Random Thoughts... (Motorsports Edition)

[stevanford1]

Kimis quotes

Montoya’s success in NASCAR?- It doesn’t even interest me.

Will these tyres benefit your driving style? - I don’t know and it doesn’t mean anything to me. Tyres are what they are.

What advice would you give to the rookies Nico Rosberg and Scott Speed? - I hope that they are good in giving way.

Do you think that the speed is good at this point? - It doesn’t matter how much behind the others we are at this point. The car will anyway be rebuilt before Australia. Now we just drive around.

Media’s interest in Kimi after the WC? - They have thrown a lot of xxxx on me but I think that I’ll get even more of it now.

Schumacher’s role : - He doesn’t come and tell us drivers anything. And at least I don’t need his advice.

Montoya’s points: - If he believes in it, he can believe. I’m not interested in what happens behind me.

Gossip Media asks how are you prepared for the season? - I usually get to read from your magazines what I have done.

Montoya’s tennis accident: - We don’t call and I’m not interested in what he does.

“If the army would be volunteer I wouldn’t go there - Kimi about women in army

Austria 2002: - I haven seen it. I’m not the least bit interested in what Ferrari did.

Alonso teasing Kimi. - I couldn’t care less what the man is thinking.

Weather conditions: - It’s all the same if it rains or not.

Season 2006: - It doesn’t interest me yet what is going to happen. You’ll see it then.

An Italian interviewer tries to get Kimi to say something in Italian. - You can talk Italian if you want to.

Ferrari event 2007: - I’m not going to a language school to learn Italian, that’s not what I came to do at Ferrari.

Kimi, what’s the 5th grid place like? - It's the 5th grid place.

Ferrari party: - Ferrari’s own partys are the best one. I don’t know exactly what I will do there. Maybe I’m Santa Claus.

Party at the President’s castle: - Someone else will have to dance with her (Jenni).

Party at the President’s castle: - Ah, go and interview Mikko Leppilampi. He likes to talk.

Kimi, what is your feeeling before the race? - It’s allright.

French GP 2002: - xxxx race.

Hungarian GP 2007: - Boring race.

OHO!-magazine number 46/2006: - I read somewhere that I drive with the luck of a drunk.

Opinion of Ron Dennis: - He’s strange now and then. He always wants to know everything. He doesn’t interest me.

- My life would be much more easier had I been a f1-driver in the 70’s with the guys. I was definitely born in the wrong era.

What makes TAG Heuer special? - It’s ok.

Kimi, you speak a little bit? - Yeah, one two.. three..

What kind of an atmosphere do you think McLaren has right now (the spy saga)? - I bet it’s fxcking great.

- The Constructor’s Championship doesn’t really mean anything to me.

- I’m not interested in what Jackie says. He hasn’t got anything to do with me.

- Coulthard can say what he wants. I’m not interested in what he’s saying.

- I don’t give a damn about what Trulli says.

- Montoya’s comments doesn’t interest me.

- It doesn’t matter what he says. (Kimi about Hamilton’s defences after Canada GP)

- I’ve seen him (Schumacher) twice: when the car was displayed and in one testing he came to but I left almost immediately after that.

- You don’t drive races on paper.

- Driving is the only thing I love about f1.

- If there’s a red light when you leave the pitlane you have to stop. Then some wooden eye (Hamilton) crashes into you and breakes the car.

- What the papers write about me afterwards makes me laugh.

- Formula 1 would be a paradise without the media.

- I’m not interested in what people think about me. I’m not Michael Schumacher.

- The circuit broke totally. Every year same thing happens. They promise to fix it. They probably should hire the guys from Lemminkäinen (Finnish asphalt company) to fix it.

How does it feels to drive at 300 km/h? - “It feels normal”

Your idols? - There aren’t any.

What kind of a relationship do you have with Peter Sauber? - He is my boss.

Is he a father figure or a god father? - He is my boss.

The helmet has a special meaning for many drivers. How important is it to you? - It protects my head.

Do you have any special rituals when the helmet is concerned like many have? - I wipe it so that I can see better.

What would you if you met an alien, run away out of fear or try to talk to him? - The problem won’t arise so I don’t imagine meeting one.

What do you have to do to become one of your friends? - I’ve got my friends and that’s enough. I’m not on the lookout for new ones.

Martin Brundle’s gridwalk Brazil 2006:
Martin: “Kimi Raikkonen doesn’t seem interested in the proceedings going on up there. Kimi, you missed the presentation by Pele.”
Kimi (nonchalantly): “Yeah.”
Martin: ”Will you get over it?”
Kimi: “Yeah. I was having a shit.”
Martin: “OK, thanks for that! Obviously you’ll have a nice light car on the grid, then.”

[vikiradTG2007]

It's absolutely official.

Any douchebag hackers who try to deface or devastate Formula One-related sites should be sent back in time, on May 1st 1994, at Imola, on lap 7 of the San Marino GP, lined up against the wall at Tamburello.



On another note... where in God's name are the turbo intake airboxes on the McLaren MP4/2? I've never seen them anywhere on that car.

[Ironlord]

Originally Posted by vikiradTG2007

It's absolutely official.

Any douchebag hackers who try to deface or devastate Formula One-related sites should be sent back in time, on May 1st 1994, at Imola, on lap 7 of the San Marino GP, lined up against the wall at Tamburello.

f1rejects.com: returning. The front page is back.
itv-f1.com: normal.
grandprix.com: normal.
forix.com: the front page works, which is all I can see.
senna.globo.com: looks OK, though I can't read Portuguese.

Has there been another site that's been hacked?

