BenB
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| posted on 31/10/07 at 10:01 AM |
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Max Power Mosely is really talking out of his arse this time
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/7070564.stm
Basically, Max reckons Lewis Hamilton is too good, and will have a negative effect on Formula 1.
Whereas the Michael Shumacher era was a brilliant display of close racing 
And who has won the constructors championship 8 times in the last 10 years....
What a load of testicles....
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02GF74
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| posted on 31/10/07 at 10:09 AM |
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Leave hime alone, the poor bloke is senile.
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BenB
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| posted on 31/10/07 at 10:16 AM |
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Yes. Maybe that's it. He's got senile dementia and has forgotten the fact that during the time that Schuey was pretty much totally
dominant in a Ferrari and won the Drivers championship five times in a row he didn't say a single thing......
Why doesn't he just wear a T-shirt saying "I hate McLaren" on the front and "my daddy was right" on the back, and maybe
get F1 sponsored by the BNP 
what a gimp
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Paul TigerB6
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| posted on 31/10/07 at 10:22 AM |
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"It will start to be negative because we'll get the Schumacher effect where people start writing to me saying can't you do something
to slow him down."
The guy is a complete moron!! I've never heard anything so utterly stupid. He should be pleased that there's another driver capable of
driving at the pace of Alonso, Raikonnen et al. How on earth can he still be in charge at the FIA??
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Peteff
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| posted on 31/10/07 at 10:23 AM |
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Once upon a time
When you read about 20 white men chasing a black man it would have been about the Ku Klux Klan, now it's Formula 1. Their closed shop has been
infiltrated and they don't seem to like it and there is no way to put another slant on it. He should be kicked off the board for his prejudice.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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Fatgadget
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| posted on 31/10/07 at 10:41 AM |
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Ummm I'd have thought Max would have been grateful Lewis happened on the scene and put the brakes on a certain Spaniard dominating the sport! 
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Hammerhead
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| posted on 31/10/07 at 11:08 AM |
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Mad Max! (but without the cool car)
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Paul TigerB6
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| posted on 31/10/07 at 11:17 AM |
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http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2007/03/22/debate-your-verdict-on-max-mosley/
some interesting comments in there!!
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designer
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| posted on 31/10/07 at 11:31 AM |
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Lewis certainly is a talent.
BUT, if a rookie can step in and do so well, there is a basic fault with the competition! Basicly there is none!!
The whole year shows how F1 is now in a 'comfort zone'.
The engines are detuned to last two races. so rarely explode during a race.
The tyres can handle all the power, make cars run like like Scalextric.
Qualifying denotes who will win, unless something extraordinary happens.
The theory of F1 is that the machine should fall to pieces as it passes the finish line!!
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designer
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| posted on 31/10/07 at 11:33 AM |
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And don't forget, it's Bernie that pulls F1 strings, not Max.
Max is having to sort out Bernie troubles.
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Paul TigerB6
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| posted on 31/10/07 at 11:37 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by designer
Lewis certainly is a talent.
BUT, if a rookie can step in and do so well, there is a basic fault with the competition! Basicly there is none!!
Cant blame Lewis for that though!! He prepared for the Brazil GP by playing on his Playstation and it seems that F1 has turned into little more than a
computer game with so many electronic aids - is it any wonder he did so well?? Whether he's a rookie or not is totally irrelevant in my book -
if the rules make the cars so easy to drive he can be on the pace within months then who's to blame for that??
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BenB
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| posted on 31/10/07 at 11:52 AM |
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The trouble is, when they tried to ban traction control and other forms of electrical trickery people "forgot" to update the ECU EPROMs so
they accidentally still had it. Unless you're going to give the manafacturers sealed ECUs you have to assume traction control is going to
happen.... Personally I'd prefer F1 if it was a one-make drivers championship. Give the drivers a car on the Friday, give them 24 hours to set
it up to their liking, engine / ECU etc all sealed and locked out of the way. Everyone's equal and the winning driver is the best driver. End
of....
I think the idea behind the two-race engine thing was so that it was cheaper for teams to take part... Then again, you kind of wonder how much
research teams had to do to make sure engines did last two races!!!
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Gergely
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| posted on 31/10/07 at 12:33 PM |
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One make series would be nice. And pulling the ECUs from a hat just half an hour before the start of the race to make sure they are all the same, or
if played with might help your competitor...
But a one make series would not help developing gadgets that eventually make our cars better (decades later of course).
But I would also like to see Hamilton and Alonso in exactly the same cars as Sutil and Rosberg...
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scoobyis2cool
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| posted on 31/10/07 at 01:05 PM |
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Max seems to be forgetting the fact that Lewis didn't actually win this year. The way I see it there were 4 drivers competing for the
championship this year rather than the usual 1 (Schuey). Until Lewis starts trouncing everyone I don't see how Max can justify saying stuff like
that.
Pete
It's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care...
