A new member : Alfonso De Orleans

Fab · 21 Feb 2004, 20:48 (Ref:881537)

I have the pleasure to welcome as a Ten-Tenths member someone we do appreciate a lot here : Alfonso De Orleans.

I hope that he'll use this thread to give some news from his team and goals for months and years to come.

But with Fulvio and Guy Smith, to mention to famous other members, it's difficult to not beeing proud to welcome another great actor of our passion !

JAG · 21 Feb 2004, 20:54 (Ref:881540)

Whats he upto at the moment?

Duffacus · 21 Feb 2004, 20:56 (Ref:881542)

Hey I emailed Alfonso not so long ago about his plans for this year and he waited to email me back until his plans had been sorted out so he could give me an answer and then apologized for the late reply, top guy in my opinion,

Welcome to the forum Alfonso

Fab · 21 Feb 2004, 21:02 (Ref:881545)

Notice that we all could encourage Alfonso and Racing Ingeniering by voting for "LMES" in the series that RE should involved in on their site... go there and vote for LMES !

Duffacus · 21 Feb 2004, 21:03 (Ref:881546)

Already done so

Thats when I sent my email too

JAG · 21 Feb 2004, 21:13 (Ref:881551)

Quote:

Originally posted by Fab
Notice that we all could encourage Alfonso and Racing Ingeniering by voting for "LMES" in the series that RE should involved in on their site... go there and vote for LMES !

Been there done it.

Alfonso de Orleans · 21 Feb 2004, 21:47 (Ref:881568)

Hi everyone. Great to hear that there is support for the boys who work hard at it all year, and I am not only talking about the drivers who are doing their best.

In regards to the LMES, we are going to have to give it a skip this year. I don't know what happened, but all the projects we worked on just fell through.

For example, We could not get our hands on any Audi's. Can't blame them for building great cars, can we. So off to see Porsche. Too late, all new RSR's are sold out as well. Can't blame them as well, we went to them too late. So, that leaves us waiting on other projects, but this late in the game, we prefer seeing how the season moves on and really sit down with the manufacturers to sort something out. That way, we won't get caught out in 2005.

We are still waiting for a Spanish GT program, but that is between us and a couple of other teams. So we are still fighting it out.

Like I tell everyone, I only have one ambition, winning Le Mans, and I am going to make it even if it kills me. All the rest is just practice leading up to it.

:-)

**FIRE** · 21 Feb 2004, 21:59 (Ref:881575)

Quote:

Originally posted by Fab
Notice that we all could encourage Alfonso and Racing Ingeniering by voting for "LMES" in the series that RE should involved in on their site... go there and vote for LMES !

Didn't we do that months ago?

BTW Welcome Alfonso Orleans!

Alfonso de Orleans · 21 Feb 2004, 22:12 (Ref:881581)

OK, now I understand why there where so many people that wanted us to do LMES. We really didn't know where that came from. It was you guys. Excellent...you guys are great.

I will tell the boys on Monday.

**FIRE** · 21 Feb 2004, 22:15 (Ref:881584)

Quote:

Originally posted by Alfonso Orleans
OK, now I understand why there where so many people that wanted us to do LMES. We really didn't know where that came from. It was you guys. Excellent...you guys are great.

I will tell the boys on Monday.

Duffacus · 21 Feb 2004, 22:15 (Ref:881585)

E46 · 21 Feb 2004, 22:27 (Ref:881592)

Welcome Alfonso

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**Aysedasi** · 22 Feb 2004, 00:33 (Ref:881637)

Welcome Alfonso.....

http://www.aysedasi.btinternet.co.uk...orsche9101.JPG

**Aysedasi** · 22 Feb 2004, 00:33 (Ref:881638)

I hope that I've got the right one..... ?

Duffacus · 22 Feb 2004, 00:37 (Ref:881640)

Isn't that a Kremer Porsche?

This is the one as far as I know...

http://racingsportscars.t35.com/phot...-06-18-072.jpg

**Aysedasi** · 22 Feb 2004, 00:44 (Ref:881643)

Mine is the 91 Heico Porsche from 1995. According to my records, driven by Saldana, de Castro and Prince Alfonso d'Orleans. Or am I mistaking our new member for someone else?

E46 · 22 Feb 2004, 00:50 (Ref:881644)

Exactly, that is Le Mans 95 and although Heico was the team named, it´s a Kremer Porsche yes. Drivers were Tomás Saldaña, Miguel de Castro and Alfonso de Orleans as Ayse says.

Duffacus · 22 Feb 2004, 00:55 (Ref:881648)

No I don't know what im on about!

brain fade!

My mistake, you two are right....

...I'm going to bed!

Fab · 22 Feb 2004, 08:15 (Ref:881737)

The Audi project was a solid one ! Let's hope for more customers cars for years to come...

even if it's not Audis, I mean !

Oh well, I love this place !

Alfonso de Orleans · 22 Feb 2004, 08:34 (Ref:881748)

Yes, you guys are right, that was me...only half the weight then.

Those cars were a blast, they worked, no matter what you did to them, and we did quite a bit. My favorite was the Kremer K9. It has a full carbon tub (ex-962, made into an open top), carbon brakes and the Porsche GT1 engine. It was a bomb. It would stick to the road and had tremendous power. It was an absolute blast to race. I think it was the car I had the most fun in during a race. Although in Monza and at the Le Mans pre-qualifications (it did not qualify, too unstable) it got a bit frightening sometimes. Felt like it was going to do a flyer on me. Beautiful all the same. I wish I knew how to post a picture to show you which one I mean.

Apart from that, the only cars that fit me now are the Dakar 4x4 models. Big enough :-)

**Aysedasi** · 22 Feb 2004, 08:52 (Ref:881755)

Well, I'm glad I remembered the right picture, anyway. It was one of very few that I took at that time at Le Mans in '95 because of the rain. Welcome again, Alfonso.

Alfonso de Orleans · 22 Feb 2004, 09:32 (Ref:881765)

Thank you, but sadly the only Le Mans I finished was in 94 with the Repsol Ferrari 348 LM. I am sure you remember that it was boiling hot that year, I will never forget. The third driver got sick. I think he only did one stint, if at all, since he did not finish it. So Thomas and I did all the driving, but mostly Thomas. I lost 8 kilos. I never learnt to so much. I could not believe it. Let you in on a little secret too.That was the first race I ever finished...in my life. Never did anything previously. I don't even know how I got my license. I applied for it and got it and off I went to Le Mans. The first lap at practice scared the hell out of me. But in the end, I finished...11th overall.

Fab · 22 Feb 2004, 10:04 (Ref:881784)

Quote:

Originally posted by Alfonso Orleans
But in the end, I finished...11th overall.

Allready an impressive result, but even more for a rookie !

To post a pic : not heavier than 102 Ko, and max size is 400x400, in jpeg.

Type your answer/message, chose "attach file" and browse to your pic. Click OK. Thenn submit reply : that's it !

You also are able to post a link to a pic on the web, on your site for exemple.

Cheers !

SFonseca · 22 Feb 2004, 20:07 (Ref:882085)

Quote:

Originally posted by Alfonso Orleans
Like I tell everyone, I only have one ambition, winning Le Mans, and I am going to make it even if it kills me. All the rest is just practice leading up to it.

This MAN is one of us

!! Nice to see you here Alfonso

**Aysedasi** · 22 Feb 2004, 20:30 (Ref:882104)

Great sentiments indeed - I hope I shall be there to see it!

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