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New GT40 At Le Mans
As an American car owner,I read Classic American Magazine which is a british mag for us Yank car owners.
There was a small feature this month about the new GT40,which finishes of by saying,and I quote, "watch out for the first GT40in this year's LeMans 24 hour race.It will be driven by British dotcom tycoon Peter Myers,who plans to run the car single handedly,aided by a lightweight 157 decibel in car entertainment system" Ive never read such ******** and an email saying so is on its way to the mag editor PM |
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Is he intending to race it or just drive it to Le Mans ?
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There'd better not be anyone in the car when the ICE starts up...155 decibels is enough to kill a human...
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You are of course assuming Peter Myers is human. His planning on driving 24hrs single handed would suggest he is above that level. 155 Db should be of little problem
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I was passed by an older GT40 on the way to Le Mans, my moment of glory (brief) leading a GT40 will always be a treasured memory :-)
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Welcome to the forum Lawson.
In my first year we let a 1930s Bentley past, then had trouble keeping up with it! At that time the A28 was only a short dash around Alencon and we lost it at a roundabout, I had to get up to 120mph+ to catch it. It was cruising at over 90, no seat belts, not much resembling brakes, knife thin tyres et al. It got the weekend of to a really great start, so I know what you mean about leading the GT40! FG Last edited by FG1; 23 Jun 2002 at 19:20. |
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While travelling down a F40 pulled out of a junction to join a car or so behind us. I was getting excited waiting for it come past. I had to get past a couple of trucks. And besides I didn't want it to spoil the picture my Dad was going to take as it shot past us.
Trouble is I lost it doing this! We eventually got to a dual-carriageway with hardly any traffic on it and I could just see it. I went slower and slower waiting for it to catch up, but to no avail! Eventually we got bored! There were some great cars as we were going down. Had a little blast with a Carrera Porsche behind, but I think he was being kind to me! We also were amazed to see a few dozen Caterhams coming the other way on the way back from Le Mans. This was while having an enjoyable cruise with a French XJS. Saw quite a few GT40s (some replicas) in the car parks, but we never saw the new one... |
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