LM24 MG at Le Mans

Sid The Manager · 15 Nov 2001, 23:23 (Ref:175236)

What exactly is MG and Lolas problem?

They give a brand new, untried car, very late to Chamberlains.
The car, due to engine reliability problems hardly runs for more than a few minutes at a time.

Chamberlains / Mark Blundell and others then drag one of the two cars around for a majority of the race, at times as the quickest car on the track.

Lola and MG in their wisdom then think it might be sensible to think about west Surrey racing run the car, a team with absolutely no endurance pedigree at all.

someone explain the wisdom to me.

As far as I know Chamberlains had a multi year deal, did a superb job, sacrificing their own programme for the year, and end up likely getting kicked in the teeth.

It would serve them right if west Surrey cocked up completely if its given to them, lets have some loyalty and even common sense Lola.

rlinter · 16 Nov 2001, 00:07 (Ref:175266)

Quote:

Originally posted by Sid The Manager
What exactly is MG and Lolas problem?
It would serve them right if west Surrey cocked up completely if its given to them, lets have some loyalty and even common sense Lola.

WTF?????? - Hugh, Jack and the boys did the excellent job give the legendary lateness of the Project not to mention the Lola/MG infighting that was more than evident in the way they they were comunicating (well mis-communicating) with the media during the race.

It always looked like MG/Lola were setting the Chamberlain boys up a scapegoats for when it all went pairshaped..

Now the are talking about going somewhere else? well good luck to them nothing like giving some other poor sucker the chance to fail infront of the world.

Simon Pullan · 16 Nov 2001, 01:16 (Ref:175274)

Definitely agree with you two. Leave it with Hugh. He is a thoroughly good bloke and has an excellent team behind him.

rlinter · 16 Nov 2001, 10:20 (Ref:175358)

Quote:

Originally posted by Simon Pullan
Definitely agree with you two. Leave it with Hugh. He is a thoroughly good bloke and has an excellent team behind him.

Yep and lets all remember Chamberlain have more Le Mans experince than most and when it comes to winning in sports cars they are multiple world champions

rdjones · 16 Nov 2001, 11:49 (Ref:175392)

This topic was discussed a couple of weeks ago, you can find the thread at http://tentenths.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=15002 and it was decide that they should leave the cars with good old uncle Hugh, as he is one of the funnist blokes at Le Mans is when he is interviewed he all was makes people laugh.

rdjones · 16 Nov 2001, 11:50 (Ref:175393)

Sorry the link does not work it should be http://tentenths.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=15002

View Poll Results: Who should run the MG at Le Mans?
Chamberlains (bang up job in 2001)	5	62.50%
West Surrey (ex f3 team, recent BTCC team)	1	12.50%
Stuff it, lets see if MG can do it themselves.	2	25.00%
Someone else (please elaborate)	0	0%
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