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Speedster said:
Nope. Try again.
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You missed the history lesson they’re referring to.

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Bruce Leslie McLaren (30 August 1937 – 2 June 1970) was a New Zealand racing driver, automotive designer, engineer and motorsport executive, who competed in Formula One from 1958 to 1970. McLaren was runner-up in the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1960with Cooper, and won four Grands Prix across 13 seasons. In endurance racing, McLaren won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1966 with Ford. He founded McLaren in 1963, who have since won 10 Formula One World Constructors' Championship titles and remain the only team to have completed the Triple Crown of Motorsport.
 
Dave said:
You missed the history lesson they’re referring to.

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Bruce Leslie McLaren (30 August 1937 – 2 June 1970) was a New Zealand racing driver, automotive designer, engineer and motorsport executive, who competed in Formula One from 1958 to 1970. McLaren was runner-up in the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1960with Cooper, and won four Grands Prix across 13 seasons. In endurance racing, McLaren won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1966 with Ford. He founded McLaren in 1963, who have since won 10 Formula One World Constructors' Championship titles and remain the only team to have completed the Triple Crown of Motorsport.
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So I guess that makes Montblanc and Tesla South African?
 
Dave said:
The quoted question was answered correctly, McLaren was from New Zealand…







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and just for accuracy, the founders of Tesla were American and the founders of Montblanc were German…
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IS vs WAS, the question was present tense, lol.

Also: Bruce McLaren, a "Kiwi," founded Bruce McLaren Motor Racing in 1963, but he established the company and its headquarters in England.
 
I.am.Sam said:
cos furk papaya rules

mclaren lost the plot when they brought in british bias
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Papaya rules made Piastri crash (twice) in Baku and start his bad stretch of races where he has been unable to put a qualifying session together and thus undermine his own races?

Dude has cracked. And I said this last year when everybody was laughing at Norris for not being able to handle Max and saying Piastri would do a better job. We hadn't yet seen Piastri in a pressure situation, so we don't know how he would cope. Well now we know. He needs to do some work on himself; the same way Norris had to sort himself out.
 
thestaggy said:
Papaya rules made Piastri crash (twice) in Baku and start his bad stretch of races where he has been unable to put a qualifying session together and thus undermine his own races?

Dude has cracked. And I said this last year when everybody was laughing at Norris for not being able to handle Max and saying Piastri would do a better job. We hadn't yet seen Piastri in a pressure situation, so we don't know how he would cope. Well now we know. He needs to do some work on himself; the same way Norris had to sort himself out.
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100% agree it was his mistakes but i feel the pressure was brought upon him by mclaren

its defintely a learning curve for him
 
PCWARITM said:
Newey is hiring and firing

Up to seven senior figures are believed to be leaving the team entirely or being redeployed to the company's advanced technologies division, among them Eric Blandin, who was recruited from Mercedes as deputy technical director in 2022, then shifted to an aero role in a subsequent restructure.

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Well he has proven may times that he can streamline a car body to win, lets see if he can streamline a company too.
 
I.am.Sam said:
100% agree it was his mistakes but i feel the pressure was brought upon him by mclaren

its defintely a learning curve for him
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Yeah, damn that McLaren! When Norris lightly touched the poor little boy, Norris was given secret sanctions. However, when Pastrami took out his team-mate, they just shrugged it off! The team really must hate that blurry Ozzy...
 
thestaggy said:
Papaya rules made Piastri crash (twice) in Baku and start his bad stretch of races where he has been unable to put a qualifying session together and thus undermine his own races?

Dude has cracked. And I said this last year when everybody was laughing at Norris for not being able to handle Max and saying Piastri would do a better job. We hadn't yet seen Piastri in a pressure situation, so we don't know how he would cope. Well now we know. He needs to do some work on himself; the same way Norris had to sort himself out.
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I think the few more years in F1 and the tutorship under Max seems to be paying dividends atm.

Even though the friendship fizzled out at the end of last year, all those years prior hanging out with Max, flying together etc, I think was so valuable just in terms of seeing Max handle pressure, the mindset of being a champion etc

I'll admit, I was wrong about Norris, I was one of those thinking Oscar was going to klap him, and for the first half of the season it definitely looked to be the case. I still think he is a whiny little biatch :ROFL: but definitely the form Mclaren driver atm.

Perhaps after the season is over, we might find out a bit more from Oscar on where it went wrong. Was it confidence, a change in the car, pressure or hopefully not, interference from the team.
 
dotdan said:
I think the few more years in F1 and the tutorship under Max seems to be paying dividends atm.

Even though the friendship fizzled out at the end of last year, all those years prior hanging out with Max, flying together etc, I think was so valuable just in terms of seeing Max handle pressure, the mindset of being a champion etc

I'll admit, I was wrong about Norris, I was one of those thinking Oscar was going to klap him, and for the first half of the season it definitely looked to be the case. I still think he is a whiny little biatch :ROFL: but definitely the form Mclaren driver atm.

Perhaps after the season is over, we might find out a bit more from Oscar on where it went wrong. Was it confidence, a change in the car, pressure or hopefully not, interference from the team.
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I've already pointed this out - Oscar has his own half of the garage. For any funny business to have happened, his own race engineer and mechanics would have to be in on it.

I personally don't have any horse in this race, but I does give me a chuckle to see how Norris has put a bit of a dampener on all the people that were piling in on him. He's definitely found something in himself and locked in.

As for the whining bit, they all whine. Even Max rants when he is unhappy with the car. Alonso has a catalogue of memeable, albeit negative, radio transmissions. It's just funny and the sign of a competitive driver who demands more when they do it. When Norris does it, he's a b*tch.
 
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I've already pointed this out - Oscar has his own half of the garage. For any funny business to have happened, his own race engineer and mechanics would have to be in on it.

I personally don't have any horse in this race, but I does give me a chuckle to see how Norris has put a bit of a dampener on all the people that were piling in on him. He's definitely found something in himself and locked in.

As for the whining bit, they all whine. Even Max rants when he is unhappy with the car. Alonso has a catalogue of memeable, albeit negative, radio transmissions. It's just funny and the sign of a competitive driver who demands more when they do it. When Norris does it, he's a b*tch.
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And yet Rosberg won a championship off the back of some shuffling of the garage. I doubt there's an active attempt to favor one over the other but humans will be humans and there will be differences.
 
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