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Yeh Webber was probably pissing with those darn foreigners larfin @ him in the background haha.

Yeh but at least he has time to actually talk to us.. Most others tell us to bugger off.

He better not lose his frikken Aussie Accent or I'll be ashamed. We need something like this to show we're the kings =P

-JJ

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on a side note, is anyone keen on a full set of Adelaide GP posters laminated and in mint condition? after $1000 pm me.

please leave this post here thought it was the best place to ask all keen on f1 racing

cheers Matt

Just as i thought i was to day goodbye to DC, it appears Dietrich Mateschitz the team owner of Red Bull Racing has said that DC is on the top of the list for the other drive with the team. A seat is better then no seat...it aint going to happen but the Wuilliams drive would be nice....Are you reading this Mr Williams?:D

ATTN: DUNCAN:D

Jerez Test - 02/12/04

1. Jacques Villeneuve - Sauber Petronas - 1'22"061 - 74 laps

2. Nick Heidfeld - Williams BMW - 1'22"430 - 96 laps

3. Vitantonio Liuzzi - Red Bull Cosworth - 1'22"631 - 88 laps

4. Christian Klien - Red Bull Cosworth - 1'23"124 - 35 laps

5. Antonio Pizzonia - Williams BMW - 1'23"382 - 48 laps

6. Takuma Sato - BAR Honda - 1'24"115 - 44 laps

7. Giancarlo Fisichella - Renault - 1'24"525 - 42 laps

8. Alex Wurz - McLaren Mercedes - 1'24"700 - 48 laps

9. Franck Montagny - Renault - 1'24"774 - 41 laps

10. Alan Van Der Merwe - BAR Honda - 1'25"446 - 36 laps

11. Ralf Schumacher - Toyota - 1'26"200 - 54 laps

12. Luca Badoer - Ferrari - 1'27"553 - 61 laps

13. Marc Gene - Ferrari - 1'28"929 - 37 laps

14. Pedro de la Rosa - McLaren Mercedes - 1'29"697 - 23 laps

15. Robert Doornbos - Jordan Cosworth - 1'32"211 - 10 laps

16. James Rossiter - BAR Honda - 1'33"474 - 34 laps

17. Enrique Bernoldi - BAR Honda - 1'33"493 - 46 laps

Come on Jacques, dont let me down baby:)

Attention Roy:

M Schumacher - not present

R Barachello - not present

K Raikonen - not present

JP Montoya - not present

J Button - not present

F Alonso - not present

M Webber - not present

Any driver of any talent - not present.

JV is a hack. I bet he thinks RB20's are great as well.

I hadn't been reading this thread but I will be at the GP! Also going to Monaco next year! :D

I see Brisco has given up on F1 and is signing up with Scott Dixon's team in the IRL too. Also glad to see Heidfeild quicker than Jungle Boy. Would be so bad for Williams to have him as Webbers team mate in '05.

I had big hopes for Jaques too. But the last 3 races for Renault were not too impresive compared to Fernando. Hopefully he just needs time to adapt. I think the conditions on the track for todays testing were fairly damp, so i dont think those times a really indicitive of the fields true performance. eg Schuey Jnr was 4 seconds off the pace

Attention Roy:

M Schumacher - not present

R Barachello - not present

K Raikonen - not present

JP Montoya - not present

J Button - not present

F Alonso - not present

M Webber - not present

Any driver of any talent - not present.

JV is a hack. I bet he thinks RB20's are great as well.

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LOL..who says any of these guys have any talent. :)..only one of them has won the World Championship, the others are also rans:)

...me runs off and hides, as after that me and JV got noth'n...he better perform otherwise ill never fly the JV flag again.

Hoping that Heidlfield and DC get the Williams and Red Bull drives

Yeah, no-one wants Pizza man in F1. Can't he take the hint and f#$k off!

Melb GP will be awesome no matter what, but Monaco? Fu$%king amazing! Nice one snowy. When I'm a little older and more sensible the girlfriend and I are planning a 'world tour of F1' attend every race in a season. I'm hoping we can do it on $100 000. money well spent I reckon.

