Did you know? Obscure F1 facts...

Fincent schreef:
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> Did you know that Minardi actually qualified on
> provisional pole position for the 2003 French GP?
> It was the friday precursor session and it rained
> at the start, dried at the end...back in the one
> lap system.


Jos Verstappen FTW

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Some say... he's even smaller than 20kb.
And some say... he's so offensive he could get you into trouble...
The only thing we know is that he's called...

THE SIG


Felipe Massa, World Champion 15:34:11pm- 15:34:21pm.

brnco Wrote:
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> @muks, well than explain me why is that story
> called "turtle and rabbit" it is a story about
> turtle(actually tortoise) and rabbit and they
> race, in the end by some wit turtle/tortoise
> actually wins, so if turtle lives in sea how could
> she race rabbit?

because it's not called Turtle and Rabbit, it's called "The Tortoise and the Hare" (a hare is similar to a rabbit):

read this: [en.wikipedia.org]

maybe they changed "hare" to "rabbit" and "tortoise" to "turtle" in your country to make it easier to understand, but in English it's always quoted as Hare and Tortoise or Tortoise and Hare.


brnco Wrote:
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> back on topic, though because this thread is too
> good to be turned into language/wildlife
> education.

you're the one giving false information as fact (that turtles and tortoises are the same thing), someone has to correct you.


mikef1 Wrote:
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> Muks Attenborough!


i do my best

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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 10/11/2007 03:47PM by Muks_C.

@muks, thanks aniway, I can see you've put a lot of effort in it. I appreciate it.

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Ooops double post

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/11/2007 06:10PM by SexySam182.

Doesnt really take much effort to tell the difference between two animals and know the name of a childrens story (no offence to you muks )

Back to topic anyway

Each team with two cars may change the driver of its first car only once in the season. For the second car, a maximum of three drivers may take turns, without restriction, during any one season.

Adrian Newey dropped out of secondary school at the age of 16, and still does his designs on a drawing board, working to half-scale.

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lmao! that's ace. you can just imagine the same today with kimi

james allen : the yellow flag counter's come up, yellows out somewhere
brundle : yep we've got a car stopped out on track, looks like kimi to me
james allen : oh no!!! kimi raikkonen, after leading for the first 53 laps of the spanish grand prix...is out!!!
brundle : yes james, it looks like he's having a sleep

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Circuit Thermalito

Liverpool Waterfront Circuit (WIP)

@fincent, yes there is obvious simmilarity between kimi and hunt, and even more with kimi's new red overalls. Thing is that kimi actually worships Hunt, but has never admitted it. Only thing that he did was participating in snowmobil race in finland under fake name James Hunt.

But on the other hand you can say that kimi worshipes gorrillas because he entered powerboat race wearing gorrilla masquarade suit.

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Do you worship Che Guevara then?

/obvious comment :P

@nickv, I worship 3 pesos.

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brnco Wrote:
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> @fincent, yes there is obvious simmilarity between
> kimi and hunt, and even more with kimi's new red
> overalls. Thing is that kimi actually worships
> Hunt, but has never admitted it. Only thing that
> he did was participating in snowmobil race in
> finland under fake name James Hunt.

How do you know if hes never admitted it?

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Oh wow an image of a terrorist!

kimiraik Wrote:
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> Oh wow an image of a terrorist!


I know Alonso isn't popular, but he isn't that bad!



RedSam
Winner: Not the Nickv Comment of the Year 2009
Due to the voting system in Germany, Governments are always made up of coalitions of different parties. At the last election, an almost unprecidented result saw the CDU/CSU (rough equivilant of the Conservatives) go into Government with the SPD (rough equivilant of Labour)

The deaths of world champions:

Emilio Giuseppe "Nino" Farina (October 30, 1906 - June 30, 1966) -public road car crash at Chambery in France

Juan Manuel Fangio (June 24, 1911 - July 17, 1995), -no particular reason -just died in Buenos Aires in 1995

Alberto Ascari (July 13, 1918 – May 26, 1955), -crash in Monza while testing Ferrari 750 Monza sports car

John Michael Hawthorn (April 10, 1929 - January 22, 1959), -automobile accident on the A3 Guildford bypass

Jim Clark (4 March 1936 – 7 April 1968) -crashed during F2 race at Hockenheim

Denis Clive "Denny" Hulme (18 June 1936–4 October 1992), -massive heart attack while driving on public road. EDIT after mr.fossy and nickv complained I'm changing it into: heart attack while contesting Bathurst 1000 race.

Norman Graham Hill (February 15, 1929 – November 29, 1975), -air crash in foggy conditions over Arkley Golf Course

Karl Jochen Rindt (April 18, 1942 - September 5, 1970), -crashed during practice for the 1970 Italian Grand Prix in Monza

James Simon Wallis Hunt (29 August 1947 – 15 June 1993), - heart attack at his home in Wimbledon

Ayrton Senna da Silva (March 21, 1960 – May 1, 1994), -crashed while leading the F1 race at Imola



Notes: out of 10 wdc that are no longer alive two died because of heart attack, two died in public road
accidents, one died in private test session, one in offical practice session, one at F2 race,
one died because he was old, one died in plane crash, the only world champion that actually
died whil driving(and leading) an F1 race was Ayrton Senna

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/12/2007 01:31PM by brnco.

brnco Wrote:
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> @nickv, I worship 3 pesos.


lol - Great answer brnco! Hahaha

brnco Wrote:
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> The deaths of world champions:

> Denis Clive "Denny" Hulme (18 June 1936–4
> October 1992), -massive heart attack while driving
> on public road

Wrong, heart attack while racing at the bathurst 1000.

@mr fossy, wrong, he was on the way to Bathurst 1000, when he had heart attack. He never got there actually/obviously to take part in that race.

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He was at the track:

A favourite event of Hulme's was the Bathurst 1000, held at the famous Mount Panorama track in Australia. In the 1992 event he was sharing a Benson & Hedges-sponsored BMW M3 with Paul Morris. After complaining of blurred vision Hulme suffered a massive heart attack at the wheel whilst travelling part the way down the 200-mph Conrod Straight.

[en.wikipedia.org]

@mr fossy and nickv; aniway heart attack is fact, public road is fact (bathurst racetrack is public road when the race is not held there)and besides he died of heart attack not accident, so it is irrelevant in this context.

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I'd have let it go if you said it was a race, but a public road going the speed limit is hardly racing similar. A Kiwi great.

brnco schreef:
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> @mr fossy and nickv; aniway heart attack is fact,

We never questioned that.

> public road is fact (bathurst racetrack is public
> road when the race is not held there)

Exactly. As there was a race going on, it WASN'T a public road. So you're wrong.

and besides
> he died of heart attack not accident, so it is
> irrelevant in this context.

Nobody said he did.