Marc
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countdown to le mans 2004
Prodrive returns to the Le Mans 24 Hour in June this year, in a fight to retain its GTS title won in 2003.
Two Ferrari 550 GTS Maranellos will be meticulously prepared for Care Racing at our Banbury workshops for the ultimate challenge of speed of endurance. They will be driven by five of the world’s leading circuit racers and one rookie, who has never raced a sports car in anger, let alone completed a lap of the eight mile street circuit. However, he has the undoubted talent and commitment to compete with the best in the world.
Colin McRae is now a rare breed. He has shown he is able to compete at the highest levels on track and stage, harking back to an era of British greats like Moss and Surtees, who regularly competed in different motorsport series.
During the 24 hours, he will have to demonstrate the same pace which has won him 25 World Rallies, as he shares driving duties with two experienced sports car drivers: Rickard Rydell, the Swede, who is a former British Touring Car Champion and an experienced Prodrive Ferrari 550 GTS racer; and Darren Turner, who drove a Prodrive Ferrari at Le Mans in 2003. They will not only have to meet the challenge of other GTS teams, but also the second Prodrive Ferrari driven by the formidable trio of Alain Menu, Tomas Enge and Peter Kox.
Week by week, you can see the preparation of McRae’s Ferrari 550 GTS Maranello as it goes from a bare bodyshell to a 600 plus horsepower, 200 mph racing car, by clicking on the links to the right.
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Marc
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L33 LEG
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Registered: 6th Jan 03
Location: Blackburn . Drove: Dimma Saxo VTR
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ye ive jst been watchin TV and heard that colin mccrae is in a ferrari
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cargraphics4u.com
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Registered: 4th Feb 04
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i shall be going again this year hopefully. Anyone else going or been down before?
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MC Kustoms
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Registered: 6th Aug 02
Location: Luton
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when is it and how much 2 go watch
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Ned
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I flew down 2 years ago, Think I might drive down this year, CS convoy anybody?
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cargraphics4u.com
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It's not too expensive from what i can remember, depending on how you do it. You can stay in a hotel, or camp, drive down or fly down. IMO driving down and camping is the best option. If you camp try to get a place on a campsite called le houx annexe. (this is the one with the most partys/fireworks/tunes etc). Dates are 12-13 June this year.
www.lemans.org
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