2016 Blancpain GT Series

[tux]

Race over.

[J Jay]

Time for one last gamble for the #28?

[Rodger Davies]

Mercedes has beaten #8 here because of the FCY

[Rodger Davies]

Is that Scudd's Lambo off?

Edit: nope, a Ferrari

Great control by the guy in the red Porsche by the way

[Akrapovic]

Similar to the WEC race, I feel like the FCYs, which are meant to have less effect on the race, have actually had a bigger effect than a SC would.

[gert]

Rosenqvist is now 2nd I think
Goetz 3rd

Where Vanthoor and Rast are I don't know ...

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So that's 57, 60, 29 and a Ferrari (40?) off and out

[J Jay]

Vanthoor 4th, Soucek 5th I make it?

[rustyfan]

Appalling job by MotorsTV handling their commercial breaks - they had to know replays were coming yet they still went to break, only to come back in the middle of the replay. Pathetic.

[gert]

Originally Posted by J Jay

Vanthoor 4th, Soucek 5th I make it?

Correct AFAIK.

And the long pitstop for Bentley seems to have been an error too...

[Akrapovic]

Bentley long pit stop doesn't matter because the time was absorbed by the FCY. Even if they'd have let the car go perfectly it still lost half a lap.

Really, Bentley lost 2nd bexause they potted due to a downpour and the cars that risked accidents jumped them when other cars caused a FCY.

[gert]

Back to green

[gert]

drive-through for 86.

Vanthoor will be looking for that 2nd place

[J Jay]

#86 drive-through for unsafe release. #28 3rd, #8 4th when it all shakes out.

[Rodger Davies]

No working lights on #8 too

[JoeW04]

John Watson telling the truth on Bentley, sloppiness isn't bad luck

[Rodger Davies]

Originally Posted by JoeW04

John Watson telling the truth on Bentley, sloppiness isn't bad luck

This. They lost whichever place because of all the penalities. Arguably same for Mercedes.

BMW has had a faultless run pretty much, Rowe has earned this through that.

[gert]

Originally Posted by Akrapovic

Bentley long pit stop doesn't matter because the time was absorbed by the FCY. Even if they'd have let the car go perfectly it still lost half a lap.

Really, Bentley lost 2nd bexause they potted due to a downpour and the cars that risked accidents jumped them when other cars caused a FCY.

True, it doesn't matter now, but it's just another thing that didn't go right.

[Akrapovic]

Originally Posted by JoeW04

John Watson telling the truth on Bentley, sloppiness isn't bad luck

Bentley have been completely sloppy but that last call was not sloppy, it was luck. The FCY meant they went from 30 seconds ahead of the Mercedes to about 30 seconds behind. There are plenty of things Bentley did wrong in this race, but that last call wasn't one of them.

A FCY shouldn't mean you gain a minute and some positions. That's more of a shakeup than a safety car would've caused, and the whole point in FCY was to stop messing with the races as much. This was made worse by the length of the pit lane here. BMW actually got caught out a couple of times by it too a few hours ago and that wasn't fair on them either.

[Rodger Davies]

Wonder if #86 is happy to get DQd but rear gunning for #88

[chernaudi]

Maybe pit road should be closed during FCYs except for emergency service or slow zones used, even if it takes up whole timing and scoring sectors.

Are you listening, ACO? Not even Ratel's organization can seem to get that right.

[J Jay]

Looks like it'll be #99, #88, #28 for the podium.

A faultless race from ROWE which should be rewarded with victory.

A remarkable recovery drive from WRT, that could yet have been a bit better.

AKKA .... yeah.

[Akrapovic]

ROWE completely deserve this. Nobody else was even close. Bentley got too many penalties, Audi had too many issues. Mercedes are lucky they are even allowed to race. Nobody apart from ROWE had a clean race.

[FIRE]

BMW

[J Jay]

Finally, a deserved spa victory for Maxine Martin.

[Akrapovic]

Last lap battle between the Audi and Mercedes was decided by a big gaggle of Mercedes sorting themselves into a photo finish. That's a bit poor.