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#1 Risil

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Posted 24 December 2014 - 16:23

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The year of motor racing is finally, conclusively over. Now is the season for the Kimi to lie down with the Fernando. Notaries of the celebrity P-list have switched on Christmas lights up and down the country, and the image of Clark Gable has once again fulfilled his part in the annual ritual not-giving-a-damn.

 

But there's time for one more ritual before you leave your hotel room/basement/fortress of solitude.

 

It's the Semi-Official Autosport Forum Awards and Memories Thread! Post them below. Who or what stood out, thrilled, disappointed or otherwise pierced the greasy membrane of your consciousness. Use the divine sunbeam of intellect to analyse and rank them, make them into gongs, plaudits, wreathes or awards. Or don't! Write a poem about Lewis Hamilton's dog. Recall with fondness what you were doing when you realized that Daniel Ricciardo was Red Bull's number one driver. Tell us how many days it took after the 6 Hours of Silverstone to feel fully dry again. I've done some starters below.

 

Driver of the Year

Lewis Hamilton, who Vetteled everyone in sight.

 

(Honourable mentions: Marc Marquez. The undoubted star of 2013, which is the main reason he doesn't win this year. Andre Lotterer. Killed it wherever he went.)

 

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Max Wilson Award for Outstanding Participation by One Country

The United Kingdom. Self-pitying Brits had to dig deep to find things to pity in 2014, as the United Kingdom dominated the world in the world champion stakes (Hamilton, Davidson, Palmer, Lynn), the Most Desirable Outsider stakes (Jonathan Rea, Redding, Hawksworth), the Solid Journeyman stakes (Crutchlow, Button, Meeke, Conway), the Will Probably Win Le Mans One Day stakes (Stoneman, Tincknell, Mardenborough) and even the Derided Paydriver stakes (Chilton, Stevens). Want to know something weird about that list? Only one of them has a famous Racing Dad.

 

Something else weird? None of them is Scottish.

 

(Honourable mention: Colombia. As the considerable intellect of James Rodriguez's left foot was kicking Colombia into a World Cup quarter-final, Colombians were locking out the podium in Indycar's Houston Grand Prix. Carlos Munoz, Juan Montoya and Carlos Huertas (this decade's Mario Dominguez) jumped on the roulette wheel of a wet/dry, time-limited, fuel strategy race on a car park course, and won big. Will we ever hear about them again? Probably. But probably not all in the same sentence.)

 

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Team of the Year

Team AMG Mercedes. 20 years after breaking Indycar racing with its Tyrannosaurus Rex pushrod V8, they gave the same treatment to F1. Mercedes won nearly every race, the only obstacles worth the name proving to be themselves.

 

(Honourable mentions: X-Raid, whose Dakar Mini team had enough in hand in at the end of the Only Proper Rally to play silly buggers with team orders; Team Penske, who in this correspondent's opinion were only a few feet at Indianapolis and one painful Chase for the Sprint Cup reform away from outdoing the achievements of their former partners in Stuttgart.)

 

Enchanter of the Year

Marc Marquez. Clearly the most prodigal prodigy in world motorsport, he won the first 10 (ten) races of the year, whether that was from pole or from the pitlane, on the first lap or on the last lap, against Valentino Rossi, Jorge Lorenzo and Dani Pedrosa. Not since 2005 have riders sounded so beaten before riding to the garage on their team-branded scooters.

 

(Honourable mentions: Mark Webber's Pied Piper act during the World Endurance Championship. Wherever he went, queues assembled. He probably thinks sports car racing's as popular as F1. Lewis Hamilton's hex on Nico Rosberg following, or perhaps even during, the Belgian GP. Rosberg got himself into winning positions in the next seven races, and lost all but one of them.)

