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Offline Tintop

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A sad day, the passing of Sir Frank Williams
« on: November 29, 2021, 07:36:29 AM »
Fitting tribute from F1 -
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Offline newday777

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Re: A sad day, the passing of Sir Frank Williams
« Reply #1 on: November 29, 2021, 01:02:52 PM »
He lived to have no regrets......
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1975 K5 Planet Blue my summer ride, it was a friend's bike I worked with at the Honda shop in 76, lots of fun to be on it again
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Offline Old Scrambler

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Re: A sad day, the passing of Sir Frank Williams
« Reply #2 on: November 29, 2021, 02:06:03 PM »
5 Years my senior..............Respect the Wheelchair Warrior :(
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Offline Stev-o

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Re: A sad day, the passing of Sir Frank Williams
« Reply #3 on: November 29, 2021, 03:00:27 PM »
I had not heard.

RIP Sir Frank....
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Offline johno

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Re: A sad day, the passing of Sir Frank Williams
« Reply #4 on: November 30, 2021, 10:47:45 PM »
Yes he was more than a legend.
When I was in a formula 1 team, English based Theodore racing , owned by Teddy Yip, a Hong Kong business man Frank Williams was managing a formula 3 team then. As expected off season lots of formula 3 drivers tried to get a test drive seat in a formula 1 team. Keke Rosberg ( then form3) approached our team for a test drive, done a few laps, then in a post test discussion Keke told us that Frank said we were a Bunch of tossers and not to waste his time and then said Frank was right because the car handled like a piece of #$%*.  Car was a Canadian Wolf with the standard Cosworth V8 in and as history shows, Frank was right  ::)
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