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Nürburgring 24 Hours –
Notes 3 Hier Kommt Die
Sonne If you’re following the race on
Radio Le Mans, you’ll no doubt be aware that things are fascinatingly balanced
as the race enters its decisive stages. The #18 Manthey RSR still leads, with
the #1 BMW and #32 Talking of visibility, the view
from the paddock is several miles this morning, and the sun has come out to ease
the 200,000 spectators’ passage into Sunday – there are surely very many sore
heads out in the forests right now. Breakfast time found the pitlane positively civilised, compared to the previous days.
Perhaps that’s down to the
number of retirements so far, or simply that the smell of bacon wafting across
the paddock had lured the hangers-on…er, invited guests…from the garages
temporarily. More than one photographer has
commented with a pained look in the eye that they were recently standing at the
very spot where the BMW came to rest yesterday after clearing the barrier, and
so the site of the #77 BMW Z4’s horrendous flight and crash this morning must be
concentrating the minds of those that ply their trade from behind the
Armco. The RLM crew are still going strong, helped in no small part by the wonderful support of the Aston Martin hospitality team, while the DSC duo were enjoying Porsche’s hospitality in – and the view from – their Media Suite a further floor up.
Back down in the paddock, more and more cars can be found stationary and unattended in awnings, but fortunately most are looking healthier than the #152 Alpecin Schirra Motoring Mini Cooper…..
As the morning progressed, the
media centre began to fill up again and the reliability of the internet
connection began to get progressively worse. Four hours to go!
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