Official LMS Test Days - HTTT Paul Ricard 11/12 March 2011 - Page 3

Danny_GT2 · 12 Mar 2011, 18:32 (Ref:2844606)

Noticed now that Hankook Farnbacher are in the Pro class with an F430, & are doing well! I thought the GTE Pro class was for 2011-spec cars & beyond but I take it now they did some upgrades to the car to compete alongside the 458! Doing a good job so far!

Victor_RO · 12 Mar 2011, 18:39 (Ref:2844609)

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Originally Posted by Danny_GT2

Noticed now that Hankook Farnbacher are in the Pro class with an F430, & are doing well! I thought the GTE Pro class was for 2011-spec cars & beyond but I take it now they did some upgrades to the car to compete alongside the 458! Doing a good job so far!

They're only doing the test with the 430 because the 458 is late, they should take delivery of the car before not too much longer, so in time for the first LMS race.

Vanquish · 12 Mar 2011, 18:54 (Ref:2844616)

Somebody who knows where can I see which driver set the fastest laptime? Seeing as the drivers' names aren't mentioned nextto the times on the official site.

http://www.lemans-series.com/fr/s52_...t=1&annee=2011

Thanks!

**joeb** · 12 Mar 2011, 19:44 (Ref:2844642)

I was really interested to see how the new LMP2 engines did, and the Nissan seemed to do pretty well. I think this will bode well for tough competition in the LMP2 class this season between a lot of engine/chassis combinations.

Félix · 12 Mar 2011, 20:31 (Ref:2844659)

RML HPD ARX-01 consistently slow... or at least much slower than the leading P2s. The leading P2s have NA V8s; is it down to the engine (or possibly engine rules?)? Or because of the Dunlops (first time they're run on an ARX)? Or because they weren't pushing?

Audi Racer · 12 Mar 2011, 23:57 (Ref:2844748)

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Originally Posted by 911targa

what surprised me most is the gap between GT Am and GT Pro,to my understanding,IMSA Matmut just have 2 Pro cars...Narac is fast and Armino is even faster.

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Originally Posted by NightStalk3r

Narac and Armindo are GTE Am.

Its funny how that worked out. Narac has the speed of the top porsche drivers

gucom · 13 Mar 2011, 00:26 (Ref:2844761)

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Originally Posted by Danny_GT2

Noticed now that Hankook Farnbacher are in the Pro class with an F430, & are doing well! I thought the GTE Pro class was for 2011-spec cars & beyond but I take it now they did some upgrades to the car to compete alongside the 458! Doing a good job so far!

The way I understand it, nothing would stop an older spec car from competing in GTE Pro; it's just that a latest-spec car, or a team with a driver combination that's too good, is not allowed in GTE-Am. I could be wrong here though.

Graham Goodwin · 13 Mar 2011, 06:39 (Ref:2844817)

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Originally Posted by gucom

The way I understand it, nothing would stop an older spec car from competing in GTE Pro; it's just that a latest-spec car, or a team with a driver combination that's too good, is not allowed in GTE-Am. I could be wrong here though.

Correct - But Hankook Team Farnbacher will race with the 458 this year - It's just not ready yet.

knighty · 13 Mar 2011, 07:57 (Ref:2844829)

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Originally Posted by Félix

RML HPD ARX-01 consistently slow... or at least much slower than the leading P2s. The leading P2s have NA V8s; is it down to the engine (or possibly engine rules?)? Or because of the Dunlops (first time they're run on an ARX)? Or because they weren't pushing?

Yes, to me this confirms the ACO got their maths wrong on the LMP2 restrictor balance between the turbo and normally aspirated engines. The ACO clearly wanted LMP2's at 450bhp, and I believe Honda have followed the letter of the law and paid the price........ but like I said in another post I have reason to believe that all 3 V8's (Judd, Nissan & IES) are around or over the 500bhp mark.......hence the slow RML is probably about 50bhp down, I really believe this is the time for the ACO to fulfill their promise of adjusting the restrictors to equalise play........the big question is do they reel in the V8's or give Honda a break???......

AndrewF31 · 13 Mar 2011, 17:00 (Ref:2845052)

The 458 looks fantastic.

Really nice times for Quifel in their P1 debut. I think they handled themselves very well. The first race should be interesting to see how they really fair with the Rebellion, AMR and Pescarolo. Even though we only have about 5/6 cars in P1, as long as they don't fall over, we have some very well balanced cars to make for some good racing.

Narac doesn't have the speed of Jorg or Pilet. You just need to check the times run by him and Pilet last year. But he is probably the fastest gentleman driver out there.
I haven't followed Nicolas that closely, but he did seem quick in GT3, so they'll be the tag team to beat.

Thumper · 14 Mar 2011, 10:51 (Ref:2845387)

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Originally Posted by knighty

Yes, to me this confirms the ACO got their maths wrong on the LMP2 restrictor balance between the turbo and normally aspirated engines. The ACO clearly wanted LMP2's at 450bhp, and I believe Honda have followed the letter of the law and paid the price........ but like I said in another post I have reason to believe that all 3 V8's (Judd, Nissan & IES) are around or over the 500bhp mark.......hence the slow RML is probably about 50bhp down, I really believe this is the time for the ACO to fulfill their promise of adjusting the restrictors to equalise play........the big question is do they reel in the V8's or give Honda a break???......

Very astute observations Knighty, and pretty close to the mark too. I would favour giving Honda the break, because reeling in the others would simply bunch them all up too closely on the quicker GT cars.

The ACO's aim should be to achieve a balance between the classes such that there's only a modest overlap between slowest and quickest in each. On current trends, the bulk of quicker runners in LMP2, GT and FLM will all be battling over the same bit of track, and with the only advantage left to the P2 cars being late-braking into the corners, and faster through them, I can see a recipe for far too much contact, certainly over the opening laps.

dxk1 · 18 Mar 2011, 17:04 (Ref:2848217)

The official participants list for the test days is posted at PlanetLemans:

http://www.planetlemans.com/2011/03/...mans-test-day/

DK

Victor_RO · 18 Mar 2011, 17:06 (Ref:2848218)

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Originally Posted by dxk1

The official participants list for the test days is posted at PlanetLemans:

http://www.planetlemans.com/2011/03/...mans-test-day/

DK

Uh... this is the Paul Ricard test thread, not about the Le Mans test day.

http://tentenths.com/forum/showthrea...=126254&page=3 for the LM test day.

dxk1 · 18 Mar 2011, 17:09 (Ref:2848222)

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Originally Posted by Victor_RO

Uh... this is the Paul Ricard test thread, not about the Le Mans test day.

http://tentenths.com/forum/showthrea...=126254&page=3 for the LM test day.

OOOps. sorry! Mea Culpa!

DK

boesel · 25 Mar 2011, 10:23 (Ref:2852940)

Here a complete article with 97 photos:
http://www.connectingrod.it/LeMansSe.../httt_eng.html

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