I'm just afraid that Brawn won't be as good under direct Mercedes leadership. Hopefully Button will stay and they'll lure another great driver for the other spot. At least they've got the brain of brawn to lead them. #silverarrows
Now that I'm studying for a year in Berlin, I made a pilgrimage out to AVUS. There's a 125 meter high mini-Eifel Tower a block from where that title photo was taken, and from the top you can see the endless grey line of what used to be the straight fade off into the flats of Northern Germany. If you don't mind walking along the edge of the autobahn for a few hundred meters, you can get out onto what used to be the track itself. The whole experience, especially at dusk watching lights flicker by and hearing the howl of superbikes piercing the cold November air, was utterly unreal. #silverarrows
@scroggzilla raids again: It has always bothered me that great engineers existed back then, of course and nobody thought to make wider tyres! #silverarrows
@scroggzilla raids again: What I would have given be there watching the 55' Mille Miglia. A race still talked about almost 60 years later. #silverarrows
Great. The plucky Brit team from Brackley gets consumed by Germans and becomes an all German team. German staff, German drivers, German owners. #silverarrows
Peter, do you know the race that 1st photo was taken at? The German GP was only held at the Avus circuit once (1959), and that was after Mercedes Benz and the W196 retired from motorsports. #silverarrows
@scroggzilla raids again: and the answer is the non F1 Championship, Grosser Pries von Berlin in 1954. The winner....the very Germanic looking Karl Kling #silverarrows
@Paul Y. don't drive too fast.: Well, the normal operating parameters don't include the outside being on fire, so obviously it should work fine.
I mean, the Germans never have anything go wrong, do they? #silverarrows
@Tyson: Well, you know the Germans make good stuff.
"Well, the normal operating parameters don't include the outside being on fire, so obviously it should work fine." -- I need to work this line of logic into day-to-day use. #silverarrows
Wooooah, #3 suggests you were stood right next to me Peter! That was at the startline during the supercar run on Sunday right?
The supercars were pretty boring to be honest, incredibly quiet (except for the Zonda R) and really non-descript. After seeing a 917/30 do a fullbore start, most things are boring and quiet though.
@nstrug: Actually, that SLR is pictured a bit higher up. But Sunday, yes. If you saw a dude in red corduroy trousers in a blue striped bankers’ shirt struggling under the weight of an overloaded gray backpack, well, that was me in all my media-producing glory.
You would think that with as much money as Leno has he could afford something other than denim shirts. Seriously, is that his Superhero uniform? Everywhere I see him he's wearing blue jeans and a slightly lighter denim shirt, regardless of weather.
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Let's add more gasoline to the fire. #silverarrows
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@scroggzilla raids again: Stirling Moss on the Monza banking...1955 #silverarrows
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@scroggzilla raids again: Mr. Fangio in his "office" #silverarrows
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@scroggzilla raids again: The winning 300 SLR, piloted by Moss and Collins, on the 55 Targa Florio #silverarrows
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@scroggzilla raids again: Juan Manuel Fangio on his way to yet another win, 1954 Swiss Grand Prix #silverarrows
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@scroggzilla raids again: one more...Moss and Jenkinson, in color no less, on the 55 Mille Miglia #silverarrows
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And totally terrifying. Those tires are, what, 5 inches wide? Tops? And the only 'driver aid' was Rudolf's big toe...
Men had bigger balls back then.
Or smaller brains.
Nope. Definitely just bigger balls. Probably bigger brains, too, for that matter.
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@scroggzilla raids again: and the answer is the non F1 Championship, Grosser Pries von Berlin in 1954. The winner....the very Germanic looking Karl Kling #silverarrows
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I mean, the Germans never have anything go wrong, do they? #silverarrows
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"Well, the normal operating parameters don't include the outside being on fire, so obviously it should work fine." -- I need to work this line of logic into day-to-day use. #silverarrows
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The supercars were pretty boring to be honest, incredibly quiet (except for the Zonda R) and really non-descript. After seeing a 917/30 do a fullbore start, most things are boring and quiet though.
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