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Janspeed
Janspeed Technologies Ltd is an automotive performance tuning company, specialising in exhaust systems. The company was founded in 1962 by János Ódor. With a workforce of 74 employees, Janspeed works closely with many luxury and performance car makers including Aston Martin, Lotus and Bentley. As well as customer products, Janspeed has also been a race car preparation business, which has among others, built works Datsun and later Nissan vehicles for the British Touring Car Championship and DTM. History In 1956 János Ódor emigrated from Hungary to Britain and after an apprenticeship with Downton Engineering, founded his company as Janspeed Engineering Ltd in Salisbury in October 1962. Initially specialising in exhausts and performance parts for the BMC Mini, Janspeed soon expanded to providing turbocharging units and other equipment designed to fit Vauxhall and Ford vehicles. Products Janspeed fabricates performance exhausts for a multitude of vehicles and leading car makers. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kieth O'Dor
Kieth O'dor (5 April 1962 – 11 September 1995) was a British racing driver, born in Salisbury, who competed primarily in touring cars. He scored Nissan's first win during the super touring era in both the British Touring Car Championship and the Super Tourenwagen Cup. He was killed during a race at the AVUS circuit in Berlin. Background and early life Kieth O'Dor was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, in the United Kingdom, on 5 April 1962, and was the son of János Ódor who emigrated from Hungary to the United Kingdom after the Soviet invasion in 1956. He founded the Janspeed automotive engineering company and racing team. Kieth raced under the surname O'dor or Odor (changing from one spelling to another from year to year). He was married to Anita Blandford. Early career and British touring cars Odor started out in rallying during the mid-1980s before switching to circuit racing, winning his class in the British Production Saloon Car Championship in 1987 driving a Peugeot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Middlehurst
Andrew Michael Middlehurst (born 16 July 1962) is a British racing driver. Middlehurst runs a successful Nissan dealership (Middlehurst Nissan) in the North West of England that is famed for its involvement with the Nissan Skyline GT-R, resulting it being officially imported into the country and more recently the Nissan GT-R R35. After starting his career on motorcycles in Junior Grass track and Speedway, he first raced in cars in 1980 in Formula Ford. After becoming Dunlop Star of Tomorrow Champion in 1982 his early racing included Formula Ford 1600, racing against Ayrton Senna in 1981. Middlehurst went on to rallying in national and international rallies, including the 1984 RAC Rally and Ypres 24 Hours Rally in 1986, in which he took class honours at the wheel of Toyota Corolla GT. Middlehurst took Class C titles in the BARC Production Saloon Car Championship in both 1988 and 1989 driving a Volkswagen Golf GTI. Middlehurst claimed the overall title in 1990 at the wheel of a F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Win Percy
Winston Walter Frederick Percy (born 28 September 1943, near Tolpuddle, Dorset) is a British former motor racing driver from England. Percy was British Touring Car Champion three times, and at the time of his retirement was the most successful non- Antipodean driver ever to compete in Australia's premier national motorsport event, the Bathurst 1000km. Joe Saward of ''Autosport'' magazine said he was "often regarded as the World's Number One Touring Car Driver". Early years Percy found his way into motor sport through his first employment as a motor mechanic at his local garage. His first race was in 1964, in a local time-trial event driving his own road-going Ford Anglia 1200. He won, beating drivers of far more powerful cars in the process. While he initially pursued competitive driving as a hobby, his innate talent quickly resulted in many high-placed finishes in national-level races, including taking all three victories in the 1973 televised rallycross races at Cadwell Park. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nissan Skyline GTR
The is a Japanese sports car based on the Nissan Skyline range. The first cars named "Skyline GT-R" were produced between 1969 and 1972 under the model code KPGC10, and were successful in Japanese touring car racing events. This model was followed by a brief production run of second-generation cars, under model code KPGC110, in 1973. After a 16-year hiatus, the GT-R name was revived in 1989 as the BNR32 ("R32") Skyline GT-R. Group A specification versions of the R32 GT-R were used to win the Japanese Touring Car Championship for four years in a row. The R32 GT-R also had success in the Australian Touring Car Championship, with Jim Richards (racing driver), Jim Richards using it to win the championship in 1991 Australian Touring Car Championship, 1991 and Mark Skaife doing the same in 1992 Australian Touring Car Championship, 1992, until a Supercars Championship, regulation change excluded the GT-R in 1993 Australian Touring Car Championship, 1993. The technology and performanc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
