And as for the Mansell/Alonso two seater accident, notice how Nige blames Fernando for slowing down coming out of the corner. Clearly the old blame-game habits die hard ...
thehemogoblin wrote:In Nissany's defense, that car steered atrociously.
Yeah, and the 95 Pacific wasnt a world-beater either. That doesnt make Deletraz's performance any less Reject-worthy ^^
I got Pointed Opinions and I ain't afraid to use em! F1rejects no.1Räikkönen and Vettel fan. BTW, thats Räikkönen with two K's and two N's. Not Raikonnen (Raikkonen is fine if you have no umlauts though)
Nissany was 7,3 seconds slower than Robert Doornbos...in fact, only driver of whom he was within 107% was Nicolas Kiesa in Jordan, at even that only under tenth of a second.
Bleu wrote:Nissany was 7,3 seconds slower than Robert Doornbos...in fact, only driver of whom he was within 107% was Nicolas Kiesa in Jordan, at even that only under tenth of a second.
Really? That is atrociously slow, he'd have given Delatrez a run for his money if he'd ever bought himself into a full time seat......thankfully Stoddart wasn't that desperate (or stupid).
In fact, did Nissany ever really achieve anything in other classes of motorsport?
Bleu wrote:Nissany was 7,3 seconds slower than Robert Doornbos...in fact, only driver of whom he was within 107% was Nicolas Kiesa in Jordan, at even that only under tenth of a second.
Really? That is atrociously slow, he'd have given Delatrez a run for his money if he'd ever bought himself into a full time seat......thankfully Stoddart wasn't that desperate (or stupid).
In fact, did Nissany ever really achieve anything in other classes of motorsport?
I know it isn't F1 but here's a father and son moment with Mario and Michael Andretti at the 1991 Detroit Indy Car Grand Prix http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwEqjuvAZzE
The beauty of this clip is that we're looking at a reject team having a reject pit stop. Just imagine if Life ever had to do one in the heat of battle... if they ever qualified... or pre-qualified... or lasted long enough to put a pre-qualification lap in.
Nissanymania! Friday has never been the same since.
The beauty of this clip is that we're looking at a reject team having a reject pit stop. Just imagine if Life ever had to do one in the heat of battle... if they ever qualified... or pre-qualified... or lasted long enough to put a pre-qualification lap in.
Too Bad there aren't any youtube videos of Life that I know of, but then again who would want to film a car that at Imola ran a 7:16.212 minute lap (How is that even possible to do a 7 minute lap at Imola, you could probably do a 5 minute lap just walking, can anybody explain that to me?)
The lap times were calculated differently back then. He left the pits after session had started and crossed the timing line on the track when seven minutes and 16 seconds had gone in the session. And then most likely car broke on the next lap.
By the way, Mark Blundell set a time of 16 minutes and 42 seconds at 1995 Japanese GP qualifying in a similar way. Left the pits, drove outlap and then spun on his first flying lap. To make it worse he crashed heavily in Saturday free practice and was forced to sit Saturday qualifying. At that time, however, all drivers qualified for the race, so Blundell started the race 23rd (after Aguri Suzuki was injured and did not start) and last position, finishing 7th less than two seconds from Mika Salo in 6th place.
"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."
At 3:12 in this clip with commentary by Murray Walker and James Hunt, there is the Lambo pitstop of Larini in Phoenix, with a nice Murrayism as commentary. It's GMIF1P worthy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNW253rk ... re=related
"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."
Looks like the last corner of the new Nurburgring to me.
"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
Here is the 1994 comeback of my nicksake, Yannick Dalmas: He managed to damage his car twice in the same corner, rendering him unable to continue in both qualifying and the race.
"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."
"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."
"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."
Ah The Brabham BT50. The only top-team car more unreliable than the 02 McLaren Mp4-17.
Gotta love the commentator on that clip, the sarcasm is just hilarious.
I got Pointed Opinions and I ain't afraid to use em! F1rejects no.1Räikkönen and Vettel fan. BTW, thats Räikkönen with two K's and two N's. Not Raikonnen (Raikkonen is fine if you have no umlauts though)
thehemogoblin wrote:In Nissany's defense, that car steered atrociously.
Actually Ive read that in late 2005 a woman, Katherine Legge, had first tested an F1 car, and on her first try she was 3 seconds quicker than Nissany. Not to mention, at first when he started he was about 12 seconds slower than Albers. Even when Ide first tested he was "only" 7 seconds slower than Sato
Artificial intelligence is no match for F1 rejectdom.
Just found ... a clip on winglets from the 90s. It would probably be funnier if you or I could understand the lyrics of the song which the creator of the video has put into Max's mouth, but it's still funny to look at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIDwRRliF7A
"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."
Yannick wrote:Just found ... a clip on winglets from the 90s. It would probably be funnier if you or I could understand the lyrics of the song which the creator of the video has put into Max's mouth, but it's still funny to look at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIDwRRliF7A
What's that mini rear wing on Jacques' Williams at 3:00 ??
Yannick wrote:Just found ... a clip on winglets from the 90s. It would probably be funnier if you or I could understand the lyrics of the song which the creator of the video has put into Max's mouth, but it's still funny to look at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIDwRRliF7A
What's that mini rear wing on Jacques' Williams at 3:00 ??
I answer by myself... they tried it for Monza, but was never raced.
Really nice recovery by Enrique Bernoldi after an idiotic attempt at overtaking by Felipe Massa. I was there for this one and what you didn't see on camera was Tom Walkinshaw storming off to Sauber and shouting at Peter Sauber and Beat Zehnder. Proper foaming at the mouth, Ken Tyrrell style.
Following Formula 1 since 1984. Avid collector of Formula 1 season guides and reviews. Collector of reject merchandise and 1/43rd scale reject model cars.
Indeed, they look slow. And the Best Lap and Speed data at the end says it all. Being six seconds slower than Pedro Diniz is not good at all for Rosset
