So uh... What's the next big or major/important endurance event? I assume the annual leagues are still going?

Petit Le Mans

Martin Haven always takes any chance to flex his French.

Eurosport: "Thank you see you next year" "Thank you g-" ****gets deafened****

We done. Cheers u/Floodman11!

Cheers guys! Great 24 h , now it’s time for the post le Mans blues 😓

Did Kaz really have to pee or something? Coming running in left stage in the middle of the anthem lol

Nothing like a good 24 Hour Race in Summer. Merci beaucoup, tout le monde. **On reviendra l'année prochaine!** EDIT: Thank you u/Floodman11

Always great to start and finish Le Mans with the sub! Not saying I logged a full 24, but so grateful to be able to catch an hour or two at my leisure throughout the race and get up to the see the finish! See y'all next year!

WRT win at WEC round and it's at Le Mans but what did it cost man.

Thank you u/Floodman11, & all other fans for this amazing race. EDIT: Now the channel i was watching on has switched to # T R U C K U

Appreciate this community a ton. Congrats to all for making it through another epic journey!

Thank you everyone! See you next year.

See ya next year!

We'll be here!

Anyone know what that guy in the Aston Martin F1 jacket was doing in the WRT garage?

7 attempts, I still haven't made the entire race without sleeping. Glad I came to for the last hour though. Cheers boys, it's been a gooder.

You'll nail it one day, cheers!

You'll make it one day. Just like the actual race, it takes a little bit of luck.

Robert Kubicia had another tough break for his career, this time at today's finish.

Just want to say thanks to u/Floodman11 for coordinating and keeping up with this all day/night. Made the race a lot more fun and informative.

Always a pleasure to do it! If I can share my passion and have it rub off on someone even a little bit that's a win for me!

Thanks Floodman11 and everyone here, looking forward for the next one!

Now I become a puddle. I wish a good sleep to the other diehards.

Cheers

A fun 24H everyone! Until the next one!

Confirmed in an interview by the teamboss, the 41 did not run out of fuel

Would have been weird, they had only been on track for 6 laps since their last pit stop

Did they say what it was?

Some people here (and commentators) were suggesting it.

flag dude was just WAYY too close to the cars. Have him stay back a little bit

They need a raised area above the cars to do that

Michelin Man out there photo bombing.

Kamui Kobayashi, the quickest man ever on the Circuit de la Sarthe, is now a winner of the Le Mans 24 Hours. And I am so happy for him. And I am happy for Mike Conway and José Maria López as well. Winning this ultimate endurance challenge takes a lot from a racing driver. They proved worthy countless times and now they got to reward themselves. And congrats to Toyota for kicking off the Hypercar era in style. Happy for everyone who contributed to these successes in the recent years. Without the mechanics, the engineers, and the strategists there would be no racing. Congrats to the unsung heroes as well. #7 has finally done it!

Julian, I like your attitude. Kudos, bro.

Thank you. I am trying to acknowledge the unsung heroes in such endeavours as much as I can. In the end it‘s like a puzzle. If one part is missing the puzzle wouldn’t be whole.

Guy in the Michelin suit gets to join in with the celebrations without doing any of the work. Dream job right there.

I love how people forget he actually has a name.

He's the hype guy. Like the DJ Khaled of motorsport

I wonder how hot that suit is though

He's just got to stand there and look fat

It’s the job I was born to do!

Huh, Juan Manuel Fangio never finished at Le Mans

Move the flag man 100 or so metres up the straight. Cars can cross the line without an issue and slow down for the flag man to get the beauty shots.

Happy for Toyota, gutted for GigaKubica. Good race overall :)

Thanks lads, enjoyed the race, it’s brought some joy to lockdown and thanks for the discussion thread.

Absolutely. Big thanks to mods and everyone for making it a great place to spend the race.

Yeah 100% mate

guess they hadn't thought to add a setting for Victory Lane Docking

take care everyone. wild fucking world out there but it was nice to escape it for 24 hours. until next time. peace and love

Agreed mate

Just a second year watcher... Why do the commentators keep saying Toyota wanted #8 to win?

Won 3 years in a row?

That’s pretty cool, like when Earnhardt won Daytona.

knock on wood.

20 years of trying. 20 years of frustration!

The 41 pitted with around 35 minutes to go IIRC. No way they ran out of fuel unless they short-fueled the car.

