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1500quidporsche posted:I'm having a builder's tea I hope you’re using Yorkshire Tea.
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Feb 11, 2018 09:27
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lol if you don't drink cornish smugglers tea exclusively.
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Feb 11, 2018 10:26
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Not being a hipster, no, it’s yorkshire tea or nowt.
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Feb 11, 2018 10:58
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They don't even grow it in Yorkshire, it's all a con.
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Feb 11, 2018 11:41
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They don't grow Irn Bru in Iran either but that won't stop me
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Feb 11, 2018 12:26
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I can't get enough of are Dan
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When I worked in england one of the guys made me a Yorkshire tea with two bags. Handed it to me and said "welcome to England, this is a proper tea"
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Feb 11, 2018 12:34
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Unless it was in a sports direct mug that was a unnecessary waste of a good teabag.
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Feb 11, 2018 12:37
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ilmucche posted:When I worked in england one of the guys made me a Yorkshire tea with two bags. Handed it to me and said "welcome to England, this is a proper tea" Yorkshire gold is where it's at. Two bags though.... Gaddam that's a strong cuppa tea
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Feb 11, 2018 12:38
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Sorry if this is old news - nice meltdown Scott Speed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQh5O2RG4CQ
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Feb 11, 2018 13:02
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Finally got to see the mclaren doc. The high-tech, devoid of any form of humanity headquarters in the middle of the British countryside made it feel like a black mirror episode. It even had technology going horribly wrong. I loved stoffel's dad. And the fact that stoffel speaks with a very thick west-flemish accent. Something he manages to hide very well when he speaks english/french. Maybe he shouldn't, anything to give him some personality. deep inside the mind of every mclaren engineer in the room when they heard that clicking sound: 
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Feb 11, 2018 13:07
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Woking is not in the countryside
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Feb 11, 2018 13:17
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cmlaren is barely woking
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Feb 11, 2018 13:49
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A really depressing thing about the McLaren technology centre is that it was built on an ancient woodland. the most Ron thing ever is that where the Mclaren park is now was all trees with winding public footpaths going through it, and the anal retentive motherfucker also decimated that, so now it’s all clean grass with a few benches in it. Presumably because he couldn’t bare to see all that disorderly “nature” out of his office window.
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Feb 11, 2018 13:54
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learnincurve posted:Unless it was in a sports direct mug that was a unnecessary waste of a good teabag. It was the north, so obviously. Lou Takki posted:Yorkshire gold is where it's at. I was amazing, but I raced like a pisshorse for the rest of the afternoon.
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Feb 11, 2018 14:01
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Dubs posted:cmlaren is barely woking Hardly any of the teams are very woke though. At least F1 is trying with the grid kids thing.
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Feb 11, 2018 14:27
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monkeytennis posted:I hope you’re using Yorkshire Tea. I actually am lol
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Feb 11, 2018 14:44
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mrfart posted:The high-tech, devoid of any form of humanity headquarters
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Feb 11, 2018 15:10
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The annex for holding PR events is called the "Thought Leadership Centre." It sounds like a brainwashing camp run by Scientologists.
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Feb 11, 2018 15:55
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mrfart posted:Finally got to see the mclaren doc. you can't see it from the roundabout you have to turn off to get to it, and you can't see it from the security gate you have to sign in at. Hell, when you get to the car park all you see are these five pods which cover the lifts, then when you get out of the lifts you have to trek down a long rear end corridor and then hope like hell you can find the reception desk. It is very much the definition of "what if we made a Bond villain liar, but efficiently boring instead?" and thankfully I've not been there in a year or so
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Feb 11, 2018 15:56
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the mclaren people as seen on their doc look like accountants and or business people, they need people with passion like toto, horner and my favorite Maurizio
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Feb 11, 2018 17:19
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Seriously, I never thought Toto and Horny Spice could look like fun people to talk to but in comparison to everyone in McLaren management I'd love to hang out with those two
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Feb 11, 2018 17:39
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matt bishop is a loving rear end in a top hat
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Feb 11, 2018 17:48
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Eric came across as an all round good and alright guy with a huge man crush on nando.
