2010 European Le Mans Series

[Ivo Simons]

Thanks Kris.

 

[Michael Herrmann]

thank you verry much Kris
i hope Labre Competition will do well cuz Fernando is driving the Saleen of them

 

[Michael Herrmann]

only livetiming is working for me but anyway red flag in qualy atm

 

[Ivo Simons]

Race almost starting.

http://www.race-rally.be/2010/1000km2010/multimedia/silverlight/live/default.aspx

 

[Ivo Simons]

Lol whats going on the whole time.
Every lap someone crashes and Eau Rouge.

 

[Michael Herrmann]

Ivo is the stream down ??

 

[Ivo Simons]

Think so yeah. :frown:

 

[Ivo Simons]

Up again.

 

[Michael Herrmann]

Fernando now in the car #50 doing the last stint 3rd in GT1 overall 18th ;D go Fernando get that Matech Ford you can do it

 

[Kris Leeten]

LM P1: Peugeot 1,2 & 4 Audi 3 & 5
The GT1 podium is all Ford GT's

 

[Michael Herrmann]

larbre on 4th last time i checked the stream Fernando was on 2nd and dropped back to 3rd due the saftycar laps then i had to leave
anyone know what happend to him that he is on 4th cuz seeing the final timings he lost a lot of time and had 1 more pitstop

 

[Mtommi Tam]

 

[Sérgio Marques]

I decided to join a week holiday in Albufeira with watching the 1000 km Algarve Le Mans series race.

Starting in day light and finishing by night, makes it great to watch, especially when the sun start to goes down and those engines roar in the silence of landscape.

Here's a video with my best images:

 

[Fernando Rees]

My Onboard Footage from Algarve, 2010

Hello mates.

Just wanna share some of my onboard footage from the Round 3 of LMS in Algarve, Portugal.

Below are three videos from that race weekend:

Thanks!

 

[Fernando Rees]

The first two videos sum up Free Practice 1 and Free Practice 2, all the testing I had before the race start. It gives an idea of how little practice time we have before the race. You really need to adapt quickly.

I didn't know the track, so in the first video you can see that I begin to know the track, and the speed improves corner by corner. By the end of it, four or five laps later, I'm running at the optimum speed.

 

[Sérgio Marques]

Thanks for the videos, I was there to watch the race, already post here a video I made, impressive sound that Saleen as.

But it's a shame there's only two GT1 cars, still congrats for the victory.

 

[Dan Long]

wow its awesome we have a real life gt driver with us here on RD that saleen is immence

 

[Austin Jordan]

yeah and fernando can i race in a couple years from now? lol but still

 

[Sérgio Marques]

wow its awesome we have a real life gt driver with us here on RD that saleen is immence

Impressive, from wikipedia:

In late 2003, Fernando made a good impression to Mercedes-Benz in a private test of the German manufacturer in the Portuguese circuit of Estoril. On December 11th 2003, Mercedes-Benz had organized a Formula 3 test among its official client teams of Formula 3 Euroseries. Only six drivers were selected to take part in the test: Fernando Rees, Robert Kubica, Jamie Green, Bruno Spengler, Alexandre Premat and Adrian Sutil.[1] In the test day, Fernando topped the time sheets driving the ASM Mercedes-Benz car.[2] Later in the same year, Ron Dennis picked the ASM Mercedes-Benz team for Lewis Hamilton to drive in the upcoming Formula 3 Euroseries championship, and Fernando was forced to look elsewhere to compete.

 

[Fernando Rees]

But it's a shame there's only two GT1 cars, still congrats for the victory.

Well, it's a shame for the organization of the series and for the people who support it, but for us who are working there it doesn't change much in the sense that the greatest competition is always against ourselves.

But yeah, complicated... still, our team won the 24 Hours of Le Mans against all the FIA GT prepared cars.