user:Pyrope

As the userboxes will tell you, I am a motorsport nut, with an emphasis in my knowlege toward Formula One and sports car racing between 1955 and 1985. I have edited many pages on various topics relating to the 24 Hours of Le Mans. In particular, I am trying to reduce the emphasis on F1 results that seems to have developed in the motorsport listings in Wikipedia, and more accurately reflect the team vs. constructor structure of racing prior to 1980.

I also love the Lake District, although having lived in Canada and Chile I have not had nearly enough time spare to visit often. Food is important to me, and apart from creating the Chorley cake page (darn Eccles cakes got in there first... again), I have contributed to articles on other regional food of the UK.

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Pages in italics were already extant, but were significantly added to (e.g. by more than doubling their size) by me.

• Marty Bergmann - One of Canada's most influential Arctic researchers, sadly died much too young.
• Royal Canadian Navy Monument - A brand spanking new monument (2012) in Ottawa. Hey, I had to write a Canadian article sooner or later...
• SS Keno - The last Yukon sternwheeler to operate on the river under her own power, preserved in Dawson.

• Brandy Sour - Cyprus's national drink, and an excellent way of unwinding after a day's fieldwork.
• Chorley cake - Possibly the world's finest dried-fruit-in-pastry creation. Ever. No, really.
• Cumberland rum nicky - Sticky, gooey, and thoroughly unhealthy combination of dates, ginger and rum. Darn good though.
• Lincolnshire sausage - One of the finest ways of eating minced pig in an intestine bag.
• Oxford sausage - A lemony-spicy pork and veal sausage, from, yes, Oxford.

• Margaret Allan - One of the leading ladies at Brooklands in its 1930s heyday.
• Pat Appleyard - Daughter of "Mr. Jaguar", and had her own highly successful rally career in the cars. (Does being called Patricia help?!)
• Richard Attwood - One of the most popular British '60s sports car drivers. Winner of Le Mans in 1970.
• Eric Broadley - Another influential motor racing engineer. Founder of Lola Cars and godfather of the Ford GT40.
• Patsy Burt - Possibly Britain's most successful female racing driver.
• Graham Coaker - The fourth, and oft' forgot, member of the March Engineering founding tetrad.
• Charles Cooper - co-founder and steadying rock of the Cooper Car Company.
• Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe - MP, Le Mans-winner, and founding President of the BRDC.
• Lofty England - Jaguar's influential, Le Mans-winning team manager of the 1950s, later company CEO.
• Jack Fairman - Occasional F1 driver of the 1950s/60s. Gave the Ferguson P99 its only World Championship start.
• László Hartmann - A very fine Hungarian racing driver, sadly KIA in the 1938 Tripoli GP.
• St. John Horsfall - Swashbuckling racing driver and the man who rushed "Major Martin" to Scotland in a souped-up truck. Killed during the 1949 BRDC International Trophy.
• Max Jean - The étoile filante of the mid-60s French starter formulae, but didn't really cut it in the big leagues. One F1 start, in the FWRC March 701.
• Glen Kidston - Bentley Boy, Le Mans-winner and pioneering aviator. Survived so many accidents they thought him indestructible.
• Owen Maddock - Cooper Car Company's mercurial design whiz, pioneer hovercraft racer and jazz fanatic.
• Jem Marsh - Another significant name in the development of British motorsport. Co-founder of car manufacturer Marcos.
• August Momberger - Stalwart of the 1934 Auto Union Silver Arrows team, later leading engineering light of Borgward.
• Enrico Platé - Post-WWII team owner who gave Toulo de Graffenried his most significant race win, and Tazio Nuvolari hia last.
• Tony Southgate - One of the most versatile and successful motorsport engineers ever, with Le Mans, GP, Indy and rally successes.
• John Tojeiro - One of the most influential car and chassis engineers of the post-war period.
• Maurice Trintignant - One of the longest-serving F1 drivers of the 1950s and '60s.
• Win Percy - A true touring car racing hero. Winner of the BTCC on three occasions, as well as a string of victories in other series.
• Tony Vandervell - Founder of the Vanwall Formula One racing team, World Champions in 1958.
• Charlie Wiggins - Leading African-American racing driver in the Midwest during the interwar years.
• Peter Wright - One of the key engineering brains that brought ground effect to F1 in the 1970s.

• BRDC International Trophy - Perhaps the premier non-Championship F1 event in the 1950s, '60s and '70s.
• I BRDC International Trophy - The first of a great series, and the first event ever to use only Silverstone's perimeter road circuit.
• XVIII BRDC International Trophy - The first major race of the 3L F1 era.
• XXIII BRDC International Trophy - 1971, and Graham Hill's final F1 race victory.
• XXX BRDC International Trophy - 1978 event, the last to F1 rules. The winner was Keke Rosberg, in only his second ever F1 race.
• Oulton Park Gold Cup - Another significant non-Championship F1 race, scene of the first ever victory by a 4WD F1 car.
• 1927 British Grand Prix - ...and that completes the set. The second to run at Brooklands
• 1934 Swiss Grand Prix - The first Grand Prix event held at the insanely tricky Circuit Bremgarten, near Bern.
• 1948 British Grand Prix - The first event ever run on the Silverstone Circuit.
• 1962 Mexican Grand Prix - The last time a Grand Prix victory was shared. Ricardo Rodríguez was killed during qualifying.

