Club Arnage

Hi all,

today hgb and I visited Kruse Motorsport, convenient for me as it is in my home town Cologne, the ride for Hansgerd was a little bit longer. Team Manager Kai Kruse is a nice bloke, it was a pleasure to talk to him and we also had a look in his workshop at the brand new Pescarolo LMP2 chassis, which arrived just a couple of days ago. Actually this was a CA guide research trip: hgb and I will write a chapter for our CA Le Mans guide about the Kruse Team and their effort for Le Mans 2007, so more to follow when the guide is finished. Attached are 2 pics from this afternoon:

(http://www.wernerkirchmann.com/kruse01.jpg)

Hansgerd (left) and Kai Kruse

(http://www.wernerkirchmann.com/kruse02.jpg)

Working on the new chassis

Cheers

Werner

Careful now, you might end up working for them! ;D

A great idea Werner. An article about a smaller team's preperation for Le Mans. IMO a lot more interesting than reading about Audi and the like yet again in the motorsport mags.

No risk at present, my customers keep me really busy ;D
Pieter, a question: I've asked Paddy already last year to write a short report about RfH and their preparation for Le Mans 2007 for the CA guide, but actually now you seem to be the logical choice for this. Do you have the time for this? If so, best coordinate with Paddy, I don't know what he has done already

Cheers

Werner

Yes, I agree. And my sympathy was always with the underdogs anyway. I'll try do get some sort of "Support your local Le Mans Team" campaign on its way in my hometown.

That shouldn't be a problem, pm me the details.

Pieter, you've got pm

Very interested to read the impending chapter. Did you find out much about how they are financing things? Often wonder how the smaller teams do it, I mean there can't be that much sponsorship floating about.

Yes, some of the smaller teams actually don't survive on sponsorships, often there is  a donor behind that, sometimes someone e.g. just buys a car, drives it and hires a team for all the logististics and maintenance.

sound's very interesting alright looking forward to reading that on my way to Leman this year, any idea on when they plan to give the car it's first run in anger!!

We ought to adopt a team (I thought we had, a certain Dutch outfit)  Few deserve our support

I thought Pescalolos were LMP1, not 2.  Is it a dash for cash?

You can buy both (LMP1 and LMP2) from Henri Pescarolo. Kai Kruse told me that the LMP2 Pescarolo chassis is not very much different from the LMP1 version which is not surprising from my point of view. Looking at the reglement you'll find that maximum height, width and length are actually the same for LMP1 and LMP2 class. Kruse will even run the same bodywork (with just a few modifications) as Pescarolo ran last year in LMP1.

I'm backing Shorty.  He deserves some recognition and success at LM.

I'm hoping that this year will be shortys, or Jan's. Couldn't give a monkeys about spending for germany though.

Why not put the Club Arnage logo on Jan's car?  :angel:

wont that cost mucho mucho beer tokens?

It might, but that depends on what you want, of course. DfH placed the logo on last year's car for about € 700. We just raised money and offered it to the team and got a good spot in return.

I think it was more around 1000. So, Pieter, how much is it going to cost us this year ;D

You are both right, depending on how you look at the invoice amount (either with or without vat ;))

Now there's an interesting question! ;D

There isn't a set rate for this type of sponsoring as you can imagine. As last year, the team respects the effort made by fans trying to support the team and will try to get a good spot on the car, which of course is subject to availability.

well there is no harm in trying to find out.. maybe a joint DfH/CA effort?

hgb and I finished the report for the guide about Kruse motorsport, see
http://www.clubarnage.com/caguide/caguide2007/c32-krusereport.pdf

Good to hear that Kai is pleased   :)

Steve, I'm planning to do the same for Shorty as well.

And Pieter, we should sit together and do the same also for Jan.