Lotus at Le Mans

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[rogerch]

Anyone know of any live streams or other 24 hour coverage ?

[Advantage]

There's all kinds of streaming services around this year.

Audi's and Peugeot's and Info site and Radio Le Mans and SpeedTV

Keep on giving us updates Newsbot!

[Bibs]

You can keep up to date with my Le Mans diary here and on our homepage.

Number 2 on it's way

http://www.lotuscars.com/motorsport/en/lotuslover-from-le-mans

Currently sat in Lotus hospitality, enjoying everything about Le Mans, love it

[BrazierD]

Nice! Wish I was there.

Lotus? In Le Mans? Really? After a 17 year break from the La Sarthe circuit...

The only time I went was 1997 - 14 years ago - when the Elise GT1 ran, for a while at least. "17 years" would go back to 1994, which was the last year in F1 of the original Team Lotus, but let's not go back to that one...

Have a great time & let us know how it goes. One car running OK, the other seems to have lost 8/9 laps?

Edited June 11, 2011 by BrazierD

[yeller77]

Nice! Wish I was there.

Wish I could be in the hospitality tent! Headed there this AM, hope the boys are still running well!

Eric

[Bibs]

Click for 'Into the night...'

[pumpkin999]

Anyone knows the current positions? Are the cars still running? Hope so.

[rogerch]

The surviving Evora seems to be running 29th. Looks bloody cold, quite happy not to be there.

[Mark Blanchard]

Lotus in 25th position, 9th in it's class.

Edited June 12, 2011 by Mark B

[NedaSay]

Ok I had to post this!

courtesy of autoblog.com

What a glorious sight!

[ramjet]

I can only see the race streamed from the inside of the #73 corvette, but I'm pretty sure I just saw it pass the remaining evora.

What astonishes me is the speed of the LP1 cars. They don't just pass the other cars, they fly past and I believe the Audi's are diesels?

Edited June 12, 2011 by ramjet

[Mark Blanchard]

[ramjet]

What's with the weird shaped wing struts?

And corvette #73 just went past the evora again.

Edited June 12, 2011 by ramjet

[gtornes78]

Now up to 22th overall, 7th in class. 10 min to go!

[nello]

Not a bad result! P.22 - 7th in class .....great overall finish too - 15 second win after 24 hours for Audi

Edited June 12, 2011 by nello

[Mark Blanchard]

Well done Lotus

What a great race and the Evora beat a Porsche 911RSR, Ferrari 458 and a Ford GT to finish.

Edited June 12, 2011 by Mark B

[nello]

And gotta say well done to Corvette - winning both GT classes

Edited June 12, 2011 by nello

[Quicker]

What's with the weird shaped wing struts?

I believe they attach the struts to the top of the wing to maximize the smooth surface of the underwing which is what does all the work

[ramjet]

Ahh. Aerodynamics 101. Thanks Lou. It's obvious now that you've said it. Before that, I saw it on several cars and was a bit like WTF?

[karmavore]

Corvette rules. Amazing recovery after the loss of 74.

[yeller77]

A big "well done!" to the Jet Alliance team! I could only be there for the last few hours, but it was great experience all around! I do think I saw the great one snapping pics in the Jet Alliance garage then later cruising down the boulevard in Le Mans in the copper AU reg Evora. That was when I was sardined into the local tram with all the other unwashed. Tried to wave, but couldn't get a finger up. I've now seen how the other half lives!

[Bibs]

22nd overall, 7th in class and 3rd in the ILMC cup so on the podium for that.

Great weekend, my final report will be up in the morning but it's been a real blast. Would have been better if the fcukin' Gendarme hadn't relieved me of €750 though, gits.

[profsu]

Great race and fantastic to see Evora number 65 finish respectfully 7th in class!

Corvette has a strong and disciplined team. But it's my tax money at work, thanks to the US government $49B bailout to GM. Still love my Evora so much more than the al-to-common Corvettes over here.

I wish that Lotus would reconsider their LMP1 plans (competing with Audi/Peugeot, really?) and put that money to work to improve the Evora GTE performance and also use the experience to improve the road cars (with their new V8 maybe?). All we need is to shave 10 seconds off per lap to get lap times closer to 4 minutes and be in a better position next year to beat the GT teams and get on the podium.

[comem47]

Great weekend, my final report will be up in the morning but it's been a real blast. Would have been better if the fcukin' Gendarme hadn't relieved me of €750 though, gits.

Definitely have to read about this to get the specifics. I don't think any event would be worth that kind of money though.