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but in those days did they APPLY the rules evenly to all teams???
did they bend it for one team and strictly apply it to another ???

Usually they were wrong, like nowadays, sometimes they were right, like
nowadays. And in the end, like nowadays, it usually all evened out because
everyone sometimes gained a bit, or lost a bit :-)

Achim

Awwww, that sounds lovely. I can just imagine you and your copy of GPL out
together for a Sunday drive around the British countryside in your Big
Wheel.

Sure it is. Bill Gates is running out of money too.

David G Fisher

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I still laugh everytime I think about the Eau Rouge chicane they tried
that one year (was it 95?).

Jason

Speaking of F1's popularity, I miss the mid to late 80's when there
half a dozen new F1 games coming out every year and you couldn't walk
into an arcade without finding at least Pole Position II and Final
Lap.  I probably ran more laps at the tracks in Final Lap than I have
in all the ISI games combined, and it had better multiplayer (nothing
like being able to smack someone when they knock you out of the way).

Jason

Tony Rickard  wrote >
Well said, I used to dream of the red car winning just once, when in reality
I was
watching for that first puff of smoke from the back that meant its laps were
numbered.

Davo

I remember watching Villeneuve at Austria, where he overtook 10 cars
during the race - that doesn't include the first lap, or pitstops. And
that is an official count (I didn't sit there adding it up lol). That
was amazing, and it almost cancelled out the Ferrari Fiasco for me.
Every single time through the last turn he was right on the edge. I
wasn't a huge Villeneuve fan until that race, but that one performace
has swayed me quite a bit.

The racing is there, and it is fantastic to watch, but if you are
stuck with the local director pointing his camera at anything red all
weekend, I can see why you might think that everybody follows each
other until the pitstops. The only action seen up front this season
involved Ferraris parking on the finish line to let each other by, and
a couple of battles between Montoya and Raikkonen (that 6/7 corner
fight at Hockenheim was amazing, especially from the incar views).

One other thing, the Sky coverage of qualifying was the best I have
ever seen. They always managed to pick up the guys on quick laps and
ride them to the line, so you are never left wondering what is
happening. Sometimes I would check the data channel and wait for the
green times to show up, then check out that driver, but the Master
channel had beaten me to it anyway. Of course, that is irrelevant next
season due to the new qualifying rules the FIA have introduced,
carefully calculated to ruin the whole spectacle of qualifying.

Ok semi-rant over, guys.

Hmmmm... reminds me of my dad's 1970 VW bug pulling my uncle's 1967 (I think)
Plymouth Fury II out of a sand dune several years ago...
OTOH, my uncle could spin that Plymouth on two wheels right there in the sand...

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remove the "no_me_j." and "sons.of." parts before replying

That's just common sense.

David G Fisher

This was all revealed in a documentary on Senna's death.  The steering
column was designed to move around like that- they had video footage of it
in testing at Williams, and spent a long time explaining the way it worked,
and how it was not a factor in the accident.  Senna's car crashed because
it bottomed out on the corner due to a lower ride height, caused by cool
tyres caused by following the pace car.

So where's the broken steering shaft come into it? Or did you make that one  
up?

cheers
John

I'm talking about the broken steering column that's been reported in
nearly every article written on Senna's death and has been reported by
most sources as the cause of the accident.

Makes more sense, especially since the telemetry system was still
recording steering inputs after the point at which the shaft
supposedly broke.

Jason

Okay, so there's *some* passing going on F1, nice for those who are able
to watch it, doesn't do people like myself much good is it, I can't get
the digital package where I live, my cable co doesn't offer it and I'm
not allowed to set up a private dish, so if this is Bernie's great
scheme to lure me into buying the digital package, the joke is on him as
I won't be around much next year, one less viewer for the local sponsors
who are now footing the quite substantial bill for the local TV station
to carry the race at all, shitty commentators but I guess that's all
they can afford after paying premium for the broadcasting rights

So for me personally the races *are* more boring than ever, it may be
for a different reason than I first thought, but it's still boring...:-)

Beers and cheers
(uncle) Goy

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