Well, I'm back with like 3h01' to go!

RACE SITUATION
· 21h completed, only 3h to go.
· 59 bikes started, 15 have retired, 29 have completed 90% of what the leader has covered.
· Leader = Kawasaki #11 with just 20 seconds over Honda #111, Suzuki #2 is 3rd exactly 1lap behind.

It looks like I missed Honda TSR #1 getting fucked, some mechanical trouble has moved them from like 5th to outside the top30. They still haven't retired yet.

The lack of stamina is very real in a lot of the amateurs. I'm seeing a lot of riders either not crouching properly or just literally standing up way before they start braking. The Bugatti Circuit's compact nature makes a 24h race quite a torture-like experience.

1st and 3rd, literally just 1 lap between them.

Suzuki #2 is back on the lead lap! Top3 in just 1 lap after almost 750 laps. 👏🏻

You can watch the last 2h30' of racing. http://www.twitch.tv/stufffandmore Some dude has been livestreaming the whole race. I've been watching it legally on Eurosport 2 and Eurosport Player.

Kawasaki #11 already knows about their fuel efficiency so they've decided to shorten ALL their remaining stints. Instead of going for like 50-minute stints, they've gone down to around 45-minute stints.

CALCULATIONS
· If the fuel efficiency is consistent and pitstop and laptimes are identical, Kawasaki #11 would win the race by around 15 seconds over Honda #111. The riders of Honda Endurance have 135 minutes to cut that time on the racetrack, their strategy alone won't give them the victory.

TIGHTEST RACE FINISHES in FIM EWC HISTORY
· Tightest race ever = 2016 Portimao 12 hours was won by 0,081 seconds
· Tighest 24h race ever = 2018 Bol d'Or was won by 54 seconds

Kawasaki SRC wasn't supposed to race the Slovakiaring 8h and the Oschersleben 8h... will they change their plans now that they could be the FIM EWC point leaders?

Kawasaki SRC, while being a rather-good team (DUH), only likes competing in both French 24h races (Bol d'Or and LM24) plus the Suzuka 8h. I'd change the plans if I were them!

Stint-adjusting is right now a thing - Honda #111 have gone from 32 laps between stops to 33 laps. They need that 33rd lap a bunch of times to avoid doing a very costly and painful last-minute fuel-and-go stop.

Sebastien Gimbert (Honda #111) has retired from pro racing. 3-time LM24 winner, 3-time Bol d'Or winner, GP500 rider... Dude has raced professionally for almost 25 years.

Honda #111 (Randy de Puniet) cutting the gap back. Considering a pitstop is around 65 seconds in total, RdP has cut the real gap to around just 10 seconds with more than 1h40' to go. Suzuki #2 might be able to finish on the lead lap but it's gonna be close.

2nd-to-last stop for Kawasaki #11, the race leaders.
After the stop? TEN SECONDS, the gap is only 10 seconds.

8,5 seconds --- RdP is hunting down David Checa. Can he cut back the gap while being fuel-efficient enough?

Eurosport is predicting that there will be an elbow-to-elbow fight for the lead in around 10-12 minutes.

I'm going downstairs to go watch this final minutes on the bigger screen. You can watch this history-making 24h sportbike race in http://www.twitch.tv/stufffandmore

77' to go = Honda #111 passes Kawasaki #11 for the lead on the final double-right corner.
62' to go = Honda #111 stops while leading by 12 seconds, they might have to stretch this final fuel tank quite a bit.
49' to go = Kawasaki #11 stops too. Honda #111 now leads by 18 seconds. Can Honda Endurance make the fuel last enough?
30' to go = Kawasaki #11 is now trailing by 12 seconds. If the pace doesn't drop, they'll probably catch Honda #111 before the checkered flag.
17' to go = SAFETY CAR OUT, some Yamaha has blown the fuck up approaching the 1st chicane and has left a trail of oil. To make shit even more interesting, there is no bike between Honda #111 and Kawasaki #11, they'll restart nose-to-tail... if the race restarts.
SC PERIOD = The ACO and Eurosport Events send as much people as possible to clean the oil spill as quickly as possible, they even make several service vehicles drive over the drying dust to clean it even faster. Kawasaki SCR celebrates a lot when the SC lights turn off.
8' to go = RESTART, the race will end up being a 6-lap sprint and Jeremy Guarnoni (Kawasaki #11) overtakes Yonny Hernández (Honda #111) into the 1st chicane.
1' to go = Honda #111 stops for a fuel-and-go. The fuel hose had a problem on the final stop and it didn't fill the fuel tank.
FINISH = Kawasaki SCR #11 wins the most dramatic FIM EWC 24h race of all time by a minute over Honda Endurance #111 and 1 lap over Suzuki Endurance #2. What a race!

Final results - Not even movies have endings such as this one!

The 2019 winners of the 24h of Le Mans sportbike race. 👏🏻
Left-to-right = Erwan Nigon, David Checa and Jeremy Guarnoni

Like that one Spanish commentator used to say: "Why do all big winners smile the same way?"

Former player Bernd Schuster decided to insult Toni Kroos by calling him "a diesel tractor" so some dude on Twitter decided to find tractors with similar paintjobs to Kroos' shirts. http://twitter.com/HalaRonan/status/1119633305631121410

One of the best tennis players to never win a Grand Slam title has retired today. David Ferrer calls it quits weeks after turning 37. He spent 17 years being a full-time pro.
· 1 Grand Slam final
· 1 World Tour Finals final
· 1 ATP Masters 1000 won
· 10 ATP 500 won
· 16 ATP 250 won
· 3 Davis Cups (team effort but he was part of it)
· Spent almost 6 consecutive years inside the top10

He once was the next best behind the Big 3 of this era (Federer, Nadal and Djokovic), not a weak player by any means.

I come back and there is nothing but cringe.

Pro sidecar racing is freaking mental. The teams used very very low L-shaped tricycles where 1 guy drives while the other guy acts as dynamic counterweight. The average speeds are surprisingly high considering the power-to-weight ratio. http://youtu.be/Zjcw96FrRnA

there is also an anime btw 😛

About sidecar racing?

yes

its called 2 car

"two car"

of course it is chicks but still

WTF!? Also, I like the concept "fast speed yuri". 😂

Half-man wants to still be a half-man while competing against women 🤦🏻 http://www.reuters.com/article/us-athletics-diamond-doha-idUSKCN1S91PS

What the fuck is wrong with these people.
It's like arm wrestling my 11 year old daughter and slamming her hand down and then going 'in you're face'

After the first time I did it just got boring.

Shes crap at arm wrestling

Caster Semenya has been in doubt for like a decade, maybe more.

Nobody claims it's a dude, they/we claim it's a hermaphrodite, which already disqualifies it from entering women's competitions.