I'm sure there are many, many ways of turning this memorable quote into something involving Super Mario Kart and Jean-Denis Délétraz or any of our other favourite reject drivers... as well as those "I'm gon' getcha booooy, I'm gon' getcha!" ram-raiders that make up a worrying proportion of the NASCAR grid.
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!"
I'm on my second (or third, I can't remember) run through every single F1 Rejects Podcast and I was listening to the 2005 Italian GP. A guy named Desmond Jones said that Christian Albers might get the third McLaren seat for 2006 and Tiago Monteiro would get a BAR drive. Things seem so much crazier with hindsight.
CoopsII wrote:On occasion I have ventured into the PMM forum but beat a hasty retreat soon after as it resembles some sort of bad acid trip in there
Phoenix wrote: Even accounting for some of the antics we spring up from time to time, I have to say the level of maturity of this forum's users is staggering regardless of the age.
So how close to the line do you reckon we get?
Apart from Don-Tirri's Schumacher remark after Singapore, that's it I think. At least in the time I've been here. I'm sure there's been others.
OI! I am offended by the implication!
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)
eurobrun wrote:Well if you hadn't of said what you said then people wouldn't call you a troll.
So A honest opinion is trolling? Yes that comment was a tad untasteful (but spurred by almost two decades of dislike towards him) but trolling?
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)
eurobrun wrote:Well if you hadn't of said what you said then people wouldn't call you a troll.
So A honest opinion is trolling? Yes that comment was a tad untasteful (but spurred by almost two decades of dislike towards him) but trolling?
I find it ironic that you share a huge dislike for Schumacher while having, at the same time, a big love for the "baby Schumi" (Vettel). How things change!
Colin Kolles on F111, 2011 HRT challenger: The car doesn't look too bad; it looks like a modern F1 car.
eurobrun wrote:Well if you hadn't of said what you said then people wouldn't call you a troll.
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So A honest opinion is trolling? Yes that comment was a tad untasteful (but spurred by almost two decades of dislike towards him) but trolling?
I find it ironic that you share a huge dislike for Schumacher while having, at the same time, a big love for the "baby Schumi" (Vettel). How things change!
How so? Only thing Vettel has in common with Schuey is nationality and speed. I never had problems with either Schueys speed nor nationality. I had a huge problem with his antics on the track. Adelaide 94, Jerez 97... That kinda stuff.
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)
DonTirri wrote: So A honest opinion is trolling? Yes that comment was a tad untasteful (but spurred by almost two decades of dislike towards him) but trolling?
I find it ironic that you share a huge dislike for Schumacher while having, at the same time, a big love for the "baby Schumi" (Vettel). How things change!
How so? Only thing Vettel has in common with Schuey is nationality and speed. I never had problems with either Schueys speed nor nationality. I had a huge problem with his antics on the track. Adelaide 94, Jerez 97... That kinda stuff.
Those are not the only things. The most important one is the modus operandi which consists in attention to detail, gathering the team around and being a leader and inspiration for the team (Alonso also shares this, but he seems to lack the appetite for learning the technical part both Germans have). Blandness is also a characteristic they share. Granted, Vettel seems much nicer than Shuey but is equally more boring! Anyway, it is not only because of nationality they are compared.
Colin Kolles on F111, 2011 HRT challenger: The car doesn't look too bad; it looks like a modern F1 car.
DanielPT wrote:Those are not the only things. The most important one is the modus operandi which consists in attention to detail, gathering the team around and being a leader and inspiration for the team (Alonso also shares this, but he seems to lack the appetite for learning the technical part both Germans have). Blandness is also a characteristic they share. Granted, Vettel seems much nicer than Shuey but is equally more boring! Anyway, it is not only because of nationality they are compared.
You forgot to mention that Vettel seems to be on quite good terms with Schumacher too (don't forget that the first driver to congratulate Vettel in Japan for winning the WDC was Schumacher, and the two are often seen chatting in the paddock after a race) - though Vettel did admit after the Race of Champions that he wasn't quite as keen as Schumacher to go out for a drink. Mind you, given Schumacher's reputation when drinking after celebrating a victory, that does seem like a wise idea...
