Nissan Deltawing crashes

EazyD · 06-16-2012, 07:56 PM

HKYStormFront · 06-16-2012, 08:17 PM

this is just heartbreaking if you are a nissan fan... look how badly the driver wanted to continue regardless:

MC · 06-16-2012, 08:34 PM

been watching since this morning... was sad to see

the driver was motoyama he is one of the NISMO drivers for the Super GT GTRs

m4a1mustang · 06-16-2012, 08:44 PM

Sucks. Lots of these drivers are not very good with negotiating traffic. Have you guys seen the Toyota hybrid crash yet? Wow!

gomer_110 · 06-18-2012, 07:50 PM

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Originally Posted by m4a1mustang

Sucks. Lots of these drivers are not very good with negotiating traffic. Have you guys seen the Toyota hybrid crash yet? Wow!

I propose a new rule for Lemans: If you make a blatant error and end another cars race you get banned as a driver for at least 2 years.

Also if my family sedan can have "blind spot monitoring" then why in the hell can't a P1 car have it.

HKYStormFront · 06-16-2012, 08:45 PM

yea that **** was crazy. he tweeted something about a broken back, not sure if that was hyperbole or not though...

m4a1mustang · 06-16-2012, 08:46 PM

Just watched the Motoyama vid. Heartbreaking. It really shows what Le Mans is all about... giving everything you can give just to try and finish. What a shame!

Mike · 06-16-2012, 09:25 PM

that really sucks. very sad to see

GaleForce · 06-16-2012, 09:32 PM

That sucked. Brutal move from the Toyota.

ShinyBlueZ · 06-16-2012, 09:40 PM

If they allowed me to take part in my 370.. I think I could be a contender and possibly have a (long)shot at winning the thing.

edit - might have to install an oil cooler first though..

Nismo89 · 06-16-2012, 10:25 PM

watching those videos , especially the first one, really pulled a heart string inside. wanted to jump right in out of nowhere and continue as the driver.

Shamu · 06-17-2012, 05:41 PM

I think it's hilarious that Japanese driver in the Toyota took out the Japanese driver in the Nissan. classic! ...oh the shame. Lol!

I suspected the delta wing would get taken out before end of the race. It's an awfully delicate little car. Also it was butt slow prior to crash as well. It was hanging in back of the pack all of the race.

theDreamer · 06-18-2012, 11:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Shamu

I think it's hilarious that Japanese driver in the Toyota took out the Japanese driver in the Nissan. classic! ...oh the shame. Lol!

I suspected the delta wing would get taken out before end of the race. It's an awfully delicate little car. Also it was butt slow prior to crash as well. It was hanging in back of the pack all of the race.

Slow? It was matching the LMP2 times up until it crashed, which is what most projected it to compete at and it was putting down top speeds almost equal to the Audi R18 cars.
It really shows what can be done with modern technology in a little package.

Shamu · 06-18-2012, 11:50 PM

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Originally Posted by theDreamer

Slow? It was matching the LMP2 times up until it crashed, which is what most projected it to compete at and it was putting down top speeds almost equal to the Audi R18 cars.
It really shows what can be done with modern technology in a little package.

No it was lagging behind most of LMP2 field including GT cars. It's fastest lap time was a 3.45.7 the LPM1 cars were turning fast laps of 3.25 and fast LMP2 cars were turning 3.39 laps.

http://www.lemans.org/wpphpFichiers/...-after-24h.pdf

You can see where it was by hour before the crash. It was lagging most of the race. They had drivetrain issues that didn't help either.

24 Heures du Mans 2012 − Live 2012 − Results

theDreamer · 06-19-2012, 08:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Shamu

No it was lagging behind most of LMP2 field including GT cars. It's fastest lap time was a 3.45.7 the LPM1 cars were turning fast laps of 3.25 and fast LMP2 cars were turning 3.39 laps.

http://www.lemans.org/wpphpFichiers/...-after-24h.pdf

You can see where it was by hour before the crash. It was lagging most of the race. They had drivetrain issues that didn't help either.

24 Heures du Mans 2012 − Live 2012 − Results

Are you even reading what you are posting?
The LMP2 were running 3:39 to 3:47 throughout the race, rough estimates puts the average around 3:43 for the whole LMP2 teams. The Deltawing was running 3:45 with constant issues, even the drivers said after the race they knew a sub 3:40 time was going to happen if they could have been in for the full 24 hours. The car was showing up the LMP2 cars and was creeping with some of the LMP1 cars in early practice runs.

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