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#31 Yoda McFly

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Posted 21 April 2008 - 06:32 PM

View PostSchumikonen, on Apr 21 2008, 11:23 AM, said:

She's married.

D'oh ...

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Actually, I discovered that while researching for the rant.  Ahh, well.  Word is he's "much older."  So, she likes older men, eh?
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Posted 21 April 2008 - 07:45 PM

View PostYoda McFly, on Apr 21 2008, 02:32 PM, said:

D'oh ...

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Actually, I discovered that while researching for the rant.  Ahh, well.  Word is he's "much older."  So, she likes older men, eh?
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Yeah, Paul's in his 40s.  They met when she was racing Formula Ford or something and she got injured, and he was her doctor.  Something like that.

Anyway, draw your own conclusions about gold digging and things.  I'll draw mine.

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Posted 21 April 2008 - 08:21 PM

View PostYoda McFly, on Apr 21 2008, 12:09 PM, said:

I guess FIA GT doesn't count as Major Auto Racing either ... Some chick named Ickx has some class victories there, and some other series, I think.  Didn't she do well in class in the Spa 24 hours, too?  :eusa_think:

Jacky Ickx is a guy.
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Posted 21 April 2008 - 08:25 PM

Vanina is his daughter.

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Posted 21 April 2008 - 09:03 PM

View PostEric, on Apr 21 2008, 03:45 PM, said:

Yeah, Paul's in his 40s.  They met when she was racing Formula Ford or something and she got injured, and he was her doctor.  Something like that.

Anyway, draw your own conclusions about gold digging and things.  I'll draw mine.

So that's the bleeding you are all talking about  :clap3:  I knew I would find outsooner or later.
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Kimi Raikkonen: It is the same thing that I said before. I have no interest in driving for a bad team next year. If I race here, I always try to finish as high as I can. I don't need anything to motivate me. If I drive, I drive to do my best and that is it.
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"I get the feeling that Alonso fans tend to heap over-praise on Alonso and bring down Kimi whenever they can, with mere theories and unjustified statements."
I just always end up disagreeing with you guys because of all the huge exaggerations, myths, theories & unjustified statements
Lewis Hamilton:
I never go with expectations, I go with a target. That is to be at the front, and the ultimate aim to win, which is the mentality I have always gone racing with.
You've got to be on the limit all the time - and I love that, because that's how I love to race.

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Posted 21 April 2008 - 09:30 PM

View PostDOF_Renault_BMW, on Apr 21 2008, 01:25 PM, said:

Vanina is his daughter.
Yeah.  Gotta tune the Sarcas-mo-meter, I guess.  I  was, in fact, referring to Vanina.
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Posted 22 April 2008 - 12:39 AM

Does Schumikonen get it or not? I don't think he does......

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Posted 22 April 2008 - 12:49 AM

View PostHandyNZL, on Apr 21 2008, 08:39 PM, said:

Does Schumikonen get it or not? I don't think he does......
No, he doesn't.  Should we explain it?

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Posted 22 April 2008 - 12:58 AM

Doesn't he have some parents he could ask? You'd have thought this was all explained to him somewhere in that book of his he prattles on about....

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Posted 22 April 2008 - 01:02 AM

Well, I guess I'll have to tell.

The bleeding has to do with the 28th day of a certain cycle.

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Posted 22 April 2008 - 01:03 AM

Now we're talking about the Tour de France?!?!?!? :P

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Posted 22 April 2008 - 01:07 AM

:lol: No, no.  Mama Handy will tell you all about it.

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Posted 22 April 2008 - 01:42 AM

Oh no, what have I started! :dam:

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Posted 22 April 2008 - 06:50 AM

Cripes, Jez.....you started it...of all the people you should know!

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Posted 22 April 2008 - 11:49 AM

View PostEric, on Apr 21 2008, 09:02 PM, said:

Well, I guess I'll have to tell.

The bleeding has to do with the 28th day of a certain cycle.

How could you know that she has\had that kind of bleeding, I think I need to by a Rosseta Stone, I related her as a driver with an injury, not as a woman with a bleeding, BTW I don't like that bleeding.  :eusa_think: I should have known better don't you think?
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jemstride:
"I get the feeling that Alonso fans tend to heap over-praise on Alonso and bring down Kimi whenever they can, with mere theories and unjustified statements."
I just always end up disagreeing with you guys because of all the huge exaggerations, myths, theories & unjustified statements
Lewis Hamilton:
I never go with expectations, I go with a target. That is to be at the front, and the ultimate aim to win, which is the mentality I have always gone racing with.
You've got to be on the limit all the time - and I love that, because that's how I love to race.

