At the same race, Karthikeyan would later give Vettel a headache as the cry-baby gets a flat tire near the end of the race. If only we could hear what Seb had to say on the radio afterwards, but him giving the #1 sign during the race and calling Narain an idiot post-race suffices, I guess.
During some of the later races in 2010, when it would get boring with nothing happening on track, my brother and i would be watching how far back Yamamoto was falling to see if he would actually be classified by the time the race had finished.
Murray Walker at the 1997 Austrian Grand Prix wrote:The other [Stewart] driver, who nobody's been paying attention to, because he's disappointing, is Jan Magnussen.
The Chicane's reasoning could be that this race brought the first DNQs in F1 since Alex Yoong missed the cut at Hockenheim in 2002, or it could be that Messrs. Liuzzi and Karthikeyan did so sporting "YOUR LOGO HERE", "THIS COULD BE YOU" and "THIS IS A COOL SPOT" on their cars when none of us could quite believe that this would be HRT's real livery for the season. Either would be good.
For more HRT memories I would add Tonio's car bowling at Monza later in the year which (for a few seconds) put him in a points-scoring position, the unexpected return of Christian Klien in 2010 (as well as a bit of Sakon Yamamoto), and Ma Qing Hua crying like a baby when he'd tested the car in 2012 (as would anyone else who had to drive it). Thinking about this, does this make HRT the only team who ever had both a Chinese and an Indian driver amongst their ranks, however briefly? (Of course, both Indian F1 drivers had a stint at HRT...)
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!"
dinizintheoven wrote: For more HRT memories I would add Tonio's car bowling at Monza later in the year which (for a few seconds) put him in a points-scoring position,
I was in the grandstand at that chicane that year, so it had happened about 100 or so yards ahead of me (my Italian Job holiday - I did a road trip to Italy and France in the first fortnight of that September, just before starting my second degree).
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.
CoopsII wrote:I applied to be a member of their fan club mainly to get a membership card. I applied but received no card. That still hurts to this day.
Same. I get the impression that by the time I applied, they'd run out of money to print some new ones, or afford the postage to send them out. Tragic!
CoopsII wrote:I applied to be a member of their fan club mainly to get a membership card. I applied but received no card. That still hurts to this day.
Same, I signed up to their Fan Club but I wonder what they did with all our details?
CoopsII wrote:I applied to be a member of their fan club mainly to get a membership card. I applied but received no card. That still hurts to this day.
Same, I signed up to their Fan Club but I wonder what they did with all our details?
CoopsII wrote:I applied to be a member of their fan club mainly to get a membership card. I applied but received no card. That still hurts to this day.
Same, I signed up to their Fan Club but I wonder what they did with all our details?
They didn't have any takers for the spots on the car which said "Your Logo Here" and similar stuff. So you are surprised they didn't have any for your details either?
"I don't think we should be used to finance (the manufacturers') R&D because they will produce that engine anyway" said Monisha Kaltenborn. "You will never see a Mercedes using a Ferrari engine or the other way round."