Maldonado. Not of this planet..

Maldonado. Not of this planet..

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johnfm

13,668 posts

249 months

Friday 18th April 2014
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Priceless isn't it.

I hope a journo asks him what the fk he was doing.

FourWheelDrift

88,376 posts

283 months

Friday 18th April 2014
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He was messing with something on his steering wheel.


thegreenhell

15,111 posts

218 months

Friday 18th April 2014
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q-78BRIqAA

Pastor: "I crashed"
Engineer: "Oh, okay"
Pastor: "Sorry"

Nobody seemed too surprised.

carinaman

21,218 posts

171 months

Friday 18th April 2014
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Thanks for that youtube link.

What year was it that Hamilton ended up there in the wet on shagged tyres? 2007?

MartG

20,622 posts

203 months

Friday 18th April 2014
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johnfm

13,668 posts

249 months

Saturday 19th April 2014
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Is this a different incident yesterday than him getting distracted by his own steering wheel?

MartG

20,622 posts

203 months

Saturday 19th April 2014
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johnfm said:
Is this a different incident yesterday than him getting distracted by his own steering wheel?
Yup - crashed into a wall on his way back to the pits

jediali

14 posts

191 months

Saturday 19th April 2014
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Had to laugh at some of the comments on this article:
http://www1.skysports.com/f1/news/24231/9271393/pa...

MGJohn

10,203 posts

182 months

Saturday 19th April 2014
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Credit where due. Did you spot where Pastor Maldonado played it very safe throughout Qualifying today ? Very astute and professional.

FourWheelDrift

88,376 posts

283 months

Saturday 19th April 2014
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MGJohn said:
Credit where due. Did you spot where Pastor Maldonado played it very safe throughout Qualifying today ? Very astute and professional.
The team took his engine away and hid it to stop him going out.

Brabus Jord

1,589 posts

206 months

Saturday 19th April 2014
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^^^^^ HAHA

johnfm

13,668 posts

249 months

Saturday 19th April 2014
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MartG said:
johnfm said:
Is this a different incident yesterday than him getting distracted by his own steering wheel?
Yup - crashed into a wall on his way back to the pits
What a dope!

caduceus

6,069 posts

265 months

Sunday 20th April 2014
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Agent Orange said:
In the past drivers where fighting hard yet STILL managed to avoid other drivers. Granted more than 10 years ago but witness Mansell harassing Senna in Monaco 92. The pair of them duelled like crazy with Senna blocking all over the place and weaving in the braking zone on the narrow streets.

Not once though did they touch.
Ahhhh, those were the days... cloud9

northwest monkey

6,370 posts

188 months

Monday 21st April 2014
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caduceus said:
Agent Orange said:
In the past drivers where fighting hard yet STILL managed to avoid other drivers. Granted more than 10 years ago but witness Mansell harassing Senna in Monaco 92. The pair of them duelled like crazy with Senna blocking all over the place and weaving in the braking zone on the narrow streets.

Not once though did they touch.
Ahhhh, those were the days... cloud9
I'm sure it was Schumacher and either Hakkinen or Villeneuve racing in Portugal years ago and they were that close the wheels on each others cars were in the gaps between the front and rear wheels (Schumacher's front wheel was in between Villeneuve's front and rear wheels). Not once did they touch and in the interview after the race they said it was because they had the ultimate respect of each other that they could race like that.

I would hate to be on a race track in any car, let alone an F1 car with drivers I didn't trust.

It always seemed to be a bonkers Japanese driver who was the one to avoid - times changelaugh

Agent Orange

2,194 posts

245 months

Tuesday 22nd April 2014
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northwest monkey said:
I'm sure it was Schumacher and either Hakkinen or Villeneuve racing in Portugal years ago and they were that close the wheels on each others cars were in the gaps between the front and rear wheels (Schumacher's front wheel was in between Villeneuve's front and rear wheels). Not once did they touch and in the interview after the race they said it was because they had the ultimate respect of each other that they could race like that.

I would hate to be on a race track in any car, let alone an F1 car with drivers I didn't trust.

It always seemed to be a bonkers Japanese driver who was the one to avoid - times changelaugh
In fact you don't need to go back as far as 10 years to see drivers pushing it to the edge and not touching.

Schumacher "pushing" Ruben's into the pit wall. Except of course Schumacher didn't - he just used all the track and right up to the white line to block Rubens. It was Ruben's who took the dive between the outside of the track and the pit wall. All at 180mph.....


the other me

613 posts

152 months

Saturday 3rd May 2014
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Hadn't seen this one, priceless



/Users/ianramsay/Downloads/PicNews140430.jpg


I can open it, if you can't , sorry, trying to find another way to download it & failing miserably.

Edited by the other me on Saturday 3rd May 15:24

pozi

1,723 posts

186 months

Saturday 3rd May 2014
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the other me said:
Hadn't seen this one, priceless



/Users/ianramsay/Downloads/PicNews140430.jpg


I can open it, if you can't , sorry, trying to find another way to download it & failing miserably.

Edited by the other me on Saturday 3rd May 15:24
I am guessing you meant this ??


TheRealFingers99

1,996 posts

127 months

Saturday 3rd May 2014
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Agent Orange said:
In fact you don't need to go back as far as 10 years to see drivers pushing it to the edge and not touching.

Schumacher "pushing" Ruben's into the pit wall. Except of course Schumacher didn't - he just used all the track and right up to the white line to block Rubens. It was Ruben's who took the dive between the outside of the track and the pit wall. All at 180mph.....

That they didn't touch was little short of a miracle. Typical of Schumaker's late period -- unaware, dangerous and arrogant. He blamed Rubens for the incident (presumably because Rubens had the cheek to try to overtake him for 10th place). The "expert" marshall (Blundell?) said that he'd have black flagged Schumaker if there had been time. There's a vid of Button's reaction somewhere on eBay.


Edited by TheRealFingers99 on Sunday 4th May 01:08

the other me

613 posts

152 months

Saturday 3rd May 2014
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pozi,

thats the fella, cheers mate yes

Corpulent Tosser

5,459 posts

244 months

Sunday 4th May 2014
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Agent Orange said:
In fact you don't need to go back as far as 10 years to see drivers pushing it to the edge and not touching.

Schumacher "pushing" Ruben's into the pit wall. Except of course Schumacher didn't - he just used all the track and right up to the white line to block Rubens. It was Ruben's who took the dive between the outside of the track and the pit wall. All at 180mph.....

I don't recall it quite like that, and I don't have access to youtube at work to check, but from memory Rubens didn't dive between the pitwall and the track, he was committed to an overtake and got pushed further and further over to deter the overtake.