**Lucky? Well just a bit**

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**Trucker wins F1 Car?**

  • Great, only wish it had been me..

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Guess what happened to one of :jaguar:'s Eddie Irvines cars :car:? Did it get auctioned :2cents:? No.. Put in a Museum? No..

What would you think if it got given to a trucker? đź’ˇ

HE WON AN F1 CAR

Lucky chap wins Eddie Irvine's 2002 F1 Car

A 32-year old lorry driver has won Eddie IrvineÂ’s 2002 Jaguar F1 car.

A total of 16 finalists battled their way through a series of written and driving simulation tests in the quest for the ultimate Formula One prize. In association with Sky’s F1 digital+ and Jaguar Racing, the competition began at the season’s opening race in Australia and from 16 of the 17 rounds of the F1 season, one lucky finalist was chosen from an on-air competition to compete in the final. Triple world champion and non-executive director of Jaguar Racing, Sir Jackie Stewart, handed over the unique prize – the first of its kind ever in Formula One.

Adrian said, "ItÂ’s absolutely brilliant, I cannot believe it. I was shaking, and it took ages to register that it was mine. I am both an Eddie Irvine and Jaguar fan and to have won his car from this season is beyond my wildest dreams. I am used to delivering car parts by trade and to now take delivery of this, is something special. My work colleagues have been testing me all week and my friends and neighbours are going to love it."

All monies raised from Sky F1 digital+ phone lines will be donated to the Queens Golden Jubilee Charities and Jaguar CarÂ’s official charity, the NSPCC.
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Did anyone else in the :uk: know about this competition? Do any other countries :earth: get any competitons like this from motorsport :chkflag:?
 

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I would love, just once, to run the entire length of the Edinburgh City Bypass in an F1 car. That would be fab! Or on the central shopping street, Princes St, which is only open Eastbound to buses during daytime. Imagine it: 1 mile of straight, flat road, with hoardes of shoppers. To drive along there flat out! Would be fab!

Alain Prost did a similar thing when he drove a 1993 Williams along the Champs Elysees after winning the World Championship for the fourth time.
 
Wow, what a prize! :eek: I've never heard of any such contest before, unfortunately (and definitely not here in the 'States...). :shakehead
 
ITV gave away a rolling chassis at the start of the season*, but as far as I understand, the Jaguar comes with Cosworth installed! :eek:

(*) Not to me, unfortunately. :(
 
I did not know about this one ethier :confused: but what a prize to get jammie git him i wonder what he will do with it

If it was me i would be taking it for a test drive :D
 
Imagine the costs of spares, fuel, tires, getting a crew to prepare the darn thing. Anybody have a clue how to operate the various computers that run the engine? I think all you could logically do is sell it to a museum/large tax write-off/donation.

Of course, I'm not always a logical person. :burnout:
 
Gee, I've got a spare space in the living area of the new house that an F1 car would fit beautifully into.

Sadly, I think my partner would represent an insurmountable hurdle to putting it there.

Hey - you could mount your TV over the front of the cockpit and set up your GT Force wheel in the cockpit, and have the ultimate simulator!
 
Originally posted by vat_man
Gee, I've got a spare space in the living area of the new house that an F1 car would fit beautifully into.

Sadly, I think my partner would represent an insurmountable hurdle to putting it there.

Hey - you could mount your TV over the front of the cockpit and set up your GT Force wheel in the cockpit, and have the ultimate simulator!
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Or you could go to Laguna Seca, Tokyo, Seattle etcetc.... and race in an F002 would that be right? or would F202 be right? Screamin around the streets, that'd kick ass.
 
Well , you've got to get the little man from Cosworth over to fire up the engine, and that would cost a packet, and god help you if you crash it!

You'd have to drive it at least once, though, wouldn't you?
 
Originally posted by vat_man
Well , you've got to get the little man from Cosworth over to fire up the engine, and that would cost a packet, and god help you if you crash it!

You'd have to drive it at least once, though, wouldn't you?
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It costs something in the region of ÂŁ180,000 to get an F1 car out of the garage under its own steam.

I would hope that the prize at least comes with a half-day testing at Silverstone or somewhere.

You would have to drive it though. Even if you put it under a dust sheet in the garage from then on, you'd still have to drive it. I don't think you'd ever forget.

