Grand Prix Rejects

patrick

I've neglected this beautiful forum of late, but here's a really late bump, it's tomorrow!!!!
(or today seeing as i'm up at 2am for some reason)!

Hope some of you will make it, from what i've heard it;s going to be amazing. Damon Hill is in town!
I'll put up some pictures, no doubt

patrick

interesting session. I still hold a strong belief that schumacher is relatively past it; sure a succession of difficult cars, bad luck, changes to the sport since 2006 haven't helped - however, this was a sublime moment for him and just shows precisely why he's a seven time world champion. I don't k...

patrick

Manthey Porsche is starting to make up ground, up to 5th now. Write them off at your peril, remember in 2008 their car was almost destroyed at the start in a crash, it took ages to fix, and they just drove like stink for the next 23 hours and still won. And just after I say that, it hits a problem ...

patrick

about 4-5 hours in, seems all the McLarens have been wiped out by accidents. The lead seems to be between the Mercs and the bmw z4s. Pretty action packed so far, punctures and crashes galore

patrick

just a small update - Damon Hill and his family has been confirmed to be attending - with Damon driving his father's championship winning BRM from 1962! Also rumoured is Jackie Oliver, former Lotus driver and Arrows founder! more recently he was an excellent contributor to the BBC doc "Grand Pr...

patrick

Phoenix wrote:Seriously, who thought about racing an Audi A8?

bet it sounds lovely. However, probably handles like a narrowboat

patrick

Just a heads up for fans of GT action and the green hell!! If I remember correctly the race was streamed on the N24 website last year as well as english commentary from Radio Le Mans. If not I'll be linkhunting when the time comes! m m m A great race, a bit more difficult to follow than something li...

patrick

I'm starting to see why they call him Magic Alonso in Spain, while I still find him an intolerably sinister person he's a damn sneaky driver. Could be a title race on par with 2010

patrick

lincolnshire is on the east-mid/north east, yeah your best bet is a train to stamford or peterborough. I suppose there is the possibility of coaches too, and from experience flying up to scotland hasn't been that expensive. Far be it from me to tell you all to spend lots to come down, but it really...

patrick

It's difficult to trust Ferrari's influence based on past events, but regardless of the source of that team message it's possible the interference could have broken Checo's focus and caused the mistake. Nonetheless, he has lost nothing from that drive and nobody's going to blame him for a small mist...

patrick

'ello all, A heads up for my fave bunch of F1 fans - I come from, and live near Bourne, UK, which, if you didn't know, was home to BRM, which gave Graham Hill the 1962 world championship. They also had many other famous drivers from that era, and under the leadership of Raymond Mays they were one of...

patrick

It reminds me of Henri Toivonen. Both were just about to make their big breakthrough in fighting for the world championships, rebellious young drivers who drove at 110% non-stop. And then this happens... RIP Marco Simoncelli. Indeed, well said. But let's hope this doesn't have the same effect on mo...

patrick

Can we change the title of this thread? I agree, while I would love to discuss motogp with the forum I think this thread had the sole intention of discussing marco, and with no detriment to sauber010 I think the two should be seperate topics Completely understandable. Name changed. Sorry for the or...

patrick

fjackdaw wrote:Can we change the title of this thread?

I agree, while I would love to discuss motogp with the forum I think this thread had the sole intention of discussing marco, and with no detriment to sauber010 I think the two should be seperate topics

patrick

Absolutely awful. For anyone who doesn't follow motoGP, Marco was having a very good year and was quite an upcoming talent. My thoughts lie with his family and friends, and especially Valentino Rossi and Colin Edwards who were unavoidably involved in the accident. I hope they can deal with the incid...

patrick

I watched the 500 for the first time this year, and Wheldon's win was fantastic. Such a shame, let's hope nothing brash comes out of this and Indycar moves forward in a non-hysterical manner.
rip dan

patrick

What did everyone think of Robert "y'know" Wickens on the red button? personally he was the catalyst for sending me back to bed

patrick

TheBigJ wrote:I'm still sticking with Mark Webber. Yet to win a GP this season...shame.

Yep, I pretty much forgot he was even competing this weekend. Very mediocre

patrick

I had heard about the Gadget show thing but didn't really feel like spending much time around the garages (which was probably a mistake as I heard they were great at night) The golf was amazing, when daylight hit I realised it was one of the few cars to have been consistently going round while other...

patrick

Silverstone Finally got back to the circuit to attend the Britcar 24 from sat-sun. Coming from the south-east, and as others have mentioned the A43 is great and while the traffic wasn't bad at all the area was still obviously well laid out and access to the Circuit was fine. Luckily I had infield p...

patrick

It'd be a tough act to follow up mario's post but I would add my opinion that PDR has certainly done well but does get immensely talked up by the English press and the BBC which makes it very difficult for me to want to place him number three. Personally I'd go for Alonso, he's steered clear of the ...

