HonoraryNortherner wrote:OK, my turn! 'Back to F1 on this.
At which race did drivers compete to post the slowest time in qualifying?
Presumably this is before the system of 'fastest driver in qualifying is on pole' really caught on, so I'd guess in the pre-war era. Can't be more specific than that though.
Nope, it happened at World Championship event.
I'll give a clue. I did not say they obtained the pole with the slowest time.
Wasn't this in 2004, when there was effectively two qualifying sessions? The running order for the first session was determined by positions from the previous race, but for the second outing it was a reversed order of the first session. Obviously, cars starting the second session first had a greater chance of getting a good time in unstable weather.
I think it was in Belgium where the drivers deliberatedly slowed down before the finish line, producing times of well over two minutes in dry weather.
Eurosport broadcast for the 1990 Mexican GP prequalifying: "The Life, it looked very lifeless yet again... in fact Bruno did one, slow lap"
BlindCaveSalamander wrote: Presumably this is before the system of 'fastest driver in qualifying is on pole' really caught on, so I'd guess in the pre-war era. Can't be more specific than that though.
Nope, it happened at World Championship event.
I'll give a clue. I did not say they obtained the pole with the slowest time.
Wasn't this in 2004, when there was effectively two qualifying sessions? The running order for the first session was determined by positions from the previous race, but for the second outing it was a reversed order of the first session. Obviously, cars starting the second session first had a greater chance of getting a good time in unstable weather.
I think it was in Belgium where the drivers deliberatedly slowed down before the finish line, producing times of well over two minutes in dry weather.
"One day Bruno told me that he had heard the engine momentarily making a strange sound; his suspicion was that all the cylinders had been operating." --Nigel Roebuck
Yes! It back when they ran 1 lap qualifying, and had a pre-qualifying session to decide the order of the qualifying session proper; the results of the 1st session were inverted so the fastest runner in Q1 ran last in Q2, with what was supposed to be the best track conditions. In 2004 the pre-qualifying session was moved to immediately before the 2nd qualifying with a very short break in between. The forecast was for rain to occur around the time of the late/final runs in the 2nd session, so teams wanted to do badly in Q1 to get an early Q2 slot. After various time generating escapades, Williams and McLaren resorted to almost coming to a full stop before the start finish line to add as much time to their times.
As most people who live in Silverstone village may tell you (my grandparents did), the Silverstone circuit seems to have it's own micro-climate for some reason which I can't explain (I'm not meteorologist but it may have something to do with lots of trees before a large wide flat area I guess). We were sat at Luffield at you could see the weather front move in to the edge of the circuit and just sit there and not move through out qualifying. I've experienced this phenomena at Silverstone since then.
It didn't rain at the circuit at all that day! So the comical session was for nothing!
If you won't give any more hints, then I'm guessing that this driver did not collide with Albers in Formula 1, but rather in another series. Maybe in DTM?
kevinbotz wrote:Cantonese is a completely nonsensical f*cking alien language masquerading as some grossly bastardised form of Chinese
Gonzo wrote:Wasn't there some sort of communisim in the East part of Germany?
tommykl wrote:If you won't give any more hints, then I'm guessing that this driver did not collide with Albers in Formula 1, but rather in another series. Maybe in DTM?
tommykl wrote:If you won't give any more hints, then I'm guessing that this driver did not collide with Albers in Formula 1, but rather in another series. Maybe in DTM?
It was in Formula 1. During testing.
It's our friend Chanoch Nissany. Not only did he crash into Albers, but they were both on the same team (Minardi).
The Iceman Waiteth What if Kimi Räikkönen hadn't got his chance in 2001?
tommykl wrote:If you won't give any more hints, then I'm guessing that this driver did not collide with Albers in Formula 1, but rather in another series. Maybe in DTM?
It was in Formula 1. During testing.
It's our friend Chanoch Nissany. Not only did he crash into Albers, but they were both on the same team (Minardi).
...I was going to say Aguri Suzuki, the least Japanese-looking Japanese driver there's ever been...
Keep these coming!
James Allen, on his favourite F1 engine of all time: "...the Life W12, I can't describe the noise to you, but imagine filling your dustbin with nuts and bolts, and then throwing it down the stairs, it was something akin to that!"
ibsey wrote:Which team tried to purposely blow up the F1 engines supplied to them by a major car manufacture. And why?
Prost Peugeot 2000??
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).
Backmarker wrote:Was it Brabham during 1982, when Brabham were trying to get out of their contract, and BMW were insisting they use their engine?
It was indeed. Well done.
It’s a great story from Autosport's 1982 special edition magazine back in August last year; about the Brabham team, purposely trying to blow up their BMW engines when testing them in mid 1982. Simply because they wanted to show BMW, the engines were too unreliable. So Brabham could get out of having to run them for race weekends.
Unfortunately for Brabham, despite their best efforts, IIRC they couldn't blow up enough BMW engines to justify to the German manufacture not to run them for the latter part of 1982.
Coming January 2019 a new F1 book revisiting 1994.
Backmarker wrote:Was it Brabham during 1982, when Brabham were trying to get out of their contract, and BMW were insisting they use their engine?
It was indeed. Well done.
It’s a great story from Autosport's 1982 special edition magazine back in August last year; about the Brabham team, purposely trying to blow up their BMW engines when testing them in mid 1982. Simply because they wanted to show BMW, the engines were too unreliable. So Brabham could get out of having to run them for race weekends.
Unfortunately for Brabham, despite their best efforts, IIRC they couldn't blow up enough BMW engines to justify to the German manufacture not to run them for the latter part of 1982.
The relationship worked out well for Brabham in the end though!
The Iceman Waiteth What if Kimi Räikkönen hadn't got his chance in 2001?
But it wasn't Belgium.
