Peugeot Leaves Endurance Racing, Le Mans - Road Testament

Peugeot leaves Le Mans, Toyota enters. Mike Spinelli and Leo Parente debate the future of sports-car endurance racing. Will new tech and teams mean a new golden age?

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• TDI
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• road testament
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• 908
• Audi
• wec
• Le Mans
• ALMS

[GundamAngelicDevil]

Hey Leo and Mike, a completely unrelated question, but I've been asking and no one is answering.

As you may notice that many modern cars are now coming with a turbocharged four/six cylinder engines as the standard/sport standard. Question is that with the mass not knowing how to drive a turbo'd car including me, though I know that the turbo requires spooling and cooling.

With both of you having experience in driving such cars, do modern turbo'd cars need just as much care for turbos?

Thanks!

[drive]

@GundamAngelicDevil Good question. Turbo, fuel-injection and engine-controller tech has come a long way since even 10 years ago. In most new turbocharged cars, for example, you don't have to let the turbo cool before turning off the engine. These days, they're much easier to maintain than some turbos in the past. Much more complex to work on, though.

[afa1515]

I hope Peugeot will sell these cars; and we are still able to see them in WEC.

I mean Audi vs Toyota vs Peugeot Prototype. This would be awesome

[sspope]

Did these guys leave the FastLaneDaily team?

[edesge]

please learn how to ponunce peugeot!!

[rmag1993]

Its feels like Peugeot just detonated bomb in the racing world.

Shamed also for Davidson. He lost a driver in bad way after great 2011 season.

I think he is the best driver in Peugeot line-up.

He scored pole position in Imola, Petit Le Mans and Zhuhai.

More and faster than other Peugeot driver. Hope he can find a drive soon.

[MotoristCY]

No mention of the Aston Martin AMR-One LMP1 racer? They barely lasted 4 laps of the Le Mans 24h in 2011 before retiring the race (and indeed the rest of the season!) with technical problems but after that they disappeared from everyone's radar. I really wonder what happened to them!

[CloudPower795]

2014

[drphilgarner]

Thanks for the video but +1 with everyone else, the music was terrible.

[mtnbikerva1]

Stop the music!

[MacX1993M]

Good job! Great episode...keep it up. Thanks

[bdub232]

@supremewhip STFU - I have nothing to ''show off'' you tool. My 52'' Aquos was purchased in 2007, my Yamaha receiver in 2008. Does that sound like latest and greatest? You sound jealous, and made a pointless post of your own. I actually had a point. If you could read you might understand.