Most liked posts in thread: F1 - 2011

Me believes Sir Jackie has hit the proverbial nail on the head or as one from his part of the world would say: "Spot on"!!

Now to get Bernie to pay the slightest attention will be another thing indeed.....

 

JPM & Jeff Gordon and Gordon was WAY faster than JPM in the F1 car. :cornut:

Amazing NASCAR will be leaving the epitome of '70s Tech to join the '80s with fuel injection... :frown2: One of many reasons I stopped watching.

 

Ain't no way Tony "muffin-top" Stewart is getting into any F1 car ! !

:lol::lol::lol:

 

ROFLMAO

Definately take a serious lubricant to slide his arse down into one....lol

 

From F1 official site interview with Bernie:

Q: So the phrase ‘money makes the world go around’ is a fact?
BE: Sex and money make the world go around. That is why I am sure that not so long from now 50 percent of the decision makers in the economy and politics will be women. Women have always had a strong influence, and have probably been in the background for too long. Isn’t there the saying that behind every successful man there is a woman?

Q: That suggests that you think women have a different approach to making decisions…
BE: Yes, I do. I think that women don’t get trapped so easily in their own ego. Women don’t have to play golf to make deals, they simply have to work harder to get the same acceptance as men. As their egos don’t stand in their way they decide things less emotionally and in the end that serves the cause.

Q: That all sounds as if you could imagine women running Formula One racing?
BE: Absolutely. Probably in three to five years.

Seems like he changed his mind from his "women should wear white" days.

 

Nothing against women in business at all but to hear Bernie speak of ego makes one think he and Charlie Sheen have been smoking from the same pipe....

 

With Charlie around there would not be a pipe big enough to share. But I hear what you're saying.

 

You can't be suggesting that Charlie might Bogart the pipe.......LOL

 

I am not suggesting. I am outright saying it.

 

Mercedes gains full ownership of Mercedes F1 race team

FRANKFURT -- Daimler AG's Mercedes-Benz unit and its partner Aabar Investments PJS, have gained full ownership of the racing team Mercedes GP by buying the remaining 24.9 percent stake held by team principal Ross Brawn, the company said in an e-mailed statement.

The Mercedes Grand Prix racing team will continue to compete under Brawn's leadership, and cars and engines will continue to be developed and manufactured in England.

''We see our Formula One program as an important element of our brand history. The acquisition of a majority stake holding in our Silver Arrows team sends a clear signal that we intend to achieve technical and sporting success on world motorsport's biggest and most important stage – and to do so in cost-effective conditions" Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche said in the statement.

Mercedes bought a 75.1 percent stake in the team in November 2009 together with its partner, Abu Dhabi investment company Aabar, which bought a 9.1 percent stake in Daimler in March 2009.

The team emerged from the former Honda team after a management buyout led by former Ferrari technical director Ross Brawn. Honda quit the sport for financial reasons



Source - Automotive News Europe

 

Yep, if they're going to run the full grand prix course at the Glen, he will need to work on his neck muscles - I imagine the forces an F1 car can generate as it goes thru the boot will be significant, if short lived....and they don't run that part of the track in NASCAR - I wonder why?

 

It might seem like a Kafkaesque scenario, but the affair relating to the name of the car with which Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa will tackle this year’s Formula 1 World Championship saw its final and decisive episode played out these past few days with the concomitant withdrawal by Ford of the summons. Therefore common sense has prevailed.

In order to avoid the slightest risk of anyone confusing a Formula 1 car with a pick-up truck, for their part, the men from Maranello have decided that the car will lose the F that precedes the number 150 and which stands for Ferrari, as it has done on numerous occasions when it’s come to giving a car a code name, be it for the race track or the road. It appears that this could have caused so much confusion in the minds of the consumer across the Pond that, at the same time as losing the F, the name will be completely Italianised, replacing the English “th” with the equivalent Italian symbol.

Therefore the name will now read as the Ferrari 150° Italia, which should make it clear even to the thickest of people that the name of the car is a tribute to the anniversary of the unification of our country. Let’s hope the matter is now definitely closed and that we can concentrate on more serious matters, namely ensuring that our car that already seems to be pretty good out of the box, becomes a real winner.

Source - The Horse Whisperer - Ferrari's Official Blog

 

I still say there ain't no way he is ever going to fit in the cocpit.......:lol:

Unless he gets Crisco as a sponsor!

 

CRISCO?!

That won't make him any THINNER, it's SHORTning!

[ cue rimshot ] "I'm here all week..."

hat tip to my old Boy Scout days....

_Dave_

 

BA....Dump...BUMP.....

 

(tap tap tap) "Is this thing on?..."

_Dave_