Atticus. Wrote:
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> Good piece.
>
> I started watching F1 in 1996, my first GP was
> actually the curtain raiser in Melbourne with
> Villeneuve holding onto the lead in his first ever
> GP in an ailing car, until Hill passed him in the
> dying stages.
>
> So, in a way, with the retirement of Schumacher, I
> also lost the last driver, who was there when I
> watched my first GP. But then again, it happened
> back in 2010 as well with Rubens pulling out.
>
> The first driver, whose career I followed from
> start to finish, being the rookie at or closely
> after my first GP!? Jacques and Giancarlo most
> probably.
>
> On the teams. I tend to count them as a structure.
> I mean in a way, I consider the current Lotus team
> the same as Renault and Benetton, because only the
> owner changed and the team still uses the same HQ
> as its predecessors. So in that respect we have
> the following teams still in the championship
> compared to 1999:
>
> Ferrari (1950)
> McLaren (1966)
> Mercedes/Brawn/Honda/BAR/Tyrrell (1970)
> Williams (1978)
> Lotus/Renault/Benetton/Toleman (1981)
> Toro Rosso/Minardi (1985)
> Force India/Midland/Jordan (1991)
> Sauber (1993)
> Red Bull/Jaguar/Stewart (1997)
>
> Only the three new teams are missing. I think
> that's impressive. It shows infrastructure has a
> huge role in success, the accumulated, sort of
> unseeable, traditional experience and know-how,
> knowledge, particularly if we take into account
> how unsuccessful Toyota was with creating
> everything from scratch. Or the current new teams.
GAH you forgot about SPYKER.