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megy

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Tuesday 19th September 2006
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Back from a very newsworthy afternoon at Silverstone today.

Spyker made their first public appearance with their new livery:





Frank Montagny had his first Toyato test prior to his contract to be their test driver next year:





Lewis Hamilton made his dbut test in the Mclaren, probably leading to a seat next year, which one though?







Being overtaken by another debutant:



The above debutant, Nelson Piquet Jr:







And a proud father watching on, Nelson Piquet:



For anyone interested, The teams Super Aguri, Spyker, Williams, Toyota, Mclaren and Renault will be at the track for the next 2 days, Weds 20th and thurs 21st, the track opens at 09:00 and running finishes at 17:00. Public access is to the Luffield sections of the track, extending further as and how the marshals see fit, and here is the best bit, entrance is free.

rubystone

11,254 posts

260 months

Tuesday 19th September 2006
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Stonking pictures

killer2005

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229 months

Wednesday 20th September 2006
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rubystone said:
Stonking pictures


Agreed, fine pics thumbup

Jungles

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222 months

Wednesday 20th September 2006
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Who was driving the Spyker (or should I say, MF1)?

Nice to see Piquet Snr smiling. Last picture I saw of him was frowning at his son during one of the F3 races.

furyous

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222 months

Wednesday 20th September 2006
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Cool pics, well done.

Is it just me that thinks the current crop (crap?) of F1 cars are pigging ugly ?

Bits hanging off them left, right and centre.yuck yuck

F

megy

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Wednesday 20th September 2006
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Jungles said:
Who was driving the Spyker (or should I say, MF1)?

Nice to see Piquet Snr smiling. Last picture I saw of him was frowning at his son during one of the F3 races.


Christian Albers was in the Spyker MF1. Had a nice chat with one of the test team, and they have said that Spyker are taking over at such a fast pace, and that they are going flat chat to remove 'Midland' from anything to do with the team.

Lewis Hamilton was already very 'Mclarenised', very corporately correct answers to questions, and his manerisms were very noticably similar to other Mclaren drivers, although he was signing autographs for people.

BoRED S2upid

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241 months

Wednesday 20th September 2006
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Glad to see its Orange. Good luck to them.

Great pics.

Galileo

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Wednesday 20th September 2006
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Looks like they copied the McLaren paint job.

Nicol@

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Wednesday 20th September 2006
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Great pictures, I really like the 'personal' shots

megy

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Wednesday 20th September 2006
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Nicol@ said:
Great pictures, I really like the 'personal' shots


Personal??? In what way do you mean personal?

motco

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Thursday 21st September 2006
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Went yesterday (Wed). It seemed to the uninformed observer that Toyota blew up two cars during the day.

Anyone know what the meaning of the green flashing light (rain light?) is? I've never noticed them before.

megy

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Thursday 21st September 2006
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motco said:
Went yesterday (Wed). It seemed to the uninformed observer that Toyota blew up two cars during the day.

Anyone know what the meaning of the green flashing light (rain light?) is? I've never noticed them before.


I was always under the impression it was a red light for the regular race drivers, yellow for test drivers, and green for a carthat was under developement or it was a guest drive by a new driver.

Saying that though, my theory was blown out the water on tuesday when Nelson Piquet was driving with a red light, and Christian Albers was driving with a green one.

motco

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Thursday 21st September 2006
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Curiouser and curiouser.....

megy

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Thursday 21st September 2006
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I might go again for the afternoon, if I do I will try and ask one of the team engineers.