The Best Excuse Ever?
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What is the best, or funniest, excuse from the fabled Racing Drivers Book of Excuses that you have heard?
With some apologies to mattikake I am going to nominate his excuse on behalf of Lewis in qualli today (emboldened below) - I suspect that you will not have heard the last of that one mk!
(please dont turn this into a Lewis/Jenson fight anyone )
PS Or a slanging match, for that matter!
Not on a fast lap he wasn't and not through the rest of quali. His Q2 time was a 42.0 in S3 IIRC. Something odd happened on that lap, but he certainly wasn't so smooth on the long corner on the backstraight. Which is why I think a gust of wind may have stopped him being on the front row.
Either way, final quali has not been at all representative of LH's pace...
With some apologies to mattikake I am going to nominate his excuse on behalf of Lewis in qualli today (emboldened below) - I suspect that you will not have heard the last of that one mk!
(please dont turn this into a Lewis/Jenson fight anyone )
PS Or a slanging match, for that matter!
mattikake said:
PabloTeK said:
mattikake said:
Bugger, JB faster than Lewis. Thought there might be a pole there.
Apparently they don't know why he was slower, but he clearly dropped 0.3s in S3. Gust of wind maybe?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/welformed/R...
He was about that off Button for quite a lot of yesterday, methinks it's to do with that enormous curve onto the long straight where JB has been rather impressive...Apparently they don't know why he was slower, but he clearly dropped 0.3s in S3. Gust of wind maybe?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/welformed/R...
Either way, final quali has not been at all representative of LH's pace...
Edited by Rollcage on Saturday 17th April 23:03
I've heard wind issues being used many times before! Just a guess/suggestion. 
Didn't Jones once blame a mistake on that he was squeezing out a fart at the time? Can't remember the race - Jarama '81?
If LH said it was no mistake by him, and he was 0.2s up on everyone but the redbulls in S1 and S2, can anyone else suggest why he lost 0.3s, when he had had sub 42s in S3 before?
Maybe he suddenly forgot how to drive.
As for Schumi, it should be pretty clear to most by now how massive his smokescreen was (NB: *was* )... unless of course, you want to make excuses for him. 
He was best-of-the rest when Senna, Prost, Mansell were racing in a highly competitive era. He's at best, best-of-the rest in another highly competitive era with the likes of Alonso, Vettel and Hamilton, even if he finds his apparent form.
Didn't Jones once blame a mistake on that he was squeezing out a fart at the time? Can't remember the race - Jarama '81?
If LH said it was no mistake by him, and he was 0.2s up on everyone but the redbulls in S1 and S2, can anyone else suggest why he lost 0.3s, when he had had sub 42s in S3 before?
Maybe he suddenly forgot how to drive.
As for Schumi, it should be pretty clear to most by now how massive his smokescreen was (NB: *was*
)... unless of course, you want to make excuses for him. He was best-of-the rest when Senna, Prost, Mansell were racing in a highly competitive era. He's at best, best-of-the rest in another highly competitive era with the likes of Alonso, Vettel and Hamilton, even if he finds his apparent form.Edited by mattikake on Saturday 17th April 23:31
EDLT said:
GTP rpm said:
May aswell close topic lol. How is going to be possible, to beat that?...
Mattibu representing PH.
Thats not that bad, what about the guy who insisted that Michael Schumacher's entire career was just a smokescreen?Mattibu representing PH.
t is having this year.Hamilton, who was 0.476 seconds slower than Vettel, said: "We looked at the data and it appeared the car wasn't particularly bottoming more than any other sessions.
"The wind had picked up a bit more in Q3 but I think what we're still trying to understand is that the tyres seem to be very sensitive to temperature and how you prepare them on the out-lap is crucial. "
Tyres overheated then?
"The wind had picked up a bit more in Q3 but I think what we're still trying to understand is that the tyres seem to be very sensitive to temperature and how you prepare them on the out-lap is crucial. "
Tyres overheated then?
Edited by mattikake on Saturday 17th April 23:44
Edited by mattikake on Saturday 17th April 23:45
jt racing said:
Can't remember which two it was but i do remember one motorcycle racer calimimg he fell because he lost his contact lens, And then the following rider jokingly claiming he lost the front on the guys contact!!
Don't forget John Kocinski's 'losing the front on a fish' excuse from Donington one year. I still have no idea what that was all about.In the race on one of the laps where Lewis was starting to catch Jenson he was still lagging behind in that last sector, again by 0.3s. I happen to think JB knows something about that big corner that LH hasn't quite "got" yet. At the end though the yellow-helmeted one was catching him up in all the sectors!
