The Roaring Season

and here's a short in car from the Zag: glad I was driving and not watching, if you see what I mean.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKryvogGst0

EMKA and Ziggi Brands.jpg Am working on it! In the meantime for Shoreboy 57, here's a photo of yours truly giving Ziggi ('they don't like it up them Mr Mannering") Brun in his 962 a hurry up at Brands some years ago. It was about as close as I ever got to the back of a Group C Porsche (I got him at ...

Biggest buzz, ever, sitting in the middle of a rolling start for Group C Cars. When those lights go out, the adrenaline, the sound and vibrations are something I'll never forget. These cars were and are a very special part of 'modern' motorsport history. Great to see one here and hats off to Warwick ...

Now I am throwing my Nikon away...more great photos and thanks

Brilliant pics...

Yes, warts, bangs, dents, bumps, welds and bodges and all...Rob Halliday even got underneath and pointed out his repair work from 1974...

Brilliant photos Nigel...what camera etc? (don't tell me it's your I phone or I'll throw my Nikon away). Well done anyway and thanks for posting them. PS: to GD66: it's not a tribute car, it's one of the last survivors of that era together with Rayden's ex Jim Richards 102 Escort, and both are ...

Avoiding all the 'issues' being bandied around here, can I just make a general point? If someone takes the time and trouble to start and run a series, they invite the cars that they want to have on their grids. It's their call, pure and simple. I take my hat off to anyone who does run a series. If ...

Just for the record John, I didn't "consistently not appear at the start". There were four races, I was there at the start of two and then had a puncture before the third. It was still being cured when the dummy grid formed for the third race and I ran back to the car, jacked it up, got the wheel on ...

Thanks to all the support people who make all this possible. They did a great job even though I would rather not have been looking at the back of the towie on no less than three occasions. Not a happy time in the Escort. But it didn't detract from the event itself and I fully endorse Howard Wood's ...

Funniest story I heard about that "rogue of the rules", Tom Walkinshaw. One of the team drivers brought his Group C Jaguar XJR into the pits at the end of pre race qualifying at Le mans in 1987. Rival teams had been monitoring how many laps the car seemed to be able to do on a (rules controlled ...

Was there a guy from Invercargill with his Dodge Superbird NASCAR with the big wing on the back, etc at Leadfoot? John Sievwright i think his name is? if so you have any pics Jaydee(or others) (Just need to do a wheel inspection,LOL) Dale M Here it is Dale. They were next to me in the pits and ...

thanks Ray...understood

Whoa up people...what's this stuff all about? Ray, you in particular should know me better than that. My question was rhetorical...to which the answer is, mine anyway, who cares? It's Rod's gig, he asks who he wants and that's what makes it the bloody great event it is. The more 200mph Transit vans ...

Back to Leadfoot. I've been following the thread and the inevitable debate about original v replica. So does anyone want to hazard a guess as to how many cars that went up the hill would pass muster as being a genuine and accurate representation of the car in period? It's an interesting point ...

Good point!!

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Apart from no brakes (we still can't work out why) and stupidly putting on new Toyos that hadn't turned a wheel, bloody fantastic. Interesting to drive up the hill with no traction and knowing you can't stop if you need to, but I wouldn't have missed it. Haven't seen any photos or video yet of the ...

Some more random Leadfoot photos; and well done Neil Tolich and all the other pre 1975 top ten shoot out guys.