Looks like rear visibility is going to be non-existant.
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BMW will remain in IMSA but there is no WEC customer program. Ford is done at the end of 2019 in IMSA, and there are currently no customer programs in place.
Michelin, who has no horse in this race, confirmed the tire was flat.
Toyota sending a car out with a flat tire is a good way to be thrown out of a championship.
Are you implying that Toyota intentionally sent a car out onto track with a known deflating tire?
Even with limits on the number of tires, they are allowed a certain amount of single joker tires to replace a single flar, so that they don’t end up with odd numbers of tires left.
There was a problem though, the tire was deflating. The tire was checked after it came off the car.
Rebellion’s penalty was for using a new tire before they used a scrubbed tire, from my understanding. Basically the team has to use available scrub tires first before they are allowed to use a fresh tire from that same compound.
They made 23 pit stops, and the FIA simply took the roughly 13.8s it took for those 23 stops. However they then applied a factor of 4 to the time to constitute a penalty. Thus a team couldn’t simply short fill and then take the missing time at the end. There has to be some penalty on top of the time missed.
The time…
For the record, the car is a CD, for Charles Deutsche. Panhard was just the motor they used in it.
http://fiawec.alkamelsystems.com/Results_NoticeBoard/07_2018-2019/08_Le%20Mans%202019/93_Decision%2093.pdf
Stewards Decision #93, Fassler fined 7000 Euros and penalty points assigned to his license for contact with the Dempsey Porsche.
Hoshino was actually being passed by another Porsche when the Corvette chose to follow through, Hoshino likely never saw the Corvette because he was too busy dealing with the Gulf Porsche. It's a racing incident.
Team LNT is Lawrence Tomlinson, the same man who also owns Ginetta. Basically, he couldn't find a customer to buy the LMP1 after Manor bailed early in the 2018/19 season, so they're running it on their own dime. Don't expect great things.
The GR Super Sport drivetrain and hybrid system is lifted directly from the existing TS050, so this is more of a reshelling of the existing LMP1
It’s likely because the winner hasn’t been invited in 13 years. It’s not considered a major race for many in America, especially with so many foreigners winning it these past decades.
It’s a yellow flag warning light, it comes on as soon as the yellow comes out.
Technically this isn’t based on the book, so that’d be an issue.
Fuck yes it was! Crappy pictures, but a great view from Turn 4
And Nissan did try to move on to developing the hybrid system in house after it became clear the supplier was behind, but by that point they were going to miss their deadlines.
And the reason the hybrid failed to materialize was down to the supplier, not Nissan.
Yes? What teams exactly have A) No money and B) No backup car? Even Juncos, who lost their sponsorship money before the event, were able to source a backup car.