And who are you?

Happy Snapper · 19 Nov 2004, 14:34 (Ref:1158176)

We have all done It :confused: Asked someone who they are or what they do?

No names but I was with a reporter who claims to know sportscars and GT’s at Le Mans last year and she asked Gunnar Jeannette who he was? Then later at the Nurburgring didn’t know who Sasha Maasen was?

hrug:

TerryC · 19 Nov 2004, 14:46 (Ref:1158193)

Must have been embarassing for someone who claimed to know about GT/sportscars.

Happy Snapper · 19 Nov 2004, 14:51 (Ref:1158200)

I'm sure there are other people out there who have done something similar

Fab · 19 Nov 2004, 15:20 (Ref:1158239)

I thought I knew sportscars a bit, but wandering around in the paddock with BernardB showed me I didn't : he knows ALL the pilots

Happy Snapper · 19 Nov 2004, 15:24 (Ref:1158247)

You haul sixteen tons,(of number 9 cole)and what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt...

gosh I haven’t heard that in a long time have I quoted that correctly?

cybersdorf · 19 Nov 2004, 16:49 (Ref:1158346)

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Originally posted by Happy Snapper
You haul sixteen tons,(of number 9 cole)and what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt...

gosh I haven’t heard that in a long time have I quoted that correctly?

17:47 on Friday and I'm still at work, so do I owe my soul to the company store?

I don't know too many people around the paddock, and my complete inability to remember faces doesn't help.

simon c · 19 Nov 2004, 17:07 (Ref:1158366)

Not an error in recognising people, but at the Silverstone 1000km race in 1983, whilst walking round the paddock, my mate (we were 11 and 12 at the time) asked my dad why the tyres for the Marlboro Porsche (remember that car! - mmmm, nice) were bald!

We are still friends!

Fab · 19 Nov 2004, 17:31 (Ref:1158402)

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Originally posted by Happy Snapper
gosh I haven’t heard that in a long time have I quoted that correctly?

Check your pm box

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Originally posted by cybersdorf
17:47 on Friday and I'm still at work, so do I owe my soul to the company store?

Didn't you try to call St Patrick ?

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Originally posted by cybersdorf
I don't know too many people around the paddock, and my complete inability to remember faces doesn't help.

I try to remember some physical carateristics... but I used to mix Franz Konrad with another one !

I mixed the names too... Bernard is very usefull here !

cybersdorf · 19 Nov 2004, 17:47 (Ref:1158417)

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Originally posted by Fab
Didn't you try to call St Patrick ?

It was St. Peter who shouldn't call me 'cos I can't go, etc. etc.
Still at work btw. ("a mind that's weak and a back that's strong")

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I try to remember some physical carateristics... but I used to mix Franz Konrad with another one !

Now THAT does take some doing. Who looks like Franz Konrad??

Regis · 19 Nov 2004, 19:38 (Ref:1158535)

July 1973, Watkins Glen 6 Hour & CanAm weekend... it's Sunday morning and the badass CanAm cars are being pushed to pit lane. I'm standing in back of the first pit box, just nineteen, wide-eyed and drooling over a red-white Marlboro BRM V12 F1 car that seems to have appeared out of nowhere... there's a runty looking guy about my age dressed in a paisley puffy shirt and polyester bellbottoms opposite me. I ask him who is driving this car...

'I am."

"well, who are you?"

"Niki Lauda."

pity I lost the photo of him and the car, with UOP Shadows and turbo 917s in the background...

cut to Jarama 2001 ELMS round and a crowd is gathered round some swarthy looking fella.... I ask Brooksie "who's that?" He rolls his eyes and exasperatedly states "Juan-Pablo Montoya"

I'm not worthy!

Happy Snapper · 19 Nov 2004, 19:43 (Ref:1158539)

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I don't know too many people around the paddock, and my complete inability to remember faces doesn't help.

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You know me better as VB146KK from DSC!

cybersdorf · 19 Nov 2004, 20:46 (Ref:1158593)

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Originally posted by Regis
[B]a runty looking guy about my age

LOL
Yes he never looked like much did he. No dress sense either; same old jeans & corduroy jacket, rain or shine.

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dressed in a paisley puffy shirt and polyester bellbottoms opposite me. I ask him who is driving this car...

