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Human Grand Prix
Jan 24, 2013

by FactsAreUseless
You'd be surprised. I would say so.

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Butt Wizard
Nov 3, 2005

It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.

Human Grand Prix posted:

Reminder than Senna ruined Derek Warwick's career because he felt threatened, Brundle got booted from Benetton for the same reason under pressure from Schumacher.

...and this year will be DC's year.

CratSock
Aug 5, 2004

Sock Wielding Assassin

Chantilly Say posted:

There's an amazing alternate reality where Janelle Monae is WDC

I'd work on her chassis, if you know what I'm sayin' fellas.

Wirth1000
May 12, 2010

#essereFerrari

CratSock posted:

I'd work on her chassis, if you know what I'm sayin' fellas.

I don't. Can you elaborate?

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester
Oct 3, 2000
I don't get it. Did you mean Claire Williams?

Wirth1000
May 12, 2010

#essereFerrari
46 days until Practice 1 you stupid loving assholes.

keevo
Jun 16, 2011

:burger:WAKE UP:burger:
46 extra days for Lewis to get extra hair plugs.

Myrddin_Emrys
Mar 27, 2007

by Hand Knit

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:

I don't get it. Did you mean Claire Williams?

:smug:

Feels Villeneuve
Oct 7, 2007

Setter is Better.
Can't wait to see Vettel setting fast times for the Scud.

Wirth1000
May 12, 2010

#essereFerrari
That is never going to happen. In fact, he'll be lucky to match his results with Red Bull last season. I'm sorry, but you should just kill yourself now.

Human Grand Prix
Jan 24, 2013

by FactsAreUseless
Vettel is cool now.

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester
Oct 3, 2000
Vettel is the underdog, he's going to turn around the scuderia, drag them out of the doldrums with sheer will and determination, return them to their rightful place of dominance and glory, they'll make movies about him for decades to come

Feels Villeneuve
Oct 7, 2007

Setter is Better.
He had a poor season but that's just a bump in the road, I'm confident he'll return to the form that brought him 4 (four) straight WDCs soon enough.

simplefish
Mar 28, 2011

So long, and thanks for all the fish gallbladdΣrs!


Alain Post posted:

He had a poor season but that's just a bump in the road, I'm confident he'll return to the form that brought him 4 (four) straight WDCs soon enough.

you're confident he'll going back to Newey?

Feels Villeneuve
Oct 7, 2007

Setter is Better.
Hmm, not sure why he would want a Newey car, last I remember of that guy was when his cars lost six WCCs in a row to Scuderia Ferrari.

track day bro!
Feb 17, 2005

#essereFerrari
Grimey Drawer

Human Grand Prix posted:

Vettel is cool now.

Vettel is always cool.

Feels Villeneuve
Oct 7, 2007

Setter is Better.
I think an objective look at the numbers will make it obvious that Newey's cars are shite and were carried by Vettel to all those wins.

track day bro!
Feb 17, 2005

#essereFerrari
Grimey Drawer

Alain Post posted:

I think an objective look at the numbers will make it obvious that Newey's cars are shite and were carried by Vettel to all those wins.

Agreed op, I cant wait to see what Vettel will do with a real car designed by the Scud boys.

Wirth1000
May 12, 2010

#essereFerrari
Worse than Alonso, on par with Raikkonen, maybe 3rd at Monza. That's about it.

Hope

That

Helps

You Am I
May 20, 2001

Me @ your poasting

Wirth1000 posted:

That is never going to happen. In fact, he'll be lucky to match his results with Red Bull last season. I'm sorry, but you should just kill yourself now.
This is the truth. Without Newey's blown rear defuser, Vettel is useless. Are Dan whipped him good and proper, because Are Dan is a far better driver.

track day bro!
Feb 17, 2005

#essereFerrari
Grimey Drawer

You Am I posted:

This is the truth. Without Newey's blown rear defuser, Vettel is useless. Are Dan whipped him good and proper, because Are Dan is a far better driver.

Actualy Red Bull just put all the bad parts on Vettels car last year because they knew he was going to leave to go to a real racing team and not a soft drinks manufacturer.

You Am I
May 20, 2001

Me @ your poasting

track day bro! posted:

Actualy Red Bull just put all the bad parts on Vettels car last year because they knew he was going to leave to go to a real racing team and not a soft drinks manufacturer.

Too bad he stuffed up on the "real racing team" part.

wicka
Jun 28, 2007


as a lifelong mclaren fan i have to say i'm starting to be swayed by how soulless and boring ferrari has become

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.
The Humble Bundle store has a sale on Codemasters games going on this weekend. Were F1 2013 or 2014 any good?

https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/codemasters

aequalis
Aug 11, 2010

Fernando is smugger than you. Can you confirm you understand that message?
General consensus is: no, they were not any good. Bad as a simulator, mediocre as an arcade game. But if you want to race classic cars then go for it?

