should V12's return?

joseff · Post 05 Mar 2006, 05:04

Ah yes... Williams ran a Mercedes V8 in 1994. They also won the championship with Nelson Piquet that year. No, Carlos Reutemann. No wait, it was a Williams-Repco V8 with Alan Jones.

ranger · Post 05 Mar 2006, 05:35

Williams NEVER drove with mercedes V8 before

Williams NEVER drove with Repco engines before

joseff · Post 05 Mar 2006, 07:43

Indeed... some of us are just too stupid to check historical facts before making pointless posts.

I stand corrected.

manchild · Post 05 Mar 2006, 07:51

ranger wrote:Williams NEVER drove with mercedes V8 before

Williams NEVER drove with Repco engines before

ranger, what joseff wrote was a satirical reply to another post of yours based on wrong historical data.

ranger wrote:V12 Ferrari 412T1B in 1994?...by that time williams has gone to 3.5 V8..but it was unreliable

1. Williams had gone to 3.5l normaly aspirated engine in 1988 (Judd V8 )

2. In 1994, Williams had Renault V10 and won WCC.

ranger · Post 07 Mar 2006, 08:28

manchild...please stop to post meaningless posts to my subject

manchild · Post 07 Mar 2006, 08:38

ranger wrote:manchild...please stop to post meaningless posts to my subject

That's another meaningless post - 4 or 5 of them in this topic only

Tom · Post 07 Mar 2006, 22:44

Okay, break it up guys.
handbags away.

Oh and yes, Scuderia_Russ,
I think it was Mechanics Tale, addmitedly it was not my personnal opinion, but I hoped no one would question me.

An idea though. Now that we're all using V8s (STR excluded) pehaps refuelling should be banned. Safety aspect in mind, and also drivers would be forced to overtake rather than use fuel stratergy, (Ferrari would loose a key advantage, so only good can come of it.) also we'd go back to seeing 4 second pit stops.

Just an idea, go ahead and rip it to pieces

Scuderia_Russ · Post 07 Mar 2006, 23:57

Banning refueling would (i.m.o.) make nine out of ten F1 detractors and fans as a whole very happy because the knock on effects would simply = overtaking! I'm all for it.

Sawtooth-spike · Post 08 Mar 2006, 00:06

overtaking? outside of the pits? Is that safe?

I think Getting rid of refueling would be great. also its safer, look at the number of incidents since refueling was brought back. Poor fuel guys is always getting runover, pulled over once he even got bbq. I love the idea of teams all running differant engines.

Tom · Post 08 Mar 2006, 00:35

I could have started something here.

acer · Post 12 Mar 2006, 09:05

overtaking in the pit lane????......absolutely not...too dangerous

Tom · Post 12 Mar 2006, 12:05

Sawtooth-spike was refering to one driver overtaking another through pit stratergy and timing rather than out on the track.

Of course pit lane overtaking is impossible pecause both drivers will be right on the 50 limit, and to overtake one driver must be faster than another.

acer · Post 12 Mar 2006, 12:44

i forgot my spectacles