ALMS Round 9/ILMC Round 6: Petit Le Mans 29 Sep -1 Oct - Page 6

AGD · 25 Sep 2011, 00:13 (Ref:2960536)

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Originally Posted by FordCosworthPanoz

Not sure, because the Prodrive Aston was way off the pace of OAK, Rebellion, and even the grandfathered Pescarolo at Silverstone yet on pace with Muscle Milk and Dyson at Laguna. Im honestly expecting OAK and Rebellion to be much faster than the grandfathered ALMS Lolas and the Prodrive Lola Aston at Petit.

The old Astons ran ok at Sebring and at Le Mans if I remember correctly. Ok, that is ancient history by now and both Rebellion and OAK have upped their game since then, but maybe it won't be so bad as Silverstone.

Deleted · 25 Sep 2011, 08:34 (Ref:2960577)

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Originally Posted by ALT F4 Racing

BMW should have 28.6mm restrictors not 29.8. Thats really sad too. After seeing the lemans pole times how does bmw still get hoover dam restrictors? Is the ACO run by bavarians by any chance?

Oh really? I doubt BMW would've ever come back to sportscar racing if they weren't sure they'd be treated like freaking royals. It was same with WTCC programme, they always got better breaks than Seat and Chevrolet.

Many critizice IMSA but tweaking 0,4mm off from that huge waiverwagon restrictor was at least a (small) step into right direction. Too bad ACO doesn't care, their only semi-sensible move regarding the matter was that post-Spa adjustment last year.

vyselegend · 25 Sep 2011, 11:28 (Ref:2960627)

Any chance we get live timing for today's and tomorrow's practice sessions?

gregtummer · 25 Sep 2011, 11:36 (Ref:2960631)

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Originally Posted by vyselegend

Any chance we get live timing for today's and tomorrow's practice sessions?

I have heard that it will be an official IMSA timing session.

vyselegend · 25 Sep 2011, 12:14 (Ref:2960638)

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Originally Posted by gregtummer

I have heard that it will be an official IMSA timing session.

Yes! it works. Live Timing is on now.

Tom908V12 · 25 Sep 2011, 14:14 (Ref:2960669)

Dumas in 1'9"555 just 46/1000th ahead of Pagenaud

vyselegend · 25 Sep 2011, 14:20 (Ref:2960673)

Yep, it looks tight already at the front!

Fun to see that there is actually a P2 battle on an US track right now.

Next session in 1 hour and 40 mn...

Tom908V12 · 25 Sep 2011, 14:44 (Ref:2960682)

First pics of this private practice

ALT F4 Racing · 25 Sep 2011, 17:09 (Ref:2960735)

anyone else finding the petit test session slightly more interesting than estoril....

on second thought. the P1 and GTE battles at estoril are hotting up!

NightStalk3r · 25 Sep 2011, 17:19 (Ref:2960740)

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Originally Posted by ALT F4 Racing

anyone else finding the petit test session slightly more interesting than estoril....

Not really, im gripped by the battle for the win in GTE Pro.

ALT F4 Racing · 25 Sep 2011, 17:22 (Ref:2960742)

Question: Why are the P1 cars(adui and Peugeot) going 10 secs slower than there best laps for multiple laps. theyve been lappingin the 1.20's. That cant be traffic. thatd be terrible.

vyselegend · 25 Sep 2011, 18:03 (Ref:2960761)

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Originally Posted by ALT F4 Racing

Question: Why are the P1 cars(adui and Peugeot) going 10 secs slower than there best laps for multiple laps. theyve been lappingin the 1.20's. That cant be traffic. thatd be terrible.

It's possible they're overcautious in traffic, because it's only early practice and no one wants to crash a tub for nothing. Especially since the event has a long history of such crashes.

However I find Peugeot drivers are more consistantly in fast laps (between 1'09 and 1'15), wherehas Audi's drivers seems to do single or just few fast laps then go to very conservative pace...

As usual, the point is not in being the fastest, but testing things out to aquire the most possible datas, although we all now there's a mind game between Audi and Pug about topping the sessions...

Tom908V12 · 25 Sep 2011, 19:18 (Ref:2960799)

Sarrazin in 1'08"810 and Pagenaud in 1'08"200 gosh, that already goes quicker and quicker

FordCosworthPanoz · 25 Sep 2011, 19:25 (Ref:2960804)

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Originally Posted by Tom908V12

Sarrazin in 1'08"810 and Pagenaud in 1'08"200 gosh, that already goes quicker and quicker

SPOILER ALERT...

...Peugeot wins Petit Le Mans

Victor_RO · 25 Sep 2011, 19:31 (Ref:2960807)

Test session and the factory diesels are just about 1.1 seconds off the pole time last year with 1.8 l less engine... unbelievable.

