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Afert being away for almost 4 days(I lost power Sunday afternoon, and just got it back this morning), I have to get this off of my chest. I have to say that Peugeot losing all three championships was the biggest choke I've seen in motorsports in quite a while. Le Mans '08 ranks up there, but then again, everyone knew that the Audis were the superior car in the wet, and much of the race was held in the rain, and the Pugs had the suspected mechanical problems that even some of their highers ups(namely one M. Famin) predicted.
The Peugeot guys had both titles in their grasp, and only had to basically finish the race to get at least one. But guess what-Audi finally applied the pressure, and Peugeot snapped and collapsed-just like Le Mans. I don't believe that Peugeot is yet prepared to really take on Audi in high pressure/big race situlations-granted, Peugeot didn't expect to win at Sebring, and are/were going into PLM with a similar mind set. But if Peugeot thought that the Joest guys were tough, the Champion guys in the ALMS-and the LMP2 teams, for that matter-are a different ballgame. Peugeot just doesn't seem to learn from their mistakes, and alwayss seem to believe that performance can always make up for other flaws. And that approch will always cost them in the big races. We have to face facts-for the first time since LM '07(or, some can/will say Spa '08)Audi was fully on the Pugs' pace, and was able to challenge them in a heads up fight-and the better prepared/drilled team won. |
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While I totally agree with you that PLM will be a mountain to climb for Porsche, you do the Joest team a great (and frankly surprising) disservice by rating them so much lower than the ALMS teams. Joest basically wrote the book for Audi, for one thing, and the rest of the P2 brigade has had Audi as their yardstick from the start. Furthermore, there is substantial overlap between the Audi operations on both sides of the Atlantic at the upper levels - we can expect to see Dr. Ulrich and Ralf Juttner, among others, present at all major races. The Audi organization is pure class on both sides of the Atlantic.
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To be fair, the crewers on a lot of those more recent LM wins were shared with Champion. Hence my point that separating Audi organizations on quality is rather fiat. It's all one big umbrella.
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OK then, here are my faves;
Flirting with the Charouz girls; http://www.flickr.com/photos/jymp/2856908517/ Audi 1; http://www.flickr.com/photos/jymp/2858816577/ Brake glow on Oreca #6; http://www.flickr.com/photos/jymp/2858794213/ Art with Oreca; http://www.flickr.com/photos/jymp/2858012658/ Lola Aston from above; http://www.flickr.com/photos/jymp/2857097811/ Love him or hate him...he did very well, Jos; http://www.flickr.com/photos/jymp/2856777957/ Audi 1 at Becketts; http://www.flickr.com/photos/jymp/2856917113/ RML; http://www.flickr.com/photos/jymp/2856911835/ Well lit wheels; http://www.flickr.com/photos/jymp/2853767281/ Of course, the Hybrid picture; http://www.flickr.com/photos/jymp/2853767222/ Virgo; http://www.flickr.com/photos/jymp/2853148782/ The Vantage; http://www.flickr.com/photos/jymp/2852315835/ And just about my favourite favourite, 908; http://www.flickr.com/photos/jymp/2853102034/ Sadly, a lot of my stuff from Saturday, like this of the Spyker; http://www.flickr.com/photos/jymp/2853081920/ seems to have a "dirty" feel, and I can't lose it in photoshop. Obviously, the car has also had a mucky, non track related incident too! Please note; I'm not doing this really for self promotion, more because I know how much I love browsing other people's photos, so I hope you lot get as much from these as I do from yours. Thanks, Jake. EDIT: Crikey, I need to get more picky. EDIT EDIT: Ayse, I've got an absolute heap of old Autosports, from 2006 era that I found the other day, if you're up for a part/ex. Last edited by minimangler; 19 Sep 2008 at 00:32. |
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And remember late '03 in the ALMS-Joest's last full season in the ALMS. He may've laid the ground work for Champion's dominance there after, but Champion did the same as Joest-hire the best people for the job, and let do the job. And I'm not the only one who says that Champion can take on Joest and win-ask anyone who saw what happened in '03, or saw what Champion has done to the present. Also, might I ask, if it's true that Joest is still the benchmark, why hasn't he done a full season anything with Audi's LMP program from '04-'07? I believe that Audi not having Joest do more with the R10 program aside from Le Mans until this year(you know-"if you don't use it, you lose it") caused a lot of the Joest teams' early problems this year, namely at Sebring and Monza. Those races-and Champion's dominance in the ALMS-were probably a wake up call for Joest and Audi to get back on the same page, and get there fast if they wanted to beat Peugeot in the LMS and at Le Mans. Granted, the man and his men aren't perfect, and neither is Champion or Audi Sport itself, but I just find what happened at Sebring and Monza inexcusable given the standard the Reinhold Joest has set for himself. Though as I've said, that's probably the fault of Audi Sport as much if not more for simply not letting him do more races until this year. The errors made in those races were relatively minor, but by Joest standards those races(especially Sebring) were disasters. |
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Minimangler and others..
Its not selfpromotion, I think many on this board love discussing pictures and seeing nice racecars. So keep it up |
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sorry to this up I finally got around to putting some pictures online. They are on my facebook, I would put a link but I think you have to be friends to see them???
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