Club Arnage

Dear Sebringers

As you may or may not be aware (and even if you are aware it has become apparent that you don't care), not everyone on this site is lucky enough to be able to jet off to Florida for a couple of weeks of festivities and motor racing.

In order to prevent further depression of otherwise happy-go-lucky individuals (myself and Piglet to name two!) please would you keep your Sebring comments to this thread alone and leave all of the other threads 'boast' free.

YOU BUNCH OF HEARTLESS BASTARDS  ;D ;D ;D

Seconded  :'( :'(

Did I say I'm off to Sebring in 2 weeks TODAY  ;D ;D ;D

Did I say I'm off to Sebring in 2 weeks TODAY  ;D ;D ;D

Did I say I'm off to Sebring in 2 weeks TODAY  ;D ;D ;D

Did I say I'm off to Sebring in 2 weeks TODAY  ;D ;D ;D

Did I say I'm off to Sebring in 2 weeks TODAY  ;D ;D ;D

Did I say I'm off to Sebring in 2 weeks TODAY  ;D ;D ;D

Did I say I'm off to Sebring in 2 weeks TODAY  ;D ;D ;D

Did I say I'm off to Sebring in 2 weeks TODAY  ;D ;D ;D

To be fair, I can't remember you mentioning it  ::)

Steve, I don't recall you mentioning whether you went last year or not ::) ::)

BTW that was a comprehensive win you had for February, the biggest wiinning margin. Congrats. As Ian Dury said "There aint half bin some clever bastards"

Did I mention I'll be off to India to watch the cricket on the 14th?  ;D ;D ;D

Ah, Andy, if you are  anywhere where you can pick me up a call to prayer alarm I would be most grateful. Have a great trip

(Lucky bleeders, lucky bleeders).

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Me too.

Life is good!!!   ;D ;D ;D


Andy - Enjoy the cricket.

Bob - I may be able to get you an alarm clock if Andy isn't able to.  I have a friend who travels to the Middle East quite a lot.  Let me know.

 ;D ;D ;D LOL That's brought back memories of LMES Silverstone.  First class.  I'll have one too.

Thanks Doris will do.

I think HA will really appreciate it, especially if I rig it up to a PA.

Have you got a final figure for your sponsorship yet?

Steve, you must be psychic. Only last week I bought the Best Of Ian Dury CD. It's a triumph of poetic lyrics. An appropriate one for an Essex lad like you might by the one that goes:

Oi Oi!
Good evening i'm from essex
in case you couldn't tell
my given name is Dickie, I come from Billericay
and I'm doing very well

had a love affair with Nina
in the back of my Cortina
a seasoned up hyena could not have been more obscener
she took me to the cleaners
and other misdemeanours
but I got right up between her
rum and her Ribena

well, you ask Joyce and Vicki
if candy-floss is sticky
I'm not a blinking thicky
I'm Billericay Dickie
and i'm doing very well

I bought a lot of brandy
when I was courting Sandy
took eight to make her randy
and all I had was shandy
another thing with Sandy
what often came in handy
was passing her a 'Mandy'
she didn't half go bandy

so you ask Joyce and Vicki
if I ever took the mickey
I'm not a flipping thicky
I'm billeicay dickie
and I'm doing very well

I'd rondez-vouez with Janet
quite near the Isle of Thanet
she looked more like a gannet
she wasn't half a prannet
her mother tried to ban it
her father helped me plan it
and when I captured Janet she bruised her pomegranet

so you ask Joyce and Vicki
if i ever shaped up tricky
I'm not a blooming thicky
I'm Billericay Dickie
and I'm doing very well

you should never hold a candle if you don't know where it's been
the jackpot is in the handle on a normal fruit machine

so you ask Joyce and Vicki
who's their brickie
I'm not a common thicky
I'm Billericay Dickie
and I'm doing very well

