>tfw Backmarker 04/09/15 (Thu) 05:15:28 472836 No. 2453
>tfw your country will never produce another good f1 driver
Backmarker 04/09/15 (Thu) 05:17:45 e505b5 No. 2455
>Implying Rossi isn't gonna be the next big American driver next to Hamilton
Backmarker 04/09/15 (Thu) 05:25:39 ff1caf No. 2462
Juan Fangio II was amazing in IMSA. Does he have any kids?
Backmarker 04/09/15 (Thu) 05:26:37 ff1caf No. 2463
>>2455 Rossi whose best season result is a 7th in gp2. Not holding my breath. Scott Speed on the other hand is actually looking ripe for a comeback
Backmarker 04/09/15 (Thu) 05:39:56 e505b5 No. 2469
>>2463 >Last name Speed >Be slowest driver of all time Even Slow N' Steady was faster than Speed.
Backmarker 04/09/15 (Thu) 05:42:52 ff1caf No. 2473
>>2469 his nascar results and recent pace in formula E suggest otherwise.
Backmarker 04/09/15 (Thu) 05:45:21 ff1caf No. 2474
I was looking to find out if fangio had any children, and one of the websites i found had this. ofc argentina would have an IKA-torino on the cover
Backmarker 04/09/15 (Thu) 05:48:44 e505b5 No. 2479
>>2473 >Formula E Literally the GP2 is Formulas.
Backmarker 04/09/15 (Thu) 05:50:08 ff1caf No. 2481
>>2479 I agree formula E sucks balls, but he compares well to nicolas prost, and prost tested for lotus in f1 and was on vettel's pace
Backmarker 04/09/15 (Thu) 05:51:23 5a55f0 No. 2483
Reminder that Fangio was the ultimate carbabby:>8 years in F1 >5 WDC's with 4 different teams in 4 different cars >Even switched teams 4 races into the 1954 season
Backmarker 04/09/15 (Thu) 05:53:50 ff1caf No. 2484
>>2483 that said, he was getting good results in the maserati 250f when that was already 5 plus years old.
Backmarker 04/09/15 (Thu) 05:59:01 5a55f0 No. 2485
>>2484 It wasn't really uncommon for racecars to last several seasons back in the day though.
5 years is at the upper end of the spectrum, but it wasn't unheard of.
The Lotus 72 also lasted 5 years (with minor revisions):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_72
Backmarker 04/09/15 (Thu) 06:01:37 ff1caf No. 2489
>>2485 the lotus 72 is a bit of an anomaly though. Its design direction was revolutionary and widely copied. the mclaren m23, many of the shadows, to a lesser extent the amon car are all pretty much ripped off from the 72.
I see your point though
Backmarker 04/09/15 (Thu) 06:18:52 472836 No. 2501
>>2483 pls no bully australia, he was goat :(
Backmarker 04/09/15 (Thu) 20:07:47 76abd0 No. 2683
>mfw my country finally has a good driver who might not end up driving backmarker teams for the rest of his career
Backmarker 04/09/15 (Thu) 20:09:26 ff1caf No. 2684
>>2683 didn't Jan Lammers win the 24 hours of lemans at some point?
Also, do you consider belgians like Thierry Boutsen to be dutch?
Backmarker 04/09/15 (Thu) 23:27:32 ff1caf No. 2743
from a burger stand point, who do we have that has a fucking chance. Scott Speed exists and has the greatest name ever, Alexander Rossi exists and sucks balls, Marco Andretti is good, but won't go to F1 without first winning indy, which wont happen bc andretti curse.
Backmarker 04/10/15 (Fri) 00:19:35 0546e5 No. 2771
My country (ignore flag, I'm a dirty immigrant) has António Félix da Costa, but I don't know how likely he is to get a drive any time soon. He's currently reserve driver for Red Bull I think.
Backmarker 04/10/15 (Fri) 00:25:12 ff1caf No. 2776
>>2771 has there been no one actually good since pedro lamy?
Backmarker 04/10/15 (Fri) 00:29:48 0546e5 No. 2779
>>2776 There's André Couto, though he's technically from Macau. And Tiago Monteiro but he's shit. No one else I know of.
Backmarker 04/10/15 (Fri) 00:45:57 ff1caf No. 2787
>>2779 you'd think with a small country, recent history in motorsports, and a number of excellent circuits (algarve and estoril come to mind) that there would be a bunch of good drivers.
Backmarker 04/10/15 (Fri) 05:44:47 472836 No. 3160
Backmarker 04/10/15 (Fri) 05:45:41 472836 No. 3163
>>2462 Fangio II wasn't Fangio's son.
