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24hrs of Le Mans - JPolen01 - 06-11-2014 *Edit* Where/How to watch <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://jalopnik.com/how-to-watch-and-stream-the-2014-24-hours-of-le-mans-1589288450">http://jalopnik.com/how-to-watch-and-st ... 1589288450</a><!-- m --> Do we have a 24 hr thread? An Audi R18 was completely destroyed earlier today in practice. Driver status is reported to be 'encouraging'. <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://jalopnik.com/one-of-audis-le-mans-contenders-was-just-destroyed-in-a-1589306287">http://jalopnik.com/one-of-audis-le-man ... 1589306287</a><!-- m --> Re: 24hrs of Le Mans - G.Irish - 06-11-2014 Amazing to see how far safety in motorsport has come. That might have been fatal even 10 years ago. Reminds me of the time we were at the Canadian GP and Robert Kubica had that big crash that sidelined his career. He was lucky to survive too, due to the advances in engineering. Re: 24hrs of Le Mans - ispoonwithmugen - 06-11-2014 That dude isn't even remotely hurt... that's CRAZY. Re: 24hrs of Le Mans - Senor_Taylor - 06-11-2014 I don't believe that was ever anything that resembled a race car. No way. No how. Re: 24hrs of Le Mans - JPolen01 - 06-12-2014 That is pretty nuts. All he walked away with were 2 scratches. Re: 24hrs of Le Mans - JPolen01 - 06-12-2014 And here is the car Re: 24hrs of Le Mans - Kaan - 06-12-2014 those cars are built with the driver sitting in a "safety pod" AND everything else bolting up. this helps with safety and speedy repairs. backed into a wall? no problem, drive it in here and we will bolt on a whole new rear end. Re: 24hrs of Le Mans - Kaan - 06-12-2014 <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://youtu.be/gzKfCIY_zfg">http://youtu.be/gzKfCIY_zfg</a><!-- m --> Re: 24hrs of Le Mans - Evan - 06-12-2014 it is a new chassis. normally thats not allowed except when the original is completely destroyed. Re: 24hrs of Le Mans - JPolen01 - 06-12-2014 Well there has already been 4 accidents in qualifying. One red flag for 45 minutes. Should make for an interesting race saturday/sunday! Re: 24hrs of Le Mans - JPolen01 - 06-13-2014 I never knew how small prototype cars are height wise. I just assumed they were pretty big cars. Nope. Re: 24hrs of Le Mans - premiershine9 - 06-14-2014 ^^^^ First time I saw a prototype was at an ALMS race at Lime Rock when I was 14? 15? and I'll never forget seeing how small one was- TV makes them look pretty large. Started watchig the live feed at 8 this am, coverage is pretty good on FS1! Diggin the amount of in-car footage. Grabbing Chromecast today so I can livefeed to my LED tonight