Noble @ Le Mans

[hunttheshunt]

So whoose were the other Nobles I saw???

Red with white stripes at a petrol station on the A18 Thursday.

Black GTO 3 parked opposite me in Arnage Friday morning??

Blue and Red at a campsite just before the turning to Parking Mulsanne??

Anyone from here???

The Noble airconditioning is suprisingly good considering all it has to put up with. Mind you set a fair pace from Rouen to Calias and it couldn't overcome the heat coming through the bulkhead. Blimey that gets hot!! I guess it may have something to do with the turbo that sits between the seats then??

Got on the shuttle Monday evening and met Oliver Gavin and his family. Nice guy had a good chat. Well done Corvette! Was amased to see that he was driving, although he did admit he'd only just swapped with his wife!

[obes]

There were 6 Nobles at indy on friday afternoon!
1xblk & 1xsilver from xs-sport?
the other 4 were me, MikeN, PTM12 and crb1.
www.obesonline.com/LeMans2004/LeMansStart.mov

The black and red/white stripes weren't with us but I did see them around. The was also a silver 3R about.

The Car was great all the way down and back, including some messing about with a typhon on the way down.....

>> Edited by obes on Thursday 17th June 15:25

[V6GTO]

I had a chat with the guy who owns the striped car at Indianapolis and hopefully he'll be joining soon.

[m12_nathan]

How quick was the typhon? If it is running 580 real hp not 580 blackopool horse power then it should've left you for dead....

[obes]

m12_nathan said:

How quick was the typhon? If it is running 580 real hp not 580 blackopool horse power then it should've left you for dead....

He was a bit nervous about giving it maximum bootfulls as the car was in the parade later in the day. The guys in it were great, we never really went head to head, just messed about overtaking each other. We were both filming out of the windows!!

I had a good scream out of a service station tho & it seemed like the Noble would be level or slightly out accelerate it to around 40-50mph . Probably down to the weight diffrence and the quicker pick-up on the 2.5. After that I might as well have put the handbrake on .....it flew! the power was astounding.

He was being tailed by a 911RS at one point, when the road cleared he gave the porker a little cheeky wave goodbye and roared off. The mid and top-range on the thing was amazing. It needed some exhaust work though, it was rough as f&*k !! It certainly sounded like every last one of it 580 horses, popping and crackling like nobody's business !!

I'll post the vid ASAP, but I'm gonna check the other guys don't mind first. If poss I'll send them my vid and wait till they send me their clips and edit them together!!


>> Edited by obes on Thursday 17th June 15:26