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Harpo

It seems like the poll redactor can't imagine people can be born before Lauda was crowned, and still be alive... Let me tell you that the life expectancy, though decreasing in few western countries, is still slightly over 37 years.

Fangio for me

Harpo

Fiki wrote:
ajc1587 wrote:Niki Lauda (1975).

You had me trying to work out who was champion in 1587 there...

Francis Drake, but he cheated...

Harpo

May I spoil the party ? It was a race that was interesting and fun to watch, yes, but a great race ? Too much depends on tyre wear and marbles outside the main line... Even tyre strategies (except Rosberg's one, with hindsight) looked like tossing a coin. The only good thing about this is that's it...

Harpo

Not to take anything off of Rosberg - but that mercedes looked like a class of its own. It's the first time this a team seem to "dominate" a race from qualies to the finish line but... Schumacher wouldn't have been on the first row without Hamilton's penalty, and if not retiring he wouldn...

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Aeson wrote:
Formula1Fan. wrote:What was the 'Biggest disappointment since Shrek 2'?

Schumacher's retirement.

Well, that lets Shrek 3 for you to be a lot more disappointed...

Harpo

May I spoil the party ? It was a race that was interesting and fun to watch, yes, but a great race ? Too much depends on tyre wear and marbles outside the main line... Even tyre strategies (except Rosberg's one, with hindsight) looked like tossing a coin. The only good thing about this is that's it'...

Harpo

It's too early to draw conclusions, we have to wait for a race with warmer weather, but if Mercedes can repeat this form and not spoil the race of the second driver's car in the pits, may be we could get an unexpected surprise (that's what a surprise usually is) at the end of the season. Rosberg is ...

Harpo

Leen26 wrote:
Chunky wrote:The pressure is starting to show. Last race he used the wrong finger when he ran into the Force India.

That's becoming serious! 2 fingers, wrong finger, god knows what he'll do next!

Put them where he shouldn't ? And publicly ?

Harpo

Some of my favorites are already here (Gulf Wyer cars, green Lotus, black and Gold Lotus, plain red Ferrari...). Here few I'm surprised haven't been posted yet : The simpler the better... Original McLaren orange, far better than the ugly orange they sometimes use nowadays (not speaking of their even...

Harpo

Who else starts to think about designing f1 innovations when they are bored or procastinating? E.g. One day was bored and had this cardboard scrap laying around, I then proceeded to design a front wing. Also had thoughts on how dirty front wings reduce downforce so seeing as I can't conduct a test ...

Harpo

Bernie coming back to a decent level (not even reasonable, just decent) of money... But that would be (and would have been) a shock in any season, not just the current one !

Harpo

Bosse wrote:Yes, Helmut Marko is single-handedly trying to make everyone hate Red Bull - apparently that has been his quest for the last few years.

2010 Turkey never forget?

Well Vettel is more often than not adding one finger to Marko's hands...

Harpo

Autosport is reporting that Hirvonen has been disqualified for technical infringements, Ostberg is handed the win and Loeb stays ahead in the championship. To repeat my earlier sentiment, what a bizarre rally! Citroen appealed against the disqualification... Disqualification that seems very strange...

Harpo

This is Martin Brundle's take on it: Did you think Vettel was right to criticise back markers after Sepang? No, that’s just an angry man who hasn’t got a front-running car at the moment. I thought it looked a bit clumsy. Vettel didn’t leave enough room. We saw it in the Indian Grand Prix last year ...

Harpo

This is Martin Brundle's take on it: Did you think Vettel was right to criticise back markers after Sepang? No, that’s just an angry man who hasn’t got a front-running car at the moment. I thought it looked a bit clumsy. Vettel didn’t leave enough room. We saw it in the Indian Grand Prix last year ...

Harpo

The funny thing is that just before the start of the rally, Loeb said in an interview that having night stages on such roads was crazy because there is so much dust that it's like driving in thick smog, and anyone could lose 2 minutes on the opening driver in a 30 km stage, or bin the car without ev...

Harpo

http://richerramblings.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/one-hundred-100-dollar-bill.jpg I hope few others are hidden behind, because I fear this lonely one is not enough for Bernie... So let's see..... The French government will pay Bernie 16.7 million pounds for this honor. He dropped the price from 17...

Harpo

Zpectre wrote:Paul Ricard, unproven?

That being said I'd prefer both Spa and Paul Ricard and getting rid of that Abu Dhabi circus.

The current Paul Ricard is no more the Castellet of old...

Harpo

Pedrosa_4_Ever wrote:

I hope few others are hidden behind, because I fear this lonely one is not enough for Bernie...

Harpo

In your alien world may be, but a blue flag doesn't mean the overtaking driver can do whatever he wants, just like 2 WDC don't give you the right to show so much contempt towards the backmarkers. As a human being he is not a champion of any sort. Having primary rights as towards lapped drivers does...

