Alonso and Button

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pwig

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11,956 posts

276 months

Monday 26th July 2004
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Was that just not one of the best scraps in F1 you have seen in a long time?

bar_steward

291 posts

281 months

Monday 26th July 2004
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excellent driving from both of them. very clean and a superb move by a brave button to finish with. shame coulthard couldn't do anything once alonso slowed.

barichello was a bit of a numpty at the first corner but someones got to do it!!

shame kimi's wing let go it could have been a very good GP.

as bernie says we'll have to retire shumy off at the end of the season.

kevinday

12,041 posts

286 months

Monday 26th July 2004
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Yup, best GP in ages! Could have been a good three-way scrap for a win, if Kimi's car hadn't come apart, and JB wasn't penalised on the grid.

D-Angle

4,468 posts

248 months

Monday 26th July 2004
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Raikonnen shows emotion shocker!

FourWheelDrift

89,392 posts

290 months

Monday 26th July 2004
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D-Angle said:
Raikonnen shows emotion shocker!


They had put on his spare head number 3 which has the emotion chip installed.

daydreamer

1,409 posts

263 months

Monday 26th July 2004
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Good to see Kimi beating up the Marshalls again .

And we wonder why people aren't volunteering for club meets .

hornet

6,333 posts

256 months

Monday 26th July 2004
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Bit of a disturbing wing failure for Kimi. I can understand the support strut failing, but for the actual wing to just peel apart is a tad worrying!

Great stuff between Alonso and Button. Hopefully there'll be more of that in years to come.

Strange really - I can't stand what they've done to Hockenheim, yet it produced loads of overtaking and a moderately exciting race.

KJR

795 posts

271 months

Monday 26th July 2004
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Yep,

big round of applause for the German TV director who hardly showed Schumi at all, compared to the French director a few weeks ago who could not keep Renault of the screen.

Kenneth.

Mutt Kennelkof

3,959 posts

244 months

Monday 26th July 2004
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Perhaps even the Germans now find Schumi as boring as the rest of us do; lots of empty seats in the Stadium as far as I could tell

miniman

25,999 posts

268 months

Tuesday 27th July 2004
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Mutt Kennelkof said:
Perhaps even the Germans now find Schumi as boring as the rest of us do; lots of empty seats in the Stadium as far as I could tell

Yup - Bernie, I think, made the same comment during Brundle's grid walk.

sda2004

1 posts

243 months

Tuesday 27th July 2004
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Well done German TV for keeping schuy out of the picture,,,,,

Jenson, what a drive and poor old (young) Kimi, another 'if only' there as I'm sure he would have taken it to the chase this time.

3 weeks break....What am I going to do....


Oh well, back to editing my London F1 video...

ftasb

229 posts

245 months

Tuesday 27th July 2004
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Gosh !! Someone actually overtook on the track. We better change the regulations quick, it might get exciting otherwise.
An excellent race and agreed that the German director put on a good even spread of the action despite the obvious following of Herr Scummie by the locals.
Jenson Button and Alonso showed spirited but sensible and competent driving, all extremly entertaining.
So perhaps the other tracks are the problem ?? Hockenheim allowed the brave to be brave and survive, other circuits just bottle everything up and make a dull show.

kevinday

12,041 posts

286 months

Tuesday 27th July 2004
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Anybody know what JBs problem was, where he kept holding his helmet?

FourWheelDrift

89,392 posts

290 months

Tuesday 27th July 2004
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His chin strap was loose and on the fast straights the aero effect on his helmet was lifting it and the strap was giving him problems breathing (on his throat) so he was actually holding the helmet down on the straights.

Munter

31,325 posts

247 months

Tuesday 27th July 2004
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daydreamer said:
Good to see Kimi beating up the Marshalls again .

And we wonder why people aren't volunteering for club meets .


I quite fancy a bit of marshalling.....problem is I think the GF would complain about ANOTHER weekend spent playing with cars....gerr mumble

And back on topic....Fantastic to see Button getting in a scrap on the track. Thought Taku had balls of hard stuff as well when he overtook Trulli? on the outside!

PiB

1,199 posts

276 months

Wednesday 28th July 2004
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This is an F1 race! (Finally had a chance to watch it)

"Someone was passing"?! Several were passing including an exotic outside inside maneuvre by JPM. It wasn't so long ago that the instigators to the new regulations compared (rightfully) F1 passes to football goals. Now, that is not enough for them I guess? Perhaps it was just this weekend. Good job to the Germ TV. The panache camoflage of F1 may be blinding me from the truth though.

Can't blame Kimi. A little emotional but he was about to take on the king but again his Mac let him down. Time after time. I felt like throwing some stuff around the room because I was really looking forward to a dice, a little on track antics, some great driving from two great drivers for P1. I realize KR's behaviour goes down to many PHers as, Oh F1 drivers are spoiled twits. A wing failure like that marks very poorly on the design and or prep. It would be fun to throw a $$$$$$ wheel back into the cockpit!

Partial rant off. Great mechanical front dif on the BAR's, or whatever it is.

>> Edited by PiB on Wednesday 28th July 02:58

Scratch'n'Diff

6,078 posts

272 months

Saturday 31st July 2004
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bar_steward said:
shame coulthard couldn't do anything once alonso slowed.


Gee, theres a switch......