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NtotheTC posted:BBC recently billed him as "..winner of the 2008 Hungarian GP" and I suddenly remembered that that's all he achieved. God almighty he was shite. He's still worth at least 25 million.
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Riso posted:He's still worth at least 25 million. Peasant.
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Feb 10, 2015 11:27
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darth cookie posted:Peasant. he's no monagascacariuian thats for sure
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Not exactly surprising but Alonso likes anime http://www.marca.com/albumes/2015/02/10/mclaren_se_presenta_en_japon/index.html
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Feb 10, 2015 13:57
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El Hefe posted:Not exactly surprising but Alonso likes anime I think we already knew that.  
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Feb 10, 2015 14:15
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Just another good score for Honda - anime is massive business in Japan, Alonso likes anime, Button has a half-Japanese girlfriend, etc.
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Feb 10, 2015 14:27
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Giancarlo Minardi knows what F1 on a shoestring is like, and as usual brings some sense: http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/117635 F1 has always treated its privateers like poo poo, not recognising they are where everything big in the sport comes from.
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simplefish posted:I've just realised that McLaron is now Team Weeaboo krushgroove posted:Just another good score for Honda - anime is massive business in Japan, Alonso likes anime, Button has a half-Japanese girlfriend, etc. I'm surprised at you and Hefe being so slow, you're both thread
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simplefish posted:I'm surprised at you and Hefe being so slow, you're both thread Eh, I'm too old to care now and don't live on the bleeding edge of the thread.
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Sulman posted:Giancarlo Minardi knows what F1 on a shoestring is like, and as usual brings some sense: http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/117635 actually who loving cares about small teams. he just repeatedly says "if they're not at the back of the field, a bigger team will be" (no poo poo). f1 is dying anyway but acting like marussia matters is dumb as hell. HRT's "Cool Spot" was the best thing to come out of the shithouse new teams and who the hell is going to remember anything of them in a few years beyond that and the fact that they killed jules bianchi, rip.
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Feb 10, 2015 15:43
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McLaren has zero (0) title sponsors.
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POCKET CHOMP posted:actually who loving cares about small teams. he just repeatedly says "if they're not at the back of the field, a bigger team will be" (no poo poo). f1 is dying anyway but acting like marussia matters is dumb as hell. HRT's "Cool Spot" was the best thing to come out of the shithouse new teams and who the hell is going to remember anything of them in a few years beyond that and the fact that they killed jules bianchi, rip. I remember all the bad teams. And the plucky tryhards like Minardi.
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POCKET CHOMP posted:actually who loving cares about small teams. he just repeatedly says "if they're not at the back of the field, a bigger team will be" (no poo poo). f1 is dying anyway but acting like marussia matters is dumb as hell. HRT's "Cool Spot" was the best thing to come out of the shithouse new teams and who the hell is going to remember anything of them in a few years beyond that and the fact that they killed jules bianchi, rip.
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Feb 10, 2015 15:58
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if we didnt have lovely small teams massa would have had nowhere to go after ferrari
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Dubs posted:if we didnt have lovely small teams massa would have had nowhere to go after sauber Ftfy
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its kinda hosed that ferrari somehow turned schumacher, massa and raikonnen into severly disabled vegetables Dubs fucked around with this message at 16:57 on Feb 10, 2015 |
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Dubs posted:its kinda hosed that ferrari somehow turned schumacher, massa and raikonnen into severly disabled vegetables Maybe just wait it out a bit. We could get something going with Vettel.
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POCKET CHOMP posted:actually who loving cares about small teams. he just repeatedly says "if they're not at the back of the field, a bigger team will be" (no poo poo). f1 is dying anyway but acting like marussia matters is dumb as hell. HRT's "Cool Spot" was the best thing to come out of the shithouse new teams and who the hell is going to remember anything of them in a few years beyond that and the fact that they killed jules bianchi, rip. If you lose a small team, the next smallest team becomes the small team. Marussia weren't even a small team, they were just the smallest in 2014.
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if it was Maengland im sure people would care fuckin racists itt
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Dudley posted:If you lose a small team, the next smallest team becomes the small team. Marussia weren't even a small team, they were just the smallest in 2014. This is what happened to Minardi.