Backmarker 04/10/15 (Fri) 05:46:29 ff1caf No. 3166
>>3163 I know, he's the nephew. I was just wondering if either had any children young enough to compete.
Backmarker 04/10/15 (Fri) 05:46:59 0546e5 No. 3167
>>2787 Wait I forgot Filipe Albuquerque, he's good. I think it may be the lack of money. The whole country is pretty poor. I knew a guy who had a couple of titles in karting, and some pretty good results at a national level, but he never made it beyond karting because he didn't have money. And he was from a relatively wealthy family too.
Backmarker 04/10/15 (Fri) 05:47:56 ff1caf No. 3168
>>3167 >living up to the name yuropoor
Backmarker 04/10/15 (Fri) 06:05:51 472836 No. 3200
>>3166 Oh, sorry.
Fangio was kind of a womanizer and never settled down to have a family, although he had recognized son with an actress from here, Óscar "Cacho" Espinosa, who didn't want to use Fangio's surname, some people said that it was because he wanted to do things on his own and others because Fangio never actually raised him.
Some years ago a dude whom Fangio was his godfather said that he was actually another son of Fangio but he has no proof.
If someone said that Fangio was a carbabby, before he went to europe to drive in Formula 1 he competed in the argentinian Turismo Carretera, which is the oldest stock car racing competition still active in the world, and still attracts millions of people every weekend.
In Turismo Carretera there is a very heated rivalry between Ford fans and Chevrolet fans, kind of Boca-River or Barça-Real Madrid. It's really that much of passionate. Fangio gave Chevrolet their first two championships in 1940 and 1941
pic related, Fangio's son Cacho driving in Turismo Carretera in 1968
Backmarker 04/10/15 (Fri) 06:09:38 ff1caf No. 3208
>>3200 I'm familiar with TC, although my spanish is rusty. do you know if Cacho or Fangio II have children?
Backmarker 04/10/15 (Fri) 06:19:19 472836 No. 3223
>>3208 i don't know D:
but i believe if any of them had children, they must be pretty old by now.
argentina's best chance is either Facundo Regalía or Pechito López.
which is the same as shit.
Backmarker 04/10/15 (Fri) 06:22:07 ff1caf No. 3227
>>3223 well, like I said, the U.S. isnt in much better shape with regard to that.
Backmarker 04/10/15 (Fri) 06:24:13 472836 No. 3230
>>3227 at least you have an F1 GP.
Backmarker 04/10/15 (Fri) 06:25:57 ff1caf No. 3233
>>3230 we have it at a shitty track when we have very many world class ones.
what year was that?
Backmarker 04/10/15 (Fri) 06:34:07 472836 No. 3247
>>3233 1998 :(
i remember going with my dad, my grandpa and my bro.
at least we now have Dakar, Formula E, Moto GP and Turismo Carretera. But having Formula 1 will be beautiful. Argies in general love motorsports. I assure you that if we had the F1 again tickets would get sold out in less than a day
Backmarker 04/10/15 (Fri) 06:36:29 ff1caf No. 3251
>>3247 how hard is it to get from buenos aires to the Juan y Oscar Galvez track?
Backmarker 04/10/15 (Fri) 06:40:00 472836 No. 3261
>>3251 it's in the southernmost part of the Capital city. very easy actually, tons of buses go there and by car you just take the highway.
it's used mostly for Turismo Carretera and also some concerts now.
Backmarker 04/10/15 (Fri) 06:42:25 ff1caf No. 3269
Backmarker 04/10/15 (Fri) 06:43:02 ff1caf No. 3274
>>3261 is there a reason you're not posting in the practice thread?
Backmarker 04/10/15 (Fri) 06:49:22 472836 No. 3288
>>3274 i can't get a stream :(
Backmarker 04/10/15 (Fri) 06:50:54 ff1caf No. 3293
>>3288 >>2827 none of these works for you?
Backmarker 04/10/15 (Fri) 06:56:19 472836 No. 3308
>>3293 looks like squirrelstream is working now ;)
thanks man. i'm really pissed because here fox sports used to have everything broadcast live but now they have less f1 coverage.
Backmarker 04/10/15 (Fri) 06:57:00 ff1caf No. 3311
>>3308 Bummer. Glad to help!
Backmarker 04/10/15 (Fri) 13:17:57 76abd0 No. 3397
>>2684 Yeah, Jan Lammers and Gijs Van Lennep both won Le Mans while having absolutely rubbish drives in F1. Which is a shame considering Lammers was tipped to replace Arnoux' vacant seat at Renault in 1982 had Lammers not broke his hand in a testing accident with the crap Theodore car he was stuck with at the moment.
