Marc Hynes

[O'Schumacher]

Does anybody have an email address or phone number for Marc Hynes. I

'm trying to get hold of him for a media project I'm working on. If anyone can help, i'd be really greatful if you could Private Message me the details.

Cheers

[BootsOntheSide]

What a wasted talent Marc has proved to be. Beat Button and Burti in F3 with a rookie team, but never got the funding for F3000 or higher. It can be such an unfair game sometimes.

[JJ Jet Plane]

Unfair? Yeah sometimes but not on Hynes. Great driver and brilliant bloke, but what effort did he ever make off-track to get anywhere? He just wasn't determined enough. And if he hadn't closed off his mind to anything other than single-seaters he could easily be making a good career from sportscar or touring cars now. He wasted his own talent – and that's the biggest shame of all.

[gomick]

saw highlights of the brands hatch indy round for btcc the other day - robert huff won & it was great racing..... pity marc aint racing there

[karimbo]

Why should someone who beat Button and Burti in F3 be racing in sportscar or tourism ? I think that based on talent, HE should be in F1 and the others in sportscar or tourism. Formula 1 is more fuelled by hype than by talent. Ask Paul Belmondo...

[Kicking-back]

Just because Marc Hynes beat Jenson Button in F3 does not mean he'll be a better Grand Prix driver.

Motor-racing will always be a balance of talent and backing.

Backing can get you a drive - but generally you need to show some talent to either stay there or progress.

[Russfeld]

and Burti got his shot, and didnt do a hell of a lot with it

[BootsOntheSide]

Can you imagine Manchester United telling their youth team's top scorer "well, you're a good player and a nice bloke, but you need to get your name in the Sun or get £100,000 within 3 months, or we're selling you to Yeovil Town"? Obviously the money problem is understandable, because teams need money to race and it has to come from somewhere, but above all I'd like to see more manufacturers follow Mercedes' lead in supporting talented drivers right from a very low level, placing them in quality junior teams and helping them along the way both on and off the track.

Touring Cars and Sportscars are great racing, but they're not neccessarily what a youngster dreams of doing, and any career in those championships is very unstable due to rule and mufacturer invovlement variations.

I'm not saying Marc would've neccessarily been a star, but it's perfectly feasible consideriong how well he did in British F3, in a rookie team. UK F3's always been one of the best barometers of potential (much more so than F3000), with Senna and Hakkinen among its champions.

[JJ Jet Plane]

Fair point Boots – but racing has always been a sport in which the participants have generally been from privileged backgrounds. Even those in club racing are mostly middle class. Football is a sport that anyone can play and become successful in – theoretically you have as much chance of becoming hugely rich and famous if you come from a shanty town in Sao Paulo than you do if you're the son of an aristocrat or whatever.

Historically, when people have needed more money for racing they've worked like b*****ds to get it, on oil rigs or whatever. David Kennedy and Derek Daly used to go mining in Australia in the off-season, for God's sake! Nigel Mansell sold his house and put his and his wife's whole futures at stake. Tony Kanaan slept on the floor of his Italian racing team's office for three years, had to borrow a bicycle to get around and originally didn't speak a word of the language. It took guts for all those people and I don't see a lot of that among today's young drivers, Hynes included. It's all very well going to the gym and keeping yourself in shape, but there's not much point doing that if you're not making efforts to get the money to keep yourself in the sport in the first place.

[BootsOntheSide]

While all of that is true, I think a lot can be done to make motor racing more equal in terms of which drivers get to the top. Motor racing is comfortably the most expensive sport to get into, and it needn't be a closed shop automatically. It's worth bearing in mind wider social history on this point. When Oxford and Cambridge were the only unviersities in the country, they only accepted wealthy Protestants - meaning that the working class and immigrant communities had little chance of advancing themselves, achieving their potential, contributing academically and socially to the country, and removing themselves from poverty. Votes for women, and the abolition of wealthy employers being able to dictate how their employees voted, have also been a big boost to society, not just to the direct beneficiaries. Just think of the publicity for F1 if someone from a truly impoverished community shines in F1, it would be beneficial for everyone.

[Mike Holmes]

Just contact him through Zip Kart 01992-463371

[105octane]

Wrong Hynes dude!

[Slippery]

Speak to Tony Shaw at Manor Motorsport if you want to contact him

[Glyn Goodwin]

I think he's signed up to race a TVR in the 2005 LMES.

;-)

[rdjones]

Originally Posted by Glyn Goodwin

I think he's signed up to race a TVR in the 2005 LMES.

;-)

He has signed it has been confirmed over on Dailysportscar.com. He drive for the LNT Team. He will also compete at Le Mans and at Sebring.