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With Kristensen at Le Mans
Le Mans News
- Last updated: September 19th 2019
As you may have read, Rob Widdows was at Le Mans over the weekend. When he came back, these videos landed in our inbox and we suddenly got very jealous indeed…
First up, we have a video of Tom Kristensen lapping La Sarthe in a road-going R8. Scroll down and you’ll see two views of Rob’s lap with TK, which includes a nice ‘welcome to Le Mans’ moment at the Dunlop chicane. Kudos to Rob for not panicking… not so much for the two awkward, failed fist-bumps at the end.
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