Re: Le Mans News

by lfcnicklfc Fri 11 Nov 2011 - 12:25

Fisichella was really good in F1! It's just that he went to Ferrari to replace Massa then couldn't get a F1 drive from then on putting him in sports cars, and i love a F1 driver in sportscars all the ones you named Louis then there's Wurz and Davidson! Can't beat a F1 reject in sportscars!

by **Biggsy tv** Fri 11 Nov 2011 - 12:30

I'd disagree. Although Fisichella had moments, he wasn't one of the best.

by **CQR Rogue** Fri 11 Nov 2011 - 12:34

Any way back on track enough F1 rubbish tarnishing sports cars lol

So who is watching Zuhai the weekend?

by narboza22 Fri 11 Nov 2011 - 19:48

Louis wrote:
narboza22 wrote:I was talking about Nakajima. If there was ever a driver never did anything exciting, it'd be him. I don't know why Toyota think they need a Japanese driver.

If we remember correctly, anyone who was in F1 that wasnt that great (Pedro Lamy, Jan Magnussen, Giancarlo Fischella, ALAN MCNISH!) turned out to be incredible talents behind the wheel of a sports car. (Pedro Lamy, Jan Magnussen, Giancarlo Fisichella, ALAN MCNISH!)

Lamy, Mags, and McNish (Toyota was terrible in F1) never really got a fair shot in F1 imo, so I wouldn't really say that they disappointed there. Fisi is a race winner in F1, so he couldn't have been that bad. He would have won Spa for Force India in 2009 had it not been for Kimi's KERS.

Nakajima on the other hand was utterly dominated by Rosberg at Williams. In 2009, he scored no points to Rosberg's 34.5. Now it may very well be that he is a sports car god waiting to be unleashed upon the world, but if I was Toyota and had to make a team that was going to be able to compete against Audi and Peugeot, I would not pick 2 drivers that I know are very good (Wurz, Lapierre) and then a 3rd driver that may completely suck if his past driving is anything to go by. Especially not when there are so many other drivers that I could get that I know for sure will be up to par against the other factory teams.

by **Radiation Louis** Fri 11 Nov 2011 - 23:11

You say Lamy, Magnussen and McNish never got their fair share at F1 and are comparing him to someone who is out running the "great" (but not so great in my mind) Michael Schumacher in the same car! Rosberg could have been the one that stands out over the rest on pure tallent, hence why he's in F1 still. Nakajima had to be impressive somewhere otherwise he never would have gotten the ride. The Williams at that time (or now as well) wasn't that great. So i believe Nakajima is going to be the next McNish, Lamy, Herbert, Magnussen, Wurz and Alboretto

by narboza22 Sat 12 Nov 2011 - 1:45

2010/11 Schumi isn't the same as the 2004 Schumi. I think Rosberg is good, but he isn't great. He managed to score a fair amount of points in 2009 and Nakajima didn't.

I hope that Nakajima turns out to be a great talent because I want to see Toyota be able to compete with Audi and Peugeot, but I'm just not sure that will be the case.

by **Radiation Louis** Sat 12 Nov 2011 - 2:24

give them a year or two to refine the Hybrid system as it is extremely unproven outside of Porsche's venture but that was GT's. Last time a Prototype ran it before last year was the Sparky Panoz and it didn't make it past pre-qualifying.

by **Radiation Louis** Sat 12 Nov 2011 - 2:25

although in fairness, Wurz wouldn't leave Peugeot and sign for someone else unless he felt it was capable of winning.

by **Radiation Louis** Sat 12 Nov 2011 - 13:16

This thing looks unique

http://www.lemans.org/en/news/French_drivers_test_a_South_African_prototype_5603.html

by narboza22 Sat 12 Nov 2011 - 13:22

Very F1 looking nose.

by Stonewall458 Sat 12 Nov 2011 - 13:23

Epsilon Euskadi 2.0?

by Stonewall458 Sun 13 Nov 2011 - 2:36

6 Hours of Zhuhai to start in about 25 minutes time. Who's watching?

by nickyf1 Sun 13 Nov 2011 - 13:40

Missed it

I do love these semi-obscure entries in LMP2, like the Epsilon Euskadi and the WR! Reminds me of F1 days of old!

Also, saw this, found it quite interesting, makes it sink in that the FIA are doing a World Sportscar series again!

by **CQR Rogue** Sat 10 Dec 2011 - 20:18

http://www.porsche.com/microsite/lemans/international.aspx

The Kings of Le Mans are starting to build up the hype to 2014

by **Matt** Sun 11 Dec 2011 - 8:14

I do like tha logo.
Will have to get it put together before the seasons starts so I can have a good number of replicas ready to roll Wink

by lfcnicklfc Mon 12 Dec 2011 - 0:05

eizoxian wrote:The Aston seems to have been linked to Autocon by Dailyspotscar.com seems unlinkely, but they're usually quite accurate

That was TORA's 88888th post haha Razz

by JeffH16 Mon 12 Dec 2011 - 0:10

lfcnicklfc wrote:
eizoxian wrote:The Aston seems to have been linked to Autocon by Dailyspotscar.com seems unlinkely, but they're usually quite accurate

That was TORA's 88888th post haha

hahaha! ill take honour in that!

by **Radiation Louis** Mon 12 Dec 2011 - 0:54

lfcnicklfc wrote:
eizoxian wrote:The Aston seems to have been linked to Autocon by Dailyspotscar.com seems unlinkely, but they're usually quite accurate

That was TORA's 88888th post haha

The fact you're keeping track blows my mind!

by **LMR DarthMario** Mon 12 Dec 2011 - 0:58

is there a way to track when we hit the 66,666th post though? Twisted Evil

by lfcnicklfc Mon 12 Dec 2011 - 1:05

Louis wrote:
lfcnicklfc wrote:
eizoxian wrote:The Aston seems to have been linked to Autocon by Dailyspotscar.com seems unlinkely, but they're usually quite accurate

That was TORA's 88888th post haha

The fact you're keeping track blows my mind!

Check the forum home page just above the Chatbox it has a small statistics section and says the total number of posts from users Razz

by **Radiation Louis** Mon 12 Dec 2011 - 1:10

i know mate was making a joke Razz

by lfcnicklfc Mon 12 Dec 2011 - 1:26

Aaaaah better that i've said it anyway just in case someone thinks i've actually gone and counted all of the posts on TORA haha Razz

by **Radiation Louis** Mon 12 Dec 2011 - 1:39

oh yeah! otherwise people would have thought you had no life.

by AMR of the Apex Thu 15 Dec 2011 - 18:44

Now that STR have dispatched Sebastien Buemi, would it be possible that Rebellion could hire him....or is the swiss connection just me overthinking things.

by HCR generaltso Thu 15 Dec 2011 - 19:52

the swiss connection...staring

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