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contents 82 Photo: Brecht Decancq Events In Depth Events Le My Le Mans Gt3 Europe: Mans diary Silverstone Page 82 Page 22 Page 108 Dan Bathie reports on the Jake Yorath presents an ir- Faster Racing and AF Corse best La Sarthe race for years reverent look at his Le Mans split the spoils in Britain: and an Audi win. experience Alex Roache tells all. contents l’endurance is: Jake Yorath (editor) Twitter: Alex Roache (deputy editor) @lendurancelive Dan Bathie (sub editor) Sam Tickell (reports editor) Facebook: Brecht Decancq (photographer) facebook.com/lendurance Events Tourist 118 Trophy Page 118 GT1 World visited Silver- stone to compete for the RAC TT: JRM took it home. Events World round up Page 138 Alex Roache Photo: All the latest reports from around the world of sport- scar racing. In FIA GT3 European Championship, Silverstone Alex Roache used a Canon 40D and 10-22 F3.5-5.6 FOCUS Canon. Shutter speed 1/8th at F29. In FIA GT1 World Championship, Silverstone Jake Yorath used a Nikon D200 and 80-200 F2.8 FOCUS Nikkor. Shutter speed 1/1000th at F2.8. In Le Mans 24 Hours Marcel Thomassen used a Canon 40D and 70-200 FOCUS F2.8 IS Canon. Shutter speed 1/60th at F2.8. We couldn’t have done it without you. LM 2011 coverage, brought to you by Speed Chills. We couldn’t have done it without you. LM 2011 coverage, brought to you by Speed Chills. In Le Mans 24 Hours Jake Yorath used a Nikon D300S and 80-200 F2.8 FOCUS Nikkor. Shutter speed 1/25th at F2.8. In Le Mans 24 Hours Jake Yorath used a Nikon D200 and 300 F4 Nikkor. FOCUS Shutter speed 1/125th at F13. In Le Mans 24 Hours Brecht Decancq used a Nikon D300s and 500 F4 FOCUS Nikkor. Shutter speed 1/400th at F4.5. In FIA GT3 European Championship, Silverstone Alex Roache used a Canon 40D and 10-22 F3.5-5.6 FOCUS Canon. Shutter speed 1/10th at F22. In FIA GT1 World Championship, Silverstone Jake Yorath used a Nikon D200 and 300 F4 Nikkor. FOCUS Shutter speed 1/30th at F32. Photo: Jake Yorath The Greatest ShowOn The Le Mans 24 is motorsport’s greatest festival. Jake Yorath takes on a French classic, some French energy drinks and a beautiful French lady Earth Photo: Jake Yorath Day One Tuesday June 7th en route t is 8:30am on Tuesday the of my Aston Martin shirt (I got (and its brilliant Gayelord seventh of June. “We’ll it free a while back, don’t wor- soup) later and we cruise into be away in half an hour,” ry) and the fact I look like a Beausejour. Explaining in our I confidently pronounce, massive, raving fan boy. Still, best shouted French (“Bon ap- Ifailing to take into account it’s worth a good oggle before petit Rodney, bon appetit,”) the various entrails of our lug- it bumbles off to go and look that we have no knives or guns gage strewn over the floor of pretty somewhere in France. to the guards at the gate, we the kitchen, living room, din- In the tunnel, we take it in are obliged to follow a pretty ing room, stairs, bedrooms... turns to skim (and discard) a French girl on a bicycle through It is 9:30am and, despite my well know motoring magazine crowds of already drunk Danes. confidence, we have still not before taking it in turns to Their economy must grind to a left. I am, however, at least take photos of each other that standstill this same week eve- now in a car with my British at the time seem like a great ry year, because every Dane in compadres for the week: the idea. It turns out that, in fact, the world is in Le Mans. standard l’endurance taxi driv- the lighting inside makes eve- It’s reassuring to see high ers Dan Bathie (whose job is ryone look either dead or like security fences all around our to sit in the back, quietly) and Mick Jagger, which is worse campsite with Speed Chills my enduring father Tim Yorath, than dead. and, after brief consultation who has provided our battle France provides us with very with the lovely Neil, Chris and scarred Golf TDI estate for the little entertainment on our Justin, we’re guided (tem- trip. journey down. We rendezvous porarily, as we’ve arrived be- “Passports?” he enquires. with Marcel Thomassen, who fore the site is officially open Check. “Speed Chills docs?” is photographer from Holland, to customers) to the corner. Check. Helpfully in a big blue and friend of l’endurance. Tents up, it’s beer and crisps envelope, with Speed Chills Dan jumps in with him while time. Why Walkers don’t