Posted on 11/07/2010 5:33:11 AM PST by pobeda1945
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin tested his capacities as a Formula 1 pilot, driving a racing car for several hours at a speed of 240 km/ h (149 miles per hour) on a special track in the Leningrad Region in Russia's northwest.
Three racing cars - two vehicles for racing in the Formula's youth completions and one intended for the Formula 1 Grand Prix, were put on show in St. Petersburg on November 6 and 7. As part of the presentation of the racing cars, Putin personally drove a racing car on a special track in the Leningrad Region. Before getting into the car's cockpit, the premier received detailed instructions on how to drive the racing car.
The premier put on a helmet with Russia's national emblem and the word Russia inscribed on it, and also a Formula 1 outfit with his initials. The yellow color of the racing car was reminiscent of the Lada Kalina sport car that Putin had used to drive along the Chita-Khabarovsk Highway in the Russian Far East earlier this year.
A month ago, Putin attended a ceremony of signing an agreement with Formula One in the Russian Black Sea resort city of Sochi, under which Russia will stage a Grand Prix in the country between 2014 and 2020.
wuss...i do better than that off track
Telemetry or an old fashioned stop; watch timing the circuit. sd
If Obie did that, they’d put Secret Service men in cars all around him and a 35 mph governor on it to protect his half-black little self-righteous, arrogant and narcissistic hide.
“I get the feeling our leader is outmatched. “
It’s an established and embarrassing fact.
Putin is not a leader but a great traitor to his own people. He has stolen their freedom, destroyed their Republic, and turned them into a genocidal nation of mass murdering savages which must be destroyed.
Russia will be smashed apart like the Soviet Union was. Nuclear missiles didn't save the Soviet Union, and they won't save "Russia" either. You don't even deserve the name "Russia" anymore which you stole from the Ukrainians and will be returned to them.
>He has stolen their freedom, destroyed their Republic, and turned them into a genocidal nation of mass murdering savages which must be destroyed.
I’d settle for just removing the bum. I don’t care much for Putin, but I don’t have anything against ordinary Russians.
>You don’t even deserve the name “Russia” anymore which you stole from the Ukrainians and will be returned to them.
Well, modern Russia originated from Vladimir-Suzdal, Novgorod, Pskov, Smolensk, Ryazan all of which were part of the Kievan Rus empire. In fact, Vladimir-Suzdal and Galicia-Volhynia (in The Ukrain) were centers of political power during the later Rus times.IMO, no different from Romania naming itself after the Romans.
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