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[Giraffe]

Look forward to it tomorrow

Welcome Tony! (& may I say you have a very interesting roadcar, even if you are now suffering from exposure!)


By giraffe138 at 2010-09-15

Vin & Helen Malkie & the Chevron Racing boys brought down two brand spanking new continuation Chevron B16s for two Belgian customers. I wonder if they'd taken advantage of a 'BOGOF' offer???


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The Aston in the background is this one...........


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Unidentified Bugatti


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Familiar 250F


By giraffe138 at 2010-09-15

The Lancia-Ferrari was back with it's novice European driver. As Cyrilmac pointed out to me, it's rear-end later displayed the novice cross!


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[Red Socks]

Shaw's Hairpin......

In.........


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....round...........


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........& out...........


By giraffe138 at 2010-09-09

Andrew Frankel of MotorSport at the wheel.


By giraffe138 at 2010-09-09

Also known as Richard Frankel ,not of Motor Sport at the wheel, discussing the issues with Andrew Frankel of Motor Sport in his green overall and Andy Prill.

[cyrilmac]

Afternoon All .
Giraffe ?? More like Gazelle (as in speed of .....) to get these posted already !!!! What a busy morning at Mallory.

Team Hall & Hall



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Some oily bits looking superb..



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Man and Machine..



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As remarked a week or so ago , you don't see a BRM for years then ..



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Well driven Bugatti .



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This script is written on the rear flanks of the Bugatti so may assist in identification ..



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Not sure who's scaring who ...



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[Giraffe]

Simon & Mark Ashworth's Marina-Rolls Royce has just emerged from an extensive re-build


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The neat little ATS


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[Giraffe]

Also known as Richard Frankel ,not of Motor Sport at the wheel, discussing the issues with Andrew Frankel of Motor Sport in his green overall and Andy Prill.

Frankly I got my Frankel's fumbled; apologies Red Socks! John Ruston told me the tale of the sale of said Porsche to the Frankels at the weekend..........

[Giraffe]

Joe Twyman was shaking down Roger Wills' Bizz before proceeding directly to Goodwood this afternoon


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Joe told me that Roger was also sharing a GAZ Volga M21 in the St Mary's Trophy
at Goodwood with Vitaly Petrov!

Two Cobs.........


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Martin Stretton sorts stuff out.....


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Ian Ashley and his ex-Danny Sullivan Elden........


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[oscrivello]

Thanks to all for the welcome this morning. A couple of pics taken before my camera threw a fatal strop:

[alansart]

Rats!

I was hoping to get down this morning but that little thing called work and earning a crust got in the way

Nice photos folks

[mfd]

By giraffe138 at 2010-09-15

Interesting flag swap

[cyrilmac]

Final couple for the moment.
Here is the Lancia with its Novice cross..



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As they say " the quick guy's will always be quick " Mr Rahal



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Mr Dodkins + Triumph



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A man who's day is about to go badly wrong - thankfully OK according to his crew .



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[Macca]

Martin Stretton sorts stuff out.....

.....with Oliver Gavin - they were at Goodwood last Thursday trying to fit Ollie into a Cooper-Monaco:



with difficulty, as although he's 6'0 and slim, they had to take the seat out.


Paul M

[elansprint72]

Corvette SWB exits stage right.



PAR has the money shot, I'm sure he'll post it later, from darn sarf.

Next time I'll set my alarm clock, looks like I missed quite a few nice cars.

[PhilG]

The grandstand in the background is now a bench. But it's a very nice bench

I had my wedding reception in the building on the right, seemed like the right thing to do.

[cyrilmac]

One for the Purist's - both taxed and legal ...



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[RTH]

The illegally spaced number plates could result in fines of up to £1000 and conviscation of the numbers.

[cyrilmac]

The illegally spaced number plates could result in fines of up to £1000 and conviscation of the numbers.

Methinks there's an "f" around somewhere.
I did hear on our local radio that the police were going to have a clamp down on such - until one of their own "High Rankers" arrived at his reserved space at HQ sporting similar ! Needless to say in the finest tradition of Law enforcement they didn't bother after that !!

[elansprint72]

Holy side-pipes, Batman!







Is this what you get when you cross a D-Type with a flat-iron?

[Giraffe]

Hold your fire Pete, it's oscrivello & he's one of ours! Cyrilmac tells me it's a recreation of the prototype Stingray.


By giraffe138 at 2010-09-15

Oh, and get a decent alarm clock mate!

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[elansprint72]

[cyrilmac]

Tony ( Welcome by the way ) told me the tale behind his nearly unique car and I'm sure more than a few would be interested.
In the mean time ...



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[Giraffe]

Miscellany of the day for later annotation...........


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It was good to see frp in action today, as well as PAR & of course sleepy head Pete Taylor whom I somehow missed completely. Hopefully they've all got posts up their sleeves......................

The Big Man..........


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Edited by Giraffe, 15 September 2010 - 18:51.

