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Blake wrote:There was no LUCK involved, it was Luca's time driving for Lancia's rally team that brought him to the attention of Ferrari. That is not luck, that is earning your way.

Being Agnelli's golden boy at FIAT didn't hurt his chances either! Luca's here to stay (unless he catches politics)

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purchville wrote:Caught, tagged and released a black marlin back in 2004. That was always a bucket list item for me

Did the game fishing thing quite a few years ago. Proved to myself that Hemingway I am not. Still want to do the hot-air balloon safari. Anyone done this/know where/why/who etc?

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moby wrote: I know someone who called his cat after his mother-in-law. Funt its name is. (true)

That's better than "Cooking Fat"!

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Oh and Spoonerisms - That'll sort the bucking fastard.

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There has been much talk regarding team orders but little seems to have been said about their enforcement.
What do you, as TP, do to enforce the orders or punish non-compliance?
Financial penalty? Driver X takes a "rest" for the next race?

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P-F1 Mod wrote:Mainly so we can laugh at members

Nobody laughs at my member you moo pickle!

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coulthards chin wrote:I went to the dentist's today and was sat in the waiting room flicking through the magazines.

I think this Lewis Hamilton guy is going to have a really good debut season at McLaren!

coulthards chin wrote: It hasn't been the same since Punch went tits up

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Just finished a biog. of Josiah Harlan - an American in Afghanistan in the 19th century. many, many parallels with more recent history

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[quote="LukeMallory"]The trophies look like something I'd get for winning the annual 5km workplace race.

Is it just me or does it look like something you'd put in a fish tank?

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Pls don't tell the thousands of Canadians who have zillions of acres of forest burning !

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runningman67 wrote:Science Fiction writers in my opinion are visionaries.

Bell-shaped curve I'm afraid; for every visionary there's a total plonker to balance them out

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and for the intelligentsia....Futue te ipsum.

now where's yer filter?

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Banana Man wrote:Surely there must be something selling fresh meat on GP weekends, all those campers having a BBQ.

http://shop.delhaize.be/storelocator?lo ... chTerm=spa

There you go. Enjoy

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Another Spa question, does anyone know a good place to buy meat if you're camping? There must be a Delhaize somewhere (Spa?) Depending on your language skills you could simply ask a local yokel - be careful you don't end up with horse meat (unless you want horse) Is there a difference between meat ...

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mikeyg123 wrote:Here in Canada ice hockey is our game and

For my wife's family (who were pretty much all Quebec Nordiques fans) hockey was the religion. (and religion was more like a game - but we probably don't need to go there)

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Very VERY few of you get APTN (Aboriginal Peoples Television Network) but my friend Ooleepeeka ( a big Schumi fan)had a show "Niqitsiat" and invited various guests to cook. This is what I did: Tomatoes stuffed with Arctic Char. The original recipe I'd stolen from another TV show but they were using ...

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Circuit Gilles Villeneuve?
OK we only got dropped for a year (forget which)but I don't think the circuit changed.

--Oooops! didn't read entire question!! Too busy slurping morning coffee and blood pressure pills!

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You asked for personal experiences. I have eaten at The Cavallino (and thoroughly enjoyed it) I particularly like the story of (I think) Chris Amon who was taken there for lunch by Enzo after a morning testing, liberally plied with vino and then told "maybe you go faster this afternoon!" Nearly forg...

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[quote="mikeyg123"]Whilst your in Paris check out the Mercedes, Toyota etc flagship show rooms on the Champs-Élysées. They usually have F1 cars among other interesting vehicles on display. Yes, I had forgotten that. Saw the constructors' trophy at Renault lo these many years ago!! Also if in Milan c...

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if you are going,as your list suggests, to Maranello you have to eat at the Cavallino opposite the factory gates. The food is good, as is the service, and who knows who sat in that seat before?

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Just got in to Montreal after long day so possibly a little incoherent. Had been thinking about this topic from a slightly different angle. How does average TV viewer really KNOW that there is a driver in the car? All you see (most of the time) is a crash helmet - this could be attached to almost an...

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I imagine from your original post that the two options are the ONLY two options and there is no third way. I left the UK twenty seven years ago for Canada so the "popping back now and again" option was not really there. Now I am looking at selling my business and retiring to Quebec City. Like you my...

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Some of us are more artistically challenged. I could manage a Lotus 72 (or the gas turbine car) basically a door-stop with wheels and an airbox. What I would have absolutely loved to be able to draw was a Lola T70 or Ferrari P4 - OK not F1 but something about the sensuous curves of those two really ...

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Would that it were as simple as bolting on a copy of the supposedly advantageous part. If you've got a Reliant Robin bolting on a fourth wheel still is not going to give you mercedes-like performance. If the fundamental packages are not compatible it ain't gonna work and so the questions then become...

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I think the decision to allow them to race or not must partly be influenced by the prevailing circumstances, the drivers' state of mind (is he fired up, angry and likely to be over-aggressive because of some other incident?) I don't think you can have a blanket yes or no at this stage of the game. C...

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Covalent wrote:BTW, I found the last paragraph interesting!

yes. I presume this is a static test. I also presume a camera would/could give superior performance.

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reading thread re. cameras got me thinking. Tesla, I saw on TV the other day, have replaced mirrors on road cars with cameras citing an aero advantage (as well as appearing high-tech).
Do the rules allow this approach in F1 and where would you put the screen to view?

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OK Bahrain is current so it's time for a camel joke. A tourist wants to go for a ride in the dessert so he hires a camel from a local camel hire Co. He is out for a couple of days and the camel drops dead. Slowly and painfully he makes his way back. Parched and sunburned he makes it to the camel hir...

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I can't decide which polar bear is the best. The stoner or the one that looks like Brian Griffin with a set of dentures. Easy! I live in Polar Bear territory - the stoner might have the munchies: if you are on the menu this is bad, the one with the dentures could probably only give you a nasty gumm...

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And then of course...http://www.boredpanda.com/funny-book-titles-covers/

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If you have, as you state, been watching F1 for the last thirty years then you are clearly no longer a child: why then does your "essay" strike me as so childish? You intend to take a stand by, as far as I can make out, doing nothing; not watching, not buying merchandise, not looking at results. Thi...

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With his tongue.

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I have a dog called Pudding. Any takers?

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Errmm...How many die in road accidents worldwide every day? And we're racing CARS????? OMG! how heartless. The last mass audience race stopped (and not restarted) for a fatality was I believe, when Greg Moore was killed (could easily be wrong on that one) but the point is even when "one of our own" ...

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Somebody's got to do it: I am old enough and ugly enough to stand the inevitable abuse so.....

Covalent wrote: Will they be fitting some monkeys at the back?

Some already put'em in the front.

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Very nice, but I can't help thinking Vijay Mallya's Indian Empress will leave Eddie tossing in her wake as it were.

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Snowmobiled to work as usual, advertised machine online. Guy looked at it midmorning, cheque in hot little hand by lunchtime.
Had to take a taxi home though, but still awesome.

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Balibari wrote:Love is trivial compared to sport?

"Racing is life. Anything before or afterwards is just waiting" - Steve McQeen

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amazing it was how wood can simply grow out of reindeer's heads. Not so dumb! My wife (who is out of town right now so I cannot confirm this absolutely) uses the word "wood" to describe antlers because this is the french translation. Not sure if this applies to french french or just Quebec french b...

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Of course you have to go; do you really want to spend the rest of your life not knowing if it was worth it? Everyone here has touched on various aspects but most agree that the live experience cannot be conveyed adequately by a television. Do you want to spend your money on a better television or go...

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