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    The Grand Prix For British Philatelic Immortality

    When The Germans Came to Formula One

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    Image of B1663R B1663R
    06/03/09

    In reply to The Grand Prix For British Philatelic Immortality
    Holy shit!! someone actually photoshopped Murilee in the passenger seat!!!
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    Image of bzr bzr
    06/03/09

    In reply to The Grand Prix For British Philatelic Immortality
    Hey, I used to collect stamps as a kid too! All the cool kids did it. The losers went out and played JV football and tried to score with cheerleaders in their jacked-up pickup trucks. (And I'm from Massachusetts.)


    My favorite stamps always came from obscure-assed little islands that were awesome enough to put old Peugeots on their stamps, like this:


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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    06/03/09

    @bzr loves a Chinese Hummer (long time?): I thought "St. Vincent and the Grenadines" would be a great name for a band, but the fucking Dutch beat me to it.
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    Image of B1663R B1663R
    06/03/09

    In reply to The Grand Prix For British Philatelic Immortality
    is that it? is that what i am supposed to see?

    keeps studying picture

    ...

    lets eyes go cross

    i think i see it now...

    a stupid dolphin?!?!

    what a waste of time!!!
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    06/03/09

    @B1663R: Haha, I get it.


    Also, they're making love.

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    Image of JamesHunt||ShhhI'mHuntinWabbits JamesHunt||ShhhI'mHuntinWabbits
    06/03/09

    In reply to The Grand Prix For British Philatelic Immortality
    As successfully as Hunt's time at McLaren was I think it was hit stint with the playboy outfit that was Hesketh Racing that makes him the coolest in my book. Their only emblem on the entire car was a teddy-bear!
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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    06/04/09

    @JamesHunt||ShhhI'mHuntinWabbits: Plus they rocked a GMC Motorhome. That only adds to the win.
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    Image of oyumurtaci oyumurtaci
    06/03/09

    In reply to The Grand Prix For British Philatelic Immortality
    Nigel Mansell was also axed, despite having an exquisite moustache...
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    Image of Peter Orosz Peter Orosz
    06/03/09

    @oyumurtaci: Was not! He's right there in his yellow Williams.
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    Image of Armand Armand
    06/03/09

    @oyumurtaci: Didn't Mansell once fail to start a race because a large pre-race meal had left him too fat to fit into his car?
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    Image of Kid Twist Kid Twist
    06/03/09

    In reply to The Grand Prix For British Philatelic Immortality
    Do British stamps go on the left side of the envelope?
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    06/03/09

    @Kid Twist: Haha...that's funny.
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    Image of SirNotAppearing SirNotAppearing
    06/03/09

    In reply to The Grand Prix For British Philatelic Immortality
    My personal favorite stamps, at least until my wife used them to send thank-you notes:
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    06/03/09

    @SirNotAppearing: We have the Star Wars stamps somewhere at home. My wife's a huge Star Wars fan so I know she won't be using them.
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    Image of combat chuck combat chuck
    06/03/09

    In reply to The Grand Prix For British Philatelic Immortality
    Ok, I stared at the picture of Stirling Moss in the Mercedes for like 5 minutes. Even zoomed in and everything. What am I not noticing? Is Waldo hiding in the trunk?
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    Image of JamesHunt||ShhhI'mHuntinWabbits JamesHunt||ShhhI'mHuntinWabbits
    06/03/09

    @combat chuck: The man is having a smoke while he pilots the Merc, I think that might be what Orosz is getting at.
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    Image of Kid Twist Kid Twist
    06/03/09

    @combat chuck: He drove the whole race with his right turn-signal on. Infuriated the other drivers.
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    06/03/09

    @JamesHunt||ShhhI'mHuntinWabbits: If you say so. I don't see any ciggies, but then my vision is poor from all the lurking on Jalopnik.
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    06/03/09

    In reply to The Grand Prix For British Philatelic Immortality
    I prefer getting The Grand Prix for Russian Fellatic Immortality from my wife.
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    Image of SirNotAppearing SirNotAppearing
    06/03/09

    @engineerd: Damn you. I read too slowly. The joke was already taken.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    06/03/09

    @engineerd: I might point out that my significant other is British, and...


    ...you know where this is going.

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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    06/03/09

    @Lo! Loveseats, friend of Xrays: My wife is of Russian descent, so...
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    Image of .357 .357
    06/03/09

    @engineerd: My hand is of Indian descent so....

