Arp F3

James Hunt 1976 · 29 Jun 2004, 10:57 (Ref:1019899)

I read with interest Ryan Lewis is not happy about the level of competition in the scholorship class in British F3. How about he entered an ARP race and take on James Winslow. Now that would be a good race!

andy97 · 29 Jun 2004, 11:36 (Ref:1019956)

Alternatively, how about merging BF3 & ARP into one series with 3 or 4 age related classes, at least there might be full grids!!!!!!???? I'll get my flack jacket and kevlar helmet.

darcym · 29 Jun 2004, 12:22 (Ref:1020031)

Wasn't Ryan Lewis the chap who made a meal of winning the FPA championship ?

JohnMiller · 29 Jun 2004, 13:37 (Ref:1020134)

Hopefully James Winslow and Reon Motorsport can compete in a few BF3 Class B races this year and show the rest up anyway!

No 4 · 29 Jun 2004, 15:56 (Ref:1020242)

Quote:

Originally posted by darcym
Wasn't Ryan Lewis the chap who made a meal of winning the FPA championship ?

Darcym - The very same!!

darcym · 29 Jun 2004, 16:26 (Ref:1020285)

Hmmm I think you can get the point I'm digging at

Made meal of winning clubby championship with rich business men (and some talnet) playing at racing drivers

Complains F1 stepping stone is too easy.....

number11 · 11 Jul 2004, 16:19 (Ref:1033195)

I recently meet R Lewis and thought him to be a right prat! As far as I can see he has no results worth boasting about. FPA is summed up by darcym and as far as I can see scholarship F3 is VERY poor this year. Im sure he would struggle to win ARP despite all his money. Would win the bull**** prize though.

andy97 · 14 Jul 2004, 07:43 (Ref:1036107)

Quote:

Originally posted by andy97
Alternatively, how about merging BF3 & ARP into one series with 3 or 4 age related classes, at least there might be full grids!!!!!!???? I'll get my flack jacket and kevlar helmet.

Or, the ARP cars could all be converted to Mono 2000 spec - driver per driver, I would expect lap times to be very similar but the running costs of a Mono spec car would be far lower.

Comtec Renault · 15 Jul 2004, 07:25 (Ref:1037020)

Jim Blockleys better and he is 97 you Know

**Stephen Green** · 15 Jul 2004, 08:11 (Ref:1037039)

Welcome to Ten-Tenths No 11

djmotorsport · 17 Jul 2004, 16:03 (Ref:1039052)

At Coombe last September Ryan's fastest FPA lap was around a tenth off of the fastest ARP F3 lap - An F3 should be way quicker than an FPA car (Ryan at Snett F3 this year - ~5 seconds better than his fastest FPA time last year)- (all from mst-group.co.uk) - Ryan is a quick driver who is doing OK - Shouldn't we be encouraging homegrown talent?

And check out the times from Oulton :-)

DJ

Kicking-back · 17 Jul 2004, 18:54 (Ref:1039139)

Ryan's done a bloody good job in qualifying today - albeit capitalising on the weather conditions.

Comtec Renault · 18 Jul 2004, 07:43 (Ref:1039447)

Fair play he is a bit like Mansell in the car ok but out?

Kicking-back · 19 Jul 2004, 22:54 (Ref:1040827)

Ah!

beagle · 25 Jul 2004, 09:55 (Ref:1046474)

let this not become a issue of personalities, he has done well end of.

No 4 · 25 Jul 2004, 14:18 (Ref:1046663)

To be fair, Ryan can only beat what's out there to beat and to date his points total in the scholarship suggests he's the best out there by a long shot.

Kicking-back · 25 Jul 2004, 15:13 (Ref:1046731)

True, No 4, but that says more about the opposition than him.

I'd be very interested to see how he'll go if he's in the top class next season.

beagle · 25 Jul 2004, 16:51 (Ref:1046830)

At the beginning of the season everyone was saying jelley was the guy to beat - what has happened there?

ryan has qualified the scholarship car in the top ten quite a few times, look at oulton park recently - what does that say?

Seems like many people are scared to accept that there are new drivers around now in F3 that can/will get results, and go onto bigger and better things.

If ryan raced in the championship class i am sure he would be right up there.

Tweed · 28 Jul 2004, 21:13 (Ref:1050331)

I don't think he'd be RIGHT up there, Oulton qualifying was half-wet/half-dry anyway, you're bound to get a few surprises. I don't think he'd have done so well if Kane, Chandok and Viso had still been there.