Posts by Douglas Rodriguez9

ironfalcon43 said:Hey man, I think we aren't actually supposed to be typing in all caps here... It might be a good idea to tone it down a bit and stick to lowercase so we don't accidentally break any rules.😉

My bad. I completely missed that.🤷

slyscout13 said:Well, I guess I've finally surfaced! I first started getting into Formula 1 back around 1994 when I was about ten years old, and since then, it's just been a constant deep dive through Google, various fan forums, and YouTube... mostly because I wanted to see how those legendary masters used to drive—you know, guys like Alain Prost, Ayrton Senna, Nelson Piquet, Nigel Mansell, Niki Lauda, Emerson Fittipaldi, and Gilles Villeneuve. I've always had this massive fascination with the history of the sport.

...plus, I actually caught a retrospective on the 1970s seasons over on ESPN Classic recently, so I've been bingeing that too.

FAIR ENOUGH. AT LEAST YOU COULD HAVE CAUGHT A FEW OF SENNA'S RACES. I WAS ALREADY ASSUMING YOU HAD SEEN EVERYTHING, BUT THEN IT HIT ME... JUST HOW OLD ARE THESE GUYS ANYWAY?🤷

slyscout13 said:Let me set the record straight on that Spanish GP—Rolf Stommelen in the > actually went off track and tragically hit some spectators, and the race itself was won by Jochen Mass driving the >, with only 29 out of 75 laps completed.

Also, during that same season at the Austrian GP, they had to halt everything because of a massive downpour, and Vittorio Brambilla took the win in his >, which ended up being the only Grand Prix victory of his entire career.

DID YOU ACTUALLY WATCH ALL THAT OR DID YOU JUST FIND IT SOMEWHERE?🙄

Honestly, it doesn't even matter. They should have either called it quits right then and there or just pushed through and dealt with the fallout later, instead of dragging things out for an hour. It’s kind of like when Blažičko starts being overly cautious and suffocating the pace, and now we're seeing this exact same thing happen again. Kimi probably saw exactly where this was heading from the very start.
A total legend.