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Sashimi
Dec 26, 2008


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simplefish posted:

I wouldn't mind 8 grand a month
That's what I was thinking. I'd love to be paid around 12500 USD every month to not see Ralf Schumacher. However I don't come from a world of luxury mansions and dogs getting private jet flights.

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Sashimi
Dec 26, 2008


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Next year is going to be even better comedy material if Vettel gets beat by Kimi.

Sashimi
Dec 26, 2008


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Riso posted:

Implying there is a good Bernie.
Bernie Worrell is pretty cool.

Sashimi
Dec 26, 2008


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Ghost of Mussolini posted:

you guys are going to cry a lot when #ferrarfinger picks up every title from 2015 to 2025


#vlessed
I'll eat my own hair if he even takes one WDC with the Scud. Toxx me on that.

Sashimi
Dec 26, 2008


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I'll be willing to do a writeup for a driver/team/track/team principal/whatever.

Sashimi
Dec 26, 2008


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The drivers for any of the following teams should be given honourary MWDCs for putting up with such awful cars all year: Caterham, Marussia, and Lotus. Sauber don't count because they still somehow managed to be even worse than a team that couldn't show up for the last races of the season.

Sashimi
Dec 26, 2008


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This year's McLaren was bad, but at least it was consistently finishing in the points.

Sashimi
Dec 26, 2008


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krushgroove posted:

Lots of goons signed up to do driver & team bios: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18BeDKUTb0dRKDdVdtUo349RIq1so7ancp1kE9WpHpRU/edit?usp=sharing

We have enough right now to do the 9 existing teams, if Caterham & Marussia are in next year we will probably need more goons or some goons will be asked to double up.

If you guys actually want track bios then more goons will need to sign up, or some of you guys & gals will need to double up. If you only want to do one type of bio (e.g., you don't want to do a driver but want to do a team), post itt or PM me or something.
I eagerly look forward to drawing Max Chilton and Bahrain.

Sashimi
Dec 26, 2008


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The following drivers are not poo poo: Danny Ric, Lewis Hamilton, and Fernando Alonso. Everyone else is rubbish and deserves to feel shame for being bad at driving cars.

Sashimi
Dec 26, 2008


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pik_d posted:

Or Vergne. Also I've got some stats showing that Maldonaldo and Chilton are the worst drivers on the grid. They should probably be put out of their misery.

Mercedes
Hamilton: 384
Rosberg: 317 - 83%

Red Bull
Ricciardo: 238
Vettel: 167 - 70%

Williams
Bottas: 186
Massa: 134 - 72%

Ferrari
Alonso: 161
Raikkonen: 55 - 34%

McLaren
Button: 126
Magnussen: 55 - 44%

Force India
Hulkenberg: 96
Perez: 59 - 61%

Toro Rosso
Vergne: 22
Kvyat: 8 - 36%

Lotus
Grosjean: 8
Maldonaldo: 2 - 25%

Marussia
Bianchi: 2
Chilton: 0 - 0%
For what it's worth Ericsson only beat Kobayashi twice when both cars finished, and one of those times was Monaco where Kobayashi's car was damaged.

Sashimi
Dec 26, 2008


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PT6A posted:

I hope Rosberg and Vettel both end up at Red Bull somehow, through some twist of fate, so the entire team can finally reach Peak Whiny Bitch and promptly disappear up its own rear end in a top hat.
I feel like this scenario could only end with the formation of an Earth-consuming black hole from the high concentration of self-interest.

Sashimi
Dec 26, 2008


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JFairfax posted:

Turin should host a GP


It has banked turns, Bernie will have flashbacks to the 2005 USGP.

Sashimi
Dec 26, 2008


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Jedit posted:

At Australia next year the average age of the Red Bull and Toro Rosso drivers will be 21 years and 40 days.
I hear rumours that they are also going to rename the team Scuderia Liceo before the start of the next year.

Sashimi
Dec 26, 2008


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MustardFacial posted:

Kamui Kobayashi MWDC every year.

Sashimi
Dec 26, 2008


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Racists watch predominately European sport, what a scoop! In other news, dogs enjoy eating meat.

Sashimi
Dec 26, 2008


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go3 posted:

The German Grand Prix of Kuwait presented by Red Bull
Better to have it at a German track than another new dreary desert Tilkedrome.

Sashimi
Dec 26, 2008


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AgentJotun posted:

Thank gently caress Andrea Stella is going to Mclaren. Can you imagine radio transmissions to Alonso that aren't in Italian? Would be absurd.

Sashimi
Dec 26, 2008


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be nice wicka posted:

reminder that "super aguri" was literally the word super and a adult man's first name
This is perfectly normal by Japanese standards.

Sashimi
Dec 26, 2008


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be nice wicka posted:

god i loving hate villeneuve. worst wdc ever. immoral wdc 1950-forever
How can you say this in a world with Sebastian "Finger Fraud" Vettel?

Maybe if HHF had made Villeneuve his bitch in 98, but that is not the world we live in.

Sashimi
Dec 26, 2008


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George Zimmer posted:

It would be cool as hell if Massa retired and Mag signed on at Williams.
That arrangement would be best for everyone involved, which means there is no way it will happen.

