Alan Docking Racing (ADR) is motor racing team based in Silverstone, United Kingdom. The team was formed in 1975 by Australian Alan Docking.
The team competed in the British Formula 3 series throughout most of its existence, however, it has also graduated to A1 Grand Prix and Superleague Formula and has also competed in sports and saloon cars at a national and international level. The team ran also as Alan Docking Racing Finland.
With team creation, ADR ran in British F3 winning in a row the 1976 and 1977 championships with Rupert Keegan and Stephen South. In 1978, it compete in the European Formula Two Championship with drivers including Stefan Johansson.
ADR join the British Formula Ford Championship in 1987 and 1988 with Mazda. Returned in British F3 since 1989, the team has raced with notable drivers including Mika Salo, Hideki Noda, Ricardo Rosset, Mark Webber and Marcos Ambrose.
In 2002 ADR won their third British F3 title with Robbie Kerr.
In 2005-06, ADR collaborate with A1 Team Australia in the new A1 Grand Prix championship.
Alan Parsons (born 20 December 1948) is a British audio engineer, musician, and record producer. He was involved with the production of several significant albums, including The Beatles' Abbey Road and Let It Be, as well as Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon for which Pink Floyd credit him as an important contributor. Parsons' own group, The Alan Parsons Project, as well as his subsequent solo recordings, have also been successful commercially.
In October 1967, at age 18, Parsons went to work as an assistant engineer at Abbey Road Studios, where he earned his first credit on the LP Abbey Road. He became a regular there, engineering such projects as Paul McCartney's Wild Life and Red Rose Speedway, five albums by The Hollies, and Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon, for which he received his first Grammy Award nomination. He was known for doing more than what would normally be considered the scope of a recording engineer’s duties.[citation needed]He considered himself to be a recording director, likening his contribution to recordings to what Stanley Kubrick contributed to film.[citation needed] This is apparent in his work with Al Stewart's "Year of the Cat", where Parsons added the saxophone part and transformed the original folk concept into the jazz-influenced ballad that put Al Stewart onto the charts.[citation needed] It is also heard in Parsons' influence on the Hollies' "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" and "The Air That I Breathe", sharp departures from their popular 1960s hits "Stay", "Just One Look", "Stop! Stop! Stop!" or "Bus Stop".[citation needed] Parsons was also known to have swapped shifts during the engineering of The Dark Side of the Moon so he could work entirely on the project.[citation needed]
Danny Nikolic (born 19 November 1974) is a jockey in Australian Thoroughbred horse racing. In 2003 he rode Mummify to victory in the Caulfield Cup, the most important win of his career to date. Among his other wins are the Group One Caulfield Stakes (2004), Turnbull Stakes (2006), and the Rosehill Guineas (2009),
On 15 May 2010, following a five month investigation, Racing Victoria stewards laid nine charges against Danny Nikolic which included the serious allegations of improper practices and conduct prejudicial to the image of racing.
The Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board, on 29 May 2010, cleared Nikolic of the charges of improper practices and conduct prejudicial to the image of racing, but fined him a total of $3,000 on five lesser charges to which he had pleaded guilty.
On Thursday, November 3 2011, Nikolic won the Group 1 Crown Oaks aboard Mosheen.