What ever happened to....? - Page 4

hvr777 · 13 Jan 2016, 09:53 (Ref:3604325)

Anyone knows what's happened on Ralph Firman Jr. after 2013?

He was the 2002 Formula Nippon champion (at next year he raced at F1 for a season) and at 2005-2013 (except 2011, when he raced at GT Open) he returned to Super GT, clinched 2007 season championship together with one of Honda team, ARTA (Autobacs Racing Team Aguri).

But after 2013 (which was his last season in Super GT), I didn't hear any informations about him.

Deleted · 18 Jan 2016, 14:33 (Ref:3605941)

FIA GT commentators Richard Nichols and Graham Tyler.

I know after the two were stupidly sacked by SRO after 2009, Tyler still worked at RLM for 2010 LMS+LM season, and then bit of 2011 before finally retiring cause of some lost love for the current breed of cars or something. But did he retire-retire from everything?

Of Nichols all I know is that he voiced ALMS highlights for euro ESPN America in 2012, plus some Irish motorcycle racing for UK/Ireland channels. I'm not sure if he does those bikes still. Or anything else for that matter.

Would be nice to know, these two were always among my top favs. Even if not too many seemed to appreciate them.

MaskedRacer · 18 Jan 2016, 17:36 (Ref:3605971)

Privateer teams in the ALMS:

Jon/Clint Field
Scott Tucker
The Autocon team
The Robertsons Ford GT team

Deleted · 18 Jan 2016, 18:09 (Ref:3605974)

Scott Tucker to FBI investigation for money laundering, he and the companies involved made some 20 million settlements but there have been further court proceedings + (I think) settlements later.

Jon Field to prison for tax fraud

Clint Field forced to step down to minor club racing

Autocon Motorsports collapsed in late 2011 when Michael Lewis quit, and the rest decided to not bother

Doran Ford GT2 of Robertsons was nearing the end of homologation and they decided to bail

Mechanic Z · 18 Jan 2016, 18:22 (Ref:3605975)

The Robertsons still run the Fords in vintage racing. Pretty sure they've run in the Brian Redman event at Road America the last few years.

Regarding White Lightning from a few pages back, they still have a Twitter account, active as of September '15:
https://twitter.com/WLR1LeMans

Deleted · 18 Jan 2016, 18:24 (Ref:3605976)

They run same Dorans?

I always remember how Liz Halliday had some kind of grudge towards Robertsons at Le Mans 2011. It was bizarre.

Mechanic Z · 18 Jan 2016, 18:32 (Ref:3605978)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chiana

They run same Dorans?

Yep, some relatives went to the event last year and they had photos of the cars.

Edit: Here's the Entry List from last year, they're listed on page 13.
http://www.roadamerica.com/media/wys...up_7-13-15.pdf

Deleted · 18 Jan 2016, 18:44 (Ref:3605983)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mechanic Z

Yep, some relatives went to the event last year and they had photos of the cars.

Edit: Here's the Entry List from last year, they're listed on page 13.
http://www.roadamerica.com/media/wys...up_7-13-15.pdf

Nice

Some cool other cars in there too

Wish Robs would make it to Sebring Classic or Daytona Classic someday

rich07 · 18 Jan 2016, 19:48 (Ref:3605988)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chiana

They run same Dorans?

I always remember how Liz Halliday had some kind of grudge towards Robertsons at Le Mans 2011. It was bizarre.

Yeah I've heard that too-never knew what it was all about though.

Deleted · 22 Jan 2016, 18:07 (Ref:3607168)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chiana

Scott Tucker to FBI investigation for money laundering, he and the companies involved made some 20 million settlements but there have been further court proceedings + (I think) settlements later.

Justice is slowly starting to prevail for that con fraud!
http://www.dailysportscar.com/2016/0...et-tucker.html

1,32 billion demand! Open your corrupted wallets again Scott.

FLGTFAN · 10 Feb 2016, 18:26 (Ref:3613743)

Arrested today.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/moto...cid=spartandhp

BullMan · 10 Feb 2016, 18:45 (Ref:3613747)

Quote:

Originally Posted by FLGTFAN

Arrested today.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/moto...cid=spartandhp

Rot in Hell, Chief Tucker.

cbbrit · 10 Feb 2016, 18:47 (Ref:3613748)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chiana

FIA GT commentators Richard Nichols and Graham Tyler.

