2006 HGP Monterrey Mexico Page 2.

2006 HISTORIC GRAND PRIX with A1 Grand Prix Page 2.	Monterrey, Mexico Fundidora Parque February 24-26


We're ready
Thatcher & Robert see that Pete is good to go - Photos by Wayne LeBlanc	(click photos to enlarge)
Pete had a great race, showing that he will be in contention at our next race on a track he knows and a car he is coming to know better and better. He was already running with the experienced front runners this weekend.
- Photo by HGP
Pete Gulick, Thatcher Goddard and Robert Walker - our FW08 Team - Photos by Wayne LeBlanc
"My work here is done..."

Hamish with Lee & Junmei Zhao under the HGP banner - Photos by Wayne LeBlanc (click photos to enlarge) Racer Rick Carlino takes it all in....
Hamish and Paul Edwards (Racer Rick looks on)	Hamish & Thatcher size things up
	(click photos to enlarge)
- Photos by Wayne LeBlanc (click photos to enlarge)	- Photo by HGP
Hamish had got off to a great start and secured third spot at Rick Knoop's expense; but the first two on the grid, James King who conceded first place to Paul Edwards in the Wolf, just checked out. Hamish led the group, comprised of Rick Knoop, Michael Fitzgerald, Pete Gulick and Craig Bennett. Hamish pulled out a second or two buffer and was closing in on James at about a second a lap towards the end of the race. Did James have a problem? Craig Bennett in his Lotus 81 - Photo by HGP
Going into the penultimate lap, the order was the same – Paul Edwards in the Wolf, James King, and Hamish. Then coming round on completion of the lap, the first car on the front straight was James; then Hamish, albeit a little closer. And so they disappeared into turn one for the start of the final lap. Well, we thought, we would have second place and James would get a well-deserved win. Looking down the long, front straight from our position on the pit wall and and then looking at our stop watches, we were all thinking the same thing: boy, that's a long lap for James. Wait a second, here comes Hamish to take the win! Poor James's March gave up the ghost around the back of the circuit.
- Photo by HGP
Our "Flying Scotsman" had done it again, starting the new season as he had finished the last!
- Photo by Junmei Zhao (click to enlarge)

The podium was the biggest and best yet -- before A1GP crews and a huge crowd, magnum bottles of Moet (a favorite champagne) spraying everywhere; beautiful trophies and much cheering. A great end to a fabulous weekend with HGP!	Way to go Hamish! - Photos by Wayne LeBlanc (click to enlarge)



- Photos by Junmei Zhao (click to enlarge)

TEAM PHOTO TIME

Hamish Somerville's winning Williams FW07 and team Left to right: Lee Chapman, Wayne LeBlanc, Thatcher Goddard, Chuck Golder, Robert Walker (Team Ace Mechanic Ed Barker takes the photo!)
Wayne & our winning Williams FW07 (click photos to enlarge)

The Williams Boys

Robert Walker, Thatcher Goddard, Pete Gulick, Lee Chapman, Hamish Somerville, Chuck Golder, Ed Barker, Wayne LeBlanc (click to enlarge)

Robert Walker, Thatcher Goddard, Pete Gulick, Lee Chapman, Hamish Somerville, Chuck Golder, Wayne LeBlanc, Ed Barker (click to enlarge)

Alan Jones autographs his old FW07 for Hamish
- Photo by HGP The one & only Alan Jones meets our "Flying Scotsman," Hamish Somerville


(left to right) Robert Walker, Pete Gulick, Thatcher Goddard, Ed Barker, Divina Galica, Wayne LeBlanc, Lee Chapman, Hamish Somerville, Chuck Golder (click photo to enlarge)

A huge thank you is in order to James King and Rebecca Hale and Phil Reilly for organizing this fabulous event - an enormous undertaking. For the teams that did not make the event, bad choice. It was great! Don't miss it next year! Complete photo coverage of the event at Historic Grand Prix
- Photo by HGP


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