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The Team was in the hands of Giuseppe Giacomoni and he was from Rimini and raced motorcycles like Mario once did!

Mario Deliotti and Giancarlo Minardi and Gianpaolo Dallara all running their own Formula 1 Teams were closely connected like school friends and the rear suspension design of the Ensign later resembled the back end of the Minardi many years later??

Its a lot of Teams and they were all "Tryers" as well! Some with sound sponsors and huge budgets?? Someone messaged me to say that Mario Deliotti was a friend of the ace Island of Man TT Wiinner Giacomo Agostini and they had both raced motorcycles for the same team!! Below is a Table with some...

Bob Moshinski is a legend and is the manufacturer of Drag Bikes the ones that do a quarter of mile in under 6 seconds And use a parachute to slow them down!! He makes every part of the bike himself and the engines are only good for 1 run!! and they cost $38,000.00 a time!! Dave & Mario Ferrari...

Who are the privateers? Moshinski and Ferrari? Were they connected with Mario back in the day in anyway?

Thanks for the good article and most interesting facts about the Team and the Man himself! I knew that the Cosworth DFV engine had powered the Ensign but wasn't aware that the V12 engine was a Matra? Thought it was an Alfa Romeo V12 instead? The much shorter and lighter DFV allowed for a reduced...

It was George Hayes

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I came across this thread and thought i would share with all of you that a former session musician with the "Searchers" years 1962 to 1964 called Kevin Liversidge has sadly passed away at the age of 68. He was a drummer in the Band and died on the 3rd July 2020. He was a great friend and will be...

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Well i can remember the chap talking to me about it he was 28 at the time and he was recalling the event through the eyes of an 18 year old? He got the point across very well about having skimped on the cost of a new oil pump which resulted in scrapped engine with the loss of his investment as...

I was at the University at Aston Triangle as it was known back then at the bottom of corporation street near the Law Courts and this was in 87 and with my student friends we were always out most nights being so close to the centre of town and student nights were every night back then! LOL!! I...

I new a garage mechanic who told me a story about when he was an apprentice and he bought himself a Mini 850 and had the engine out and bored out and stroked with a lightened flywheel balanced with crankshaft and pulley and a gas flowed big valve head cut seats at 20 degrees etc.. well you know...

Now back then there was a lad called Robert Trott and he served his apprenticeship and got married and left the area to go and live in the Cotswolds a Beautiful Village called Bourton on the Water where he worked in a family business fixing cars. The Owner of the garage died and Robert went on...

Glad to be of help Have you taken a look at all of my posts?

Someone i know thinks the surname was Haynes or spelt Haines? There was a fella called Neil Priday!

When i was still at school i was with a friend and his Dad and we went into the city centre to a car exhibition and i saw Magnums Ferrari for the first time and i was about 13 at the time and the car had been fitted with a SUPER SNOOPER which was a device which was wired up and attached where...

One of the lads bought a beetle for £100 and he was a member of a band of five who were hoping to one day make it big like the stones whilst being poverished students in the interim and their was this place which became a venue called the Engine House at Alvechurch or near their which offered...

I was about 18 when i visited Smithfield Garage which was a VW - Audi main dealer and this was in 1986 and i was on a college visit with a lecturer called Barry Green who was the head of engineering at Bromsgrove Technical College and i was one of about twenty students visiting the premises...