go_Rubens wrote:McLaren had a good day today. But every time I hear news that they think they're OK something else goes wrong.
"Ron Dennis announces new sponsorship deal with MasterCard"
go_Rubens wrote:McLaren had a good day today. But every time I hear news that they think they're OK something else goes wrong.
Backmarker wrote:go_Rubens wrote:McLaren had a good day today. But every time I hear news that they think they're OK something else goes wrong.
"Ron Dennis announces new sponsorship deal with MasterCard"
go_Rubens wrote:McLaren had a good day today.
tBone wrote:The MasterCard livery was about the only thing Lola didn't do wrong back then, so that would actually be good news
DanielPT wrote:watka wrote:Day 3 and Mercedes are (currently) topping the timesheets, which really looks ominous. They've had a few reliability issues but they look ready to go straight out of the box, almost as if this the end of the 3rd test not the 1st. Short and long run pace is good and no one else has had the consistency to match them.
McLaren on the other hand are beginning to look like the Renault powered teams last season, they've called it a day already.
Nothing unexpected in both cases. We already know that chances of another Mercedes domination this incoming season are high. Let's hope for some surprises and that they get pegged back somewhat in order for a closer 2016. This takes me to the second point. True that McLaren have been having some issues, but the whole package is brand new. If they manage to double their laps tally tomorrow, it will have been a better test than Renault last season. There is also a plus. Apparently the car is looking fast and when the car was running (track was damp), it was running quite close to Mercedes despite their probable differences in fuel weight and within other people lap times (who weren't doing longer runs). Remember though that this car is completely new and has barely run. That must be encouraging.
tBone wrote:Backmarker wrote:go_Rubens wrote:McLaren had a good day today. But every time I hear news that they think they're OK something else goes wrong.
"Ron Dennis announces new sponsorship deal with MasterCard"
The MasterCard livery was about the only thing Lola didn't do wrong back then, so that would actually be good news
mario wrote:I'm wondering what the hell has been going on in this thread [...] it's turned into a bizarre detour into mythical flying horses and the sort of search engine results that CoopsII is going to have a very hard time explaining ...
CoopsII wrote:Well, according to some British tabloids this morning Nicole n Lewis (Nicwis?) have split up. The last time that happened the silly pudding lost the plot on the race track, left McLaren and generally got on my tits with his moping about.
Advantage Rosberg
CoopsII wrote:Well, according to some British tabloids this morning Nicole n Lewis (Nicwis?) have split up. The last time that happened the silly pudding lost the plot on the race track, left McLaren and generally got on my tits with his moping about.
Advantage Rosberg
Also, I'm quite pleased with how Sauber have done. Yes, you cannot read anything into the times but the car, despite looking like my son knocked it up out of lego, works. Which I wasn't sure it would do.
razta wrote:LOL!! Looks like he's already started to lose the plot.. He's spun
CoopsII wrote:Oh no, that's his "I-hold-my-hands-behind-my-back-because-I-is-sad" pose. It cant be easy to drive an F1 car with tears of sadness in your eyes. Maybe he'll write a piece of music to soothe his soul. Or better still, do an Eddie Irvine and knock the back out of the nearest lovely he can find to get over it
razta wrote:CoopsII wrote:Oh no, that's his "I-hold-my-hands-behind-my-back-because-I-is-sad" pose. It cant be easy to drive an F1 car with tears of sadness in your eyes. Maybe he'll write a piece of music to soothe his soul. Or better still, do an Eddie Irvine and knock the back out of the nearest lovely he can find to get over it
Well according to twitter, he didn't take his helmet off as he arrived back into the pitlane..
CoopsII wrote:razta wrote:CoopsII wrote:Oh no, that's his "I-hold-my-hands-behind-my-back-because-I-is-sad" pose. It cant be easy to drive an F1 car with tears of sadness in your eyes. Maybe he'll write a piece of music to soothe his soul. Or better still, do an Eddie Irvine and knock the back out of the nearest lovely he can find to get over it
Well according to twitter, he didn't take his helmet off as he arrived back into the pitlane..
Oh well that's that then. He'll have flung his gloves at Wolff, told Lauda to "go and bollocks" then gone and signed for Red Bull straight away.
watka wrote:I find it amusing that whilst you're one of the more openly Christian guys here, you are still first and foremost associated with an eye for the ladies!
MCard LOLAdinizintheoven wrote:GOOD CHRISTIANS do not go to jail. EVERYONE ON FORMULA ONE REJECTS should be in jail.
dr-baker wrote:CoopsII wrote:Oh well that's that then. He'll have flung his gloves at Wolff, told Lauda to "go and bollocks" then gone and signed for Red Bull straight away.
But Red Bull already have a large roster of drivers to choose from. I would like to think that he actually stormed off to sign for Murussia for this year!
DanielPT wrote:dr-baker wrote:CoopsII wrote:Oh well that's that then. He'll have flung his gloves at Wolff, told Lauda to "go and bollocks" then gone and signed for Red Bull straight away.
But Red Bull already have a large roster of drivers to choose from. I would like to think that he actually stormed off to sign for Murussia for this year!
Nonsense. He signed for Williams.
watka wrote:I find it amusing that whilst you're one of the more openly Christian guys here, you are still first and foremost associated with an eye for the ladies!
