News Archive: April - September 2004

The Creation Team took their Blue Shark out for one last outing for Round 8 of the 2004 FIA GT Championship at the Imola race circuit in Italy.

The two Jamie's qualified mid-field with a time of 1:48.050, the team were confident of their race strategy and knew they could make up places during the race.

Unfortunately the hand of the bad MoJO monkey came down upon them during the Green flag lap and struck the gearbox input shaft, with no drive, the Blue Shark was parked up and sat out the race at the side of the track.

Images from the race weekend can be found as usual in the Galley.
 

We've got another picture gallery of the Creation DBA showing its stuff at the LMES meeting at Silverstone which was held a few weeks ago.

There are some great pictures here so be sure to check this gallery out.
 

After the disappointment of not finishing the LMES race the day before with the Blue Rocket (TB1), The Creation Team left Silverstone in good spirits by winning the CER support race on Sunday with their Ligier JS3.

Bobby Verdon Roe in his now familiar Buck Rogers race suit climbed into the little yellow Ligier, now nic-named Thunderbird 4 and started the race in 2nd position behind a Porsche 908.

The start went well and BVR hung onto the rear of the slightly quicker 908 until the mandatory pit stop which went without incident, and rejoined the race without loosing any time. This time the bad MoJo monkey picked on the leaders 908 allowing BVR to take the lead just before the penultimate lap.

Check out the pictures in the Gallery.
 

The Creation team were in high spirits for their home race at Silverstone, having always tested well at the Northamptonshire circuit.

Qualifying saw the Blue Rocket take to the gird in 4th position, Nic and the Car made a great start keeping tight to the tails of the two Team Velox Audi's.

It was a close race, Nic moved in to third place on the track and then into second when the other Audi made its first pit stop. The top four leaders changed position over the next few pit stops until the hand of the bad MoJo monkey struck one of the cars exhaust manifolds.

The car continued for as many laps as was possible before the Team had to make the call .....

Despite the retirement the team were upbeat knowing that they had shown a very strong hand at the Race.

We've got some great pictures of the Team and their MoJo in the Gallery and we hope to have a full race report for you all soon.
 

Creation held a special event for some invited guests and team sponsors at the Silverstone South circuit on Monday 9th of August 2004.

The team had all five of its cars on display and somehow had managed to shoehorn a passenger seat into the Big Blue Shark ( The Lister Storm ) so that a lucky few could experience for themselves what a monster of a machine the Storm is.

Despite being unlucky with the  weather Bobby Verdon-Roe kept pounding the Storm and its passengers round the track all day, the smiles and body language of those lucky people getting out of the car told the same story......

Creation was also running its DBA4-03S in preparation for next weekends LMES race and allowed its guests close and personal access to the Blue Rocket.  SIMBIN was also on hand with one of its GTR simulators for the Guests to try their own hand at driving a GT Car.

As always, Creation injected its own special mix of MoJo into the day and everyone had a great time, check out the pictures.
 

 
As if staying awake for three days last weekend wasn't bad enough, Bicks and the team went on to Spa in Belgum for the Spa 24 Hour round of the FIA GT Championship 2004.

We'll have results and comments soon, but for now here are some early images. 
 

 
Last weekend the Creation Team entered their yellow & Green Ligier JS3 in the 2nd Le-Mans Classic weekend.

What was hopefully going to be a semi relaxing and bit of fun weekend turned into one of the hardest 24 Hour races Bicks has ever done in his carer.

The car ran well during the qualifying sessions putting up the fastest lap of the weekend and claiming pole by over 11 seconds until a suspension failure caused the 1st of an overnight strip down, Bicks and Nigel worked through the night and with a little help from fellow competitors the Ligier was ready for the next race.

The car ran well for the start of the next race, but was stolen of the win by driveshaft failure.

Creation had their MoJo Monkeys with them for the weekend, filming the team in action, look out for some exclusive new videos in the coming weeks.

We'll try and get a few words out of Bicks and his thoughts on the weekend once he gets some sleep. For now you can check out some images taken from the video shot over the weekend.
 

 
After  the fantastic finish the Creation team achieved at the the last LMES race at the Nurburgring, Nik Minassian has written a small but very French race report for us, which you can read right here

The Creation team are now on their way to Nik's homeland to take part in the fantastic Le-Mans Classic with the Ligier JS3, this car was driven to victory in last years Le-Mans Legends race with Will Green at the wheel.

The Creation Mojo Monkeys are going along with the team so expect some exclusive Creation Mojo Magic when they return next week.

The Creation Team are on a high after this weekends LMES race at Nurburgring. The team looked strong all weekend and things looked great with the Creation Blue Rocket starting the race in pole position ahead of the Audi's with a lap time of 1:46.681.

The start of the race went well with the DBA leading the race until it had to pit due to a puncture and the team lost a lot of time to the Audi's. However, Creation took the initiative and changed the car to wets much to the bemusement of all the other teams. The gamble came off as only a few laps later the sky's opened up.

Despite loosing so much time on the in lap with the puncture, the team pushed hard taking the fight back to the Audi's and Minassian had a great scrap with the R8 of Herbert, The team were delighted with a finish in 3rd place on the Podium but we cant help thinking it could have been the top step if it wasn't for that puncture.

Update: We now have an extended image gallery on-line from the race weekend, check out these great photos here.

We should have more info and pictures later in the week.
 

The Big Blue Creation shark had a troublesome weekend at Donington last weekend. Problems in practice led to the team having to change the engine during Friday night. The problems didn't go way during qualifying and the car took to the grid down in 12th position with a lap time of 1:43.985.

As always, the Creation team put the weekends woes behind them come race day and with JCW at the wheel the car made a good start and within a few laps was making places.

