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[BOR]

Highlight from the British MotoGP the other week, one of the best races I’ve seen absolutely incredible stuff

I believe it was 0.013 gap between both of them.

Incredible.

[Errkal]

Yeah was like the 3rd closest ever race or something

[Vermilion]

Regarding those BTCC photos i mentioned the other day, while i don't have any from those events, i was able to find some of my other motorsport photos from back in the day, and have since scanned them...



BTCC Alfa - London Motor Show 1995



BTCC Vauxhall - Birmingham NEC 2002



Porsche 911 GT1 - British GT Championship - Silverstone 1998



Chip Ganassi Racing Indycar - Rockingham 2001



Harrods McLaren F1 GTR - BPR GT Series, Silverstone 1996



Porsche 911 GT1-98 - FIA GT Championship, Silverstone 1998



Jenson Button's F3 Car - Silverstone 1999



Stewart Ford SF2 - Formula 3 meeting, Silverstone 1998



Toyota WRC Drivers (left to right - Luis Moya, Carlos Sainz Sr, Didier Auriol, Denis Giraudet) - Rally GB Show - Cheltenham Racecourse 1998

[Victor Mildew]

Great pics! Thanks for taking the time to scan them. Some heavy nostalgia there.

[Robbo-92]

The one that stands out to me is that lovely Alfa, all great pics though!

[floydfreak]

excellent photos

[Vermilion]

Cheers, i'll see if i can dig out a few more at some point.

[Pancake]

Vividly remember seeing that Alfa in the hands of Tarquini at Brands Hatch in 94.

Simoni binned the other one but nevermind.

[Victor Mildew]

I've got a picture of me sat in a 97 McLaren f1 gtr. If I find it I'll put it here, I've got proper 90s curtain hair

[Mini E]

Great pics ^ ^ I've got a few I particularly love from Goodwood FoS a few years ago. Being so close to such historic cars These aren't as good as pics above (and are a bit huge. Sorry to any slow computers). I felt a weird emotional connection around some of these - particularly Jim Clark's Lotus and Senna's McLaren.

[Vermilion]

That 1990 Ferrari is gorgeous.

[Victor Mildew]

Maldonado thought Ferrari were going to sign him:

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/mald ... s/4530975/

"I was the only one, I was the new guy in F1,” Maldonado said in an interview with F1’s Beyond The Grid podcast.

“It’s like [Max] Verstappen at the moment. Like Robert Kubica at his time. I was the guy at the time. People were coming to me, they were happy to talk to me, and they were happy to discuss me.

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[Vermilion]

Well I for one would support Maldonado in a Ferrari, especially when you see just how crap Seb has been this season.

[Snowcannon]

I would have preferred Yuji Ide in a Ferrari

[floydfreak]

Taki inoue deserved to be in a Ferrari

[floydfreak]

[Kanbei]

Correa, the other driver in the Hubert incident is in an induced coma with severe respiratory failure. Hope the poor guy pulls through

[Vermilion]

Correa, the other driver in the Hubert incident is in an induced coma with severe respiratory failure. Hope the poor guy pulls through

Was reading this just now about the accident, and the Spa circuit bosses want to replace the tarmac runoff at radillion with a gravel trap.

https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/14580 ... off-debate

This is the same corner which only a few years back, had a gravel trap at that very same spot!



The gravel traps were there for a reason, and i do wonder that had they still been there, then the F2 car might not have bounced back on to the racing line. I've long felt that tarmac runoff is more dangerous, especially after Carlos Sainz had a huge shunt at sochi and the tarmac runoff did nothing to slow the car down.

On a separate note, found a few more retro motorsport pics to scan, hope you like...



Rally GB Show - Cheltenham Racecourse 1998



DTM Pit lane walkabout - Donington Park 2003



Ferrari F40, BPR GT Series, Silverstone 1996



Team Green Indycar, Rockingham 2001



Rally GB Show, Cheltenham 1997



McLaren MP4/10 - London Motor Show, Earls Court 1995



Team Penske, London Motor Show, Earls Court 1997



BTCC Renault Laguna, London Motor Show 1995



Sauber Ford C14 - London Motor Show 1995



Subaru Impreza 555 - Rally GB Show, Cheltenham 1997



BTCC Volvo, London Motor Show 1995

[Mini E]

Has anyone seen the F3 crash today this morning? I’m on my phone so can’t embed it from twitter app. Some absolute genius thought it was a good idea to put a sausage kerb on the outside of parabolica. It’s completely arrowed Alex Peroni straight up a mile into the air where he’s flipped and flown into the barriers. How he has walked away from that, I have no idea. The halo may have just saved a life.

Whoever put that kerb there should be fired on the spot

Edit: let’s try this:

twitter.com/spencerjb26/status/1170264416992014336

[Robbo-92]

Very nasty crash, he landed very close to one of the marshal posts as well. The kerb he hit was one of those ‘sausage’ kerbs, far too high to try and stop drivers from even thinking about going there.