*tons-O-pics* from Silversone, Honda garage, and factory
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*tons-O-pics* from Silversone, Honda garage, and factory
alrighty, here are a sampling of the pics from my trip to Silverstone last weekend as well as the Honda Racing F1 factory on Monday.
One thing I really liked about Silverstone was that because of the high speed sections and corners you could really see the cars pitch and lean during trasitions. You could also see the slightly different lines between the drivers because of the wide track. Its a great place to watch a race and I highly reccomend it. I was really surprised by how clean the spectators left it. Easily the cleanest post race scene I've witnessed.
Make sure you let all the pics load. theres some great ones at the end...
Enjoy. This post took a few hours to put together.
Saturday Morning practice:
super Aguri through Maggots
toro rosso leaving Becketts,entering Chapel
McLaren exiting chapel
Ferrari down Hanger straight
looking towards Stowe
this is just killer! At silvertone, rather than have corner approach markers that say 300m, 200m, 100m, 50m, etc, they just have a sign ~150m before entry that shows what the corner looks like!!! ha ha! So I got pics of most of the cars passing by the sign
Williams F1
BMW-Sauber
Red Bull Racing
Ol' Jenson in the Honda
Fernando in the Renault
Schumi not cheating in the Ferrari
Juan Pablo in the McLaren
Ruebens in the other Honda
a McLaren Heading for Stowe
You are here
a BMW-Sauber close to apexing @ Stowe
Jenson exiting Stowe
A look at Club. You can see one of the old runways
Porsche Cup cars making there way through Club
Abbey and Farm:
Once again, there's a sign to show what the corner looks like, but no meter markings. lol!
Porsche Cup car apexing at Abbey
apexing Farm
Heaing under the bridge towards Bridge
Wanna show your HONDA love? Get yer goodies here!
Porsche Cup paddock
a GP2 car
Saturday Qualifying
McLaren leaving Farm apex
Ferrari apexing Farm
Reubens heading down the hill towards Bridge
Massa heading towards Bridge
Kimi leaving Abbey apex
Ruebens leaving Abbey apex
Ralf apexing Farm
Renault @ Abbey
Ferrari, McLaren, BMW-Sauber, Renault, Honda, and the other McLaren apexing Farm
World Cup Soccer was bigger than F1 last weekend. The peeps are watching the England V Paraguay game that started right after quali
this about the only pic I have of Copse to put up, with a GP2 car going flat out round it
Sunday/Raceday
pre-race RAF air show. cool stuff.
Race photos are from the Becketts grandstand with a veiw of the cars approaching through Maggots, flying through Becketts, and exiting through Chapel...
First lap craziness:
doh, Red Bull off on the left of pic. Right in there about to happen in the action is contact between a Toyota and Toro Rosso
Ruebens chasing Jaun Pablo
Lap 2, being led by the safety car
ooh ooh, hurry before they come back round!
Restart! digital zoom is teh sUxOrZ
Reubens now ahead of JPM... too bad that wouldn't last =\
Jensy-poo at the back of pack starting to gain places... to bad that didn't last either =\
a veiw of Chapel on the left of the pic and the 2nd portion of Becketts making up the right
Alonso, final lap
Autograph seekers:
Ron Dennis from McLaren
Jarno Trulli
Reubens Barrichello
Michael Schumacher is in that crowd somewhere...
Fernando is in there somewhere...
Honda garage:
Reubens’ car:
Running Jenson's engine. No it did not blow up. It was an oil leak that took him out of the race. Yes, my ears hurt while taking this photo.
The Japanese engineers checking out the data from the Jenson engine run
One reason for the engine run is to warm up the engine oil for draining. Here also, you can see a little of what the car looks like with the engine covers off.
all sealed up with the FIA's blessing
a pair of scooters for Ruebens and Jenson to ride around the track and paddock on during race weekends. Here they're on little trolleys so they can be slid into the truck.
Some more paddock pics:
Renualt trucks, and McLaren and Ferrari's hospitality centres
Honda and Red Bull's hospitality centres side by side.
