Licence to Le Mans

[The Angry Gopher]

May be of interest:


“Licence to Le Mans”, the very popular documentary on Paul, Lord Drayson’s 2008 effort to earn a spot in the 77th running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, will be re-aired on Channel Dave in the United Kingdom. The first episode is scheduled for Sunday, 23 August at 18:30. Episode two will be broadcast the following Sunday, 30 August at 14:30. The broadcast schedule of the remaining episodes will be announced at a later date.

[Nick M]

Was a good series I thought. Missed the first couple but the rest of them really showed the trials and tribulations of running a team in the ALMS.

And I lost count of the number of engine changes they had to do

[BIG BAVARIAN]

I shall be watching this with great interest,after getting into endurance racing recently,i also watched "the road to le mans" about the "creation" team,certainly an eye opener, without the F1 publicity and finance machine around it.

I wonder if lord Drayson used his house of lords expenses, to fund the team ........ just a thought.

[Red Firecracker]

I can heartily recommend the two films that Rollcentre Racing took part in documenting two of their Le Mans attempts, Lap of the Gods and Chasing the Dream.

I've not seen this one yet, One Hell of a Weekend

ETA: Speaking of Lord Drayson, I do find it rather amiss that there was zero news here about his teams rise to the P1 category. Maybe as their Lola chassis won't be powered by an un-homologated Aston engine is the reason they didn't get any coverage? It does look stunning in the pictures I've seen.

Edited by Red Firecracker on Sunday 23 August 18:23

[Nick M]

Red Firecracker said:

I've not seen this one yet, One Hell of a Weekend

ETA: Speaking of Lord Drayson, I do find it rather amiss that there was zero news here about his teams rise to the P1 category. Maybe as their Lola chassis won't be powered by an un-homologated Aston engine is the reason they didn't get any coverage? It does look stunning in the pictures I've seen.

One hell of a weekend is pretty good too - definitely worth a watch, but bear in mind it's about a race which is a few years old now. Mr Brabham has been a busy boy since that film was made and released

Agree about the lack of news about Drayson Racing. I have to say I started following the team after seeing Licence to Le Mans because Lord Drayson seemed just so enthusiastic - I like to see people enjoying what they do and the energy that goes with that. Will be fascinating to see how he does against the rest of the P1 field because it's quite a step up from GT1 to prototypes.

[jwarnette]

Red Firecracker said:

Speaking of Lord Drayson, I do find it rather amiss that there was zero news here about his teams rise to the P1 category. Maybe as their Lola chassis won't be powered by an un-homologated Aston engine is the reason they didn't get any coverage? It does look stunning in the pictures I've seen.

Edited by Red Firecracker on Sunday 23 August 18:23

Yeah, there was precious little said about this! Its a great move for him I think. Its good to see he's going to keep the same driver line-up too. Jonny Cocker is a cracking driver! Still, I'll miss that union jack liveried DB9R

Who's game for the 1000km of Silverstone?

[Nick M]

jwarnette said:

Red Firecracker said:

Speaking of Lord Drayson, I do find it rather amiss that there was zero news here about his teams rise to the P1 category. Maybe as their Lola chassis won't be powered by an un-homologated Aston engine is the reason they didn't get any coverage? It does look stunning in the pictures I've seen.

Edited by Red Firecracker on Sunday 23 August 18:23

Yeah, there was precious little said about this! Its a great move for him I think. Its good to see he's going to keep the same driver line-up too. Jonny Cocker is a cracking driver! Still, I'll miss that union jack liveried DB9R

Who's game for the 1000km of Silverstone?

Last outing of the Vantage, which sounds WONDERFUL, so yes, I'm planning on being there.

[Man-At-Arms]

ah, so this is what Tiff was recording on the Friday in the pitlane

on Dave now

[Woza]

Gutted that I missed the start of this series. Caught the second episode yesterday and plan to keep watching. I gather from reading this thread that Lord Drayson was at LM this year in LMP1? I take it he didn't make the race in 2008 in the Aston?

Woza.

[Red Firecracker]

Drayson raced an Aston GT2 at Le Mans in 2009.

They have moved to LMP1 (no. 88) for Petit Le Mans and will race the GT2 Aston (no. 87) at the last 2 European Le Mans races of the season.

[AngryApples]

Just started watching this after putting it on series link a good few weeks back

Excellent program, a million times more interesting than F1 and like others have said, a real eye opener

[boolay]

Only started watching this today, but looks like a good series.

Couldn't believe the clip of the two corvettes coming out of the pits at Mid Ohio