Motorsports Thread

[Drago]

She stopped because she felt she'd be a danger to other drivers on the track when she lost the use of one eye. And her depth of field perception with it.

The point is, as I stated, he is not married to a Spice Girl.

It's possible they may have reformed and hired new staff while I wasn't looking, but last i heard wee Suzie wasn't a Spice Girl.

See, if Toto had married Baby Spice none of this would have happened.

Interesting fact. Toto is a Japanese brand of lavatory bowl.

 

[Reynard]

She stopped because she felt she'd be a danger to other drivers on the track when she lost the use of one eye. And her depth of field perception with it.

Did you know that Alain Prost is nearly blind in one eye following a karting accident as a young man? Didn't stop him from becoming a four-time world champion...

 

[Drago]

My Missus is blind in one eye, probably a better driver than I am despite me being trained to a higher standard. You can fly airliners with one working eye (assuming you know how tom ly, have a licence and access to an airliner, etc)

The main issue is loss of depth perception. One can mostly train oneself to compensate for this, but in heavy rain, fog, or when there is a blanket of snow one loses the visual reference required to do so.

 

[Drago]

 

[FishFright]

My Missus is blind in one eye, probably a better driver than I am despite me being trained to a higher standard. You can fly airliners with one working eye (assuming you know how tom ly, have a licence and access to an airliner, etc)

The main issue is loss of depth perception. One can mostly train oneself to compensate for this, but in heavy rain, fog, or when there is a blanket of snow one loses the visual reference required to do so.

As someone born with 1 deficient eye you can't compensate very much at all but you can pretend quite easily.
Another reason I don't drive.

 

[Drago]

Well, Mrs D does eaxctly just that.

Something to do with moving the head more often allows the brain to distinguish visual references in a different way that makes the difference, but I didn't fully understand the consultants explanation. Some people can/will do it, some can't/don't.

She had two that worked fine until the one packed up due to MS.

 

[Reynard]

It's pretty well much the reason Prost pulled out of the '89 Australian GP.

That one, I recall, was another example of a complete and utter shambles...

 

[Drago]

I long for the good old days when the FIA was run by men who dressed as Nazzies in order to receive a kinky spanking, and the commercial side was run by a racist midget. For all their faults you knew exactly what you were getting.

Now it's all polished and shiny, with business plans and proper management steucture, etc, but like most corporate edifices no one knows their rectum from their olecranon.

 

[Reynard]

Bernie Ecclestone, described as a failed Formula 2 mechanic by someone I know who worked with him in his younger days...

I'm not sure I'd want to go to back to the Balestre era and the dangerous attitude of laissez faire, but in trying to bring the "gaming generation" on board, the current incumbents are farking up the sport for the purists.

Small wonder I much prefer BTCC and Formula E...

 

[figbat]

Would never have happened in Charlie’s day - sadly no time for a decent succession plan so we get….. this. 🙁

 

[Illaveago]

Covid, was that a year ago?

Long COVID . He showed signs in a couple of races finishing totally exhausted .

 

[classic33]

Would never have happened in Charlie’s day - sadly no time for a decent succession plan so we get….. this. 🙁

Would, did, the teams question his judgements a much as they do of Masi?

 

[Reynard]

Massi had been Charlie's deputy for a while. But I do believe he was thrust into a role he does not have the capability, or the strength of will and personality to do.

Charlie was known to bend things a bit if it suited him, but he was universally respected, and his word was law.

 

[classic33]

Long COVID . He showed signs in a couple of races finishing totally exhausted .

He still only missed the one race, last year, due to it. And there were questions over how he managed to get to the final race. Given the entry requirements, no entry if you'd had covid, and how he managed to return the negative tests four days apart having returned a positive test on the Monday of the same week.
There on the Thursday, three days after testing positive.

 

[Jenkins]

She stopped because she felt she'd be a danger to other drivers on the track when she lost the use of one eye. And her depth of field perception with it.

You may have got her confused with Maria de Vilotta.

As for the race - I've not watched it yet, only listened to the BBC radio commentary and analysis. Unfortunately it seems that the decisions by the stewards & the race director have followed the previous inconsistencies this season. While Max deserved the championship based on his performances for most of the year, his actions and driving standards in the past few races have left a sour taste in the mouth.