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1500quidporsche posted:Germans are boring, annoying and uninteresting. See: Nico Rosberg. Germans usually needs a strong Austrian to inspire them to victory
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JFairfax posted:Germans usually needs a strong Austrian to inspire them to victory I find they're particularly good at getting the Germans to find strength through joy, which is why you'll find Lauda joking around in the pit lane.
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http://www.motorsportmagazine.com/multimedia/audio-podcasts/ Listen to the Ross Brawn & Nick Fry EP - great stuff.
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Apr 18, 2016 22:35
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1500quidporsche posted:Germans are boring, annoying and uninteresting. See: Nico Rosberg. Counterpoint: Hitler.
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Apr 19, 2016 11:08
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Can any nerd identify this car, its a ralt that Johnathan Palmer drove.
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Apr 19, 2016 12:57
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I think its the RH6, the works Honda F2 car. More or less a worked over RT2 unless I'm mistaken.
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Apr 19, 2016 13:35
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Kilmers Elbow posted:Counterpoint: Hitler. poo poo just got real weird with that guy though.
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Apr 19, 2016 14:03
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Kilmers Elbow posted:Counterpoint: Hitler. Austrian.
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Apr 19, 2016 14:11
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no the real hitler hes german and drives for ferrari
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Dubs posted:no the real hitler Kimi is pretty bad, but I wouldn't say he's Hitler bad.
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Apr 19, 2016 15:06
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This conversion got bad and strange. Lewis is being a cock again. http://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/i-don-t-owe-anything-to-f1-says-hamilton-688604/ edit: aaand he's now the most hated man in formula 1 http://www.crash.net/f1/news/229574/1/hamilton-i-promote-f1-more-than-any-driver-ever-has.html Lewis: "I actually probably promote the sport more than any other driver ever has,” Pissed off journalist who has a point "...claiming he does more for the sport than all the other drivers on the grid combined as well as more than icons like Ayrton Senna and Michael Schumacher." learnincurve fucked around with this message at 15:15 on Apr 19, 2016 |
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Apr 19, 2016 15:08
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I was talking about Ralts.
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Apr 19, 2016 15:12
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learnincurve posted:This conversion got bad and strange. This sport truly is good and cool
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1500quidporsche posted:Austrian. Meh...they all look the same over there.
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learnincurve posted:This conversion got bad and strange. He uses Twitter more than Senna, to be fair.
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Apr 19, 2016 16:18
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learnincurve posted:Pissed off journalist who has a point "...claiming he does more for the sport than all the other drivers on the grid combined as well as more than icons like Ayrton Senna and Michael Schumacher." Honestly Schumacher really hasn't been pulling his weight lately.
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Kilmers Elbow posted:Honestly Schumacher really hasn't been pulling his weight lately. He's really been silent on the whole F1 thing.
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Apr 19, 2016 16:22
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It's lights out in the Schumacher camp. I agree though, Lewis does a hell of a lot to reinforce that he's a gigantic prick of a baby. Petulance is rife with that fuckwad.
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i don't think lewis is actually wrong. he is almost certainly in the public eye more than any driver before him.
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be nice wicka posted:i don't think lewis is actually wrong. he is almost certainly in the public eye more than any driver before him. Not by a long shot even on this tiny lovely little Island. In my youth Hill and Mansell were household names and loving everywhere on mainstream TV, it's only been since the year 2000 that Satellite/Cable became a thing and for most of TV history we only had 2-4 channels and they used to be switched off for the night, and sometimes not switched on again till 12pm well into the late 90s. F1 had ludicrous viewing figures mostly because there was nothing else on TV. Hunt, Prost, Senna, Mansell, Hill, Schumacher, Stirling moss, Jackie Stewart, John Surtees, Niki Lauder, David Coulthard, Mika Hakkinen were all bigger stars in their day here than Lewis is now. The man couldn't even win sports personality of the year after winning the 2015 championship and got less votes than a sexist racist chav boxer, when Hill and Mansell both won it twice with ease. This is without even getting in to how much Non-English drivers did for the sport in their own countries. For example Senna, Nelson Piquet and Emerson Fittipaldi for Brazil, and when Fernando Alonso started F1 wasn't even shown on Spanish TV until he started winning stuff. Then you get into the doing more for the sport thing, What about Bruce Mclaren? Bernie started out as a driver and I doubt Lewis has done more to promote the sport than the literal promoter. I may have read the comments sections on those articles.
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Human Grand Prix posted:I think its the RH6, the works Honda F2 car. More or less a worked over RT2 unless I'm mistaken. Cool, after a bit more searching it appears that its a RH6/83 looking at the nose and rear wing design 😌
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be nice wicka posted:i don't think lewis is actually wrong. he is almost certainly in the public eye more than any driver before him. People at work still ask me about Vettle if sports chat comes up, and look confused if I tell them about InstaramHam. People here also give no shits about motorsport.
