Club Arnage

Now we know whos been going and since when, could I ask what is everyones favourite car, you can only choose ones you have seen in the flesh at the race though.

I'll start,  it has to be the Rothmans Porches for me.

And the one you dislike the most, easy the bloody noisy Mazdas !!

Jem

Hmmm, does it have to have raced?

My favourite was the Jaguar XJR-14 but they were withdrawn  :( Otherwise for sentimental reasons it would be the XJR-9s. My second year at LM  ;D

My least liked, the Peugeot 905s

My favourite could well be last years Morgans, absolutely fantastic and what LM is all about for me, chocks away old chap.

My favourite big budget team is Panoz, saw big dirty don panoz at the 'poo bar about 3 years ago, and his cars always make teh best noise. & i did like the cadillacs of, '99/2000 was it??

Least favourite, sorry to say it has to be the most successful, the Audi, has that boring teutonic factor which fails to excite me, like the Ferrari F1 team of late.

VQ Dave- Spot on.

I would also like to add, that in recent years due to their team perseverance and fan loyalty and friendliness, I have become a fan of the Racing for Holland Domes  ;D

For me the 936 'Moby Dick' was an awesome car.   Just wish I'd had the opertunity to see the 917.  :-)

t.

Mazdas for the Scream, Mercs for the ground shaking rumble, Bentley for the looks, but standind behind the winning Jag in the pit lane in   1988 brought tears to my eyes  :'(

Oh and least liked, Porsche domination in the 956/962 unless Derek was driving, and Audi domination.

Best of all had to be the Porsche 917 short tail - a venomous monster crewed by heroes. More recently though I was a bit partial to the rib shaking McLaren F1.

I like the Domes too, but from history I liked the "I want Porsche to win Le Mans Michael!" Porkers and the Silk Cut Jags.

 And because I drive a midget, the old Le Mans fifties and sixties Brit Sports cars, all of 'em...

Great cars!

 :D

bill

Mine would have to be the XJR-9's, but technically i only saw them race before the main event in last years classic/legends race.

In the actual race my fave car that i've actually seen would have to be the......... Bentley or the TVR's! Both gorgeous cars!

Chris

I'm rather partial to the Viper GTS cars, and I agree about the McLaren.  Also the Porsche GT1 was rather splendid.

I think I would have to go with the Renown Mazda from my early days, the Toyota GT1 from the middle and lately it has to be the Bentley.... but that may well be replaced with the Aston after this year.

Always liked the Mazda 787B since it won on my first trip to Le Mans. Great striking colour scheme.

Least favourite WR Peugeots.

I never saw the Mazda 787B, however I did make the mistake of standing near to it at the Festival of Speed a few years ago when they fired it up.  ;D ;D :-X

Mine has to be this,

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maybe this

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Hmm...
In the seven years I've been to Le Mans I think the ORECA Dallara-Chryslers were probably my favorites, my clunker?  Probably the ORECA Vipers, just a little too truck-like for my taste.  If we want to talk about cars we've seen raced in person at any venue, I had the good fortune to see the almighty Porsche 917's in the early seventies but even those take a back seat to the factory McLaren Can-Am steamrollers with their thundering 8 litre Chevy's and evocative Gulf orange livery.
Fax

early 80's 935J or K3 - you could feel the heat from the car as it went by & smell the fuel. The car was amazing to a school boy.
The grp 44 Jags. the white and green colour scheme has yet to be beaten in my view.

Mid - late 80's the Sauber Mercs or Lancia LC2's lovely looking cars.

90's - Ferrari F40 & Mclaren F1, sports cars like these  should still be racing today.

Do these have to be Le-Mans cars??

both me and me dad have always liked the Jordan 198B - The 7up Green one.

In terms of at Le-Mans....

Loved the Silk Cut Jags - only saw them race in the legends race last year, but sat on top of one when I was about 12 at the Autosport Show.

The Bentley will live in my memory forever - they were just gorgeous and seemed to stand head and shoulders above the other machinery out there in both thier winning year, and the previous 2 when things didnt go QUITE so well......

The Aston is LOVELY - and this comes from someone who doesnt like the DB9 as a rule....

I too have a thing for the racing for holland Dome - and the TVR, but much more when they were purple....

The Batmobile was cool but i only actually managed to see that race properly last year....

My clunker....?  well the Lister Storm in Newcastle United colours was a pretty repulsive car in my opinion...... the Benneton B191 - Schumachers winning championship car.... and Im afraid to tell you  - for pure looks and in no way a reflection of thier heritage...- the morgan....

I agree with Nordic on the F40, especially the Michael Ferte Pilot sponsored car with the blue paint job. I have a photo of my son sitting in the car while Michael Ferte explained the cockpit to him taken at Silverstone at a British Empre Trophy race in about 97/98. I liked the whole era of GT1 supercars with Mclaren F1s and Porsche GT1s but the F40 is the mutts' nuts for me.

I have somewhat eclectic tastes (no, that doesn't mean I prefer a particular fench supermarket chain). I liked the spaceship-like Rondeau M482, ground-pounding Stenograph Chevrolet Camaro, Aston Martin Nimrod (and Ecosse 'pocket Nimrod') "Ol' Number 7" - Joest Newman/Taka Q 956, Porsche CK5, EMKA and each and every Corvette that has ever graced La Sarthe with it's presence.
The clunkers?
Venturi, Morgan Aero 8, TVR Bread Van, Lister Storm, Harrier (who remembers that one-lap wonder), that P.O.S. that Thorkold Thyrring used to trundle around in.

I do scratch my head about the Bentley however. Line one up against an Audi and they are - er, strikingly similar. For honest to goodness patriotism The Jaguar XJ220 stirred-up a little 'Land of Hope and Glory' in me.

Its interesting that no one has mentioned the Audi R8 as a favorite.  For all of its success it seems a pretty souless creation.
I would loved to have seen the Silk Cats at Le Mans as well as the Sauber-Mercs. Being a patriotic lad I, like Matt have a soft spot for the Vettes.  Some fans select cars that have a particular exhaust note and I've never really found high revving screamers all that exciting, give me the harsh bark & crackle of a DFV or the rumble of a big Ford or Chevy V8.
Fax

Fave - though the 1980s Jags were fine, I had a definite soft spot for the rumbly old Mercs.  I have always been a sucker for a V8.  Close second the sweet little Porsche 961, Germanically efficient.

Least fave - the disppointingly pointless WMs

the first year of the marcos batmobile absolute crap cars but had that ability to makle you smile and cheer....

Orange De Tomaso Pantera in '94. Most unlikely.

My first time at La Sarthe was in 2000. So two cars that stick in my mind from then are the Olive Garden Lola B2K barge and the 'Speedy' red, white and blue Courage. Neither did much, but they looked good.

I always had a soft spot for the Ascaris. I can remember in 2001 standing on the Tertre Rouge embankment at 2am, getting drenched, pouring Kronenbourg down my gullet, while the Ascaris kept on blatting past lapping faster than anyone else.  :D

Shame that they jacked it in soon after...

Mazda 787 - ouch my ears....  Great looking car, who would have thought orange and lime green would go.  

Also XJR14, so sexy, it'd put a horn on a jellyfish  :P