 

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Apollo 11 Award for Acceptable Levels of Unreliability

During the 1970s war in Northern Ireland, Reggie Maudling, the Tory Home Secretary, received brickbats for boasting that the IRA had been reduced to “an acceptable level of violence”. A similar calculus was at work in 2014, whose preseason had been sexed up with amusing predictions of the whole field breaking down at the opening race. The days of Nigel and Michael's bulletproof Ferrari seemed very far away, as challenging technical regulations proved too challenging for some, most notably multiple world champions Red Bull and automotive Gordon the Big Engines Porsche AG.

 

More acceptable were the unreliability records of F1 champions Mercedes and Le Mans champions Audi, so they get to share the prize. Mercedes only suffered one fire, one catastrophic brake failure, two failures to properly get going at all, one gearbox breakage, one case of car plague, and a hilarious double regen-failure that left one driver out of the race with cooked brakes and the other doing half the race minus a three-digit quantity of horsepower, making up new brake balance settings every lap, and still finishing second.

 

Audi, on the other hand, won the 24-hour classic by only having to make one 20-minute turbocharger change over the whole 379 laps.

 

(Honourable mention: Nissan's ZEOD electromobile came to Le Mans as an experimental Garage 56 entry, having been set objectives of doing one complete lap on electric power, and reaching a top speed of 300 km/h (one of these was subsequently achieved by the Formula E circus). It broke down on the first lap, but in a legal sleight of hand worthy of Portia, Nissan announced they had completed both its objectives during the morning warm-up. Touche!)

 

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Moment of the Year

It's time for the obligatory Indycar gong. You might remember the Indycar Series, they did a couple of races last August. The most sensational moment of the year, perhaps of any racing series, came halfway through the Long Beach race, eventually won by Bromley's Mike Conway after the Fuel Saving Art Project Formerly Known As Scott Dixon ran out of E85.

 

Conway was not racing for the lead on lap 56, but Andretti teammates Ryan Hunter-Reay and James Hinchcliffe were, chased by a charging Will Power. The trickster god who goes by the name Pit Strategy chose in his infinite tricksiness to place a cold-tyred Josef Newgarden ahead of all three of them. Hunter-Reay made his move, but – as A.J.P. Taylor was fond of saying – the plan miscarried. Three were out on the spot, and that was before Takuma Sato came bombing round the corner and proved that 2012 was no fluke. The race thread says it all.

 

Honourable mentions: the final laps of the 2014 Hungarian Grand Prix; Jack Hawksworth looking totally comfortable leading the Golf Course Grand Prix of Indianapolis; the Resistible Rise of Ryan Newman.

 

And a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to the whole forum. :wave: :kiss: :wave:

 

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Edited by Risil, 24 December 2014 - 21:27.


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#2 Sheepmachine

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Posted 24 December 2014 - 17:19

Superb as always Risil :up: Thanks for doing this :)
It's been a great motorsport year, I've really enjoyed it. I'll post my personal highlights when my head isn't feeling like its stuffed with cotton wool or I'm sounding like a hungover kimi raikkonen! :stoned:

Until then......

Merry Christmas and a happy new year to everyone on the forum!!!! :clap: :clap: :D

#3 Ellios

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Posted 24 December 2014 - 17:22

:up:

 

I think Daniel RickyArdo deserves a place in the Honourable mentions for the moustache alone

 

 

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Although that picture of Márquez is picture of the year!

 

Merry Christmas everyone - hope you all have a great time



#4 Ev0d3vil

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Posted 24 December 2014 - 19:08

Bring on 2015! Merry christmas and happy new year guys! and sorry to the mods for my bad postings this season, have 2 warnings already but it was in the heat of the moment of the Monaco race that I posted something really bad to warrant myself a warning !



#5 Disgrace

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Posted 24 December 2014 - 19:20

Worst F1 Advertisement of the Year

 



#6 P123

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Posted 24 December 2014 - 19:55

Worst F1 Advertisement of the Year


That's one to keep the 'Horrible Sounders' going.

#7 P123

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Posted 24 December 2014 - 20:02

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Roscoe- sleeps a lot, not fussed by the glamour of F1, never says anything in interviews, slower than Alonso... He's the canine Kimi.

