Re: Celebrity encounters
Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2018 8:01 am
floydfreak wrote:I met Nigel Mansell when he raced in the BTCC in 1998, the event that day attracted one of the biggest crowds i had ever seen!
was that at Donington Park?
T'was Silverstone, it was the season finale, and after Rickard Rydell became champion, i headed across to the paddock to see the celebrations.
Then i had wander over to the Volvo garage and the mechanics were piling up bits of broken car from Rydell's team mate (Gianni Morbidelli, an ex F1 racer), and after asking one of the crew, i was allowed to take one of the pieces home with me.
I got to meet Nigel Mansell during the pit road walkabout, as back then, the first few thousand tickets sold would receive a pit lane pass.