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.
[[question: WHY, do tire blankets have the text backwards?]]
So that people with blew eyes can read them? (1 eye blew this-a-way, the other eye blew the other way)
I’ll take some of what you’re smokin’
walleyed...
To get to the other side?
To see his good friend Gregory peck?
Oh...I guess I didn’t get the assignment correct.....................
WTF lets these scumbags on the track property, let on alone the grid???
Machine Gun Kelly being rude to Martin Brundle at the Brazil GP 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WZCQOzvkgU
It wasn’t to be for Charles Leclerc in Brazil, the Ferrari driver suffering a mechanical failure on the formation lap that ultimately took him out of the race.
Initially, as he spun off into the barriers when following eventual race-winner Max Verstappen around Interlagos, it looked like Leclerc might recover back to the pits and be able to start the race – but he soon parked up down an escape road with an engine issue to go with his broken front wing and wounded pride.
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It’s been a desperate season for Ferrari, who had hoped to challenge Red Bull for the title, as they did in the early stages of last year. Instead, they have a handful of poles and just the one race win to their name for 2023, and that was achieved by Leclerc’s team mate in Singapore.
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2023 Sao Paulo Grand Prix: Drama before lights out as Leclerc crashes on the formation lap
For the Monegasque, this latest failure was another blow in what has been an incredibly tough season. Starting from second on the grid and one of the few front runners still to have some fresh soft tyres in his locker, he had hoped to have a strong race. Instead, it all unravelled before the lights had even gone out.
“I turned into Turn 6, everything was fine and then as you can see, I basically lose the wheel because there is no power steering anymore, the steering wheel feels extremely stiff, then I go straight,” he said afterwards.
“Then the engine stopped for safety reasons, which made the rear wheels lock, which made me spin. Then I touched the wall, I started to start the car again, I did 20 metres then exactly the same thing happened. So that’s it.”
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Leclerc’s anguish was clear to see, the Monegasque driver holding his head in his hands in the cockpit. “Why the **** am I so unlucky, why the **** am I so unlucky?” he repeated down the radio to his race engineer, before climbing out of his cockpit and sitting on the wall, head bowed.
SAO PAULO, BRAZIL - NOVEMBER 5: Car of Charles Leclerc of Ferrari, during the Grand Prix Sao Paulo
Leclerc’s stricken Ferrari remained parked on the grass for the duration of Sunday’s Grand Prix
“I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know what to do anymore,” he said when he spoke to the media while the race was still continuing.
“It’s been a season to forget, there’s been quite a few races where I felt I was on it and then for some reason or other, it wasn’t the result I wanted on Sunday and today is part of them, so of course, the frustration is big today.
“It’s like this now, I need to get over it and focus on the last two races which are still important. I cannot wait [for] it to be next year.”
In the fight for second in the constructors’, Carlos Sainz did at least out-score Mercedes in the race by coming home sixth ahead of Lewis Hamilton in eighth, which means Ferrari trail the Silver Arrows by 20 points going into the final two races of the season.
Formula Verstappen...
i still say the boi comes out when his contract expires...
Lewis Hamilton reveals he has given up alcohol as the seven-time world champion seeks an ‘extra one per cent’ to boost his Formula One fortunes
Lewis Hamilton claimed he could suffer for ‘several days’ after drinking alcohol
The Mercedes star revealed he has not drunk alcohol for the last four months
Hamilton made the comments as he launched a non-alcoholic drinks brand
Lewis Hamilton reveals he has given up alcohol as the seven-time world champion seeks an ‘extra one per cent’ to boost his Formula One fortunes
Lewis Hamilton claimed he could suffer for ‘several days’ after drinking alcohol
The Mercedes star revealed he has not drunk alcohol for the last four months
Hamilton made the comments as he launched a non-alcoholic drinks brand
Lewis Hamilton has revealed he has given up alcohol as he seeks an ‘extra one per cent’ to boost his Formula One fortunes.
The seven-time world champion revealed in an interview with Vogue that he has not drunk alcohol in the last four months.
Hamilton made the claim as he launched a non-alcoholic tequila brand Almave, collaborating with Casa Lumbre master distiller Ivan Saldana.
The 38-year-old admitted that drinking alcohol had affected him, as he continues to perform at the top of his sport.
‘I’ll suffer for several days—sometimes it’ll be like three or four days,’ Hamilton said.
Lewis Hamilton revealed he has given up drinking alcohol as he seeks an ‘extra one per cent’
Lewis Hamilton revealed he has given up drinking alcohol as he seeks an ‘extra one per cent’
Hamilton made the revelation as the star launched his own non-alcoholic drinks brand
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Hamilton made the revelation as the star launched his own non-alcoholic drinks brand
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‘I’ve always been looking for how do you get that extra one per cent?
‘As an athlete, that’s what you are always doing.
‘I don’t know if I’m going to drink again.
‘Since I’ve stopped drinking, I’ve just been feeling so much better, so much more clarity. I sleep better, I wake up in the morning and I can still get up at 5 a.m.’
When launching his non-alcoholic tequila brand, Hamilton insisted he had been looking for an option to help ensure he kept a ‘clear mind’.
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LOLOL, Maybe the boi needs to eat meat and drink alcohol, since he quit he aint won sh!t!
What is it with Hamilton, burgers with no meat, tequila with no alcohol, parties with no girls. Steering but not driving.
the boi just ain’t right...
Instead Verstappen is dominating even more so than Hamilton ever did in his (and Mercedes') prime, and we still have to suffer with Hamilton week after week...
he’s still a putz that has run his career into the ground and needs to retire. 7 championships and yet still manages to be nothing more than irrelevant in the big picture of life. He has enough money to live very well but he has an attitude that his 💩 doesn’t stink.
Well, he certainly hasn't had to worry about getting any Champagne in his mouth..."
yup, Formula Verstappen...
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LOL... truth
[[He has enough money to live very well but he has an attitude that his 💩 doesn’t stink.]]
if he’s a soy boy- it sure does stink
And he confirmed his stupidity with doing The No Alcohol Tequila !!!
That’s like Biscuits and Gravy with NO BISCUITS ?!?!?!
}{€££ I’ll bet if he were to order B&G and it came with out the Biscuits he’d still try to eat it using a fork or even possibly a pair of Chopsticks !!!
or lap it up...
feed the boi pork gravy
Captain Obvious
please pass the neer beer
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