    (Joke, not true)
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    Image of John Krewson John Krewson
    06/03/09

    @engineerd: Good at that, are you?
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    06/03/09

    @John Krewson: I have my moments.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    06/03/09

    @engineerd: Merely pointing out that if I had made the joke, it would've been slightly truer to the headline. However, I didn't. So you win anyway.
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    Image of .357 .357
    06/03/09

    In reply to The Grand Prix For British Philatelic Immortality
    The family bathroom would be hijacked for hours as I placed slightly wet sponges on letters and postcards my family had received and stashed over the decades.

    Peter, don't lie. You weren't looking at stamps in there.
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    Image of Peter Orosz Peter Orosz
    06/03/09

    @.357-Wingman of Syrax: It was certainly a comfortable bathroom but I was prepubescent in a major way. Like 8. Dinosaurs all the way.
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    Image of .357 .357
    06/03/09

    @Peter Orosz: I'll quote Big L. Actually, never mind that would probably get me banned.
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    Image of .357 .357
    06/03/09

    In reply to *done* The Grand Prix for British Philatelic Immortality
    The family bathroom would be hijacked for hours as I placed slightly wet sponges on letters and postcards my family had received and stashed over the decades.

    Peter, don't lie. It wasn't stamps you were looking at in there.
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    Image of brandegee brandegee
    04/03/09

    In reply to When The Germans Came to Formula One
    Awesome photos. Definitely the biggest deal about the W196 is the direct-injection I-8.


    The use of Elektron was not really that remarkable except that it was obviously dangerous and probably expensive. The first VW Beetle prototype used 20kg of the stuff in the drivetrain, and many 1920s race cars used it. Magnesium use today is tremendous.


    "The car was wrapped in sheets of Elektron, an ultralight and very flammable alloy of magnesium."


    So both the chassis and bodywork were Elektron? No wonder Levegh's SLR torched so badly.

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    Image of X-Zambian X-Zambian
    04/03/09

    In reply to When The Germans Came to Formula One
    "No vultures were encountered on the Autobahn...".

    Excellent line.

    Road legal 300SLR?

    Awesome. What would that be worth if it was still around I wonder.
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    Image of scroggzilla raids again scroggzilla raids again
    04/03/09

    @X-Zambian: Uhlenhaut's SLR is still around. It's in the Mercedes Benz museum.
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    Image of X-Zambian X-Zambian
    04/03/09

    @SCROGGZILLA!!!:

    Ah. Didn't know that. Unlikely ever to be sold then.
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    Image of scroggzilla raids again scroggzilla raids again
    04/03/09

    @X-Zambian: Only if the Carpocalypse gets much, much worse.
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    Image of Peter Orosz Peter Orosz
    04/03/09

    @SCROGGZILLA!!!: I have some old footage of it which I'm editing in the coming days. Yakking in Hungarian with English subs and driving to see the Uhlenhaut in a 34-year old diesel Benz.
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    Image of nstrug nstrug
    04/02/09

    In reply to When The Germans Came to Formula One
    A beautifully written article as usual Peter.


    Of course it should be borne in mind that Mercedes-Benz High Performance Engines, supplier to McLaren, Force India and Brawn GP are in fact what used to be Ilmor, based in Brixworth, Northamptonshire, England and acquired by Daimler-Benz in 2005.


    That's a British engine that took the 1-2 (almost 1-2-3) on Sunday.


    Nick

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    Image of Peter Orosz Peter Orosz
    04/02/09

    @nstrug: Wow, I did not know that. Thanks for pointing it out. And, ahem, let's see how to rewrite my post-
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    Image of philibuster philibuster
    04/02/09

    In reply to When The Germans Came to Formula One
    That man in the trench coat is hiding another man inside his coat.
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    Image of Peter Orosz Peter Orosz
    04/02/09

    @philibuster: Does the man inside Alfred Neubauer have another man inside him as well?
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    Image of Armand Armand
    04/02/09

    @philibuster, Peter Orosz: A little-known provision of the German-Soviet nonaggression pact (which divided Poland between the two countries) was that Stalin had to share the USSR's secret nesting doll technology with the Nazis. Since Hitler was interested in keeping German car companies on the cutting edge of technology, Neubauer was one of the first Germans to learn the secrets of these Russian dolls.
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    Image of Peter Orosz Peter Orosz
    04/03/09

    @Armand Bengle: I am now enlightened. Perhaps the men inside him are his racing drivers from the Thirties. Caracciola inside von Brauchitsch, with Hermann Lang as the chewy center.
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