Le Mans 2006

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That's great news, as I've got Premiere here at home... Yes, maybe I will watch the whole 24 hours.

DaveEllis Wrote:
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> The Spyder won the Mid Ohio ALMS race. To be fair,
> the R10 wasnt entered.



But an r8 did enter



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/04/2006 12:21PM by SupA.

The R8 is now at least 7 years old. I'd be surprised if it beat a brand new Spyder which is designed to be an LMP1 car with the fit of a slightly different engine.

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its amazing how Audi got the R8 right straight away, though im sure the R8C and R8R did contribute to the R8 being so good :P

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"Trulli was slowing down like he wanted to have a picnic" LOL

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> Boullion broke his wrist earlier this week in an
> accident. Bouchut will replace him. Bouchuts Aston
> seat will be taken by Piquet Jr.
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and Bouchut was "too slow" in the test so Mr Pescarolo went down to Creation with a stack of cash and got them to release Nic Minassian to him for the 24 hours... shame for Bouchut as he's now been screwed out of a drive, save for the now open Creation berth. But Minassian rocks.

seems Creation have hired Jamie Campbell-Walter tho

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> seems Creation have hired Jamie Campbell-Walter
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yup I knew that, just forgot about it! Bouchut has been well and truly shafted :D

basicly he went from potential Gt1 class winner to potential overall winner to a non starter in 3 days





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Didnt Jamie Campbell-Walter drive for creation before?

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"Trulli was slowing down like he wanted to have a picnic" LOL

yup, along with Nic in lm(e)s last year and with Andy Wallace at the 24 hours... unfortunately Creation have been tight on sponsors this year and took a couple of pay drivers on in the forum of Gabbiani and Ortiz, who are not the most competitive drivers out there. However JCW is bloody fast, probably not far off Nic in qually and almost his equal in racing, arguably better over long stints, so Creation will not be any worse off really.



looks bloody pretty for the lack of sponsorship tho!

turns out Bouchut was lapping in about 3:40 in the Pesca, the same time as Ortiz in the Creation.... he really had to go.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/08/2006 01:51AM by six degrees.

Nice car!
Has anybody saw the Discovery-documentation about this team?

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Yeah , it was fun , looks like the team wasn't a big fan Andy Wallace , he was complaining all the time and when nic came into the car everything was ok.

Barbos, yeah, only a few epidsodes, but was a nice insight.

Probably the reason I like them quite alot

They tyre problem was interesting, where the tyres had moisture or something in them, and going 170mph + down the straight at Paul Ricard and having the tyres go off must be scary :P

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"Trulli was slowing down like he wanted to have a picnic" LOL

[www.germancarblog.com]

check this site, it says you can watch le mans 24 houres 24/7 on the web.

Well im off to meet Nick and co for a week of partying at Le Mans :D!

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cya in a couple of hrs then :D

eheh have fun

Im on my way on wednesday night.
Going down to Newhaven for the night then catching a ferry early doors.

Canny wait pet!

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time to go.. ish!





Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/12/2006 02:42PM by six degrees.