Panzer Division Marduk Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 Ballinode or Bellanode (Béal Átha an Fhóid in Irish) is a village situated some 6 km from Monaghan Town and 3 km from Scotstown in County Monaghan, Ireland. The village straddles the River Blackwater and has a Church of Ireland church with clock tower, cemetery, and church hall; one public house, called "Maggie's"; and a Centra shop, with post office and hardware store. [edit]Industry Maguire Transport International Ltd [1] – a haulage company McAree Engineering Works Ltd [2] – specializing in feed silos for chicken houses. Hi Niall! Hi Maggie! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panzer Division Marduk Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 Monaghan United F.C. is an Irish football club playing in the Football League of Ireland. The club, founded in 1979 and elected to the league in 1985, hails from Monaghan and play their home matches at Century Homes Park. Club colours are Blue and White, and go by the nickname The Magic Mons. The current manager is Mick Cooke. Contents [hide] 1 History 2 Current Squad 3 Players of Note 4 Records 5 External links [edit]History Monaghan United played their first League of Ireland game in 1985 against Derry City F.C. at Belgium Park before moving to move to their current home at Gortakeegan in 1987. They secured a sponsorship deal with the nearby building firm, Century Homes, changing the ground name to Century Homes Park in 2000. In the 1992-1993 season, Monaghan United finished third in Division One and defeated Waterford United by 5-2 on aggregate (2-2 away and 3-0 at home) winning promotion to the Premier Division. They competed in the Premier Division until the end of the 1994-1995 season, finishing last and as a result were relegated to the First Division. Monaghan United regained promotion to the Premier Division in the 2000-2001 season, finishing second to Dundalk F.C. that season. But their stay was short lived as they finished last in the Premier division the following season managing only two league victories in the whole season. There's almost as many cows as humans watch their games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panzer Division Marduk Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 Kingspan Century Homes Park is the football ground of Monaghan United football club. It has until relatively recently been known as Gortakeegan, the local townland name. True fans of the club still refer to Gortakeegan when going to a match. See that? True fans! Not your Dublin blow ins! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panzer Division Marduk Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 County Monaghan (Irish: Contae Mhuineacháin) is a county in the Republic of Ireland. It is one of three counties situated in the province of Ulster without being part of Northern Ireland. The name comes from the Irish, derived from Muine Cheain meaning the Land of the little hills. This name refers to the density of drumlins in the area, those small hills formed from glacial action (during a previous ice age). The county borders County Tyrone (Northern Ireland) to the north, County Armagh (NI) to the east, County Louth (Republic of Ireland) to the southeast, County Meath (ROI) to the south, County Cavan (ROI) to the southwest and County Fermanagh (NI) to the west. There is a pene-enclave jutting into Fermanagh in the western area of the county. Fermanagh is welcome to that bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panzer Division Marduk Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 County Monaghan is twinned with the Province of Prince Edward Island in Canada. At least 20% of the population of Prince Edward Island can trace ancestry to Co Monaghan as a result of migration from Monaghan to that part of Canada during the years 1820-1840. Co Monaghan is also twinned with the City of Miramichi in New Brunswick and also with the City of Peterborough in Ontario and with the township of Cavan-Millbrook-North Monaghan in Ontario. It also has links with Gheel in Belgium, as a result of the martyrdom there in the 5th century of St Dymphna, a local Monaghan saint who is regarded as Patroness of those with mental illness. Canada? What's that all aboot? And Gheel is the centre of the Belgian porn industry. But Marc Goossens the NASCAR driver was born there too. Unlucky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panzer Division Marduk Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 Or for other people's benefit....Neck-Car Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panzer Division Marduk Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 Takachiho "Taki" Inoue (井上 隆智穂 Inoue Takachiho[1], b. September 5, 1963 in Kobe) is a racing driver from Japan. He participated in 18 Formula One Grand Prix races, debuting on November 6, 1994. He scored no championship points, and is remembered for two bizarre incidents while driving for Footwork in 1995. The first occurred after a practice session at Monaco, when his stalled car was being towed back to the pits when it was hit by a course car, driven by Jean Ragnotti, causing it to roll into the barriers, although Taki was fit to race the next day. The second happened in Hungary on live TV worldwide - attempting to assist the marshals in putting out the engine fire which had forced him out of the race, a vehicle driven to the scene by a marshal hit him, injuring his leg, although he recovered for the next race. For most of the season his team-mate was Gianni Morbidelli, but late in the season Max Papis replaced Morbidelli, and was sometimes outpaced by Taki. Entering the 1996 season, Inoue lobbied Tyrrell for a drive, but was beaten down by Ukyo Katayama and his Mild Seven sponsorship money from Japan Tobacco[2]. Instead, he was announced in January to drive for the Minardi team[1]. However, one of his personal sponsors pulled out at the last minute and the team took on the more talented Giancarlo Fisichella instead.[3] Fisichella, the team's test driver in 1995, had backing from Marlboro Italy.