Louis Banka Johnson – A HMR driver biography

I live in the little seaside tourist village Åhus (home of ”Absolut Vodka”) in the south eastern part Sweden. Born 1957 in Ghanaian but now also naturalized Swedish.

Work as a surgeon at the University Hospital of Malmö, Sweden. Married to Eva-Carin. Children: Denise , Nickie , Kevin.

Always been a racing fan and watched a lot of F1 racing in the 70`s -80`s in Ghana. This was an inspiration for some local racing which I did with my first cars, a Fiat 850 special and later a Dadsun 160j.

I was introduced to formula racing by my neighbour and old Formula Vee veteran – Åke Lind. Became a member of Åhus Racing Team, which at most had 14 racing cars on its list (mostly Formula Vees). Other cars in the team included among others Ronnie Peterson’s F3 1966 model “Swebe” which is now placed in a car museum in the town of Simrishamn not far from Åhus.

My first racing car was a formula vee model-Slymper that needed a real make-over. After several months of slow progress, I sold it and bought another formula vee model –Dolling in 1993 that needed lesser adjustments and refurbishing to be done to it. I am still racing with this car as of today.

The Dolling was home built by Willy Dolling (Sweden) in 1966, with parts mainly imported from Germany. It was his second model car out of a total of 52 cars built between 1966 -67. In 1996 my Dolling and I won the RHK (Racer Historiska Klubben) – Championship Cup for Formula Vee in Sweden.

My team at races is made up of my mechanic Jerker Winblad, assistant Samir Mahmood, my staunch supporters Nickie and Kevin (support services), and my worst rival Lennart Mattsson in his RPB –Formula Vee.

Due to the nature of my work and family considerations I do not race as much as I really would want to, but every race event I have participated in has always been a joyous one. The racing family extended from Sweden to the continent when I joined HMR –Holland; very professionally administrated by Helana van der Wouden. My first race with the HMR was at Nurburgring in 2006, a present from my colleagues at work. I immediately “caught the bug” and have since then tried to participate in some of HMR`s events across europe every year. Apart from Nurburgring, I also enjoy SPA –Belgium and Zandvoort – Holland.

One of my ambitions is to be able to race the whole of the HMR championship seasons circuit some day, and………I´m just wondering …..if the F1 track in Turkey (with its amazing 3 left handed turns, all taken in one) will ever be added to the championship!

Full name: Louis Banka Johnson

Class: A

Vehicle: Dolling Formula Vee from 1966

Start nr: 7 (was nr. 17)
Team: HMR
Age: 52
Career: Surgeon

2006 – 9th (debut-year)

2007 – 10th

2008 – 10th

2009 – had no time for racing in Europe

The Race Legends AB i företagsrekonstruktion – The Race Legends AB in reorganization

Time 02:20, 2010/09/08

Företaget har de senaste 2 månaderna arbetat intensivt med att lösa den uppkomna ekonomiska situationen i och med det inställda och framflyttade evenemanget i Anderstorp.
The company has the last two months been working intensively to solve the economic situation due to the cancelled and postponed event in Anderstorp.

Information om race biljetter – Information regarding race tickets

Time 12:08, 2010/08/09

Race biljetter (kombinationsbiljetter med The Race Legends och Roxette) kommer ej att gälla till entrén för konserten med Roxette i Halmstad, lördagen den 14 augusti. Anledningen är att området för spelningen i Halmstad har en begränsning vad gäller publikkapacitet.

Race tickets (combination tickets to The Race Legends and Roxette) will not be valid to the entrance of the concert with Roxette in Halmstad, on 14th of august. The reason is that the area of the concert in Halmstad has a limitation in terms of audience capacity.

VIKTIGT MEDDELANDE / IMPORTANT MESSAGE

Time 09:44, 2010/07/08

The Race Legends event at Anderstorp Raceway this summer is moved to May 2011 due to a slow pre-sale of tickets both private and corporate market.

Hans and Carly Meskes – A HMR driver biography

Time 07:33, 2010/07/01

Started as motorsport fan visiting races and rally’s in the seventies, helped some Dutch drivers with there Formula Ford but found more adventure and friendlier atmosphere in rallying. Started driving rally’s in 1980 with cars in the smallest class to keep it affordable with Honda Civic’s and Suzuki Swifts, after many class wins and highlights like competing twice in the Manx Rally I stopped in 1996. Two sponsors stopped, somebody gave the right price for the car and all the spares so that was that.

How to communicate on the track – Racing Flags

Time 03:04, 2010/06/23

Racing flags are used in almost all motorsport to indicate track condition and to communicate important messages to drivers. Typically, the starter, sometimes the grand marshal of a race, waves the flags atop a flag stand near the start/finish line. On road courses, track marshals are also stationed at observation posts along the course in order to communicate both local and course-wide conditions to drivers. Alternatively, some racecourses employ lights to supplement the primary flag at the start/finish line.