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F1 2016
Dec 27, 2016 15:37:55 GMT
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Post by Dirty Epic on Dec 27, 2016 15:37:55 GMT
ROFL :lol: I liked that one too Windy. I think considering Lewis's season a bit of a missed opportunity. Yeah he's had some bad luck but so too did Vettel, Massa and a few others too also the scrappy races like Baku and Singapore if he'd been more on it may have had a different outcome for him come the end of season show down. Still did everything right in the last 4/5 races of the season and will be interesting to see how he goes with Bottas as his #2 (done deal). Hope we see the Lewis of 2014-15 next season! EDIT. Here's a similar BBC poll for the best/worst teams of 2016 too. m.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/38409650
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Post by Dirty Epic on Jan 6, 2017 15:41:30 GMT
Sad news Manor Racing have entered administration and things don't look good for them being on the grid in Melbourne. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/38530855Shame they never quite went beyond the midfield and Q2 as their best results but to their credit they gave it a good go and certainly did much much better than many new entrants have in the last decade or so.
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Post by Del Boy on Jan 6, 2017 20:48:24 GMT
As ever yet another minnow team pulls out of the sport and it will quickly be forgotten.
F1 really needs to find a way of strengthening the position of these teams to make it a better spectacle. Right now I think this sport is on a huge downward curve. Thing is after watching it since the 1980s I really dont know which way it should go now to improve things. Quite a lot of stuff has been tried over the years.
I do hope the new season doesn't serve up more of the same like last year. If so I'll only bother with a handful of races.
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Post by Gene Hunt on Jan 12, 2017 23:10:26 GMT
It has been reported that Martin Brundle suffered a heart attack immediately after the Monaco GP in 2016. As Lewis Hamilton took the win, Brundle had to run to the podium to do the interviews. It was during the run that he suffered the heart attack but remarkably, still managed to get through the interviews. He missed the following race in Canada to undergo surgery but even more remarkably, was fit enough just 2 weeks later to compete in the Le Mans 24 hour race. Fair play to the bloke Gene.
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F1 2016
Jan 13, 2017 0:16:48 GMT
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Post by Dirty Epic on Jan 13, 2017 0:16:48 GMT
Yeah all the best to Martin my mum/dad met him at the NEC Motor Show in 96 and said he was a gent.
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Post by Windy Miller on Jan 13, 2017 8:47:20 GMT
It has been reported that Martin Brundle suffered a heart attack immediately after the Monaco GP in 2016. As Lewis Hamilton took the win, Brundle had to run to the podium to do the interviews. It was during the run that he suffered the heart attack but remarkably, still managed to get through the interviews. He missed the following race in Canada to undergo surgery but even more remarkably, was fit enough just 2 weeks later to compete in the Le Mans 24 hour race. Fair play to the bloke Gene. I new that he had a "medical procedure" because he missed the Canadian Grand Prix. To find out it was a heart attack is astonishing. He didn't compete in the Le Mans 24 hour race BTW. He competed in the ‘Road to Le Mans’ support race, where he put his car on pole position - a remarkable achievement made all the more so knowing about his health condition.
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Post by Gene Hunt on Jan 13, 2017 12:48:48 GMT
I stand corrected. It was the Le Mans 24 hour support race not the Le Mans 24 hour race that Martin competed in and finished 2nd.
Gene.
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Post by Dirty Epic on Jan 13, 2017 21:03:24 GMT
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Post by Batgirl on Jan 15, 2017 11:54:31 GMT
I haven't been keeping up with the F1 news/changes BUT I did receive my tickets in the post last week for the Australian F1 in March 2017. This year (as I complained about earlier) there was the four day pass option, not the two day (which I preferred). Instead of a ticket I got a plastic card with my Grandstand seat details in the Fangio stand on the straight, with a Lanyard, a fridge magnet with the dates for 2017 races, a car sticker and the opportunity to walk the straight on the first day when no F1 cars are there.
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Post by Gene Hunt on Sept 3, 2018 17:04:48 GMT
It's been over 2 years now since I posted on my day at the British GP. I have just found out that the video clip I uploaded here (hosted on Youtube) was picked up for copyright material - the National anthems to be precise. So, I have had to redo the clip and silence the whole podium presentation of the clip to satisfy regulations. The revised clip can now be found back on page 20 of this thread - >>>HERE<<<Gene
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