This is going to be so much fun for the people trying to equalize this.
Well, there's still the GTE class.
This is going to be so much fun for the people trying to equalize this.
Well, there's still the GTE class.
I wonder how much faster they'll have to make the DP....a P2 car ran faster(just) time at Daytona test at the end of last season running DP tires that they have never used before, with the wrong aero package....
They basically can't slow the P2 down too much as they are already down on power so passing traffic is difficult. Maybe they'll give DP some pretty stonking engine....
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The Dubai 24h is going on, still 18+ hours left.
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24 Heures du Mans 2013: 71 entries for 56 places!
The Automobile Club de l’Ouest has received 71 entry requests for the 2013 Le Mans 24 Hours on 22-23 June for the 55 grid spots remaining as the 56th place has already been attributed to the GreenGT H2 project. The list of entrants will be announced on 1st February in the Eurosites-George V.
Once again the Le Mans 24-Hours field will combine quality and quantity. The Automobile Club de l’Ouest Sports Management has received 71 entries, the same number as in 2011, an increase compared to 2012. This is evidence of the continuing high level of interest in a race that will celebrate its 90th anniversary this year.
This remarkable figure sweeps aside the fears that hover over motor sport because of the current economic situation. The Le Mans passion is the strongest yet again, and the raft of entrants who wish to associate their names with the myth reflects this. The most extraordinary fact is that these 71 entries are of top-class quality: all the cars without exception could be on the starting grid of the 2013 Le Mans 24 hours if the sporting regs didn’t limit the number of starters to 56.
It should be underlined that the top category for prototypes, LM P1 and LM P2, and the 56th pit represent 62.5% of the field with 41 cars compared to 30 in LM GTE, which is undergoing a marked renewal.
Just a reminder that the choice of entrants selected for the 2013 Le Mans 24 Hours was spread over several major rendez-vous.
At the end of the 2012 season on 27th October with the Shanghai 6 Hours (CHN), the final round of the 2012 FIA World Endurance Championship, the thirteen entrants invited were known taking into account their results in the Le Mans 24 Hours, and also after the end of the FIA WEC, the American Le Mans Series and the European Le Mans Series. This represented 16 cars maximum as the Audi Sport and AF Corse teams had clinched two and three invitations respectively.
12th December 2012 was the opening date for entries, and all the teams interested could send in their entry forms to the Automobile Club de l’Ouest.
16th January 2013 at midnight was the closing date for entries and by then 71 requests had reached the ACO.
On the evening of 23rd January the Selection Committee met under the presidency of Pierre Fillon, the ACO President, and its job was to draw up the list of teams invited including the 55 cars for the race and the ten reserves to fill any spaces left by withdrawals.
On 1st February 2013 the field for this year’s Le Mans 24 Hours will be announced during the press conference in the Eurosites George V. It will be broadcast in live streaming on the new site Site Officiel des 24 Heures du Mans thanks to Michelin’s collaboration.
The entrants still have a week to wait but one car is already assured of a place: the GreenGT H2! This prototype with an electric engine powered by a fuel cell fed by hydrogen has received the 56th pit invitation, which is destined for a car designed around an innovative technological project. As in 2012 with the revolutionary Nissan DeltaWing, it can take part in practice and the race provided it meets all the safety regulations and performance minima set by the ACO - but outside the overall classification.
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Anybody seen Daytona 24 hours? Some great action there, especially in GT. Of course, with all those 17 (or so) safety car periods the final hour was bound to be full of action, but it was interesting to watch nevertheless.
Yeah they have been pretty consistently entertaining....any 24 hours race that came down to last 0.5 hour is pretty good I think...
Good on Audi to convert a pretty dismal debut season to a winner in 2013.
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I caught a bit here and there and the final 30 minutes. Pretty dang cool.
Thats gambling, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose....
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The 56 entrants have been announced on Friday:
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Nissan to return to Le Mans in 2014 with an electric car:
Nissan will return to the Le Mans 24 Hours in 2014 with an innovative project that promises to continue the pioneering spirit of last year's award-winning Nissan DeltaWing experimental entry.
Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn made the pledge to return to Le Mans during a special event today in Yokohama, Japan, to open a new headquarters for Nismo, Nissan's global performance and motorsport brand.
Ghosn hinted that a new approach to innovation and excitement will be at the project's core, while confirming that the company will return as the Garage 56 entry for innovative concepts with an all-new race car incorporating electric technology.
The entry will test innovative new powertrain technology and provide the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) and the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) with data to enable all parties to evaluate the incorporation of this breakthrough technology ahead of a potential return to LMP1 in the future.
"We will return to Le Mans with a vehicle that will act as a high-speed test bed in the harshest of environments for both our road car and race car electric vehicle technology," said Mr. Ghosn.
Ghosn's revelation promises a continued commitment from Nissan to performance and motorsport innovation - and a bold ambition to change expectations of what is possible in performance.
Nissan will reveal further details behind the new project in the near future.
If you should see a man walking down a crowded street talking aloud to himself, don't run in the opposite direction, but run towards him, because he's a poet. You have nothing to fear from the poet - but the truth.
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Electric car for endurance racing huh....I suppose they are going to make a battery swap car...
This year's hydrogen(Fuel cell?) car will be pretty interesting in itself(with um, a challenging look), as it will be electric propulsion...
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