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If it’s raining outside, ask Lando if he wants to come in to change to wet tyres.

 

(Actually, don’t!)

 

On a serious note, you could ask Zak Brown if preserving and celebrating McLaren’s history is as exciting for him as developing their new cars. The guy is a big petrol head who loves driving around in old racing cars.

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Ask Lando if he genuinely thinks he's better off with a long contract at Mclaren and not one with ferrari or redbull. 

 

Ask him if the dinner at the end of the year with all the drivers was as fun as it look or was there and undercurrent of tension after Brazil. 

 

Ask him if the drivers respect each other in real life outside of the media narrative. 

 

As Zak when they're going back to Le mans 

 

Ask Zak if I can have a job there please. If he says yes I'll pm my details 😎

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1 hour ago, Corranga said:

If you want to scrub up on some Zak specific knowledge, give the Jodie Kidd videos a watch, I think she's a good host, but her guests (Zak in this case) are the real stars.  Great insights and very interesting...

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jodie+kidd+zak+brown


I didn’t know there was another video at MTC, but the one where he shows her around his collection in that warehouse at United Autosport is amazing. Every car (but one?) a winner if I remember rightly. 

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2 hours ago, GwiDan said:


I didn’t know there was another video at MTC, but the one where he shows her around his collection in that warehouse at United Autosport is amazing. Every car (but one?) a winner if I remember rightly. 

Not many McLaren's from his tenure then :hat: 

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15 hours ago, Sidewaysbob said:

Ask Zak if I can have a job there please. If he says yes I'll pm my details 😎


Be careful what you wish for Bob - I have a lot of colleagues and ex-colleagues who are less than complimentary (extreme understatement) about the working conditions at McLaren.

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4 hours ago, Jammy said:


Be careful what you wish for Bob - I have a lot of colleagues and ex-colleagues who are less than complimentary (extreme understatement) about the working conditions at McLaren.


Yes. Though a lot of that was Ron. Has it not improved now he’s left?

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kiroquai

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1 hour ago, wev said:

Patrick Tambay has died

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/63851584


A sad, if not unexpected, piece of news; Patrick had been suffering from Parkinson’s for years.

 

A moment to remember him by? Well, I’d pick two: his wins for Ferrari at Hockenheim in ‘82 and Imola ‘83 were pure theatre - F1 at its most emotionally raw peak.

 

Obviously this all took place in an era prior to internet and wall-to-wall coverage. Words alone struggle to do those two wins justice, but over the years I’ve read enough of them to get an approximate picture.

 

Hockenheim. Villeneuve, phenomenally popular amongst his mechanics, dies at Zolder in an awful accident. The team dragging themselves through the remaining season, only to see their other main hope Pironi almost killed in a scarily similar accident in practice. Amongst it all, Tambay brings the remaining prancing horse home for his first win and triumphantly returns to the garage afterwards to find mechanics kneeling on the floor crying their eyes out.

 

Then Imola the next year. In ‘82 it was the scene of the Pironi/Villeneuve ‘betrayal’. Fans painted a giant Canadian flag in P1 on the grid. Stalls scattered around the circuit still sold Villeneuve flags, banners, photos and made huge amounts of money from them. The Tifosi always want a Ferrari win, but that particular day at that particular circuit, the Tifosi wanted something more specific: a Ferrari number 27 victory to remember their fallen hero. They got it. This picture sums it up:

 

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A driver usually known for being cool, calm and calculated throwing both his arms in the air as he crosses the line. Packed grandstands roaring in unison at deafening volume. Jubilant mechanics, beside themselves with joy and caught up in the moment, dancing on the side of the track. 

 

You can Netflix the fuck out of F1 all you want - these two moments are what F1 is about for me. A man digging impossibly deep in moments of despair and almost-insurmountable expectation and finding glory. That is F1 for me and many, many others.

 

Rest well, Patrick.

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Jos is in the gravel

🥰

 

And one of Brundles catchphrases (that DC has adopted too) has been heard "is it the first day back at school?"

 

And upon seeing Fisichella spin out into the gravel Brundle says "dare I say they should have had someone more experienced in the car" totally not bitter 

 

Schumacher's Ferrari is giving off so much brake dust that his gold wheels were completely black by the time he pitted around lap 20

 

Alesi not pitting is peak Alesi (I think his radio was playing up?)

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kiroquai

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Remember that very well. I'd supported Frentzen since his first year in F1 at Sauber and also supported JV since he was in IndyCar in the same year, so 1997 Williams was peak fanboy material for me. Then, Jacques slaps it on pole by 1.7 seconds. Magic! I mean okay, he's got nerfed out the race by Irvine, but shit happens and Frentzen is now controlling the race. Everything is just perfect...

 

... but hang on, why is David Coulthard still in this? Why is Frentzen not walking this race? WHY HAS HE SPUN?

 

From that moment on my confidence of a private battle between my two favourite drivers for the F1 title kinda just crumbled away.

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I enjoyed going back and watching all of that, will try and watch the rest of this guy manages to upload the whole season. 

 

Was the 97 McLaren the first Newey designed one after his fall out with Williams and Head?

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