elansprint72 Posted December 16, 2008 Share #1 Posted December 16, 2008 Advertisement (gone after registration) No finer place to be. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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stuny Posted December 17, 2008 Share #2 Posted December 17, 2008 Pete - I think what makes this work is including the man on the pitwall and the thermometer above. Very nice. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdemas Posted December 17, 2008 Share #3 Posted December 17, 2008 My favorite racing spot... "the corkscrew", Laguna Seca. Especially nice with Audi R10s racing at dusk with Porsche RS Spyders. I am going to get to Le Mans one day for the 24hr, seems like a unique event that has to be done at least once Kent Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
elansprint72 Posted December 17, 2008 Author Share #4 Posted December 17, 2008 Thanks Stu. Kent- the corkscrew! If ever a turn was aptly named, looks formidable from the side of the road, let alone from the cockpit! The modern LM24 is a good bash but I think the LM Classic is better (where these shots came from); I like older cars, the new diesels (in particular) are all pretty much the same set of computer outputs these days. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest flatfour Posted January 6, 2009 Share #5 Posted January 6, 2009 Hell - how awful. Fine if you are an official photographer but for those of us in the stands or walking along the front, we are not much better than caged animals. I haven't been to Le Mans since 1999 mainly as the regs get more and more rigged each year to suit a particular type of vehicle. The index of Performance was always cooked to protect French cars but the whole thing is no longer an open race but a spectacle to be sold to the highest bidders. Such is progress. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
elansprint72 Posted January 6, 2009 Author Share #6 Posted January 6, 2009 Hell - how awful. Fine if you are an official photographer but for those of us in the stands or walking along the front, we are not much better than caged animals. I haven't been to Le Mans since 1999 mainly as the regs get more and more rigged each year to suit a particular type of vehicle. The index of Performance was always cooked to protect French cars but the whole thing is no longer an open race but a spectacle to be sold to the highest bidders. Such is progress. Calm down Dear, as Michael Winner was paid to say. This is not the modern Le Mans, these are the Classic races. Part of the fun of this event is to side-step the regulations; the organisers positively encourage that. As for "you lot" being put behind bars; quite right, why should you get a crack at the money shot, leave that to me. Tony, since their inception the 24 Hr endurance event has never been organised for the benefit of amateur photographers; they are for-profit businesses. The disaster in 1955 (and those beyond) dictate that J. Public must be protected from an untimely gruesome death, not to mention an inconvenient opportunity for a law suit against the promoter. As you say, the Index has always been rigged (even that arch cheater Chapman fell foul of the moveable goal-posts). So, the point is: I was there, you were not. Your Hell, my Heaven. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest flatfour Posted January 7, 2009 Share #7 Posted January 7, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) Pete - I'm glad we agree about Chapman. I was at Brands one day with Don Moore and as we passed Chapman Don said "I see you're now building Lola kits" I won't mention the reply. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
elansprint72 Posted January 8, 2009 Author Share #8 Posted January 8, 2009 Pete - I'm glad we agree about Chapman. I was at Brands one day with Don Moore and as we passed Chapman Don said "I see you're now building Lola kits" I won't mention the reply. You should hear what Peter Cambridge and Ron Hickman have to say about him, not to mention Robin Read. I suppose he would be eligible for parole about now, had he lived. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
elansprint72 Posted January 8, 2009 Author Share #9 Posted January 8, 2009 Pete - I'm glad we agree about Chapman. I was at Brands one day with Don Moore and as we passed Chapman Don said "I see you're now building Lola kits" I won't mention the reply. You should hear what Peter Cambridge and Ron Hickman have to say about him, not to mention Robin Read. I suppose he would be eligible for parole about now, had he lived. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest flatfour Posted January 8, 2009 Share #10 Posted January 8, 2009 Pete - When I was at Ford I was part of a three man team that went to Cheshunt to find out why the warranty claims on Lotus Cortinas were so high. The other two were engineers and I was the finance man. (I got the job because of my motor sport connections.) Quality control was almost non existent in the assembly area and we shut the line down. Chapman's Finance Director was raging furious. Chapman himself wasn't around. I don't think we closed if for long as things did improve. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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