Ah. Looking at the F1 official results page for this race it appears it is indeed "Ford", not "Ilmor" as I originally thought it was. To make it consistent and accurate, I've updated all the 1995 race report pages with the correct information. Regards,
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Lewis Hamilton lived up to McLaren's expectations with a memorable win at a rainswept
Monaco Grand Prix.Carnage after the pit lane pile-up. Rosberg just becomes untangled while Hamilton and Raikkonen get out of their carsCarnage after the pit lane pile-up. Hamilton and Raikkonen's cars left stranded on the pit-lane exit.Robert Kubica secured his and
BMW Sauber's first win at the
Canadian Grand Prix.Rubens Barrichello had to be one of the drivers of the month after scoring consecutive points and out racing his team-mate
Jenson Button.
The week before the
Turkish Grand Prix there was a controversy over
Super Aguri being barred from the Istanbul paddock. This was a result of
Honda'sNick Fry telling
Bernie Ecclestone that Super Aguri wouldn't be competing in the race after worries that
Weigl's sponsorship would be insufficient. The next day Super Aguri announced that they would be departing from Formula One, as the team was past saving. McLaren went into Turkey hoping for a good result and got a mixed one with
Lewis Hamilton and
Heikki Kovalainen finishing second and twelfth respectively. The lights had a bit of a problem at the start but eventually the race got underway with Hamilton overtaking his team-mate.
Kimi Räikkönen got overtaken by a fast-starting
Alonso while
Giancarlo Fisichella charged into the back of
Kazuki Nakajima. Hamilton chose a three-stop strategy due to high tyre wear, but put in a fantastic overtaking manoeuvre on
Felipe Massa. Late-race there was a three-way battle between
Jenson Button,
Nelsinho Piquet and a recovering Kovalainen, who had his left-rear tyre punctured by Räikkönen's front wing on the first lap. Button was struggling on the option tyre while Piquet was trying some moves; on his second overtaking chance he pushed Button into the pit entrance causing Button to slow. Probably thinking it was Hamilton lapping him, Button let Kovalainen pass on the corner immediately after (first corner). Massa thus won the first race of the month, with
Lewis Hamilton and his
Ferrari team-mate following in hot pursuit behind.
Rubens Barrichello celebrated his 257th Grand Prix start by finishing 14th with a "257" paint job on the car and a special "257-themed" helmet. Barrichello's 257th GP race surpassed
Riccardo Patrese's former record of 256 GPs, making him the most experienced driver in F1 history. After the
Spanish Grand Prix he celebrated in a round of golf accompanied by ITV's
Louise Goodman and fellow racers. A week before the
Monaco Grand Prix a test was held at
Paul Ricard. There were mixed results with only 11-12 cars being tested per day and the sessions being affected by changeable weather. Honda kept their promise and the wings on the nose got a makeover with other visible changes as well. Then the circus moved to
Monaco, the stylish venue on the calendar mapped around the bay of
Monte Carlo. McLaren's drivers had special diamond studded helmets for the occasion. On the Tuesday that week
Mark Webber proved to be the man of the hour after using First Aid on his companion, AMD's
Morris Denton, alongside cycling legend,
Lance Armstrong. A car had hit Denton through some traffic works; he would need 90 stitches but arrived at the paddock that weekend. Fisichella didn't get his wish of a points finish on his 200th Grand Prix start after retiring with a jumping gearbox. At the start of the parade lap, Kovalainen stalled and had to start from the pit lane, but despite starting from there he grabbed the last of the points-paying positions with eighth and catching up to seventh; he finished three seconds behind
Kazuki Nakajima after the gap was sixteen seconds just five laps before. The race started in the rain for the first time since
1997 and the Ferraris came under pressure from Hamilton at the start with Räikkönen falling back to third. Massa led early on, whilst Hamilton tapped the wall and sustained a puncture. However, the McLaren team was able to use the changed pit-stop strategy to their advantage due to frequent Safety Car periods and the gradual improvement in the weather that necessitated a switch to dry tyres before the end of the race. While Massa and
Robert Kubica struggled on worn tyres and heavy fuel loads mid-race, Hamilton was able to build up a big enough lead to maintain first position after his second pit stop. Kubica, who jumped past Massa when the Ferrari driver had a brief excursion at Ste. Devote, finished ahead of the Brazilian in second place, but there was last-minute drama behind.
