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  • Did you mean about what Dietrich Mahhygjgzwoubschitz said? Because he said that Minardi would stay in Faenza for the long term future (hurray) but the name would change, and have the word 'rookie' in the title (gngh). His ambition is for Minardi t…
  • How many cars did Fernando actually pass during a race, for position this year? Having someone infront go out due to mechanical faliure doesn't count. He has to be the youngest and dullest champion ever. What an exhillerating drive today!! He hasn't…
  • Well, whatever the case, you can now confirm that TOIT's F2005 car is relatively rubbish. Barrichello was 0.2 ahead of Montiero. Montiero, to be fair, did put in the lap of his season there. P18 and P20 then for the grid- I guess we still have a g…
  • P18 and P20 in session 4, mixing it with Webber's williams. The times are incredibly close- the whole grid was covered by under 2.7 seconds. Bridgestone's new tyres are working quite well here- the Jordans seem to like them. And Sato/Albers for 200…
  • I think Doornbos over-celebrated- he's just spun at turn 12 in qualifying. He'll line up 19th then, ahead of Sato, provided there aren't more mishaps...
  • For the second one... CH: I'm a little teapot, short and stout...
  • Tsk, shows that by going with Red Bull we'd be going backwards, with Doornbos outperforming them all. He was also 0.7s off a 7 times champ too. If Minardi could be just 3sec off the pace at the end of last year at Brazil, with Bridgestones that on…
  • Chester City- zooming up the leagues (eventually. Maybe). I wonder if I'm the only Minardi and chester City fan combined..?
  • Uh oh. From autosport-atlas.com... Red Bull's Helmut Marko has confirmed that plans are in place to shut down the Minardi Faenza factory and bring the company's two teams together in England by 2008. "We will stay for at least another two years, …
  • So it was all the work of Dorrnbos and his rain dance. I think he overdid it...
  • I don't think Kimi was held up too much by Villeneuve- Kimi was on a one stop fuel load (which made the qualifying lap all the more brilliant- although the set-up in retrospect compromised the tyres), so he wouldn't have pulled away too much. When …
    in No DNF Comment by MarkIII September 2005
  • RBR PR comments on possible RBRTeam2USA: "It's possible there will be an announcement at Spa, but rumours of Red Bull USA are untrue." AFAIK that's OK by me. TTFN! :D EDIT: Stoddart says on Autosport-Atlas that running an RBR1 chassis for 2006 Mi…
  • More odd when you consider it's his home race he's pulled out of. Coloni haven't really been strong after the start of this season. Teammate was Mathias Lauda who is, well...not good enough, simply. Possibly the worst driver on the grid (worse than…
  • It's a funny world where if you're President of the US you can have affairs/be really ignorant and equally be popular, and if you're deputy Prime Minister in the UK you can punch someone with a mullet and single-handedly win around a million votes! …
  • I guess the only difference between this and the tsunami last year is that people were warned of this natural disaster. This planet is a bit of a mess at the minute, when you consider Portugal and Spain have had forest fires aplenty, and Germany ha…
  • just watched the 95 Monza race on "F1 Decade" it was a bit more competitive ad more overtaking... o course quit a bit of unexpected mechanical failures..definitely much closer racing Monza 95...where Taki Inoue gets some coverage because he's invo…
  • Ross Brawn finds the idea of raising more money for FIAT by selling advertising space on Schumacher's forehead.
  • I've been watching F1 since years before, but the first I can actually remember is Adelaide 91, when I was 7 years old. The rest of the family went out swimming and I stayed home with my grandfather so I could watch the race. Fell asleep half way t…
  • Watched suzuka 96, but not into F1 then, checked on 1 in 97 to see how Hill was doing in the Arrows (hmm). First F1 memory of a proper race in action was Austria 97, seeing Jarno Trulli lead (unusual) in a Prost (very unusual!), thanks to Bridgesto…
  • Feeding Albers some cough mixture and giving him some tissues? Toccacelo probably just did some installation laps. Testing times then...so I'm expected to believe the EJ15B is only 1.2 seconds slower than Schumacher's Ferrari then? Aw, why couldn…
  • Toyota V8s were clocked doing 1:29s laps! Early days I know, but that's reaaaaaaaally slow!
  • F1 Racing magazine says that Michelin won't touch Minardi because we owe Michelin a sizeable amount of cash from the last supply we had in 2002. F1 Racing doesn't always tell the truth, of course...;)
  • Let's indulge in more of a conspiracy and say that Montiero wants a Renault test drive for 2006, so he drove into the back of Montoya on purpose! Of course, Montiero also nearly drove into the back of Doornbos...maybe he was just warming up then.
  • By sticking with a V10, Stoddart may have (un)wittingly made a very shrewd move. There'll be no vibration from a V10 in comparison to the problems with a V8 being felt, so this could get interesting. The only thing I can relate this to was the begi…
  • Yep, up to Melbourne qualifying, Minardi should run with further reduced revs, claim that the rev-limiter needs to be much higher, and then in Melbourne qualifying turn the revs back up and qualify 1-2. Of course, the telemtry read-outs would put a…
  • Truth is, if Bridgestone had a kickass tyre this year like 2002, Minardi would be scrappin' with Red bull and Sauber. Not that Bridgestone have produced a hopeless tyre this season- Ferrari have been at times barely 2 seconds a lap faster than us. L…
  • The only thing that Jordan/Midland have done right this season is a successful root canal operation performed by Colin Kolles on Tiago Montiero, who suffered with toothache this weekend. True story.
  • It still looks a little 'car-park' like due to al the safety tarmac all over the shop (why not reintroduce that pleasant, only slightly more dangerous thing called grass onto run-off areas?). Besides that, the circuit is actually very good, and far …
  • Side-topic: No. of engine changes (forcing a 10 place drop on the grid) Cosworth teams have been forced to make because of an engine failure this season: 0. For Jordan-Toyota, that figure is around 8. (Ferrari is around 5!)
    in Turkey GP Comment by MarkIII August 2005
  • Honking a few facts out... 1. Cosworth are giving Red Bull acing a new spec engine for Monza. Perhaps we might get the spec Red Bull have been using until now (it would make sense). 2. Tiago Montiero 'won a toss of the coin' to decide who was goin…
    in Turkey GP Comment by MarkIII August 2005