Iconic images of Formula One

[KekeTheKing]

And here is the "Double-Rear Wing" solution they debuted at Hockenheim in the next round. Interesting to say the least.

 

[cider_and_toast]

As usual in F1, within the letter of the law but not the spirit (pardon the pun).

"wing size must be a maximum X by X"

"But it doesn't say how many wings we have to use !!"

 

[siffert_fan]

As Rindt foretold.

 

[KekeTheKing]

 

[The Pits]

And here is the "Double-Rear Wing" solution they debuted at Hockenheim in the next round. Interesting to say the least.

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Imagine the look on Alonso's face when this is wheeled out at Estoril!!

 

[teabagyokel]

They've banned adverts on the top of the helmets after Renault did so in 2005.

 

[KekeTheKing]

I'm not sure how much Bob would have appreciated the Merc symbol, but I enjoyed this one at India 2011

 

[teabagyokel]

Hold on, we're talking about changable helmets and we're talking about Hamilton? Seb will be devastated!

 

[soccerman17]

Seb's suck.

 

[Viscount]

Prost about to go out in the MP4/5 at Jacarepagua, Brazil in 1989 having to 'pretend' to be Senna for a promo photoshoot.

 

[teabagyokel]

Surprised he didn't deliberately bin it.

 

[siffert_fan]

Aero gone mad and almost as ugly as today's cars

 

[gethinceri]

It made all the difference siffert_fan, that car was shit off a shovel.Feel free to delete the final three words!

 

[Incubus]

Viscount , are you sure this is indeed alain Prost?


I remember seeing a short clip once, about another promo photoshoot where Prost this time was unavailable but somehow they'd found a Prost dead ringer. That was a video of Senna posing alongside Prost's double and Ayrton quipped in "didn't get the nose quite right, Alain's is more twisted"...

 

[soccerman17]

That nose looks pretty twisted to me

 

[Viscount]

Incubus Doesn't surprise me McLaren using a Prost ringer at a photoshoot, but in this case they needed someone to drive for on track shots of Senna's #1 car. So without Senna available, getting a Prost lookalike capable of driving an F1 car to go out pretending to be Senna seems a bit overkill even for Ron.

 

[Incubus]

Prost nowadays keeps one of Senna's old helmets on his office desk...

 

[FB]

Such a shame that shit film has coloured the judgement of a whole generation to who and what Alain Prost is.

 

[Incubus]

So did Rush for that matter.

the rivalry between Hunt and Lauda was totally over-played. They were quite good mates really. And it completely missed out on Marlene Lauda's shock over the Nurburgring and subsequent detestation of aything to do with motor racing, which would have constituted quite an interesting angle really.

 

[Incubus]

Viscount, what I really want to know is, how and where on earth did they manage to find a Prost lookalike??? Finding the video will take a bit of hard work, because I think where I saw it was actually included in a somewhat patchy documentary about Nelson Piquet.