Imagine this, you get the works Van Diemen drive and then you meet your team mate for the year ahead, Ayrton Senna da Silva....
That's a tough prospect but today's FF1600 legend didn't duck the challenge!
Argentina's Quique Mansilla answers a few FF1600 questions direct from Buenos Aires....
HoFF1600 - Where and when was your first FF1600 race and what chassis were you driving?
QM - I started racing in 1980 with a Van Diemen RF80 due to me winning the Jim Russell World Scholarship
Did you always want to race in the UK to further your career?
I came to England by coincidence because i was driving at a school in Argentina that organized the Scholarship to UK.
What is your favourite memory/story from your FF1600 career?
I remember rolling over at a P+O race at Cadwell in 1981 while part of the Van Diemen's works team. It was at the esses prior to the corner that goes downhill ( The Gooseneck i think - ed!) Ayrton wasn't there as he was doing the Townsend Thoresen series. I won in the afternoon!!
How difficult was it to have Ayrton da Silva as your teammate?
He was a very hard man to beat!!! Very clever and with plenty of experience in racing that i didn't have, remember that 1981 was only my second ever season of racing while Ayrton had 10 years experience in Go Karts.
What was your favourite circuit and favourite corner in the UK?
Brands Hatch, Paddock Hill Bend.
What is your best memory from the FF Festival?
I was flying in 81 but i encounter Speedy Gonzalez Alfie Toledano and crash, lol!!
Which FF driver that you raced against should have got to F1 but didn't?
Can't think of one!
Thanks go to Quique, he's a top man who always has time for a chat about the good times he had over here in the 1980's.
That's a tough prospect but today's FF1600 legend didn't duck the challenge!
Argentina's Quique Mansilla answers a few FF1600 questions direct from Buenos Aires....
HoFF1600 - Where and when was your first FF1600 race and what chassis were you driving?
QM - I started racing in 1980 with a Van Diemen RF80 due to me winning the Jim Russell World Scholarship
Did you always want to race in the UK to further your career?
I came to England by coincidence because i was driving at a school in Argentina that organized the Scholarship to UK.
What is your favourite memory/story from your FF1600 career?
I remember rolling over at a P+O race at Cadwell in 1981 while part of the Van Diemen's works team. It was at the esses prior to the corner that goes downhill ( The Gooseneck i think - ed!) Ayrton wasn't there as he was doing the Townsend Thoresen series. I won in the afternoon!!
How difficult was it to have Ayrton da Silva as your teammate?
He was a very hard man to beat!!! Very clever and with plenty of experience in racing that i didn't have, remember that 1981 was only my second ever season of racing while Ayrton had 10 years experience in Go Karts.
What was your favourite circuit and favourite corner in the UK?
Brands Hatch, Paddock Hill Bend.
What is your best memory from the FF Festival?
I was flying in 81 but i encounter Speedy Gonzalez Alfie Toledano and crash, lol!!
Which FF driver that you raced against should have got to F1 but didn't?
Can't think of one!
Thanks go to Quique, he's a top man who always has time for a chat about the good times he had over here in the 1980's.
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