Martin Brundle, on watching a replay of Grosjean spinning: "The problem with Grosjean is that he want to take a look back at the corner he's just exited"
I think the only reason i - and lots of others - dislike vettel is because there is no particular reason to dislike him. I get annoyed by people who don't do anything wrong. Liking or dislike him is irrelevant to liking or disliking schumacher, because he's always been controversial, whilst vettel's only mistakes were inexperience-related. Oh gosh i hate that kid
you know, it's just the reject in me, who doesn't want people do be perfect. I want incosistent and/or rejectful drivers! People who say stupid or random things at times.
I've just realised that it's not just the length of the DRS zone that determines is effectiveness. It's the angle that the straight that it's on. Now, I've learned a few years ago in Geography that fires move faster up hills rather than down hills and, while I am no expert in fluid dynamics, I believe that this principal explains why the DRS zone was almost too effective at both Turkey and Spa as the straights the DRS zone was placed at were at least partially uphill.
Biscione wrote:"Some Turkemenistani gulag repurposed for residential use" is the best way yet I've heard to describe North / East Glasgow.
I've just realised that it's not just the length of the DRS zone that determines is effectiveness. It's the angle that the straight that it's on. Now, I've learned a few years ago in Geography that fires move faster up hills rather than down hills and, while I am no expert in fluid dynamics, I believe that this principal explains why the DRS zone was almost too effective at both Turkey and Spa as the straights the DRS zone was placed at were at least partially uphill.
I've just realised that it's not just the length of the DRS zone that determines is effectiveness. It's the angle that the straight that it's on. Now, I've learned a few years ago in Geography that fires move faster up hills rather than down hills and, while I am no expert in fluid dynamics, I believe that this principal explains why the DRS zone was almost too effective at both Turkey and Spa as the straights the DRS zone was placed at were at least partially uphill.
You were paying attention in Geography?
Amazingly yes. I actually used to genuinely like Geography. But then it got boring as batshite in Year 9.
Biscione wrote:"Some Turkemenistani gulag repurposed for residential use" is the best way yet I've heard to describe North / East Glasgow.
I've just realised that it's not just the length of the DRS zone that determines is effectiveness. It's the angle that the straight that it's on. Now, I've learned a few years ago in Geography that fires move faster up hills rather than down hills and, while I am no expert in fluid dynamics, I believe that this principal explains why the DRS zone was almost too effective at both Turkey and Spa as the straights the DRS zone was placed at were at least partially uphill.
Oh boy... This sentence tells me that you should be paying more attention to Physics class than to Geography...
Colin Kolles on F111, 2011 HRT challenger: The car doesn't look too bad; it looks like a modern F1 car.
I've just realised that it's not just the length of the DRS zone that determines is effectiveness. It's the angle that the straight that it's on. Now, I've learned a few years ago in Geography that fires move faster up hills rather than down hills and, while I am no expert in fluid dynamics, I believe that this principal explains why the DRS zone was almost too effective at both Turkey and Spa as the straights the DRS zone was placed at were at least partially uphill.
Oh boy... This sentence tells me that you should be paying more attention to Physics class than to Geography...
Sad thing is I'm doing Physics AND Engineering next year as part of my HSC
Biscione wrote:"Some Turkemenistani gulag repurposed for residential use" is the best way yet I've heard to describe North / East Glasgow.
Is it wrong that I enjoyed Geography during my time at school, and might have continued it at A-level? Physics was bloody awful at A-level, so much so that I dropped it after a few weeks, so good luck with that!
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
I've just realised that it's not just the length of the DRS zone that determines is effectiveness. It's the angle that the straight that it's on. Now, I've learned a few years ago in Geography that fires move faster up hills rather than down hills and, while I am no expert in fluid dynamics, I believe that this principal explains why the DRS zone was almost too effective at both Turkey and Spa as the straights the DRS zone was placed at were at least partially uphill.
