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Brazil 6H 2012 - Audi R-18 e-tron #1 - Benoît Tréluyer

Name: Brazil 6H 2012 - Audi R-18 e-tron #1 - Benoît Tréluyer
Uploaded: 2012-10-03T20:52:56+00:00
Duration: 1 min 45 s
Channel: Adam Mocarski
Description: The transcript captures a live commentary of the 2012 6 Hours of Brazil race focusing on the Audi R-18 e-tron #1 driven by Benoît Tréluyer. The…

3 Oct 2012 · 2 min

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The transcript captures a live commentary of the 2012 6 Hours of Brazil race focusing on the Audi R-18 e-tron #1 driven by Benoît Tréluyer. The commentators discuss the extreme steepness of a particular track section, comparing it to Paddock Hill Bend and the Corkscrew, and note its off‑camber and drop. They then analyze lap‑by‑lap performance, highlighting how Lapierre gains a three‑second advantage while Troyer is held up by traffic, extending his lead to 6.2 seconds after 16 laps. Alan’s lap is described as fortunate, allowing him to navigate traffic efficiently and shave time off his sector. The discussion emphasizes that timing gaps fluctuate not just per lap but per sector, illustrating the dynamic nature of race strategy. Calculations are performed to estimate the time needed over various lap counts to inform pit‑stop timing, referencing previous long‑run data from Thursday. The commentary reflects a conversational yet analytical tone, focusing on real‑time race metrics, driver positioning, and strategic considerations.

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It's very steep indeed. It's at least as steep, if not steeper than Paddock Hill. I haven't— no, it's steeper than Paddock Hill Bend.
Have you driven around it?
Yeah, it seems like— I, I think the only thing steeper is Corkscrew. It is a huge drop, and it's also, as you said, off-camber and not very flat.
It's all over the place camber-wise. I mean, it is just unbelievable.
So a good lap for Lapierre there. He picked up 3 seconds whilst Troyer was stuck in traffic, and therefore he's pulled the lead out now to 6.2 seconds after 16 laps. It's a bad lap basically for Benoit because also Alan's now squeezed up a second as well. So Alan now has to get past the same amount of traffic, though he appears to be quite lucky and met it on the back straight where it's quite an easy way just to blast past it. And we look at the first sector, yeah, he only lost 0.4 seconds 1.4 of a second in getting past 3 cars, which is a good turn of events around here. So a bit of luck played into Alan's hands there. He's managed to tighten up the distance. The interesting thing is the timing here is dynamic. So it's not changing every lap, it's changing every sector, John. So as we go to the next sector, you can see that 1.4 seconds we shaved off Lapierre's lead in that lane. He's just under 5 seconds again. So it's a coming and going. Lapierre on an open track, I think, could do this 0.7 seconds. I don't think he can do it in the traffic. Well, we need to work out what 0.7 seconds over 29 laps are, don't they? Um, but over 20 laps it's 14 seconds, so it's 30 laps is 21 seconds, so it's 20 seconds. So he needs to have that by the time he comes in for his pit stop, which is probably in 12 laps' time. But I think it'll be 20— he's doing 29, it'll be 28 this time, right, because of the, uh, warm-up lap. But they did 27 in their long run, we saw on Thursday afternoon.
Yeah, but we don't know what they had left in that.
No, that's very true. I thought there was a problem.
The ADR car was going slowly and he's now in the pits with me. Look at his nose. So unfortunately, he's got no nose.