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29 Jul 2006, 00:28 (Ref:1666912)
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What ever happened to.....
.....the drivers throwing their hats off the podium? I remember the drivers used to do it every race in the 1990's. Anyone know why it stopped? Who were the last to do it? I kind of miss it.
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29 Jul 2006, 00:32 (Ref:1666915)
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I remember Mansell doing it at Adelaide in 1994
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29 Jul 2006, 03:07 (Ref:1666941)
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Probably because most of the podiums are surrounded by fences that keep the general public too far away from it to make it possible for the drivers to reach them with the hats.
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29 Jul 2006, 07:18 (Ref:1666997)
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Whatever happened to good old days of the 1960s and '70s? Back when the drivers had to actually to drive the car themselves...
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29 Jul 2006, 07:35 (Ref:1667001)
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nothing happened .. they're still in the 60s and 70s .. nobody stolen them
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29 Jul 2006, 10:35 (Ref:1667048)
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As for the hat throwing,it's probably a health and safety thing.You wouldn't want to get caught in the eye by a wayward baseball cap.
 I think the real reason is that you can't advertise whatever if it is spinning through the air. |
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29 Jul 2006, 13:38 (Ref:1667118)
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The wreaths they used to wear in the podium celebrations were removed because they obscured sponsorship logos, which I always think is a bit of a shame.
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29 Jul 2006, 13:48 (Ref:1667125)
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29 Jul 2006, 17:39 (Ref:1667249)
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It is an advertising thing, as martyn alludes to.
It puts me in mind of the podium scene from Le Mans one year. The winning Jaguar drivers were throwing their branded caps to the crowd and kept being handed new ones and asked to keep them on for the sponsor! Still kept throwing them though! |
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29 Jul 2006, 20:31 (Ref:1667334)
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Money ! Somebody will make a small fortune from selling it on. Sponsors or teams often have a claim on the helmet so its marketing value prevents the former benvolent gestures
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30 Jul 2006, 02:13 (Ref:1667516)
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Whatever happened to Formula 1 without a Schumacher? Geez, it's been sooooooooooooooooooo long...
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30 Jul 2006, 04:26 (Ref:1667545)
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early 1991 to be exact....
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30 Jul 2006, 05:46 (Ref:1667556)
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So there's only been one year of my life without a Schuey in F1? Oh god...
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30 Jul 2006, 14:38 (Ref:1667891)
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Perthaps we have not seen them because the drivers wait until the caps are champagne soaked for more mass and distance due to the crowds being so far back............. |
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30 Jul 2006, 15:41 (Ref:1667935)
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30 Jul 2006, 16:46 (Ref:1667983)
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Beau1 - MS gave is both what we wanted (he threw his cap into the ground, and he crushed FA)!
Happy days are back again...
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31 Jul 2006, 00:34 (Ref:1668419)
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LOL! Yaaaay! More of the same please. :P. Especially the throwing hats part, so i don't have to make this thread again in ten years.
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31 Jul 2006, 01:41 (Ref:1668431)
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Well it's obvous now isn't it, Michael must read the ten-tenths forum.
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31 Jul 2006, 05:20 (Ref:1668471)
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Absolutely, there was nothing spontaneous about that at all.
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31 Jul 2006, 06:43 (Ref:1668510)
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I think it is one of the FIA’s cost-cutting measures
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31 Jul 2006, 08:51 (Ref:1668606)
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Maybe they should ban it base on safety grounds. Hats can hurt.
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31 Jul 2006, 16:43 (Ref:1669080)
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those crazy sponsors - if they should ban anything it should be the watch Massa was wearing during the Hock. press conference. i almost went blind!
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31 Jul 2006, 20:08 (Ref:1669256)
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I am still waiting for a driver to throw his overallls into the crowd (let him keep the under-layer on, though,
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31 Jul 2006, 21:32 (Ref:1669365)
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Keep waiting...
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31 Jul 2006, 21:35 (Ref:1669371)
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I am and will.
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