[Dj Dirk]

anybody going to Le Mans Classic on 23-24-25/07/2004?

i'll be there normally for all 3 days, IMO this will be better then the 24 Hours of Le Mans

 

[toco004]

Where is that going to be? :green:

 

[DJ]

Dirk,
unable to make it for a 3-day trip.(the wife would be all to happy to kill me in a very slow and painfull way because I left her alone with the 5 little munsters do drive her crazy during the holidays).A single day trip would be possible, even if it would be needed to leave at 0.00 H at night.
Jurgen

 

[Dj Dirk]

yes well, i MIGHT have to cut back on 1 day, since my dayjob is giving me hard time on getting that day off, at the moment they can't say for certain since it's a bit busy at work
so most likelly i will be driving off around 2 in the saterday morning, Le Mans is about 5.5 hours driving.
you are welcome to go along with me & kevin, altough we are only returning sunday evening/night (sunday evening = traffic around paris = HELL :evil: )
and i believe you can only by normal entrance tickets now, kevin told me that paddock cars where only available on pre-sale

 

[Claudy]

I'm looking for your Ferrari

but there are too much ferrari every where

Some pics in a few week :lol:

 

[Dj Dirk]

so i'm back home, i went for 3 days afterall, altough i did leave sunday at 1:30 pm since i wanted to leave before all traffic got stuck and i need to work tomorrow morning so i wanted to be back at some decent hour and not somewhere in the night.
Besides i didn't sleep last night since i spended the entire night besides the track taking pics :green:

ooh what a lovelly event it was (altough organisation was a bit of a mess)
but the amount of cars there was more then satisfying and walking around the track was also loads of fun ofcourse

 

[250GTO/64]

Dirk,

I can´t wait to see some pictures of it! Looks like a very nice event! I´ve never been at Le Mans, so perhaps something to look after in 2005!

 

[Dj Dirk]

Dirk,

I can´t wait to see some pictures of it! Looks like a very nice event! I´ve never been at Le Mans, so perhaps something to look after in 2005!

yes its very nice, and i will be going back
but you will have to wait till 2006, it's only every 2 years

i also had a ride along an oldtimer bus around the track, that was pretty amazing aswell, especially since the concours entered le mans cars where out on the track aswell, wich got me some great pics from out the bus while they where passing us

 

[Claudy]

Here 4 pages by someone 8)

Photos

:lol:

 

[Dj Dirk]

are those yours Claudy?

you had great seats in that tribune.
also did you stayed during the night?

here's a shot of mine during the start of the sunrise

 

[Claudy]

No, it' s not my pics

I stayed 1 hour after midnight only


Your pic is excellent, very nice DINO 246 GT 1969 with the sunrise :lol:

 

[Dj Dirk]

cool, when will have some pics up then?

and yep, the sunrise pics came out pretty good, altough i wasn't happy with the sunrise itself, the colour shading wasn't that big unfortunually

and man around 5 in the morning it started to get REALLY cold around the track

 

[Dj Dirk]

or how about a night shot
this was at 3:15 :green:

 

[Dj Dirk]

or do you preffer daytime?

 

[senna21]

for some great pics go here:

http://www.motorsport.com/photos/select.asp?Y=2004&S=VINTAGE&E=Le_Mans_Classic/Saturday-G1-Paddock

Ferrari 246S

Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta 1960

Ferrari 250 GT TdF 1958

And lots, lots more.

 

[senna21]

had to include these:

Ferrari 365 GTB, 4 GR IV 1974

One of my all time favorites! Porsche 911 RSR 3,0l 1975

A rare Bird here: Ferrari 308 GT4 Le Mans 1974

 

[Rosso]

Wow, more nice pictures, both of you. Must have beena great event to see in person.

 

[Dj Dirk]

Wow, more nice pictures, both of you. Must have beena great event to see in person.

you bet, cant wait to go back there in 2006

 

[Stradale]

The beauty of watching these "Classic Race Cars" at places like Le Mans is, they're cars that we see in the showrooms before. It's so easy to connect them to our road cars. Now the cars are one-offs and they don't look anything like the cars in the showrooms. I'd like Le Mans to limit their cars to those of the FIA GT and N-GT class only. Lets leave the Audi and the Bentley prototypes out.

 

[Dj Dirk]

nonononooooooo
i want the prototypes
they are so kick-ass, and have an amazing car, just stand behind them during a pitstop, just gorgeous