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Originally posted by manlio27
Sorry to express an opinion in contrast, but
1) whatever Mosley does in his private life is his own business;
2) had he had sex on the street, it would have been something different, because he would have damaged FIA im…
Although I had some sympathy for SA I wouldn't say I miss them. I do not miss any "customer" team, as they might make a few good appearances, but in the long term what could you expect from them? They're not serious competitors, they're on track tes…
About Raikkonen I disagree 100%, and I would also mention Alonso. It is easy to have a flamboyant, bold speech, and no attitude. Raikkonen does not try to look like a nice guy, he goes to the podium and swallows the champaigne like a drunkman, no ma…
I guess that there are two kinds of possible buyers:
The first kind only look at results. STR is scoring, will most likely score again this year (specially given the drivers), and those people will pay more for STR than what was payed for Minardi. …
There´s is nothing stopping Mclaren from nothing. The FIA act is impossible to understand. Let´s say that, back in early 2007, the Mclaren staff had a look at the Ferrari x-rays and said, let´s start the new car from this point... they would have on…
On the other hand, when you're in a hurry you always ask the cab driver to go fast, and, in that case, it's safer to have MS driving fast instead of the cab driver driving fast (safer, faster and more funny, win-win-win situation).
Surely the drivers who live at Monte Carlo are there because all apartaments at Monaco are less than a Km away from super-markets and drugstores. In fact, I cannot think of a better reason for living somewhere. On the other hand, Swiss media has tri…
Murph
You surely gotta a point. But I think that, in the kit car era, as anyone could have one, only the better, the creative ones, would do well. I guess that it is not a coincidence that you mentioned Roger Penske. Those people WANTED to compete,…
Off course I do not have data to support the following opinion, but it seems to me that back in the 70's and 80's the people that bought other people chassis were creative people who had not the resources to build their own car, and their creativity…
Brazilian races do not use to be "normal". The first thing is that usually, if one of the top teams struglle just a little, some mid-fielder shows up in the mix. So my dark horse on this one is DC on the Red Bull (course Webber will have better grid…
He's surely been cool but not that cool. He was partially lucky that his mistakes haven't cost him much. I do not have nothing against him but this FIA-Mclaren protection over him is quite boring. I hope I-don't-know-who bangs him out of the race (a…
All I know is that, if, in previous years, M Schumacher had done one third of the fake starts Hamilton did in this race, people would be screaming for vengeance for years.
From the Autosport Q&A with Dennis and Whitmarsh, Dennis said:
"But as you can see if you read our accounts, we turn over roughly $450-500 million USD a year, and we are debt-free, so obviously we are a very strong company with phenomenal grow…
Brazilian media repeteadly say 900 million. Some years ago the Ferrari budget was around 550 million, which matched their Marlboro sponsorship, I believe.
Anyway, say it is 500 MD. So their fine is 20% of their budget. From no wins in 2006 to proba…
This is around 10% of their annual budget. This is not too much. If someone had approached Mclaren by the end of last year asking "Would you pay 100 MD for the 2007 drivers championship", I don´t think they would blink.
I guess there`s a huge difference between legally contracted people going one place to another, with the knowledge of both parts involved plus the rest of the world, and flow of information from whitin a team from one of its employees.
At least the…
My predictions for thursday:
Mclaren out of the constructors title, gets a two race ban (and we get four drivers fighting for the championship at the last two races).
BTW, I agree that the Briattore argument is the final one.
Brazilian media says "fusion", and that Piquet Sports would close due to NAP (Nelson Angelo Piquet, son of the 3 times champ) getting to F1, so a deal like that was the only choice viable.
PS started in local F3, moved to england end then to GP2.…
I guess the idea is worth a try, for one simple reason: If people here like the idea of independent F1 teams, IF the petition would end up having some influence, I guess it would be a nice feeling to know that 15000 mere fans had something to do wit…
Fair enough, I had not put Webber's race in to that perspective. If this was the case, and if it continues to happen (two drivers, one keeping its cool, the other insanely flat out), Williams has a real solid line up.
Useless is too strong a word, but it is not too far from my opinion.
I wouldn't say that RB was better than Schumacher last year (although I guess that last year is one of the worst seasons of MS). Schumi had good drives at Imola and Monaco, occasi…