#8 paulogman

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Posted 24 December 2014 - 20:24

Highlight of the year: Montoya going to indy car!

Do you have any idea how many hours I got back this year, not having to sit through NASCAR races?

#9 sennafan24

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Posted 25 December 2014 - 01:03

Yeah, Merry Xmas everyone

 

Great OP Risil, but I am the one who drops Seinfeld pictures around here man. Don't tread on my gimmick   ;)

 

Have a great one folks  :up:


Edited by sennafan24, 25 December 2014 - 01:08.


#10 alframsey

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Posted 25 December 2014 - 01:49

Tbh the only two things that surprised me were that Merc got it so right and that Fernando beat Kimi so conclusively, nothing else was a massive shock tbh.

 

EDIT: Add to the list Danny Ric beating Vettel...


Edited by alframsey, 25 December 2014 - 01:49.


#11 Jimisgod

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Posted 25 December 2014 - 02:00

The Good!

+++ Hamilton
+++ Ricciardo
+++ Williams-Mercedes
++ Bottas
++ Alonso
++ W. Power
++ C. Mostert (Bathurst winner)
++ Volvo (V8SC)
++ Buemi
++ Nakajima
++ Lotterer
+ Button
+ Massa
+ Hulkenberg
+ Bianchi

The Bad!

--- Raikkonen
--- Ferrari
--- Maldonado
-- Caterham
-- Ericsson
-- Vettel
-- Lotus-Renault
- McLaren-Mercedes

The Ugly!

~ Bianchi's accident (worst moment of the year)
~ Ferrari politics
~ Vergne being stiffed out of a drive
~ McLaren driver nonsense
~ Russian GP track
~ Bathurst track breaking up

#12 NoSanityClause

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Posted 25 December 2014 - 02:12

Worst F1 Advertisement of the Year

 

You might want to re-evaluate that assertion:

 



#13 Atreiu

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Posted 25 December 2014 - 04:19

Marquez was the best of all anywhere.

#14 Richard T

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Posted 25 December 2014 - 08:41

+ My highs

- Finally a war between two drivers (at least besides that of teams/leaders of the sport) in F1.
- Ricciardo winning
- We had a great Le Mans
- Porsche got to win a WEC race
- Marquez showed he is above humanity
- Rossi has found his confidence on the bike again
- Formula E is 100 times better than expected
- Vettel to Ferrari
- The Indy 500
- New stars (Ricciardo, Bottas, Kvyat, Marquez Jr etc.)
- Nissan announced return to Sports cars


- My lows

- Bianchis accident
- Marussia/Caterham closing doors
- Vergne and Magnussen losing their drives
- Bernie getting senile full time
- Toyota heartbreak at Le Mans
- Audi not being up to scratch compared to Toyota/Porsche in the 6hr races
- The new Chase-format
- The WTCC was just dull
- ... DTM as well
- Memo Gidleys crash at Daytona 24 was a heart stopper


My hopes for 2015!

- Formula E continues to excite and becomes faster in season 2
- The WEC takes a big leap with Nissan joining
- Toyota will win Le Mans
- A more level playing field in F1
- Bernie handing over power to those who understands the 2010's
- Hoping to get to watch more IndyCar
- Ferrari taking a leap
- Shortest off-season ever

And finally but most of all:
No more accidents where drivers, spectators, mechanics or marshals gets injured.

Merry Christmas and a Happy new year!

Edited by Richard T, 25 December 2014 - 08:42.


#15 Coral

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Posted 25 December 2014 - 12:54

Merry Christmas Everyone! :clap: :clap: :clap:

 

2014 was just such a great year to be a Lewis Hamilton fan. His WDC was so much more special than 2008. Especially as I was able to share the experience with some of my fellow Autosport BB posters at the Watch Party. I'll never forget that day! :up: :)

 

Best wishes to you all for a wonderful 2015. :stoned:


Edited by Coral, 25 December 2014 - 12:56.


