Fos 2008

[NSX 2000]

Some photos taken on Friday at this years Festival of Speed.

[NSX 2000]

This Years Le Mans winner and the GT1 class winner.

[NSX 2000]

The whacky racers, reminded me of the Nurburgring.

[NSX 2000]

Louise interviewing Lord March.

[dan the man]

wacky racers.. great comparison Paul.

nice pics.. how crazy is the Mazda concept thing

[TheSebringOne]

Great cars, especially the racing Mac F1 in Gulf colours, hopefully I will see one in the flesh one as my fave car, apart from my own silver beauty!

Thats the TWR Jag that won Le Mans with Andy wallace that was in Evo mag, apparently worth 4 or 5 sqillions! :eek:

[WhyOne?]

A Few snaps I took over the weekend - starting with the edifice Land Rover built on Lord March's front lawn, along with the Le Mans class winning AM. And some oik's climbing on the 'sculpure'!

And the trials rider Dougie Lampkin....

[WhyOne?]

Celebration of 40 years of the Gulf Racing Colours.....

[WhyOne?]

Crazy, mad, bonkers Mazda Furai concept...complete with flame spitting triple chamber rotary engine.

[WhyOne?]

Current (and in the case of Jochen Mass, past) F1 motors & stars.....

[WhyOne?]

Vintage top fuel (that will be nitrous methanol then....£19 per gallon..they got though 1000 gallons of the stuff over the weekend!!!!) dragsters - fired up twice a day for 'Cacklefest' - incredible (ear damaging) noise!!!!

Interestingly (I thought) - they have to sart the engines using standard-ish petrol, before introducing the nitros methanol.

Airbus A380 flying at the festival on Saturday.

John Cleleand looking shocked when confronted by the damage he has just inflicted on the Vauxhall touring car!!!

[WhyOne?]

'Interesting' firey moment as an early Lola Indy car is started in the pits....

Driver of the weekend - Justin Law, hustled Jaguar XJR 8/9 up the (1.6 mile) hill in an astonishing 44.1 seconds, travelling at 156 mph as he crossed the finishing line!!!

Trophy won by McLaren in last weekends British GP.

[WhyOne?]

Nick Mason in the pre-war Auto Union (driven with great verve)

Sir Stirling in the Vanwall.

McLaren display.

Senna JPS Lotus \ Renault stripped bare.

[WhyOne?]

Toyota Aygo Crazy (get-it?!)

T1

Expensive car park.

[simonprelude]

Where was the McLaren display ??
Looks like I missed that :(

[278kmh]

Crazy, mad, bonkers Mazda Furai concept...complete with flame spitting triple chamber rotary engine.
cool, but in the serialproduktion the build the most boring cars:(
and always the wankel-engine again, a (german) minus defelopment:(

[WhyOne?]

Where was the McLaren display ??
Looks like I missed that :(

One 'line' back from the modern F1 pits.

[jaytip]

What car is this?I don't recognize it.:no:

[WhyOne?]

Ah-ha!

That is a good question......I had never seen or heard of the car / manufacturer before the weekend, but I was rather taken with it.

The companies philosophy is to produce a luxury high performance car not simply through heaps of power (though it has plenty) but also by keeping weight down - sound priciples IMHO.

The car / company - it's an Artega GT.

[Ferris Bueller]

Nick Mason in the pre-war Auto Union (driven with great verve)

Sir Stirling in the Vanwall.

McLaren display.

Senna JPS Lotus \ Renault stripped bare.

Love the pic of the Mclarens, any chance you could e-mail me it please?

[WhyOne?]

Sure, happy to.

PM me your email address.

[278kmh]

What car is this?I don't recognize it.:no:
Ist nen Artega GT! Werden in Handarbeit in Delbrück gebaut!
Its an Artega GT, handkrafted in Delbrück Germany.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artega_GT
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Artega_GT.jpg/250px-Artega_GT.jpg

[NSX 2000]

Ist nen Artega GT! Werden in Handarbeit in Delbrück gebaut!
Its an Artega GT, handkrafted in Delbrück Germany.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artega_GT
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Artega_GT.jpg/250px-Artega_GT.jpg

IIRC it had a turbo charged V6 VW Group engine mounted behind the driver.

[BlueNSX]

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Nice pictures, makes me wonder how and NSX will look with the Gulf colours???