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[Widefoot2]

I had the armbands of Jim Clark and Colin Chapman from the 1960 Belgian GP.

 

A letter from Roland Ratzenberger's parents thanking me for including him in my book "Granite and Marble"

I hope there was not a need for a volume 2!  But I see from this listing that the first printing was longer ago than I would have guessed...

 

https://www.amazon.c...1/dp/B01HC9XJIG

[danmills]

Just found whilst clearing out today my 92 Mansellmania era 92 British GP ticket and the 93 TOCA Shootout ticket signed by the man himself (in person, my actual tickets).

[Clatter]

I can remember one year at the Silverstone GP where quite a few people were leaving with complete tyres (I assume used). I never found where they were handing them out.

[Vitesse2]

A few highlights.

 

I have a pair of goggles with only one lens intact which has the label "Brookland Outer Track Lap Record Holding Googles, Circ 1928". No idea how genuine they are. They look the part. I got them from eBay.

 

 

If genuine, they would appear to have belonged to Kaye Don (Sunbeam), who was the first to exceed 130mph on the Outer Circuit on May 28th 1928; 131.76mph. He improved that to 134.24mph on August 5th 1929 and held the record until April 24th 1930, when Sir Tim Birkin (Bentley) achieved 135.34mph. Don then countered with 137.58mph on June 9th 1930, which stood until March 24th 1932, when Birkin managed 137.96mph. Thereafter, John Cobb (Napier-Railton) and Oliver Bertram (Barnato-Hassan) progressively took the mark to the perpetual record of 143.44mph, set on October 7th 1935. Although if mechanical maladies - and war - had not intervened Chris Staniland and Multi-Union II might have beaten it; he was unofficially timed at about 145mph in practice for the final Brooklands meeting in August 1939 ...

 

[There is a caveat to the above - Mrs WB (Jill) Scott (Sunbeam) set an 'unofficial' Outer Circuit record for women on September 29th 1928; 120.88mph.]

[ensign14]

I've got a set of first-day covers that were signed by a number of top names - Fangio, Brabham, Moss.  Plus, weirdly, the Duke of Hamilton.  They seem to be worth quite a bit now.

 

I've also got a copy of Mercedes Benz Motor Racing 1934-55 signed and dedicated by George Monkhouse to Cyril Posthumus. 

 

And a couple of original Geoff Goddard photoprints that are the first thing I see when I come back home.  Thanks to Doug Nye selling them on behalf of Mrs Goddard on ebay.

[MaxRPM]

How did you smuggle that booty out of the circuit?

I bought it all on-line via Ebay many years ago

[PRD]

Walking back to Silverstone village after the British GP a few years ago, found a Vodafone lanyard with a card attached containing a 1.5cm square fragment of Lewis Hamilton's "race suit" from the 2010 Bahrain GP. This was a giveaway for Vodafone customers that somebody had dropped and I'd spotted.

 

My brother and I did steal a John Player Special placard from Brands Hatch after the 1978 Grand Prix which lived in my parent's garage for a few years, but now long gone.

Edited by PRD, 25 June 2020 - 14:34.

[ExFlagMan]

Used to have a bit of the front wing from the Mclaren of Andrea De Cesaris after he slammed it into the wall at Woodcote in 1981.

 

Threw it away after a few years as I realised that the no of damaged bits from his cars made it pretty worthless....

[MarshalMike]

Somewhere between 350 - 400 baseball caps from 40 years of marshalling, none of which I paid for.

[ExFlagMan]

Same here - but probably not quite that many.

 

Favourite is a genuine F1 ITV cap given to me by Ted Kravitz for doing an insert for the F1 pre-qualifying show in 1998,  quality hat as I am still wearing it.

Edited by ExFlagMan, 25 June 2020 - 18:19.

[JacnGille]

I have a McLaren team member shirt from the '77 Watkins Glen race.

[chdphd]

If genuine, they would appear to have belonged to Kaye Don (Sunbeam), who was the first to exceed 130mph on the Outer Circuit on May 28th 1928; 131.76mph. He improved that to 134.24mph on August 5th 1929 and held the record until April 24th 1930, when Sir Tim Birkin (Bentley) achieved 135.34mph. Don then countered with 137.58mph on June 9th 1930, which stood until March 24th 1932, when Birkin managed 137.96mph. Thereafter, John Cobb (Napier-Railton) and Oliver Bertram (Barnato-Hassan) progressively took the mark to the perpetual record of 143.44mph, set on October 7th 1935. Although if mechanical maladies - and war - had not intervened Chris Staniland and Multi-Union II might have beaten it; he was unofficially timed at about 145mph in practice for the final Brooklands meeting in August 1939 ...
 