#16 chunder27

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Posted 25 December 2014 - 15:06

Highs

 

Moto 3 and Miller

Ricciardo showing up Vettel and pretty much forcing him to quit!

Villopoto announcing he is gooing to compete in World motocross

Guinters winning world superbike

Ryuichi Kiyonari proving everyone wrong

Andrea Dovizioso proving everyone wrong

Ryan Harrison proving me right by getting banned

Liam Doran getting banned, couldnt happen to a nicer bloke!

Bergrennen getting ever more popular

 

 

Lows

 

Domination by Citroen and VW devaluing decent championships like WTCC and WRC

Schumachers accident

Popularity of endurance "racing"

Marquez dominating and making MotoGP pretty poor to watch once he got int he lead

Marco Melandri what a berk.

Bubba getting a massive ban in AMA supercross

Craig Finnikin deserving the world final in the best handling car on shale for years.



#17 jonpollak

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Posted 25 December 2014 - 16:09

Happy Holidays to the wonderful denizens of AtlasAutosport.

Highs:
The night Miley rolled up 3 skunk...oh wait..Racing.

1) Indy500:

JV remembered me from way back in the day

Thanks to Annie Bradshaw for shoving me into my brief racing career back in the mid 90's

 

2) F1:

As Coral said..our WatchParty was a real success.

 

3) The ever rising quality of the contributors here on AA.

We were in an irony-free tailspin for quite a few years...I'll credit the IndyCar/NASCAR threads for the jump in caliber.

 

Lows:

1) Michael Schumacher's accident this time last year.

2) Jules Bianchi's needless injury in Japan.

 

Here's to a great 2015.


Edited by jonpollak, 30 December 2014 - 21:47.


#18 Tourgott

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Posted 25 December 2014 - 16:14

Quote of the year: "Nico hit me!"



#19 scheivlak

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Posted 25 December 2014 - 16:33

Quote of the year: "Nico hit me!"

Followed by Vettel's "Tough luck!" in Spain :D



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#20 MikeV1987

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Posted 27 December 2014 - 09:53

Pretty much everything I was going to post was mentioned already, but this picture always stands out in my mind.

 

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Instead of getting a replacement driver for Sochi, Marussia prepared Bianchi's car and left it in the garage all weekend as a tribute, that brought some emotions.


Edited by MikeV1987, 28 December 2014 - 17:08.


#21 Newbrray

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Posted 27 December 2014 - 10:04

Quote of the year: "Nico hit me!"

 

I prefer the Singapore one

 

"Dammit !!"



#22 GoldenColt

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Posted 27 December 2014 - 10:05

Followed by Vettel's "Tough luck!" in Spain :D

 

* China.



#23 scheivlak

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Posted 27 December 2014 - 10:29

* China.

You're right!



#24 Risil

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Posted 27 December 2014 - 12:28

On a smaller scale I also enjoyed Sauber accidentally telling the wrong car to stop in Austria. A pointless and depressing season, but because this is sport it was a comedic one as well. Actually the whole Austrian GP weekend looked great. Not many F1 races make me wish I was there but that one certainly did.

 

And Jules Bianchi's drive into the points at Monaco, which felt somehow as remarkable as anything that happened in F1 this year.


Edited by Risil, 27 December 2014 - 12:29.


#25 surbjits

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Posted 27 December 2014 - 16:17

You might want to re-evaluate that assertion:

 

 

The **** did I just watch :rotfl:
 



#26 sennafan24

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Posted 27 December 2014 - 16:39

Best image posted on the board all year  :up:



#27 jonpollak

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Posted 27 December 2014 - 22:38

You should see the one's I can't / won't post....

Jp

 

PS..Seinfeld images are NOT exclusive to you and had you been paying attention you'd know that.



#28 sennafan24

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Posted 27 December 2014 - 22:58

PS..Seinfeld images are NOT exclusive to you and had you been paying attention you'd know that.