Also, Belgians are Belgians with their own racing history. People here like Nico Hulkenberg though, considering how he has been pretty chill with Dutch F1 fans.
Backmarker 04/11/15 (Sat) 02:56:58 b42dc3 No. 3603
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play. >>3397 Jan Lammers is cool
Backmarker 04/11/15 (Sat) 03:07:22 2b9881 No. 3610
>>3603 he's amazingly short though for a nederlander
Backmarker 04/13/15 (Mon) 22:28:15 fd20a1 No. 5039
Will there ever be another Italian champion?
Backmarker 04/13/15 (Mon) 23:05:40 ff1caf No. 5047
>>5039 Luca Fillipi was good I guess, Marciello exists, but evidently Ferrari wont put him in a Manor or Sauber.
Backmarker 10/20/15 (Tue) 01:41:31 81a4ce No. 25315
Want to place bets on whether Italy, South Africa, or new Zealand produces an f1 race winner first?
There haven't been competitive drivers from any of the above in recent memory. All Italians that go to Ferrari are cursed.
Backmarker 10/20/15 (Tue) 02:30:48 206a07 No. 25316
>>25315
That just reminded me that the Netherlands and possibly Russia will get off this list before glorious nippon and that Kamui was not the chosen one.
I'm sad now.
I'm going to say New Zealand.
Backmarker 10/20/15 (Tue) 03:18:02 ec5023 No. 25317
>>25316
are constructors counted in that (thinking of Jordan)? because other than Derek Daly and Ralph Firman I can't think of irish drivers that actually raced significant parts of a season. Eddie Irvine and John Watson certainly, but they are northern irish and raced under the british flag.
Liechtenstein is Rikky Von Opel clearly
Malaysia is Yoong
Czech Republic is Enge
some of the others had a few.
John Love is the most notable Rhodesian driver, although Rhodesia doesn't exist anymore and zimbabwe is not likely to produce a challenger.
Formula 1 is british at this point and there are so few teams, and so few ways into the sport that it has pretty much closed the door for nationalities that don't come with pay driver cash.
If there aren't teams of many nationalities that are actually teams from that nation, not just a different flag, I don't really see grand prix debutantes coming from Japan, France, Italy, or the rest any time soon.
Ferrari will always put winning ahead of having an italian driver, besides italy really hasn't produced anyone notable since the 90s.
Ligier doesn't exist anymore, Renault may well be finished in f1 for the 150th time, Neither Honda nor toyota runs a works effort (or even a competent team).
>tfw japan's best result remains Aguri Suzuki's podium at suzuka
>tfw Kamui could only equal this
>tfw when Ukyo Katayama actually got good (seriously, look at his qualifying in 1995) he got cancer and then his performance suffered
Backmarker 10/21/15 (Wed) 01:42:40 206a07 No. 25340
>>25317
Jordan won 4 races so wouldn't be on it
Honda has won 3 races so also would not be on it.
The only two other Irish drivers who ever started a race were Joe Kelly and Tommy Byrne who both started two races.
It's sad the Japanese talent just pools around in SuperFormula/Super GT but when there is such a heavy connection between Japanese drivers and Japanese manufacturers and there is no Japanese manufacturer in the sport (Honda in it's current form doesn't count as Honda are never going to get one of their drivers into McLaren) It just means they don't have many places to go.
Also they seem to have long careers despite not really being notable. Hideki Noda and Shinji Nakano are still racing (Hideki was a tiny bit noticable). And in typical Japanese style Shinji ages backwards.
Backmarker 10/21/15 (Wed) 02:25:01 ec5023 No. 25342
>>25340
Ritchie Ginther and John surtees are responsible for 2/3rds of honda's wins as a works team, 100% of them if you count when they were an actual japanese team and not just Tyrrell/BAR/Honda/Brawn/Mercedes.
Why couldn't they field a japanese driver back then? They existed, Masahiro Hasemi being the most notable
Backmarker 11/07/15 (Sat) 20:55:17 999dd7 No. 28020
>>25316
Russia will be the first one to get off from that list. Either via a lucky race from Kvyat or Sirotkin landing on a very good car.
Backmarker 11/08/15 (Sun) 04:29:39 ec5023 No. 28038
>>28020
>sirotkin who sucks in auto gp
remember when sirotkin's backers were going to buy sauber?
Backmarker 11/12/15 (Thu) 23:03:23 740689 No. 28300
Rolled 13 (1d20)
is it true that the board still works on small threads?
Backmarker 12/10/15 (Thu) 03:57:17 472f2f No. 30807
Backmarker 12/10/15 (Thu) 04:50:16 f55746 No. 30808
>>30807
Did not see that coming