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| Written by Hervé Valette | |
| 10-16-2005 | |
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For the second consecutive year, Vincent Lanthony and myself have participated in the last event of 2005 Alain Fabre Trophy, the 15th of octobre 2005, driving a Renault Gordini 8 Max 1100 ex-Max Soleil. This year, our ambitions has increased : do better than last year and on a faster place.
Remember the principle of this regularity challenge: After 4 hours of free tests in the morning, each team provides to the organization its reference time. At the end of 4 hours of the race, the best crews is the one who are best approached its reference reference on the best 60 laps counted among 100 laps. No timing system is allowed in the car (not watche on the scoreboard). Timing is the responsibility of a teammate on the edge of the runway.
Registration on friday afternoon:Year after year, the park evolved: Alfa Romeo, BMW and Porsche are most numerous. Now, some profesionnal teams such as Polybaie participate in this challenge! It should be noted, still the Alpine A310 of the crew-Faucheux Faucheux, a winner on many Trophy races and the Alpine A110 SC of the Merlin Merlin crew. However, the group of cars is always equally varied, from the Chrevolet Corvette to the Citroen 2CV!
Free tests on saturday morning:Fog ... Vincent engage first tests. At the end of 4-5 laps, the windshield of our car received a fatal stone! So, we need to find a windshield of urgency to achieve a few laps to be qualified.Mutual between competitors has been fantastic. Mr. Idrac has contacted us for a friend near Nogaro. A windshield was recovered from a old Renault 10 and reassembled quickly on our Renault 8. This will permit us to make some test laps and validate a time of 2'32! A relatively modest time, Vincent turns regularly 2'20! But this choice proved very interesting!
Our strategy? Very simple : a Relay per hour, with a refueling at the end of 2 hours. Rcae on afternoon:After lunch, we placed the car on th track in the 'Le Mans' configuration, in the sun.
No more problem with the windshield!
In the last relay, Vincent takes the wheel and the rain that we expected comes! Our modest powered car, equipped with Michelin XAS, allows Vincent to maintain our previous time of 2'32! This will not be the case for most of competitors.
We earn almost as a place ranking in each round!
At 6:00pm, at the end of the race, in a sun-income, we are 12th!
Many other crews had beginning the race with slick tyres and had to change them during the rain. For the overall standings, the Faucheux-Faucheux crew on Alpine A310 ranks 1st, the Enard Sebe crew on Alfa Bertone and Vigreux-Bletter team the 3rd. The Alpine A110 1600SC crew ranks 18th. Below are the official results:
  Alpine A310 Faucheux-Faucheux - Renault 8 Gordini 1100 Lanthony-Valette
We (Vincent and myself) have to thank Christine and Nicolas for timing, supply and stewardship. We also thank Mr. Idrac, emeritus driver of a BMW 2002 Ti without which, without windshield, we would have been able to participate! |
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