Oh boy... This sentence tells me that you should be paying more attention to Physics class than to Geography...
Sad thing is I'm doing Physics AND Engineering next year as part of my HSC
Ok, let me explain. The reason why fire moves faster up hills is a very different one than those of cars. You see, a car, when going straight, has to fight with two forces, friction and air resistance. These two forces combined will stop the car if no impulsion force is made to counteract the first two. If a car goes uphill it fights one more force, gravity. This same force helps the car while going downhill. The reason why DRS might work better (theoretically I think it should, although in F1 cars the difference is a bit marginal) is because you will accelerate faster and hence spend less time going downhill. This makes less time to use DRS and so less time for its effects to work. The reason why fire moves faster uphill is the same one which explains why if you pick a hot coal with a pair of pincers and put your hand one feet higher than the coal's position, this will more likely get you burned than the other way around. Hot air goes up and cold air comes down. Trees that are in higher position than the fire will heat up due to the hot air coming out of the fire and will eventually be hot and dry enough to reach combustion point and catch a fire themselves. If the tree is bellow the fire position it avoids most of the hot air and stay fresh enough for longer and is more likely to avoid catching fire.
Colin Kolles on F111, 2011 HRT challenger: The car doesn't look too bad; it looks like a modern F1 car.
CoopsII wrote:My teacher told me that my Geography homework was all over the place.
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)
eurobrun wrote:Two things 1. East Londoner has an epic taste in music 2. I really need to make my fictional drivers more interesting.
Number two is easy - get involved in the mafia, come up with proposterous rumours, and generally make you and your team look like a bunch of incompetent fools.
And I can't comment on number one as I have no idea what he listens to...although I bet it isn't Louis Prima
Novitopoli wrote:Everytime someone orders at Pizza Hut, an Italian dies.
eurobrun wrote:Two things 1. East Londoner has an epic taste in music 2. I really need to make my fictional drivers more interesting.
You are now my favourite member of the forum
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
I'm sure there are many, many ways of turning this memorable quote into something involving Super Mario Kart and Jean-Denis Délétraz or any of our other favourite reject drivers... as well as those "I'm gon' getcha booooy, I'm gon' getcha!" ram-raiders that make up a worrying proportion of the NASCAR grid.
Sorry to bump this back up, but a recent article by Joe Saward on the latest sponsorship deal that Lotus have announced - which will be to sponsor four cars in the German ATS Formula 3 Cup - is making me wonder if there is anything that Bahar hasn't tried sticking a Group Lotus sticker on.
We have the Formula 1 sponsorship deal, a deal with ART Grand Prix for GP2 and GP3 branded teams, a sponsorship deal with Kolles to run a Group Lotus branded LMP2 car (with a Judd engine) and are a nominated reserve team in the GTE class for this years Le Mans team, a deal with Judd and a number of IndyCar teams to run both Lotus tuned engines and sponsorship package and now this. According to Racecar Engineering, there is even a tarmac rally version of the Exige in the works right now - dubbed the R-GT - which was shaken down in late December last year and due to be launched this year (and - for once - it seems that Group Lotus are not promoting this using the "JPS lite" livery, but a red, white and light blue livery instead). http://www.racecar-engineering.com/news ... irst-time/
Looking at that list, it seems as if Bahar really is sticking by his promise to promote the Group Lotus name in every major series and then some - but the more that Bahar spreads the Lotus marque around, the more you start to wonder where the money is coming to fund all of these sponsorship deals. That is even more pertinent now that the Malaysian Government is selling its stake in Proton, since it means that Group Lotus can't rely on Proton bailing them out for much longer...
Martin Brundle, on watching a replay of Grosjean spinning: "The problem with Grosjean is that he want to take a look back at the corner he's just exited"
mario wrote:Sorry to bump this back up, but a recent article by Joe Saward on the latest sponsorship deal that Lotus have announced - which will be to sponsor four cars in the German ATS Formula 3 Cup - is making me wonder if there is anything that Bahar hasn't tried sticking a Group Lotus sticker on.