[There is a caveat to the above - Mrs WB (Jill) Scott (Sunbeam) set an 'unofficial' Outer Circuit record for women on September 29th 1928; 120.88mph.]

 
Thank you so much for this. I always wanted to know the possible history of those googles. I have always been interested in word speed records and these may be have belonged to one of the legends. Super stuff. And if they were Mrs WB (Jill) Scott's, that's even cooler.

I went to Brooklands in 2004 and wish I had gone back again. I only lived about an hour away for 10 years.

Edited by chdphd, 25 June 2020 - 21:34.

[68targa]

In the 60's I used to write to overseas race organisers requesting a programme and several obliged. I thought it was quite exotic to receive an envelope with a Monaco or Zandvoort programme inside. Remember that there was no TV to speak of or internet so I could only read about these races from the specialist mags of the time.  The best was from the Targa Florio organisers who obliged not only with the programme but one year with an enormous poster which I still have. The artwork makes a great wall display. 

[Vitesse2]

 
Thank you so much for this. I always wanted to know the possible history of those googles. I have always been interested in word speed records and these may be have belonged to one of the legends. Super stuff. And if they were Mrs WB (Jill) Scott's, that's even cooler.

I went to Brooklands in 2004 and wish I had gone back again. I only lived about an hour away for 10 years.

Having now researched this further, I think these could have actually belonged to Jill Scott. Kaye Don seems to have preferred oval goggles, but I have found a 1928 picture of Jill Scott, in which she appears to be wearing round ones.

 

https://www.worthpoi...beam-1796947004

 

 

[chdphd]

Having now researched this further, I think these could have actually belonged to Jill Scott. Kaye Don seems to have preferred oval goggles, but I have found a 1928 picture of Jill Scott, in which she appears to be wearing round ones.

 

https://www.worthpoi...beam-1796947004

 

 

Love the photo of the "Puppy" 

 

Hmm. They don't look 100% right, but pretty damn close. The lenses in the photo look tinted but the remaining lens in my pair isn't. But maybe that's a trick of the light in the photo?

 

Should I start a thread about this in the Historic Research bit of the Nostalgia forum?

[Pete_f1]

I got a piece of carbon fibre body work from either Kubica's BMW or Vettel's RB from this https://www.youtube....h?v=ncRZ0a29kZU

Three marshalls collected the pieces and stood around them guarding but as the crowd around them grew, the pile gradually got smaller and smaller

This moments before I 'retrieved' my souvenir...

What a souvenir!
Does she make a good wife?

[Vitesse2]

Love the photo of the "Puppy" 

 

Hmm. They don't look 100% right, but pretty damn close. The lenses in the photo look tinted but the remaining lens in my pair isn't. But maybe that's a trick of the light in the photo?

 

Should I start a thread about this in the Historic Research bit of the Nostalgia forum?

There's a five-minute Pathé News film called 'Kaye Don At Brooklands (1920-1929)' on YouTube, which appears to be one of his record runs - there's no commentary so it was probably never used. It includes some close-ups of him; he's wearing oval goggles. Other photos - both in motor racing and his later boat racing and water speed record attempts - show him in similar/identical goggles, some of them possibly tinted. Photos of Jill Scott are rarer, but I think the best way to describe those is 'probably the property of Mrs WB Scott'. She'd likely have owned more than one pair - and tinted goggles probably wouldn't have been necessary at the end of September; weather forecast headline for that day was 'generally unsettled', with moderate easterly winds and occasional showers. The Essex MC meeting in which she set that speed, incidentally, also featured the first ever motorcycle race for women at Brooklands. The reason it's 'unofficial', btw, is because it's a time set during a race; 'official' Brooklands records had to be set on a solo timed run.

[speedman13]

I hope there was not a need for a volume 2!  But I see from this listing that the first printing was longer ago than I would have guessed...

 

https://www.amazon.c...1/dp/B01HC9XJIG

I still have 3 or 4 copies available at £15.00 including UK postage.

