Hello... I see you made a couple of very useful additions to hillclimbing articles (though I'm not sure why you marked the Gurston one as "minor", which it wasn't). I don't know if you're still around on Wikipedia, but if so: do you know what the current status is with regards to Graeme Wight Jr and his GWR Predator? He seems to have dropped off the map completely in 2006. Loganberry ( Talk) 14:52, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
-- b1ackcr0w 13:37, 25 July 2006 (UTC)Hi,
Thanks for that :)
The Predator is somewhat in limbo at the moment. Over the Winter of 2005/6, there were lots of snippets of information surrounding Graeme and the car. Most of them suggested that the Engine had suffered a serious problem on the Dyno after a rebuild. There also appears to have been a deterioration in the relationship between him and Pride Engines. The facts of the matter are difficult to distil from the rumour borne of personal motivations, and therefore not a good subject for entering on the Wiki.
The last I heard, The Engine had been taken to Judd Engineering for remedial work. As a purely personal point of view, I feel that it's becoming evident that the F1 V10 may have been a mistake. It's design was so specific to it's original purpose, that there were was no latitude for engineering it for a different application. I really, really hope I'm talking nonesense here, because not only was it one of the most wonderful noises ever heard, Graeme is also a friend and a competitor I respect hugely.
BC
Thanks for the update regarding the V6 etc! I'll tweak the article slightly as it's just tilting a bit too much towards journalism rather than encyclopedia now, but the basic information is very valuable and will certainly be retained. Loganberry ( Talk) 00:24, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
Hello... I see you made a couple of very useful additions to hillclimbing articles (though I'm not sure why you marked the Gurston one as "minor", which it wasn't). I don't know if you're still around on Wikipedia, but if so: do you know what the current status is with regards to Graeme Wight Jr and his GWR Predator? He seems to have dropped off the map completely in 2006. Loganberry ( Talk) 14:52, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
-- b1ackcr0w 13:37, 25 July 2006 (UTC)Hi,
Thanks for that :)
The Predator is somewhat in limbo at the moment. Over the Winter of 2005/6, there were lots of snippets of information surrounding Graeme and the car. Most of them suggested that the Engine had suffered a serious problem on the Dyno after a rebuild. There also appears to have been a deterioration in the relationship between him and Pride Engines. The facts of the matter are difficult to distil from the rumour borne of personal motivations, and therefore not a good subject for entering on the Wiki.
The last I heard, The Engine had been taken to Judd Engineering for remedial work. As a purely personal point of view, I feel that it's becoming evident that the F1 V10 may have been a mistake. It's design was so specific to it's original purpose, that there were was no latitude for engineering it for a different application. I really, really hope I'm talking nonesense here, because not only was it one of the most wonderful noises ever heard, Graeme is also a friend and a competitor I respect hugely.
BC
Thanks for the update regarding the V6 etc! I'll tweak the article slightly as it's just tilting a bit too much towards journalism rather than encyclopedia now, but the basic information is very valuable and will certainly be retained. Loganberry ( Talk) 00:24, 3 November 2006 (UTC)