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Porsche test driver killed on Autobahn
27-03-2009

  A Porsche test driver was killed early Friday morning on the German Autobahn A5 near the city of Darmstadt while driving a secret prototype auto. The driver, a 51 year old man, was traveling at a high rate of speed from Frankfurt to Heidelberg.

For unknown reasons, he lost control of the auto and crashed into a barrier. He died on the scene. A second test driver following (who is driving the Panamera) had the chance to slow down to avoid the traffic jam.

An almost-similar accident happened in 2003 when a Daimler-Benz test driver traveling too fast and too close on the Autobahn left a young mother and her child dead. The driver received a prison sentence of 1.5 years for negligent manslaughter.

Jeremy Clarkson was right when he said your Porsche 911 will finally kill you some day and here’s the proof. It killed its own professional factory driver! 51-year-old engineer took a cabrio protorype for a night run in A5 autobahn but unfortunately it went badly wrong leaving the man dead. Apparently the driver lost control of the car and it wedged under the barrier killing the man. Witnesses say the driver was doing fairly high speed since this stretch on A5 has no speed limit. Another test driver was behind him in a Panamera who managed to evade the accident and escaped unharmed.

Whatever caused the crash, there is a dead man here and it really affects Porsche’s image. I just wonder what would happen if he was driving the new GT2! He’d probably be killed !! And I can’t wait for Jeremy Clarkson commenting on this.

 

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Porsche test driver killed on Autobahn

Παίζει τίποτα περίεργο στην υπόθεση;

 

[giorgospapa]

Παίζει τίποτα περίεργο στην υπόθεση;

γιατι ρωτας ? σου προτειναν να την αναλαβεις ????

 

[βυζολάγνος]

γιατι ρωτας ? σου προτειναν να την αναλαβεις ????

Δεν είμαι μπάτσος, ρεπόρτερ είμαι...

 

[giorgospapa]

Δεν είμαι μπάτσος, ρεπόρτερ είμαι...

ναι καλα.. σαν να μας λες οτι εγω ΔΕΝ ειμαι παπας..

 

[βυζολάγνος]

ναι καλα.. σαν να μας λες οτι εγω ΔΕΝ ειμαι παπας..

Άκου που σου λέω... Αν δεν πιστεύεις, διάβασε τα ΒΥΖΑντινά νέα...

 

[Yorgos]

Porsche test driver killed on Autobahn
27-03-2009
A Porsche test driver was killed early Friday morning on the German Autobahn A5 near the city of Darmstadt while driving a secret prototype auto. The driver, a 51 year old man, was traveling at a high rate of speed from Frankfurt to Heidelberg.
For unknown reasons, he lost control of the auto and crashed into a barrier. He died on the scene. A second test driver following (who is driving the Panamera) had the chance to slow down to avoid the traffic jam.
An almost-similar accident happened in 2003 when a Daimler-Benz test driver traveling too fast and too close on the Autobahn left a young mother and her child dead. The driver received a prison sentence of 1.5 years for negligent manslaughter.
Jeremy Clarkson was right when he said your Porsche 911 will finally kill you some day and here’s the proof. It killed its own professional factory driver! 51-year-old engineer took a cabrio protorype for a night run in A5 autobahn but unfortunately it went badly wrong leaving the man dead. Apparently the driver lost control of the car and it wedged under the barrier killing the man. Witnesses say the driver was doing fairly high speed since this stretch on A5 has no speed limit. Another test driver was behind him in a Panamera who managed to evade the accident and escaped unharmed.
Whatever caused the crash, there is a dead man here and it really affects Porsche’s image. I just wonder what would happen if he was driving the new GT2! He’d probably be killed !! And I can’t wait for Jeremy Clarkson commenting on this.

Τουλάχιστον πριν ένα μήνα το συμβάν....

 

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Τουλάχιστον πριν ένα μήνα το συμβάν....

Εβαλα λαθος ημερομηνια!
Τωρα το ειδα!