patrick

If we're listing nutty sponsorship, one obvious one that I always frown at is McLaren and Mobil 1; while most teams have an oil partnership, getting in bed with exxon mobil really rustles my jimmies. Then again, they probably equal McLaren on the scandal rankings so it's no wonder they have such a l...

patrick

I still hate the Singapore sling (the stupid chicane thingy that took out kamui) but it seems I have few supporters, even Lewis Hamilton hasn't been mouthing off about it this year

patrick

I remember reading (and then re-reading years later) I think it was some issues of F1 Racing in the early 2000s, one of which had a cover story and article proclaiming Ralf Schumacher to be champion "When, not If", several others had brief articles writing off Fernando Alonso during his fi...

patrick

That must be a Formula Ford - a Van Diemen? Presuming someone famous used to drive that, Senna maybe? I've got a few pics of cars from the Coventry motor museum knocking about somewhere which I'll have to dig out, and I have pics from my visit to the Donington Park Museum from around 10 years ago, ...

patrick

and here's an afwul pic of the great Burnenville corner (i did not take the time to stop driving my car, as it was turning dark) http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/5971/img5151p.th.jpg The old track looks like hilarious fun, I'm guessing it's all still public roads? I'd love to drive around it someti...

patrick

Great pics, both of you! The Rothmans March looks like the 1981 model in 1982 livery to me as the nose doesn't curve downwards enough. I'm guessing that the No.29 Warsteiner livery Arrows must be an ex-Patrese car : isn't the driver wearing a Patrese livery helmet?! I think some of them have had li...

patrick

thanks for the info chaps, glad you like the pics. the yellow #16 is, consulting the programme (which would be cheating), a fittipaldi f5a. And yes DOSboot, the GP masters series is no more, this is technically the "Masters Historic" series although the programme refers to it as "GP M...

patrick

Well a few weekends back I went to the Masters Historic Festival at Donington Park, which, apart from some fabulous touring cars and ear-destroying sportscars held a round of the GP Masters series. The cars were great to watch as you can imagine and the racing... well not so much as most of the race...

patrick

Has anyone ever been to the Britcar 24h at Silverstone? they're currently doing £35 for a pair and I'm wondering if you can just park the car up all weekend and then waft around the track in a sleep deprived haze occasionally drifting off on a deckchair instead of splashing out 90£ for a camping sp...

patrick

Has anyone ever been to the Britcar 24h at Silverstone? they're currently doing £35 for a pair and I'm wondering if you can just park the car up all weekend and then waft around the track in a sleep deprived haze occasionally drifting off on a deckchair instead of splashing out 90£ for a camping spo...

patrick

great stuff guys! enjoy monza dr-baker. Donington - I've been there countless times over the years, all prior to the attempted F1 bid, and all for motorcycle races, either British Superbikes (BSB), World Superbikes (WSB), or MotoGP. Almost every time I've been, apart from the racing everything has b...

patrick

(I hope this thread is OK for this sub-forum, it seems to be the place for general motorsport chat) Basically, I recently started to get into going to racing events again - to be precise, several visits to the Harewood Hillclimb and the Donington Historic Masters last weekend. My point is, I know a ...

patrick

Congratulations! good to know there is a reject in the autosport ranks!
At what point will you be guest editing an Andrea Moda special edition of the print magazine?

patrick

Bland investors for an equally bland team! I like it

patrick

In terms of speedy cockpit exit I am reminded of the Mercedes-Benz SLS-AMG (which we know as the current FOM safety car). The SLS-AMG has unconventional "gullwing" doors that would be difficult to open in the event of the car rolling onto its roof. To remedy this, Mercedes-Benz fitted a sa...

patrick

m m Undoubtedly prompted by the tragic death of Henry Surtees and Felipe Massa's incident in 2009, I remember further whisperings last year especially after Schumacher's incident in Abu Dhabi. So, with this test video surfacing, and the results being passed on to the TWG, is the FIA seriously consid...

patrick

Well, if the car prices is England, really are that low... I'm moving next year! I mean, with my spare money, I can buy, several V12 CL 600's, but here in Norway, I don't even have half the money for a tired 93 model CL 600... You'd go for the CL 600? I prefer the BMW, I mean, IT'S GOT FLIPPING HEA...

patrick

Australian Daniel Ricciardo will make his Formula One debut in the next round of the world championship at Silverstone for the British Grand Prix. The West Australian will drive for HRT F1 Team, replacing Indian driver Narain Karthikeyan. How the hell is Karthikeyan letting this happen? He's paying...

patrick

According to Audi, they aren't going anywhere. So we'll see a nice 4 manufacturer battle in Le Mans, that is, if Aston sorts themselves out. if you are referring to this statement from Audi: “This is the decision of Porsche company, a decision in which Audi is not involved. Audi relishes the prospe...

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