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The Rolex Vintage Festival at Lime Rock Park
[Please to enjoy another fine edition of You Are There by Jalopnik stringer and Lime Rock denizen, James Gribbon.] The cloudiest part of this past Labor Day in rural Connecticut was my head. I was winding down after a long weekend, which was ending on a high note. I was entering Lime Rock Park for the Rolex Vintage Festival. The Gatorade was helping too. I heard a distant rumbling that made me raise my head. Just then, a maroon BMW M5 pace car wheeled into view and I heard a Ferrari bark as the driver blipped the throttle. Then, there were dozens of Ferraris, Alfas and a lone Fiat, all emerging from behind the trees to take their parade laps. Not many things can get gluey blood flowing better than a cacophony of Italian engines. My half-lidded eyes opened wider. This was going to be a good day. More »
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You Are There: The 2007 ALMS Northeast Grand Prix
There's a bit of folk wisdom that goes, "It 's not who you are, it's who you're with." Once, in Miami visiting my sister, we went to one of those impossibly hip clubs in South Beach, where her friend knew the staff. We were whisked past the plebes in line to a section of the club cordoned off just for us, while champagne, magnums of vodka, mixers and fresh strawberries were set on our table. Without a connection, they'd have tossed my khakis-and-plaid-shirt-wearing ass into Biscayne Bay. In racing, that kind of access is a rare gift. But buy a grandstand ticket to an ALMS race, and — though you may not get the eye from an Italian countess — you'll get close enough to burn your hand on a sun-baked R10. Sports car racing seems to be on an upswing of popularity, good news due in part to ALMS honchos deciding to grant any spectator with a ticket stub in their hand close contact with the teams, cars and drivers. That is, VIP access for regular schlubs. That's how it was this past Saturday for the Northeast Grand Prix. More »
4:00 PM on Mon Jul 9 2007
By Mike Spinelli
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Latest by pbraun: Yeah, those Kumho girls liked me - I took several pictures and can share if ya'll like. I showed my pass and they showed me theirs! Wooho! that'll get you inside many places ;) more »
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Race Day Preview: The 2007 American Le Mans Northeast Grand Prix
Photo: Darrell Ingham/Getty ImagesThe American Le Mans Series returns to Lime Rock Park in Lakeville, Connecticut tomorrow for the Northeast Grand Prix — the first race since Le Mans for some teams, and the first after a seven-week break in the action for others. Qualifying times are already at near track-record levels, and the fastest times are coming from the smaller, less powerful P2 cars. Romain Dumas turned a 44.659 in his #7 Penske Porsche RS Spyder, a full five P2 cars and two seconds ahead of the seventh and eighth qualifying Audi R10s. Uh oh. More »
