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Butler
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28th Jan 09 at 20:23   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Brave move!! Cant see it outpacing the diesels at Le Mans...

http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/news/autoexpressnews/233761/aston_martin_lmp1.html
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28th Jan 09 at 21:42   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Is that in the same class as the bentley?
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28th Jan 09 at 23:29   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by sand-eel
Is that in the same class as the bentley?

Same class as the Bentley was yes, that was pre diesel era though.
Sean-B
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28th Jan 09 at 23:31   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
petrol = fail in lemans tbf

[Edited on 28-01-2009 by Sean-B]
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28th Jan 09 at 23:44   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
good point why did they make it petrol
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28th Jan 09 at 23:46   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
considering the rules are baised towards diesels to encourage them its just silly, the pescalaros are the fastest petrols at the moment and are no where near the pace of the dervs.
RCS
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Prodrive are behind this. Should be interesting seeing as its been decided this late.
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29th Jan 09 at 02:12   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Ive always had alot of respect for Henri sticking with petrols, main reason pescarolo have always been my favourite team in the lmp1 class. In the article it basically says that aston want to show off their road car engines, the engine in the LMP1 car will be that of the dbr9, and want the challenge of beating diesels with a petrol engine and trying to show off the skills of the british engineering team. Good luck to them I say! Should be interesting anyway.
myke
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29th Jan 09 at 10:47   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
This is interesting.
I'll be supporting them, but expect them to get trounced by the pugs and audi's.
Should be a good race aston v pescarolo though.

I wonder if the GT1's will suffer as a result of most of the effort going towards the prototypes?
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Dervs are having more restrictions this year to make them closer.
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29th Jan 09 at 14:28   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Will they still run in the GT1 class though? I have always enjoyed the corvette and astons rivalry

 
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