It was hard to make a choice from so many wonderful shots, but here are just a few. It was a great race and our congratulations go to the Audi team for an amazing effort! … [Read more...]
Le Mans Post No.1
It’s Thursday evening and with the Wednesday night’s opening rounds of practice and qualifying behind us, the action is well and truly under way at this year’s Le Mans 24-Hours to finalise the grid for the big race on Saturday. In some ways Wednesday’s qualifying produced the expected Audi contingent occupying the top of the leader board, but it wasn’t all one-way traffic as … [Read more...]
Le Mans 24 Hours … one week to go
With just a week to go until the big race, this will understandably be a bumper blog, as there is just so much to report. Marking their return to Le Mans, the ACO will honour the manufacturer Toyota by inviting Mr. Takeshi Uchiyamada, Vice President and Director of the Toyota Motor Corporation, to start the 80th 24-Hour race at 15h00 on Saturday 16 June. On 14th June at … [Read more...]
Le Mans 24 Hours …. Eight Weeks to go
Each Friday, between today and the 8th June, VMP will bring you an update on the latest from Le Mans, bringing us up to the week of the 24-Hour race when we will be stationed in the press centre in the lead up to the greatest race on the planet. There are just eight Fridays to go before the week that is the Le Mans 24-Hours! It seems incomprehensible that it was almost a … [Read more...]
Corn Flakes and rocket cars
Back when this writer was a little boy, and that is quite some considerable time back, breakfast time used to be a meal that I looked forward to with much enthusiasm, and it wasn’t because I was particularly hungry. No, you see, it was something much more obscure that caused me to race down the passage into our dining room and grab the Kellogg’s Corn Flakes every morning, it … [Read more...]
Race Tech World Motorsport Symposium
Last week the great and the good of the motorsport industry gathered at Oxford Brookes to discuss new projects and developments in various fields within the world of motorsport (9-10 January 2012). They came from far and wide and from many different classes in the sport of racing making for a fascinating event, and which I was fortunate enough to attend. Hosted by the … [Read more...]
