The Roaring Season

Gidday. I have decided to set up a Facebook group dedicated to those who enjoy reading and collecting Motoring, and Motorsport books. The aim is to simply let people know about the good ones out there, with reviews, etc, and also any interesting stories about how you came across a particular book ...

Scanned copies of FIA Homologation papers going back to the 60's are now available on the following website: http://historicdb.fia.com Some interesting reading in them - who knew that the 3.3ltr VK Holden Commodore was homologated in Group A (complete with centre lock rims) from the 1st of January ...

Absolutely gutted to hear.
Thoughts are with his family and friends, especially the Historic Sports Sedan family.

...and I have just added to my collection a copy of Douglas Rutherford's book "Killer On The Track", the sequel to The Gunshot Grand Prix.

Autocar’s tribute to AH, by Steve Cropley 5 March 2016 Alan Henry, Autocar’s finest, best-loved and longest-serving Formula 1 grand prix columnist of the modern era has died. He served as Autocar’s F1 man in the paddock from 1994 until the close of 2012, thrilling readers with his pithy wit and strid ...

Ron Dennis pays tribute to Alan Henry Ron Dennis pays tribute to Alan HenryPosted on Saturday, 05 Mar 2016 13:00 (GMT) All at McLaren are very sad to learn that our dear friend and McLaren.com blogger, Alan Henry has passed away. Speaking on behalf of McLaren, Ron Dennis (Chairman and CEO, McLaren ...

Just heard that Formula One "insider", and prolific author Alan Henry, has gone to rejoin DSJ and ESY.
Rest in peace AH, time to rejoin your colleagues to reminisce over the real days.

Thats ok then!
Wedding car....hmmmm.
My mate reported though that it was being driven like it was stolen, so that was ok!

Oldfart wrote:Hasn't changed hands, Fred still has it.
It was used for a wedding car recently though. Groom went in it!

Has the Northland Special changed hands?
A friend of mine spotted it roaring around a Maungakaramea back road recently....

Any word yet Michael on funeral details?

Absolutely gutted to hear. I bought his book prior to one of the A1GP's at Taupo, and took it with me thinking I would try and get Emmo to sign it. So I went into the pits at lunchtime, Emmo wasn't there, but one of the Brazilian team members said to me to leave a note, and he would try and get him ...

I'd better get to this one...no excuse now I'm living in Auckland!

https://youtu.be/9ZHMjdzw0w0

What a wonderful "McLaren way" to honour the 40th anniversary of his death...I never get sick and tired of watching this clip!

I am sure that, as Tony Roberts is a member of this forum, that when he can comment on this matter, he may do so!

Now, a wee while ago Motorsport magazine had an article in it about driver contracts, written by Nigel Roebuck. I think he had come across a copy of Gilles Villeneuve's McLaren F1 contract, and compared it with a modern McLare driver contract. Apart from being several pages more (40 compared with ...

The Holden Dealer Team guys work through a pit stop. [ATTACH]23850[/ATTACH] Interesting to note that the fuel churns already had Mobil on them, the sponsor change had only been announced the previous week, and in fact the sponsorship didn't officially start until the 1st of February...between the ...

And you could add to that list Slide the Corner by Fleur Beale published in 1993. And one I found on Friday "The Rally Game" by Gayle Cresswell about a young mechanic who dreams of becoming a champion rally driver. He has an ancient Escort (what else!) rally car he is rebuilding, some good mates ...

V8 supercars control the flags and disipline, our job is to obay without question :-) There has been talk from knowledageable people (which excludes the V8 puppets!) that what they need to do is have localised speed zones under yellows, which will eliminate needing the safety car on many occasions ...

There were workmates, friends, media, and people that knew him from drinking at the 'Arms. Greeta was there, Amanda, Sandra, Alfie, and cousins. There were those that had made his last few months a pleasure, and those that had pleasure from him for months...and months...and months! There were those ...

Well, I will be missing the Saturday of the Icebreaker meeting to attend what I term "The Last Lunch with ESY"....paid for my airfares today.
Can't say I'm looking foward to it...but I'm sure it's going be one hell of a service!!!