@e30m3: Not really a need to route for them, there's really only one way around the circuit, and if a driver gets lost he can just wait for someone to come around and then just follow them.
@Clown Shoe Pilot: You know, I just kind of siggered and skimmed past the typo. You, sir, have earned a hearty-clicky and a well deserved round of applause for making me laugh out loud at your well played overhand smash of a return.
It's going to be tough to match Brawn's performance this season. But I hope that someone steps up to try. Maybe this is ProDrive's turnkey operation, backed with BMW engines, which might also find their way into a few Aston's eventually.
I'm hoping Peter Sauber can buy the team for pennies on the Euro and keep the outfit going. They were always one of my favorites as an independent. Sauber raced with class and a good deal of innovation.
@f86sabre: I hear Dave Richards has a line on a crapload of Arabian cash, a scrappy lil' British marque, and is looking for a way to play. That's glorious sweetness in my book, especially seeing as how the Max and Bernie show didn't want to let him play around in their sand box via the bid process.
Or, another poo-let in Bernie's knickers, The Ronster pulls a Ross and comes out of the woodworks with cash and drive.
Or, Piquet steps in again just to ensure that his son has a ride in a series that he does not belong in.
Truly the possibilities are wide open. There's a good amount of paper tigers out there looking for a berth on the grid, and the foolish faith to believe they can achive more than those who've gone before them.
Oh, OH! Throw Paul Stoddart somewhere in the mix if the budget constraints truly come into being.
All in all, BMW-Sauber is dead, Long live Sauber F1!
"it’s a resolute step in view of our company’s strategic realignment" is such a corporate way of saying "we got our ass kicked and don't want to play any more".
What's happening now is because of horribly wrong decisions made by the worst president ever, R. Reagan. His idea of "freedom" of the market only encouraged greed and thru this greed we got missmanagement and the disastrous economic situation we're in now.
This should not be rewarded, never. nor bailed out, never. But unfortunately the financial market is too important for the rest of the economy. If that fails, everything will fail. So we have no choice in giving them money.
But companies, like car companies, that were missmanaged since years and years, should not be bailed out. Why? because it wont work, you can throw as much money into a company, but it will still go bankrupt because other companies are more competent.
That's why GM and Chrysler will go bankrupt, absolutely no doubt about it.
@sos10: A robust manufacturing sector has to be considered a critical component of our national defence. Lose it and you are in deep doodoo in the event of large scale military conflict.
@five_on_ninetyeight: That used to be the case but is not any more. Actually the opposite can be tru. Just look at the result of recent events. The smarter ones win, not the heaviest one.
Check Harbour's numbers of who has the most efficient plants out there. Here's a hint, since you clearly don't know anything about this. GM has the most efficient plants in the country.
Again, reducing this to the essential argument: It doesn't matter if you are the most efficient, if you don't produce vehicles that the public wants to buy. Efficiency is only a multiplier of profit, not what generates it. Look at Ferrari for Pete's sake.
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I'll nominate you for COTD, too!
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"It'sa-win! MarioGP!"
And here's hoping the rules don't outlaw the use of thrown turtles and oil slicks.
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My, my, what a horrible thing to say!
...about Force India.
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Or, another poo-let in Bernie's knickers, The Ronster pulls a Ross and comes out of the woodworks with cash and drive.
Or, Piquet steps in again just to ensure that his son has a ride in a series that he does not belong in.
Truly the possibilities are wide open. There's a good amount of paper tigers out there looking for a berth on the grid, and the foolish faith to believe they can achive more than those who've gone before them.
Oh, OH! Throw Paul Stoddart somewhere in the mix if the budget constraints truly come into being.
All in all, BMW-Sauber is dead, Long live Sauber F1!
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It is all about management and missmanagement.
What's happening now is because of horribly wrong decisions made by the worst president ever, R. Reagan. His idea of "freedom" of the market only encouraged greed and thru this greed we got missmanagement and the disastrous economic situation we're in now.
This should not be rewarded, never. nor bailed out, never. But unfortunately the financial market is too important for the rest of the economy. If that fails, everything will fail. So we have no choice in giving them money.
But companies, like car companies, that were missmanaged since years and years, should not be bailed out. Why? because it wont work, you can throw as much money into a company, but it will still go bankrupt because other companies are more competent.
That's why GM and Chrysler will go bankrupt, absolutely no doubt about it.
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A robust manufacturing sector has to be considered a critical component of our national defence. Lose it and you are in deep doodoo in the event of large scale military conflict.
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That is a rediculously ignorant statement.
Check Harbour's numbers of who has the most efficient plants out there. Here's a hint, since you clearly don't know anything about this. GM has the most efficient plants in the country.
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Again, reducing this to the essential argument: It doesn't matter if you are the most efficient, if you don't produce vehicles that the public wants to buy. Efficiency is only a multiplier of profit, not what generates it. Look at Ferrari for Pete's sake.