Jenson Button og David Coulthard Rallycross 600 hp beetle

Den filmen ble postet på vårt engelske forum for ett år siden og den utviklet seg i en ganske interessant retning etterhvert:

http://cal-look.no/lounge/index.php/topic,25113.0.html

For me, it was great to see Paul Harrold's Beetle get some air time. I know Paul and knew his late brother Peter – and watched first hand as the car was being built (some of the machine work on the drivetrain was handled by Autocavan when I ran the workshop there). It was truly ahead of its time, with the Subaru heads etc. Beetles were awesomely fast but ultimately outpaced by the likes of Dimi Mavropolus's Audi quattro and Martin Schenker's 4WD Escort. That's when rallycross was turned on its head – nowadays it's such huge money sport. I was fortunate to be involved in the days when Beetles were king (except on dry days when Keith Ripp's Mini was untouchable...).

OK, one little John Button-related story... His then wife (not Jenson's mother) always turned up at rallycross events wearing totally unsuitable, but very fashionable, clothing. At one particularly freezing day at Lydden Hill, she was wearing a fur coat. As she stood alongside Geoff Thomas's Beetle while he fired it up from cold, we wondered what the black 'rope' was that seemed to connect her to the rear of the Beetle. The rope was, unfortunately, a stream of oil, created by a failed rubber seal on the oil filter. Fur coats and oil don't mix... We tried not to laugh but I don't think she saw the funny side of it. Can't think why.