[LM24] OK, So What Do We Talk About Between Last Year's Le Mans and Next Year's.....?

[GT6]

Yes folks we were using liberal amounts of the clarkson button on the prius.
Yes honestly it has a button with power written on it, made me laugh everytime Ian pressed it

[bella]

ahhh, i was going from spa to dunkerque and missed out on all the calais fun and games. after some frankly ridiculous traffic leaving spa it was looking a bit squeaky for the 10pm boat (next one on a sunday night is 2am - DO NOT WANT). had to open a cash and carry sized tin of beans to make it in time

(er, officer....)

[Aysedasi]

Originally Posted by bella

the irony is that generally i can't afford to do anything over 110kmh anyway, except this one time at 5.30am when i needed to hustle a bit to get to the airport (and last night, to catch the 2200 ferry. but that was in a british car...)

i'll google and see if i can find out how much i'm going to get stung for. strangely i have zero points on my uk licence and haven't been done in more than a decade. this makes 6 on my shadow french one...

thanks for the info. i'm still kind of hoping they see a british address and give up, but getting my wallet out just in case

Ah! Penny by parachute! This was in France was it? Then forget everything I said...... I would think it pretty unlikely they'll do anything much unless they can screw some €'s out of the hire company.....

[Le Vieux]

Originally Posted by isynge

Think yesterday was a bit of mini channel dash for the French police. I'm pretty sure we got flashed just outside Calais (but again, UK reg car) and purely by good observation managed to spot a patrol car SW of Boulogne in time to back off to something sensible, but it was not a leisurely transit, and while we didn't see vast numbers of other Brits liberally using afterburner, anecdote floating around the web suggests there may have been quite a few of us.

Most regulars must know by now that the days around mid-June are the days on which the French Police fill their coffers, yet it still amazes me that some seem to go berserk as soon as they hit the other side of the Channel.

Has nobody heard of the cruise control switch?
Is arriving at Le Mans twenty minutes later such a big deal?

[GT6]

yes Andrew, but Bella has a french driving one so they can fine her and add points to that one rather than her british one

[Aysedasi]

Oh crikey.......

[bella]

ah no, my licence is british, it's just shorthand for the way they do points when you do something naughty that incurs them in a country in the eu where you don't have a licence in that country.

so when i was busted using my phone in france, i paid the 90€ fine, and a "shadow" licence was created on the french system with my uk licence number and details and 3 points were added to it. being done for speeding will add another 3 (presumably it's 3) to that licence.

(i just looked and i reckon it's 1 point and 68€ fine... could be worse! )

[isynge]

Originally Posted by bella

ah no, my licence is british, it's just shorthand for the way they do points when you do something naughty that incurs them in a country in the eu where you don't have a licence in that country.

so when i was busted using my phone in france, i paid the 90€ fine, and a "shadow" licence was created on the french system with my uk licence number and details and 3 points were added to it. being done for speeding will add another 3 (presumably it's 3) to that licence.

(i just looked and i reckon it's 1 point and 68€ fine... could be worse! )

So with a shadow licence does totting up work so you can end up with a ban?

[bella]

i'm not completely sure, but i think if they haul you over for doing something naughty and check your licence on their systems and it comes back that you've done many bad things that add up to more than 12 points they can make it very difficult for you. exactly what that entails, i'm not sure. but it's not something i intend to find out

[whitemr2]

http://jalopnik.com/watch-audi-welco...ium=socialflow

I think it is rather nice. Check this video.

[Aysedasi]

Yep, like that.

[GT6]

yes very good little welcome there, loved the overtaking of the vintage tractor, hope that is not the only thing the audi overtakes

[isynge]

Beautiful little bit of footage. Going back to the point Bella and I were making in the Test Day thread, and indeed like we talked about on Sunday Simon - that if you're a manufacturer spending all that on building an LMP1 it makes no sense to not 'activate' it by producing supporting material around it.

A video like this makes people smile, makes Le Mans seem exciting, and goes a long way towards explaining why there's a buzz about sportscars that people don't seem to think is there with some other prominent forms of motorsport...

[Aysedasi]

Absolutely spot on Ian. It excites in the way that the Nico/Lewis 'handbags at dawn' saga just cannot do.......

[nobster]

Originally Posted by whitemr2

http://jalopnik.com/watch-audi-welco...ium=socialflow

I think it is rather nice. Check this video.

Nice video!

[whitemr2]

Originally Posted by GT6

yes very good little welcome there, loved the overtaking of the vintage tractor, hope that is not the only thing the audi overtakes

Nice detail, the tractor is a porsche.

[nobster]

I hope it will be who has the last laugh...
If porsche would win you can expect something similar back.

[claude2cv]

Originally Posted by whitemr2

Nice detail, the tractor is a porsche.

Glad I am not the only one who noticed that. They did make stylish tractors.

[Mitchi_S]

I love it how he overtook that Porsche tractor. Ha.

[bella]

Originally Posted by isynge

Beautiful little bit of footage. Going back to the point Bella and I were making in the Test Day thread, and indeed like we talked about on Sunday Simon - that if you're a manufacturer spending all that on building an LMP1 it makes no sense to not 'activate' it by producing supporting material around it.

'sactly.

something that audi are really good at. though having said that i STILL have a full page newspaper advert on my wall from when porsche won one year saying "are we paranoid? or were we being followed for 24 hours yesterday?". inter-manufacturer banter is a bit of a le mans tradition one way or another!

[isynge]

Originally Posted by bella

'sactly.

something that audi are really good at. though having said that i STILL have a full page newspaper advert on my wall from when porsche won one year saying "are we paranoid? or were we being followed for 24 hours yesterday?". inter-manufacturer banter is a bit of a le mans tradition one way or another!

Going back a year or two I loved a Peugeot 905 era advert with the tagline "Actually, the car in front is a Peugeot".

Quite liked that one.

[Aysedasi]

I 'warmed up' this morning watching some of the 1993 race, principally just to listen to the Toyota TS010. Always makes me feel good!

[Gingers4Justice]

It gives me great pleasure to finally announce the definitive livery for the Fiat Panda for the 2014 Le Mans 24 Hours.



Yes, once again Martini have taken the title sponsorship deal with yet another variation of the classic livery.

Hopefully, with the help of AF Corse, I could blag my way into taking that slot that Millennium just gave up? What's an extra car to those guys, and besides, they seem to know their way around Fiats...

[GT6]

The Panda looks good and shows the hard work you have put into it. If i see it over the next week i will honk the horn and flash my lights

[Mal]

Cool