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9 Aug 2010, 14:15 (Ref:2741918) | #26 | |
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Bit silly letting some 16 year old kid do testing..
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9 Aug 2010, 14:54 (Ref:2741946) | #27 | |
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not really, it's a pretty big wide airfield and the most damage he's gonna do is bin it in a cornfield... it's a good incentive to the far east driver scheme and a good way of getting the young lad used to some serious power. plus it's good pr and they get to look at the planes and stuff.
wonder if they'll hire the same pie van as a team caterer edit: here's what the local rag published about the amended restrictions - for what it's worth we've not had a letter through the door yet and it's less than 4 weeks away. someone might want to make sure that's being done otherwise the nimbys will get a bit shirty... http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Roys...to-Duxford.htm |
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What happens if he accidentally turns the wheel? Will they be banned?
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Duxford is also the only place outside the US that have a SR-71 on display.
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Have anyone here thought that Lotus may be testing 25 F1 cars all arround the globe next year?
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Lotus Cars claim that this is nothing to do with Lotus Racing (or, as they might be known next year, Team Lotus) - while the car does look like an F1 car to the trained eye, it doesn't have that much to do with an F1 car. Obviously it's the nearest thing to an F1 car that's practical to run on a track day, and with a GP Masters engine it'll go like brown and smelly things off a shovel, but I don't think it would be that useful a test bed for F1 machinery. We don't know that much about the relations between Lotus Cars and Lotus Racing, while they obviously are at least amiable they aren't the same organization. Rumours about Tony Fernandes buying Lotus Cars are not substantiated, although I think he would be a far better bet for the future than Proton as a parent company. Bear in mind that his biggest success, AirAsia, was the result of buying a failing thing from the Malaysian government (Lotus is owned by Proton, who in turn are a nationally owned company) and whipping it in to shape.
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