LM24 Race 2019 24 Hours of Le Mans: ACO/FIA WEC '18/'19 Season Finale - Page 61

airbusA346 · 16 Jun 2019, 11:00 (Ref:3911807)

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Originally Posted by Akrapovic

"Team manager car 85 [Keating] please check your RCNs"

Not sure what RCNs are. Driver selector? Lights?

It still shows the car in the pits, so maybe transponder issue.

Akrapovic · 16 Jun 2019, 11:01 (Ref:3911808)

It may also be a private message system. If Keating aren't replying to something, so they've notified on the full system. No idea.

**joeb** · 16 Jun 2019, 11:01 (Ref:3911809)

SMP is doing a good job to stay just 5 laps back. For reference here is the distance behind the race winner the top P1 privateer finished in recent years:

2018
12 Laps 3rd place Rebellion

2017
No privateer finishers

2016
54 laps 29th place Rebellion

2015
59 laps 18th place Rebellion

2014
19 laps 4th place Rebellion

2013
16 laps 6th place Strakka

2012
11 laps 4th place Rebellion

2011
14 laps 5th place Team Oreca Matmut

2010
28 laps 4th place Team Oreca Matmut

Akrapovic · 16 Jun 2019, 11:02 (Ref:3911810)

Yellow at second chicane.

Edit: #81 Aircraft Carrier has stopped.

airbusA346 · 16 Jun 2019, 11:05 (Ref:3911811)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Akrapovic

It may also be a private message system. If Keating aren't replying to something, so they've notified on the full system. No idea.

The RCN is a private messaging service between each team and race control. If they get no reply, then they get called out on the timing screen.

bentley speed 8 · 16 Jun 2019, 11:06 (Ref:3911812)

Miserable race for both Aston Martin and BMW

Akrapovic · 16 Jun 2019, 11:07 (Ref:3911813)

Keating preparing a new nose.

Lasse · 16 Jun 2019, 11:07 (Ref:3911814)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Akrapovic

Yellow at second chicane.

Edit: #81 Aircraft Carrier has stopped.

That made me chuckle a bit

Lasse · 16 Jun 2019, 11:10 (Ref:3911815)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Akrapovic

Keating preparing a new nose.

How long is this going to take...

airbusA346 · 16 Jun 2019, 11:10 (Ref:3911816)

#56 pits

Akrapovic · 16 Jun 2019, 11:10 (Ref:3911817)

Ganassi swapped the nose on the Keating car for them. Interesting!

airbusA346 · 16 Jun 2019, 11:10 (Ref:3911818)

Jorg now in #56

Maelochs · 16 Jun 2019, 11:11 (Ref:3911819)

For the first several hours the race was all about which of a few cars would win which class. Then it became which would survive to win in each class. Two hours left, and it is all about whether the class leaders will err/get caught in someone's error.

Tired but not bored.

outnumbered · 16 Jun 2019, 11:11 (Ref:3911820)

Not too bad for Keating, a slightly longer stop but they needed an additional stop anyway, both they and the Porsche now only need one more.

Akrapovic · 16 Jun 2019, 11:11 (Ref:3911821)

Lopez to finish the 7. Brave.

Not sure why the Keating nose had to be changed. ACO requested it be done at the next stop, but it's been like that for about 10 hours.

gert · 16 Jun 2019, 11:12 (Ref:3911822)

56 now have Bergmeister at the wheel

marcel82 · 16 Jun 2019, 11:14 (Ref:3911823)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Akrapovic

Ganassi swapped the nose on the Keating car for them. Interesting!

that one Keating guy did not seem to excited about that

**joeb** · 16 Jun 2019, 11:14 (Ref:3911824)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Akrapovic

Lopez to finish the 7. Brave.

Not sure why the Keating nose had to be changed. ACO requested it be done at the next stop, but it's been like that for about 10 hours.

I like it when cars look like they have been in a 24 hour race at the end. Can't believe they were made to change the nose. I understand if it is flapping bodywork or something, but to make them change the nose after it has been the same for 10 hours is ridiculous.

Akrapovic · 16 Jun 2019, 11:14 (Ref:3911825)

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Originally Posted by marcel82

that one Keating guy did not seem to excited about that

If I was leading and Ganassi came to give me a hand I'd be more than willing to accept lol.

marcel82 · 16 Jun 2019, 11:17 (Ref:3911827)

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Originally Posted by Akrapovic

If I was leading and Ganassi came to give me a hand I'd be more than willing to accept lol.

yeah, me too

they just showed one of the Ganassi guys talking to one of the Keating guys, and another was just standing there, body languageing "I could've done that myself, easy. no help needed"

courageous · 16 Jun 2019, 11:17 (Ref:3911829)

Rough calculations, but I think the AF Corse car will need an additional splash of fuel -about 5 laps short by my reckoning

Leads the Porsches by a minute

Dyson Mazda · 16 Jun 2019, 11:17 (Ref:3911830)

Quote:

Originally Posted by joeb

I like it when cars look like they have been in a 24 hour race at the end. Can't believe they were made to change the nose. I understand if it is flapping bodywork or something, but to make them change the nose after it has been the same for 10 hours is ridiculous.

I am really missing the days of doing whatever you needed to, to get the car to the end. Reliability has taken a lot of fun out of this sport. I remember how irritated I was when Rebellion got slammed when they cut a hole in the bodywork so they could hit the starter motor with a hammer.

airbusA346 · 16 Jun 2019, 11:17 (Ref:3911831)

#85 to #56 = 1:04.385

Akrapovic · 16 Jun 2019, 11:19 (Ref:3911832)

I think it was missed by TV, Risi is in the garage.

bentley speed 8 · 16 Jun 2019, 11:20 (Ref:3911833)

Have SMP finally been able to improve the AER's reliability? Let's hope it finishes...

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