Corvettes At Le Mans

[Cuban]

For those that want to know in advance, the Corvette team will be housed in garages 34 and 35 at Le Mans.

[seefive]

Yusss!

Booked the Friday off work, just been and bought my diddy little tent and waiting on Gerard to let me know the directions to "Camp Corvette" - money on its way to him since last Friday.

Fast Ferry booked for late Thursday - a great deal, 43 quid for a 50 minute return crossing to Boulogne, and will have a nice slow amble down overnight at 130k's or 110k's if wet officer. Should be (as Tiger Tony says) GRRRRRRRREEEEAAAAT!!

C'mon yooooo Vettes!!!

(not very excited) Kev.

[c5ragtop]

Nice one Kev - see you there.

[Cuban]

It's the Le Mans test day today, currently after 1 hour:

GT1
#009 Aston Martin 3:58.019
#64 Corvette 4:01.342

[sayerbloke]

Taken from www.lemans.org/24heuresdumans/live/pages/chronos_fr.html right?

It's now:

#64 Corvette 3:57.130
#009 Aston Martin 3:57.183

[Cuban]

14 64 Corvette Racing LMGT1 GAVIN O. 3:57.130 20.815 14:09.274
15 009 Aston Martin Racing LMGT1 SARRAZIN S. 3:57.183 20.868 3:57.183
16 63 Corvette Racing LMGT1 O'CONNELL J. 3:57.293 20.978 3:57.293

[Cuban]

Ollie Gavin sets a 3:55.959 in the #64 Corvette - almost up to last years test day best already!

[Cuban]

Alphand Aventures LMGT1 POLICAND J. 4:03.738

[Cuban]

15 007 Aston Martin Racing LMGT1 ENGE T. 3:53.389 18.352 3:53.422
16 64 Corvette Racing LMGT1 BERETTA O. 3:55.743 20.706 3:56.720
17 72 Alphand Aventures LMGT1 GOUESLARD P. 3:55.795 20.758 7:24.466
18 009 Aston Martin Racing LMGT1 ORTELLI S. 3:56.014 20.977 3:58.121
20 63 Corvette Racing LMGT1 FELLOWS R. 3:57.230 22.193 3:57.230

Don't think that time by the Aston will be beaten, but we'll see.


Good to see the Alphand Corvette mixing it with the factory boys.

[sayerbloke]

Cuban said:

15 007 Aston Martin Racing LMGT1 ENGE T. 3:53.389 18.352 3:53.422 Don't think that time by the Aston will be beaten, but we'll see.

The same car just put in a 3:52.262. That's one hell of a time...

[Cuban]

The 63 O'CONNELL Corvette just posted a lap 2 seconds quicker than the morning with a 3:55.170

[Cuban]

Oliver Gavin now posts a 3:54.589

[Cuban]

Beretta posts a 3:53.560

[vetteheadracer]

sayerbloke said:

Cuban said: 15 007 Aston Martin Racing LMGT1 ENGE T. 3:53.389 18.352 3:53.422 Don't think that time by the Aston will be beaten, but we'll see. The same car just put in a 3:52.262. That's one hell of a time...

007 Aston Martin Racing LMGT1 PICCINI A. 3:51.408 a new GT1 lap record.

[V7TTE]

AM can whizz round a lap as fast as they like, but can they do it for the full 24 hours?

[Cuban]

Sarrazin makes it an Aston 1-2 with 30 mins to go.

[yellowshark454]

V7TTE said:

AM can whizz round a lap as fast as they like, but can they do it for the full 24 hours?

Probably yes based on how long they lasted last year. But of course its their race speed that is important. Same issue with the Ferraris in '03. Faster and stayed the distance; of course as we know blue paint has a greater surface tension that yellow so we should be alright this time.

[V7TTE]

yellowshark454 said:

of course as we know blue paint has a greater surface tension that yellow so we should be alright this time.

[Cuban]

Just had to abort my trip to Le Mans due to work, so it's Motors TV and Radio Le Mans for me.

Anyone willing to get me a Corvette Racing top if they are on sale?

[Cuban]

This makes interesting reading, check out the top speed list....
12 50 GT1 Larbre Competition Gabriele Gardel Patrick Bornhauser Jean-Luc Blanchemain Ferrari 550 Maranello 301
13 72 GT1 Luc Alphand Aventures Jerome Policand Patrice Goueslard Luc Alphand Corvette C5-R 300
14 009 GT1 Aston Martin Racing Stephane Sarrazin Pedro Lamy Stephane Ortelli Aston Martin DBR9 299
15 64 GT1 Corvette Racing Oliver Gavin Olivier Beretta Jan Magnussen Corvette C6.R 298
16 22 LMP2 Rollcentre Racing Martin Short Joao Barbosa Stuart Moseley Radical SR9 Judd 297
17 63 GT1 Corvette Racing Ron Fellows Johnny O'Connell Max Papis Corvette C6.R 297
18 67 GT1 Convers Team MenX Robert Pergl Peter Kox Alexei Vasiliev Ferrari 550 Maranello 297
19 53 GT1 JLOC Isao Noritake Marco Apicella Yasutaka Hinoi Koji Yamanishi Lamborghini Murcielago R-GT 296
20 007 GT1 Aston Martin Racing Tomas Enge Darren Turner Andrea Piccini Aston Martin DBR9 296