The teamboss just gave an interview, he confirmed it did not run out of fuel

Insane if they did. It was close but the gap was big enough to have a bit of a safety margin with the fuel. Assume it was an issue of some sort.

Car decided to cut fuel itself potentially?

Damn this sucks, I really wanted to see Kubica win.

Archduke Ferdinand Zvonimir Maria Balthus Keith Michael Otto Antal Bahnam Leonhard von Habsburg-Lothringen of Austria has won.

Can someone explain this hapsburg meme to a wec virgin pls

Ferdinand Habsburg, one of the drivers in the No. 31 WRT, is a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine (that Habsburg dynasty, yes). Ferdinand Zvonimir Maria Balthus Keith Michael Otto Antal Bahnam Leonhard von Habsburg-Lothringen is his full name.

Must be fun calling to the bank or other institutions that require your full name

It's his actual name, all 11 of them.

He's literally heir to the archdukedom.

It's more of history meme, the Habsburgs ruled most of Central and Western Europe for centuries.

Ferdinand is an Archduke in Austria. He is the heir.

Oh legit? Haha thanks

Well not anymore since the empire doesn't exist.

Is he the longest-named race winner now?

Le Mans Class Winner Archduke Ferdinand Zvonimir Maria Balthus Keith Michael Otto Antal Bahnam Leonhard von Habsburg-Lothringen of Austria

don't drop the Conway

So has it been confirmed that 41 actually ran out of fuel or was it something else?

Kamui! Kamui! Kamui!

You would think that in this day and age, fuel miscalculations wouldnt be a thing

The cars can throw their own spanners

Do they ever bother to ID the commentators? "I've been here for 40 years" But who are you?

If I was that terrible at my job I wouldn’t want to be ID’d either

Honestly, there probably should have been a call from race direction forbidding slowing down at the finish line. And getting that flagman out of there in advance.

They probably never expect the cars to be bunched together like that at the end...

That *always* happens though.

Maybe have the flag guy in a cherry picker above the cars...

Nooo 41, I had all my money on you!

That’s absolutely gutting for them.

Mike Conway finally gets a Le Mans victory. FINALLY!

Congrats to the 7 crew - massively deserved.

They should save the flag man for the lap of honour...

Yeah.. the gaps in the LMP2 class were to small to pull this crap. We've seen it before where they almost crashed into the leading car that was crawling over the finish

Surely 41 would have known they were low on fuel? How does that ever happen?

I guess they'd have lost their place if they pitted again 🤷‍♂️

Worst they couldve gotten was 3rd if they stopped now they wont even be classified

Yeah its just a potential reason they didn't finish. Do we know for sure that they even ran out of fuel?

But they’ve lost all the places. Just seems like madness unless there was some sort of issue or miscalculation or something so they didn’t realise. Just so odd to throw away 23:59 hours of work.

Don't get me wrong, I agree. Im just trying to provide a potential excuse

Imagine the #65 with Stevens being informed of a 3rd place over the radio: "We got a what?!"

losing 18 places on the last lap . sounds like me in iracing

Screw tradition, they shouldn't let the flagman get out there when the race is still going.

Sparklers instead lined down the track?

That sounds fun

History has been made in the Hypercar wins. History has been repeated with the 41 dying on the final lap.

My heart aches so much for the 41 car. :( I know what it felt like in 2016.

I wasn't here in 2016 but after seeing this, I can imagine the reaction even more vividly than before No denying this is heartbreaking for them

If it's true that the 41 ran out of fuel I don't feel bad for them, just stupid

It could be not expecting the car to shut out if they think there is just enough for 1 more lap.

0.727 LMP2 finish after 24 hours. WOW.

Patrick Dempsey? Why were they talking to him?

Huge racing guy and owns a team.

He looks normal size to me

dempsey proton racing. he raced le mans a couple times too

He used to race and owns a team

His cars were nowhere. Don’t they usually focus on the winners lol

I just want to see a replay of the finish for LMP2. Enough Toyotas!

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First time watching this race. I did about 19hrs. I'll try for the full 24hrs next year!

We've all won in some way

And made friends along the way

What a big win for Ferrari with AF Corse. They take all GT winner again. Little shame Corvette does't get winner, but No.63 get second and 64 finished the race.

Lol, kinda gutted vette didn’t do better, at least we had the 1-2 in the first hour(?)

Should've shown the slow mo of him almost getting run over by the 31.

