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1500quidporsche posted:If only somebody had purchased an avatar preserving the memory of that hair inmemorium and people didn't ruin that by replacing it with a picture of a dried out fetus on steroids. If only somebody didn't act like someone worthy of that avatar.
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# ? Dec 20, 2016 02:39 |
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:Without that beautiful mane I'm not sure he's the most beautiful F1 driver and so might not get the MWDC next year I don't think the WDC can win the MWDC,
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# ? Dec 20, 2016 02:52 |
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"Become"? "This generation's"? What a load of poo poo. The only people who haven't admitted that he's the goat (greatest of all time) are jealous manbabies, bitter racists and Alonso fans.
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# ? Dec 20, 2016 02:54 |
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wicka posted:Remember when Alonso signed with McLaren in 2007 and Ron made him cut his hair? Remember how good that car was? came here to post this
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# ? Dec 20, 2016 03:01 |
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Baron Corbyn posted:"Become"? And also he's not.
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# ? Dec 20, 2016 03:06 |
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Lewis is like Senna, he's insanely fast but he's also very very flawed as a driver. I wouldn't call either the greatest driver of that generation.
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# ? Dec 20, 2016 03:12 |
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He's no Pastor.
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# ? Dec 20, 2016 03:13 |
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iospace posted:... why did he cut his hair? Mercedes wants a clean cut driver, not a dirty hippy.
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# ? Dec 20, 2016 03:36 |
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Last time Fernando was clean cut, he got beat by his rookie teammate at McLaren.
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# ? Dec 20, 2016 03:40 |
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McLaren have shorn Samson's mane and used it to make their fiberglass.
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# ? Dec 20, 2016 04:02 |
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should have won person of the year, that jury is a joke
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# ? Dec 20, 2016 04:41 |
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1500quidporsche posted:Lewis is like Senna, he's insanely fast but he's also very very flawed as a driver. I wouldn't call either the greatest driver of that generation. He's nowhere near as good as Senna, and I don't like Senna. He's more like Nigel but with better luck with his cars.
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# ? Dec 20, 2016 05:17 |
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1500quidporsche posted:I don't think the WDC can win the MWDC,
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# ? Dec 20, 2016 05:21 |
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You'll find that Are Rossie is just the WDC this year and Keke is the MWDC
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# ? Dec 20, 2016 05:31 |
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In the 80s a driver could have a season like this
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# ? Dec 20, 2016 05:31 |
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El Hefe posted:In the 80s a driver could have a season like this In 2015, a driver could have a season like this
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# ? Dec 20, 2016 05:55 |
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Powershift posted:In 2015, a driver could have a season like this yeah but that Lotus was obviously a poo poo car that's not the point I'm making
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# ? Dec 20, 2016 05:57 |
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El Hefe posted:In the 80s a driver could have a season like this In the 80s the whole field could have seasons like this: t is for retiring after 90% of race distance
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# ? Dec 20, 2016 06:04 |
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Fun fact: Andrea De Cesaris never actually made it to the flag in 1987.
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# ? Dec 20, 2016 06:38 |
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El Hefe posted:In the 80s a driver could have a season like this Hell, Berger never finished off the podium!
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# ? Dec 20, 2016 06:39 |
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Lol Capito out of a job after 16 weeks, nando with no hair, some guy named Streudel or Waffles or something, no more Big Ron (bad though he was) as the glue to hold it together... Sorry, McHonda gonna be a bad team next year
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# ? Dec 20, 2016 06:55 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oDFBRHOVPc
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# ? Dec 20, 2016 07:37 |
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El Hefe posted:In the 80s a driver could have a season like this I think engineering has advanced to a point where there's nothing we can do to go back to something like this, but this is the one thing that would make races better and more interesting. Nobody would complain about the Mercedes having a big advantage if it broke down 60% of the time. As it stands they only have mechanical retirements when the powers that be are not happy with the WDC standings
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# ? Dec 20, 2016 08:27 |
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Mechanical unreliability is a bad thing and not entertaining in the slightest.
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# ? Dec 20, 2016 11:56 |
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Mechanical unreliability helps us judge a driver's character. It's what separates the WDCs from the MWDCs.
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# ? Dec 20, 2016 12:16 |
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Human Grand Prix posted:Fun fact: Andrea De Cesaris never actually made it to the flag in 1987. Belgium?
