David Morton
Lifetime Supporter
It's come round once again and its next week, with two evening sessions on 13th and 14th which will set the qualifying for the final grid.
Diesels and diesel hybrids are the favoured flavour this year so for the real petrol heads amongst us it would probably be a waste of a weekend. There really aren't any football types and the majority of the English LM entusiasts are fellow sports car drivers in their wonderful variety of British sports cars from over the years, of which examples of many of them have been entered in the race over the years.
The classic is a totally different event and I would never compare the two - probably and mainly because I haven't attended the classic. The one I do is all about endurance racing, very very strong traditions, and megga megga money and one or two rather bizzarre rules.
I work at the 24hr du Mans and my first visit was 1997 with the F1GTR team of Maclaren Cars and run by the Schnitzer team of Charly Lamm. For the last thirteen years it's been with the Joest team of Audi Motorsport [with one exception (Bentley) but the least said about that is probably for the better]. I don't normally have a whole load to do on the Friday of Le Mans week but this year I have a few invites for me and my small band of men to attend a couple of functions - which I supect the function of which is consuming beer.
If you are coming to the 24 hr send me an email on racemet at aol.com and may be we can make some time for a beer (or two).
Dave Morton
Diesels and diesel hybrids are the favoured flavour this year so for the real petrol heads amongst us it would probably be a waste of a weekend. There really aren't any football types and the majority of the English LM entusiasts are fellow sports car drivers in their wonderful variety of British sports cars from over the years, of which examples of many of them have been entered in the race over the years.
The classic is a totally different event and I would never compare the two - probably and mainly because I haven't attended the classic. The one I do is all about endurance racing, very very strong traditions, and megga megga money and one or two rather bizzarre rules.
I work at the 24hr du Mans and my first visit was 1997 with the F1GTR team of Maclaren Cars and run by the Schnitzer team of Charly Lamm. For the last thirteen years it's been with the Joest team of Audi Motorsport [with one exception (Bentley) but the least said about that is probably for the better]. I don't normally have a whole load to do on the Friday of Le Mans week but this year I have a few invites for me and my small band of men to attend a couple of functions - which I supect the function of which is consuming beer.
If you are coming to the 24 hr send me an email on racemet at aol.com and may be we can make some time for a beer (or two).
Dave Morton