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Porsche are the only team which showed their speed during practice and qualifying. Everyone else was sand bagging. So are they complaining they drove around slowly and didn't get too much of a help? Other thing to consider is that after 21 hours of racing, the Ford is within a couple of seconds of the Porsche. The Porsche lead is down to strategy during safety cars, and there would be other Fords and BMWs in the battle but they had problems. So I'm not sure how much closer the BoP could be for Ford, BMW and Porsche. |
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Maybe they don't need to put as much fuel in the tank to do the maximum stint length, compared to the Ford.
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17 Jun 2018, 10:03 (Ref:3831095) | #1655 | |
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The GTE Pro fuel times are timed. There is a minumum time that everyone must be over, to stop teams modifying the fuel tanks for an advantage. If the Porsche pit stop is faster, they are either putting less fuel in, or it's another part of the stop that's quicker.
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17 Jun 2018, 10:05 (Ref:3831098) | #1658 | |
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The pistops themselves are almost the same length, its just that just after the pitstop the porsche pulls away. Seemingly it turns the new tires on faster but over time they wear faster and the fords pull back.
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Gap in Pro between #91 and #68 is growing.
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17 Jun 2018, 10:14 (Ref:3831100) | #1660 | ||
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By the way, Corvette is 1 second faster than their qualifying time after 22 hours race. This can be considered as hiding speed. |
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17 Jun 2018, 10:17 (Ref:3831102) | #1662 | ||
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Not sure what you're meaning with Corvette. As I said Porsche are the only team that didn't hide their speed. |
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They wouldn't trundle around in 6th place, a lap down, for 21 hours as part of a strategy to hide their pace. |
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17 Jun 2018, 10:23 (Ref:3831106) | #1665 | |
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Magnussen saying the car felt perfect and therefor the fast times. Jan could not get the car to work on the tires in the night, Garcia was much better there.
So a case of the car switching on, no dropped sand bags. |
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As the 92 Porsche seems to be in pretty good shape, I was wondering when was the last time an "art car" won anything at Le Mans?
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Why is it when the race is getting to a crucial point someone comes on RLM to flog something, we understand the WEC is at Silverstone in August, you've told up repeatedly for the last 4 days...nearly as bad as Julia Wurz coming on to sell a book with a couple of hours left a few years ago
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17 Jun 2018, 10:30 (Ref:3831114) | #1671 | ||
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I didnt want to mean that Ford or Porsche are sandbagging to get better BOP but I really believe Corvette Team hide their real speed during qualifiying, which I think is a clear exaple |
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#97 Aston going slow again
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97 slow - even slower than normally, that is ...
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Wonder how much of a discount Dalla Lana got on a 'slow' new Vantage.
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