Test drives don't require a Super License.
Webber merely did two days of testing at Arrows, just prior to starting his debut F3000 season. His real break into F1 was when he took on Flavio as his manager, which gave him a second season in F3000 and a test-driver role at Benetton (to be replaced at the end of the year by none other than one Fernando Alonso). He got his Grand Prix debut a year later for Minardi.
Last year, most players couldn't choose McLaren or Ferrari until near the end of the season.
This year, most players have chosen Brawn or RBR. One wrong choice and the whole ladder can flip upside-down.
He did two seasons in F3000, 3rd in 2000 and 2nd in 2001.
W00t! Second! 
Now the challenge is figuring out the better performers every weekend: Brawn or Red Bull Racing?
Now the challenge is figuring out the better performers every weekend: Brawn or Red Bull Racing?
GM 
Loeb doesn't have enough experience to get a Super License, let alone race in an F1 Grand Prix.
Being a rally legend and a competitive Le Mans racer does not qualify one to race F1. Yuji Ide had a very good curriculum vitae too, and look how he fared.
Being a rally legend and a competitive Le Mans racer does not qualify one to race F1. Yuji Ide had a very good curriculum vitae too, and look how he fared.
It just might be possible with his fuel load and raw pace. Hopefully, he won't bin the car in the closing laps like in Shanghai.
Good drive by Webber. Luck was on his side today, with Vettel unable to do a second flying lap, but he made his own luck too.
I'm still trying to decide whether the article is meant to be a kind of joke or if it's serious reporting. 
There are plenty of "racial shit" on our patch of dirt too. Remarkable really, considering that the vast majority of Australia's population are migrants or are born of foreign ancestors.
There are plenty of "racial shit" on our patch of dirt too. Remarkable really, considering that the vast majority of Australia's population are migrants or are born of foreign ancestors.
Yup.
I get knocked down
But I get up again
You're never gonna
Keep me down
I get knocked down
But I get up again
You're never gonna
Keep me down
Pissing the night away
Pissing the night away
Look up "justin.tv" on your favourite search engine. Follow the links to sports and auto racing.
So it will be hot, then?
Oh, what a difference a single letter makes.
Nothing like a volcanic eruption to spice up an Grand Prix, eh?
Murray Walker's voice: This... is an EXPLOSIVE Grand Prix! Inc-reeedible!
It's puzzling that some posters have jumped to conclusions about Toyota, the FIA budget cap, and F1 spending.
Everything in business is decided on the balance of cost vs benefit. It seems that while Toyota are reasonably happy with the marketing benefit of competing in F1, hosting an F1 GP is not returning the desired benefits. Therefore: cut the race.
This has little or nothing to do with the spending of the Toyota F1 team. The running of the team is a separate issue from running of the track.
Everything in business is decided on the balance of cost vs benefit. It seems that while Toyota are reasonably happy with the marketing benefit of competing in F1, hosting an F1 GP is not returning the desired benefits. Therefore: cut the race.
This has little or nothing to do with the spending of the Toyota F1 team. The running of the team is a separate issue from running of the track.
It's a nice idea. The problem is that the role of FIA president is somewhat more involved that being a member of the EU Parliament.
Vatanen has the motorsport pedigree, street creds, some political experience. But he doesn't have any substantial experience in managing a large organisation of people.
Yep. Brawn is to blame. Last year was very challenging... always guessing...
There is no quicksave function in COD4. The entire campaign runs on checkpoints, some of which are timed (ie. no checkpoint if you don't get to them fast enough).
It could also mean he's innocent.
This witch-hunt mentality is something very hard to understand. Many of us live in countries which respect certain rights for individuals, including the right to presumption of innocence until proven guilty. While some people might think it correct to assume that an accused person is guilty without proof, those same people will do well to remember that THEIR rights are protected by the presumption of innocence, lest they find themselves wrongly accused of a crime they did not commit.
Personally, I'll take my chances with guilty criminals wrongly set free, rather than risk innocent lives with wrongful deprivation of liberty.
COD4 on Veteran: WTF!
Just finished Call of Duty 4's single-player campaign. Having felt very confident of my fps fragging abilities, I chose to do it (at my first attempt) on Veteran. Never again!