We have the Formula 1 sponsorship deal, a deal with ART Grand Prix for GP2 and GP3 branded teams, a sponsorship deal with Kolles to run a Group Lotus branded LMP2 car (with a Judd engine) and are a nominated reserve team in the GTE class for this years Le Mans team, a deal with Judd and a number of IndyCar teams to run both Lotus tuned engines and sponsorship package and now this. According to Racecar Engineering, there is even a tarmac rally version of the Exige in the works right now - dubbed the R-GT - which was shaken down in late December last year and due to be launched this year (and - for once - it seems that Group Lotus are not promoting this using the "JPS lite" livery, but a red, white and light blue livery instead). http://www.racecar-engineering.com/news ... irst-time/
Looking at that list, it seems as if Bahar really is sticking by his promise to promote the Group Lotus name in every major series and then some - but the more that Bahar spreads the Lotus marque around, the more you start to wonder where the money is coming to fund all of these sponsorship deals. That is even more pertinent now that the Malaysian Government is selling its stake in Proton, since it means that Group Lotus can't rely on Proton bailing them out for much longer...
It all seems like a wonderful dream that one is having just before waking up... Let's see if the ceiling is not that close to the bed to the point that Bahar destroys is forehead when he suddenly wakes up.
Colin Kolles on F111, 2011 HRT challenger: The car doesn't look too bad; it looks like a modern F1 car.
mario wrote:Sorry to bump this back up, but a recent article by Joe Saward on the latest sponsorship deal that Lotus have announced - which will be to sponsor four cars in the German ATS Formula 3 Cup - is making me wonder if there is anything that Bahar hasn't tried sticking a Group Lotus sticker on.
We have the Formula 1 sponsorship deal, a deal with ART Grand Prix for GP2 and GP3 branded teams, a sponsorship deal with Kolles to run a Group Lotus branded LMP2 car (with a Judd engine) and are a nominated reserve team in the GTE class for this years Le Mans team, a deal with Judd and a number of IndyCar teams to run both Lotus tuned engines and sponsorship package and now this. According to Racecar Engineering, there is even a tarmac rally version of the Exige in the works right now - dubbed the R-GT - which was shaken down in late December last year and due to be launched this year (and - for once - it seems that Group Lotus are not promoting this using the "JPS lite" livery, but a red, white and light blue livery instead). http://www.racecar-engineering.com/news ... irst-time/
Looking at that list, it seems as if Bahar really is sticking by his promise to promote the Group Lotus name in every major series and then some - but the more that Bahar spreads the Lotus marque around, the more you start to wonder where the money is coming to fund all of these sponsorship deals. That is even more pertinent now that the Malaysian Government is selling its stake in Proton, since it means that Group Lotus can't rely on Proton bailing them out for much longer...
The Exige R-GT was registered for Rallye Monte Carlo and never showed up. Not a good sign for the programme. Especially now the WRC has descended to the state it's currently in...
Novitopoli wrote:Everytime someone orders at Pizza Hut, an Italian dies.
eurobrun wrote:1. East Londoner has an epic taste in music
I'm gonna be honest. With his love for 1990s britpop, i've occasionally thought he was my real brother. As my own brother doesn't care for it, other than Oasis.
eurobrun wrote:1. East Londoner has an epic taste in music
I'm gonna be honest. With his love for 1990s britpop, i've occasionally thought he was my real brother. As my own brother doesn't care for it, other than Oasis.
Maybe in an alternate universe, we are brothers
It's lonely being an indie/Britpop fan at my sixth form. Most people either listen to chart music, or are into goth/emo/metal genres. It was even worse at high school. Some people there had no idea who Noel Gallagher was, or Oasis. Cue much facepalming and headesking until I mentioned the magic word beginning with W and ending with L, then they realised
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
mario wrote:Sorry to bump this back up, but a recent article by Joe Saward on the latest sponsorship deal that Lotus have announced - which will be to sponsor four cars in the German ATS Formula 3 Cup - is making me wonder if there is anything that Bahar hasn't tried sticking a Group Lotus sticker on.
