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DMorbid
Jan 6, 2011

With our special guest star, RUSH! YAYYYYYYYYY

DNQ posted:

[*]Eddie the Eagle (Skiing) - The infamous British down-hill skier so bad that the IOC introduced stricter qualifying rules to stop people like him from going to the Winter Olympics in future.
Ski jumper. :eng101:

He later released a single that, apparently, was pretty popular in Finland (he performed it in Finnish for some reason). As if there was any doubt that my countrymen have the worst taste in music this side of Germany and the UK.

DNQ posted:

[*]Andrea Moda Formula 1 (Motorsport) - Arguably the worst motor racing team of all time. Once reportedly turned up to a Grand Prix with no engines. Missed another race because they got caught up in a truck blockade (which every other team managed to avoid). Their Italian playboy shoe-designing team owner was once shot at while escaping a burning nightclub. Also got arrested for forging invoices.
Andrea Moda was great. First of all, they had bought the assets from notorious backmarker team Coloni after the 1991 season and showed up at the season opener with the old Coloni cars painted black, but no one had told Andrea Sassetti himself that Coloni had not actually sold him the team's entry, just the assets. So, they get thrown out of the race meeting. Sassetti decides the Coloni cars are terrible and hires Nick Wirth (at the time a promising young designer, who'd later run his own Simtek team and design cars for Benetton and Virgin/Marussia) to build the team a new car in a few weeks. Which he does, but the cars aren't quite finished by the next race at Brazil and the team has to sit out another weekend. By this time the drivers (Alex Caffi and Enrico Bertaggia) are getting just a bit annoyed by the whole thing and voice their displeasure, promptly getting fired by Sassetti and replaced by Roberto Moreno and Perry McCarthy. Moreno is, in my opinion, the greatest racing driver of all time due to the fact he somehow managed to qualify the Andrea Moda car for the race at Monaco (usually he was at least ten seconds off the pace because the car was so bad).

Unfortunately for McCarthy, Sassetti didn't even bother giving him a proper chance with the car and put all the resources into running Moreno's car (The fact Bertaggia had managed to find a million dollars and was looking to buy back his seat but couldn't because Sassetti had used up all his driver changes probably didn't help). His was basically used as a rolling spare and only given the bare minimum of track time, and when they did something usually went wrong. In Britain the team put wet tires on the car despite the track being dry, and in Belgium (which was where Sassetti was arrested and the team got thrown out of the sport for being too poo poo) they almost killed him by putting a broken steering arm in his car and he only barely managed to avoid having a massive accident at the most dangerous part of the track. When he asked the team about it, they said "oh yeah, we know, that's the duff one we took from Roberto's car".

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