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3 Jun 2006, 15:30
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the LM cars you fell in love with that you never thought you would?
hiya people,
this thread is made to get you to reveal what your favorite sportscar racer is but the one you thought you would never fall in love with.
my love affait with sportscars started with just 1 car, the lola T98/10 DAMS run car that raced at lemans in 1999 i loved that car so much and when i went to see the LMES last year at silverstone i fell in love with a car i did not even really know about, the del bello noel courage C65 mecachrome, i just loved the way it looked with the orange light covers, the engine sounded do different from the rather humdrum at the time judd V8's which everyone seemed to be using in LMP2, it sounded mad and ballistic almost like a BTCC car gone very angry and loud all of a sudden, and i fell in love with the felbamayer porsche 911 GT3 RS, i later found out that the driver of this porsche was staying at the same hotel i was staying in for the 2 nights i stayed there in towcester.
so i ask people fire away on the underdog machinery as i like to call it 
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3 Jun 2006, 16:04
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Well, that LMES meeting at Silverstone last year was, sadly enough, my first taste of LMP action, even if I have been to goodness knows how many GT races. But I did surprise myself by taking an odd shining to the new Pilbeam. They've changed the engine now, though.
Another car is one that didn't race at Le Mans, but it's a car I never thought I'd be cheering on. The Ultima GTR - hardly a pretty looking car, nor has it ever really been particularly competitive. In fact for a little while about 5 years ago I generally resented anything that wasn't a Lister or a Marcos, and thought the Ultima was particularly ugly at the time. Yet in '05 it was the saviour of the BGT Donington race I visited - easily the loudest thing there, making the nicest noise (the noise means a lot to me, the TVR's were great, too), spitting out the biggest flames and generally being something that wasn't a Porsche or a Ferrari. Through rose-tinted specs it reminded me of BGT's "golden" days, even though I kinda hated the car back then.
I'm also something of a Morgan fan even though a lot of people I know seem to think they're daft...
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3 Jun 2006, 18:19
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I'm also something of a Morgan fan even though a lot of people I know seem to think they're daft...
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I'm with you on the Aero8 - in the event that the lottery ticket ever comes in I'd be tempted by a serious campaign in one of those - sure there's all sorts of reasons why its a daft idea but the sheer drama of them but why not?
As for the nuts choices - I warmed to WM when they decided that their sole mission in life was simply to propel Roger Dorchy down Les Hunaudieres as fast as at all possible. More recently I wanted to dislike MG's prototype attempt, but to be frank couldn't at all - still like them going round for Autocon and Highcroft and despite my first impressions will miss the octagon when it's gone.
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5 Jun 2006, 09:36
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I'm patriotic, usually follow a British Car, but this year ( and last ) its Pescarolo.
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5 Jun 2006, 11:42
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The Rafanelli Lola B2K/10 , the one that looks like a John Deer tractor . Lovely looking car . Reminds me a bit like a souped up Moggy Minor !!!
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5 Jun 2006, 13:38
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Les Valliant (aka Pesca) et les Leader (aka Audi R10). Bob Kramer (aka Tom K) vs. Michel Valliant (aka Seb Loeb)
this year is a comic book classic, but I love the DAMS run cars from the film - (and am trying to buy the bodywork of one of them)
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5 Jun 2006, 15:23
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I have a bit of a soft spot for slow LMP2 French entries. The Deboras and WRs of this world that really shouldn't be there, are slower than even some of the GT2s, yet are part of the uniqueness and quirkeness of Le Mans. (Sorry Ayse...)
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5 Jun 2006, 15:52
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Anything run by people like Hugh Chamberlain - who epitomise the spirit of Le Mans
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6 Jun 2006, 12:42
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Anything run by people like Hugh Chamberlain - who epitomise the spirit of Le Mans
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Absolutely spot on Mal. And I'm going to pick those lovely Lotuses (Loti?) from 1993 in particular.
I was also going to vehemently disagree with Allon, but looking at it again I have to concede he's entirely correct.......... 
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6 Jun 2006, 22:49
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Originally Posted by ss_collins
Les Valliant (aka Pesca) et les Leader (aka Audi R10). Bob Kramer (aka Tom K) vs. Michel Valliant (aka Seb Loeb)
this year is a comic book classic, but I love the DAMS run cars from the film - (and am trying to buy the bodywork of one of them)
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I dunno.... Lola B98/10-"Peugeot" (actually Roush-Ford) - Vaillant, and Panoz - Leader -- I was there when they were shooting that movie 
(Not a patch on the original TV series which was top stuff - full of great 60s F3 and sports car action).
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5 Jun 2006, 18:45
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That very noisy wailing banschee Mazda thing. Howling the night away
It had 3 very rapid F1 drivers who seemed to want to thrash the whatit's of it so they could go home as soon as it broke !
However it held together and only after 23 3/4 hours they realised they had it won and reduced the revs by a semi quarter of a tad.
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5 Jun 2006, 21:56
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Being biased as you can probably guess from my moniker, I loved the sound of the Ferrari 333SP wail......but THAT Mazda rotary was just amazing. Never heard anything like it, before or since !
High revving atmo's do it for me. 
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26 Jun 2006, 14:27
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Originally Posted by SL
That very noisy wailing banschee Mazda thing. Howling the night away
It had 3 very rapid F1 drivers who seemed to want to thrash the whatit's of it so they could go home as soon as it broke !
However it held together and only after 23 3/4 hours they realised they had it won and reduced the revs by a semi quarter of a tad.
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anybody have any pics or audio of the mazda? wasnt lucky enough to have had access to racing programmin back then so only seen little pics of it in traffic and never had the chance to hear it run.
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6 Jun 2006, 12:46
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Doin' the Oakey Cokey....
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Also the Mazda (nee Jaguar) from 1992. That car looked the mutts nuts and its performance in the first few laps (when driven splendidly by Volker Weidler) made it worth going for me - when so many others couldn't be bothered.........
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6 Jun 2006, 13:08
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Being English to the core I should have hated the Atmo peugeots but they were different and somehow they had that something, can't explain it but a joy to watch especially on the mulsanne.
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