--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 142 AUTO RACING Ref: E4500003 Date: 04/04/97 From: ROY WITT Time: 12:37pm \/To: CRAIG SCHROEDER (Read 1 times) Subj: F1 News #69 CSFL>******************** (-: Formula1 NEWS :-) ********************* CSFL> The Electronic Formula 1 News Service for the Internet CSFL> World Wide Web server at http://www.enigmatic.co.uk/formula1/ CSFL> *** March 26th 1997 *** CSFL> *** Issue Number 069 *** AUTORACE ECHO RULES Revised 1-14-97 5a. This conference may not be gated into any Network other than FidoNet without the prior approval of the moderator(s). 5b. By the same token, importing of outside material, other than your own, is restricted to pre-approval by the moderator(s). All comments, complaints, suggestions or hate mail should be sent to me at my node address; 1:202/909 or kb6pi@juno.com Roy Witt, Moderator, Autorace echo. ar.rul 01-14-97 * OLX 2.2 TD * Mental Floss prevents Moral Decay. --- Maximus/2 2.02 * Origin: OS/2 Connection @ Mira Mesa, CA <619-549-4215> (1:202/354) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 142 AUTO RACING Ref: E4500004 Date: 04/04/97 From: ROY WITT Time: 12:39pm \/To: ROB HILDITCH (Read 1 times) Subj: F1 News RHFL> CS> I've been cut off from my Fido link for a while. I used to RHFL> CS> post the F1 News in here. Is anyone else currently doing it? RHFL> CS> Is there interest in having it? I'm happy to be the one RHFL> CS> supplying the info and am only at the mercy of my Fido link as RHFL> CS> far as potential problems in doing it. Let me know what you RHFL> CS> think. Thanks. RHFL>yes please, post it :) AUTORACE ECHO RULES Revised 1-14-97 5a. This conference may not be gated into any Network other than FidoNet without the prior approval of the moderator(s). 5b. By the same token, importing of outside material, other than your own, is restricted to pre-approval by the moderator(s). All comments, complaints, suggestions or hate mail should be sent to me at my node address; 1:202/909 or kb6pi@juno.com Roy Witt, Moderator, Autorace echo. ar.rul 01-14-97 * OLX 2.2 TD * All wiyht. Rho sritched mg kegtops awound? --- Maximus/2 2.02 * Origin: OS/2 Connection @ Mira Mesa, CA <619-549-4215> (1:202/354) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 142 AUTO RACING Ref: E4500005 Date: 04/04/97 From: ROY WITT Time: 12:41pm \/To: NORMAN SHARP (Read 1 times) Subj: Racing News NSFL> My local paper, The Indianapolis Star, carrys the Indy 500 and NSFL> the Brickyard 400 extensively, but can't seem to do a decent NSFL> coverage of F1, Nascar, IRL and Cart the rest of the time. NSFL> Is there a racing magazine that covers the sport from A to Z NSFL> with equal coverage of all types of racing? Autoweek, does a pretty good job of covering all manner of racing. A weekly publication which is usually in my mail box on Friday. * OLX 2.2 TD * Back Up My Hard Drive? I Can't Find The Reverse Switch! --- Maximus/2 2.02 * Origin: OS/2 Connection @ Mira Mesa, CA <619-549-4215> (1:202/354) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 142 AUTO RACING Ref: E4500006 Date: 04/04/97 From: ROY WITT Time: 12:47pm \/To: SARA KONOPINSKI (Read 1 times) Subj: Punk SKFL>Does anyone here live in Austin Texas? Not in this echo either, Sara! .*'''*. | Roy Witt - Moderator W I T T | Fidonet: 1:202/909 `*,,,*' | E-mail: kb6pi@juno.com * OLX 2.2 TD * This tagline is umop apisdn --- Maximus/2 2.02 * Origin: OS/2 Connection @ Mira Mesa, CA <619-549-4215> (1:202/354) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 142 AUTO RACING Ref: E4A00000 Date: 04/04/97 From: STEVE SABLJAK Time: 07:16am \/To: LARRY HINSLEY (Read 1 times) Subj: NASCAR Frequencies Hi, Larry. -> On the way as soon as I look it up....been out of town. I received the e-mail message... Thanks much! Steve --- PCBoard (R) v15.3/M 25 * Origin: The GIFfer BBS, 75+gig, (813)969-2761 (1:377/50) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 142 AUTO RACING Ref: E4A00001 Date: 04/04/97 From: STEVE SABLJAK Time: 07:18am \/To: RON HILL (Read 1 times) Subj: F1RTC: Melbourne Hi, Ron! -> OK. I was trying to figure that one out. Y'know, with that 3.5 liter -> engine, you could drive in Formula 1. Maybe. As the pace car. On straightaways. Going downhill. With a brisk tail wind. Sounds like fun... Steve --- PCBoard (R) v15.3/M 25 * Origin: The GIFfer BBS, 75+gig, (813)969-2761 (1:377/50) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 142 AUTO RACING Ref: E4A00002 Date: 04/04/97 From: CHRIS EGELAND Time: 07:02am \/To: CRAIG SCHROEDER (Read 1 times) Subj: Re: GF Sprints CS> Dennis "the Menace" Sather raced in that early era and was