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Diplomat posted:Kimi has a typical Finnish demeanor which generally leads to humorous situations. Below are some of the more prominent things that may be mentioned. - passing out at a strip club with an inflatable dolphin - entering a boat race with the entire crew wearing gorilla suits - falling down from his yacht while drunk - groping some chicks and doing a strip show of his own at another strip club (and getting thrown out)  edit: Ron Dennis does something unthinkable and sort of admits he's been talking out of his rear end: quote:Ron Dennis has admitted he gave false information regarding Fernando Alonso's test crash in February. DMorbid fucked around with this message at 08:42 on Mar 12, 2015 |
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According to this linky here to the Twitters, Guido Van Der Fawkes is now threatening to seize Sauber's assets if they don't let him drive. Good for him
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Mar 12, 2015 08:59
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I'm now starting to think this is a ploy to get his money back, but he knows Sauber can't pay him. Waiting until the team assets are on the other side of the world before applying to sequester them is a pretty smart move if so.
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Mar 12, 2015 09:01
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Be a dick, take the tyres.
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Brainwrong posted:According to this linky here to the Twitters, Guido Van Der Fawkes is now threatening to seize Sauber's assets if they don't let him drive. Bye Bye Sauber then. Who would have guessed that Bianchi being bad and effectively killing himself would also kill a team off.
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Mar 12, 2015 09:52
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BBC posted:Van der Garde must still acquire a valid super-licence - required for any driver to compete in F1 - if he hopes to compete this weekend, as last season's has now expired and has not been renewed. Surely he's not going to get one for some Bernie-enriching reason.
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Mar 12, 2015 09:52
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Manor's car in all its glory:
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Doc Morbid posted:Manor's car in all its glory: They out McLaren Honda-ed McLaren Honda.
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Doc Morbid posted:Manor's car in all its glory:
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Adrian Sutil doesn't post on Twitter much these days, but he did favourite this from yesterday: https://twitter.com/Charreljalving/status/575443225286148096 Hopefully with this development he decides to lawyer up and we can be rid of Sauber (or at least some of the senior personnel) for good.
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Mar 12, 2015 11:11
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Because Adrian Newey is bored making cars and wants to play with ships and planes, Horny Horner suggested to ban the use of wind tunnels entirely. Both of Toto's teams naturally think this is a very dumb idea.
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Mar 12, 2015 11:18
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The list of drivers for the race has been published - https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B_4tiDiVIAIdIpm.jpg:large No Van Der Garde, so expect contempt of court proceedings first thing tomorrow with no doubt asset seizure soon after.
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Mar 12, 2015 11:35
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Wow RIP Sauber grats on killing off what was meant to be the original works Mercedes F1 team.
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Mar 12, 2015 11:42
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Didn't anyone at Sauber think that anyone that made 1.3 billion euro's and has holding in 30 company's wouldn't have an elite team of layers on hand to really know to drive the knife in if they defrauded him out of a £10,000,000 investment? Its not the kind of deal someone would make rashly and reading up on Marcel Boekhoorn he clearly isn't a fool.
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Mar 12, 2015 12:07
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Monisha has shown herself to be the crooked incompetent Indian lawyer everyone expects.
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Mar 12, 2015 12:15
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Bravo Sauber!  Got to love the off-track drama of this ridiculous sport. Stupid question... Hamilton's number is 44, on that document he has '44'.. now drivers have their own chosen numbers, can they opt to keep their own number in the season where they are the current reigning world champ? or will he still have a '1' on the car but be listed as driver number 44? Hrm. edit: also, what was the rumoured cut-off point where the other teams would have to provide three cars? Was it less than 18 cars or something like that?
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Mar 12, 2015 12:39
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The WDC can choose One or his own number. ARE LEWIS chose his own number. Teams have to provide three cars if they are only eight teams on grid.
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Mar 12, 2015 12:41
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Yep, short version, it happens if we lose Manor and Sauber. Now, better question, I don't know if it kicks in straight away or only at the start of a season.
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Mar 12, 2015 12:55
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Start of a season. Horny Horner said a single car costs 30-40 mill. Even if we lost both teams however, thanks to HAAS F1, 2016 will have nine teams.
