1000 miles de Sebring 2023

Allez on fait une levée de fond pour leur offrir un plein de gaz.

Imaginez comme ça doit être poche d'être là avec to combinaison pis ton casque et de rester assis pendant que tout le monde tourne.

Moi j'aurais du mal à être agréable.

so no runs for Vanwall today because of engine problems? Did I get it right (I'm at work an following only live timings).

I saw the car stopping just after exiting the pits !
Dillmann was very frustrated on the radio "it stopped again" he screamed.

La session c'est terminé sous drapeau rouge a cause de la Toyota n7 qui s'est cracher dans dernière virage du circuit. Mais avant cela ils ont pu faire un 1.45.7, ils sont sur une autre planète !

kantaoui wrote:I saw the car stopping just after exiting the pits !
Dillmann was very frustrated on the radio "it stopped again" he screamed.

ah crap that's not good
amazing time for Toyota, just hope they'll manage to fix the car for quali, because they can easily go for a 1-2 in the grid today

Pas rapide, mais fiable qu’on racontait.

Pour l’instant, c’est ni rapide, ni fiable.

Monte Cristo wrote:Allez on fait une levée de fond pour leur offrir un plein de gaz.

De Kérosène...

En tout cas Jacques partage quelque chose avec... Steve Warson, le grand chum de Michel Vaillant.

Ils pilotent tous deux une Vanwall.

Et ça date de la première BD de la série, le Grand Défi.

Steve Warson had the difficulty (at least for Jean Graton!) that there was a lack of American-built F1 cars. The Scarab F1 had yet to make its first appearance (in 1960). But Graton refused to create an imaginary F1 car and so he had Steve relying on what had become a proven concept by then: a Vanwall, the kind of car that had got its act together during 1957 and was breaking the stronghold of Italian constructors in F1. Steve's car was painted all white in the first race but it gets a blue stripe in the remaining F1 races, so almost matching the American racing colours of white with two blue stripes.

The one thing that could be held against this selection for a Vanwall is the fact that the creator of the Vanwall team (Tony Vandervell) was a patriot and raced for the glory of Britain and the dream to beat the almighty Italian teams. Somehow, I wonder if the real Mr Vandervell, in case of a Grand Défi according the formula of Graton would have provided an American competitor with a car. And I am pretty sure that a number of British patriotic race fans would have had a heart attack or worse after seeing one of their beloved pieces of 'British pride' in any other colour other than British Racing Green. But then, there was little other choice for Jean Graton.

BRM (short for British Racing Motors) was name-wise already near impossible to use for an American driver, apart from the fact that BRMs had not done much yet to set the world alight. They had yet to win their first ever GP when Graton drew Le Grand Défi.

Merci au Fuge pour la super anecdote.

PleinGaz wrote:

Monte Cristo wrote:Allez on fait une levée de fond pour leur offrir un plein de gaz.

De Kérosène...

Kérosène... Mon surnom au bistrot à Jojo.

Je buvais du gros blanc au bar et j'avais dis au patron français que son vin goutait le kérosène.

Il m'a appelé kérosène pendant des années.

Et c'est là que j'ai bu ma dernière bière le 9 juin 1995, juste avant de...

Au moins t'as arrêté de boire du kérosène!

PleinGaz wrote:Au moins t'as arrêté de boire du kérosène!

Bon, 3 séances de qualifs à partir de 18:30

https://www.fiawec.com/en/

Espérons qu'ils ont pas perdu les clés.

wow that was a hell of a quali and pole for Iron dames!

next up: Kubica- Fittipaldi- Frijns!

JVtea wrote:next up: Kubica- Fittipaldi- Frijns!

Are you watching on TV? If yes, which one?

kantaoui wrote:

JVtea wrote:next up: Kubica- Fittipaldi- Frijns!

Are you watching on TV? If yes, which one?

nope just following live timings coupled with live radio for comments

lovely p2 for pietro and p3 for robin! shame for robert kubica but he did a solid job today

Tom Dillmann is running for Vanwall quali
edit mistake, he's vs: Kobayashi, Fuoco

well that was unexpected! Nice pull Ferrari! And Vanwall, while being still 4.2s from pole, managed decently enough. I think their timing topped all LMP2 cars, right? Their first 1:49:329?

Il n'y a pas de miracle dans le haut niveau !
Dillmann dernier avec un chrono a 1.49.3! J'ai pas l'impression que cette voiture puisse aller plus vite que cela... a 4 secondes 2 de la Ferrari n50 en pole

Donc le lest…. Ça aide pas.

demain course, youpi !

slick wrote:demain course, youpi !

Comment ça, une course le vendredi??