Grand Prix Rejects

ibsey

Hi All, Autosport did a featured entitled the "Fifteen Questions for Jos Verstappen" on February 27, 2014. Does anyone have access to that? That issue is available as a PDF on the Autosport website. I shall download it and email it to you in the next few days of you like? You sir are a tr...

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Hi All, I hope you are well. I am currently writing a book on 1994 Benetton F1 Cheating Allegations & Politics and I wondered if you could kindly help me with something? Autosport did a featured entitled the "Fifteen Questions for Jos Verstappen" on February 27, 2014. Does anyone have ...

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He does mention that they were both managed by Flavio, so the whole workings of Benetton were around Briatore's decisions. Bear in mind that Briatore really didn't like Jenson, so there's a lot of mentions of just poor treatment and poor team atmosphere whilst he was there. Thanks Rob That was my r...

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Flavio Briatore and Frank Williams are very different people I'd be interested to know what Button thoughts of Flavio was. I.e. how involve did Briatore get in car developments? Did Flavio do anything dodgy when Button was there? Did Button ever think he was getting 2nd best treatment after it was ...

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I'm aware of Ibsey's book, he's sent me first drafts of a number of chapters and from what I've read, it's very impressive. He has sent me a few drafts too, but I have yet to read through them. I am glad someone else is giving feedback more promptly! Just came across this thread, and there is no ru...

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Nice video & thanks for sharing that. Similarly you may be interested in this; m I've spent hours googling everyone one of those mechanics (and other Benetton team members at the time) to find out if they ever claimed the fire was as a result of Benetton cheating. And I couldn't find a single on...

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Murray Walker. As the kids would say "true dat". I also miss the different sounds & characteristics of V12's, V10 & V8's. I.e. looking forward to a V8 car doing well on street circuits or in the rain. Simliarly wondering if the Ferraris would last the distance at Monza before the ...

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Unraced F1 posted a link to this on Twitter, and I thought it seemed apt to this conversation. Thanks dr-baker that is some really interesting background which I did not know before. When I get some time I am going to research that a bit more and if I come across anything similarly interesting I wi...

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Mansell, in his recent autobiography, appears to blame a poor string of results in the early 1991 season on.......catching heyfever from his moustache. Nice contribution. IIRC Mansell shaved off his moustache in 1988, and when journalists asked about it I think he jokingly told them it was for aero...

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Last weekend, Nicholas Latifi threw away a certain win in the GP2 F2 sprint race at Barcelona. Why? He got distracted by his wing mirror falling off the car and clunking him in the face. Regardless, it doesn't reflect too well on him. Would have been a fan of his for life if he was distracted by lo...

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For years afterwards, I am sure people would be saying how unjust and unfair that DSQ would have been, we would never be aware that Senna's life was saved by that decision, and now, your question would have been, what if he had been allowed to race that day? And nobody would say that he would crash...

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Martin Brundle was saying during commentary in last weekend's race that the Renualt's computers had been hacked into which adversely affected their on track performance (apparently).

Must remember that excuse next time the missus check's out mhy internet browsing history....

ibsey

It's the month of May, Senna and Prost are racing in Monaco while an F1 Championship winner prepares to compete in the Indy 500. Is it the early 1990s again? I like your way of thinking sir. I like to pretend its still 1994 Currently reading Damon Hill's book at the moment (Watching the Wheels) and...

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Also, Steel instead of Carbon Brakes. This would make no difference whatsoever. Steve Matchett talks about it quite a bit in his books. The FIA threatened to ban carbon brakes a few times during the '90s so Benetton conducted a few tests with steel brakes. Braking distances were within 10 meters or...

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What if the safety changes introduced in the wake of Senna's death at Spain,Canada & Germany 1994, were delayed until 1995 as I believe the majority of the teams wanted? Do people feel there would have been more serious accidents in the remainder of the 1994 had the cars been allowed to continu...

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What if the safety changes introduced in the wake of Senna's death at Spain,Canada & Germany 1994, were delayed until 1995 as I believe the majority of the teams wanted? Do people feel there would have been more serious accidents in the remainder of the 1994 had the cars been allowed to continue...

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CoopsII wrote:
This wrote:I think we ALL should spend more time in an Amsterdam café

ROAD TRIP!!

Don't forget to invite Tomas Enge

ibsey

And that personality is in my opinion the reason he never broke trough. +1 From my research into the 1994 F1 season, heard that Jos could be quite a suborn person. Especially since the B194 needed to be driven a certain way in order to extract its max potential. Personally think Jos needs to spend ...

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The first stop & go penalty I can remember being given for ignoring the blue flags was Irvine in Spain 1997 when he blocked Panis who was until then catching JV. IIRC penalties for blue flag offences were extremely rare back then and indeed many instances when unpunished - like Fontana at Jerez ...

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Hi All. Just came across the following which perhaps is another reason why Max held a grudge against Flavio & Benetton in mid 1994. Hence the subsequent smear campaign when other teams were allegedly just as guilty as Benetton was on some issues. Hope you find it as interesting as I did: He (Fla...

