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Motorsport nostalga in Barbados

Barbados is a place that is steeped in mororsport history , these are some pictures i have been given and some that i have taken myself of the historic moments of motorsport in barbados, please enjoy.

These pics are taken in 1995 on some gravel and tarmac events.

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These pics are from the Internatinal drag meet we had here in 1995 i think .

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These pics are from random international and local rallies stetching from the 80’s to 2000 , please enjoy.

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Track Day @ Silverstone PT 2

Well today was an eventful day with me going to silverstone with a frind of mine (Jimmy Brodie) and having a ride in his M3 a Porsche Boxster and an Audi RS4 , it was fucking brillant!

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Those were the cars we took to the track day now here some other cars that we saw around the track.

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Here come the Exotics now wow these things sound great!!

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Some of the Jap army was out in force as well.

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More Exotics

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We were priveliged to actually see the guys testing one of the new Renualt Clio Kit cars.

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Yes you guessed it more exotics, this Carrera GT was the highlight of my day and guess what they were 2 of them!

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Man the amount of GT3’s there was sickening.

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This poor guy stuffed his into the pit wall.

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Well back to the exotics

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*Takes breather*

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Yep more GT3s

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This is my favourite car of the track day , man this thing sounds good!

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Yet again more GT3s well this is a Carrera S
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Now for some random pics

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Here are some videos

Me in the M3 ( video taping) going around silverstone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNA08jRPrF4

Fly bys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcCV4OXwVqg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUN6glwBrWE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZBSIDsC6oo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfJ2ankgEWY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2zQ_mKdJJI
This is the long fly by an look at the speed some of these guys get comming on to the straight!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlutjlapEQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Fz_rfmuol8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHg77cSH7E4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukQ1Pu4lWbs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7FTzy3LTKk
this is a long drive in so u could get to see the cars
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYod4MbBSNM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3n4uB3Naqo

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Logic’s 2007 Autosport pics

Hey guys i finally got my pics uploaded now enjoy!

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After walking around for like an hour and still with more to come we still rallied on .

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Now at this point we thought there is no way there could be more to veiw , but boy we were wrong we were not even 1/2 way through the show.

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Now at this point my feet are starting to hurt but when ever i look around i am seeing mouth watering car parts and lord doan talk bout de girls!!!!

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BTW that is not me standing next to the engine.

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Now this was one of the best stalls we visited , we got an upclose and personal look at the JWRC Citroen C2.

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Tis Aston Marten is such a beautiful race car i stood drooling for like 20 mins over this car.

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By now my feet are numb but my brain and camera spot thease beauties.

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Now we move into the rally section of the show

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This is the same car i posted in the Prodrive pics blogs and post.It was a show car at the show with no engine or gearbox in.

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Now we stop droling over the rally cars and move on to some other stalls , by now my feet are thretening to go on strike .

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Honestly after this car i did not want to move any further because my feet were starting to drag but once again my brain and eyes took over!

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I was planning to steal this Escort buut could not find a way to fit it in my back pocket.

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Now these are the last pics of the RC Developments Evo and the Norris Designs Evo.

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competing, generic car stuff

Test @ Silverstone

Me again and I was privy to be at a test for the Vauxhall Monaro of Emotion Engineering which will be doing all of the rounds in the British GT series.

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Basically the reason that the car was up there on the track was to map the lovely 5.0l engine , but they ran into some probems like the car would not idle and the track being wet and traffic on the track and such like, but i did enjoy the 150MPH ride to and from the track!

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rallying, competing

Rockingham Stages 2006

The Rockingham Stages was supposed to be a shake down for Rally Barbados 2007 but things took a turn for the worst with Gee’s engine blowing up and me freezing my ass off, but i managed to get some pics .

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Seeing that Gee was running down in the order i decided to wander off and capture some pics . Although it being like 2 deg out wid a wind!

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Well here is where it ends lol late into the afternoon Gee’s engine Blew up (R.I.P) not that we had minded because it gave us hell earlier in the year and it meant we could start drinking early that night.

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