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# ? Dec 20, 2016 12:34 |
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He ran out of fuel on the last lap.
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# ? Dec 20, 2016 13:56 |
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wicka posted:Mechanical unreliability is a bad thing and not entertaining in the slightest. It's very entertaining.
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# ? Dec 20, 2016 13:57 |
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Human Grand Prix posted:It's very entertaining. It's literally the worst and I would rather F1 cease to exist than go back to that god awful era where cars just exploded for no reason. It's exactly as idiotic as Bernie suggesting we put sprinkers on the track or reverse the grid. It makes things more interesting but at the cost of undermining the entire point of having a competition. If you wanted to watch people roll dice you could just do that instead of watching motor racing.
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# ? Dec 20, 2016 14:34 |
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Modern F1 is way better because Mercedes has engineered a pair of dice that has 6s or 1s on all the faces
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# ? Dec 20, 2016 15:01 |
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Dice rolling usually doesn't have a 45 minute buildup and result in smoke and fire or somebody crashing out.
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# ? Dec 20, 2016 15:08 |
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poty posted:I think engineering has advanced to a point where there's nothing we can do to go back to something like this, but this is the one thing that would make races better and more interesting. Nobody would complain about the Mercedes having a big advantage if it broke down 60% of the time. It's true. Your never going to get races where like less than 10 cars finish again.
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# ? Dec 20, 2016 15:08 |
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wicka posted:It's literally the worst and I would rather F1 cease to exist than go back to that god awful era where cars just exploded for no reason. It's exactly as idiotic as Bernie suggesting we put sprinkers on the track or reverse the grid. It makes things more interesting but at the cost of undermining the entire point of having a competition. How is building a car that lasts race distance (while the others fail to do so) "undermine the entire point of competition"? Look at the Honda powered cars in '87 for example. The reason they did so well is in part to being far more reliable than the other turbos.
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# ? Dec 20, 2016 15:11 |
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1500quidporsche posted:Dice rolling usually doesn't have a 45 minute buildup and result in smoke and fire or somebody crashing out. Buddy, you're going to the wrong dice rolls. Human Grand Prix posted:How is building a car that lasts race distance (while the others fail to do so) "undermine the entire point of competition"? Look at the Honda powered cars in '87 for example. The reason they did so well is in part to being far more reliable than the other turbos. What? The suggestion was that cars grenading all the time is somehow entertaining. wicka fucked around with this message at 15:15 on Dec 20, 2016 |
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wicka posted:What? The suggestion was that cars grenading all the time is somehow entertaining. How is Mansell's tire blowing up along with his championship in 86 not entertaining?
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# ? Dec 20, 2016 15:16 |
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1500quidporsche posted:How is Mansell's tire blowing up along with his championship in 86 not entertaining? Because it's just random. It's entertaining when drivers fail on their own, not when they are the victims of poo poo entirely out of their control. Button's win in Canada, for example, wouldn't have been anywhere near as sweet if Vettel hadn't hosed up under pressure. What if Vettel's engine just lets go there? Takes all the shine off that performance.
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# ? Dec 20, 2016 15:18 |
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It's a team effort though including the tires, engine and chassis. poo poo just doesn't blow up randomly, there's either a flaw in the design process or they compromised the design for sake of speed. If a car is horribly unreliable throughout the season that means somebody somewhere got it wrong.
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# ? Dec 20, 2016 15:22 |
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1500quidporsche posted:It's a team effort though including the tires, engine and chassis. poo poo just doesn't blow up randomly, there's either a flaw in the design process or they compromised the design for sake of speed. If a car is horribly unreliable throughout the season that means somebody somewhere got it wrong. So you think Mansell's success should be dictated by Goodyear? And even though half the field used Goodyear tires that year, including Prost, somehow it's good and fair to Mansell that he was the victim of this failure and not anyone else? No, F1 is not a pure meritocracy, and poo poo like this will always happen. But it is not a goal. It's something we work to get rid of because it ruins races.
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# ? Dec 20, 2016 15:25 |
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Mansell's engines/tyres/gearboxes always failed because he ragged the poo poo out of them.
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# ? Dec 20, 2016 15:30 |
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I'm Crap posted:Mansell's engines/tyres/gearboxes always failed because he ragged the poo poo out of them.
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