Is anyone on here involved with, or know anything about, this new mag...The Pit Stop?
https://www.facebook.../thepitstopmag/
https://thepitstopmagazine.com/
Edited by Dick Dastardly, 11 January 2021 - 18:18.
Posted 11 January 2021 - 18:03
Is anyone on here involved with, or know anything about, this new mag...The Pit Stop?
https://www.facebook.../thepitstopmag/
https://thepitstopmagazine.com/
Edited by Dick Dastardly, 11 January 2021 - 18:18.
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Posted 11 January 2021 - 18:56
Posted 11 January 2021 - 19:24
Yes, it would be interesting to know who the contributors and staff are.
Is it illuminating that such information is kept on a need to know basis?
Round up the usual suspects.............................
Posted 11 January 2021 - 20:34
Edited by Richard Jenkins, 11 January 2021 - 20:34.
Posted 11 January 2021 - 22:37
That isn't necessarily a bad thing, although it might prove to be!There has been a bit of chat on Twitter about this. None of the usual suspects seem involved or haven't confirmed they are anyway...
Posted 11 January 2021 - 23:48
The "F1 car" looks like a March 712M to me. Sans air restrictor, obviously. This is some chap called Hunt being followed by a bloke called Lauda ...
Posted 12 January 2021 - 07:31
None of the names mentioned are members of the Guild of Motoring Writers.
I have not encountered or heard of any of the photographers but at Goodwood and Le Mans there are many faces I would not recognise. Maybe it is me being out of touch.
Brave step to start a print magazine with apparently inexperienced or unknown contributors. Glad I am not the Sub-Editor.
But if they can pull it off, Chapeau!
Edited by SamoanAttorney, 12 January 2021 - 07:31.
Posted 12 January 2021 - 07:48
Oh, so it's a print magazine? Respect...
Has somebody already read it? The MP4/4 is one of my alltime favourite cars (although I don't recall a B version), and Sammy Miller is an interesting character I would love to know more about... very tempted!
Posted 12 January 2021 - 13:44
MP4/4B?? According to Wikipedia (so it must be right)................
A modified car, the MP4/4B, was used as a test mule for Honda's new 3.5-litre V10 designed around the new regulations for the 1989 season banning turbocharged engines.
It would be a particularly esoteric feature but could bring some new knowledge to a wider audience.
Edited by SamoanAttorney, 13 January 2021 - 07:41.
Posted 12 January 2021 - 14:51
There is a Sammy Miller Museum, details on his website:
There are videos about his collection online - though I can't find the links at the moment...
Posted 13 January 2021 - 13:54
MP4/4B?? According to Wikipedia (so it must be right)................
It would be a particularly esoteric feature but could bring some new knowledge to a wider audience.
Oh, I don't know. There's always the Lightburn Zeta...
Posted 13 January 2021 - 14:49
Oh, I don't know. There's always the Lightburn Zeta...
A somewhat Frisky approach?
Posted 14 January 2021 - 15:27
I've pre-ordered issue 1, as there is a Group 1 piece, featuring pictures of my late Dad and also of me at Goodwood SpeedWeek - I'll post again one it arrives...
Posted 15 January 2021 - 12:21
I notice that not only does the photographer refer to the March as an F-1 car, but also the Daytona Coupe as a 1964 Exoto Daytona Coupe. When you google that phrase you find a die- cast model from Exoto in those same colors. One would expect that a guy who is supposed to be on a magazine's staff would know enough to label the photo correctly. Because the Cobra pictured is definitely not a model. That makes one suspicious as to what knowledge the writers bring to the table. But I shall wait to hear what other forumites who have bought the rag has to say about the content. I guess that much is deserved.
T J
Posted 15 January 2021 - 14:26
MP4/4B?? According to Wikipedia (so it must be right)................
A modified car, the MP4/4B, was used as a test mule for Honda's new 3.5-litre V10 designed around the new regulations for the 1989 season banning turbocharged engines.
It would be a particularly esoteric feature but could bring some new knowledge to a wider audience.
Perhaps it is Frisky
According to their FB page
Emanuele Pirro spent a large portion of 1988 based in Japan, testing the McLaren MP4/4B, the car that was used to help Honda develop their naturally aspirated V10 for the 1989 #F1 season.
In Issue 1 of The Pit Stop he tells us what the testing programme was like and how the MP4/4B was to drive.
Posted 15 January 2021 - 14:58
It's brilliant, incredible, luxurious, outstanding and beautiful .... according to their own blurb so it must be good. I wish they would let their readers decide this though.
Cynicism aside I do wish it well - it's brave of them to have a go and rival Automobilsport.
Posted 15 January 2021 - 15:00
Edited by Imperial, 15 January 2021 - 22:08.
Posted 15 January 2021 - 15:14
Michael Harvey was the editor of Autocar in the early Nineties , and I think was responsible for turning it around after a period when , post incorporation ( or takeover ) of the rather racier Motor it was struggling to find a new identity . He was a mate of Russell Bulgin - and that is good enough for me .
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Posted 15 January 2021 - 15:16
Good catch.The 'Privacy Policy' on the Pit Stop website has a further link in it (to contact them) which takes you to the website of The Road Rat, which shows they make the following magazines:https://theroadrat.c...ns/buy-magazine The Road Rat is owned by one Michael Harvey, which means nothing to me, but may to some of you:https://find-and-upd...039692/officers The above is all public information, so I'm not posting anything I shouldn't. This doesn't get us any closed to who the contributors will be, but the above may be of some help.
Posted 03 February 2021 - 18:19
Mine arrived today, not had a chance to look at it properly, but the presentation and production is very good.
Will read it over the next few days and post back.
Edited by Gregor Marshall, 03 February 2021 - 18:19.
Posted 11 February 2021 - 23:50
Any feedback on whether the magazine is any good or not? If so, I might be tempted at buying a copy...Thanks
Posted 14 February 2021 - 19:42
Posted 14 February 2021 - 22:21
It’s rather odd that as a subscriber to The Road Rat I’ve not received any promotional material for Pit Stop if indeed they are part of the same organization. It seems they’re missing a cross-selling opportunity if this is the case.
The only place I've heard it mentioned at all is here. Now I appreciate I'm not getting out much right now, but I might have expected to hear of it somewhere, so I would think they are missing selling opportunities altogether. Or perhaps it is just that I'm not on Facebook 24/7.
Posted 14 February 2021 - 22:42
The only place I've heard it mentioned at all is here. Now I appreciate I'm not getting out much right now, but I might have expected to hear of it somewhere, so I would think they are missing selling opportunities altogether. Or perhaps it is just that I'm not on Facebook 24/7.
Posted 21 February 2021 - 15:02
Posted 21 February 2021 - 16:43