Adrian Sutil was running in a strong fourth place after the final safety car period until a recovering Räikkönen, who had earlier damaged his front wing and been forced to pit, slipped up going into the Nouvelle Chicane. Kimi only put on another new front wing and rejoined in ninth, but a devastated Sutil had bad car damage and retired just before the race's 90% distance mark. This left the way clear for Webber,
Sebastian Vettel (débuting the
Toro Rosso STR3 chassis), Nakajima, Barrichello and Kovalainen to finish in the points. Two weeks later, the championship moved to
Canada on its annual trip to North America. The track had been partially resurfaced since 2007, but these new sections of tarmac began to break up, causing a hazard throughout the race weekend. Nevertheless, Hamilton seemed unaffected as he set a pole position time 0.6 seconds faster than second-placed Kubica. In the race, the front two and third man Räikkönen held position until the first round of pit stops, which were taken under Safety Car conditions. Hamilton lost position to his two pursuers with a longer stop, but then compounded his problems by running into the back of Räikkönen as the Finn and Kubica waited for the green light to come on at the end of the pitlane. Both retired, whilst
Nico Rosberg (who was also involved) lost his front wing. Both Hamilton and Rosberg have been given ten-place grid penalties for the next race of the season, in
France. This incident, fuel rig problems for Massa and Kovalainen's poor pace turned the race into an all-
BMW Sauber fight between Kubica and
Nick Heidfeld. Choosing different strategies, the former prevailed by making an additional pitsop to the latter. The race marked Kubica's and BMW's first win in F1, and the first time since the
1999 European Grand Prix that neither Ferrari, McLaren nor Renault has appeared on the podium, as
David Coulthard finished in third place to take his first points of the season.
Timo Glock was also a first-time 2008 scorer as he beat the recovering Massa to the flag, and they were followed home by
Jarno Trulli, Barrichello and Vettel. Massa performed the most impressive pass of the race in his progress from the back of the field following his fuel glitch by passing
Jenson Button and Kovalainen simulataneously at the Old Pits Hairpin. The result has elevated Kubica into the lead of the Drivers' Championship, with Hamilton, Massa, Raikkonen and Heidfeld not far behind.
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Note 1:
Vettel didn't qualify after hitting the wall and damaging his
STR3 in Saturday morning practice.
Note 2:
Bourdais changed his engine after qualifying and got a five-place grid penalty (to the back of the grid.
Note 3:
Button set one time of 1:23.565 but then drove back into the pits with a gearbox problem he started 18th on the grid in front of the two
Toro Rossos.
^Note 4 : Mark Webber spun at the end of Q2 but with a secured place in Q3. He did not set a time due to the car not being suitable to drive.
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Schumacher won his ninth race of the season, which equalled
Nigel Mansell's record for
victories in a season that was set in
1992. As both the
Williams cars retired from the race, Benetton were confirmed as
Constructors' Champions as Williams could not pass Benetton's points total with only one race remaining.
Jean Alesi, driving for
Ferrari, started second beside Schumacher. However, since his car had moved forward before the start, he was forced to serve a
10-second stop and go penalty. Alesi climbed up to second, before retiring on lap 25.
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Lendev
Is
this good enough evidence to prove I was not Lendev?
D.M.N. (
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Quote from your comment at
WT:RFA: You can't go around making assumptions like that. - you made assumptions about whether I was Lendev or not, when I was clearly not (see the above diff).
