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asl02 said:
Documentary about Schumacher’s 1994 title win coming to Netflix this year.
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Toronado said:
Almost as fraudulent as Max’s ‘21 title
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I rewatched Lucky! again this week and episode 7 centres on Mansell, Prost 1993, the Senna death, Schumacher, Hill. The traction control topic was covered, the ridiculous events that unfolded at Silverstone and the draconian two race ban and the slam dunk DSQ in Belgium. I hadn't realised that Ballestre imposed that, he was still President of the FIA Senate, although Bernie does point out that Mosley loved to punish anyone who broke the rules (ironic given what caused his downfall) so it was not just Ballestre being Ballestre.

The upshot is that he won that championship with four fewer races, with an inferior Ford engine but we'll never really know if the driver aids were used. It ended like it did, in skulduggery, but Hill was an idiot for diving down there and giving him the opportunity. This was only four years after Senna and Prost in Japan, it was not as if he was living in some squeaky clean oversanitised neurotic era of "causing a collision" penalties like we are now.

I did laugh when Bernie commented that his only complaint about Max's sadomasochism scandal was that he didn't invite him!
 
asl02 said:
Documentary about Schumacher’s 1994 title win coming to Netflix this year.
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ah great, another tv show where i will want to put my foot through the screen when the twat cheats his way to the title.
Toronado said:
Almost as fraudulent as Max’s ‘21 title
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this man kna's...
Beau Peep said:
but Hill was an idiot for diving down there and giving him the opportunity.
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hindsight is a wonderful thing, he wasnt to know that schumi was fundamentally out the race at that point when we came round the blind corner to find him re-joining the track. im sure someone once said something about not going for gaps... :lol:

i think what annoys me more, is that it wasnt as if it was a one off - it was a career based on it... if he'd one 7 titles and that was the only example then perhaps i'd give him more of a pass for the stuff that went on that year, but jerez & monaco etc backup my opinion that he got what was coming to him & Briatore (singapore etc...).
 
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errant said:
a im sure someone once said something about not going for gaps... :lol:
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Well, yes, but the context of that quote is almost always misinterpreted!

Senna was referring to his intentional spearing of Prost in Japan in 1990... and was said in an attempt to justify it.

He later admitted that of course it was deliberate, it was in retribution and restitution for 1989, and he could not live with himself to maintain that lie. The whole point of that incident and the interview was that the gap didn't exist! Jackie Stewart knew it, and called it out, and Senna vowed never to speak to him again.
 
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Beau Peep said:
Well, yes, but the context of that quote is almost always misinterpreted!
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100% & i only reference it to give damon a pass himself on putting himself between the benetton and the wall. he wasnt to know the car was fkd & all he had to do was hang back, he saw a world title that was always the slimmest of slim chances & went for it. schumi got the rough end of the deal that season, but he did nothing in the rest of his career to change my mind that he would sell his dead granny for a world title. even his two great drives at barcelona (stuck in 5th & that wet drive) brings up sick to say he drove well... :lol:
 
On the sanitised driver media image we have now, and in contrast to it, I enjoyed this interview from 1992 where Senna wanted to join Williams but Prost had signed for 1993 in February 1992, and negotiated a veto on both Senna and Mansell being his teammate. Imagine Norris calling Verstappen a coward for vetoing teammates! They're too chummy. And Mansell sits there smiling as if to say "spot on, thank you" and Berger is sitting there pissing himself laughing!

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Beau Peep said:
On the sanitised driver media image we have now, and in contrast to it, I enjoyed this interview from 1992
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the 2026 version of that would be bearman have a brooklyn beckham style meltdown on his instragram account (or more highlights of his discord chat) that hamilton won't get out of his ferrari seat! :lol:
 
Looks like Lewis has finished off with the fastest lap of the week right at the end of day 5.

Hope it's not just low fuel showboating to grab a few headlines. Would love it if the Ferrari was genuinely a title contending car this year!
 
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It's on!
All the YouTube commentators and comments are falling over themselves to simperingly declare Newey's car "radical" "extreme" and "groundbreaking" blah blah blah.
 
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Going to devour the Shakedown show tonight, analysis of the Aston and the timings will make it a good watch.

I know it probably means nothing and he'll probably only scrape into P9 in qualifying but ITHICS!
 
Lewis reporting the car is "more fun to drive, more snappy and oversteery but easier to catch"

Mercedes did exactly 500 laps, one can't help wondering if that's entirely by design. I'd say German efficiency but a) they're barely German at all and b) I also work for a large German company and it's incredibly inefficient!
 
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