[LM24 Race] 2010 record distance (397 laps)

[Adam43]

That’s trues especially when reliability means they don’t go away!

[Adam43]

For completeness. Overall and a comparison to 2010.

[canaglia]

Originally Posted by Irie

Another thought, the growing starter field doesn't increase the chances of breaking the record. More opportunities for yellows and more traffic

Disagree, this year 50 cars on 61 finished the race, didn't follow the whole race but there have been only 3 big crashes:
#17 smp, #64 corvette and #31 maldonado



aside these, any other significative crash happened.


Nobody will break 2010 397laps record because infinite slow zones and unnecessary FCY are triggered more and more often just because of small debries on track...
basically it's just the same ALMS yellow flag madness...



Recall in 2010 during first hours of the race; Kristensen entered too fast in first right corner of porsche sector trying to overlap a bmw m3; he spun, touched the artcar bmw, and then crashed his R15 rear into the tyrewall. While the bmw was slowly reaching the pitlane, Kristensen was helped by a manitou to exit from gravel and came back in the track riding through a "secondary" road ..... in the meantime..... green race for the whole time!
actually nobody gave a sh...t about that crash


just think about the same crash today....




considering also 2010 audis have always been off the pace compared to peugeot 3+1 work cars, and their race pace at the best was largely >3.25.... is quite clear that from 2015, the 397laps records could be easily broken with less FCY.....

[tomerswayler]

And a quick overview of the laptimes for the #7 Toyota. The laps around the pit stops are marked in Red (IN) and Yellow (Out). When I adjust all the slower laps by replacing them with the median time I get that 1h43m were lost in all the incidents, that's enough for about 30 laps. Maybe that's something for next year, let's go for the 400 barrier...

[Adam43]

Nice

I wonder what time was “lost” in 2010 or 2018. To get an idea of how impressive 2010 was and also weather 2018 Toyota pace was as good .

[tomerswayler]

The alkamel archive unfortunately only goes back to 2011, so the record year's laptimes cannot be accessed. But I found out that ris-timing.be was the timing company for 2010 and messaged them if they can send my a copy of the laptimes. If they reply and can provide the data, then I'll have a look at 2010 and try to find out how close to the optimum that race has been.

[Irie]

Originally Posted by tomerswayler

The alkamel archive unfortunately only goes back to 2011, so the record year's laptimes cannot be accessed. But I found out that ris-timing.be was the timing company for 2010 and messaged them if they can send my a copy of the laptimes. If they reply and can provide the data, then I'll have a look at 2010 and try to find out how close to the optimum that race has been.

You can download the pdfs through archive.org
https://web.archive.org/web/20100617...rect-2010.html

[PascaLM]

Compared to the 1h10 of 2010, we had this year : eight safety-cars (2h10), eight FCY (0h30), seven slow zones (1h01)
(AUTOhebdo)