m3gtr

oh yes, sorry about that...He has given HIMSELF the marching orders and i fail to see how any team can justify paying a lot of money to a dawdling uninspired driver that has had more than his fair share of the F1 pie. I say this knowing full well that JV, good as he was- AND being a bloody WDC, was bleating on just before defecting to another series that he didnt care a damned bit about the money and just wanted to keep racing. Look where that got him... NASCAR. didnt matter a damned bit in the end, did it? Toyota hired RS for everything Roy mentioned before and 3 worthless nowhere years later its ending in zip. He didnt even win a race, let a lone an entire championship.surprise, surprise. All that money in toyota and RS couldnt replicate his brothers achievements the way MS did at ferrari. Goes to show you another side of how good MS REALLY was and highlights the areas where RS isnt. 3 people in f1 are fast approaching the end of their careers and rightfully so, theyre aging, have made a shitload of money but dont have the spark anymore no matter how much they bleat on about giving the team their best... RB is in his last season next year. DC is also going to have his swan song- he knows its time to hang up the gloves and RS... you know... he may just secure a seat with SA or spyker if hes UBER lucky...maybe even prodrive but why would david richards want him???? may as well ask JV back into the fold to develop that new team! Oh yeah and JV dont forget to bring Pollack the Polluck with you!!LOL!

LOL! you dont have a modesty towel to "walk around in"! ..its just to put on your head when your in the dip! youll get into a yukata before and after the bath and underneath it youll be free as a bird! no pun intended. let it all hang out i say!

and remember , next season we will have 24 cars on the grid!!

hahah, ralf at williams? not on your life. Ralfs star is fading, fast. Ralf couldnt bring toyota to the front of the grid and that was with f1s biggest budget! to say he could do better at williams on their budget is just madness. so lets play this out...silly season is coming on full tilt you know..! Mac- LH and GP ( Gary Paffet - who has been deserving a drive for years ) Ferrari- FA and KR Bmw- NH and RK RBR- MW and DC ( one last round for the veteran ) TR- SV and SB Honda- JB and RB ( again, one last time for the brazillian ) Toyota- FM and JT Williams- NR and Nakajima Renault- HK and NP ( time for LH's kryptonite to reveal himself ) Prodrive- PDR and ( thats one i have no idea about ) SA- Sato and ( unnamed cash rich mobile roadblock )- can i hear anyone saying Diniz? Spyker ( soon to be RIP )- Karthekayen ( because of the Indian ownership )and AS Ralf will be given his marchign orders this year and i struggle to see

that BOAC vid was old skool goodness! loved it. man, those engines sounded horn...

i know this is going to get me into hot water with some of you but ive been watching the footage of the race from fuji over and over and over and one thing really struck me... Mark was being extremely aggressive behind the safety car 2~3 laps before the safety car came in...he was darting all around hamilton right on the gearbox, up along side, and that with Lewis right smack bang behind the safety car...Lh's remarks about getting RBR to ask mark to cool it dont seem too far fetched the more i watch the footage... he had nowhere to go. he couldnt pass the SC and mark was on his ass..you can see it in the footage...the distance between hamilton and the safety car to hamilton and webber was merely meters on a few occasions... i fear some of that incident was Mark's own doing... and it makes me feel even worse for vettel because he has copped the brunt of the suffering... if you doubt me, get the tape and check laps 24 to 21...and keep your eyes on webber... :blink:

ahhh, ct we have a lot more in common that i first thought. its nice to read such honesty from you and i appreciate your words. weve had a fair amount of disagreement but im not going to detract from your knowledge of the sport. That would be stupid of me and missing the point entirely... First of all, im not going to make excuses for hamilton off the track. He has a great deal of maturing to do and hes showing arrogance in his comments. It kinda shits me too when hes taking blindsides at a double world champ but FA is no saint either. I really believe LH was so pissed at FA for doing what he did, hiding info from RD, blackmail, threats etc, that his loyalty to the team and rightfully so, albeit slightly askew, that hes decided to say "screw FA..double world champion or not he cant feck with this team, the team that has supported me through thick and thin and not expect me to arc up." LH was all praise for FA for most of the season, we all heard him say how honoured he was to be driving along side him and how much respect he had for him but i think the events of the past few weeks have well and truly shattered this image in his mind and now, infuriating as it is for some, hes calling for alonsos head... yes..that from a disrespectful rookie but its a guy who has known RD and been known to Rd for many years. Seriously, what 9 year old has the balls at that age to go up to Rd and say, "One day ill be driving one of your cars." ive never heard of anything like it. we may hate his off track pedantics but seriously guys, lets just savour the amazing sight of witnessing what is in reality a completely unlikely and impossible thing... i used to tell myself that there would never be a time when we would see anyhting like MS again...7 titles and countless victories and PP's...who could come along after that? I thought ive witnessed something truly amazing since i started watching F1 motorsport in adelaide at 7 years of age... Ms was where it stopped in my lifetime... then along comes this kid, out of nowhere to be on the brink of taking the season in his first attempt against a 2 time champ who dethroned MS and a string of other race winning drivers.., a thing NO DRIVER has EVER done... cherish it i say..it will never happen again in my lifetime and im sure in many of yours...

