Which, to be honest
was true. The car did have a bad period due to everyone else catching up. But in Hamilton's first two years, he was forever complaining about something too, even though he all but won, then actually did win the championship in that time.

I suppose it's in the nature of an F1 driver!
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 12:25, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

They do have the best excuses
I feel over a dog before the race so I wasn't on my best form
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 12:28, Reply)

The only moment of humour I've ever seen from Kimi Raikkonen
was a classic. Last race of 2007, I think. Schumacher had just been presented with an award for lifetime achievement or something. Martin Brundle asked Kimi if he'd been watching.

"No, I was having a shit", he replied.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 12:31, Reply)

That's because
the programmers of the KimmiBot haven't perfected the humour chip yet.

I did like the one race where no one knew if he had retured or not and the engineerers thought he was coming back as they could get the car started and he was walking round the motorhome eating ice cream.
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 12:35, Reply)

I thought
it was just because he was Finnish. They're dour bastards, as a rule.

One of the highest suicide rates in the world too, along with the Hungarians (who are ethnically very similar).

Today's useless fact was brought to you by the letter F and the number 1.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 12:37, Reply)

Finns and Hungarians ethnically similar?
But geographically so far away! I want answers..
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 12:39, Reply)

They all originated somewhere around Mongolia
and migrated westwards. When they got to the Urals, one group went north, split again into two, and inhabited what is now Finland and Estonia, and the other group went south and ended up in Hungary.

The three languages are similar as a result (they constitute the Finno-Ugric group) and this may be one reason why the Finns traditionally turn up in large numbers to the Budapest GP. The languages are pretty difficult because they're so different. The accent in Hungarian (and possibly Finnish too) is always on the first syllable of the word, which is why it sounds so stilted.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 12:44, Reply)

This has sufficiently sated my appetite
thank you dearly.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 12:46, Reply)