[4] With these opportunities closed up, Taki was out of a drive. After brief forays into sportscars, he retired from racing at the end of 1999 and now manages drivers in his own country. It was f**king hysterical, Inoue grabs the fire extinguisher, along comes the marshal's car, and Bang! Taki goes flying (probably the fastest he ever went). Stands up, drops the fire extinguisher, and then theatrically collapses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panzer Division Marduk Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 Jean-Denis Délétraz (born October 1, 1963 in Geneva) is a racing driver from Switzerland. He has a reputation as being one of the least impressive drivers in the history of Grand Prix racing,[1] despite success in other motor racing disciplines. He participated in three Formula One Grands Prix, debuting in the 1994 Australian Grand Prix, and scored no championship points during his career. Before reaching Formula One he scored two third places in Formula 3000, but he principally earned his Formula One drives by having sponsorship money to offer financially troubled teams.[2] After Formula One, he competed in sports car racing, with some success. Towards the end of 1994, the Larrousse team were running short on money.[5] Larrousse's number 19 car, which had started the year being driven by Olivier Beretta, was now being driven by drivers who could bring sponsorship money to the team.[5] For the final race of the year in Australia, Larrousse let Délétraz replace Eric Comas in the team's second car for more sponsorship money in order to aid their financial situation.[5] During qualifying, Délétraz surprised some in the Formula One paddock when he qualified in 25th position, outqualifying Domenico Schiattarella.[1] However, Schiattarella overtook him during the first lap of the Grand Prix, and Délétraz gradually dropped back from the rest of the field. He retired on lap 57 with gearbox failure, after he had already been lapped ten times. “ Yes Délétraz, really, here having no business in Formula One. And demonstrating it there: he's spending all of his modest effort, frankly, keeping the car on the road. He's holding up Gerhard Berger there and has now lost a second on Nigel Mansell, in the Larrousse. This is, I'm afraid, one of the problems of the Grand Prix season - at the end of the year we do get one or two drivers being taken by people who've got more money than talent, and that's one example of it. ” —Jonathan Palmer, BBC broadcast of the 1994 Australian Grand Prix - transcript of recording from F1 Rejects. [edit]1995 : Pacific Although the team started with Bertrand Gachot, who was also a shareholder, and Andrea Montermini as its drivers, by the middle of the season Gachot had stood down so that drivers with sponsorship could help aid the team's finances.[6] It was announced that Délétraz would be competing in the final five races of the season.[1] “ I am very happy to be returning to Formula One and we will work hard together to make this a competitive end to the season. Although the Pacific team is quite small, they have a lot of motivation and I think everyone knows that Keith Wiggins is determined to make strong progress in Formula One. For me it is a good opportunity to gain more Formula One experience, and to develop a programme which hopefully will lead to my participation in the 1996 Formula One World Championship. ” —Délétraz on signing with Pacific for the remainder of the season - transcript at F1 Rejects. During qualifying for his first round of the year, in Portugal, Délétraz was hindered by a gearbox problem which saw him qualify last, twelve seconds behind pole-position sitter David Coulthard. The race proved problematic as well - he was lapped by the leaders after just seven laps of the race, and after fourteen he retired from the race with cramp in the arm. His second race, at the Nürburgring, saw him qualify just over nine seconds behind pole-position, and he finished the race in fifteenth place as the last finisher, seven laps behind the winner. At the next race, Bertrand Gachot was unexpectedly back in the seat. It had been expected that Délétraz would be competing until the end of the season, but he defaulted on payment and Keith Wiggins, principal of the Pacific team stated, "On ability alone, we are not willing to keep him. Didn't help Steven Hawking was a better driver than him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panzer Division Marduk Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 Giovanni Lavaggi (born February 18, 1958 in Augusta, Sicily) is a racing driver from Italy. A nobleman by background, he raised the money to buy 10 Formula One Grand Prix drives, for Pacific and Minardi, debuting on July 30, 1995. He scored no championship points and was never close to the car's performance limits, being described as "desperately slow" by Jonathan Palmer, although he did well in his sports car foray. He was nicknamed "Johnny Carwash" (a literal translation of his name from Italian to English) by people in the paddock; US talk show host David Letterman helped bring the nickname to popular attention. He was even slower than Deletraz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panzer Division Marduk Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 Life was a Formula One constructor from Modena, Italy. The company was named for its founder, Ernesto Vita ("Vita" is Italian for "Life"). Life first emerged on the Formula One scene in 1990, trying to market their unconventional W12 3.5 L engine. In short, the team had a disastrous single season, and failed to make the grid in all 14 attempted starts during the 1990 season, often clocking in laps many seconds slower than its next competitor. The 1990 season When the new season came, the situation was ridiculous: One chassis, one engine, few if any spare parts, no tests, no hope for success. The W-12 turned out to be the least powerful engine of the year: its output was about 450 hp while others did 600 to 700 hp. On the other hand, the ex-First L190 chassis was one of the heaviest cars in the field. Handling was bad, reliability was poor. As a result, the Life was as fast (or slow) as a Formula 3 car. Even in Formula 3000, it would have been outclassed, much less Formula 1. For a start, Sir Jack Brabham's son Gary Brabham was signed to drive but when he failed to prequalify twice he left the team for good. In came Bruno Giacomelli, an Italian veteran who had last raced in Formula 1 in 1983. Not surprisingly, things did not improve. The car did not get faster, in fact it never managed to run more than three or four laps before exploding. At 1990 San Marino Grand Prix Giacomelli was timed at 7:16.212, a mere 424 seconds off the eventual pole time.