Keeping in touch with 24 heures du Mans 2015



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News from around the track from Wednesday 10th June 2015. Sadly this seems to have been set up for adverts and very little useful material is available here. It's go to "pay TV" or nothing it seems.
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LeMansLive.com
See free practice times posted during the action. More & LiveRankings


TV coverage
See coverage in various countries. More


How to follow the action
1. Tune into Radio Le Mans using the Radio Le Mans link , then

2. Call up the live timing webpage using the link and and mute the commentary on that webpage as it is not as good as the information from Radio Le Mans. Then on the LIVETIMING panel on the RHS of that webpage click "See all" when the whole of the timing chart will pop up. It updates live and updated on screen so you will not need to refresh the page,
Live timing lap times link , then

3. Open the Live TV streams from Nissan Nismo cars - on board No 22 is worth watching. Live TV stream

When you have the three webpages up you have the Radio Le Mans commentary in the background and you can switch between the live timing webpage and the in-car live TV stream.

Radio Le Mans link
Live timing lap times link

Live TV stream

Members' reports from Le Mans
Bob Grieves says "just about sorted out from my return from Le Mans, I have attached a few photos. I met another French MGBGTV8 owner at St Saturnin and he allowed me to take details of his car for the register. He was Hubert Meilhac and the number on the offside inner wing plate was 1771. The car is a RHD model in blue and it has had a full refurburbishment and respray." Both French registered MGBGTV8s are not on the V8 Register and the RV8 cannot be checked as the registration plate is covered by the rally plaque. 150625 Photos







NEWS - results at 1500 Sunday

LMP1
19 - Porsche 919 Hybrid
Porsche Team
395 laps, best lap 3:18.596
Nico Hülkenberg
Earl Bamber
Nick Tandy
17 - Porsche 919 Hybrid
Porsche Team
394 laps, best lap 3:18.186
Brendon Hartley
Mark Webber
Timo Bernhard
7 - Audi R18 e-tron quattro
Audi Sport Team Joest
393 laps, best lap 3:17.475 (fastest)
Benoit Tréluyer
André Lotterer
Marcel Fässler
LMP2
47 - Oreca 05-Nissan
KCMG
358 laps, best lap 3:36.836
Richard Bradley
Matthew Howson
Nicolas Lapierre
LM GTE Pro
64 - Chevrolet Corvette CR7
Corvette Racing-GM
Oliver Gavin
Tommy Milner
Jordan Taylor
LM GTE AM
72 - Ferrari 458 Italia
SMP Racing
332 laps, best lap 3:56.165
Victor Shaytar
Andrea Bertolini
Aleksey Basov

Find the latest news about the "24 Heures du Mans" on the ACO website. New
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NEWS: the lead car, Porsche 919 Hybrid No 19, took the lead at 6.30am and with just under 2 hours to go is a lap ahead of the secon car, another Porsche 919. They are both lapping at around 3:23. In third place is the first of Audi R18s. 150614@1208UK

NEWS: the Audi R18 e-tron quattro driven by Andre Lotterer sets fastest lap of 3:17.475 on lap 337 with just over 3 hours to run. Timesheet 150614@1049UK

NEWS: Major announcement
Ford announce a new GT road supercar for Le Mans 2016
The Times report yesterday notes "Formula One was snubbed by one of the World’s biggest carmakers yesterday when Ford announced they would attempt to recreate their legend of Le Mans. 150614@1035UK More

NEWS: up front it's Porsche, Audi, Porsche and as close as it was on the first lap! That's after 8.5 hours into the race. On through the night. 150613@2230UK

NEWS: the Audi R18 was involved in an incident in a yellow flag slow zone, pitted and is now back out on the track again. 150613@1655UK

NEWS: at the end of the first hour the safety car was out because of an incident at the first chicane on the Mulsanne involving three cars. Oil on the track and a fire with one of the cars. 150613@1502UK

Follow the race on the ACO website
See the positions on an hourly basis with the statistics, hourly classification, qualifying position and provisional starting grd. 150613@1315UK
Provisional starting grid
Qualifying positions

NEWS: Ford are planning to return to Le Mans in 2016 with a works supported GTE class car. 150613

Let the show begin!
Optimal conditions indicate a very fast start to the race. Among the four manufacturers entered in the LM P1 class, Porsche, Audi and Toyota seem the best-prepared to succeed. Nissan, whose official return to the top class is primarily looking to finish with its three cars. A warm day is expected. 150613@0905UK Briefing


Qualifying session 3: 2130-0000
Porsche 911 GT3 car suffers a serious incident causing the session to be halted but restarts with around half an hour to go. See final timesheet.
150611@2231 TimesheetP3 & Report & Highlights

Ahead of the start of the third session the rain expected has not arrived which is good news but it's warm and sticky. The longer session should offer more scope for longer qualifying runs.


Qualifying session 2: 1900-2100
An incident halted the session and now qualifying Session 3 will start half an hour earlier at 2130 so will be 30 minutes longer.
150612@2010

Qualifying session 2200-0000 Wednesday 10th June
See the time sheet. 150611@0130 TimesheetP1 & TimesheetP2

Qualifying session 1: 2200-0000 Wednesday 10th June
The track was damp when practice started but the rain has now stopped and the track is fully dry for the first Qualifying Practice session. 150610@2201
Live timing lap times
A two hour qualifying session started at at 2200 and will go through dusk into night and end at midnight (French time).


Times at the end of free practice
Wednesday 10th June

Audi, Porsche and Toyota all exchanged turns at the top of the timing screens for Free Practice. Audi’s André Lotterer was the early leader before the Porsche Team trio locked out the top three positions by the session’s mid-point. After Romain Dumas' lap of 3:21.164 was deleted by the race director for exeeding track limits, Brendon Hartley’s quick lap of 3:21.362 in the Porsche 919 Hybrid (No. 17) ended up being fastest. The No. 8 Audi R18 e-tron quattro was able to break up a Porsche sweep up front by setting the second quickest time. 150610@1921 UKBST
News
& Lap times


Le Mans 24H 2015: race preview
Audi, Porsche and Toyota are joined by Nissan for the 83rd running of the world's greatest endurance race. After the first official practice, we know the cars are faster than ever but there’s no clear picture emerging of the likely winner. More



News items on the Autosport website. More

Documentary of the classic Steve McQueen Le Mans film is being made See the film via this link. 150610 More



See the entry list on the ACO website. More


See their report on the entry list. More


See details of the programme for the event set out day by day on the ACO website. Programme

Summary programme
(times below in France = UK BST plus 1 hr)
Wednesday
0800-1500 Pitwalk
1600-2000 Free practice session
2030-2100 Aston Martin free practice

2200-0000 Qualifying session
Thursday
0800-1500 Pitwalk

1600-1700 LM Legend qualifying
1730-1830 Aston Martin qualifying
1900-2100 Qualifying session
2200-0000 Qualifying session
Friday
No practice

Saturday

0900-0945 Warm up session
1005-1050 Le Mans Legend race
1115-1200 Aston Martin Festival Race

1215-1315 Pitwalk
1500 - Start
1800
2100

2400
Sunday
0300
0600
0900

1200
1500 - Finish



Recent summary of the forecast for Saturday & Sunday
Moderate rain (total 10mm), arriving as showers Saturday night and slightly heavier on Sunday morning with showers on Sunday afternoon. Saturday afternoon warm with clear skies, max 23°C, min 13°C on Saturday night and similar on Sunday. Mainly fresh winds from NE over the weekend between 20 & 25kph.

Issued: Saturday 13th June 2015 @ 1200UK

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Going to 24H Le Mans 2015?
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