D.M.N. (
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According to the diff above, Lendav was using an IP address of
72.143.235.191, which is no where near similar to mine, as you well know, I live in the center of England. The account above, Wendel67, was requesting an unblock because his IP (72.143.235.191) had been blocked because Lendav had been using it. Tracing that IP using
IP-Adress.com takes me to Cambridge, Canada, so I cannot be linked to that account which was operating in Canada. I have nothing to do with that user. And please don't accuse me of trying to get out of this, I am not Lendev, the evidence is in the diff above.
D.M.N. (
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Did you get to look at the above diff? I also your comment at RFA. Despite the differences we have had in the past, I don't want it to keep foreshadowing any discussions that me and you are in involved intogether. I don't want to feel like I'm being scruitenized (sp?), yet at the same time I'm sure you don't really want to participate in a discussion with me as you will probably think that anything bad you say and I would fly off the handle. I'm not going to force you to change your opinion of me. We've all made mistakes, my biggest one for the first half of last year. Probably heading to RFA would be classed as a mistake for me. I don't want to feel like I have people looking over my back all the time. I'm trying not to head towards ANI if I get in a conflict with another user because in some cases it can cause more drama than solution. I hope you didn't think I took offense to your oppose, I knew that you would be one of the first people ready to oppose me, which in the circumstances I understood. I expected you to oppose because of the past. I hope you looked at the above link to do with Landev, because being accused hurts. I didn't ask for Landev to come on the scene and become a troll (in some ways he aggrevated the situation with those comments). In other words, I hope we can put the past behind us and do what we do best which is contribute to Wikipedia.
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Thanks. I appreciate it. :)
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Article of the month: Forti (current GA candidate)
Forti Corse, commonly known as Forti, was an
Italianmotor racing team chiefly known for its brief, and unsuccessful, involvement in
Formula One in the mid-1990s. It was established in the 1970s and competed in lower formulae for two decades, with some success. The team graduated to F1 as a
constructor and
entrant in
1995 and continued into
1996, before succumbing to financial problems mid-season. The team competed in a total of 27 Grands Prix, scoring no points, and is recognised as one of the last truly privateer teams to race in an era when many large
car manufacturers were increasing their involvement in the sport.
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August picture - Felipe Massa at the European GP Friday Practice session.
Mosley is a former
barrister and amateur racing driver, and a founder and co-owner of
March Engineering, a successful racing car constructor and
Formula One racing team. He looked after legal and commercial issues for the company between 1969 and 1977. In the late 1970s, Mosley became the official legal adviser to the
Formula One Constructors Association (FOCA), the body which represents the Formula One teams. In this role he drew up the first version of the
Concorde Agreement, which settled a
dispute between FOCA and the
Fédération Internationale du Sport Automobile (FISA), the governing body of Formula One. Mosley was elected president of FISA in 1991 and became president of the FIA, FISA's parent body, in 1993. Mosley has identified his major achievement as FIA President as being the promotion of the
European New Car Assessment Programme (Euro NCAP or Encap), a European
car safety performance assessment programme. He has also promoted increased safety and the use of green technologies in motor racing. In 2008, Mosley retained his position after stories about his sex life appeared in the British press.
Mosley is the son of Sir
Oswald Mosley, former leader of the
British Union of Fascists (BUF), and
Diana Mitford. He was educated in
France,
Germany and Britain before going on to attend university at
Christ Church, Oxford where he graduated with a degree in
physics. In his teens and early twenties Mosley was involved with his father's post-war party, the
Union Movement (UM). He has said that the association of his surname with fascism stopped him from developing his interest in politics further, although he briefly worked for the
Conservative Party in the early 1980s.
Are you going to do it or not? Can you please give me an answer? I don't want to be left high and dry.
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Hi
Your .svg map of Portland International Raceway looks good. Could you do an .svg map for Brainerd International Raceway?
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Singapore street circuit
Is it possible for you to add the pit road and turn numbers to your .svg Singapore street circuit image?