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britishtrident
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| posted on 31/10/07 at 01:17 PM |
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Against a background of racialist abuse directed at Lewis Hamilton from some Spannish web sites Max is on very sticky ground saying anything about
Lewis Hamilton in view of Max's past activities as an election agent for his father's post war fascist party, in the 1959 election they
used the slogan KBW - Keep Britain White.
http://www.historytalk.org/Tom%20Vague%20Pop%20History/Chp%201.pdf
The Bernie and Max double act ended during the 2005 Indy fracas, ever since Bernie has been trying to moderate Max's more extreme dictats.
I suspect for Bernie making the deal is everything (and a place in the history of F1) for Max it is all about using and abusing personal power.
Perhaps Bernie should follow the example of Bernie Winters -- and get a very large dog --- it is much less likely to be rabid.
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[Edited on 31/10/07 by britishtrident]
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ChrisGamlin
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| posted on 31/10/07 at 01:18 PM |
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Sign it and spread it around!
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/Mosley
400+ signatures since it went up on BBC 606 chat about 2 hours ago, if it gets overwhelmingly large it may at least shut him up for a bit (although i
doubt it).
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jabbahutt
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| posted on 31/10/07 at 01:26 PM |
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I'm bored of the whole thing off the track and only midly entertained occasionally on the track.
Maybe the drivers should all be made to drive locosts as that would level the playing field and would be much cheaper for all the teams concerned
It would also be much more interesting to watch all the pit stuff to see how the experts put there cars together and set them up 
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scoobyis2cool
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| posted on 31/10/07 at 01:32 PM |
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To be honest I quite enjoy the off-track politics because it can add an extra dimension to the racing. For example the whole Lewis/Alonso battle. I
found the racing this season to be the best for a long while, and hopefully it'll get better next year when they ditch traction control.
Pete
It's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care...
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andyps
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| posted on 31/10/07 at 02:05 PM |
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Michael Schumacher winning all the time wasn't the problem (although I was never a fan of his) - it was the way MM's favourite team went
about making him win that was the problem - think of all the ludicrous team order tactics that were used which brought the sport into disrepute
(except the FIA didn't notice that bit!).
It is high time that the Son of Sir Oswald Mosley resigned to stop creating the level of disrepute he does to F1. In my view comments such as this are
totally unacceptable from the President of the body, and whilst he is certainly talking out of his arse this time i don't think it is the first
time recently.
Andy
An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less
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F20 POWERED RUSH
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| posted on 31/10/07 at 02:41 PM |
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For my twopence worth, I think very sinister things were at work. No1 with such a huge fine to Mc Laren surely to shake the investers confidence also
perhaps Santander wanted Alonso to win. No2 Bernies pit lane comments as to why should Hamilton win Alonso shoud be champion surely he should be
impartial in his position perhaps serious money was at stake. No3 Do modern F1 cars really suffer the temporary electronic / hydraullic faliure which
Hamilton had as he was charging through the field.
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designer
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| posted on 31/10/07 at 04:32 PM |
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The 'temporary hydraulic' failure was Lewis knocking a switch on the steering wheel.
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thunderace
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| posted on 31/10/07 at 04:40 PM |
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tax dodger
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scoobyis2cool
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| posted on 31/10/07 at 05:27 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by thunderace
tax dodger
It's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care...
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Paul TigerB6
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| posted on 31/10/07 at 06:00 PM |
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Does this sum things up at all from - http://www.formula1.com/news/interviews/2007/10/7014.html ??
Q: For Luca di Montezemolo as well?
MM: With di Montezemolo it is different. He is chairman of Fiat and President of Italian business lobby Confindustria. My relationship with him is
very personal.
Q: Is Ferrari more important for Formula One than other teams?
MM: Yes, firstly, because it holds a historically important position, as the team has been involved in Formula One since 1950. The second point has
something to do with existential orientation: imagine that there were only one British team and all other teams were Italian, that the commercial
rights holder was Italian, as was the FIA President, the race director and his assistant and the sport’s commissioner. Wouldn’t it be understandable
that this team would be very careful? I therefore use my neutrality with a huge amount of responsibility and stay in close contact with Ferrari to
assure them that no British ‘mafia’ or cartel tries to take advantage of them. But should we find it necessary to impose our technical or sporting
regulations, than Ferrari is treated like any other team. Should we find irregularities on a Ferrari - like the moveable floor after the Australian
Grand Prix - it is removed and banned.
Interesting bit about Alonso at the end too!!
[Edited on 31/10/07 by Paul TigerB6]
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britishtrident
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| posted on 31/10/07 at 06:54 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by F20 POWERED RUSH
For my twopence worth, I think very sinister things were at work. No1 with such a huge fine to Mc Laren surely to shake the investers confidence also
perhaps Santander wanted Alonso to win. No2 Bernies pit lane comments as to why should Hamilton win Alonso shoud be champion surely he should be
impartial in his position perhaps serious money was at stake. No3 Do modern F1 cars really suffer the temporary electronic / hydraullic faliure which
Hamilton had as he was charging through the field.
Ask the Red Bull drivers about hydraulics glitches ;-)
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