2016 24 Heures du Mans - 10/29

[helios16v]

P10 in the end. Armando had a screen failure while running 4th. In the process of getting the car stopped, got drilled from behind, leading to 20+ minutes of repairs. Snappy hopped in the car while Armando sorted his computer issues, then he had sound issues. Fortunately Armando was back online and able to take the car over until the finish. It must've had some undertray damage, as we never got the speed back, even through visually it looked 100%. Ah well, that's the way luck rolls sometimes. We'll be back in January at Daytona for sure.



We were bottom split. The winning team must've had a low iR driver register the team, as the 3 competing drivers had iR of 3513, 3940, & 4434 respectively...WAY outside the norm for the room.

[F1Fan07]

Hard luck but that's the way it goes in endurance racing IRL. You never know what crazy problem will pop up over 24 hours.

My stints were pretty lukewarm. I couldn't come close to my 39/40 pace from practice and my first stint had horrible pace (mostly because I started missing a lot of braking points) and throughout the race I was giving up a lot of time in Porsche Curves.

[David Tejada]

It was a very nice performance by all. Boss did a great job but it's like F1 said... You never know what could happen. I know Boza felt awful but it happens. Ironically, I received my new headset this afternoon so I will be testing them soon. If I still have a problem I'm ditching Windows 10 and reverting back to Windows 7. Great job everyone. It was a very fun event. Just wish there had been some GT cars. Oh well.

[boza]

This one really blows. I was able to gain some spots by double stinting my tires and with 4 laps left in my final stint, my middle monitor went blank We had 4th and maybe possibly 3rd, I feel really bad. Sorry guys.

[Jarhead]

Really sucks that happened Boza. You were doing great. You definitely had 4th and possibly 3rd.

Our team started slow, but finished strong. We only had 4 drivers and no schedule of who was driving when, we just made it up throughout the day.

Dustin started the race from the pits. He got a speeding penalty exiting so had to come back in for a stop and go. When he got back on the track and started racing, we were in 35th place. He ran 4 tanks of fuel and handed the driving over to me in 12th place.

I only ran 2 tanks of fuel because of scheduling. I made it up to 4th place before I pitted. Then I handed the car over to Seth who came out the pits in 8th.

Seth also only ran 2 tanks of fuel and made it up to 4th. He was the first driver to have an accident. He spun in the Forest Esses and barely tapped the wall. There was just slight damage to the front splitter which was completely fixed on the next pit stop. He handed to car over to Anthony who cam out of the pits in 6th.

Anthony maintained our position for 3 fuel tanks and gave the car back to Seth. By that point, there were 3 teams running very close times and our position swapped between 4th, 5th, and 6th depending on pit stops.

Seth ran almost 3 tanks and then gave the car back to Dustin. Anthony and Seth had been hitting the curbs too hard which caused some damage and hurt the top end. Our car looked in perfect shape, but the damage was underneath and couldn't be repaired. At that point we were solidly in 5th which didn't change on pit stops.

Dustin ran another 4 tanks of fuel with some very good laps and got us up to 4th.

I took over and ran 4 1/2 tanks of fuel and kept us in 4th. I had the first big contact when a car spun right in front of me in the Forest esses and I T-boned him. It took the entire front bodywork off the car and I could see both front tires. The car drove straight though. I got back to the pits and only had 17 seconds of repairs after which the car looked like new and drove just like it did before the crash. I didn't even lose any positions.

I gave the car to Anthony with us still solidly in 4th. Anthony was our slowest driver and had a bunch of off tracks and slowdowns. The other teams caught back up to us and we were swapping back and forth between 4th and 6th. I only let him run 2 tanks of fuel to stop the bleeding. This team called Gone Broke Racing also got in the mix and passed us for 4th when Anthony gave the car back to me.

I was getting really tired at that point after only having about 45 minutes of sleep since the race started. I had a self spin in the Porsche curves out into the gravel. I didn't hit anything, but the car was down on speed. I ran 2 tanks of fuel swapping positions from 4th to 7th. I then gave the car to Dustin to bring it home.

Dustin did some solid driving and maintained our position. It was all coming down to who had to pit when for the 4th to 6th positions. It looked like we were gonna get 5th. Then the other team had an accident and had to make an unscheduled pit stop which gave us the chance for an easy 4th as long as we kept it on the track. We almost lost it on fuel because I was calculating for the race stopping at 10:00 am eastern time. I didn't account for the gridding and pacing. We had added a little extra just in case, but Dustin still had to change the fuel map setting so we could get that last lap in.

We finished in 4th with less than 2 lbs of fuel in the tank. It was a great race, can't wait for Daytona. Hopefully we will have day/night transitions by then.

[helios16v]

Congrats on 4th.

We were hoping to give you a run, but the racing gods decided otherwise.

[boza]

Congrats on 4th Troy!!

[zedarchitect]

Too bad you guys had issues.