Turn 10 / Le Mans Winners Enter Sebring

[Chris24]

Certainly a very fast hot hatchback if that is the case !

[Fax]

Have to remember that to a helluva lot of Americans, when they think of a British car they think of a wheezing, rusting MGB that goes on two cylinders every time you hit a puddle or a hideously expensive Jag or Rolls they'll never be able to afford.
Fax

[Martini...LB]

TVR
Still got their poster on the wall in my study (boxroom)

Beut

Martini...

[chop456]

I liked them.  I thought the purple & orange livery was tight, too.

[chop456]

Here's another from the same 2001 Road America vintage meet.  It seems like the number has been changed, as the photo site only lists # 33's.  The sale sheet listed it as an ex-Alesi car and if I recall, the asking price was $375,000.

I offerred my daughter in trade but they said they could only accept girls 18 or older. 

[Fax]

Wonder if thats the same chassis that turned into a rolling bonfire on Dominic Dobson during the '89 24 Hours.  Think he was sharing the Takefuji car with Alesi and Will Hoy.
Fax

[Chris24]

Jesus Lee, I have just been searching through your site and found all sorts of treasures. Many that i have seen before but  hadn't realised who the artist was.

I had the Earnhardt tribute wallpaper on my desk top for ages and never knew who made it.

Have you considered putting a book together of your work like Sam Bass has done.

I really like the Al Unser Jnr Valvoline painting and the Bud / Castrol Jag Sebring painting. Are these available as posters or prints ?

See you at Sebring soon.

[Lee Self]

I have posters of the Valvoline/Little Al


the Bud/Castrol is the art from the Sebring '88 race poster.


I still have a few of those left. Like I said above. I'll be sure to bring
some posters with me out to Turn 10.

25 days till the gates open. woo-hoo

-Lee

[Lee Self]

History Lesson, Sebring style:

Sebring 1978 - Pace car Porsche 934 - Old pit boxes from the back


Sebring 1979 - Factory Customer 935


Sebring 1980 - Porsche 935 Kremer K3


Evolution happens fast...

-Lee
"Working to stay right at the top under the stickies till the race!"

[Nordic]

Great shots of the 935's, like the look of your book as well.

Prefer the Joest 935 or the K4 to the K3, but impresive cars, none the less.

Do you recall the smell of them when they went past, very different to any thing else.

Good as the Aston or Corvette etc are, these where much better.
K4
http://rupert8766.fotopic.net/p2780286.html
935J
http://rupert8766.fotopic.net/p3255420.html

[Lorry]

I know nostalgia is not what it used to be, but aren't these cars wonderful.  I'd rather have one 935 or 962 that a dozen Audis.  Brilliant pictures too

[Fax]

Disagree Lorry,
Nostalgia is everything when it comes to motor racing for me.  The sport as a whole is a pathetic shadow of what it once was.  The ALMS and Moto GP come the closest to reminding me of the way things used to be.  As you said give me a grid full of 962's, 935's & BMW 320 turbos over today's Audi's, and the rest anyday.  In those days (seventies through mid-eighties) you saw the cars & drivers on the limit, today everyone drones around on rails, they may very well be on the limit, but the theater is gone. Racing was all about the senses, visual, smells & sounds.
Its all a made for TV extravangaza now.
Fax

[Snoring Rhino]

Quite so Fax, but in 10 -15 years time some will look back at the Audi's and appreciate them along side the Group C's, 956's etc, time moves on and we will all have our favourites.

[Canada Phil]

Hi Lee,
          Thanks for the picture of the old pits... just as i remember them. I like the new ones too but do miss just being able to dash up the stairs to the roof.
Canada Phil

[Fax]

IRW,
There are certainly some things about todays sport that people will look back on and think "those were the days"
But I doubt (in my eyes anyway) it will be the Audi's.  We would have had some damn good racing over the past four or five years without them around.
Fax