Did James Hunt ever give any funny reasons?
Did James Hunt ever give any funny reasons?
Edited by PabloTeK on Sunday 18th April 13:20
mattikake said:
As for Schumi, it should be pretty clear to most by now how massive his smokescreen was (NB: *was* )... unless of course, you want to make excuses for him. He was best-of-the rest when Senna, Prost, Mansell were racing in a highly competitive era. He's at best, best-of-the rest in another highly competitive era with the likes of Alonso, Vettel and Hamilton, even if he finds his apparent form.
You mean, at the very beginning and the very end of his career, he wasn't at his best? )... unless of course, you want to make excuses for him. He was best-of-the rest when Senna, Prost, Mansell were racing in a highly competitive era. He's at best, best-of-the rest in another highly competitive era with the likes of Alonso, Vettel and Hamilton, even if he finds his apparent form.And that makes him different to everyone else how?
Still, at least his peak lasted a decade and a half.
Dare2Fail said:
jt racing said:
Can't remember which two it was but i do remember one motorcycle racer calimimg he fell because he lost his contact lens, And then the following rider jokingly claiming he lost the front on the guys contact!!
Don't forget John Kocinski's 'losing the front on a fish' excuse from Donington one year. I still have no idea what that was all about.heebeegeetee said:
mattikake said:
As for Schumi, it should be pretty clear to most by now how massive his smokescreen was (NB: *was* )... unless of course, you want to make excuses for him. He was best-of-the rest when Senna, Prost, Mansell were racing in a highly competitive era. He's at best, best-of-the rest in another highly competitive era with the likes of Alonso, Vettel and Hamilton, even if he finds his apparent form.
You mean, at the very beginning and the very end of his career, he wasn't at his best? )... unless of course, you want to make excuses for him. He was best-of-the rest when Senna, Prost, Mansell were racing in a highly competitive era. He's at best, best-of-the rest in another highly competitive era with the likes of Alonso, Vettel and Hamilton, even if he finds his apparent form.And that makes him different to everyone else how?
Still, at least his peak lasted a decade and a half.
As for how he wasn't so outstanding at the start and end of his career and who this differs to; how about Fangio, Moss, Clark, Stewart, Prost, Senna, Hamilton (so far)... to name but a few? Albeit with a hetfy dose of subjectivity of course.
Edited by mattikake on Sunday 18th April 19:01
HiRich said:
c.1976, Barry Sheene had a big one at Club, Silverstone. Couldn't understand why it broke away, so went for a closer look at the track. A worm (now ex-worm) had broken traction.
I thought it was at Abbey. Before Barry got carted off in the ambulance, he said that a worm was on the racing line. People thought it was a joke until someone went back to the corner and found a worm cut in half at the start of a black rubber mark.Dare2Fail said:
jt racing said:
Can't remember which two it was but i do remember one motorcycle racer calimimg he fell because he lost his contact lens, And then the following rider jokingly claiming he lost the front on the guys contact!!
Don't forget John Kocinski's 'losing the front on a fish' excuse from Donington one year. I still have no idea what that was all about.
Me thinks that either mattikake is vindicated, or McLaren have been reading his posts....
James Allen On F1 said:
“In China we were particularly competitive in Q1 and Q2 but then in Q3 the wind picked up and it caught Lewis out in Turn 11. He made a small mistake and the repercussions were costly and the result was that he underperformed.”
Full story here: http://www.jamesallenonf1.com/2010/05/mclaren-aim-...PabloTeK said:
In the race on one of the laps where Lewis was starting to catch Jenson he was still lagging behind in that last sector, again by 0.3s. I happen to think JB knows something about that big corner that LH hasn't quite "got" yet. At the end though the yellow-helmeted one was catching him up in all the sectors!
Did James Hunt ever give any funny reasons?
JH said that when Ferrari describe a failure as electrical what they mean is a con rod came through the block and knocked the distributor cap off!Did James Hunt ever give any funny reasons?
Edited by PabloTeK on Sunday 18th April 13:20
Monaco 1984, a very wet race in which Nigel Mansell spins out of the lead in his Lotus and clouts the Armco.
True to form this wasn't Nigel's fault but, as he explained, was due to a "little patch of white paint" that some Monegasque road-worker had outrageously painted onto the tarmac surface...
True to form this wasn't Nigel's fault but, as he explained, was due to a "little patch of white paint" that some Monegasque road-worker had outrageously painted onto the tarmac surface...
Edited by moffspeed on Wednesday 5th May 21:31
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