The Roaring Season

by **Kwaussie** » Tue Apr 23, 2013 12:54 pm

Rob Wilson in Canada last year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eyr2okX-kQw

by **bry3500** » Tue Apr 23, 2013 12:02 pm

James Dean at the Santa Barbara airport course, His last race.

by **Kwaussie** » Tue Apr 23, 2013 11:13 am

Rob Wilson has done it all!

http://www.ten-tenths.com/forum/showthread.php?t=88401
http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=edision%20lighthouse&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&ved=0CD0QtwIwAQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dtr6H1a7YUac&ei=ZXB2UYHaK4n4rQfcw4DIBw&usg=AFQjCNHmSm2N0xVLjlxsbYTN6jratGVwIg&bvm=bv.45512109,d.aGc

http://www.grandprairie.co.uk/

Wrote a bit about hot rods up Auckland way some time ago

by **Michael Clark** » Tue Apr 23, 2013 9:52 am

George Harrison

Did James 'Pete Aron' Garner get mentioned?

by **bry3500** » Tue Apr 23, 2013 9:49 am

driftwood wrote:[color="#FF0000"]actually they held the radio one road show at some race meetings with some of the pop bands of the day present often doing a concert later Chaos ensued when they had the Bay city Rollers at 1 meeting!
The Radio one DJ then had a race with some musicians Cozzy Powell the drummer was top dog Mike Smith DJ was already racing and later went onto to do BTCC with sierra rs500 Noel edmonds once owned 2 GT40 cars in his early days later he was involved with a LM team[color="#FF0000"][/color][/color]

Cozy Powell had a large car collection. He had a fatal accident in his SAAB 900 while he was talking to his girlfriend on the mobile phone at over 100mph ..

by **bry3500** » Tue Apr 23, 2013 9:44 am

INXS have sponsored several cars .The last, I think, was with Dick Johnson in the 2004 V8 Supercar Championship.
I can also vouch that Steve Gilpin and the rest of the guys from Misex were also motorsport crazy. They hired 5 Nascars during a tour of the U.S.. I think I may have a photo somewhere.

by **bry3500** » Tue Apr 23, 2013 9:29 am

Johnny Claes made himself a name as a Jazz trumpeter in London . He competed in 23 World Championship Grand Prix starts from 1950 to 1955

by **paul lancaster** » Tue Apr 23, 2013 7:22 am

Yeah, I met him at levels when he was team owner of an nzv8 team, definitely a petrolhead

by **shellsport** » Tue Apr 23, 2013 6:14 am

And how could we forget our Bruno !

by **ERC** » Tue Apr 23, 2013 4:59 am

I love stories like that!

Pre war, there were plenty of musicians racing at all levels. Older poms might remember the "Billy Cotton Band Show" (he introduced pianist Russ Conway to TV) on radio and TV.

Bill drove an ERA and once upon a time, I think we had his driver's armband from a Donington meeting.

I think that Brian Lister (of Lister Jaguar fame) was also a jazz drummer.

by **fullnoise68** » Mon Apr 22, 2013 8:46 pm

When I started this thread I mentioned country singer Marty Robbins who was also a very good part time Nascar driver. His preference of car was Dodge. At the Talledega Superspeedway in 1972, Robbins stunned the top guns and the crowd by running near the front all race. After the race, Robbins was going to be awarded the `Rookie of the Race' award when he told officials he couldn`t accept the award. His reason, the previous night he removed the restrictor plate between the carb and inlet manifold, which effectively gave him 15 miles per hour more than the others. He told them he just wanted to know what it was like to run up the front and he had achieved that. In todays dog eat dog world such honesty in competition no longer exists.

by **Howard Wood** » Mon Apr 22, 2013 8:22 pm

And rock band Starz sponsorship of Brett Riley's F3 March in '78 or '79.

I guess it was relatively easy to siphon some money out of the mega bucks floating around the recording industry at that time. Don't see Starz or their ilk doing reunion concerts today.

by **driftwood** » Mon Apr 22, 2013 3:11 pm

Apart from Nick Mason running his Lola T290 Hu22 at LM for many years
Steve O'Rourke the bands manager raced cars had many LM entry with his own team EMKA
also Dave Gilmour had a go too
Jay Leno David Letterman have car collections and Indy car race team investment

Shane Lynch from Boyzone raced British GT
Spice girls brother has been in BTCC last few seasons now pit lane commentator
Atomic Kitten sponsored BTCC MG team 1 season

Denny Lane of Wings sponsored Dave Coyne in 1981 FF2000

In Japan there was a pop Band sponsored the team Ralf Schumacher raced for in 95
another F3000 team owner is japanese film/ tv actor

Val Musetti was film stunt man (italian job) and raced F2 F5000 F1 cars in UK events

by **driftwood** » Mon Apr 22, 2013 3:04 pm

Chris Rea had a very basic shark nose replica built
The best car is the Belgians car built by Jim Stokes workshop -stunning i dropped off a lotus 24 there at end of the working day and Jim showed me round his shop and then the ferrari and explained the 40000 photographs they acquired to pour over so they could build 100% replica
i stood at the back of the car looked forward and said to him there is one thing on this car that must REALLY pish you off!!
he said yup that FIA LED rain light is an issue they would not let me fit the Lucas light lens !

by **driftwood** » Mon Apr 22, 2013 3:00 pm

ERC wrote:NZ country musician, Brendan Dugan.

Quite a lot of the UK's radio DJ's in the 1970's got into motorsport when commercial radio was to the forefront, sponsoring race meetings - Noel Edmonds being one who took it further than most.

[color="#FF0000"]actually they held the radio one road show at some race meetings with some of the pop bands of the day present often doing a concert later Chaos ensued when they had the Bay city Rollers at 1 meeting!
The Radio one DJ then had a race with some musicians Cozzy Powell the drummer was top dog Mike Smith DJ was already racing and later went onto to do BTCC with sierra rs500 Noel edmonds once owned 2 GT40 cars in his early days later he was involved with a LM team[color="#FF0000"][/color][/color]

by **rogered** » Mon Apr 22, 2013 11:03 am

ERC wrote:Didn't Chris Rea have that gorgeous 1961 shark nose Ferrari replica built? (No originals survive as the factory destroyed them all.)

yes he did. i saw it with phil hill at goodwood, but hav nt heard of the car since

by **rogered** » Mon Apr 22, 2013 11:00 am

yip, sure did

by **225sloper** » Mon Apr 22, 2013 3:51 am

Early news frontman Dougal Stevenson had a nasty crash at Manfeild i think,put him off air for a while.

by **ERC** » Mon Apr 22, 2013 3:44 am

Didn't Chris Rea have that gorgeous 1961 shark nose Ferrari replica built? (No originals survive as the factory destroyed them all.)

by **bry3500** » Mon Apr 22, 2013 3:25 am

"So, what are you going to do with the rest of your life?": "I'm going to be a jockey."
Not a musco or Movie star but should get a mention here
photo courtesy Speedway Archives

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