We have the Formula 1 sponsorship deal, a deal with ART Grand Prix for GP2 and GP3 branded teams, a sponsorship deal with Kolles to run a Group Lotus branded LMP2 car (with a Judd engine) and are a nominated reserve team in the GTE class for this years Le Mans team, a deal with Judd and a number of IndyCar teams to run both Lotus tuned engines and sponsorship package and now this. According to Racecar Engineering, there is even a tarmac rally version of the Exige in the works right now - dubbed the R-GT - which was shaken down in late December last year and due to be launched this year (and - for once - it seems that Group Lotus are not promoting this using the "JPS lite" livery, but a red, white and light blue livery instead). http://www.racecar-engineering.com/news ... irst-time/
Looking at that list, it seems as if Bahar really is sticking by his promise to promote the Group Lotus name in every major series and then some - but the more that Bahar spreads the Lotus marque around, the more you start to wonder where the money is coming to fund all of these sponsorship deals. That is even more pertinent now that the Malaysian Government is selling its stake in Proton, since it means that Group Lotus can't rely on Proton bailing them out for much longer...
The Exige R-GT was registered for Rallye Monte Carlo and never showed up. Not a good sign for the programme. Especially now the WRC has descended to the state it's currently in...
I had noticed that, and by the looks of things there are a few people wondering what happened to the promised Exige R-GT entry - they seem to have withdrawn their entry before the final entry list was even announced, although there do not seem to have put out any explanation why. There was at least one car ready by the looks of things though - on the Group Lotus website there was a short clip of the R-GT being shaken down back in December - but the project seems to have gone very quiet all of a sudden. On the other hand, given that the Monte Carlo Rallye descended into an utter farce with the timing system dispute and a relatively weak entry list by historic standard, perhaps it wasn't such a bad idea for Group Lotus to skip that round...
Martin Brundle, on watching a replay of Grosjean spinning: "The problem with Grosjean is that he want to take a look back at the corner he's just exited"
East Londoner wrote:It's lonely being an indie/Britpop fan at my sixth form. Most people either listen to chart music, or are into goth/emo/metal genres. It was even worse at high school. Some people there had no idea who Noel Gallagher was, or Oasis. Cue much facepalming and headesking until I mentioned the magic word beginning with W and ending with L, then they realised
Wankel? As in Mazda engines?
By the way, I know which song you're referring to... Honest.
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.
eurobrun wrote:1. East Londoner has an epic taste in music
I'm gonna be honest. With his love for 1990s britpop, i've occasionally thought he was my real brother. As my own brother doesn't care for it, other than Oasis.
Maybe in an alternate universe, we are brothers
It's lonely being an indie/Britpop fan at my sixth form. Most people either listen to chart music, or are into goth/emo/metal genres. It was even worse at high school. Some people there had no idea who Noel Gallagher was, or Oasis. Cue much facepalming and headesking until I mentioned the magic word beginning with W and ending with L, then they realised
I never had it that bad at Sixth Form. Although to be honest, I am a metal fan too.
And there's a clear difference between liking Wonderwall and liking Oasis. You can also change that to Smells Like Teen Spirit and Nirvana.
I was similarly a pariah all through school in the 80s and college in the mid-90s being a fan of the Beatles and other 60s music. Britpop is okay, I have a few of the albums (predictably, I especially like Ocean Colour Scene) but it seemed to be a badge of honour in those days to rip off 60s bands, so I'm all too aware that there's very little original in Britpop.
I listened to Metal in school during the time when everyone listened to *gasp* Backstreet Boys and *gulp* Take That. Yep, even some of the guys. But I am pretty sure the reason I (and my friends too) was a pariah for the class is because of being a gamer geek and liking anime.
Colin Kolles on F111, 2011 HRT challenger: The car doesn't look too bad; it looks like a modern F1 car.