Unfortunately it seems the Gods of GT were not smiling on Creation this weekend despite all their efforts when the car had to retire with a broken driveshaft on Lap 83.

As always we've got some photos from the weekend in the Gallery and as a special treat we sent our photographer into the famous Donington collection Museum to take a few snaps  which you can find here.
 

We just got the pictures from the Group C race at Le-Mans which took place earlier this month. What a great sight to see so many fantastic cars from the Group C era at  such a great circuit.

You'll find the pictures as always in the gallery.
 

Ok, firstly ( a little later than planned ) we've got the pictures from the FIA-GT race at Brno, you can find them as usual in the Gallery we've tried to get a few different shots this time showing the Creation Pit Crew in action.

The team have got a real busy few weeks ahead of them. This Wednesday the team will be shaking down the DBA4-03S and Ligier JS3 at a test day at Donington Park in preparation for the next round of the LMES at Nürburgring which will take place on the 2nd of July.

Creation will stay for the rest of the week at Donington for Round 6 of the FIA-GT championship this coming weekend were Bobby Verdon-Roe will join the two Jamie's in driving the Creation Blue Shark.

The Creation Lister Storm has always gone well at Donington and with BVR joining them at the wheel the team are hoping for their first podium of the year.
 

The Group C meeting at Le-Mans last weekend didn't go quite to Creations plan.

First the Group C race which took place on the Saturday morning before the main 24 Hours race was shortened to just 30 mins.

Second, the team suffered electrical problems with the Courage  Cougar C26S during practice causing the team to retire the car for the weekend.

Third the Spice developed a small engine problem during practice causing it to qualify down in 30th position.

However, come the race the Spice went like a rocket and finished 1st in its class, at one point it looked like it might make the overall podium with  3rd or possibly 2nd finish, but the team decided to back-off a little as the engine gremlin from practice gave concern.

Hopefully we'll have some pictures from the weekend soon and maybe a race report.
 

The Creation team are of to their first Group-C race of the year, and what better place to show their great historic monsters than the legendary Le-Mans track in france.

The team are taking both the Cosworth powered Spice SE88C freshly back from the paint shop with a new paint job and the awesome Courage  Cougar C26S.

With a grid of over 35 cars it should make for an interesting and nostalgic race. We've got some exclusive pictures of the cars prior to being loaded in to the truck ready to leave for Le-Mans.

All being well, we'll have some pictures from the weekend and maybe a race report early next week.
 

The Creation team put in another solid performance last weekend at round  5 of the 2004 FIA-GT Championship held at Brno in the Czech Republic.

The big blue shark qualified 12th on the grid, both the Jamie's put in solid drives for the race, finally bringing the car home in 5th position.

Race times are posted in the results section, hopefully we'll have some photos and a race report later in the week.
 

Last weekend, Creation invited one of our regular German forum contributors down to their pits to meet the team and the big blue Creation shark at the FIA GT Race in Hockenheim.

Little did Marcus know that the team had planned something a little special for him. Read Marcus Hardung's exclusive report on his day with the team as the Fuel Deadman right here.
 

We've just updated our Driver Profiles page with Nicolas Minassian's CV and a new photo.
 

The Creation team got their best result of the year so far at last weekends FIA-GT Race at Hockenheim in Germany.

The Creation Lister Storm started the race in 10th position on the grid with a qualifying lap time of 1:38.580 just under half a second off the pole sitting Saleen S7. The team finished the race in 4th position just missing a podium.

We've got images from the race already on-line in our Gallery and we should have a race report soon.
 

We received some interesting photos from an Italian fan of the team, capturing the last moments of the Big Blue Shark going off at Monza last month.

We'd like to thank Giulio Magnavacca for these images.

Check them out in the Gallery or click here
 

As reported below, Creation got of to a great start at the first round of the 2004 LMES series by qualifying in 4th position.

The race however did not go quite according to plan, with the car first having to pit to change a rear wishbone and later retiring due to gearbox problems.

However the team are upbeat about the weekend having proved that the DBA has the pace to make sure the Audi R8's are not going to have a easy time for the rest of the year.

Images from the race can be found in the Gallery or here, we hope to have a full  race report and maybe some feedback from the drivers soon.
 

The count down to the 1st 2004 LMES race of the season at Monza this weekend is well under way.

We hope that you'll join us in wishing the team good luck for their 1st race with the DBA04-03S

Update 1: We've just received the first pictures of Creation's Blue Rocket out on track during official practice, check them out here.

Update 2: The Creation team put their blue DBA in 4th position on the Grid with a lap time of 1.39.542, just under a second of the pole time 1.38.461 of the Audi R8 driven by Jamie Davies and Johnny Herbert.

As usual we'll have more exclusive photos, race reports and maybe some feedback from the drivers, stay tuned.
 

The Big-Blue-Shark of Creation put in another solid performance this weekend at the 3rd round of the FIA-GT Championship at Magny-Cours in France.

The car, driven by Jamie Campbell-Walter and Jamie Derbyshire qualified 6th on the Grid with a time of 1:37.800 and finished 7th in the race.

Update 1: Images from the race are now in the Gallery, check them out here.

Update 2: Unusually we have a second Gallery form the Magny-Cours weekend, this time from our regular photographer , John Brooks , access it  here.

We hope to have a race report very soon.
 

Lee Web joined the Creation team this year as a race car mechanic.  Team  principle & owner 'Bicks' has worked with Lee in the past and was thrilled to have him join the Creation family.

"We we're all deeply shocked when we heard  that Lee had been involved in a serious road car accident at the weekend, however, we can now report that Lee is in a stable condition and hopefully over the worse"

If anyone would like to send Lee their best wishes,  he is in Ward 3 at the John Radcliff Hospital - Trauma Unit in Oxford, UK.
 

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