24 Heures du Mans 2012 - 80th Edition

The 80th edition of the Grand Prix d'Endurance, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the most important race in the world, is almost upon us. And so, it deserves it's very own thread!


3rd June - Test Day
16th-17th June - Race Day

Entry List - http://www.lemans.org/wpphpFichiers/1/1/ressources/Pdf/2012/24-heures-du-mans/entry_list_24_heures_du_mans_2012.pdf

keen to watch my first Le Mans

Is it just me or is the location on that poster non-existent

Cant wait, Radio lemans have there first preview up

Also Eurosport live race 24 hours HD as well

Predictions before test day -

P1 ) - 2 AUDI SPORT TEAM JOEST DEU MICHELIN AUDI R18 E-TRON QUATTRO Hybrid Allan McNISH GBR P Rinaldo CAPELLO ITA P Tom KRISTENSEN DNK P

P2) - 1 of the Oaks - Nissan or Judd :0

GT PRO) - 51 AF CORSE ITA MICHELIN FERRARI 458 ITALIA Giancarlo FISICHELLA ITA P Gianmaria BRUNI ITA P Toni VILANDER FIN P

GT AM) - 67 IMSA PERFORMANCE MATMUT FRA MICHELIN PORSCHE 911 RSR (997) Anthony PONS FRA B Raymond NARAC FRA S Nicolas ARMINDO FRA G

DELTA WING NISSAN - Finish above all P2 cars 5th place overall

SelectiveRogue wrote:Cant wait, Radio lemans have there first preview up

Also Eurosport live race 24 hours HD as well

Predictions before test day -

P1 ) - 2 AUDI SPORT TEAM JOEST DEU MICHELIN AUDI R18 E-TRON QUATTRO Hybrid Allan McNISH GBR P Rinaldo CAPELLO ITA P Tom KRISTENSEN DNK P

P2) - 1 of the Oaks - Nissan or Judd :0

GT PRO) - 51 AF CORSE ITA MICHELIN FERRARI 458 ITALIA Giancarlo FISICHELLA ITA P Gianmaria BRUNI ITA P Toni VILANDER FIN P

GT AM) - 67 IMSA PERFORMANCE MATMUT FRA MICHELIN PORSCHE 911 RSR (997) Anthony PONS FRA B Raymond NARAC FRA S Nicolas ARMINDO FRA G

DELTA WING NISSAN - Finish above all P2 cars 5th place overall

That's my prediction, And is radio Le mans just a website that has live streaming of the race?

Radio Le Mans provides the international commentary feed for Le Mans and the World Endurance Championship AND The ELMS.
Plus lots of other events too. They have a brilliant weekly magazine radio show called Midweek Motorsport on Wednesday nights, hosted by John Hindhaugh (the voice of Le Mans).
Look for the Midweek Motorsport Listeners Collective on Facebook and also on radiolemans.com

So if I google it, I'll b able to listen to Le mans?

www.radiolemans.com

Join up to the forum, get involved with the collective, it's all free to listen to and it's a fantastic community.

They do a motorsport radio show every Wednesday at 8pm GMT, and it's well worth a listen every week!

I'll post up a live stream of the race for you on this thread so you can watch too.

There is no Gran Turismo Chicane anymore. It's now the Forza Motorsport Chicane.

June car pack anyone?

I sure would love to see the Toyota in Forza 4..

It's a great shame that I can't drive prototypes though!

June Le Mans car pack? Toyota Hybrid?

Really gutted I'm missing the 24 Hours again! My work schedule this year has me missing all the big races I can either watch or go to. Thankfully I'm off for Britcar!

Predictions: Delta wing finishes several laps ahead of everything else, just to spite me.

Travis that would be epic

nickyf1 wrote:www.radiolemans.com

Join up to the forum, get involved with the collective, it's all free to listen to and it's a fantastic community.

They do a motorsport radio show every Wednesday at 8pm GMT, and it's well worth a listen every week!

I'll post up a live stream of the race for you on this thread so you can watch too.

Sounds good, thanks and I can watch it on the WEC sight as well right?

Yeah, you can!

We get a huge chunk of the race on SpeedTV here in the States, and live streaming too.

British Eurosport coverage.. Just when you think you've had enough Johnny Herbert from Sky Sports F1..

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/08062011/58/le-mans-24-hour-join-eurosport-definitive-le-mans-coverage.html

The whole race live, mostly in HD, although sometimes on the other channel, with live qualifying, live support races and a daily, live, Le Mans '24 Minutes'' programme, which will run between the 6th of June til the race.

nickyf1 wrote:British Eurosport coverage.. Just when you think you've had enough Johnny Herbert from Sky Sports F1..

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/08062011/58/le-mans-24-hour-join-eurosport-definitive-le-mans-coverage.html

The whole race live, mostly in HD, although sometimes on the other channel, with live qualifying, live support races and a daily, live, Le Mans '24 Minutes'' programme, which will run between the 6th of June til the race.

awesome that means volume will be off and radiolemans will be engaged

Exactly.

nickyf1 wrote:British Eurosport coverage.. Just when you think you've had enough Johnny Herbert from Sky Sports F1..

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/08062011/58/le-mans-24-hour-join-eurosport-definitive-le-mans-coverage.html

The whole race live, mostly in HD, although sometimes on the other channel, with live qualifying, live support races and a daily, live, Le Mans '24 Minutes'' programme, which will run between the 6th of June til the race.

He did the 24 minutes programme last year and it was pretty good, it rounded up all the goings on quite nicely making a great catch up show!

Looks good.

ZENTZENTZENT

So on the RLM P1 preview, it sounds like the ACO nerfed the Delta Wing. Part of me still thinks that the car is dumb, but it would be so awesome if it could beat most of the P1s. Doesn't sound like that can happen now.

Is that all the cars that are competing? Not very many