[Joeaksa]

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Originally Posted by Joeaksa

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Fangio
YouTube - F1 - Juan Manuel Fangio (On Board Camera) - 1957
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I work about 250yds from the Fiorano track and you've just given me a history lesson.

Thank you

Thanks and to read some of the accounts of the old drivers, like Fangio and Tazio, they were "men among men" and almost superhuman at times. Tazio and what he did still blows me away...

Then we get some of these pussies who are driving these days who complain that their traction control has gone out or other petty BS. Look at the old races at Monte Carlo where they were shifting over 3000 times per race, coming to the end of the circuit with hands worn bloody from the gear lever.

Maybe when Bernie gets out of the mix we can have some changes like going back to a manual gearbox, no KERS and so on.