Well.. the start of another epic LeMans event has already started for me and I hadn't even left the airport...
Does anyone recognize this guy.?
Not talking about me ...sorry this is what the "cat" looks like after flying all night with no beauty rest on the airplane.. I had to get that in before Frank chimed in.:biggrin
The guy next to me is Justin Bell. Former racer and current commentator for Fox Sports Network and Son Of Legendary racer and multiple LeMans 24 hour winner , Derek Bell..
I had made my way downstairs to catch the high-speed train to LeMans.. I walked up to a back-to-back bench seat and sat down. I look over on the other side of the bench and Justin was sitting across from me .
It's early in the morning and he had an overnight flight also we both looked a little Fraggled. I just turned my head over and said hey Justin how you doing? He looked back at me with that puzzled look you get when hey stranger says hello like he knows you. I could hear his mind clicking "do I know this guy? "
I quickly put his mind at ease and told them that we had met around 2003 when my brother and I took one of his driving schools at the Miami Homestead Speedway. That started a nice conversation..
He was there on official duties for Fox Sports and we're talking about LeMans and the race and all that fun pageantry. He noticed the GT on my shirt and I told him yes I was there to support the Ford effort.
Of course everyone who loves cars loves the new Ford GT him being one of them so he starts to talk about the race car effort and the lucky people getting a street car. He asked me if I was one of them and I said yes sir I should have mine in about three weeks !!
So we're intensely talking about the car the programme the allocation Etc. And he asked me what color I'm getting. I said I'm getting an all white with black trim the "Stormtrooper "car. He told me he really likes that version.
Then I told him. . well guess what.. the first time ever saw A all White GT you just happened to be walking around the car .. You were doing a live walk around shot for Fox and you are blocking my view ..:lol.
And than I showed him the picture... he thought that was very funny. We continued the conversation and said he'd love to get one and he's going to be campaign his cause with Henry Ford III. We finished up our conversation and hoped to run each other at the race We got on the train and went on our way !!
Does anyone recognize this guy.?
Not talking about me ...sorry this is what the "cat" looks like after flying all night with no beauty rest on the airplane.. I had to get that in before Frank chimed in.:biggrin
The guy next to me is Justin Bell. Former racer and current commentator for Fox Sports Network and Son Of Legendary racer and multiple LeMans 24 hour winner , Derek Bell..
I had made my way downstairs to catch the high-speed train to LeMans.. I walked up to a back-to-back bench seat and sat down. I look over on the other side of the bench and Justin was sitting across from me .
It's early in the morning and he had an overnight flight also we both looked a little Fraggled. I just turned my head over and said hey Justin how you doing? He looked back at me with that puzzled look you get when hey stranger says hello like he knows you. I could hear his mind clicking "do I know this guy? "
I quickly put his mind at ease and told them that we had met around 2003 when my brother and I took one of his driving schools at the Miami Homestead Speedway. That started a nice conversation..
He was there on official duties for Fox Sports and we're talking about LeMans and the race and all that fun pageantry. He noticed the GT on my shirt and I told him yes I was there to support the Ford effort.
Of course everyone who loves cars loves the new Ford GT him being one of them so he starts to talk about the race car effort and the lucky people getting a street car. He asked me if I was one of them and I said yes sir I should have mine in about three weeks !!
So we're intensely talking about the car the programme the allocation Etc. And he asked me what color I'm getting. I said I'm getting an all white with black trim the "Stormtrooper "car. He told me he really likes that version.
Then I told him. . well guess what.. the first time ever saw A all White GT you just happened to be walking around the car .. You were doing a live walk around shot for Fox and you are blocking my view ..:lol.
And than I showed him the picture... he thought that was very funny. We continued the conversation and said he'd love to get one and he's going to be campaign his cause with Henry Ford III. We finished up our conversation and hoped to run each other at the race We got on the train and went on our way !!
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