Oh yes, the 88th edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans is coming! This Saturday! Due to the pandemic it will be closed to the public, but at least everyone can watch it online. Head over to 24h-Le Mans.com for the latest news and full grid.
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A few months ago Top Gear did a piece on Volkswagen’s ID.R, their full-blown racing monster. Their goal was to conquer Pike’s Peak, which they did in 2018 and then, in 2019, conquered Nürburgring. On both runs Romain Dumas was at the helm, and it’s eerie to see him going flat-out and just hearing the electric whine of the engine.
As always, Top Gear made a fantastic video, and specially nice since it’s presented by the great Chris Harris.
1938 Auto Union Typ D Pilot: Tazio Nuvolari Team: Auto Union Race: 1st place in the Donington GP of 1936 Minichamps - 400380004 (diecast)
Review HERE
Audi S1 Sport Quattro. Possibly one of the coolest models ever from Audi, and no doubt one of the coolest cars of the decade. With it’s 2.1 inline-5 engine delivering 300 hp, this specific model was one of the 200 homologation special models for Audi’s Group B rally monster. Therefore, it’s quite rare, produced only in 1983 and 1984. And Petrolicious has a very nice video on it.
Although not a “Le Mans car”, I have a very soft spot for this one. In fact, Spark just announced they will release a 1985 Monty Carlo Rally version of the car… 🤗
1968 Porsche 907 LH Pilots: D. Spoerry, R. Steinman Team: Squadra Tartaruga Race: 2nd overall (1st in P 3.0) at Le Mans in 1968 Spark - S3480(resin)
Review HERE
Thankfully it’s 1:18, therefor too big for the W-143 Garage. Because it’s EXPENSIVE – US$ 1300,00 (Classic Driver) 😲😲😲. Ultimately, however, it’s g-o-r-g-e-o-u-s! Though I’m not a big fan of weathered models, for a jewel of this caliber I would easily open an exception.
Amalgam will only make 100 models of the 1970 Daytona winner 917K, so don’t wait too long to go after yours.
I found this video on the Porsche 917 Facebook group that I follow. The author made a homage to all the pilots who lost their lives at the track, using footage from “Le Mans” to a soundtrack from George Harrison, “Faster”. Fantastic music and footage, just a shame that he accelerated the video a bit (10%?) in relation to the actual movie. One of the key aspects of “Le Mans” was that both McQueen and Lee H. Katzin did not want accelerated images for the racing scenes. At the time, a common trick to simulate speed was to speed up the camera a bit.
Still, AWESOME tune and footage.
Back in October last year I wrote about Bentley making a brand new 1929 Bentley Blower. The plan was to produce 12 new cars that are exact replicas of the original model. For that, a specialized team at Crewe, in the UK, took apart the second car of the 1929 “Team Blower” and laser-scanned every single part of the car. Recently Bentley showed photos of some of the new parts already made for the prototype model.
From the images that Bentley released, the new “Continuation Series” car will look absolutely fantastic. The cars are expected to be available by 2021, and all 12 are already spoken for. As I said before, sometimes it’s really nice to be rich…
2008 Porsche 911 (997) GT3 RSR “iBird” Pilots: J. van Lagen, M. Goosens, M. Holzer Team: ProSpeed Competition Race: 23rd overall (LMGTE-Pro) at Le Mans in 2011 Spark - S3416 (resin)
Review HERE
