I used to live in St kilda @ 1k away from the Melbourne track & loved laying in bed when they were out doing practice in the morning, the most glorious way to listen to F1.

 

About the only thing I don't like about F1 is Sebastian Vettel, great driver that can win just about anything, but had to steal a win off Webber, a55hole

 

Yep I'm with you Jarvid, he has the personality of a discarded tissue in a brothel however every era of F1 has one. but the bugga's can drive
BTW I'll be over your way in april, catching up with Dutchy from ROT ( if ya happen to know him )
pete

 

Dutchy was a member of GTR-AUS a while back if I recall correctly??


Cheers, Craig

 

Interesting Jarvid; from this side of the Tasman we maybe see it slightly differently.

Good lady wife and I have always perceived Webber as the a55hole, who appears to not like the fact that maybe a German might be a better driver than he is?

Of course, any opinions formed are very much guided by the snippets our own local media chooses to feed us with.

History will show though, that the winningest (is that a word?) drivers in F1 have almost all come out of Europe, apart from the great Ayrton Senna (who I seem to recall, was the original reason for this post).

Driver Seasons Entries Wins Percentage
1 Michael Schumacher 1991–2006, 2010–2012 308 91 29.55%
2 Alain Prost 1980–1991, 1993 202 51 25.25%
3 Ayrton Senna 1984–1994 162 41 25.31%
4 Sebastian Vettel 2007–2013 120 39 32.50%
5 Fernando Alonso 2001, 2003–2013 217 32 14.75%
6 Nigel Mansell 1980–1992, 1994–1995 191 31 16.23%
7 Jackie Stewart 1965–1973 100 27 27.00%
8 Jim Clark 1960–1968 73 25 34.25% Niki Lauda 1971–1979, 1982–1985 177 14.12%
10 Juan Manuel Fangio 1950–1951, 1953–1958 52 24 46.15%

 

That was awesome. I haven't watched an F1 race since Senna died. Some of my most prized possessions is the Marlboro Team McClaren memorabilia I got from them.