic]

Dolan stays onboard the 38, with old tyres. Unless something odd happens, their chance to win is gone.

[J Jay]

And now SMP pits. How wrong can you get?

Dries Vanthoor leads. Going quickly, but Beche on new tyres is flying.

[Ephaeton]

Dries, meanwhile, posts the fastest lap of WRT so far.


..and Becche replies with the fastest lap overall so far.

[J Jay]

Originally Posted by Ephaeton

Dries, meanwhile, posts the fastest lap of WRT so far.

The silver driver who is faster than everyone apart from Lapierre and Beche (both on new tyres as well)!

When his racecraft is sorted Dries should be as good as Laurens.

[Ephaeton]

Originally Posted by J Jay

The silver driver who is faster than everyone apart from Lapierre and Beche (both on new tyres as well)!

When his racecraft is sorted Dries should be as good as Laurens.

What better training for sorting his racecraft than a further P2 ELMS WRT campaign... (*hopeful*)

Dolan doing well in the meantime to slow TDS' Becche's charge (but, for how much longer? Camel straight coming up...)

...and Becche is through, costing Dolan a diveplane.

whoa, Coletti overtaking both while they're squabbling.

[J Jay]

Ben Hanley is also going really quickly, catching Dries by almost a second a lap.

Heroic driving from Dolan, who still has Beche behind while lapping heavy traffic.

Originally Posted by Ephaeton

What better training for sorting his racecraft than a further P2 ELMS WRT campaign... (*hopeful*)

Well they've got the money to do ELMS and Blancpain (particularly if Stevens stays on), so yeah - make it happen Vosse!

[gert]

Dolan doing a Verstappen on the Kemmel straight....

[J Jay]

Both Graff LMP3s pinged for thinking they're in an IMSA race.

Shaping up for a Laurens Vanthoor/Nicolas Lapierre fight for the victory. It looks like everyone else is too far back and stuck in traffic.

[Akrapovic]

Canal making no effort to defend. TDS up another spot.

[Ephaeton]

Originally Posted by J Jay

Shaping up for a Laurens Vanthoor/Nicolas Lapierre fight for the victory.

You think? 76 s separate the two cars atm, and there's half a P2 field between them

[J Jay]

Let's not forget that JMW are yet again making a mockery of the ACO's decision to leave them out of Le Mans.

Originally Posted by Ephaeton

You think? 76 s separate the two cars atm, and there's half a P2 field between them

I've got them 18s apart on timing, 1st and 2nd. Were you thinking of Beche (TDS) by any chance?

[Akrapovic]

Originally Posted by J Jay

Let's not forget that JMW are yet again making a mockery of the ACO's decision to leave them out of Le Mans.

Yeah but we needed space for 12 Ford GTs.

Dolan around.

[Ephaeton]

Originally Posted by J Jay

Let's not forget that JMW are yet again making a mockery of the ACO's decision to leave them out of Le Mans.

Remember they had to make sure those sandbag-less fords were winning ;D
*removes his conspiracy hat* (not sure if [/sarcasm] is needed as well)

[Ephaeton]

Originally Posted by J Jay

I've got them 18s apart on timing, 1st and 2nd.

Apologies, I had mentally placed Lapierre in the TDS.

[Akrapovic]

AF Corse Ferrari trying to run another LMP2 driver off the road. Again. Are we due another angry GT driver rant?

[Akrapovic]

Jota pitting with over am hour to go. So they need yet another stop.

[Ospi]

Oops no lights

[J Jay]

I wonder if Dries is saving fuel. DragonSpeed are definitely good for one more stop, but WRT pitted some laps before them (albeit also under SC), so they may have to stretch it to get to 45 minutes to go. Laps 76 is going to be the cut-off, so we'll see who gets there.

Edit - Coletti round the outside of Lafargue into the Bus Stop.

[gert]

And then held up by a P3 ... 28 back past

[Ephaeton]

Originally Posted by Ospi

Oops no lights

Assuming you were refering to the #32, race control has caught up with that as well

[Akrapovic]

Cameraman assumed the SMP would pit for the lights there. I assume they're trying to stretch to a pit stop.

Panis Barthez has only one light. No problem warning?