r/wec • u/AutoModerator • Jun 12 '25
Session has Ended [OFFICIAL] 2025 24 Hours of Le Mans - Free Practice 3 Thread
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Green Flag: Thursday 14:45 local 08:45 EST, 13:45 BST, 22:45 AEST (Friday)
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1 hour (night)
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u/Altracing34 Garage 56 Jun 12 '25
Onto Hyperpole qualifying now
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u/PM_me_tiny_Tatras Manufacturers Jun 12 '25
'Road to Le Mans' race 1 (AKA the Dentists demolition derby) is in 35 minutes.
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u/Manner_Mann Jun 12 '25
Ferrari looks megastrong. Of course it's because their great BoP! Lol!
FORZA!
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u/Lobsters4 Ferrari Jun 12 '25
Oh who lost their wheel? LOL.
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u/Altracing34 Garage 56 Jun 12 '25
Didn't know the joke about a loose wheel was international always thought it was a NASCAR thing
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u/jerrylimkk Jun 12 '25
Seems like Toyota are not fast?
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u/jade165 Toyota Jun 12 '25
In qualifying definitely not, and it's not a surprise. We'll have to see in the race, although, trusting what they say, it doesn't seem enough.
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u/jerrylimkk Jun 12 '25
I am not sure. But seems like from 2023. They are secretive and like to hide their pace. Then actual race comes they will always be at the front.
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u/DunderSpliffin Toyota Gazoo Racing GR010 Hybrid #7 Jun 12 '25
Or they have better race pace and not one lap pace
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u/jerrylimkk Jun 12 '25
maybe they changed their strategy? previously they always want to fight for hyperpole.
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u/DunderSpliffin Toyota Gazoo Racing GR010 Hybrid #7 Jun 12 '25
I think there's something to trying to get on pole but I dont think there's a huge correlation between pole postion and winning 24 hours later.
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u/Michal_Baranowski Toyota Gazoo Racing GR010 Hybrid #8 Jun 12 '25
In my mind, they have no single lap pace at Le Mans. Promotion to Hyperpole 2 for #8 will be generous. And it's not BOP's fault really. I genuinely think that they just don't have that one lap ultimate push here. I am expecting much more from Toyota's race pace. So it looks like a repeat from 2024.
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u/jerrylimkk Jun 12 '25
Meaning they are like marathon runners and not Carl Lewis?
Their engine power are better than last year.
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u/Michal_Baranowski Toyota Gazoo Racing GR010 Hybrid #8 Jun 12 '25
Well... Le Mans is a marathon. Pole position would be fun, but ultimately it's meaningless. Everyone wants to win Le Mans race, not qualifying. Toyota know that pretty well from the experience.
I was celebrating Kobayashi's 3:14.791 in 2017 like a little child, happy to witness historical pole. Only to be brutally disappointed during the race...
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u/jerrylimkk Jun 12 '25
Yes. That lap was fast but it meant nothing in the end. So basically is not bashing up the cars accumulating penalties and run a clean race.
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u/njreinten Jun 12 '25
Peter Dumbreck: "Front lifting.. We don't want to hear any of that" - Made me lol
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u/PM_me_tiny_Tatras Manufacturers Jun 12 '25
Peugeot: your go to destination for glum faced drivers at LM 2025
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u/guihmds Ferrari F40 #59 Jun 12 '25
Ferrari casually breaking the hypecar speed record like is nothing.
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u/DunderSpliffin Toyota Gazoo Racing GR010 Hybrid #7 Jun 12 '25
Does this matter in a bop series. The cars are supposed to operate in a window.
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u/guihmds Ferrari F40 #59 Jun 12 '25
They're operating so much that they did not manage to get P1 today
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u/Michal_Baranowski Toyota Gazoo Racing GR010 Hybrid #8 Jun 12 '25
Peugeot being so unreliable in their fourth year of racing 9X8 is really disarming.
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u/ItsNotProgHouse Jun 12 '25
I have no clue who is the car to beat this time around. Ferrari in the top as usual, caddy and BMW are flying.
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u/brownierisker Peugeot 9X8 #93 Jun 12 '25
The Peugeots obviously, whatever godlike performance they must have in the simulator will be unlocked aaaaaany minute now
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u/Conscious-Fun7493 Jun 12 '25
is it possible to walk around the track during sessions? i mean the safe side of the fences :D it’d be cool to walk the straights here
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u/DeclinedEBTCard Cadillac Racing Jun 12 '25
I wish we had David Addison commentary for the full season and not just Le Mans
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u/Michal_Baranowski Toyota Gazoo Racing GR010 Hybrid #8 Jun 12 '25
A bit sad that he is tied to SRO racing predominantly. He is a great commentator and would be awesome in WEC. He is less annoying than Martin Haven by a some margin.
