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Old 24 Jul 2016, 13:44 (Ref:3660654)   #126
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This does not look good for Toyota for the rest of the year. Time to scrap this year and put on the thinking cap maybe...
Hope that's not the case.

Meanwhile Audi seems to have sorted the issues with their car. In the last three races, at least one of their cars had already made a trip to the garage at this point.
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Old 24 Jul 2016, 13:45 (Ref:3660655)   #127
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Yeah. He said the car isn't working well with the tyres and they are down on pace. It isn't strategy.
Sounds better than "aero not good enough"...
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Old 24 Jul 2016, 13:45 (Ref:3660657)   #128
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Unexpected FCY gives a huge advantage to the 2 Porsche!
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Old 24 Jul 2016, 13:45 (Ref:3660658)   #129
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FCY incoming? I know there was some fluid down on the track somewhere.

#2 gets in the pits just before the FCY, so it helps them a lot.
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Old 24 Jul 2016, 13:46 (Ref:3660660)   #130
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2 has went from absolutely no where to leading by a massive margin.
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Old 24 Jul 2016, 13:46 (Ref:3660661)   #131
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#2 just gained a LOAD of time
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Old 24 Jul 2016, 13:47 (Ref:3660663)   #132
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FCY incoming? I know there was some fluid down on the track somewhere.
Debris. Pieces of bodywork.

Toyota #5 took a new nose. Coincidence?

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#2 just gained a LOAD of time
Luck of the champions?

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The 6 also stops under FCY
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Old 24 Jul 2016, 13:49 (Ref:3660664)   #133
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Sounds better than "aero not good enough"...
Yeah, that's always something.
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Old 24 Jul 2016, 13:50 (Ref:3660665)   #134
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The #2 have a had a lot of luck this year. Inherited the Silverstone win, came second at Spa despite a malfuctioning hybrid, the last lap win at LM and now this.
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Old 24 Jul 2016, 13:50 (Ref:3660666)   #135
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Stupid FCY screwing up the race again...
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Old 24 Jul 2016, 13:52 (Ref:3660667)   #136
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That's racing. If the FCY was for an accident then I'd understand it but a debris FCY that changes the lead is a bit poor. But that's racing, there's 3 hours to go.
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chance seems not to be with audi even when they have the car finally sorted out and fast.
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Old 24 Jul 2016, 13:55 (Ref:3660670)   #138
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Not much else that could be done in that situation, no other race neutralisation would have prevented the #2 from taking advantage seeing as it was on pit road just before the FCY was called.

Back to a 2-on-2 for the lead, but from here the Porsches definitely have the edge.
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Old 24 Jul 2016, 13:57 (Ref:3660671)   #139
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They're calling FCY for almost every little incident that happens.
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Not much else that could be done in that situation, no other race neutralisation would have prevented the #2 from taking advantage seeing as it was on pit road just before the FCY was called.

Back to a 2-on-2 for the lead, but from here the Porsches definitely have the edge.
If they'd waiting about 90 seconds for the FCY then it'd have neutralised it without changing the race order.
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Old 24 Jul 2016, 14:00 (Ref:3660676)   #141
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If they'd waiting about 90 seconds for the FCY then it'd have neutralised it without changing the race order.
True, but then it might have changed something for LMP2, or one of the GT classes.
It can never be perfect, sadly...
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If they'd waiting about 90 seconds for the FCY then it'd have neutralised it without changing the race order.
But then you're making safety calls on the basis of how they affect the race, which is not a position I think race control should ever be in.

Unpopular as it may be, I'm going to trust Freitas et al on this one and assume they dealt with the debris as quickly as they could have.
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True, but then it might have changed something for LMP2, or one of the GT classes.
It can never be perfect, sadly...
This is why they usually give a countdown to the FCY and announce it a minute early. They didn't do that for this one which was odd. That's why the placement and implementation seems weird.
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But then you're making safety calls on the basis of how they affect the race, which is not a position I think race control should ever be in.

Unpopular as it may be, I'm going to trust Freitas et al on this one and assume they dealt with the debris as quickly as they could have.
I do agree what what you're saying but the debris was there for over 3-4 minutes anyway. So it wasn't an immediate safety car and missed the countdown to the FCY we're used to seeing.
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I do agree what what you're saying but the debris was there for over 3-4 minutes anyway. So it wasn't an immediate safety car and missed the countdown to the FCY we're used to seeing.
I can agree with that, the first I/we/anyone knew would have been the feed switching to the official with the board ready to go out. If they were monitoring the situation ardently then the lack of a countdown was an unusual (and in this case, detrimental) omission.

Tor Graves just got very lucky in the esses, that could have ended with a hard shunt into the tyres!
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Old 24 Jul 2016, 14:06 (Ref:3660682)   #146
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I'm a bit curious about Strakka. They have never impressed me that much, but today they have looked real good. But, how come they slide down so low in between the highs?
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