Who won, the first time you went?

Who won, the first time you went?

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Matt Harper

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Wednesday 10th February 2021
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swiveleyedgit said:
Ickx and Oliver, I was 16 at the time. Been a couple of dozen times since, and enjoyed it every time.
Wow! Now we're talking! In a GT40/Ford GT, back in the summer of........

Matt Harper

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216 months

Wednesday 10th February 2021
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stemll said:


Ha! Look at plumy John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute...

Lovey1

514 posts

196 months

Wednesday 10th February 2021
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I was 16 at the time. i have only missed 4 since (incl. 2020)

anonymous-user

69 months

Wednesday 10th February 2021
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Matt Harper said:
swiveleyedgit said:
Ickx and Oliver, I was 16 at the time. Been a couple of dozen times since, and enjoyed it every time.
Wow! Now we're talking! In a GT40/Ford GT, back in the summer of........
1969 I vaguely recall, Le Mans for the first time and Led Zeppelin 1 on my new 'hifi' system, not a bad year.

Matt Harper

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Wednesday 10th February 2021
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Lovey1 said:

I was 16 at the time. i have only missed 4 since (incl. 2020)
'84 "Economy Race" - was it this one where Reinhold Joest said, "The faster we go, the less fuel we use", or was that '85?

TypeR

1,171 posts

254 months

Wednesday 10th February 2021
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Matt Harper said:




Guess the year.....
‘81 or ‘82 I guess?
My first Le Mans was ‘87. I’ve been about 20 times since. I stopped going after the Audi diesels started sounding like vacuum cleaners as they went past.

Matt Harper

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Friday 12th February 2021
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TypeR said:
‘81 or ‘82 I guess?
My first Le Mans was ‘87. I’ve been about 20 times since. I stopped going after the Audi diesels started sounding like vacuum cleaners as they went past.
Correct -1981. Went to every race after that until 2002, as I'd recently relocated to the USA. I started going again (from the US) in 2005 until 2017 when they wouldn't let us in with our beer coolers. Frankly, the 'Audification' of Le Mans was already taking it's toll on my willingness to do an 8000 mile round trip to stare at the back of a hospitality tent, where I used to watch the race from.

I also had the distraction of the Rolex 24 at Daytona and the wonderful Mobil 12 Hours of Sebring both of which are less than 2 hours away from where I now live. That said, I have some utterly fantastic memories from my Le Mans experiences, which I wouldn't have missed for anything.

stemll

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215 months

Friday 12th February 2021
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MCSV8 said:
1988. The result that enthused me to go in 1989.
Yup, me and my Dad on Page and Moy Le Boat to Le Mans. 23 years before I went again in 2011 then did 7 in a row, the Classic in 2018, missed '19 and '20 everyone knows about.

rdjohn

6,708 posts

210 months

Monday 15th February 2021
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Pironi - Jaussaud (1978)

Lovey1

514 posts

196 months

Monday 15th February 2021
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Matt Harper said:
Lovey1 said:

I was 16 at the time. i have only missed 4 since (incl. 2020)
'84 "Economy Race" - was it this one where Reinhold Joest said, "The faster we go, the less fuel we use", or was that '85?
i think it was 85. However the entire Group C era was an economy race. I remember that at the end of the race I used to walk along all the refuelling rigs to see how much fuel each of the teams had used.

scalvini07

28 posts

146 months

Sunday 21st February 2021
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1983,

Vern Schuppan, Hurley Haywood and Al Holbert in a Rothmans Porsche 956, chased all the way by Ickx and Bell in the sister car.

Car's was sliding everywhere, still remember it, like it was yesterday. As for the camping!!! at what is now Houx Annex, well i recall 1 x small wooden hut where everyone done their business, no showers or flushing toilets then, you can imagine the smell. The fair ground was just after the Dunlop bridge on the run down to Terte Rouge, The bearded lady, The lady in the snake pit, the tents where you paid a Franc to get in to watch the strippers, Sorry Guy and Gals little trip down memory lane, Ah good times.

anonymous-user

69 months

Sunday 21st February 2021
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1987 Porsche Hans-Joachim Stuck, Derek Bell, Al Holbert..left me deaf for about a week after but the Mazda "wankle" engine sounded good........

The "fair" was awesome.. I remember the worlds fattest lady and the boxing booth very well............ it was also the 1st time I ever drove a go kart and ended up racing them not long after.

eta Oh and Win Percy taking flying lessons.

MrOvershoot

33 posts

52 months

Sunday 7th March 2021
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Matt Harper

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6,831 posts

216 months

Tuesday 9th March 2021
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MrOvershoot said:


1989

rev-erend

21,579 posts

299 months

Monday 15th March 2021
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Warwick, Dalmas and Blundell.

FIREBIRDC9

746 posts

152 months

Wednesday 17th March 2021
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Porsche 919

Nick Tandy, Earl Bamber and Nico Hülkenberg, in 2015 smile

Awesome week!


stemll

4,625 posts

215 months

Monday 22nd March 2021
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stemll said:


Sad news that we lost Johnny Dumfries today

https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/former-f1-driver...

Edited by stemll on Monday 22 March 17:34

rev-erend

21,579 posts

299 months

Tuesday 23rd March 2021
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RIP Johnny.