joost
18-09-2003, 16:20
Op onze geliefde site staat een mooie homage aan deze prachtige wagen. Onderstaande alinea wil ik jullie niet onthouden:
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The Editor cheekily adds one more paragraph to the 333 ‘tail’. Le Mans 1996. Eric van de Poele was fastest in Pre-Qualifying, six 333s started the race, none of them finished – but van de Poele set a magical series of lap records just after dawn (and a gearbox replacement – shades of Daytona 2002). In a nine lap spell, the Belgian – in the Racing for Belgium entry – broke Hans Stuck’s just-set lap record, then broke his own lap record four more times. You can’t imagine the other four laps – or the rest of a double stint - being anything other than blindingly quick, but the other laps were logically interferred with by traffic. This could have been one of the great Le Mans catch up stories, but Eric Bachelart soon stuffed it on cold tyres. That wasn’t the end of the 333 Le Mans story, but it was the 333 at its competitive best."
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The Editor cheekily adds one more paragraph to the 333 ‘tail’. Le Mans 1996. Eric van de Poele was fastest in Pre-Qualifying, six 333s started the race, none of them finished – but van de Poele set a magical series of lap records just after dawn (and a gearbox replacement – shades of Daytona 2002). In a nine lap spell, the Belgian – in the Racing for Belgium entry – broke Hans Stuck’s just-set lap record, then broke his own lap record four more times. You can’t imagine the other four laps – or the rest of a double stint - being anything other than blindingly quick, but the other laps were logically interferred with by traffic. This could have been one of the great Le Mans catch up stories, but Eric Bachelart soon stuffed it on cold tyres. That wasn’t the end of the 333 Le Mans story, but it was the 333 at its competitive best."