Nah....its more fun watching the French fail....
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Nah....its more fun watching the French fail....
I always thought the Porsche GT1 Evo 98 was an interesting competitor. It was a funny looking (actually, I quite like the way it looks) car and won against the much faster competition... thanks to its reliability.
[quote=Matra et Alpine;991812]:cough: it took a small team in England to make the GT40 a success :)[/quote]
They still had the big corporation's money, though. ;)
[quote=Ferrer;991824]They still had the big corporation's money, though. ;)[/quote]
I meant it in the context of the Italian spend at the time :)
Team size was the bigger restriction back then, no computers and regular wind tunnels consuming $Ms back then :)
In a similar vane, her is a blog I worked on about the legendary formula one rivals - it's a top ten list.
[URL="http://www.evanshalshaw.com/Blog/blog-rush-top-ten-greatest-f1-rivalries.html"]http://www.evanshalshaw.com/Blog/blog-rush-top-ten-greatest-f1-rivalries.html[/URL]
I'm a newbie so if it's not quite right for the forum then just ignore this post, as I don't want to intrude on your community or irritate regular members.
[quote=Matra et Alpine;991812]:cough: it took a small team in England to make the GT40 a success :)
and success outside of La Sarthe I didn't even think was up for consideration as it's a Club L'Ouest anniversary and award :)
and yes it's a bit of fun ... and there's no more fun than winding up a fan :) :)[/quote]
Actually it took a small group in California to make 'Ford' a success at first and the a very small privateer team in the UK to make the small block GT40 a success.
And to be frank, I stopped enjoying LM around Y2K.
Detest the current cars.
:cool:
Nice use of the term Y2K. What caused your indifference?
[URL="http://www.borro.com/uk/borro-blog/le-mans-best-of-british"]Best British cars at Le Mans[/URL]
Article I saw on Reddit, misses out some notable winners, but a decent recap of British teams/cars/winners.