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18 Apr 2009, 16:53 (Ref:2443889) | #1 | ||
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Tour Auto 2009
Are we the only 10/10ths people doing Tour Auto?
Stickers in Place Paris to Deaville including Dijon,Spa and another couple of circuits with 2/3 flat tarmac stages a day.Its our 11th go and will be pot hunting ,but it will be a small pot. |
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18 Apr 2009, 18:08 (Ref:2443942) | #2 | |
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Best of luck John, who's the lucky crew member? Remember to stay out of that lovely little hotel bar where it all went wrong a few years ago! PBE
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18 Apr 2009, 21:25 (Ref:2444063) | #3 | ||
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Cheers Patch,Remember I've retired!Jez on the watches and it gets serious and no boozing but your sidekick TE is joining us.
No Dave this time looking after the two Californians'? |
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19 Apr 2009, 19:56 (Ref:2444937) | #4 | ||
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Have a good one JR, fly the flag and put Mr Angry in his place!
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Welcome Steve.
Good luck John. |
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27 Apr 2009, 07:12 (Ref:2450413) | #6 | ||
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Thanks Steve.Mr Angry outdid himself this time and I think he has probably come to the end of his TA career.Weather superb and route different.270 cars and Comp bit won by a very deserving Shaun Lynn in GT 40.
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nice to see a car being used as much as he seems to use that... so it has more tha proved itself in endurance racing as he won the 6 Hour in that a few years ago..
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27 Apr 2009, 12:08 (Ref:2450626) | #8 | ||
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Can I ask who is Mr Angry? Or should I know?
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27 Apr 2009, 12:32 (Ref:2450643) | #10 | ||
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Never.
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27 Apr 2009, 13:52 (Ref:2450694) | #11 | ||
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You can ask but it is very well known within the International Regularity set so best left alone.Bottom line is the bloke refered to is a jerk!
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27 Apr 2009, 15:24 (Ref:2450770) | #12 | ||
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Good luck John. Must say this event is not one that i follow but knowing someone competing will give me some interest. Keep us posted John.
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I've found a couple of images on Flickr of JR and Jezz.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3624/...9716e4d354.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3378/...658e647f34.jpg Looks like a good entry... |
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28 Apr 2009, 16:06 (Ref:2451666) | #14 | ||
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Thanks Tim,I had not seen them.
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29 Apr 2009, 00:14 (Ref:2451903) | #15 | ||
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You are most welcome.
So, how was it for you guys? Last edited by Tim the Grey; 29 Apr 2009 at 00:14. Reason: speeling mistook |
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29 Apr 2009, 06:38 (Ref:2451977) | #16 | ||
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As usual we were third out of 120 starters.
It is one of the best events on the calender . Only downside is that I managed to mess up my knee and foot which may effect the golf for the next month! |
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30 Apr 2009, 09:34 (Ref:2452725) | #17 | ||
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Podium sounds like a good job well done John. How did you injure yourself not falling off bar stool i hope.
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Ian, as good as.Rushing to get out of the car to the bar after another 14 hr day.To old for this stuff.
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Good result John,shame about the injury though,speedy recovery.
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Hi John
Sorry for not having spotted you on the start list. Otherwise I would have concentrated more. We did two days, before going down from Mulhouse to Villa d'Este, but I managed two reasonable shots of the Porsche, one showing your arrival at Monthlery, and the other one at Dijon Prenois. Did we shoot you from the back of our car on Tuesday morning? We were in Group 1 when doing that. Any other 10-10 members along the roads that we may have seen? |
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Thanks for those Pieter.We passed your vehicle on Tuesday afternoon when you were taking shoots from road side.
The car by the way is a 356 2 litre Carrera GT.One of six built by Porsche in period . |
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2 May 2009, 06:31 (Ref:2453972) | #24 | ||
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Forgot to add,with 10/10ths sticker.Just see on left hand print.
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I'll check with the chief if we have more shots. We were quite out of sync with the regularity groups, due to the starting order on the first two days, which saw the competition class leave first. It is simply impossible to shoot all the cars in the same place and when moving you will always miss a few. (on the other hand, when you participate you hardly get to see the other cars....) Anyway, here are some UK cars from the first group, including two MGSAs with almost the same license plate. If there is a story behind that I would love to hear it. The cars along the roadside were shot very late on Monday afternoon, so quality is not that good.The GSA was one of my personal favourites (together with th very noisy SMs) The Flaminia we saw on tuesday afternoon along the road, with apparent trouble. (It was also striking how many cars had to be refueled along the roadside, I would think one of the thing someone would keep track of is the mileage...) |
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