Grand Prix Rejects

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F1 has failed to be at "the cutting edge of automotive/motorsports design" since 1985. Active suspension has been around since the late 70's; ground effects have been around since the mid 60's; fuel injection has been around since the mid 50's; militaries have tested carbon fibre in the la...

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Apparently, Glock and di Grassi will continue to put miles on the Virgin before February 10. Sporting of her, I must say

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Having turbos would also be a bit of a handicap in wet races as well (There is a reason for this, but I cant remember it exactly. Was it anything to do with turbolag?) Could be the big spike of power and torque you get when the turbo kicks in creating wheelspin either. Although I reckon F1 engineer...

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The scariest part was a turn just before the end where I could see that the retaining wall was concrete. I definitely slowed down there... Turn 10, the right hander before the pit entry? I think it was 10 - it was before pit entry, and a very fast corner. It was there, as well as at Turns 9 and 4 t...

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The only "classic" US / Canada sports car tracks that I've experienced are: Driving 20 laps - Laguna Seca I envy you my friend. What's it's like going down the corkscrew in what I presume is a mid to late 60s Chevy? The car goes light, its pretty scary. I managed to straighten out between...

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The only "classic" US / Canada sports car tracks that I've experienced are: Driving 20 laps - Laguna Seca 3 laps - Riverside (amazing track) 5 laps - Mid Ohio Seeing some form of race: Grand -Am / GT3 type deal at Road Atlanta I would dearly love to see something cool and fast in the rain ...

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Lotsnonitot wrote:I would just like to take some time out Thank all the people for doing what you do and make this community great im a long time reader and first time poster so i just wanted to say thanks.

Welcome to the forums!!

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I think it's sad that on a family forum, you can't call someone gay. It's not like saying someone else is gay, even if it's not true, is some kind of evil thing that we have to protect our children's eyes from. Personally, I'm not particularly bothered by it... but I know plenty of people who are. ...

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I have always rather liked Revson, of course because he was a somewhat unfulfilled promise, but also because his name sounds funny, and is rather apt for a racing driver. Also, I believe he's Jewish, which led to me developing a curiosity to know if there have been other Jewish drivers in Formula o...

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Not only him...Luciano Burti, Christian Klien, Antonio Pizzonia, Justin Wilson Klein and Pizzonia were some kind of awesome... Pizzonia, I believe, crashed a Jag S-type sedan that he was giving a journalist a ride in around the test track. He tried to drive it like a Formula one car - maybe it was ...

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maybe some of the drivers underperformed or directly were not competitive enough I think I know who you mean (Irv "cough" ine)... To be fair, however, he got them their only podiums (in 2001 and 2002, as the car became better). However he certainly did underperform given his salary and hi...

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Over my karting days, I've done the following: 1. Stall on starts 2. Stall after spins 3. Forget to shift for straights 4. Take hairpins at higher gear than straights (see above) 5. Power slide on straights (which occasionally led to...) 6. Losing control (in the dry) on straights (which often led t...

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I was 2 yrs old. I would not know about the existence of F1 until 11 years later. (I became interested in aerodynamics because of planes, then spacecraft, then progressed onto formula 1 cars).

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I love that livery - much better than the Marlboro/Texaco one IMO. Is that the car he won the British GP in? I don't like how Ron Dennis's squad uses the "original orange" color on their test cars - they are not Bruce and Denny. If Revson had survived, there is no doubt he would have won ...

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To me it still looks better than the current crop of ugly aerodynamic aids/sails etc. It's not exactly smooth though, is it? Maybe it's Safari Rally spec, with that snorkel. You want to see ugly? Take a look at the 1973/1974 Tyrrell (Stewart and Cevert's) It looks like it was cobbled together by sp...

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Please post pictures of Revvie, or his cars (preferably F1, but Can - Am and Indy are okay). Don't post his Kyalami crash pictures, please. If you must, you can post Revlon model pictures (assuming the lords of the board deem them okay), since his uncle apparently started Revlon. A modicum of patrio...

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I sort of like all the current (2009) crop of drivers - don't have anything in particular against any of them. Retired Drivers (WDC): I like Stewart and Lauda. Retired drivers (non WDC): My favorite drivers of all time are Gilles Villeneuve, and Pedro Rodrigues. They both passed on very early, but e...

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I had a Can-Am / F1 crossover dream: I was driving a "werks" Porsche 917/10 that was specially improved with 4 intermediate ramjets and ground effects. The others competition were driving random F1 turbo cars and the 92 Williamses. The first race was held in what looked like Mosport Park, ...

