Dateline Circuit De la Sarthe, Le Mans, France:
Davey: Hi Folks your old Pal Davey Lugnuts here for another addition of "insane" Motorsports coverage. We find ouselves at the truly pristine location of the famed circuit for the "24 heurs du Mans".
This event was more of a "lets have fun in a really fast street car" than an actual racing event. so our boys strapped on their choice of land rocket and some semi sticky R compound street tires and let it all hang out! an for more on "hanging out" (wink wink) lets go down to our lovely pit reporter Bonnie Lugnuts!
Bonnie: Thanks davey it's great to be back in the mix here! I couldn't resist being in this gorgeous place to get some, er um I mean, cover the action! Our boys put on quite a show today! The cars were very fast and the courage was high to complete this circuit. Lets talk w/ the ever present Eric Nelson and get his thoughts on the day. ( rolls the eyes )UM hello Eric..............
Eric: HI Bonnie great to see you again! it was quite the event today! The choices of cars was magnificant. Viper, Audi R8, Gumpart appollo were available to all! But if you wanted to win the event, you strapped on the Konisigg CCX land missle! I frankly didn't have the courage to drive that car for the event as it was soooooooooooo friggin fast we knew we would never complete 10 laps. MOMO has let us down in the steering department in this car as it just hunted all over the road at 220 MPH +! NOt to mention that really scary jump at the end of Mulsanne. heres a video of waht can happen there!
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So the boys set off on the openeing lap without major incident right off.
For an exihibition race that y really pushed pretty hard on the opening lap. It appeared that "no quarter would be given" and the push was on. even at 220 MPH in the fastest corners they were very close to a calamity at any moment! check this opening lap photo out!
It was obvious that if you wanted to do well then you had to strap on your balls and get at it! Sound good Bonnie?
Bonnie: If you took me to a nice cafe to eat and ordered some fabulaous red wine I just might. So how did the race go for you?
Eric: Well Bonnie I took laps in that CCX thing and it was just too much for our steering system. Had we been near another car on the mulsanne straight we would have contacted them and took too many of our friends out. the damn thing would drift line to line on me no matter what I did! Maybe a G25 is going to get ordered afterall....... here and example of why I chose not to CCX today.
So I opted for the R8 and the strategy was to out last the other guys by trying the Mr. Magoo pace and surviving. We out lasted many of our esteemed colleagues but got lapped twice by the winner! how embarrassing. watching the timing readout and using our mirror to be sure I was way to the left side of the road when the leaders came HURTLING through at 100 MPH closing speeds was the right thing to do.
The audi R8 is a strong car! this was evidenced by me bouncing it off something on every friggin side! then after a nice battle w/ Tim Miller we had contact head on at T3. I had let him by as he was clearly quicker ATM. I am pushing a bit harder now to maintain a gap and there he is PARKED at T3! Am I surprised?
You decide..........
So after all the fun in Race 1 and a decent finish in the points. I am thinking I will get crushed in race 2 as there is NOBODY this slow to race. The boys set off and Keith Barrick somehow cooks the rear tires in the CCX. So surprised that happened and the red viper gets collected up!
Thats me in the red R8 finally on the rightside of the road and giving a ton of room to the rest of us to get by.
after this I Lag stuff my car into a solid black/white post at T1 and the race is over! who the hell puts a solid post on a race course? there is an ARMCO barrier behind the posts for goodness sake! so while I am trying to get off the posts I get crushed by ther poor guy in the red viper and I believe he DNF's too.
Bonnie:So what s your take on this event Eric? Was it up to the billing?
Eric:It was fun! I would do it again in these cars and just try to hang on to a CCX I suppose....But if you did this again in a touring car where we could be equal and DRAFT like JEff Gordon it would be AWESOME!
LETS RACE WTCC 87! Thanks to Yves Larose( winner R1) and Race department for another creative fun event!
So are you done here Bonnie? how about that dinner and wine? we can go to my Motorcoach etc.....
Bonnie: What would we do there Eric?
Eric: oh I can think of a few things Bonnie. Come Tomorrow morning you'll either want to marry me........................or press Charges :rotfl:
BACK TO YOU DAVEY!
