Sochi 2021 Pre-Race Thread

Mercedes AMG poster:

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Bottas getting the F1 car, HAM getting the SUV so Max can’t climb over him again.

 

Perfect return race for Kimi!

Merc is ready, rain nor shine.

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Pirelli is ready, too.

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Race Stewards

Garry Connelly
Matthieu Remmerie
Enrique Bernoldi [Drivers Representative]
George Andreev

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saw a post on line, basically: HAM wins home race in Britain, VER wins home race in Holland, Ricciardo wins kind of home race in Italy, obviously MAZ wins in Russia!

 

Im sure someone wont like them if they rule against a favorite driver lol

 

Bernoldi?

 

Raced against Jos Verstappen at Arrows, if I'm not mistaken.

 

I like the Soviet Constructivist style of the AT poster.

Of course Russia has left all that behind.
Well, except the power of the Presidency and the security services.

I suppose at least the KGB got a name change.
The GRU didn't even bother with that.

 

yeah like 20 years ago, what's he be doing since? hadn't heard that name in a long time

 

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In Soviet Russia, apex cuts you!

 

Why didn't they use Mazepin on that graphic?

 

Nikita Papa's G650

 

Still pondering this poster. Shameless G-Wagon product placement?

 

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/bernoldi-coulthard-monaco-2001-rennis/4797202/

Bernoldi meanwhile eventually crossed the line in ninth place. It was immediately after the race that a frustrated Dennis, accompanied by Mercedes boss Norbert Haug, accosted him.

There’s an understanding between team bosses that it’s bad form to speak directly to drivers from rival camps in such circumstances – it’s up to a driver to seek out a colleague with whom he has a grudge. This situation was a little like an angry parent at a junior kart meeting accosting a nine-year-old who’d dared to punt little Johnny off the track.

“They wouldn’t have done that to Michael or Jacques or someone with balls,” one driver told me with a smile. What would he have done if he’d been verbally accosted by Dennis and Haug, I asked? “Told them to **** off!”
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When he found out about the conversation, Arrows boss Tom Walkinshaw was incensed. He understood that Dennis and Haug had told his hapless driver that they could “end his career,” although other versions of the story suggested that the actual wording was along the lines of “you won’t last long in F1 if you drive like that again,” which seemed a little less harsh.​

 

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Also in the plane....watch your back and look in your mirrors, there are blue flags all over....

Ciao
Oscar

 

Mit Foxhound Escort lol

 

Race Day forecast - https://darksky.net/details/43.585,39.7188/2021-9-26/ca12/en

 

That's in case Mick got too close. lol