Did it at Le Mans

Posted July 13, 200618 yr

Last week-end I was at Le Mans for the 3rd Le Mans Classic race!

Two 240Z on the track and lotta Z&ZX in the club area. What a nice week-end.

At first I wasn't supposed to get close to the race car, but as we supplied them with racing parts and even a clean shell from California, they called on us when the car started to act weird... That was too early in the week-end to presume anything good for the next days coming; it was after all only Friday night!

The team is French, and they are already racing 4 240Z in rally events, bur a track car is an all new game for them. They where lucky that one of the best Z specialist in Europe was with us for the week-end. So Dave Jarman rushed in the pits and scratched his head to find what was wrong on the poor thing! Turn out that everything was wrong! Wrong fuel pump, too much carb for the stock engine, leaking air in the carbs manifold, you name it we had it! Still with patience and knowledge we had the car on the track on time for the first one hour raceâ€¦

It did well for a poorly assembled not run-in race car racing on a stock 280Z engine, going better and better and ending in the low 30 of a +60 cars field. I have to tell you that the competition was no kid stuff, Porsches 935, 936, Renault 443, LOLAS, CHEVRONS, â€¦ the only thing that was in our range was a FORD Capri and the BMW CSL or a few 911RS.

As for myself I had the luck to do 2 laps on the track with a friend from UK, amazing feeling to be able to let it all going on the LA MANS 13 km track with absolutely no marshal, rules or even recommendation from the organisation!!!! Not even a helmet

So, let me tell you that you should build a US 240Z to enter the 2008 race, the Britt are going to build one, the Spanish one, the Dutch one, the French have oneâ€¦ Could we start a 240Z world championship?

here the link : http://www.lemansclassic.com/2004/index_uk.htm