Knockhill racing pics from today 6/9/09

[Col 666]

Bit of a damp and minging day but loads of action...and talent!









This got me running for cover! Got splattered in stones but got the shot!


Stunning BDA Engined escort was my favourite of the day
























Colin.

[Knox18]

awesome pics!

i'll let manio know about the pics of his roll!

any pics of car 18 in the mini's?

[emicen]

What a smash that was. Only took the commentators 10mins to notice it aswell

[BMR]

I had a look through your site, I see you haven't posted the one here of the grid girl holding Joe Tanners pole..

Edited by BMR on Sunday 6th September 22:56

[996TT_STEVO]

Col... as usual your pics are literally "The Tits"

Keep up the good work

[JohnS]

Top quality as always Col

[emicen]

996TT_STEVO said:

Col... as usual your pics are literally "The Tits"

Keep up the good work

Was that your 996 at the hairpin with the cup wing Stevo. fkin awesome looking machine! GT2 or TT?

Edited by emicen on Monday 7th September 08:08

[marshal_alan]

fantastic pix as usual from power-images, Manio is the man after that roll after the red flag came out, glad the wee fella was okay. we never saw it from the inside of clarks as we were too busy watching the aftermath of the mini crash that causedthe red flag at railway. only when the lads on the outside whistled and pointed we saw the car on its roof

cheers to all the team at 6 (clarks) for the graft they put in, we worked as a team when cars were flying everywhere

[996TT_STEVO]

emicen said:

996TT_STEVO said:

Col... as usual your pics are literally "The Tits"

Keep up the good work

Was that your 996 at the hairpin with the cup wing Stevo. fkin awesome looking machine! GT2 or TT?

Edited by emicen on Monday 7th September 08:08

Yip it was... Cheers for comments

TT but as similar to GT2 now, gone RWD now and using same box, with additional oil cooler, steel syncros, lsd, cup car cables, etc, etc

[a11y_m]

Cracking pics

Those girls must've been bloody freezing - you can even see the goosebumps on the last pic if you look closely, ahem...

[emicen]

Col 666 said:

Colin.

Seeing as its been a week with no comment. Doesnt this illustrate PH's brilliant double standards?

Certain Lamborghini hit the tyre wall in that exact place after it stepped out under acceleration, running slicks and clipping a damp kerb. Driver lambasted.

Loia was too busy watching his mirrors to turn in to the corner (what he said openly about it over the PA) and the incident occured when the red flag had already been deployed. No venting of spleens on the issue.

"Absolutely" classic

For the record, I chalk both up as racing incidents from people who clearly enjoy motorsport and dont mind pushing hard

Looking forward to the next race day although looks like I might have to miss it with work commitments since its a saturday.

[scotty_d]

I really like your pics here well done some real action you have caught.

[OlberJ]

Just out of Interest, how often has Loia done that?

[AMD87]

OlberJ said:

Just out of Interest, how often has Loia done that?

last time I checked though the mini's don't have slicks, 4WD or 520bhp

[S2red]

Aboslutely agree

Should be lambasted from highest for lack of talent to much money etc

And especially his honesty for admitting his mistake

Some folk have been very quiet of late

[BMR]

The Lambo driver is a 'character' I believe, may be why there was so much talk about him.

Also dissapointed not to see the AG Focus's at an SMRC meeting.

Edited by BMR on Friday 11th September 19:15

[AMD87]

BMR said:

The Lambo driver is a 'character' I believe, may be why there was so much talk about him.

Edited by BMR on Friday 11th September 19:15

Nah it was mainly the fact "absolutely" not wanting to go on a diet so he could be competitive in the one make races and it was unfair cause everyone had faster cars than him in sports and saloons yet it wasn't an issue when his dad had the "fastest car on the grid".

[marshal_alan]

i dont give 2 hoots if the lambo driver has 6 fingers on each hand and is shagging kate moss he is on the racetrack and deserves some respect, believe me he does show it to us marshals, but i did notice the lack of frothing about manio's incident compared to ian's. the main thing is that both drivers escaped in 1 piece. also those kerbs on the outside of duffus are mega slippy, almost lost my footing walking to mcintyres on the saturday of btcc

there will be questions as to how manio went that far as there is a lot of grass before that tyrewall and my opinion (yes that is what forums are for having a good spout, and this is my own opinion) is that a load of gravel needs to be laid there to take some of the speed out of the cars, if there was gravel 6 inches deep then manio and ian probably wouldnt have reached the wall, only danger is that if someone arrives in the kitty sideways they roll but it should be a softer roll.

[BMR]

I can't remember people going over / ending up on that tyre wall before it was extended back a bit.

Knockhill have modified that precisely for accidents like the Mini but it seems to be working the other way.

[absolutely]

AMD87 said:

BMR said:

The Lambo driver is a 'character' I believe, may be why there was so much talk about him.

Edited by BMR on Friday 11th September 19:15

Nah it was mainly the fact "absolutely" not wanting to go on a diet so he could be competitive in the one make races and it was unfair cause everyone had faster cars than him in sports and saloons yet it wasn't an issue when his dad had the "fastest car on the grid".

Did someone say my name?

Different driver, different car, I believe.

AMD, Dad never had the quickest car on the grid, ever.