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WhoNeedsAName
Nov 30, 2013

http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/37245221

Rip Massa

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Carth Dookie
Jan 28, 2013


Not really surprising. Welcome Jenson to Williams and Stoffel to McLaren.

George Zimmer
Jun 28, 2008
It's retirement

Edit: beaten

wicka
Jun 28, 2007



surprisingly sad about this tbqh

Carth Dookie
Jan 28, 2013

wicka posted:

surprisingly sad about this tbqh

Wait 15 years and if F1 hasn't gone the way of the dodo, you can cheer for Felipinho Massa.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzW1HoQ9di0

learnincurve
May 15, 2014

Smoosh
Way Rob Smedley has been talking about him this year it was a given.

funeral fag
Jun 23, 2004

Farewell Corky Barrichello

F1DriverQuidenBerg
Jan 19, 2014

Well Bottas' career is effectively over as well now. I can't see him beating Button over the course of a season.

Roller Coast Guard
Aug 27, 2006

With this magnificent aircraft,
and my magnificent facial hair,
the British Empire will never fall!


Carth Dookie posted:

Wait 15 years and if F1 hasn't gone the way of the dodo, you can cheer for Felipinho Massa.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzW1HoQ9di0

This is the :3: est thing I have seen all week

Bryter
Nov 6, 2011

but since we are small we may-
uh, we may be the losers

1500quidporsche posted:

Well Bottas' career is effectively over as well now. I can't see him beating Button over the course of a season.

Still don't understand why he was ever hyped the way he was.

Riso
Oct 11, 2008

by merry exmarx

1500quidporsche posted:

Well Bottas' career is effectively over as well now. I can't see him beating Button over the course of a season.

Proving once and for all, that he too, is a fraud.

Khablam
Mar 29, 2012

There's only one non-fraud though, so that's not surprising.

Human Grand Prix
Jan 24, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

Bryter posted:

Still don't understand why he was ever hyped the way he was.

His 2014 was good. And he had some decent drives in 2013.

simplefish
Mar 28, 2011

So long, and thanks for all the fish gallbladdΣrs!


Bryter posted:

Still don't understand why he was ever hyped the way he was.

It happens at least once a year: new driver has a fantastic race at the start of the season when things are still all out of order, or has a couple of semi-decent finishes due to external circumstances (like everyone's tyre wear models being wrong and the gambling team coming up trumps, or overtaking a sleepy old great into a corner, etc) and the commentators latch onto them as the "next big thing"

Bottas did have some good quick races to be fair, but was that an indication of car engineering, team strategy, or drivers kill? Time really does tell.

E: leaving typo in since we have just had the latest Brazilian f1 execution since williams offed senna

simplefish fucked around with this message at 16:58 on Sep 1, 2016

Hexyflexy
Sep 2, 2011

asymptotically approaching one

George Zimmer posted:

It's retirement

Edit: beaten

Should have retired in spring.

Human Grand Prix
Jan 24, 2013

by FactsAreUseless
I do like Bottas but his recent form is pretty poor.

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'
Massa is and always was poo poo, same with Bottas, same with Verstappen.

Riso
Oct 11, 2008

by merry exmarx

simplefish posted:

Bottas did have some good quick races to be fair, but was that an indication of car engineering, team strategy, or drivers kill?

Certainly can't be team strategy because he is driving for Williams.

GramCracker
Oct 8, 2005

beauty by stroll

Khablam posted:

There's only one non-fraud though, so that's not surprising.

Yeah, Nando is pretty great in that regard.

F1DriverQuidenBerg
Jan 19, 2014

Bottas is one of those drivers that always puts the car exactly where it should be.

simplefish
Mar 28, 2011

So long, and thanks for all the fish gallbladdΣrs!


Riso posted:

Certainly can't be team strategy because he is driving for Williams.

