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Tsaedje
May 11, 2007

BRAWNY BUTTONS 4 LYFE
More importantly, with these restrictions, we'd never see the likes of Markus Winkelhock leading a race in a Spyker ever again.

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wicka
Jun 28, 2007


Dudley posted:

Given someone spotted Michael Schumacher wouldn't have got a super licence for his 2010 comeback the FIA have admitted they'll just hand out licences to whomever they like if they don't meet the criteria.

So yeah, that didn't last long. There's some gumph in the statement about it not happening often but we know that's bollocks already.

the difference is that there previously used to be a line written in the rules effectively saying that someone judged to be a special talent could receive a superlicense regardless of whether or not met the minimum requirements. that line is no longer there, so instead of the FIA literally being able to give a license to whoever they want, they would actually have to appeal to the WMSC.

Wirth1000
May 12, 2010

#essereFerrari

nsaP posted:

Also, I'm flabbergasted that there is a discussion about how someone is a bigger dick than Ron Dennis.

Yeah, his name was Senna.

Human Grand Prix
Jan 24, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

Brainwrong posted:

No. He's French and has hair made of pubes

He's half Armenian iirc.

Human Grand Prix
Jan 24, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

Wirth1000 posted:

Yeah, his name was Piquet.

Feels Villeneuve
Oct 7, 2007

Setter is Better.

Sulman posted:

He was livid. He considered that the team's prize.

Prost eventually gave Ron a replica from the trophy maker and I really, really hope it keeps Ron up at night that one of his trophies is fake, as fake as he is, the bald autistic wasteman

track day bro!
Feb 17, 2005

#essereFerrari
Grimey Drawer

Gmaz posted:

He's calling Mark Webber a fraud.

Webber isnt a fraud, hes just poo poo and got shown up by Sebastian Vettel. I was talking about Ricccciardo, whos definitely a fraud and I cant belive redbull put all the best parts on his car last season. I"m glad Sebastian Vettel is going to go to Ferrari where he will win 5 more wdcs.

Gmaz
Apr 3, 2011

New DLC for Aoe2 is out: Dynasties of India

track day bro! posted:

I was talking about Ricccciardo
:thejoke:

Ghost of Mussolini
Jun 26, 2011

Alain Post posted:

Prost eventually gave Ron a replica from the trophy maker and I really, really hope it keeps Ron up at night that one of his trophies is fake, as fake as he is, the bald autistic wasteman
this owns if true

Feels Villeneuve
Oct 7, 2007

Setter is Better.

My favorite Piquet story was when he once pretended to be hit by Carlos Reutemann's car as he passed him in the pit lane. This was right after Reutemann accidentally ran over and killed a mechanic.

Feels Villeneuve fucked around with this message at 23:26 on Jan 16, 2015

Wirth1000
May 12, 2010

#essereFerrari

Alain Post posted:

My favorite Piquet story was when he once pretended to be hit by Carlos Reutemann's car as he pass him in the pit lane. This was right after Reutemann accidentally ran over and killed a mechanic.

Ok, that's hilarious.

Butt Wizard
Nov 3, 2005

It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.

Ghost of Mussolini posted:

this owns if true

wasn't Lewis not being able to keep the original trophies a big reason why he ended up leaving McLaren?

Human Grand Prix
Jan 24, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

Alain Post posted:

My favorite Piquet story was when he once pretended to be hit by Carlos Reutemann's car as he passed him in the pit lane. This was right after Reutemann accidentally ran over and killed a mechanic.

Lmao.

Wirth1000
May 12, 2010

#essereFerrari
Apparently Honda will now be allowed to develop their engine just as the other engine suppliers can do so throughout the 2015 season.

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/formula1/30860212

BAD AT STUFF
May 10, 2012

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because fuck you.

quote:

Friday's ruling will allow Honda to change a given amount of its engine calculated by the average of the number of tokens unused by the other manufacturers by the time of the first race in Australia on 16 March.

That's... surprisingly sensible.

Human Grand Prix
Jan 24, 2013

by FactsAreUseless
It is. Has F1 turned over a new leaf?

Feels Villeneuve
Oct 7, 2007

Setter is Better.
I'm watching the 1999 Australian Grand Prix. Alex Zanardi has the same odds from the bookmakers at winning the title as Heinz-Harald Frentzen did.

The Sweet Hereafter
Jan 11, 2010
That might well still be the case now.

Wirth1000
May 12, 2010

#essereFerrari

Alain Post posted:

I'm watching the 1999 Australian Grand Prix. Alex Zanardi has the same odds from the bookmakers at winning the title as Heinz-Harald Frentzen did.

