LeMans 2009... lots of pics.

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Me and Tom and Puntostar went with a few of our mates a few weeks back, so heres the best of my 4500 photos from the week at LeMans!


We leave Notts at 00:00 tuesday



Teabag doesnt even make it half way to Dover, he thereafter slept whenever a car journey was longer then 400yards....



We lasted about a mile on the French roads post calais before we all had to re-group...

James' 500



Tom's GTV



Topped ourselves up with V-power, tasty!



the Super Grape's dad was still there, keeping watch!



We arrived at Arnage just in time for the rain



Phat golf



We were there abit early, the campsite was abit slow to get going...



Settled into our week long diet of 'dodgy french meat on warm fresh baguettes'



Tom, had put on some weight recently...



weather not lookign amazing, purchase of wellies in order!



Tilson takes no prisoners







we got the pool up, tilson was the first in... in his trousers...







not impressed with 2days of drizzle



marked our territory...



effort made on this TT!



Had a scout around the track for first practice-qualifying on the wednesday evening, was a we bit wet.

Tracey Krohn - F430 GT

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Navi Porsche RS spyder which was tipped to win LMP2 class, but was totalled after slipping on oil on the mulsanne, followed by a proper porker



not bad for totally shite light and through a catch fence



final chicane



Found Tiff Needle in the grandstand, filming a program on Lord Drayson racing in GT2 in a AM V8 Vantage, top bloke, well chatty.



The AMR garages.



Sack skunk was impressed by the action on track!



no3 R15 coming in to the pits, very quietly







Peugeot 908HDi FAP, the winning car in the end.



down the straight at night, wering its Rolex



The '64 factory 'vette



The pitlane at night







'63 GT1 winning Corvette



008 Aston Martin Lola



had to get the weather proofs out, wellies and a poncho FTW



Got back late, had a few beers and topped up the tyres, Ring the Frickin win bell WIN WIN WIN WIN WIN



Thankfully the weather cleared up and we set about terorising the other campers, they kept coming back for more though...



even children wernt safe from a good old water bombing



nice VI

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British Lawn Mower Racing Association...



"33" Export, drink of champions!



A Dax AC rep















wouldnt fancy driving that thing all the way to France



lol



only worth a million bob...







Summer had arrived



highly annoying, were this lot!



Teabag pissed his pantalons



Spent the rest of the day mincing in our mansion of a tent, reading the times etc etc.



Formula LeMans junior championship







The huge LeMans sculpture



The first cars finally came out after a long delay for final qualifying.







Draysons V8 Vantage

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R15











Sole DBR9































Self preservation society



General Lee



Yes, thats a bloke driving round on a bed...







Dutch police car... was crashed into a ditch apparently then torched...







sneeky Alfa



Team Dredd(less)

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nice sunset



French GT



more beers later and we had ourselves a fire



Man for sale



Last years winning R10



787B - wicked!







phat



open pitlane on friday...



busy!



Ginettas sounded wicked on track, 2litre turbos...



Spyker, a nice change to the Porsches and Ferraris in GT2



AMR garages



bit of top totty



Tom managed to blag us into the Creation-JUDD team garage for a sneaky peak



big brakes!

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Harry and Tom



Bolting the rear end/gearbox up to the engine/chassis







Audi live at the far opposite end to Peugeot



gurnnnnn



Mad friday between maison blanc and Blu sud







Tom being naughty...



lol



phat M3







Can you work out what it means?



sweet!







3.0 CSL, rare as toast, apparently...



supercharged mayte



Old Skool



the BLMRA, these guys made it on to the main straight after the race lol!



this GTR took the unfortunate brunt of a 'flying' gazebo, a few nasty dings

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Never open a moving caravans door into Tilson's face or this happens



Ring the frickin nob bell NOB NOB NOB NOB NOB NOB NOB



Wondered into to someone elses hospitlity for nice cold beer on the friday - result







tasty omlettes fro breaky on race day



Flash locked the keys in the Golf, luckily the man with the hoof and a 12grand rolex sorted us out



Got ourselves right on the start line for the, eeer start.



rate happy











Luca di Montezemolo, ready to wave the French flag for start...



****ign things!







Big tellys were helpful



discussing what a **** up the Peugeot team just made ha ha!















4 Astons in one snap!

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These two came very close as the GT3 RSR closed the door on the spyder...



















Lovely







phat!



brilliant exchange rate :s



Trophey



pissheads will be pissheads



didnt do to well with the old night shots



The Spyker i reckon...







Getting light about 4:30am



Terte Rouge



We stopped here for abit, had a snooze

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His back will be hurting if he ever wakes up...



How they sleep there i dont know, when the V12s make your tabs bleed and the V8s make the ground rumble...



The Creation Judd



Tracey Krohn YEEEEEHAAAAAW



Would suffer tranny failure not to long from now...











bumpy under foot







Sleeping in a box... hmmm!



into the sun...











my favourate photo!

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pit straight... about 8am







Trucks loaded to top the bars up for sunday































3 factory Peugeots















Went to see the tropheys at the end















faught our way down to see the winning car before it was wheeled off for scrutineering



Corvette pit box...