Le Mans 24 Hours

[CamaroGT]

The Le Mans 24 Hours race is on this weekend. Cheer for the Corvette team.

http://www.corvetteracing.com/

http://www.badboyvettes.com/

http://www.lemans.org/24heuresdumans...ccueil_gb.html

[CamaroGT]

Corvette C6R at Le Mans 2008




On Board Corvette C6R at Le Mans 2008

[Milk 1027]

Jake is going to dominate again.

[CamaroGT]

Corvette Racing Drivers Links

http://www.janmagnussen.com/home.asp

http://www.olivergavin.com/

http://www.johnnyoconnell.com/

http://www.antoniogarcia.com/

[CamaroGT]

LE MANS, France, June 11, 2009 - With days of persistent rain only a memory, qualifying for the 24 Hours of Le Mans was completed tonight in near-perfect conditions. With a dry track and cool evening air, Jan Magnussen won the pole in the GT1 category for the second straight year with a time of 3:54.230 in the No. 63 Compuware Corvette C6.R. Olivier Beretta was a heartbeat behind at 3:54.702 in the No. 64 Compuware Corvette C6.R to give the Corvette Racing team a one-two qualifying sweep in the final race for the factory GT1 Corvettes.

"So far so good!" said Magnussen. "The Corvette C6.R goes really well and responds well to changes. I set my qualifying time on soft tires with a couple of laps on them already, which shows how good the car is. In the second part of the qualifying session Antonio (Garcia) did a long run to see how the tires would behave over a distance. With the new rules on tire changes, we'll have to double-stint them to avoid losing too much time in the pits. Tonight we learned how hard we can push them."

The Corvette Racing team devoted the majority of the first two-hour session to tuning the chassis/aero package and evaluating the Michelin tires under race conditions. Then in the closing minutes of the session, Beretta and Magnussen traded fast times. The Dane finally claimed his second Le Mans GT1 pole with two minutes to go.

"Winning the GT1 pole at Le Mans is fitting after 10 years of intense competition and a great way to begin the ending of Corvette's reign in the GT1 category at Le Mans," said Corvette Racing program manager Doug Fehan. "Tonight's performance certainly reflects the advances in technology that General Motors has developed through the Corvette Racing program."

[CamaroGT]

The Le Mans race will be shown live on Speed channel.

June 13 – Sat.

8:30am ET / 5:30am PT

http://www.speedtv.com/programs/24-hours-of-le-mans/

[CamaroGT]

Corvette C6R

[stovt001]

I'll be watching and/or listening on satellite radio tomorrow. Wow 1-2 pole. Way to go Corvette team. Of course, I'm also just as excited about the Audi-Peugeot rivalry. Should be a good race this year.

BTW, this is where GM's racing efforts should really go. This is real racing - high speed, acceleration, braking, and both left AND right hand turns. And the cars are often production based and unique to the manufacturer, none of this cookie-cutter crap with headlight decals from a production car that is nothing like the race car. And along with performance there is an emphasis on efficiency and durability. Endurance road racing, and all road-racing for that matter, is extremely relevant to making better production cars.

[fRenzy]

Originally Posted by stovt001

I'll be watching and/or listening on satellite radio tomorrow. Wow 1-2 pole. Way to go Corvette team. Of course, I'm also just as excited about the Audi-Peugeot rivalry. Should be a good race this year.

BTW, this is where GM's racing efforts should really go. This is real racing - high speed, acceleration, braking, and both left AND right hand turns. And the cars are often production based and unique to the manufacturer, none of this cookie-cutter crap with headlight decals from a production car that is nothing like the race car. And along with performance there is an emphasis on efficiency and durability. Endurance road racing, and all road-racing for that matter, is extremely relevant to making better production cars.

[stovt001]

I'm looking forward to next year when the Corvettes are running in GT2. Going 1-4 loses some of its awesomeness when it is out of 6 cars total.

Peugeot is annoying me. Go Audi!

[stovt001]

Congrats to Vettes taking a 1-2-3 podium finish. Too bad that Aston managed to break into fourth place.

And how about the P1 results? Who knew the French could build a car that could be driven for 24 hours without blowing up or retreating?

[ShnOmac]

Soooooo bumed I didnt get to watch or follow it at all this year

[Camaro_Corvette]

Originally Posted by stovt001

Congrats to Vettes taking a 1-2-3 podium finish. Too bad that Aston managed to break into fourth place.

And how about the P1 results? Who knew the French could build a car that could be driven for 24 hours without blowing up or retreating?

Wow, Awesome.

[fRenzy]

Originally Posted by stovt001

Congrats to Vettes taking a 1-2-3 podium finish. Too bad that Aston managed to break into fourth place.

And how about the P1 results? Who knew the French could build a car that could be driven for 24 hours without blowing up or retreating?

Thought the vettes took 1-2 as the 3rd was out on a destroyed gear box. The Audi's had some rough times and I am certain that they would have won the P1, just like they have for the past 8 years. Just bad luck.

Kudos to the vette team!