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Seriously? And there I was thinking that the consistently fastest driver / team were supposed to win the championship. Silly me...

Time for FIA to stop playing *inaudible*.

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Would I get on a plane with no pilot? Yes, I have done so on numerous occasions... when I was the pilot.

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Ok, this one is definitely not recent but I think it is a beauty: It happened the first time I ever drove a car with an automatic gearbox after quite a few years in stick shift cars only (Automatic gearboxes were few and far between around here back then): All went well until I came to the busiest r...

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:idea: ... as of 9:30pm EST, 29% of the visitors of this site voted Kimi as the star of the race. Yep, 29% of the visitors of planetf1 voted that Kimi was the star of the race for taking out Fernando in the Japanese GP. Well... On the other hand, 71% of those who voted (by no means all visitors of p...

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Holy crap, thats some nice pictures. I'm flying from Istanbul to Helsinki and then taking an overnight cruise from Helsinki to Stockholm? From then to Karlstad and then Oslo. Finally another cruise from Oslo to Copenhagen. Sooo looking forward to it! Post some pictures if you have the opportunity. ...

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At Monza Vettel was told by a rather shrill voice over the radio to "stop the car, because they needed to preserve the engine"...

Does anyone know how many engines the teams have left for this season?
Will some teams be short of engines towards the end of the season?

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Even if a car had hit Alonso's head, side on, surely it would have beena glancing blow and his helmet would have taken the brunt? Maybe the helmet would have taket the brunt and protected his head, but what would that have been in aid of if that glancing blow had snapped his neck? He very nearly di...

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domdonald wrote:
COG wrote:Really thrilling. I can't wait for the first high res pictures.
i bet it will show some thrilling reddish coloured rocks

Yes, most likely, but I still find it thrilling...

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Really thrilling. I can't wait for the first high res pictures.

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Well now... How often have you heard someone say something like: -If the sign says 50 km/h I drive 50 km/h or some variation thereof? Every time I hear it, I ask: -According to what? usually being awarded a "deer caught in the headlight look" before I get the answer -The speedometer, of course... Me...

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Being Scandinavian (Swedish), I can offer a bunch of pictures from around here, all taken by yours truly at: http://photobucket.com/ClaesG

This one is from the Ice Castle in Kemi:

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Certainly... As I am not the fastest driver around ( I.e: No excessive speeding, I just try to adapt to the traffic flow), I generally avoid passing judgment on others. There is one person living nearby however, who can only be described as a royal pain in the Glutteus Maximus: He habitually drives ...

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hittheapex wrote:Just received that issue a few days ago because I'm outside the UK. Everything with Williams was, Frankly, brilliant.

Bit of a pun there: Frankly Williams.

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F1 in effect had active aero from the mid 1980s up to 1993 with active suspension. I'm not by any means an aerodynamicist but as far as I can understand, by keeping the ride height of the car at it's optimal level at different parts of the circuit, this increased grip and cornering speeds. They did...

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moby wrote:Geez,,,, I just realised I actually owned most of those nominated

Good Grief.... I do hope you have also owned someting NOT on the list?

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vikz22 wrote:I was just kidding

I know you did...

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probably they said, if you see an elk, its safer to plough straight into it, then avoid it! There is a lot of debate on that subject, but believe me: When one of those brutes appear in front of you, you will do anything to avoid hitting it. I should know, having a few near misses on my rap sheet. T...

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Now then: As we are in fact discussing the worst car in the world title, I ought to mention that the A1 was neither the first nor the last victim of that test: I believe the first one to go was this Skoda in 1979: It actually fell over at just 30Kph! An absolutely lethal car. Just like the Merc peop...

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I thought that was the Mercedes A1 It was... I remember it well: The A1 went A over T big time in in 1997 when a Swedish car magazine applied the "Elk Avoidance Test" (Sharp evasive S-turn at 70 Kph). At first the Merc people denounced the test, claiming that it was somehow rigged and that there wa...

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darksides wrote:I'd like to see Webber replace Massa at Ferrari but it doesn't seem likely at this stage.

...and even less so now: Webber just signed for 2013 with RB.

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For whatever reasons, Ferrari have been quite patient with Massa. He has not been delivering for a long time, and I would be surprised if one good result tips the scales the other way. If he keeps improving and delivering from now on, on the other hand... Then they would have no reason for chucking ...

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Maria De Villotas recent accident certainly put the head protection issue in a new pespective, wouldn't you say?

