With effect from 4th September, the new Admin/Mod team will consist of:

Admin
Hobbes
Mrs Hobbes
u4coffee
The STIG

Mods
everythingoes
timmadigan
wickedwitch

Forum Hosts
Stradlin21
pannywagon
styeffo
JuanPabloMontoya

Job descriptions and profiles will follow when we’ve done them!

Hi I'm wickedwitch; apparently I'm a Mod. :D

I've been a motorsport marshal for 15 years (the last 5 of which I've been a Chief Pit Marshal for a couple of clubs in the Midlands) and a Clerk of the Course for speed events for 3 years.<bow>

My Avatar is my transport to and from the circuits :D . (Puts the fear of God into race drivers roflmao . My job is to make sure that no-one upsets anyone else.

Hello people!

My name is stradlin21, my specialist motorsport area is American Racing

I was a member of the beeb and am a forum host on Pit Lane

Which is why I am forum host for the up coming Overseas Motosport section I believe

My favourite racing series is the Indy Racing League, a largely oval based series in America that now includes a race in Japan at Motegi and also three non-ovals, St Petersburg, Watkins Glen and Infineon Raceway (better known as Sears point)

The IRL is without doubt, the most competitive major championship in the world, as I write this, 5 drivers still have a realistic chance of taking the title with only two races left, could you imagine that situation ever happening in F1? I think not

For my favourite driver, its Vitor Meira, although Tomas Scheckter and Dan Wheldon are close behind


I am also a keen follower of the NASCAR Nextel cup and Busch series, My favourite NASCAR driver is 1997 IRL Champion, Tony Stewart

And not forgetting the brilliant V8 supercars series from the land of Aus, a series that puts the BTCC to shame in every way, my favourite V8 driver is Craig Lowndes, of the Triple 8 Betta Electrical Ford Team
As I write this, he is leading the championship!

Good motorsport is out there people! you've just got to find it!

I am an IRL anorak, name me a race since the leagues formation in 1996, and I will tell you the winner.

I have a massive collection of motorsport videos, at my last count, it was around the 500-600 figure! Geeky, yes I know

I have attended numerous races in my life, the highlight being the 2003 trip to Richmond, US to see the IRL and IPS, great stuff

I have been unlucky enough to go to two GP's, 98 and 99 at Silvestone

Other than that, all has been great!

Stradlin21

... from a distance, the sound of a deep V8 comes rumbling in. From the viewpoint of the spectator, a dark green Aston Martin appears as a speck on the horizon, starting a run down the vast runway of this deserted airbase. As the car approaches, so more detail shows itself, the wire mesh grill, the Xenon Headlamps, The alloy wheels just visible as a blur, and the driver comes into view. But this isn't the face you were expecting, an emotionless visage stares fixedly down at the road, the instruments reflected in the shiny Iridium visor. Clad in black nomex overalls, he shows nothing to give his true identity away. The car's so close now you can hear the stereo, catch a burst of prog rock, and then, with a howling roar from the exhausts, it's gone, and you wonder if it was just a dream... Kev?... KEV!??

... Wha? Who?? ahh, dreaming again! Hi everyone, for those who don't know me, I'm Kev - Increasingly known as the Stig around the UK's Race tracks. I'm a Marshal like Sheila, but I stay out on the bank, doing either Course (that's running to the incidents) or Flags. when they let me.

Been around BBC board, and lately The Pit Lane - where I earnt my Admin pips (Admins and Global mods are officers, Regular mods are just NCOs!) and together with U4 Coffee, practically ran the place for the last month.

Good to be here, and good to be part of HPL!

:D

Hi i'm Styeffo, i have frequented Hobbes, Pitlane ,the BBC board and Centre Court (tennis forum).

I have little motorsport knowledge to be honest, however i was a fan of F1 during the Senna,Prost,Piquet Manesll era.

My favourite driver is Nigel Mansell, purely because you knew that he gave 100% whilst racing...

<think> Racing in F1 whatever happened to it?

I part own an ironmongers store in Cardiff and this is our blog:

http://cobwoods.blogspot.com/

I am also the Batracer Forum Host.

Nice to meet y'all!

Hi everyone

I'm Mrs Hobbes; affectionately know as Mrs H. The members of HR already know me as the better half of their admin team roflmao however for the benefit of members joining the new HPL forum from Pit Lane that don't know me here is my introduction.

My passion for all things fast started with bikes. From the age of 6 my dad would take me to watch Speedway every Thursday and I loved it. The smell of burning rubber on dirt is one that stays with me to this day.

I got my first drive at the age of 8 when holidaying in Spain. Looking older than my young years I was allowed to go on the Karting track; equipped with the essential information of that ones makes it go faster and …I was gone. Overtaking boys several years older than me, at first my parents found this hilarious, their baby girl overtaking teenagers and racing hell for leather around the track. However the joke started to wear a bit thin when it began to dawn that perhaps I didn’t know how to stop! One stressed Spanish Karting Guy and my parents waving frantically still didn’t get the message across. Nothing else for it, my dad jumped into the path of my oncoming vehicle…shouting out how to stop, I found the pedal and crashed into the tyre wall. My racing career ended with that crash.

I started to develop a vague interest in F1 as a child, watching Mansell race with my dad. However in those early days I didn't fully understand it and was more interested in horses. After Nigel Mansell won the championship in 1992 I began working for a family of F1 enthusiasts as their weekend nanny for their daughter. Watching every F1 race with them and possibly because I was older, being 17 I began to develop an understanding of strategy and a deeper knowledge of F1. I was hooked. When Damon Hill started F1 in 1993 I had my own champion to follow. I watched every race, every highlight show I couldn’t get enough and when he won the championship in 1996 I too had a lump in my throat

After Damon Hill left F1 my interest began to wain and my passion for bikes resurfaced. I got my full bike license in 1998 and with that came a passion for Bike Rallies and British Super Bikes.

Becoming a mummy in 2002 meant that I had to hang up my helmet again and marrying Hobbes inevitably meant that my interest in F1 has picked up again. I don’t know as much as I used too and F1 isn’t the same as it was in those golden days, but I still love a good race

I’m Hobbes,

I’m the pedantic sarcastic one. Also known as Hoobes, Hobbo, obbes, Hhobbes & Hbbes. Who said the internet is spoiling education? <think>

I can normally be found hanging around the Bored Bored Bored thread, playing my martyr role of being picked on, teased and generally abused at the hands of other members. It’s a role that breaks my heart and gives me much inner turmoil and heartache but at least I’m sparing someone else the pain. Did I mention that I was the sarcastic one.

I’m the one who loves making signatures for people, I love graphic design and wish it was my carreer but that’s another story. You’ll get used to telling me to bugger off you don’t want one……

I’m also the member who will insult you accidentally, get your gender muddled up, presume you are a real couple with another member because you once called them ‘love’, and generally be in a state of bewilderment.

I also ‘fix’ all the competitions so I win, there’s no point in entering anything on this site, I win them all.

I’m also the member who makes long irrelevant rants about things, tends to ramble, posts long unstructured posts and seldom has a conclusion….. <think>