[pyritechips]

I like this! Alonso and Ferrari deserve each other :

"Is Alonso going to Maranello?" he said. "How perfect! I am sure they are made for each other. Any team that gloats about winning this championship in this way is not a team I will support. They need to take a new broom to Maranello and change some of the attitudes down there. It is just wrong. All wrong."

[valis]

gawd, that would suck.....todt would strangle him after the first 3 races.

[pyritechips]

HAHAHAHAHA!!!

I still think him and Flavio are the only combination.

What do you think about "Imagine Fernando Alonso and Kimi Raikkonen at Ferrari. Lewis and Nico at McLaren. " Possibly interesting combination but is there any merit in the thought? I haven't heard any rumours about it.

[N1SMO]

Originally Posted by valis

drag racing? You mean where they don't even turn? just go in a straight line?

Yup its harder than you think

[valis]

Originally Posted by N1SMO

Yup its harder than you think

Yeah, I can tell. Go straight. Stop.

Sounds like my commute.

[valis]

Originally Posted by pyritechips

HAHAHAHAHA!!!

I still think him and Flavio are the only combination.

What do you think about "Imagine Fernando Alonso and Kimi Raikkonen at Ferrari. Lewis and Nico at McLaren. " Possibly interesting combination but is there any merit in the thought? I haven't heard any rumours about it.

Lewis and nico would make a really solid combo....not as good as kubica and hamilton, but a solid one nonetheless.

If fernando heads to ferrari, my head will explode.

[johnnyburst79]

Originally Posted by N1SMO

Yup its harder than you think

No, its really not. I had a Camaro built up to run low 11's and then I got into AutoX. Getting a car to actually respond, grip, turn and brake at 5G's for 2 hours is MUCH more difficult as in F1.

[pyritechips]

Stewards investigating Hamilton for Webber-Vettel crash

To quote:

The case might be reopened after the FIA noticed a video at Youtube of the accident, filmed by a Formula 1 fan in the grandstands.

See it HERE and tell me what you think. I'll tell you what I think tomorrow.

[N1SMO]

Originally Posted by johnnyburst79

No, its really not. I had a Camaro built up to run low 11's and then I got into AutoX. Getting a car to actually respond, grip, turn and brake at 5G's for 2 hours is MUCH more difficult as in F1.

Sure you did buddy, I had like a twin turbo Z06 than ran 8s street legal to



ANd drag racing is more than going straight. You have to know how to launch the car, when to shift, when to shut down.

I would bet anything none of you could handle a 300hp car

[Stoner]

I used to drag race.
It's mostly about optimizing a car to be quick in a straight line.
Sure, suspension, tuning and reflexes are important, but it's only done a quarter mile at a time.

But any race with turns complicates the setup on the car and driver skills are much more demanding because of the longer duration of circuit racing.

What F1 drivers do is limited to the abilities of only a select few people on this planet.
Drag racing (cars) is open to any idiot that has an entry fee
I know that for a fact .........

Sadly, drag racing has decreased. Not what it used to be in the 60's and 70's.




BTW, N1SMO.......everyone in Civ Debate already knows you drive a Nissan beater
Good for the circle 8s

[pyritechips]

For anybody interested in the F1 scandal, here is a published letter from Stepney to the FIA (Max Mosely) emailed on Aug. 30. Don't anybody try to tell me Ferrari is completely innocent in this affair:

Stepney says publisher pulled out because of pressure

Grandprix.com closes by saying "While publishing this story may result in accusations that we are favouring Stepney, we have concluded that everyone else has had plenty of opportunity to say their piece and it is wrong that Stepney's views are being suppressed."

[pyritechips]

Sadly, drag racing has decreased. Not what it used to be in the 60's and 70's.

Yeah, back when the Mopar Hemis ruled the roost and all others were mere pretenders. King of all the racers was Don "Big Daddy" Garletts, loser of a foot to an exploding tranny and subsequently the inventor of the rear engine slingshot AA/FD.

[paisanol69]

http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns19721.html
told him I had prepared some draft contracts which I had in my possession and asked him what terms he would be looking for. I also had documents from Ferrari on me at the time, which I was using to try and understand if I could make the step from basically a chief mechanic into a more senior technical roll of which I had never been trained for. Having these Ferrari documents was completely legitimate because I was still with Ferrari.

Mike looked at some of the documents and was obviously interested in them, I said I didn‚t think it was a good idea that he should be looking at these papers. I was obviously wrong to even have let him have access to them. But he said that I could use these in the Catia course. Eventually he took a small amount of these documents and put them in his bag, I asked what was he going to do with them and he said don't worry nothing. We then got into the car because it was time to go to the airport, in the car he saw some other documents which he started to read, he then took them all and pushed them inside his back pack. I didn't think it was a good idea and said you can't do anything with them. He told me don't worry I won't use any of this stuff.

hmmm, this is a highly paid, professional, coming up with a line of chit this bad, and he expects someone/anyone to believe the above quote??? As if he was a powerless victim, and could do nothing at all to stop Mike from taking those documents, espically the ones that just "happened"to be in the car..what a load!!!

[valis]

Originally Posted by Stoner

I used to drag race.
It's mostly about optimizing a car to be quick in a straight line.
Sure, suspension, tuning and reflexes are important, but it's only done a quarter mile at a time.

But any race with turns complicates the setup on the car and driver skills are much more demanding because of the longer duration of circuit racing.

What F1 drivers do is limited to the abilities of only a select few people on this planet.
Drag racing (cars) is open to any idiot that has an entry fee
I know that for a fact .........

Sadly, drag racing has decreased. Not what it used to be in the 60's and 70's.




BTW, N1SMO.......everyone in Civ Debate already knows you drive a Nissan beater
Good for the circle 8s

see, I remember tommy ivo, and that twin engined drag he used to run. Now THOSE guys were insane. No other explanation for it.

Then again, the boys doing F1 back in those days weren't much saner......

[johnnyburst79]

Originally Posted by pyritechips

See it HERE and tell me what you think. I'll tell you what I think tomorrow.

Taken down with a quickness by the FOM.

Originally Posted by N1SMO

Sure you did buddy, I had like a twin turbo Z06 than ran 8s street legal to
I would bet anything none of you could handle a 300hp car

You account is disabled, so you probably won't read this, but you sir, are a dumbbehind.

If you actually knew ANYTHING about racing, you'd know 11's are not that difficult. 475whp from a big V8 supercharged is childs play and having a Hurst 3sp tranny built to run out at 135mph makes 11's EASY.

9's in a FWD car like my buddies Integra that has a built 2.1L motor pushing 600whp with a shot of nitrous to put him at the 750whp mark is much more difficult.

300HP is a hard car to handle? Are you serious?! Which 300HP car, the G35/Z33, S60R, Evo, Sti, SRT-8, or Charger or whateverelseIcanthinkof? Cmon....

The championship leader was dismayed by the latest controversy and the prospect of being penalised when on the brink of clinching the title.

"It looks like this weekend I'm probably going to given a penalty and I think it's just a shame for the sport," Hamilton said earlier today.

Shame for the sport or shame for him? As Mark Webber said, it was a little bit of tricks and a bit of naivety by a rookie, that he and Vettel were taken out of the race.