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RE: New Grand Prix Season Is Almost Upon Us!!!
Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2013 11:58 am
by warspite1
ORIGINAL: warspite1
Ah Spa-Francorchamps - the greatest race track still in use [&o][&o][&o][&o]
warspite1
How fitting that Lewis takes pole there [&o][&o][&o][&o]
Superb lap!!!
RE: New Grand Prix Season Is Almost Upon Us!!!
Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2013 1:17 am
by warspite1
[:@] %^&*$ Vettel...
Well driven Lewis and Jenson.
How long can Massa be allowed to waste a really good drive?
RE: New Grand Prix Season Is Almost Upon Us!!!
Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2013 1:26 am
by Gilmer
Anyone going to catch that movie about Nicki Lauda and James Hunt?
RE: New Grand Prix Season Is Almost Upon Us!!!
Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2013 1:28 am
by warspite1
ORIGINAL: H Gilmer
Anyone going to catch that movie about Nicki Lauda and James Hunt?
warspite1
Please see post 324 [:)]
RE: New Grand Prix Season Is Almost Upon Us!!!
Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2013 1:33 am
by Gilmer
My greatest failing is not reading all the posts.
RE: New Grand Prix Season Is Almost Upon Us!!!
Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 10:09 am
by warspite1
ORIGINAL: H Gilmer
My greatest failing is not reading all the posts.
warspite1
Only a few more weeks until release [:)]
RE: New Grand Prix Season Is Almost Upon Us!!!
Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2013 6:51 am
by warspite1
Bad news.... Ricciardo confirmed at Red Bull. That leaves Vettel free to absolutely dominate the sport... 5 championships in a row by the end of next season I fear....
RE: New Grand Prix Season Is Almost Upon Us!!!
Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2013 4:54 pm
by Hotschi
Bad news indeed. While I congratulate Ricciardo for this, I fear he won't be able to break the Vettel/Marko dominance in RBR. All along I was dreaming of Raikkonen going to RBR, and to show Vettel who's boss. But this was to be expected - Raikkonen is a racer, and neither a PR guy nor a "racing politician" like so many drivers in F1. Some sort of an endangered species...
Btw I am a Mark Webber fan...
RE: New Grand Prix Season Is Almost Upon Us!!!
Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2013 4:59 pm
by warspite1
ORIGINAL: Hotschi
Bad news indeed. While I congratulate Ricciardo for this, I fear he won't be able to break the Vettel/Marko dominance in RBR. All along I was dreaming of Raikkonen going to RBR, and to show Vettel who's boss. But this was to be expected - Raikkonen is a racer, and neither a PR guy nor a "racing politician" like so many drivers in F1. Some sort of an endangered species...
Btw I am a Mark Webber fan...
warspite1
Mark Webber will be sorely missed - a straightforward guy and a hard (but perfectly fair) racer.
Ricciardo will be eaten alive by Vettel I'm afraid....
RE: New Grand Prix Season Is Almost Upon Us!!!
Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2013 5:19 pm
by Hotschi
ORIGINAL: warspite1
Mark Webber will be sorely missed - a straightforward guy and a hard (but perfectly fair) racer.
Let's agree on "most of the time" a perfectly fair racer [:D]
He too did his share of fouls on the curcuit which were at times close to, and at times outright dangerous to the opponent driver involved - remember this year in Sepang where he nearly forced Vettel to hit the wall. At that race I realized what sort of character Vettel is -and my sympathy to RBR went to rock bottom.
Webber's main weakness are/were the starts. He sucks at that.
RE: New Grand Prix Season Is Almost Upon Us!!!
Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2013 5:19 pm
by Orm
Maybe The Stig can take on Vettel? [;)]
[:D][:D][:D]
RE: New Grand Prix Season Is Almost Upon Us!!!
Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2013 5:23 pm
by warspite1
ORIGINAL: Hotschi
ORIGINAL: warspite1
Mark Webber will be sorely missed - a straightforward guy and a hard (but perfectly fair) racer.
Let's agree on "most of the time" a perfectly fair racer [:D]
He too did his share of fouls on the curcuit which were at times close to, and at times outright dangerous to the opponent driver involved - remember this year in Sepang where he nearly forced Vettel to hit the wall. At that race I realized what sort of character Vettel is -and my sympathy to RBR went to rock bottom.
Webber's main weakness are/were the starts. He sucks at that.
warspite1
Well (as a Webber fan) I bow to your greater knowledge, but I cannot recall him playing dirty in his many recent battles with Lewis, Fernando and Kimi (Hungary this year being an ideal case in point).
Frankly, anything he dishes out to Vettel in the dirty tricks dept is okay with me considering the way he has been treated by Vettel and RBR.
RE: New Grand Prix Season Is Almost Upon Us!!!
Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2013 7:31 pm
by warspite1
And so to Monza - one of the classic venues - full of history and more than a little tragedy.
Sadly this year looks like another Vettel victory.....[:(]
RE: New Grand Prix Season Is Almost Upon Us!!!
Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2013 3:36 am
by warspite1
ORIGINAL: H Gilmer
Anyone going to catch that movie about Nicki Lauda and James Hunt?
warspite1
Have you seen this yet H Gilmer?
RE: New Grand Prix Season Is Almost Upon Us!!!
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2013 6:56 pm
by warspite1
ORIGINAL: warspite1
ORIGINAL: H Gilmer
Anyone going to catch that movie about Nicki Lauda and James Hunt?
warspite1
Have you seen this yet H Gilmer?
warspite1
Perhaps not [:D]
RE: New Grand Prix Season Is Almost Upon Us!!!
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2013 7:05 pm
by warspite1
Vettel is being boring and making F1 boring. So instead, and inspired by the film Rush, I will post some of the great cars and drivers from the times past.
First up, the mean and purposeful looking Lotus 79 that took Mario Andretti to the F1 World Championship in 1978:
RE: New Grand Prix Season Is Almost Upon Us!!!
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2013 7:07 pm
by warspite1
...and one of the more peculiar looking cars from the mid-seventies, its the Tyrrell P34 six-wheeler as driven by Jody Scheckter and the late Patrick Depaillier
RE: New Grand Prix Season Is Almost Upon Us!!!
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2013 7:57 pm
by Gilmer
ORIGINAL: warspite1
ORIGINAL: warspite1
ORIGINAL: H Gilmer
Anyone going to catch that movie about Nicki Lauda and James Hunt?
warspite1
Have you seen this yet H Gilmer?
warspite1
Perhaps not [:D]
Hi sir. No, I have not. I think the last movie I caught was the Star Trek movie which has been a couple of months. I plan on it, although, no friends of mine really like F1. I'll probably have to watch it by myself. No worries, I have done that for not a few movies, like Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.
RE: New Grand Prix Season Is Almost Upon Us!!!
Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2013 8:52 am
by warspite1
One of my favourite cars of all time - the Toleman TG183 - driven by Derek Warwick and Bruno Giacomelli in 1983.
RE: New Grand Prix Season Is Almost Upon Us!!!
Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 6:13 pm
by warspite1
And its the 1980 World Championship winning Williams FW07b (in the hands of Aussie Alan Jones).
Scalextric did a superb model of this in the early 80's. Great memories.
