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Tony Shelly driver profile!
Posted: 07 Apr 2013, 14:27
by eytl
Hi everyone,
The next driver profile has now been uploaded! It's the story of Tony Shelly, the Wellingtonian car dealer's son who spent one season in Europe in 1962 and became only the second New Zealand driver to start a World Championship Grand Prix. Whilst all the other Kiwi drivers to have achieved that have some claim to fame, Shelly seems to be forgotten except in the record books, and that was something we simply had to correct.
http://www.f1rejects.com/drivers/shelly/index.htmlHope you enjoy the read!
Cheers,
Enoch
Re: Tony Shelly driver profile!
Posted: 07 Apr 2013, 17:18
by wsrgo
eytl wrote:Hi everyone,
The next driver profile has now been uploaded! It's the story of Tony Shelly, the Wellingtonian car dealer's son who spent one season in Europe in 1962 and became only the second New Zealand driver to start a World Championship Grand Prix. Whilst all the other Kiwi drivers to have achieved that have some claim to fame, Shelly seems to be forgotten except in the record books, and that was something we simply had to correct.
http://www.f1rejects.com/drivers/shelly/index.htmlHope you enjoy the read!
Cheers,
Enoch
Ben waiting for this for a long time, as I hadn't heard much of him. It has been worth the wait!! Thanks a lot!! Well done!!!
Re: Tony Shelly driver profile!
Posted: 07 Apr 2013, 20:23
by FantometteBR
Quite interesting. I wonder if he had a better overseas career, it would last longer
Re: Tony Shelly driver profile!
Posted: 07 Apr 2013, 20:58
by Jocke1
I find Mr. Shelly strikingly similar to Mark Webber. Or rather, vice versa. Any relation?
Re: Tony Shelly driver profile!
Posted: 07 Apr 2013, 21:02
by Gerudo Dragon
For a second I thought that said Tony Stewart...
Re: Tony Shelly driver profile!
Posted: 08 Apr 2013, 11:39
by TomWazzleshaw
Jocke1 wrote:
Looks more like Rob Brydon to me, to be honest.
Re: Tony Shelly driver profile!
Posted: 08 Apr 2013, 14:18
by mario
Good work guys - it's an interesting read and a nice insight into the racing scene in Australia and New Zealand at the time (which, as you say, attracted a pretty high profile international attendance at times).
Wizzie wrote:Jocke1 wrote:
Looks more like Rob Brydon to me, to be honest.
Now that you mention it, I can see the resemblance there (and it is actually more striking than I'd thought).
Re: Tony Shelly driver profile!
Posted: 08 Apr 2013, 17:18
by Onxy Wrecked
darkapprentice77 wrote:For a second I thought that said Tony Stewart...
Tony Stewart here would only be tied into an A.J. Foyt profile thanks to the amount of influence Foyt had on Stewart's career. Of course, Foyt having a profile might be one of the more controversial F1 Rejects as he won the 1961 Indianapolis 500, the year after it lost it's World Championship status.
Re: Tony Shelly driver profile!
Posted: 10 Apr 2013, 13:13
by Yannick
Thanks eytl for the Shelly profile. It's quite an interesting look into another era with all those non-championship F1 races in Britain.
Now might that be Alex Caffi in your new avatar picture?
Re: Tony Shelly driver profile!
Posted: 10 Apr 2013, 13:48
by tommykl
Yannick wrote:Now might that be Alex Caffi in your new avatar picture?
Actually, that's definitely Stefan Johansson. The front page announces an upcoming article on the complete dud that was the Footwork-Porsche
Re: Tony Shelly driver profile!
Posted: 15 Apr 2013, 23:29
by GMiranda
Wonderful profile!!!
Re: Tony Shelly driver profile!
Posted: 21 May 2013, 05:56
by leo76
Come on Baker, we don't need you scaring people off. We're not like that on here.
Re: Tony Shelly driver profile!
