RE: Plucky TVR team finishes Le Mans

[renkadima]

rev-erend said:

They also disappeared for a few hours - not sure if this was to change parts or just to ensure a finish..

They had to change the front left wheel hub.

[chimyellow]

What a weekend..... The heat, the racing, the exotic cars, the beer and strangely the lack of hangover even after drinking twice as much as I would normally fall over after (must have been the heat evaporating the alachol directly out of my blood!)

This was my first visit to the Le Mans 24hour and I am already trying to think of a way of getting a pass out for next year.

To those who said that the TVR came last.. pah! There were plenty more cars (around a third) who did not even last the 24 hours and were on much, much bigger budgets.

Congratulations Peninsular

Shame about the Astons but a third in class is still an acheivement.

[Art R6]

As mentioned, The heat, the racing, the exotic car convoys on the road ,the beer, bbq's all add to the experience. The racing may have been a bit dull at times, but the Le Mans event is always more than just the Race, to me and my friends anyohow ! Roll on next year...

[Graham]

THE TVR wasnt last the WR LMP2 car was behind it... and it was only just behind the Phil Bennet LMP2 car...

[cybersdorf]

CiderwithCerbie said:

Poor show all around and little end of race excitement - glad I did not go. Aston's fragile hair to Corvette's rock solid tortoise

On outright performance, Aston had Corvette covered. Only that the Astons broke, the Corvettes didn't.

[quote](Similar story for the Audi's and Pescarolo's).[/quote]
Exactly.

This race was a lot of things, dull it was not.

[richb]

cybersdorf said:

On outright performance, Aston had Corvette covered.

Strange, I thought that after 23 hours of racing the leading Aston and Corvette were on the same lap about 20 seconds apart. that would suggest to me that they were almost identical? Rich...

[cybersdorf]

One had trouble, the other did not.