[WEC Race] 2016 FIA WEC 6 Hours of Mexico - Race Thread

[Akrapovic]

Originally Posted by TF110

Conway, seriously?

You'll pay more attention to Toyota drivers than me, but my impression has always been that Conway makes a lot of mistakes.

[J Jay]

Originally Posted by Akrapovic

Driver change should be done before tyres though. Don't know why Porsche were slow. But that's bad news for the 7 Audi. That was basically a lap behind and only gets a third of it back because of this.

Yeah, maybe they need more fuel? We heard that the Porsches were running to a pace earlier.

#7 is the big loser in all this. Maybe Andre should have stuck it out on those tyres...

Originally Posted by Akrapovic

You'll pay more attention to Toyota drivers than me, but my impression has always been that Conway makes a lot of mistakes.

He's been good recently (excellent at Le Mans, very good at the 'Ring), but that was a silly error.

[Rodger Davies]

Originally Posted by Akrapovic

I didn't say you have to enjoy it of course, just offering a different perspective. This track looks a little rough in places, which gives it huge amounts of character. It isn't polished to an inch of its life.

Whilst the stadium section is a terrible layout for a single class, it's provided some brilliant moments for multi class. Similarly the esses are proving to be brilliant for this series.

The only things I would change are taking the extra kink out of the stadium, put a bit of grass in the esses and bring back the Aztec style concrete blocks. Apart from that, this track is the best non European track that WEC visits by a country mile.

Since they've taken away the 'like' button, will just say 'good post'

[TzeiTzei]

Have we had any replay of the crash?

[airbusA346]

Green

[airbusA346]

Originally Posted by TzeiTzei

Have we had any replay of the crash?

No replay of #37 has been shown.

[Akrapovic]

As usual, the yellow lap times were all over the place 3:20s all the way down to 3 min flat. They need to get this sorted.

[Starfish Primer]

1 minute and a half lost by the #7

[airbusA346]

Webber leads.

#2 passes #5.

EDIT: and back.

[J Jay]

Webber passes Di Grassi for the lead.

[TF110]

Nice move Kaz, got him right back!

[Akrapovic]

Fantastic to see Toyota in the fight!

[TF110]

Almost a repeat move there by Kaz.

[J Jay]

Unlucky on that second attempt, but clever driving from Nakajima to save the boost.

[AndreasDavour]

How hard can it be to calculate how fast a 80kph lap is and then apply a +30 sec penalty to all who differ?

[Starfish Primer]

Originally Posted by AndreasDavour

How hard can it be to calculate how fast a 80mph lap is and then apply a +30 sec penalty to all who differ?

Or close the pitlane, but there aren´t silver bullets here, any method has pros and cons.

[TzeiTzei]

Originally Posted by Starfish Primer

Or close the pitlane, but there aren´t silver bullets here, any method has pros and cons.

I think in F1 they use a preset lap time. Seems to work quite well.

[TzeiTzei]

CLM has died again.

[ederss7]

Bad luck for the #8 with that lmp2 spinning in front of it.

[airbusA346]

Penalty for the Toyota?

[bentley speed 8]

Originally Posted by TzeiTzei

CLM has died again.

At least it had a good start! Nice to see it pass both Toyotas and the Rebellion

[TF110]

Did that look like Toyota or ESM's fault?

[Hawkwood]

Poor ESM! Just minding his own business.

Was that Conway? Quite some swipe.

[airbusA346]

Originally Posted by TF110

Did that look like Toyota or ESM's fault?

Looked to me like the Toyota moved over into the ESM car.

[Hawkwood]

Originally Posted by airbusA346

Looked to me like the Toyota moved over into the ESM car.

Same, the ESM was already against the wall, he had nowhere else to go.