JV was given a state of the art williams with which to kick ass and he still didnt beat hill and take the drivers crown. LH has almost bested him on both counts. When you thin about it hes about to do the unthinkable, unimaginable. im so happy for the sport even if he is an arrogant spoilt youngster... he has had to prove himself all through his career, whether hes had RD in his corner and if it were me id be damned glad he was and hes mopped the floor with every competition hes faced. his season in F2 was unbelievable in 2006. he beat Pique to the title only just mind you. BUT he still hoisted the crown. he will be the youngest rookie EVER to take the title in F1 if he nails it this weekend and that against some of the finest drivers the sport has ever had. Man i wish MS was still around..if he was in the mix can you imagine the fireworks!

he drove the most consistent race out of anyone. He only went off track because the pole was too feisty in getting past on low fuel. he caned the field... he had a 20 plus second gap on alonso 10 laps after they went green. He crossed the light with daylight between him and HK...Gonzo, Plaster, and Highkennen were all over the bloody shop all race long. yes webber was stoic, damn i nearly cried when he got taken out, amidst all he went through...rips me to shreds for him.. Heres a little funny excerpt from him after the incident with vettel... ("Behind them Vettel made an awful mistake, and ran into the back of Webber, leaving bits of Red Bull all over the place. It was such an awful mistake that Vettel returned to the pits and wept. And rightly so. Webber went to the medical centre. It had been a bad weekend. It had started at 03.00 on Sunday morning when he started throwing up. He missed the drivers' parade because he was feeling so sick. But he took the start and five laps into the race threw up inside his helmet. But on he went and there he was with a chance of glory and then... Webber should have been the one weeping. "If he was bigger than me I would probably have hit him," Mark admitted.")

some of you guys are laughable. youre clinging for soundbites and snippets of info to bang on about how youd like to ream hamilton. Press this, whinger that. LOL! yet not ONE of you has a damn thing to say about his on track performances. He has absolutely put the double world champion and the rest of the damned paddock, in the shade. AND that, in spades. open your jaded eyes and have a good look. Im sure even speaking sense to some of you will fall on deaf ears cause your baying for some LH blood spillage. its so funny. LH hadnt seen rain in a bloody F1 car until the deluge during the euro GP. we all know the aftermath of that little incident..maybe even the crane driver was a member of the british press... But yet, there he goes again and canes the crap out of everyone in japan under torrential downpour and some of the most atrocious conditions ive seen on a track - as a bloody rookie! and still some of you hard noses havent even raised a cynical eyebrow and instead have called to lampoon him for rightfully putting alonso to the proverbial dogs. It wasnt LH who lost his balls in the race and championship,...it was the supposed DOUBLE bloody world champion alonso! be cynical. whinge and whine about his arrogance. At least hes got the balls, craft, talent and ability to back it up where it most counts...on the damned track. some of you are missing an F1 revolution! your too busy with your heads stuck in the sand to see it happening right in front of your eyes. LH for PM. :blink: shit i reckon thatll well and truly stir up a few of you haters...

take it easy Koze... i think youre taking those words out of context. I interpreted it as he was proud to be where he is and that he wants to build a legacy. I think thats fine. I think its more that than him thinking hes on the same level, which he isnt, but heck i think hes got every ounce of ability needed to make it happen.

oh and youl get a pair of slippers to walk around in while youre there so dont worry about footwear. shared may in actual fact mean that there are certain times men can use the bath and certain times for women only. Its very rare these days to find an onsen with mixed bathing.

lol, mate thats a normal set up for a japanese bath. How much can you show?? get your kit off...if you aint nude, your bein rude.. Wearing a bathing suit is actually a cultural no no. You will most definitely be in seperate rooms if you are travelling with a woman. Girls and guys have their own baths. Dont dive bomb the pool, just walk in. The towel they give you is "modesty towel" but it doesnt cover much. You keep that. remember to scrub up good before you get in the bath and rinse off completely. Soak for as long as you can stand, onsen and sento can be notoriously hot, 5 minutes is sometimes enough. It wont be unusual to have 3 or 4 baths in one night. Make sure you have one before dinner. Itd be rude not to. ive stayed in dozens of ryokan and they are the best way to spend a night if youre here...normal western style hotel rooms just dont cut it. Enjoy!

