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Read somewhere that STR and Super Aguri will have a 2 year grace period befor they must become constructors.... not sure when the 2 year window begins....maybe from the signing of the new Concorde Agreement.
There have been a number of articles about this.......from teams paying F1 photographers for certain "shots" of an oponents car while in the pits to engineers moving from Team A to Team B during the offseason and bringing info from Team A to Team B.…
Gian Carlo Minardi comments Alonso's divorce from McLaren on F1GrandPrix.it:
"I think the situation inside the McLaren team was impossible to stand due to an unprecedented drivers' management by Ron Dennis. This caused an inevitable divorce, eve…
Originally posted by SuperRoo
Dependant on who will play a subservient role to Clewlis.
Clewlis !!!
That's the first time I ever heard that......hahahahahahaha Thanks for the chuckle there SuperRoo.
Saw this on the DailyF1News website.....
Tuesday 30 Oktober at 16:34 :
" In the now very hot debate about whether or not McLaren is doing the right thing by appealing the stewards' "cool fuel" decision, as well as the debates about the punishment …
quotes from the article in Atlas....
"Ecclestone said, however, that he did not think customer cars should be allowed in F1 and made it clear he would prefer another manufacturer to take the 12th slot.
"Probably not," he said when asked if custome…
The example of Roger Penske that I used was his success in the Championship of Makes, not F1. In F1, John Watson did win the Austrian GP for Penske but in a March/Penske "hybrid"..... and Penske ended his foray in F1 after 3 years because of losing…
Nuvolari
The difference between the 70's and early 80's (pre-Turbo Era) and today is very simple to understand.....
F1 in the 70's and early 80's was a SPORT....... nobody really did it for the money.....TV was basically non-existent.....teams lik…
hmmmmmmm.... I can remember being at Watkins Glen and watching James Hunt finish 2nd to Ronnie in 1973....and James was driving a March 731 that was entered by Hesketh Racing and not March.....and I remember JYS driving a March for Uncle Ken in 1970…
hmmmmm..... I did give him my opinion.....though I wouldn't claim that I am an expert on anything.....as Mrs. Murphy can attest to ......hahahaha
ciao
[Edited on 8-10-07 by Murph]
My thoughts on any punishment for McLaren have changed. I thought that McLaren had escaped.....but after reading in the Times Online site about 166 pages of new info that was presented...and that the "timeline" covering the scandal no longer begins …
Watkins Glen ????
As one who was at the Glen from 1973-1980 I can tell ya that it ain't happening. The drivers were concerned about safety standards back then, the Big $$$ Sponsors helped push the GP out of western New York because it didn't meet …
only problem with Elkhart Lake is that it is pretty unsafe for Champ Cars and that is without the flooding that occurs there during rain showers....... plus modern F1 is ALL ABOUT taking care of the sponsors and the F1 moneymen....and that is not wh…
When Ger and I sat down with GCM at Indy, Ger asked GCM about Roldan...... GCM believed that he HAS the TALENT, but that his major problem down the road was that he DOESN'T have much $$$$$ behind him........
Somehow I just don't see Roldan gettin…
Jello
Sutil is the real deal...... his weekend at Indy reminded me of Fred's in the Minardi back in 2001....both were fighting for a few laps with teams they had no business in being competitive with.
"Heidi's" Beard........ as an old "beard guy",…
Ciao all...and thanks for the kind words...
I love the city of Montreal and from 1978 thru 1984 I went to the GP there..... but back then ( key the nostalgia for the "Good Old Days" )you could go just about anywhere around the circuit to watch the …
I was so surprised to see GCM on Thursday in the paddock. Ger and I were given "hard cards" as guests of STR (thanks Massimo). AS I was walking down the "street" I swear there is a skinny version of GCM in front of me...... GCM came up to us and s…
YES I do.......... thankfully, Jordan is in the past. Hopefully, Uncle Ron was slither off sooner than later.........
As for Frank Williams..... He has survived many screw ups ( some of his own making and some not )over the years. At this moment…
Originally posted by forzaminardi
I still don't get how someone who loves the sport could possibly get rid of Imola and Hockenheim*
*I still think that what they did to Hockenheim during the "refurbishment" was the saddest thing after the demis…
RJ
I have looked over the posts and I see no mention of F1 being a "soup kitichen". I know that I attempted to show that there was some hope on Adrian Newey's creation but also in my last post I stated that this hope was fleeting. I also stated t…
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm………. After the past two days of testing at a “proper” F1 circuit and under sunny conditions, IT IS looking as though Mr. Petroltorque is onto something and that my hopes for Mr. Newey’s baby are not going to be fulfilled……….’sigh
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Originally posted by Petroltorque
Well lets cut the bullshit. Newey's car is slow. Spin it all you like, test times, low laps, the cars has a flaw.
I will give a shot at "Spin it all you like"......
Red Bull just completed a 3-day test at Jerez wi…
Originally posted by forzaminardi
so what changes is whether they suck because they have Red Bull's old chassis or whether they suck because they have Red Bull's current chassis
Adrian Newey........ and the words "chassis" and "sucks" are usually…
RJ
If Pentax makes a tele-extender ( 1.4X) you just have about everything covered in your photo kit....
1) wide angle pics with you 18-55
2) portrait "head shots" with the 70-300 lens..... most photographers like the 85-135 range for portraits …