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10 June - Photos from Driver Training
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ADT/Champion Audi Le
Mans pilots Emanuele Pirro, JJ Lehto and Stefan Johansson discuss
cockpit issues during driver training |
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Technical Director
Brad Kettler walks all three drivers through the process of changing
gears manually by means of a special lever. This capability ensures
the car can make it back to the pits for repairs should the shift
mechanism fail while the car is on course |
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Brad points to the
manual shift mechanism, into which a special handle is inserted for
performing manual gear changes |
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The R8's tool kit
(minus cell phone). Many tools you might expect to see, plus the
green-handled device (for manual shifting at the gearbox). The white
and red block is designed to be inserted in the throttle "blipper"
on top of the engine, to allow the engine to run at fast idle so the
car can return to the pits for repairs should the throttle mechanism
fail while the car is on course |
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All three drivers
take turns removing both front and rear bodywork by themselves. Here
JJ Lehto manipulates the rear bodywork, which takes two fingers to
unlatch |
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Emanuele Pirro |
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JJ Lehto |
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Stefan Johansson |
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