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Harpo

Covalent wrote:
j man wrote:Mercedes by a country mile

Jomox wrote:Sauber by a few light years.
Red Bull by... 3 parseks?

Your comments deserve to be reported to the moderators for being voluntarily provocative : The only unit of measure that got the agreement of the FIA to judge this year cars, is the pinch of salt...

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What are the results when you remove the years when there was (is) only one tyre supplier. And I don't even take into account the increasing number of races per year (from 6 in 1950 - 7 including Indianapolis, to 19). I don't remember Pirelli tyres being that good (in F1) when they had to compete a...

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I don't remember Pirelli tyres being that good (in F1) when they had to compete against other manufacturers. May be that's why they were chosen when the circus decided to do with crap tyres : Pirelli could be considered as a specialist. I recall Benetton's first win was on Pirellis, with Gerhard Be...

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That means by the end of 2016 they'll have the third highest number of wins of any tyre manufacturer with around 160 races wins (depending on the length of seasons), the second highest number of WDC wins of any tyre manufacturer with 12, and the fourth highest number of WCC wins of any tyre manufac...

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Asphalt_World wrote:The 333sp is stunning. I was so glad I got to see one race a Le Mans in 99 even if it was old hat by then.

Not factory built though....

No it was "subcontracted" to Michelotto, a usual partner... The 333 SP was good enough to be used from 1994 to 2001.

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Balibari wrote:

Just... because.

Yes...
Last time Ferrari built a sport car, it was not bad looking at all, and successful to boot.

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I was going to post something beginning by "Before Fiki enters the room..." but I see you not only came in before I do, but also left before I even open the door. You have to admit though, I didn't close the door. I even left more than a car's width for you! :D As soon I submitted my post, I notice...

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I agree with the OP except for the part of 'MS's Dastardly tactic'. Michael stuffed up, he freaked out and kept going, Damon was impatient and tried to overtake and collided. If Damon had of waited 1 more corner he would have been a 2x WDC. MS in '97 though was inexcusable and him being disqualifie...

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Everyday makes F1 closer to a music-hall show, so I guess it makes sense to anyone more interested by motor racing than by show business to turn their eyes toward endurance racing and LMP 1 cars. I personally would love to see Ferrari go back to where they really belong, but even if it's just said t...

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One of the many things I dislike about modern F1 is the lack of opportunity for small teams with little cash (but plenty of enthusiasm and talent) to be able to enter the championship and compete. It wasn't always like that. In 1986, Henri Julien, a French garage owner, entered his AGS team in the ...

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Was it not the Chaparral 'sucker'that really first exploited undercar aero? And who was Jim Hall's designer/aerodynamicist? It seems Hall took credit for others in his team? Blinky, Blake or someone with such info? The Chaparral 2J sucker car came out eight years before the Brabahm BT46B. http://ww...

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Some one forgot Fangio's revered exemple : Wimille.

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No one seems to remember the "We were basically racing Alonso" which says a lot about who was the clear n°1 driver at McLaren during the second half of the season. Anyway, that they lost the 2007 championship is just divine justice, they should have been demoted to the last place (just because no o...

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No one seems to remember the "We were basically racing Alonso" which says a lot about who was the clear n°1 driver at McLaren during the second half of the season. Anyway, that they lost the 2007 championship is just divine justice, they should have been demoted to the last place (just because no on...

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Dennis, Dennis, Guy, what's on your mind?
Dennis, Dennis, Guy, what's on your mind?
You got your eyes closed,
Heaven knows that you ain't blind.

Harpo

Montezemolo ?

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Having seen these, there is absolutely no excuse for the cars we have now! Almost all of them are beautiful, even the obscure ones like the Shadow that I hadn't really seen before so it's not nostalgia talking! The plain black Shadow F1 car was a beauty. http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2013/204/7...

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Why the opposition to this? I don't see what's wrong with recognising the most successful qualifier over the season; it's a great measure of which car + driver is the outright fastest over a single lap. There are better things to be expending effort on, that’s where my opposition is. There are any ...

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The real "classic" liveries are the plain orange of McLaren's McLaren, the plain British green with a yellow nose of Lotus, etc. That's said, the main difference is that these liveries design was made easier by the fact that there was only one main sponsor, sometimes with even no additions of little...

