If you were a (cash) billionaire...?
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LordJammy said:
Aside from all the ridiculous cars and ballin houses etc I'd do stupid s
t like buy number plates that are worth hundreds of thousands of pounds and put them on horrendous vehicles like rusty old LDV convoy scrap vans with perished windscreen rubbers, rust everywhere and newspapers all over the dash.
Thousands of pounds and the scenario is a cash billionaire. t like buy number plates that are worth hundreds of thousands of pounds and put them on horrendous vehicles like rusty old LDV convoy scrap vans with perished windscreen rubbers, rust everywhere and newspapers all over the dash.Hmm
. Learning to race would be right up there actually. Good shout too. It would satisfy my desire to learn to do something really well, though I of course already know I don't have "it" so I would only even be a competent racer.
I think I would also er toward endurance racing eventually, for both the camaraderie of driving as a team, but because there's a lot more scope for winning because you're team is the best at lost of things, not just driving really fast. If I organise the st out of it, I might just win!
If you can be arsed, follow this link to see what I mean about my local roads. All the way to the summit (about 6 bends) of this would be a fairly entertaining section, and there's quite a lot to be said for sticking the whole lot in reverse somewhere else on the track. Wide sweeping off camber downhill bend anyone? Annoyingly, I can't find a youtube clip.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.6872275,-2.22167...
I think I would also er toward endurance racing eventually, for both the camaraderie of driving as a team, but because there's a lot more scope for winning because you're team is the best at lost of things, not just driving really fast. If I organise the s
t out of it, I might just win! If you can be arsed, follow this link to see what I mean about my local roads. All the way to the summit (about 6 bends) of this would be a fairly entertaining section, and there's quite a lot to be said for sticking the whole lot in reverse somewhere else on the track. Wide sweeping off camber downhill bend anyone? Annoyingly, I can't find a youtube clip.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.6872275,-2.22167...
I would love to do some classic vehicle racing, or take part in the old F1 car series.
Of course I would have a suitably good coach, ex F1 race winner at the minimum!
I would probably become one of those rich people that everyone hates because they're rich, and they let you know it!
Champagne at inappropriate times, loud Fezzas and Lambos, stty attitude to delays etc etc
Of course I would have a suitably good coach, ex F1 race winner at the minimum!
I would probably become one of those rich people that everyone hates because they're rich, and they let you know it!
Champagne at inappropriate times, loud Fezzas and Lambos, s
tty attitude to delays etc etcOi, enough of the 'using my billions to learn to race / historic racing' talk, there's enough chequebook racing as it is. The chap who beat us last year had a professional racing driver shadowing him at all times (and doing half of the driving!). The car he drove started off as a Lotus works car and had been continuously developed since the early 60s. He had also spent £25k on his Lotus Twin Cam having it built by an engineering shop which did work for modern day F1 teams etc. It had Honda bits in it apparently. We generally finished a lonely 2nd as they'd be a second a lap quicker everywhere
I'd buy 2 or 3 of the biggest supertankers I could get hold of and commission getting the 3 of them welded together and making the worlds first ocean going racetrack, over two or three levels within the ship hold, scalextric style.
I'd also put a 9 hole golf course in the middle of it all.
If all that was too expensive, I'd justfit out pimp one supertanker, to live in, built to look normal from the outside, but with a car garage, cinema, and all sorts of other billionaire playboy stuff inside...and yes I did watch a lot of Bond movies as a kid.
I'd also put a 9 hole golf course in the middle of it all.
If all that was too expensive, I'd just
HustleRussell said:
Oi, enough of the 'using my billions to learn to race / historic racing' talk, there's enough chequebook racing as it is. The chap who beat us last year had a professional racing driver shadowing him at all times (and doing half of the driving!). The car he drove started off as a Lotus works car and had been continuously developed since the early 60s. He had also spent £25k on his Lotus Twin Cam having it built by an engineering shop which did work for modern day F1 teams etc. It had Honda bits in it apparently. We generally finished a lonely 2nd as they'd be a second a lap quicker everywhere
butthurt much? Racing's expensive, that's how it's always been. The people with the most money build the best cars. All part and parcel of showing off and getting more attractive breeding partners. There's always banger racing for the rest of us proles...
