WaffleCat wrote:Trying to force myself to think that Midland F1 actually existed.For some odd reason,however,I can still remember the "Rhino's" sponsor on the side of the car.
And the 'Lost Boys' sponsored front wing. Which was quite apt considering the drivers spent more time crashing into each other/things/retiring rather than racing...
I still don't know what Lost Boys is.
aerond wrote:Yes RDD, but we always knew you never had any sort of taste either
tommykl wrote:I have a shite car and meme sponsors, but Corrado Fabi will carry me to the promised land with the power of Lionel Richie.
WaffleCat wrote:Trying to force myself to think that Midland F1 actually existed.For some odd reason,however,I can still remember the "Rhino's" sponsor on the side of the car.
And the 'Lost Boys' sponsored front wing. Which was quite apt considering the drivers spent more time crashing into each other/things/retiring rather than racing...
watka wrote:I find it amusing that whilst you're one of the more openly Christian guys here, you are still first and foremost associated with an eye for the ladies!
dinizintheoven wrote:GOOD CHRISTIANS do not go to jail. EVERYONE ON FORMULA ONE REJECTS should be in jail.
WaffleCat wrote:Trying to force myself to think that Midland F1 actually existed.For some odd reason,however,I can still remember the "Rhino's" sponsor on the side of the car.
And the 'Lost Boys' sponsored front wing. Which was quite apt considering the drivers spent more time crashing into each other/things/retiring rather than racing...
I still don't know what Lost Boys is.
Well a quick Google search returned three possibilities:
*The film directed by Joel Schumacher so doubt that. *The 'Lost Boys' is an organization about the Sudanese children. So war, famine, child soldiers etc. A possibility, Midland couldve been supporting an African charity. *A visual effects company. Seems the most likely.
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They sponsored Arrows whilst Verstappen was there...
According to this article, they are a 'a leading company with experience in all aspects of New Media and internet'...
Mitch Hedberg wrote:I want to be a race car passenger: just a guy who bugs the driver. Say man, can I turn on the radio? You should slow down. Why do we gotta keep going in circles? Man, you really like Tide...
Miserable Thierry (Boutsen) staggers round mostly on ten cylinders (out of 12) with no clutch, low oil pressure, bad brakes and no grip to finish tenth, 3 laps down...
(Murray Walkers review of Boutsen's Brazil 1991 race).
Toni Branca, so forgettable that even 'Grand Prix: Driver by Driver' overlooks him and I'm talking about a book that includes drivers like Karl Oppitzhauzer and the late Ricardo Londono to name but a few, yet they never started a grand prix and he started 3!
1993DonningtonNo1 wrote:Toni Branca, so forgettable that even 'Grand Prix: Driver by Driver' overlooks him and I'm talking about a book that includes drivers like Karl Oppitzhauzer and the late Ricardo Londono to name but a few, yet they never started a grand prix and he started 3!
Karl Oppo-who? Toni Branca is actually one driver that sticks out in my mind when doing alternate championships or when I think about 1950's F1.And so is Desmond Titterington(for obvious reasons)
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1993DonningtonNo1 wrote:Toni Branca, so forgettable that even 'Grand Prix: Driver by Driver' overlooks him and I'm talking about a book that includes drivers like Karl Oppitzhauzer and the late Ricardo Londono to name but a few, yet they never started a grand prix and he started 3!
Karl Oppo-who? Toni Branca is actually one driver that sticks out in my mind when doing alternate championships or when I think about 1950's F1.And so is Desmond Titterington(for obvious reasons)
That's what I mean, when Philip Raby was writing 'Grand Prix: Driver by Driver', he somehow managed to overlook a Swiss driver with 3 GP starts to his name and a best result that is now worth a solitary point these days (Toni Branca) whilst somehow remembering an Austrian driver who had his entry refused because he was simply too unknown and too inexperienced (Karl Oppitzhauzer, intended to drive a March as team-mate to Otto Stuppacher's Tyrrell at their home grand prix in 1976)
1993DonningtonNo1 wrote:Toni Branca, so forgettable that even 'Grand Prix: Driver by Driver' overlooks him and I'm talking about a book that includes drivers like Karl Oppitzhauzer and the late Ricardo Londono to name but a few, yet they never started a grand prix and he started 3!
Karl Oppo-who? Toni Branca is actually one driver that sticks out in my mind when doing alternate championships or when I think about 1950's F1.And so is Desmond Titterington(for obvious reasons)
That's what I mean, when Philip Raby was writing 'Grand Prix: Driver by Driver', he somehow managed to overlook a Swiss driver with 3 GP starts to his name and a best result that is now worth a solitary point these days (Toni Branca) whilst somehow remembering an Austrian driver who had his entry refused because he was simply too unknown and too inexperienced (Karl Oppitzhauzer, intended to drive a March as team-mate to Otto Stuppacher's Tyrrell at their home grand prix in 1976)
Did the book have Dries Van der Lof in it?
aerond wrote:Yes RDD, but we always knew you never had any sort of taste either
tommykl wrote:I have a shite car and meme sponsors, but Corrado Fabi will carry me to the promised land with the power of Lionel Richie.
Yes it has got Dries van der Lof in it, surprised no one on here knows about it, it's been out since 2007. Obviously it was published before the last race of that season because it includes all the newcomers from that year (even Markus Winkelhock) with the exception of Kazuki Nakajima.