'I am."

"well, who are you?"

"Niki Lauda."

pity I lost the photo of him and the car, with UOP Shadows and turbo 917s in the background...

Shame, I would have loved to see that.

cybersdorf · 19 Nov 2004, 20:47 (Ref:1158597)

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Originally posted by Happy Snapper
You know me better as VB146KK from DSC!

I know, I know.

pirenzo · 19 Nov 2004, 23:26 (Ref:1158813)

This person might well know about sportscars and GT.
Doesn't have to know the people who drive them...

I'm into sportscars for what they are, cars, not particularly the racing, even while listening to Le Mans this year I didn't know who was in most of the cars.

Shady#30 · 19 Nov 2004, 23:39 (Ref:1158829)

You know the hotel comercial with the father, the little boy and Michael Waltrip? My best friend and I were walking around outside the Holiday Inn in Oshawa talking about how much we "hate" the Champion Audi when we heard snickering and looked up to see JJ Lehto and some other Champion-clad guys listening to us from a 2nd floor room balcony. Not exactly a failure of recognition, but awkward (and really embarassing) nonetheless.

Fab · 20 Nov 2004, 06:50 (Ref:1158994)

bernard b · 20 Nov 2004, 08:56 (Ref:1159037)

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Originally posted by Fab
I thought I knew sportscars a bit, but wandering around in the paddock with BernardB showed me I didn't : he knows ALL the pilots

I don't know all of them,I'm afraid, even if it seems so...
but as you know, I don't know ANYTHING about technical

Shady#30 · 20 Nov 2004, 19:06 (Ref:1159389)

Oh wait how could I forget the better of my two hotel stories! The same friend accidentally launched the window screen a couple of stories down to land right at the entrance to the Sheraton Petaluma in Sonoma, at which point what had to be the entire Risi team, Patrick Dempsey and a good deal of Flying Lizards came out through the lobby doors to look up and see both our heads hanging out the window. The screen missed the three Esperantes that were parked there by about 3ft. Good thing we were only staying one more night.

cybersdorf · 20 Nov 2004, 20:29 (Ref:1159445)

Is there anything left standing of that hotel?

jase · 21 Nov 2004, 01:39 (Ref:1159637)

I managed to snap a pic of Jackie Icyx at the 04 Le Mans race, I turn to Happy Snapper an go "He looked familiar!"

Fab · 21 Nov 2004, 07:35 (Ref:1159736)

I met the Lord of the Ring (Tom K), and he maode one comment :"oh, nice jacket !" - I have a Bentley one...

Bramzel · 21 Nov 2004, 10:59 (Ref:1159857)

During the FIAGT round in 2003 in Oschersleben I was taking pictures of several cars and details in the pitlane, and there was a guy approaching me with a big smile saying "ey, no spionage heh?" Talked with him for 30 to 40 minutes, about the rumours at the time that Mercedes would enter a SLR, about the game we were developing (Simbin -> GTR), about motorsport in general, about the cars he drove in the past, etc, numerous things were spoken about. And at that point I still didn't know who he was. Later it turned out to be Thomas Erdos.

Flash Compact · 21 Nov 2004, 19:11 (Ref:1160127)

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Originally posted by Regis
There's a runty looking guy about my age dressed in a paisley puffy shirt and polyester bellbottoms opposite me.

Are you *sure* this was Watkins Glen..? This get up sounds more "Back door" club than upstate NY..

What were you wearing?

Regis · 22 Nov 2004, 01:09 (Ref:1160407)

um... what is a back door club? must be a place you frequent - frequently?
=)

truthfully I might have been wearing burgundy crushed corduroy bells and my own paisley puffy shirt with either orange suede platform shoes or the tritone platforms - dark red, tan, and baby blue... but the memory aint what it used to be... and I had no photo of myself to remind me what I was wearing.

Hugewally · 22 Nov 2004, 05:54 (Ref:1160467)

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Originally posted by Regis
um... what is a back door club? must be a place you frequent - frequently?
=)

truthfully I might have been wearing burgundy crushed corduroy bells and my own paisley puffy shirt with either orange suede platform shoes or the tritone platforms - dark red, tan, and baby blue... but the memory aint what it used to be... and I had no photo of myself to remind me what I was wearing.

But did you have hair back then?