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F1DriverQuidenBerg
Jan 19, 2014

Goodnight sweet prince :spain:

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poty
Jun 21, 2008

虹はどこで終わるのですか? あなたの魂の中で、または地平線で?

Lucasar posted:

I watched all of the 2014 season, I meant before that. Assume I know nothing except something something Senna and Prost and Schumacher win everything.

Monza 2010
Canada 2011
2012 was so good you really should watch the whole thing. Still if I had to choose, Europe/Valencia 2012
Britain 2013

poty
Jun 21, 2008

虹はどこで終わるのですか? あなたの魂の中で、または地平線で?
If Alonso is really alive, why are there no pictures of him holding today's newspaper?

CratSock
Aug 5, 2004

Sock Wielding Assassin

In an ironic, yet satisfying twist of fate, Alonso-bot's battery discharged into the chassis and caused severe damage to the MP4-30. Alonso-bot has been sent back to the Honda factory for diagnostics and repair, meanwhile K-Mag will drive the charred, defective lump of carbon in Melbourne.

Serperoth
Feb 21, 2013




CratSock posted:

the charred, defective lump of carbon in Melbourne.

Alonso's not running in Melbourne, what are you talking about?

Tsaedje
May 11, 2007

BRAWNY BUTTONS 4 LYFE
Imagine if McLaren had picked Magnussen over Button and had to start the season with only Magnussen and Vandoorne as their drivers

CratSock
Aug 5, 2004

Sock Wielding Assassin

Vanwho?

Tsaedje
May 11, 2007

BRAWNY BUTTONS 4 LYFE

Stoffel Vandoorne, their Belgian reserve driver.

wicka
Jun 28, 2007


Tsaedje posted:

Stoffel Vandoorne, their Belgian reserve driver.

and the prohibitive favorite to win GP2 this year

Tsaedje
May 11, 2007

BRAWNY BUTTONS 4 LYFE
Stoffel is a tremendously silly name as well. I mean not as daft as Jolyon or Sebastian

wicka
Jun 28, 2007


i don't know enough about GP2, does anyone but vandoorne/evans/marciello have a chance in hell

El Hefe
Oct 31, 2006

You coulda had a V8/
Instead of a tre-eight slug to yo' cranium/
I got six and I'm aimin' 'em/
Will I bust or keep you guessin'
I'm going to petition Maduro to offer Ron Dennis a PDVSA title sponsorship and when he comes to Venezuela to sign the deal I'm going to brutally murder him and since we have a 99% impunity rate there's a pretty good chance I'll get away with it.

CratSock
Aug 5, 2004

Sock Wielding Assassin

Oh, is Vandoorne actually good? I knew he was around in the background somewhere, but I did not know he was a legit talent. Or is it just an otherwise talentless pool in GP2 right now?

wicka
Jun 28, 2007


CratSock posted:

Oh, is Vandoorne actually good? I knew he was around in the background somewhere, but I did not know he was a legit talent. Or is it just an otherwise talentless pool in GP2 right now?

he finished runner-up to magnussen in FR3.5 in 2013

George Zimmer
Jun 28, 2008

poty posted:

Monza 2010
Canada 2011
2012 was so good you really should watch the whole thing. Still if I had to choose, Europe/Valencia 2012
Britain 2013

I'd also put Brazil 2012.

Tsaedje
May 11, 2007

BRAWNY BUTTONS 4 LYFE
Looking through this year's GP2 ranks I notice Honda have immediately plonked a Japanese driver in there alongside Vandoorne at ART. I hope Nobuharu Matsushita isn't poo poo(a).

Dudley
Feb 24, 2003

Tasty

be nice wicka posted:

i don't know enough about GP2, does anyone but vandoorne/evans/marciello have a chance in hell

Well, despite the same name being on the car, Evans has actually changed team this year for a team new to GP2 so I don't actually think he's up there. And Marciello is driving for a team that spent most of the history of GP2 finishing in the bottom 3.

The very best win in their first year, Alex Lynn has the best team, he could do it.

Other than that, with Evans, Vandoorne and Marciello all have scrubs for teammates, the talent level drops like a stone. The only others to even watch would be Lynn's teammare Gasly who got a head start in doomed Caterhams late last year and was 2nd in the FRenault 3.5s and MAYBE Jordan King and Rossi if Racing Engineering get their act together.

Which is a lot of words for "If Vandoorne doesn't win it he might as well kill himself".

Human Grand Prix
Jan 24, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

Tsaedje posted:

Looking through this year's GP2 ranks I notice Honda have immediately plonked a Japanese driver in there alongside Vandoorne at ART. I hope Nobuharu Matsushita isn't poo poo(a).

He did very well in Japanese F3. Then again it's Japanese F3.

Butt Wizard
Nov 3, 2005

It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.

Dudley posted:

Well, despite the same name being on the car, Evans has actually changed team this year for a team new to GP2 so I don't actually think he's up there. And Marciello is driving for a team that spent most of the history of GP2 finishing in the bottom 3.
?
Didn't the ownership change for RT last year? Or have they done the same thing again in less tha 12 months?

Evans seems quick but Russian Time had to be the worst team at calling strategy in GP2, no matter who is running it.

Van Doorne seems the business though.

Human Grand Prix
Jan 24, 2013

by FactsAreUseless
Van Doorne is impressive, but we'll see.

wicka
Jun 28, 2007


Dudley posted:

Well, despite the same name being on the car, Evans has actually changed team this year for a team new to GP2 so I don't actually think he's up there. And Marciello is driving for a team that spent most of the history of GP2 finishing in the bottom 3.

