Good question, but I bet the answer will change in the next few years. Josh Pierson finished 6th in LMP2 in the United Autosports 23 car at Le Mans this year (now holding the record as the youngest ever to compete at Le Mans) after winning LMP2 in the 1000 Miles of Sebring with that team earlier this year, his first WEC race, and his first race after turning 16. He raced this year's 24 h of Daytona at age 15, with a special dispensation from IMSA. He's raced all year in the US (winning pole at Mid-Ohio) with PR1 Mathison, which is as respectable a team in IMSA as United Autosports is in WEC, where he also raced all year. He's a very good driver by any measure. He'll win LMP2 soon, I'm sure, and if any hypercar team is smart enough to pick him up, he'll win the overall. He's too good not to win it all, and young enough to have another 6 tries at it before his time expires. (If he goes into F1 I might shoot myself.)
I'm not trying to be nit-picky, but I'm sensitive to the perception that NASCAR and ovals are all we do in the US. And I know that definitely was not the commentators' point. But eight of the 12 circuits used in the IMSA sports car championship series, all road or street courses, in which Corvette have competed and been dominant, pit on the passenger's side. (I know, this still doesn't explain Corvette's strange choice for where to put the data port. They don't race on ovals.) Only 4 races pit on the left - Daytona, Sebring, Mid-Ohio, and Laguna Seca. Oval tracks have to pit on the inside of the oval, which is why Daytona and other circuits within an oval are set up that way, though some ovals run their road courses in the opposite direction, which is why the Grand Prix of Indianapolis pits on the "passenger" side while the Indy 500 pits on the "driver's" side.
Beena Plumber Sebring pits on the right, doesn't it? COTA on the other hand pits on the left(I know you commented this after it was dropped, but it still was at the time of this commentary)
@@Ewane Yup, you're right. The new pits for the Sebring 12 hour race will also pit on the right, on the Ullman Straight. I looked at the circuit maps and everything before I posted that. Like I said, I get sensitive to that perception, and I must have gotten careless. So it's only 3 of 12 - 1/4 of IMSA Weathertech races that pit on the left, which make's Chevy's decision where to put the data port even more strange. I like COTA. I wish they raced there. I like circuits with hills - a 3-dimensional race :)
@@noahparsons7688 Ooh I hope I didn't contribute to that! I only came to sports car racing myself a few years ago. As a kid it was always Indy (CART) & NASCAR (& the local oval). This just feels like a completely different sport to me, and sometimes I get the feeling people are turning their noses up at us Americans because in their opinion there is only one legitimate way to race - on a track that is not an oval. That usually tells me they don't understand oval track racing. That's ok. I'll never understand cricket. My experience coming to sports car racing was quite different. People love this sport, and they are usually quite patioent and generous tutors in my experience.
We will never forget you Audi R18 Quattro. You'll always remain Legendary.
No love for the 919???
@@blinkybillski Yeah same goes for the Porsche 919 Hybrid #2.
'Coming up to 7.30 in the morning, 7 hours and 30 minutes remaining in this motor-race'...gotta love Le Mans
Come as retrospective, i mean it comes as proccess of breaking down previous record
My tweet mentioned at 24:11 in (7:35:55) remaining 😀😀
Good question, but I bet the answer will change in the next few years. Josh Pierson finished 6th in LMP2 in the United Autosports 23 car at Le Mans this year (now holding the record as the youngest ever to compete at Le Mans) after winning LMP2 in the 1000 Miles of Sebring with that team earlier this year, his first WEC race, and his first race after turning 16. He raced this year's 24 h of Daytona at age 15, with a special dispensation from IMSA. He's raced all year in the US (winning pole at Mid-Ohio) with PR1 Mathison, which is as respectable a team in IMSA as United Autosports is in WEC, where he also raced all year. He's a very good driver by any measure. He'll win LMP2 soon, I'm sure, and if any hypercar team is smart enough to pick him up, he'll win the overall. He's too good not to win it all, and young enough to have another 6 tries at it before his time expires. (If he goes into F1 I might shoot myself.)
I'm not trying to be nit-picky, but I'm sensitive to the perception that NASCAR and ovals are all we do in the US. And I know that definitely was not the commentators' point. But eight of the 12 circuits used in the IMSA sports car championship series, all road or street courses, in which Corvette have competed and been dominant, pit on the passenger's side. (I know, this still doesn't explain Corvette's strange choice for where to put the data port. They don't race on ovals.) Only 4 races pit on the left - Daytona, Sebring, Mid-Ohio, and Laguna Seca. Oval tracks have to pit on the inside of the oval, which is why Daytona and other circuits within an oval are set up that way, though some ovals run their road courses in the opposite direction, which is why the Grand Prix of Indianapolis pits on the "passenger" side while the Indy 500 pits on the "driver's" side.
Beena Plumber Sebring pits on the right, doesn't it? COTA on the other hand pits on the left(I know you commented this after it was dropped, but it still was at the time of this commentary)
@@Ewane Yup, you're right. The new pits for the Sebring 12 hour race will also pit on the right, on the Ullman Straight. I looked at the circuit maps and everything before I posted that. Like I said, I get sensitive to that perception, and I must have gotten careless. So it's only 3 of 12 - 1/4 of IMSA Weathertech races that pit on the left, which make's Chevy's decision where to put the data port even more strange.
I like COTA. I wish they raced there. I like circuits with hills - a 3-dimensional race :)
Def agree with ya on the 3D comment.. That’s why Bathurst is still one of the worlds best an tougher tracks. I’m Aussie though so I’m a bit biased.
@@noahparsons7688 Ooh I hope I didn't contribute to that! I only came to sports car racing myself a few years ago. As a kid it was always Indy (CART) & NASCAR (& the local oval). This just feels like a completely different sport to me, and sometimes I get the feeling people are turning their noses up at us Americans because in their opinion there is only one legitimate way to race - on a track that is not an oval. That usually tells me they don't understand oval track racing. That's ok. I'll never understand cricket.
My experience coming to sports car racing was quite different. People love this sport, and they are usually quite patioent and generous tutors in my experience.
6:24 this aged like wine
Then they come back in grey :)