[LM24] THE SECOND 2013 10Tenths Le Mans Garage Visit - Greaves Motorsport

[Alex Toropov]

Originally Posted by Muppetdave901

Great story Alex a really interesting read and well done on your trip. Whereabouts are you exactly - would like to see on a map to see just exactly what you had to travel through!!

Hello, Muppetdave901 !

We live in small town called Kirovo-Chepetsk, it's 20 kms away from Kirov city (the capital of Kirov region of Russia), which is maybe 1100 kms north-east from Moscow!

[Alex Toropov]

Originally Posted by wewantourdarbyback

A great read, makes you realise how simple we have it here, just jump on a ferry and flash your passport at someone and drive to Le Mans rather than jumping through hoops just to get to the country, never mind the travails afterwards.

You are so right, wewantourdarbyback!
All the documents for the travel passport and visa (and the need to go to Moscow - 1100 km twice!! - just to present these documents to French visa center) were the major obstacle in our trip, everything else was easy in comparison!

[Alex Toropov]

Originally Posted by Samoan Attorney

Alex

I think I have even posted a shot of you on our website.......look in the Friday gallery.........

Thank you, Samoan Attorney! We really appreciate everything you have done for us!!!



My amateur photos are here: http://photo.qip.ru/users/velo100/
You can click on the Album name ("France 2013 June 18 Le Mans 24 Hours Autograph Session", for example), to see them.

Photos from our first visit to G-Drive pits on Tuesday are in the album "France 2013 June 18 Le Mans 24 Hours Autograph Session"

Photos from our Greaves Ten-Tenths garage visit and second visit to G-Drive pits on Friday are in the album "France 2013 June 19-21 Le Mans 24 Hours"

[Alex Toropov]

Hello! Today Natalia and myself were watching some footage from recent LM24 event and found us on it
I got Le.Mans.24.Hours.2013.Official.Film.ONEHD.720p.x264.English-VTi.mp4 file, capped by well-known racing capper from Australian ONE TV channel.
You can see at 10 mins 43 secs point the two russians near Patrick Dempsey I'm in grey cap with small photo camera, while the woman in white hat getting Dempsey's autograph is Natalia You can also see the russian flag waived by me on T22 Wollek grandstand near start-finish line (39:40 point, left part of the screen) .... It's nice to have such good memories from our trip !

[GT6]

Well Alex you are now famous and when ever a certain american soap star seen in the 2013 coverage wearing his racing overalls we will look for you and Natalie in the background, it is always a good feeling to see yourself on these video's or on the official photo's, a Russian flag is easy to spot but my silly hat has also been seen on occasions.