I vaguely remember hearing that Bentley had a really bad crash in testing
last week that caused them to write off the car, so I'm not sure where they
stand.
James Nazarian
71 B tourer
71 BGT V8
85 Dodge Ram
----- Original Message -----
From: Barney Gaylord <barneymg@MGAguru.com>
To: Larry Hoy <list@marketvalue.net>; <mgs@autox.team.net>
Sent: 08 March, 2003 5:28 AM
Subject: RE: MG/Lola Pictures
> At 08:50 PM 3/7/03 -0700, Larry Hoy wrote:
> >Steve Knight, the one time owner and driver of the MG/Lola .... has
> >retired from racing .... The car was sold after the Steve's last season.
>
> No Kidding? !!! That's news to me. While digging up pictures for Patton,
> I just spent half the might browsing and brushing up on the history of MG
> Lola EX257 cars, and had accounted for chassis numbers 1 through 7 (and
> possibly 8).
>
> Knighthawk Racing #1
> Intersports Racing #2
> MG Racing #3 & #4
> Rand Racing #5 (and maybe #8)
> Dyson Racing #6 & #7
>
> So who bought the Knighthawk car?
>
> >I suspect that the image sent to the list is the new color scheme.
>
> The blue and white #20 is one of the Dyson cars.
> The black #11 is Kniighthawk at Sebring 2002.
>
> >....
> >For all those that live in the Denver area, Steve has indicated he would
> >like to come an talk to the MG Car Club about his racing experiences. The
> >date has not been chosen but ....
>
> Wow! I might consider a trip (road trip of course) from Chicago to Denver
> for that one. Lemmeno when.
>
> Has anyone seen an entry list for next week's Sebring race? I haven't
been
> able to find it yet. But there was a note that the Dyson team had the
very
> first entry with their two (new) MG Lola cars. I would expect Intersports
> to be there with chassis #2, but have no idea about Rand. Any chance the
> #1 chassis will show up with the new owner? There are also notes about
the
> Bently entry, and some testing going on at Sebring.
>
> Anyone going to Sebring?
>
> Barney Gaylord
> 1958 MGA with an attitude
> http://MGAguru.com
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