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well craigs proved the Russell car is a dog.
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Do you think they'll resort to that though?
Perhaps they'll run it on an absolute shoestring, with results purely dependant on luck and the misfortune of others? They've already made it clear that they're not looking for a pay driver, because it's bad for their image. The 'image' which was apparently tarnished prior to burning Plus Fitness and the Russells |
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maybe all isnt as you imagined Plus Fitness continue with Erebus |
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Was once Nigel Mansell's team mate was he not?
Probably like a lot of us never reached the heights expected through either making the wrong choices or being at the wrong place at the wrong time. Eg BTCC Ford drive and SBR. A reliable and consistent steerer - a safe pair of hands. And a very entertaining TV presenter. |
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Has been quite successful in pretty much everything he's raced.
V8SC success has eluded him somewhat, as most of the cars he's driven have been dogs. AU Falcons, WPS nuggets, 3rd/4th-string WR cars, plus a few privateer gigs. On the Mansell BTCC thing, Baird was benched for Mansell at three non-consecutive meetings. Neither driver was particularly successful in that car. Last edited by Umai Naa; 26 Jul 2016 at 01:08. |
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He also drove a fairly decent (but not so timely) stint at Bathurst in 1997
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I think without a doubt this is a guy whose results in V8Supercars never tallied with his talent - wrong car/wrong time, lack of funding, lack of political savvy...
I figure he didn't put a scratch on the car and wasn't that far off Percat in the LDM machine, so not a disgrace in my book. |
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He was very much BMW's hired gun at the time. If they weren't in the process of pulling out of Super Touring globally after '98, he could've had a plum seat in STW, or eventually WTCC, DTM or somewhere over there racing their GT3 machines. |
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He had a works BMW drive in the South African Super Touring Championship for BMW in 1996, but that series was canned at the end of the year. I think the original plan from memory was for him to take Geoff Brabham's place in the Diet Coke BMW team in 1997 in the ASTC.
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I always think back to his win in 2000 at PI in the SBR AU
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Baird himself lead at his last race at Knockhill, thanks to the team gambling on inters, which worked for a bit, but as the rain got heavier those on wets had the advantage. Had it been a sprint race rather than a feature race he might have won |
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The team only fronted with one car at that meeting, as Mansell virtually wrote one of them off the week before at Brands Hatch. There was too short a turn-around between events to press the spare car back into action.
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