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Club Arnage / General Discussion / Re: Right, 2011 for sure
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on: June 17, 2010, 10:41:58 am
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not an expert on this, BUT, dates need to be ratified by the FiA? I'm sure they will, though this is usually done at the end of the year or thereabouts?
In the past that has certainly been the case. I wonder though that this year (for next year), because of the significant rule changes the ACO has got an early agreement with the FiA to give potential entrants enough lead time to develop their cars, plus with new leadership at the FiA maybe the stance and co-operation between the ACO and FiA has changed slightly. Also, did I not see footage or hear of Jean Todt being present at some point over the weekend? I thought that the FIA only got involved with dates for FIA sanctioned championships, I don't think LM comes under them. Although the 24hrs is not an FiA event, the LM Bugatti circuit is and the ACO do run FiA events, so they have to be civil to eachother. Plus the GT regs in recent years have become aligned between the ACO and FiA, so there is a subtle common ground emerging. |
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Club Arnage / General Discussion / Re: Right, 2011 for sure
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on: June 17, 2010, 08:28:53 am
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not an expert on this, BUT, dates need to be ratified by the FiA? I'm sure they will, though this is usually done at the end of the year or thereabouts?
In the past that has certainly been the case. I wonder though that this year (for next year), because of the significant rule changes the ACO has got an early agreement with the FiA to give potential entrants enough lead time to develop their cars, plus with new leadership at the FiA maybe the stance and co-operation between the ACO and FiA has changed slightly. Also, did I not see footage or hear of Jean Todt being present at some point over the weekend? |
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Club Arnage / General Discussion / Re: 2010 Le Mans T-Shirts
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on: April 30, 2010, 09:45:43 am
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Could 100 years of Alfa Romeo provide the theme for this year's t-shirt? The Tipo 33/2 or /3 perhaps.  I was thinking of the same myself - you could add a 1930s 8C (howe/birkin/sommer/chinetti/nuvolari etc) and perhaps a TZ or TZ2? I don't think the 'traditional' CA t-shirt is happening for the 2010 event. Others are in discussion about getting various other items of clothing done. |
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Club Arnage / General Discussion / Re: 2010 Le Mans T-Shirts
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on: March 25, 2010, 05:23:03 pm
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Other than the time, effort and hassel  , etc, I might try and get something going with the t-shirts. If those that have done them before are willing to share the know-how (but don't have the time or energy to do it again this year) and if there is demand, then I might be persuaded. I know feck all about design and graphics, so would need help with that. But finding a supplier (use last year's?), chasing people and being a general pain.......then I can try. Is it not too late? |
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Club Arnage / General Discussion / Re: stirling moss accident
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on: March 09, 2010, 08:37:47 am
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Apparently his whole house if full of electric gadgets from the 60s, such as power assisted curtains, with lots of little buttons and lights. I suspect the lift was made by the same people rather than a lift company
I think the actual lift is made of carbon fibre and was designed by Frank Williams........but maybe he didn't design the control system. |
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Club Arnage / General Discussion / Re: CA Camp at Bleu Nord is go!!!!
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on: December 16, 2009, 08:51:29 am
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Like all things in life, there is never going to be a way that is fair to everyone as everyone has different views. If it was a fair world we would all be able to buy the tickets that we want from the ACO and not have to endure the lottery system that they have now.
So basically a first come, first serve system is going to have to be the fairest way for such things. So long as your group contains a Club Arnage member, then they are ok to buy pitches on the Club Arnage site. It would be wrong to put a restriction on who can apply for a pitch by the number of years they have been a member or number of posts.
That would be being elite ist and then who would decide where to draw the line, as Club Arnage is a forum for everybody, its not an army or organisation with a pecking order.
Lets not lose sight of the fact that the camp site isn't ours, its the ACO's campsite and we or in fact Team Langoustine only have an allocation for pitches on the site which they chose to offer via the Club Arnage forum first. So it should be up to Team Langoustine to ultimately decide who they accept applications from, so long as they meet the critetia of being a Club Arnage member or part of a group which includes Club Arnage memebrs.
Some members for example have been registered on the forum for years, but for their own reasons have chosen not to post on the forum but do read and keep up with whats going on, on a daily basis. The reasons they don't get invloved with posting is because of all the silly bickering so they would preffer to keep their distance.
It also tickles me to think that it was only 3 years ago that alot of people on this forum looked down their noses on the Bleu Nord campsite and were disgusted at the prospect of being put on there instead of Maison Blanche.
For some of us, Bleu Nord has been our campsite of choice for over 10 years because we wanted to be on there, but now that Maison Blanche is not longer available and everyone else has been trying to get on Bleu Nord as the only alternative its made our life more difficult.
It would be interesting to know how many people that are on BN now would bolt at the first opportunity and go back to MB if they were offered tickets.
Thanks for the support Debs and Barry, and I generally agree with Chris24. I have been on BN for several years now, and in the past BS, KN, Houx and HA. In fact, one of the few I have not been on is MB! So not sure I would be making a bolt if it was offered. Anyway, I understand the principle of first come first serve. Obviously our group were slower to decide if LM 2010 was a goer or not, hence we lost out. As I said, time to think of a plan B..... Something will hopefully present itself. I certainly did not want to be the one to start another heated discussion on here. |
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