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I think Prost pushing for a greater effort from the team was justified. Especially considering Renualt were the joke of the early 1980's for their unreliability which as you admit cost them in 1983. Apparently Renault were to busy putting up posters in Paris before Kyalami stating Renault 1983 F1 W...

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The thing you have to remember is someone had to be made the scapegoat after Renault threw away the 1982 & 83 titles in such comedic fashion. It was so bad perhaps Renault should be contenders for rejects of the year for both those seasons? Now consider Prost's subsequent success along with the ...

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The Renault works team was close to winning the championship in 1983 with Alain Prost but due to underdevelopment of the chassis and unreliability that sadly wasn't meant to be, Prost was later fired by Renault due to his childish comments about the team (His comments about the chassis I understand...

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Came across an interesting comment by somebody the other day. Although Renault re-introduced the Turbo engine in 1977 and their engines have been amongst the front runners for around 11 years of turbocharged F1 since then. They are still yet to win a Turbo powered Championship yet. I personally hope...

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Aguri Suzuki - Jordan, Pacific GP 1994 Yannick Dalmas - Larrousse, 1994 Eric Bernard - Lotus, European GP 1994 I completely forgot about all of these stints. 1994 was full of these weird little stints. Wait... I dont even remember who drove for Ligier whilst Bernard was at Lotus. *looks it up* Fran...

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KERS perhaps? There were a lot of talk about the high voltages required and some mechanics got electric shocks. I don't recall anyone being seriously injured though. Good call CarloSpace I remember one Mechanic was hospitalised after a KERS incident: m Furthermore Ferrari abandoned Kers for 2009 Ch...

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Last night I was reading a few articles from late 1993/early 1994 where a few F1 people where stating how fearful they were of the dangers associated from re-introducing mid race refueling for 1994. This got me thinking was that the last time the FIA introduced a rule which potentially made the spor...

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Frank Dernie who was Chief Engineer at Benetton in 1994 says this about his time there: “But I never had any trouble with Tom (Walkinshaw). He was totally straight and honest with me, and he never asked me to cheat. Actually no team bosses ever asked me to cheat. If there were some dodgy things goin...

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Again, it's didn't win a race (so close!), but the Arrows A18 has to be up there. The A18 was on for a podium at Nurburgring until Damon stalled the engine. Also IIRC reliability issues cost it and Damon decent points at races like Jerez & Barcelona. The car wasn't great, but it did benefit fro...

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So exactly how bad the CG901 still was in France is open to debate. Apparently the aero for the all conquering Newey designed Williams from 1991 to 1994 were all based on the CG901 design. Newey states; If you look at the 901 Leyton House alongside the FW14 they are very similar. m I'd like to thro...

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I'm with Big Gary on this; the Jordan EJ13 was battling Minardis every other week, so Fisichella grabbing that win at Brazil was just...magic. It could be argued that the EJ13 was also battling a Minardi at Brazil 2003 (well at least in the 1st half of the race). As IIRC the Minardi of Jos Verstapp...

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Ferrari 126CK (1981) Ugly, heavy, ill-handling and severely lacking in downforce, Gilles Villeneuve somehow won two races with a car he described as a 'big red Cadillac'. Its only redeeming feature was its powerful turbo V6. Personally don’t think anything could beat this. Apparently the V6 turbo a...

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Just read your Lola Thread dr-baker and some really great stuff in there. Thanks for sharing that Damon going to Stewart in 97 is interesting and I think he would have seen his career out with them had he joined, so never would have joined Jordan. I say this because I reckon he could have been on th...

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What if Hill never got the Williams seat for 1993, what might have happened to Damon and would he have won a WDC? But might he then have still gone to Williams in 1994, albeit with less front-running experience? Would Pacific even have lasted that first season if they entered a year sooner? Great i...

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What if Hill never got the Williams seat for 1993, what might have happened to Damon and would he have won a WDC? Also what if Hakkinen had got the sacked from Mclaren after 1997, might he have won a WDC? Mika did have a strong end to that year but just before the British GP there were rumors Mika &...

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Hi dr baker and many thanks for that. Anything you have on the matter, no matter how small, I am more than interested in. I’m sure there are other examples of overtaking on the formation lap, even after Sliverstone 1994 which wasn’t punished as severely. Like the one you kindly mentioned along with ...

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Massive thanks Waris - I really do appreciate the time you took to translate that. Since you took the time to look into that here’s a bit more insight into the aftermath of the Hockenhiem fire. As previously mentioned, Benetton contracted an independent company (AFTA) who specialise in accident inve...

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Just thought I would post a couple of videos here which might be of interest to you lot particularly because they and the subsequent episodes contain lots of interviews from reject teams/drivers. Hungary 1994: m If anyone speaks Dutch would they be able to kindly explain what is being said about the...

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ibsey, it may interest you to listen to the current Motorsport magazine podcast with Pat Symonds. From 44 minutes in, for around 6 minutes, they discuss Schumacher overtake Hill on the parade lap at Silverstone in 1994, plus his perceptions of the pros and cons of that year's Benetton versus the Wi...

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Not quite sure where else to post this, so I will leave Pacific’s humorous anthem here:

http://f1retro.gr/index.php/en/retro-st ... hs-pacific

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