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I like Aguri Suzuki's.
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# ? Dec 15, 2016 01:48 |
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Bellof had a good one.
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# ? Dec 15, 2016 01:49 |
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Wicka you can talk about the perils of nostalgia and rose colored glasses and that poo poo but if there's one thing that's undeniably poo poo about F1 these days it's the goddamn helmet designs
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# ? Dec 15, 2016 01:51 |
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Human Grand Prix posted:HHF should have amounted to more, I thought. He had the weirdest career trajectory I've ever seen. middling results with Sauber, beaten comprehensively by Are Jacques in the best car in the field and then suddenly in a shitbox Jordan he gets within earshot of the title. wicka posted:This thread is now about our favorite helmets.
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# ? Dec 15, 2016 01:51 |
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I actually kinda want to look into how expensive it'd be to get a replica Lauda helmet for karting.
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# ? Dec 15, 2016 01:53 |
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Speaking of people who should have amounted to more,
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# ? Dec 15, 2016 01:54 |
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Alain Post posted:Wicka you can talk about the perils of nostalgia and rose colored glasses and that poo poo but if there's one thing that's undeniably poo poo about F1 these days it's the goddamn helmet designs My god, they are so loving bad. Even the very best current helmets - Button? Massa? I don't even know - are pretty bad compared to the best helmets all-time. My favorite from last season is probably Nico's. Note that the three drivers I've listed have all retired.
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# ? Dec 15, 2016 01:55 |
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not to mention:
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# ? Dec 15, 2016 01:56 |
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wicka posted:My god, they are so loving bad. Even the very best current helmets - Button? Massa? I don't even know - are pretty bad compared to the best helmets all-time. My favorite from last season is probably Nico's. Note that the three drivers I've listed have all retired. Bottas has one of the best helmets on the grid and it's like, a boring middling helmet if you drop it in the 80s.
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# ? Dec 15, 2016 01:58 |
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Here we go, all 2016 helmets: http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2016/03/17/2016-f1-drivers-helmets/ Nasr, maybe? Reminds me of Lauda. Alain Post posted:Bottas has one of the best helmets on the grid and it's like, a boring middling helmet if you drop it in the 80s. Yeah, exactly this. Alonso's helmet has the potential to be great but instead it sucks rear end.
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# ? Dec 15, 2016 01:58 |
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I'm pretty sure Cheever only got the Renault drive because they had just bought AMC and wanted to boost their presence in the US market.
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# ? Dec 15, 2016 01:59 |
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I like the minimalist helmets of Laffite and Arnoux.
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# ? Dec 15, 2016 02:02 |
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the problem with modern helmets is that they're all too busy, they've got like a million things going on. like seriously I've got a headache just trying to look at this and parse whats going on.
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# ? Dec 15, 2016 02:03 |
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1500quidporsche posted:the problem with modern helmets is that they're all too busy, they've got like a million things going on. Just like us millennials...
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# ? Dec 15, 2016 02:04 |
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Alain Post posted:Speaking of people who should have amounted to more, Say what you will, he was the first guy (and early Raikkonen) in a while that could match Micheal.
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# ? Dec 15, 2016 02:13 |
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I really like Rosberg's stylized "NICO", but unfortunately that's pretty much completely offset by the hideous Monster Energy branding. Nasr's is probably the best of the bunch, and those of Kimi and the Williams guys aren't completely awful. The rest are basically terrible.
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# ? Dec 15, 2016 02:15 |
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Lewis' helmet looks like bloody urine.
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# ? Dec 15, 2016 02:20 |
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Not F1 but Oriol Servia's Dali helmet is the best imho
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# ? Dec 15, 2016 02:21 |
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He had the same design on his commercial jets.
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# ? Dec 15, 2016 02:25 |
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Are Graham/Damon had the best helmet design of all time.
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# ? Dec 15, 2016 03:46 |
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You know who had a nice, memorable helmet design before it predictably became trash
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# ? Dec 15, 2016 03:48 |
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Alonso had a pretty rad helmet this year.
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# ? Dec 15, 2016 04:54 |
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Minto Took posted:Alonso had a pretty rad helmet this year. this is trash this is a rad helmet
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# ? Dec 15, 2016 05:04 |
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I've liked most of the Nando lids I've seen.
