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Post by charleselan on Sept 2, 2021 12:50:16 GMT
Yesterday I had a brief look in at the Motorsport Web Site, I haven't been there for some time and was shocked at the terrible layout and lack of meaningful content. I had hoped to see something well written about the Spa debacle, even hope against hope of something by Mark Hughes, but nothing. I did notice a heading along the lines of "Should Spa still be on the calendar", what the actual.............
Barely one comment on any feature either, very sad indeed.
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Post by chrisb on Sept 9, 2021 9:41:35 GMT
I glance at the site in the hope Mark or Mat have written something of consequence, Mark seems to be distanced from MS these day, I did note that Adam Cooper had written an article, and that there are going to be changes to the website, presumably they are going to limit the articles you can access, given the lack of comments being made I don't think this will make much difference, it seems a shame as properly managed it could have been good, maybe we should suggest Rene et al take over MS's website and show how a forum is properly run!!
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Post by René on Sept 9, 2021 18:28:19 GMT
I glance at the site in the hope Mark or Mat have written something of consequence, Mark seems to be distanced from MS these day, I did note that Adam Cooper had written an article, and that there are going to be changes to the website, presumably they are going to limit the articles you can access, given the lack of comments being made I don't think this will make much difference, it seems a shame as properly managed it could have been good, maybe we should suggest Rene et al take over MS's website and show how a forum is properly run!! Aha yes. Maybe better to try to persuade Mark to join us! That would be a coup!
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Post by charleselan on Sept 9, 2021 19:04:35 GMT
Along with David Hobbs .
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Post by chrisb on Sept 9, 2021 19:55:16 GMT
And Tony Brooks
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Post by charleselan on Apr 30, 2022 17:47:04 GMT
This morning I was reading my online copy of the weekly UK publication called Motor Sport News, I am not certain if the produce a hard copy but it looks like a newspaper version just like the old Motoring News. However in this edition which covers all aspects of motor sport there was a superb Q & A with Stefan Johansson, who is always well worth hearing from. In this he is asked questions by the publication staff and selected ones from readers all of which are worth reading.
The one that really struck me was the reference to the 1985 season when Stefan drove for Ferrari in the beautiful Ferrari 185 alongside Michele Alboreto. Stefan refers to the three GP's that he felt he should have won that year and all did not come his way due to team orders (Canada), Dallas failing brakes, and Imola where unbeknown to me he ran out of fuel due to a leak in the intake manifold. I obviously knew he ran out of fuel like many others but did not realise it was due to the manifold leak which richened the fuel mixture and caused excessive fuel consumption.
Today Stefan concentrates on his art work where he paints ultra large portraits of celebrities and motor sport people, as well as his driver management business for the likes of Scott Dixon and Felix Roseqvist.
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Post by robmarsh on May 1, 2022 8:40:09 GMT
Always like "Steve Johnson" and thought he had really bad luck in 1985. I wonder what trajectory his career would have taken had he won those three GPs?
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Post by charleselan on May 2, 2022 18:36:13 GMT
A few more snippets from Stefan's interview that might interest you all. He said that when he first came to England he was absolutely penniless and recalls spending more nights sleeping in his car than in a bed. Stefan also said that he had so little money most days were a toss up between putting fuel in his car or eating a meal, kind of puts many of todays stars who claim to have had it hard into some perspective.
Rob, I feel that if he had won those Grand Prix's in 1985 his career trajectory may have been very different, but he was saddled with Ferrari that were in one of their slumps and much of it in 1985 self inflicted e.g. changing turbo manufacturers mid season and disastrously so as it turned out.
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Post by robmarsh on May 3, 2022 7:04:46 GMT
John, agreed. Not sure why Ferrari did that as the car was the class of the field up to that point. I think it may have had something to do with selling road cars in the USA. The 1986 car was a disaster and then he went to Mclaren just when they were in a minor slump prior to the MP 4/4 coming in 1988.
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Post by charleselan on May 3, 2022 13:26:43 GMT
Rob the 1985 Ferrari began the year very well and looked fantastic, one of the best looking Ferrari F1 cars of all time in my opinion but that change in turbo manufacturers was a stupid thing to do no matter what the reason. In the Q&A with Stefan he also refers to the move to McLaren in 1987 and his reasons for doing so which is very interesting. He says that he took the decision due to the fact that Ferrari in 1986 were all over the place and the car was not good (it looked awful as well with that humped back tail section).
Stefan says that he chose the wrong year to join McLaren and as you say it was one of the worst cars that they produced. He was very aware that the team were looking to get Ayrton and Honda but he thought it worth going there anyway. He is highly complimentary of Alain Prost both as a driver and a person, and he also says that he got along very well with Ron Dennis. Stefan and Ron had worked together in earlier years when he raced for Dennis' F3 team in 1979, very successful as well.
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