1993DonningtonNo1 wrote:Yes it has got Dries van der Lof in it, surprised no one on here knows about it, it's been out since 2007. Obviously it was published before the last race of that season because it includes all the newcomers from that year (even Markus Winkelhock) with the exception of Kazuki Nakajima.
That's strange becuase I have the book and it refers to Raikkonen as the 2007 WDC!! (So there's no excuse for missing Nakajima apart from the fact he was totally forgettable too)!
"Poor old Warwick takes it from behind all throughout this season". (Tony Jardine, 1988)
On the contrary, thanks to AndreaModa's avatar, Charles Pic is (for me, at least), the most memorable of the Virgin/Marussia second drivers.
I think that Pic is not so forgettable. He's the only second driver of Virgin/Marussia, who has been able to be in Formula 1 for a second season after racing a season with Marussia.
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Tarso Marques. All he ever did was trundle around at the back of the field in a Minardi. Reportedly, he didn't even bring any money/sponsorship with him during 2001...
Fetzie on Ferrari wrote:How does a driver hurtling around a race track while they're sous-viding in their overalls have a better understanding of the race than a team of strategy engineers in an air-conditioned room?l
East Londoner wrote:Tarso Marques. All he ever did was trundle around at the back of the field in a Minardi. Reportedly, he didn't even bring any money/sponsorship with him during 2001...
He was Alonso's teammate, wasn't he? The one before Yoong?
I'm Perry McCarthy and Taki Inoue's fan number 1 and I always will be.
East Londoner wrote:Tarso Marques. All he ever did was trundle around at the back of the field in a Minardi. Reportedly, he didn't even bring any money/sponsorship with him during 2001...
He was Alonso's teammate, wasn't he? The one before Yoong?
More than that, he has once been teammate with the greatest driver F1 has ever produced, Ukyo Katayama. And he has been replaced by Giovanni Lavaggi.
East Londoner wrote:Tarso Marques. All he ever did was trundle around at the back of the field in a Minardi. Reportedly, he didn't even bring any money/sponsorship with him during 2001...
He was Alonso's teammate, wasn't he? The one before Yoong?
More than that, he has once been teammate with the greatest driver F1 has ever produced, Ukyo Katayama. And he has been replaced by Giovanni Lavaggi.
I didn't remember it, but I obviously reminded that Katayama is the second-best F1 driver that motorsport has ever produced (he can't be better than HWNSNBM, it would be heresy).
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Sunshine_Baby_[IT] wrote:He was Alonso's teammate, wasn't he? The one before Yoong?
More than that, he has once been teammate with the greatest driver F1 has ever produced, Ukyo Katayama. And he has been replaced by Giovanni Lavaggi.
I didn't remember it, but I obviously reminded that Katayama is the second-best F1 driver that motorsport has ever produced (he can't be better than HWNSNBM, it would be heresy).
Naturally not: he said it in 1994, and because it would have taken ten years before HWNSNBM had his F1 debut, it wasn't heretic saying it at that time.
I'm Perry McCarthy and Taki Inoue's fan number 1 and I always will be.
Bernard Charles Ecclestone. Only because he is remembered what whatever it was he did after being a reject F1 driver...
watka wrote:I find it amusing that whilst you're one of the more openly Christian guys here, you are still first and foremost associated with an eye for the ladies!
dinizintheoven wrote:GOOD CHRISTIANS do not go to jail. EVERYONE ON FORMULA ONE REJECTS should be in jail.
James1978 wrote:In all honesty I reckon Panis was pretty forgettable since he made his comeback from the Canada injury, with perhaps the exception of early 2001.
Admitedly, he was stuck with the 1998 Prost, which had the aerodynamic capabilities of concrete and appalling reliability to boot as well. After that year though, I'd say you're spot on.
Fetzie on Ferrari wrote:How does a driver hurtling around a race track while they're sous-viding in their overalls have a better understanding of the race than a team of strategy engineers in an air-conditioned room?l
Giorgio Pantano. Timo Glock was his replacement at Jordan half way through 2003 or 2004 I believe? Ernesto Brambilla, the less successful brother of Vittorio. Andrea Chiesa. No relation to Enrico. Massimiliano Papis. Son-in-law of Emerson Fittipaldi, godson of Alex Zanardi, but still inherited none of their talent. Paolo Barilla. At least Minardi's catering will have been decent in the late 80s. Kenny Acheson. I bet he's a Sunderland fan now.
Novitopoli wrote:Everytime someone orders at Pizza Hut, an Italian dies.
A few drivers I think are forgettable (most have probably been mentioned): Lucas di Grassi Robert Doornbos Nicolas Kiesa Ralph Firman Tomáš Enge Jan Magnussen Julian Bailey
andrew2209 wrote:Andrea Chiesa. No relation to Enrico.
Excuse the ignorance, but who is/was Enrico Chiesa?
andrew2209 wrote:Paolo Barilla. At least Minardi's catering will have been decent in the late 80s.
I heard a very short interview with him on BBC Radio 4 's the Food Programme. Apparently he is now the VP of Barilla and Barilla is the the world's biggest pasta manufacturer, by quantity produced. Sadly there was no mention of his motorsports career.
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