FIAWEC SIlverstone 17th April on TV

[johnb]

Just noticed that Quest channel 37 is showing highlights and the final hour live of the WEC from Silverstone between 4 pm and 6.15 pm.

...and all of it live on Motors tv...

a lot of changes at Signatech Alpine this year.
first is a new car, a coupe Oreca chassis.

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Whats more there are 2 of them...

Big and rather odd changes in the driver department. Out goes the rather fast and Alpine mad Paul; Loup Chatin and in comes Gustavo Menezes a 21 year old American with some success in junior championships in both the USA and Europe... an odd choice though unless he is being used as an Alpine promotional tool in the USA maybe?.
The other cars line up includes David Cheng and Ho-Pin Tung who, although reigning Asian Lemans series champions, is an odd choice. Thankfully they are joined by Alpine faithful Nelson Panciatici
First race starts at Silverstone at Midday today (April 17) and the cars line up 14th and 17th.

was a good day at Silverstone today

alpines ran really well running 3rd in class towards the end of the race and finished the six hours in 4th and 6th

not a bad show

looking forward to seeing how they go at this years leman in 8wks time