Motorsport Off Topic Thread

Shimmy · 24 May 2012 at 20:37

McLaren set to offer Lewis Hamilton a new £20m contract.

I know people say RedBull may seem more appealing to him, but I still think a McLaren seat would be more beneficial - they've proven to be the most competitive team on the grid for so long now.

Dunks · 24 May 2012 at 20:50

Dup said:
Awesome little find on YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=gqfVAGOaGEc#t=1636s

The second part, recognise anyone we know?

MagicBoy · 24 May 2012 at 21:02

It's a Channel 4 documentary from the Equinox series.

There was a follow up done in '87 when Benetton were then using the engine. Can't recall seeing it anywhere on the internet, but I watched it on TV at the time.

mctiny · 24 May 2012 at 22:35

Dunks said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=gqfVAGOaGEc#t=1636s

The second part, recognise anyone we know?

I watched it earlier and couldn't stop laughing at the Glasses

of Aerodynamicist Ross Brawn, who would've thought that he would become what he is today...

Indy500 · 25 May 2012 at 00:23

mctiny said:
I watched it earlier and couldn't stop laughing at the Glasses of Aerodynamicist Ross Brawn, who would've thought that he would become what he is today...

Indeed. The Brawn\Byrne combo was legendary in its time, especially considering it beat Newey's designs reliability-wise as well in the 2000s (although at least some of that was McLaren quality control).

arknor · 25 May 2012 at 06:14

brawn doesnt seem that great at merc..

i guess he earned his rep on the back of other people

GravyMonster · 25 May 2012 at 09:12

sr4470 said:
especially considering it beat Newey's designs reliability-wise as well in the 2000s (although at least some of that was Mercedes quality control).

FTFY.

Kimi should have been WDC in both 2003 and 2005 if it wasn't for Mercedes deciding to build a highly stressed V10 engine using left over bits of their childrens' Meccano sets.

freebooter · 25 May 2012 at 09:19

Shimmy said:

Love the question about Hamilton

Indy500 · 25 May 2012 at 14:33

arknor said:
brawn doesnt seem that great at merc..

i guess he earned his rep on the back of other people

Well he did have unlimited funds to work with at Ferrari

Spunkey said:
FTFY.

Kimi should have been WDC in both 2003 and 2005 if it wasn't for Mercedes deciding to build a highly stressed V10 engine using left over bits of their childrens' Meccano sets.

What about 2001 and all those ridiculous start-line\launch control problems in the first half?

utajoker · 27 May 2012 at 09:10

ThestigGT999 · 28 May 2012 at 20:07

is it true spa will be dropped or alternate from year to year with the french GP, they should drop the Monaco GP instead imo

Duke · 28 May 2012 at 20:46

ThestigGT999 said:
is it true spa will be dropped or alternate from year to year with the french GP, they should drop the Monaco GP instead imo

It looks likely that Spa will alternate with the French GP hosted at Paul Ricard.

ThestigGT999 · 28 May 2012 at 21:02

Duke said:
It looks likely that Spa will alternate with the French GP hosted at Paul Ricard.

that's **** **** if true

the best track in F1 IMO

Duke · 28 May 2012 at 21:14

If it keeps Spa on the calendar then its the better than losing it.

ThestigGT999 · 28 May 2012 at 21:24

Duke said:
If it keeps Spa on the calendar then its the better than losing it.

yes but they can drop Monaco and have both

MagicBoy · 28 May 2012 at 21:27

Monaco stays.

GravyMonster · 28 May 2012 at 21:31

ThestigGT999 said:
yes but they can drop Valencia, Singapore, Abu Dhabi, India, Bahrain and Korea and have both

FTFY

MagicBoy · 28 May 2012 at 21:32

Much better

CaptainRAVE · 28 May 2012 at 21:33

I don't see Monaco going anywhere, too much money flows into F1 during that race weekend.

MagicBoy · 28 May 2012 at 21:36

Monaco is the jewel in the crown. It's not a traditional race track in the modern sense. All the more reason to keep it, and bring more street circuits back.

Might as well call it the Tilke World Championship otherwise.