Red Bull really know how to throw a party. They use this additional hospitality centre in addition to the one seen in the other pic. It does make good use of availble space. I'll be curious to see if they pack it for Indy. you can see Toro Rosso's in the background.
side of BMW-Sauber transport truck
ahhhh, the sweet smell of race fuel. Elf supplies the GP2 teams with the race fuel for their Renault engines.
My race ticket and padock pass
front of paddock pass
back of pass
The Red Bulliten is a paddock only fun and gossip paper printed about 4-5 times a weekend right there in the paddock by Red Bull. Here are the covers of 2 issues I was able to pick up.
some interesting things from them:
too bad, eh, Jenson. Looks like the new helmet paint scheme didn't bring too much luck...
pokin fun at Ron Dennis of McLaren
Monday at the team factory in Brackley...
Photography isn't allowed inside if the "shop" so here is what I can show you from the visit
through the door to the reception desk where you pick up your visitor's pass...
off to the side I spied 2 NSX's. I was later told they belong to Nick Fry and Geoff Willis. Figures. We already know Jenson drives a blue one...
my visitor's pass
In the reception lobby was Honda's first car to win a Gran Prix back in 64 or 65 in Mexico. Its a beautiful sight and was fun to explore. This is where Championship White all started...
the brownish-bronze piece close to the steering wheel has a **** on it for adjusting F/R brake balance
shifter down to the right, using an H-pattern which can be seen on the white placard above it on the control panel. brake bias **** at the 2 o'clock position relative to the steereing wheel...
beautiful, exposed CV joints
up a little closer
A little old/new contrast & compare:
Some images of an old titanium wheel nut I was given. On the back of each wheel mounting area are 4 half-sphere convex nubs that drop into and locate it against the hub which has concaved half-sphere holes similar to this. Then the wheel nut goes on. This one has been clearly marked with "PIT STOP PRACTICE ONLY" so that it doesn't make its way on to a race or test car.
and that pretty much does it...
teh end =P
Modified by pythonScott at 4:32 PM 6/16/2006
One thing I really liked about Silverstone was that because of the high speed sections and corners you could really see the cars pitch and lean during trasitions. You could also see the slightly different lines between the drivers because of the wide track. Its a great place to watch a race and I highly reccomend it. I was really surprised by how clean the spectators left it. Easily the cleanest post race scene I've witnessed.
Make sure you let all the pics load. theres some great ones at the end...
Enjoy. This post took a few hours to put together.
Saturday Morning practice:
super Aguri through Maggots
toro rosso leaving Becketts,entering Chapel
McLaren exiting chapel
Ferrari down Hanger straight
looking towards Stowe
this is just killer! At silvertone, rather than have corner approach markers that say 300m, 200m, 100m, 50m, etc, they just have a sign ~150m before entry that shows what the corner looks like!!! ha ha! So I got pics of most of the cars passing by the sign
Williams F1
BMW-Sauber
Red Bull Racing
Ol' Jenson in the Honda
Fernando in the Renault
Schumi not cheating in the Ferrari
Juan Pablo in the McLaren
Ruebens in the other Honda
a McLaren Heading for Stowe
You are here
a BMW-Sauber close to apexing @ Stowe
Jenson exiting Stowe
A look at Club. You can see one of the old runways
Porsche Cup cars making there way through Club
Abbey and Farm:
Once again, there's a sign to show what the corner looks like, but no meter markings. lol!
Porsche Cup car apexing at Abbey
apexing Farm
Heaing under the bridge towards Bridge
Wanna show your HONDA love? Get yer goodies here!
Porsche Cup paddock
a GP2 car
Saturday Qualifying
McLaren leaving Farm apex
Ferrari apexing Farm
Reubens heading down the hill towards Bridge
Massa heading towards Bridge
Kimi leaving Abbey apex
Ruebens leaving Abbey apex
Ralf apexing Farm
Renault @ Abbey
Ferrari, McLaren, BMW-Sauber, Renault, Honda, and the other McLaren apexing Farm
World Cup Soccer was bigger than F1 last weekend. The peeps are watching the England V Paraguay game that started right after quali
this about the only pic I have of Copse to put up, with a GP2 car going flat out round it
Sunday/Raceday
pre-race RAF air show. cool stuff.