Richard

For all those DC fans (ok so only me:)) it appears likely that he has a Red Bull drive:)

Nah- I'm in that club too, and v glad DC will be around for another season :aroused:

Now, I just need to get rid of his fiancee......

Go you good thing, this would not have hurt his chances...though you dont knwo what car setups the other Red Bull drivers were running...tyres, fuel loads? etc etc

Jerez - 08/12/04

1. Pedro de la Rosa - McLaren Mercedes - 1'15"837 - 110 laps

2. Antonio Pizzonia - Williams BMW - 1'17"491 - 71 laps

3. Jarno Trulli - Toyota - 1'17"614 - 126 laps

4. Juan Pablo Montoya - McLaren Mercedes - 1'17"709 - 97 laps

5. Ralf Schumacher - Toyota - 1'17"727 - 83 laps

6. Franck Montagny - Renault - 1'18"061 - 169 laps

7. David Coulthard - Red Bull Cosworth - 1'18"079 - 61 laps

8. Giancarlo Fisichella - Renault - 1'18"101 - 90 laps

9. Jenson Button - BAR Honda - 1'18"155 - 45 laps

10. Mark Webber - Williams BMW - 1'18"178 - 75 laps

11. Christian Klien - Red Bull Cosworth - 1'18"631 - 53 laps

12. Marc Gené - Ferrari - 1'18"789 - 108 laps

13. Luca Badoer - Ferrari - 1'18"906 - 114 laps

14. Anthony Davidson - BAR Honda - 1'19"237 - 101 laps

15. Vitantonio Liuzzi - Red Bull Cosworth - 1'19"419 - 30 laps

Jerez - 10/12/04

1. Kimi Raikkonen - McLaren Mercedes - 1'16"307 - 70 laps

2. Nick Heidfeld - Williams BMW - 1'16"786 - 64 laps

3. Rubens Barrichello - Ferrari - 1'16"800 - 73 laps

4. Luca Badoer - Ferrari - 1'16"932 - 70 laps

5. Ralf Schumacher - Toyota - 1'16"937 - 123 laps

6. Antonio Pizzonia - Williams BMW - 1'17"097 - 145 laps

7. Christian Klien - Red Bull Cosworth - 1'17"117 - 100 laps

8. Ricardo Zonta - Toyota - 1'17"154 - 141 laps

9. Alex Wurz - McLaren Mercedes - 1'17"308 - 76 laps

10. Franck Montagny - Renault - 1'17"650 - 95 laps

11. Giancarlo Fisichella - Renault - 1'17"994 - 63 laps

12. Anthony Davidson - BAR Honda - 1'18"243 - 96 laps

13. Neel Jani - Red Bull Cosworth - 1'18"243 - 53 laps

14. Takuma Sato - BAR Honda - 1'18"400 - 83 laps

You would have to assume that they are in the same equipment, it would be pretty difficult to compare drivers if they were in different spec cars. Heidfield has years racing experience, and has always been recognised as a good driver in poor equipment based on his jnr category results and McLaren testing days.

I so hope Heidfield gets the green light, in 3 weeks time we will know for sure:)

Jerez - 10/12/04

2. Nick Heidfeld - Williams BMW - 1'16"786 - 64 laps

6. Antonio Pizzonia - Williams BMW - 1'17"097 - 145 laps

Funny thing about these times is that Heidfeld completed less than half the laps Pizzonia did due to technical failure. Piz must have been humiliated irrespective of the testing programs scheduled for both. lol hes got no hope now!

Apparently Pizzaman was on the fastel lap of the day during his last flying lap but was baulked by Zonta. I dont know what he was doing for the rest of the laps though. I thik it was something like 65laps for NH and 154 for pizza. Nick heidfeld deserves the drive in my opinion. He has been a driver like Webber i think, has alot of talent but has never had the machinery to prove it. Its only a 1 year gig by the looks of it anyway so Williams should give him a run i believe.

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