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Steve Nevey interacts with local racing community at 51 degrees.
Wed 24th May, 2006 • Photos by Christian Cozier, Narend Sooknarine, Wesley Nandoo,
Tricia Gopaulsingh & Graciela Garcia.
After an amazing compilation of formula one facts and insights, Steve shared some of his experiences and knowledge with our local racing fraternity. Of course our local boys started the lobbying for Red Bull's driver search & F1 in Schools programmes to be expanded to include the Caribbean! Steve graciously acknowledged our requests and responded in depth to out questions about everything Formula One.
It seems the transition of ownership from Jaguar to Red Bull Racing has gone smoothly and Steve tells us that for their team is was like having "the coolest parents in the world" since entertainment and fun seems to have come back to Formula One. Regarding the relationship between the two Red Bull Teams, there is considerable information sharing of technical information and resources; but according to Steve, when it comes down to actual competition, everyone gets serious and it's Red Bull Racing vs. Scuderia Toro Rosso vs the rest. On another note, Steve prefers the Cosworth V8 engine over the previous V10, he likes wine over hard liquor; he his family play musical instruments and they are very much into jazz. Right.
For our local motor racing community, the experience of having this much F1, up close and personal was just priceless not just for the experience but for bringing the sponsors, enthusiasts and Motorsport factions together to enjoy it all as one. The stepping stone to F1 is primarily through karting and there were a number of actual racing karts on display thanks to some of our local karters– Ryan Perau, Gerard Carrington and David Coelho. Also present were Ravi Singh, Ryan Garcia, Gary Hunt and our youngest karting champ, Brandon Steele among many others. On the circuit racing side of things, rookies Vinda Ramsingh Jr. and endurance-meister Keeva Seegobin were most present. Drivers and officials from each motorsport faction including Drag Racing, Solodex, Rally and the off-road clubs were also in the house.
We were all fascinated by the actual F1 car steering wheel, ultralight carbon fibre suspension arms, driver suits, intricate mechanical parts that we were actually allowed to carefully examine. When holding about US$40,000 worth of steering wheel you can't help but make F1 noises. Just for you to imagine, we managed to get hold of an actual F1 soundclip from the Red Bull Racing camp. Click here to download!
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