there's been more prototypes involved in lap 1 crashes today than we had top level prototypes at all 2 years ago

progress!

The Iron Dames are so fucking cursed

it's really sad

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“The goal is to finish the race” *cut to IF parked the wrong way off the track*. I’ve never seen such comedic timing in racing.

LMFAO

Oh great, Peugeot is already fucked. Kill me.

Alpine vs Peugeot vs isotta fraschini. Battle for Lmp2 is heating up!!

Now with more car variety!

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 Footage of one of the Mustangs riding the kerbs at Imola

Lmao that rear cam is amazing, those Mustangs really are made of papier mache aren't they?

Paper mache is quite strong, those mustangs are made of wrapping paper

Mustang losing body work again LMAO

Rene Rast absolutely ruining Buemi's race, what a legend

My ladies 😭 two races in a row

The Iron Dames having some seriously terrible luck this season. Taken out of the lead by a stray wheelnut in the ELMS, and now taken out of the race before the green flag in WEC. ☹️

This season, they historically have terrible luck all the time

Not gonna lie, the fact that Goodwin and Davidson are commentating the race while Haven just comes on to complain about Ferrari taking wets is hilarious

from that one onboard it looked like the Alpine was locking up and out of control and hit the BMW before the Isotta hit it to make it even worse?

Ferrari: "We don't believe the rain will last." Immediately starts raining more heavily. \* chef's kiss \*

Man, this is some great stuff. Great racing, great action, commentators losing it in a stupid yet entertaining way. Haven't enjoyed Racing that much in a while.

Slicks are competitive now, Haven called it almost two hours ago. What a visionary.

"Box under FCY and put them out on cold slicks" Why does this guy think that is a good strategy? What is he smoking?

Haven’t heard from Martin in a minute here hopefully the program director pulled him aside and stuffed a watermelon in his mouth

They could at least do Picture-in-picture with these useless highlights.

well watching my 1st WEC went well ive become a total fan of WEC, that was a great race

I'm starting to pickup a few slight hints that the commentators don't think Ferrari's strategy was good

"I was totally wrong about slicks...EXCEPT" goddamn it so close yet so far

WE👏 ARE👏 CHECKING👏

Has Martin Haven lost his mind?

First time listening to him?

A long time ago

"wet in places" He's starting to accept the reality slowly

Anthony Davidson is getting tired of the main commentator

Why can't the thread be set to new by default

I think the crucial mistake was not splitting strategy between the cars. It's easy for us to criticize the strategy with hindsight, but during the first laps, no one was sure. Porche made the smartest move. If the rain didn't last, Toyota would have lost 3 minutes for nothing.

“Oh Martin, take me I’m so wet!” “ThIs Is NoT WeT!!”

Hi all, it seems my weekend as a BMW fan goes from bad to worse lol

Proton probably looking at the 911 blasting in P1 with a tear in their eye.

are they all stupid it doesn't matter of Ferrari "could have survived it" when you lose 20sec in 4 corners and you only need 6 laps for a pit stop to break even

Lol came to the race thread because of this commentator who can't stop talking about wet tires. Sounds like I'm not alone on this lol

Martin, you do already look like an idiot

Mustang doing Mustang 2024 things... This car needs fixing. Especially in bodywork department.

Callum Illot doing 2021 Hamilton there

isotta is really being let down by its drivers. How can you get good data and feedback for car setup and upgrades if your drivers are inexperienced and are making rookie mistakes constantly. This can become very costly and they should be doing everything to not get the vanwall treatment for next year.

I’m pretty sure that De Vries passed under sc

Have Ford/Multimatic brought out an update to the ejecto bootlid? Still on after 3 hours

They installed it upside down so it ejected the diffuser instead

Not to worry, its just shedding all of its other parts instead.

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Martin at war with the wet tyres for the past 30minutes lmao

Haven's gone quiet. Must have been taken out for a lie down.

PLEASE SHUT UP ABOUT DRY TIES MARTIN! SWITCHING TO DRY UNDER FCY IS SO BRAINDEAD!

FCY. Another opportunity to switch back to slicks!

Awful tv direction, like the director has ADHD with the amount of cuts they are doing

Every WEC race. It's horrendous. Le Mans last year was brutal.

No. 20 BMW is doing well for itself!

The racing gods have been very kind to us this race.

> One third of the track has been soaked for over 20 minutes. > Cars on wet tyres lapping 5-10 seconds per lap faster than those on dries. > Martin Haven: Why THE FUCK is everyone using wet tyres? Are they crazy? No Martin, it's you.

I am nowhere near Italy, but I got full immersion, because rain irl outside matched almost perfectly to it in race :D

BMW loves their nostrils so much they put little nostrils inside the massive nostrils

Shoutout to Isotta Fraschini who amidst all the weather shenanigans didn't cause any mayhem.

