TVR - LeMans - 2006
Discussion
Well according to this:
www.lemans.org/sport/sport/dossiers/istanbul/ressources/pdf/selectionnes_LeMans_2006.pdf
There's one Aston and no TVR's so far. However threre's only 23 cars on this list. I think the final entry is limited to 50 so plenty of spaces left. Plus they have a reserve list. IIRC the TVR's were not confirmed until about April/May this year and only got in through other entries dropping out.
www.lemans.org/sport/sport/dossiers/istanbul/ressources/pdf/selectionnes_LeMans_2006.pdf
There's one Aston and no TVR's so far. However threre's only 23 cars on this list. I think the final entry is limited to 50 so plenty of spaces left. Plus they have a reserve list. IIRC the TVR's were not confirmed until about April/May this year and only got in through other entries dropping out.
remal said:
Aston martin not there then?
Aston should be there as they stand a good chance of winning one of the qualifying events, such as repeating their Serbing win last year.
Problem is the Aston team is too much like the Bentley team a few years back - so far up them selves your ashamed they used to be British.
Don't think we will have any TVR's this year. Chamberlin/Synergy who ran the cars 2003 moved to an LMP2 Lola, and Team LNT who ran them in 2004 and in LMES up to now are awitching to a pair of GT2 Panoz Esperante. Racesport Peninsula who ran the sole TVR this year seem unlikely to go back at the moment.
The Zytek's seem to be the best bet.
>> Edited by //j17 on Monday 21st November 14:08
//j17 said:
Problem is the Aston team is too much like the Bentley team a few years back - so far up them selves your ashamed they used to be British.
Christ, don't hold back mate. I don't remember Bentley being up themselves at all, they all worked bloody hard to achieve a fantastic result with whole world spouting on about it being a rebodied Audi, which it wasn't!!!
//j17 said:
Aston should be there as they stand a good chance of winning one of the qualifying events, such as repeating their Serbing win last year.
See link above. Aston have already qualified through finishing 3rd in class in 2005. Normally it's the first two manufacturers from each class automatically qualify for the following year but since Corvette came 1st and 2nd Aston qualify by finishing thrid. AT least that's how I interpret the following:
Les 24 Heures du Mans qualifiant les deux premiers concurrents (et non « voitures »
, Aston Martin, 3e derrière les deux Corvette du Corvette Racing, est donc qualifié grâce à sa place de « 2e concurrent ». >> Edited by t1grm on Monday 21st November 14:56
Mark B said:
Problem is the Aston team is too much like the Bentley team a few years back - so far up them selves your ashamed they used to be British.
Christ, don't hold back mate. I don't remember Bentley being up themselves at all, they all worked bloody hard to achieve a fantastic result with whole world spouting on about it being a rebodied Audi, which it wasn't!!!
^_^ Not meaning to be-little the achievement, it was just the attitude. Walk down the pit lane on Friday and for most teams it's like leaning over the garden fence. For others it's like being held by the bouncers by the rope outside an empty nightclub.
//j17 said:
Problem is the Aston team is too much like the Bentley team a few years back - so far up them selves your ashamed they used to be British.
Christ, don't hold back mate. I don't remember Bentley being up themselves at all, they all worked bloody hard to achieve a fantastic result with whole world spouting on about it being a rebodied Audi, which it wasn't!!!
^_^ Not meaning to be-little the achievement, it was just the attitude. Walk down the pit lane on Friday and for most teams it's like leaning over the garden fence. For others it's like being held by the bouncers by the rope outside an empty nightclub.
But isnt that the case with the more popular teams? What were you expecting? the Bentley (favourite that year) or Aston (great to see again) and everyone ignoring them? Unlikely, I'm afriad.
Don t forget that the village is being rebuilt this year, with more garages. I seem to recall (ready to be proved wrong) that they can have more cars this year. so maybe there will be more space for TVR's.
Whether they'd want to race one, however...
not sure the sagaris would be suited to the long straights at LM, the T400 however with its long slippery body was ideal which was proven with the Chamberlains being fastest of all GT2 down the straights even with smaller restricotrs than the porkas.
there may be a chance the Sagaris will race in the newly announced FIA GT3 championship as the organisers said it would be a car they would like to see.
i will be supporting LNT next year with the rumbling panoz as they did wonders with the tivs this year.
there may be a chance the Sagaris will race in the newly announced FIA GT3 championship as the organisers said it would be a car they would like to see.
i will be supporting LNT next year with the rumbling panoz as they did wonders with the tivs this year.
The Cigaris, sorry Sigaris is as suited to GT racing as the 400's, they just need as much work on them to turn them from road car to GT car as the 400's had. Making the 400 chassis wider made a lot of difference to it's overall performance for example.
As it stands at the moment Nikolai Smolenski is more interested in making car/money than racing. Lets hope he changes his mind with a few more months in the directors chair.
As it stands at the moment Nikolai Smolenski is more interested in making car/money than racing. Lets hope he changes his mind with a few more months in the directors chair.
the wider track of the T400's was actually proven to make no difference when LNT did back to back tests with the chamberlain cars he had bought and his RSR cars which is why this year all the cars were converted back to original spec.
(one of the finishing Le mans cars has now been changed back to the wide track to be preserved the number 89 i think)
(one of the finishing Le mans cars has now been changed back to the wide track to be preserved the number 89 i think)
ccharlie6 said:
the wider track of the T400's was actually proven to make no difference when LNT did back to back tests with the chamberlain cars he had bought and his RSR cars which is why this year all the cars were converted back to original spec.
(one of the finishing Le mans cars has now been changed back to the wide track to be preserved the number 89 i think)
I stand corrected.
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