Vette needs to chill with that new homeless box trim he has.
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Vette needs to chill with that new homeless box trim he has.
Why is Alonso so loved now after being a hate figure for so long? Is it just the switch of team or did I miss something else?
His car has been shit since he left ferrari. He gets a lot of sympathy now given he is probably still, a top 3 driver.
Obviously parking one of the mini-Ferrari's didn't get the job done, so they had to kill both for the stewards to get the message.
Should really give the 25 points to the virtual safety car.
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Gunter on the pit wall was definitely the highlight.
Has it been determined what the Haas pit crew were actually up to yet?
Hungary 2007 - compromised Lewis' lap time by holding the car for ages as they stacked up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Giggles
Singapore 2008 - benefited directly from crashgate.
I've never hated the guy, though. He took it to Schumacher in a way that nobody could and has outdriven some seriously underwhelming cars. In his fight with Lewis, I backed the guy.
His behaviour at McLaren was deplorable (you don't cross Ron Dennis and get away with it) and, even though he wouldn't have known anything about it, the crashgate thing tarnished his reputation somewhat. He was also associated with Flavio Briatore for a lot of his career which is never a good idea if you want people to like you, neither is going to drive for the evil empire and making poor Felipe move over for you every other lap.Quote:
Originally Posted by Giggles
Throughout it all he's still been one of the best two (or three if we're being kind to Vettel) drivers in the world, dragged utter turds into decent finishes, and been solid gold entertainment on the radio for three years.
Why has he spent so long driving around in a shit car? I presume the good teams all have other/younger targets, and a combination of McLaren paying him more than the rest and assuring him they'll stop being shit?
Has there ever been another widely considered great of the sport that has spent this many good racing years in a bucket?
McLaren should be better than they have been, and he is probably a prick to work with, so it's a combination of things. There aren't that many good seats that come up.
He's been a victim of both circumstance and karma. Of the tops teams he could have gone to; one he'd just left and had now employed a guy who was never going to allow someone as good as Alonso into the team. Another team had Hamilton in it, and while you could argue that they've almost certainly gotten over 2007 by now why would you take the risk? The last option have a driver program they're committed to for the next 1000 years. I suppose he could have gone for a better midfield team but none of them are going anywhere fast so the best bet was to stay with the team who stand a chance of returning to the front.
WorldSBK and SSP were awesome. @Shindig
Yup. He's been there and done the Ferrari seat and Red Bull promote their own. Mercedes won't bring someone in of Alonso's ability whilst Hamilton's still active. Realistically, there's two potential championship winning cars and he's frozen out of both of them. I can't remember an F1 season that wasn't a two-horse race.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
The webber, alonso and someone else season was a three horse race until vettel snatched it at the last grand prix.
Ah, 2010. That was two Red Bulls and a Ferrari.
The year when Webber broke his arm and never told anyone.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/moto...ne/9260822.stm
Fuck. This must've passed me by. He should've been champion. :( Stupid German with his conversational Italian phrase book.
The telling Christian Horner quotes are pretty lol.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/43531800
TTH ahead of the curve yet again.
Genuinely thought this one was a Pepsi sponsorship deal before reading the blurb:
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/onesport/cp...1980ensign.jpg
Throw in a small wave where the blue and white lines meet around the driver area and you'd be onto millions of dollars.
They missed the best ones too the noobs.
I liked last year's Sauber. It's a pity it hinges on your main sponsor having a cool colour scheme.
The Minardi for me.
The Lotus 81 in that Essex Petroleum livery. That short-lived conman convention also spawned the Essex Turbo which is mega cool.
I always liked the Camel Lotus, the one that ate Johnny Herberts' legs.
I was always a big fan of the Forti Corse. Slowest, most fucking useless car ever to go anywhere near an F1 track but a real beaut.Quote:
Originally Posted by Disco
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Wasted on Pedro Diniz.
And Andrea Montermini, who achieved the remarkable and cruelly overlooked distinction of driving the Forti, the Simtek AND the Pacific in just 20 starts.
Found myself diving down a rabbit hole of abandoned tracks. Reims' preserved grandstand looks amazing. Avus has a similar grandstand but the DTM lot ditched that in 1999.
Liberty are looking at making qualifying a sprint race on Saturday morning, to determine your position for the actual race on Sunday.
I can't be the only one who thinks this is stupid?
http://www.planetf1.com/news/formula...or-qualifying/
Should just reverse the grid from the previous race results.
Ineptitude shouldn't be rewarded. You'd have teams purposely losing places as a race neared the finish too, a battl to see who can go slower.Quote:
Originally Posted by SincereTheRebel
I dont know what ineptitude means and im too lazy to google so im going to take it as you being offensive. Piss off.
He's saying you shouldn't be rewarded for being shite.
Shitness.Quote:
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Why don't they just superpole it? The order being determined by FP3 times.
I love how Liberty seem to think the way to make F1 more popular is to ape the shit formats of dreadful spec formulas which have about 1/100 of F1's popularity.
It's nibbling at the edges, the real news will be what the new Concord agreement will be for 2021. That will establish how attractive the sport will be for manufacturers and teams therefore deciding how successful it will be.
The only way they're going to make any progress is by boshing Ferrari (and Mercedes, but mainly Ferrari) with a punitive spending cap and aim for a 13-14 team franchise with, say, 6 manufacturers and 7-8 privateers. That seems to be quite far away as Christ knows how useless Ferrari would be on any sort of level playing field. Alfa Romeo-esque.
Still, a sprint race in a formula with sparse overtaking? Has anyone thought this through?
Ferrari will lose their advantage (with which they've won nothing for a decade) and there will be the beginnings of cost restrictions, possibly in the form of engine regs that will open the field to more people because that's where the r&d money can safely be spent. More engines means more scope for customer teams and a bigger more varied field which is the only way the sport can go if it doesn't want to be completely irrelevant in another 15-20 years.
No movable aerodynamic bullshit, a welcome return for tobacco sponsorship, and maybe a thirty miles an hour crash test to appease the whingers. Beyond that lads fill your helmets.
Someone should move into Caterham's old joint. It's still in decent shape.
HRT's Madrid HQ surely vacant and ripe for a Seat works team or something. Alonso GP.
Guy Ligier probably had some good stuff in his basement.
God bless Guy Ligier, the most under the radar corrupt bastard in history.
The top ten Formula 1 spivs would be some countdown.
Bernie and Colin Chapman fight it out for 1 and 2 in that list, but further down you'd have legends like John Cooper, and in more modern times Briatore and Eddie Jordan.
My personal favourite though is the short lived Jean-Pierre Van Rossem, who had a go at F1 in between pretending there was a magic money computer behind a locked door in his office, and massively scamming the King of Belgium.
There might have been some competition at the top at one point, but Bernie bribing his way out of that bribery trial was his masterpiece.
Arse. The torrent site I use for MotoGP is down. Damn it, Dorna. £10 a month or nothing.
Yup, I've been hoping it was going to magically re-appear but it doesn't look like it. You can stream them live but no-one seems to be uploading them anywhere. Oh well.