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Wirth1000 posted:ahahahaha yessss this has to be because he let Alonso go. Seriously, what a loving dumbass. Of all the things to change around in that shamble of an organization you ditch Alonso of all people instead of, say, Raikkonen? What? no, the rumors are that mattiaci's appointment was always going to be temporary and that it was meant to groom him for the role di montezemolo held within ferrari (presumably once ferrari is spun off from fiat)
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Wirth1000 posted:The rumors now are that Mattiaci is being moved away from Ferrari entirely. that's loving hilarious. ferrari are great. revolving door of mediocre italian businessmen. last time ferrari were good they were run by a frenchman and a brit. hmmmmmmmmmm
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CratSock posted:I didn't see any mention of Lewis' brief conversation with royalty, but I recall it going something like this... in the slums like an animal = somewhere inbred gingers aren't worshipped as gods
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"Well done, Lewis, you've made Britain proud!"
"WOOOOOO! CHAMPION!"
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1500quidporsche posted:Sky sports is reporting that the all conquering McLaren Honda has completed an eye watering 2 laps today. do you know what testing is for? i'll give you a hint: it's testing
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Serperoth posted:Doing few laps is bad for testing, since you don't do enough to gather data. Obviously, you're gonna have breakdowns or other difficulties, but unless you're specifically testing for "How does the <thing> react to the car only doing very few laps?", it's not good. lots of things can be tested that don't require the car to be in motion
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1500quidporsche posted:So who is ready for McLaren's big announcement that they're putting off announcing their driver lineup to Jan 1? maybe they'll announce it along with that new title sponsor
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Magnaflux posted:I found this interesting read about the trials and tribulations of good lotus / Caterham. what's so difficult about incorporating one company and having them directly own the F1 team and entry slot?
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Butt Wizard posted:Selling assets like that for $1 or a nominal amount isn't unusual. It happens in yacht racing a lot when syndicates onsell old boats to other teams. joe saward has always come across as just...the biggest piece of poo poo person in F1 journalism
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1500quidporsche posted:Like they aren't just going to delay the announcement again. it's been reported uh loving everywhere that mclaren has a board meeting thursday where the driver choice will be decided
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Dudley posted:Will they also decide on their title sponsor for 2014? no lego already turned them down
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mega bloks mclaren honda
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mega bloks mclaren hyundai
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Pasco posted:The Suzuka Accident Panel finally released it's findings relating to Bianci's accident: describing bianchi as rubbish is pretty patently bullshit
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Carbonate posted:Here is a link to the report. quote:It is considered fundamentally wrong to try and make an impact between a racing car and a large and heavy vehicle survivable. It is imperative to prevent a car ever hitting the crane and/or the marshals working near it. whoa
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Myrddin_Emrys posted:Your a loving rear end, get out of this thread.
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Brainwrong posted:He crashed into a crane because he lost control due to the fact he was speeding in bad conditions. the current world champion once crashed on pit entry ffs
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HEY AQUALUNG MAKE A POST we need to see the aftermath of when that same two-time world champion spun off going too fast in bad conditions and was rescued by a crane instead of being murdered by one
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jon noble and others reporting that the mclaren board meeting has ended without any decision being made my take: hahahahahahaha
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my guess is that dennis, who wants magnussen, is stalling to find investors to buy out the current shareholders, who want button. that's the only remotely logical reason i can come up with. there simply has to be some other, bigger decision at stake.
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chippocrates posted:Why would he want Magnussen over Button? Other than cost, obviously. perhaps he is more concerned about 2016 than 2015
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MustardFacial posted:I think he meant more that the FIA should be blaming themselves for not enforcing drivers not slowing down during double waved yellows. Had they enforced that rule from the start, Bianchi wouldn't be in a position to be "going too fast", he wouldn't have crashed/wouldn't have hit the loader/at such a great speed, and he wouldn't be in a coma. this is true. if the responsibility is on the drivers to be safe then all the drivers and marshals will die.
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i wish more constructors would enter just as engine suppliers. there would be a lot more real title contenders if you gave teams at the level of force india works engine partnerships. plus they wouldn't stupidly burn away half a billion dollars a year in germany and then quit.
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can we stop saying vag please
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i too am in favor of a VAG entry
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mclaren say no driver decision will be made until next week at the earliest. i assume by "week" they mean "year." jokes aside, i think these discussions have little do with button and magnussen. there is something much bigger going on that needs to be resolved before they can move forward with their drivers.
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mclaren aren't going to sign a sponsor until they start winning again bc otherwise no one will give them the money dennis thinks the team deserves. it's a matter of sponsors wanting to pay for mclaren 2014 and dennis charging for mclaren 1966-future. it's pretty simple.
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Rhopunzel posted:yeah from what i heard a bunch of potential title sponsors walked away because lol good luck with that asking price also, knowing ron dennis, he's not going to accept an offer from just any company. so if you look back at the rumors from the beginning of the year, perhaps sony was in play, but they didn't offer enough money. and perhaps rakuten offered enough, but ron dennis didn't want to be sponsored by a random japanese retailer.
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Human Grand Prix posted:I don't understand this but whatever. what don't you understand?
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1500quidporsche posted:Its worth noting that it has been mentioned in a few places that Martini approached McLaren before they went to Williams. McLaren's asking price was supposedly so ridiculous that they decided to go with a team that almost didn't score any points last year. martini pays williams $15m, which is less than the $20m mclaren receives from johnnie walker. vodafone were paying mclaren $75m yearly. imagine the kind of the money sap and mobil pay and you'll start to understand why mclaren are able to wait on signing a title sponsor.
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Human Grand Prix posted:McLaren wants a certain amount money and who cares where it comes from. ron dennis cares and you clearly don't "get" ron dennis
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ron dennis is a man who specifically requested a size of tile for the MTC floors so they wouldn't have to cut any to fit and would have full-size tiles everywhere. imagine how he'd feel with the wal-mart logo on the front of that building.
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as a child ron dennis slept with the vacuum cleaner next to his bed so he could make his room perfectly neat as soon as he awoke
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these aren't like stig-esque tall tales this is real loving life
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Riso posted:That is fantastic. Is there a place that gathers similar Ron anecdotes? idk just read an autism forum and substitute names as necessary
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here's kind of some more: http://strategy14.com/learning_from_ron_dennis_mclaren/
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:I'm imagining a Ken Burns documentary about McLaren with Shelby Foote recanting many tales of Ron Dennis being an insufferable dick.
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:I'm imagining a Ken Burns documentary about McLaren with Shelby Foote recanting many tales of Ron Dennis being an insufferable dick. i'm still very tickled by this tbh
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it's p funny that nico is like eight times better than keke but will never win a title
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Party Boat posted:The best thing about the wiki page for the 2015 season is the massive slapfight about whether there should be a German flag next to the entry for the German grand prix i used to think i knew a lot about melting down. now i'm not so sure. back to the drawing board.
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Tsaedje posted:It's just so utterly unimportant that I can't comprehend the mindset where you have an online slapfight about it. i do admire the fact that a bunch of adult children sat in their basements and voted on rules for an internet encyclopedia and now those rules are law and they defend them with that much tenacity. i've never cared about anything so much.
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