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#3301 Risil

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Posted 17 September 2023 - 09:58

WILD, imho, is (and perhaps always will be?) the "wrong shade of papaya" story from Jenna Fryer, straight from the mouth of Zak Brown.

McLaren engineers confusing centimetres and inches in the borrowed Indy 500 setup sheet.

Bankrupt Caterham F1's assets coming up for auction and including champagne bottles for podium ceremony practice.

McLaren acquiring a Mexican flag from David Richards' company to fly above their motor home for Sergio Perez but it turning out to be a bootleg one with a weed leaf emblem in the middle instead of the Mexican eagle.

This is my precious store of beloved and somewhat obscure operational screw-ups.

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#3302 Risil

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Posted 17 September 2023 - 10:01

I give this Grosjean contract saga 0.3 Schumachers out of 10.

#3303 DW46

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Posted 17 September 2023 - 10:01

McLaren engineers confusing centimetres and inches in the borrowed Indy 500 setup sheet.

Bankrupt Caterham F1's assets coming up for auction and including champagne bottles for podium ceremony practice.

McLaren acquiring a Mexican flag from David Richards' company to fly above their motor home for Sergio Perez but it turning out to be a bootleg one with a weed leaf emblem in the middle instead of the Mexican eagle.

This is my precious store of beloved and somewhat obscure operational screw-ups.


Didn’t Jaguar load a really expensive diamond that they randomly decided to put on their car for a Monaco GP one year?

#3304 Risil

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Posted 17 September 2023 - 10:02

Allegedly, I don't 100% believe they put the real diamond on the car. Maybe that's worse...

#3305 DW46

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Posted 17 September 2023 - 10:03

Allegedly, I don't 100% believe they put the real diamond on the car. Maybe that's worse...


Coulthard gotta fund those tight white jeans somehow 😂

Edited by DW46, 17 September 2023 - 10:03.


#3306 jcbc3

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Posted 17 September 2023 - 10:09

Coulthard gotta fund those tight white jeans somehow

 

Or a new set of lucky underwear (this thought provoked by the words 'tight' and 'white' in relation to DC)

 

https://karting.dayt...ucky-underpants



#3307 red stick

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Posted 17 September 2023 - 14:46

McLaren engineers confusing centimetres and inches in the borrowed Indy 500 setup sheet.


Still my favorite.

#3308 Dmitriy_Guller

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Posted 17 September 2023 - 15:28

Grosjean didn’t perform and was caustic so he didn’t get re-signed.  End of story.

I guess the question is how much that started happening after Andretti reneged on the offer, rather than being the reason for reneging on the offer.  In the ideal world human beings have no emotions, but that's why the real world with real humans is so much more interesting.  Grosjean is clearly on the sensitive and mercurial side, and having this kind of bridge-burning behavior pulled on you by your boss can really mess with your head.



#3309 Afterburner

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Posted 17 September 2023 - 15:44

Didn’t Jaguar load a really expensive diamond that they randomly decided to put on their car for a Monaco GP one year?

I haven’t listened to it but apparently the full story is here.

#3310 William Hunt

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Posted 17 September 2023 - 15:56

By dropping to 4th in the championship tables Pato O'Ward just misses out on his Super Licence, unbelievable how unfair FIA is to IndyCar drivers. And with Pato's 3rd overall fropm '21 about to drop off means that he will have to finish 2nd overall next year to get the Super Licence.



#3311 jcbc3

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Posted 17 September 2023 - 15:58

By dropping to 4th in the championship tables Pato O'Ward just misses out on his Super Licence, unbelievable how unfair FIA is to IndyCar drivers. And with Pato's 3rd overall fropm '21 about to drop off means that he will have to finish 2nd overall next year to get the Super Licence.

 

You seem to be a bit off there: https://the-race.com...erlicence-flaw/



#3312 red stick

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Posted 17 September 2023 - 16:17

Or a new set of lucky underwear (this thought provoked by the words 'tight' and 'white' in relation to DC)
 
https://karting.dayt...ucky-underpants

I can relate. When I combined my lucky underwear with my lucky necktie, back in the day, I was pretty formidable . . . :cool:

#3313 rghojai

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Posted 17 September 2023 - 17:08


Mansell merch!


https://rmsothebys.c.../home/lots/nm23


https://rmsothebys.c...s-ladel/1395161

#3314 red stick

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Posted 17 September 2023 - 17:15

Mansell merch!
https://rmsothebys.c.../home/lots/nm23
https://rmsothebys.c...s-ladel/1395161

Something for everybody. Quite a range of stuff.

