LMM Renault 5 Alpine Group 2, second overall Tour de Corse 1979 - Printable Version

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LMM Renault 5 Alpine Group 2, second overall Tour de Corse 1979 - rallyhub - 6th-Mar-22

Last Friday my order from Le Mans Miniatures arrived:
The Renault 5 Alpine Group 2, driven to a nice second place overall by Jean Ragnotti & Jean-Marc Andrié in the Tour de Corse 1979.
A remarkable result for such a small front-wheel drive car on the winding asphalt roads of Corsica.
It is now available in the ready to run GTS-Series at https://www.lemansminiatures.com.

There will be a report about this beauty in the May issue of Slot Car Magazine.

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The LMM Renault 5 Alpine of Jean Ragnotti in action.

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RE: LMM Renault 5 Alpine Group 2, second overall Tour de Corse 1979 - woodcote - 6th-Mar-22

That does look even nicer than in the publicity shots 

I’d included it in the Digest for tomorrow - and I shall now add a link to this thread.

One question - how do the LMM Renault 5s perform? Are they fun - or all show? I was very tempted by the Calberson cars, but a Gitanes livery is almost irresistible.

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RE: LMM Renault 5 Alpine Group 2, second overall Tour de Corse 1979 - rallyhub - 6th-Mar-22

Thank you for liking the photo.

The Gitanes version was already one of my favourites when it still was only available as a kit.
When it was launched as a ready to run car it immediately became a must have.
It is an irresistible, very beautiful, well detailed and correctly scaled down car; one of Benoît Moro's many masterpieces.

Unsurprisingly with this small size and heavy body, it doesn't perform like a Formula one car.
For sure you will not break the lap record with this Alpine, but it is really fun to watch it running on the track.

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Trying hard on the Corsican island

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