tyb
SAM194 G5 in at Spangdahlem AB western Germany-dropped of radar before ground contact trace
Home of 33 of the German Air Force and the 702 Munitions Support Squadron of the United States Air Force
grew up with F1 in mid 70's and watched it religiously until just after the schumacher era. Knew it was fake but still enjoyed it up until then.
Met many of them when you could still get access up until the mid 80's.
you may fall asleep during it-excepting that POTUS is there… that should keep it interdasting. Those can be very boring to us shift gears and turn right anons. I never really had a favorite-liked Prost for the calculating way he drove-just fast enough, senna a fav because of sheer ballz. Hamilton and Alonso is what turned me off. That spat and the spygate stuff. It was hard trying to watch as a left coaster-especially in the 70's and early 80's but we did get them on ESPN early morning eventually.
Spent many days at laguna and sears and many laps around both-drove a stocker a few times around sears and that was very fun. Great people too…Nascar drivers from that era-some of the best characters you could ever possibly meet. I miss it tremendously as too much money came in to all aspects. Hope Mario shows but he is up there in age so who knows.
as long as you enjoy it..that is all that matters.
it's kind of like wrestling on four wheels-and always has been, but I don't look down on it like some road racers do. Fun for all! I did manage to make it to a gp in italy some years back-nothing like the tifosi on home soil. Hammy binned it on the final lap at lesmo and that brought the house down.
Great talking to you!
be around it for many years, especially the schumacher era and you will see. They always need a hero and go to great lengths to produce them when the public or the pocketbook requires it. When the spec ECU's came into it, it became very easy to manage races. Seen it when it was not easy to manage with the v8's in the 70's up until the computerized (CAD) days. It is a produced event just like Nascar.
.
Ah yes the tin-tops..very fun. The trans-am series here-in the 80's was just like that..many bent cars.
Nige has quite a banger in one of those If I recall.
that was hilarious.
Bianchi's death was not fake, nor Lauda's accident. I agree. It is managed enough to produced desired results but many people think it's entirely organic- Maldonado won a race when he had no business being in at that end of the sport-enezuela oil money dictated that it got a win Bianchi was going to be the ferrari #1. That was quite a screw-up by the track management to allow the truck to be at that point on a wet track.
Tiff was very good, just never had enough money. he did pretty good with the TV career though. Talked to him when he did IMSA and we were on support races-that was long ago. He ran the aston martin prototype in early 80's but that never had enough backing either. Could peddle a 962 pretty good too.
was a driver early on as a young in-sata acquistion was still not too good and just getting started so some of the teams needed a light person that spoke their language and to stay in it I became a stringer (photographer). Too much damn money came in so to stay with it you figured out what to do. I stopped going to tracks in early 2000's as where I live now there is only a roundy-round north of me..fontana. Most of the driving was club level and semi-pro. started in karts and worked up to about GT-1 level. Got pretty good but money and time dictated I was never going to get farther. Had so much fun and met many of the pro's. Mario is a favorite. The great all-arounder…drive anything and do it well.
fuck off faggot. you have moar posts than I