[Phil Rainford]

Indy, Watkins Glen, Laguna Seca...... forget it.

Get down to Mallory on a Wednesday for some real racing cars










PAR

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[frp]

Hopefully they've all got posts up their sleeves......................

The Big Man..........

So that's why I couldn't reach the shutter button - bloody post up my sleeve! I'm still recovering from the shock of seeing an Indy 500 winner at Mallory.

[Phil Rainford]

Some beautiful cars out today......







Just a touch of opposite lock



Thumbs up








PAR

[Phil Rainford]

PAR

[elansprint72]

"Got posts up their sleeeeeves...." I can't believe how many shots I take these days.

Some years ago I had to cycle from Didsbury to Oulton, think very carefully before releasing the shutter on my (only) roll of 36 exposures, then ride back home. Into the darkroom, process film; bugger.... all rubbish.... repeat in two weeks time. Come to think of it, at first I only had 12 on a roll.

I've got a zillion photos of cars racing, or lying in pieces, or looking very clean; some of them find their way here because some of you may appreciate them.

Whatever, I enjoyed today at Mallory (apart from trying to find a way out of Macc this morning).

[Phil Rainford]

Peter seeing you turned up late...... did you stay for the bikes?


PAR

[elansprint72]

Peter seeing you turned up late...... did you stay for the bikes?


PAR

Turned up late; left early...... hey, I'm a long-time NUJ card-carrier.

Which reminds me... covering the TUC bash at silly am........... consider me gone.

[Phil Rainford]

A man who's day is about to go badly wrong - thankfully OK according to his crew .



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Thankfully both the car and circuit protected the driver in what was an extemely violent accident.....
















PAR

[alansart]

Well caught Phil

At least the driver remembered to keep his arms close to his chest.

Looking at the 2nd photo he's realised he's going to hit the wall quite hard and he's taken his hands off the wheel - that's if he had any steering at all!

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[frp]

It was a pleasure to see Tony and Cyril again yesterday, and to meet Phil Rainford, Peter Taylor and oscrivello Tony.
Lancia D50 recreation








Andy

[frp]

Lotus selection

Type 21




Type 87




Type 28


Type 24

Andy

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[frp]

BRM P261








Andy

[elansprint72]

Superb series, Phil.

I have often wondered if the piles of tyres covered by conveyor-belting can sometimes make an accident worse. It looks to me like the car hit the barriers in a hard but glancing manner and, had it just been Armco, it might just have bounced off or slid along. Instead it seems to have "dug in" to the rubber and than been fired off big-style when the kinetic energy in the rubbery bits cried enough.

Motor-bike racers may take a different view.


Of course I may be talking rubbish; I often do.

[frp]

Corvette


Before...








...and during its very nasty excursion. It was with great relief that we watched the driver crawl out from underneath the remains.

Andy

[Phil Rainford]

Last few from me.....



Ever wished you had not looked in your mirror








Roll on next week




PAR

[Phil Rainford]

Corvette

...and during its very nasty excursion. It was with great relief that we watched the driver crawl out from underneath the remains.

Andy

Indeed Andy

PAR

[alansart]

BRM P261


Andy

Nice photos Andy

One question. Did the P261 have a removable steering wheel in period?

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[frp]

Aston Martin


DB4


Is this a DB4 Lightweight? It doesn't have the rounded front wings/headlights of the DB4GT.

Andy

[frp]

E-Type Lightweight with 1995 British F3 Champion, Oliver Gavin, and Martin Stretton


Have you ever seen a racing driver discuss a car's behaviour and not do this with his hands?


A touch of opposite lock from Ollie at the hairpin.

Andy

[Giraffe]

Has anyone identified yesterday morning's test pilot yet??? Here he is pictured on the launchpad around 10 minutes before take-off.........


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[frp]

A couple of rare Italians


ATS




Biazzarrini 5300 GT


If you want your car to impress when parked outside the wine-bar, painting this on the tyres could be cost-effective.

Andy

[frp]

oscrivello's engine bay


Ian Ashley


Simon Hadfield in 250F. Looking for the D50 rep?

Andy

[mfd]

Fuel tank gone...

[mfd]

Nice photos Andy
One question. Did the P261 have a removable steering wheel in period?

Not in the sense of removable like that. It's a standard H&H mod

[frp]

A few more sports cars











Andy

[frp]

Fuel tank gone...

Yes. It was fortunate that there was no fire.

Andy

[cyrilmac]

Indeed Andy

PAR

And thirded!!
I also agree with everything that elansprint (Pete) said. I said to Phil that the start of the accident bore no relation to the outcome (ie the violence that ensued).
The impact tore the neck of the petrol tank filler from the neck of the tank causing all the petrol to empty in a matter of seconds.
Lucky chap all told!

[Giraffe]

Yes. It was fortunate that there was no fire.

Andy

Driver must have smelt it; probably explains why I saw him shoot out of it like a rabbit from the Control Tower, Andy!

[frp]

Last, but certainly not least


Cooper T53

Andy