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View Poll Results: Who will win in the rain?
#1 Porsche 2 25.00%
#2 Porsche 1 12.50%
#7 Toyota 3 37.50%
#8 Toyota 2 25.00%
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Old 15 Oct 2017, 03:39 (Ref:3774262)   #26
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Red flag right now

P.S Not many people watching this race it seems.
Time zones make it hard. Over here on the west coast in the U.S. it's only now 8:30pm, but that's early morning in Europe. I think those guys will only catch the tail end of the race if it goes the distance.
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Old 15 Oct 2017, 03:42 (Ref:3774263)   #27
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As it stands right now, the #2 Porsche should win the drivers' title since all they have to do is finish ahead of the #8 Toyota, and Porsche will all but clinch the manufacturers' title.

That's if the race were to be called now. Of course, that will shuffle as soon as it goes back green since everyone has pitted in LMP1 aside from the #2 Porsche.

Now about 10 minutes to restart from race control.
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Old 15 Oct 2017, 03:44 (Ref:3774264)   #28
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Biggest problem at Fuji this go around isn't rain or ponding water, but fog.
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Old 15 Oct 2017, 04:20 (Ref:3774270)   #29
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bentley speed 8 should be qualifying in the top 10 on the gridbentley speed 8 should be qualifying in the top 10 on the grid
Toyota are faster atm and the #2 goes a lap down (albeit because it pitted only after the restart).

GT Porsches also loving these conditions.

SC again
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Old 15 Oct 2017, 04:21 (Ref:3774271)   #30
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Another pace car FCY.
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Old 15 Oct 2017, 04:27 (Ref:3774272)   #31
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TzeiTzei should be qualifying in the top 5 on the gridTzeiTzei should be qualifying in the top 5 on the gridTzeiTzei should be qualifying in the top 5 on the grid
I wasn't even aware that this was on this weekend. Nothing on Autosport front page either.
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Old 15 Oct 2017, 04:29 (Ref:3774273)   #32
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#2 Porsche got its lap back on a wave around.

Fog is rolling back in.
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Old 15 Oct 2017, 04:34 (Ref:3774274)   #33
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#7 changed steering wheel

Kobayashi doesn't even seem to be aware of that, LOL
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Old 15 Oct 2017, 04:54 (Ref:3774276)   #34
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Toyotas pulling away from the Porsche's right now.
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Old 15 Oct 2017, 05:14 (Ref:3774280)   #35
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ANOTHER safety car! Just when they were setting fastest sectors lol
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Old 15 Oct 2017, 05:23 (Ref:3774281)   #36
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ANOTHER safety car! Just when they were setting fastest sectors lol
Gotta give that Audi some screen time.
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SC again due to an accident for the #13
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Old 15 Oct 2017, 05:39 (Ref:3774283)   #38
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That was strange, starting on the main straight.
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Old 15 Oct 2017, 05:52 (Ref:3774284)   #39
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Brain fade by the #67

Check that, two in a row. Maybe a mechanical issue?
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Old 15 Oct 2017, 06:29 (Ref:3774287)   #40
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Safety car #6, or was it 7?
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Old 15 Oct 2017, 06:33 (Ref:3774288)   #41
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Red flag. They reached 75% distance yet?
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Old 15 Oct 2017, 07:21 (Ref:3774290)   #42
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The race is past 75% so full points if they stop here.
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Old 15 Oct 2017, 07:24 (Ref:3774291)   #43
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Only about half an hour left. Let's just call it and be done.
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Old 15 Oct 2017, 12:35 (Ref:3774322)   #44
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Well that wasn't much fun. What racing there was was generally pretty good. Remarkably few incidents and some decent green runs between the fog.
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Old 15 Oct 2017, 15:39 (Ref:3774336)   #45
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Outside of 2015 which was a horrid year all around for Toyota, they've won every WEC race held so far at Fuji that they started.

Porsche were basically no where in the race after the driver changes happened.
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They seemed to struggle when the track got wet as they could not get their tyres up to temperature like Toyota. At times, the #2 was like 7 seconds a lap slower than Nakajima
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Were full or half points awarded? The news accounts seem to suggest it was full points, but the winning car (#8 Toyota) only did 4:24:50.950, which is less than 75 percent of the time. Or am I missing something here?
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Were full or half points awarded? The news accounts seem to suggest it was full points, but the winning car (#8 Toyota) only did 4:24:50.950, which is less than 75 percent of the time. Or am I missing something here?
I think the time they use is the countdown clock, which keeps going under red. They eventually called the race with 15 minutes to go. So although the Toyota only did 4:24 of laptimes, the race was "going" for 5:45.

I think. It's a bit confusing. But they did say full points, yeah.
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Old 15 Oct 2017, 17:40 (Ref:3774349)   #49
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Well that wasn't much fun. What racing there was was generally pretty good. Remarkably few incidents and some decent green runs between the fog.

Guess it makes it more fun for the rest of the championship.
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Old 15 Oct 2017, 17:59 (Ref:3774351)   #50
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Here our full Race-report from Fuji:
http://www.gt-eins.de/Berichte2017/wec/fuji/fuji.html

Also including full statistics from Japan which explain where Toyota got that advantage during the hours:
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