24 Heures 1996
The Time Trials:
|
Time Trials: Session 1 |
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|
Team |
track 1 |
track 2 |
track 3 |
track 4 |
Average |
|
Vaillante |
18.77 |
17.40 |
17.59 |
17.99 |
17.94 |
|
Toyota Gasp |
17.27 |
16.21 |
16.39 |
16.89 |
16.69 |
|
Porsche 962 |
16.88 |
15.99 |
16.00 |
16.54 |
16.35 |
|
Mercedes |
20.29 |
19.22 |
19.66 |
20.31 |
19.87 |
|
Time Trials: Session 2 |
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|
Team |
track 1 |
track 2 |
track 3 |
track 4 |
Average |
|
Vaillante |
18.84 |
39.39 |
18.05 |
17.81 |
23.52 |
|
Toyota Gasp |
70.00 |
16.34 |
16.39 |
70.00 |
43.18 |
|
Porsche 962 |
16.97 |
17.07 |
16.06 |
16.49 |
16.65 |
|
Mercedes |
20.24 |
19.41 |
19.16 |
20.47 |
19.82 |
|
Time Trials: Results |
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|
Team |
track 1 |
track 2 |
track 3 |
track 4 |
Average |
|
Vaillante |
18.77 |
17.40 |
17.59 |
17.81 |
17.89 |
|
Toyota Gasp |
17.27 |
16.21 |
16.39 |
16.89 |
16.69 |
|
Porsche 962 |
16.88 |
15.99 |
16.00 |
16.49 |
16.34 |
|
Mercedes |
20.24 |
19.22 |
19.16 |
20.31 |
19.73 |
The Porsche takes the easy Pole Position by only
3/10th of a second over the Toyota. Good consistency of the Mercedes in both
sessions and inexplicable times of the Vaillante in the second Time trials.
Now for the Race:
|
Team |
Number of Laps |
Average Time per Lap |
|
Porsche |
4101 |
21.07 |
|
Toyota |
4096 |
21.09 |
|
Vaillante |
3764 |
22.95 |
|
Mercedes |
2109 |
32.43 |
The Winnner is the Porsche (Team Pinot) with
a margin of only 6 laps over the Toyota (Team Nabot). The Vaillante gets a courageous
3rd place (Team Tino) while the Mercedes gets a honorific 4th place with an
unfortunate DNF after 19 hours.
4101 laps were covered in 24 hours, this
represents an average of 21.07 seconds per lap for the Team Porsche, the best
ever.
|
Pilot |
Time on |
Number of Laps |
Average Time per Lap |
Best Half-Hour |
|
Gilbert |
13 hrs |
2300 |
20.35 |
16.98 |
|
Thade |
11 hrs |
1801 |
21.99 |
18.95 |
|
Denis |
9.5 hrs |
1069 |
31.99 |
20.69 |
|
Chimou |
9.5 hrs |
1040 |
32.88 |
21.43 |
|
Marc |
13 hrs |
2300 |
20.35 |
16.07 |
|
Raph |
11 hrs |
1796 |
22.05 |
17.31 |
|
Tino |
12.5 hrs |
1902 |
23.66 |
19.57 |
|
Eric |
11.5 hrs |
1862 |
22.23 |
18.95 |
Hats off to Marc who had an incredible
half-hour at an average of 16.07 sec per lap.
And nothing to decide between Marc and Gilou (the two founders): they finish
the race with the exact same number of laps run.
If you want to know all
the details of the evolution of the race, check here
