Here we go again!! Your slightly 'over relaxed' geriatric media team are already safely ensconced in a semi-deserted media centre here at Le Mans. It is Saturday and we are beavering away translating stuff for the ACO. Just at the moment our toys are broken and the technical team seem to have drifted off to lunch.. so here we are!!
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| Aston Martin traffic jam in the pitlane. |
Phillipa Neilsen, who works for Dunlop and looks after Archie Hamilton, told us a brilliant anecdote about the late great Duncan Hamilton, who you may recall won Le Mans in 1953 in his C-Type Jaguar. It seems that for reason, lost in the mists of time and a haze of alcohol, Duncan took an orange with him in the car. Maybe in case he got hungry or thirsty.. or both! Anyway the orange was not consumed and it has remained in the family ever since. So, as a tribute to Duncan's victory sixty years ago, Archie is taking that original orange with him as a good luck charm! There is some doubt whether it will offer Archie much in the way of sustenance but hopefully it will bring the team lots of luck.
No doubt our toys will be mended soon and we will continue to fire the occasional Jox Jottings when time permits. Have a safe journey to La Sarthe..
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