Imsa 2023

[CurtEgerer]

Le Mans livery for Peugeot.

[WPOZZZ]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

I have to admit I laughed when I saw him hit the tire barrier and take himself completely out of the race and DNF on an totally insane pass attempt. 100% driver error in the red mist.

I saw the pass and yelled, No! Then I was like WTF! Stoopid!

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by WPOZZZ

I saw the pass and yelled, No! Then I was like WTF! Stoopid!

He was determined to finish first. But of course, the finish first, first you must finish. No points for you!

[Deschodt]

Originally Posted by CurtEgerer

Le Mans livery for Peugeot.

Saw that. Horrible ! I loved the battleship grey. Gonna have to root for cadillac then, only good looking car this side of the Ferrari !

[CurtEgerer]

There's some talk about a BoP adjustment before Spa in May despite the FIA-WEC originally saying BoP was locked until after Le Mans. This would be a change among the 3 platforms, not individual cars: LMH Hybrid (Toyota, Ferrari, Peugeot), LMDh (Porsche, Cadillac) and LMH Non-Hybrid (Glickenhaus, Vanwall). I suspect LMH Hybrid will stay the same. So Porsche and Cadillac would likely benefit the most. They'll probably be tweaking the BoPs all year since these are all new cars and there's no real baseline yet.

[astrochex]

Originally Posted by CurtEgerer

There's some talk about a BoP adjustment before Spa in May despite the FIA-WEC originally saying BoP was locked until after Le Mans. This would be a change among the 3 platforms, not individual cars: LMH Hybrid (Toyota, Ferrari, Peugeot), LMDh (Porsche, Cadillac) and LMH Non-Hybrid (Glickenhaus, Vanwall). I suspect LMH Hybrid will stay the same. So Porsche and Cadillac would likely benefit the most. They'll probably be tweaking the BoPs all year since these are all new cars and there's no real baseline yet.

That is what IMSA does.

[astrochex]

Originally Posted by Deschodt

Saw that. Horrible ! I loved the battleship grey. Gonna have to root for cadillac then, only good looking car this side of the Ferrari !

I like the grey better too. It looks like a weapon, the Le Mans car looks French.

[CurtEgerer]

The first customer 963s have been delivered to Jota (Hertz-Singer) and JDC-Miller. Jota is at Spa for the 6 Hour this weekend. JDC-Miller will have theirs at Laguna Seca in a few weeks. Proton will debut their 963 at Road America in July.

[CurtEgerer]

the 963 in yellow ....

[rfuerst911sc]

Looks great in yellow .

[Deschodt]

I wanna like it but it looks like a platypus to me.

[CurtEgerer]

^^^

I think Jota has won the 963 livery contest so far.

[herr_oberst]

Pink Pig. Please Porsche?

[rfuerst911sc]

Originally Posted by herr_oberst

Pink Pig. Please Porsche?

I wouldn't be surprised to see one of the Porsche factory teams show up with this livery at a race this year .

[astrochex]

Jota surely took inspiration from this,


I think the JDC car will look far better on track than in the preview pics. Kudos to both privateers for minimizing the look of the dorsal fin.

[CurtEgerer]

I guess everybody's getting in on the act. Not a fan.

Porsche-963-Special-Livery-24-Hours-Le-Mans

[astrochex]

Ick. Times three.

[CurtEgerer]

After Spa, it's certain that Le Mans is Toyota's race to lose. Ferrari are close on speed but always seem to be caught out by bad luck and mistakes. Porsche and Cadillac? Maybe they can beat them with numbers and attrition - Porsche will have 4 cars and Cadillac 3.

One of the Penske Porsches simply stopped on track ("it went black"). The other Cadillac had a power steering failure into Eau Rouge and wrecked. The other Ferrari spun on cold tires coming out of the pits and wrecked.

[CurtEgerer]

If there's one place you don't want to go off, it's probably Eau Rouge. I still vividly remember watching Stefan Bellof's fatal Eau Rouge crash in the 956 live back in 1985 when he was trying to pass Jacky Ickx in a 962. Renger got lucky + the safety of the track has been much improved. He was in 2nd place and leading both Ferraris. The commentators were guessing driver error but the steering actually locked up on him.

[astrochex]

^So thats why he went too far over the curbs before he lost it? Very nasty crash, glad he is ok.