LM24 Your Favourite Le Mans Moment(s) - Page 3

kdr · 30 May 2002, 16:11 (Ref:300499)

i watched channel 4s highlights again. is it taken from the walkway that goes around the module sportif?

Fab · 30 May 2002, 16:48 (Ref:300530)

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Originally posted by kdr
i watched channel 4s highlights again. is it taken from the walkway that goes around the module sportif?

Still not... another clue... it's taken from the OTHER SIDE of the track...

kdr · 30 May 2002, 16:56 (Ref:300540)

from the aco stand with a longish lens?

FG1 · 30 May 2002, 17:07 (Ref:300553)

The little old stand that (used to be?) for the press?

Durand-something?

FG

viper_man · 30 May 2002, 17:45 (Ref:300619)

beretta waking the oreca viper up last year. 2 things made that amazing, 1 - it was the last time an oreca viper was to race at le mans (well apart from oreca/larbre this year!) and 2 - nothing in the world sounds better than a gts-r/t!

**Aysedasi** · 30 May 2002, 18:13 (Ref:300651)

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Originally posted by AllonFS

I'll have to take your word for it. Now was it a beer or a Pimms you wanted?

Would I lie to you?

Well yes, I probably would.

But not about sleeping at Le Mans. Anyone who sleeps during the night is missing my favourite part of the race. It really is the magic of Le Mans.

Beer please.

(I don't like Pimms).

(I do like champagne though........

.....and I love calvados!!).

By the way, I missed out on a Welcome to viper_man - nice to see you.

**Aysedasi** · 30 May 2002, 18:21 (Ref:300656)

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Originally posted by kdr
from the aco stand with a longish lens?

Fab, about time I joined in on your "Teazer"! That picture must have been taken from one of the grandstands on the outside of the circuit. As kdr has suggested, I think it was taken from the ACO stand, bearing in mind that you say the shot is actually the top left hand corner only of the original picture.

I know it was taken from the grandstand because of your reference to anyone being able to do it at PQ or during qualifying, but not necessarily during the race - when they may not have grandstand tickets!!!

Yes?

kdr · 31 May 2002, 08:23 (Ref:301120)

did i miss him say it was from the top left of the original picture...?

fab in "crop and pull-up" shock to confuse us guessers!

still - i did the same with the fake moon picture

Fab · 31 May 2002, 16:05 (Ref:301689)

Well, Kdr, I gave the clue that the image was cut the 29th of May at 16h41... but not initialy, I have to admit, because I thought you'll find the plot very easy...

Indeed, it's taken from the grandstands outside of the track... but not ACO ones, or Durand or press grandstands either !

It's taken from one of the last rows in the first cover grandstand of the pit straight, (above the loos !). The initial image containts the parapet of the grandstand, quite a bad picture... but we had fun with it the last, hadn't we ?

So, the winners are... mmmm... Kdr, FG and Ayse, but Kdr and Ayse, I have only a small rubbish numeric camera and it's not ACO, and FG, false grandstand.

If you try from ACO, I don't think you can get the same angle... It make say to me that the point of view from that first grandstand is excellent, don't you think ?

kdr · 31 May 2002, 16:48 (Ref:301739)

you're right fab...sometimes the least obvious position can bring a good picture.

FastJoel31 · 31 May 2002, 19:05 (Ref:301800)

Well, I haven't been to Le Mans, yet, but I will describe another experience, at Mosport. When the cars come out on the track for the first time, in your head following the car as it goes through the esses (I'm at the Mario Andretti Straight), then down the hill and back up to the hairpin, and then slowly accelerating until the noise gets louder, and then a Porsche flashes by...pure magic.

SL · 31 May 2002, 19:39 (Ref:301813)

Yes, we used to have that at Le Mans, it was called a Mazda rotary, and they came in 3's. You could hear these damm things all the way around the circuit for 24 hours non stop. Nothing absoluty nothing could break them, even Johnny Herbert failed and won.

If the noise did not get to you the paint job did.

Those were the years.....

Simon

Fab · 1 Jun 2002, 15:14 (Ref:302354)

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Originally posted by SL
Yes, we used to have that at Le Mans, it was called a Mazda rotary

Kind of that one ?

**Aysedasi** · 4 Jun 2002, 03:04 (Ref:304021)

Oui!

http://www.aysedasi.btinternet.co.uk...1mazda5501.JPG

**Aysedasi** · 4 Jun 2002, 12:21 (Ref:304354)

Back to those magic moments......

I remember '86, my first Le Mans. It was all pretty eye-opening stuff anyway, but I particularly remember eating at one of the restaurants on the Mulsanne quite late on Saturday evening (can't remember which one it was now), not inside by the track unfortunately (had to wait until '88 for that experience!). After the meal we perched on the garden chairs and rubble and spent half an hour peering over the fence watching the cars scream past - looking forward to every Jaguar and every Mazda - I think we knew there was one on the way when it rounded Tertre Rouge!

By the time I got back home, I was well and truly hooked. Around that time I read a letter in Autosport from someone extolling the virtues of the Brickyard and the Indy 500. I suggested that if it was speed and atmosphere they wanted, they should try Hunaudieres at Midnight instead.........

Fab · 4 Jun 2002, 16:49 (Ref:304598)

Ayse, you can imagine what impression the thing made on my child perception ! (I was 7 the first time...)

**Aysedasi** · 4 Jun 2002, 18:20 (Ref:304659)

How many Le Mans will it be for you this year Fab - in total?

Fab · 4 Jun 2002, 18:38 (Ref:304675)

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Originally posted by Aysedasi
How many Le Mans will it be for you this year Fab - in total?

Not so much : you'll hate me, but I missed a lot !

Actually, I went at Le Mans in 1972, 1978, then several 24 hours motorbikes (I was young !), then in the 90'...

I found an old 78' super 8 movie at home, taken at La Chapelle... we see the start (well, a few !)... and the face of spectators, very impressed... funny and vintage taste...

AllonFS · 5 Jun 2002, 07:50 (Ref:305035)

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Originally posted by Fab
Actually, I went at Le Mans in 1972, 1978, then several 24 hours motorbikes (I was young !), then in the 90'...

Aah, 1972, a fine year. Graham Hill completes his unique treble, and even more importantly a certain AllonFS enters the world.

Fab · 5 Jun 2002, 15:31 (Ref:305375)

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Originally posted by AllonFS
A certain AllonFS enters the world.

A very good year indeed !

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