Williams have occasionally got it right and used to be king of the Pit Stops. Last year they were the King of strategy fuckups, and they still leave qualifying to the last minute, often to their detriment, but I think this years crown has to go to Ferrari for strategy fuckups, however Vettel is doing his best to fix that

MattD1zzl3
Oct 26, 2007
Probation
Can't post for 4 years!
Is it just me or is vettel starting to look a little bit like Their Jacques? :canada: A little 1990s-era blond hair dye and it would be a perfect match!

Flux Wildly
Dec 20, 2004

Welkum tü Zanydu!

Hexyflexy posted:

Should have retired in spring.

This needs more love.

monkeytennis
Apr 26, 2007


Toilet Rascal

Hexyflexy posted:

Should have retired in spring.

:captainpop:

Low Percent Lunge
Jan 29, 2007



Bryter posted:

Still don't understand why he was ever hyped the way he was.

Is a Finn. They all arrive pre-hyped.

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


Hexyflexy posted:

Should have retired in spring.

:vince:

Kilmers Elbow
Jun 15, 2012

Williams = Hospice for Brazilians.

MrL_JaKiri
Sep 23, 2003

A bracing glass of carrot juice!
You can't judge a team mate just because they've been beaten by Our Jenson, he's beaten every team mate he's ever had

quote:

He added: "Let's say you put [Manchester United striker Zlatan] Ibrahimovic up as a defender, would he like it just because other people think he's a better defender? I don't think he will listen to those guys. If he likes to attack, he wants to attack."

You what, Max

MattD1zzl3
Oct 26, 2007
Probation
Can't post for 4 years!
If a defender started attacking on the pitch? He'd be replaced in seconds flat and his contract ripped up.


I dont think :vercrappen: knows how football works.


edit:
Sports Argument Stadium > F1 2016: Verstappen did nothing wrong.
VvV

MattD1zzl3 fucked around with this message at 22:47 on Sep 1, 2016

djssniper
Jan 10, 2003


Nothing wrong with that frog faced twats shinnigans according to Fred

http://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/alonso-verstappen-did-nothing-wrong-at-spa-814253/

Small Strange Bird
Sep 22, 2006

Merci, chaton!
Ah, Felipe Baby. You didn't stay cool.

wicka
Jun 28, 2007


grosjean staying with haas through 2017 :911:

Full Collapse
Dec 4, 2002

The colonies and the French will triumph over British imperialism.

Halo14
Sep 11, 2001
F1 2016: Seriously!

gret
Dec 12, 2005

goggle-eyed freak


djssniper posted:

Nothing wrong with that frog faced twats shinnigans according to Fred

http://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/alonso-verstappen-did-nothing-wrong-at-spa-814253/

You know who else allegedly did nothing wrong? That's right!

andyf
May 18, 2008

happy car is happy

Lewis doing a pre-race interview to Will Buxton whilst chewing gum - aggravating

Also Max gave total sandbag answers about his Spa race. Which leads me to the question for you all: which driver has consistently given the most honest answers to press questions? From let's say the 1990's era to modern day.

Khablam
Mar 29, 2012

andyf posted:

Which leads me to the question for you all: which driver has consistently given the most honest answers to press questions? From let's say the 1990's era to modern day.

I was taking a poo poo.

GramCracker
Oct 8, 2005

beauty by stroll

Payndz posted:

Ah, Felipe Baby. You didn't stay cool.

I think I had a stroke watching this.

NtotheTC
Dec 31, 2007


RIP Massa. You were pretty bad and then you got killed by a spring and your zombie was if anything even worse. I will always remember you spinning 30 times at silverstone in the wet. And at Spa in the wet. And basically anywhere the track was wet.

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Brainwrong
Mar 20, 2004

RIP Bobby K
Poland's Rose. Like a cabbage in the wind.
Building my wall of champions in my new man-shed. I need a Massa autograph to add to my collection of fallen heroes

http://imgur.com/a/8C4XE

RIP Phil

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