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Mildren-Waggott
Mildren was a series of Brabham inspired/copies run by Alec Mildren's racing team and Waggott was an engine maker. Not a double barrelled name. Some Mildrens were powered by Alfa Romeo engine's notably the Kevin Bartlett Tasman era car. Waggott engines were found in a variety of Australian racing cars like the Centaur GT. --
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The 1995 Pacific Grand Prix (formally the II Pacific Grand Prix) was a
Formula One motor race held on October 22, 1995 at the
TI Circuit,
Aida,
Japan. It was the 15th race of the
1995 Formula One season. The race, contested over 83 laps, was won by
Michael Schumacher for the
Benetton team after starting from third position.
David Coulthard, who started the Grand Prix from
pole position, finished second in a
Williams car, with
Damon Hill third in the other Williams. Schumacher's win confirmed him as
1995 Drivers' Champion as Hill could not pass Schumacher's points total with only two races remaining.
Hill started the race alongside Coulthard on the front row, amidst pressure from the British media for not being "forceful" enough in battles. Schumacher attempted to drive around the outside of Hill at the first corner, but Hill held Schumacher off as
Jean Alesi, driving for
Ferrari got past both on the inside line to take second position. As a result, Hill dropped down to third and Schumacher dropped down to fifth behind
Gerhard Berger. Schumacher managed to get past Alesi and Hill during the first of three
pit stops. This allowed him, on a new set of
slick tyres, to close on Coulthard who was on a two-stop strategy. Schumacher opened up a gap of 21 seconds by lapping two seconds faster per lap than Coulthard, so that when his third stop came, he still led the race.
*Hamilton was given a 25 second + to his racing time demoting him to 3rd place gifting
Felipe Massa the win
1.
McLaren appealed with hard evidence
2.
Timo Glock also recieved this penalty for overtaking under the yellow flag dropping him to ninth place out of the points.
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Hamilton started from
pole position alongside title rival Massa. Hamilton's McLaren team-mate
Heikki Kovalainen started from third next to the
2007 winner Kimi Räikkönen. Following a spin by Hamilton on the second lap, Räikkönen led the race, until rain fell on lap 41 and Hamilton performed the penalised pass. Räikkönen crashed in the following lap as rain started raining heavily. Massa finished second on the road after Hamilton, followed by
Nick Heidfeld of
BMW Sauber.
Hamilton received a drive-through penalty, which demoted him to third place and advanced Massa and Heidfeld to first and second positions. McLaren appealed the decision at the
FIA International Court of Appeal. Their case, however, was judged inadmissible, with the Court ruling that drive-through penalties cannot be challenged. The penalty created a large amount of criticism from the global press, mainly from the
United Kingdom and
Italy, with several former drivers questioning the decision. Massa's retrospective win, with Hamilton demoted to third, narrowed the gap in the Championship from six points to just two.
Final standings. See 2008 Formula One season for further season summary and
formula1.com or
ITV-F1.com (and there is more there for the championship) for complete standings and statistics. ^Note 1 : Super Aguri withdrew from the championship on the Wednesday before the
Turkish Grand Prix.
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Before the race,
Drivers' Championship leader
Lewis Hamilton had received heated criticism in the
British press for his aggressive driving style at the
Japanese Grand Prix three weeks previously. There, Hamilton's late braking at the first corner sent Räikkönen off the road and saw the McLaren driver relegated to the back of the field after a penalty.
Massa started the race alongside
Toyota driver
Jarno Trulli. Massa's Ferrari team-mate Räikkönen began from third next to Hamilton. Rain fell minutes before the race, delaying the start, and as the track dried Massa established a lead of several seconds. More rain in the closing laps did not prevent Hamilton from finishing the race in fifth position, securing him the points needed to take the Championship.
Ah. Looking at the F1 official results page for this race it appears it is indeed "Ford", not "Ilmor" as I originally thought it was. To make it consistent and accurate, I've updated all the 1995 race report pages with the correct information. Regards,
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Lewis Hamilton lived up to McLaren's expectations with a memorable win at a rainswept
Monaco Grand Prix.Carnage after the pit lane pile-up. Rosberg just becomes untangled while Hamilton and Raikkonen get out of their carsCarnage after the pit lane pile-up. Hamilton and Raikkonen's cars left stranded on the pit-lane exit.Robert Kubica secured his and
BMW Sauber's first win at the
Canadian Grand Prix.Rubens Barrichello had to be one of the drivers of the month after scoring consecutive points and out racing his team-mate
Jenson Button.
