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But Flavc is the man..i mean he boned Heidi Klum, knocked her up and then dumped her. So he gets my vote for being able to walk away from her...something most will kill for :rofl:

Depending on who you fly and when you book, airfares will be under $1000. Tickets will be $600 and then accom, meals and transport will be about $200 per day. Of course you can double that in the evenings on the drink...last year i was drinking with some kiwis who worked for BMW-Sauber...funnuy night! :)

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I realised last night whilst watching the Abu Dhabi GP again, that the worse thing with having Homo and Button in the same teams is their fathers, now the BBC will have a camera crew permanently stationed in the McLaren garage, and we'll get to see the reactions of both these tools to any minor happening.

dont forget to root for one of our own as well... has everyone forgot mark already.....

"There's only one driver other than Michael Schumacher out there that lives, breathes, sleeps, eats Formula One 110% - and that's Mark Webber," Paul Stoddart.

yeah agreed. I would love to see Mark get a WDC this year. Hey, he was not that far out last season and it was a pretty tough season. GO MARK!

I also agree with the paul quote. mark is definitely a man who made things happen for himself almost purely through drive and determination. he was not necessarily the most talented bloke out there, but he certainly trained and practised the hardest.

Yeah, it's bullshit. If his ban has been overturned, they should also refund McLaren's fine from 2007, as well as their constructors championship points aswell lol.

dunno about that. it's kind of a technicality. McLaren is after all a licence holding team so under the rules they can be punished. this ruling effectively stated that the FIA and the WMSC did not have the right to level this kind of punishment on a 3rd party individual as it would be akin to having them blacklisted in their chosen profession. I still think it's bullshit though. He should have been banned. The penalty fitted the crime.

lol, he was already stuck on his own as no one wanted to sit next to him as he dripped with sweaty back and armpits!

though he is quite a handsome bloke. I can really see why heidi klum would let him do nasty things to her.... I wonder if he works out?

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this shot was probably him having a shower after a hard day of sitting still at a pit wall telemetry screen in the shade... sweaty work that.

Hey piss off people...you are taking pot shots at my hero, I mean it may take me to being 65 until i have enough coin to bed a babe and i need to believe if i am fatm ugly and generally suffering from a bad attitude that it wont stop me from scoring the sort of girl i used to bat off to at age 14 :blink:

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