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Le Mans Test Day Blog
May 3rd, 2011
Hi Everyone, I can’t believe it’s over already. It feels like I’ve only just arrived. Sorry it’s just the one effort, this trip. I was getting back to the hotel too late to mess around with emails, and there was no internet for us at the track. We arrived at Le Mans (in a bit [...]
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April 3rd, 2011
An early start today, cars on track at 9am. Our journey to the track is about 25mins. We start at sea level and climb up the side of a mountain. The view this morning was quite eerie, looking down on the low cloud (fog?), with some random bits of land poking through. At the circuit, [...]
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April 2nd, 2011
Time to give you an idea of our working conditions. Behind the garages are all the trucks and trailers, including the Zytek truck next to the ASM truck. Opposite us, is another row of trucks, most of these with big awnings. These are the hospitality areas. I know we all do it for the love [...]
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April 1st, 2011
11.30, and back on the internet. Here’s my thoughts for the day. We’ve been at the circuit for 2 days, and the Peugeot finally stopped running at about 6pm. It was running through last night, much to the annoyance of the smug people that thought they had done so well to get a hotel near [...]
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April 1st, 2011
Hi Everyone, We’re off racing again. We’ve had a straightforward journey down to the South of France. The highlight of which, was having a grandstand view of a Car and caravan jack-knifing on the M25. It took about a mile to happen, and I think it was caused by the ‘wash’, off the front of [...]
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