Le Mans 2005 is coming up on the 17th-18th of June and i just wondered who people want to win, who people will do well etc. so basically i want the Astons to beat the Corvettes (its a British thing), i think the audis will do worse this year because their car is the modified version of last years. the GT class is always fun to watch, but you can never tell which is which.
but yeah i can't wait to find out who wins. my dads going down on thrusday to see it, so its all good :D

The Acemco S7R is going to beat the Aston's and the Vettes this year in GT1. It set a GT1 fastest lap record last year, and it's running on better tires this year. Besides, the S7R is built for the Mulsanne strait. LeMans is way more suited to the S7R than any of the circuits in ALMS. I would like to see the S7R run with some factoy support one of these days though, then they'd put a good spanking on the C6R's

for me here is who I want to see win:
LMP1: I want the Champion Audi R8's to win I think they have a good shot at it if they dont get into trouble like they did last year the team seems very well prepared and I think they can take it
LMP2: Lola Judd I think they are just really cool cars and I want to see them take it
GT1: C6-R they just look blistering fast if you look at sebring before the mechanical probs they were killing the astons and I think they have got those bugs worked out but I want to see how the Astons do against them also but Ferrari should be no threat this year
GT2: White Lightining Porsche I have liked the team for awhile now and they seem really quick around Le Mans I think that they will defend their title but in this catagory I just want to see Porsche Dominace really espcially against Ferrari 360's

The C6-R's ran away and hid from the Saleens at Rd ATL this spring. If they don't break, they will have time for a wax job before the checker. If they do break, they will have lots of garage time saved up for repairs.

Well, I guess the R8 will kick ass again.

Le Mans has been my favorite race for as long as I can remember. And that's long...
My picks :
P1 and Overall : Champion Audi R8. They're long overdue.
P2 : one of the official Courage cars
GT1 : very tough choice - either Aston DBR9 or Corvette C6-R. Others don't stand a chance.
GT2 : Porsches, either White Lightning #90 with their superstar trio of drivers or Alex Job entry #71 with Rockenfeller and Lieb but gentleman racer Leo Hindery will be their Achille heel. He will erase the progress the other two have made. Too bad... Panoz are fast this year but not for 24 hrs....

the Audi will probably be slower than before because its the old car modified.

I'm aware of that but they're so reliable over a 24 hrs. period...;)

My slogan for ALMS is: Which Audi LMP will win? The suspense is killing me.

The 3-time GTS class LeMans winning Vettes have tested little. Why mess with success?

well atm, ((i just got updated by my dad))

1st Audi, 2nd Pesquerda, 3rd Corvette, 4th Aston, 5th Corvette, 6th Aston
Corvys & Astons have just 2 seconds between em

Final Results:
1st. Champion Racing LEHTO JJWERNER M KRISTENSEN T Audi R8 LM1 ==370== 3:39.781 4:58.883 31

2nd Pescarolo Sport COLLARD E BOULLION JC COMAS E Pescarolo Judd LM1 ==368== 3:34.968 4:58.484 33

3rd 2 Champion Racing BIELA F PIRRO E Mc NISH A Audi R8 LM1 ==364== 3:40.208 4:56.805 32

4th 4 Audi Playstation Oreca MONTAGNY F GOUNON JM ORTELLI S Audi R8 LM1 ==362== 3:41.649 4:57.391 31

5th Corvette Racing GAVIN O BERETTA O MAGNUSSEN J Corvette C6-R GT1 ==349== 3:53.930 5:56.578 27

6th Corvette Racing FELLOWS R O'CONNEL J PAPIS M Corvette C6-R GT1 ==347== 3:54.996 5:56.258 26

7th Racing For Holland LAMMERS J JULIAN E BOSCH J Dome Judd LM1 ==346== 3:44.422 4:59.492 34

8th Courage Competition SCHWAGER D FREI A VANN C Courage Judd LM1 ==339== 3:46.324 4:44.844 31

9th Aston Martin Racing BRABHAM D SARRAZIN S TURNER D Aston Martin D GT1 ==333== 3:51.422 5:18.859 29

10th Alex Job Racing HINDERY L ROCKENFELLER M LIEB M Porsche 911 GT3 RSR GT2 ==332== 4:07.164 4:44.422 22

11th White Lightning Racing BERGMEISTER J LONG P BERNHARD T Porsche 911 GT GT2 ==331== 4:08.433 4:37.796 21

12th Team Jota - Zytek HIGNETT S STACK J KUROSAWA H Zytek 04S LM1 ==325== 3:43.543 7:46.133 30

13th Larbre Competition GOUESLARD P DUPARD O VOSSE V Ferrari 550Mar GT1 ==324== 3:57.547 5:30.547 25

14th Flying Lizard Motorsports VAN OVERBEEK J PECHNIK L NEIMAN S Porsche 911 GT GT2 ==323== 4:08.993 5:15.016 23

15th Creation Autosportif MINASSIAN N CAMPBELLWALTER WALLACE A DBA Judd LM1 ==322== 3:38.543 5:31.102 30

