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Hi,

I was looking at the lap times for this years 24 hour le mans. The pole was 3 mins 30 seconds. They do use the 13 km circuit (where a production car is generally considered fast if it can go under 8 minutes) don't they?

If yes, that effectively means that the average speed is over twice as fast as cars such as Carrera GT which I think do it somewhere between 7 minutes and 7.30!!!! Even the Porsche GT3's do it in around 4 minutes. That's freakishly fast!!!

I definitely want to go and see it one day. Not necessarily because of the speed, but because of the cars on show. Ferrari's, Porsche, and their the slow ones.

Wish it was on TV.

Cheers

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nah you've got it confused, 8 min is the Nurburgring time everyone is aiming for :D

And the bugatti/le mans circuit has 2 totally different layouts short and long so you may be comparing the wrong ones. The quickest cars would not be more than 20% quicker than the GT cars.

Also.....one day I will do either le mans (or more likely) Nurburging 24hrs, I love enduro racing and it would be a brilliant experience, I've done some 20 lap night races but imagine a 2 hour night stint! I just need to hold off on a year's normal racing budget for one race ;)

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