The week before the
Turkish Grand Prix there was a controversy over
Super Aguri being barred from the Istanbul paddock. This was a result of
Honda'sNick Fry telling
Bernie Ecclestone that Super Aguri wouldn't be competing in the race after worries that
Weigl's sponsorship would be insufficient. The next day Super Aguri announced that they would be departing from Formula One, as the team was past saving. McLaren went into Turkey hoping for a good result and got a mixed one with
Lewis Hamilton and
Heikki Kovalainen finishing second and twelfth respectively. The lights had a bit of a problem at the start but eventually the race got underway with Hamilton overtaking his team-mate.
Kimi Räikkönen got overtaken by a fast-starting
Alonso while
Giancarlo Fisichella charged into the back of
Kazuki Nakajima. Hamilton chose a three-stop strategy due to high tyre wear, but put in a fantastic overtaking manoeuvre on
Felipe Massa. Late-race there was a three-way battle between
Jenson Button,
Nelsinho Piquet and a recovering Kovalainen, who had his left-rear tyre punctured by Räikkönen's front wing on the first lap. Button was struggling on the option tyre while Piquet was trying some moves; on his second overtaking chance he pushed Button into the pit entrance causing Button to slow. Probably thinking it was Hamilton lapping him, Button let Kovalainen pass on the corner immediately after (first corner). Massa thus won the first race of the month, with
Lewis Hamilton and his
Ferrari team-mate following in hot pursuit behind.
Rubens Barrichello celebrated his 257th Grand Prix start by finishing 14th with a "257" paint job on the car and a special "257-themed" helmet. Barrichello's 257th GP race surpassed
Riccardo Patrese's former record of 256 GPs, making him the most experienced driver in F1 history. After the
Spanish Grand Prix he celebrated in a round of golf accompanied by ITV's
Louise Goodman and fellow racers. A week before the
Monaco Grand Prix a test was held at
Paul Ricard. There were mixed results with only 11-12 cars being tested per day and the sessions being affected by changeable weather. Honda kept their promise and the wings on the nose got a makeover with other visible changes as well. Then the circus moved to
Monaco, the stylish venue on the calendar mapped around the bay of
Monte Carlo. McLaren's drivers had special diamond studded helmets for the occasion. On the Tuesday that week
Mark Webber proved to be the man of the hour after using First Aid on his companion, AMD's
Morris Denton, alongside cycling legend,
Lance Armstrong. A car had hit Denton through some traffic works; he would need 90 stitches but arrived at the paddock that weekend. Fisichella didn't get his wish of a points finish on his 200th Grand Prix start after retiring with a jumping gearbox. At the start of the parade lap, Kovalainen stalled and had to start from the pit lane, but despite starting from there he grabbed the last of the points-paying positions with eighth and catching up to seventh; he finished three seconds behind
Kazuki Nakajima after the gap was sixteen seconds just five laps before. The race started in the rain for the first time since
1997 and the Ferraris came under pressure from Hamilton at the start with Räikkönen falling back to third. Massa led early on, whilst Hamilton tapped the wall and sustained a puncture. However, the McLaren team was able to use the changed pit-stop strategy to their advantage due to frequent Safety Car periods and the gradual improvement in the weather that necessitated a switch to dry tyres before the end of the race. While Massa and
Robert Kubica struggled on worn tyres and heavy fuel loads mid-race, Hamilton was able to build up a big enough lead to maintain first position after his second pit stop. Kubica, who jumped past Massa when the Ferrari driver had a brief excursion at Ste. Devote, finished ahead of the Brazilian in second place, but there was last-minute drama behind.