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Mar 12, 2015 13:08
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Riso posted:Start of a season. Horny Horner said a single car costs 30-40 mill. Even if we lost both teams however, thanks to HAAS F1, 2016 will have nine teams. Assuming of course, Haas make it.
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Dudley posted:Assuming of course, Haas make it. i've yet to see any reason why they wouldn't
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Mar 12, 2015 13:25
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Dudley posted:Yep, short version, it happens if we lose Manor and Sauber. It would be a total cluster gently caress as they would have to not just provide an extra car, but having to sort out transport and visa's which are probably done months in advance, restart production lines, I doubt the engine manufactures have too many spare power units laying round because of that development loop hole. Would teams be expected to cram 3 cars into their pits or split their pits across 2 garages?
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Mar 12, 2015 13:30
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Well if there's fewer teams, there's more garages so I assume they would all get more room. Better question, still only 1 pit crew?
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be nice wicka posted:i've yet to see any reason why they wouldn't 1. They're American. 2. This sport hates Americans
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Brainwrong posted:1. They're American. wrong, F1 loves americans so much they kick us out so we don't embarrass ourselves
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Mar 12, 2015 14:00
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3. They hired pretty much everyone from Marussia.
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Mar 12, 2015 14:01
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I was watching the Australian GP and McLaren completed race distance. Then I realized I was dreaming.
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Riso posted:3. They hired pretty much everyone from Marussia. on the other hand, no they didn't
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manor will supposedly be unable to race due to engine software issues
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So we could have a 16 car grid at the start of the season. Wonder how exactly the 18 car rule is worded, i.e. when does the season start in terms of it.
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How much is Sauber worth now? a 2013 article valued it at $155, It cant be worth that much now after last season. If Van Der Garde was awarded damages for the loss of 2 seasons of his professional carer, emotional damage, breach of contract, breaking a high court order + the £10m he is owed. Would it be too far fetched for his father in law to settle up and buy the team out?
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Fumble posted:How much is Sauber worth now? a 2013 article valued it at $155, It cant be worth that much now after last season. If Van Der Garde was awarded damages for the loss of 2 seasons of his professional carer, emotional damage, breach of contract, breaking a high court order + the £10m he is owed. Would it be too far fetched for his father in law to settle up and buy the team out? There has been suggestion in a few places this is exactly what VDG's company (which is what is bringing the court case, and is probably owned in part by his Father in Law) is aiming to do. Would make a lot of sense as its about the only way of him getting a drive this year is if his backers own what is/was Sauber.
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Fumble posted:How much is Sauber worth now? a 2013 article valued it at $155, It cant be worth that much now after last season. the current performance of the team has virtually nothing to do with its valuation. it is still an F1 team with among the best facilities on the grid. they own their own wind tunnel (which they can't afford to run, presumably). it would still cost a lot to buy them out.
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Which would be better than them going out but still leaves us with one fewer team that doesn't fall under the fly by night ("Manufacturer", "Marketing department" or "1 rich idiot") team ownerships that'll bail instantly if the wind changes.
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be nice wicka posted:the current performance of the team has virtually nothing to do with its valuation. it is still an F1 team with among the best facilities on the grid. they own their own wind tunnel (which they can't afford to run, presumably). it would still cost a lot to buy them out. Yes it does, Value inst just assets, but this other thing called Brand equity.
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If Sauber end up running Van Der Garde, what's to stop Ericsson or Nasr then turning around and suing Sauber for breaching their contracts?
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Mar 12, 2015 15:41
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This thread amassed 240 odd posts in 2 days, did Alonso die again?
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Diet Crack posted:This thread amassed 240 odd posts in 2 days, did Alonso die again? He will after 17 cars start, there's a million crashes and Magnussen wins the only race of this McLaren Honda partnership. Also race is stopped on lap 37 since literally every car has crashed or had an engine failure.
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Sebastian Vettel posted:If Sauber end up running Van Der Garde, what's to stop Ericsson or Nasr then turning around and suing Sauber for breaching their contracts? Absolutely nothing. And it's going to be fun if an idiot court orders Sauber to run all 3 of them.
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Aqualung posted:Also race is stopped on lap 37 since literally every car has crashed or had an engine failure. I was almost disappointed this didn't happen last year.
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