The man took his seat and then followed up with his girl and a large time-percentage of his kid.
Max, always going full send!
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Max, always going full send!
I wouldn't say those 2 are doing the right thing - each to their own. But I do agree with you that maintaining a relationship must be extremely difficult. Takes huge trust and huge effort to make things work.
I think she is used to it. Her father was also a F1 driver so probably used to travelling.
Yeah that is vkn ruthless, and then still goes on to prove he is miles better as a F1 driver. That oke's confidence was probably shot to shyte, maybe still is.
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Take nothing away from Michael, it was some good racing, but those Michelins on the Williams had probably fallen off the cliff. If I remember correctly the Bridgestone tyres on the Ferrari took longer to come up to temp but were the better race tyre. To add to that Montoya used to thrash the life out of the tyres always racing balls to the wall.
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I enjoyed watching him race. He had that passion/spark for racing that is sadly missing in many of the modern F1 drivers.
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I think its part of their media training from very early, its easier to interview someone in English than having a translator being with him all the time.
When Shumi first started getting a lot of media exposure, he was actually sent on a course in English, to avoid embarrassing him and the team on international TV...
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Interesting, Germans generally seem to speak good English, in many cases better than Americans but it was different times so maybe English education in Germany was not as good in Schumi's younger days.
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That was a really beautiful Ferrari, back when Ferrari was still Ferrari. Lets hope they can somehow get back to those days again when LH joins them.
I was in Germany for 4 months in the 1980s. Only the people involved with tourism were reasonably versed in English. The general population - varying between "not so much" to "not at all"...
I was in Germany in 2019 and got along perfectly fine knowing only "my german is bad please speak slowly" for myself. wife had a bit more German knowlage so she could help out in the 3 cases in 2 weeks where the people did not immidiately start speaking english after we greeted them.
JuliusSeizure
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Was it a case of them actually not knowing English or not speaking it to put you in your place? I would hazard a guess the latter.
quovadis
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This. Hehe most Europeans speak English to some degree.
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Not sure about this. It would depend which part of Europe. I'm sure you will have trouble if you go to Latvia or Estonia etc. A lot of Italian's also seems to struggle but Dutch and Germans seem more fluent on the whole.
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Looking at the F2 standings, Antonelli is not dominating. Interestingly the guy on top now is Zak Maloney who races with a Barbados licence. It will be good for F1 to have drivers from different regions.
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Half of my family are French, on the wife's side, and they flatly refuse to speak English.
Unless that is I try to speak French, It is like Magic, they all become fluent in English instantly.
Apparently they would rather speak English than listen to me mangle their Language.
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Unbelievable... how on Earth did Claire Williams allow the rot to set in so deep!?
Formula 1 chief appalled to find team using Excel to manage 20,000 car parts: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/0...d-team-using-excel-to-manage-20000-car-parts/
"... The Williams car build workbook, with roughly 20,000 individual parts, was "a joke," Vowles recently told The Race. "Impossible to navigate and impossible to update." This colossal Excel file lacked information on how much each of those parts cost and the time it took to produce them, along with whether the parts were already on order. Prioritizing one car section over another, from manufacture through inspection, was impossible, Vowles suggested.
"When you start tracking now hundreds of thousands of components through your organization moving around, an Excel spreadsheet is useless," Vowles told The Race. Because of the multiple states each part could be in—ordered, backordered, inspected, returned—humans are often left to work out the details. "And once you start putting that level of complexity in, which is where modern Formula 1 is, the Excel spreadsheet falls over, and humans fall over. And that's exactly where we are."
The consequences of this row/column chaos, and the resulting hiccups, were many. Williams missed early pre-season testing in 2019. Workers sometimes had to physically search the team's factory for parts. The wrong parts got priority, other parts came late, and some piled up. And yet transitioning to a modern tracking system was "viciously expensive," Fry told The Race, and making up for the painful process required "humans pushing themselves to the absolute limits and breaking." ..."
Formula 1 chief appalled to find team using Excel to manage 20,000 car parts: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/0...d-team-using-excel-to-manage-20000-car-parts/
"... The Williams car build workbook, with roughly 20,000 individual parts, was "a joke," Vowles recently told The Race. "Impossible to navigate and impossible to update." This colossal Excel file lacked information on how much each of those parts cost and the time it took to produce them, along with whether the parts were already on order. Prioritizing one car section over another, from manufacture through inspection, was impossible, Vowles suggested.
"When you start tracking now hundreds of thousands of components through your organization moving around, an Excel spreadsheet is useless," Vowles told The Race. Because of the multiple states each part could be in—ordered, backordered, inspected, returned—humans are often left to work out the details. "And once you start putting that level of complexity in, which is where modern Formula 1 is, the Excel spreadsheet falls over, and humans fall over. And that's exactly where we are."
The consequences of this row/column chaos, and the resulting hiccups, were many. Williams missed early pre-season testing in 2019. Workers sometimes had to physically search the team's factory for parts. The wrong parts got priority, other parts came late, and some piled up. And yet transitioning to a modern tracking system was "viciously expensive," Fry told The Race, and making up for the painful process required "humans pushing themselves to the absolute limits and breaking." ..."
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