Tim Harvey

Skivleditch · 24 May 2001, 19:44 (Ref:96159)

Is tim harvey quite possibly the nicest BTCC driver? He is one quality bloke. I asked him if he would talk to my best mate who was sat at home with his arm in plaster up to his shoulder, and he just took my phone and talked!

Now can u imagine Yvan Muller doing that? YOU HAVE TO QUEUE TO SEE HIM!

I always find the old school drivers will talk to you more. What does everyone think?

RIKB · 24 May 2001, 19:51 (Ref:96162)

What A nice thing to do eh? I'll bet it cheered your mate up!

I think you may be right about the old School drivers though. Derek Warwick was always great fun on the pitlane walkabouts, I always got well with David Leslie, but the nicest of the lot (With the possible exeption of Mr. B&Q) was Will Hoy....

Oh and welcome to Ten Tenths!

OVERSTEER · 24 May 2001, 20:10 (Ref:96171)

Oh and don't forget the one and only John Cleland, another top bloke!

hunttheshunt · 24 May 2001, 20:43 (Ref:96190)

I get what youre saying w/the old school. The times i met JC and David Leslie they were absolutely sound, but ive also met Yvan and thought he was really good fun!

**touringlegend** · 24 May 2001, 20:52 (Ref:96196)

At least we aint got any stuck up Alain Menus now.

vauxhall · 24 May 2001, 20:53 (Ref:96197)

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Originally posted by Skivleditch

Now can u imagine Yvan Muller doing that? YOU HAVE TO QUEUE TO SEE HIM!

Yvan muller is a good bloke aswell,

in ice racing the team that used to be supported by Opel, where about to go under, so Yvan came along and said he would race for free!

Daz · 24 May 2001, 20:56 (Ref:96199)

Some of the nicest BTCC drivers I've every spoken to have to be Kurt Luby, John Cleland, Will Hoy, Steve Soper, Anthony Read, Tim Harvey, Frank Biela, Yvan Muller Paul Radisich and John Bincliffe.

Motorsport Fan · 24 May 2001, 21:38 (Ref:96216)

I don't think Tim Harvey should be in the BTCC this year. I don't think he looks like a very nice person and he is a bit to old and a liability.

Daz · 24 May 2001, 21:52 (Ref:96224)

Tim Harvey too old and a liability, your joking right. He is one of the most highest rated Touring Car drivers ever I'd say. Not just anyone can win a BTCC championship, you have to have something called talent and natural ability which he loads of.

Motorsport Fan · 24 May 2001, 22:00 (Ref:96233)

I admit he used to have talent, but at Oulton Park I was scanning the garages at the pit walk about and im sorry but I just felt funny around him.

Les · 25 May 2001, 05:51 (Ref:96372)

I agree with you all that Tim is very nice - in fact all the JSM boys are.

There Tim was being interviewed after the podium and he let us interupt it to see the trophy. He never stops smiling, always has time for a few words and never ever talks down to you.

John Batchelor · 25 May 2001, 16:15 (Ref:96520)

I had occasion to talk to Tim before the start of the season about something, he really is a very nice chap! I was doing a bit of a reality check when I was with him, how could I be sitting there talking to this legend! Since then I have been doing reality checks at every event. It was a priviledge just to be lapped by Soper and Harvey last week!! I had a great view of them battling away on the last lap.

Skivleditch · 25 May 2001, 18:27 (Ref:96575)

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Originally posted by Motorsport Fan
I don't think Tim Harvey should be in the BTCC this year. I don't think he looks like a very nice person and he is a bit to old and a liability.

Oulton Park was the first time the Alfa 147 has been racing competetively! So finishing 3rd is a top resuilt considering the vauxall domination!

His scraps with the peugeout team was some of the most exciting racing i've had the priviledge to watch.

John cleland should have proved that you can never be too old for BTCC. Now there's another quality bloke...

**touringlegend** · 25 May 2001, 18:51 (Ref:96593)

I was amazed to see in Autosport that Tim Harvey is only 39. Yvan Muller is something like 32/33 so you can't say Tim Harvey is old.

pink69 · 25 May 2001, 22:42 (Ref:96670)

No offence to Harvey but I cannot wait until he gets a replacement driver in!

RIKB · 25 May 2001, 23:12 (Ref:96678)

Speaking as a 38 year old, 39 is NOT old...

Glad we got that one straightened out

Seriously though, some drivers are past it by 30 and others are just coming into their prime! So age is not necessarily a major factor.

If Tim can stilkl win races (I think he can!) then he isn't too old.

KA · 26 May 2001, 13:19 (Ref:96885)

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Originally posted by Motorsport Fan
I don't think Tim Harvey should be in the BTCC this year. I don't think he looks like a very nice person and he is a bit to old and a liability.

Oh, great, so now you have to be young to race in BTCC. Has anyone told Soper?

Tim Harvey back in the series is brilliant news- he's driving as well as he ever has from what I've heard both from BTCC & GT's- some of the younger drivers could learn a lot from racing against Mr Harvey

hunttheshunt · 26 May 2001, 20:14 (Ref:96983)

how can you say that with a name like yours, 'motorsport fan'!!!!

Tim.Lad · 26 May 2001, 23:14 (Ref:97044)

Are we not forgetting Matt Neal here, great chap with an following of fine entertainment, he always tried to find a moment with the fans at the end of the pit walk about..

Lorna · 26 May 2001, 23:54 (Ref:97051)

Tim Harvey is a smashing bloke. He reminded me to take my lens cap off

Friendly bloke and up for a laugh. I haven't got a bad word to say about him. If he hasn't been racing, he's been team leading. But everyone is entitled to their opinions and preferences and not everyone is going to like him.

Skivleditch · 27 May 2001, 11:06 (Ref:97183)

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Originally posted by Tim.Lad
Are we not forgetting Matt Neal here, great chap with an following of fine entertainment, he always tried to find a moment with the fans at the end of the pit walk about..

Juat a shame he was driving a Nissan

**touringlegend** · 27 May 2001, 14:54 (Ref:97293)

Whats wrong with Nissan? Other from them being world dominators.

SPOONERBORO · 27 May 2001, 15:26 (Ref:97314)

wow is this a return to gentlemen driving !!

we have some nice characters in the btcc this year whilst i prefer cut throat professional top line drivers in my series re (how the fia gt championship panned out and 97/98 btcc), we must realise that it just isnt going to happen at the moment in the btcc

so its giving the gents of motorsport a chance to shine again

come back andy rouse, frank sytner, james weaver, jeff allam, win percy, etc etc

TimD · 29 May 2001, 13:42 (Ref:98348)

Spoon, you're talking poetry there!

Randy Mouse, Bruiser Allam, The Win and best of all SYTNER!!! in touring cars again? I'd pay!

Not that I'm actually a Sytner fan (not while Carrie's listening, anyway) but he's never been anything less than spectacular.

Oh, and on-topic, I'm adding my voice to the throng that have had a chance to confirm that Tim Harvey's a seriously nice chap. Bumped into him at GPM a few years back, when he was running the Labatts Sierra.

Radisichrox · 28 Jun 2001, 01:20 (Ref:110561)

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Originally posted by touringlegend
I was amazed to see in Autosport that Tim Harvey is only 39. Yvan Muller is something like 32/33 so you can't say Tim Harvey is old.

Win Percy was 49 when he last drove in 1993! He managed to finish 2nd in 1 race.

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