Posted on 08/05/2009 7:57:45 PM PDT by Chode
This will be a general purpose thread for F1 news and pings that really don't require a thread of their own.
no- it’s an old one- huge- it has cable, but no hdmi port-
well, a cheap/used larger second monitor, other than that, guess it’s wait till the olden dies...
Dear George,
Welcome to your new team.
Lewis is a great guy if you remember the following:
1. Lewis must alway finish ahead of you.
2. Lewis like two sugars in his tea, no milk.
3. Wash Lewis’s car on Thursday of the race weekend and filling up on Sunday Morning.
4. No starch in Lewis’s shorts, this really makes Lewis mad.
5. In all interviews always start off with thanking Lewis for some form of help in the weekend, in the middle of the interview come up with another area to thank Lewis for help over the weekend and of course finish all interviews with thanking Lewis for allowing you to be in his shadow.
6. Never talk about Lewis’ personal life, just use the standard reply of ‘what a great racing talent who always gives back to the sport’.
7. And lastly if asked about racing for the Mercedes F1 Team, use the standard reply ‘The Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team is a great racing team headed up by Toto Wolff who always gives back to the sport’.
Enjoy your apprenticeship under Lewis......
As one Finn to another, time to set the tone, start before leaving Mercedes.
1. Answer radio messages with ‘Bla’. The team will leave you alone normally.
2. in case the team radios again answer with ‘ I know what I'm doing‘. This will also help at Alfa, they will just treat you like they treaded me. Also this will allow you to start growing a pair before arriving at Alfa.
How long will Russell follow team orders?
This has the feel of Mercedes preparing for a post-Hamilton era.
LOLOL!!! and if you break any of these rules, you will also be his Groom of the Stool, so keep yer phone turned on...
first time the hambone gets triggered/under pressure and whines to the boss
Will he go along with the Mercedes policy of crashing into other cars as the spoiler.
i don’t think so, he’s a real talent and raised a true Brit
prolly wants to at least try to make it before selling out
Hope not but Botas surprised me when he did it.
selling your manhood should come at a high price
i dread having to get the monster out of the house lol-
i hear ya, i’ve got one i can’t get rid of now
simpler times, it’ll make ya feel old... but in a good way
Formula 1 1967: German Grand Prix race @ the Nurburgring. Film, The Ringmasters, by Castrol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3849gMECTI
F-that guy!
Max looked at him and the hambone was in reverse trying to back out, what’s he supposed to do, help push his halfazz out???
feh...
one of my games has those cars and that track and WOW- are they tough to handle- Very little grip compared to modern F-1 Cars- I watched that clip in awe of how fast they were traveling in those cars- unreal- the cars are super powerful but little grip, no downforce hardly either- so basically you are drifting the car aroudn the corners-
Another super hard car to drive was the Porsche 917, (It was featured in Steve McQueen’s movie Le Mans)- wicked wicked powerful and very little grip- it’s unreal how much power that car had, just a little bit of throttle and the back end wants to come around- and that is just in the game- can’t imagine how nerve wracking it was in real life to race-
Paul Newman was also a race car driver- had a couple of wins I believe- They said between him and McQueen, he was the more technical driver, Steve was the more chance taker- - Steve I guess liked ot push the envelope with vehicles-
Anyways- cool video- love the sound of those cars i nthe video- and always awed by the skill of the drivers in them
then hambone whined about it after the race- glad he got a DNF- made the rest of the race much more enjoyable in my opinion
Very nice! Thanks for that.
I’ll take this opportunity to point again to savefrom.net for downloading YouTube etc. content.
When you’ve entered the URL, look for the small print at the bottom (”let me d/l in the browser”) click that and you can save the file to disk for free. Most modern vids are 720p, which I find plenty good enough. This particular one is only 360p, but then the original footage isn’t hi-res so it doesn’t matter.
This works 99% of the time. Occasionally it doesn’t at first, but some time later it will. Sometimes it just doesn’t.
damn...
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