#3315 Ross Stonefeld

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Posted 17 September 2023 - 17:26

I guess the question is how much that started happening after Andretti reneged on the offer, rather than being the reason for reneging on the offer.  In the ideal world human beings have no emotions, but that's why the real world with real humans is so much more interesting.  Grosjean is clearly on the sensitive and mercurial side, and having this kind of bridge-burning behavior pulled on you by your boss can really mess with your head.

 

I'd love to know the timeline of 

 

1. Grosjean offer

1b. non-signing

2. Knowledge of loss of DHL

3. Signing of Ericsson

4. Signing of funding that allowed Ericsson, whether Huski or other. 



#3316 red stick

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Posted 17 September 2023 - 17:43

FWIW, according to the last Pruett TWII podcast around 20 minutes in, the negotiations were completed in May and the agreement was sent to Grosjean in early June.

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Posted 17 September 2023 - 18:35

 

37 caps... Those were priced cheap. To the point where I seriously are considering it.



#3318 rghojai

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Posted 17 September 2023 - 18:38

Strange, but so Indycar.

https://rmsothebys.c...e-award/1394995

#3319 jcbc3

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Posted 17 September 2023 - 19:16

Strange, but so Indycar.

https://rmsothebys.c...e-award/1394995

 

What the actual f****?



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#3320 loki

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Posted 17 September 2023 - 19:56

I guess the question is how much that started happening after Andretti reneged on the offer, rather than being the reason for reneging on the offer.  In the ideal world human beings have no emotions, but that's why the real world with real humans is so much more interesting.  Grosjean is clearly on the sensitive and mercurial side, and having this kind of bridge-burning behavior pulled on you by your boss can really mess with your head.

He’s demonstrated those qualities the entire time.



#3321 prommer

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Posted 18 September 2023 - 16:19

Can you remind me again? Google doesn't help me.

 

https://apnews.com/m...9a3ba576f712fff

 

PAPAYA?



#3322 Metronazol

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Posted 18 September 2023 - 16:38

https://rmsothebys.c...jackets/1395051

I am _this_ close to bidding on these, who needs to eat for a month, right?



#3323 Ross Stonefeld

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Posted 18 September 2023 - 16:47

When there's a Honda paddock bike with Ferrari stickers? 



#3324 Metronazol

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Posted 18 September 2023 - 17:24

What the actual f****?

I'd imagine the G.I.Joe branding on there has something to do with it.



#3325 red stick

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Posted 18 September 2023 - 18:00

I'd imagine the G.I.Joe branding on there has something to do with it.


Different G.I. Joe's--it was a Pacific Northwest sporting goods chain. Which gets you partway there.

#3326 Metronazol

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Posted 18 September 2023 - 18:08

Different G.I. Joe's--it was a Pacific Northwest sporting goods chain. Which gets you partway there.

I stand corrected! Hell of a name for a sports shop.



#3327 Jim Thurman

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Posted 18 September 2023 - 18:56

Different G.I. Joe's--it was a Pacific Northwest sporting goods chain. Which gets you partway there.

Started out as a war surplus store, hence the name, then expanded into clothing, auto parts and sporting goods.

 

G.I. Joe's used to sponsor a lot of short track racing in the Northwest. If I had a dollar for every time someone thought it was the Hasbro toy...

 

U.S. sportscasters always thought that, and made what they thought were appropriate jokes (since racing coverage was just for jokes, oh and crash video). It helped that I don't know of any sportscaster from the Pacific Northwest that got a national stage.



#3328 andysaint

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Posted 18 September 2023 - 19:15

37 caps... Those were priced cheap. To the point where I seriously are considering it.


A lot of it seems cheap. I bet a lot will be sold for much more to dealers

#3329 PayasYouRace

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Posted 18 September 2023 - 19:25

We've got a lot of thread duplication going on. Continue generic Indycar chat in the 2024 thread: NTT IndyCar Series 2024 - Official Season Thread - Racing Comments - The Autosport Forums