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Looks like it's going to be a close finish.
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Looks like the pressure got to the #4 ... although that Bimmer did itself no favours sticking to the middle of the track.
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Well it's not a close finish then after the Falken Porsche had an incident.
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25 Mar 2017, 14:55 (Ref:3721420) | #854 | |
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Dramatic finish.
I don't think the BMW did anything wrong. That's the racing line an the Am driver is going to be concentrating and committed at that point. Mercedes are all bunched up fighting each other. That's quite amusing. |
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If you run to a delta, you might just as well have some fun doing it.
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25 Mar 2017, 14:59 (Ref:3721424) | #856 | |
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Funny that the cars that are at the back of the GT3 packs are running together. BMW and Mercedes in fighting. The other cars have all spread out a bit.
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#50 WRT muscles past #28 Land Motorsport for 3rd.
Edit - the #28 got back past somewhere... Last edited by J Jay; 25 Mar 2017 at 15:11. |
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For VLN 1 race does all GT3 car in this race is apply B.O.P ??
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25 Mar 2017, 15:18 (Ref:3721434) | #859 | ||
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There is BoP but it's N'ring specific and there are also some slightly different aero regs...
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25 Mar 2017, 15:48 (Ref:3721439) | #860 | |
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Is the race going to be available on demand with the RLM comms does anyone know? Watched the first 30 mins and then had to go out!
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25 Mar 2017, 17:05 (Ref:3721447) | #861 | ||
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Video replay - don't think so, commentary feed - will be available in the RLM podcast archive as usual.
EDIT: Got ahead of myself. Stream replay is HERE: https://livestream.com/accounts/1866...deos/152586910 Last edited by Victor_RO; 25 Mar 2017 at 17:30. |
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26 Mar 2017, 03:14 (Ref:3721521) | #863 | ||
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Crying shame what happened to Falken Porsche in the last ten minutes to keep their record of not winning a VLN race intact. Congrats to Manthey, German team , German car, three French drivers! Close finish to for the Cup5 class which was quite exciting.
Many thanks to the Radiolemans guys for their English commentary, I didn't know that some GT3 teams moved the position of the rear wings. Interesting. |
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Its part of the 2017 VLN Regulations. From what I understood rear wing has either 10cm less width or placement to the front as a new rule. Also minimum height was increased to 70mm.
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AMG was definitely sandbagging. Porsche definitely were not. Bentley smelling blood so why not just go for a first-ever Nürburgring podium. Audi, not sure if they were sandbagging. I suspect they were. BMW not giving a **** and just testing set-ups and tyres and what not. |
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I noticed there was a small 'misunderstanding' on the Twitter yesterday after DriveTribe were accused of stealing RLM's content until the VLN people confirmed they did indeed have the rights to stream and post the content to YouTube (with the RLM crew seemingly unaware of the fact).
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29 Mar 2017, 17:16 (Ref:3722467) | #868 | ||
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VLN1 report: http://www.gt-report.com/2017/03/29/rites-of-spring/
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Also some words from Laurens Vanthoor about the reason for his crash and some other stuff including what makes the Nordschleife so exciting: http://www.gt-report.com/2017/03/30/...n-by-the-ring/
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And some photos for those who enjoy looking at such things: http://www.gt-report.com/2017/03/30/...-spring-pt-ii/
We actually did too many awesome photos, so tomorrow we'll have a second gallery with again that many photos and they're no outtakes, but a split gallery Interesting to note: VLN has banned confidential tyres but one driver told me he was testing tyres and didn't know if he was racing the selected tyre or a confidential tyre. And now VLN has yet to confirm the SP9/GT3 results because they're checking the tyres. Will be interesting to see if that brand was indeed not giving a **** about being taken out of the results if it meant they could test their tyres. |
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Does someone could confirm how many Audi R8 LMS on SP9 class was running on black colors???
#49 #50 #29 and ??? thxs in advance!!! |
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The #28 Land Audi was also in black.
What is the reason for this? I noticed a few of the BMWs were also running all black cars, but none of the Porsches seemed to be doing the same. Last edited by WolfsburgRS; 4 Apr 2017 at 16:37. |
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IIRC the factory blessed teams race the big enduros not with the cars they bought, but with bespoke enduro cars on loan from the factory. Might just be that Audi was a tad late delivering those cars to the teams and there was no time to wrap them up. Or maybe a big livery reveal is part of their PR strategy and they want to wait with that until the run-up to the big race, when they get more attention.
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