Marie Claude and Lella Lombardi at their own scrutineering at Le Mans.
Story by Roy P. Smith
The Sarthe circuit had changed somewhat since Alpine was last at Le Mans six years previously, so there was new data to acquire in that department. It was even more important that year because the traditional April testing period had been cancelled and no tests could be carried out to set fuel loads, refine the aero set-up, etc (remember there was the long, long Mulsanne straight to cope with here). Fuel consumption dominated everyone’s thoughts. The endurance test at Paul Ricard had been good; the car could go the distance and do it economically. [Read more…] about History and Restoration of the Alpine Renault A441-3 P2