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OT: F1 drivers for hire...anyone interested?
As glamorous as it may be to be a F1 driver, there are some drawbacks to being 'owned' by your sponsors. This can be exemplified in the following picture
 http://priceless.bla-bla.com/Pr6301balls.jpg ------------------ chris collier collier@iglou.com 72 911T stock and ok with that, for now |
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06-06-2001, 11:07 AM
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Funny.
By the way they undercut the racecar cost by a few orders of magnitude. |
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06-06-2001, 11:21 AM
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True, true. But maybe that is why the sponsor only used one hand
 ------------------ chris collier collier@iglou.com 72 911T stock and ok with that, for now |
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06-06-2001, 11:32 AM
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I know, whoever originally created it must not know much about racing. I think even Nascar stuff must cost that much, let alone F1. On a similar topic, anyone notice the C5-R roadtest in the June R&T? I'm always getting crap from my 'vette loving (as of today ex-)roommate (who just got a job at GM), about how great the C5-R is, it beat the 911 GT1 yada, yada, yada. Did you see how much it costs GM to buy one of those things though? $440,000! Don't GT3R's only cost ~200k? I guess that's the price you pay when the largest engineering firm in the world can't even design its own winning car.
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06-06-2001, 11:33 AM
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Yep, pretty funny!
But, not exactly a new phenomenon ... Mario was getting a lot less in '69 when he had to endure that wet, sloppy smack from Andy Granatelli on camera! ------------------ Warren Hall 1973 911S Targa |
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06-06-2001, 12:18 PM
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