#Safet圜ar deployed #WEC /s1guCVBa30- Porsche Motorsport Aug8:26 pm Interim reportĭifficult weather conditions made an impact on the early phase of the Le Mans 24-hour race. #LeMans24 - Unfortunate incident for the #Porsche #911RSR of with start number 56: it slid into the tyre barrier before the first chicane. These are the standings in the GTE-Pro category after 15 hours. Let’s see what comes of it at the end.” 7:00 am We can only try to continue to get the most out of our car. The competition at the top of our GTE-Am class is very strong. There were many incidents, plenty of yellow flags and several safety car phases. We’re slowly but surely making up some ground again. After a somewhat mediocre start, things are going very well for us now. Matt Campbell (Porsche 911 RSR #77): “After my second triple-stint in this race, I need a bit of a rest now. We can keep up in the slipstream on the long straights, but we can’t get past due to the differences in top speeds. They have an obvious advantage, especially in the close duels. We’re fighting on relentlessly, but we also need a little bit of luck in this year’s race.”įrédéric Makowiecki (Porsche 911 RSR #91): “I always have a lot of fun driving at Le Mans at night. I hope this will change as the temperature rises throughout the morning. We don’t always have the ideal vehicle balance on our No. Unfortunately, we can’t do much more at the moment. We’re trying to establish ourselves in third place for now. Neel Jani (Porsche 911 RSR #92): “Overall, it’s a rather difficult race for us. 88 sister car and the vehicle run by Absolute Racing are also within the top ten.
77 car campaigned by Dempsey-Proton Racing, in which the Porsche works driver Matt Campbell from Australia competes. The best-placed Porsche 911 RSR at dawn in the amateur class is the No. GR Racing’s 911 is 15 laps behind after extensive repairs. The two cars fielded by the German team Project 1 and Proton Competition’s No. Bad luck also plagued Porsche’s customer teams contesting the GTE-Am category. 79 car was damaged in an accident involving the American Cooper MacNeil. Early on Sunday morning, the chassis of the No. The WeatherTech Racing squad, however, had to throw in the towel. The nine-eleven fielded by the customer team HubAuto Racing, which took up the endurance classic from pole position, ranks fifth in the GTE-Pro class after 16 hours of racing. Our cars are running very well and our pace is strong, so we’re still feeling confident.” We still have eight hours of racing to go.
We’re chasing down the frontrunners and fighting hard. We ended up in the second group and thus lost a lot of ground on the two leading cars. “However, the big issue for us was our bad luck with the safety cars. “The night is over – and it was relatively quiet for our works cars,” concludes Alexander Stehlig, Head of Operations FIA WEC. After a long night the Porsche GT Team has an excellent chance to score a podium result. Thus, they lost around three minutes to the leaders in the fiercely contested GTE-Pro class. This happened twice to the works team’s two Porsche 911 RSR. Those who follow the second safety vehicle are immediately disadvantaged through no fault of their own, losing at least 90 seconds.
If drivers are behind the same safety car as the leader, they can regain lost ground. As the result, the field is divided into three groups. This is due to the sheer length of the circuit at 13.626 kilometres. Unlike other racing events, when an incident occurs at Le Mans, three safety cars are sent out onto the track at the same time. The reason for this is the special regulations for the deployment of safety cars in the endurance classic in France. However, both factory-run cars have lost contact with the leaders. 92 Porsche 911 RSR driven by Kévin Estre, Neel Jani and Michael Christensen was running in third in the GTE-Pro class after 16 hours of racing. As the sun rose on Sunday morning, the No. 04:21:50 #WEC #LeMans24 /cMcLAXGu9G- WEC Aug9:35 am Interim report 2Īfter a long night at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the Porsche GT Team has an excellent chance to score a podium result.