I am currently taking the matter to Autosport court. I want them trademarked in my favour  :smoking:



#29 Sheepmachine

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Posted 28 December 2014 - 14:19

Ok. Let's give this a go!

The 'it's a 24 hour race not a 24 lap sprint!' Award
Honourable mentions go to the Le Mans 24 hours, as rain fell all over the track many cars slid around like dogs on Lino taking a number of big names out of contention.
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It was a ruff day for many.

Then of course there was the Spa 24 hours.
There was many an accident with more safety cars than you could shake a stick at. Only once it got dark did it finally calm down a bit.
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And of course that terrifying accident for Marcus Mahy that caused the race to be red flagged. Here's hoping he makes a full recovery.

But the winner is the nurburgring 24 hours! Every few minutes there seemed to be a crash top end cars tripping over back markers cars crashing under safety cars it had it all!!

The controversial controversy award (it's controversial! )
This one is easy it has to be Lewis vs Nico. Every week there seemed to something, from engine maps being turned up when they shouldn't be to the drama of spa and if there wasn't a real controversy the tin foil hat brigade would certainly come up with one.
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The most enjoyable thread award
For me it was the Mid Ohio thread. http://forums.autosp...d-ohio-is-here/
Started of superbly by Afterburner with his OP, followed by the usual pre race banter. I can't remember much about the race itself but the thread made what was otherwise a relatively ok race into a massively enjoyable one personally. :)
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Kannan can be the man...to win the race. :)

Oops :blush:

The serious bit
I can't do a post about this without mentioning the bits we all dread.
At the start of the year Michael Schumacher had his horrific ski accident, let's hope he returns to his normal self eventually.
Then of course there was the death of Simon Andrews and Karl Harris at the north west 200 and Isle of Man TT respectively. R.I.P. To both
Jules Bianchi's accident in Suzuka hit hard as well, I hope he makes a full recovery.

Final bit
Also I would like to say a big thank you to everyone on this forum for making this such an enjoyable place to be. 2014 has been a tough year in many ways but coming on here was always a good distraction from the tough stuff. :) Here is to a great 2015 everyone!!

*I have probably forgotten bits so I may add more stuff at a later date.

edit fixed I think... :blush:

Edited by Sheepmachine, 28 December 2014 - 14:45.


#30 Vepe1995

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Posted 28 December 2014 - 14:36

Ok. Let's give this a go!

The 'it's a 24 hour race not a 24 lap sprint!' Award
Honourable mentions go to the Le Mans 24 hours, as rain fell all over the track many cars slid around like dogs on Lino taking a number of big names out of contention.
a-dog-lies-on-a-linoleum-floor-joel-sart
It was a ruff day for many.

Also there was many an accident with more safety cars than you could shake a stick at. Only once it got dark did it finally calm down a bit.
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And of course that terrifying accident for Marcus Mahy that caused the race to be red flagged. Here's hoping he makes a full recovery.

But the winner is the nurburgring 24 hours! Every few minutes there seemed to be a crash top end cars tripping over back markers cars crashing under safety cars it had it all!!

 

I think you have mixed up Le Mans and Nürburgring a bit there...



#31 Sheepmachine

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Posted 28 December 2014 - 14:43

I think you have mixed up Le Mans and Nürburgring a bit there...

Oops let me fix it :blush:
Still not 100% with it, stupid cold.

#32 Lemnpiper

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Posted 28 December 2014 - 16:12

Hi all ,

 

  Most of my high & lows have been mentioned  but I have a couple to add ,

 

   Highs

 

   Jim Nabor's  singing Back Home Again In Indiana  for the last time , PLUS getting to say  Ladies & Gentlemen start your engines  with Mari Hulman

 

   Kurt Busch's  Indy 500 run  

 

   Bryan Smith's   run from the penalty line to an overwhelming win in the AMA flat track race at Colonial Downs Va  Mega Mile race  . This is a case of truly dominating a field.

 

 

 

    Lows  

 

 

    The Passing of Junie Donlavey

 

    Contracts which prevent efforts from other drivers  to do like Kurt did and test the waters outside your own series.

