AOD Racing Takes on the 24Hr Le Mans!

AOD Races the 24Hr Le Mans


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Live Streams and Position Updates Below:



Ferrari GTE Team 1 - Position RIP


Live Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/awsim_tv

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Ferrari GTE Team 2 - Position 16th

Live Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/aod_rami

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HPD Team 1 - Position 5th


Live Stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMFLSqOjAoU

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HPD Team 2 - Position RIP

Live Stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J5dhi3l93I

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Time Remaining:

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Vroom vroom! Good luck peeps!

Don't forget the Coke cans!

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Some trouble for the Ferrari Team 1, but everyone is still working very hard!

5 minutes left guys! Finish strong!

I didn't give up completely and push Ferrari Team 2 in the night for a few hours and woke up early to finish the last hour, and finish p38 and we started p51.

It was a blast to race the event, we lead till 1/3 of the race and that was way above my expectations
thank you very much for the opportunity and I'm looking foward for next endurance events :burnout:

Congrats guys. That race is one of the most challenging you could ever face, and you all took it on without hesitation.

I'm glad to see the same spirit AOD racing had from over 10 years ago still not only exists, but thrives in all of you today. I'm incredibly proud of you guys and the team.

Ferrari A Team Race Summary: First off I’d like to thank my teammates Yannick Meuleman, Griffin Rasey, and Steven Scholtz for their continued determination to make our car as quick as possible.

Our Ferrari was delivered on Tuesday morning of race week. This meant that we only had 4 days to get the car ready for the biggest endurance event of the year. We had a combined total of over 40 hours of straight testing, running laps just to make sure we were ready when the time came. It took until Friday evening where we were comfortable enough to run the car with our setup for 24 hours. From then, Frosty qualified the car with the 65th fastest time of the 570 drivers who qualified in the new GTE cars. This put us in P3 on the grid for our split (4/13).

Green flag flew at 7:00am PST with Yannick (Mystic) behind the wheel and we immediately found ourselves in P2, chasing down the leader. Bad luck would strike the leader as he was found exceeding the given track limits and was given a time penalty by the stewards. This allowed us to cruize by and remain in the lead for the rest of Yannicks 2 stints. From that we passed the car over to Griffin (HomieG), who further increased our lead to 35 seconds. After another successful 2 stints, Alex (Frosty) was next in line to drive. He increased the lead to 47 seconds before he would smack the wall due to worn tires. This gave us a 4minute repair time and we soon fell to P9.

We realized that in order to win the race, we had to make drastic strategy changes. We decided to double stint tires where every other team was doing 1 stint per tire set. Before the incident, we were able to comfortably complete 1 lap more than every other GTE car on track due to changing fuel mixtures throughout the stints. But after the incident, we were still able to complete an extra lap on fuel, but the car would be stuttering when it came time to pit. This was the only way we could come back and win.

For the next 5 hours, Griffin and Alex would trade off until reaching P1 once more. Our car was 6km/h slower on straights, which at a track like Le Mans, is a big deal considering a lot of the track is straight. Griffin would get into the car and complete one more stint before being given mixed signals by a slower GTE car which ended up in front left damage that spelt disaster for the rest of the race. Instead of continuing, we decided to cut our losses and park the car in order to get ready for the 6 Hours of the Glen in just 2 weeks.

I am amazed by our team with the determination we showed this week to get the car ready. We were definitely a force to be reckoned with, but in endurance racing, bad luck can strike at any time, especially when you are sharing the track with 60 other cars.

To learn more about the difficulty of this track, and what we experienced, here are some videos to watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27F26UA1i6M 1hr 22min
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cReN1Wb1MWk& 6min 49sec


What is iRacing?
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First of all I would like to thank my team for the efforts they put in again!
Mighty, Davidvb, Gorilla, Carter and JIC5, you guys did your best and There was a good synergy and support in the group.
I had a good start with the gain from p51 to p15, and david pulled this off even further.
But sadly enough this race took a lot of us by some problems. And since it's a 24h race a lot is to be happened. So we finally finished p38 out of all this problems.
Thx Mighty for the last efforts you put in the team at the end. It's a race, and race-incidents happen all the time. So team, be happy! we did good! for the new guys, specially david, I hope you guys enjoyed your first enduro :D.
It was fun with you guys and I am glad we could take you guys on this ride! It was intense as allways. Especially when Gorilla went on and passed inbetween p14-15-cars with just a hair of space. Beautifull pass buddy.
GJ to all and keep it up!

I'd say : ON TO THE NEXT ONE!

Grtz,
BelgianWolf

Thank you Belgian for the fantastic beginning in the race, and thank you for the rest of the team taking part.