I know a lovely old toe-rag obliging and noblesse
kindly, charming shag from Shoeburyness

my given name is Dickie
I come from Billericay
I thought you'd never guess

so you ask Joyce and Vicki
a pair of squeaky chickies
I'm not a flaming thicky I'm Billericay Dickie
and I'm doing very well

oh golly, oh gosh come and lie on the couch
with a nice bit of posh from Burnham-on-Crouch

my given name is Dickie, I come from Billericay
and I ain't a sloutch

so you ask Joyce and Vicki
about Billericay Dickie
I ain't an effin' thicky
you ask Joyce and Vicki
and I'm doing very well

I'm not of course implying you had a love affair with Nina in the back of your Cortina. Although you might have done back in those heady days...

Will do my level best; I have several orders.

Andy, I had a grey Mk3 Cortina many years ago - 'nuff said  ::)

http://www.mosqueclock.com/product_info.php?cPath=29&products_id=33&osCsid=763e3cb2e74a7f34a1f731ecf4db1814

Or you could get one here

Thirded and thank you!!

It's not quite as bad as last year when Keith went to Sebring and I had to stay home.  Oh how I laughed when he rang me from the side of the track so that I could hear the car noises  ::)

I'm still trying to work out how to get my employer to pay me more and to recognise that 40 days holiday a year should be standard!

ITS MAAARRRCCHHHHH!  :D
Short drive to the track just around the corner.

-Lee

was that insensitive of me?

A little more good Sebring news.  Twice Champ Car champion Sebastien Bourdais and Bruno Junqueria will be joing the Multimac Panoz GT2 squad for Sebring.
This will be Bruno's first race back after his Indy 500 injuries, good to see Junky back!
Fax
http://www.motorsport.com/news/article.asp?ID=210889

Much better news than TV hearthrob and Tony George's co-moron being grand marshal.  ::)

And me too!! New big bastard Canon digi body arrived and ready for action ... wooohooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 I am ready and willing to lose my Sebring virginity!

;D

Let me tell you summat Rick. They ain't gonna be gentle with you. Have you ever seen Last Tango in Paris??

Take it baby, take it!!!

Agreed Chop,
Wouldn't be a race without some celebrity poser rolled out.  Christ! How many times have we watched jerk-offs like Michael Douglas or Matthew McConnaughey prance around on a starting grid thinking they're actually important.  My favorite was when that guy from Beverly Hills 20210 tried to knock down the cement walls at the Kentucky Speedway a few years ago during the Infinity Pro Series practice.  The moral of that is no talent actors have even less talent as drivers.
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You lot in the USA can count yourselves lucky. You never had to tolerate the likes of pseudo-celebs like we did in the 80's. The Radio 1 DJ's Noel Edmonds and Mike Smith and also ex-Wham frontman Andrew Ridgeley were utterly vomit inducing.

The worst ordeal we ever have to experience is the Parade of Celebrities the morning of the Indy 500 every year.  I sh**t you not, this really happens as part of the pre-race ceremonies.  Its fricking hilarious, they dig up a bunch geezers who's career floundered thirty years ago and drive them around, perched on the back of the pace cars, hanging on for dear life.  The standard response when one of them goes past is "I thought he (or she) was dead?"
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Hold it, hold it, hold it!!!!!!!


You guys are losing the thread you are supposed to be slagging off the lucky bastxxds that are going to Sebring.

And I am one of those lucky bastaxds

Did I tell you that I and a good number of others are crossing to the US of A for a little mosprt.

Paddy, you are NOT too late.


Martini...of to Sebring I am.

Did anyone mention the beads to the Sebring rookies?  Bring beads with you (it'll be self-explanitory when you get there, ever seen any Mardi Gras footage?)
Remember St. Patricks Day is on the Friday, last time it was on race day one needed green beads (and a hollow leg to hold all the Guinness).
Wohooo! Two Weeks to go!
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Paddy its not too late.

