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Human Grand Prix posted:They weren't "playboys" but weren't Diniz and Rosset both from families that owned a bunch of poo poo in Brazil? Diniz was definitely from a rich background, but by then rich playboys had turned into the less glamorous pay-driver. I can't think of a driver less "glamorous" than Ricardo Rosset.
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Would de Angelis count? He was like an aristocrat or something. Also really drat good.
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I actually forgot about de Angelis, yeah, actually now that I think of it, he sometimes gets the unofficial "last of the great playboy drivers" title in reviews of 80s F1.
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Alain Post posted:fwiw the list I was using literally had guys like Eddie Irvine in it because they made a shitload of money investing in real estate post-F1, which, at that point, you kinda have to put the Pasta King in there. My favorite Jaguar F1 fact is that for a while, Irvine's contract meant he was the highest paid employee of the Ford Motor Company.
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harperdc posted:My favorite Jaguar F1 fact is that for a while, Irvine's contract meant he was the highest paid employee of the Ford Motor Company. Even more fun apparently the Ford execs didn't know who he was
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Alain Post posted:Also everyone should be required to use those old Simpson helmets which are demonstrably the coolest looking racing helmets ever made. good god yes. I hope to buy a motorcycle within the next year and I am drat sure getting a Simpson M30 to ride with. hunnert car pileup fucked around with this message at 05:31 on Apr 2, 2017 |
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Alain Post posted:Same. I hate Nigel Mansell but unconditionally love Ferrari Nige Il Leone and Nigel Mansell are totally different people. I just remembered that I first got into Formula 1 because of a guy called Alan Post. He ripped off a 386 from my dad's old employer and preloaded it with Geoff Crammond's Grand Prix when I was like 4. I've been hooked on F1 ever since then.
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What would you pick as your helmet design? Id have to buck the complex trend and just go one solid color, like Creamsicle-orange.
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Flesh Croissant posted:What would you pick as your helmet design? A large brown trout
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Flesh Croissant posted:What would you pick as your helmet design? Canadian flag with the maple leaf on top and the red bars on the side. Initials on the side and #13 in the middle of the leaf in black.
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Moreover, when I win the Canadian grand prix I will take a massive Canadian flag with me and drape myself with it. During the national anthem I will step off the podium to the front of the barriers and loudly lead the crowd in singing the national anthem word-by-word and even the English-French mix version. Finally, during my podium interview and press conference I will pay tribute to Canada 1st before even more parents and literally cry for my nation of birth. Finally, on the way out of the circuit I will get ambushed by Tony Montana and a chapter of the Sons of Odin who will kick my loving throat in for not being white and trying to proclaim myself Canadian. I will die with a Canadian passport in my right hand and my Canadian birth certificate in my left. I will be replaced by Lance Stroll.
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Wirth1000 posted:Moreover, when I win the Canadian grand prix I will take a massive Canadian flag with me and drape myself with it. During the national anthem I will step off the podium to the front of the barriers and loudly lead the crowd in singing the national anthem word-by-word and even the English-French mix version. Finally, during my podium interview and press conference I will pay tribute to Canada 1st before even more parents and literally cry for my nation of birth. I would watch this movie.
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Theophany posted:I would watch this movie.
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Wirth1000 posted:Moreover, when I win the Canadian grand prix I will take a massive Canadian flag with me and drape myself with it. During the national anthem I will step off the podium to the front of the barriers and loudly lead the crowd in singing the national anthem word-by-word and even the English-French mix version. Finally, during my podium interview and press conference I will pay tribute to Canada 1st before even more parents and literally cry for my nation of birth. 
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Wirth1000 posted:Moreover, when I win the Canadian grand prix I will take a massive Canadian flag with me and drape myself with it. During the national anthem I will step off the podium to the front of the barriers and loudly lead the crowd in singing the national anthem word-by-word and even the English-French mix version. Finally, during my podium interview and press conference I will pay tribute to Canada 1st before even more parents and literally cry for my nation of birth. That was glorious.
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Flesh Croissant posted:What would you pick as your helmet design? Basically just Hakkinen's helmet, but more purple than blue.
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Wirth1000 posted:Canadian flag with the maple leaf on top and the red bars on the side. Initials on the side and #13 in the middle of the leaf in black. I would use solid white with red speed arrows.
