Formula One

I collect little cars in 1:43 scale... i have tons of F1 cars.. here's a pic of the Mp4-20 of Kimi for Ascaris..

@ Ascaris, youre right mate... the whole team is about alonso and what he wants.

Prediction
Alonso (its the car)
Montoya (started to show signs of the old montoya in the last GP)
Button (the honda looked good, apart from the twatish lollipop man)


i think kimi's mind is elsewhere. (i hope im wrong)

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Originally posted by Gallactico

I collect little cars in 1:43 scale... i have tons of F1 cars.. here's a pic of the Mp4-20 of Kimi for Ascaris..

That's a cool hobby mate. I have built Häkkinen's F1 car myself. I used many, many hours.

@ Watty - The whole Honda team is still in the snowy garden's of Japan. More training to the whole team.

which kit did u use? i only collect 1:43 scale... i buy Minichamps, Redline, IXO, BBR, etc... i have both cars of Mika hakkinen.(when he won the championships...)

the pics of Mika Hakkinen's Two World Championship Winning McLarens.
Who do rate more ? Kimi or Mika?

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Originally posted by Gallactico

the pics of Mika Hakkinen's Two World Championship Winning McLarens.
Who do rate more ? Kimi or Mika?

My model looks exactly like the left in that picture. Without the driver though, because it was built-yourself-from-piece-to-piece-kit. It's the number 8 car if I remember right.

that model will be worth a small fortune one day!!!
so all ur hard work will be re-payed.. lol

Hehe, I hope so. I gave it to my little brother, he keeps it on his shelf.

F1 stats for Euro Grand Prix
04/05/2006 09:41

F1 statistics for Sunday's European Grand Prix at the Nuerburgring:

Winners

# Michael Schumacher's victory in last month's San Marino Grand Prix was the 85th of his career. No other driver comes close to his record, with Frenchman Alain Prost second in the all-time rankings with 51.
# The seven times world champion has now won at least one race every year for the last 15 seasons.

# Ferrari's win ended Renault's run of four in a row and was the Italian team's first for 13 races (since the six-car US Grand Prix fiasco of June 2005).

# Ferrari have had 184 wins since 1950. McLaren are second with 148 and Williams third on 113.

Alonso

# Alonso has led the championship since he won the Malaysian Grand Prix of March 20, 2005.
# The Spaniard has finished on the podium for 10 races in a row, still well off Schumacher's run of 19 in 2001-2002.

# Alonso is also the only driver to have scored points in every race this season.

Qualifying

# Schumacher's pole at Imola was the 66th of his career, one more than the record he had held jointly with Brazil's late champion Ayrton Senna.

# Honda's Briton Jenson Button, still without a win in 104 starts, has qualified in the top three in all four races so far this season. He has also qualified on the first two rows for the last seven Grands Prix.

Points

# Toyota's Italian Jarno Trulli has yet to score a point this season after finishing second twice in the first four races of 2005.

# Three teams, Midland, Toro Rosso and Super Aguri, are still without points.

Nuerburgring

# Ferrari are the most successful team at the Nuerburgring with 13 wins.

# Canada's Jacques Villeneuve claimed the first grand prix win of his career at the 1996 European Grand Prix and also the last in 1997.

# Italy's Jarno Trulli took his first F1 podium finish at the Nuerburgring in 1999 (second with Prost).

# Germany's Nick Heidfeld celebrated his first pole position there last year.

# Honda made their F1 debut at the old Nuerburgring circuit in 1964.

Milestone

# Toyota's Ralf Schumacher, one of four Germans on the starting grid, will be starting his 150th grand prix.

pole.. alonso
2. schu
3. massa..
all others , far away from them

yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh



2. alonso
3. massa

A spying war has broken out at the Nurburgring, according to German reports.

It is claimed that a communications specialist at F1 championship leader Renault has successfully tapped into Ferrari's encrypted radio systems - and Ferrari know about it.

Bild newspaper said the Flavio Briatore-led camp "monitored every word" spoken by Ferrari's engineers and drivers throughout Friday, including secret technical and race strategy information.

The Renault specialist is reportedly using a high-tech piece of equipment to do the spying, whose efforts could not be thwarted even by Ferrari changing its radio frequency several times.

F1's governing body is apparently aware of the alleged saga, with an "insider" at the FIA telling Bild: "It is not a secret that the top teams invest a lot to obtain the information of other teams.

"But without strong evidence, we cannot intervene."

Nuerburgring - Ferrari's Michael Schumacher won his home European Grand Prix on Sunday to prove the doubters wrong and put himself firmly back on the title trail.