I know after the two were stupidly sacked by SRO after 2009, Tyler still worked at RLM for 2010 LMS+LM season, and then bit of 2011 before finally retiring cause of some lost love for the current breed of cars or something. But did he retire-retire from everything?

Of Nichols all I know is that he voiced ALMS highlights for euro ESPN America in 2012, plus some Irish motorcycle racing for UK/Ireland channels. I'm not sure if he does those bikes still. Or anything else for that matter.

Would be nice to know, these two were always among my top favs. Even if not too many seemed to appreciate them.

Graham Tyler was reporting for RadioLeMans.com, in the pits, at the Rolex 24 last month and is also at the Le Mans 24 every year.

Deleted · 10 Feb 2016, 18:49 (Ref:3613750)

Quote:

Originally Posted by cbbrit

Graham Tyler was reporting for RadioLeMans.com, in the pits, at the Rolex 24 last month and is also at the Le Mans 24 every year.

No he's not, you're confusing him with someone else.

Quote:

Originally Posted by FLGTFAN

Arrested today.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/moto...cid=spartandhp

Good riddance Chief.

Coach Ep · 10 Feb 2016, 19:28 (Ref:3613768)

Let's see if he can bring it to level 5 in the jailhouse...

Deleted · 10 Feb 2016, 19:29 (Ref:3613769)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Coach Ep

Let's see if he can bring it to level 5 in the jailhouse...

Haha

BSchneiderFan · 10 Feb 2016, 19:50 (Ref:3613780)

... Team Persson?

Mark0994 · 10 Feb 2016, 21:46 (Ref:3613813)

Quote:

Originally Posted by BSchneiderFan

... Team Persson?

If you talking about German team from DTM, i think that they are now HTP Motorsport.

GROUPA · 11 Feb 2016, 02:33 (Ref:3613869)

Florian Gruber

Coach Ep · 11 Feb 2016, 03:30 (Ref:3613873)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mark0994

If you talking about German team from DTM, i think that they are now HTP Motorsport.

Correct:

Quote:

DID YOU KNOW...

...HTP Motorsport can trace its roots back to a team started by former grand prix driver and Le Mans 24 Hours winner Jochen Mass?

MS Racing competed in the DTM in 1991-92 after which it was taken over by engineer Ingmar Persson. The stalwart Mercedes team was bought in 2011 by HEICO Motorsport, which in turn sold out to Dutch investment group HTP ahead of last season.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/112201

Never saw them at Le Mans though.

BSchneiderFan · 11 Feb 2016, 11:47 (Ref:3613940)

Well, well. The things you learn. I loved the CLK-GTRs they ran in the 1998 FIA GT Championship.

Coach Ep · 11 Feb 2016, 14:55 (Ref:3613969)

The Zakspeed Porsche had a distinct livery that year as well.

here are both of them actually!

Here's more from the maestro

http://www.speedhunters.com/2010/04/...he_911_gt1_98/

Hedley Verity · 12 Feb 2016, 19:39 (Ref:3614278)

Nigel Moore, at the time the youngest Le Mans entrant ever, his sister Sarah (?) did well in Ginettas IIRC, then both disappeared, must still be relatively young, family money dry up?

airbusA346 · 12 Feb 2016, 20:33 (Ref:3614289)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hedley Verity

Nigel Moore, at the time the youngest Le Mans entrant ever, his sister Sarah (?) did well in Ginettas IIRC, then both disappeared, must still be relatively young, family money dry up?

Looking on Google:

Nigel and Sarah did the GT86 Cup in VLN in 2014. Don't know what they did last year.

Mosport Fan · 13 Feb 2016, 03:57 (Ref:3614357)

MBD Sportscar?

They had that Panoz-Mugen combination but never really survived past LM in about 2002-3 I recall?

The Dick Barbour Racing Lamborghinis? If I recall there was supposed to be a level of factory support but it never came.....did the cars go back to Reiter Engineering?

I remember there was a mention of ACEMCO- the Saleens were on eBay a f ew years ago and must of sold at some point as one was at Silverstone last July for the Classic. ACEMCO itself I believe is still doing work for Ford in Michigan.....

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