[1] For the Portuguese Grand Prix, the team replaced their own engine with a Judd V-8, but then found that the engine cover did not fit over this new engine. They withdrew before the final two Grands Prix, and were never heard from again. They were bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panzer Division Marduk Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 MasterCard Lola is a former Formula One team that contested one race in the 1997 Formula One season. Team principal Eric Broadley didn't cover himself in glory with the effort, which sometimes is not even recognized on that season's entry list. After years of providing chassis to other teams, mainly Larrousse, Broadley planned a team that was the culmination of years of development. A prototype chassis was first tested in 1995 with Allan McNish and in late 1996 Broadley announced the team's participation in the near future. The team had originally intended to enter F1 in 1998, but entered a year early in 1997 as MasterCard wasn't forthcoming with financial support. Ricardo Rosset (pictured) and Vincenzo Sospiri both failed to qualify for the 1997 Australian Grand Prix. Stewart Grand Prix, headed up by Grand Prix legend Jackie Stewart, had his new team all prepared with the Alan Jenkins-designed SF01 launched before Lola got started on their own. The Lola chassis, dubbed the T97/30, was based off most of their IndyCar technology yet never saw the inside of a wind tunnel and barely had on-track tests. Vincenzo Sospiri and Ricardo Rosset were signed to drive, but wound up as the victims of the project. By the time the ungainly car made it to the 1997 Australian Grand Prix, the complete lack of symmetry on the car in all aspects made it painful to watch. Sospiri and Rosset never even got near a good enough time to qualify, 11 and 13 seconds respectively off the pace. [edit]End of the Road On March 26, 1997, the Wednesday before the Brazilian Grand Prix, Lola announced it was withdrawing from the Brazil race due to "financial and technical problems". Lola's staff, which had already travelled to Interlagos, returned to the team's base in Huntington, England. Shortly afterwards, Lola withdrew from the World Championship outright.[1] In its short existence as a Formula One constructor Lola incurred £6 million in debt; the company never recovered from this and went into receivership several weeks later.[2] Irish entrepreneur Martin Birrane purchased the company and oversaw a revival in the company's fortunes; however, Lola has not been involved in Formula One in any capacity since. They were worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panzer Division Marduk Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 Andrea Moda Formula was a Formula One team, created by Andrea Sassetti, a shoe manufacturer from Italy. In September 1991 he bought the Coloni F1 team after its drivers Pedro Chaves and Naoki Hattori had failed to pre-qualify a car for every single race that year. Roberto Moreno in the Andrea Moda S921, at the 1992 Monaco Grand Prix. The team hired a number of ex-Coloni staff and did a deal with Simtek to run a car which had been designed in 1990 for BMW. This was fitted with Judd V10 engines but the cars were not ready for the start of the season in South Africa and Sassetti arrived with old Coloni chassis for drivers Alex Caffi and Enrico Bertaggia. The team was excluded from the event for not having paid the $100,000 deposit for new teams in the World Championship, Sassetti arguing that it was not a new team as he had simply taken over the Coloni team and not formed a new one. In Mexico the team arrived with all its equipment but the cars were still being built and neither ran. At the San Marino Grand Prix, Roberto Moreno and Perry McCarthy were nominated as the drivers but McCarthy was refused a Super Licence and Moreno failed to qualify. It was not until Monaco that Moreno managed to get a car into the race, only to retire early on because of an engine problem. In Canada the team was without engines because Sassetti had failed to pay Judd. Many people had left the team by this stage and the operation missed the French Grand Prix because its truck was stuck in one of the blockades by French truck drivers. Moreno and McCarthy battled on but failed to pre-qualify for the races that summer and in August the team was warned by the FIA that it faced exclusion from the World Championship if it did not improve. McCarthy in particular was rarely given the opportunity to properly prequalify his car - the team lacked the resources to prepare two cars properly and it was evident that McCarthy was only brought along to meet the team's obligation to field two entries. At the Belgian Grand Prix, Sassetti was arrested in the paddock for allegedly forging invoices and when the team showed up at Monza for the Italian Grand Prix in September it was turned away from the paddock, the FIA having banned the team from the series for bringing the sport into disrepute. The worst ever, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panzer Division Marduk Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 How not to drive: No.1: Martin Donnelly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panzer Division Marduk Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 No.2: Stan Fox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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