Silverstone Classic 2014

[NotNormal]

hurstg01 said:

Silverstone McLaren Pics

As I gather your a bit of a Macca geek, a couple of questions I'm hoping you could answer please.

- The yellow long tail wears UK number plates. I seem to recall reading that the long tails weren't able to be road legal and hence why they tend to trade lower. Is this car really road legal, if so do you know what changes have been made?

- On Andy's car there are two 10kg stickers on the rear quarter windows, don't recall seeing these before, specific to the event or something else?

[Brummmie]

I was there Friday and Saturday, good to see Chris Harris drive the Lola T70B to good effect with zero test time!

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Carbone-Lorraine-CL...

[andy74b]

NotNormal said:

As I gather your a bit of a Macca geek, a couple of questions I'm hoping you could answer please.

- The yellow long tail wears UK number plates. I seem to recall reading that the long tails weren't able to be road legal and hence why they tend to trade lower. Is this car really road legal, if so do you know what changes have been made?

- On Andy's car there are two 10kg stickers on the rear quarter windows, don't recall seeing these before, specific to the event or something else?

The 10kgs stickers represent the success ballast it had to carry when in raced in Japan in the 90s. We put the car back to exact livery it last raced in when we rebuilt it in 2012.

[NotNormal]

andy74b said:

The 10kgs stickers represent the success ballast it had to carry when in raced in Japan in the 90s. We put the car back to exact livery it last raced in when we rebuilt it in 2012.

Cheers for the info Andy

Car looked/sounded great on track. The flame licking F40 LM in your group was certainly a sight to behold - although I can imagine you had a closer view than us spectators

[Derek Smith]

Bit of a downer:

http://www.silverstoneclassic.com/press/Official-S...

We saw the very pretty little Ferrari come past us early on, then the crash. Had no idea how serious of course.

[Zippee]

NotNormal said:

andy74b said:

The 10kgs stickers represent the success ballast it had to carry when in raced in Japan in the 90s. We put the car back to exact livery it last raced in when we rebuilt it in 2012.

Cheers for the info Andy

Car looked/sounded great on track. The flame licking F40 LM in your group was certainly a sight to behold - although I can imagine you had a closer view than us spectators

Off topic slightly but was there much damage between the RSR and the F40LM? I saw them collide at Maggots but was a little too far away to see what actually happened. I could however see a few racing driver gesticulations between the 2 drivers once they were out of their cars.
The Porsche managed to drive back to pits but the LM was towed.

[hurstg01]

NotNormal said:

hurstg01 said:

Silverstone McLaren Pics

As I gather your a bit of a Macca geek, a couple of questions I'm hoping you could answer please.

- The yellow long tail wears UK number plates. I seem to recall reading that the long tails weren't able to be road legal and hence why they tend to trade lower. Is this car really road legal, if so do you know what changes have been made?

- On Andy's car there are two 10kg stickers on the rear quarter windows, don't recall seeing these before, specific to the event or something else?

andy74b said:

The 10kgs stickers represent the success ballast it had to carry when in raced in Japan in the 90s. We put the car back to exact livery it last raced in when we rebuilt it in 2012.

I readily offered the term 'nerd' to Andy's wife et family when we met at his car on Saturday - geek is a bit strong though . I guess you can add 'Mclaren F1 memorabilia collector', 'Mclaren F1 photo saver' and 'Mclaren F1 and GTR nut' to the mix as well

The yellow longtail did indeed wear UK number plates, but had no tax disc. They can be made to be road legal, but no-one has yet to fully do it. I am sure it will only be a matter of time, however......

Edited by hurstg01 on Monday 28th July 18:51

[NotNormal]

I meant geek in a good way.

Cheers for the info. I guess we'll have to wait and see if it ventures onto the road at some point.

[hurstg01]

NotNormal said:

I meant geek in a good way.

Cheers for the info. I guess we'll have to wait and see if it ventures onto the road at some point.

[NotNormal]

I meant geek in a good way.

Cheers for the info. I guess we'll have to wait and see if it ventures onto the road at some point.

[delta037]

It will be interesting to learn more about what may be Chassis 27R which was an ochre yellow colour and carried reg plate CIA4 for a while and was possibly in a showroom in Kensington.

[ecsrobin]

delta037 said:

It will be interesting to learn more about what may be Chassis 27R which was an ochre yellow colour and carried reg plate CIA4 for a while and was possibly in a showroom in Kensington.

It's the yellow parabolica car in Will_ photos. When it was converted back to that paint scheme in 2011 it carried a warsteiner sticker on the front but the photo from silverstone shows a new registration number?

Edited by ecsrobin on Tuesday 29th July 01:29

[Derek Smith]

Some pictures of the Classic.

Reminded me a bit of the early days of Goodwood FoS.

























I seem to recognise this bloke:

[nismo34]

Myself and three other friends visted silverstone clasic. For the forth year camping as we do for le mans ,and i must say every year its getting better and better, as we stayed in woodside campsite right next to the track good showers good entertanment in the evning plus the pub shop and non smelling wc. loads to do day or evening cant belive that more PH members don't go

Edited by nismo34 on Tuesday 29th July 17:06

[tim-b]

Here's a brief selection of my efforts - cheating slightly as I was on the right side of the fences

The rest are here on Classic Driver.











Highlights? Group C at sunset (even though the sun went behind the clouds just before the race started) and the 512M...btw did anyone see Jackie Oliver nearly total the 250 GTB on the start/finish straight?! Don't know if it was picked up on the cameras, the commentators seemed to miss it!

[Dazzled]

Ref the Ferrari F40 LM after the contact with the RSR. I was stood next to it on the infield road as it was towed away. There was some scuffing to the bodywork just ahead of the rear offside wheel and the tyre looked to be coming off the rim. Most of the damage was done as it spun across the kerb onto the grass.

[Janesy B]

Nice work Tim. Here's my efforts, still to go through them all but my faves so far...

Alfa Romeo 156 by Bryan Janes, on Flickr

Lola T711 by Bryan Janes, on Flickr

Porsche 962 by Bryan Janes, on Flickr

Lotus Cortina by Bryan Janes, on Flickr

Ford Escort Zakspeed Group 2 Replica by Bryan Janes, on Flickr

Ford Mustang by Bryan Janes, on Flickr

Porsche 911 by Bryan Janes, on Flickr

Ferrari 246S by Bryan Janes, on Flickr

Rosso corsa by Bryan Janes, on Flickr

[lamboman100]

tim-b said:

Here's a brief selection of my efforts - cheating slightly as I was on the right side of the fences

The rest are here on Classic Driver.

Normally can't stand cheesy racing photos, but those ones are excellent.

[Stevie Borowik]

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Silverstone Classic 2014 by Stevie Borowik Photography, on Flickr

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Silverstone Classic 2014 by Stevie Borowik Photography, on Flickr

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Silverstone Classic 2014 by Stevie Borowik Photography, on Flickr


Thanks for looking.

Stevie

[lamboman100]

Three good vids (not mine) of SC 2014:

• Group C onboard cam with 2 cars have a sloppy but noisy and fun duel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLmdhVxr-ng&fe...

• Jag XJ220 on fire after a race crash:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4PI_fJBNBk&fe...

• Noisy Lambos by the dozen starting the parade lap:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86Uz6iu0j1c&fe...