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    In this weeks Auto Express there is a competition to win a day's
    racing, can anybody help me with the answers???
    
    When did Brands Hatch last host the British Grand Prix?
    
    a) 1988
    b) 1986
    c) 1984
    
    
    Who won?
    
    a) Alain Prost
    b) Nigel Mansell
    c) Ayrton Senna
    
    
    Which driver won the Formula One world championship that year?
    
    a) Ayrton Senna
    b) Alain Prost
    c) Nelson Piquet
    
    
    Thanks for any help in advance,  Craig.

      I think it's
    
    1) 1986
    
    2) Mansell
    
    3) Prost
    
    

The answers in .5 are correct

Dave

    I know this an old topic, but this is an old question......
    
    I've been trying to think of the name of the then up-and-coming
    Scottish racing driver who everyone thought was destined for Formula 1.
    I think he even got a test drive.......
    
    This was a few years ago (5 or 6 I think).
    
    I kept thinking it was Johnny Herbert, but he turns out to be an
    Essex-man, so was it Johnny someone else?
    
    Anyone help?
    
    JK

    DAVID COULTARD, I think thats right , drives for Paul Stewart, was
    either winner or runner up in the F3 championship last year.
    
    
    	As for Dumfires Mr Wegg, he's hardly up and coming. Maybe down and 
    	going. He was very good at spinning off and the highlight of his
        career was to be in the winning Jaguar at Le Mans in 1988.
    
    
    	Garry
     

    Thanks you two, it was Dumfries I was thinking of. Didn't he drive a
    F1 Lotus in a test?
    
    JK

    Sorry Mr Wegg, I re- read the .7 . Johnny dumbfires did drive for Lotus
    for 1 season back in the days when they had a Renualt engine and JPS
    sponsorship , I think he may have been number 2 to Senna. He later
    drove for Silk Cut Jaguar, team tom's Toyota, and maybe a one off for a
    Porsche team. Imo he was not the worlds best driver, particularly in
    sportscars, but he was damed good at stuffing them in a big way, or
    just plan spinning off. I seem to remember he was also a dab hand at
    fixing rear suspension with a pair of pliers.
    
        I think he maybe in early retirement these days.
    
    
    	Garry
    	

    
    Dumfries also had a one off drive for Sauber-Mercedes, I believe, at 
    Le Mans.
    
    Mark

    	Apologies accepted, Mr. C!!
    
    	Didn't he also have a title? (I mean an inherited one, I know he 
    	never won any!) 
    
    	Ian.

    
    � 	Didn't he also have a title? (I mean an inherited one, I know he 
    �	never won any!) 
    
    He had an inherited title (something about Dumfries and Galloway, I
    think), but didn't he win the British F3 championship one year?
    
    Mark

    John Whatever, Earl of Dumfries ?

    I prefer to spell it DUMBFRIES, but yes it the The Earl.
    
    Garry
    

From what I saw of his driving at Le Mans a few years back, he should
stick to being The Earl ... he turned the corners just before the main
grandstand (don't remember the name) into a straight. Luckily the Jag
survived ...

    In 1989 when driving the TAKAQ toyota he very comprehensivley smashed
    the car. He stuffed it somewhere about the porsche curves or wherever,
    worked on the rear end for some time . He then drove it to the slip
    road opposite the pit lane. Was filmed trying to repair either the
    upper rear wishbone or a CV with a pair or pliers . After a long time
    gave up and tried to drive it to the pits, the story then took a very
    swift twist and changed the fortunes of the cameraman. A lead from his
    camera got stuck in the car door or somewhere, as "The Earl" drove ( or
    more to the point limped) away, the camera was swiftly removed from the
    cameramans shoulder and dragged along the ground. Every last bit was
    televised. During the 1988 Dumbo span the car off in a large number of
    the races. I can't claimed to have followed his carrer to closly but
    there are only 3 things I can think of that he did. 
    
    
    1. Set the fastest lap to date at Le Mans, during the 1987 race in the
    Sauber Mercedes.
    
    2. Was a member of the winning team in 1988 for jaguar.
    
    3. Threw away umpteen races due to a spin.
    
    Garry

    Could the driver originally referred to be Alan McNish?.  He currently
    does alot of testing for Mclarren.  I also thick he was F3 champion a
    couple of years ago.
    
    Cheers Ian...

    Dumfries was the driver who was acceptable to Senna as a team-mate when
    he vetoed Warwick.
    

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    To quote the Melbourne "The Age" of 18-DEC-1993..
    
    
                      "What a coup! Big Race is ours
    
    Victoria has snatched the Australian Formula One Grand Prix from
    Adelaide in a $60 million deal kept secret until the last minute.
    
    After 12 months of confidential negotiations, a triumphant Premier, Mr.
    Kennett, yesterday announced that it was the most exciting thing that
    had happened in the 14 months he was elected.
    
    The race, which will be run around Albert Park Lake, will be held from
    1997 for at least 5 years. Grand Prix week - probably in late March -
    will include a yacht race and a boat race on the lake, a classic-car
    re-enactment of the 1958 Melbourne Grand Prix and a VIP car race.
    
    Organisers say it will bring big benefits, including 1,000 jobs, a $50
    million-a-year boost to the economy and up to 500,000 tourists.
    
    In a deal that has been kept secret since it was signed three months
    ago, Melbourne fought off challenges from China and Malaysia. Adelaide,
    which has hosted the race since 1985, learnt of its loss only
    yesterday. The new South Australian Premier, Mr. Dean Brown, said he
    was `shattered', but Melbourne had a watertight contract."
    
                                  *****
    
    Now, what the aforegoing does NOT tell you is that there is this big
    glass tower which currently overlooks the entire Albert Park circuit,
    providing a completely unobstructed view, and that building happens to
    be Digital MEO. I wonder what the organisers will do to ruin our grandstand
    view of the proceedings??
    
    Don
    
    
    

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Whoops, there goes another purple and green pig past the window.......

    Can anyone tell me what date the British f1 GP is on this year please?
    
    thx,
    m.

    
    16 July.
    
    Mark

Excellent!

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Dave.

Yup; I just wanted the date of the Silverstone GP...
ta, anyway.

re.27:

Yup, and you would have got it without asking if you'd looked in the right place.

Dave ;-)

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