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Feb 11, 2018 17:53
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Stoffel seems like a nice lad, he should drive for a better team also i find this doc about the best team, scuderia ferrari https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhhAggFtJ1s
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Feb 11, 2018 18:05
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I was disappointed that they didn't show any of the senior engineering staff.
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Feb 11, 2018 18:07
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i dont care much about stoffel life story, when the meltdowns because the car loving sucks begins?
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Feb 11, 2018 18:09
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DoctorGonzo posted:i dont care much about stoffel life story, when the meltdowns because the car loving sucks begins? Turn the monitor off.
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Feb 11, 2018 18:25
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It's pretty mediocre given the material. Also, it looks like a terrible place to work.
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Feb 11, 2018 18:35
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It really feels like they had planned to do a full season documentary and McLaren kicked them out after they realized how bad they were gonna be. Four episodes is weirdly short and there's not even enough content to justify that.
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Feb 11, 2018 18:38
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wicka posted:It really feels like they had planned to do a full season documentary and McLaren kicked them out after they realized how bad they were gonna be. Four episodes is weirdly short and there's not even enough content to justify that. I wouldn't rule out the option that Honda actually veto'd the documentary from going on. It's rather clear that the whole show should have been something different. At least here in Germany, it was marketed as "a look into the dangerous world of a formula 1 driver", which this documentary obviously ain't about. I can only assume they hoped to do a "phoenix out of the ashes"-type of documentary with young and upcoming Stoffel against the veteran Fernando, but Honda hosed it up...
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Feb 11, 2018 18:45
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honda engine arrives doesnt fit the car the thing was a disaster from moment one
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Feb 11, 2018 18:45
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Let's not be too quick to blame Honda, maybe it was the car that didn't fit the engine
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Feb 11, 2018 18:54
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tuo posted:I wouldn't rule out the option that Honda actually veto'd the documentary from going on. It's rather clear that the whole show should have been something different. At least here in Germany, it was marketed as "a look into the dangerous world of a formula 1 driver", which this documentary obviously ain't about. I can only assume they hoped to do a "phoenix out of the ashes"-type of documentary with young and upcoming Stoffel against the veteran Fernando, but Honda hosed it up... I think you're right. It's called "Grand Prix Driver" and they spend a lot of time focusing on Stoffel, and that all goes out the window after the engine arrives.
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Feb 11, 2018 19:01
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Would have been nice for the documentary to try to explore why the engine didn't fit on the car, and if McLaren felt that was sensitive information in a documentary ~a year after the event then don't have a documentary done. I know someone who works at McLaren in their marketing/PR team, she seems to enjoy it, gets to go to the races etc.
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Feb 11, 2018 19:02
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Bryter posted:Let's not be too quick to blame Honda, maybe it was the car that didn't fit the engine I lean towards putting the blame on McLaren on that one. Those cars go through countless loving revisions and it was clear from 2014 that McLaren got to dictate the engine position to Honda. Every meeting they showed looked like a massive clusterfuck so I'm guessing somebody didn't read an email or signed off on a change without communicating it.
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Feb 11, 2018 19:15
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1500quidporsche posted:Every meeting they showed looked like a massive clusterfuck What?
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Feb 11, 2018 19:17
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Thanks Ants posted:I know someone who works at McLaren in their marketing/PR team, she seems to enjoy it, gets to go to the races etc.
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Feb 11, 2018 19:18
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wicka posted:What? How long did that floor loving take? They all acted like it was ready to go.
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Feb 11, 2018 19:20
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1500quidporsche posted:How long did that floor loving take? They all acted like it was ready to go. ...what?
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Feb 11, 2018 19:21
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wicka posted:...what? You were watching the McLaren documentary where they went from a plan of having two cars ready by launch to having to wheel the one non-functional car back to the shop to actually put suspension in it and missed the shakedown right?
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