The 24 hour LeMans!!

[Paul Workman]

Originally Posted by Jeffvette

Forgot to address this. AM was in ALMS for Sebring and St Pete races. At St Pete, the AM came around a blind corner and had a choice of either creaming the car stalled in the middle of the track or putting it into the wall. The driver went for the wall. The results, the car was smashed. The car had to be sent back to Europe twice to get the repairs done. They were scheduled to be at Salt Lake, but the car still was not ready. Look for them to run the rest of the season.

As a side note running in GT1 is not cheap, well racing is not cheap in general. GM spends roughly a million on each car, and then each race costs 1-2 to run. THhat does not factor in going to France.

Yeah.....Now that you mention it, AM was in Sebring (I saw that race) and some ALMS. So, what were the mic jocks talking about - that particular AM Prodrive team/Turner was only entering the 24 LeMans?? They made a point about talking about "if you're only going to run one race a year, this is the one to run... . I forgot AM ran some ALMS races too. So...they must have been referring to that AM/Prodrive team, no?

P.

[UKZR1]

I go to Le Mans every year. Good race this year very close in all classes. Shame AM won though. I'd say it was won in the pits with AM double stints on tires.

Jeff, if you come over next year be sure to look me up.

Thanks for the offer. It looks like 6 of us will be making the trip over. Fly into Paris, head to Le Mans and then after the race do some traveling over to swiss, Italy and maybe Monaco.

[UKZR1]

Swiss corvette club usually have a massive Viper/Vette meet at Hockenheim a week or 2 after Le Mans. That didn't happen this year but if it returns next year its a great weekend (pics on my site)