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Le Mans Classic 2014

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  1. jknight

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    #1 jknight, Jul 7, 2014
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    Did a quick weekend to this event. Very worthwhile and honestly would do again over the annual 24 hour race. Total paddock access; six grids of the most stunning cars - about 60 cars in each which equals roughly 60 million with of cars per grid; hard fought racing with most of these machines; tremendous amount of history with do many of the cars entered; lots of team mechanics and attendees in period dress; each grid had three races starting at 1700 on Saturday thru 1700 Sunday. Lots of us eating Saturday dinner in the restaurant/bar in the paddock at 1:30 am Sunday! Have lots if photos on my phone and may have to send to desktop to post but here's a few for starters!
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    #6 crinoid, Jul 8, 2014
    I really want to attend this event.
     
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    #7 NürScud, Jul 8, 2014
    Nice photos. Thanks for sharing.
     
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    you're quite welcome and sorry for the doubles - had a little issue of sending them last night

    It is really worth attending and definitely worth staying at the circuit for the entire time. There were lots and lots of car clubs there too with some beautiful cars in their parking area. You certainly don't get this sort of access with the regular 24 hour race - pits then are only open to public on Friday.

    This is an interesting one #61 - ASA RB type 613 1300 GT chassis #21004. This history behind this car if MOST interesting.

    The #34 is a friend's car - 1966 275 GTB/4 aluminum - he races it in several series.

    Perhaps the full view of the Ferrari transporter showing it's destination of Le Mans would be nice to see again in the future!

    As stated previously, many of the cars at the event have colorful histories with the 24 hour race - one of the Corvettes had a speed of 252 mph on the straight back in it's time. These guys really pushed the cars and no wrecks, very professional driving even in the almost continual rain over the weekend. Thanks, Carol
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    #10 bigodino, Jul 8, 2014
    Thanks for sharing! I should've been there as well, but some virus got the better of me and I wasn't fit enough to go :(
    I especially regret it because Brandon Wang had gathered some fantastic Ferraris for his tour to Maranello. Do you have any pictures of those Ferraris? Also a picture of the 512 S Coda Lunga would be nice.

    Best, Peter
     
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    Excellent!! Thanks for sharing.
     
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    You're most welcome. I am assuming that you are referring to the Ferrari Display in the paddock. On a post above you will see a photo of what appears to be a white building with Ferrari on it - actually it was a painted screen as part of the tent display. They had many Ferrari's parked out in front on Saturday, however, most were covered due to the rain. They started taking the covers off but the line was quite long to get into see the cars and due to timing we went onto the grid 4 paddock area. It has to be the same thing! I got photos of the 512 on Sunday when they moved it out by the transporter. I am sure this is the car you to which you are referring? I have also cropped and enlarged one of the photos to show the "fin" on the rear since I wasn't far enough back to get the entire car. It definitely was worth attending - just an FYI, our general entry was 53 Euro; paddock was 35 Euro and Tribune 20 Leonard (no seat assigned, open seating) was 30 Euro - total of 236 Euro for John and I to attend. Thanks again, Carol
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    Thanks for the kind comments - you are more than welcome!! Carol
     
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    Great photos, thanks for that.
     
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    you are most welcome - would have had more but the rain didn't cooperate! Thanks, Carol
     
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    Thanks Carol. Yes, that's the 512 S Coda Lunga, which means Long Tail (for obvious reasons).
    Too bad you missed out on the Brandon Wang Ferraris because of time and weather (covers). There were two 250 Testa Rossas, four 250 GTOs, a lot of 250 Californias, Lusso, Zagato, Bertone etc etc. See here for a picture taken on Thrusday (when it was dry and sunny).

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    #18 jknight, Jul 9, 2014
    Thanks Peter - yes this is the display. We did see a few of them in the above photo as they were taking off the covers late Saturday; Sunday they were not there like this - it's too bad that weather didn't hold for the weekend! I came across this info when I was curious as to the owner of the 213P (he was a British Hill Climb winner) - interesting stuff isn't it?

    The Ferrari 312P V12 of the year 1969 was the most beautiful race car in my opinion.
    Without a doubt is the car I preferred.
    I love it so much, it looks magnificent also forty years later !
    A bit of story
    Ferrari built only three 0868 , 0870 & 0872 , the first two are "barchetta" (spider cars), the third one was a coupé, but all of them were more unhappy than they look wonderful !
    The 0870 scored DNF at the 1969 Monza 1000 Km (Amon-Andretti), 2nd overall at Spa 1000 Km (Rodriguez-Piper) , another DNF at Nurburgring (Amon-Rodriguez).
    Then was converted in a coupé for Le Mans (DNF Rodriguez-Piper again).
    After Le Mans Enzo ferrari sold it to Luigi Chinetti and under the NART colours the 312P was 5th overall at Bridgehampton '69 (Rodriguez), 5th overall Daytona '70 (Piper-Adamowicz) then scored a DNF at Sebring 12 Hours '70.
    In the same year Pierer Bardinon bought it for Mas du Clos.
    The 0868 was damaged in Vallelunga Test, early in the season, and didn't race in the Daytona 24 Hours '69, then it scored 2nd overall at Sebring 12Hours (Amon-Andretti) and 4th overall at 500 Km Brands Hatch (Amon-Rodriguez).
    During the Monza 1000 Km race it was destroyed in an accident, taken back to the Maranello factory, disassembled and never rebuilt as 312 P, but converted (?) in a 512 "speciale", a "concept car".
    The 0872 car had a very strange life.
    In his first race, the 24 hours of Le Mans '69, had an accident in the very early laps of the race (collided with the wreckage of the Porsche 917 of John Woolf's fatal accident).
    Chinetti bought and restored it for NART.
    In 1970 season this car, "with a roof bubble fitted for Mike Parkes" , was 4th overall at Daytona (Parkes-Posey), then 6th overall at Sebring (Parkes-Parsons).
    After a NC at Le Mans (Adamowicz-Parsons) the car turned into a spider, rear and front end was replaced and roof completely removed.
    In 1971 the car had a completely different look and scored a fifth overall at Daytona (Chinetti Jr-Garcia Veiga) and 8th overall at Sebring (Chinetti Jr-Eaton).
    In the spring of 1971 the car was completely dismantled.
    I think some parts of this car was bought by some collectors and may be someone of them tried to restore it.
     
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    #19 NürScud, Jul 10, 2014
    That REPSOL sponsored F355 Challenge looks great!
     
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    It's a 348 LM !
     
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    #23 NürScud, Jul 17, 2014
    Oh no....
     
  24. Jacob Potts

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    #24 Jacob Potts, Jul 19, 2014
    On days like these, it's nice to realize . . . .

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    . . . it's only a car.

    Jacob Potts :)
     

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