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Every day a new gimmick, but at least this one, though belonging to the same "everything for the showbiz-nothing for the racing" class as the previous and next ones, is harmless (but should "for sure" be considered for what it is : a bone thrown to us, after we've been fed with lots of bones of anot...

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Well it's supposed to be a drivers championship, not a control tower contest.

If they had to ban everything I want to see banned, there would be no need of a budget cap, and Tilke would still be employed worldwide but by the Red Cross only, to design the safest and ugliest autobahnen.

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DOLOMITE wrote:"I'd rather lose a race going fast enough to win it, than win one going slow enough to lose it". S.M

Besides, is the quote in your sig from Sacher Masoch ? It would make sense...

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Nick Heidfeld should appear in this list. Why? He raced in a lot of grand prix, and still didn't win, even though luck would have well and truly evened out over that period. At least some of these other drivers could have won had circumstances been slightly different and they'd got a bit luckier, b...

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FIA will have to look for replacements of the existing F1 teams that will exit from the grid soon, before thinking of adding teams.

Anyway, who cares about getting another sub Marussia team sponsored by a financial mafia whitening fraud money ? Not me.

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I'd say the London GP. Probably would've been boring, but blasting past Buckingham Palace would've been a hoot! I wonder if they'll ever have one in Wales (on the new MotoGP circuit perhaps?) Did they ever draw up a potential route for the London race? The course in NFS: shift wasn't bad - over the...

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Fiki wrote:Get only the Swiss and forget the others. Alternatively, visit Belgium. You only need chocolates from those two.

Fiki ! There's no such things as Belgian chocolates... It's "pralines", or else it's French.

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The Red Baron. I don't think I've ever been as disappointed by a non-Hollywood film as this one. It unfortunately has Hollywood written all over it. Will we ever stop thinking their way of making films is the only valid one? I didn't see the last one, but Roger Corman's movie "Von Rischtofen and Br...

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BlackSG5 wrote:alain prost 1994. didn't defened it AT ALL.

as well as Jackie Stewart in 1974... or Mansell in 1993

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The ones already implemented... The next one coming... That could be anything from a mandatory intermission with mandatory show of go-go dancers in every team pit to "increase the number of viewers", to one mandatory slow puncture per season for every car to "spice up the show", to a mandatory month...

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Colo134 wrote:
Harpo wrote:Breakaway series
that worked so well the last time there was a split in an open wheel series *sarcasm*.

So you never dated a girl again after your first attempt was a failure...

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Breakaway series

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I'd rather watch an old race, though I know the outcome, than watch the current overhyped flow of tepid water. After missing 3 races last year, I missed almost half of the races this year, most of the times not voluntarily, but I can't say I miss the races I missed. I'll watch the first races of the...

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I'm just wondering if this is a diversion or negotiation tactic to take attention away from something else they really want to push through the system (e.g. 2 pit stops), I seem to remember the FIA did something similar a few years ago. If not then I fear we are witnessing F1 finally crossing the l...

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One more nail into the coffin... It's almost ready to be buried.

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Has he (Romain) had payment issues at Lotus? That's a very interesting question. As far as I know, not being paid is a common issue in certain teams of F1, wether they decide to stay just for the sake of their careers or move to have a better car it's something that has to be studied case by case. ...

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1996 - Ferrari hiring Schumacher... If Ferrari wasn't your favourite team, how did they disappoint you? Or was the Prost situation still heavy on your heart? Fiki, I knew telling that Ferrari hiring Schumacher was a disappointment, could bring some question marks (and even many more exclamation mar...

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1996 - Ferrari hiring Schumacher... If Ferrari wasn't your favourite team, how did they disappoint you? Or was the Prost situation still heavy on your heart? Fiki, I knew telling that Ferrari hiring Schumacher was a disappointment, could bring some question marks (and even many more exclamation mar...

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I never really had "favourite" teams or drivers, except when I was (very) young. This said, the four times I can consider having been disappointed (and still feeling this way tens of years after), my only ever favourite drivers (Surtees and Ickx) and my former favourite team are involved. 1966 - Fer...

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I don't know whether F1 is more and more a joke because of Bernie or because the people running the F1 aren't getting the job done...

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The thread title is obvious, only retired drivers please. Call it the best 10 drivers in your opinion never winning a race. This page might be helpful: http://www.statsf1.com/en/statistiques/pilote/gp/sans-victoire.aspx I won't do a poll since there is too many choices. Putting them in an order is ...

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