• Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

    Post 16 Update

    Post 17 Warning old domain name stealing credentials

  • Special Server Maintenance

    Just when you think you have everything running some what better...

    You get a message from the Hosting company. Short story they need to move us to a new server. I have been working with them to plan a good date for all concerned. Here is what we have come up with as a schedule.

    1. November 4th 17:00 -5UTC shut off the forums and start backup proceedures. During this time there will be no access to the forums or the Resource Section.
    2. November 5th Continue with Backups and download same until complete.
    3. November 6th 7:00 turn over server to hosting company to move system to new server
    4. November 7th - 8th restore backups and upgrade forum software.

    If all goes well we should be back online on November 8th.

    To keep you updated we will post updates on AVSIM forums.

    Thank you for your support.

Christopher Arthur Amon, MBE -July 20th 1943-August 3rd 2016

SPman

SPman

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New Zealand GP driver Chris Amon succumbed to cancer yesterday, aged 73. A superbly talented driver - if not the unluckiest driver ever to race, rated alongside Clark and Stewart for sheer natural ability. Considered the best driver never to have won a F1 GP, although wins at Le Mans, Daytona, the Tasman Championship and 8 non-championship F1 races, Mario Andretti once remarked - "if Chris became an undertaker, people would stop dying". Works driver for Ferrari, March and Matra, he finally quit in 1976 and went back to the family farm in New Zealand.
A quiet sense of humour and a true gentleman (I'd met him a few times over his early career), RIP Chris.

http://www.motorsportmagazine.com/opinion/f1/remembering-chris-amon?utm_source=Amon&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Mark

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One of the true 'Gentleman Racers' that I remember so well from the Tasman Cup series.
He was truly unlucky in Formula 1, and that was so sad.
We Antipodeans certainly respected the man, as a driver and a human being.
:newzealand: :australia:
 
Chris will be missed - one of the good guys.
He did however consider himself to be lucky by surviving one of the most dangerous periods of motor racing...
 
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