I mean it should be pretty easy for him to get fastest lap. He got fastest lap with a 1:16.3. His qualifying time was over 4 seconds faster. Everyone has to get out of his way and let him by as he is in first.
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Anyone else curious as to how the NASCAR Garage 56 entry is going to go at Le Mans this weekend. They had a pretty impressive first session being ~2-3 seconds ahead of rest of the GTE field.
It would be interesting to get an in depth look at what all they had to change/modify to make the car competitive on track (definitely a lot of aero added).
It would be interesting to get an in depth look at what all they had to change/modify to make the car competitive on track (definitely a lot of aero added).
Here’s what happens when you send a NASCAR stock car to Le Mans
Fears that the big V8-powered stock car would be slow proved very ill-founded.
arstechnica.com
Not a real deep look at what they modified, but it lists most of it.
It’s really the worse time for it to be this boring. With viewership as high as it is. They definitely could have used a few seasons like Max’s for championship.
It's not that easy - he's running race trim, not quali trim, on used tyres. Whole different situation.
Tyre strategy summary from Pirelli:
Interesting that Mercedes were the only cars not to use the Hards, and also had the best weekend out of anyone not named Max. He was pretty vocal about how bad they were for him.
I compared the chart of actual tyre usage to F1TV's strategy guide. Of the four top strategies suggested:Tyre strategy summary from Pirelli:
Only Zhou used Strategy 1, finishing 9th.
No one used Strategy 2.
No one used Strategy 3.
Piastri, De Vries, and Albon used Strategy 4, finishing 13th, 14th, 16th, respectively.
Russell is first driver to start behind a Red Bull and beat it in 2023
Are Red Bull beatable? George Russell became the first driver to overhaul one in a race but Max Verstappen scored a crushing grand slam.
I know it's not novel but some of the random RB dominance stats are crazy.
Qualifying was today for LeMans and that Camero was 5 seconds a lap faster than the entire GTE field and they won the pit stop challenge this week. If that car is reliable it could end up surprising some people.
I'd like to think that it'll be fairly reliable. NASCAR spends a lot of time driving at pretty much full throttle, with a pretty large sample size. Plus Hendrick Motorsports is a pretty big organization. Then again, Le Mans eats cars and makes them break in weird, exciting, and new ways. While I'm not a huge NASCAR fan, it would be nice to see that car do well, and the entire bashing of NASCAR only making left turns stigma go away.
Agree. I think the biggest problem is being so much slower on that type of track. It will be interesting.
That car isn't slow though. It's been surprising people with the pace they've had. It's not hypercar fast but it's way faster than the production based classes. A lot of that pace though is because it's got an extra 100hp over the rest of the GT field since there is no replacement for displacement. Those 2 extra cylinders under the hood will mean they have to make more fuel stops more than likely but with a 5 seconds a lap advantage over the rest of the cars they're competing against I don't think it matters. The flip side to that pace advantage is that if they were running a real GTE program instead of the experimental class they'd be subject to a balance of performance hit and would need to ballast the car to bring it bac closer to the pack.
That's a real picture or at least NASCAR on Fox posted it on their facebook page this morning.
Yeah it’s a real picture, it just looks so crazy that it seems like a bad photoshop.
It reminds me of this meme.
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Will Arnett and Danny Ric doing their own version of Manningcast for F1.
deadline.com
Peyton Manning’s Omaha Productions Re-Teams With ESPN For Alternate Telecasts Of Formula 1 Races Hosted By Will Arnett And Daniel Ricciardo
Peyton Manning's Omaha Productions is teaming with ESPN for alternate Formula 1 telecasts hosted by actor Will Arnett and driver Daniel Ricciardo.
deadline.com
Easiest game of "Where's Waldo" ever.
What's crazy to think of is just how short a cup car is (if you've seen one in person) and then to realize that the prototype cars are even shorter than that.