One wonders about his "home contents" insurance!
 
I'd be taking out loans to rent time on the big tracks.

Or ... ha ha ha ... put license plates on it and drive it around town. I'm sure you could bolt a starter on there somewhere, and put a keyed ignition in it.

Problem is ... where do you put the groceries?

~LoudMusic
 
Originally posted by LoudMusic
I'd be taking out loans to rent time on the big tracks.

Or ... ha ha ha ... put license plates on it and drive it around town. I'm sure you could bolt a starter on there somewhere, and put a keyed ignition in it.

Problem is ... where do you put the groceries?

~LoudMusic
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You put your groceries in your shirt and pants. :lol:

I doubt that they'd let you put it on the streets although it would be nice showing it off.
 
Out here in Arizona there are huge spaces with a whole lot of nothing in every direction, except road. I'd love to take that thing north on the Bee-Line Highway, through the mountains and up into the Alpine woods... nice, new, smooth roads with almost no traffic at the right times.

There's also a thing here called the Copperstate 1000. People who have them take their vintage and high performance (incl. racing) cars out on the public highways with police approval and supervision. You can go as fast or slow as you wish.
 
Originally posted by duo17


You put your groceries in your shirt and pants. :lol:

I doubt that they'd let you put it on the streets although it would be nice showing it off.
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Well, I think that in Edinburgh, there would be ride-height issues if nothing else.
 
It would cost a bomb to turn a couple of laps in that car ...the $100.000 odds to get the thing going and the rental of the race track to use and all the other cost's on top of that

And i seriously doubt that a truckers salary would pay for it he would have to work for 50 years to get a shot ...

I know what i would do forget those racing wheels etc etc etc park to car in your lounge and hook it up to the computer for the ultimate driving simulator:D
 
Originally posted by pedrodaman
It would cost a bomb to turn a couple of laps in that car ...the $100.000 odds to get the thing going and the rental of the race track to use and all the other cost's on top of that

And i seriously doubt that a truckers salary would pay for it he would have to work for 50 years to get a shot ...

I know what i would do forget those racing wheels etc etc etc park to car in your lounge and hook it up to the computer for the ultimate driving simulator:D
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What, pedro, don't you fancy taking it to a 'hot hatch' day at Knockhill?!!! :lol:
 
Originally posted by GilesGuthrie


What, pedro, don't you fancy taking it to a 'hot hatch' day at Knockhill?!!! :lol:
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:lol: good one :lol:

If it was my car i would show the boy racers near where i live a thing or two out at strathclyde park

I will show all their crappy XR2's and the rest of their dung boxes what speed was

I want this car X1000 :lol:
 
Originally posted by pedrodaman
Cool ;) Im half english myself

I want that car X100.000 :D
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Definitely. I would just be so excited! I think I'd sit with it and stroke it for ages. Then I'd want to take bits of it off and have a look inside.

And people say F1 is dull!

And I've seen sheets of aluminium described as "art"...
 
Originally posted by GilesGuthrie


Definitely. I would just be so excited! I think I'd sit with it and stroke it for ages. Then I'd want to take bits of it off and have a look inside.

And people say F1 is dull!

And I've seen sheets of aluminium described as "art"...
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After you have taken bits off do you think you could put it back together:lol:

Im pretty much the same when i was young i had to take things apart to see how they worked VCR's you name it ...
It was comming apart but when it came to putting the thing back together i allways had bits of it left and did'nt have a clue what they where for:lol:

Now im not so bad i think all that tinkering when i was younger has given me some good skills i can pretty much fix anything now:D

I have seen some strange art aswell one of them being old oil drums cut into weird shapes and stuck together to make dunno what the hell it was supposed to be but it was ART
If i made something like that with oil drums it would be called an eye sore:lol:
 
Well I'm a bit more scientific in my disassembly now. I tend not to use a hammer quite so much, which I have found helps!

I don't think I'd completely take it apart, but I'd have to take the engine cover off, and things like that.
 
I know what an F1 piston looks like my friend keeps it for an ashtray criminal using art for an ashtray.

It was from a Mclaren Honda dunno the exact date.

But it was recovered after a engine blow out at Hokenheim many moons ago the guy that got it was almost knocked out by it. :lol:
 

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