How dare you unlap yourself - Thump!

I still think that the 80's and early 90's were the most exciting to watch - although tbh after Senna's death it lost something - as by that stage most of the exciting drivers had gone.

You couldn't beat Murray and Hunt's commentary either! Let's hope that the BBC's coverage next year will be better - no adverts and no James Allen, hurray!

heres one for the old boys....best/worst f1 colour schemes?Attachment 5099.
you know,the ones that really worked or didnt! who remembers that awful
red and yellow of williams sum years ago :blush:or the lovley black and white of sauber?:wub

Ahh yeah the old Winfield colours on the Williams were pretty bad! I thought last years Renault looked pretty awful personally, and as for that Earth dreams car that Honda did - that looked ok close up but a right state going round the track!

Just found a pic of the Williams, doesn't actually look as bad as i remember!

http://www.diyden.net/Winfield-F1_1.jpg

Remember that B.A.R from the first season?

http://atlasf1.autosport.com/news/1999/images/bar5.jpg

I heard originally that they wanted to have one car as 555 colours and the other as the lucky strike but the FIA wouldn't allow it so they did this!

nope,your right nick.the williams looks ok i thought it was worse than that.have you seen their royal blue for this year? its SWEET!:wub

Weird how you remember things being worse :lol:

I used to love that turqoise blue the Leyton house car was painted in too!

I thought the Williams is only painted like that for testing actually??

Attachment 5100,bitten and hisses jordan.....nice!

Isn't the new williams psainted blue, to commemorate it time in F1 or something?


I used to think the first BAR was an awesome colour scheme. To say they couldn't get 2 cars painted up differently like they do in Indycars, I think they did a good job at shuving the finger up at the FIA. :woot:

Hmm wost colour scheme. I have to agree, the red and white williams was gross. A well known old wifes tale that goes round F1 (well, according to Murray Walker) is that, if a car looks fast stood still, then it will be fast on the track....and that Williams looked about as fast as a Reliant Robin in those colours!

I remember all those races that No Idea mentioned. In fact I think I've still got them on VHS somewhere.
My fave moment in f1 has to be Mansell (again) Surprising Senna at Hungary whilst lapping the Onyx of Stephan Johansen.....

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=lWCXZg...eature=related

...and thats after qualifying 12th..and going on to win.

Oh..and this-Mansell again-

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=iHf-Ru...eature=related

...how close do you want to get?

Senna went up to him after the race, and said "Are you 'beep-beeping' crazy!"
:p

Is it me or did Mansell provide some excellent racing?

Ignoring the japanese commentary this a great collection of senna v prost.

Wasn't that the race where Mansell had booked his flight home for mid point in the race as niether the team or Mansell himself belived the car would make it to the end as it was so unreliable?, only to keep the thing going and winning the race.

Just watching that clip that robbie put up.
The bit from silverstone is brilliant. Showing how god Senna was with an uncompetetive car, and the way Prost gets it sideways (33secs in), when Senna holds onto the outside line!! Brilliant.

Prost was very quick in an F1 car...he just couldn't race.
You rarely saw prost putting good moves on people.
He just had no answer when Senna put his car round the outside.

love the clip from Monaco with senna pointing at prost as they cross the line and stuffing him going up the hill, AWESOME:thumbsup:

Worst looking car in F1? The Honda Earth thing. They were doomed as soon as they rolled that pile of poo out. It wouldn't have mattered if it had a 'Back to The Furture' warp drive in, painted like that it had to fail.

Yep, im with you on that one. :D

anyone remember the Forti ford? a bright yellow thing from about 1995.......... i think it was a Brazillian team or something, anyway, it was pants.

Haha yeah!!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ain_(crop).jpg


Just as bad were the Pacific team but they looked cool at the time!!

http://www.f1rejects.com/teams/pacif...ile/canada.jpg

What about the old Leyton House was cool at the time too:

http://philippetorres.free.fr/capelli.jpg


Do you remember the old Loctite Lotus that was sponsored by Tamiya? I remember looking round one and it had Tamiya logos on the front wing.

http://www.f1rejects.com/centrale/su...1-montreal.jpg

Ahh Pacific team yeah!, i saw one of those in a Thourghbread grand prix meeting about a year ago... still painted the same colour!

Anyone remember these 2 Grand prix finishes?

#1 Monza 1993, a certain Mr Hill took the win but it was Christian fittipaldi making the headlines when he piled in to the back of team mate P.L.Martini, he flipped over, landed on his wheels and crossed the line to finnish the race!. lol.

#2 Senna (JPS Lotus) and Mansell (williams) 198...6? at Jerez in Spain (i think), Mansell and senna battling for lead, Nige had to pit for tyres and came out in 3rd. He faught back up to the gearbox of Senna's Lotus on the last lap and tried to pass down the final straight towards the flag..... Senna won by something like 14000's of a second, closest win in history?

I think Flippipaldi, was the only person to finish a GP 10 ft in the air and upside down wasn't he?! lol

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vv2kxImg4vc

Yeah, mansell thought he'd won, because the night before, the finishline was 20yards further up the track. But for some reason they'd moved it back down the track for the race?:eh?:

Anyone remember Michael Andretti's (short) F1 carer?

This video pretty much summed up his career-

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-22hDvx3R5U