Modern Vespa

Let's just hope the powers that be don't get wind of this thread...

Has anyone found the original article posted anywhere?

Breaking News, F1 is elitist.

Indeed. It should come as no surprise to anyone that there is a concentration of money in anything that people find entertaining, whether it be music, sports, or media.

Shocking.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240301170542/https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a46975496/behind-f1-velvet-curtain/

I read the article, the one that got disappeared. Didn't seem like something to get worked up about, from any perspective. The writer is really just writing about herself and she's not as interesting as she thinks she is.

I'm going to suggest that someone read it and thought - Oh you ungrateful cow and then yanked the article because she was being an ungrateful cow.

So is show jumping and most things equestrian, offshore powerboat racing,Yacht racing, Palm Beach Concours, the list is endless.

I think Ms. Wagner needs to get out a bit more and start talking to "everyone who talked to me did so nicer than usual"

Vespas!

Carlos Sainz out with appendicitis. Oliver Bearman will get his F1 debut in a Ferrari.

Also, Audi has confirmed that they are taking a 100% stake in Sauber (up from the previously planned 75%) so Audi will be a genuine constructor.

Oliver Bearman. 18 years old.

Tough paper round.

I was totally wrong about Audi then.

I'll stick with hacky-sacking and wine in a box. I like the anti-elitist approach.

Bearman 10th in third practice.

An online friend was hanging out, way back then, with The Johnny Walker heir who was sponsoring a team (McLaren?).
So yes, elite, a lot of partying.

When I asked him, friend said Damon Hill is more like his mother.
Also said, the late Pedro Rodriguez was a very kind gentleman, and after all these years he is still sadden by his death.

sadly 11th in quali. But honestly as an 18-year-old thrust into his first race weekend, i'd say if he's keeping it betwixt the kerbs he's ahead of the game.

ETA: hell he's already got a better record than Mazepin

I'm wondering if he has a great race some racing hack will say something like - This is the best performance from a young driver since........

I want to wish him the very best of luck because I think that 11th is an incredible feat having been dropped into that seat from relative obscurity.

It looks like Helmut Marko may well be in trouble also.

Bearman 7th.

Leclerc Fastest Lap.

He leaked the screenshots of horner's despicable behavior so the world could see not only what a bad person he is, but prove that RB orchestrated the "independent inquiry" from the onset so they could just sweep it under the rug.

Of course they want to get rid of him, just like they got rid of the woman Horner was harassing. What that does to Max's choices, though....


Either way i'm bored with RB. Go Ollie!!!!

This is the high point for me as well. Very happy to see him do so well on his debut.

I was going to suggest that finishing the race in 10th would have been respectable but 7th is incredible considering he had an hours worth of practice.

I agree. Highlight of the race.

All papers delivered Bill in impressive style.

another thrilling start for '24🙃
Sainz' appendectomy scar was the highpoint.

O.S.

Thank God for Ollie Bearman or this would have been the highpoint:

Yeah, I'm all for self belief but not when it leads to being so detached from your own self awareness that you end up looking like a bell end.

This is F1, not Art College.

At least he's been consistently ridiculously dressed for about a decade now.

"It's not a PHASE dad!!"

Looks like Marko's in the clear after his RB meeting, brushed under the carpet again?.

Roll on the summer break should be very Interesting🤔

He's walking to the next film set, he's got a cameo apperance on Star Wars, as Daft Vader 😉👍

I'm not defending it but I guess if you have F**k You Money you can dress how you like but I'm not sure what he's trying to achieve.

Is this an outfit from the Lewis Hamilton Collection ?

Yup, Helmut's interview went well so everything is well with the World.

Frank Vassueur apparently approaches Newey to join the Red Team.

Alonso once again shows us again just how superior he is.

Stroll in the wall again.

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I'm not defending Hamilton's outfit either, but I think it looks worse in that first photo than it does in the video above. I mean, it's still kind of silly, but maybe less so.

yeah the photo for the tabloid was clearly cherry-picked for his knee sort of "throwing it outward" to make it look super awkward in that single frame.

i wonder if he's going to be the next steven seagal...

at least it's not from the Steve Harvey collection at Penney's.

Hé thinks hé is jesus 🤪 can't keep up with his teammate , next year hè gets a real good guy as team mate

If you like bike racing you may want to check out the two "Clash of the Baggers" races from Daytona last weekend.

Also.

Check out the "Webbed Glove" incident in NASCAR a few weeks back.

Priceless.

I mostly like, or at least like the idea of, Lewis's fashion getups; last week's version just seemed a little silly out there in the desert, especially with the way things are going.

A few years back the Dodgers (baseball club in Los Angeles) had a young goofy guy with a wacky haircut named Kike Hernandez (pronounced Keekay; too lazy to figure out how to put an accent on the "e" or "i") who went into a prolonged slump. He then got a very conservative haircut and said something brilliant about it, which was, "I'm not hitting good enough to have that haircut." Made me like him.

Lewis, however, is the winningest driver in F1 history and he's the only black guy ever so he will always get to do whatever he wants. Who can say anything to him? Back when wearing a baseball cap backwards was a new thing, my stepfather was outraged, saying, red-faced, "With the bill in the back it's not even doing what it was meant to do!" I remember telling him, "I think it's doing what it's meant to do. It's pissing you off." So that's probably part of it. But eventually...we shall see.

And

Wearing a baseball cap backwards was a nod to the visitors in jail when they had to turn it around so they could get closer to the glass to hear better.

He may have had a point.

Bearman did great. After that 0.036 gap to Hamilton in Q2 (maybe Bearman went out too early?) the race was damage limitations. Considering who were in front of him (and behind) his results were awesome.
Maybe this will be the year Max achieves 30 wins out of 24 races.

Max has said in an interview that he is free to leave RB if Helmut is not with the team anymore.

It just goes to show how boring F1 racing is these days when the two main talking points are the performance of who finished seventh and the attire of an ex world champion.

At least the Rugby was competitive this weekend.

Yes, but no one watches Rugby.

The good money looks on Carlos going to Mercedes Benz.

Many an F1 "News" site is claiming that Horner will be sacked before Austria.

Personally I think that's bollocks.

I'd suggest that there will be changes at the end of the year or at least until the World Championship is won, again.