Posted: 21 May 2013, 08:25
by Londoner
leo76 wrote:Come on Baker, we don't need you scaring people off. We're not like that on here.
Yeah, you heard the spambot Baker, stop scaring people off.
What's even funnier is that I don't think the good Doctor has actually posted in this thread as of yet.
Re: Tony Shelly driver profile!
Posted: 21 May 2013, 17:36
by takagi_for_the_win
leo76 wrote:Come on Baker, we don't need you scaring people off. We're not like that on here.
You know you've got a reputation when even spambots are wary of you...
Seriously, why on earth do they target threads in this subforum only?
Re: Tony Shelly driver profile!
Posted: 21 May 2013, 18:16
by Nessafox
leo76 wrote:Come on Baker, we don't need you scaring people off. We're not like that on here.
Baker's law also applies to spambots.
Re: Tony Shelly driver profile!
Posted: 21 May 2013, 20:06
by Jocke1
leo76 wrote:Come on Baker, we don't need you scaring people off. We're not like that on here.
Re: Tony Shelly driver profile!
Posted: 25 May 2013, 12:30
by dr-baker
Wow. If only I were able to scare the spambots away, eh? Then the world may be a nicer place. Although there would then be fewer references to
this...
Re: Tony Shelly driver profile!
Posted: 12 Jun 2013, 20:14
by Yannick
Enoch, it's great you want to write a profile on Patrick Friesacher next, the erstwhile Minardi driver who came 6th (and last) in the infamous 2005 USGP. I have got a few sound clips from the Austrian broadcast of the race in which Niki Lauda and Heinz Prüller (the Austrian version of Murray Walker) desperately try to fill the time with jeering at the lack of on-track action and at each other. There is an especially notable scene when Friesacher's fuel nozzle does not get on during his pitstop in which Heinz, with his incredible knowledge of events from motorsport history, reminds Niki of the first time when he was in the lead of an F1 race, and he also went for a pit stop and the fuel nozzle didn't get on, thanks to which he lost the race lead. From that point on in the broadcast, Niki teased Heinz whenever he could. At one point, he even asks "Heinz, have you just yawned?" after such a noise had been heard live on the air.
Enoch, if you want me to send you the sound clips, feel free to send me a private message.
Re: Tony Shelly driver profile!
Posted: 13 Jun 2013, 06:31
by RonDenisDeletraz
Yannick wrote:Heinz Prüller (the Austrian version of Murray Walker)
I wish I could understand the language, Pruller der Bruller sounds like he was an epic commentator
Re: Tony Shelly driver profile!
Posted: 13 Oct 2017, 18:15
by 1993DonningtonNo1Mk2
This article would need rephrasing now.
Re: Tony Shelly driver profile!
Posted: 13 Oct 2017, 18:26
by pasta_maldonado
1993DonningtonNo1Mk2 wrote:This article would need rephrasing now.
1993DonningtonNo1Mk2 wrote:This article would need rephrasing now.
This post didn't need posting twice...
Re: Tony Shelly driver profile!
Posted: 13 Oct 2017, 19:24
by Bobby Doorknobs
pasta_maldonado wrote:1993DonningtonNo1Mk2 wrote:This article would need rephrasing now.
1993DonningtonNo1Mk2 wrote:This article would need rephrasing now.
This post didn't need posting twice...
...or even once, arguably.
1993DonningtonNo1Mk2, your enthusiasm for this forum is appreciated, but we'd also appreciate if you didn't revive old threads unless you have something that really needs to be said, or otherwise might be of particular interest to the community. I understand the delineation may be difficult to really make but, without trying to sound harsh, I'd ask you to put more thought into the value of what you post. This is an announcement thread for a driver profile that we don't even have the rights to republish. It's not exactly something that merits further contribution.
Re: Tony Shelly driver profile!
Posted: 13 Oct 2017, 21:52
by 1993DonningtonNo1Mk2
My apologies and I don't know how I managed to post the same thing twice.