We have 60 dozen beads ready to go and 17 cases of Yuengling on order.  ;D

Chop,
Good man with the Yuengling!  Great stuff from America's oldest brewery.  Personally love the Porter but may a bit heavy for being in the sun all day, lager is excellent too.  The beads are essential, especially around sunset when the girls have a afternoon full of beer in 'em.
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OK I give up.  What's the thing with the beads?   ???

I don't own any and funnily enough they weren't on my 'I must buy in my lifetime' list.

Sebring has a bit of a hedonistic Mardi Gras flavor about it and one of the traditions of Mardi Gras is swapping multi-colored beads (the louder the colors the better) girls competing for beads will give you a flash, the better the beads, the better the jiggle show.
Fax

Cool!!!   ;D

I happen to have little video of D 'Jiggling'

Keeps me warm at night thinking about it

Steve

Well dont be shy,share it with us. ::)

Amazing...your a BAAD man...and thats why we love you so much.  You're truly AMAZING.  Club Arnage...Turn 10 welcomes you.  Hope you guys have a GREAT time.  See you in LESS than 2 weeks.

Jupiter John
Governor - Turn 10

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Amazing...you're a BAAD man...and truly AMAZING.  Club Arnage...Turn 10 Welcomes you.  Hope you guys have a GREAT time.  See you in LESS than 2 weeks.

Jupiter John
Governor - Turn 10

(GO SHANE GO)
GO TEAM IMPALA GO

So good he said it twice...where do you get the beads from Guys - Walmart? :-)

Hey D, I hope if you are a JIGGLER you do it in style...why did I ever think you wouldn't

How many days?

Not long anyway

Martini.

Can probably get them at Walmart, I'm to hijack some from a buddy who just got back from Mardi Gras.  He said New Orleans is still a horrible mess outside of the French Quarter.
Fax

Sticking to the Sebring thread,  12 more days and I am out of here. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D           8)

...11 for me, first a quick stop in Miami then next day on to Highlands County  ???  ;)

Randy & John,
How long does it take you guys to get that scaffolding up?  That looks like an all afternoon project (at least for a complete clod like me).
Really looking forward to seeing you guys again, been a long time since Oct. and the Petit.
Fax

Gates open at 7:00am
Scaffold should be up and finished before 9:00am Wednesday morning.

we don't mess around, there's beers to be imbibed and cars/girls to be watched.

-Lee

12 days and an early wakeup.

I'm off to the Alps for 10 days and all you Sebringers will be gone by the time I get back. You guys have a great time out there and don't forget to take loads of photos to show us.

Have fun Bob.Dont worry about your CA brothers they will be in good hands.I am not whose,but somebodies good hands. ::)

Hey Bob,

Don`t know what part of the Alps your headed for but you should have bombastic skiing. We have had and still are having a very snowey winter here in southern Germany. Spoke to some friends this morning who are skiing in Austria, they were having a wonderfull sunny day, and here a we`re having a frickin blizzard. Have fun in the snow.

images posted for "The Amazing Randy", take it away Randy

(http://www.selfstudio.com/images/sebring/CA/Randy2.jpg)
(http://www.selfstudio.com/images/sebring/CA/Randy3.jpg)
(http://www.selfstudio.com/images/sebring/CA/Randy1.jpg)

I am so proud of myself,these are my out of towner care packages.One for Pieter,one for his friend,and one for Vettefan.

1/tent
1/set blankets
1/sleeping bag
1/pillow
1/airmatress
1/anti-rain poncho
1/pocket flash light[To aid in finding way back from
the Party Barge]
plus/spare coolers

Still over a week away and I have already started packing the van.
I am so happy about Sebring I am having to sit on both of my hands just to keep from waving at everyone. ;D

Oh yeah there is also a tent in there for Martini !

Apparently I'm even more of a slacker than I thought.    :o

http://www.newssun.com/main.asp?Search=1&ArticleID=1075&SectionID=3&SubSectionID=3&S=1

Jeez, what can you do for two months apart from drink beer and have bbq's, oh right, I see  ;D

Can somebody forward that to the ACO? ;D

I'm not saying.  That would spoil all the fun!   ;D 

You'll just have to wait and see.   :P

Not long now...

