Anyone else watching the 24hrs of Le Mans? 2 Audi R18's had wicked crashes.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/0..._n_875454.html

People around the first crash were very lucky. No one got hurt.

 

man holy crap how did that not fly over the barrier. The photographers were lucky as hell

 

yeah the first crash was crazy, it's blessed that no one was hurt including allan. the 2nd one, seems like mike is ok. audi is having some bad luck losing two cars, but yes, last i checked they were still in first

 

I guess the the price for victory. Glad everyone was ok.

 

Yes its on Speed right now, 15 hrs in

 

Got to love how cars are built these days or I should say racing cars. I wonder if he ended up calling Geiko, I bet his car insurance rate went through the roof

 

The crashed with red Ferrari................who's at fault? I thinks the Ferrari is at fault, right?

 

Seems like there was a lot of time for the R18 to decrease speed as it drifted out of control in the dirt. Yet it skipped right over it all and hit the wall full force. Shouldn't they have some sort of ground material that slows down out of control cars down before they hit the wall?

 

my wife and I were blown away by the Audi/Ferrari crash. I still fell like the Ferrari was entering the corner so was obviously going to aim for the apex. The Audi stuck its nose in while the door was shutting and he got screwed

 

The race is still going on (2.5 hours left) and is quite good, so I recommend tuning in. I didn't expect to stay up all night watching but the race is still very competitive in multiple categories, including the overall. Looks like I'll only get a short power nap after since the Formula 1 race is this afternoon. Glad I didn't have much to do this weekend!

A lot of pros are all over twitter blaming the amateurs due to the two Audi incidents (both of the other involved cars were GTE Amateur class), but I think that's just an attempt at an easy elitist cop out. At the very least McNish deserves a significant amount of the blame for the incident for being so aggressive during the corner.

Drivers learn early on during their competitive careers that when they're a slower car and there's any doubt, they should stick to the racing line. There's a reason for this, and that's that such behavior is predictable to passing cars. That certainly doesn't give slower cars the right to run faster cars off the track when those cars try to pass, but certainly in this case McNish should have known better. In watching the replays, I wonder if maybe McNish misjudged the situation due to lack of visibility over the massive front wheel arches on the R18.

 

Winners at the link below (spoiler)

http://www.lemans.org/en/races/24h/u...2011_4287.html

 

What a great weekend of racing, between the VLN yesterday, LeMans, the IndyCar races, and a fantastic Formula One today. I hope people got to catch at least a few of the events!

Just to correct myself, the McNish incident involved a 458, so obviously that was GTEPro class.

 

I watched the Formula 1 race today live at the circuit

 

Did anyone else watch it last night? I watched it for the first time pretty awesome suprising with audi taking the win with a 6 cyl diesel.

 

This should be in general car chat.