The Motorsport Thread 2011

Oh and as for Schumi and his......championship deciding collisions....

Racing is racing.
I believe Senna once purposely crashed Prost, thus keeping his points lead safe.

CCVP wrote: JJLehto wrote: Oh and as for Schumi and his......championship deciding collisions.... Racing is racing. I believe Senna once purposely crashed Prost, thus keeping his points lead safe. You know, if you said this here in BR 10 years ago you would be beaten to death.

CCVP wrote: JJLehto wrote: Oh and as for Schumi and his......championship deciding collisions.... Racing is racing. I believe Senna once purposely crashed Prost, thus keeping his points lead safe. You know, if you said this here in BR 10 years ago you would be beaten to death.

Well good thing its not Brazil 10 years ago!
And not a knock on him. As I said, Senna is one of the top 5 drivers of all time. But it is what he is, he did exactly that...
This is racing, not high society tea drinking!

So I lol a bit when people hate on Schumi for doing the same thing. I'll admit twice was a bit ballsy of him though

And Prost may have been great but sounds like an ass.


Edited by JJLehto - March 02 2011 at 19:31

harmonium.ro wrote: Prost means "stupid" in Romanian. I never saw the guy racing, but I suspect I would have never rooted for him

haha! That is great!

And of course I never saw him live, but from all I've read, well he left the team pretty much so he wouldn't have to be with Senna anymore. When he did come back, he had a clause in his contract saying Senna could not be his team mate so he was stuck on a lesser team.

Just sounds like a whiny, ya know.

I am curious though: do Webber and Vettel get on?  They seem complete opposites.  I guess they do if they're having another season as Team Mates.

sleeper wrote: JJLehto wrote: harmonium.ro wrote: Prost means "stupid" in Romanian. I never saw the guy racing, but I suspect I would have never rooted for him   haha! That is great! And of course I never saw him live, but from all I've read, well he left the team pretty much so he wouldn't have to be with Senna anymore. When he did come back, he had a clause in his contract saying Senna could not be his team mate so he was stuck on a lesser team. Just sounds like a whiny, ya know. McLaren and Honda where openly favouring Senna by the end of 89 (the Honda motorsport boss even told Prost that they were giving Senna a higher spec of engine for qualy) with title deciding collisions between them at Suzuka in 89 and 90. The fact that they almost ended up hating each other for a few years is not a surprise when seen in that light, they were by far the best two drivers of the era and theirs no way their personalities would have let them get on. The irony is that after Prost retired for 94 there was signs that they might have become friends.   Anyone seen the new Senna documentory, from what I've heard and the clips I've seen its looks brilliant?

Oh wow didn't even know all that. I just figured they were the 2 best and as you said, competition just got too heated and became hatred. Indeed, they would've probably hated each other anyway.
I always read that in 94 Senna did reach out to Prost and they were giving up the past tension.

In terms of heart wrenching its up there with Senna carrying the Austrian flag in honor of Ratzinberger.
What a horrid race weekend

Bump

I am very glad to see that the USGP is slated to be back on the Calender in 2012!
Remember hearing rumors that a track would be built in New York (which of course had me greatly excited) but it appears they are doing it in Texas......
Whatever, I've always wanted to go and now I have the means (money and car) to do so.

The track looks cool, different and typical Tilke has a ton thrown in it. Long sweeping straights, varied corners. We'll see.

On that note: Shame to see still no French GP. Granted Magny Cours was abysmal....
A few years ago I came up with a 20 race schedule (now not so ridiculous) that had certain GP's alternating tracks, and European GP that would be in a different location every year. This allowed traditional European Races, expansion for future, the USGP and a way to still visit some classic tracks all within a 20 race schedule.

I wanna be head of the FIA!


Edited by JJLehto - March 08 2011 at 03:31

Can you take Matt with you, Brian?

Thanks.

Exactly but I fear he won't be able to afford it.

They used to run a Grand Prix in downtown Detroit every year, but that ended a number of years ago.  I never made it to any of those races.