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i loving guarantee all of you morons that vdg will never race in F1 ever again (excluding any potential sauber races he wriggles his way into this year). it's just absolutely, clearly, objectively not happening.
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Riso posted:Button once broke his contract with Williams to drive another year in a poo poo show Honda and had to pay millions to make it go away. He later became WDC and was able to move to McLaren. Fair enough, but Button at that point wasn't a washout with mediocre to bad results.
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be nice wicka posted:i loving guarantee all of you morons that vdg will never race in F1 ever again (excluding any potential sauber races he wriggles his way into this year). it's just absolutely, clearly, objectively not happening. You just contradicted yourself in this post, FYI.
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Mar 11, 2015 18:01
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Human Grand Prix posted:You just contradicted yourself in this post, FYI. no
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Riso posted:Button once broke his contract with Williams to drive another year in a poo poo show Honda and had to pay millions to make it go away. He later became WDC and was able to move to McLaren. Drivers often change their minds and sort things out for large sums of money, and legally Williams could probably have enforced that contract and had a driver who didn't want to race for them stuck in the car for a year. This case is the reverse though - he wants to race, he has a contract to race, and the team have acted as though he doesn't. It's not about VDG breaking a contract and whether that would affect his career, it's about Sauber breaking a contract and whether that will bankrupt them or prevent other drivers/sponsors/etc wanting to be associated with them. And yeah, van der Garde isn't racing in F1 again unless he actually ends up in a Sauber this year. It's not really about the case, he's simply 29 and not very good and there will always be younger guys with rich daddies in GP2. The chances of there being such a run on pay drivers that his name comes up are basically zero.
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The Sweet Hereafter posted:Drivers often change their minds and sort things out for large sums of money, and legally Williams could probably have enforced that contract and had a driver who didn't want to race for them stuck in the car for a year. This case is the reverse though - he wants to race, he has a contract to race, and the team have acted as though he doesn't. It's not about VDG breaking a contract and whether that would affect his career, it's about Sauber breaking a contract and whether that will bankrupt them or prevent other drivers/sponsors/etc wanting to be associated with them. Right, this is more like when Ferrari paid Kimi to gently caress off. But Sauber is sort of doing the same thing but they have no money to pay him off, or even pay him back.
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I just wanted to talk about how hilarious I found watching Kimi's 2005 Japanese GP win, with his name written massively on the side of his car. Also, I really enjoyed the fuel battles. It was something that a was hyped up for me before I watched the 2014 season. And fuel seemed to mean jackshit last year.
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So, what if Sauber actually does give the car to Giedo Fawkes this weekend? They'll be in breach of contract with one of their other ten to fourteen pay drivers. Imagine if they sued Sauber too.
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Mar 11, 2015 18:42
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El Hefe posted:is this tsaedje with one of his famous spreadsheets? I would kill myself before wearing Red Bull merch
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Mar 11, 2015 18:42
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Eagerly awaiting Sauber to die so we can have a five team season.
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Mar 11, 2015 18:49
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Cojawfee posted:Eagerly awaiting Sauber to die so we can have a five team season. Let Ferrari run five cars imo
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The Sweet Hereafter posted:And yeah, van der Garde isn't racing in F1 again unless he actually ends up in a Sauber this year. It's not really about the case, he's simply 29 and not very good and there will always be younger guys with rich daddies in GP2. The chances of there being such a run on pay drivers that his name comes up are basically zero. There will be, but unless they get a superlicence this year, they're going to need to be actually good to get one. As far as I'm aware VDG can renew his forever now. But the people following gonna need those points.
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joe's award claims (CLAIMS) that sauber originally planned to run bianchi and vdg together, but that ferrari pulled their support once bianchi got injured, and vdg's money alone wasn't enough to prop up the team
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Jedit posted:He's just following in the footsteps of Michael Schumacher, who also left a Renault powered team for Ferrari and drove a Brawn. 
