Re: Welcome to the Big Time, Bourdais

"Mike P" <privacy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> >>> 10. Sebastian Vettel - STR
> >> >>> 18. Sebastien Bourdais - STR
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Vettel had car problems and didn't post a time in Q3, so he could
> >> >>> have
> >> >>> done better.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Bourdais didn't even make it out of Q1.
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> FWIW, fan poll at F1.com says Seabass' performance was better than
> >> >> Rosberg's
> >> >> or Hamilton's...
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> > I was quite impressed with his driving. Staying in front of those
> >> > contenders with a notably inferior car is quite admirable.
> >> >
> >> > -- 
> >> > forty
> >> >
> >> > "There's a very fine line between not listening, and not caring. I
like
> > to
> >> > think that I walk that line every day of my life."
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> >>
> >> He's no slouch, that's for sure.  I was at the Denver race in 2004 or
> >> 2005
> >> when he was spun out at the very start of the race.  The entire field
> > passed
> >> him while he was waiting for the safety team to get him going again.
He
> >> came back to pass the entire field and won that race.
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> >> alien
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> > That's not saying much with that field. Any Andretti, and
> > most top drivers in the IRL, would have not only done
> > so, but would have then swept past Bourdais as well.
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> Well if Seabass lasts longer than 13 races, he'll have already done
better
> than Michael

Many, including both DaMatta and Zanardi stayed far longer,
in fact entirely too long, yet didn't begin to accomplish nearly as
much in all that time as Michael Andretti did in considerably less.
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> > Let's see, started 17th, a first corner casualty, lucked into
> > a higher position due to a safety flag, a disqualification and
> > massive attrition
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> That's what he's employed to do. Keep it on the track when others are
busy
> falling off and getting DQ'd.
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> Michael Andretti managed 4 laps in his first 3 GPS, all due to accidents
of
> his own making..

Does mechanical error or the name Wendlinger ring
a bell? How did either he or Senna fare, what are they
doing these days and which would you rather be? You
quite clearly don't know what you're talking about.

>.he did improve a lot in the latter part of the season,
> but
> Seb's started off better than he did.

Michael: wasn't forced to plead for and finally have a position
granted with a series bottom dweller, wasn't allowed to benefit
from testing, didn't qualify 17th, didn't screwup the first corner,
didn't detonate his engine, didn't oil spray the leader, didn't
benefit from a disqualification, didn't gain positions from the
massive attrition of more than 75% of the field ... Again, and
as usual, you simply don't know what you're talking about,
but then that's your usual modus operandi.

> >but still managed (while running third from
> > last place) to blow his engine (causing a problem for pole
> > sitter and eventual winner Hamilton) and could not finish the
> > F1 race.
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> Much more of this, he'll have to change his name to Andretti..

You have no business mentioning them in the same sentence.

> Mike P