FordCosworthPanoz · 25 Sep 2011, 19:36 (Ref:2960809)

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Originally Posted by Victor_RO

Test session and the factory diesels are just about 1.1 seconds off the pole time last year with 1.8 l less engine... unbelievable.

This is what I noticed the most, just shows how good Audi and Peugeot are.

gregtummer · 25 Sep 2011, 21:02 (Ref:2960853)

These guys are insane.

This is going to be a great race and I'm so glad I'm going!

ALT F4 Racing · 25 Sep 2011, 21:06 (Ref:2960855)

did timing and scoring go kaput for anyone else?

gregtummer · 25 Sep 2011, 21:09 (Ref:2960857)

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Originally Posted by ALT F4 Racing

did timing and scoring go kaput for anyone else?

Mine is still up, but the session ended at 5pm EST.

vyselegend · 25 Sep 2011, 21:25 (Ref:2960870)

[RANT ALERT]

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Originally Posted by ALT F4 Racing

did timing and scoring go kaput for anyone else?

Yes it did, as it always does (especially during races)...
Years after years those guys are still unable to put a decent and reliable server online. I guess they run the php application on an old school PC, connected to a dial up 56k modem.

Were I work we have similar IIS aplications running on a little (~1500€) Dell PowerEdge server with 2003, and lots of students connects randomly all year without any problem. In the last year I think I've restarted it once, and just for an update...

In our days it really requires incredible skills to have such unstable online services! Congrats ALMS!

[/RANT ALERT]

Anyway IIRC there were some alternates live timings (at least there is one) around. I couldn't find it back in my bookmarks now but I'm sure someone will post the link. Then it would be good that mods edit the first post of the topic to add those T&S links please!

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Originally Posted by gregtummer

These guys are insane.

This is going to be a great race and I'm so glad I'm going!

It's quite an understatement to say I envy you! Hope you go with a good camera. Will you get there soon or just for raceday?

FordCosworthPanoz · 25 Sep 2011, 21:32 (Ref:2960871)

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Originally Posted by vyselegend

[RANT ALERT]

Yes it did, as it always does (especially during races)...
Years after years those guys are still unable to put a decent and reliable server online. I guess they run the php application on an old school PC, connected to a dial up 56k modem.

Were I work we have similar IIS aplications running on a little (~1500€) Dell PowerEdge server with 2003, and lots of students connects randomly all year without any problem. In the last year I think I've restarted it once, and just for an update...

In our days it really requires incredible skills to have such unstable online services! Congrats ALMS!

[/RANT ALERT]

Anyway IIRC there were some alternates live timings (at least there is one) around. I couldn't find it back in my bookmarks now but I'm sure someone will post the link. Then it would be good that mods edit the first post of the topic to add those T&S links please!

It's quite an understatement to say I envy you! Hope you go with a good camera. Will you get there soon or just for raceday?

ALMS timing and scoring is world class compared to their international video streaming, even though according to it the #500 Internal Server Error Motorsports car lead the most laps at Sebring.

Im predicting something goes horribly wrong with the international stream, like it cuts out on the last lap while theres a cracking battle for the lead between Audi and Peugeot or BMW and Corvette.

vyselegend · 25 Sep 2011, 21:38 (Ref:2960872)

Lol we must share similar medium skills as I'm predicting the same outcome...

Video stream at least have the excuse to need a large bandswidth, and is a relatively recent service, but Live Timing has been working horribly for ages. The fact it's still working so bad means they never bothered fixing it. That's what I find so irritating.

chernaudi · 25 Sep 2011, 21:43 (Ref:2960874)

ALMS' T&S has always tended to be crap when I've tried to use it for test and practice sessions--sometimes it works fine, sometimes it barely works at all, and sometimes it's very schictzo about whether or not it wants to work or not.

Like today, the last 45 minutes of the afternoon test session, the timer kept counting down if you refreshed, but nothing else updated, include the lap counter--though it was interesting to note that Audi up until then ran a lot more laps than Peugeot did, but I can't give an accurate count as T&S died!

I can tell you that Tony Stewart won the Sprint Cup race today, as I watched that while waiting in vain hope that T&S would fix itself.

When I watched the LMS' T&S from Silverstone, I didn't have any major issues with it. Granted, especially if there was a big gap between cars, it would say that the gap was like 1 sec or something like that until the trailing car crossed S&F, but otherwise, I had no crashes or bizarre happenings with it.

**joeb** · 26 Sep 2011, 01:01 (Ref:2960926)

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Originally Posted by Tom908V12

First pics of this private practice

Speedtv has some from Dagys. And DSC has some for free.

gregtummer · 26 Sep 2011, 03:45 (Ref:2960947)

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Originally Posted by vyselegend

It's quite an understatement to say I envy you! Hope you go with a good camera. Will you get there soon or just for raceday?

I'm envious of you for being in France.

I'm going to be there Friday and Saturday.

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