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Must find the box set of Sabrina... I mean er, my week so far has been EPIC. Me, the girlfriend and her flatmates had Christmas last night. I got an F1 car keyring, with my name engraved on the base. There were other things too, but that kind of took priority! Then in the pub later that night, a qua...

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I'm English, but my grandmother is Czech. Part of my old band's logo was the Czech flag, and I've tended to support Czecho over the UK in a lot of international competitions. Ironically I still feel the exact same pain as England every World Cup, but at least we have less expectation on our shoulder...

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Like Lola in 1997 spent all the money producing the car getting to aus and then bining the whole plan. I don't know wat entirely happened there but that's my point, looks to lower class imo They binned nothing. MasterCard screwed them over by backing out after the cars failed to qualify in Australi...

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ashley313 wrote:Its been awhile since the announcement was made. Perhaps he HAS been seeking the answer privately. Perhaps he's been let go because he was making a big stink about a serious issue? I'll wait to hear what the situation is before judging.

Hence I feel we have a right to know what's going on.

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Hartstein was Watkins' protege, was he not? If Max were still around I could understand Hartstein being given the boot - see the reference to Roebuck's article above - but there's no reason to not renew his contract that I can see - quite the opposite, given the first four words of this post. Whatev...

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Being an insomniac isn't all that bad... For example, its 0 more sleeps till Christmas! I can relate to that one! Maybe 2 or 3 at the most :lol: I've just lost my phone, and wanted to get a message out to whoever may have found it. I can explain the photos on the phone. My hamster had come down wit...

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Ide, Yamamoto, Montagny, Kiesa [he missed his window for qualifying in Canada!], Yoong, Nakano, Inoue. Although Taki Inoue is perhaps an unfair example - he did seem to attract the medical car towards him, famously being hit by it twice in one year. Hardly his fault.

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Chriso, can you start typing in proper English please, some of us aren't accustomed to textspeak with no punctuation or recognisable words.

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Absolutly these teams should strive for higher goals, I know it's hard and not cheap but why head into f1 going ok goal is q3, why bother, plus I understand how back in the day you'll have like 30 cars and 10 wouldn't even qualify, this IMO is when the governing body should step in and allow extra ...

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A friend of mine thought she'd broken her neck when she passed out at work in January - she was taken by ambulance to hospital directly from the site, her boss even dialled the ambulance on her behalf, and then when she was still in hospital, still completely immobilised in one of those braces becau...

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Lola and Prodrive put in bids, but the FIA refused as neither wanted to use the Cosworth lump. Max was trying to get his universal engine forced onto the grid, hence he picked 3 [well, 4, but USF1 never made it...] weak teams rather than those with established motorsport pedigree. Prodrive didn't h...

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Sorry couldn't think of appropriate title but what Iam trying to say is, the way these small teams enter the championship for 1-2 seasons and fold. I understand formula one is an expensive cut throat industry, but they way they keep popping up and folding under different names is a joke, this is fo...

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On a side note, anyone with Twitter could you report the account @AdamLanza__ - those sorts of tweets are hardly appropriate at any time, let alone like this.

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You're asking in the off-season when a lot of the members go elsewhere. There's no use bumping the thread like that.

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I go up to the kitchen, via the front door which has been left wide open, to find the radiator on [which it should be at this time in the evening] and the window open [which it shouldn't be, given the heating situation]. Add this to the fact the entire house keeps complaining how cold it is - am I ...

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I go up to the kitchen, via the front door which has been left wide open, to find the radiator on [which it should be at this time in the evening] and the window open [which it shouldn't be, given the heating situation]. Add this to the fact the entire house keeps complaining how cold it is - am I l...

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Just had an email from my poetry tutor - apparently my poetry needs to be more song-like. I replied, admitting I had in fact used an old set of SONG LYRICS which happened to fit the task she had set for us. Can't wait to see her reply...!

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So they are all marketing executives . Right? In a different way to someone like Mallya or Fernandes, yes. Williams, Sauber, Ferrari and McLaren exist to race. Ferrari is infamous for selling road cars simply to fund the F1 team. McLaren started out as a racing team before branching out - and would...

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So they are all marketing executives . Right? In a different way to someone like Mallya or Fernandes, yes. Williams, Sauber, Ferrari and McLaren exist to race. Ferrari is infamous for selling road cars simply to fund the F1 team. McLaren started out as a racing team before branching out - and would...

