Well it's over.
I couldn't go this year and Christ have I taken abuse off my Mates!
Text messages questioning my sexuality for missing a petrolhead beer tour does make a grown man feel uncomfortable.... but hey it's the least amount of sympathy they'd expect from me if they let the boys down! ha ha
So Audi won this year with a 5.5l V12 diesel. Pretty phenominal really as thing has 850 ft/Ibs or torque plus good economy helping it through a 24 hour endurance race with speeds over 220mph around twisty French roads!
I sat here watching it live on satellite TV plus had the lap top open with live links to Radio Le Mans a local broadcast English language (and humour) radio for the area covering the race and with an internet link, plus the Le Mans home page had live chrono timing on each car with it's position and laptimes, and 'Racing for Holland' even had a live screen of their race car telemetry direct from the pits to the web.................... until they binned it!;o) Isn't technology cool!!!
I know I'm luckier than most having gone 3 times before but that actually makes it worse as sitting here on my sweaty arse is no cpmpensation for being there. When a good mate said to me on my first tour "Welcome to the wasting of the middle weekend of June for the rest of your life"......... by God he was right!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yours, desolate, despondant, but determined never to let the boys down again.
Mark![Smile :) :)](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png)
I couldn't go this year and Christ have I taken abuse off my Mates!
Text messages questioning my sexuality for missing a petrolhead beer tour does make a grown man feel uncomfortable.... but hey it's the least amount of sympathy they'd expect from me if they let the boys down! ha ha
So Audi won this year with a 5.5l V12 diesel. Pretty phenominal really as thing has 850 ft/Ibs or torque plus good economy helping it through a 24 hour endurance race with speeds over 220mph around twisty French roads!
I sat here watching it live on satellite TV plus had the lap top open with live links to Radio Le Mans a local broadcast English language (and humour) radio for the area covering the race and with an internet link, plus the Le Mans home page had live chrono timing on each car with it's position and laptimes, and 'Racing for Holland' even had a live screen of their race car telemetry direct from the pits to the web.................... until they binned it!;o) Isn't technology cool!!!
I know I'm luckier than most having gone 3 times before but that actually makes it worse as sitting here on my sweaty arse is no cpmpensation for being there. When a good mate said to me on my first tour "Welcome to the wasting of the middle weekend of June for the rest of your life"......... by God he was right!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yours, desolate, despondant, but determined never to let the boys down again.
Mark
![Smile :) :)](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png)