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learnincurve posted:Not by a long shot even on this tiny lovely little Island. In my youth Hill and Mansell were household names and loving everywhere on mainstream TV, it's only been since the year 2000 that Satellite/Cable became a thing and for most of TV history we only had 2-4 channels and they used to be switched off for the night, and sometimes not switched on again till 12pm well into the late 90s. F1 had ludicrous viewing figures mostly because there was nothing else on TV. i don't think hill being on TV a lot is at all what lewis is talking about. hamilton is a fixture in culture that has absolutely nothing to do with F1.
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Apr 19, 2016 18:20
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There's a difference between promoting a sport and promoting yourself on instagram. A massive loving difference in fact.
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Apr 19, 2016 18:22
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Just wait until Are Lewis drops his album.
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Apr 19, 2016 18:22
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I realy just want to post who loving gives a poo poo what he does, but obviously everyone here does because?
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track day bro! posted:I realy just want to post who loving gives a poo poo what he does, but obviously everyone here does because? Because it's an interesting part of a sport I enjoy.
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Apr 19, 2016 18:30
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I like laughing at the silly things Lewis does he's entertaining that's for sure
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Apr 19, 2016 18:37
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He's entertainment value. I mean he's dumb as all hell and there's no way you'd have a drink with him in a pub but his funny watching him parade himself in front of the media like he's a real cool cat, and its quite enjoyable watching him losing to Fraudsberg because he's burnt out making some stupid album.
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be nice wicka posted:i don't think lewis is actually wrong. he is almost certainly in the public eye more than any driver before him. He's certainly not wrong about the rules thing being far out of his control, that's for sure.
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Lewis is fine. I just feel like minihitler Nico deserves a WDC, he's been trying so hard. But on another topic, I've heard that Kimi is huge in China. Why the hell would this be?
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He's so popular that he lost driver of the day to Grosjean x2 and Kvyat.
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:Lewis is fine. I just feel like minihitler Nico deserves a WDC, he's been trying so hard. Well he was having a poo poo and Chinese tourists love to deffocate in public.
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learnincurve posted:He's so popular that he lost driver of the day to Grosjean x2 and Kvyat. lewis? he didn't say he was the most popular driver in the sport, he says he works harder than anyone else to promote it. he said "I'm in more events talking about Formula 1 more than any other driver" which is probably true considering no one stops bitching about him being at fashion shows. i mean, it's probably not having a real effect, and he's being a bit disingenuous by describing any of this as "work," but still Diet Crack posted:There's a difference between promoting a sport and promoting yourself on instagram. yeah it's very silly that he thinks just being lewis hamilton, an F1 driver, and doing a lot of things that involve him getting his picture taken = positive promotion for F1
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learnincurve posted:Hunt, Prost, Senna, Mansell, Hill, Schumacher, Stirling moss, Jackie Stewart, John Surtees, Niki Lauder, David Coulthard, Mika Hakkinen were all bigger stars in their day I lived in the UK when Coultard and Hakkinen were racing (and Hamiltons first WDC) and the above statement does not match my experience. Ask most people in the UK who John Surtees is and they'l go 'John who?". I detest Hamilton, but I also acknowledge that he has done a lot to promote F1. Having said that, he owes *everything* to F1...otherwise he'd still be sleeping on that couch in Stevenage.
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:Lewis is fine. I just feel like minihitler Nico deserves a WDC, he's been trying so hard. a) He's probably done loads of cigarette commercials that have yet to seep into the West. b) They can't pronounce Lewis.
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Senna was so popular that they used to have to helicopter drivers and pit crews from hotels to the track in some countries because of the sheer numbers of fans that used to gather outside hoping to get a look at him as he came in. I'm not seeing Lewis' self promotion on instagram spawn this level of support. As someone else said, 12 year old girls don't buy sky sports subscriptions or race tickets.
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My general impression of seeing Lewis on British TV is people kinda like him, but are mostly indifferent. On the rare occasion Schumacher turned up people would lose their poo poo. You also couldn't go anywhere when I was a child without seeing something about Mansell somewhere, but the sport was pretty massive in the UK at the time so it's not a truly fair comparison. I think Lewis is about 20% as famous as he thinks he is.
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I'm seeing more and more black fans at COTA each year, and magnitudes more than at the Indy USGPs back in the day. I'm not saying they're all Lewis fans, or that all of them are there only because of Lewis, but I think Lewis is definitely having a positive effect in drawing more fans into F1.
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learnincurve posted:Senna was so popular that they used to have to helicopter drivers and pit crews from hotels to the track in some countries because of the sheer numbers of fans that used to gather outside hoping to get a look at him as he came in. I'm not seeing Lewis' self promotion on instagram spawn this level of support. As someone else said, 12 year old girls don't buy sky sports subscriptions or race tickets. but again, this has nothing to do with what he's saying
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