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dizlexik wrote:
Tufty wrote:
dizlexik wrote:
Porsan wrote:None.

I prefer old-style true racers than marketing executives.
Nowadays are there any old-style true races in F1?
Williams and Sauber.
Williams do a lot of marketing stuff.

In order to keep the team running. Actually, add Ferrari to that list too, and arguably McLaren.

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Lorenzo Bandini (ITA) François Cevert (FRA) Peter Collins (UK) Piers Courage (UK) Elio de Angelis (ITA) Patrick Depailler (FRA) Ronnie Peterson (SWE) Tom Pryce (UK) Roland Ratzenberger (AUT) Peter Revson (USA) Jochen Rindt (AUT) Jo Schlesser (FRA) Ayrton Senna (BRA) Jo Siffert (SUI) Gilles Villeneu...

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dizlexik wrote:
Porsan wrote:None.

I prefer old-style true racers than marketing executives.
Nowadays are there any old-style true races in F1?

Williams and Sauber.

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An interesting summary, although it made perhaps too little of their history - especially 2008, losing to Toro Rosso. To go directly from there to fighting for the title was impressive.

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If the FIA want to explore new tech in open wheelers, allow experimental stuff alongside the trusty ICE in F1. These are some of the most creative engineering minds in motorsport: let them be useful to the motor industry too!

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Welcome to the MadHouse

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Non-F1 related. Did you know that Juan Manuel Fangio asked Enzo to consider Horacio Pagani for a position within Ferrari, but Ferrari rejected Pagani? Hence the Zonda was named after Fangio - that's what the F stood for. Yes, I posted that in the Heroes thread. ;) :blush: I knew I'd read it recently!

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racer_nobu wrote:Non-F1 related.

Did you know that Juan Manuel Fangio asked Enzo to consider Horacio Pagani for a position within Ferrari, but Ferrari rejected Pagani?

Hence the Zonda was named after Fangio - that's what the F stood for.

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Yet in the past Bernie has said he doesn't like only having 10 teams as it means everyone gets prize money, so the 10th team is more likely to simply tread water rather than aim to improve.

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I'd have tried to force F1 teams to join Formula E to increase the appeal of the sport. Imagine Ferrari, McLaren, Red Bull,maybe Lotus against some different names, experts in the field. I'd love to see that!

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I said it elsewhere a couple of days ago: get rid of the aero and engine restrictions: build some templates for different components, and mandate all cars must fit those. Allow whatever engines teams want, whatever KERS, movable aero as long as it is safe [keep today's safety standards, obviously] ...

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I'll visit Vienna if I get this job in Salzburg lol DID YOU KNOW....(back to the article tufty and I both seem to have read)...that Prof Sid and his medical car driver, I forget who it was at the time, once stole a random car w/the keys in it from the car park at a race when their medical car went ...

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Laura23 wrote:If he can get that first win under his belt quickly then why not. Lewis nearly won in his first year and didn't win a race until round 7 so Perez with two years of experience can do it.

That said I don't think he will.

Absolutely this.

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Welcome to the MadHouse

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OOH! I bought me an iPod dock today. I've now spent more on myself for Christmas than on everyone else combined

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And that's my Christmas cheer spread for the day

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Did you know...Bernie booked an appointment with Dr Sid Watkins about his eye as an excuse to talk to him about taking over medical considerations in Formula 1? He also made Sid an offer that seemed extremely lucrative, under the proviso the Prof pay his own way to and from the races - his accounta...

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Nice to know there's still a bit of community spirit alive!

And here's something not necessarily positive for me, but I'm sure SDLRob will laugh at it - just got deoderant in my eye

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Sound... *thinks* EDIT - for now... I think this could work... http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8169/7928528926_b40140e652_z.jpg Senna Boys in full song by robertmcdean , on Flickr I can assure you, there was a heck of a lot of sound being made there :lol: :lol: Brilliant. I shall let the relevant par...

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Home?? Lucky you! I'm at uni for another 8 days yet! And I need to get some work done... meh, that's what Saturday is for

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I said it elsewhere a couple of days ago: get rid of the aero and engine restrictions: build some templates for different components, and mandate all cars must fit those. Allow whatever engines teams want, whatever KERS, movable aero as long as it is safe [keep today's safety standards, obviously] a...

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