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Interserie on the Nordschleife. In the wet. Emmo in 917/10-001 in second place.

[Rouleur]

Edited by Rouleur on Wednesday 1st January 14:09

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Now repeat for three hours, Rouleur! How those guys drove like that for so long is beyond me.

[mfmman]

mfmman said:

snowen250 said:

chevronb37 said:

fttm said:

snowen250 said:

chevronb37 said:

1990 round of the EARS/MN Rally Championship apparently. 6R4s vs Darrians - awesome!

I don't suppose you have any more info on this series do you?!

What do you want to know ? Did the 90/91 series , a long time ago now , the pic must have been taken at Pembrey I'm thinking , although John Price was using the Duckhams sponsored car by then >

Oulton Park according to the chap who posted the photo. I've no other information though, I'm afraid.

it just seems an interesting series, rally/rallyx I am guessing, vs. circuit racers, are there any photos, entry lists etc?

Thanks, and thanks for sharing all the very interesting photos you share

Simon

The Ears Motoring News Championship was a tarmac rally championship based in the UK with a couple of events in Southern Ireland on the closed roads. It was a standard rally championship ('standard' as in run in the same manner as most other rally championships, not 'standard' as in standard cars) with one exception, a once a year race at Oulton Park hence the above pictures.

The championship still runs with different sponsors as below

http://asphaltrallying.wordpress.com/

Edited by mfmman on Thursday 19th December 21:32

fttm said:

No, there was never a race included in the championship , where are you getting this info from ? Took part on the tarmac (motoring news)series on and off from 87 through to 92 and never was there a race at Oulton Park as a round .

One of our memories is really playing tricks on us

On Twitter, Paul Fearnley (MN Rallies editor at the time) commented about the above photo ' Dave Appleby (25) about to win EARS/MN race at Oulton Park, 1990'

https://twitter.com/JarvoB/status/4141241981526425...

It sticks in my mind as at the time I worked for Tony MacWhirter who ran a 205 RWD in the series and took lots of the staff out on a corporate day (I didn't go, might have been competing elsewhere). I convinced myself this was to Oulton for a race that was part of the series but it's a long time ago now

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[VladD]

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[Blib]

[andym1603]

Have Damon and Nigel swapped cars there?

[Rouleur]

'Our Nige' wouldn't have fitted in it...




This must be where Vettel got his 'fingers' salute from

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[quote=Rouleur]'Our Nige' wouldn't have fitted in it...




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Corsica??

[Blib]

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Just putting the finishing touches to an interview with the previous owner of GT/111. Fascinating.




And more recently...

[Rouleur]

heightswitch said:

Corsica??

Yup

[Slippydiff]

Super Sim, utter nutter.



Colin. Aftermath of his Corsican accident. Motorsport can be d .........

[thiscocks]

cossy400]ed55 said:

Here's a few from Silverstone










Mrs400,s uncle that is with Nigel Mansell.

Best of friends!

[theshrew]

mfmman said:

mfmman said:

snowen250 said:

chevronb37 said:

fttm said:

snowen250 said:

chevronb37 said:

1990 round of the EARS/MN Rally Championship apparently. 6R4s vs Darrians - awesome!

I don't suppose you have any more info on this series do you?!

What do you want to know ? Did the 90/91 series , a long time ago now , the pic must have been taken at Pembrey I'm thinking , although John Price was using the Duckhams sponsored car by then >

Oulton Park according to the chap who posted the photo. I've no other information though, I'm afraid.

it just seems an interesting series, rally/rallyx I am guessing, vs. circuit racers, are there any photos, entry lists etc?

Thanks, and thanks for sharing all the very interesting photos you share

Simon

The Ears Motoring News Championship was a tarmac rally championship based in the UK with a couple of events in Southern Ireland on the closed roads. It was a standard rally championship ('standard' as in run in the same manner as most other rally championships, not 'standard' as in standard cars) with one exception, a once a year race at Oulton Park hence the above pictures.

The championship still runs with different sponsors as below

http://asphaltrallying.wordpress.com/

Edited by mfmman on Thursday 19th December 21:32

fttm said:

No, there was never a race included in the championship , where are you getting this info from ? Took part on the tarmac (motoring news)series on and off from 87 through to 92 and never was there a race at Oulton Park as a round .

One of our memories is really playing tricks on us

On Twitter, Paul Fearnley (MN Rallies editor at the time) commented about the above photo ' Dave Appleby (25) about to win EARS/MN race at Oulton Park, 1990'

https://twitter.com/JarvoB/status/4141241981526425...

It sticks in my mind as at the time I worked for Tony MacWhirter who ran a 205 RWD in the series and took lots of the staff out on a corporate day (I didn't go, might have been competing elsewhere). I convinced myself this was to Oulton for a race that was part of the series but it's a long time ago now

Im 99% certain that's Oulton start straight that's a curve

[theshrew]

The Hypno-Toad said:

Not sure if I've posted these before on PH & hopefully they count as slightly fantastic although they are all me own work so here goes:

Various 80's stuff

Martin Donnelly


Derek Higgens?


Not sure who this is


Genuinely do not know who this is?


JJ Lehto


Mika


Paul Warwick



Roland Ratzenberger



Not a clue I'm afraid.


Rydell?


Back in the day when Formula Three had some proper sponsors.

Edited by The Hypno-Toad on Sunday 8th September 19:51

Was this 1989 ?

And is the Camel car a Paul Stuart ?

Any pics of NcNish ?

[IroningMan]

VladD said:

Wiscombe.

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mfmman said:

One of our memories is really playing tricks on us

On Twitter, Paul Fearnley (MN Rallies editor at the time) commented about the above photo ' Dave Appleby (25) about to win EARS/MN race at Oulton Park, 1990'

https://twitter.com/JarvoB/status/4141241981526425...

It sticks in my mind as at the time I worked for Tony MacWhirter who ran a 205 RWD in the series and took lots of the staff out on a corporate day (I didn't go, might have been competing elsewhere). I convinced myself this was to Oulton for a race that was part of the series but it's a long time ago now

Far too long ago LOL , it must have been a part of the Gold Cup certainly not part of the rally championship otherwise I'd have been there , and my Oulton Park virginity wasn't lost until the Tuscan Challenge in the later nineties.