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It Happened To Me / Re:Youre Nicked 2004

« on: June 21, 2005, 05:35:44 pm »

Had a scare between rouen and calis on monday return with a little golf police car hiding behind an embankment as I was approaching 170 clicks. Someone on other side gave me a flash, but I wasn't sure if it was a heads up, but luckily, the alfa in front heeded (I was using him as a pace maker) and we were dropping speed  quite a bit as we came past them.  

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It Happened To Me / Re:Speedferries

« on: June 21, 2005, 05:32:38 pm »

made our crossing from calais with just 5 mins to spare (5:45)

Luckily we set the sat nav to avoid Paris and go via rouen, once we hit the diversion we then got it to take us via country roads. When we got to Rouen, about 1:30pm I asked a BMW driver beside me what time he'd left le mans.. he said 9:00 - so we'd done good time as we'd left at 10:45am

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It Happened To Me / Re:Following The Pace Car Around LeMans Post Qual

« on: June 21, 2005, 05:29:42 pm »

LMAO  

Never thought to start the stop watch..

razy thing was I just pulled in behind pits, got out of the car and walked to a marshall and asked for directions to the exit... No one stopped us, moaned or seemed surprised to see us there!

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It Happened To Me / Following The Pace Car Around LeMans Post Qual

« on: June 21, 2005, 03:18:30 pm »

i there peeps
Was my first visit to le mans this year and was totally reliant on satnav to get there.. As a result I had the experience of a lifetime which just added to an absolutley brilliant weeked.
Big thanks to the Drinking for Holland guys, you guys know how to party

If you taped qualy, have a look at it, when they show the standings at end, see if you can see a blue zara picasso following the pace car around! We arrivered at Le Mans at 12:05AM, our sat nav was directing us to porsche curves campsite, I take a right, and we join the track at Tetre Rouge, ahead of us flashing yellows, behind us flashing bluse.. Then the pace car comes around and picks us up, as we pass the wreck of a GT car being collected by marshalls after Arnage. We sail thru indianapolis, collecting gravel as we go, before we finally pull into (just behind) pits as we approach the final chicanes... We done a lap of le mans, behind a pace car straight after qaulifying because our nav sent us wrong.. Don't ask us how we ended up on track to do a lap, but we did and in a crapy picasso.. An experience I'll never forget. (and yes we have video and photos) and wih race cars still on track and a pace car in front (Quote"don't pass the pace car chris" "I won't otherwise I'll get a black flag"