Roared on by an ecstatic crowd of red-shirted German supporters, the seven times champion saw off Renault's Fernando Alonso to celebrate a record 86th victory of his career and second in a row.

Alonso, the 24-year-old champion, finished second and saw his overall lead over Schumacher cut to 13 points after five races.

The Spaniard has 44 points to Schumacher's 31. McLaren's Kimi Raikkonen has 23.

Those who had suggested that the 37-year-old German's victory at Imola two weeks ago was merely a Ferrari flash in the pan at their home circuit had to eat their words in the Nuerburgring sunshine.

Schumacher finished 3.7 seconds clear of Alonso and saluted his fans with a raised fist on the victory lap. Brazilian team mate Felipe Massa was third for the first podium finish of his 58-race career.

Never truly in the reckoning

McLaren, the team Alonso had flagged as his main rivals and that he is joining next season, were never truly in the reckoning even if Raikkonen overcame his German jinx to secure a close fourth place in Massa's slipstream.

Brazilian Rubens Barrichello was fifth for Honda, ahead of Alonso's Italian team mate Giancarlo Fisichella and German rookie Nico Rosberg in a Williams.

Canadian Jacques Villeneuve took the final point for BMW Sauber.

Fisichella, furious after being impeded by Villeneuve in Saturday's qualifying, spent most of the afternoon behind the former champion before getting past at the second round of pitstops.

Briton Jenson Button suffered his first retirement of the season, trudging back to the pits after his engine gave up the fight on lap 29.

"I think it was the engine. The gear was tightening up when I crossed the line and there was a lot of smoke out of the rear of the car," he said.

"I lost a lot of drive and I pulled over and that was it."

Compatriot David Coulthard had an even shorter race, the Red Bull driver caught in a collision with Toro Rosso's Vitantonio Liuzzi on the first lap.

Franck Montagny became the first French driver to start a race since Olivier Panis retired in 2004 but his debut for struggling Super Aguri was also shortlived and he retired halfway through with a smouldering engine.

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Originally posted by trustno.1

yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh



2. alonso
3. massa

Schummie was quality, simple as that.

It was boring race, glad schumi won. We don't need that one fucker to the #1 podium. THOUGH, the fucking pointsystem is useless, Alonso can take many #2 places and still leading. The winner don't get enough points compared to second place, the whole idea is ruined.

Kimi was complaining about the car, it just don't run quick enough. I personally think McLaren has wrong tactics on pitstops, Ferrari plays it best. It was genious to count schumi's gasoline against alonso's pitstop. They put few laps more, and schumacher was first. Ross Brawn is the god of tactics.

McLaren needs to improve the speed dramatically, Kimi drove the second best lap in yesterdays race, but the speed isn't enough. I think the Mercedes engine is running beautifully, but something in the car isn't working.

McLaren need to pull their fingers out... same as Honda.

And i agree Ascaris, this points system is useless. It takes away the advantage of winning races. Alonso could simply finish 2nd in most of his races and still win the championship. Bring back the 4 point gap they used to have.

Everybody thought Bar is going to be next champion when Honda bought the whole team. No, they are still crawling on the same shit. McLaren is a funny team, they can't put all the pieces together at the same time, there are always something missing. Kimi said the car was awful to drive on friday and saturday. They managed to get it balanced to the time trial. Kimi had the new powerful engine version, but the car was awful.

And if ya've heard the plans for the next few years, some of the teams wants to freeze engine development! Yeah, it was Renault who plays the daddy role here. They simply can't develop the engine enough, so let's freeze the progress. Mercedes, Honda and few others can develop the engine, and they don't want this shit to happen.

Well i hope it doesnt happen. And its typical that Renault want to freeze development as it will maintain their advantage.

Will be intersting what happens next season to Renault though. Who's gonna be driving for em? If Kimi is going to Ferrari, and it seems that Montoya will be staying. We know Alonso is going to McLaren. Button is staying at Honda.

Who are Renualt gonna get to push for the championship? Coz Fischi aint good enough.

Heikki Kovalainen? Flavio has said, that Heikki is going to be their next driver in 2007. That's the main reason he stayed there as test driver. I think Heikki is a tough cookie, after having more experience from the races. Fisi is typical 2nd driver, he can't manage by his own. Championship? Hardly, he can't even win one single race without 110% mental load.

I'm still very disappointed because McLaren's decision to hire alonso.

And it'd be one huge era to Ferrari, if Schumi retires and Kimi steps to his boots. Many has compared Kimi as the next Schumacher.

I think the Fact that Adrian Newey has left McLaren has hurt them badly....
Schumi deserves another title so he can retire and let the young guns fight it off...
He demonstrates just how clever he is. way more canny than the young pretenders...