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Old 24 Apr 2023, 16:06 (Ref:4152797)   #1
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Old 24 Apr 2023, 18:04 (Ref:4152828)   #2
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Extra Caddy and Porsche are on the grid for this one. Cool to see the Jota car in the flesh in a few days!
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Old 24 Apr 2023, 18:28 (Ref:4152832)   #3
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Entry list change, Dallas Lana retired from racing this morning

https://sportscar365.com/lemans/wec/...-racing-career

Heart of Racing taking over, Ian James, Alex Riberas and Daniel Mancinelli in the car for rest of the season. Will still compete as NorthWest AMR.
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Old 25 Apr 2023, 07:10 (Ref:4152880)   #4
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Entry list change, Dallas Lana retired from racing this morning

https://sportscar365.com/lemans/wec/...-racing-career

Heart of Racing taking over, Ian James, Alex Riberas and Daniel Mancinelli in the car for rest of the season. Will still compete as NorthWest AMR.
Very strange to retire just before the 100th anniversary Le Mans 24 hours i thought. Would have been quite a way to bow out if victory could have been achieved. A shame, he's been around a long time. Hope all is ok there.
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Old 25 Apr 2023, 08:31 (Ref:4152894)   #5
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Is someone going to Spa this weekend ?
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There's a thread about grandstand stuff somewhere below.

Last race before biggest Le mans in years. Could be one of the last times we get to see if anyone has gotten close to Toyota or if Le mans will be another year of watching the pit crew watch their cars swap places back and forth laps ahead of the pack.
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Old 25 Apr 2023, 14:55 (Ref:4152955)   #7
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The real numbers from the latest BOP should come back by FP2, that should give us a good view as to the mid race action will shake out.
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Old 25 Apr 2023, 18:18 (Ref:4152983)   #8
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Presumably nobody at Jota will be sleeping until Sunday

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The real numbers from the latest BOP should come back by FP2, that should give us a good view as to the mid race action will shake out.
I believe FP2 is the session they base all the BoP adjustments on

I’ve not seen any BoP technical bulletins for Hypercar? Do we have any? The latest is the 8th March one for Sebring and then the three races after.

There is a pre Spa one for GTE. Aston gets a bit more power all through the rev range and a 1l of fuel.

For Hypercar, Michelin are going to “kindly” bringing extra compound. The weather at Spa can be unpredictable so they have requested more flexibility.

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Old 26 Apr 2023, 00:40 (Ref:4153018)   #10
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Presumably nobody at Jota will be sleeping until Sunday

https://sportscar365.com/lemans/wec/...-porsche-963s/
Amazing. That’s really cool.

I once picked up a car and then took it to a test day on the following day. Spent the morning trying to work out which spacers stopped the wheels rubbing! Seller didn’t have their own track to test it on before
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Old 26 Apr 2023, 16:23 (Ref:4153085)   #11
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Success ballast for this round:

https://www.endurance-info.com/auto/...last-du-gte-am

Corvette is up a whopping 45kg!

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Old 26 Apr 2023, 18:48 (Ref:4153107)   #12
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Old 26 Apr 2023, 19:02 (Ref:4153109)   #13
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Is someone going to Spa this weekend ?
Yes - not seen WEC there before and looking forward to it.

The weekend will be completed by the second day of the Rallye Wallonie based just down the road at Namur.

Photos will follow of both days.
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Success ballast for this round:

https://www.endurance-info.com/auto/...last-du-gte-am

Corvette is up a whopping 45kg!

The 30kg they carried at Portimao didn't seem to bother them.
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The 30kg they carried at Portimao didn't seem to bother them.
I wonder if anybody has deployed a driver ballast that can be removed as success ballast is added? I'm thinking like some extra weights strapped around your midsection that could be removed as the car weight increases!
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Yes - not seen WEC there before and looking forward to it.

The weekend will be completed by the second day of the Rallye Wallonie based just down the road at Namur.

Photos will follow of both days.
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Are the Hypercar Michelins still not colour coded - cost saving or are they still experimenting with compounds to get to grips with the lack of warmers this year?
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Don't give them ideas
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No hypercar platform BOP change for this race at least. That is good news IMO.
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Nice, quite even pace.

However, both Toyotas staying in pits from just after few laps.
Long time now.

Unusual from them...
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I didn’t know if there was a plan to do that.

For Spa they have brought three compounds. Because the weather in Spa can be a little variable and to make sure they are good with the no tyre warmers if it is cold.
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Nice, quite even pace.

However, both Toyotas staying in pits from just after few laps.
Long time now.

Unusual from them...
JOTA easing themselves in. How many days have they had the car now?!

But we won’t really know until FP2.
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I didn’t know if there was a plan to do that.

For Spa they have brought three compounds. Because the weather in Spa can be a little variable and to make sure they are good with the no tyre warmers if it is cold.
Three dry compounds? I may be getting the IMSA and WEC tyres confused but I thought they only had 2 compounds for Hypercar to choose from, while in IMSA, the series chooses which tire to use on a race by race basis?
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JOTA easing themselves in. How many days have they had the car now?!

But we won’t really know until FP2.
Really big gaps in the hypercar times. Of course this is free practice 1 so no need to look at times, but...... hard not to think Toyota and Ferrari will be on the first 2 rows come race day.

Also, Glick was 5 seconds slower than their pole winning time from here last season. I know, different conditions, different tires, etc. but hope to see them near their previous best.
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