jimclark wrote: ↑2 years ago
Cool. How do you travel?
We live in a fairly small town, I walk pretty much everywhere, including to the supermarket on the edge of town which is a 20 minute walk each way. If I have to go out of town (very rare) I go by train.
jimclark wrote: ↑2 years ago
Cool. How do you travel?
We live in a fairly small town, I walk pretty much everywhere, including to the supermarket on the edge of town which is a 20 minute walk each way. If I have to go out of town (very rare) I go by train.
Jim will now insist that you only buy natural products that are brought to said supermarket by horse and cart
The board equivalent of the Jody scheckter chicane. Fast but pointless
Full disclosure, I don't have a car either, but my job is driving one!
As for Vettel feeling bad about his carbon footprint, and voting green as a sort of penance, I say rubbish. Many years ago, I calculated that a single Tour de France bicycle race (a "green sport" if ever there was one!) burns more fossil fuel than an entire season of Formula One racing. Appearances are one thing, but reality is something entirely different again.
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Sebastian Vettel has become known for his off-track actions in recent years, including his tradition of naming each one of his cars.
Since his first full-time season in F1 in 2008, he has chosen a different name for every car he has driven. There were an assortment of names during his Red Bull days, ranging from Luscious Liz to Kate and Kate's Dirty Sister.
When Vettel moved to Ferrari in 2015, the choices tended to reflect the team's Italian roots, with the first being Eva. Margherita, Gina and Lucilla were amongst those to follow.
When he made the switch to the newly-named Aston Martin outfit. In keeping with AM's links to the James Bond franchise, the driver named his car Honey Ryder, a nod to the Bond girl played by Ursula Andress in the 1962 film Dr. No.
The question remains over what he will choose to call the AMR22. Apparently his engineers have a say in what it will be and he decides with them what it is to be.....
Vettel's past F1 car names
Year Team Name
2008 Toro Rosso Julie
2009 Red Bull Kate / Kate's Dirty Sister
2010 Red Bull Luscious Liz / Randy Mandy
2011 Red Bull Kinky Kylie
2012 Red Bull Abbey
2013 Red Bull Hungry Heidi
2014 Red Bull Suzie
2015 Ferrari Eva
2016 Ferrari Margherita
2017 Ferrari Gina
2018 Ferrari Loria
2019 Ferrari Lina
2020 Ferrari Lucilla
2021 Aston Martin Honey Ryder
2022 Aston Martin ????
My outside vote.... continuing with the Bond / AM theme how about Pussy Galore?
Or Domino from Thunderball?
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