Michael Ferner wrote: ↑3 years ago
Are you perhaps thinking of Nelson Piquet, Brasil 1981? He famously started on slicks on a full wet track, slipped way back but recovered to be in the top ten again mid-race, before another rain shower washed away all his chances. I'm not sure, but he may have stayed with the slicks until the end, by which time he was several laps in arrears.
Yes
Jones was laughing until reutemann didn't let him past for the win
Piquet did prosper mid race, up to 4th? But then the rain came down again. It's difficult to tell without a lap chart, it's possible he may just be unlapping himself from surer. He never changed strategy and like you say ended up looking like a chump after a few spins. A fairly ignominious home race . I guess it could have been different if it hadn't started pissing down again, but he should have known the local weather!
Did I see Jones make the same mistake with a premature stop for slicks at imola just a couple of races later? I haven't read the report yet. There's the unusual sight of a Theodore trying to get past a Williams
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In two successive races in F1 we saw the crazy sight of an ambulance/emergency vehicle driving on the circuit, while the race continued full pelt with drivers overtaking it. Which races?
The board equivalent of the Jody scheckter chicane. Fast but pointless
That was pretty normal until the late seventies/early eighties. Probably more difficult to find two successive races without ambulances on the track...
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Michael Ferner wrote: ↑3 years ago
That was pretty normal until the late seventies/early eighties. Probably more difficult to find two successive races without ambulances on the track...
I've only seen what I described in these two races, though going back to the 70's footage is more difficult to find.
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The board equivalent of the Jody scheckter chicane. Fast but pointless
Michael Ferner wrote: ↑3 years ago
That was pretty normal until the late seventies/early eighties. Probably more difficult to find two successive races without ambulances on the track...
There were emergency vehicles driving on Indycar circuits well into the 90s while the race remained green. And then this would happen:
Michael Ferner wrote: ↑3 years ago
That was pretty normal until the late seventies/early eighties. Probably more difficult to find two successive races without ambulances on the track...
There were emergency vehicles driving on Indycar circuits well into the 90s while the race remained green. And then this would happen:
It reminds me of me starting halfway down the grid on f1 2020
The board equivalent of the Jody scheckter chicane. Fast but pointless