ferrari runs out of gas

[Clem Z.]

Corvette Wins Petit Le Mans !!!!

[Thomas H.]

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I'm sitting in a hotel room watching the end of the race also.

The C6's are always boasting great gas mileage

Congrats to the Corvette team!

Tom

[Duke W.]

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Great race! It's about time some other team had the bad luck for a change.

Duke

[John M.]

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Take the wins, however they come. Extremely competitive class - nothing like the "old" GT1 days.

[James B.]

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I TiVo races (ALMS, F-1, etc). I don't have the time to watch them real time but treasure watching an hour or two at a time over a couple of weeks. Someone always gives the endings away... Having said that, anytime Corvette beats Ferrari it is a good day; now if Patrick Long and Flying Lizard took the drivers title that would be great. See the latest Road & Track. Good comparison of street vs race cars for Corvette, Porsche, Ferrari, BMW, etc. Corvette ZR-1 comes off very well.

[John H.]

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A win is a win, but they can't expect another windfall like they got yesterday; they need to go back to Katech for their engines - they've gone nowhere since they started building them in-house last year.

[Clem Z.]

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the racing assoc restricts the air intake to the engine so more HP will not help because they have to dyno test each setup for HP. if they get DI next year it will help throttle response. the corvettes ran DI in a couple of races last year but had to remove it because it was not installed on production corvettes. this tell me that GM is working on DI V-8s or they would not have had the stuff last year.

[Patrick N.]

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it was a difficult year to say the least, but as Dorsey said, they both came in for refueling, Corvette got it right, Ferrari got it wrong. Great race to see so many cars swapping places for 9 hrs. Congrats to the team!

Did I hear correctly that a new course in Baltimore will be added next year?

[Duke W.]

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A win is a win, but they can't expect another windfall like they got yesterday; they need to go back to Katech for their engines - they've gone nowhere since they started building them in-house last year.

There was some internal engine problem that took out both cars at LeMans. I don't think GM ever announced publically what it was.

Has anyone heard anything through the grapevine?

Duke

[John H.]

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the racing assoc restricts the air intake to the engine so more HP will not help because they have to dyno test each setup for HP. if they get DI next year it will help throttle response. the corvettes ran DI in a couple of races last year but had to remove it because it was not installed on production corvettes. this tell me that GM is working on DI V-8s or they would not have had the stuff last year.

They've got some work to do for next season - this was the last year for the old Ferrari 430, which will be replaced next year by the 458, and the 458 is a LOT more car than the 430 (and has DI).

[Clem Z.]

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They've got some work to do for next season - this was the last year for the old Ferrari 430, which will be replaced next year by the 458, and the 458 is a LOT more car than the 430 (and has DI).

corvette can campaign for a larger restrictor so they have more HP if that is the problem.

[Clem Z.]

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There was some internal engine problem that took out both cars at LeMans. I don't think GM ever announced publically what it was.

Has anyone heard anything through the grapevine?

Duke

they upped the rev limiter because they fell behind in those wrecks and they tried to make up laps and the engine would not take it. they had to run the engines hard before they wanted to.

[Duke W.]

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Yeah, I remember at LeMans after that f...g leading Peugeot punted one of the Corvettes off course when the Corvette was courteous enough to yield the line that cost a half hour of repairs in the pits it was turning qualifying times if not better trying to catch up.

There was a segment of in-car video from one of the Corvettes that was following one of the Risi Ferraris and the Ferrari appeared to have legs on the straight, but less so later in the race.

Duke

[Clem Z.]

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Yeah, I remember at LeMans after that f...g leading Peugeot punted one of the Corvettes off course when the Corvette was courteous enough to yield the line that cost a half hour of repairs in the pits it was turning qualifying times if not better trying to catch up.

There was a segment of in-car video from one of the Corvettes that was following one of the Risi Ferraris and the Ferrari appeared to have legs on the straight, but less so later in the race.

Duke

as close as the races end up team corvette needs to get some NASCAR pit crew guys. the ferrari was 10 seconds ahead so a few seconds each pit stop would help a lot. endurance racing is just keeping the competition in sight and then at the end crank it up to see who come out on top

[Duke W.]

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Endurance racing is looking more and more like long sprint races. The cars are amazingly reliable and equal considering the wide range of chassis layouts and engine architectures. The lap times during the race weren't that far off qualifying times. It seems to often come down to luck - good or bad, and like you say, pit stop times.

The ten second lead the Ferrari had going into the last lap works out to about one second per hour! Pretty amazing.

I was concerned whether Corvette Racing would be back next year, but all indications I have seen say they will, which is great.

Duke