WEC Race WEC 2024: Round 7 - 6 Hours of Fuji - Page 15

TF110 · 15 Sep 2024, 15:19 (Ref:4227017)

Good race, a predictable winner for me. Lotterer knows his way around Fuji and the Porsche was already strong here last year so they were my pick to win. I'm not sure what happened with Kobayashi and if he thought he had space but they need a miracle to win the drivers title now. Alpine is coming though, they keep getting closer and closer. Even Peugeot had a quiet yet decent race. GT3 I think the driving was kinda up and down in terms of standards. But Fuji did a great job to put on a show!

Matador · 15 Sep 2024, 16:50 (Ref:4227024)

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Originally Posted by Adam43

Toyota leads.

Right, I'm done. I'll watch the last couple of hours with breakfast. I guess that'll be cereal

It's time for bed. Sorry everyone.

Less sarcasm from now on. Less toast. Less ALERTS! Less liking Lotterer. Less charts and tables "thank heavens I hate them so much".

Night Sportscar fans

Don't spill your coffee. Breakfast is gonna be wild.

**Adam43** · 15 Sep 2024, 16:55 (Ref:4227025)

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Originally Posted by helgi

Cheap farce scripted race with billion FCY and PC to compress the field.

While fixing the race the ACO also ate cats and dogs.

**Adam43** · 15 Sep 2024, 16:56 (Ref:4227026)

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Originally Posted by Matador

Don't spill your coffee. Breakfast is gonna be wild.

Crikey, it all kicked off didn't it.

**Adam43** · 15 Sep 2024, 16:58 (Ref:4227029)

You didn't watch these videos so the ACO ate the kittens.

Not many retirees, until the end!

**Adam43** · 15 Sep 2024, 17:00 (Ref:4227030)

Lap times of the winner and the battle of the podium finishers. Although the battle was very much not just these three.

That was a good team and race by the winning crew. The most under control.

Matador · 15 Sep 2024, 17:04 (Ref:4227031)

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Originally Posted by Mike E

Another fantastic race. Really enjoyed that.

Can't complain that there were some amazing and entertaining battles up and down the field, but

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Originally Posted by helgi

I've been here since 2008 and it's obvious that I'm a fan of endurance. I did enjoy Interlagos and Austin, because they were more or less old school.

Why shouldn't I say that for some % of fans it was clearly an overdoze of neutralizations just for "competition yellows" which ruined a normal race at Fuji.

I hate lots of things in this World but I still live within and talk about it. What a problem to have an opinion parallel to others?

Fully agree on this take. Some of the SCs were absolutely unnecessary, overly long and ruined some of the race for me.

While Toyota ultimately bottled it, they had a pretty interesting strategy with the #7 and I would have liked to have seen the outcome of that vs their lack of ultimate pace, but a pointless SC saw that away. That's the way the cookie crumbles I guess.

The scene is set for an absolute Dogfight to the finish in Bahrain though. Winner of the race between Ferrari, Toyota and Porsche will take the manufacturers championship. #7 is effectively out of the drivers championship race, although an inversion of Fuji's results can actually see them seal it providing the #8 runs interference and demotes the #50.

November can't come fast enough.

**Adam43** · 15 Sep 2024, 17:07 (Ref:4227032)

And the first look at the relative pace of the cars today.

Matador · 15 Sep 2024, 17:07 (Ref:4227033)

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Originally Posted by Adam43

Crikey, it all kicked off didn't it.

Did it ever! I feel it for Caddy though. Not sure who bottled it harder, them or the Toyotas.

Where the hell did all the pace from the Peugeots come from in the last hour though? They were flying!

**Adam43** · 15 Sep 2024, 17:08 (Ref:4227035)

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Originally Posted by Matador

Fully agree on this take.

You fully agree that the race director is fixing the races to make them closer?

Matador · 15 Sep 2024, 17:09 (Ref:4227036)

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Originally Posted by Adam43

And the first look at the relative pace of the cars today.

