5éme Grand Prix de Paris Historique 27, 28 avril 2002.
Vintage Montlhéry
Jacques Potherat
Here's me driving around the banked track at Montlhéry
It's me really:-)
- Andy: So did you manage to bend the exhaust this year ? If not, then you weren´t trying hard enough reply
- Col: You web site doesn´t allow for very long messages does it
reply - Ali: Fixed. You can now type as much are you "want". A 256 charactor limit was limiting reply
- Col: Marvellous. But now I forgot what I was going to say reply
- Col: I also think you should get your own helmet design too.... what could you have ?? How about painting it pinky-orange, put a bit of stubble around the edge and make out that its a larger version of your head
Even better you could paint two eyes, nose an reply - Ali: Quite fortunate I only let you have short messages
I suspect the tone of this message was not going to get better reply
- Col: I hope you didn´t try and drive round the track backwards or anything... reply
- Ali: Let´s hope there is a next year. It may become a Brooklands reply
- Col: Whats the murmurs then ?? They going to tear it down to make way for a supermarket or something ?? reply
- Ali: Quote from montlhery.com The circuit was confronted in April 1997 and again in 2001 with the renewal of its permit by the national speed circuits commission. The current permit was renewed on May 9 2001 for 4 years (OJ N° 114 on 17/05/2001). Without obtaining this permit, no races can be organized. To hold the Coupes du Salon or the Grand Prix de l´Age d´Or again, some refitting work has been completed - in particular the installation of a protection net able to resist speeds of 300 km/h. for spectators in the straight line going from the stands to the turn of "des deux ponts" as well as at the top of the ring.
The problem of the circuit permit comes back every four years. To save the motor-racing track, a long-term project is necessary ... (see the association of the users of the motor-racing track of Linas-Montlhery). reply