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Club Arnage => General Discussion => Topic started by: nickliv on June 17, 2007, 08:07:16 pm

Title: It's almost like Le Mans never happened.
Post by: nickliv on June 17, 2007, 08:07:16 pm

Never mind the fantastic result for Shorty et al and the British Rollcentre team, the LMP1 win for Aston Martin, or the 250,000 + spectators, 90,000+ of whom are british, there's almost nothing about LM 07 on the TV teletext or 'mainstream' news websites. ???

Still, keeping it a bit of a secret makes it all the more special for those in the know.

I thought the pug was going to flake out towards the end, next year (If this year's anything to go by) should be rather good too.

Title: Re: It's almost like Le Mans never happened.
Post by: termietermite on June 18, 2007, 11:38:34 am

M. Bourdais and M. Narac, that Pug and the great Henri P all over the tv and papers here!  This lot appreciate their heros, that's for sure.  I guess Lewis killed the thing in the UK? 

Title: Re: It's almost like Le Mans never happened.
Post by: JDS on June 18, 2007, 01:46:08 pm

Quote from: nickliv on June 17, 2007, 08:07:16 pm

..... the LMP1 win for Aston Martin .....

Urm .... have I missed something here, could have sworn that was Audi ....? Agree with Termietermite, lots of coverage in France. After the torrential rain of the weekend we took the opportunity to turn right instead of left coming out the circuoit and headed down to Bordeaux for the week chasing some sun ..... beautiful today, such a change from the weekend.

Title: Re: It's almost like Le Mans never happened.
Post by: knetter on June 18, 2007, 02:37:38 pm

It made it to most of the newspapers here, including pictures of Jan Lammers, since he competed for the 20-th time. Even showing a huge picture of DFH carrying mister Le Mans on our shoulders in the sports section.

Title: Re: It's almost like Le Mans never happened.
Post by: nickliv on June 18, 2007, 02:49:52 pm

Quote from: JDS_UK on June 18, 2007, 01:46:08 pm

Quote from: nickliv on June 17, 2007, 08:07:16 pm

..... the LMP1 win for Aston Martin .....

Urm .... have I missed something here, could have sworn that was Audi ....? Agree with Termietermite, lots of coverage in France. After the torrential rain of the weekend we took the opportunity to turn right instead of left coming out the circuoit and headed down to Bordeaux for the week chasing some sun ..... beautiful today, such a change from the weekend.

GT1, I meant GT1.

My mistake, but I was in a 'riled' state of mind.

Title: Re: It's almost like Le Mans never happened.
Post by: il Cavallino on June 19, 2007, 03:14:35 pm

Quote from: knetter on June 18, 2007, 02:37:38 pm

It made it to most of the newspapers here, including pictures of Jan Lammers, since he competed for the 20-th time. Even showing a huge picture of DFH carrying mister Le Mans on our shoulders in the sports section.

And we(DFH) were on Dutch radio. The reporter staying with us thought it was a good idea to interview Paddy, Riert, Petra, Micha and me after getting back from the Champagne bar around 4:00. As a retaliation for giving him Tropicoma the day before.  :angel:

Title: Re: It's almost like Le Mans never happened.
Post by: Dirk3D_NL on June 19, 2007, 04:02:52 pm

(http://www.student.tue.nl/p/a.c.bruins.slot/unknown.jpg)
the picture as shown in the saturday edition of the main paper Telegraaf :)

Title: Re: It's almost like Le Mans never happened.
Post by: Hubertus C on June 20, 2007, 08:08:05 am

And the more colourful version of it:
(http://fve.ndedit.com/imagebank/flex/dot/medium/fve/commercial/Autosport/Le%20Mans/2007/070616FVEF2311.jpg)