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I have watched this sequence a couple of times, and I believe few drivers would have given the position away in the same situation. They were racing for position after all, and Lewis was ahead. In my view Maldonado put his foot in it by trying to overtake Lewis in a situation where overtaking was ni...

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SchumieRules wrote:If it is a case of a 3-wheel car, I find the Isetta (a BMW no less, although there was a 4-wheel as well) even worse, for the access to the driver's seat!

I agree that it is hideous too, but does it fall over in turns with the same effortless grace as a Reliant?

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I had a guy hit the side of my girlfriends car while I was travelling in it. He went nuts, explaining how he had never had an accident in his 50 odd years of driving. Im sure me pointing out that he had just had one now probably didn't help his mood, Brilliant comeback, I have to say. :lol: This cr...

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RacingFan1 wrote:The worst car, by far, is a RELIANT ROBIN. No contest, absolutely useless car, that makes any 4-wheel car look good, even things like the Yugo or the Lada Riva.

Yes, it is ugly as well as useless, but on the other hand it serves no practical purpose either. The worst "car" ever imo.

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Take the test . :thumbup: My results after one round*: 10/10 and an estimated 50,035-strong vocabulary! :o Apparently you can keep playing to refine your score. :] * Select the level 'College & Beyond' and start from there, or else a perfect score won't net you particularly impressive results. Inte...

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I would like to nominate the Reliant Robin. I have not seen one outside the U.K, but apparently they even sport skids under the sides of the front. One owner told me that they are very useful when taking a corner at anything above pedestrian speed. Come on, why not use one wheel in each corner of th...

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I have had my doubts concerning the safety of DRS. In Canada Schumachers DRS flap jammed in the open position (something that was supposed to be impossible). I shudder at the thought of what might happen if that happens at the end of a long straight. 8O Hang on. Brakes have failed on F1 cars - shou...

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I'm not sure how anyone believed this was impossible (it clearly wasn't). If the flap can be made to stay open when it's being used correctly, how is it anything other than highly possible that it might be held open by a failure? Exactly. What is more shocking is that the mechanics didn't know how ...

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PzR Slim wrote:A hydraulic tube jammed the mechanism open.

Aha. Thank's for the info. Anyway, that could have been really nasty.

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I have had my doubts concerning the safety of DRS. In Canada Schumachers DRS flap jammed in the open position (something that was supposed to be impossible). I shudder at the thought of what might happen if that happens at the end of a long straight. 8O Has anyone heard anything about the cause yet?

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Posted earlier that I have my BS in Mechanical Engineering and that I work in the automotive industry as a CFD project engineer. I'm leaving that job to become a Naval Aviator and commissioned officer in the US Navy. I've been wanting this since I was 10 and I'm excited to finally get started doing...

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Thanks for interesting read. Makes me want to get into a glider. Glad to hear it. The airbrakes can't be applied progressively? Oh yes, but they are primarily intended for adjusting the glide angle on final by disturbing the airflow over the wing, rather than just slow you down. They look and act m...

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Clearly, this is an issue we need to get on top of. To that end, I propose we list those incidental features of our lives which may give us away as F1 fans.. The mere fact that I discuss F1 given any opportunity at work... ...with the other 14 colleagues involved in our F1 group there: We try to pr...

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ouch. what happens if you're in a dive and can't slow down. bring along a parachute? Oh, you don't need to be in much of a dive in a glider to reach max permissible speed (As you can see they are quite "slippery", and have minimal frontal area). This usually happens in the final glide of a cross co...

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My Hobby for last 25 years are mountain bikes, as i build them from ground up and ride them hard all year long anywhere i can.. Likewise, apart from that I usually buy a standard bike. I have two MTB's at the moment and just about the only original part remaining on the oldest one (in the picture) ...

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Never mind the center of gravity, how bad is the inertial coupling in that thing? Not half bad if you stay within the permitted speed envelope. Going beyond max permissible speed (250 km/h in calm weather for this type) will create another problem long before inertia coupling hits you: Wing flutter...

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Hobbies... I have quite a few. This is just off the top of my head. There is more. First and foremost there is reading: I am a bookworm of the worst order, and always have been since I learned to read. There is also photography. I spent countless hours in the darkroom before the digital era made thi...

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It appears to that as the audience of this sport we don't having a ducking clue of what we want but what we have at this time is bloody magic for the sport, so essentially is F1 in a 'golden' era and all the worry is complete *Definitely True*? Yes, why worry? The racing is still there, and as ente...

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