A Porsche thread

Beautiful pictures and interesting information about a racing championship Laurence, I suppose that the series were abandoned because of the increasing popularity of the Rally Championship, although the cars have nothing in common other that the bumpy roads and high altitude venues. Thanks for sharing !😀

Daniel

The Mountain Championship was abandoned for several reasons. There were safety considerations and, of course, commercial concerns. The series failed to attract lucrative sponsors, as more and more people turned towards F1 and the great God, television.

Safety concerns centred around getting rescue teams and medics to crashed cars high in the mountains quickly enough, which was all a little confusing, especially as Mountain climbing had a remarkably good safety record.

All a bit of a pity that it came to such an abrupt end.

How was your day at the seaside Laurence? Hope you had good weather with fish and chips.

Just ghastly, Matthew. Truly 'orrible. Just one high point. Witnessed big fat bloke driving his new Ferrari around in circles in search of a parking space. Saw him waddling along a beach later... What a sight. The sort of people who own Ferraris these days, eh!

Baseball cap wrong way round, just covering huge outbreak of headlice. The severe haircut gave me a clue. Big headlice prob. Anyhow, now glad to be home after getting lost, which I enjoyed. Eventually spotted a road sign that read: " Mess 31 miles."

Home for tea. Sandwich, Christmas cake, Earl Grey and three glasses of good. Life can be trying but there are compensations occasionally.

Sadly Ferrari sell their cars to anyone who can afford one rather then just those who can appreciate the car for its design, heritage, technology and performance. They aren't a cure for headlice or obesity.

Mmm that Lotus needs to be finished Laurence, and pictured with “the Camel” 🐪 and Michelle🐫😉

Ps. By the way, the famous Dakar is being raced as we write, a nice rally/raid to be watched as an appetizer before F1 starts😀

I agree, Daniel. All on my list of things to be done. Regrettably, coverage of the Dakar here is scant nowadays. Probably always has been. I'd guess that to receive moving pictures on Mrs Grumpy's electric television, I'd have to donate money to Rupert Murdoch, which is not an option. He's got quite enough as it is.

GDSLOT said:

Ps. By the way, the famous Dakar is being raced as we write, a nice rally/raid to be watched as an appetizer before F1 starts😀

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Have they decided who is going to be given the F1 championship in 2022 yet?

42redcat said:

Have they decided who is going to be given the F1 championship in 2022 yet?

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We are waiting for Toto to recover from the “Nooo Mikey, this is not good” thing😂😂

Red was the chosen colour for the 1970 Targa test cars of course.

Another red herring?