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Offline DelBoy

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Name the Year
« on: March 27, 2006, 11:47:09 pm »
OK.....this section has been a bit quiet recently.

Fairly easy one this for most of you....name the year.

You cant see it from the picture, but it is No 6.

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Re: Name the Year
« Reply #1 on: March 28, 2006, 12:56:28 am »
1969 driven by Graham Turner?
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Re: Name the Year
« Reply #2 on: March 28, 2006, 08:38:49 am »
Am I right in thinking the car was not competing, just doing demo laps?
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Re: Name the Year
« Reply #3 on: March 28, 2006, 11:37:32 am »
Quote from: Rick Cutler on March 28, 2006, 12:56:28 am
1969 driven by Graham Turner?


 ??? I assume you mean the Graham Turner who was former manager of Wolves and Aston Villa? Rick you great big dingbat!!! I think you'll find Graham Turner is a motorsports artist. More care when Googling in future!

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Re: Name the Year
« Reply #4 on: March 28, 2006, 11:46:52 am »
 ::) ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D



I'm probably wrong with the year looking at the pits and lack of debris fencing but  didn't Jackie Ickx do a couple of demo laps in this car in 2001
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« Reply #5 on: March 28, 2006, 12:03:51 pm »
Nordic & Bob are on the right track (pun intended).  Looking at the number of cars and people in the pit lane, we're still in 'drive-past' time long before the race.

But Bob, you're way out - those pits disappeared after the '90 race (or was it after the '91 race??).

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« Reply #6 on: March 28, 2006, 12:53:02 pm »
Quote from: A Zarse esq on March 28, 2006, 11:37:32 am
Quote from: Rick Cutler on March 28, 2006, 12:56:28 am
1969 driven by Graham Turner?


 ??? I assume you mean the Graham Turner who was former manager of Wolves and Aston Villa? Rick you great big dingbat!!! I think you'll find Graham Turner is a motorsports artist. More care when Googling in future!



I have been reading a book on the history of Le Mans actually!! The number 6 and the fact it was a gt40 rang a bell
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Re: Name the Year
« Reply #7 on: March 28, 2006, 01:13:59 pm »
Quote from: Rick Cutler on March 28, 2006, 12:53:02 pm
Quote from: A Zarse esq on March 28, 2006, 11:37:32 am
Quote from: Rick Cutler on March 28, 2006, 12:56:28 am
1969 driven by Graham Turner?


 ??? I assume you mean the Graham Turner who was former manager of Wolves and Aston Villa? Rick you great big dingbat!!! I think you'll find Graham Turner is a motorsports artist. More care when Googling in future!



I have been reading a book on the history of Le Mans actually!! The number 6 and the fact it was a gt40 rang a bell

And where is Graham Turner mentioned? I think he was playing for Shrewsbury Town at the time. And is that the definitive Le mans book written by Gary Linacker and Ally McCoist?  ;D
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« Reply #8 on: March 28, 2006, 01:19:06 pm »
Quote from: Rick Cutler on March 28, 2006, 12:53:02 pm

I have been reading a book on the history of Le Mans actually!! The number 6 and the fact it was a gt40 rang a bell



Derek Bell??  No - he wasn't driving this car either.   ;) ;) ;)

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« Reply #9 on: March 28, 2006, 01:26:11 pm »
Quote from: DelBoy on March 28, 2006, 01:19:06 pm
Quote from: Rick Cutler on March 28, 2006, 12:53:02 pm

I have been reading a book on the history of Le Mans actually!! The number 6 and the fact it was a gt40 rang a bell



Derek Bell??  No - he wasn't driving this car either.   ;) ;) ;)

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Very good Del. Laughed so much I now feel Ickx.  :D
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Re: Name the Year
« Reply #10 on: March 28, 2006, 05:45:09 pm »
I would say it has to be later than 82 when the armco on the straight was replaced by concrete.

So I would guess at 1985.

Don't think Graham Turner was racing that year!
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« Reply #11 on: March 28, 2006, 06:04:01 pm »
Spot on, Nordic.

The car originally won in '69 with Ickx and Oliver, and was driven here by Ickx on a 'lap of honour'.  Everyone expected him to have a blast around the circuit, but it took him about 10 mins to get round.

Bit of a trick one that - and it did catch a few out.

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« Reply #12 on: March 28, 2006, 06:09:41 pm »
Come to think of it, I think I'm wrong about Ickx driving it on that display lap.  That came a few years later.

IIRC, Ickx was driving a Rothmans Porsche with Jochen Mass in the race that year.

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« Reply #13 on: March 28, 2006, 06:38:33 pm »
Another couple of interesting ones, from the race that year:

One of Bob Tullius' Group 44 Jags



And the Emka Aston Martin, driven by (among others) Tiff Needell.  It led for a short while, but eventually finished 10th or 11th.

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« Reply #14 on: March 28, 2006, 06:43:59 pm »
And finally, one for Martini - just see it disappearing into the heads.

Driven by Pescarolo, would you believe.

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