Ferrari Mailing List: Re: 15 years later on...

[John Ashburne (jashburne]

Great memories, Rick!

I remember meeting you at usgp in 2002(?), with cLyde and other listers. 

I either forgot or didn't realize that we were both at the 1997 Australian GP 
when Coulthard won. That was a great side trip while in OZ on business. I 
watched most of the race from Turn 5. Elle McPerson was 2 seats in front of me 
on the flight to Sydney on Monday. 

Good times

John

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> On Feb 11, 2014, at 8:36 AM, Rick Lindsay <richardolindsay [at] gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> Hello Friends,
> 
> Digging through old documents yesterday, I realized that it was 15 years ago 
> this month, that I began talking with Tony Nevoti at FoH about a Ferrari List 
> factory tour. Later that year, 22 friends who had never met face-to-face 
> converged upon Maranello. We met at some expensive hotel and gathered in the 
> sitting room off the lobby. The paradigm of what it meant to know someone 
> (non-Biblical usage) changed for us. It took only a couple of minutes of 
> chatter until we realized that most of us had 'known' these folks, admittedly 
> with unfamiliar faces, for a few years! Someone wisely brought name tags.
> 
> We were all younger then. Some were fatter and some were probably skinnier! I 
> still had brown hair and hadn't yet been diagnosed with diabetes. Rui and 
> Charles were still single.
> 
> Those who went on the tour may remember that our pre-16-year-old kids had to 
> wait in the lobby. My two were 13 and 15, plus Tegan's friend Amy who was 
> also 15. The girls turn 30 this year. Both are married and Tegan has a little 
> boy. Allen is 28 and also married. He received his BS in physics like our 
> List owner Steve Cook, and from the same university, New Mexico Tech.
> 
> I certainly was not the first guy to join the List but was early on in its 
> history. I believe the List began in about 1995. I joined in 1996 shortly 
> after meeting Phil Tegtmeier via the telephone. We talked about me buying a 
> GTB. At the time, Phil was not wise in the ways of the internet. My first 
> List friend was Peter Henrys in Melbourne. Peter introduced me to Formula 1. 
> I was teaching at BHP in Melbourne on what happened to be the Grand Prix 
> week. That was 1997, second year after moving from Adelaide. Peter bought 
> grandstand tickets for me and I extended my travel to include the GP weekend. 
> Instant addiction.
> 
> That same summer I became fast friends with Rui Gigante, Antony Shine and the 
> two Charles Perrys. We all stay in touch today and have taken multiple 
> holidays together. All of us have gotten older - some more than others. 
> 
> So as my children mature, my grandson approaches his 1st birthday and my 
> 308GTB still performs perfectly (even with carburetors), I look back over 
> these 15 years and wonder where we'll be in another 15. Certainly older, 
> possibly wiser, perhaps even kinder. If still here, I'll certainly still 
> cherish the great friends that devotion to this silly marque has gathered.
> 
> Happy Tuesday,
> 
> Rick Lindsay
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