Surprised that Hirakawa had better pace than DeVries. I think DeVries drove the best stint of all the Toyota drivers. Then again I do believe the 8 was the quicker car all weekend.

Those Alpines though!!!

Matador · 15 Sep 2024, 17:10 (Ref:4227037)

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Originally Posted by Adam43

You fully agree that the race director is fixing the races to make them closer?

No, fully agree that some of the SCs were unnecessary and out for too long.

**Adam43** · 15 Sep 2024, 17:30 (Ref:4227044)

And the drivers. Ironman Bamber, but Melesi and Schumacher got more laps even in a three car team. For very obvious reasons.

Interesting split of driver time in the car for the #15 and #36.

**Adam43** · 15 Sep 2024, 17:33 (Ref:4227046)

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Originally Posted by Matador

No, fully agree that some of the SCs were unnecessary and out for too long.

I was going to say as there is zero evidence that it is being fixed as suggested.

JoeW04 · 15 Sep 2024, 18:35 (Ref:4227064)

Is it time for Cadillac to move on from Earl Bamber or is the added pressure of only running two drivers?

tomcug · 15 Sep 2024, 18:55 (Ref:4227074)

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Originally Posted by Adam43

And the first look at the relative pace of the cars today.

Very good job but the table here shows individual drivers, not cars.

**Adam43** · 15 Sep 2024, 18:56 (Ref:4227075)

Ooopps, attached the same one twice. I’ll change on the first post.

Thank you

Here is the updated post: https://www.tentenths.com/forum/show...&postcount=358

flatlandsman · 15 Sep 2024, 19:05 (Ref:4227080)

Bamber for me is proving himself to either be too aggressive or simply not suited to that type of car. He makes a lot of driving errors and I thought today the way he drove back looked a little unprofessional to be honest. I doubt Jota would touch him with his track record. No shock for me Hanson is being let go too.

tomcug · 15 Sep 2024, 19:11 (Ref:4227081)

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Originally Posted by flatlandsman

No shock for me Hanson is being let go too.

Why? Phil is the fastest driver in the 38 and I don't remember him crashing. Illot was the crashing driver this year at Jota.

**Adam43** · 15 Sep 2024, 19:17 (Ref:4227082)

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Originally Posted by tomcug

Why? Phil is the fastest driver in the 38 and I don't remember him crashing. Illot was the crashing driver this year at Jota.

All of them are pretty even today.

Nato stood out as a gold, I think.

Hanson probably the slowest, but close to Stevens - they both had long stints at the beginning of the race. The tyre monkeys?

tomcug · 15 Sep 2024, 19:51 (Ref:4227092)

I didn't mean today's race in particular there and over the entire season I was getting the impression that Hanson was the most solid driver in that car. I can be wrong about it, in that case sorry

That's a great shot, moment before disaster. Taken from Porsche Newsroom.

**Adam43** · 15 Sep 2024, 19:54 (Ref:4227095)

I thought he’d been pretty good this year.

Today he and Will Stevens looked the slowest. Just. FWIW.

TF110 · 16 Sep 2024, 03:39 (Ref:4227131)

Great table Adam43. The 6 had the overall race-pace from it's title rivals this race by a good few tenths.

flatlandsman · 16 Sep 2024, 08:01 (Ref:4227148)

I think Jota are also having to make way for Cadillac drivers anyway, I will admit I have a thing about Hanson he was a very dirty driver for me in LMP2, but yes over the year has not been that way as much as others. Jota simply have not really had any pace for whatever reason.

Wonder why?

Articus · 16 Sep 2024, 14:54 (Ref:4227190)

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Originally Posted by J Jay

I thought it was the latter, along the lines of HRC (USA) pushing for it, but not being able to fund a WEC entry without Honda (Japan) support, which is clearly not coming.

I think it's not a priority for them because they are fully focused on Formula 1 as their "global" championship commitment.

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