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Renault World Series - Donington
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Re: Renault World Series - Donington -
09-13-2005
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Yep, pity it was such a low turnout, I'm sure when the tickets were first available there was talks of a big Penelope. Ah well we still had a great day out. |
moving tomorrow and thursday, so I've been packing stuff up and getting
into huge arguments with her kids...
I'm too old to have teenage and early twenties kids around the place.
Grumpy, that's me!
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Phil Newnham <pnewnham (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote: Emma wrote: The last one was the fault of my brother who had seconds before commented that the race had become boring and needed someone else to spin. <G Hehe. What happened to the guy who decided to drive through as much of the gravel trap as possible before rejoining? I lost track of him, too. Haven't a clue, actually wasn't he a yellow car? Perhaps he was the winner... |
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I still wasn't sure who won - was it the guy in the yellow car?! Yes, the custard yellow car won and no Phil one of the cars didn't have Dominatrix written down the side, it said Dominator and you misread it. ;-) Freudian slip, that. I'd claim poor attempt at humour but I already know I won't get away with it... It's kept me wondering as to what was on your mind at the time... ;-) |
and listen to two sets of commentary at once, and simply mis-spoke - if
I was thinking about anything, it was more likely to be runs and wickets
than whips and chains.
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I didn't see Senna's car, or the R24 (although the R24 could be heard circulating from Donington market, which is where we were at the time). Hehe, you were very good to go along with our madness - I wouldn't have blamed you if you'd stayed trackside and met up with us again later! ;-) I did have an urgent need for batteries for the radio... Ah yes, the ones you could have made a profit on, buy from someone at one end of the market and sell to someone else at the other! |
people with big dogs...
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Emma wrote: Phil Newnham <pnewnham (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote: Emma wrote: Haven't a clue, actually wasn't he a yellow car? Perhaps he was the winner... I have a feeling he was red and yellow. |
http://www.motorsport.com/news/artic...?ID=200429&F=N
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Freudian slip, that. I'd claim poor attempt at humour but I already know I won't get away with it... It's kept me wondering as to what was on your mind at the time... ;-) I'm honestly not sure. I think I was struggling to hold a conversation and listen to two sets of commentary at once, and simply mis-spoke - if I was thinking about anything, it was more likely to be runs and wickets than whips and chains. |
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I did have an urgent need for batteries for the radio... Ah yes, the ones you could have made a profit on, buy from someone at one end of the market and sell to someone else at the other! I'm rather glad I didn't try - I might have been set on by scary market people with big dogs... |
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Hehe. What happened to the guy who decided to drive through as much of the gravel trap as possible before rejoining? I lost track of him, too. Haven't a clue, actually wasn't he a yellow car? Perhaps he was the winner... |
pete
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Emma <Emma (AT) excalvehs (DOT) demon.co.uk> wrote: Hehe. What happened to the guy who decided to drive through as much of the gravel trap as possible before rejoining? I lost track of him, too. Haven't a clue, actually wasn't he a yellow car? Perhaps he was the winner... He was Winkelhock (the winner's) team-mate - Christian Montanari. |
excited about people passing other people, then go home and read the
race reports and rasf1 and try to work out what actually happened!
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Typical race meeting for me then - watch a load of cars going round, get excited about people passing other people, then go home and read the race reports and rasf1 and try to work out what actually happened! |
what I used to do as a boy. You soon learn to do it mentally as a
matter of course.
Shouldn't really be a problem to follow the very short races you were
watching at Donington. Not so easy after two or three hourse and a
couple of rounds of pit stops. The other trick, therefore, is to make
sure you plant yourself within earshot of the public address when the
pit stop cycle comes round or anybody significant disappears.
These skills have become something of an irrelevance these days with
the introduction of circuit radio, of course, which means that in most
places you get spoon-fed what's going on all the time.
David Betts
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On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 20:45:05 +0100, Phil Newnham <pnewnham (AT) yahoo (DOT) com wrote: Typical race meeting for me then - watch a load of cars going round, get excited about people passing other people, then go home and read the race reports and rasf1 and try to work out what actually happened! |
the race, the cricket and whatever we were doing with a strange red
feathered pen. ;-)
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These skills have become something of an irrelevance these days with the introduction of circuit radio, of course, which means that in most places you get spoon-fed what's going on all the time. |
hearing the radio over the roar of engines so there was no chance of
hearing the public address speakers.
I just sat back and enjoyed the noise in blissful ignorance. ;-)
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On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 20:45:05 +0100, Phil Newnham <pnewnham (AT) yahoo (DOT) com wrote: Typical race meeting for me then - watch a load of cars going round, get excited about people passing other people, then go home and read the race reports and rasf1 and try to work out what actually happened! Best way to learn to follow a race is by keeping a lap chart. That's what I used to do as a boy. You soon learn to do it mentally as a matter of course. |
driving into the pits, and since it was impossible to hear the radio
over headphones when the cars were going past, hearing the commentators
talking about accidents on the other side of the circuit was almost
impossible. The only one I did hear was that the leader had spun while
the safety car was still out, but that's cos the whole field was bunched
behind the safety car on the far side. I also didn't bother with a
program, so I didn't know which cars were who... if I'd really been
bothered, I could've. To be honest I was happy enough just watching and
taking photos.
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Shouldn't really be a problem to follow the very short races you were watching at Donington. Not so easy after two or three hourse and a couple of rounds of pit stops. The other trick, therefore, is to make sure you plant yourself within earshot of the public address when the pit stop cycle comes round or anybody significant disappears. |
until the pit window opened, resulting in a large number of cars pitting
at once at the end of about lap 6. That meant there were quick guys at
the front and at the back, and then the ones who hadn't pitted started
to drift in one by one, and I no longer knew who was in the lead, and
couldn't hear the crucial clue "and the leaders approach Redgate now
again" because the cars were deafening and stretched all around the track.
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These skills have become something of an irrelevance these days with the introduction of circuit radio, of course, which means that in most places you get spoon-fed what's going on all the time. |
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