Time for the traditional thank-yous and Happy New Years
Firstly to the Championship, Series and race organisers and PRs that work hard to help us to bring the news and the race reports to you – Particular thanks to Jeff, Catherine, Cecille and Fiona at the WEC, to Gerard Neveu, Pierre Fillon and their teams for moving rapidly towards a better and more open touch.
To all at Le Mans, with a particular thank you to Inge and to Catherine’s fantastic team in the Press Room – It still feels like home for a week every year!
To all at SRO after what has been a hell of a year – Here’s hoping for more success in 201.
To Benji and the team at British GT, in particular to James.
To all at the ALMS and at Grand-Am and DIS, and particularly to Alana France.
To the Britcar and GT Cup teams, all at SPEED Euroseries.
To all too at GTSport, VdeV, ADAC and VLN and to Bob and all at the Group C Revival Series.
To our new friends at the Asian Le Mans Series.
Particular thanks too to Martyn, Teresa, Sarah and Eva Maria at Audi and to Alistair and Antho at Toyota.
And to Carlo, Vanessa, Larry, Daniele, Adrian, Heather and all at Vanessas and the Smoking Dog. They make a massive difference to what we do over a long racing weekend.
To John, Eve and all at Radio Le Mans and to the boys and girls at Motors TV and Eurosport too. Particular good wishes to John and Eve, we love what they do and our prayers are with them after a very difficult Christmas for the family.
To Martin Haven, Christopher Tate and Mark Cole et al.
A very Happy New Year to our press room colleagues too – In particular to John Dagys, David Legangneux, Julie Seuer, Marc Laffeas, Jakob Ebrey, Andrew Cotton, Laurent Mercier, Claude Foubert, Harold Gallinis, Mike Hoyer, Bob Chapman, Richard Prince, Rick Dole and the others that allow us to share their creative space!
To Damien and Ed at Motorsport and to the boys at Autosport and Motorsport News too (including Revved Up – It’s Henry Hope Frost but that’s supposed to be a secret!)
To our techies Robin and Chris.
To Richard, Andrew and the crew at Travel Destinations and to Neil at Travelbag.
To our 2012 race coverage sponsors, Gary at Dunlop, Sylvia, Lindsay and Darren at Nissan.
To all of the manufacturers teams, the race teams and to the drivers too.
To all at Audi, Toyota and TMG, Oreca, HPD and Wirth Research, Lola, Aston Martin and Prodrive, Porsche, Kodewa, Ferrari and Michelotto, Ginetta, Lotus, Bentley, McLaren, AMG, BMW, Lamborghini, Maserati, Chevrolet, Reiter, Radical, Michelin, Dunlop and Avon.
To all at Rebellion, Strakka, JRM, Pescarolo, Dyson, Muscle Milk, Oak, Judd, Norma, Greaves, ADR Delta, Starworks, Doran, Action Express, Sahlens, Gulf Racing, Murphy Prototypes, Team RLR, RML, Dome, Rocketsports, Extreme Limite, Pecom, PR1 Mathiasen, Performance Tech, TDS, Boutsen Ginion, Gainsco, SunTrust, Jota, Signatech, BAR/ Merchant Services, MSR, CGR, SDR, Core, Black Swan, Dempsey, Libra, Sebastien Loeb Racing, Status GP, Conquest and Level 5.
To all at Corvette, AF Corse, Flying Lizards, Risi, RAM, Falken, SRT, Alex Job, Felbermayer Proton, JWA, Larbre, Lapidus, IMSA Performance, JMB, Dragon, Schubert, Black Falcon, JMW, Chevron, Prospeed, JetAlliance, Paul Miller, NGT, Krohn, RLL, ESM, United, JMH, Gazoo, Magnus, Brumos, Stevenson, Villois, Sainteloc, Sofrev ASP, Vita4One, Preci Spark, AIM, Orbit, Turner, Rollcentre, Beechdean, Ecurie Ecosse, Barwell, RJN, Manthey, Autorlando, ART, KRK, ASM, WRT, TRG, JDX, GMG, GPR, SRT, AIM, Muehlner, APR, Rum Bum, BG, KRM, LNT, rhinos Leipert, Hexis, Kraft, Green Hornet, Topcats, Intersport, Carvell, Neil Garner, Heico, All Inkl. Marc VDS, Scuderia Vittoria, VDS Aventures, DB, Kessel, Phoenix, Trackspeed, Motorbase, Mtech, Predator, Optimun/ 888 GT3 Racing, FF Corse, Stark and Von Ryan.
And from Dave and I to our Editors, Photographers, Feature writers and contributors.
To Mark Howson, Marcel ten Caat, Gary Horrocks and Paul Truswell.
To David Doris Downes, Peter Pedro May, Martin Spetz, Regis Lefebure and Andrew Skippy Hall.
To Marcus Potts, Paul Slinger, Soren Herweg, Russell Wittenberg and Janos Wimpffen.
To Brooksie, Ian Wagstaff, Chuck Dressing, David Addison, Michael Cotton, Andy Blackmore and David Greenhalgh.
To Jay Ashton, Steve Wood, Sam Smith, Johannes Gauglica, Jake Yorath and Stephen Kilbey.
To Gabriele Tosi, Sam Tickell, Joe Martin, Jackie Buys, James Davies, Richard Leach, Rick Wilson and Mick Herring.
And to Malcolm.
And of course to our readers, Twitter followers and not least to our long suffering families!
And to those that have inevitably and inadvertently been left any of the lists above.
A very, very happy 2013 to the whole magnificent lot of you!
GG & DL
