Cars and other kinds of motoring gibberish

Turkey Basting of Button and Brawn1 Jenson Button Brawn 1:26:24.848
2 Mark Webber Red Bull 6.714
3 Sebastian Vettel Red Bull 7.461
4 Jarno Trulli Toyota 27.843
5 Nico Rosberg Williams 31.539
6 Felipe Massa Ferrari 39.996
7 Robert Kubica BMW 46.247
8 Timo Glock Toyota 46.959
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gaijinmark wrote:Turkey Basting of Button and Brawn1 Jenson Button Brawn 1:26:24.848
2 Mark Webber Red Bull 6.714
3 Sebastian Vettel Red Bull 7.461
4 Jarno Trulli Toyota 27.843
5 Nico Rosberg Williams 31.539
6 Felipe Massa Ferrari 39.996
7 Robert Kubica BMW 46.247
8 Timo Glock Toyota 46.959
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real shame about lewis. :hehe:

gaijinmark wrote:Turkey Basting of Button and Brawn1 Jenson Button Brawn 1:26:24.848
2 Mark Webber Red Bull 6.714
3 Sebastian Vettel Red Bull 7.461
4 Jarno Trulli Toyota 27.843
5 Nico Rosberg Williams 31.539
6 Felipe Massa Ferrari 39.996
7 Robert Kubica BMW 46.247
8 Timo Glock Toyota 46.959
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And again, Ferrari and McLaren are nowhere to be found... BMW-Sauber, too, for the most part. :puppydog:

You think you're car repair bill is high:http://www1.pressdemocrat.com/article/20090605/ARTICLES/906059934/1350?Title=Burned-up-McLaren-headed-to-England-for-repairs

gaijinmark wrote:You think you're car repair bill is high:http://www1.pressdemocrat.com/article/20090605/ARTICLES/906059934/1350?Title=Burned-up-McLaren-headed-to-England-for-repairs

Oooh. :sweat: :sweat: :sweat:

The F1 is one of my all-time fave supercars.

Must've been the 6.0L BMW V12 that went into meltdown. :beaten:

Hope they salvaged the gold foil-lined engine bay. :fingerscrossed:

bmwracer wrote:
And again, Ferrari and McLaren are nowhere to be found... BMW-Sauber, too, for the most part. :puppydog:

Mark Webber finally gets a podium finish :sweat:

Anime Dad wrote:Mark Webber finally gets a podium finish :sweat:

A fellow Aussie of yours, ne? :victory:

bmwracer wrote:
A fellow Aussie of yours, ne? :victory:

Yep. I don't really follow F1, but they always mention on the news how he does for every F1. It's usually nowhere :P

Anime Dad wrote:Yep. I don't really follow F1, but they always mention on the news how he does for every F1. It's usually nowhere :P

He's been around a while... But he's no Sir Jack Brabham, unfortunately... :sweat:

bmwracer wrote:
He's been around a while... But he's no Sir Jack Brabham, unfortunately... :sweat:

True! I guess if you hang around long enough in F1 you might be a chance of a top 3 finish. Especially if everyone else crashes our retires in a race :)

Anime Dad wrote:True! I guess if you hang around long enough in F1 you might be a chance of a top 3 finish. Especially if everyone else crashes our retires in a race :)

Yup... Though there seems to be less attrition nowadays.

bmwracer wrote:
Yup... Though there seems to be less attrition nowadays.

That reminds me of Aussie ice-skater Steven Bradbury. He was coming 5th in an Olympic final, on the last turn the first 4 had a massive pileup and he cruised to the gold medal position :)

Anime Dad wrote:That reminds me of Aussie ice-skater Steven Bradbury. He was coming 5th in an Olympic final, on the last turn the first 4 had a massive pileup and he cruised to the gold medal position :)

Sometimes the tortoise wins the race... :victory: :mrgreen:

In fairness to Mark Webber, he started out at Minardi you know he's not going to get any results there, but he impressed enough to get a ride with Jaguar. Unfortunately, that team had almost as many internal struggles as Ferrari pre-Schumacher.
Then he went to Williams where he did disappoint. I really thought he'd get his first win there, but only picked up 1 podium in 2 years. Then it was off to Red Bull. The rumor was that if Red Bull would take Webber, Briatore would let them us Renault engines. Anyway, the first two years didn't show much (just one podium) but this year it looks like Red Bull is the only team even remotely close to Brawn so who knows, maybe he'll finally get that first win.

gaijinmark wrote:maybe he'll finally get that first win.

Here's hoping :fingerscrossed:

gaijinmark wrote:it looks like Red Bull is the only team even remotely close to Brawn so who knows, maybe he'll finally get that first win.

He was as close as he could get with a second place in Turkey. :victory:

I dunno if AD knows about this, but the last Australian world champion was Alan Jones in 1980.

Anyway, one year his teammate was a guy from Argentina named Carlos Reutemann and they did not get along AT ALL! After the last race of the season, Carlos was going to another team the next year so he went up to Alan to shake his hand and said, "O.K. Alan, what do you say, bury the hatchet?"

Alan answered, "In your f*cking back, mate!!"

I liked Alan Jones. :applaud:

^ :lol: I remember Alan Jones, but i've never heard that story :applaud:

gaijinmark wrote:I dunno if AD knows about this, but the last Australian world champion was Alan Jones in 1980.

Man, that goes way back.... :sweat:

If I recall, he won with Williams, huh?

EDIT: He did... The first championship for Williams. :victory:

had the replace the dead battery today and I really did not enjoy trying to pull that thing out from where it was it was place. grrrr.
Oh well its running again :beaten: :beaten: