Retro Rally enthusiasts, open your diary : Follow our mystery driver at Boucles De Spa on Saturday 19/02/2011!
During the Legend Boucles de Spa, Spa will pulse to the vibe of 70\'s and 80\'s World Rally Championship winning cars, to name but two the GPB Ex-Works Mazda Rx7 and the world famous MKII Ford Escort BDA.
These last years, the “legend†concept has never failed to prove the growing interest of everyone. A larger and larger passionate audience on the regularity tests, an endlessly entry list, cars of higher and higher quality and of course, a media coverage that leaves the biggest sporting events jealous, and Silverstone Autosport are again attending one of the year’s biggest event with a mystery driver in our very own GPB Mazda Rx7.
This WRC mystery driver is said to be THE guest star of this year’s edition. The excitement is intense, there is a competition where you get the chance to guess who he may be.
Every day from Wednesday till the 17th we will give you an indication of his identity - His identity and the names of the contest winners will only be revealed on Thursday 17th.
Clues to the mystery drivers identity:
26/02 - He\'s not from Belgium....
27/02 - He was repeatedly awarded in his country....
28/01 - He went over 50 times starting in the WRC ...
29/01 - His copilot is Denis Giraudet...
30/01 - It was a World Cup race held in his country...
31/01 - He has been with six different WRC chariot...
01/02 - He\'s never ridden in Belgium ...
02/02 - He has driven a Subaru in the WRC...
03/02 - He is not even forty...
04/02 - He has repeatedly been on a World Cup Podium....
05/02 - He has scratches on his name written in the World...
06/02 - He has been in many other fields of motorsport driving...
07/02 - He made his debut as a rally driver in the 90\'s...
08/02 - He may very well slip off with work...
Guess the driver:3gears-lhCONTACTING US HERE.
http://www.silverstoneautosport.co.uk/contact-us-frm.html?view=message&layout=message
Called in today and collected some parts for Goldie.
The guys here are fantastic and know their stuff. The GPB Mazda RX7 was on the ramps in all her glory - this motor is absolutely AWESOME :god
Good luck guys in Spa and to your driver *************
here is a pic from the nec
26/02 - He\'s not from Belgium....
27/02 - He was repeatedly awarded in his country....
28/01 - He went over 50 times starting in the WRC ...
29/01 - His copilot is Denis Giraudet...
30/01 - It was a World Cup race held in his country...
31/01 - He has been with six different WRC chariot...
01/02 - He\'s never ridden in Belgium ...
02/02 - He has driven a Subaru in the WRC...
03/02 - He is not even forty...
04/02 - He has repeatedly been on a World Cup Podium....
05/02 - He has scratches on his name written in the World...
06/02 - He has been in many other fields of motorsport driving...
07/02 - He made his debut as a rally driver in the 90\'s...
08/02 - He may very well slip off with work...
09/02 - He has driven every round of the WRC at least once...
10/02 - He was once the main guest in Top Gear...
come on you lot , here is some more clues
11/02 - He is still active in motorsport...
12/02 - He won on tarmac in 2010...
13/02 - He has already participated in the Race of Champions...
14/02 - He\'s never cold...
15/02 - He knows the Belgian accent...
16/02 - He can be confused with someone else...
Already answered!
Quote from: Will66;743303Already answered!
but are you right ......??????
find out tomoz:wiggle
We are proud to anounce that HENNING SOLBERG is going to be driving our very own Ex-works GPB Mazda Rx7
The Norwegian has been a loyal member of the 2000 world rally championship and has since proven to be more than just the older brother of 2003 world champion, Petter Solberg.
The multi Norwegian rally champion and former rally driver has won on several occasions and remains a real specialist on snow and gravel.
Henning Solberg heads to Spa this weekend to take the wheel of our Ex works Mazda RX7 GP B with Co-Driver Denis Giraudet at his side. The car will be in the colours of www.ilovemygarden.be (http://www.ilovemygarden.be/) We wish our team and Henning Solberg all the best for this weekends event.
We thank everybody for their participation in guessing the mystery driver!
Got that quite wrong then!
Henning Solberg will do it justice though!
hey guys and gals i have a couple of pics from , spa hope you like them
Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet
carnt wait to see when shes home , will update tomoz on how she is running ,
Quote from: Will66;743461Got that quite wrong then!
Henning Solberg will do it justice though!
I too got it wrong but hopefully Henning will get it all right! :cheers
That is a good looking car, what sort of setup does it run? Does it have antilag and stuff like that?
No antilag.....no turbo:spank
Quote from: kiwimazda;744336No antilag.....no turbo:spank
I thought that after I wrote it!! How stupid of me.
How did Henning fair with his taste of Rotary ??
Hey people ,
In shakedown on fri , hennings words were , " tomorrow we go flat out "
however
Bad times , the car covered 4.2 miles in the first stage on fri night and stopped running.............
The supplied GPS units , gave the car a major electrical fault , switching the msd units on and off , all the gauges went off and the car came to a stop ..
The gps suppliers are looking into the fault , and have said that the magnetic field caused the gps unit interfear with the cars electrics , causing it to stop running ..
So the car is back in the uk , engine is now stripped and its not , good , rota bearing fallen apart , destroyed housing , apex seals all chipped ,side seals welded to rota\'s, oil pump collapsed , and castings have bad heat marks , .......pics to follow soon , will give an update soon.....
someone posted a little youtube clip of this rally within the past few days and am pretty sure this car is shown on it... along with alot of other automotive awesomensess...... i just cannot find it!! ;)
it wasn\'t this one but sounds n looks like a rotary at 45 secs to me ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uj0SlG3ejg
Quote from: fil_auto;746326it wasn\'t this one but sounds n looks like a rotary at 45 secs to me ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uj0SlG3ejg
Yeah that\'s a REX for sure but doesn\'t look anything like "B20 GPB" from Silverstone Autosports.
Quote from: Silverstone Autosport;746317Hey people ,
In shakedown on fri , hennings words were , " tomorrow we go flat out "
however
Bad times , the car covered 4.2 miles in the first stage on fri night and stopped running.............
The supplied GPS units , gave the car a major electrical fault , switching the msd units on and off , all the gauges went off and the car came to a stop ..
The gps suppliers are looking into the fault , and have said that the magnetic field caused the gps unit interfear with the cars electrics , causing it to stop running ..
So the car is back in the uk , engine is now stripped and its not , good , rota bearing fallen apart , destroyed housing , apex seals all chipped ,side seals welded to rota\'s, oil pump collapsed , and castings have bad heat marks , .......pics to follow soon , will give an update soon.....
A real shame guys, we feel for you too.The car looked really awesome when I saw her and deserved to have been up there with the leaders - if not at the top of the score card.Better luck next time - oh and suggest that you take your own GPS next year.