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Originally Posted by SuperB70
Well Dave if I'm honest: I'm not.
I had a feeling that this wouldnt get groups intress.
First: it happens on this side of the pond.
Second: no US car maker/ race team/ driver has won there. Some mae say Mr P. Dempsey, well they got to the polium and where the most followed team the hole week so it can be sad that he was the best yankee this year. But to be honest, he had two great drivers at his team. One is rain driving specialist.
Third: for that race, US is not direct market area. So no live feed, no big advertising and so on.
The factory SRT-Viper team performed as expected, this year was a "schoolclass trip" but even the Corvette team performed so low. They cant be happy.
I'm not trying to get anybody going but maeby wanted to let be seen that there is life and action on this side also.
It would be cool place to be in. Action nonstop 24/7, no really, 24/7 8)
have come clean, watching it live from EuroSport, I'd fell to sleep between 2ish -7.30 am at living room sofa. Woke up and continued watching..
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Originally Posted by ratman67
"Second: no US car maker/ race team/ driver has won there."
you might want to revise that statement....
this is NOT a pic of a porsche 917, even though it had a similar paint scheme to the GT 40s. Finishing 1,2, and 3 counts as a win where i come from.
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Geeze
I'm glad somebody can get this right. And Ratman is a BBC guy
I'm pissed he beat me to the punch on this.....
How many times do I have to remind all you guys it was three Sideoiler 427 TPs that DOMINATED the racing world in 1966.
Then after Ferrari called foul and cried for a rule change because of the unfair big Ford motor Shelby went back in 67 and won again with a small block Ford. Then some english teams took the GT40s with SBFs back again to win in 69 and 70.
A US manufacturer has been on top.
It has been a long time so here is a visual.
It hurts to admit but even Chevy has won a class there (not the overall) with the Corvette. I took them till 2000 and something but they did do it.
The track has been reconfigured due to safety concerns and I think it is slower now so you can't compare times and such but I think (may be wrong on this) the Ford win in 66 is still the most laps completed in 24 hours.