Sashimi
Dec 26, 2008


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I guarantee the only thing keeping the smile on Alonso's face is thinking about his contract. Or that the photo shoot is almost over and he can go back to wearing properly fitting clothes instead of Generic Gray McLaren Suit #301f-4.

Alonso is like Jean Alesi now, if Jean Alesi had started to make disastrous career decisions after winning two WDCs.

Sashimi
Dec 26, 2008


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be nice wicka posted:

how much do you think ron hates jenson's vest throwing off the symmetry of the photo
That's Jenson's gently caress you to Ron for trying to force him out of the team.

Sashimi
Dec 26, 2008


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Serperoth posted:

Sneak peek of the 2015 Mercedes, from Lewis Hamilton's facebook page.



My new car! Thanks to Jonathan Ross and team! Watch me whip this beast around on Saturday's Christmas Special! #TeamLH #NewRide #SaturdayAt10pm #GodIsTheGreatesthttp://instagram.com/p/wuGnf8L0-y/
I didn't know Lewis was an inquisitor.

Sashimi
Dec 26, 2008


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If it has any degree of personality and charm it is a guarantee Ron Dennis had nothing to do with it.

Sashimi
Dec 26, 2008


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Wirth1000 posted:

Never forget. I mean, the very fact that Alonso has a luxurious head of hair and a disgusting beard while being unveiled as a McLaren driver tells me that maybe things will most certainly be different now between him and Ron Dennis.
Thanks for triggering memories of the ill-fitting suit.

Sashimi
Dec 26, 2008


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Tsaedje posted:

C'n^cl p'l*
At last, the world's first Klingon F1 publication.

Sashimi
Dec 26, 2008


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Brainwrong posted:

I thought it was that bloke with the paedo sunglasses who used to be in charge of the FIA before Max took over.
Nope that's Jean Marie Balestre, literal member of the French SS. Charming fellow I'm told.

Sashimi
Dec 26, 2008


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Pablo Bluth posted:

It's a mixed reflection of current series value and the FIA desired series value. FR3.5 and GP2 might currently have equal worth in people's eyes, but by giving more points to GP2 you tilt future development in GP2's favour. I'd probably argue Indycar and WEC are the undervalued ones; they're 'destination' series in their own right, not just feeder series.
It does feel pretty odd that a WEC or Indycar championship is just barely enough to get an FIA Superlicense, especially with GP2 being worth more. Probably just a result of politics.

It's interesting to see which current drivers wouldn't be able to enter F1 under the new regulations. Going 3 years before their first F1 race entries, Max Chilton and Marcus Ericsson wouldn't be eligible for a superlicense under the new regulations, along with Daniel Ricciardo, Kimi Raikkonen, and Fernando Alonso.

Sashimi fucked around with this message at 01:01 on Jan 7, 2015

Sashimi
Dec 26, 2008


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Xisticide posted:

I like that you could win 3 consecutive FIA World Championships in an open wheel series where half the grid are ex-F1 drivers and earn 0 points since they completely blanked Formula E.
Formula E experience should count for something for aspiring drivers, like when high school students do volunteer work at a retirement home.

Sashimi
Dec 26, 2008


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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:

This is why I like it. It's almost like an entire grid of Vadim Kogays.
So, a normal race in Forza on Xbox live?

Sashimi
Dec 26, 2008


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No matter how horrible this thread gets, it's all worth it because of this post.

Sashimi
Dec 26, 2008


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A Lewis Drake collaboration would be so bland it would become hilarious.

Sashimi
Dec 26, 2008


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The old gold leaf liveries on 70s Lotuses were the best F1 liveries.

Sashimi
Dec 26, 2008


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I too miss the days when rear wings doubled as beds.

Sashimi
Dec 26, 2008


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Payndz posted:

loving Idiot Authority.
2015 thread title here.

Sashimi
Dec 26, 2008


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RALF posted:

Ferrari Is Awesome
Agreed, but not because they are a good team.

Sashimi
Dec 26, 2008


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Alain Post posted:

no real F1 news today so here is a gif of Ron Dennis sarcastically dropping his 1989 Italian GP Winning Constructor's trophy at Alain Prost's feet because he's pissed at Prost dropping his race winner's trophy into the crowd.


My company trophy case! :qq:

Sashimi
Dec 26, 2008


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Whitey Ford posted:

I still don't get it, the guy in the middle is an artist and the girl on the right is a pornstar? What's the significance of this?
Kamui Kobayashi hangs out with cooler people than any of us, that's all there is to it.

I do, however, question his claim that they are the three biggest perverts in Japan. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.

Sashimi
Dec 26, 2008


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Its amazing that Sauber went so far downhill so quickly, from Perez and Kobayashi getting top 3 finishes in 2012 down to last year's poo poo show.

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Sashimi
Dec 26, 2008


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be nice wicka posted:

the C31 was designed by james key, had a much better engine and much better drivers, what exactly is amazing about them being worse without any of that
The rapidly changing fortunes is amazing, not necessarily the reasons behind them.

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