Tomi drove the Winfield Williams F1 and if I remember he had an off...Quote:
Originally Posted by Zico
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Tomi drove the Winfield Williams F1 and if I remember he had an off...Quote:
Originally Posted by Zico
Interesting, wasnt aware of that and google brings up nothing. Do you have a link?Quote:
Originally Posted by Leon
Yeah, it was at Catalunya in 1998 I think. He got the gear shift paddles mixed up and instead of changing up he changed down while coming down the main straight I think. Whoops!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Leon
Found it..
"Driving a Formula One car is very difficult as demonstrated by both Michael
Doohan and Tommi Makinen this week. On Wednesday Michael Doohan - 500cc motorcycle world champion - tested Villeneuve's 1997 championship-winning car and spun off after four corners at the Catalunya track near Barcelona.
Today Tommi Makinen - reigning world rally champion - managed to do eight
laps when he spun off while doing 175 mph. "I am so disappointed," Makinen
said afterwards. "At around 175 mph I tried to change up a gear from fifth
to sixth but thought I was in my rally car and tried to change down and all
I could do was wait until I stopped spinning." Both escaped unhurt - the
car didn't. Jacques Villeneuve wanted to drive the Mitsubishi and the 500cc
motorcycle but Frank Williams didn't let him as he didn't want the Canadian
to get injured. "I know Jacques a little," Frank Williams said. "He'll try
to smash the lap record - he does everything on full speed and I can't risk
it."
https://www-auth.cs.wisc.edu/lists/v...msg02094.shtml
The Williams paddleshift a reversal of his rallycars?... nightmare!
I would vote for Kankkunen. Loeb/Makinen makes an interesting comparison on one hand: 1. Both were very much at the centre on their respective team's plans and 2. Other drivers /team mates had great difficulty in adapting to the same cars which Makinen and Loeb were/are so successful in.
On the other hand, I do not think that it is possible to compare Makinen's success with Loeb's. All you need to do is look at the number of manufacturers and top flight drivers who were competing during Makinen's reign, versus Loeb's. Makinen's reign took place on a very, very different different playing field from the one Loeb dominates today.
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Originally Posted by N.O.T
You have got to be kidding, surely?