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Hopefully hamilton signs with ferrari next year so we can see them go under too. (By which I mean sell scudaria ferrari and continue running theme parks and t shirt sales) The idea of open wheel racing without ferrari is sexually exciting!
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MattD1zzl3 posted:Hopefully hamilton signs with ferrari next year so we can see them go under too. (By which I mean sell scudaria ferrari and continue running theme parks and t shirt sales) You've just made yourself an enemy for life 
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If you're thinking of going to a GP check out this ranking http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/motorsport/formulaone/11460690/Formula-One-venues-ranked-and-rated-by-Daniel-Johnson-in-pictures.html I feel that the last couple of Hungarian GPs being good was kind of an accident but otherwise his opinions make sense. I really gotta get my rear end to Australia next year. Brazil would be cool too but I'd probably get mugged, be unable to board a plane back without my id and die shortly after
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poopzilla posted:Let Ferrari run five cars imo Not a bad idea, they might actually get closer to a race win with that many.
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poty posted:I feel that the last couple of Hungarian GPs being good was kind of an accident but otherwise his opinions make sense.
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For all the complaints about Hungary being a bad track (and it kind of is), it's had it's share of really good races over the years.
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It was the scene of the greatest ever win, by the greatest ever driver. Mansell in '89
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The Hungarian Grand Prix was first held over 75 years ago and only 21 times have non-British drivers won it. Really makes you think.
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Pablo Bluth posted:It was the scene of the greatest ever win, by the greatest ever driver. Mansell in '89 Damon Hill in 93
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Pablo Bluth posted:It was the scene of the greatest ever win, by the greatest ever driver. Mansell in '89 Massa in 09
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Damon Hill in 93
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Our Damon in an Arrows coming so so close.. heartbreaking race that was  As well as Button's first win there, he won there on his 200th grand prix a few years back or so (I want to say 2011?) - I love Hungary, but I'm British so obviously I'm biased.
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Just woke up to the noise of Formula 1 cars, life is good
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NoArmedMan posted:Just woke up to the noise of Formula 1 cars, life is good But they're soooo quite now, are you sleeping on the track?????
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MattD1zzl3 posted:The idea of open wheel racing without ferrari is sexually exciting! Good news! This already exists in America!
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poopzilla posted:But they're soooo quite now, are you sleeping on the track????? P much, I live about 100m from the track
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Alain Post posted:For all the complaints about Hungary being a bad track (and it kind of is), it's had it's share of really good races over the years. It seems to keep itself afloat too. I personally am not fond of it but whatever.
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NoArmedMan posted:P much, I live about 100m from the track Yet you're not even going to the race. A shameful F1 fan.
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Human Grand Prix posted:It seems to keep itself afloat too. I personally am not fond of it but whatever. I don't know if it's still true, but for a while it was basically the unofficial Finnish GP, given the amount of Finnish fans that attended to cheer Mika.
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gret posted:Yet you're not even going to the race. A shameful F1 fan. I ended up getting tomorrow off work - so i'll head along to practice. Go all white men and women.
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Human Grand Prix posted:Good news! This already exists in America! Hmmm maybe Ferrari is not so bad
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NoArmedMan posted:Go all white men and women. Excuse me?
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poty posted:Excuse me? gret constantly accuses me of being racist because I don't like Hamilton
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NoArmedMan posted:gret constantly accuses me of being racist because I don't like Hamilton To be fair you're also Australian. e: You Am I posted:So has FOM launched the 2015 iOS/Android F1 2015 app yet? it's out now as an update to the existing 2014 app. gret fucked around with this message at 22:39 on Mar 11, 2015 |
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gret posted:e: it's out now as an update to the existing 2014 app. It's been a while since I bothered with the app, is it worth using whatever freebies they give you or do you have to pony up cash for the good stuff? and just to sanity check, the paid stuff does include a 'run the live timing later on' kinda thing doesn't it? I don't often get to watch races live because I have two kids who devour my weekend, so the old freebie live timing app was next to useless for watching the race later on in the day.
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