Comments on: Brabham & Peugeot victorious at Le Mans 24 hour

By: ABMPSV

ABMPSV — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 04:44:45 +0000

Peugeot is to participate in the Nürburgring 24 hours race for the first time between 15 and 16 May. About 220 000 spectators attend the proceedings each year. RCZ. Entered in the D1T category of diesel cars with engine capacity between 1,700 and 2,000cc, the cars sport a 2.0-litre HDi turbo diesel motor developing 147kW (197bhp/ 200PS). The engines are essentially stock, bar some parts from Customer Peugeot Sport.

By: f1worldchamp

f1worldchamp — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:59:33 +0000

Disappointing that an Australian won Le Mans and received very no coverage that I saw in the mainstream media.
Well done David.

By: Mick

Mick — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:48:33 +0000

The GT racing is Australia is quite good and healthy as it is, its main problem is the coverage that it doesn’t get. But this goes with most Motorsport in the country that isn’t V8 Supercar.
Take a look at the Shannon’s National racing series around the country. It is good quality racing, with talented drivers and a good assortment of cars.

I have found that the racing in most of the Shannon’s Nationals categories is actually better than V8SC as it has become quite processional over recent years.

By: Will

Will — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 02:27:04 +0000

EH179,
Locally I find GT Sportscar formula very rewarding.
EH, buy yourself a HR (perhaps Premier) with disk break option. You will do youself a favour. Alternatively…HK underpinnings…

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 02:25:38 +0000

Great race pretty crap coverage from one stopping to show netball was a bit much

Thank god for the net found a live danish feed

Would love to see more of the gt cars racing next year more fun to watch then the LMP cars

And you can’t compare these to the V8 supercars for what it is our morotsport is great but for what audi spend on Le Mans every year you could run the entire V8 series be happy we got what we do

By: FrugalOne

FrugalOne — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 02:24:02 +0000

Yes, Peugeot won it easy [always nice to say that after the fact] and most of the past audi wins have been *soft* victories.

Lets face it no respect in beating quasi-backyard and weekend races against a unlimited budget factory works team, now audi have somebody to fight and they got spanked good and proper.

Another to get spanked [and not mentioned here] was the Ferrari 430GV v Porker GT3, ANOTHER case of the germanns getting demolished, Ferrai cleaned up 1st for spots in its class, all the Porkers failed.

Flag starter Ferrari CEO LucaD mentioned “would like to see Ferrari compete and win at LeMans again” ANOTHER warning to the F1 clowns Ferrari will pull the pin if they dont budge.

Cheers

F-0

By: eh179driver

eh179driver — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 02:07:49 +0000

I’m not sure that you could call V8 Supercars paddock bashing taxi’s Will. They are true racing cars these days, fast, noisy and good fun to watch.
Yes the LeMans prototypes and GT Sportscars are awesome cars, but that style of racing does not sell well in Australia these days. Just look at how our GT races in Australia can’t pull a crowd despite having a good range of cars, drivers and the odd V8S/C guest driver. The last GT sportscar races (Sandown early/mid 80′s) did little to enhance the cause as they were run on a track that was a shadow of it’s old self with the infield “go-kart” track extension. Lindsay Fox is working on something at Philip Island but it’s doubtfull that they will pull a crowd without a V8 race on the same card.

By: Mick

Mick — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 02:01:21 +0000

This was a great race, good to see someone other than Audi win the 24-hour.

By: FrugalOne

FrugalOne — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:42:03 +0000

Well done to Peugeot and of course the Brabham kid, not many brothers have won the race.

3rd year, always faster than the audi, now 100% reliable, shame how they ran into each other in the pits, could have made it 1, 2 and 3!

Formation finish was the ultimate rub to audi.

Made In France rules!!

Cheers

F-0

By: Will

Will — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:27:36 +0000

A great distance race of pedegree, patronised by marshals and fans throughout the world. The TDI machines as presented by the Volkswagen group and Peugot were ofcourse awsome.

And what do we get here, some paddock bashing taxis.