Don't forget that LeMans is this weekend. Speed has been showing a prerace show, not as annoying as Nascar. Has anyone been to LeMans?
Im watching it right now. But i know how its gonna end. Audi No 1 is going to win LMP1, with Tom Kristensen, from Denmark, taking his 9. victory. In LMP2 theres the ESSEX-racer, from Denmark, that has a good chance to win. And the Corvette, with Jan Magnussen from Denmark, are going to win GT1. Can you see a patern here Lars, From Denmark
Hey guy's I actually went to Le Mans in 1998 with the Doyle Risi team I was working for at that time. We ran a Ferrarri 333SP we wound up 8th overall and 1st in class. It's definately a cool ass place to be and be a part of,lots of history.That same year we went to Paul Ricard in France and Monza in Italy. You've never seen fans that crazy in Italy when your racing a Ferrarri. You go to restaurants wearing team gear and they like think your god,it was pretty wild. The car we ran was powered by the Ex F1 V12 detuned a touch for regulations , man what a sound . Enjoy the race.
I was there in 1970 - on leave from the Army in Germany. Very nice, but wet. Got to see Steve McQueen and his cars in action. Spent 5 days there camping with race fans from all over. Quite a few Brits, even some Aussies, a lot of French of course and Germans - and all of them just happened to be very intoxicated and arguing about who was going to win the World Cup - the play-offs were ongoing during the race. Lots of fun - a combo rock festival and party where a race breaks out. Everyone from the highest of rollers drenched in Champagne to hashish-brained hippies. As I understand it, LeMans was the largest sporting crowd outside of Indy back then. Probably far bigger now. Gary
hey hey hey.. what about Jaguar? Two famous famous names in motorsports Peugeot & Horch..I mean Audi to finish 1 & 2. The Corvettes are racing against each other in GT1.
I seam to remember someone telling me the Jaguar race engines were built here in Connecticut by a guy from Australia or New Zealand.
I'm waiting around for some rich Sheik from Dubai to ask me to be a stand-in driver at LeMans. I guess after 3-4 four hour stints behind the wheel, you'd know the track pretty well. I can't imagine racing exhausted, in the rain. I have to work at concentrating during a 20 minute sprint race. No, I've never been to LeMans
I have heard of an Australian Jaguar expert living in the States, has built 1 or 2 engines for resto jobs out of the Crosthwaite & Gardiner shop. Just can't think of the name.
Never got over to 24hr of LeMans,I did get to crew at 24hr of Daytona 3 times and 12hr Seabring 5 times.
I always watch as much as I can. Yea the HD is great. I've never been to the track but I've driven by part of it. A lot of second and third generation names in the race as well. Pretty cool.
Have you heard the motor in the corvette down the back straight from the in car camera? DAM! Does it sound like a badass race car or what? The diesels purr but the petrol corvettes scream!
When Audi began using the diesel-engines, Tom Kristensen told that he had to learn to use the tacometer, before that he used to listen to the engine and then he knew when to shift gear. But with the deisel-engines he couldnt hear the rpm`s. And yeas the Corvettes sounds nasty. And no 63 is in the lead and one of the drivers is the dane Jan Magnussen. Lars
Been there many times. Night time at the kink in the middle of the Mulsanne straight is the place to be. Restaurant Genissel des Hunaudieres is awesome - you are no more than eight feet from the track - the outside wall of the restaurant, two depths of hay bales, the Armco barrier are all that is between you and the cars. The faster cars take off on the hump at speeds in excess of 230 mph in pitch black. The other great place is on the Ferris wheel at the adjacent fairground where you can see the entire track - again awesome at night. The parade of historic race cars downtown Le Mans, around the town square the evening prior to the race is humongous. There is simply nothing else like it.
One of my all time favorite in car shots, guy on a board said the car was going 245 MPH on the Mulsanne straight. Speed Channel said the all time speed record on the Mulsanne was 251 MPH. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWtCklcYy8s&feature=related
Now imagine that at night time, hour after hour - in the wet! They hardly slow down when it's raining...
I would like to see a film of Bondurant pulling 180+ in an L88 Corvette the mulsanne straight in 1967
Hey Dana... you REALLY know how much fun those events are then! Sad to say, I've never made either of the Florida endurance races. But I plan on Sebring next year in my new ride! Later, Gary
I was there in person. At the end of the front stretch, down the hill at the chicane. Man oh man there was a shit load of people there !!!! 5-6 people deep at the fence and 15 people deep walking to and from someplace else on the track. Fuzzzy
Dont tell me, you sound out Grand Prix phonetically? Modern film of real race cars, you know when they looked right and sounded even better! <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/i4L6_cQp09c&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/i4L6_cQp09c&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
here he is the 8 time le man winner Tom Kristensen. i met him a couple of times, and he,s a realy nice person...i almost talked him into buying a 32 roadster! he just loved my fenderless 32.. -palle
No he actually meant the 24 hours of lemons. A race I will someday compete in. http://www.24hoursoflemons.com/ Since it's an international thread, in the US lemon is slang for piece of shit car
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