CA Le Mans Guide 2007: Your input is needed - New editorial team

[DelBoy]

I'll do it Werner, if someone would just confirm the colours (colors??) - ageing brain cells you know   

P1 - Red
P2 - Blue
GT1 - Green
GT2 - Yellow

Del

[Bob U]

picked up from ten-tenths forum :

........the ACO have announced today that the 'Three Light System' which signifies the top three cars in each category in the ALMS will be adopted for this year's Le Mans.

http://www.lemans.org/24heuresdumans/actu/2007-06-01_ML_1610_fr.html

maybe something for in the guide?

Excellent. That's a turn up for the books, the ACO adopting an idea that they didn't think of.

[rcutler]

P1 - Red----Confirmed
P2 - Blue
GT1 - Green----Confirmed
GT2 - Yellow

I looked at my sebring shots and am able to confirm these to. All the cars were not visible enough to confirm.

Edit - but the ACO has it :

rouge (RED) pour les LM P1,
bleu (BLUE) pour les LM P2,
vert (GREEN) pour les LM GT1,
jaune (YELLOW) pour le LM GT2

[LangTall]

Werner, all cars have three lights on the side of the car. When one light is burning, the car is leader in it's class, with 2 burning second, and with three, well you can guess. No lights? fourth of further back.

Here you can see the three lights (this was night practice) on the Corvette in Sebring.

[Werner]

Werner, all cars have three lights on the side of the car. When one light is burning, the car is leader in it's class, with 2 burning second, and with three, well you can guess. No lights? fourth of further back.

Here you can see the three lights (this was night practice) on the Corvette in Sebring.

So the above pics - if it would have been taken during the race - would have meant that this is P3 (3 lights) in GT1-Class (green light), right?

Marius, the pic is good. If Delboy writes something, could I use this for illustration?

[Werner]

Del, just found this text on the ACO website, may if we rephrase it a little...

"One of the innovations this year is the 'leader light' system where each car must have 3 LED lights mounted on both sides. This will be familiar to those of you who follow the American Le Mans Series, but is new to many of the European teams this year. Each class has lights of different colour, three for each car; red for LM P1, blue for LM P2, green for LM GT1 and yellow for LM GT2. The leading car in class will show one light, the second place two and third position three lights, so that spectators can more easily follow the progress of the race."

[DelBoy]

Del, just found this text on the ACO website, may if we rephrase it a little...

"One of the innovations this year is the 'leader light' system where each car must have 3 LED lights mounted on both sides. This will be familiar to those of you who follow the American Le Mans Series, but is new to many of the European teams this year. Each class has lights of different colour, three for each car; red for LM P1, blue for LM P2, green for LM GT1 and yellow for LM GT2. The leading car in class will show one light, the second place two and third position three lights, so that spectators can more easily follow the progress of the race."

That's it in a nutshell, Werner.  Saves me a bit of typing   

I knew the system, but needed confimation of the colours.  As you say, re-phrase it and it says it all

Del

[Pam the Weather]

how does the system work?  Is it under race or team control?  Is it like the headlights, ie on all through the race or just at night?

[DelBoy]

how does the system work?  Is it under race or team control?  Is it like the headlights, ie on all through the race or just at night?

FS  Pam, the lights are on all the time, I believe controlled automatically by the race stewards - certainly not under the control of the teams

Del

[rcutler]

Werner, I have several shots of cars at Sebring with 1 two or three lights on. not sure I have all three from each class. You are welcome to use the pictures just if I can be credited. Trying to get media passes you see.

Some of them are here. www.totalsportscar.com

[Werner]

Werner, I have several shots of cars at Sebring with 1 two or three lights on. not sure I have all three from each class. You are welcome to use the pictures just if I can be credited. Trying to get media passes you see.

Some of them are here. www.totalsportscar.com

Thanks Rick, I'll have a look at those

[LangTall]

No problem with the use of my pic werner, I have it in higher resolution if that's helpfull.

[rcutler]

There is a bit more about the lights here:-

http://www.americanlemans.com/News/Article.aspx?ID=3235

It appears as if it was a fans idea that was adopted in 2002!

[termietermite]

Werner, some track shots on the way to you.

I'm going to have to amend the tickets bit again.  No contremarques this year - even the general entry tickets are being scanned in and out.  Will get onto it in the morning.

[Canada Phil]

Hi Werner,
             http://americanlemans.com/assets/pdfs/LeaderLightsSystem.pdf
Explains it all. Quite simple really. In use remember it reloads at the timing / scoring line so is basically the previous lap that one is viewing.
Canada Phil