famous CS> for keeping his foot in the throttle and steering/braking CS> for corrections. I saw him tumble so bad at GF one night, that his CS> helmet was split in two. Sounded like a good driver...The helmets weren't made of much back then were they? CS> Here's some more names to ask some veterans about.... Bucky CS> Peterson, Ron Gutto (sp?), Doug Howells, Lyn McIntosh, Harry Thurlow, CS> Milly Swenkerude (sp?) and Don Guida .... all from the GF/Fargo Well I have heard of Gutto (he owns a local engine shop now) and Howells. Howells owned a car driven by Doug Wolfgang at one time. And it seems to me I remember the Guida name from some of the newspaper clippings that my dad has. CS> Daniels, Jerry Reichert. Our local track in Rice Lake, WI stopped Reichert won the Knoxville Nationals in the 60's I believe. CS> He ran the Johnson Offenhauser. It looked a bit odd next to the V8 CS> configurations. It was very delicate and slender and he ran a lot CS> less tire width, too. Very interesting sound.... I have seen the Offy's in Open Wheel magazine (do you read it? A must for any open wheel racing fan) they look pretty neat. Speaking of engines, we finally get to start working on my cousins sprinter today, Races are due to start in a few more weeks! CS> just before he was killed in IN. I could get real hooked on midgets CS> if they ran in my immediate area. Yeah they look like a bunch of fun. I have seen them on t.v. and those guys are nuts. CS> I went to Jr High on the east side with a Pat Egeland. Strongest CS> person I ever knew. Is he a relative? I can't remember any of the Pat is my uncle. He is still alive and living around here. I have always heard that he was pretty strong (of course you wouldn't know it now). CS> street stock names right now. I was proud of flashing back to my CS> sprint heroes! That's great!!! -Tajhrus Akjaw ... The Jedi are extinct...their fire has gone out of the universe... --- FMail/386 1.02 * Origin: Splatter Counts / Emerado, ND / 701-594-8655 (1:2808/102) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 142 AUTO RACING Ref: E4A00003 Date: 04/05/97 From: MIKE MYCEK Time: 12:56am \/To: ALL (Read 1 times) Subj: GREETINGS....from the Night Owl! ReConnecting to this echo..... Testing the mailer No Reply Necessary! ^-^ who? tHE NIgHtoWl bBS - PObOx 6273 - deLTOnA, FL 32728 (0 0) / HomePage: http://www.dlbbs.totcon.com/~nightowl/index.html (`v')~~ Internet E-Mail nightowl_bbs@jenny-mccarthy.com (.".:.) or nightowl@maildl.totcon.com ="="= FIDONET: 1:3618/17 "The Homesite of "Mystic Mommie" -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: The NightOwl BBS in Central Florida 904.789.8452 (1:3618/17) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 142 AUTO RACING Ref: E4A00004 Date: 04/05/97 From: CRAIG SCHROEDER Time: 09:26am \/To: ALL (Read 1 times) Subj: F1 News #70 ******************** (-: Formula1 NEWS :-) ********************* The Electronic Formula 1 News Service for the Internet World Wide Web server at http://www.enigmatic.co.uk/formula1/ *** April 2nd 1997 *** *** Issue Number 070 *** **************************************************************** In This Issue *Villeneuve Off To Prost? *Alesi Back In The Good Books *Benetton / Honda Deal Expected Soon *Williams / BMW Rumour Back Again! *Bridgestone Warning Shot *BIC Deal For Prost *New Ford Engine *Brazil Review *Brazil Results *Drivers Championship *Constructors Championship *Take Issue Results *Canada Tickets *Contacting Us *Formula1 News Back Issues *How To Change Your Address/Unsubscribe etc. Villeneuve Off To Prost? There is a rumour that Jacques Villeneuve may be in discussion with Prost for next year. Jacques manager Craig Pollack has been seen dining with Alain Prost. Prost run Bridgestone tyres and from next year they will have a works Peugeot engine. Both Peugeot and Bridgestone would be keen to see the World Champion in one of their teams and could help Prost fund the move. Jacques contract with Williams is up for renewal this year. Alesi Back In The Good Books Jean Alesi finally managed to finish a race, and in the points too. His performance was overshadowed by his team mate but he was steady and workman like. This has raised the Benetton teams view of the driver and hopefully his results will get better as the season progresses. The Benetton car is one of a few that improved greatly between Australia and Brazil. Benetton / Honda Deal Expected Soon The Benetton / Mugen Honda engine deal is expected to be announced soon. Benetton have been involved with Honda through motorcycle racing and it has long been expected that the Japanese giant would