Ah they returned the engines to Ferrari after their contract ended? So there are no old working Toro Rosso cars left?WilliamsF1 wrote:No more Ferrari engines, so took an RB8 re-stickered it as the cheapest alternative. must have cost them a few 100 pounds for the entire work.
This car was raced at the end of 2006, but when it was converted to a show car we added bits of RB1, RB2, RB3 and RB4!
The gearbox and back end is off the RB1, the chassis is RB2, some of the bodywork is RB3, it’s a mix and match.
We started when the RB3 was being raced in F1, but we couldn’t have a current car, so we used an RB2 and then we made it look like an RB3. Then RB4 came, and we took bits off RB3 to make it look like RB4
Not really, this guy is a great racer, just without any experience in an F1 car.FrukostScones wrote:the next MAL in the making?
And next year he will be in F1...NTS wrote:just without any experience in an F1 car.
You have to keep in mind that last year he was still in karting
From the directors & producers of Alguersuari: Diaries of an F1 DJ.WilliamsF1 wrote:in at 17 out at 19, starring a verstappen, a story by marko, directed by tost, produced by mateschitz
I assume you mean other people when you type de la Rosa and Villeneuve. de la Rosa is in his mid-40s and was in his late 20s when he started in F1 after 10 years racing cars. Villeneuve is a similar age and was the reigning CART champion when he moved to F1 after nearly 10 years racing cars. He's also been competing at international level for 20 years, so I'd say he's been pretty successful! Isn't he doing NASCAR or IndyCar these days?MOWOG wrote:Nice post, Miguel. =D>
If you think about it, there have been a bunch of fairly young drivers (though not as young as Max V) who had their chance in Formula One and are now doing LeMans or DTM or delivering pizzas. Scott Speed, Alguesuari, Buemi, De la Rosa, Verne, J. Villeneuve and a lot more whose names I have forgotten.
Obviously I do not have the encyclopedic recall of F1 drivers and ages I need to make my point clear. I only meant to say that a lot of young, talented drivers have come into the sport over the past decade and all of them were touted as the next coming of Senna. 
Isn't it a case of not many drivers make it at all? Look at the current world champions on the grid and ask yourself how young they were when they started...MOWOG wrote:Some of them, like Kimi and Seb, have actually lived up to their promise, but the majority have sunk beneath the waves without a ripple, unremembered and unlamented. That some have gone on to success in other racing series only bolsters my point about how hard it is to rise in Formula One even IF you have real talent.
No, I mean Villeneuve.MOWOG wrote:Btw, I think you are thinking of JP Montoya in IndyCar, not Villeneuve. Jacques, so far as I recall, dropped from prominence almost as soon as Sir Frank thanked him for his services and pushed him out the door after winning the WDC. Mostly what he does today is play at being an F1 pundit, as if anyone really cares what he has to say.
if he does bad it'll be his career down the drain, if he succeeds F1 will be seen as a joke where any kids who has driven a gocart can just jump intok-tokkie wrote:It is going to be a image disaster for F1. He is schoolboy age. How can F1 be marketed to the man in the street as a he-man sport if a schoolboy can do it? The team sponsors have a marketing event for their important clients & a schoolboy pitches as the chief attraction. Sponsors will have second thoughts. What happens if he does well?
