Official 2024 Miami Grand Prix Thread ***SPOILERS***
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TheDeuce said:
g4ry13 said:
TheDeuce said:
g4ry13 said:
TheDeuce said:
g4ry13 said:
Derek Smith said:
g4ry13 said:
This thread has gone from discussing a race to Donald Trump and now the merits of academic qualifications.
Qualifications are for nothing. The only thing that matters is how educated you are; what you know.Actually that's one of the reasons I left school - to get some £!
But he's generally an exception to the rule.
Obviously not a cheap endeavour, but hardly requires millions.
That could be a good title for his book one day 'exception to the rule'.
troc said:
808 Estate said:
I wonder if the green light in the sign outside McLaren still works. Its probably been a while since someone switched it on.
The orange/red one? Yes it does and they switched it on. See earlier in the thread where this was discussed/photographed 
paulguitar said:
TheDeuce said:
g4ry13 said:
TheDeuce said:
g4ry13 said:
TheDeuce said:
g4ry13 said:
Derek Smith said:
g4ry13 said:
This thread has gone from discussing a race to Donald Trump and now the merits of academic qualifications.
Qualifications are for nothing. The only thing that matters is how educated you are; what you know.Actually that's one of the reasons I left school - to get some £!
But he's generally an exception to the rule.
Obviously not a cheap endeavour, but hardly requires millions.
That could be a good title for his book one day 'exception to the rule'.
Other sources claim Anthony was made redundant. Then went to work 3 jobs (some sources say 4).
paulguitar said:
CoolHands said:
Wasn’t Lewis sponsored almost as soon as he started though
In 1998. He started karting in 1993.
To even get to the point at which you're able to do that takes significant expenditure by most families standards.
From having no wealth to speak of, the Hamiltons did just that.
I think a lot of fans are always looking for the next best thing, the new exciting driver that's going to upset the old guard. That's fair enough. But it's also important to keep in mind just how special Lewis was when he burst on to the scene, and how little help he initially had. When you think about it, it was astonishing.
Murghee said:
Only thing that spoilt the race win for lando was bloody ted interviewing the team principle just as lando max and charles were in room of awkwardness..missed half of it and every othe damn time we have to watch it all
Can see the whole thing here, including Max seeing just how close Checo was to wiping him outhttps://youtu.be/vt1imVHGHSA?si=-yJb6PDjRFvPY3--
ajprice said:
paulguitar said:
Teatowell said:
Pleased for Lando. Sounds like Max had floor damage which maybe explains the genuine pace difference. Hopefully can continue to challenge him on merit though.
I didn't know about the floor damage, was that from wen he made the mistake hitting the bollard?It may have been mentioned already. But, I'm not wading through the Trump stuff.
Watch Max's bollard incident replay in slow motion. The stub of the bollard, which remains in the tarmac, rips away carbon shards from the rear of Max's floor as he lands.
Still. Brilliant for Lando. I'm so pleased for him.
Blib said:
You can see the damage occurring.
It may have been mentioned already. But, I'm not wading through the Trump stuff.
Watch Max's bollard incident replay in slow motion. The stub of the bollard, which remains in the tarmac, rips away carbon shards from the rear of Max's floor as he lands.
Still. Brilliant for Lando. I'm so pleased for him.
MV was quite ragged at times. He was pushing it even before the bit of pole dancing. The fact made a mess of the corner is an indication of how hard. Norris wasn't lucky, as some have suggested, but drove well, keeping his car on the black stuff. If the underside of the RB was, indeed, significantly damaged, then it was an entirely self-inflicted wound.It may have been mentioned already. But, I'm not wading through the Trump stuff.
Watch Max's bollard incident replay in slow motion. The stub of the bollard, which remains in the tarmac, rips away carbon shards from the rear of Max's floor as he lands.
Still. Brilliant for Lando. I'm so pleased for him.
One way Norris was lucky is that he didn't have to pass MV on the road.
Derek Smith said:
MV was quite ragged at times. He was pushing it even before the bit of pole dancing. The fact made a mess of the corner is an indication of how hard. Norris wasn't lucky, as some have suggested, but drove well, keeping his car on the black stuff. If the underside of the RB was, indeed, significantly damaged, then it was an entirely self-inflicted wound.
One way Norris was lucky is that he didn't have to pass MV on the road.
This. A Max victory was not a foregone conclusion to me at the point of the safety car. One way Norris was lucky is that he didn't have to pass MV on the road.
Derek Smith said:
MV was quite ragged at times. He was pushing it even before the bit of pole dancing. The fact made a mess of the corner is an indication of how hard. Norris wasn't lucky, as some have suggested, but drove well, keeping his car on the black stuff. If the underside of the RB was, indeed, significantly damaged, then it was an entirely self-inflicted wound.
One way Norris was lucky is that he didn't have to pass MV on the road.
Fortunate that he didn't have to fight wheel to wheel, but he made that luck by driving at a good pace and keeping his tyres alive better than most other drivers.One way Norris was lucky is that he didn't have to pass MV on the road.
And we shouldn't forget that he was only as far off Verstappen as he was early on because of Perez's torpedo move into the first corner. He dropped positions having to avoid the Ferrari that slowed up in front of him, and was one of the worst-affected frontrunners.
That also put him directly behind Perez, the hardest of the cars ahead to pass, when he may have only had to deal with the Ferraris and his own teammate. As Piastri showed, the McLaren was capable of passing a Ferrari so realistically he could have been up to 2nd or 3rd and within a sniff of Max's gearbox anyway.
740EVTORQUES said:
g4ry13 said:
Can we stop with the politicking?
A former President and candidate for the next election congratulated Lando. Lando said it was an honour to meet him - he doesn't spend his life on #45 or reading every allegation.
Lando doesn't even have GCSEs and has far more interesting things to do with his time and money than worry about this stuff.
But that’s why you pay PR people (including at weekends) to help handle your media.A former President and candidate for the next election congratulated Lando. Lando said it was an honour to meet him - he doesn't spend his life on #45 or reading every allegation.
Lando doesn't even have GCSEs and has far more interesting things to do with his time and money than worry about this stuff.
Saying it’s ok because your driver is uneducated and ignorant of the world around him is not a good look.
Bring an F1 driver is about a lot more than just driving fast. Vettel and Hamilton show that it’s possible to aim higher.
There’s no excuse, doing something like this that would be predicted to alienate large numbers of your audience is inexcusable and amateurish.
Good on Lando for saying what he thought, he’s entitled to his views and will probably get more followers after what he said.
740EVTORQUES said:
But that’s why you pay PR people (including at weekends) to help handle your media.
Saying it’s ok because your driver is uneducated and ignorant of the world around him is not a good look.
Bring an F1 driver is about a lot more than just driving fast. Vettel and Hamilton show that it’s possible to aim higher.
There’s no excuse, doing something like this that would be predicted to alienate large numbers of your audience is inexcusable and amateurish.
Lando does have PR people, so they will have advised him what to say. I imagine they said - mad as it is, Trump is a former president and likely to be the next one, so be respectful and no more. What would you have advised?Saying it’s ok because your driver is uneducated and ignorant of the world around him is not a good look.
Bring an F1 driver is about a lot more than just driving fast. Vettel and Hamilton show that it’s possible to aim higher.
There’s no excuse, doing something like this that would be predicted to alienate large numbers of your audience is inexcusable and amateurish.
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