WARNING - Large Pics Follow !!!!! (I can't be bothered to reformat them !!!)
Hi all,
been a long time since I last posted (I think the last time was my engine rebuild pics). Anyway, last weekend some friends and I took a trip to Le Mans to watch the 24hr race. My Le Mans blue M5 has now had in excess of 20 faults and is now with BMW in Bracknell. Faults include front wheel speed sensors, engine firing faults (entering limp home mode 14 times at last count), cat failures, suspension faults, wheel arch problems, very lumpy running in the morning, complete shutdown of engine at high speed, etc, etc.
Anyway, BMW UK leant me one of their press car M5s. The car is Carbon Black 2002 with black extended leather, all options and alcantara headlining. The car arrived 2 days late to the dealer from Thorne - the BMW distribution site. This was due to our very own F1 driver Mr Montoya borrowing it a week earlier. It needed a new clutch and 4 new tyres. The brakes look new too. Apparently he'd been using at a BMW corporate event at Silverstone.
The car looked great when I picked it up from my dealer, however on arriving in Le Mans we noticed that the rear passenger wheel was pointing towards the centre of the car - not straight on. The following pic shows this quite well:
Looks like our F1 friend smacked a curb
Le Mans was great, temps ranged from 28-38 degrees and I managed to get some pretty good pics:
Beasty in Le Mans:
Morgan cars with Charles Morgan:
The Morgan was one of the sweetest sounding cars out there.
Audi Number 1
Audi Number 2
Team Corvette with some Engines:
Team Corvette with a SERIOUS clutch:
A couple of cars racing - would you believe the shutter speed of this one is 0.002244 seconds - and it's still blurred!!
At the Finish in the pit lane:
Podium - I think Audi won.....
There are a few more pics in the
http://www.btinternet.com/~andrew.sheekey/pics/ directory. If you want more let me know.
BTW - going for the Dirty M5 prize :
Regards, Andy.