[chdphd]

There's a five-minute Pathé News film called 'Kaye Don At Brooklands (1920-1929)' on YouTube, which appears to be one of his record runs - there's no commentary so it was probably never used. It includes some close-ups of him; he's wearing oval goggles. Other photos - both in motor racing and his later boat racing and water speed record attempts - show him in similar/identical goggles, some of them possibly tinted. Photos of Jill Scott are rarer, but I think the best way to describe those is 'probably the property of Mrs WB Scott'. She'd likely have owned more than one pair - and tinted goggles probably wouldn't have been necessary at the end of September; weather forecast headline for that day was 'generally unsettled', with moderate easterly winds and occasional showers. The Essex MC meeting in which she set that speed, incidentally, also featured the first ever motorcycle race for women at Brooklands. The reason it's 'unofficial', btw, is because it's a time set during a race; 'official' Brooklands records had to be set on a solo timed run.

 

Thanks for that    Yes, those Googles in the close up are very different. Almost like a mask.

[PLAYLIFE]

Back when Adelaide was the last race the mechanics would often sell bits to make a bit of spending money. In 1995 my mate bought the wooden plank of the bottom of a Ligier. I got given a wheel nut by a Jordan mechanic for free. I've bought memorabilia before and after but that wheel nut is my favourite item

Similar story here, from Adelaide over a number of years.
Spark plugs from the Ligier Honda Mugen
Titanium skid plates
Steering wheels from Betrand Gachot's Larrousse LC92 and Erik Comas's Ligier JS37
I also have Olivier Panis's overalls from the 1996 Australian GP.

My favourites though are a number of fuel and hub caps from FIAT, Alfa and Itala cars from the 1920s-ish.

Edited by PLAYLIFE, 29 June 2020 - 23:02.

[Myrvold]

Similar story here, from Adelaide over a number of years.
Spark plugs from the Ligier Honda Mugen
Titanium skid plates
Steering wheels from Betrand Gachot's Larrousse LC92 and Erik Comas's Ligier JS37
I also have Olivier Panis's overalls from the 1996 Australian GP.

 

Should've been born in Australia in the 70's or something I see. Not Norway in the 90's

[BCM]

Not F1 related but I marshalled at Rally Australia in 95 or 96 (my memory is starting to fail me!) and had Stig Blomqvist retire at my marshalling point. Had him sign my Celica GT-Four Group A Rallye (the st205 version that was banned because of TTE's turbo restrictor shenanigans) log books before driving him back to the beginning of the stage in the car. Had to convince him to get into the car - he was worried about tracking mud into it. I couldn't have given a rats! Should never have sold that car.

 

I also have a Malboro F1 hat from the 1991 Adelaide GP. Looks a bit second hand these days, as does my old TTE cap.

Edited by BCM, 30 June 2020 - 00:58.

[midgrid]

Similar story here, from Adelaide over a number of years.
Spark plugs from the Ligier Honda Mugen
Titanium skid plates
Steering wheels from Betrand Gachot's Larrousse LC92 and Erik Comas's Ligier JS37
I also have Olivier Panis's overalls from the 1996 Australian GP.

My favourites though are a number of fuel and hub caps from FIAT, Alfa and Itala cars from the 1920s-ish.

Have you managed to build your own racing car yet?

[BRG]

Stig Blomqvist..... Had to convince him to get into the car - he was worried about tracking mud into it. I couldn't have given a rats! 

Did he actually tell you that?  In actual words?   If so, you may have had one of the longest known conversation with Stig on record!

 

Always my favourite rally driver.  Just got in a car, any car, and drove it like he stole it.  No BS, no PR, no excuses.  Top man.

 

Have you managed to build your own racing car yet?

Johnny Cash had a song about that, didn't he?  'One bit at a time'

[king_crud]

Have you managed to build your own racing car yet?

[7MGTEsup]

I still have the t-shirt from the last Grand Prix at Brands in '86. And it almost still fits...

...for a given value of "almost".

 

Shrunk in the wash....

[BRG]

Shrunk in the wash....

Alan or the T-shirt?

[Alan Lewis]

I bathe religiously.

Christmas and Easter.

[7MGTEsup]

Alan or the T-shirt?

 

I'll leave that to your imagination...

[StraightEdge]

I have bunch of those driver promos they offer at Indycar team paddock as well two t-shirts of Helio Castroneves (one still in a bag; doesn't have the heart to open it) and Will Power as well 2006 Indycar Texas race, autographs on few diecast cars (one of them was Helio) and trading cards, as well the free stuff they offer when you go to one of those booths. I still use my free Firestone beverage cooler to this day. I also own Fernando Alonso mirror keychain which I bought last year at COTA

[AustinF1]

Hey, I just remembered I have an old (but perfect, brand new condition), autographed Kevin Schwantz Team Suzuki team button-down shirt. Anyone have any idea what something like that might be worth?