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What do you think, BB, 1980-ish?


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matthew1 wrote: 22 Aug 2022, 13:23 F1 ran at the Ring? I didn't know this.
Yeah - the long one, 14+ miles. Isn't that what Jackie Stewart called The Green Hell?
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matthew1 wrote: 22 Aug 2022, 13:44 What do you think, BB, 1980-ish?
Boy, I don't know... Very wide, flat sidepods... Is this a ground effect car? That was 80's, right? The JPS Lotus Mario won the championship was 1979??
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Found some info

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I don't know much about the 'Ring except from my occasional YouTube forays to watch modified 850s race much newer/more expensive cars. Only in Germany could you have something like that. Could you imagine that here? It would be a blood-soaked fiasco on the first day.
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Ah, McLaren & Marlboro. Eau Rouge is a cool but scary set of corners. Many people killed there. Long downhill straight, that slight left kink and across the creek bottom and huge compression, then the car unweights as it hits the apex of the right hander up the hill.
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I don't know how those drivers memorized something like the Nurb. So many random corners, so many ups and downs, blind corners, and it's mostly narrow.
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Yep, very narrow, and super mega long.

I always thought "Marlboro McLaren" was the coolest name in all of motorsports.

Like the type of thing in a Western where one guy walks into a saloon and the music stops and on the balcony someone whispers to their friend "What does he drive?"
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