WTF is with the devs making it so flipping frustrating? I appreciate a good challenge, but some of the missions were just insane. It felt like I was doing parade drills rather than playing a game: shoot, die, restart, shoot, die, restart, shoot, die, restart x100. When the difficulty selection menu said: "Veteran: You will not survive", it was right! Perhaps it's easier on consoles with auto-aim. On PC, it's an exercise in anger management.
The last stand on One Shot One Kill:
This was just ridiculous. Two snipers vs a battalion of Terminator-like AI is not fun. Then there are those annoying dogs trying to bite your throat out. And just when you thought you had it made, you die trying to carry McMillian to the helicopter and have to start again. Rarrr!
The countdown segment of No Fighting in the War Room:
Huck! No commander in their right mind would order four soldiers to assault a heavily fortified bunker filled with company-size strength of terrorist psychos. I wave my fist in your general direction, Infinity Ward!
There are several others I can't remember the names for: the one where you have to cross a huge open field, and make a marathon dash for a helicopter after fending off several platoons of tangos; and mission before that where you get Cobra support; then the one where you have to rescue the informant and get shot up by that super-annoying helicopter and its super-penetrating minigun; among others.
I'm have huge trouble at the moment in the bonus mission: Mile High Club. I watched some videos of people finishing it on YouTube. They must be from another planet, because I run out of time just after climbing the stairs.
Great game for multi-player, but if anyone wishes to play the single-player missions on Veteran, don't... just don't. Your sanity is more precious.
WTF is with the devs making it so flipping frustrating? I appreciate a good challenge, but some of the missions were just insane. It felt like I was doing parade drills rather than playing a game: shoot, die, restart, shoot, die, restart, shoot, die, restart x100. When the difficulty selection menu said: "Veteran: You will not survive", it was right! Perhaps it's easier on consoles with auto-aim. On PC, it's an exercise in anger management.
The last stand on One Shot One Kill:
This was just ridiculous. Two snipers vs a battalion of Terminator-like AI is not fun. Then there are those annoying dogs trying to bite your throat out. And just when you thought you had it made, you die trying to carry McMillian to the helicopter and have to start again. Rarrr!
The countdown segment of No Fighting in the War Room:
Huck! No commander in their right mind would order four soldiers to assault a heavily fortified bunker filled with company-size strength of terrorist psychos. I wave my fist in your general direction, Infinity Ward!
There are several others I can't remember the names for: the one where you have to cross a huge open field, and make a marathon dash for a helicopter after fending off several platoons of tangos; and mission before that where you get Cobra support; then the one where you have to rescue the informant and get shot up by that super-annoying helicopter and its super-penetrating minigun; among others.
I'm have huge trouble at the moment in the bonus mission: Mile High Club. I watched some videos of people finishing it on YouTube. They must be from another planet, because I run out of time just after climbing the stairs.
Great game for multi-player, but if anyone wishes to play the single-player missions on Veteran, don't... just don't. Your sanity is more precious.
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I don't think that's possible. Part of the track's character is the inherent danger of the track, the high kerbs, patched surface, dodgy railings, and the shrink-your-balls risk of catapulting into an embankment or gliding down a steep hill to a speedy demise.
Harsh to call him that. He has a point.
Having said that... sigged!
That's amazing. Good dog! (Or bad dog, for going missing?)
(Or bad dog, for going missing?)Strip search of 13 y/o student: unconstitutional
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25693590-401,00.html
Glad they sorted that one out. How the bleep does a school, charged with educating and nurturing young people, justify strip-searching someone for pain-relief pills?
I hope the people responsible for this shameful abuse of power get a good dose of power-relief pills.
Glad they sorted that one out. How the bleep does a school, charged with educating and nurturing young people, justify strip-searching someone for pain-relief pills?
I hope the people responsible for this shameful abuse of power get a good dose of power-relief pills.
Ouch.
Two celebs dying in a single day? It's a very weird day.
Lynching time!
I vote Nordschleife.
(That's a joke, by the way. In case some smart prick decides to point out it is impossible.)FGED GREDG RDFGDR GSFDG