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27 May 2015, 12:51 (Ref:3541722) | #1 | ||
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What ever happened to....?
Hello, i have started this thread so that we can ask about people or things that used to be common place in & around sportscar racing but are no longer "apparent".
Ill start by asking whatever happened to Jamie Davies, he always seemed fairly quick and getting decent drives (Vitaphone MC12, BMS Scuderia Italia etc). |
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27 May 2015, 16:10 (Ref:3541777) | #2 | ||
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Also :
John Paul jr. Price Cobb Alex Gurney david Donahue |
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27 May 2015, 16:19 (Ref:3541785) | #3 | ||
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John Paul Jr suffers from Huntington's disease and his condition is constantly deteriorating.
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27 May 2015, 16:21 (Ref:3541786) | #4 | ||
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What about David Tennyson? Drove the Denon sponsored Spice back in the '90s in IMSA.
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Alex Brundle. He was going places and is now pretty much taking the year off; health problems?
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Matteo Bobbi?
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28 May 2015, 01:24 (Ref:3541949) | #11 | ||
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I used to love watching him and Goodyear, Bye, Spenard and the rest of the 944 cup. |
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This thread is pretty interesting! Even if a lot of the questions end up unanswered, it is nice to remember some of these old fellows. |
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28 May 2015, 21:08 (Ref:3542252) | #14 | |
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Jamie Davies is (still?) working at Turnspeed. He's got a protected Twitter acc @JamieDavies888 , no idea how active he is on there. He did some driver coaching stuff, but no more racing, I think.
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28 May 2015, 21:51 (Ref:3542265) | #15 | |
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I think all of these guys are retired and Google gives a bit of info...
Doc Bundy Willy T Ribbs Tom Gloy 90's US Trans-Am, GTP, etc. Richard |
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28 May 2015, 22:16 (Ref:3542277) | #16 | |
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Not sure what Doc is doing now. Here's an interview I did with him late in his career. He is one of the most genuinely friendly guys that I've ever met.
He was a popular local driver near Road Atlanta with good prototype experience. He had driven the Corvette GTP and, at the time of this interview at the first Petit Le Mans, he was driving the Panoz Hybrid, Sparky. I was interested in both cars and drives and here's Doc telling great stories... http://www.lasersol.com/CyberMotor/plm_1998/bundy.htm Note: some of the older links no longer work |
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Somebody asked if the McLaren F1 was going to be like the Ferrari F40, Gordon Murray replied, "I don't think so, there's no one at McLaren who can weld that badly." |
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I was also trying to figure out what ever happened to Juan Fangio ? who use to drive for Dan Gurney early to mid Ninties ?
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There's no better name in motorracing (or anything for that matter) than Willy T. Ribbs. Good thread! |
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29 May 2015, 12:16 (Ref:3542498) | #21 | |
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Robert Doornbos?
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What ever happened to Lord Drayon and Jonny Cocker?
I know that they departed from their Lola to attempt to develop some sort of electric sportscar, but I've not heard anything since then. |
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i think cocker is racing in British gt with barwell, he also has his own tuning co.
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Justin Bell, son of Derek, decent driver and even did a TV show. Whatever happened to?
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