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#251 Redliner

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Posted 20 October 2008 - 11:40 PM

lol he looks so out of his element in fur and leather :o


:o MS looks like the typical douche at the clubs here in that outfit :o

#252 DrDickAction

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Posted 21 October 2008 - 12:02 AM

:o MS looks like the typical douche at the clubs here in that outfit :o



Did you guys just see the fight outside?



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Posted 21 October 2008 - 12:23 AM

:o

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Posted 21 October 2008 - 01:09 AM

:o

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Posted 21 October 2008 - 01:09 AM

i saw matchett at the first F1 race i went to at IMS, i wanted to get his autograph :o i feel like they are my buddies i watch F1 with on the weekends. :o is that sad??

i just noticed that matchett is the only guy on the team i didn't get to sign my '07 race program :mad:

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Posted 21 October 2008 - 01:10 AM

More Raquel:

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too bad her band sucks

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Posted 21 October 2008 - 05:13 AM

Turun Sanomat reports that McLaren installed Heikki's front tires wrong (switched left & right) in the start:

"On my career this hasn't ever happened before", Heikki explained.

For McLaren it has happened before, in 2006 in Paul Ricard testing they did the same to Alex Wurz and the result was a big crash.

"The tires were marked on Friday and weren't checked afterwards. I got a good start but immediately realized that the car pushes horribly when the tires didn't work at all."

"On the pit stop they added front wing as much as they could to make the front heavier. As the tires where then right, it might have caused the breakage. The change would have helped if the tires would have been still wrong but now the car became oversteering."

"It's not so much my points, but for the team it was a bad setback. We can just continue trying but it's getting late as next race is the last."



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#258 MrHahn

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Posted 21 October 2008 - 06:56 AM

So whats his excuse to being owned by Alonso in a straight line drag - in a Reno. Alonso's -0.6 is just engine power?

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Posted 21 October 2008 - 07:30 AM

So whats his excuse to being owned by Alonso in a straight line drag - in a Reno. Alonso's -0.6 is just engine power?

to be fair he did have horrible understeer going through that last turn before the long straight and was way off line

without that problem he'd have been much faster exiting onto the straight

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Posted 21 October 2008 - 10:37 AM

OK, so here's a slightly unrelated question...how the fuck do they get the satelite feed so quick? When the nightly news interviews someone via satellite, there's usually a fairly significant delay...maybe 1 to 3 seconds...but when windsor and the guys talk back and forth, it's almost seamless.

How dem do dat?


I think if you compare live timing to tv, it's like a 2-3 minute delay.

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Posted 21 October 2008 - 01:10 PM

:o
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:rofl:
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I'm starting to think everything FA said last year was true :o You never see any of this happening to Wunder Boi.

#262 yonson

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Posted 21 October 2008 - 03:27 PM

I think this was the first time the speed guys have truly gotten on my nerves. Varsha isn't there, so the brits just think they can go into ITV hammy-nut-swing mode. God bless Matchett, he kept it pretty neutral, but windsor and hobbs were fucking pathetic.


:o

I really hated hearing that dude speak... Varsha RULES!

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Posted 21 October 2008 - 03:29 PM

Australian? Please tell me it wasn't Leah Diffy or whatever that cunts name is!



Yeah that was him.

#264 DrDickAction

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Posted 21 October 2008 - 05:11 PM

I think if you compare live timing to tv, it's like a 2-3 minute delay.

Oh yeah, I'm sure the video is slightly delayed...it just seems that windsor and the studio guys can talk to each other with no delay...even better than international phone calls.....

#265 Dr. Jimmmah!

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Posted 21 October 2008 - 05:35 PM

Oh yeah, I'm sure the video is slightly delayed...it just seems that windsor and the studio guys can talk to each other with no delay...even better than international phone calls.....

i have a vonage line overseas and communicating half way around the world shows little to no noticeable delay when they have sufficient bandwidth..

it may just be the way the satellite communications has to get routed through receiving stations, etc compared to a direct internet or land-line link which is carried over by optics, and where the data switching is much faster

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Posted 21 October 2008 - 06:08 PM

So whats his excuse to being owned by Alonso in a straight line drag - in a Reno. Alonso's -0.6 is just engine power?

Poor exit speed + drag.

Remember that the cars are only about 1-2 second difference from the front to the back of the grid in terms of pace.

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Posted 22 October 2008 - 03:18 AM

Poor exit speed + drag.

Remember that the cars are only about 1-2 second difference from the front to the back of the grid in terms of pace.


I don't think it has ever been so close in terms of lap times, but the teams at the front still have that much on an edge over the course of a weekend. That's really amazing.

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Posted 22 October 2008 - 03:26 AM

Yeah that was him.


Oh snap! America getting our dregs, I feel sorry for you guys :o

Poor exit speed + drag.

Remember that the cars are only about 1-2 second difference from the front to the back of the grid in terms of pace.


Yeah heikki had a pretty awful run into the straight but the Renault engine all year has been one of the slowest.

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Posted 22 October 2008 - 06:19 PM

:rofl:

I carry a cyanide capsule for just such an accident.

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Posted 22 October 2008 - 06:22 PM

unrelated, i found this when googling "alonso girlfriend" :rofl:

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Posted 22 October 2008 - 08:44 PM

:rofl: i looooved that game!!

#272 Redliner

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Posted 22 October 2008 - 10:05 PM

:rofl: i looooved that game!!


Squall was too emo for me :x:

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Posted 23 October 2008 - 02:00 PM

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#274 Dr. Jimmmah!

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Posted 24 October 2008 - 03:18 PM

i definitely was already back zzzz when this happened :werd:

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#275 Redliner

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Posted 24 October 2008 - 03:56 PM

i definitely was already back zzzz when this happened :werd:

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Wow... the hate is strong w/ the black one.




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