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I'd have a magpie on the back of my helmet because people in racing are really superstitious. (In the U.K. If you see a magpie you are supposed to say "Good morning Mr. Magpie. How is your lady wife today?" Because if you don't then it will curse you with bad luck and a death)
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learnincurve posted:I'd have a magpie on the back of my helmet because people in racing are really superstitious. (In the U.K. If you see a magpie you are supposed to say "Good morning Mr. Magpie. How is your lady wife today?" Because if you don't then it will curse you with bad luck and a death) I hope there's another Brexit that takes Britain out of the solar system
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learnincurve posted:I'd have a magpie on the back of my helmet because people in racing are really superstitious. (In the U.K. If you see a magpie you are supposed to say "Good morning Mr. Magpie. How is your lady wife today?" Because if you don't then it will curse you with bad luck and a death) Uh.... wow. That escalated rather quickly.
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I'd have the Lauda air L but change it to light blue or something. Is there a place you can actually get this done? I'd probably do it for my next helmet if it was cheap enough
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1500quidporsche posted:I'd have the Lauda air L but change it to light blue or something. Is there a place you can actually get this done? I'd probably do it for my next helmet if it was cheap enough You could just get Lauda Air Flight 004 on your helmet so you can traumatize Niki every time you walk by him in the pits.
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Bryter posted:I hope there's another Brexit that takes Britain out of the solar system
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I think I'd just use a beige helmet because I'm boring.
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Wirth1000 posted:Uh.... wow. That escalated rather quickly. Not to actually curse them mind, but it would be amusing for Lewis to keep on having to say it as he lapped me for the 14th time.
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The crazy rear end helmets that motocross riders had in the '90s before Monster and Red Bull ruined them were the best.
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Ban Energy drinks like they banned tobacco. 
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Has anyone done a helmet with pictures of people they admire? My helmet would have Lewis on the front, Theresa May and Margareth Thatcher on the sides, Winston Churchill on the back and the queen on the top.
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poty posted:Has anyone done a helmet with pictures of people they admire? My helmet would have Lewis on the front, Theresa May and Margareth Thatcher on the sides, Winston Churchill on the back and the queen on the top. Lewis has had Muhammad Ali and Ayrton Senna pictures on his helmet.
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Norns posted:Ban Energy drinks like they banned tobacco. Better idea, allow any kind of adverts, but require the driver use a reasonable quantity of their sponsor's product during the race. You want to be sponsored by red bull or marlboro or johnnie walker, good luck.
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They drink something similar to red bull anyway, minus the caffeine.
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Khablam posted:They drink something similar to red bull anyway, minus the caffeine. Yeah, well you drive faster when you really have to pee, fill their drink thing with red bull.
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Powershift posted:Yeah, well you drive faster when you really have to pee, fill their drink thing with red bull. They just pee, O'Leary. It's great to think that in glamorous Monaco right by the royal family when tehy're giving them the trophies that the drivers are all piss-stained and they stink of B.O. and piss.
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Wirth1000 posted:They just pee, O'Leary. It's great to think that in glamorous Monaco right by the royal family when tehy're giving them the trophies that the drivers are all piss-stained and they stink of B.O. and piss. I'm not sure if you have ever worked out or sweat before. But generally you don't need to piss in the span of two hours while exerting yourself.
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To change the topic from smelly pissy things (F1) to something better, the formula e race yesterday was genuinely good in case anyone didn't know.
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:To change the topic from smelly pissy things (F1) to something better, the formula e race yesterday was genuinely good in case anyone didn't know. It's also only aired here on the french sports channel which costs extra money so it's still a dumb thing that doesn't matter to anybody.
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Norns posted:I'm not sure if you have ever worked out or sweat before. But generally you don't need to piss in the span of two hours while exerting yourself. It's insanely common knowledge that racing drivers piss themselves all the time.
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Yeah in like endurance races. I find it suspect that we get a more than a couple dudes with piss pants on the podium in a year.
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Norns posted:Yeah in like endurance races. I find it suspect that we get a more than a couple dudes with piss pants on the podium in a year. Well I agree that Stroll probably won't finish on the podium.
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