But because the car was pretty close to the pits still it would have been a long way back and wouldn’t have made it.

They couldn’t announce it because then the decoy Astons (BMS and Larbre) will pick up the pace to try to break them. The #3 car had to run a pace to make sure it made it till the end. It probably could have went flat out, but didn’t want to risk 2 DNFs

In the closing hour they picked the pace up again and were closing in, but the safety car did them in. All class leaders begged for the safety car.

During the safety car period (when the #3 Audi went off) the #4 went into cylinder deactivation mode (4 cylinder) to save fuel and to prevent overheating. But somehow all cylinders shut off.

There you have it.

That is if my source is reliable.

I remember watching the race. But I forgot the cause of the problem. I was going to say driveshaft, but I didnt want to say something wrong at the time.

I do remember Oliver Gavin was driving the car. Becasue he said, he was trying to get the car back to the pits, but the French Marshalls were telling him he could not drive it back. And he could not understand them, because they were speaking French.

Under the SC period brought on by the crash of the #3 Audi, the #64 Corvette’s carbon fiber driveshaft basically fell apart as the car was rolling along in high gears at low speed. It ground to a halt about 200m out of Arnage corner with the main driveshaft broken.

Either he hasn’t had good managers or he simply prefers to dominate the GT ranks.

For someone who was running head to head against Fernando Alonso everyone thought he would be running in single seaters or in more exclusive series: Champ car, Indy, F1. Or at least DTM or LeMans Prototypes.

With his skills there has to be a sponsor out there who wouldn’t mind picking up the tab. Just gotta look for them. Most people wonder how he spent all those years at Team Modena. They’re a great team but they didn’t have the best to make him shine.

It’s not until Larbre and BMS were no longer official Aston partners that Team Modena started getting factory support and he started getting noticed.

His next step i the next year or two should be to at least get into a competitive P1 program. If not get a new business manager.

Corvette C6.R is a great car. They rarely breaks down at Le Mans. I do remember the #64 Corvette had majory problems in the 2007 Le Mans. Does anybody remember what was the cause??