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Posted 23 April 2008 - 08:13 AM

Here we go- Source

Former grand prix driver Hans-Joachim Stuck is convinced that Danica Patrick, the first female competitor to win a race in premier American open wheeler racing, would be a good addition to the formula one grid. 26-year-old Patrick drove into the history books last Sunday by beating Helio Castroneves to the chequered flag in the IndyCar race at Motegi, Japan.

She drives for Andretti-Green Racing, which is co-owned by former McLaren racer Michael Andretti, whose son Marco has tested for the F1 team Honda. It is quite clear that, with Danica, formula one could conquer the United States. She is good enough for it, Stuck is quoted as saying by the German magazine Sport Bild.

Stuck, however, believes Patrick would need a season in GP2, as well as some F1 testing, before making the leap. Sport Bild claims that Flavio Briatore, the Renault boss, has contemplated making contact with Patrick in view of a formula one collaboration of some sort.

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Posted 23 April 2008 - 09:09 AM

Hmmmmm....would be a coup for F1 - something refreshing other than Max's a## or spying scandals, but I don't think she would handle it to be honest....if she was a guy she'd be on the Pizzonia / Wilson / Yoong / pay-driver level compared with the likes of who is on the grid today.

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Posted 23 April 2008 - 09:10 AM

But that said, they all did make it to F1 which is a damn sight better than me!

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Posted 23 April 2008 - 02:00 PM

View PostJez, on Apr 23 2008, 04:13 AM, said:

Here we go- Source

Former grand prix driver Hans-Joachim Stuck is convinced that Danica Patrick, the first female competitor to win a race in premier American open wheeler racing, would be a good addition to the formula one grid. 26-year-old Patrick drove into the history books last Sunday by beating Helio Castroneves to the chequered flag in the IndyCar race at Motegi, Japan.

She drives for Andretti-Green Racing, which is co-owned by former McLaren racer Michael Andretti, whose son Marco has tested for the F1 team Honda. "It is quite clear that, with Danica, formula one could conquer the United States. She is good enough for it," Stuck is quoted as saying by the German magazine Sport Bild.

Stuck, however, believes Patrick would need a season in GP2, as well as some F1 testing, before making the leap. Sport Bild claims that Flavio Briatore, the Renault boss, has contemplated making contact with Patrick in view of a formula one collaboration of some sort.
The only guy on the IRL grid who could actually make a decent living in F1 is: no one.

It has nothing to do with F1 supremacy (cuz I will always argue F1 as no better than any other in terms of driver skill), just with difference.  The IRL cars are designed for ovals, so they're kind of slow on road courses.  Also, one of the major difference is the brakes.  In an IndyCar, you'd need to brake a lot earlier than in an F1 car.  F1 brakes are the best in racing most likely.  You'd really have to reconstruct your driving style from IRL to F1, similar to why the F1 and IRL guys struggle in NASCAR.  You'd think two open wheel formulas would be similar, but IRL isn't designed to develop you for F1, it's designed to be a premier level of racing (and whether or not you could say that is true is a different rant).

I think Graham Rahal has potential in terms of F1, though.  He has strong BMW ties (drove the BMW-Sauber F1.07 in Vegas, his father co-owns the BMW M3 works effort in ALMS GT2).  I'd much rather he stay in Indy, though.  I want Indy to have as many star drivers as possible, not to be an American feeder series to F1.

I yearn for the days when Greg Moore turned down a McLaren drive, Al Unser, Jr. turned down a Williams drive, and Paul Tracy turned down a Benetton drive to stay in CART.

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Posted 23 April 2008 - 02:10 PM

In other Danica news...

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Posted 23 April 2008 - 04:28 PM

View PostEric, on Apr 23 2008, 10:10 AM, said:

In other Danica news...

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:clap3:  I want one of thoses.
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Kimi Raikkonen: It is the same thing that I said before. I have no interest in driving for a bad team next year. If I race here, I always try to finish as high as I can. I don't need anything to motivate me. If I drive, I drive to do my best and that is it.
jemstride:
"I get the feeling that Alonso fans tend to heap over-praise on Alonso and bring down Kimi whenever they can, with mere theories and unjustified statements."
I just always end up disagreeing with you guys because of all the huge exaggerations, myths, theories & unjustified statements
Lewis Hamilton:
I never go with expectations, I go with a target. That is to be at the front, and the ultimate aim to win, which is the mentality I have always gone racing with.
You've got to be on the limit all the time - and I love that, because that's how I love to race.

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Posted 24 April 2008 - 02:12 AM

Trani?? Ahhh that explains the win. :eekout:
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