Musicians and Movie Stars involved in Motorsport.

[shellsport]

And how could we forget our Bruno !

[paul lancaster]

Yeah, I met him at levels when he was team owner of an nzv8 team, definitely a petrolhead

[bry3500]

Johnny Claes made himself a name as a Jazz trumpeter in London . He competed in 23 World Championship Grand Prix starts from 1950 to 1955

[bry3500]

INXS have sponsored several cars .The last, I think, was with Dick Johnson in the 2004 V8 Supercar Championship.
I can also vouch that Steve Gilpin and the rest of the guys from Misex were also motorsport crazy. They hired 5 Nascars during a tour of the U.S.. I think I may have a photo somewhere.

[bry3500]

actually they held the radio one road show at some race meetings with some of the pop bands of the day present often doing a concert later Chaos ensued when they had the Bay city Rollers at 1 meeting!
The Radio one DJ then had a race with some musicians Cozzy Powell the drummer was top dog Mike Smith DJ was already racing and later went onto to do BTCC with sierra rs500 Noel edmonds once owned 2 GT40 cars in his early days later he was involved with a LM team

Cozy Powell had a large car collection. He had a fatal accident in his SAAB 900 while he was talking to his girlfriend on the mobile phone at over 100mph ..

[Michael Clark]

George Harrison

Did James 'Pete Aron' Garner get mentioned?

[Kwaussie]

Rob Wilson has done it all!

http://www.ten-tenths.com/forum/showthread.php?t=88401
http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rc...45512109,d.aGc

http://www.grandprairie.co.uk/

Wrote a bit about hot rods up Auckland way some time ago

[bry3500]

James Dean at the Santa Barbara airport course, His last race.

[Kwaussie]

Rob Wilson in Canada last year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eyr2okX-kQw