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Radio Le Mans interviews, Graham Tyler and Bob Constanduras Post race snippets
Allan McNish “Very very pleased. Extremely
proud. We did it with our backs against the wall. A magic moment. I hope the
next one isn’t 10 years down the line.” Mike
Rockenfeller Unbelieveable! Really happy for
those 3 guys. A great day for Audi and we need to
celebrate.” Dindo
Capello “Next to last year this is the best Dr Wolfgang
Ullrich “Delighted. A really great
race. For a long time Marc
Gene “Was very difficult. Had to do
something different to Audi so when they were on intermediates we were on slicks
and when they were on slicks we were on wets hoping that the weather would go
our way.” George Howard-Chapell, Aston
Martin “An epic battle. Great fun.
Great to have the Corvette boys here and thrilled that all three of our cars
came home.” David
Richards “A wonderful day for Aston
Martin – especially in the Gulf colours. Not an easy race. Very different
conditions for the drivers. A great team
effort.” Henri
Pescarolo “Of course a nice race.
Everybody thought there were two categories [petrol and diesel] and we won ours.
Next year I hope we’re on the podium. I will try to
continue.” Jeroen
Beekemolen “It’s incredible. My co-drivers
did a brilliant job and the team did a great
job.” Jos
Verstappen “It’s fantastic – especially
with the great car we have. It’s very fast and very well
prepared.” Mika
Salo “Everything worked well and no
problems.” Jaime
Melo “Finally after a long time! I’m
so happy. Thank you to the whole team.” Gianmaria
Bruni “Brilliant! We did a fantastic
job and the car was fantastic.” Fabio
Babini “A very good job by BMW and me
and my co-drivers. A very good result for the
conditions.” Ron
Fellows “A great race. We wouldn’t have
expected anything less. Another great race with Prodrive but of course we’re
disappointed. We were better prepared than last year but still second
best.” David
Brabham “A faultless race.
Unbelievable. We knew the Corvette would be strong. We had a faultless race and
that’s what you have to do to beat them.” Darren
Turner “Always a really close
competition with Corvette. We got lucky about 3 hours in and made a break for
it. With about 2 hours to go it was time to conserve it. A great result for
Aston Martin.” Antonio
Garcia “The first time you win such a
race is amazing. Like a sprint race but longer. We got everything including
rain. David and Darren did a great job and finally we managed to do
it.” Franky
Cheng “It’s fantastic! Just great to
be here and thanks to the team for giving me the
opportunity.” Oliver
Gavin “We had an alternator and then
a floor problem and lost those 3 laps. Aston Martin did very well. When they
have a faultless race it’s difficult.” Olivier
Beretta “It’s racing and everything for
us. Nice to be third but we didn’t have
luck.” Max
Papis “We tried really hard. We tried every tyre out there and did everything we could. We never gave up but it wasn’t our day.” |