Why does something tell me that Doris is going to come home with lots of beads????  :-* ;D

The photos on my phone from the pre-christmas meet in London would seem to confirm that  :o

LOL   

Damned camera phones!!!   :o

Come on lads, be gents! What goes on tour etc...

Andy - what a gentleman you are!  Thanks for looking out for my honour.   :)

Rob can you forward the pics??  ;)

That's truly Amazing, Randy, you're the greatest!

I hear a bear!
The new Dyson Racing livery.
http://www.motorsport.com/photos/popup.asp?I=alms/2006/gen/alms-2006-gen-tm-0009.jpg
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It looks very good indeed. 

Do the American amongst us know what Thetford actually do?  Do you have Portapotties in the States, or just Bumper Dumpers.

For us poor slobs staying in the UK, has anyone found if Sebring is on the Telly?  Motors/Eurosport or Sky.  Guaranteed to be on the Speed Channel, I suppose

I know that Norcold (a subsidiary of Thetford) makes refrigeration equipment for RV and Marine use.  Know this much because my buddy's camper has a Norcold fridge (gotta keep the beer cold).  May have a Thetford crapper but never wanted to look that close.
Pretty cars though, always immaculately prepared.
Hope they blow the doors off the Audi's.
Fax

Got a cool new Sebring hat to help detect the 'bad gravity spots' inside of Green Park at night.This will help elimate all of that nasty falling down stuff that always seems to happen.

http://www.sears.com/sr/javasr/product.do?BV_UseBVCookie=Yes&vertical=TOOL&pid=03493353000

I like it Randy!!  How much are they, I've never seen them over here!

Brilliant just what i need, I wounder if they are compatible with my Falling Down Trousers  :D

Hey, jpchenet

I just got your Maxcold 50 qt
$22 at a sporting goods store near me
damn good price!


See ya in Fla.!

$20.00 usd. not too bad

$22?????   I'll have two!!!!   ;D

Unfortunately I won't see you in Florida until 2007,  :'( but I'm sure my personal shopper, Steve Brown, will join you for a cold one in just over a week!

Nice Dyson foto Fax, like to see them up front at the end, a change from Audi...we will drink a few cold ones for the Dyson team, oh what the hell let`s drink a few cold ones for all the teams  ;D
As for Thetford, I got me one of their quality crappers bought it here in Munich, it`s been with me for the last 5 years at LM, held up like a champ during the raw chicken year  :P

We'll definitely be meeting up with Steve as he was kind enough to bring my t-shirt over here.

If Steve is able to find and purchase your wheeled Maxcold,  I'd assume that he'll be unable to bring 2 coolers home on the plane.  If you'd still like a non-wheeled 50,  we can bring it over in June.  If he's unable to find your wheeled model in FL or is somehow able to take 2 coolers home, he can take one of our non-wheeled 50's.

Flobee whipped me at shopping.  I drove 35 miles to buy  the same cooler and paid $33 for it this past Sunday.   ::)

The more the merrier!!  ;D

Seriously though, whatever Steve can bring back for me will be great, and if you guys can bring one or two of the 50's over in June as well, even better!! Hopefully the small ice machine I've bought will be producing enough to be able to fill it for you when you get over to Le Mans!

I'm sure any amount of ice will help!

Cold beer is a must!

Thats the exact same icemaker I've been looking at. I had a plan to drain the coolers every morning into the icemaker and make more ice for that day. How heavy is that thing? I may still get one-double the Ice output ;)

Agreed GAB,
We'll drink to Dyson, Penske, Corvette, Audi, Aston, etc.  We'll drink to the fans who are there, and the ones who can't be. Hell, give me a excuse to drink, and I'll drink to it. ;)
Fax

It weighs about 23kg!!!!!!!! Not light by any means

scratch that-just found this comment on the icemaker

As long as I can keep the Sam Adams cold, I don't care  ;D

(http://www.shanghaiist.com/attachments/shang_dan/samueladamschina.jpg)

Ahhh, Sam Adams, that brings back some memories of drunk nights in Burlington Vermont!

