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Beer Baron
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nup, F40 for me too. even better go the hardcore F40 GTR or LM or whatever gay letters they put on the hardcorey one. for many years I wanted an F40 bad enough to make my balls ache. then I turned 13

zebra
zebra

f*kc it...let all sell our houses and buy a communal veyron...or Bugatti EB110 could take it in turns sleeping on the Engine deck

Beer Baron
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go nissan F1...

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dezz Grand Master

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Yeah but what car would feel awesome to them?

Might as well drive a shitbox.

See, now as I wrote my post, that thought crossed my mind...but the way I see it, you're never gonna match the F1 car, but given you have the means, why not get as close to it on the road as possible?

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I read many years ago an interview with Ivan Capelli, then Fezza F1 driver.

His Ferrari sponsored road car was an F40, and when quized, he said while yes, it was "fast", it was in no way even remotely comparable to F1, and therefore not at all exciting.

We all know that, but I guess many less educated than us would think that a road Ferrari is fast in outright terms.

And whats with the Mark bashing? The bastard can drive.

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I read many years ago an interview with Ivan Capelli, then Fezza F1 driver.

His Ferrari sponsored road car was an F40, and when quized, he said while yes, it was "fast", it was in no way even remotely comparable to F1, and therefore not at all exciting.

We all know that, but I guess many less educated than us would think that a road Ferrari is fast in outright terms.

And whats with the Mark bashing? The bastard can drive.

A long time ago a bloke by the name of Phillippe Alliot was the test driver for McLaren when they were running Pug engines. Anyway there was a trumped up road car versus 2 litre touring car versus F1 article in Car mag. Asked what he thought of the road car (a Peugeot three oh something) he answered: any road car is a total disaster on a race track. Now that is quality PR.

Ivan Capelli was the man when he drove for March. But Ferrari screwed him over massively after making him drive what was up there with the worst Ferrari F1 cars of all time.

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yeah it's entirely understandable to have zero to no interest in road cars when for 30 - 40 weeks a year all you are thinking about is driving your 7 speed, 800+hp, super duper F1 car. as they all pointed out no road car on the planet offers anything like the limits those guys are used to. anyone who can punt an F1 car hard can surely drive most anything pretty close to it's limit. and as the years have gone on the gap between road cars and F1 cars has surely widened a fair bit too.

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And whats with the Mark bashing? The bastard can drive.

Webbo can drive better than any of us ever will, to be sure. Only problem is He can't consistently driver better than the small gaggle of bloques that'll keep him from that elusive WDC.

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Webbo can drive better than any of us ever will, to be sure. Only problem is He can't consistently driver better than the small gaggle of bloques that'll keep him from that elusive WDC.

hmmm... I would agree, but then remembered that you don't have to drive consistently better/faster than the other to win the WDC.

Just ask Jenson Button

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And whats with the Mark bashing? The bastard can drive.

No he can't, he's a hack choker who doesn't deserve to be there. None of us would be talking about him if he didn't come from Aus.

Webbo can drive better than any of us ever will, to be sure.

I'd need a back to back test in the GTR to be sure :P

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No he can't, he's a hack choker who doesn't deserve to be there. None of us would be talking about him if he didn't come from Aus.

I used to be in the same boat. I use to really like/rate Heidfeld and thought he would hand it to Mark when they were at Williams. But Marlk surprised me with just how fast he is. In my eyes he is as good as if not a tad batter Rosberg, Massa and Button. Not quite as good as Hamo, Alonso and Vettel.

Vettel cant race to save his life, but he is fast. Webber isnt far off his pace, typically less then a tenth in quali, and hey he did outqualify him 6 times and beat him a number of times.

So he does deserve to be there....and I used to like guys like Fisi until he got blown away by Alonso. Heidfeld but then he has not done anything alongside Webber or Kubica....so Webber has never been embarrassed by a team mate :)

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