Official F1/Motorsport thread

[Alastair]

MS paint - screen print -> cut -> paste -> save! Dunno what you'd use on your fancy Mac!!

[Richard.John]

Gulp. Okay, I will try it on my dinosaur Dell tomorrow. It will keep us busy during the darkest months of the F1 year.

[Alastair]

You must have some sort of image program as standard or have installed PhotoShop for your photo's R.J?

I think the level of interest in the off season is higher than ever before due to this Nando saga, I like it, want to know when it's gonna be announced though

[Richard.John]

Yeah, I have iPhoto but I don't know how to use it lol. Golden Gloves had better get his skates on though as testing has begun. The ??? hang over Renault though because of spygate II. I can't wait for March.

[CMcK]

Open the picture with Preview. Goto File>Grab.
Or for quickness press shift+command(apple key)+4. This will give you a wee crosshair that you can use to select the area you want to copy. The image will appear on your desktop in .png format.

[Richard.John]

Thank you good sir.

[Roddie]

Gulp. Okay, I will try it on my dinosaur Dell tomorrow. It will keep us busy during the darkest months of the F1 year.

Think we need to get some F1 CE races on the go.

[Richard.John]

Ok here goes. A Ferrari because F1 wouldn't be the sport it is without them, and we should be thankful for that and this is a particularly cool looking one from '83 and an iconic Mclaren Honda that represents, well, if you don't know then I am not the one to tell you.

1983 Ferrari 126C3
No. 27 Patrick Tambay
No. 28 Rene Arnoux

1991 Honda Marlboro Mclaren MP4/6
No.1 Ayrton Senna
No.2 Gerhard Berger

[Alastair]

Amazing choices R.J. I do LOVE that McLaren. And like you say, if you don't already know you probably never will!

[Richard.John]

Kind words, Alastair. Cheers. We only have another couple of hundred to go.

[Alastair]

Go on then.

Fangios 1957 Maserati 250F - the car involved in possibly the most inspired F1 win ever. Nurburgring 1957.

That very car is still driven now and was on the ring recently for the 50th anniversary of the great day. I can't remember how much it's valued at now but it's a lot, a damn lot!

[Richard.John]

My knowledge of pre 80s F1 is limited to be honest so I dont know anything about Fangio's career. It's a beaut no doubt.

I only became interested because my mother worked for Fiat UK and Rene Arnoux visited the base in Brentford and she managed to get a signed pic. In fact it must have been of that Ferrari . She also got some tickets for British GP qualy at Brands Hatch, so my father and I went along for the day. Nearly 25 years on and I still have to watch every race......

[Alastair]

Basically R.J, in that race Fangio qualified first but didn't have a big enough fuel tank to beat the 2 Ferraris who could do the whole race. His pit stop was slow due to a lost wheel nut but he came out of the pits and did something crazy like 22 fastest laps in a row catching the Ferraris at over 10 seconds a lap. Won the race and his 5th title. It's an iconic race and pretty much the only 'old' race I know of in any detail.

My memory's so bad I hardly remember what happened last year, always amazes me how people can pull stats from 10 years ago out of their heads.

[Richard.John]

Okey Dokey. Possibly the best looking F1 car ever and it saw the birth of a legend.

1991 Team 7up Jordan Ford Jordan 191
No.32 Roberto Moreno
No.32 Alessandro Zanardi
No.32 Bertrand Gachot
No.32 Michael Shumacher
No.33 Andrea de Cesaris

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