16th Raymon Narrac DUMAS R DUMEZ S NARAC R Porsche 911 GT GT2 4:06.656 4:07.606 5:30.242 23

17th Rollcentre Racing SHORT M BARBOSA J ICKX V Dallara Judd LM1 ==318== 3:41.197 5:47.187 32

18th Cirtek Motorsport FOMENKO N VASILIEV A BOUCHUT CH Ferrari 550Mar GT1 ==315== 3:56.832 5:20.586 27

19th Luc Alphand Aventures POLICAND J CAMPBELL CH ALPHAND L Porsche 911 GT GT2 ==311== 4:16.701 5:30.797 22

20th Sebah Automotive NIELSEN L E THYRRING T EHRET P Porsche 911 GT GT2 ==307== 4:16.481 5:19.734 23

21th RML ERDOS T NEWTON M HUGHES W Lola MG LM2 ==304== 3:47.601 5:20.945 29

22th Paul Belmondo Racing GOSSELIN CY OJJEH K SHARPE A Courage C65 Fo LM2 ==300== 4:00.914 5:22.023 23

23rd Paul Belmondo Racing BELMONDO P ANDRE D SUTHERLAND R Courage C65 Fo LM2 ==294== 3:50.646 59:03.312 30

24th Seikel Motorsport COLLIN P FELBERMAYR H SHEP D Porsche 911 GT GT2 ==274== 4:24.082 5:10.860 21

25th Kruse Motorsport BENNETT P MITCHELL I MULLEN T Courage Judd LM2 ==268== 3:54.684 6:05.742 28

26th RaceSport Peninsula TVR HARTSHORNE J STANTON R JOHNSON P TVR Tuscan T40 GT2 ==256== 4:23.383 5:07.906 16

27th Rachel Welter TERADA Y ROUSSEL P BINNIE W WR Peugeot LM2 ==233== 4:02.961 5:37.703 26

Audi wins (yawn)! Chistiansen wins his 7th (record) and 6th straight Le Mans. This is the first American based team to win since 1967, when Dan Gurney invented the champaign shower.

The Corvettes won GT1 (5th and 6th overall) by sheer endurance. The Astons were faster, but had driver overheating problems (Lucas A/C?) Saturday and engine overheating near the end. They held a 1 lap lead at the 18 hour mark. At 21 hours, they were 1 lap down. 22 hours, 2 laps. The #58 Aston was a dnf, believed to be out of fuel. The #59 car stayed in the pits for a long time before driving a last lap to finish 9th overall, down 16 laps.

AARRGGH, how frustrating, I passed Le Mans, I heared the cars roar down the track, but I wasn't able to see them:( Hopefully next year I will see them...

AARRGGH, how frustrating, I passed Le Mans, I heared the cars roar down the track, but I wasn't able to see them:( Hopefully next year I will see them...

Ouch, that has to be honestly one of the most frustrating things I've heard, ever. Sucks dude.

Well ChEeKy, I was pretty good with my predictions from page 1 ! I picked the overall winner and the first two cars in GT2 ! What da ya think ???

yeah very good lol...

**pictures coming soon btw** (mostly from pit lane but yeah lol)

It didn't take a genius to pick Champion Audi. It did take an astute observer to pick the first 2 GT2 Porsches. Kudos to ya. I was pulling for the lowbuck Flying Lizard team.

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I saw very little TV coverage of the GT1 drama that I saw played out on live timing.

Front of the Playstation Audi : ((look sideways))
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y241/kazzer225/DSCN1260.jpg
One of the many Porsche Garages:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y241/kazzer225/DSCN1256.jpg
Corvettes Engine, well some of it:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y241/kazzer225/DSCN1257.jpg
Working on the Panoz:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y241/kazzer225/DSCN1255.jpg
Yet Another Porsche:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y241/kazzer225/DSCN1266.jpg
Classic Car Race Line up:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y241/kazzer225/e615189e.jpg
Classic car:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y241/kazzer225/aefe1069.jpg
A Peugeot:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y241/kazzer225/DSCN1267.jpg

Nice Aston DBRS9 and behind the truck AMR 1:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y241/kazzer225/DSCN1271.jpg
The very carefully made up grid:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y241/kazzer225/DSCN1283.jpg
The grid:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y241/kazzer225/DSCN1284.jpg
Corvette leaving the pits:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y241/kazzer225/DSCN1305.jpg
Mosaic Corvette (believe it or not):
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y241/kazzer225/HPIM0881.jpg
The star of the show:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y241/kazzer225/sejr.jpg

[QUOTE=SteveFX]It didn't take a genius to pick Champion Audi. It did take an astute observer to pick the first 2 GT2 Porsches. Kudos to ya. I was pulling for the lowbuck Flying Lizard team.

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Thanks. Go to GENERAL forum then in the "Your model cars" thread and post #22. Look at the 5th picture and you'll see that I have a thing with GT Porsches. I've been following their racing very closely for many years so I know the good teams...:)