WEC Round 1 -Silverstone

[steveaki13]

So the first of eight rounds coming up.

Who is going to be watching and what do we think will happen.

:)

[journeyman racer]

2 threads about this? Anyway, my interest will be what effect 12 years of F1 (and a couple in F3000) has on the king of journey man racers. He was a dead weight in Mercedes's GT/Le Mans program in 98/99. Surely, he should assert himself as a top 2 driver in the class?

[steveaki13]

Oh yer I forgot I opened the other one.

Whoops. If a mod wants to merge the two that's fine.

[TheFamousEccles]

Just a snippet of info from Silverstone

http://www.speedcafe.com/2014/04/19/audi-fastest-webber-fourth-porsche-debut/

Does anyone know if it is being streamed anywhere?

[Zeakiwi]

I would not call Aussie Grit a journeyman, he won 9 F1 GPs, a journeyman does not win any GPs in their F1 careers.

I would not like to be sharing the car with him given his paucity of luck at times.

Some comments I have read were not very encouraging about wec video livestreaming, so the default could be audio from radio lemans.

[journeyman racer]

I would not call Aussie Grit a journeyman, he won 9 F1 GPs, a journeyman does not win any GPs in their F1 careers.That is a fair point that has to be acknowledged. At the same time, without turning this into a argument about Webber, I am someone who thinks his ability is immensely overrated. His GP wins are a reflection of the overall lower standard, dumbed down F1.

[steveaki13]

An amazing start. The opening laps were like a 10 lap sprint rather than an endurance race.

Also the pace of the front 6 is amazing. Lapped all the GT cars after 14 minutes.

[journeyman racer]

Any news on how Mark performed on the track? The WEC site has been terrible to get any detailed info.

[steveaki13]

I have only just finishing watching yesterdays race.

What a crazy and incident filled opening round that was. Audis Crashing several times, a Toyota 1-2 and Porsche claiming 3rd.

Rebellion and Lola (in the last race maybe for a Lola car) claiming a nice 4th.

LMP 2 was close too.