I'm Stewart-Ford. *explodes*

Myrddin_Emrys
Mar 27, 2007

by Hand Knit
Phew, 2015 season just got good again with the Honda news.

Human Grand Prix
Jan 24, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

Alain Post posted:

I'm watching the 1999 Australian Grand Prix. Alex Zanardi has the same odds from the bookmakers at winning the title as Heinz-Harald Frentzen did.

HHF did do very well that year.

Brainwrong
Mar 20, 2004

RIP Bobby K
Poland's Rose. Like a cabbage in the wind.
How and why?

Brainwrong
Mar 20, 2004

RIP Bobby K
Poland's Rose. Like a cabbage in the wind.

Myrddin_Emrys posted:

Phew, 2015 season just got good again with the Honda news.

Yes....but now Ferrari and Red Bull will whine their awful fannies off when The Alonso-Button juggernaut wins all the races.

"It's unfair."

"You gave them an advantage"

"We're the cornerstone of the sport"

"Remember when Ron cheated?"

George Zimmer
Jun 28, 2008

Brainwrong posted:

How and why?



Is that Sasha Grey on the right?

Not that I, uh, know who she is or anything.

Human Grand Prix
Jan 24, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

Brainwrong posted:

How and why?



He 's that cool.

gret
Dec 12, 2005

goggle-eyed freak


George Zimmer posted:

Is that Sasha Grey on the right?

Not that I, uh, know who she is or anything.

And David Choe in the middle, the guy who made $200 million by taing stock instead of cash to paint some murals for Facebook's offices.

BAD AT STUFF
May 10, 2012

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because fuck you.
It's not as good without the caption Kamui put on his Instagram:

quote:

#Repost @dvdasa with @sashagrey @repostapp.
・・・
Serendipity - the #1 formula one race car driver in Japan the #1 collector of rare Japanese chips and snack foods #1 hottest white girl in Japan, all 3 happen to be in the same room in Japan and all 3 are the biggest perverts in Japan and that's no easy feat @kamuikobayashi @davidchoe2 @sashagrey #dvdasa
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Serperoth
Feb 21, 2013



Mimetic posted:

It's not as good without the caption Kamui put on his Instagram:

There was a pic around with the photo and the caption, does anyone happen to have that? I lost it when my HDD died.

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius
Mimetic already posted the only caption I've ever seen for it.

BAD AT STUFF
May 10, 2012

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because fuck you.

Serperoth posted:

There was a pic around with the photo and the caption, does anyone happen to have that? I lost it when my HDD died.

You could take a screenshot of it on instagram if you wanted: http://instagram.com/p/wJtACdw7qq/?modal=true

(meant to include that link with the quote, whoops)

Begall
Jul 28, 2008
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/117368 - talk of increasing the size of the rear tyres, to something like the size they were in the 70's. If we end up in 2017 with giant tyres and 1000HP engines, it'll be a good year.

Low Percent Lunge
Jan 29, 2007



Mimetic posted:

It's not as good without the caption Kamui put on his Instagram:

I still don't get it, the guy in the middle is an artist and the girl on the right is a pornstar? What's the significance of this?

Sashimi
Dec 26, 2008


College Slice

Whitey Ford posted:

I still don't get it, the guy in the middle is an artist and the girl on the right is a pornstar? What's the significance of this?
Kamui Kobayashi hangs out with cooler people than any of us, that's all there is to it.

I do, however, question his claim that they are the three biggest perverts in Japan. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.

BAD AT STUFF
May 10, 2012

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because fuck you.

Sashimi posted:

Kamui Kobayashi hangs out with cooler people than any of us, that's all there is to it.

I do, however, question his claim that they are the three biggest perverts in Japan. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.

Don't you remember Darth Cookie's old avatar?

dentist toy box
Oct 9, 2012

There's a haint in the foothills of NC; the haint of the #3 chevy. The rich have formed a holy alliance to exorcise it but they'll never fucking catch him.


I didn't have much opinion on him until now. I realized my mistake.

Carth Dookie
Jan 28, 2013

Mimetic posted:

Don't you remember Darth Cookie's old avatar?



That was a good interview and a good avatar.

harperdc
Jul 24, 2007

Kamui looks red as a tomato in that picture too, drunk as a skunk.

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester
Oct 3, 2000
Kamui Kobayashi: Kickstarter King

Human Grand Prix
Jan 24, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

Begall posted:

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/117368 - talk of increasing the size of the rear tyres, to something like the size they were in the 70's. If we end up in 2017 with giant tyres and 1000HP engines, it'll be a good year.

Good.

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Butt Wizard
Nov 3, 2005

It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.
Now all we need is for Williams to start taking terrorist sponsor money again and it will a true golden age.

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