Formula 1

[Reynard]

Prost was a superb driver, but he really didn’t ever get bad cars. He also mastered the dummy spit. It cost him his place at Ferrari. When they did give him a ( relatively) poor car, he sulked and moaned ( publicly) and ended up being very publicly booted out of the team.

His first year at Mclaren he had a crap car (1980), then he moved to Renault, which wasn't on the level of Brabham or even the normally aspirated Williams. He really only got a decent car during his second stint at McLaren, when they ran the TAG-Porsche turbo, and then later, the Honda.

As for Ferrari he still managed to get the better of Mansell in 1990 by some margin.

The problem with Ferrari is that they don't take criticism on the chin terribly well - they never have.

 

[Beebo]

This video just popped up on my YouTube feed.

Lewis Hamilton taking Frank Williams for a lap of Silverstone. He has no body strength so it must have been painful but he still smiles the whole way around.

View: https://youtu.be/kSoQtwbpcGU

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Brilliant, Sir Frank looked upset when they told Lewis to only do 1 lap,

 

[Goggs]

Rubbish car to do it in though.

 

[Beebo]

Rubbish car to do it in though.

It’s a Mercedes advertising ploy and I doubt Frank would have been able to take much more g force in a more powerful car.
He is 77 and the worlds longest surviving tetraplegic so fairly fragile.
They also had the hood down at the start of the recording which makes me think they needed a car with easy access to lift him in and out.

 

[Jenkins]

Slightly off topic but with a cycling link, you may have been aware of the continuing saga with Haas sponsor Rich Energy and their copying of the Whyte bikes logo. Rich Energy also had a small sponsorship deal on one of the Bentleys in British GT which has been terminated and replaced by...

 

[Bonefish Blues]

I knew someone would get on the bandwagon with Whyte!

 

[Reynard]

Listening to this...

https://formularapida.net/podcast-warwick-on-career-deaths-of-rivals-brother-brdc-role-more/

A combination of and and and and

One seriously top, top guy.

Edited to say: what a lovely voice. I could listen to Derek read the phone book and I'd still be enthralled

 

[Goggs]

Another dull race today.

 

[classic33]

Another dull race today.

The last lap has been run, but the race isn't over.

 

[Reynard]

The last lap has been run, but the race isn't over.

The stewards are still pretty busy... Don't take the result as a given.

 

[classic33]

25 years ago, Jos Verstappen

 

[Reynard]

I remember that...

Or rather, I could hardly fail to forget it.

It's one of those F1 moments that sticks in the memory, right alongside Derek Warwick skating through the Parabolica on his roll bar, Senna stuffing his McLaren into the wall at the exit to the Portier while leading the '88 Monaco Grand Prix by a minute, Maurizio Gugelmin sailing his March over the heads of the other drivers at the start of the '89 French GP...

 

[classic33]

Alonso nearly decapitating Coulthard in Japan?

 

[Reynard]

Alonso nearly decapitating Coulthard in Japan?

Or Schumacher driving into the back of DC at Spa in '98...