How (and how not) to win a 24-hour motor race #162

The Intercooler

Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel

Cars, The Intercooler, Car, Motorsport, Supercar, Leisure, Automotive, Intercooler, Driving

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel on what it takes to win an endurance race. Speed on its own is not enough – you also need a reliable car, a team that runs like clockwork and perhaps a dose of good fortune too. But just how badly wrong can the pursuit of a win at Le Mans or the Nürburgring 24 Hours go?

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0:00.0	Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground, sun on your face as you
0:08.3	slide by on track to your
0:15.0	there,
0:20.0	the care in the world as you simply lean back. And before you know it, you're there.
0:21.0	This is how travels should feel, on our trains it does a vante west coast feel good travel
0:32.1	Welcome to the Intercooler Podcast.
0:35.0	Hi everyone, welcome to episode 162 of the Intercooler Podcast with Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel. Now it's early summer in Europe which must mean it's 24 hour race season.
0:50.0	So that's what we're talking about this week.
0:52.0	Before we get on to that let me just remind you as I do every week please to rate and review the podcast.
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1:10.0	that we find a bigger audience. So please do that. Thank you very much and enjoy the episode.
1:15.3	With the Nurburg Ring 24 hours just gone and the 100th anniversary edition of Lamont coming up in a couple of weeks.
1:22.0	Seems like a good idea, a good time to talk about 24 hour racing.
1:26.0	Right?
1:27.0	And we're going to do how to win a 24 hour race and how not to win a 24 hour race.
1:32.0	Yes. We're going to talk about what it takes to win one of these
1:35.9	epic events and just how wrong, despite all your best efforts, it can go.
1:40.7	Yeah. And we're going to basically use LeMoor as the sort of event to represent all 24
1:47.1	hour. Yeah yeah. Yeah now we're going to start with how to win one of these things and I'm not talking here from a place of experience.
1:56.0	I've never won a 24 hour race.
1:58.0	I've never won a 24 hour, I've been in a few.
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