As an aside, did anyone see the McLaren teaser video about their 2015 car about not repeating history? And if we read between the lines probably not looking like the 80s/90s cars...
It hasn't been mentioned yet so I'll post it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7QCEjpUtRA

"On 29/01/15, the new McLaren-Honda era will officially begin.
McLaren-Honda. For all Formula 1 fans, there’s something inescapably special about the way those two words sit alongside each other.
For McLaren fans in particular, it evokes an era when our fabulous red and white racing cars were driven by icons Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost – and were usually driven to victory, too.
Even now, we’re extremely proud that our Honda-powered cars remain as iconic as those other 1980s’ icons, Dynasty, Pac-Man, deely boppers (Google ’em!), Thatcher, Reagan and Back To The Future.
Of course, McLaren Honda has its sights set firmly on future success. But, as we rattle off the days before the launch of the new MP4-30, we thought it would be fun to kick off our 2015 campaign with a playful look back at that golden era…"

Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

You're not my Ruthie!
You're not my Debbie!
You're not my Sherry!

CratSock posted:

I'd work on her chassis, if you know what I'm sayin' fellas.

There's an even more amazing alternate reality where Janelle Monae wants to sleep with me

Brainwrong
Mar 20, 2004

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

aequalis posted:

Even now, we’re extremely proud that our Honda-powered cars remain as iconic as those other 1980s’ icons, Dynasty, Pac-Man, deely boppers (Google ’em!), Thatcher, Reagan and Back To The Future.


I spotted six BTTF references in there. Even though one of them was a prop replica that only came out a couple of years ago.

poty
Jun 21, 2008

虹はどこで終わるのですか? あなたの魂の中で、または地平線で?

McLaren is so clearly the best team

Sashimi
Dec 26, 2008


College Slice

aequalis posted:

"On 29/01/15, the new McLaren-Honda era will officially begin.
McLaren-Honda. For all Formula 1 fans, there’s something inescapably special about the way those two words sit alongside each other.
For McLaren fans in particular, it evokes an era when our fabulous red and white racing cars were driven by icons Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost – and were usually driven to victory, too.
Even now, we’re extremely proud that our Honda-powered cars remain as iconic as those other 1980s’ icons, Dynasty, Pac-Man, deely boppers (Google ’em!), Thatcher, Reagan and Back To The Future.
Surprise! We are so committed to nostalgia, the new MP4-30 is actually a modified 1988 MP4/4! Now for a word from a hologram of Ayrton Senna.

Butt Wizard
Nov 3, 2005

It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.

Sashimi posted:

Surprise! We are so committed to nostalgia, the new MP4-30 is actually a modified 1988 MP4/4! Now for a word from a hologram of Ayrton Senna.

They actually put "Welcome Bank Fernando" or something on the front of the McLaren dealership in Auckland, New Zealand.

Pablo Bluth
Sep 7, 2007

I've made a huge mistake.
I'm bursting with anticipation for the first time Das Fingerkind does one of his sarcastic radio messages and the Ferrari management throw a wobbly.

Human Grand Prix
Jan 24, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

Sashimi posted:

Surprise! We are so committed to nostalgia, the new MP4-30 is actually a modified 1988 MP4/4! Now for a word from a hologram of Ayrton Senna.

This is probably a better idea than what they've come up with in the last 2 years.

Dudley
Feb 24, 2003

Tasty

Pablo Bluth posted:

I'm bursting with anticipation for the first time Das Fingerkind does one of his sarcastic radio messages and the Ferrari management throw a wobbly.

"Everyone is faster than you....."

Ghost of Mussolini
Jun 26, 2011

Butt Wizard posted:

They actually put "Welcome Bank Fernando" or something on the front of the McLaren dealership in Auckland, New Zealand.
Pretty cruel to force Alonso to go all the way to new zealand to pick up this season's car

Sashimi
Dec 26, 2008


College Slice

Ghost of Mussolini posted:

Pretty cruel to force Alonso to go all the way to new zealand to pick up this season's car
Not really, the marketing opportunities from having their star driver take the car out for its first spin in McLaren's ancestral homeland are more than enough to make Ron Dennis mildly excited.

The Deadly Hume
May 26, 2004

Let's get a little crazy. Let's have some fun.
I keep forgetting McLaren was from Noozle Land.

Jedit
Dec 10, 2011

Proudly supporting vanilla legends 1994-2014

Sauber have shown off their new livery. Blue with yellow highlights and side pods, which are the Banco do Brasil colours.

Small Strange Bird
Sep 22, 2006

Merci, chaton!
Better than that dull as poo poo dark grey they had for the last couple of years, which made the car look like an HRT. (Maybe that's why they had such miserable results.)

Aindriu
Mar 1, 2008
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http://www.lotusf1team.com/news-archive/meet-the-e23-hybrid/

Lotus car CGI unveiled. Looks like a GP2 car.

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Sulman
Apr 29, 2003

What did you do that for?

AgentJotun posted:

Schumacher who had about 15-20 races under his belt when Brundles contract negotiations rolled round? Im sure he had a lot of clout with the team.

I thought It was Briatore that sacked Brundle, then lamented it because he didn't realise how quick he was. Patrese was thought to be useful to develop their active suspension but he actually hated it, even at Williams.

In summary, Briatore is an idiot.

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