 

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Παίζει τίποτα περίεργο στην υπόθεση;

Δεν εχω μαθει. Το ονομα τουλαχιστον του δοκιμαστη??? 

 

[SPEED]

Βυζοοοοοο! 

Ρε τι κανουν τα παλικαρια?

 

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[βυζολάγνος]

Προς τον πρόεδρο της Honda κ.κ. Χύνο Τακατάκα...

[move][size=50pt]ΚΑΝΕ ΧΑΡΑΚΙΡΙ ΤΩΡΑ ΜΑΛΑΚΟΠΙΤΟΥΡΑ!!![/size][/move]

 

[βυζολάγνος]

Βυζοοοοοο! 

Αν πω ότι είμαι σαν κλαμένο μουνί θα με πιστέψετε;
Δεν υπάρχει αυτό το πράγμα ρε πούστη μου!!! Τώρα θα'παιρνα σβάρνα όλα τα θρέντ και θα'γραφα «ΒΕΝΤΟΥΖΑΑΑΑΑΑΑΑΑΑ» αλλά γαμώ τη γκαντεμιά μου μέσα!!!
Σκεφτείτε μόνο να'χαν κινητήρες δικούς μας και να'χαν κάνει δοκιμές όλο το χειμώνα...
Αλλά, δε μπορώ να πω, αισθάνομαι δικαιωμένος. Όταν τα'λεγα πέρσι με κοροϊδεύατε... Γαμώ τη δικαίωση και το μουνί της Χάιδως γαμώ!!!!!!

 

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Συγχαρητήρια στη Brawn GP και συλλυπητήρια στη Χώρα του Ανατέλλοντος [size=20pt]Ηλιθίου[/size].

 

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Συγχαρητήρια στη Brawn GP και συλλυπητήρια στη Χώρα του Ανατέλλοντος [size=20pt]Ηλιθίου[/size].

Brawn GP take dramatic one-two victory in Melbourne

Not since the French Grand Prix in 1954 has a team new to Formula One racing finished one-two on their debut. That day it was Juan Manuel Fangio and Karl Kling for Mercedes-Benz. This afternoon it was Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello for Brawn-Mercedes after an extraordinary ‘race of two halves’ in Australia.

Button led from pole as Barrichello bogged down when his car activated its anti-stall device, and the Brazilian was then embroiled in a first-corner clash with BMW Sauber’s Nick Heidfeld, Red Bull’s Mark Webber, Force India's Adrian Sutil and McLaren’s Heikki Kovalainen.

Button streaked away from Sebastian Vettel’s Red Bull, Robert Kubica’s BMW Sauber, Nico Rosberg’s Williams and the Ferraris of Felipe Massa and Kimi Raikkonen. But the face of the race changed on Lap 19 when Kazuki Nakajima crashed his Williams heavily, bringing out the safety car until the end of the 24th lap.

By then Button had watched a 47.7s lead reduced to nothing, and began to struggle to generate heat in his tyres. But he got his head down and opened a gap to Vettel again. As the Ferraris faded, Kubica found his BMW Sauber getting better and better on the harder Bridgestone tyre and gradually began to put Vettel, on the softer option tyre, under serious pressure in the closing stages.

Going into Turn Three on the 55th lap - with three left to run under a setting sun which made driving conditions very difficult - Kubica got alongside Vettel but they touched. Both spun, but continued. But not for long. Vettel had lost his front wing and crashed heavily just as Kubica, further down the road, did the same thing. Out came the safety car again.

Incredibly, that melee had promoted Barrichello back to the second place, despite his first-lap incident and a later touch with Raikkonen which damaged his Brawn’s front wing. It was changed during his first pit stop on the 18th lap. As the race finished under the safety car, he admitted that he had never expected a one-two after all his dramas.