The very best win in their first year, Alex Lynn has the best team, he could do it.

Other than that, with Evans, Vandoorne and Marciello all have scrubs for teammates, the talent level drops like a stone. The only others to even watch would be Lynn's teammare Gasly who got a head start in doomed Caterhams late last year and was 2nd in the FRenault 3.5s and MAYBE Jordan King and Rossi if Racing Engineering get their act together.

Which is a lot of words for "If Vandoorne doesn't win it he might as well kill himself".

but realistically neither vandoorne nor marciello need to win to earn an F1 seat. they will get there in the next couple years unless they completely blow it.

Finger Prince
Jan 5, 2007


be nice wicka posted:

mclaren are clearly trying to cover for the fact that ron kept saying "he was briefly unconscious but not concussed" despite the fact that being unconscious guarantees that he suffered a concussion

Not true. There are other ways to render an person unconscious. Asphyxiation for one. Also, various chemical compounds could be administered to render an employee- er... that is to say, a victim unconscious, and in the correct dosage they would be all but undetectable in a post-crash autopsy unless very specifically tested for...

Brainwrong
Mar 20, 2004

RIP Bobby K
Poland's Rose. Like a cabbage in the wind.

be nice wicka posted:

i don't know enough about GP2, does anyone but vandoorne/evans/marciello have a chance in hell

All drivers who have come through from GP2 with lots of promise have been absolute dog cack. Apart from Our Lewis and Nuestro Pastor.

#blessedtacos

Dudley
Feb 24, 2003

Tasty

Butt Wizard posted:

?
Didn't the ownership change for RT last year? Or have they done the same thing again in less tha 12 months?

Yep. Motopark 2013, iSport 2014, Virtuosi this year.

Butt Wizard
Nov 3, 2005

It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.

Dudley posted:

Yep. Motopark 2013, iSport 2014, Virtuosi this year.

FFS. Although given that Evans got hung out to dry on some really weird tyre calls last year, this could be a good thing.

I don't know if he's got the same raw pace as the others but I'm not sure he's really had much of a chance as some of the other drivers.

Officiating has always been another problem in GP2, I remember one race where someone hit one of Evan's spare tyres laid out in the pits and someone on the GP2 Twitter account sent me back a "NO" when I asked if there was going to be a penalty for it.

wicka
Jun 28, 2007


Linedance posted:

Not true. There are other ways to render an person unconscious. Asphyxiation for one. Also, various chemical compounds could be administered to render an employee- er... that is to say, a victim unconscious, and in the correct dosage they would be all but undetectable in a post-crash autopsy unless very specifically tested for...

are you retarded?

poty
Jun 21, 2008

虹はどこで終わるのですか? あなたの魂の中で、または地平線で?

poty posted:

Monza 2010
Canada 2011
2012 was so good you really should watch the whole thing. Still if I had to choose, Europe/Valencia 2012
Britain 2013

Actually Canada 2010 was better than Monza

RALF
Mar 15, 2009

Grimey Drawer
United States 2005

Pablo Bluth
Sep 7, 2007

I've made a huge mistake.

RALF posted:

United States 2005
And Austria 2003. making GBS threads in it's own slippers is a fundamental part of F1.

Aqualung
Oct 10, 2005

Don't worry guys, Ron knows the guy who drives the crane.

Pablo Bluth posted:

And Austria 2003. making GBS threads in it's own slippers is a fundamental part of F1.

Don't forget literally everything that happened in Jerez 1997.

Pablo Bluth
Sep 7, 2007

I've made a huge mistake.
Then Germany 2000 and Britain 2003 for a double-header.

Fumble
Sep 4, 2006
Probation
Can't post for 10 days!
You are all so quick to point the finger at are Ron, but we all know who's gained the most out of this, Dead Man's Pointy Shoes, so to speak.

captainOrbital
Jan 23, 2003

Wrathchild!
💢🧒

Pablo Bluth posted:

And Austria 2003. making GBS threads in it's own slippers is a fundamental part of F1.

What was the deal with Austria 2003?

Wirth1000
May 12, 2010

#essereFerrari

Brainwrong posted:

All drivers who have come through from GP2 with lots of promise have been absolute dog cack. Apart from Our Lewis and Nuestro Pastor.

#blessedtacos

You forgot Rosberg, Grosjean, and Hulkenberg.

Brainwrong
Mar 20, 2004

RIP Bobby K
Poland's Rose. Like a cabbage in the wind.

Wirth1000 posted:

You forgot Rosberg, Grosjean, and Hulkenberg.

No I didn't.

Wirth1000
May 12, 2010

#essereFerrari

Brainwrong posted:

No I didn't.

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pablo Bluth
Sep 7, 2007

I've made a huge mistake.

captainOrbital posted:

What was the deal with Austria 2003?
Sorry, 2002.

Ghost of Mussolini
Jun 26, 2011
Spain 2006 was the highest ever Super Aguri finish you should watch that one. I don't even know what else happened but knowing 2006 Alonso probably cheated and won (or cheated and came second)

Human Grand Prix
Jan 24, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

Ghost of Mussolini posted:

Spain 2006 was the highest ever Super Aguri finish you should watch that one. I don't even know what else happened but knowing 2006 Alonso probably cheated and won (or cheated and came second)

Canada 2007 was I think. Sato came in 6th.

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IceAgeComing
Jan 29, 2013

pretty fucking embarrassing to watch
Australia 1994 to understand the apparent blood feud that people like my Dad have for Michael Schumacher

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