RE: Pic Of The Week: French Cheese Or Vintage Le Mans?

RE: Pic Of The Week: French Cheese Or Vintage Le Mans?

Friday 10th June 2011

Pic Of The Week: French Cheese Or Vintage Le Mans?

It's Friday, so here's the arty shot of last night's top qualifier


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Yep, it's Friday at Le Mans, and as everyone we know concentrates on not getting too sozzled before the PH Le Bounty meet (we can only hope!), here's the regulation-issue blurry 'night before' shot of pole-man Benoit Treluyer's Audi R18 TDI during final qualifying for the benefit of fellow stay-at-home types.

Jeff Bloxham of the LAT Photographic agency squeezed the shutter button, and while some may consider images like this a little on the high side of cheesy - we don't care, because it's part of what the classic Le Mans experience is all about. Too much wine or beer, resulting in slightly blurry vision as some noisy racing cars go by. (Riggers, haven't you had enough of the 1664 already?)

In case you were wondering, Treluyer's pole-clincher was 3m 25.738s, giving Audi its first pole since 2006 (it says here...). Team mate Romain Dumas got another Audi on the front row, while Nishy's car will start from 5th after Tom Kristensen pranged it at Tertre Rouge.

It could have been a different story, had not Peugeot's Simon Pagenaud been hampered by a puncture on his final hot lap - he starts third, and the Sarrazin/Minassian/Montagny Peugeot is 4th.

And the AMR-One LMP1s? Still 'gathering data' rather than competing, and they'll start from 22nd and 25th spots. (Yes, we've been promised they will start...)

The race kicks off tomorrow at 3pm, as you know. Why haven't you lot left already?

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E21_Ross

Original Poster:

35,071 posts

212 months

Friday 10th June 2011
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bit of an odd picture. gotta admit though i don't like the sound of the diesels that R18 looks pretty bloody awesome. anyone else noticed how fking bright its lights are!!!!!!!!!!??? look like miniture suns!

Bahnstormer

934 posts

246 months

Friday 10th June 2011
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Hmmm....how much did you have to drink before taking the pic !!!


M666 EVO

1,124 posts

162 months

Friday 10th June 2011
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I have a load of those 'style' pictures from a Classic Le Man I attended years ago

But I was rather sloshed on cheap french plonk

Bad POTW...

soad

32,894 posts

176 months

Friday 10th June 2011
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Dislike, almost hurts my eyes frown

herebebeasties

668 posts

219 months

Friday 10th June 2011
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Yeah, not convinced by this one.

tab84

5 posts

175 months

Friday 10th June 2011
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Sorry, but thats what I'd call a write off.

I've deleted better pics than that!

DannyVTS

7,543 posts

168 months

Friday 10th June 2011
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Who's been picking POTW recently? (there is a Stevie Wonder joke in there, somewhere)

Past 2 weeks have been pretty st, or is it modern art?

dan

mikeveal

4,571 posts

250 months

Friday 10th June 2011
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Well I for one think that's really impressive picture.

With all the gadgetry and software in modern digital cameras working to ensure you get a decent picture every time, it must take an inordinate amount of skill to over-ride the in camera brain and produce something as stylistically challenged as the mish-mash of colours presented here as art.

(No, I don't like it.)

timewatch

881 posts

194 months

Friday 10th June 2011
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Yeh, I've dropped my camera on occasion like that too!

Put it up for the Turner prize they like sh!t like that..... probably win too!

TW>>>

Chris-R

756 posts

187 months

Friday 10th June 2011
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DannyVTS said:
Who's been picking POTW recently? (there is a Stevie Wonder joke in there, somewhere)

Past 2 weeks have been pretty st, or is it modern art?

dan
Well it could be art - pretty st sounds like a Tracey Emin installation.

(Is the punchline 'corduroy'?)

BrnoutJerzey

20 posts

166 months

Friday 10th June 2011
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that picture absolutely sucks. Wayyyy overdid it

Zed Ed

1,106 posts

183 months

Friday 10th June 2011
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Wtf are amr playing at?


soad

32,894 posts

176 months

Friday 10th June 2011
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Zed Ed said:
Wtf are amr playing at?
I don't have a clue, but they do need to get their act together by the sounds of it.

robsco

7,829 posts

176 months

Friday 10th June 2011
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Not a good photo, unfortunately.

bobberz

1,832 posts

199 months

Friday 10th June 2011
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Hmm, presumably there's a car in that picture somewhere? I don't "get it" when it comes to these artsey-fartsey shots when you can't even tell what the subject is.

Wish I could be at LeMans right now, though. frown


JuniorJet

417 posts

160 months

Saturday 11th June 2011
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Not the best pic, a bit too "arty farty"

Rumblestripe

2,936 posts

162 months

Saturday 11th June 2011
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Interesting in a "oo look what happens if I wave my camera about a bit" kind of way.

Wouldn't want it on my PC.

Wardy5

136 posts

206 months

Sunday 12th June 2011
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Not good. Must try harder....

Beefmeister

16,482 posts

230 months

Monday 13th June 2011
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Hmmm, yep this one gets a 'Fail' from me too. Love light-blur shots, but this one is a mess.

I prefer LM shots like this: