Mclaren set to race with diamonds

Hmmm

Was it Montoya? Or Kimi? Who had some big honking diamond on the front of the car - only to crash and lose the nose - diamond and all?

Supposedly it was never found. That was a fun little bit of F1-dom. I can't wait to see the steering wheels.

We should take bets on how many times that cretin Varsha mentions it. I bet it will be at least 10 times over the course of practice/quali/race.

 

Christian Klien in a Jaguar, 2004. Quarter million quite literally down the drain.

 

Yeah, that's what I said, Klein in the Jag

It all seemed a bit... contrived.

I don't think they would plan the crash (gawd knows *that* would never happen in F1) - but a $250k roll of the dice? Or was that what they insured the hunk of cubic zirconia for?

 

It looked staged. Like he had a deal with that corner worker to steal the diamond. There was a much worse crash that race when Sato blew an engine and a Sauber came crashing into him because he couldn't see due to all the smoke.

 

And this is why modern F1 sncks ... what a load of fncken ****.

Can we PLEASE concentrate of the racing.
Pete

 

If I recall correctly they offered a free x-type Jag to the "thief" in return for the diamond......$30k Jag for $250k diamond???????

 

Really? Because of advertising?

Advertising is what allows them to pay big salaries and hire the best drivers, and spend so much money on technology to make the series so technically competitive.

I say this is everything that is right about F1.

 

And not to forget, sponsorship or rather LACK of sponsorship released us from the PeeWee!!

 

+1

If you can't flaunt it at Monaco, you can't flaunt it anywhere......

Cheers,
Ian

 

I think you guys are allowing all the bollocks surrounding the racing and required to wine and dine the sponsors to cloud your view of what should be important.

In the end all this bollocks is actually taking over the racing and soon somebody will realise that the racing is not actually required ...

As I've said for many years sponsorship will eventually kill motorsport. If you took away all the fancy dinners, fancy motorhomes and parties so you can chat with your sponsors you would find that the racing does not cost that much. Every year the dollars invested in this wining and dining is going up and THAT is where F1 has become crazy expensize and THAT is why we have the stupid single engine rules, etc. ... to save money so it can be spent on looking after sponsors instead.

Thus we can logically imply that sponsorship has killed innovation in motorsport because the money is being spent on food, pretty girls, bands, motorhomes and other red carpet BS.

Sponsors use the race so they can impress other companies ... but the cost is the race team now needs to hire a team of people to look after these needs. Its gone way too far.
Pete
BTW: Motorsport would happily exist without sponsorship because car manufacturers would still exist to prove their points and it would be funded as a tax write off, like Toyota was. A F1 team running costs is small fry to a company like Toyota, Renault, etc.

 

Well Monaco is where many of the sponsorship deals are made. It's a circus. Anything goes. My avatar is proof of that.

 

Course worker's perk!

 

There's something to be said for that...somewhere Andreas is smiling just reading that, I betcha'.

 

Nothing says Monaco like pasting diamonds on to a race car.
Monte Carlo, where you have to scrape off the bling and wipe off the glitz to get to the real tinsel

 

Interesting happenings at McLaren.

Feff

McLaren Plays Down Pat Fry's Exit ​

By Jonathan Noble
Friday, May 14th 2010, 10:12 GMT


McLaren is confident that its form will not be hit too much by the departure of chief engineer Pat Fry.

Team principal Martin Whitmarsh confirmed that Fry, who originally joined McLaren in 1993, was leaving the Woking-based operation but said he reckons there was enough strength in depth at the outfit to overcome his loss.

"Pat's been with the company for about 18 years, so he's made a great contribution to the team over a number of years," said Whitmarsh.

"I think it was probably good for him, the right decision for him to take a bit of a break, take a breather. I think he's worked very hard for the team for a number of years.

"Within our team, then, I think we've got quite a bit of a talent and depth, so in these situations it's a great opportunity for someone younger, maybe hungrier, to come along and replace all of us. We're all replaceable. I think the process will be the same but we're manned with fresh new engineers."

 

Making way for a Newey return in a very high position? I haven't read that speculation anywhere but it sure would make things interesting around the paddock.

 

Hell, I'm hoping Pat Fry goes to Lotus!

Feff

 

Nah. He's got the best car/jockey & team right now, *and* is making more money than God. He's not going anywhere.

Cheers,
Ian