Jarno Trulli started from the pit lane after Toyota’s rear wing infringement yesterday, but hauled through to take the final podium finish, while a very determined drive brought a hugely valuable fourth place for McLaren's Lewis Hamilton. The world champion was briefly third in the dying stages after Trulli ran off track behind the safety car, before the Italian subsequently retook the place - an infringement which prompted stewards to subsequently add 25s to his race time, later dropping him to 12th.

In the second Toyota Timo Glock came home fifth. The German survived a spin while battling from his own pit lane start, when he and Fernando Alonso tangled.

The Spaniard brought his Renault home sixth, while seventh place came as a bitter disappointment to Rosberg. The German was running fourth with six laps to go and had set fastest lap, but had used up his Bridgestone option tyres and was simply in no position to defend the place. By the finish he had rookie Sebastien Buemi thirsting after him as Toro Rosso’s Swiss driver scored a point for eighth place on his debut.

Neither of the Ferraris finished. Both struggled with tyre wear, and as Massa suffered a mechanical problem late in the race, Raikkonen spun and subsequently retired.

Sebastien Bourdais was ninth in the second Toro Rosso, ahead of Adrian Sutil, who survived a brush with Force India team mate Giancarlo Fisichella. They were separated by Heidfeld, who was consigned to a recovery race after the first corner fracas, while Fisichella further delayed himself by missing his pit marks in his first stop.

Webber, another in recovery mode, was the final classified finisher, ahead of Vettel, Kubica, and Raikkonen. The retirements were Massa, Nelson Piquet who spun his Renault after the first safety car restart, Nakajima and Kovalainen.

Button’s great victory marked the 200th for a British driver.

"It's not just for me but for the whole team,” he said, “a fairy tale ending really to the first race of our career together and I hope we can continue this way. We are going to fight every way we can to keep this car competitive and at the front. This has got to continue and this is where we want to be. Bring on Malaysia!”

http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2009/3/9095.html

 

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Not since the French Grand Prix in 1954 has a team new to Formula One racing finished one-two on their debut. That day it was Juan Manuel Fangio and Karl Kling for Mercedes-Benz. This afternoon it was Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello for Brawn-Mercedes after an extraordinary ‘race of two halves’ in Australia.

Σωστά είχα την υποψία.
Νίκη στο ντεμπούτο της έχει πάρει και η Wolf στο GP Αργεντινής το 1977 με τον Jody Scheckter. Νίκη όμως όχι 1-2. ;)

 

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Λοιπόν εντάξει τον ήπια!!!

Θέλω να ευχαριστήσω τα πουλέν που χωρίς ίχνος κωλοτριψίματος απ'τον υποφαινόμενο (εδώ γελάμε! ) ψήφισαν "Honda με τα τσαρούχια" (αν και 3 ψήφοι δεν έχω ιδέα από που προήλθαν...)!!! :-* :-* :-*
Όσο για σας που ψηφίσατε "δε μας γαμάς ρε βύζε", είμαι βέβαιος ότι είστε κρυφοΧοντάκηδες και ντρέπεστε να το παραδεχτείτε κουφαλίτσες!!!

 

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Και μετά την ψηφοφορία-παρωδία ήρθε η ώρα για κανονική!
Οι ομάδες που έχω βάλει είναι αυτές με ιστορία στη Formula 1 ή γενικά στο μηχανοκίνητο αθλητισμό.
Τιμής ένεκεν έβαλα και τη μεγάλη Lotus για τυχόν αμετανόητους οπαδούς.
Όποιος υποστηρίζει άλλη καλό θα είναι να γράψει εδώ ποια είναι αυτή.
Τώρα δεν έχει Honda οπότε δε θα σας τα κάνω τσουρέκια!

 

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Hamilton excluded from Australian results, Trulli regains third.

McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton has been disqualified from last weekend’s Australian Grand Prix after a second stewards’ investigation on Thursday decided both he and his team had provided ‘misleading' evidence during a hearing held after the Melbourne race.

