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Olly Gavin: Le Mans blog – Mon/Tue

June 10, 2010

“Our first day here, Monday, was packed with activities from start to finish, with scrutineering in the town – always a huge event – plus photo shoots and bits and pieces in relation to the 50th anniversary of Corvette competing here at Le Mans for the first time.  A bit of an amusing moment happened [...]

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Olly Gavin: Ready for Le Mans

June 3, 2010

It doesn’t matter how many times you’ve been there before – nine times in my case – or whatever kind of hard man hobby you do, it all pales into relative insignificance when you get to Le Mans. It’s a huge event and takes place in a large industrial town in north west France on [...]

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Oliver Gavin: Street fighting talk

April 19, 2010

Hi, it’s a hugely frustrated Olly here after our race on the streets of Long Beach in California went no where near how we wanted it to.  We finished ninth in the super competitive GT class of the American Le Mans Series after loads of problems which – considering how good the car was – [...]

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Oliver Gavin: A long run to Long Beach!

April 13, 2010

Hi again everyone.  I can’t believe it’s almost a month now since Sebring, and can’t wait to get racing again, but in the meantime here’s a quick look at what I’ve been doing over the last few weeks. I seem to have spent more hours pounding the streets, lanes and tracks around my home in [...]

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Oliver Gavin: Tough weekend at Sebring

March 22, 2010

Well we’ve just finished the 12 hours of Sebring in Florida but unfortunately it didn’t turn out quite the way we wanted it to.  The whole week was a bit of a tough one.  As the first race of the season, you always hope things will go smoothly to set you up for the rest [...]

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