Race photos are from the Becketts grandstand with a veiw of the cars approaching through Maggots, flying through Becketts, and exiting through Chapel...
First lap craziness:
doh, Red Bull off on the left of pic. Right in there about to happen in the action is contact between a Toyota and Toro Rosso
Ruebens chasing Jaun Pablo
Lap 2, being led by the safety car
ooh ooh, hurry before they come back round!
Restart! digital zoom is teh sUxOrZ
Reubens now ahead of JPM... too bad that wouldn't last =\
Jensy-poo at the back of pack starting to gain places... to bad that didn't last either =\
a veiw of Chapel on the left of the pic and the 2nd portion of Becketts making up the right
Alonso, final lap
Autograph seekers:
Ron Dennis from McLaren
Jarno Trulli
Reubens Barrichello
Michael Schumacher is in that crowd somewhere...
Fernando is in there somewhere...
Honda garage:
Reubens’ car:
Running Jenson's engine. No it did not blow up. It was an oil leak that took him out of the race. Yes, my ears hurt while taking this photo.
The Japanese engineers checking out the data from the Jenson engine run
One reason for the engine run is to warm up the engine oil for draining. Here also, you can see a little of what the car looks like with the engine covers off.
all sealed up with the FIA's blessing
a pair of scooters for Ruebens and Jenson to ride around the track and paddock on during race weekends. Here they're on little trolleys so they can be slid into the truck.
Some more paddock pics:
Renualt trucks, and McLaren and Ferrari's hospitality centres
Honda and Red Bull's hospitality centres side by side.
Red Bull really know how to throw a party. They use this additional hospitality centre in addition to the one seen in the other pic. It does make good use of availble space. I'll be curious to see if they pack it for Indy. you can see Toro Rosso's in the background.
side of BMW-Sauber transport truck
ahhhh, the sweet smell of race fuel. Elf supplies the GP2 teams with the race fuel for their Renault engines.
My race ticket and padock pass
front of paddock pass
back of pass
The Red Bulliten is a paddock only fun and gossip paper printed about 4-5 times a weekend right there in the paddock by Red Bull. Here are the covers of 2 issues I was able to pick up.
some interesting things from them:
too bad, eh, Jenson. Looks like the new helmet paint scheme didn't bring too much luck...
pokin fun at Ron Dennis of McLaren
Monday at the team factory in Brackley...
Photography isn't allowed inside if the "shop" so here is what I can show you from the visit
through the door to the reception desk where you pick up your visitor's pass...
off to the side I spied 2 NSX's. I was later told they belong to Nick Fry and Geoff Willis. Figures. We already know Jenson drives a blue one...
my visitor's pass
In the reception lobby was Honda's first car to win a Gran Prix back in 64 or 65 in Mexico. Its a beautiful sight and was fun to explore. This is where Championship White all started...
the brownish-bronze piece close to the steering wheel has a **** on it for adjusting F/R brake balance
shifter down to the right, using an H-pattern which can be seen on the white placard above it on the control panel. brake bias **** at the 2 o'clock position relative to the steereing wheel...
beautiful, exposed CV joints
up a little closer
A little old/new contrast & compare:
Some images of an old titanium wheel nut I was given. On the back of each wheel mounting area are 4 half-sphere convex nubs that drop into and locate it against the hub which has concaved half-sphere holes similar to this. Then the wheel nut goes on. This one has been clearly marked with "PIT STOP PRACTICE ONLY" so that it doesn't make its way on to a race or test car.
and that pretty much does it...
teh end =P
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i wish i could attend the usgp at indianapolis. my graduation is coming up. who knows what my parents will give me for my graduation. a trip to see the usgp is at the top of my list.
marlon, who hopes his brother is reading this so that he can tell the 'rents.
marlon, who hopes his brother is reading this so that he can tell the 'rents.
