What's the big deal? After all, it always worked for Kimi Raikkonen, n'est-ce pas?
Actually I expect it's less celebration and more relief that he managed to "rot out" before being overtaken in the points standing.
Posted on 08/05/2009 7:57:45 PM PDT by Chode
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LOLOL...
What's the big deal? After all, it always worked for Kimi Raikkonen, n'est-ce pas?
Actually I expect it's less celebration and more relief that he managed to "rot out" before being overtaken in the points standing.
Abusing Mercedes crew: 'You f***ing SCREWED me'
Cold shoulder to Rosberg: 'We're not friends'
Ranting on Verstappen: 'This guy's f***ing CRAZY'
Feud with Alonso
'The WORST the car has ever been'
They left off the most revelatory rant of all, at Monaco in 2011:
‘Maybe it’s because I’m black. That’s what Ali G says. I don’t know....’"
No, Lewis, it's because you're a prissy, self-absorbed, arrogant, egotistical, entitled, race-baiting prick. And all the WDCs in existence can't wash that stink off you.
It's all about ME!!!
You can’t drink all day if you don’t start in the morning.
Baileys and coffee next to the keyboard currently...
Hambone admits what’s been obvious all season.
“I’m definitely not fast anymore.”
Hear that? That distant ‘thumping’ noise? That’s the sound of heads banging against the walls in Maranello.
Bernie Ecclestone puts £500m car collection up for sale a year after record £652m tax bill
Bernie Ecclestone is putting his entire collection of historic grand prix and Formula One cars — 69 cars worth an estimated £500,000,000 — up for sale.
The 69-car collection includes Ferraris raced by world champions such as Mike Hawthorn, Niki Lauda, and Michael Schumacher, Brabhams raced by Nelson Piquet, Carlos Pace, and Lauda, as well as the one-off Brabham-Alfa Romeo BT46B ‘fan car,’ which raced only once, winning the Swedish Grand Prix at Anderstorp in 1978.
It comes after Ecclestone, 94, pleaded guilty last year to fraud after being accused of failing to declare more than £400 million of overseas assets to the UK Government. Prosecutors told the court that Ecclestone would pay a record £652 million to HM Revenue and Customs, and he was given a suspended jail sentence of 17 months. It made him the UK’s second-highest taxpayer, according to the Sunday Times tax list for 2024.
But the former F1 supremo has insisted the car sale is because the time has come for him to “start thinking about what would happen to them should I no longer be here.”
“That is why I have decided to sell them [the cars],” he said. “I would like to know where they have gone and not leave them for my wife to deal with should I not be around.”
In 2020 Ecclestone became the sixth-oldest registered father in history when wife Fabiana gave birth to their son, Ace. They now live in Gstaad in the Swiss Alps, with a farm in Brazil near Sao Paulo. According to Forbes’s most recent figures, Ecclestone has a net worth of $2.9 billion (£2.2 billion), having agreed to sell F1 to current owners Liberty Media in 2016 for $8 billion.
Ecclestone, who began his involvement in F1 in the 1950s with the Connaught team before becoming a team owner and ultimately the sport’s commercial rights holder, added: “I have been collecting these cars for more than 50 years, and I have only ever bought the best of any example. Whilst many other collectors over the years have opted for sports cars, my passion has always been for grand prix and Formula One cars.
“A grand prix and, in particular, a Formula One car is far more important than any road car or other form of race car, as it is the pinnacle of the sport, and all the cars I have bought over the years have fantastic race histories and are rare works of art.”
It is impossible to put a value on the cars as they are unique and have never been sold on the open market, but one source close to the sale estimated they could be worth as much as half a billion pounds.
Classic car dealer Tom Hartley Jnr, who is handling the sale, described the Ecclestone grand prix collection as “quite simply the most important race car collection in the world.”
He said: “The collection spans 70 years of grand prix and Formula One racing, and highlights include Mike Hawthorn, Niki Lauda, and Michael Schumacher World Championship-winning Ferraris, all of Bernie’s Brabhams including the famous ‘fan car,’ and the Vanwall VW10, the car in which the great Stirling Moss won several Formula One grands prix on the way to Vanwall clinching the first ever Formula One constructors’ World Championship in 1958, plus so much more.
He continued: “But, for me, the highlight of the collection has to be the Ferraris. Bernie has assembled a collection of Ferrari Formula One cars that today would be near-impossible to repeat. There is the famous Thin Wall Special, which was the first Ferrari to ever beat Alfa Romeo, the Alberto Ascari Italian Grand Prix-winning 375 F1, the Mike Hawthorn World Championship-winning Dino which Ferrari campaigned over three seasons before it was donated to the Henry Ford Museum, plus historically significant World Championship-winning Niki Lauda and Michael Schumacher cars.
“This is a great opportunity for a discerning collector to acquire cars that have never before been offered for sale, and it would be great to see them back on the track again.
“All of the cars on the Formula One grid today look the same. If you stripped them of their liveries, you’d struggle to know which one was a Williams and which was a Ferrari. But when you look at some of the Grand Prix cars from the early 1960s to the late 1970s, they’d very much be at home in The Museum of Modern Art.”
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Love your post regarding Bernie's F1 collection up for sale!
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I liked Russel’s visor: Is Anyone Else Reporting Rain?
LOL !!! Just Drive the Car 😁😤
Mirror on the Track 🤪🤪🤪
SNITCHOMETER 3300 !!!
This has to be the best one of the season !!!!!!!
BKMRK video.
lolol...
my God... stunning
LOL... great, thx.
done
100%
Lewis Hamilton shared a surprising reaction to his Mercedes challenger during the 2024 Qatar Grand Prix. The Mercedes driver, on his team radio, asked if his car was broken as he consistently began to fall behind the front runners. Hamilton had a far-from-ideal start to his Qatar GP outing after the Mercedes driver had a false start to his race. Hamilton then complained about his pace. During the race, Hamilton took to his team radio to ask:
"How far are we off the front?"
Replying to this, his race engineer Peter Bonnington said:
"1.2 to the front."
Hearing this, Hamilton followed up:
"Is the car broken?"
Bono, then replied:
"We are just underbalanced by the look of it, underbalanced."
C'mon Hammy, you need Bono to tell you why you're slow? You know what that means...
...Yep, another slot on the wheel!
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