[Flieger]

I thought it was interesting that 19 won after it fell back at the start and after Tandy's majorly embarassing oops in Spa (colliding with the GTE Pro 911). I thought if a Porsche won then the Lieb-Dumas-Jani car would be the one to win, they certainly deserved it with Lieb being an engineer who helped develop the car, Dumas being a long time factory driver, and Jani putting it on pole. Hartley seems to still make rookie mistakes (passing under yellow, gives Webber a 1 minute penalty) so I'm not too surprised they didn't win. I suppose it is the same story as 1970- the fast cars broke and the slow car people didn't think much of came through to win.

I was quite surprised by Audi's race pace (lap record). I guess Porsche had to dial back the speed to save tires? I've got to go watch my recording but what happened to the #7 Audi? I heard the commentators saying it was loosing pace towards the end and the #17 was able to pass. Now I see the picture of the engine cover off.

What caused the brake troubles on the #18 at Mulsanne? I figured it was an ERS system problem but they say they had no "significant" hybrid problems.