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7 May 2001, 14:59 (Ref:89898) | #1 | ||
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who went to the le mans preleminaries
i'm just back from the le mans prelemlnaries and it was pretty
good . the audi's looked good no surprises there. but the closed audis,sorry bentleys should be a force to reckon with . they looked smoothly and their handling seemed great and it was nice to see the private audi kick ass. awesome in gt the saleens left a good impression and they look and sound greai seriously consider of going to the real le mans race cause i had a really awesome time watchin the best of sportscar racing in action bye |
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8 May 2001, 07:40 (Ref:90098) | #2 | ||
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I also went down to sunny Le Mans this weekend. (Do you know how long it has been since I've seen sunshine, those couple of hundred miles south make all the difference)
It's a bit of a trek, 10 hours total from Cambridgeshire to La Sarthe, down the glorious traffic free French roads, but well worth it. Here are my, random, thoughts... As X2LX says, the Bentleys looked good (so did there support trucks) and I'm sure they've made them deliberately quiet to give them an air of class. They went fast too. Check http://www.totalmotorsport.com for times. MG had a nightmare, one of their cars didn't run a proper timed lap (on the scoresheet as a 43min lap) and the other only did a couple of timed laps, but was competitively quick. Several cars wore Union Jacks this year (including the Gulf Audi) which made a change from last year when there were no officially British entries. The GT3 Callaway has rear lights from a Vauxhall/Opel Tigra. I hope it does well in the race, it makes a change from the rest of the boring Porsches. The Corvettes sounded wonderful, as did the Cadilac Sevile pace cars. The Panoz, as has been discussed on this forum, sounded really lame. The Tertre Rouge pub was shut. That is about it. |
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