MCard LOLAdinizintheoven wrote:GOOD CHRISTIANS do not go to jail. EVERYONE ON FORMULA ONE REJECTS should be in jail.
razta wrote:Personally.. I should have grabbed Nicole's bum when I had the change in Yas Marina last year
dr-baker wrote:Oh, I see what's going on there. Lewis is upset that Nicole dumped him and he blames Toto, so he's going to Williams so he can spend more time with the lovely Susie? Shame on you Lewis!
dr-baker wrote:[Oh, I see what's going on there. Lewis is upset that Nicole dumped him and he blames Toto...
razta wrote:[img]pic[/img]
Hands behind my back pose
Leyton House wrote:Sauber - found out painting your car like an HRT will make it go like one.
Sublime_FA11C wrote:
Wow. Palpatine is right behind him too! Urging him to give in to his darker feelings. Great soap opera already.
CoopsII wrote:To me that picture sums up much of what's wrong with these modern days F1 drivers. I'm certainly not singling out Hamilton but in the olden days the driver would've set off back to the pits at a brisk walk not simply stand there waiting for some lackey on a moped to collect him. Idle c**ts.
AndreaModa wrote:CoopsII wrote:To me that picture sums up much of what's wrong with these modern days F1 drivers. I'm certainly not singling out Hamilton but in the olden days the driver would've set off back to the pits at a brisk walk not simply stand there waiting for some lackey on a moped to collect him. Idle c**ts.
Calm down grandad it wasn't all that different back in your day y'know!
watka wrote:I find it amusing that whilst you're one of the more openly Christian guys here, you are still first and foremost associated with an eye for the ladies!
MCard LOLAdinizintheoven wrote:GOOD CHRISTIANS do not go to jail. EVERYONE ON FORMULA ONE REJECTS should be in jail.
dr-baker wrote:AndreaModa wrote:CoopsII wrote:To me that picture sums up much of what's wrong with these modern days F1 drivers. I'm certainly not singling out Hamilton but in the olden days the driver would've set off back to the pits at a brisk walk not simply stand there waiting for some lackey on a moped to collect him. Idle c**ts.
Calm down grandad it wasn't all that different back in your day y'know!
In James Hunt's days, the main motivation for walking back to the pits would be to find a bit of cocaine...
Wallio wrote:dr-baker wrote:AndreaModa wrote:Calm down grandad it wasn't all that different back in your day y'know!
In James Hunt's days, the main motivation for walking back to the pits would be to find a bit of cocaine and f**k with some b****es inside the car of his teammate...
Fixed
CoopsII wrote:
To me that picture sums up much of what's wrong with these modern days F1 drivers. I'm certainly not singling out Hamilton but in the olden days the driver would've set off back to the pits at a brisk walk not simply stand there waiting for some lackey on a moped to collect him. Idle c**ts.
mario wrote:I would not be surprised if the team instructed him not to leave the car in order to prevent a photographer vaulting the fence and taking close up photos of the car - Darren Heath's famous photographs inside McLaren's cockpit, revealing their turning brake solution, comes to mind.
Wallio wrote:mario wrote:I would not be surprised if the team instructed him not to leave the car in order to prevent a photographer vaulting the fence and taking close up photos of the car - Darren Heath's famous photographs inside McLaren's cockpit, revealing their turning brake solution, comes to mind.
Ah yes the double brake pedal. Has it ever been definitively proven what it did? I've heard everything from working just the rear brakes, just one side of the rears, or both (being controlled by a switch) some people claim it was tied to TCS others that it wasn't. Do we really know?
mario wrote:Wallio wrote:mario wrote:I would not be surprised if the team instructed him not to leave the car in order to prevent a photographer vaulting the fence and taking close up photos of the car - Darren Heath's famous photographs inside McLaren's cockpit, revealing their turning brake solution, comes to mind.
Ah yes the double brake pedal. Has it ever been definitively proven what it did? I've heard everything from working just the rear brakes, just one side of the rears, or both (being controlled by a switch) some people claim it was tied to TCS others that it wasn't. Do we really know?
As far as I am aware, the system was used to brake the inside rear wheel of the car (so it was switchable from side to side, but only operated on one wheel at a time). I don't believe that it was tied into a traction control system, although by applying the brake to the inner wheel in order to prevent it from spinning up, the driver could control the amount of tyre slip on one side of the car.
mario wrote:CoopsII wrote:To me that picture sums up much of what's wrong with these modern days F1 drivers. I'm certainly not singling out Hamilton but in the olden days the driver would've set off back to the pits at a brisk walk not simply stand there waiting for some lackey on a moped to collect him. Idle c**ts.
I would not be surprised if the team instructed him not to leave the car in order to prevent a photographer vaulting the fence and taking close up photos of the car - Darren Heath's famous photographs inside McLaren's cockpit, revealing their turning brake solution, comes to mind.
Rob Dylan wrote:Mercedes paying homage to the other W12 chassis by breaking down 30 minutes in
AndreaModa wrote:CoopsII wrote:To me that picture sums up much of what's wrong with these modern days F1 drivers. I'm certainly not singling out Hamilton but in the olden days the driver would've set off back to the pits at a brisk walk not simply stand there waiting for some lackey on a moped to collect him. Idle c**ts.
Calm down grandad it wasn't all that different back in your day y'know!
"It was damp, I was first out on slicks, and I just had a spin."
To me that picture sums up much of what's wrong with these modern days F1 drivers. I'm certainly not singling out Hamilton but in the olden days the driver would've set off back to the pits at a brisk walk not simply stand there waiting for some lackey on a moped to collect him. Idle c**ts.