Was a great event this year with some very close racing to the final minutes. I am sure our resident motorsport anorak will be along to provide pictures and correct information.

Firstly I would like to say a big thank you to a couple of people that made the event much more comfortable, enjoyable and really put themselves out to assist others:-

Firstly Nigel "The Teapot" Cornwell for his very kind offer of accomodation on the return journey and his guided tour of the local area. A good shower, bed, breakfast and good company was greatly appreciated by all. Many thanks Nigel - we owe you one.


Nigel was also demonstrating his new Blitz baffle which is reported to prevent boost creep.

Secondly Don "smiler" Boyack for sacrificing a fun journey in the GT4 to drive the support vehicle and carry most of the camping gear.


Also worth a mention is Mike, Claire and the "Bumblebee" for providing general entertainment:- (steve is in the picture though!)


Steve for getting into full french Pikey mode (but not for suggesting we purchase a 5 litre plastic barrel of "Gamay Sepage" wine which was truely horrendous but still got drank):-


And all the gang (adding the two Daves & my other half Julie)



We had a pleasantly reserved journey along the autoroutes in convoy (Le mans stickers and supercars provided soem eye candy for our journey)


A few piccies of the event :-









Roll on next year

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JP
GT4DC Treasurer

Grey St185 RC
Silver BMW E46 M3
Multicolour yawn Honda VFR400
Silver Honda Civic Type-R

JP's sentiments seconded by me. I've just finished downloading almost 1,200 pics of the trip so I will post up a select few in the next day or so.

Next year it would be nice to drive my Four so perhaps someone will be kind enough to volunteer a support vehicle...a nice Nissan Navara perhaps? (hint, hint )

Oh, almost forgot....the best bit of this years Le Mans was that Allan McNish (pronounced Macneesh by the French commentator ) won again after 11 years of trying and being cruelly robbed last year by a broken wheel nut. Top drive by him, Tom Kristensen and Dindo Capello in their Audi R10 to beat the much faster Peugeots.

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Don
GT4DC Chairman
1994 Toyota Celica GT-Four ST205WRC JDM 269bhp @ 0.9bar
1994 Toyota Celica GT-Four Special GT 590bhp @ 1.8bar
1989 Van Diemen RF88/89 Formula Ford 1600
2008 Nissan Patrol GU 3.0L ZD30DDTi 154bhp

Yet another big thanks to Nigel for sterling services as our host on Monday night. Ta very much Nigel

Group C goodness

Bratin Mundle pitwalk shots of the 24H cars
The car-in-a-box Aston and Corvette kits were most amusing

Group C pitlane walkabout dribble drool

Apparently there was some sort of race too

Looks like a great time was had by all.
Excellent pics.
...and DonIt's distinctly possible
Especially if you look at my sig

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1990 White UK Celica ST185 - Project DTM
1997 Cream BMW R1200C (as seen in James Bond "Tomorrow Never Dies")
2005 Jaguar X-type 3.0 Sovereign AWD Automatic
Blood Bikes - https://www.freewheelers.org.uk/

Fantastic pictures

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Kris
95 ST205 - slept for 10 years, now waking up...
Avensis
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Turbocharging - the replacement for displacement

Great pictures - I'll upload a few of mine later on.

To echo the others - Thanks to Nigel C for letting us stay at his house, much appreciated.

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1996 ST205 UK

http://s160.photobucket.com/albums/t187 ... ?start=all

a few more added

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JP
GT4DC Treasurer

Grey St185 RC
Silver BMW E46 M3
Multicolour yawn Honda VFR400
Silver Honda Civic Type-R