He said hi back. I've been trying to get him to come onto TS to tell everyone about his time in the 4.0. He's been a motoring journo for 14 years and says it's the best car he's ever driven (and he's driven pretty much everything else in that time).

One part of the trip that didn't make the story was that he was stopped in France at a toll booth by police. He and the photographer were ordered out of the car and he thought he was all kinds of trouble. Turns out it was just a border police check but the French police took a while to understand that an Australian journalist was driven a German-registered car to Le Mans (still about 600km away) and the race had started a few hours ago.
Once they were happy, they took photos and told me friend to accelerate away as hard as he could. They even stopped the cars coming out of the toll booths. So my friend dropped the clutch at about 4000rpm and hammered up to about 230km/h (100km/h over the speed limit) right in front of the police.

 

wow that's awesome! thanks for posting up the article and great pics

 

Last pics.

 

Thanks again for sharing this mate!

 

That CEL's bothering me.. it's a brand new car ffs!