• Alta Car and Engineering Company - Minor F1 constructor and purveyor of engines to HWM, Connaught and Cooper.
• Aston Martin DBR4 - Aston Martin's ill-fated, long-delayed Formula One entry.
• Brabham BT3 - Ron and Jack's first Formula One design, and the first Brabham to take a victory in the top formula. A pretty good way to start!
• Bristol 450 - Two-time Le Mans class winning sports prototype, and the only racing car the Bristol ever made. Not a bad record.
• BRM P261 - British Racing Motors' most successful Formula One and Tasman Series car. Gave JYS his first GP win.
• Crosslé Car Company - The largest manufacturer of Formula Ford chassis in Ireland, used by many F1 drivers on their way up.
• Eagle Mk1 - Possibly the most attractive car ever to contest a F1 race. To date, the only American-built F1 winner.
• Ford P68 - One of the prettiest sports prototype racing cars ever made. Just not at all successful...
• Hesketh 308E - The final Hesketh Racing F1 car, notorious for its Penthouse Rizla Racing sponsorship livery.
• Honda RA300 - The Hondola. The only F1 car ever to win its very first Grand Prix on the only lap it would ever lead.
• Lancia D50 - Lancia's only Formula One car, and an engineering marvel at the time.
• List of Formula One constructors - Yes, all of them. My word that took some serious time to do!
• Lola Mk4 - Lola's first ever F1 design.
• Lotus 16 - Lotus's first proper Formula One car. Very, very fragile, though!
• Lotus 100T - Lotus's last F1 turbo car. Not exactly a success.
• March 701 - Mosley, Herd & Co.'s first F1 design, first pole, first winner.
• Maserati 4CL and 4CLT - Stalwarts of the immediate post-war racing scene.
• Renault Alpine A442 - 1978, and Renault can finally claim Le Mans victory.
• Tyrrell 006 - The car that took Jackie Stewart to his third and final F1 Drivers' Championship victory.
• Tyrrell 019 - The first F1 car to have an elevated nose cone.
• Williams FW30 - Frank's 30th car design and the car that marks 30 years of WGPE.
• Yeoman Credit Racing - The very first F1 team to sell their name for cash.

• Automobilia - A term for anything collectable to do with cars.
• Burt strut - The standardised device used to break the timing beam in hillclimb and sprint racing.
• Donington Grand Prix Collection - The best museum on the planet. The world's largest collection of Grand Prix and Formula One racing cars.
• Kirkistown Circuit - Northern Ireland's only 'proper' permanent race track.
• Mallite - One of the first composite materials ever used in F1.
• Suspension keel - Almost the only really diverse F1 design area... until this season that is.
• Yeoman Credit Racing - The name of the first team ever to sell its entire identity to a sponsor.

• Birker Fell - One of the least visited fells in the Lake District. Not uncoincidently one of the most tranquil.
• Muncaster Fell - A small yet perfectly formed Lake District fell, complete with its own dolmen.

• Susan Brantley - One of the most innovative and exciting geochemists of the 21st century. Apologies for the brevity of the page so far...
• Ira Joralemon - A hugely long serving and very influential geologist and author.
• Fred Roots - A giant of Canadian geology, exploration and government science. How did he not have a page already?
• Ann Sabina - Hugely productive and diligent mineralogist, discoverer of weloganite, and author of 17 separate field guides.
• Frances Wagner - Pioneering micropaleontologist, one of only a few women working at the GSC at the time.
• Volcaniclastic - A useful little distinction between detrital and pyroclastic sediments.
• Rhodolite - A varietal term for pyrope garnet from a specific locality, often used as a jewel stone. Not a mineral in its own right.

• :Category:Formula One non-championship races - For those races held to F1 or prevailing World Championship regulations, that did not come within the World Championship.
• {{tl|Former F1 constructor}} - F1 constructor information, as distinct from entrant info.
• {{tl|Racing car}} - does exactly what it says on the tin.
• {{tl|24hLM}} - A shortcut template to save on the typing... generates a shortcut to the designated 24 Hours of Le Mans race.

• {{tl|BRDC International Trophy}} - Listing of events at which the BRDC International Trophy has been awarded.
• {{tl|BRM}} - Navbox template for the British Racing Motors team.
• {{tl|Cooper Car Company}} - Navbox template for the Cooper Car Company.
• {{tl|Hesketh Racing}} - Navbox template for the Hesketh Racing team.
• {{tl|F1 cars 1950}} to {{tl|F1 cars 1977}} - Navbox templates for cars entered in each season.

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