GV satisfied the purists but as we have seen time and time again that mentality doesn't win you races, let alone championships.Quote:
Originally Posted by ArrowsFA1
GV satisfied the purists but as we have seen time and time again that mentality doesn't win you races, let alone championships.Quote:
Originally Posted by ArrowsFA1
true wedge but I can't wait til the next GV comes around. Probably the most careful driver was Jackie Stewart - If I recall he only had one bad accident and was not injured in that wreck either. Also maybe is race per win ratio is among the best. but if you never got to witness GV drive in person then you have a big void!!
Gilles drove it like he stole it .Quote:
Originally Posted by tamburello
I've got a buddy who ran the taxi/interference car for Gilles back in the day , when insurance scams fed his career .
Second wasn't an option .
Whilst complaining about this , he also ran a dutiful , respectable #2 on his car when first at Ferrari .
So , don't tell me he's stupid just because he'd prefer to win than have to protect a points position , because we know he was prepared to do his duty for his team .
They said he was fast .
They said he raced hard .
They said he raced fair .
When Pironi passed him , he had proven all those things in that race .
He slowed for the 2 car camera shot , and all those things came to haunt him .
Second wasn't an option .
No doubt that was a factor in his Zolder accident, along with his feelings of betrayal from Pironi. However, there was also the presence of 'two-lap wonder' qualifying tyres then. Which he was outspoken about.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bezza
In some sense Gilles had prophesied his own fate during an interview weeks before the crash, in which he declared the potential dangers of qualifying under those conditions; stating that necessary risks were involved in order to achieve a good grid position, forcing drivers such as himself to "banzai it."
Something that people tend to forget was that when he first raced in F1 in acquired the nickname 'Air Canada' because of his many incidents - in one crash debris killed spectators in Fuji (can't remember the year exactly).
Don't think he made too many friends in the paddock that year.
'77, when he and Peterson crashed. It was a racing incident and the spectators were in a prohibited area.Quote:
Originally Posted by wedge
No, it is the remark of a real racer, something missing from the current group of accountants on the track, such as D "it is too dangerous w/o TC" Couthard, and anyone who thinks it is moronic needs to avoid mirrors.... :DQuote:
Originally Posted by tamburello
Amen, brother.Quote:
Originally Posted by ArrowsFA1
Where are such drivers today?
None to be found in 2007 F1.
Or as he said a few years earlier "if it's near the end of qualifying, and you're trying for pole maybe, then I guess you can squeeze the fear..." :(Quote:
Originally Posted by AAReagles
Niki Lauda said this of him: "Gilles was a perfect racing driver, I think. He had the best talent of all of us. In any car he was quick - he didn't drive for points, but to win races. I liked him even more than I admired him. He was the best - and the fastest - racing driver in the world."
Your best friend AKA Lewis Hamilton! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by markabilly
He "choked" on the WDC because he wouldn't settle for a simple points finish in the last couple of races.
You mean my very best friend, the Golden Savior of all, the Protector of Ron's intergrity,and the Grand Champion Choker of all time, who choked because he could not take the pressure, because he drove himself off the pit road, and when the money was really on the table, went off-roading and shifted himself into neutral in Brazil without sufficient gonads or backbone to admit same?Quote:
Originally Posted by wedge
..........Well dream on......that is what dreams are made for.... :D