Hamilton crossed the finish line in Australia in fourth, but was subsequently promoted to third after Toyota’s Jarno Trulli was handed a 25-second time penalty for passing his McLaren under the safety car during the race’s closing laps.

Stewards, however, decided to reinvestigate the incident after fresh evidence came to light and convened a second meeting in Sepang. After the hearing, the stewards issued the following statement:

“The Stewards having considered the new elements presented to them from the 2009 Australian Formula One Grand Prix, consider that driver No 1 Lewis Hamilton and the competitor Vodafone McLaren Mercedes acted in a manner prejudicial to the conduct of the event by providing evidence deliberately misleading to the Stewards at the hearing on Sunday 29th March 2009, a breach of Article 151c of the International Sporting Code.

"Under Article 158 of the International Sporting Code, the driver No 1 Lewis Hamilton and the competitor Vodafone McLaren Mercedes are excluded from the race classification for the 2009 Australian Grand Prix and the classification is amended accordingly."

In addition to Hamilton’s disqualification, Trulli’s penalty has been withdrawn and the Italian therefore regains his third place - and six world championship points.

In accepting the stewards' decision, McLaren issued the following press release, stating they have no plans to appeal:

"The FIA Stewards have reviewed their decision of Sunday 29th March 2009, and have excluded Vodafone McLaren Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton from the results of the 2009 Australian Grand Prix.

"Vodafone McLaren Mercedes understands that the Stewards made their decision on the basis of reviewing radio transmissions between the driver and the Team.

"The Team mistakenly believed that the radio transmissions had been reviewed by the FIA on Sunday 29th March 2009, and consequently did not believe it was necessary to discuss them with the Stewards on that date.

"Nonetheless, the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes Team now regrets that it did not do so, accepts the Stewards' decision and will not appeal."

 

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Hamilton excluded from Australian results, Trulli regains third.

Βασικά όλα ξεκίνησαν γιατί και οι ίδιες οι ομάδες δεν ήξεραν τι προβλέπει ο κανονισμός στην περίπτωση που κάποιος έχει έξοδο απ'την πίστα με το pace car μέσα.
Απ'ότι είδα, ο κανονισμός δεν λαμβάνει υπόψη αυτή την περίπτωση (και πώς να τη λάβει άλλωστε;) αλλά λέει ότι: Επιτρέπεται το προσπέρασμα όταν ο ρυθμός του προπορευόμενου είναι υπερβολικά αργός με προφανές πρόβλημα.
Στην περίπτωση αυτή ο κανονισμός μεταφράζεται ως εξής: Εφόσον ο Trulli βγήκε απ'τον σχηματισμό για οιονδήποτε λόγο, ο Hamilton τον πέρασε νόμιμα. Το κρίσιμο είναι αν ο Trulli ξαναπέρασε τον Hamilton με ή χωρίς τη συγκατάθεσή του. Η ομάδα είπε στον Hamilton εσφαλμένα πως πρέπει να κάνει στην άκρη για να περάσει ο Trulli, ο Hamilton έκοψε αφύσικα τον ρυθμό του, άρα ο Trulli τον πέρασε νόμιμα (βλ. επιτρέπεται το προσπέρασμα όταν ο ρυθμός του προπορευόμενου είναι υπερβολικά αργός με προφανές πρόβλημα).
Τα υπόλοιπα είναι γνωστά. Στους δημοσιογράφους ο Hamilton είπε την αλήθεια και στους αγωνοδίκες ψέματα, μετά την προτροπή της ομάδας. Οι αγωνοδίκες άκουσαν την ενδοεπικοινωνία και τιμώρησαν τη λαμογιά τους.
Το συμπέρασμα; Η McLaren και ο Hamilton ρίσκαραν να γίνουν ΡΟΜΠΑ για 1 βαθμό!!! Πόσο ΚΟΥΤΟΡΝΙΘΙΑ είναι τελικά; Θυμηθείτε και την υπόθεση κατασκοπίας...

Nα και ένα σπάνιο πορτραίτο του Hamilton: