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Old 07-04-2010, 09:08 PM   #8
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Re: Chelsea pensioners LeMans show

It all a bit of a mess. The photo shows #08R at Le Mans (02R wore race number 24 that day) the video shows a 1996 GTR (obviously). There's a bit of a gaffe in the headline as the car is not an LM either. However, setting all that aside the primary description in the body of text clearly identifies what can only be #02R.

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Gulf Mclaren F1 LM. 4th overall at Le Mans 1995

2 places up from the Harrods car in qualifying in 1995 was the striking Gulf sponsored McLaren F1 GTR driven by Ray Bellm, Mark Blundell and Maurizio Sandro Sala that eventually finished a fine 4th overall, just behind the Harrods F1 McLaren. We are privileged to have both 6.1 litre, 680bhp, 12 cylinder engined cars on display that in road car version alone (!) can do 0-60 in 3 seconds and hold a top speed record of 240.1 MPH!
Regardless of the errors I'm quite excited to see this car surface again after many years being hidden away should this really prove to be 02R. Hopefully it comes out with it's 1995 Gulf livery - that would be the best news of all. And isn't Lanzante still supposed to have a close connection to #02R anyway?

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