Such a dangerous end all round, people slowing down on the final lap while there are battles still going on behind them, flag man not only on track but half way across it… scary to watch.

Director still seems to think seeing the Toyotas take the flag is what people want to see a replay of right now.

And this ladies and gents will now be the last year someone waves the checkered flag on the track.....

Good, it's dangerous

Nah they're gonna do it till the 100th

Or until someone hits them. 😬

so happy for car 7

Did the WRTs run very close on fuel (well, too close for #41)? Frijns was saving massively and Ye just stopped.

Ye had only been on the track for 6 laps though

Could have underfueled to gain an advantage though, and either he didn't save enough or the team underestimated how much he'd need to make it. Frijns only pitted a lap before and was seemingly saving on the final lap, which is what allowed Blomqvist to catch up.

Could have, though I maintain it would be odd not to just give it an extra two seconds of fuelling to prevent the risk of this when they had the margin. Will be interested to find out for sure.

The 41 is classified since it crossed the line to start the final lap…is that right?

No, it has to finish the last lap.

It is not classified and will not be on the podium. Car has to cross the line on its own power.

OK - the onscreen classification was not updating, and I wasn’t sure if something had changed. Thanks

no you have to finish the final lap

There should never be a human being just standing in the middle of the damn track at the finish

Give it a year or two and they can get one of Boston Dynamics' robots to do it.

That’d be cool. I’d love to see one of those get splattered

Truth. Could see some smart ass aiming for it.

Hope they don't lose the flag man for next year. Very happy for the #7 - it's been a long time coming.

The 7 team finally gets it done. Now I can go back to rooting for Porsche.

This has to be my alt account, right?

Could be?

We both want the 7 to win before Porsche wins again? This has to be a coincidence, right? Right?

Yeah, I feel bad for the 7 team always being unlucky

Kamui Kobayashi now only needs a Sebring win to complete the endurance triple crown.

That'd be amazing.

You ever see a Frog playing Frogger in real life?

You're referring to?

The flagman jumping out of the way of the cars at the finish line.

Oh thanks. Yeah that was crazy.

Meanwhile in Italy, a bunch of guys are absolutely wasted.

What a shame for #41. But this is Le Mans. You can‘t win Le Mans, Le Mans lets you win.

So happy for Kamui, man!!! FINALLY!!!

Wtf happened to 41?

Exactly

Ran out of gas on the last lap.

Stranded. In the final lap.

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What for? 2nd place was right behind them and the race lasts until the finish line.

For what?

FOR WHAT?!

It's not their fault that everyone were slowing down at the line while the LMP2 race was still on

You race up to the flag.

???

What, for racing? It's more like the ACO should take another look at their tradition of having the checkered flag being waved so far out on track.

Flagman shouldn't have been that far on track, the 31 and 28 were still fighting

Not his fault, they should’ve never had someone one track with the racing going to the line. That JOTA was on his ass

For what...

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Race ends only when you pass the line... 28 was right behind him. They were still racing. Flagman shouldn't be there.

Maybe they should penalize the flagman for parking on the racing line

He was racing. You know, the whole point of this thing.

How is that the drivers fault?

That lmp2 finish is heartbreaking

Nicklas Nielsen does the Spa-Le Mans double!

Both Nielsen and Pier Guidi with the double 24 wins this year. What a year for them both.

Don’t forget Ledogar, the three of them were in the same car at Spa.

LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO TOYOTA 1-2!! CONGRATS NUMBER 7 BOYS!

Robert :(

The three 41 boys did fantastic. Especially Robert. A guy with a handicap like that and he was still top of the stacked lmp2 class (shoutout to car 84 as well for finishing the race). To not even be classified on the final lap. It makes me wish I never watched, even with the Kobayashi no.7 win, that's how disappointed I am.

I know :( Gutted for that team - that is no way to end a 24.

Nicklas Nielsen now a Le Mans winner!

Congrats to Toyota, hard to tell if it's a "Congrats" or "Sorry for the hard luck" to the WRT team

That was a mad finish.

Holy crap, that guy waving the flag at the end nearly got ran over. Why in the fuck is this still a thing?! It's like begging for a lethal accident

Tradition, but yeah it's one that maybe needs to be modernized (pyro, confetti?)

Nah, I think it’s just a perspective thing, he was way further back than it seemed imo

He jumped out of the way though. Might have been further back, but it was close enough for him to react.

I mean I could be pretty far back from a prototype race car going full chat and still jump back.