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You use the round-about as a skid pad to test g forces and how much downforce you need for turns.
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You know you're a MOTORSPORT fan when the only reason you learnt Japenese was so you could understand what the commentators were saying when watching Super GT.
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Yeah I do the same thing on my birthday for George Follmer (1973 F1 driver, came 3rd at Spanish GP, 1972 Can-Am Champion, 1965 SCCA Road Racing Champion, 1972 and 1976 Trans-Am Champion and winner of the 1969 IndyCar race at PIR).
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22 Oct 2011, 12:10 (Ref:2975120) | #57 | |
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I share a birthday with former GP driver, Dave Kennedy. An Irish chap who drove the Shadow/Theodore cars in the 1980 season. Not with any great success it has to be said. Then he raced Can Am, then on to sports cars and TV commentary.
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Guilty...to more than I realised.
Oh...and that too...pointing at the Avatar. Gravity powered F1...sort of. |
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22 Oct 2011, 13:00 (Ref:2975139) | #59 | |
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Oh blimey- the thing with the birthdays. To think I used to be pleased with the fact Gerhard Berger's is two days after mine!
You certainly can. I do exactly the same. |
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More of these are happening to me and it may be because of the thread, but:
You're going on holiday, unzip a suitcase and it makes a high-pitched fluctuating sound that instantly makes you think of a Formula 1 engine sound when you get a bit of wheelspin and the revs are momentatily high. Or maybe that's 'you know you've been playing F1 2011 all day when..'. |
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26 Oct 2011, 19:41 (Ref:2977347) | #62 | ||
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How about the fact that the only thing that will pacify my ten month old for longer than 10 minutes is if I put a F1 race on?
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26 Oct 2011, 21:46 (Ref:2977405) | #63 | |
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As soon as you get out your car you go and weigh yourself.
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28 Oct 2011, 02:28 (Ref:2977996) | #64 | |
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It's raining and your girlfriend begins to share the the umbrella she's sheltering herself with by shifting it over your heard, at which point she feels like your grid girl/ personal trainer.
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A bit of an old one this but back in the day if I ever had new tyres fitted to my road car I'd leave the stickers on the treads and pretend I got 'my qualifiers' on!
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I've done similar too Dan, in my case the mimimum possible in order to get back and fill up at Painsburys for the nectar points!!!
I also find my head popping round anytime I hear an air drill or pnemuatic drill, heck, any drill and immediately imagine an F1 car having its tyres changed! |
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You know you're obsessed when....
looking for a sports car, you discount Porsche and Audi because they're Le Mans winners. Look at Ferrari and genuinely consider an NSX because Senna famously developed it... On holiday in Italy, pull into a petrol station in your hire car, they saunter over to fill you with fuel in tragically slow time, then as you leave the pit area realise they forgot to change your tyres and now you have to complete the journey on these worn out ones... |
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After qually, you feel frustrated that there are 24 hours until the start.
You get that Saturday night feel-good feeling when you think about how there's a Grand Prix the next day. You may be sitting in a pub with friends and your thoughts are elsewhere. 2 from my lady: You spend the night asking her five times what the time is, because she's hogging the alarm clock and you'd rather be in control of the 'off' button so she doesn't switch it off and go back to sleep without being aware. You also worry about that clock- does it definitely go back by itself? You thought you heard her asking you about Felipe Massa's front wing when actually she was saying something totally unrelated. |
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30 Oct 2011, 12:39 (Ref:2978946) | #71 | |
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- you live in Japan and when a pedestrian starts weaving about on the foot path in front of you, you think: no wonder these people have never produced a decent driver - no one in this country can hold a decent line!
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Geting up at stupid o'clock to watch the first moments of FP1 of the first race of the season - I take it that everyone else in the world gets up at not quite so stupid o'clock to watch quali and the race
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You're surprised to see that your name isn't at the top of the Castrol Driver Rankings.
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