The Roaring Season

John McKechnie wrote:"Catch me if you can"- Dave Clarke Five.

as a kid at levin i remember nancy sinatra's "these boots are made for walking' playing over and over on the PA..

Hi peter,i will have a look back through some old boxes of info i have from the early days to see if i can verify the chassis number...i never took much notice of the number at the time....my car also has a repair to the inner tub on the right side near gear lever...was very easy to see at the time ...

Unknown Formula Vee in post 2 I look at and think Rob Lester for some reason but looks like the name is Pickford on side of cockpit. Purple Escort, front row 3rd photo in posts from club track looks like Jimmy Stone in his Gedore sponsored Escort. Escort behind the Zap Starlet. Any ideas on who ...

From the sponsorship on the cars, it looks like a lot of New Zealand companies supported the 1996 Le Mans effort... > New Hardware Clothing > Giltrap Motor Group > Destinations Unlimited (Allan Bremner from the Porsche Club) > Flamecrusher Another nice touch was the "Le Mans 1966 - Chris Amon ...

Richard, great analyses of events. Does anyone know where the Porsche is now? Has Bill ever considered getting it back just for sentimental reasons? the car is in the US apparently....running in the le mans livery as we ran it....the owner messaged Jono on facebook a while ago when we had put some ...

Nothing wrong with your memory, Richard went several months earlier to set up the logistics and engineering with obvious results. I recall that Own had qualified the car but there was some difficulty getting an alternative driver in the seat due to politics. With the consent of other teams it was ...

Grant Ellwood wrote:When Graham was running David Brabham the other driver was Mike Thackwell I think.

Hi Grant,hope alls good with you...pretty sure at that time other watson driver was parker johnstone from US...i was in my ex Bowe 81 RT4 and i ended up buying the David brabham 86 RT4 at season end......

Thanks for clearing that one up Richard, got my club days messed up! Was thinking when I went around to Graham's workshop, Phil Moore was there working on that tub starting to put it together. I think Bryan freshened the engine and finished putting it together in his garage at home. Are you driving ...

I'm not sure if there's any info or pictures of this car on this site so here it is anyway! It's what I recall was the first run for Bryan Hartley's last Atlantic. It was an RT4 (obviously) built up from Ralt Australia's spare parts and was essentially a brand new car. I had been involved with ...

With due respect it can surely now be safely assumed that. ---- Trevor. An old mentor of mine (Rob Lester) use to say to me when somebody uses the above statement, they actually mean "with no respect whatsoever" Personally; volunteers in my opinion do not face the "brunt of the law" as you suggest ...

I might be wrong, but seam to recall jovy marcello was later killed at indy yes he was unfortunately........he was a nice guy and he and i had some good battles the year he was in NZ....especially manfeild..i was in an 86 rt4 and he was in a swift...some good memories but if you google his death at ...

Now theres another thread "The Lesters" Competitor dealings, your dealings with them, promo's etc. Be interesting as your family have put a bit into the sport and Motorsport in NZ are depted. Remember one of first meetings Manfield sleeping at Chateau De Stables. Alright when it blew from north ...

HAY RICh you are showing your AGE?? Yes it was A grate time to be involved in NZ motor Sport Jamie A you are right jamie,i have hit the five oh ...!!,which sort of means you are fossil....they were the best days and i was so fortunate to grow up at manfeild with dad and mum running the joint and ...

It is not the diameter of the tubing but an increase of .4mm in wall thickness,and that is allowable in mild steel. not taking into consideration the greatly increased stiffness of chrome moly. Your claim it is an FIA requirement does not ring true as various people on this forum have had to have ...

Steve I still remember that day at Timaru like it was yesterday, we were waiting for you to arrive back at the workshop and you didn't come. We had worked out that something had happened but we did not know what until the crew arrived in later in the day with the news. they were good days carl ...

Don't forget the class was revived/revamped as the Tootal Coolwool 2.5 series allowing rotaries to run. Keiron Wills ran his ex Aussie Grp C RX7 which was then turned into the RX8. I remember the buzz at the time was touring car racing grabbing all the attention and many potential smallbore racers ...

If Shell chose to channel their money into an academy that created the careers of people such as Greg Murphy then I have no problem with that. i am sort of struggling a bit here.....can someone correct me if i am wrong please. Shell withdrew from the shellsport series at the end of the 85 season ...

I stand to be corrected but I've always understood that "the Shellsport category" came to an end because a smooth talking promoter and former MANZ employee had it diverted to support his family interests. mmm...penny has dropped..if you are going with this where i think you are going Russ---then ...

Understand all that Richard, but you cannot deny that if tier 1 is promoted as the pinnacle of motorsport, then surely it is far better to maintain two or three well supported classes only and fill the remainder of the meeting from local competitors and decent grids. It doesn't have to be the same ...