 

 

    Hopes

 

     Helio gets his 4th Indy 500 :up: :up: :up: :up:

 

    Kyle Larson gets a Sprint cup   win  :clap:

 

    Indy schedules races  past  August  :love:

 

    Bernie  figures out who will be his successor 

 

    Formula Electric  survives it's growing pains to remind folks  once auto racing was based on consumer product  improvent  via testing in racing.

 

 

   

 

   Have a Great 2015  All :wave:

    Paul


Edited by Lemnpiper, 28 December 2014 - 16:18.


#33 Risil

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Posted 28 December 2014 - 20:50

   Highs

 

   Jim Nabor's  singing Back Home Again In Indiana  for the last time , PLUS getting to say  Ladies & Gentlemen start your engines  with Mari Hulman

 

:up: :)



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Posted 29 December 2014 - 09:29

 

 

Max Wilson Award for Outstanding Participation by One Country

The United Kingdom. Self-pitying Brits had to dig deep to find things to pity in 2014, as the United Kingdom dominated the world in the world champion stakes (Hamilton, Davidson, Palmer, Lynn), the Most Desirable Outsider stakes (Jonathan Rea, Redding, Hawksworth), the Solid Journeyman stakes (Crutchlow, Button, Meeke, Conway), the Will Probably Win Le Mans One Day stakes (Stoneman, Tincknell, Mardenborough) and even the Derided Paydriver stakes (Chilton, Stevens). Want to know something weird about that list? Only one of them has a famous Racing Dad.

 

I assume you're talking about Jonathan Palmer. But then you've also got Johnny Rea, Derek Crutchlow and John Button. :)



#35 Risil

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Posted 29 December 2014 - 12:19

I assume you're talking about Jonathan Palmer. But then you've also got Johnny Rea, Derek Crutchlow and John Button. :)

 

I knew all three of them raced, or rallycrossed, but they didn't meet my arbitrary fame test. Which is mostly that when a commentator mentions the racing parent, if they do it in a "you probably don't know this, but his father raced as well" as opposed to "well of course he's the son of...". Eurosport's Jack Burnicle is the exception to this because he talks about every past racer as if he's Ayrton Senna.

 

Anyway. Nitpicking and then not contributing is NOT in the spirit of this thread! What are your memories of the year?



#36 Tarzaan

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Posted 29 December 2014 - 13:50

F1: Booooooooooooooooooooring....


Edited by Tarzaan, 29 December 2014 - 13:51.


#37 noikeee

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Posted 29 December 2014 - 14:07

I remember some sort of silver blur in F1 and that's it really.



#38 OvDrone

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Posted 29 December 2014 - 16:39

Well, damn, where do I begin? Ah, yea, ok, Formula 1 it is then.

 

I liked this season. But mainly because of this bloke:

 

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I mean, he bloody picked the #3 on account of him being an Earnhardt fan. One is the Intimidator, the other the Bully. Heard that Seb?

 

And the right man won, in the end. #stillirise #blessed #44. And Nico lost in the most gracious, monegasque way possible. Kudos F1 2014, you were alright. But, everything would of been alright after the nightmare the 2013 season was. And how about that Martini Williams livery.

 

Moving on to greener pastures: Endurance racing.

 

I'm not gonna talk about Le Mans. I love that race no matter what. As I do the Monaco Grand Prix and the Indy 500. The right dudes won it, though.

 

Porsche brought some oomph to this year's WEC season and I completely loved the 6 Hours of Silverstone, Cota and Bahrain. Damn, Sakhir brought the love all year round. Webber kinda sucked, but hey, first year right? Lotterer was the man, again. And I loved seeing Davidson and Buemi win the title. Kudos to both of 'em. (I still don't understand Lapierre's situation, whatever).