Cotty said:
love the idea in principle but I would imagine it would become lonely quickly - its hardly like popping out or anything is easy is it, theres a lot to consider if it was to be a residence for a reasonable chunk of timevsonix said:
HustleRussell said:
Oi, enough of the 'using my billions to learn to race / historic racing' talk, there's enough chequebook racing as it is. The chap who beat us last year had a professional racing driver shadowing him at all times (and doing half of the driving!). The car he drove started off as a Lotus works car and had been continuously developed since the early 60s. He had also spent £25k on his Lotus Twin Cam having it built by an engineering shop which did work for modern day F1 teams etc. It had Honda bits in it apparently. We generally finished a lonely 2nd as they'd be a second a lap quicker everywhere
butthurt much? Racing's expensive, that's how it's always been. The people with the most money build the best cars. All part and parcel of showing off and getting more attractive breeding partners. There's always banger racing for the rest of us proles...
alorotom said:
Cotty said:
love the idea in principle but I would imagine it would become lonely quickly - its hardly like popping out or anything is easy is it, theres a lot to consider if it was to be a residence for a reasonable chunk of timeBeautiful to visit for a few days, even a week but any longer and it would feel like a prison, albeit one where you can walk bearfoot with sand between your toes.
Cotty said:
Tuna said:
vsonix said:
HustleRussell said:
Oi, enough of the 'using my billions to learn to race / historic racing' talk, there's enough chequebook racing as it is. The chap who beat us last year had a professional racing driver shadowing him at all times (and doing half of the driving!). The car he drove started off as a Lotus works car and had been continuously developed since the early 60s. He had also spent £25k on his Lotus Twin Cam having it built by an engineering shop which did work for modern day F1 teams etc. It had Honda bits in it apparently. We generally finished a lonely 2nd as they'd be a second a lap quicker everywhere
butthurt much? Racing's expensive, that's how it's always been. The people with the most money build the best cars. All part and parcel of showing off and getting more attractive breeding partners. There's always banger racing for the rest of us proles...
I've always wanted to build my own house, so I'd do it on a grand scale. For some reason having a 'iceberg house' (i.e. much hidden below the surface) appeals. Minimum quarter mile straight driveway with armco barriers and in a nice country setting away from people. Underneath the visible house I'd have a sports complex with a 50m pool (just a couple of,lanes wide though), steam room and gym. Large garage and workshop facilities with lift up to the surface exiting through a more regular looking garage. Naturally that would be filled with cars and bikes that interest me. I'd probably also buy a holiday home in Cornwall but that's about it.
The other things that appeal are to ensure friends and family are taken care of and while I wouldn't plan to live here anymore I'd like to invest some in improving my home town (what's the cost of a nuke these days?!). Oddly, as I'm not a football fan, I'd quite like to buy the local team and give local,people something worth watching and kids something local to support. I'd also like to do something for the poor and homeless in the area. I'd also invest in local sports facilities. A velodrome and Olympic pool would be on the list.
On a wider scale I'd like to donate a significant sum to parkrun to enable events to be started more easily. There are more causes I'd like to support but I'd have to think about it. There would also be the anonymous donations to ad hoc causes.
The one thing I'd absolutely avoid if at all possible is to become a 'name' or famous face. Although I suppose that's difficult if you buy a football club and wanting to own the sort of cars that get you tasty invites to Goodwood etc.
The other things that appeal are to ensure friends and family are taken care of and while I wouldn't plan to live here anymore I'd like to invest some in improving my home town (what's the cost of a nuke these days?!). Oddly, as I'm not a football fan, I'd quite like to buy the local team and give local,people something worth watching and kids something local to support. I'd also like to do something for the poor and homeless in the area. I'd also invest in local sports facilities. A velodrome and Olympic pool would be on the list.
On a wider scale I'd like to donate a significant sum to parkrun to enable events to be started more easily. There are more causes I'd like to support but I'd have to think about it. There would also be the anonymous donations to ad hoc causes.
The one thing I'd absolutely avoid if at all possible is to become a 'name' or famous face. Although I suppose that's difficult if you buy a football club and wanting to own the sort of cars that get you tasty invites to Goodwood etc.
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