Silverstone Test (Hamilton & Piquet Jr testing)

jacfan · Post by **jacfan** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 12:49 am

Snowy wrote:
Julian Mayo wrote: I have my camo tree, you could borrow

There are a couple of Rotty jaw size chunks missing from around the nether region, (thank god for Kevlar Jocks), but a bit of hessian would fix that
Why that's right civilized of you my friend

What exactly do you propose I do with your camo tree? It sounds to me it's had quite a full and perhaps a bit too scarey a life.

My mate Colin has an extraordinarily journeyed support, it's suffered the slings and arrows of the Le Mans 24hr race about five times. I was thinking of borrowing that and he only lives in Horsham which as you know is just down the road from me. However if Ed is prepared to fork out for the postage and packing I'd at least like a gander!

Thought you said you lived in London.

Julian Mayo · Post by **Julian Mayo** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 8:07 am

jacfan wrote:
Snowy wrote:
Julian Mayo wrote: I have my camo tree, you could borrow

There are a couple of Rotty jaw size chunks missing from around the nether region, (thank god for Kevlar Jocks), but a bit of hessian would fix that
Why that's right civilized of you my friend

What exactly do you propose I do with your camo tree? It sounds to me it's had quite a full and perhaps a bit too scarey a life.

My mate Colin has an extraordinarily journeyed support, it's suffered the slings and arrows of the Le Mans 24hr race about five times. I was thinking of borrowing that and he only lives in Horsham which as you know is just down the road from me. However if Ed is prepared to fork out for the postage and packing I'd at least like a gander!
Thought you said you lived in London.

There is more than one Horsham in the world, isn't there?
Snowy, you could paint the camo tree to resemble a fuel rig, and loiter iaround the pits with sketch book n camera

JayVee · Post by **JayVee** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 9:40 am

Julian Mayo wrote:
JayVee wrote:
GhoGho wrote:
and then he would show us how overrated FA actually is!

As far as I know Alonso is driving for McLaren next year while Piquet Jr is testing for Renault

And how did you reach the conclusion that Alonso is overrated ?
Last year Alonso scored 133 points compared to Fisichella's 58, that is more than double. Michael and Raikkonen didn't score double the points of their teammates.
This year Alonso is nearly double the points of Fisichella. The point difference is larger than that between Michael and Massa

And did you see his drive in the wet in Hungary ? Did you notice he moved from 10th to 3rd in Italy ?

If Alonso is overrated who isn't ??????
Why this?

Read the post in full then ask Gho Gho

JayVee · Post by **JayVee** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 9:46 am

Snowy wrote:
JayVee wrote: Why scary ? I actually can't understand the reason Fisichella was retained in the first place!

Piquet Jr is impressive and if under similar conditions did set a faster time than Heikki then don't be surprised if he replaces Fisichella later in the season.

Hamilton setting a faster time than de la Rosa is also impressive but de la Rosa wasn't that fast to start with.

I really wonder which driver McLaren will choose because Hamilton and Paffet are rookies and de la Rosa is Spanish!

Perhaps we will all be surprised and see someone from across the pond jump over
Scarey because Heikki is definately quick not just fast. Did you happen to witness the race of champions in 2004? I think it's called the race of champions... anyway it's the event where rally drivers, F1 drivers and other top class drivers get together and go head to head in a variety of machinery. Sebastian Loeb beat schumacher and everybody else because basically he is very quick and more familier with the type of machinery being used. Loeb and Schumacher had been beating everybody all weekend except one person Heikki Kovalainen! He set the fastest times and did to Sebastian what Seb had done to Schuey i.e. made him look ordinary!! Don't believe me? Here I looked it up!

Wikipeadia writes:

Race of Champions
Kovalainen competed in the 2004 Race of Champions in the Stade de France in Paris. He was eventually crowned "Champion of Champions" beating out World Rally Champion S?bastien Loeb in the finals. Kovalainen's feat included winning over Loeb in a WRC car, although he had never even sat in a rally car before, and over the Ferrari Formula One star Michael Schumacher in a Ferrari.

Results
Round__________Opponent________________Car ___________________Time _________Difference ___Result
1____________David Coulthard ________Race of Champions Buggy _1:45.8988 ________-11.905 _____1 - 0
2____________Jean Alesi _____________Ferrari 360 Modena _______1:48.9325 ________-1.7085 _____1 - 0
Semi-Finals__Michael Schumacher ______Ferrari 360 Modena _______1:45.3851 ________-10.9954 ____1 - 0
Final________S?bastien Loeb __________Peugeot 307 WRC ________1:42.2602 _________-0.7977 ____1 - 0
_____________S?bastien Loeb _________Ferrari 360 Modena _______1:47.4383 _________-8.1459 ____1 - 0

Thank you Snowy,

I was aware of this acheivement. I just don't mind having more "really fast and consistent" drivers in F1 rather than having just 2 or 3

JayVee · Post by **JayVee** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 9:56 am

Snowy wrote:
JayVee wrote: Hamilton setting a faster time than de la Rosa is also impressive but de la Rosa wasn't that fast to start with.
De la Rosa is getting on a bit but to say he wasn't fast to start with is a bit unfair. He was twice European radio controlled off-road car Champion!

I said he isn't that fast, I didn't say he wasn't fast. Meaning (and in my opinion) Kovalainen is faster than de le Rosa. So one cannot really compare Piquet vs Kovalainen and Hamilton vs de la Rosa (again imo)

I am not saying de la Rosa is slow but he hasn't matched Raikkonen in the last few races has he ?

Julian Mayo · Post by **Julian Mayo** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 12:06 pm

JayVee wrote:
Julian Mayo wrote:
JayVee wrote:

As far as I know Alonso is driving for McLaren next year while Piquet Jr is testing for Renault

And how did you reach the conclusion that Alonso is overrated ?
Last year Alonso scored 133 points compared to Fisichella's 58, that is more than double. Michael and Raikkonen didn't score double the points of their teammates.
This year Alonso is nearly double the points of Fisichella. The point difference is larger than that between Michael and Massa

And did you see his drive in the wet in Hungary ? Did you notice he moved from 10th to 3rd in Italy ?

If Alonso is overrated who isn't ??????
Why this?
Read the post in full then ask Gho Gho

Ahhhh, I thought he meant Fisi

RE30B#16 · Post by **RE30B#16** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 3:03 pm

Snowy wrote:However one thing is particularly evident from the lap times Nelson and Lewis have set. They are both very quick and quick at adapting to the pinnacle of motorsport. Which prompted someone at ITV to ask the question 'are modern F1 cars too easy to drive?' Which is a dumb question imho, 'are modern F1 cars too easy to drive quickly?' would be more appropriate yet that is still a pretty daft question.

Daft isn't the word!