 

Over the pond, the inaugural United Sportscar season brought much needed hilarity. In the pathetic, doom and bizarro way. The prototype class tech rules are a joke, there was a lot, a lot of first lap amateuresque BS driving at the sharp end, featuring a dude called Gustavo Yacaman. Think of him as a Red Bull backed Maldonado of the American Le Mans variety. Viper won the GT class and then promptly quit. Sounds like my year in dating, right there. Highlights? I don't know. I guess it's seeing Gidley recover from that horror crash at Daytona. And seeing some racing at Laguna Seca. Whatever.

 

But the moment, the endurance moment of the year. ****, maybe the overall moment of the year, is this:

 

 

Yeah! Remember this? Nobody bloody mentioned it. Yeah, I'll let you resavour that.

 

Indycar: what can I say? All of it. There's too many things to mention. I mean even ****ing Carlos Huertas won. To this day I can't understand why. I have to thank all of you dudes / dudettes for making the Indy races just a complete joy to be a part of. Laughter and banter has truly been had. May '15 be even better. Willy P to bring the pain again.

 

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Nascar: You know what? I liked the new Chase playoff system. Without that we wouldn't have had the trials and tribulation of Ryan Newman's winless '14 campaign. That, that was comedy. Yet, there is one dude of which I became a big fan of:

 

 

Just watch those last ten or so laps. Glorious is it not? You're welcome.

 

And, I loved Keselowski's troubled Chase bid. That Talladega win was one of my favorite races of the year. #peoplecanthandlethekes

 

Touring cars: is it me or this was a particularly boring year in tourers. Pechito brought a whole new level of awesomeness and professionalism (and boredom) to the WTCC. The DTM flat out sucked. I can't remember anything about the BTCC for some reason and the V8s were so-so. I liked the moments where McLaughlin and van Gisbergen won, when Ambrose made his comeback at that hilarious wet Sydney finale. Sepang looks tame in comparison.

 

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What is? I don't even...

 

Rallying's highlight was again Rally Deutschland. The day everyone, even the winner, went for a lovely summer ride through the vineyards.

 

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Ladies and gentlemen, your rally winner.

 

Over on two-wheels: Marquez was amazing but Rossi brought the smiles. And I can finally utter these words: 'Guintoli, world champion.'

 

Formula E was thrice as better than expected, Blancpain GTs were fun this year, Speedway was decent and GP2 was surprisingly strong.

 

I have a love / hate relationship with these year-end thread, be it motorsport, music, books, socio-political, etc. I always have a hard time remembering the good bits when writing 'em. So, I'll leave my top ten races, here:

 

10. GP3 Sochi Sprint Race

9. Indycar Mid-Ohio

8. Bathurst 1000 (or the 12 hours)

7. MotoGP Phillip Island

6. GP2 Hockenheim Feature Race

5. Nascar Sprint Cup Talladega Fall

4. 6 Hours of Bahrain

3. Beijing ePrix

2. Rally Deutschland

1. Hungarian Grand Prix

 

All in all, 2014: the right dude won. 2014, is done, with all of:

 

The Good

 

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The Bad

 

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and The Ugly

 

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So, let's make 2015 a better year. Cheers.



#39 HeadFirst

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Posted 30 December 2014 - 20:18

Good .... I got married ....... to an Alonso fanatic, so it's F1 related.

Bad ...... Dealing with the wait to see where Fernando would land, then the anguish (hers) when he signed with the "Evil Empire" (her name for it) and that __________ Ron (a shared opinion).

Ugly ..... The situation at the "Cult of the Dancing Donkey".



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#40 Amphicar

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Posted 30 December 2014 - 23:37

Special award to Daniel Ricciardo for finding time to star in a West End musical as well as win a couple of F1 races

 

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#41 jonpollak

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Posted 31 December 2014 - 18:37

RIP Nigerian Streaming Club.

:cry:

Seems Boko Harumph sent in a drone and torched the whole operation.

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Jp



#42 Risil

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Posted 31 December 2014 - 18:52

Actually there was something odd about a vaccination drive asking me to fill in where I watched Indycars this year. And come to think about it, I've already had my polio injections...