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Somebody asked if the McLaren F1 was going to be like the Ferrari F40, Gordon Murray replied, "I don't think so, there's no one at McLaren who can weld that badly." |
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Is on the AA website.
I suspect that it is some sort of encouragement to stick with GRM. |
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Cheers. I don't know why you'd bother to be honest, STCC is a club series compared to V8SC in terms of driver quality. If it's a PR thing and I'm under the belief that it would be-in conjunction with Volvo, then that would be the only logical reason. |
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I hope they pull it off because I'd love to see Scott race over here even if it's just a one off. |
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Of course it's a small series compared to V8SC (however don't overrate V8SC, it gets little to no coverage in Europe and McLaughlin is a nobody here) but at the end it's still an official Volvo entry. |
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Not being negative but trying to understand why they'd go all the trouble to make that happen for STCC-if it was for WTCC then I'd be impressed but in my eyes STCC is not a strong national touring car series. Not overrating V8SC at all, I'm not one of those idiots that truly believes that the series is well known and followed in Europe when it really isn't. If there is any following it would be in the UK from what I've seen but yes those numbers would be pretty small. And yes McLaughlin is a nobody there so why would they want to put him in one of their STCC cars? |
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23 Apr 2016, 11:19 (Ref:3635838) | #59 | ||
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If the competition for Mr McLaughlin's services is a NASCAR/IndyCar/IMSA/V8SC team owner, going and racing in the motherland of the brand for a works squad in that series is one way to show how importantly they value the pilot...
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STCC is the home series of Volvo. If these sort of things help to extend the GRM-Volvo partnership I can only applaud it.
And I like it when drivers race in other series. |
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25 Apr 2016, 07:37 (Ref:3636192) | #61 | |
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Confirmed now according to GRM's Fb page. Great news and certainly "worth the bother"
Evokes memories of Mark Skaife and Tony Longhurst contesting a round of the French(?) Touring Car Championship for Nissan and BMW respectively in 1993. |
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Be interesting to see how he goes. I'm sure he'll get up to speed very quickly. Hope he does well
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Was the World Touring Car Championship at Monza. Was held when a number of series were running with 2 litre cars to the same spec. Paul Radisich won it driving a Ford Mondeo.
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Skaife & Longhurst both did a round of a national series in Europe (French or Italian from memory) in preparation for their drives in the World Cup at Monza
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Skaife raced the Nissan Primera in a French Championship round at the Le Mans Bugatti circuit in mid-September, then came back here to race at Bathurst, then flew back to Monza for the World Cup.
Longhurst was supposed to do Spa with BMW but they pulled out, i'm not sure if he got another chance to do a "warm-up" like Skaife did though |
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Over to you Mr Penske/McLaughlin...
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Who wrote that crap?
Spelling and grammatical errors everywhere. |
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Somebody asked if the McLaren F1 was going to be like the Ferrari F40, Gordon Murray replied, "I don't think so, there's no one at McLaren who can weld that badly." |
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Oh, right.
Somehow I missed the part where he scribbled his name on it with his best crayon. So no, not really surprised anymore. |
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Wait Volvo for 3 years, the same day as Virgin Australia named as major sponsor
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Great news for the sport, and lets hope they now secure Scotty. |
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