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#61 Jean Todt

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Posted 15 February 2009 - 09:40 PM

View PostAleHop, on Feb 15 2009, 09:53 PM, said:

For a few drivers a World Championship can make the difference between a fantastic and a disappointing season. That's life. :)

For a few drivers they would always need their team mate to drive like a taxi driver holding a basket of eggs in the other hand just to look better! :P

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Posted 15 February 2009 - 09:44 PM

View Postabbas_gear, on Feb 15 2009, 07:40 PM, said:

For a few drivers they would always need their team mate to drive like a taxi driver holding a basket of eggs in the other hand just to look better! :P
Hey, no need to disrespect Heikki!
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Posted 15 February 2009 - 09:55 PM

View PostQuiet One, on Feb 15 2009, 10:44 PM, said:

Hey, no need to disrespect Heikki!

:lol:

But Hekki doesn't need to crash and block others! :P

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Posted 15 February 2009 - 09:58 PM

View Postabbas_gear, on Feb 15 2009, 07:55 PM, said:

:lol:

But Hekki doesn't need to crash and block others! :P
Of course not. Lewis is quite able at that :P
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Posted 15 February 2009 - 10:08 PM

View PostQuiet One, on Feb 15 2009, 10:58 PM, said:

Of course not. Lewis is quite able at that :P

:lol: So he doesn't need a team mate to do that!

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Posted 15 February 2009 - 10:42 PM

View Postabbas_gear, on Feb 15 2009, 08:08 PM, said:

:lol: So he doesn't need a team mate to do that!
Somebody has to carry his luggage, right?
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Posted 16 February 2009 - 10:50 AM

View PostQuiet One, on Feb 15 2009, 11:42 PM, said:

Somebody has to carry his luggage, right?
Somebody has to carry his sins, right?

But Ron is no longer there. :D

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Tradition has it that he began his lecture the first day after returning from four years' imprisonment with the words "as we were saying yesterday..."

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Posted 16 February 2009 - 11:04 AM

View PostAleHop, on Feb 16 2009, 10:50 AM, said:

Somebody has to carry his sins, right?

But Ron is no longer there. :D

Oh, I think we'll see Ron much more than we'd like to... he just can't bear to part with Lewis, it would be so heartbreaking...
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Posted 16 February 2009 - 11:08 AM

View PostQuiet One, on Feb 15 2009, 11:42 PM, said:

Somebody has to carry his luggage, right?

In my memory, except for Kimi, almost all the world champions had someone to carry their luggage. :lol:

Okay, I watched F1 only from the middle of 1998, so I don't know what used to happen before!

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Posted 16 February 2009 - 11:21 AM

View Postabbas_gear, on Feb 16 2009, 12:08 PM, said:

Okay, I watched F1 only from the middle of 1998, so I don't know what used to happen before!
Well, I'm not old enough to know that ( :ph34r: ) but I think it was even worse in the past. They used donkeys for the luggage but sometimes the donkeys asked for a pay rise which would be very bad for Max&Bernie. :rolleyes:

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Tradition has it that he began his lecture the first day after returning from four years' imprisonment with the words "as we were saying yesterday..."

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Posted 16 February 2009 - 11:29 AM

View Postabbas_gear, on Feb 16 2009, 09:08 AM, said:

In my memory, except for Kimi, almost all the world champions had someone to carry their luggage. :lol:

Okay, I watched F1 only from the middle of 1998, so I don't know what used to happen before!
I would never ask Prost, or Irvine to carry my luggage...
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Posted 16 February 2009 - 12:26 PM

View PostQuiet One, on Feb 16 2009, 12:29 PM, said:

I would never ask Prost, or Irvine to carry my luggage...

I didn't know Prost was racing (driving) in F1 in 98! :P

I said almost every worldchampion, not all!

Irvine was shown the door after he refused to be what Alehop calls as donkeys! :P

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Posted 16 February 2009 - 01:30 PM

If donkeys carried champions' luggage – then I guess lewis is carrying his own
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Posted 04 April 2009 - 11:00 AM

Defo like the look of this car.

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Posted 04 April 2009 - 04:44 PM

Hmm...This car does remind me of MP4-19 which gave way to the radically redesigned MP4-19B which went on to win a race and forced a man to run (almost) naked around silverstone(?)....so the failure of MP4-24 will give way to MP4-24b by the time they arrive back to Europe which would give the required feed back and knowledge to Mclaren to build MP4-25, Just as the (never raced) MP4-18 and 19 gave way to rocket MP 4-20. Hmmm..History seems to be repeating!

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Posted 04 April 2009 - 05:47 PM

Yep.

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