http://passionart.eu Motion in colour. Motors and Motorsport Originals. Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:09:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://passionart.eu/paintings/f1-paintings/the-shimmering-heat-of-the-tarmac/#comment-60 Kathryn Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:09:01 +0000 http://passionart.eu/?p=115#comment-60 The stewards made their decisions on the day. Think you got safety wrong way around - safer now than then. The stewards made their decisions on the day. Think you got safety wrong way around – safer now than then.

]]> http://passionart.eu/paintings/f1-paintings/the-shimmering-heat-of-the-tarmac/#comment-48 Marta Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:11:17 +0000 http://passionart.eu/?p=115#comment-48 Ah, but was there rlelay any contact or punting off the track? Agreed however, it wasn’t a particularly sporting piece of racecraft and that Herr Schumacher played on the wrong side of the definition of ‘absolute damn right scary’.Was this not a very short snippet of the Gilles Villeneuve v Rene Arnoux 1979 battle at Dijon? Okay, the Villeneuve and Arnoux battle was perhaps/arguably the No.1 F1 battle of all time, but surely that track encounter had all the ingriedients for “blatantly causing an accident, in which his fellow competitor and/or himself could be injured or indeed at worst killed” particularly with the difference in safety standards in the 31years between the two clashes? Ah, but was there rlelay any contact or punting off the track? Agreed however, it wasn’t a particularly sporting piece of racecraft and that Herr Schumacher played on the wrong side of the definition of ‘absolute damn right scary’.Was this not a very short snippet of the Gilles Villeneuve v Rene Arnoux 1979 battle at Dijon? Okay, the Villeneuve and Arnoux battle was perhaps/arguably the No.1 F1 battle of all time, but surely that track encounter had all the ingriedients for “blatantly causing an accident, in which his fellow competitor and/or himself could be injured or indeed at worst killed” particularly with the difference in safety standards in the 31years between the two clashes?

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