On another note... where in God's name are the turbo intake airboxes on the McLaren MP4/2? I've never seen them anywhere on that car.

Ditto the MP4/3.

[stevanford1]

Anyone else going to Bathurst ?

[MattW]

Originally Posted by stevanford1

Anyone else going to Bathurst ?

Bastard.

[Hazardous]

Originally Posted by stevanford1

Anyone else going to Bathurst ?

Yes!

... but not this year

Hopefully I'll be getting up at 2am on raceday to watch it, though.

[MadCat360]

Originally Posted by vikiradTG2007

It's absolutely official.

Any douchebag hackers who try to deface or devastate Formula One-related sites should be sent back in time, on May 1st 1994, at Imola, on lap 7 of the San Marino GP, lined up against the wall at Tamburello.

Hackers are one of the more interesting things in Formula 1 in the past few years.

[Karoug]

Saab is entering the STCC next season.
A nice looking machine i think.



The wheels looks silly though..

[vikiradTG2007]

"Madman" F1 driver Jean Alesi was once caught on the motorway at 260kph!...

[vikiradTG2007]

Audi had the Le Mans-winning no.2 R10 TDI on display at the Paris Motorshow.

It's already been almost 4 months since the race. But the car is on display absolutely untouched. And untouched as in...








Yep, untouched as in "car frozen in the state in which it was upon crossing the line".

[Devon]

^That's pretty cool.

[fbc]

I think it's great when cars like that are left in their as-raced conditions - makes them that bit more special.

[Redliner]

^Sure. The dents, dirt and bugs are trophies.

[Hazardous]

More like battle scars.

I heard about someone doing a similar thing (might well have been Audi few years ago) but then some cleaning lady deciding to clean the car up when it was on display somewhere. I bet the car's owner was not impressed.

[vikiradTG2007]

In a feature for TG Magazine, there was a photo shoot with this year's GT1-class winner 009 DBR9 and with the Charouz Lola-Aston Martin. Both the cars were used in the photoshoot in the same condition as the Audi, although the Lola looked slightly cleaner.

Maybe because they had to replace a lot of bodywork after a crash, before sending the car back out again.

[MadCat360]

I HATE THAT, I HATE THAT I HATE THAT I HATE IT.

I hate when they take a perfectly good racecar and just put it out to pasture. That car needs to be run damnit. Not sitting on a fregging plinth with walls around it.

Look at it. It's like a caged animal. It's heart-breaking. If that were any other race they would've smothered in in Mothers products and made it all nice and shiney for the next race, after a nice little bout of PR photos. But now it's just going to sit there and gather dust. The absolute OPPOSITE thing to it's very existence!

It's a DISGRACE! THE SHAME!

I mean look at it. Look at the loving detail of the inner wing. Look how the air would flow through that if it were moving. And look at those amazing wheels. Those wheels and suspension will never again feel the reassuring weight of 5,000 pounds of downforce while they're screaming through a kink at 160 MPH. And the winglets. Lets us not forget the brave winglets who would sacrifice themselves, throw themselves into a position where they KNEW they'd get knocked off by a competitor, or a sharp bump. Yet they put themselves in harm's way for the sake of aerodynamics.

It's enough to make a full-grown child cry.

[vikiradTG2007]

Originally Posted by MadCat360

I HATE THAT, I HATE THAT I HATE THAT I HATE IT.

I hate when they take a perfectly good racecar and just put it out to pasture. That car needs to be run damnit. Not sitting on a fregging plinth with walls around it.

Look at it. It's like a caged animal. It's heart-breaking. If that were any other race they would've smothered in in Mothers products and made it all nice and shiney for the next race, after a nice little bout of PR photos. But now it's just going to sit there and gather dust. The absolute OPPOSITE thing to it's very existence!

It's a DISGRACE! THE SHAME!

I mean look at it. Look at the loving detail of the inner wing. Look how the air would flow through that if it were moving. And look at those amazing wheels. Those wheels and suspension will never again feel the reassuring weight of 5,000 pounds of downforce while they're screaming through a kink at 160 MPH. And the winglets. Lets us not forget the brave winglets who would sacrifice themselves, throw themselves into a position where they KNEW they'd get knocked off by a competitor, or a sharp bump. Yet they put themselves in harm's way for the sake of aerodynamics.

It's enough to make a full-grown child cry.

Audi and Dallara must have made at least 7-8 R10 tubs+drivetrains, so they can rotate them around, since they're not going to have more than 3-4 racing at the same time. So they can put this one on display like this, keep it like this for some time, and then maybe bring it back to the track.

[Hazardous]

If anyone is interested, A1GP and Superleague Formula are running races today and they are streamed on the series websites. (superleagueformula.com and a1gp.com). They are at Zandvoort and Zolder respectively and both tracks are really wet.

[vikiradTG2007]

Originally Posted by vikiradTG2007

On another note... where in God's name are the turbo intake airboxes on the McLaren MP4/2? I've never seen them anywhere on that car.

Found it!



Damn, that's pathetic. But, then again, the TAG TTE P01 engine never had the size of the turbos on either the RA166E Honda, the EF15B Renault or the BMW M12/13.

[vikiradTG2007]

(Shamelessly stolen from JimBamber.co.uk)


Okay. Forget your first race, it was a disaster. This is only the second race for your new team.

Your team-mate has crashed, and you're leading a GP for the first time.

It's pouring down and the track is awash, there's a Safety Car in front of you, and behind you is a three-time World Champion and... oh yes, his name is Ayrton Senna, and he's Brazilian and this is his home Grand Prix.

Okay, wise guy, what would YOU do?

Mansell's stroke or Prost's stroke?