Adrian Sutil was running in a strong fourth place after the final safety car period until a recovering Räikkönen, who had earlier damaged his front wing and been forced to pit, slipped up going into the Nouvelle Chicane. Kimi only put on another new front wing and rejoined in ninth, but a devastated Sutil had bad car damage and retired just before the race's 90% distance mark. This left the way clear for Webber,
Sebastian Vettel (débuting the
Toro Rosso STR3 chassis), Nakajima, Barrichello and Kovalainen to finish in the points. Two weeks later, the championship moved to
Canada on its annual trip to North America. The track had been partially resurfaced since 2007, but these new sections of tarmac began to break up, causing a hazard throughout the race weekend. Nevertheless, Hamilton seemed unaffected as he set a pole position time 0.6 seconds faster than second-placed Kubica. In the race, the front two and third man Räikkönen held position until the first round of pit stops, which were taken under Safety Car conditions. Hamilton lost position to his two pursuers with a longer stop, but then compounded his problems by running into the back of Räikkönen as the Finn and Kubica waited for the green light to come on at the end of the pitlane. Both retired, whilst
Nico Rosberg (who was also involved) lost his front wing. Both Hamilton and Rosberg have been given ten-place grid penalties for the next race of the season, in
France. This incident, fuel rig problems for Massa and Kovalainen's poor pace turned the race into an all-
BMW Sauber fight between Kubica and
Nick Heidfeld. Choosing different strategies, the former prevailed by making an additional pitsop to the latter. The race marked Kubica's and BMW's first win in F1, and the first time since the
1999 European Grand Prix that neither Ferrari, McLaren nor Renault has appeared on the podium, as
David Coulthard finished in third place to take his first points of the season.
Timo Glock was also a first-time 2008 scorer as he beat the recovering Massa to the flag, and they were followed home by
Jarno Trulli, Barrichello and Vettel. Massa performed the most impressive pass of the race in his progress from the back of the field following his fuel glitch by passing
Jenson Button and Kovalainen simulataneously at the Old Pits Hairpin. The result has elevated Kubica into the lead of the Drivers' Championship, with Hamilton, Massa, Raikkonen and Heidfeld not far behind.
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Below is the F1 Picture for last month (found
here) which is decided on every 25th-27th of each month. The picture has to be one uploaded that month and only from the current season.
It is exclusive to the
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Note 1:
Vettel didn't qualify after hitting the wall and damaging his
STR3 in Saturday morning practice.
Note 2:
Bourdais changed his engine after qualifying and got a five-place grid penalty (to the back of the grid.
Note 3:
Button set one time of 1:23.565 but then drove back into the pits with a gearbox problem he started 18th on the grid in front of the two
Toro Rossos.
^Note 4 : Mark Webber spun at the end of Q2 but with a secured place in Q3. He did not set a time due to the car not being suitable to drive.
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Schumacher won his ninth race of the season, which equalled
Nigel Mansell's record for
victories in a season that was set in
1992. As both the
Williams cars retired from the race, Benetton were confirmed as
Constructors' Champions as Williams could not pass Benetton's points total with only one race remaining.
Jean Alesi, driving for
Ferrari, started second beside Schumacher. However, since his car had moved forward before the start, he was forced to serve a
10-second stop and go penalty. Alesi climbed up to second, before retiring on lap 25.
You set up the categories for the Motorsport WikiProject. Could you set it up for the new C-Class articles? Can you do any of its child WikiProjects? An article in question is
Talk:D1NZ. Royalbroil 03:36, 9 July 2008 (UTC)reply
Lendev
Is
this good enough evidence to prove I was not Lendev?
D.M.N. (
talk) 14:28, 11 July 2008 (UTC)reply
Quote from your comment at
WT:RFA: You can't go around making assumptions like that. - you made assumptions about whether I was Lendev or not, when I was clearly not (see the above diff).