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# ? Dec 15, 2016 05:55 |
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Norns posted:I've liked most of the Nando lids I've seen. Buttons Abby Babby lid this year for his final race was pretty tits, not to mention it looked great in the legendary McLaren Honda MP4-31
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# ? Dec 15, 2016 06:42 |
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# ? Dec 15, 2016 07:23 |
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Hey! NWS tag that filth.
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# ? Dec 15, 2016 07:28 |
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Make this the thread background please
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# ? Dec 15, 2016 08:50 |
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Hahahahaha It's gonna be even funnier when it actually happens
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# ? Dec 15, 2016 09:04 |
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Long time reader, never contribute; but the nostalgia about helmet designs takes me back to my misspent youth of designing car liveries and helmets, first on paper, then in GP2edit (or whatever other Grand Prix 2 editors were around in the early days). It was an obsession. Spent hours designing a new team / helmet (Marlboro or B&H usually being the title sponsor), do the first race (Interlagos) then repeat. In conjunction with my fanaticism with Italian football, Andrea De Cesaris' lid was always my favourite, with Jean Alesi a close second.
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# ? Dec 15, 2016 10:34 |
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A cool photo stolen from wherever Reddit stole it from.
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# ? Dec 15, 2016 12:11 |
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aequalis posted:A cool photo stolen from wherever Reddit stole it from. That would be Gianclaudio Giuseppe "Clay" Regazzoni on that Ferrari. Died in a car accident in 2006 in a Chrysler Voyager of all vehicles. drat Clay.
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# ? Dec 15, 2016 12:30 |
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Vettel's lid design post Red Bull is good. Far better than the glittering shite he changed at each race or that weird lid at Abu Dhabi that had flashing lights on it.
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# ? Dec 15, 2016 13:11 |
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I wonder if the lot of us would be even the slightest bit more tolerant of Max if he weren't undeniably the ugliest person on the planet.
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# ? Dec 15, 2016 13:33 |
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aequalis posted:A cool photo stolen from wherever Reddit stole it from. Clay using his legs. That's a rare pic. ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:Which was the race where Schumi was stuck in fifth gear for pretty much the entire thing and still somehow managed to get on the podium? Was it Schumi? I know it was in the late 90s/early 2000s Didn't this happen to Alonso back in a Ferrari at one of the Spainish GPs? I swear I saw this race live and was amazed that he was still able to stay competitive but for the life of me I can't remember. I don't remember if it was him being stuck in 5th or some other gearbox issue. wicka posted:I doubt many people who watched F1 during his reign will rate him that highly solely because of sour grapes and the extent to which Ferrari favored him as a #1 driver. Alain Post posted:I legitimately think the late 90s F1 field was secretly terrible (what if Wendlinger had turned out different, what if Johnny Herbert hadn't gimped his legs, etc etc) but Schumi's accomplishments in his early career at Benetton clearly show his talent level It takes a good and consistent enough driver in a dominating car to win the championship at some point. It takes someone of immense ability who applies himself unlike any other to completely dominate and win the thing like it was his right to do so.
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# ? Dec 15, 2016 13:36 |
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If you guys want a good read, check out when Niki Lauda personally sabotaged one of his Boeing 767s to crash and burn back in '91. quote:Niki Lauda's visit with Boeing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauda_Air_Flight_004
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# ? Dec 15, 2016 13:38 |
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Captain Cancer posted:Long time reader, never contribute; but the nostalgia about helmet designs takes me back to my misspent youth of designing car liveries and helmets, first on paper, then in GP2edit (or whatever other Grand Prix 2 editors were around in the early days). It was an obsession. Spent hours designing a new team / helmet (Marlboro or B&H usually being the title sponsor), do the first race (Interlagos) then repeat. Andrea had a great helmet.
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# ? Dec 15, 2016 15:53 |
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Theophany posted:Vettel's lid design post Red Bull is good. Far better than the glittering shite he changed at each race or that weird lid at Abu Dhabi that had flashing lights on it. Agreed. Love his "HEY I'M GERMAN" lid. Same reason I liked Jackie Stewart's kilt protecting his dome.
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# ? Dec 15, 2016 16:26 |
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Die bitch
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# ? Dec 15, 2016 16:59 |
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Abner Assington posted:I wonder if the lot of us would be even the slightest bit more tolerant of Max if he weren't undeniably the ugliest person on the planet. Makes sense. We all love the dreamiest driver.
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