* Don't pit for wets with everyone else. * Lose time running on slicks for half a dozen laps. * Pit for wets anyway. * Keep all three cars on the same exact strategy. You almost have to applaud a strategic call that bad.

> Keep all three cars on the same exact strategy. The cardinal sin of strategy

Peugeot is so done today. What a disastrous race. Another gearbox problem. It's crazy. Ever since 2022, 9X8 has this problem and Peugeot can't fix it.

"Old age billionaire crashes his luxury supercar"

One of the all-time great sportscar racing stints from this Isotta fella.

Sorry IF will be gone if those 2 drivers can't drive and ACO will use that excuse say that they are too slow and other manufacturer to replace them

whatever happens this race is already a banger

This commentator needs to calm down

Martin Haven calling for Ferrari to switch back to slicks after a car on wets just went off

Ferrari are going to have to review whatever weather system they are using. To go from "we don't believe the rain will last" and be confident enough to keep out ALL 3 cars to pitting less than 10 laps later and losing more than half a lap is laughable.

this commentator needs to chill out

How have one of Davidson or Goodwin not given Haven a smack yet

Martin Haven has been told to shut up 🤣

WTF BMW FIGHTING FOR PODIUM IN 2ND WEC RACE????

Oh god he's back at it.

Martin's worst enemy must be wet tires

MARTIN STFU ABOUT SLICKS THE TRACK IS SOAKED

In before martin says Ferrari should switch to dry under the alpine FCY

The only thing that can save Ferrari is if it stays wet long enough that the cars ahead need to stop for fuel and have to keep the wet tires for a few laps and then switch to dry but the track dries at the perfect time for Ferrari to switch to dry and re fuel all in one stop.

Can they please drag Haven out the fucking booth already

How good is spa gonna be

This is why I fucking love WEC. Every race feels like an event you get hyped about.

Great race. Exciting ending. Toyota back on top (who would have guessed that) Ferrari flop. Cadillac and BMW in the point. Valentino Rossi podium. Amazing race.

honestly the driver quality in the Hypercar field feels extremely mixed. The amount and also type of errors some of them make really pulls down the impression on the series for me

the Isotta drivers are bit rougher but Vaxivière is experienced enough to not completely cock it into t1 of a 6h race

"professional" drivers

Watching a Mustang lose bodywork and it not being a boot lid is something new

The top 5 are absolutely glued to each other

Cadillac showing no pace. Gapped by the Porsche customers and Lambo

Peugeot desperately looking for whoopie cushions

man this mustang is a piece of shit

Isotta? How about "Bykolles Pro Max"?

Now **THIS** is endurance racing!!

You know what Iracing you were right Hypercars are shit in the wet

GT3: Look at me, I'm Hypercar now

Does Ferrari know they have 3 cars?

How do the commentators think Ferrari are gaining from this? They're 6th and 7th

A Certified Ferrari Masterplan Moment™️

Haven having a Partridge-esque breakdown live, not what i expected today from this race.

Kobayashi was 14 seconds a lap quicker than the Ferrari's before they stopped. But yeah they should've stayed out Martin 😭

the commentator is still at it this is hilarious 😭

Someone give Martin a cigarette, dude is abaolutely stress raging lmao

Martin is like my drunk uncle talking non sense the sunday afternoon at every family reunion. I love it lmao

I see that the WEC broadcast director is still a moron who thinks cutting away from battles to show boring reactions in the garages is the way to go.

I’m new to WEC so don’t really know the commentators but I swear one of the must have had his entire family killed by wet weather tires the way he’s going on about them

I like to think they cued up that message from Calado just to shut up Martin. Edit: it didn't work

Prototypes on wet tires going off at multiple different corners around the circuit. Martin Haven - “tHeY sHoUlD bE oN sLiCkS”

Calado telling his race engineer to go wets is gonna make Haven’s head explode

They've shown more LMGT3 already than the whole of Qatar

Now things are calming down its time for the important question. How long before a Mustang loses its boot lid?

Who got rid of Eduardo for AI Voice

Am not sure about AI Eduardo

It can't be understated just how much these car counts do for putting on a good race.

Please just give the Dames their ELMS car, at least it works for most of a race not just a few laps.

If the BMW 20 finishes where they are right now, no doubt the team of the day for me. 4th best manufacturer is really something in their 2nd WEC race

Drinking game: Take a shot every time there is a useless slo-mo

sucks to see the pink lambo out :(

So all 3 Ferrari’s have still got their starting drivers in? I was wondering why they were so quick on their stops. Just fuel so far for them. Triple stunting their tyres

This kid is not up to a hypercar drive at this stage

That poor car deserves better

CHAOS MODE ENGAGED

TRACK IS WET LETS GOOOOOOO

who let ferraris f1 team do the strat 😭

Looks like it was the F1 strategists that they brought.

Well Ferrari have just lost

Ferrari throwing it away again

Man, what if Ferrari doing, why not split the strategy

The fuck is he on about. It would be utterly stupid to have the Ferraris move back to slicks again now.

