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20 Jul 2002, 22:16 (Ref:338394) | #1 | ||
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Amazing Facts
I wanna hear some of your amazing facts about F1
I'll get the ball rolling ....More people have been into space than have driven F1 cars (apparently) |
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Squirells actually run F1, Bernie is like a puppet with several Squirells inside him controlling his every move - kinda like Men In Black.
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21 Jul 2002, 10:24 (Ref:338642) | #3 | ||
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Only one driver has finished on the podiums in 100% of their grand prix. Dorino Serafini at Monza, 1950, and as a result, it could be said that statistically, he's the most successful F1 driver ever!
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were you a cheeky git as a kid VB?! |
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i think its more likely that more people have been into space - than the number of squirrels that have driven f1 cars
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According to Niki Lauda a monkey can drive current F1 cars, that of course was just before he spun a number of times A monkey must be better than the rat then, we could have a Monkey win world championships!!!
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"Although it's every engineers dream to make a car that good and easy to drive that a monkey could do the job, unfortunately a monkey can not win a WDC.
Ermm ... wait a minute, actually there has been one occasion where a monkey could have won the WDC, the '92 Williams" (live quote from a 1996 lecture of a french professor employed by several teams throughout his career; today he'd probably be even more convinced of a monkey's chances at the WDC in the F2002 ) |
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Hehe. A serious record/fact. Most consecutive pole positions - Ayrton Senna - 8. |
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McLaren made a car that a monkey could drive for the 93 season but it was by then illegal
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21 Jul 2002, 22:56 (Ref:339197) | #14 | ||
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Does 'muppets in space' count??
That space thing was true a few about 2 years ago- maybe there has been a shortage of astronouts since then |
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Bob the Builder knows sooooooo much more than The Muppet show and Postman Pat put together
OK this is not why I posted this thread- I thought uit would be interesting (In a way it is) |
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So SQUIRRELS run bernie?!So he's a puppet?THAT'S why he's so ugly!!!(sorry little squirrels)
.....Hang on,you ******* squirrels are stealing everybody's nuts!!Get lost!! |
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That's the most amazing one :
"Eddie Irvine is the second best driver in the current grid. (And it's payed for that!)" |
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It is easier to get a meaningful quote on a Formula One matter from any muppet than from any Finn.
Ron Dennis has been into space more often than his drivers have given informative press conferences. TGF has a better chance of being shot into space than of convincing me that he is the equal of Fangio. |
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I'm sure he could if he wanted to... (go into space that is)
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Apparently when TGF was 24 years and 3 moths old he told his dad that he would like to be shot into space.
His dad said, "Vell if I'd known tventy fife years ago vot I know now - you bloody vell vould haf been!!" |
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Jacques is the second best payed driver in F1, at 4 times Montoya's salary. Can you get any more amazing than that?
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Actually a gorilla did once race in Formula One. He won one race and crashed into the Armco on the Victory Lap.
Hence, a gorilla has won more Formula One races than 3/4 of the current WWF1 grid. |
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Actually TGF was going to be the next celeb millionaire to visit the International Space Station,but only if HE could drive the rocket , and Reubens went along as his personal "Mini-Me"....
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