F1 GRAND PRIX DE MONACO 2014: RACE ***SPOILERS***

It's much worse in Spanish. Words that are very common for one country are very vulgar for another. And there's so many different Spanish-speaking countries that you are pretty much guaranteed to upset someone at some point no matter how polite you try to be.

 

A black friend of mine apparently ticked ''other'' when he went to the States a few years back. Went straight to the ''personal welcome room'' (as he called it) for his first visit to the States. Apparently they weren't too happy to hear his argument saying that he wasn't African American but a full blown African, lol.

 

Lady Luck is colour blind!

 

Hamilton's Forte? HAHAHAHAHA
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Reneging already.
That proves that you're Lewis!

 

To be fair, African and African American are two very different groups of people.

 

That's so racist!

 

Lol, is it cos I is .......English

 

When he's not crashing into people (raikkonen, or his teammate Button) he normally does pretty well there.

Mind you, with the whole ''sorting it like Senna'' bit he might just make this place his usual place of ramping his teammate. We'll see in 2 weeks .


Still loved Kimi's post race interview after that ''All was going fine, I'm waiting for the red light and then some wooden eye crashes into you''.

 

Not according to 'Murica.

 

Yeah, I know he does well there. Hopefully Kimi will be doing good enough that Hamilton has another chance to hit him from behind, but not very likely. (Hopefully he is not lapping him)

 

Rest assured Bas I am booking marking some these post's for a revisit.. for a claws n all eat fest..

 

I wouldn't mind earning the tax he pays...mind you is it Monaco..nowadays...

 

Well put indeed sir !

Came across this :

Monaco points cost Marussia £2,000 | Planet F1 | Formula One News



Marussia sporting director Graeme Lowdon has hailed the team's progress especially in light of their very limited budget.

On Sunday, Jules Bianchi scored the team's maiden World Championship points when he brought his car home in ninth place in Monaco.

Overcoming a gearbox grid drop and two five-second stop-go penalties during the 78-lap grand prix, the Frenchman finally put Marussia on the board.

Lowdon said: "It's progress, which is really the important thing. We've shown we can move forward.

"When you see progress in a small team every single person knows they have contributed to it, and that's what makes it so valuable to everyone involved."

The Monaco points come despite Marussia's limited budget with Lowdon revealing that just £2,000 was spent on upgrades between the Spanish and Monaco races.

"If we were to spend another couple of thousand we'd go even quicker," he told Press Association.

"The bottom line is that development money has to come last. You've an obligation to pay people to do everything, and so we don't have the development budget.

"We're not limited by ingenuity, we've some really clever guys and they know what to do.

"We know if we apply some more resource to the car, we'll go quicker, but it's an expensive business even before you try and make the car do that."

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Not only did their upgrades cost less than Lewis' dog, most Fcar owners spend more on their yearly maintenance than that.

Wow...tough times for some teams...

 

I see it less as a victory for Marussia as a coming of age for Bianchi.
Wrestling that beast around the streets of Monaco was an amazing feat.
I suspect that ten years from now its Bianchi's emergence as a top line talent will be what's remembered from yesterday not the Rosberg Hamilton kerfufffle.

 

£2000 + $260 million (The amount the team has spend/lost since entering F1).


Also, £2000 is the price of a pint in Monaco. I presume Bianchi put it on his company credit card .

 

Bianchi is a Ferrari young driver programme person. He's had a couple of mistakes and DNF's but he's almost always faster than Chilton. Hopefully he'll get a better drive when one opens...

Chilton's only claim to fame is finishing every race he's entered. Consistent, yes, but presumably because he drives too slow to have a fast enough accident to put him out of the race...

 

When either of the grey beards at Ferrari are put to pasture he'd better get a seat there!

 

Well done to him.

Alonso sure Bianchi has a great career ahead of him - Latest sport news

MONACO (Reuters) – Jules Bianchi’s stunning race into the points with tiny Marussia at the Monaco Grand Prix could be the start of something big for the French Formula One driver, according to Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso.

The Spaniard, who started his own F1 career with now-defunct minnows Minardi, is a friend and travelling companion of Bianchi who is also under contract to Ferrari as part of their young driver academy.

“We spend a lot of time together in Maranello, we play football, we go cycling, we travel together on the same plane for some races,” he told reporters after Bianchi finished eighth on the track and ninth after a penalty was taken into account.

“He’s a friend and I’m extremely happy for him and very proud of what his result will mean for him in his career. I have no doubt it will be a good career,” continued double world champion Alonso.

“Hopefully with this result he can have a more competitive car next year and show his talent even more.”

Bianchi’s race was all the more impressive because he started on the back row of the grid after a penalty for an unscheduled gearbox change.
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Best, Sammy

 

One can only hope. Ferrari is normally quite hesitant hiring drivers that haven't won a race yet (Massa being one). Hopefully Bianchi can get it when a seat becomes available...

 

So Massa screws the pooch yet again.

 

Wow tell me about it..... I'am very pleased for them, I hope it is small steps to greater things.

 

There's something in F1 that only costs 2K?
I'd have thought that tire air was at least 5K per corner.

 

Hahaha or Lewis's haircut.... Nico's shaved legs perhaps ... eye brow wax for Fred..

 

Black or African American. Most black people in the US would take offense to being called "colored" considering it is an antiquated term (here anyway) that harkens back to unfortunate times in this country when there were separate drinking fountains, restaurant entrances, labelled "colored" for black people to use while white people used the regular ones.

Personally, I find "African American" to be a bit silly since in my eyes everyone in this country is American so i just say black if I am describing a person based on skin color. Interesting how language is different in other countries. Learn something new every day. Just remember if you venture here do not call a black person colored as it is frowned upon