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> > I also think McLaren should be given credit for publically supporting
> > Ferrari - Mikka has been quoted as saying that he would prefer for the
> > championship to be decided on the track.

> Unfortunately, McLaren's official position is 180 degrees opposite to
their
> original off-hand comments.  They are now calling for the FIA to DQ
Ferrari.

> http://www.racesimcentral.net/

> Dave

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> David A. Ewing        303-544-5454

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> >It's interesting you raise the false start issue - where Mikka got away
with
> >it because he didn't gain an advantage (apart perhaps from surprising the
> >rest of the grid.) I think that the fact Ferrari didn't gain any
significant
> >advantage is pertinent again with the bodywork issue. Also, several
drivers
> >have driven through chicanes this year, in fact I think Damon Hill is one
of
> >the worst. They have got away with it so long as they didn't gain an
> >advantage. The same rule should apply for the bodywork infringement IMO.

> The difference there is in proving it - you can easily see that Mika
> had no advantage, and the stopwatch shows what advantage cutting a
> chicane proffers - smart drivers slow down a touch to ensure that
> sector time is slower than normal. In addition the stewards have the
> luxury of time to deliberate and a range of options as a penalty.

> > Exfolliants? Canards? Soltices? Germans?
> > Just what in Heavens name is going on at your house, Bart???!!!!!

> It all started innocently enough with a backyard sauna...

> BB

> I read this elsewhere after I posted my reply to you! Wow. Ron Dennis can be
> a real idiot can't he :-).

>> David

>> I read this elsewhere after I posted my reply to you! Wow. Ron Dennis can
>be
>> a real idiot can't he :-).

>And what was really idiotic was his race strategy for Hakkinen!  Running him
>on
>the harder, slower tires that could have enabled him to only make one stop,
>yet
>going for a two stop race, and keeping him out behind Shumacher for the
>entire
>first half of the race.  So they saved 2 seconds on the first refuelling, but
>lost 20+ seconds on the second one, plus some time behind Schumacher, and
>possibly some time for carrying a heavier fuel load than they needed early in
>the race.  Baffling.

>Dave Ewing

> (snip)
> It all started innocently enough with a backyard sauna...
> (unsnip)
> There I was, 250 pounds of sweating pork-chops and sucking on a Schlitz,
> when the pinewood door creaked on its hinges, the steam parted as the cold
> desert air rushed in and there _she_ stood........

> Barton

> Presumably the Germans have placed their towells around the sauna before you
> wake up?

> > Exfolliants? Canards? Soltices? Germans?
> > Just what in Heavens name is going on at your house, Bart???!!!!!

> It all started innocently enough with a backyard sauna...

> BB

> Formula One.......a time when the pursuit of speed was all that mattered.
A
> time when the technology ignited the spirit of only the bravest and most
> skilled pilots. A time when the daring of one man/machine combination
fueled
> his rivals to "one up" the performance - on a weekly basis. A time when
the
> whole sport spiraled upwards into the ultimate road racing series, even
> beyond what we imagined it could be. A time when NASA hung around for
> "tips".

> Formula One.......a time when it was about speed in the purest sense of
the
> word.

> --
> Mark Jeangerard
> www.soundchaserweb.com
> New Mexico USA

> > Formula One........a time when a privateer could compete on equal terms
> with
> > the manufacturers.  A time when laughter was more common in pit lane
than
> > grumbles.  A time when a team in trouble and requiring a part would have
> it
> > loaned by a rival.  A time when the drivers socialised before and after
> the
> > races.  A time when losing a race was done so graciously.  A time when
> > winning was done with equal grace
> > .
> > Formula One.......a time when it was a sport in the purest sense of the
> > word.

> That members of a generation do this isn't under dispute, whether or not
> I will is a different matter. My father is very much realist about the
> past and I don't see me changing so much that I become different to the
> way I am now.

> So to summarise Mr Kennewell (I'm trying to be as patronising as you
> here, does it work?): Just because you're incapable of looking back with
> any kind of realism don't assume the rest of us are the same.

> Regards

> M

> >HAHAHA!
> >Let's see what _YOU_ romanticise about in another 20 - 30 years, Mr.
> >Meiji!! "The best years of F1 were the [insert decade at the beginning
> >of which you were really grabbed by F1].........."

> >We all do it because it is invariably directly associated with our mid
> >-***s through late twenties, early thirties....certainly before
> >permanent partnerships/families are formed.  They are always the times
> >where our recollections are always "good".

> >Every generation has done it and will do it and yours, my smug friend,
> >will be _EXACTLY_ the same!

> >And you know what is the best thing about this?  Knowing that I'm 110%
> >right!!!  LOL! :o)

> >BK

> Traditions? I thought I saw those on sale at Dillards.

> :-)

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> Mark Jeangerard
> www.soundchaserweb.com
> New Mexico USA

> > That's very true, John.....we can all live without any of the teams that
> > make up the current F1 circus, just as we can all live without other
> > long-standing traditions and institutions throughout the world.
> > What a forlorn place it would be. And what a terribly sad bunch would
> > populate it.

> > Toodles.
> > BK

> > > For some - I could live without them, they're simply another team.
> > > They were certainly an institution once, but that reputation has long
> > > since faded. It is kept alive in the dreams of the Tifosi, but that is
> > > all.

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> > "Flavour Rigolletto" I think I referred to him in a little e-zine I once
> > worked with!! :o)

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