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Live Le Mans onboard Toyota No. 7 (or 8?)

Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2020 5:33 pm
by PoodlesAgain
https://www.grandprix247.com/2020/09/19 ... oo-racing/

Night time racing for now.

The other Toyota, and other teams must have onboard video as well, look around.

Mickey, Paul Di Resta is racing today..!

EDIT; <giggle> it is not that often that you get to pass a Ferrari and an Aston Martin on a race track, within two minutes!

Re: Live Le Mans onboard Toyota No. 7 (or 8?)

Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2020 5:45 pm
by mickey
Thanks amigo!
I had not realized that 24 heures du Mans was this weekend!

Re: Live Le Mans onboard Toyota No. 7 (or 8?)

Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2020 6:43 pm
by PoodlesAgain
Funny to see corner workers, here and there, waving blue flags in the middle of the night!
What a work shift.

I guess it is a back-up for the (automated?) electric race control panels?

Re: Live Le Mans onboard Toyota No. 7 (or 8?)

Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2020 8:15 pm
by mickey
#7 happens to be leading the race!
This is awesome!

Re: Live Le Mans onboard Toyota No. 7 (or 8?)

Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2020 8:19 pm
by PoodlesAgain
There is (or was) a yellow-flag sector just now, and it was fun to listen to the lead car just rolling at low speed, and THEN accelerate through the gears!

Re: Live Le Mans onboard Toyota No. 7 (or 8?)

Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2020 8:23 pm
by mickey
I've never heard a Toyota that sounded like these do!

Re: Live Le Mans onboard Toyota No. 7 (or 8?)

Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2020 8:48 pm
by Rollin Hand
Put a fart can on a Sienna and you come close. :D

Re: Live Le Mans onboard Toyota No. 7 (or 8?)

Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2020 9:02 pm
by rrobbone
mickey wrote: Sat Sep 19, 2020 8:23 pm I've never heard a Toyota hybrid that sounded like these do!
FTFY.

These in-car cams are the exact reason I want an I-Racing sim cabinet in my house. I'll never get to run around those tracks in that equipment in real life - but I've done enough virtual laps around that track to know it pretty well. Those quick chicanes after long high speed straightaways are damned tricky to nail consistently.

Keeping concentration up long enough to turn fast laps in a simulator over long periods of time is hard enough without actually betting your own physical and metaphorical ass on your ability to do so.

Re: Live Le Mans onboard Toyota No. 7 (or 8?)

Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2020 9:25 pm
by PoodlesAgain
Rollin Hand wrote: Sat Sep 19, 2020 8:48 pm Put a fart can on a Sienna and you come close. :D
Will this work on my Tacoma?

That reminds me of a French action movie where an old delivery truck had been fitted with a huge motor for the purpose of a given quick getaway type scene. The joke was that the crew would take the truck on city streets and do roaring red lights starts, leaving bystanders speechless!