Club Arnage
Free Practice..
Club Arnage
Your CA team is in
place and free practice has passed reasonably quietly except for #24
Oak Racing Morgan Nissan. The culprit behind the wheel was David
Heinemeier Hansson he went off at Pouhon. Fair enough.. it was a bit
damp in places.
We have another
cracking grid of 35 cars including of course the big banger LMP1 cars
from Audi and Toyota. This is their last chance to scare off any
gremlins that might be lurking about prior to Le Mans.
The new qualifying
procedure is back despite its rather murky debut at Silverstone. It
seems that the computer software didn’t cope particularly well and
got in a huff and went home for an early bath but the chaps that
know about these things have, we are told, got it all sorted out now.
So once again we are looking forward with eager anticipation to the
following:-
Driver One goes out and
does at least four laps and the computer remembers the best two of
them… then Driver Two goes out and also does at least four laps,
and again the computers remember which were the fastest two. Now the
clever bit.. these four times are averaged out to give a final time
that gives the car its place on the grid. Get it? Simples!
Now a few ‘Michael
Caine’ moments… did you know that:-
All the cars are fitted
with three lights in a vertical row beside the number decal.. one
light ‘on’ means the car is leader its class.. two lights second
in class and three lights third in class. These are triggered by the
transponders and time keepers. These were not working all that well
either but we are assured that will be tickety-boo by Le Mans. If you are watching on
TV the LMP1 Cars have Red numbers.. LM P2 have blue ones… LM GTE Pro
are green and LM GTE Am are orange.
Nine drivers here today
have taken part in F1 Grand Prix… Allan McNish, Alexander Wurz,
Anthony Davidson, Sébastien Buemi, Luca di Grassi, Marc Gené,
Stéphane Sarrazin. Kazuki Nakajima and Nick Heidfeld.
Fuel tanks on petrol
powered LMP1 and LMP2 cars are allowed 75 litres… the diesels get
60 litres.. LMPGTE Pro and Am also get 60 litres.
Just looking at the
programme and noticed that it claims Marcel Fassler clocked a
1:01.851sec to claim the fastest lap in the 2012. A mere 205 Kph…
in fact this would have been nearer 400kph which would be about 250
mph!! Maybe it should read 2:01.851secs!
My guru Tony tells me
that the #7 Toyota is a new car and the #3 Audi has the ‘long
tail’..remember the 917 Porsche ? Well this one is a massive few
cms!
35 Cars…8 in LMP1..11
in LMP2…7 in LMGTE Pro and 9 in LMGTE Am
Back after practice and
qualifying
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