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Old Jun 15, 2016 | 11:10 AM
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WED Free Practice 10:00-14:00 (10am-2pm)
WED Qual #1 16:00-18:00 (4-6pm)
THUR Qual #2 13:00-15:00 (1-3pm)
THUR Qual #3 16:00-18:00 (4-6pm)
SAT Warm UP 3:00-3:45 (3am-3:45am)
SAT RACE 9:00-9:00 (9am-9am)

New time for Fox Sports: · June 18 – 24 Hours of Le Mans (all times ET and subject to change):
o FS1 8:30 AM to 2:00 PM
o FS2 2:00 PM to 4:30 PM
o FS2 6:00 PM to 6:30 PM
o FS2 7:00 PM to 7:30 PM
o FS2 10:30 PM to 2:30 AM (June 19)
o FS1 2:30 AM to 9:30 AM (June 19)
*The entire race is streamed live on FOX Sports GO
FOX Sports GO and FOX Sports.com provide live streaming video from multiple in-car cameras
FOX Sports opens its live coverage of the 84th running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans on Sat., June 18 (8:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. ET) on FS1 and FOX Sports GO,
with Bob Varsha and Brian Till leading an eight-member FOX Sports broadcast team.
Varsha’s broadcast team for the iconic endurance race includes Calvin Fish and Tommy Kendall, while Till leads the team of Jamie Howe
and Scott Pruett. Justin Bell and Andrew Marriott report from the pits and legendary driver Sam Posey is writing and voicing the open, as
well as providing pieces throughout the weekend.


http://members.fiawec.com/liveConnect
(*****live streaming entire race*******) Paid service


www.radiolemans.com/ (live audio of entire race)
http://audio.rpix.org.uk/2016/featur...4_pre1.mp3?_=1 (LMP1 radio lemans preview podcast)
http://audio.rpix.org.uk/2016/featur...4_pre2.mp3?_=2 (LMP2 radio lemans preview podcast)
http://audio.rpix.org.uk/2016/featur...4_pre3.mp3?_=3 (GTE radio lemans preview show)


http://www.spotterguides.com/portfolio/16lm/ (Andy Blackmore's spotter guide, will be updated to V2 at some point, prob Tues/Wed)
http://www.lemans.org/explorer/pdf/c...-mans-2016.pdf (FIA WECs own version of a spotters guide)

(FIA WEC ACO entry list in PDF format, no pix)
http://www.lemans.org/explorer/pdf/c...43e9-157542389

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Old Jun 15, 2016 | 02:04 PM
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Follow this list on Twitter for constant updates from drivers, teams, sanctioning bodies, and the media.

http://twitter.com/malxalx/lists/endurance
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Old Jun 15, 2016 | 02:15 PM
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No surprise here, Ferraris and Fords way ahead of everyone else after Practice 1 on pace after the recent roundd of BoP. Seems like everyone but the FIA knew Ford was sandbagging. Will be interesting if the other teams can close the gap some with setup and such. Next practice is at night in a couple of hours.



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And here's the AM category since there are two Corvettes there.




The next 3 practices are also qualifying, so we'll see how that goes, not sure who will bother with fast laps tonight versus just getting a night setup down...
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Originally Posted by z28lt1
No surprise here, Ferraris and Fords way ahead of everyone else after Practice 1 on pace after the recent roundd of BoP. Seems like everyone but the FIA knew Ford was sandbagging. Will be interesting if the other teams can close the gap some with setup and such. Next practice is at night in a couple of hours.
I'm thinking they rule makers allowed them to be faster to make up for the time in the pits figuring out the bugs
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Corvette Racing normally makes sure the drivers are pretty quiet publicly about BoP. Tommy Milner may have missed this week's memo, but as noted, we all know it:

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Tommy has a biting sense of "humor".
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The French have a soft spot for our friends at Ford....

Of course, this race goes not just to the swift, but to those who can stay swift for a full 24 hours....

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Still 40 minutes left in the first practice/qualifying session, but Ferrari and Ford have 3.5-4 seconds on the others. Huge disparity, and a big miss. Will be 2 separate get-pro races. One for all the cars that start with F and one for the others.
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Just remember the Peugeot vs Audi a few years back. The French team was several seconds a lap faster. Remember who won? P1 and P2 if i am not senile with my memory.

Wasn't Toyota much faster the last few years, also?

I love that Ford is back, i just find it hard to root for a 6 cyl car that sounds like a long fart when there are yellow cars that shake the earth going by.
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Originally Posted by quick04Z06
The French have a soft spot for our friends at Ford....

Of course, this race goes not just to the swift, but to those who can stay swift for a full 24 hours....
Except by allowing 4 GT's to race in the same class (lol) they're still ok with up to 3 of their cars not making the full 24 hours
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So here's the first qualifying session. The 7 F cars are a quite a bit ahead. What might be more disheartening is not their fastest laps, but how easily they seem to be able to set times faster than the fastest of the other cars. The Fords seem to be running 55's and 56's on the laps they are not even trying to set qualifying times...


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I need to go to this one year...
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Here's an interesting GTE BoP article. Basically, they're calling Ford out for sandbagging to get the BoP breaks.

http://www.dailysportscar.com/2016/0...-gt-field.html

It does say that they can change the BoP up until Friday so there's plenty of time to modify things.

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