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Offline aricus654

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Garage 56
« on: January 13, 2016, 09:13:19 am »
Hi!

Have there been any more announcements around Garage 56? I know that it was intended to be quadruple amputee Frédéric Sausset, but I haven't heard anything more.

Maybe they should invite Nissan back for G56!

I'm sure that it was as whacky as almost anything we've seen so far.  



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« Last Edit: January 13, 2016, 09:16:43 am by aricus654 »
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Re: Garage 56
« Reply #1 on: January 13, 2016, 10:19:26 am »
Sausset will race at LM, in a Morgan LMP2.
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Re: Garage 56
« Reply #2 on: January 13, 2016, 10:48:25 am »
I hope one day we'll see this one: http://www.greengt.com/en/news.php
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Re: Garage 56
« Reply #3 on: January 14, 2016, 03:19:01 am »
I hope one day we'll see this one: http://www.greengt.com/en/news.php


Hi Werner,
               Me too. I hope that program is still alive and being developed.
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Re: Garage 56
« Reply #4 on: April 19, 2016, 03:09:23 pm »
Was chatting with the team at Silverstone at the weekend, and I was able to observe one of Freds driver changes.

He may not be the fastest of drivers, but he is dedicated. A great way of getting him in/out - a scaffold pole with strops looped so he can be lifted in/out under the armpits. He steers via a modified prosthetic right arm, it has (what looks like) a gas pipe connector grafted on, and he literally plugs into a steering rod. Amazing
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Re: Garage 56
« Reply #5 on: April 19, 2016, 10:28:05 pm »
Huge respect - I'll be with some of the H4H Dakar team this weekend and I think he may come up as a topic of conversion.

BTW:  I loved the audio commentary which said they had a specialist lifting rig to help him into the car...

...as the video feed showed the scaffolding pole with lifting strops.

Fred has my vote at Le Mans.
« Last Edit: April 19, 2016, 10:29:45 pm by Landy_Jon »