I have Massa down for a GP win this year.
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I have Massa down for a GP win this year.
And pigs might fly.
RayInTorontoCanada
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Massa basically should have won Germany last year.
With all due respect, RBR, McLaren and Ferrari are a virtual match on race pace now. Ferrari have better KERS than RBR and a new clutch that helps them get away better from the start line. In addition, the law of averages suggests that Massa will out-qualify Alonso 20 to 35 percent of the time and finish ahead of him (Massa's already finished ahead legitimately in 2 of 6 races.) So, there's no reason to count out Massa for a race win. Further, this year there's no chance of Felipe' moving over for Alonso because he was cruelly crucified back home in Brazil after Germany and he has his F1 future to salvage. If he wants to be taken seriously by team managers, he won't be moving over for Alonso at any stage this year if he's ahead.
With all due respect, RBR, McLaren and Ferrari are a virtual match on race pace now. Ferrari have better KERS than RBR and a new clutch that helps them get away better from the start line. In addition, the law of averages suggests that Massa will out-qualify Alonso 20 to 35 percent of the time and finish ahead of him (Massa's already finished ahead legitimately in 2 of 6 races.) So, there's no reason to count out Massa for a race win. Further, this year there's no chance of Felipe' moving over for Alonso because he was cruelly crucified back home in Brazil after Germany and he has his F1 future to salvage. If he wants to be taken seriously by team managers, he won't be moving over for Alonso at any stage this year if he's ahead.
Jos the Boss
Champion Elect
I have schumi down for a win at korea, spa,monza or india
Fenderman
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.... or Red Bulls and McLarens beat each other up, earn a shed load of drive through penalties, mess up their pit stops and destroy all of their tyres way before anyone expected, apart from the viewing public of course who could see all this coming. No I'll go with no-FIAt and apply the Flying Pig principle to all of the above
Lets play a thought experiment:
Don't start talking flying pigs.
It is June 2008. Ferrari have just scored a one-two in the French Grand Prix. The Championship stands thus:
Who expects Fernando Alonso to win a race this year?
Who expects Sebastian Vettel to win a race this year?
Who expects Rubens Barrichello to be on the podium in the next race?
Who expects Toro Rosso to beat Red Bull in the Constructors' Championship?
Don't start talking flying pigs.
Its not about respect, though. I just don't believe that you can ever know what is going to happen next.
Several of us make top 10 predictions before a race, none of us ever get 'em all right!
Some ludicrous things have happened in Formula One history, which no-one predicted. Examples include:
Several of us make top 10 predictions before a race, none of us ever get 'em all right!
Some ludicrous things have happened in Formula One history, which no-one predicted. Examples include:
- Olivier Panis winning Ligier's first Grand Prix in 15 years in Monaco in 1996
- Johnny Herbert winning the 1999 European Grand Prix for Stewart
- Fernando Alonso winning the 2008 Japanese Grand Prix without a Safety Car aid
- Roberto Moreno qualifying an Andrea Moda for the Monaco Grand Prix in 1992
- Peter Gethin scoring 9 of his 11 F1 career points winning the 1971 Italian Grand Prix
- Jean-Louis Schlesser ending McLaren's run by colliding with Senna in 1988
- Nelsinho Piquet on the podium at Hockenheim, nearly winning it!
- Fisichella winning at Interlagos in the middle of Jordan's decline
RayInTorontoCanada
Banned
Who expected BMW to immediately stop all development on the '08 car with Kubica 2nd in the title?
Who expected Raikkonen not to win next until August of 2009?
Who expected Nelson Piquet Jr to purposely crash his Number 2 Renault within 2 laps of Alonso's Number 1 Renault coming in for it's rather early pitstop?
Who expected BMW to immediately stop all development on the '08 car with Kubica 2nd in the title?
Who expected Raikkonen not to win next until August of 2009?
Who expected Nelson Piquet Jr to purposely crash his Number 2 Renault within 2 laps of Alonso's Number 1 Renault coming in for it's rather early pitstop?
Just picked 3 examples. There are so many for 2008 (which is why I picked it)!
Thanks, 1986 would have been, if anything, more remarkable!
Jos the Boss
Champion Elect
Not really worthy of a thread so I'll post it here.
Jean Todt intimated that he thinks it would have been better if Hamilton had been banned for 6 Grands Prix due to his comments after the Monaco Grand Prix.
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/92091
Jean Todt intimated that he thinks it would have been better if Hamilton had been banned for 6 Grands Prix due to his comments after the Monaco Grand Prix.
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/92091
I think Todt's trying to convey an arbitrary number rather than saying he thinks Hamilton should've been banned for 6 races. From the way I read it, it sounds like he didn't want to do that anyway. Then they had some correspondence and Todt accepted it.
Not a major deal to me.
Not a major deal to me.
There was already a perfect thread for this "news item" Bro;
http://cliptheapex.com/threads/nonsense-lunacy-and-general-stutterings.2707/
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