D.M.N. (
talk) 17:26, 11 July 2008 (UTC)reply
According to the diff above, Lendav was using an IP address of
72.143.235.191, which is no where near similar to mine, as you well know, I live in the center of England. The account above, Wendel67, was requesting an unblock because his IP (72.143.235.191) had been blocked because Lendav had been using it. Tracing that IP using
IP-Adress.com takes me to Cambridge, Canada, so I cannot be linked to that account which was operating in Canada. I have nothing to do with that user. And please don't accuse me of trying to get out of this, I am not Lendev, the evidence is in the diff above.
D.M.N. (
talk) 07:02, 12 July 2008 (UTC)reply
Did you get to look at the above diff? I also your comment at RFA. Despite the differences we have had in the past, I don't want it to keep foreshadowing any discussions that me and you are in involved intogether. I don't want to feel like I'm being scruitenized (sp?), yet at the same time I'm sure you don't really want to participate in a discussion with me as you will probably think that anything bad you say and I would fly off the handle. I'm not going to force you to change your opinion of me. We've all made mistakes, my biggest one for the first half of last year. Probably heading to RFA would be classed as a mistake for me. I don't want to feel like I have people looking over my back all the time. I'm trying not to head towards ANI if I get in a conflict with another user because in some cases it can cause more drama than solution. I hope you didn't think I took offense to your oppose, I knew that you would be one of the first people ready to oppose me, which in the circumstances I understood. I expected you to oppose because of the past. I hope you looked at the above link to do with Landev, because being accused hurts. I didn't ask for Landev to come on the scene and become a troll (in some ways he aggrevated the situation with those comments). In other words, I hope we can put the past behind us and do what we do best which is contribute to Wikipedia.
D.M.N. (
talk) 18:28, 17 July 2008 (UTC)reply
Thanks. I appreciate it. :)
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Article of the month: Forti (current GA candidate)
Forti Corse, commonly known as Forti, was an
Italianmotor racing team chiefly known for its brief, and unsuccessful, involvement in
Formula One in the mid-1990s. It was established in the 1970s and competed in lower formulae for two decades, with some success. The team graduated to F1 as a
constructor and
entrant in
1995 and continued into
1996, before succumbing to financial problems mid-season. The team competed in a total of 27 Grands Prix, scoring no points, and is recognised as one of the last truly privateer teams to race in an era when many large
car manufacturers were increasing their involvement in the sport.
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August picture - Felipe Massa at the European GP Friday Practice session.
Mosley is a former
barrister and amateur racing driver, and a founder and co-owner of
March Engineering, a successful racing car constructor and
Formula One racing team. He looked after legal and commercial issues for the company between 1969 and 1977. In the late 1970s, Mosley became the official legal adviser to the
Formula One Constructors Association (FOCA), the body which represents the Formula One teams. In this role he drew up the first version of the
Concorde Agreement, which settled a
dispute between FOCA and the
Fédération Internationale du Sport Automobile (FISA), the governing body of Formula One. Mosley was elected president of FISA in 1991 and became president of the FIA, FISA's parent body, in 1993. Mosley has identified his major achievement as FIA President as being the promotion of the
European New Car Assessment Programme (Euro NCAP or Encap), a European
car safety performance assessment programme. He has also promoted increased safety and the use of green technologies in motor racing. In 2008, Mosley retained his position after stories about his sex life appeared in the British press.
Mosley is the son of Sir
Oswald Mosley, former leader of the
British Union of Fascists (BUF), and
Diana Mitford. He was educated in
France,
Germany and Britain before going on to attend university at
Christ Church, Oxford where he graduated with a degree in
physics. In his teens and early twenties Mosley was involved with his father's post-war party, the
Union Movement (UM). He has said that the association of his surname with fascism stopped him from developing his interest in politics further, although he briefly worked for the
Conservative Party in the early 1980s.
Are you going to do it or not? Can you please give me an answer? I don't want to be left high and dry.
Oldnew (
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Hi
Your .svg map of Portland International Raceway looks good. Could you do an .svg map for Brainerd International Raceway?
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Singapore street circuit
Is it possible for you to add the pit road and turn numbers to your .svg Singapore street circuit image?