Love that beer, it is the only kind that deserves the name beer in the USA.

That sounds like fighting talk, and I think you'll find a lot of the Brits behind you

Actually he's not far off when it comes to the big, mass produced, and mass marketed stuff.  However there's a hell of a lot of terrific locals brews, just have to know where to go to find them.  Trust me, you won't them at Wal-Mart, Publix or Kroger, they only carry "TV" beer.
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No fighting intended!

We had this microbrew company called 'magic hat' in Vermont. They had some fine selection of beers!! Mostly based on the heavier Belgian varieties!

As for TV beer,

What is the comparison between Budweiser and having sex in a rowboat?



It is both f'ing close to water! ;D

Beer snobs.

-Lee

Car snob!  ;)

???

 ???

I'll buy a cold beer at Sebring to the first person to tell me who the bearded gentleman walking with Ronnie in my avatar photo is? For many of us this is pretty easy question, but we were on the subject of motor racing journalists on another thread and this bloke was one of the best of the journalist/racer breed.  Good bloke and a absolute master of the Ring.
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John, it looks like Jacques Cousteau's son, Jean-Michel (without the grey hair).

Am I close, do I get a cold one, do I ?   :-\

(http://www.kepplerspeakers.com/speakers/pics/cousteau-jm.jpg)

Nah, Going to have to dig harder Steve ;)
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Rolf Harris (without didgery doo)

(http://www.spotlightcd.com/hallfame/portraits/rolf_harris.jpg)

Survey says? Bonk!  Try again ;D
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This bloke on a mono ski  ;D

(http://www.snowbike.us/gallery/histroy%20harald%20ertl.jpg)

Otherwise known as .................














Harald Ertl

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_Ertl

Sam Adams please  ;)

Whoops Steve!  Didn't see your latest post,
Your The Man! Correct! Harald Ertl.
Lovely bloke and a damed fine writer and racer.
Used to have some terrific drives in the old DRM.
One of the best drivers of the Group 5 fire breathers.
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Steve's got it!! Harald Ertl!

That looks like Monza in the background, although some of the trees were relandscaped in '79 so I'd say the photo was taken in '78  ;)

 ;D ;D ;D I've just coughed up my beer Mark.

Spot on there Mark, taken at Monza in '78.  Very sad weekend for sport.  Sadly Harald lost his life in a light aircraft accident in 1982.
Two very missed men.  They don't make them like these anymore.
Beers on me Steve.
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Thanks Fax.

BTW, to make it more of a challenge next time why not change the file name of your avatar  ;) ;D

Oi, you might have jeopardised my beer  ::)

Ah! You guys cheated! >:(
I'll buy ya a beer anyway.
Thought I was being clever.... ???
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Okay John, here's another one.

Name the kid on the right (you should know the names of the others)  ::)


(I hope someone knows because he sure as hell wasn't with me!)

Bernie Stonecakes....think about it...or is he too tall

Sorry just come back from a works do (hic) and listening to Pink Floyd...cannot think straight

Martini...

Martini...

Evening Martini, I've got Hawkwind - Masters of the Universe, booming out all around the house and I'm supping a cold bottle of Marstons Pedigree.

You all packed and ready to go?

What is is Marstons P...some kind of real ale?

Packed ... sorry not

Pissed ...sorry  yes

Had  a effin bad day ... SORRY EFFINN YES...

But all will be good tomorrow ;-)

Prob meet you weds night Orlando with Matt

Martini...

Don't know who the kid is but appears to be thinking, no way Dad! You can't make me stand near them! They look like escaped convicts.
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These may come in handy

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Martini...wooohoooooooooooooooo

First class Martini  ;D

(4 days and counting)