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Le Mans 24 Hour 2002
is this the World's best spectator motoring race?
Its not shown in these photos but the weather was unbelievable
- it was at least 30 degrees plus for the whole week.
Many TVR owners made the journey down through France
to Le Mans arriving over the week of 10th June onwards.
Most people take the opportunity of being in the midst
of the action and camp - TVRs were in force on Houx,
Houx Annexe (with the TVRCC roadshow trailer and TVR2)
and camping Bleu. The atmosphere on the campsites was
fantastic and the veterans were obvious - usually the
paddling pools, fridges (there is mains power available),
kitchens, televisions!! and industrial BBQs give them
away.
The course of events goes something like this...
(and apologies for slow page - loads of photos!)
Thursday: stock up with bier at local supermarkets, watch practice,
qualifying
by Paul Calland
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Go
into local village of Arnage for lunch and a cold
beer!
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your camping area... or roadshow trailer! |
Cool
off in the extensive leisure facilities
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| Friday
night - Drivers parade in Le Mans |
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Support
Shorty!
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Friday:
pit lane open to all
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and
you can really get close up
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 MG
mechanics sporting colour coded hair
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Very
smart Bentley pits - easily the best looking car
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Johnny
Herbert and team practicing driver changes
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Oreca
Dellora team practice pit stops
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Morgan
team showing off old and new
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Saturday:
The race starts, the Bentley looks good...
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Sunday:
3am night time atmosphere is electric
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Everybody
loves a tryer - Peugeot comes in on 3 wheels
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As
all the cars finish the crowd surges forward
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Johnny
Herbert and Audi team on the podium
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A
spectator with a small souvenir
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Back
to the campsite to catch up on some sleep!
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Also
why not check out the following Le Mans pics and Links:
Steve's
Motor pages - loads of pics, especially
of the drivers parade and a huge range of the
sort of interesting motors that are typical of
Le Mans
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The
TVRCC East Sussex Bottle Wall
The famous bottle wall, created at great risk to life, limb and liver!
Le
Mans.org - the official Le Mans website
with many sections of pictures of the whole proceedings
from setup to finish. Not TVR orientated obviously
but a great overview.
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If you know of any other Le Mans related links you think would be
worth adding to this page please let us know. |