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The one, the only, Giancarlo Minardi raged against the decision not to let Manor/Marussia drive with the 2014 car; warning that eventually a top team will find itself at the end of the grid without the backmarkers instead. Edit: I just want to emphasise the glory of old school team manager Minardi. Riso fucked around with this message at 17:32 on Feb 10, 2015 |
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He raises a valid point. Red Bull are throwing a huge shitfit because they finished second in the championship, imagine the poo poo hurricane if they were at the back of the grid. Less Horny Horner whining is enough of a reason to keep marussia around in my books.
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1500quidporsche posted:He raises a valid point. Red Bull are throwing a huge shitfit because they finished second in the championship, imagine the poo poo hurricane if they were at the back of the grid. Less Horny Horner whining is enough of a reason to keep marussia around in my books. Minardi ran in an era where they would grab the occasional point and keep going for the sheer sport of it. The change to 3 litres hurt them (the Ford ED was a joke) It seems impossible to do that nowadays. I still wish there was a decent, cheap(ish) standardised powerplant in F1, rather than hugely expensive client engines (everybody runs 'A' spec, essentially) that are subsidising the works R&D. Speaking of which, with two teams remaining, how long do you think Renault are going to stay in? My guess is they won't be around either 2016 or '17, dependent on their run this year.
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Sulman posted:Minardi ran in an era where they would grab the occasional point and keep going for the sheer sport of it. The change to 3 litres hurt them (the Ford ED was a joke) It seems impossible to do that nowadays. I still wish there was a decent, cheap(ish) standardised powerplant in F1, rather than hugely expensive client engines (everybody runs 'A' spec, essentially) that are subsidising the works R&D. I'd guess 2017. They have to be losing money hand over fist since Red Bull gets their engines for free, leaving toro rosso. Hard to justify from a marketing standpoint. They should bring back a two tier championship like they had for that one season in the 80s. Let poo poo teams run the V8 and if you win that championship you're obligated to run the V6 next season.
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NtotheTC posted:Joking aside he probably was. He was far too childlike and spent way too much time in speedboats with young boys. yet another reason why prost was better
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Prost also never had to crash the car of his best competitor to win a championship.
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Feb 10, 2015 18:31
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Surely Prost was the young boy to Balestre, no?
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That nose got hosed up somehow. There's a story behind that, and I suspect it starts and ends with forced oral copulation.
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Some amazing photos over at F1technical under 'Classic but forgotten', including all the usual suspects. Keep reading as it starts 'meh' but rapidly escalates to terrific. 
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I just realised with glee, that if finger-boy ever won 10 WDCs he still will never be regarded as one of the greats. That thought pleases me.
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If he brings the great Scuderia Ferrari back to glory, he will, IMO. Stay tuned.
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Feb 10, 2015 20:21
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He will never win a single WDC with Scuderia Ferrari.
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The great thing about Grand Prix motor racing is that anything can happen.
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Alain Post posted:The great thing about Grand Prix motor racing is that anything can happen. this quote is being a mclaren fan in 2015
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be nice wicka posted:this quote is being a mclaren fan in 2015 Hey, this car did three times as many laps at the first test as the last one Prodromu did the aero for did, and that one won three races. By a simple mathematical process, therefore, the McLaren is clearly going to win nine races this year. (Or maybe not.)
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1500quidporsche posted:I'd guess 2017. They have to be losing money hand over fist since Red Bull gets their engines for free, leaving toro rosso. Hard to justify from a marketing standpoint. Great idea, only issue is that you can't really say next season because they'd have already designed the car before they've won.
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Dudley posted:Great idea, only issue is that you can't really say next season because they'd have already designed the car before they've won. Half the bad teams don't even have their new car ready yet. I don't see this being an issue.
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Alain Post posted:The great thing about Grand Prix motor racing is that anything can happen. .....but usually it doesn't.
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Brainwrong posted:.....but usually it doesn't. and when it is interesting, people have a million reasons as to why it actually represents a failure or embarrassment.
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Brainwrong posted:.....but usually it doesn't. According to Murray Walker, it usually does.
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