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http://www.anf1blog.com/?p=1766 This will bring back the viewing figures at least. This is actually the first silly season that I've been following online, due to reduced work pressure. I was wondering if someone with more experience of silly seasons can say: is this sort of thing common ?

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Does anyone like the look of the high airbox, snowplough snout mid 70's F1 cars? Or, for that matter, the tea-tray front wing? Even a hideous F1 car never looks too horrible from the front, but even a front three quarters view can't save these cars. I know the shapes they teach us about in fluid mec...

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Didier Pironi

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A karting buddy of mine said I had a bit of Irvine in my driving: does this mean I will do better once my faster teamate is injured, or does this mean I will shortly be punched in the face by a super racer?

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Jaguar: Eddie Irvine

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And I thought Fondmetal only made alloy wheels and mediocre F1 cars... MEDIOCRE?? If we: a) Assign each LeMans victory 500,000 GP Constructors points b) Extend Fondmetal involvement up to the Audi R-15 program as well c) Extend Fondmetal involvement to the Bentley EXP program d) Not recognize LeMan...

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And I thought Fondmetal only made alloy wheels and mediocre F1 cars... MEDIOCRE?? If we: a) Assign each LeMans victory 500,000 GP Constructors points b) Extend Fondmetal involvement up to the Audi R-15 program as well c) Extend Fondmetal involvement to the Bentley EXP program d) Not recognize LeMan...

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My mate said that Fondmetal did some work on the Le Mans - conquering Audi R-8/10 series. Now, though he is not as heavily biased towards this firm as I am, I was wondering if anyone knows and can confirm or deny this. If you don't know positively, feel free to assert aggressively on the side of Fon...

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Heinz Harald Frentzen How about Bern Schneider? 20 years after... Or Stirling Moss I didn't mean Heinz Harald Frentzen should drive for Mercedes. I meant Mercedes should be run by Heinz Harald Frentzen. The only driver for Mercedes is the one who can really push the car, get the most out of it, mak...

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Heinz Harald Frentzen

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Does anyone have (or have a link to) the clips where Murray Walker:

a) Pokes Mansell in the head
b) Notes that 12 minutes past the hour in Britain is also 12 minutes past the hour in Pakistan, Burma, Australia, Canada and Malaysia
c)talks about Pele and Damon Hill

Any help is appreciated.

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Has Cosworth released any statements about how many teams they can supply engines to?

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watka wrote:I want a wheel war!!! Fondmetal vs Rial!!!

I, for one, would support Rial in this war

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I think it's in season 2. If you search "fry and laurie f1" on youtube, I think there's a clip of the sketch in its entirety. It ends with Prost (Laurie) getting punched

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I was watching an old episode of "A Bit of Fry and Laurie" (may be meaningless to those outside the UK), and there was a sketch making fun of Prost in his 1991 Season with Ferrari. Laurie was playing Prost, moaning as usual about the 642. Fry played the reporter. The prophetic bit? He call...

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Who actually likes this sport? Out of 200 well off 15 year olds in my year there are two (yes, two) F1 fans. And by fans, I mean they know who Adrian Sutil is. They are me, and one other who watches races but can't really hold a conversation on the sport. So that's 1 fan in a 100 in a group of peop...

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It was something I found weird. All these guys were pretty good in Le Mans, later on at ALMS, Hillclimb events, but they could not hack it in this arena. Its not like the engineering is that much different - granted that lowering centre-of-gravity, perfecting weight distribution, and maximizing aero...

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Lets hope he emulates early Damon Hill rather than late Damon Hill

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Should we extend this thread to all the stillborn F1 cars? There's tons of famous names who triumphed in other series but just could not hack the funding or the design for F1. Some that come to mind: Dome (Late 90's maybe?) Lola 1997 (I think they were working on this just as Mastercard-Lola folded ...

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Does anyone have any pictures of the unraced Asiatech F1 prototype? (Not the Minardi Asiatech car, I think this is something they made as a precursor to a "works" team, but did not race) I think it was some sort of early 2000's car (I've forgotten if they came up with this before, during, ...

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van de Poele is much loved as he contacted Jamie and Enoch (unless I'm mistaken), Grouillard less so. That's good! I just saw his biography on this site. Its good to know he got to race a lot after 1992. I always had this lingering, slightly guilty, feeling that Fondmetal's folding destroyed many p...

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Don't wanna be nitpicky, but why don't we just wait the few months (or years ) before we get to Senna in my thread to have the perfect comparison. ^^ Motion Carried! From the 2004 season back to the '92 season!! I joined this site just a few days ago, and was wondering: are Olivier Grouillard and E...

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