Guy Smith - great chap and Yorkshire too!

[Scotty996T]

I had the pleasure of meeting Guy Smith today who won Le Mans with Bentley and no races for BP Mazda in ALMS. What a really nice and genuine guy.

He turned up as a favour to the opening of a gym at Full Sutton and we had one of our Caterhams there. Totally gutted we didn't get out for a run as I'm sure that would have been quite something but was just too snowy.

It was really fantastic that such a successful guy was so down to earth and interesting (F1 take note!)

He was kind enough to do a video in our car which we'll stick on our website.

All this and he's from Beverley. Top bloke and best wishes for 2010 and beyond.

[Escort2dr]

By Full Sutton, do you mean the prison ?! Or the scenic industrial estate?

[Scotty996T]

lol - it was the prison!

[Vette_1978]

I was looking at buying a Valentino Rossi print some years ago and got chatting to the artist at the Autosport show (the main aim for me was to reduce the £400 price, his aim was to sell me the original for £2k). Anyway, he had done some Bentley prints and had spent a day with Guy and said he was a really decent bloke. Fortunately for this artist bloke he got to have a sit in the Le Mans car and hang around the factory for the day aswell.

[Scotty996T]

Was that Colin Carter Vette?

His Bentley Boys one is a cracker. I'm going to get it to accompany the Seeing Red (Schumi), First of many (Senna) and I'm also after the Jim Clar, Jacki Stewart and Gilles V ones.

[Vette_1978]

Scotty996T said:

Was that Colin Carter Vette?

Nope, David Burk. The Rossi print I liked was actualy £750 but has been reduced to £250....hmmm....now then....

http://www.davidburk.net/Valentino_Rossi_Sete_Gibe...

The Guy Smith Bentley is this one signed by Guy aswell:

http://www.davidburk.net/BENTLEY_LE_MANS_2003.html

[Balmoral Green]

I met him a few times in the eighties when he was karting, the company I worked for did business with his dad, Peter Smith.

There was one time where we were sitting in a motorhome on display at the RAI exhibition centre in Amsterdam (Guys family own the Swift group, the biggest caravan/motorhome manufacturing group of companies in the UK) and I said something to him like "Who knows Guy, one day you might be a famous racing driver?".

I was chuffed to bits to have been at Le Mans when he crossed the line.

[Scotty996T]

Clearly not quite a Lewis Hamilton story but all the better that he's a nice chap. I'll take an interest in ALMS this year.

[Balmoral Green]

Scotty996T said:

Clearly not quite a Lewis Hamilton story