Cars and other kinds of motoring gibberish

Tu_triky wrote:I know there are some F1 fans on this board...anybody of you seen the 2010 Aryton Senna documentary?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senna_%28film%29

Saw the ad in the Times yesterday... I hope to get a chance to go see it.

bmwracer wrote:
Saw the ad in the Times yesterday... I hope to get a chance to go see it.

Oh yeah? Is it out in theaters then?

Tu_triky wrote:Oh yeah? Is it out in theaters then?

Apparently not: no movie listings anywhere. :headscratch:

bmwracer wrote:
Apparently not: no movie listings anywhere. :headscratch:

Hmm...guess the interwebs might be the best bet...download a torrent from somewhere.

Tu_triky wrote:Hmm...guess the interwebs might be the best bet...download a torrent from somewhere.

It's a 2010 film... Don't know why it took so long to get here. :headscratch:

EDIT: It's available on DVD... Region 2.

bmwracer wrote:
It's a 2010 film... Don't know why it took so long to get here. :headscratch:

EDIT: It's available on DVD... Region 2.

Well you know, man, if it's a foreign documentary it might take a while to reach our shores because the mainstream films here preoccupy the peanut sized brains of most ppl.

From a brief, cursory search...the Senna film did come to LA during the Los Angeles Film Festival earlier this summer.

Official page

http://www.workingtitlefilms.com/films/view/film/103/senna

Senna documentary supposedly coming to Los Angeles in a matter of days...check out this release schedule

http://www.autoweek.com/article/20110701/F1/110709984

Tu_triky wrote:Senna documentary supposedly coming to Los Angeles in a matter of days...check out this release schedule

http://www.autoweek.com/article/20110701/F1/110709984

So ka. :victory:

bmwracer wrote:
So ka. :victory:

Took me a minute to find but I thought I'd share with my fellow denizens.

Tu_triky wrote:Senna documentary supposedly coming to Los Angeles in a matter of days...check out this release schedule

http://www.autoweek.com/article/20110701/F1/110709984

this showed at my local cinema for one night only. needless to say i went to see it. to any senna fan, nothing new is revealed here apart from he tells an interviewer who he enjoyed racing against the most. you'll be surprised. :shocked:

kenjilina wrote:this showed at my local cinema for one night only. needless to say i went to see it. to any senna fan, nothing new is revealed here apart from he tells an interviewer who he enjoyed racing against the most. you'll be surprised. :shocked:

Prost?

bmwracer wrote:
Prost?

Jeff Gordon

Tu_triky wrote:Jeff Gordon

What? :shocked:

bmwracer wrote:
What? :shocked:

:P Soapbox racers

bmwracer wrote:
Prost?

i thought for a split second that was what he was going to say but i can assure you their mutual hatred is cemented with lack of respect for each other also. he said it was some guy from his karting days by the name of fullerton.

Clarkson being Clarkson. :hehe:

The Jezzer is an entertainment provocateur, and Top Gear is an entertainment show involving cars--neither should be considered serious consumer advocates; they're in the entertainment business.


Nissan fumes over BBC TV program 'Top Gear'
ENTERTAINMENT AUG. 04, 2011 - 10:00AM JST ( 93 )

Jeremy Clarkson, presenter of the BBC's "Top Gear" program.
AFP
LONDON \
Jeremy Clarkson, the outspoken presenter of popular British motoring show gTop Gearh on Wednesday defended an episode of the series in which he deliberately runs out of power in Japanese automaker Nissanfs Leaf electric car.

Clarkson drew a furious response from Nissan after Sundayfs episode of the BBC program showed him being pushed along in a Leaf car after its battery went flat.

The presenter, who has whipped up controversy on numerous occasions in the past, was left stranded in the eastern English city of Lincoln where there are no public recharging points for electric cars.

He ended the show with the comment that electric cars gare not the future.h

Nissan blasted the episode as misleading because the car was not fully charged before starting the journey, but in comments to the Times newspaper on Wednesday Clarkson refused to apologise, saying: gThatfs how TV works.h

gThe piece was about the difficulties of recharging the electric car,h he added.

gAt no point did we mislead the viewers. eTop Gearfsf job is to say to everybody, eJust a minute, do not believe electric cars can be run as simply as you have been told. Charging them up is a pain in the arse.fh

In an interview after the episode, Andy Palmer, Nissanfs executive vice-president, accused gTop Gearh of deceiving viewers, saying there were safeguards in place to stop Leaf drivers running out of power.

He pointed out that a device sending Nissan updates showed Clarkson had started the day with the battery only 40h charged and said the car appeared to have been driven in loops in Lincoln until the battery was flat.

Andy Wilman, gTop Gearfsh executive producer, denied the show had misled viewers, saying it was intended to highlight the gpatchyh recharging infrastructure for electric cars in Britain

In February, the BBC was forced to apologize to the Mexican ambassador to London after a gTop Gearh presenter described Mexicans as glazy,h gfecklessh and gflatulenth in a segment about a sportscar made by Mexican firm Mastretta.

kenjilina wrote:i thought for a split second that was what he was going to say but i can assure you their mutual hatred is cemented with lack of respect for each other also.

Interesting, since Prost was one of Senna's pallbearers.

bmwracer wrote:
Interesting, since Prost was one of Senna's pallbearers.

he probably felt it was his duty at the time. i recently saw a documentary celebrating 60yrs of f1 and in it was an interview with prost and even now he seems to find it difficult to talk of ayrton in a positive light. makes the hamilton, alonso scenario look like handbags at dawn! :hehe:

shin2 wrote:

Nissan blasted the episode as misleading

top gear is just a platform for clarkson to do whatever he wants without thinking of others. the programme's always been misleading. does anyone actually believe those races were actually that close everytime? the logistics of filming must mean some of it is 'decided' beforehand.