Curmudgens and DOM

oh okok

but who is it?

 

Can't register without a FCA number?

 

I can't believe none of you have nominated Jodie Kidd - gorgeous, natural, clever, funny, car chick who can DRIVE! (or are you all afraid she'd beat you at track day!)
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Nah, too scrawny.

 

hah, a woman beat me on the track ??

what am I , an English public school boy ??


oh, you mean beat my time ??!!

sorry, Etonian flashback

 

She's quite a good show jumper and polo player too.

 

Certainly an interesting type http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodie_Kidd but not without personal drama http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-23406934-the-divorce-that-came-as-a-surprise-to-jodie-kidd.do

 

She was on Fifth Gear a few years back and drove in the Maserati Trefeo Cup with Tiff.

If I still have the ep, ill rip it and upload it

Also she is only 31 how does she qualify for this thread

 

for the old Romsey Quint curmudgeons :
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Thanks for posting!. I have to confess to going to WF for the Tasman races as a teenager - it was great fun, especially at creek corner. I went to high school not far away & used to skip friday afternoon science prac to watch unofficial practice. So did the science teacher who was supposed to be taking the class - we had a deal - he didn't see us, we didn't see him. He used to get the PE mistress, who was his girlfriend, to take the class. It was a tough choice, but motor racing always won. Mind you, she, who was a tall leggy blonde, always turned up in a PE skirt - brave move in front of a bunch of slobbering 17 year olds.

More often than not, it was possible to get into the centre of the circuit where the teams were and the pits. No one seemed to mind, as long as you stayed out of the way and didn't touch anything. Imagine that these days....

 

I went to school not far away either from the Farm, Creek Corner was where all the yobs hung out and I had the tyres let down on my car one day there when Jane (Camaro) and Moffat (Mustang)were racing .

I think Giovanni Millard was too old to race there by then and was probably team principal or some other useless position in the team

They use to have a bridge not far from the corner where you could go to the in-field from memory

 

Warwick Farm, 1969, watching Rindt in the wet giving a flogging to all and sundry by about a minute, if I recall, from Bell in the 246. The rest, as they say, were nowhere.

That drive convinced me that I needed to go to Europe to watch F1. I was on a plane 2 weeks later.

 

I wouldn't have been allowed to go , I was only 13, but that would have been the BEST era to watch F1, pre-GNOME was great, the evil dwarf has ruined the "sport"

 

Yep, the best 3 years of my life

 

you mean until you met me of course

 

LOL! The 'old' in the thread title belongs to the blokes reading and posting NOT however to the ladies being posted (Note: or posting )

 

you are older than your car aren't you ??

 

Drove past WF this afternoon, on the way to pick up some Leatherphane; pulled in at the "homestead" gates, sort of opposite the Masterton Homes display site. A bit spooky - part of the original circuit is visible, used as an access road, the earth banks along the straight are still there, no sign of Dunlop bridge. Some paint(striped marker) is just visible on the curb at homestead corner. A couple of things struck me -I'm sure that they were just shrubs 'way back when' but trees were really close to the track and, it was really narrow - if that was the width of the track then, then Geoghegan in the Mustang and Jane in the Jag, side by side, must have been heart stopping stuff. Maybe we've all got a bit soft, it would scare the living daylights out of me.

Checked it on Google Earth, and a lot is still visible if some imagination is used, but Creek corner has been obliterated.

It was all to easy to think of the ghosts who had driven that bit of tarmac - Clark, Hill, McLaren, Rindt, Rodriguez, Courage, Mayer and the wonderful cars - 250LM, P4,246T, the first Matich sports racer, Geoghegans 23, it seemed that every open wheeler was powered by a Coventry Climax engine.

Old racing circuits and old airfields are interesting places, very evocative. A few years ago I went looking for WW2 airfields in the UK, most are well known and the local anoraks will be very willing to show you around. One, the grass strip where the majority of SOE flights operated to France, is now part of a golf course in Sussex, not far from my wifes' favourite pub. Essex is littered with old bomber airfields. Couldn't help thinking of the many hundreds of young guys who saw that airfield as their last glance of the 'green fields of England' and never came back for a pint in the local - that includes an uncle. There was a wonderful book written ages ago about the very subject called ' the ghost in the tower' or something similar - stirring stuff.

Sorry, I've rambled, again..

 

went to the big day at Biggin Hill in '89, got the worst case of sunburn in my life, first time I got to see my fav aircraft, Spitfire, actually flying, was a bit of a disappointment in that it seemed to lumber around the sky , too use to unstable fighter jets held in place by avionics that can change direction very quickly

 

Many years ago, the FCA were invited for a parade lap at the final Warwick Farm event. I too was amazed at how narrow it was to drive, compared to the spectator perspective.

The Farm, Amaroo and now Oran Park. I wonder how long the Creek will survive suburban sprawl?

Out there for private practice in the Lola tomorrow (I hope) if we can get the car finished today.

 

well the Creek is closer to the sprawl than Oran or Amaroo were so maybe it will stay, be careful in the Lola, I hear you can end up with a limp

 

I see the Echelon boys want to keep a closer eye on Bobby

http://www.itwire.com/content/view/29396/127/

 

Combat in a piston engined fighter was all about momentum and energy management.
For all that they had the highest power to weight ratio the world had seen, think formula V driving techniques, not Can-Am.
When you add in the extreme difficulties of accurately aiming, its amazing any WW2 fighters ever shot each other down.

 

Which one?

 

not much risk at the moment, we are having lots of problems getting the ride height and corner weights to work. I spent today fabricating the front wing mounting - a curious collection of beautiful titanium bits and cheap fasteners - only the poms would do this!

btw Indy cars have onboard air jacks, incredibly useful when you're fricking around with the suspension, it goes up and down in a heartbeat!
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