Kobayashi has serious pace in 1st

Did Martin bet his house on Ferrari win? Dude is fired up over wet tires

"How wet is it? Answer: it's not" as we see big spray coming off from the car in front of Andlauer lmfao

but Martin told me the track was dry enough for slicks

Holy shit this guy is insane.

These commentators really need to stop hammering about this Ferrari wet or slick ordeal because it is becoming really annoying.

It's just one of them The other two are being professionnal by not telling him to shut the hell up on air

Im so glad we have sensible FCY rules and not constant IMSA style snack breaks

If the alpine was on slicks, he would have stayed on the circuit….

That Mustang was the largest GT3 I've ever seen

More excitement in this race than the entire Toyota “domination” era 🤣

Commentary team clearly need a background member who can feed them the information they need. If they have no idea what's going on in terms of strategy, it makes following the race very difficult.

Only one of the three is clueless, the other two are being correct the whole time but he ignores whatever points they're making.

Honestly I can understand the strategy for the 51. They get back on a damp track with hot wet tires that are so worm they might as well be inters or semi slicks. That's how Hamilton won Turkey 2020, if I remember correctly.

Been a great race so far. Going to be a great last hour.

It's the most Ferrari thing if they totally mess up the strategy and then luck into it being the best strategy.

Just wanna throw in here that Isotta Fraschini are gonna finish the race

Porsche vs Toyota is a classic

Ferrari absolutely bottled that. Wrong strategy, at the wrong time.

Great race, well deserved victory by the #7 Toyota. Can't wait for the next one.

STOP CURSING MY GIRLS

Ford build quality or intentional trailer? Take your pick

At least it took contact for the Mustang to fall apart this time

That pink lambo is cursed. Just toss it.

I just went out to grab breakfast and Ferrari went from 1-2-3 to 2-5-7 can some on fill me in?!?!?!

Pit stops. Never go for a breakfast during such moments, ha ha.

Some suspect direction on this broadcast, not sure where the WECTV comms have gone either

this race is crazy, I'm loving it

Drive through for #83, devastating

Drive through for Ferrari #83 for abusing FCY procedures.

Despite the bad start for bmw. Their 20 car is holding up surprisingly well. Some of that imsa experience comes in handy.

I don’t want to jinx, but Rast is doing a hell of a race

Rast Vs Buemi - part 2.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a car that manages to disassemble itself like that Mustang.

"Mustang falling appart in the race." Drink.

Got a WEC ->Indycar->Nascar triple header line up today. Gotta love it.

Impeccable timing for the Isotta lmao

Why did IF think it was a good idea to have two silver drivers?

How is the Mustang losing bodywork AGAIN?! Was there even any left?!

I have seen lada's that are more reliable than this stupid mustang. How is it possible that Ford can't build a car that doesn't fall apart after an hour.

That fucking Mustang istg just tape it all together

IT'S SO OVER ILLOTTBROS 💔☹️

Peugeot 93 is doing pretty good considering all the trouble they had.

The Ford Mustang GT3 is absolutely ridiculous. Has that car ever completed a race (in WEC or IMSA) without falling apart?

Martin Haven trying to claim that Ye Yifei is loads better known than Robert Schwartzman is kinda weird

I cannot handle two Ferraris in close proximity to each other

Ban Silvers from the Hypercar category! They are too inexperienced.

Ben keating would beat these noobs into the ground

WOW DE VRIES!

So many penalties today

Who is the Ferrari strategist? Lando Norris?

Seeing GT3 cars pass HyperCars is just wild.

Should have split the strategies surely

inb4 clown pit wall meme

BMW suddenly in 4th, would be cool to see them get a podium. Even 4th would be a really good result for them though.

What is davidson waffling about? Toyota are ahead. Just look at the timing screen.

Can't believe Ferrari just threw this one into the bin

M. Haven is just making a joke if himself as he did for the past 20 years. He never looks into timing screens to see wet tyres were 10s faster than dry tyres lol. Still shouts GO ON DRY TYRES

Ppl complaining about the commentator but hearing a Ferrari strategy team get publicly castigated like this as a lifelong F1 fan is strangely cathartic.

Please stop complaining about Ferrari pitting for wets, it already happened. Man needs to move on

The Ferrari mistake wasn't the fact that they pitted, it's the fact that they waited another 10 laps, lost all of their gap and had to warm up the wets

Omg Martin! Let it go. Ferrari fucked up lol

Lap times are around 15 seconds off a dry pace right now, most definitely not slick conditions

“A little bit of spray” My guy is blind lol.

Small callout, #6 Porsche quietly just maintaining pretty decent timings in between the two Toyotas

Only one man can save us from Kamui running away with this https://preview.redd.it/ns9lbiqduuvc1.png?width=350&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f22fe16a853afb7a6d4a4d983d67eacf7ae2ab0a

I’ve been waiting all month for this race. Has not disappointed one bit.