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Re: *tons-O-pics* from Silversone, Honda garage, and factory (vinuneuro)
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by vinuneuro »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">WOW! Absolutely fantastic. Thanks for taking the time to post these 
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How did you manage access to the F1 factory?</TD></TR></TABLE>
hey no prob! I'm fortunate enough to go to these and see the stuff so I like to share when I do.
Last year, after the German GP I met a key person on the race team and have kept in touch with him ever since. This is now the 5th race I've been able to get back in the garage and help after the race for the pack out.
Marlon: get your parents to go! I'm taking mine to the US GP. Although its not hard to get my parents to go to a race... they took me to the 82 Long Beach GP when I was a little tyke, and then we lived in Indianapolis for 3 years in the 80's so I got to go to the Speedway all the time in May and watch the indy cars. But anyway, get em to go once and they'll be addicted to the sound and sight of the cars! 
. How did you manage access to the F1 factory?</TD></TR></TABLE>
hey no prob! I'm fortunate enough to go to these and see the stuff so I like to share when I do.
Last year, after the German GP I met a key person on the race team and have kept in touch with him ever since. This is now the 5th race I've been able to get back in the garage and help after the race for the pack out.
Marlon: get your parents to go!
I'm taking mine to the US GP. Although its not hard to get my parents to go to a race... they took me to the 82 Long Beach GP when I was a little tyke, and then we lived in Indianapolis for 3 years in the 80's so I got to go to the Speedway all the time in May and watch the indy cars. But anyway, get em to go once and they'll be addicted to the sound and sight of the cars!
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Re: *tons-O-pics* from Silversone, Honda garage, and factory (pythonScott)
Thank you very much for the thorough post. That is probably as close to Silverstone as I will ever get, as these images surpass that of my gaming console. I do love the fact that it has the same signs and sans brake markers. It took a while, but I did some virtual practice runs there and most times count out a certain amount of blue/white barriers to use as brake markers. I think there might even be tick/hash marks on the asphalt, but no numbering. I haven't played in so long. I'm curious if the drivers just use objects, or if they just know.
The virtual tour was inspiring. Thanks again for sharing.
The virtual tour was inspiring. Thanks again for sharing.
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Re: *tons-O-pics* from Silversone, Honda garage, and factory (Mr Hammond)
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Mr Hammond »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Thank you very much for the thorough post. That is probably as close to Silverstone as I will ever get, as these images surpass that of my gaming console. I do love the fact that it has the same signs and sans brake markers. It took a while, but I did some virtual practice runs there and most times count out a certain amount of blue/white barriers to use as brake markers. I think there might even be tick/hash marks on the asphalt, but no numbering. I haven't played in so long. I'm curious if the drivers just use objects, or if they just know.
The virtual tour was inspiring. Thanks again for sharing.</TD></TR></TABLE>
hey, thanks for the compliments! I try to get to a track on Friday during practice if I can, or Saturday if it has to be the case, and do a walk around the track during the practices and support races so I can get a feel for what corners I like best as well as see the famous a legendary corners a track may have. My favorite track that I've walked around was Spa, last year. Wow. Greatness.
I imagine the drivers have to use some kind of visual marker or aid, which is why I was surprise and kind of amused by the signs, since I had no idea that they used "picture signs. There's not a whole lot out there for visual braking clues for corners like Stowe, Club, and Abbey so I'd be curious to know what kind of things they do find to use out there.
The virtual tour was inspiring. Thanks again for sharing.</TD></TR></TABLE>
hey, thanks for the compliments! I try to get to a track on Friday during practice if I can, or Saturday if it has to be the case, and do a walk around the track during the practices and support races so I can get a feel for what corners I like best as well as see the famous a legendary corners a track may have. My favorite track that I've walked around was Spa, last year. Wow. Greatness.
I imagine the drivers have to use some kind of visual marker or aid, which is why I was surprise and kind of amused by the signs, since I had no idea that they used "picture signs. There's not a whole lot out there for visual braking clues for corners like Stowe, Club, and Abbey so I'd be curious to know what kind of things they do find to use out there.
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