Misc

Briatore’s background is purely
commercial. He has no technical expertise (once asked a question about a
fuel filter, he replied: “Hey, I wouldn’t know the difference between a fuel filter
and a coffee filter”).

Montezemelo, a
trained lawyer

He would often set one engineer or driver against another,
believing this was the way to get their best efforts.

Jack Brabham remains the only man to have won a Formula One World
Championship in a car bearing his own name, a feat he accomplished in 1966,
when he was 40.

Drivers sweat so much during the race that they get very dehydrated, which
means that the first thing they want to do when they get out of the car is to
find a bottle of water rather than punch the air in delight.
After winning the 2002 Monaco Grand Prix, David Coulthard said that he did
not go to the toilet again until the next morning – despite drinking all evening
as he celebrated his victory.

At more than 150 mph, it takes an effort of 20 kg to
turn the steering wheel – certainly more than the road car sitting outside the
front of your house

Schumacher likes to get his body trained
between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. so that it is used to
exerting itself during qualifying – rather then
readying itself for a meal. After tests at Ferrari’s
Fiorano test track, he will often watch movies
on television while doing head exercises with
huge weights attached to a special helmet. He
also plays soccer at a semi-pro level.

former world champion Nigel Mansell was said to love to have a full
English breakfast on a race day morning.

Niki Lauda was
nearly killed in a fiery accident at the
Nuerburgring in Germany. He was given the last
rites at the hospital that day, but somehow
fought back and amazingly returned to the
cockpit at the Italian Grand Prix a few weeks
later, still with bandages covering his wounds.
He went on to finish fourth that day.

McLaren star David Coulthard climbed out of his car at the end of the
2000 Malaysian Grand Prix with a huge heat blister on his bottom thanks to
the heat that was generated through the floor of the cockpit.

Italian driver Alberto Ascari is remembered for two amazing achievements:
his dominance of Formula One in 1952 and 1953 and a miraculous escape
after crashing into the harbour at Monte Carlo during the 1955 Monaco
Grand Prix.

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Nice stuff!

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"Trulli was slowing down like he wanted to have a picnic" LOL

Very...random indeed, but good stuff

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Webber had burns on his bottom a couple of times during his Jaguar years, he even retired from 1 race because of the pain, despite the mechanics pouring cold water down his back during a pitstop. the bolts in his seat got very very hot.

and man, that's serious dehydration from DC to not pee till the next day!

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/12/2006 04:46PM by Muks_C.

At more than 150 mph, it takes an effort of 20 kg to
turn the steering wheel – certainly more than the road car sitting outside the
front of your house

Not sure about that one

my 1989 toyota camry had powersteering then it got ripped out and its [pretty ahrd to turn the wheel and i mean really hard lol.

and im nopt weak

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A broken powersteering coloumn is harder to turn than that a non powersteered driven car any way,

thats like comparing pushing a car down the road with the handbrake on and then with the hand brake off.


I think you may have misinterprated what they meant




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i think i heard in the commentary from the qually sessions, that they apply about 75kg of force to the brake pedal.

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hmmmm...... I weigh about 75kg..... maybe I could get a job as a brake pedal pusher- all I'd have to do is sit down

That would be handy I think!

For the wheel thing, it figures, think about it. At 150+ mph, if you turn into a corner like Copse with a load mid-corner on the driver of something like 3.5+g, inclusive of the accelerating force the car still has, then 20kg is actually incredibly light under the cirumstances