My Le Mans 2009 pics (many pics)

[FartKong]

Here is a small selection of the many many pics I took at Le Mans this year. It was another fantastic year. The rain stopped the day before we got there and started again just as we were leaving Le Mans.
We were backing Aston Martin all the way and it would have been amazing if they had managed a podium but to get to 4th was still amazing and I had a lump in my throat as both cars crossed the line together.
Im still knackered three days later from lack of sleep but here are the pics and roll on next year!

Edited by FartKong on Thursday 18th June 21:34

[jameswhitburn]

hey saw you guys on motorway in the white integra , i was in black CTR with gulf stripe. Love the sound of you vtec ing past me !
im assuming you have a large cone air filter from the sound ?

[FartKong]

Forgot to say we took a wrong turn on the way down and ended up going too far towards Paris so we took a cross country road to get back on the route to Rouen and ended up passing through the Somme. It was a really sobering experience so we stopped at one of the memorials hence the pics.

[FartKong]

jameswhitburn said:

hey saw you guys on motorway in the white integra , i was in black CTR with gulf stripe. Love the sound of you vtec ing past me !
im assuming you have a large cone air filter from the sound ?

Thanks I remember seeing your Civic it looked nice. The air filter is just a Spoon drop in which sounds only a fraction louder than standard. It was probably the Tanabe exhaust you heard?

[FartKong]

Is there an automatic picture resize on here? The pictures look badly distorted.

[Super Dan]

Must say... This pic is brilliant!

[zs]

FartKong said:

Forgot to say we took a wrong turn on the way down and ended up going too far towards Paris so we took a cross country road to get back on the route to Rouen and ended up passing through the Somme. It was a really sobering experience so we stopped at one of the memorials hence the pics.

was going to ask which one that was. went out on mon 8th - 2 days after 65th aniversary event and visited Utah beach, Omaha cemetary and Arromanche.

like the masks! and the ariel shot of the F430r from the top of the big wheel

[Tyre Smoke]

FartKong said:

Forgot to say we took a wrong turn on the way down and ended up going too far towards Paris so we took a cross country road to get back on the route to Rouen and ended up passing through the Somme. It was a really sobering experience so we stopped at one of the memorials hence the pics.

Cracking pics!

[crugbun]

Great pics, really capture the sense of the event... and everything else that goes with it.

I missed this year having been over 20 times, so thanks!

[FartKong]

zs said:

FartKong said:

Forgot to say we took a wrong turn on the way down and ended up going too far towards Paris so we took a cross country road to get back on the route to Rouen and ended up passing through the Somme. It was a really sobering experience so we stopped at one of the memorials hence the pics.

was going to ask which one that was. went out on mon 8th - 2 days after 65th aniversary event and visited Utah beach, Omaha cemetary and Arromanche.

like the masks! and the ariel shot of the F430r from the top of the big wheel

Cheers guys I tried to show a bit of everything instead of just the cars as there is so much more to the weekend than just the race itself.

ZS - That was Pozieres British Cemetery and Memorial. Around 1380 graves there.

This was only a small selection of the pics. Wish I could put them all up.

[maekm]

Thats a rare one to see, the JLOC Lambo running, I would cherish that one

Edited by maekm on Thursday 18th June 16:04

[FartKong]

Yeah bit of a joke that car.

[zs]

FartKong said:

Yeah bit of a joke that car.

but i suspect, from seeing other Murc-Rs before, the best sounding car on the track

[FartKong]

Actually unlike last years Lambo this one was a tad disappointing. The best sounding cars were BY FAR the Corvettes and Astons. The Corvettes were even louder and meaner than ever and the Astons sounded unlike anything Ive ever heard before.