[WEC Race] WEC 2017 Round 1: Silverstone

[Akrapovic]

Toyota swapped the cars, Buemi not impressed or happy with it.

[Akrapovic]

The highlight clips are so cringy now as Moody doesn't know what he's looking at. he's just filling the time with white noise.

[Gingers4Justice]

Give McNish a pint of coffee and he could do this commentary job perfectly well on his own.

He's meant to be there as a pundit, but it's embarrassing how he also happens to be better on commentating on what's actually happening on screen.

[kvenom]

Porsche are a lot better on tires.

[bentley speed 8]

Originally Posted by MaskedRacer

So who has the leg up in GTE right now?

I think all teams in GTE Pro are trying to save tires rather than running flatout. At the start, the Fords looked quite uncatchable, but then the Porsches and Ferraris got much closer. The Aston Martin are the back, but still close enough to strike if anything happens at the front

[Akrapovic]

Feel quite bad for Brundle. That car is a lap down because Cheng was so much slower than the rest of the P2 grid.

[J Jay]

This race seems to be blowing the doors off more than a couple of cars.

[Akrapovic]

Rough defense by Mr Thirriet there. Good pass by DHH.

[Akrapovic]

Every time we see Conway he's off at Copse. Going to have to be careful.

Toyota moving away from Porsche again.

[J Jay]

Conway lets Buemi past. Buemi then almost loses the car after being told to pit just after exiting Stowe.

[Akrapovic]

Buemi might be been speeding there. Very close.

[J Jay]

Possible broken anti-roll bar for the #7. Conway out, Kobayashi in.

[Akrapovic]

If it is a broken ARB then they aren't fixing it this time. Wonder if it was a slow puncture or something.

[J Jay]

Hirschi and DHH come together out of the loop. Both go onto the grass.

[Akrapovic]

7 hasn't pitted this time round so no rushing to fix the reported ARB problem.

[Akrapovic]

Wurz says there is several issues with the 7, but it's still being investigated. Also a software issue.

[J Jay]

The #7's issues have dropped it to 3rd; Bernhard now 2nd.

[Akrapovic]

Tandy by far the fastest LMP1 right now.

[TzeiTzei]

After watching IMSA races WEC feels like a very pure form of endurance racing. No safety cars, no wave-bys, just racing.

[Akrapovic]

273kmh for Toyota on hanger straight.

[J Jay]

Porsches' long stint pace is excellent - both 919s are catching the #8.

[sssssssss]

very weird, the toyota seems to have a higher top speed in HD than the porsche in LD on the straights here. indeed, the rake of the porsche is very exaggerated and that alone probably penalizes their top speed and adding downforce, but it's weird how slow the LD porsche is at the end of the straights.

[AndreasDavour]

Someone on twitter might suggest to the rlm crew they send one of their pitcrew to ask Toyota about #7 back axle problem. They seem clueless.

[Gingers4Justice]

Originally Posted by sssssssss

very weird, the toyota seems to have a higher top speed in HD than the porsche in LD on the straights here. indeed, the rake of the porsche is very exaggerated and that alone probably penalizes their top speed and adding downforce, but it's weird how slow the LD porsche is at the end of the straights.

It depends on where the speed traps are though, of course.

Speed traps are an increasingly inaccurate measure of how fast cars are on the straights. If the cars lift and coast, they often don't measure the cars' peak speed anyway, but just as signicant as pure peak speed is how quickly a car reaches its top speed, and for how long it stays there.

[sssssssss]

sure. i was referring to the speeds seen on the live onboard telemetry.