UTMC

Posted: **Fri Apr 22, 2011 4:13 pm**

Cause I think it's cool, one of the best current drivers gets to drive The Greatest car from a turbo era. Growing up it was my dream to see those cars run. Lewis gets to take his dream one step further.

Clarkson said 1200hp but I heard that 1200 was the highest reading on the dyno dial and it was pegged. they estimated about 1500 hp from both Honda and BMW

best part at 1:50

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this lap was mentioned in previous video, further proof that Senna was superhuman, thousand plus horses, no traction control, manual gear shift so he's driving on-handed

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and just for good company one of the greatest starts ever

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Posted: **Fri Apr 22, 2011 10:11 pm**

I can admit his skills as a pilot but I'm not a fan of Senna. He ended the era of gentlemen and launched the current era of businessmen.
All the mystical b*llshit when he was the first to land on the circuits with his own private jet to negotiate million $ sponsorship contracts...
I know Graham hill ended owning his own plane too, but he started as a mechanic and began to drive people's race cars in exchange of mechanical services.

I guess you already know this one:
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Meeting Arnould and listening him telling us all the details of this race has been a high point of my career in the publishing industry. He said he tested shumie's modern ferrari with traction control and it had nothing to do with racing, all he had to do is break, then apply full throttle while aiming at the apex and wait for the car to decide when to release the power. I'm sure it was a little more hairy than that but he made the difference between the turbo's and the XXI century f1 cars pretty clear.

Posted: **Sat Apr 23, 2011 3:56 am**

Senna was god and I always thought he was an asshole! but that does not take away his talent.
My childhood hero was one they called Professor,

Posted: **Sat Apr 23, 2011 4:50 am**

Posted: **Sat Apr 23, 2011 6:27 am**

MATPOC wrote:Senna was god and I always thought he was an asshole! but that does not take away his talent.
My childhood hero was one they called Professor,

I take it that you childhood was Russian ? my publishing company fired me just as they began to work on a book about the professor (after Senna and Villeneuve amongst others) that I then refused to do for the (lack of) money they offered.
As a freelance I'm working on a book about Canam now

Posted: **Sat Apr 23, 2011 6:33 am**

At least one of those turbocharged F1 was put into a dragbike.
Red one in the background, 1050 hp from a 1499cc four.
Just to keep this thread motorcycle related...

Posted: **Sat Apr 23, 2011 6:58 am**

1967 was a special year for Dan Gurney and if I was alive than he probably be my childhood hero, but I grew up in the 80's behind the Iron Curtain before the internet and almost completely cut off from the world. Rare images of modern than F1 cars and occasional news only of some extraordinary events were were edited and broadcast by heavily controlled media. In the late 80's my uncle who was living in USA (and still is) sent me a calendar that had great photos of P34 Tyrrell, JPS Lotus Renault, Marboro McLaren and more, I studies each one of those 12 images for hours so naturally I thought those were the greatest cars ever made. 25 years later I still think that '88 MP4/4 was the greatest car ever built, 15 poles and 15 wins in 16 races. It was a combination of best car, engine (Honda turbo) and drives Prost and Senna, they made it look easy.

Lucky Lewis got to drive that #12

Posted: **Tue Apr 26, 2011 2:09 pm**

What do I say? Simply the greatest car/driver combo ever. In 2001 I was at the Long Beach GP and that car was on display(not a show shell). I sat down, put my hand on the driver's side front tire, and teared up like a little girl.

Just watching that vid did that to me again.

Some things you never get over.

Posted: **Wed Apr 27, 2011 8:06 pm**

UTMC

Thought I might share this

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