Harpo

Karthikeyan has as many rights as Vettel (or any of the other 22 drivers) to be on the racing track. Nope. You're wrong. As soon as he sees the blue flag, his rights become secondary. In your alien world may be, but a blue flag doesn't mean the overtaking driver can do whatever he wants, just like ...

Harpo

I don't really want to get into 'who's' fault is was when they were racing. It happened, it happened. I don't understand the issue people are having with Vettel's reaction? He's human and he can express himself. I don't have an issue with Narain's reply either. The FIA should shut up and stop handi...

Harpo

I love the reasoning that some of you have come up with to put "your man" on your list, or dismiss some other driver. You can argue all day long with 10 people and in the end still have 10 different lists. However, the ignorance I am seeing by some to dismiss Schumacher as being not that ...

Harpo

I love the reasoning that some of you have come up with to put "your man" on your list, or dismiss some other driver. You can argue all day long with 10 people and in the end still have 10 different lists. However, the ignorance I am seeing by some to dismiss Schumacher as being not that ...

Harpo

As there is no more wet race (as soon as it is wet enough to be called wet, it's red flagged or not started...), there can't be any more rainmaster. Donnington 93 would be postponed nowadays... One of the many stupid ideas brought by Bernie was to add sprinklers along the tracks to get a "wet m...

Harpo

Renault 4 anyone? The Renault 4 was not a bad car, it was perfect for the use it was built for... Which was not to start a romance with the prima donna next door (and certainly not to conclude the romance !). If you look for an ugly and underpowered French car, go to the Citroen Ami 6 (the Ford Ang...

Harpo

Regarding Prost, he is kinda like a guy who was baseline decent, but worked hard and smart to become one of the all time greats. His natural level (in as far as we can try to gauge these things - admittedly a total subjective issue) was probably not as high as some of the other drivers. I don't kno...

Harpo

Is it legal to change the chassis after the season has started? You can bring a new car at every race if you please (and got the money to do it...), as long as it fits the rules and passes the crash test... Besides, before being in Marca, the news was in the Gazetta Dello Sport, and says the main m...

Harpo

Is it legal to change the chassis after the season has started? You can bring a new car at every race if you please (and got the money to do it...), as long as it fits the rules and passes the crash test... Besides, before being in Marca, the news was in the Gazetta Dello Sport, and says the main m...

Harpo

Surprising result of an Italian survey : m Not entirely surprising - Rubens has proven to be a guy who can finish 2nd when the chosen #1 driver wins and will bend over with a smile on his face when asked to. Massa will bend over, but will finish 10th when the chosen #1 wins the race. Well the surpr...

Harpo

Surprising result of an Italian survey :

http://www.auto.it/sondaggi/autosprint/ ... ri+n.+6%3F

Harpo

Eva09 wrote:
Raikkonette wrote:Avis

Who's Avis?

A track where you can rent the racing cars...

Harpo

When people say the A1 ring do they mean the old Osteriechring ? I always hated the new A1 ring that replaced it. I don't understand why anyone would want to see Imola back either. After 1994 it was a horribly boring track to watch. Very tricky to pass and few memorable races. I'd like to see the r...

Harpo

Trulli? I don't see what that's going to achieve. Given his level of performance for Lotus I have no reason to believe that Trulli would do any better than Massa. There's little sense in replacing Massa after one race, especially as there's not really anyone suitable available. I'm getting increasi...

Harpo

Destroy (I would happily destroy m0re than 3 of the current tracks but I stick with the rules) :
Valencia
Bahrain
Abu Dhabi

Revive :
Charade
A1 Ring (In the shape of the Osterreichring / Zeltweg)
Kyalami

Harpo

It's AutoSprint, that says that, contrary to what Ferrari claims (there is no driver available in an instant), there are at least 2 drivers, Perez and Trulli : Autosprint is building the coffin : « Però, a esser maliziosi, quel bicchiere pieno a metà può avere anche un’altra interpretazione: signifi...

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Autosprint is building the coffin : « Però, a esser maliziosi, quel bicchiere pieno a metà può avere anche un’altra interpretazione: significa che Alonso è solo. L’altra metà del bicchiere – quella simboleggiata dal suo compagno di squadra Massa – è completamente vuota. Il brasiliano è già un caso: ...

Harpo

Did any of you watch onboards of Alonso in the race? The Ferrari looked very stable for Alonso in race trim, if anything just a bit to much understeer (Which can make it to stable) so it's a bit of a myth everyone going crazy about how unstable the car was, which it was in quali but it was stable i...

Harpo

I have always wondered why did he struggle at McLaren? Everywhere else he has performed very well. Did he really performed better than at McLaren ? He did no wonders yesterday... Petrov was better. Why not Petrov to Ferrari then ? He wouldn't block Alonso any more... Seriously, if Ferrari feel the ...

Harpo

Toby. wrote:STR, with two rookies, almost had both cars in the points in the first race. One can only imagine they'll improve as the season continues.

They only have one rookie... Vergne.
And it was Vergne's first taste of the track to boot !

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