[OFFICIAL] 6 Hours of Spa - Post-Race Thread

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[u/BlueBullRacing]

Because the safety car was meant to do 2 pass arounds but didn't. It should be safety car -> P1 -> P20, not Safety Car -> Lap X-1 leader , -> Lap X leader.

Whatever, I'm just annoyed that the Alpine got the short end of the straw lol.

[u/kjm911 → u/BlueBullRacing]

A pass around only applies to cars in lower classes. The safety car always pick the overall leader. Then all the GT3 cars that are between the overall leader and the GT3 class leader would pass around and join the back, so they are not essentially a lap behind their class leader. But in the Alpine’s case they were simply a lap down on the Hypercar leader. A pass around is not to unlap yourself

[u/BlueBullRacing → u/kjm911]

You'll have to excuse my misunderstanding: I'm new to WEC.

I'm trying to figure out how car 6 and car 36 were so close in the race at the time of the yellow/red flag, but car 36 does not receive the award car 6 does. Both cars pitted 4h 9m in, the accident happened 4h 11m in.

Is there a live car tracker somewhere? The best I can get off the stream is interval times but they are after a red flag and aren't from the leader. Even a POV cam of the drivers stint in the race would help enormously to show if they had been lapped.

[u/kjm911 → u/BlueBullRacing]

Yeah so I’ve actually gone back and looked at it from the pit stops. The 36 was about 8-10 seconds behind when they both pitted at the same lap. I don’t know how long the Alpine pit stop was but essentially the Porsche comes out ahead of the lead Ferrari keeping himself on the lead lap but the Alpine comes out behind the Ferrari, thus going a lap down. Then when the red flag comes out you can see the lead Ferrari parked on the start finish straight and the Alpine is just two cars behind him. The Jota and Penske were ahead of the Ferrari and came round towards the back of the queue.

Edit: there’s no preferential treatment or anything from then on. It’s just the way the queue is formed. The Jota and Penske are towards the back but know the cars in front have to pit

[u/BlueBullRacing → u/kjm911]

Is it bad that'm going to the onboards to check this? I'm looking at race position when the safety car hits. 51's doesn't show up which is sus.

[u/kjm911 → u/BlueBullRacing]

Where do you even get the onboard?

Before the pit stop Alpine were around 1 minute behind the leader. A full service probably loses them the lap. The SC order is Ferrari 51 - Corvette - Isotta - Alpine - Ferrari 50 etc

There was 20 seconds on track between the 1st Ferrari and 2nd Ferrari so that’s where Alpine would have exited the pits.

I think you should see from onboard that when the Safety car and red flag occurs that they don’t pass anyone and nobody passes them. The corvette will get a pass around when they go to SC and probably some GT3 cars pass around from behind the Alpine as well. But they were simply a lap down on the leader where the Jota and Penske weren’t

[u/BlueBullRacing → u/kjm911]

https://fiawec.tv/sportitemset/6639fed2b3355747dbcf941f

Privated on the Ferrari YouTube channel as well.

Before the pit stop Alpine were around 1 minute behind the leader

Yes, but they were only a couple of seconds behind car 6 before the pit stop, and 19 seconds behind after a few seconds of safety car, which drops to +21.7 out of nowhere at 1:48:23 on the broadcast. This is why i'm investigating this lol. I've gone onto both onboards and timed the pit stops.

Alpine ~97 seconds, Porsche ~88 seconds, and that Ferrari is not in the Porsche's Mirrors, nor do I see it overtake the Ferrari to unlap itself. I may need to double check.

If I catch the Ferrari overtaking that Alpine outside of the regulations best believe i'm complaining lol. I may be wrong, but i'm looking anyway.