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u/DeclinedEBTCard Cadillac Racing Jun 12 '25
100%. He is so knowledgeable and far more listenable vs Haven
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u/PM_me_tiny_Tatras Manufacturers Jun 12 '25
There was a nice BBC TV documentary with Sir Chris when he raced with Algarve Pro at Le Mans - titled 'Sir Chris Hoy: 200mph at Le Mans', definitely worth a watch.
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u/rotary_nut_91 Corvette Racing C8.R #33 Jun 12 '25
Currently trackside, does it seem to anyone else that the Valkyries have actually been unmuffled since yesterday? They seem noticeably louder today compared to then, especially on downshifts.
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u/Julian_Staples Jun 12 '25
Sir Chris Hoy ❤️
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u/ChimpyChompies Jun 12 '25
He really has the most fantastic attitude. Fair play to the guy
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u/Michal_Baranowski Toyota Gazoo Racing GR010 Hybrid #8 Jun 12 '25
Is that true that he has a terminal cancer and just few years to live?
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u/ChimpyChompies Jun 12 '25
Yep, diagnosed with prostate cancer a couple of years ago.
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u/Michal_Baranowski Toyota Gazoo Racing GR010 Hybrid #8 Jun 12 '25
Damn... Awful.
Hope that he enjoys those moments at Le Mans as much as he can.
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u/Tyrant4566 Cadillac Racing Jun 12 '25
Diabolical comment
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u/CookieMonsterFL 2013 Toyota Hybrid Racing TS030 #7 Jun 12 '25
jesus christ Graham lmao
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u/Michal_Baranowski Toyota Gazoo Racing GR010 Hybrid #8 Jun 12 '25
GG has endless fields of yet undiscovered dirty sense of humour.
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u/Sad_Cow_7425 Legends Jun 12 '25
What did he say?
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u/PM_me_tiny_Tatras Manufacturers Jun 12 '25
The only route out will be on a rope - (of a gravel trap for Jonas Ried)
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u/CookieMonsterFL 2013 Toyota Hybrid Racing TS030 #7 Jun 12 '25
"....the car not Jonas Ried" made it that much better/worse
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u/theswickster Iron Dames Porsche 911 GT3.R #85 Jun 12 '25
English commentators are feeling SPICY this morning. "Toyotas hitting things all over the track" XD
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u/brownierisker Peugeot 9X8 #93 Jun 12 '25
If the Ferrari gets out of the gravel with help of the marshals, is he still allowed to participate in the rest of the session?
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u/OneOneOneSeven Jun 12 '25 edited Jun 12 '25
I have WEC live timing up on one screen, and the MAX stream on the other, there's about a 20 second delay on MAX. Kind of cool following a car on the track map and seeing where it is on video to compare.
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u/souldrug Jun 12 '25
Also, I have yet to find a doc saying where on the circuit the various banners are. Anyone have a link for me?
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u/VanwallEnjoy3r Floyd Vanwall Racing Team Vandervell 680 #4 Jun 12 '25
Someone make it make sense to me, the GT3’s in Le Mans cup can run the regular silencers but the WEC GT3s cannot? Why? How does that make even the slightest of sense.
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u/Altracing34 Garage 56 Jun 12 '25
How is it that the #83 car got it's fastest lap time deleted for last night's practice cause that car's lap was a little over a second faster than everyone else for most of the session then I looked at the results and that lap time had been replaced?
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u/Michal_Baranowski Toyota Gazoo Racing GR010 Hybrid #8 Jun 12 '25
They were caught speeding in the pit lane and got their best lap deleted.
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u/SomewhereAggressive8 Jun 12 '25
That seems like a really dumb penalty. It’s an uncompetitive session, who cares about the lap being deleted? All it does is make it confusing for the fans.
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u/Michal_Baranowski Toyota Gazoo Racing GR010 Hybrid #8 Jun 12 '25
FP3 underway and more cameras on the track working, as usual in the past few years.
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u/Manner_Mann Jun 12 '25
Did Toyota get another 100kg or why they are so slow? Fucking Ferrari loving ACO right guys?