okay...well i have the onboard from the race and in this case specifically massa and you can see that things werent right ahead of him. ahead of massa was a BMW and then SV, MW and LH. Hamilton was to the right of the track, and Mark was already spun around by SV. It looks like LH slowed way up and mark slowed so as to not get ahead of him, and SV went right up his backside. The three cars were very very close together even as mark was spinning. Lh looked to have been crawling... DL that file Roy and see it for yourself. Youll even get alonsos crash and mark hurling the wheel out the car. the bloody director loves massa by the way.

sensational! Thats a snippet of what you can expect from the link i gave you roymeister.

thanks for the heads up Giant. Its so good to see you guys so dedicated towards this goal. Im secretly hoping you can show them a fair whack of aussie know how and ingenuity. LOL...i can totally understand why you wouldnt want to tell me the exact price you paid, but you and i both know it was a hell of a lot cheaper than you wouldve got it for in Oz!! Good for you...Nur edition is it? Id like to know when youll be here in tokyo. Ill come up and give you guys some support...throw a few beers on the table in salute of your efforts. keep it up mate, its going gangbusters.

like i said, im not going to post the link up..im more than happy to direct it to you but only through PM...ask and you shall receive and all that jazz. I feel sorry for vettel...really i do. poor kid has probably been ripped a new one. i hope it doesnt shake him up too much but yeah as webbo said " hes probably learnt a valuable lesson today"..and so he should've. pay more attention next time SV ...dont let the red mist get a hold of you.

i already told you roy, if you want the onboard PM me!!!

oh come off it roy, one snapshot is enough for you to start bringing out the guillotine?? get a grip mate. i watched that vid too and its the bloody driver at the rear of the guy hes following who has to bloody well give way! lets see you try and blame the guy in front next time you ram someone up the back side...who do you think any court worth its salt is going to support. The guy who hits from behind is ALWAYS to blame. LH was controlling the flow. MW saw it happening. SV DID NOT. SV goes 3 feet up webbers bunghole, puts RBR and TR out for the day. dont go looking for a lynch mob to start trying to hang hamilton. Racing incident yes, but the daftest noob manouver i have seen in years. Vettel admitted he looked away and in this game thats all it takes. problem for webbo was he was sandwiched between a couple of blood thirsty youngsters and that is not the best place for any seasoned racer to be especially in treacherous conditions like that.

double post michael...dont you READ anything>..?

be my guest, im happy to oblige. :sorcerer:

LOL!! sorry if you dont like it mate, just saying it like it is... but about this asshole thing... Unlucky for alonso, i was really hoping he would win this race so the championship would go down to the wire, but its motorsport. and m3gtr i think you should give some more credit to Alonso as he is a great driver, i dont think he just crack and spun out, he car was badly damage. FA's car wasnt that bad... It was still drivable but he was already scattered from a race full of mistakes. He overdrove and underwhelmed today. I think hes the one cracking under the pressure, not LH. no assholes about that michael mate!

its what you were thinking Sav man... Sebastian Vettel: I made a good start and the race was going well. Then, with the final safety car, I was behind Lewis and Mark and exiting Turn 13, I looked to the right and saw Lewis going really slowly, I don't know why, but I thought he had a problem. Probably he was heating his brakes. Then, by the time I looked forward again, I was already in the back of Mark's car and I think he had also reacted to Lewis. I apologise now to Mark because I ruined both our races." but i think Mark smelt blood and the red mist had started to decend... Lewis Hamilton - "We had the safety car and I was constantly on to my engineers to say tell the Red bull team to tell Mark (Webber) to make a little bit more of a gap, as with the pace car in front I couldn't go any faster."

i think Mark's being very generous here with his words... Mark Webber has slammed "wild" Sebastian Vettel for costing a shot at fighting for the win in Sunday's Japanese GP. When the Safety Car came out following Fernando Alonso's huge accident, Webber and Vettel were lying second and third in the overall classification. And the two drivers, both of whom had led the race at some stage, were looking good for podium finishes. However, it ended badly when Vettel overcooked it, driving into the back of Webber when they were trying to warm their tyres for the restart. Naturally Webber was furious. "That was a completely disastrous finish. We were in very, very good shape to challenge Lewis for first today," he said. "We were strong and I didn't make any mistakes despite the tricky conditions, cars were aquaplaning and the visibility was very poor. Fernando's crash caused the second safety car stint, which bunched everyone back up again. "That wasn't great; I would have liked to have continued to the end of the race. "Vettel was a bit wild behind me during the first Safety Car period and then did a very good job of hitting me very hard under the second safety car. I think today he will have learnt a very valuable lesson."

i want to see both ferraris punished for disobeying whiting's orders that the WHOLE field start on extreme wets. BOTH ferraris started on inters clearly defying race control.... cmon Mac, wheres the challenge?