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Michaelmad

People seem to have a lot more faith in Haas than I do! To think they're going to finish ahead of Red Bull, Renault or McLaren seems mad to me. Mercedes>Ferrari>Williams>Red Bull>McLaren>Toro Rosso>Renault>Force India>Sauber>Manor>Haas (the final two places to be decided on the odd 10th or 11th plac...

Michaelmad

I'm planning a trip to Zandvoort in the next couple of weeks - does anyone know if there's anything to commemorate Roger Williamson at the spot where he died? Obviously it's not part of the current track and the whole area has been redeveloped but I thought there might be something there despite it ...

Michaelmad

He was good enough for Schumacher to resort to crashing into him to stop him beating him. The thing is that Michael was a victim of the FIA who imposed a punishment far more ridiculous than Belgium '08 or any subsequent controversy. Schumi would have had the title sealed well before Adelaide if his...

Michaelmad

An interesting twist on this question would be to ask which champions won the number of titles they deserved.

Michaelmad

He was good enough for Schumacher to resort to crashing into him to stop him beating him.

Michaelmad

Agree with Mansell - unlucky not to win his first in 86, could have won another but for reliability & decisions not going in his favour cost him more.

Rindt would have won again if he'd had the chance.

Skullduggery cost Hill one title, and should have won in 95 with the best car in the field.

Michaelmad

They can't make F1 viable at the Nurburgring Grand Prix course as it is where everything they need is in place, so they've no chance of justifying the hundreds of millions of pounds needed to upgrade the facilities, safety, run off areas, track width/surface of a 14 mile long track, not to mention t...

Michaelmad

Doesn't this make Stirling Moss the living person to have driven in the earliest Formula 1 Grand Prix? (there's probably a better way to put that!)

Michaelmad

The British fans cheered when Schumacher crashed and broke his leg, it was not seen as something 'negative' although cheering for someone breaking his leg is pretty low. I guess it depends who it is, and where you are from This is completely ridiculous and definately not true. I'm not sure which bi...

Michaelmad

...while they might have been beasts to drive with 1000bhp and amazing levels of downforce that's also when we saw some of the worst racing in the history of sport. During a race we might have seen one or two overtakes during the whole race which I think most people didn't enjoy. Although there are...

Michaelmad

I notice he didn't complain when he came back to Williams in 1993 when they had a car that practically drove itself.

Michaelmad

I'd drive any of them, absolutely anywhere. I reckon I could drive Perry McCarthy's Andrea Moda around a Hermann Tilke designed multi-storey car park and I'd more than likely be blown away by it.

Michaelmad

Yes. Go!

Michaelmad

AngusWolfe wrote:You mean are. And no.

Not wanting to out-pedant a pedant, but the OP was correct in saying 'is', despite his post being a bit daft.

Michaelmad

Just noticed my picture of Senna driving the '95 Williams was removed because it wasn't sourced so I'm reposting. I did it with Photoshop so I guess that's the source. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bao4_FrCUAAPObW.jpg:large You still need to source the two images you used in the photoshop. Neither we...

Michaelmad

Just noticed my picture of Senna driving the '95 Williams was removed because it wasn't sourced so I'm reposting. I did it with Photoshop so I guess that's the source.

Michaelmad

How the 2014 cars would look without the silly noses:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BewjaLpCYAAEDaI.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BewccZSCYAEiexn.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BewfUnTCAAESQYc.jpg

The McLaren looks particularly good I think.

Michaelmad

Image unsourced so removed.

What might have been but for Imola 1994.

Michaelmad

TakumaSatoforthewin wrote:STFU! Just because two rich but talented Russians get a drive does not mean the apocolypse is neigh.

Stop horsing around.

Michaelmad

Also, nobody is killing F1. It's just evolving as it always has. You might not think it's heading in the right direction but that's not to say that in two or three years the direction won't have changed. And does anyone even care whether cars are doing top speeds of 200mph or 220mph, or whether they...

Michaelmad

I believe one day there will be a cross over point where moto gp bikes will be quicker than F1 cars around the same track from the same season. Absolutely no way in the world. This just isn't going to happen. I can see the point about getting rid of sand traps meaning that drivers can take more lib...

Michaelmad

It's just the noise for me. It's horrific. I've only seen a demo with a single car too - if there are 20 or so of them pounding past you it's going to be unbearable to listen to. Like watching F1 on the Beeb when Jonathan Legard was commentating.

Michaelmad

Mansell was well on course for a first title when his tyre exploded, and that year was up one of the strongest field of top-line racers the sport has seen. He was also still in with a shout for the title (different season, i forget which) when he had a massive accident at Suzuka and broke his neck ...

Michaelmad

Mansell suffered from bad luck & a couple of really costly mistakes but was the better racer (and probably faster over a lap) but Piquet was more calculating and was better at thinking about the bigger picture - ie closing out a championship. I think it was James Allen who said if you and Nigel Mans...

Michaelmad

SchumieRules wrote:What's with the football quote?

Haha - sorry! It must have been on my clipboard and I just accidentally pasted it. Completely unrelated.

Michaelmad

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22802685 Amati and Lavaggi are the worst drivers I've seen in the time I've been following F1. Bother were embarrassingly slow. Jan Magnussen & Julian Bailey were decent drivers. As was Luca Badoer, but he was clearly out of his depth at Ferrari. The thing with...

Michaelmad

Amati and Lavaggi are the worst drivers I've seen in the time I've been following F1. Bother were embarrassingly slow. Jan Magnussen & Julian Bailey were decent drivers. As was Luca Badoer, but he was clearly out of his depth at Ferrari.

Michaelmad

Surprised nobody's mentioned Mansell.

If the roles were reversed at Monaco in '92 both Senna & he would have ended up in the barrier.

Michaelmad

I'm from Northumberland so miles away from anywhere! Closest track is probably Croft.

If you live in London you're probably closer to Spa that I am to Silverstone.

Michaelmad

Unfortunately a lot of people seem to have formed their opinions on Senna based on what's in the film. I remember at the time you either loved or hated him, which a lot of people did. His attitude was that if someone tried to overtake, he was willing to crash before allowing you by so it was up to y...

Michaelmad

I have to be honest, it makes me think the film is going to be terrible.

And is it just me or in the trailer does Brett Lunger give out an audible 'Niki!' before he hits him?

Michaelmad

I'm a bit dubious. I want to love it and I love the idea of it and the story behind it, but the trailer looks like it could be erring on the sensationalised version of events. I hope I'm wrong. There's quite a lot to this story that might only appeal to the die hard F1 fan and so I hope the nuances ...

Michaelmad

A big blow for Williams & Caterham as FIA has deemed their exhaust layouts as illegal:-

No pun intended?

Michaelmad

theferret wrote:
Michaelmad wrote:

How about this one?
French or Spanish road...I have an inkling due to all those trees that it's Montjuic Park, maybe turn 9?

Monjuic yes. Turn 11 I think - heading up to the startline.

Great topic.

Michaelmad

How about this one?

Michaelmad

theferret wrote:
coulthards chin wrote:

Name that corner!

Is it that funny chicane they put in in the 90s at Estoril?

Michaelmad

Is it Quincy? Or the Ostkurve?

Michaelmad

Masta. When I saw this thread I thought it was 'name the coroner'. I only know Quincy so I'd have been rubbish.

Michaelmad

Italy has a navy?

Michaelmad

I reckon Kovalainen has done enough for a move from Caterham, and has shown he's a decent #2 in the past so he must be in with a shout of a better drive, so why not Ferrari? I think he'd take a 1 year contract too and try and prove his worth to another team if that's all that was offered. The Hulk m...

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