This is why i love F1

Yep, it's certainly a great video - but it looks a lot like a Renault in the wet to me. :P

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ohhh. dont know why I said lotus, he didnt drive for them did he?

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

Nope.
One of my earliest memories of F1 was watching Cheever's drive to 3rd at Phoenix in 1989, and thinking because of it that he must be really good.

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EC83 Wrote:
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> Nope.
> One of my earliest memories of F1 was watching
> Cheever's drive to 3rd at Phoenix in 1989, and
> thinking because of it that he must be really
> good.

I used to like Cheever. Then I met him. That quickly put an end to that.

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How did you meet him Dave?

Daytona 2006. He was running a Grand-Am team (I assume he still does, I haven't kept up). He very rudely removed us from his garages, despite us having the right to be there. There was no reason for it, other than 'just because' and we'd have finished our work in 10 minutes if allowed. When other teams asked you to leave politely, it was usually due to a reason. For example an engine change on the second Ganassi DP, so we were asked to leave the garage for them to do there work. Fair enough, and very understandable. Cheever was just a jackass about the way he did it. We never did get the work done, but the project died anyway, so it all was worthless in the end. :-p

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I met several Aston Martin LMP mechanics at Long Beach Grand Prix. They seemed cool. Dave, I wonder how you even got into the garages in the first place.

Because I was working there :P

The year I was at Long Beach ALMS wasn't there, it was Grand-Am again. Got given the wrong passes and managed to do an awesome blag and got them upgraded to a ridiculously high level :P

I was it had been ALMS that year. Grand-Am is awesome, but having done the Daytona 24 it'd have been nice to sample some LMPs. Long Beach is *awesome*.

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> *Gav pulls the aces out*
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LOL, he really was god-awful, wasn't he?


As for the rest of the vids, you guys really put me in the f1 vibe again, and thank you very much for that

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I agree.