Soussmeboules a écrit :
Repost du topic belles voiture.
Et Millen qui rage déjà contre Peugeot et Loeb.
Quel mauvais perdant et quel menteur.
"A Goliath named Peugeot and the media horde: Everyone we spoke to said it was good that Peugeot is here, but the consensus underneath seemed to be that Peugeot is bringing a repurposed Le Mans team to a grassroots race. We were told that Millen has about five fabricators and around ten people here with him at the race; we saw more Peugeot engineers than that – just the guys on computers – one day at lunch. Millen said he thinks Peugeot has 40-50 staff here, they've booked 600 room nights, the team rented the mountain for itself for an entire day and made three complete runs, and they've approached Pikes Peak like Audi approaches Le Mans. Said Millen, "Can we compete against that with what we have? That takes cubic dollars."
What needs cubic feet is space for the media horde. Pikes Peak veterans have told us that there might be 60 or 70 media here usually, this year there are 300 from dozens of countries; for instance, when we interviewed the folks at Mitsubishi we had to wait for an Indonesian crew to wrap up with the executive we were in line to speak to, while a Croatian crew sat at the next table. Millen said the crowds on practice days this year have been bigger than race-day crowds last year. That's mainly because of Peugeot and Loeb, but what promotes the two of them also promotes the race, which is a good thing. No one thinks Peugeot will come back next year, which could leave the heightened publicity and a better chance for other drivers to gain the top step."
http://www.autoblog.com/2013/06/30 [...] -000-feet/
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