Getting to know you!

[nivola1]

Hi my name is Rob, a self confessed motorsport nut. I first got interested as a 12 year old back in 1979 and attended my first F1 race in 1983. Over the last few years my attention has turned to the 1930's era. My memorabilia collection consist of
Books- My Autocourse collection of 28 go back to 1976, Lots of driver autobiographies going back to 1935 (seagrave) and lots of signed stuff from mansell to moss...a good collection of foriegn books on the 1930's that have cost me dear!..oh and the only magazine I have ever kept is my grand prix international collection, issues 1-65 complete and all in binders (nice ).
Art- Just recently I got a hand drawn original picture of Alan Jones's 1980 Williams signed by Patrick Head and Frank Williams (before his accident). Williams has always been my first passion so I guess I'll keep this for the rest of my days.
Also have signed prints by Barry sheene (a very nice Dion pears print), Johnny herbert (benetton promo), Stirling Moss, Jack Brabham and a nice prodrive print signed by sainz, mcrea and burns.
F1 car bits- I have the usual stuff, several williams wheels and a front nose cone from Jaques Laffites 1983 williams fw08. When I was about 14 I got an original spark plug from a cosworth DFV it's not much but very special to me.
car badges and mascots- a great interest of mine i have many motorsport related stuff, radiator badges from Zolder and european car clubs. some 1960's goodwood enamel badges and bronze car cub plaques which are very nice. Car club cups from the 1920's ( need to research these more) and of course mascots a real passion of mine.
Well thats a brief overview of me thanks for reading this

[nicanary]

Sorry. my "copy and paste" seems to have gone to the Maldives. Go to Google Image and type in A1 Ring , and you'll see what I mean.

[HornetV8]

New here and this seems a good spot to introduce myself

I'm Ian, 20 from Birmingham (but now living in a place called "Bare")
My main interest in motorsport is NASCAR, been following that since I was a little sprog, my interest has since grown onwards to classic cars and vintage and historic racing, I just love all forms of classic iconic motorsport from the gulf 917 and Lancia LC2 to the Hudson Hornets via the Lola T70 (In other words "its all good in my eyes")

I grew up watching those little Metros zipping about in Rallycross to so there's a fair bit of Rally interest in my blood too

My job is Railway Fitter, basically I get covered in oil all day working on 50 year old locos,all good fun

I like good beer, good company and Rock and heavy metal music, from Chuck Berry to Deep Purple

Looking forward to being here and hopefully meeting a few members, getting back into motorsport after about 6 years "off the radar" and its good to be back!

[Bononi]

Welcome HornetV8 !

Deep Purple is great !

[GORDON STREETER]

Originally Posted by HornetV8

I like good beer, good company and Rock and heavy metal music, from Chuck Berry to Deep Purple

Blimey an old head on young shoulders ! welcome !

[Aysedasi]

Welcome Ian

[John Turner]

Originally Posted by GORDON STREETER

Blimey an old head on young shoulders ! welcome !

Agreed Gordon. What a mature young man, with such good taste!!! Reminds me of the current Features Editor of Autosport; he was into all that practically from birth! He's 31 this month! Welcome indeed, Ian.

[chunterer]

Yes indeed sounds like just the sort of new member we need!

Ian may I ask what sort of Loco's you work on, Steam or Diesel?

[HornetV8]

Originally Posted by chunterer

Yes indeed sounds like just the sort of new member we need!

Ian may I ask what sort of Loco's you work on, Steam or Diesel?

I'm on the diesel side, but the company I work for also operates steam, just the the other side of the door to us is that department

Thanks for the welcome chaps, I think im going to like it here with such likeminded folk

[Bononi]

Originally Posted by Bononi

Welcome HornetV8 !

Deep Purple is great !

Originally Posted by Aysedasi

Welcome Ian

Originally Posted by John Turner

Agreed Gordon. What a mature young man, with such good taste!!! Reminds me of the current Features Editor of Autosport; he was into all that practically from birth! He's 31 this month! Welcome indeed, Ian.

By the way, if you don't know yet, Ian, my avatar is Candice Night's new album. Candice is wife of Ritchie Blackmore, as you know so well, former Deep Purple guitar front, and she's the singer in Ritchie Blackmore's Blackmores Night...

[keithc82]

Hey guys, my name is Keith, 30 from Dublin. Got into cars and motorsport relitively late, 1998 to be exact. I saw a mclaren f1 on a top gear VHS and feel for it instantly, started watching f1 around the same time. Naturally not having any previous knowledge I supported/support McLaren. Started getting into endurance racing over the last couple of years.

Away from work as a mechanic I eat, sleep and s*#t motorsport, everything from die cast, model kits, books, RC and artwork and of course watching it on tv on top of all that I spend every other weekend during the racing season as a scrutineer at the circuits around Ireland.

God bless my poor wife, I have her demented!!! I wouldn't have it any other way!!

[GORDON STREETER]

Welcome to the forum Keith, you will find I sometimes speak a load of bo****ks but I can be serious if I want to be.
My wife has put up with motorsport for 40 years and was my old racing mechanics girlfriend, so the two can exist !

[Knowlesy]

I still have that Top Gear VHS Keith. Loved it as a kid. Love it now actually! Can't believe it's 16 years ago.