bring plastered across the front. Tim and I turn Led Zeppelin up Lays Bolognaise flavour crinkle Helpful when you’re only a little louder and follow the cuts to the UK mystifies me, four parts awake. “Everyone Dutchman and his sat-nav. because they’re the best crisps ready?” As we’ll ever be. A short trip to Super-U on the face of the earth. If A few hours later and we’re you’ve never had them, you’re late at the Channel Tunnel. The making a big mistake. great thing about the Channel The highlight of Tuesday was Tunnel is that they are used to always going to be Le Mans on idiots, and their robotic check big screen and it doesn’t dis- in machine simply moves us appoint. It’s a very special on to the next available train. moment, and a number of top That gives us time for a Burger photographers, journalists and King, which I graciously buy race fans (though nowhere (“I’m buying this, but I don’t The highlight near as many as the organis- expect to spend a Euro Cent in ers had planned for!) gather on France!”) to feed the flagging of tuesday the start straight for the show. troops. was always It’s incredible. The footage of Tim parks next to a very, very “ the first lap, down Mulsanne, expensive orange Aston Mar- going to be the is better every time. Still not tin with number plate ‘AML1’, sure there’s a plot though - which after our last visit to this film on the big sorry Steve. We stay until the port, seems a little over confi- end, frozen but happy. dent. I am also accutely aware screen Vive Le Mans. Day tw0 Wednesday june 8th Practice makes perfect aving arrived last With that proudly hung accredited media and this is a night to find the around my neck and after a bloody big place. Whereas you accreditation cen- trip to the local supermarket, can walk Oulton Park in about tre closed, first job I’m ready to rock. I head ea- ten minutes, and Silverstone in WednesdayH is to pick up my gerly over to the media centre a few hours, you can’t walk Le pass. Now, for a chap like me and, after a quick chat with Mans. who built up a little maga- Catherine, it emerges I don’t I am booked in for tabards zine to see that magazine have a permanent vest. No for the two evening into night accredited for Le Mans is a biggie, because I don’t need sessions on Wednesday and huge honour. ‘Jake Yorath, that much time trackside, I Thursday, and so spend the first l’endurance’ it is proudly need the time to learn the session settling into the desk emblazoned. Top. No other place. After all, this is only my I book with the lovely media word for it. Just top. second Le Mans, and my first as centre ladies (marked ‘Jake Photo: Marcel Thomassen Yorth’ by the lady who does my ij and the Dailysportscar crew. of Racecar Engineering, two of desk label, I’m clearly too cool They include photographers the most likeable and friendly for two As in one name) and ‘Pedro’, ‘Doris’ and ‘Lordy’ journalists in the world. chatting with various friends in (alter egos perhaps inspired Later in the day I also have here. by John ‘Winter’ of Porsche the pleasure of running into In no particular order: Bre- fame), editor Graham Goodwin Geoffroy Barre of Endurance- cht Decancq, Belgian pho- and newish recruit Marcel Ten Magazine, who helped us with tographer and great friend of Caat. There’s not much these the Pescarolo issue and Ja- l’endurance is here, along with guys don’t know about sport- kob Ebrey, one of Britain’s top Speed TV’s John Dagys, fellow scar racing, and if they don’t agency photographers and an- Americans Regis Lefebure and then the chaps I’m desked other all round good chap. Bob Chapman, Dutch agency along side probably will: Sam Passing the first session with photographer Ronald Fleurbaa- Collins and Lawrence Butcher the skimming of various press Photo: Jake Yorath kits and the thieving of many ly, is rubbish. It’s like shooting gratuitous cans of Le Mans’ through a pair of sandy knick- very own Endurance Drink (the ers, with grain like harvest on iT FEELS LIKE drivers’ choice, the can reli- the image. That aside, I get TEN MINUTES ably informs me). The tast- a few shots I’m pretty happy ing notes go along the lines of with and content myself with AND YET,“ AT ‘sugary, fragrant, extremely the knowledge that, since this bad for the health, will keep is the first time I’ve ever shot THE SAME TIME, you awake forever’.

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