Friday 20th June 2008

Picture Of The Week

Back to Le Mans for this weeks wallpaper...

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I'm sure you all know that we are big fans of Aston Martin here at PistonHeads, so we couldn't resist celebrating their second consecutive Le Mans 24 hour GT1 win by featuring the winning car on Picture of the week.

Their 009 car took the lead within the first three hours of the race, but then had to fight tooth and nail to stay ahead of its Corvette rival, with the gap dropping to as little as four seconds halfway through the race. Even by the finish, having covered more than 4,500 kilometres, the two cars were still less than five minutes apart.

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[layabout]

Want!

[minimatt1967]

Gorgeous, a stunning car stunning shot great location, nuff said!

[GavDav]

Picture of the week is brilliant and I now have a nice shiny new wallpaper every week!
Keep up the good work..

[Beast]

Decals still pants - that slab of a door is crying out for a big Gulf roundel

[layabout]

Beast said:

Decals still pants - that slab of a door is crying out for a big Gulf roundel

[pistolp]

Shame its not a pic of the car after 20 or so hours of racing, thats when they look the best

[Cpn Jack Spanner]

layabout said:

Want!

I do believe I've located the 'design inspiration' for this car!

Edited by Cpn Jack Spanner on Friday 20th June 13:34

[Antj]

God i'm having le mans Withdrawal blues.

You spend months building up to it, planning it, sticker the car up, loads of mullah on extras you may need, loads on food to take. Then before you know it, its thursday morning your on your way and next minute 28 crates of beer latter your driving back through Rouen chasing the ferry that leaves in 2 hours time. Then next your at home back to work, removing th stickers, god i'm depressed.

I tried to get the le mans spirit going again in the office today by setting fire to my bin and chucking all my paper and plastic rubbish into the fire, i even had a cold shower this morning to give me that le mans feeling, i even tried drinking a green bottle of stella for breakfast this morning. but alas i just can't emulate that Le mans feeling, So thats it, 350 days of planning left till 2009. Still got a Nurburgring and British rally and F1 GP in the meantime.

Anyone else feel the same

[Paul Holroyd]

If you want some photos with the dirt on, drop me line I have plenty.

[Tim Netherton]

Cool - I'm sat here in my Gulf Racing polo shirt too

Can't wait to see at Goodwood next month.

[sirtyro]

Le Mans for me was the start of our summer of motorsport! We are off to the British GP, Finnish WRC rally and also the British rally at the end of the year! Might also fit in a BTCC round as well

Great wallpaper but do agree they look best after 20hrs!

[flattotheboards]

Another great wallpaper, agreed that they look better when they are covered in flies and dirt and the brakes are glowing.

[Negative Creep]

Excellent stuff, that's my wallpaper sorted for the week

[GingerWizard]

I never thought i would replace the Aston group shot.... This is truly beautiful though... New Desktop!

Edited by GingerWizard on Friday 20th June 22:53

[not so furious]

dont forget Britcar 24 hour race at Silverstone in September. Not quite the same scale as Le Mans but it is home grown and getting more popular each year.

[Shadytree]

Q. Is there a 'Picture of the Week' archive to view previous material ?