Welcome!

[chunterer]

Originally Posted by HornetV8

I'm on the diesel side, but the company I work for also operates steam, just the the other side of the door to us is that department

Thanks for the welcome chaps, I think im going to like it here with such likeminded folk

Ah! So are you at Tyseley or SVR maybe?

Excellent!

I'm no expert on these wonderful machines but both my father and my son are pretty keen.

At the SVR we have the pleasure of Sir Keith Park at present, possibly loudest releaser of steam ever! Deafening!

There's also 3 Class 50's, I think, which make a fantastic sound.

[HornetV8]

Originally Posted by chunterer

Ah! So are you at Tyseley or SVR maybe?

Excellent!

I'm no expert on these wonderful machines but both my father and my son are pretty keen.

At the SVR we have the pleasure of Sir Keith Park at present, possibly loudest releaser of steam ever! Deafening!

There's also 3 Class 50's, I think, which make a fantastic sound.

Nah work at Carnforth mate, Lots of Class 47s here which sound great on full whack with the turbo screaming away, quite loud when inside the engine room, I just like loud things I guess

[chunterer]

Originally Posted by HornetV8

Nah work at Carnforth mate, Lots of Class 47s here which sound great on full whack with the turbo screaming away, quite loud when inside the engine room, I just like loud things I guess

Excellent!

[GORDON STREETER]

Originally Posted by HornetV8

Nah work at Carnforth mate, Lots of Class 47s here which sound great on full whack with the turbo screaming away, quite loud when inside the engine room, I just like loud things I guess

Blimey I remember the first of the old Class 47s appearing to replace steam just when I was leaving school, that would make them over 50 years old.
Are any of the originals still running ?

[HornetV8]

Originally Posted by GORDON STREETER

Blimey I remember the first of the old Class 47s appearing to replace steam just when I was leaving school, that would make them over 50 years old.
Are any of the originals still running ?

Quite a few, built in 1962 till 64/65 and they are still going, not sure which the oldest one in our fleet is without looking, very good locos to maintain and still able to pull 12 coaches and another engine at 95mph, says a lot for British engineering 50 years ago (with a Swiss engine to power all the electrical stuff)

The oldest locos we operate on the mainline are the former southern based Class 33s built in the 1950s and still going strong

[Knowlesy]

*swoon*

[kapparomeo]

Hello everyone. I have to say that I'm not very familiar with motorsport or racing games, but with the encouragement of some tread-headed friends I'm starting to get into it. I hope that I can learn a lot here.

[Aysedasi]

Welcome!

[S griffin]

Hi my name's Stephen, I'm 23 years old and I've watching racing since before I can remember. My earliest memory was in 1994, watching F1 and BTCC. Since then I've hardly missed either and watch pretty much every motorsport. Only now I have started posting, only because there are a few things I am anxious to know. I only originally signed into this forum to make it easier to find things. Yesterday I started my first thread in Motorsport History, but have no responses so far. I hope I can contribute more in the future.

[Bononi]

Welcome !

[Aysedasi]

Welcome indeed Stephen - good to have you on board!

[Pescara Productions]

Hi all,
I'm Phillip, I'm 16 and to be fair I think Motorsport was engraved in my brain from a very early age. I have grown up living on the doorstep of Mallory Park and it has become my second home since I was born. It has fueled an addiction at an early age that was so powerful my parents had to stop me going outside as a child as the distant noise would cause me to nag them for the rest of the day about the racing.

I'm mainly a fan of the club racing as it was what I grew up with, especially the Mini Miglia's, Legends and anything the 750MC produces. I've never been to any big events in the UK as I never really thought that paying stupid money for 60 laps of racing, 11 overtakes and the most expensive cars in racing was ever as good as 12 laps of craziness from 30 Mazda MX5's.

Although I did enjoy F1, weirdly at the Schumacher era (the time where no liked it ), I think it has become too artificial in recent years and I think they need to take it back to basics and leave it for a bit, instead of constantly fiddling with it to stop the Red Bull dominance. BTCC is the only sport I've watched religiously throughout my life as most racing as been stolen from anyone who hasn't got Sky. Over the past five years or so I've been filming the best and worst of British Club sport (although on a very restricted budget) and it's been the most interesting my life has ever been. I've met some fantastic people and caught some mental races and huge crashes on camera, which I intend to sell on to anyone who's interested, I'm piecing together what I hope will be a more up to date equivalent of the Havoc series.

On the subject of Havoc I think I've got a collection of VHS's/DVD's from various charity shops which sadly seem to be the only supply I can find. I've got several, 'Best of Havoc' VHS/DVDs so god knows how many they made, Crash & Crunch, All American Crashes, Crash Crazy, BPR World Championship 96, Murray's Motorsport Spectacular and a few Radio Le Mans VHS's from the 80's. It's a mismatched collection to say the least.

Hopefully I can find a role to fulfill on this forum. I don't see a Mallory Park correspondent yet so perhaps I could have a go at that. I'll try to keep my posts as short and to the point as possible as I have a tendency to go on a bit as I've never been good at summing things up quickly. Hopefully the whole filming business will go well and allow me to try and get more racing on TV for people who don't want to pay stupid money watch Motors TV. I'm also looking into building a rallycross car very soon and I may need advise with that little project.