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12 Sep 2006, 11:17 (Ref:1708719)
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Who here has been taught by " The F1 Driver coach Rob Wilson"
G'day all,
Just looking to see who has been and done a course with Rob Wilson, I hear from all reports that it is a great learning experience.... on the subject if you have done it, do you have any contact details like a website etc? here in Australia his name crops up having "reformed" good drivers, into GREAT drivers... comments? |
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12 Sep 2006, 15:14 (Ref:1708892)
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Who are the "Great:" drivers from Australia?
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12 Sep 2006, 15:54 (Ref:1708934)
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Here's a few snippets I've picked up, please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong...
He has been contracted to McLaren for a while, and has coached Raikkonen, Montoya and Coulthard. I assume he has also coached Paffet and Hamilton. Have you ever seen the Channel Five programme "Fifth Gear"???. There's a guy who has been on the programme a couple of times, name is Frank Mountain. Rob Wilson is his coach and raced with him at Le Mans. Mountain isn't particularly good, but I guess he paid for Wilson's seat at LM, so that probably saved him from laying out £50k!!! He does not, to the best of my knowledge, have a website. You would probably have to contact him via the Cirtek GT team, and give him the option to get back to you. He seems to be a reasonably private figure, at least for someone who is involved with F1 drivers. I know of one person who used him for half a day at Goodwood, about 10 years ago. The price then was £500, so I guess that today he would charge about £1500 for a full day. You would probably need at least 3 sessions to see significant improvement, assuming you have previous experience and are already pretty decent in a car. If you are at a lower level in racing you would undoubtedly be better off getting multiple sessions with an ARDS instructor. These would cost about £250, so you would get 6 sessions with an 'unknown' instructor Vs 1 session with Rob Wilson. I don't know of any of the Australian drivers he has coached. Possibly Mark Webber and a few of the single seater drivers. I don't know of his record with other car types, i.e. FWD saloons, Aussie V8's, DTM, etc. That's all I *think* I know. Somebody will be along soon to rip my snippets to shreds... |
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12 Sep 2006, 16:15 (Ref:1708954)
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I've seen Rob lots of times coaching drivers (including DC) at Bruntingthorpe Proving Ground (here in lovely Leicestershire!).
Apparently (or allegedly) he was also the bass guitarist in 60's rock band Eddison Lighthouse! Must go now, time for my milky drink and a lay down... |
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12 Sep 2006, 16:17 (Ref:1708957)
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Is this the same Rob Wilson who partnered Tim Harvey in a Viper in the British GT Championship a few years ago?
If so, I seem to remember the Viper was too heavy and evil handling compared to the well sorted (Jordan/Warnock) Lister Storm, and Rob seemed to be the only person that year with the nuts to get it going as quick as it was capable of, when Tim hadn't crashed it that is. |
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12 Sep 2006, 16:23 (Ref:1708966)
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That'll be the same guy.
BAR Honda used him a couple of years ago when they carried out their Young Driver Evaluation Programme. Many, many years ago he raced in F3. I think it may have been him who gave Ralt its first ever win, at Thruxton, I think. |
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12 Sep 2006, 16:36 (Ref:1708978)
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Rob Wilson was fairly big in F3 around the late 70's early 80's. He had some good results although never made the big time. I believe he was very good at setting up cars and has now made a career out of driver coaching. Although I have never met him, he is recognised is being pretty good at what he does and a good guy to have around.
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12 Sep 2006, 16:55 (Ref:1708998)
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The "band" toured around their one hit and people came and went with some regularity - and Rob was one of the later bassists. He nearly had a drive for Tyrrell in 1981 at San Marino, but Alboreto came up with some local funding. |
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12 Sep 2006, 21:13 (Ref:1709182)
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I know he worked for Skip Barber for sometime back in the early 90's especially with the barber-saab championship.
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