Fclass (
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Mildren-Waggott
Mildren was a series of Brabham inspired/copies run by Alec Mildren's racing team and Waggott was an engine maker. Not a double barrelled name. Some Mildrens were powered by Alfa Romeo engine's notably the Kevin Bartlett Tasman era car. Waggott engines were found in a variety of Australian racing cars like the Centaur GT. --
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The 1995 Pacific Grand Prix (formally the II Pacific Grand Prix) was a
Formula One motor race held on October 22, 1995 at the
TI Circuit,
Aida,
Japan. It was the 15th race of the
1995 Formula One season. The race, contested over 83 laps, was won by
Michael Schumacher for the
Benetton team after starting from third position.
David Coulthard, who started the Grand Prix from
pole position, finished second in a
Williams car, with
Damon Hill third in the other Williams. Schumacher's win confirmed him as
1995 Drivers' Champion as Hill could not pass Schumacher's points total with only two races remaining.
Hill started the race alongside Coulthard on the front row, amidst pressure from the British media for not being "forceful" enough in battles. Schumacher attempted to drive around the outside of Hill at the first corner, but Hill held Schumacher off as
Jean Alesi, driving for
Ferrari got past both on the inside line to take second position. As a result, Hill dropped down to third and Schumacher dropped down to fifth behind
Gerhard Berger. Schumacher managed to get past Alesi and Hill during the first of three
pit stops. This allowed him, on a new set of
slick tyres, to close on Coulthard who was on a two-stop strategy. Schumacher opened up a gap of 21 seconds by lapping two seconds faster per lap than Coulthard, so that when his third stop came, he still led the race.
*Hamilton was given a 25 second + to his racing time demoting him to 3rd place gifting
Felipe Massa the win
1.
McLaren appealed with hard evidence
2.
Timo Glock also recieved this penalty for overtaking under the yellow flag dropping him to ninth place out of the points.
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Hamilton started from
pole position alongside title rival Massa. Hamilton's McLaren team-mate
Heikki Kovalainen started from third next to the
2007 winner Kimi Räikkönen. Following a spin by Hamilton on the second lap, Räikkönen led the race, until rain fell on lap 41 and Hamilton performed the penalised pass. Räikkönen crashed in the following lap as rain started raining heavily. Massa finished second on the road after Hamilton, followed by
Nick Heidfeld of
BMW Sauber.
Hamilton received a drive-through penalty, which demoted him to third place and advanced Massa and Heidfeld to first and second positions. McLaren appealed the decision at the
FIA International Court of Appeal. Their case, however, was judged inadmissible, with the Court ruling that drive-through penalties cannot be challenged. The penalty created a large amount of criticism from the global press, mainly from the
United Kingdom and
Italy, with several former drivers questioning the decision. Massa's retrospective win, with Hamilton demoted to third, narrowed the gap in the Championship from six points to just two.
Final standings. See 2008 Formula One season for further season summary and
formula1.com or
ITV-F1.com (and there is more there for the championship) for complete standings and statistics. ^Note 1 : Super Aguri withdrew from the championship on the Wednesday before the
Turkish Grand Prix.
Hey. You seem to be using the AWB to make a lot of insignificant edits, for which the tool is not supposed to be used. Please see
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Pete Fenelon, who passed away in October (please see
Wikipedia:Deceased Wikipedians for more information).
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Before the race,
Drivers' Championship leader
Lewis Hamilton had received heated criticism in the
British press for his aggressive driving style at the
Japanese Grand Prix three weeks previously. There, Hamilton's late braking at the first corner sent Räikkönen off the road and saw the McLaren driver relegated to the back of the field after a penalty.
Massa started the race alongside
Toyota driver
Jarno Trulli. Massa's Ferrari team-mate Räikkönen began from third next to Hamilton. Rain fell minutes before the race, delaying the start, and as the track dried Massa established a lead of several seconds. More rain in the closing laps did not prevent Hamilton from finishing the race in fifth position, securing him the points needed to take the Championship.
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