replace Renault when the current engine supply deal finished. Williams / BMW Rumour Back Again! You can't keep a good rumour down. Especially if it involves Williams and or BMW. The two companies have a long history of a rumoured engine deal, this time however there is a new twist. Williams have a two year contract with the French Mecachrome company to use Renault engines. These are expected to cost Williams around 20 Million for the duration. BMW are now rumoured to be in negotiation to pay some of the cost in return for BMW badges being put on the engines. The 2 year deal which will finish in 2000 just overlaps the rumoured BMW engine entry of 1999. Bridgestone Warning Shot The Bridgestone shod teams fired a warning shot at the Goodyear tyres this weekend. The Prost and Arrows teams are hardly top flight, yet Panis and Hill both managed to qualify in the top ten and due to the performance of the tyres both teams were able to run a one stop strategy. Panis drove brilliantly, running as high a second at one point, finally finishing third and Hill managed to run fourth for a while but retired with an engine bay fire. The circuits that are hard on tyres could see the Bridgestone teams performing better than expected. BIC Deal For Prost You may have noticed the BIC logo on the Prost cars last weekend, that is because the team have signed a four year deal with the disposable pen and razor company. New Ford Engine Tyrrell will be able to make use of the next evolution of the customer Ford Cosworth V8 from the San Marino GP. The unit has more power which will be welcome. Brazil Review Jacques Villeneuve came back from the disaster at Melbourne with a perfect win. Though at the start it looked as though he had blown it again. At the start Schumacher got away brilliantly and held the inside line into the first corner. Villeneuve desperately tried to hold onto the outside line but a combination of speed, cold tyres and being off the racing line saw him slide off the track onto the grass and gravel. He was followed by Frentzen and Hill who collided with the Jordan of Fisichella damaging his rear suspension and front wing. Villeneuve and Hill probably couldn't believe their luck when the race was red flagged due to the Stewart of Barrichello still being on the grid. At the restart, Schumacher beat Villeneuve to the first corner again, this time the Canadian let the Ferrari go and settled in behind it. Behind them, everyone managed to get round the first corner and Hakkinen led the chasing pack followed by Berger, Alesi, Panis, Hill and Coulthard, with Frentzen 13th. At the end of the first lap Villeneuve surged past the Ferrari of Schumacher and went into the lead, by lap 9 Berger had performed an almost identical pass to relegate the Ferrari to third place. Many of the teams tried to out think each other with pit stop strategy and in doing so they all came up with the same plan. This led to a scramble of stops as the McLaren and Benetton teams stopped almost at the same time. Williams held out until lap 25 for their first stop and the mid race order saw Villeneuve leading Panis with Berger, Hill, Hakkinen and Schumacher making up the rest of the top six. Panis and Hill had yet to stop, but both were on single stop strategies compared to the two stops that everyone else was making. After the second round of stops the race order had settled down, Villeneuve still led, but now Berger was back in second while Panis dropped to third after his stop. Hakkinen was fourth, Schumacher fifth and Alesi sixth. During the closing stages of the race it became clear that Gerhard Berger was closing on Villeneuve, gradually chipping away at the Canadian's lead, the end result though was that Berger ran out of time before he could close up on the Williams, too many back markers and not enough laps. Brazil Results 1 J. Villeneuve Williams Renault 1:36:06.990 2 G. Berger Benetton Renault + 4.190 3 O. Panis Prost Mugen Honda + 15.870 4 M. Hakkinen McLaren Mercedes + 33.033 5 M. Schumacher Ferrari + 33.731 6 J. Alesi Benetton Renault + 34.020 7 J. Herbert Sauber Petronas + 50.912 8 G. Fisichella Jordan Peugeot + 1:00.639 9 H.H. Frentzen Williams Renault + 1:15.402 10 D. Coulthard McLaren Mercedes + 1 lap 11 N. Larini Sauber Petronas + 1 lap 12 J. Trulli Minardi Hart + 1 lap 13 M. Salo Tyrrell Ford + 1 lap 14 S. Nakano Prost Mugen Honda + 1 lap 15 J. Verstappen Tyrrell Ford + 2 laps 16 E. Irvine Ferrari + 2 laps 17 D. Hill Arrows Yamaha + 4 Laps 18 U. Katayama Minardi Hart + 5 laps 19 R. Schumacher Jordan Peugeot + 20 laps 20 R. Barrichello Stewart Ford + 56 laps 21 P. Diniz Arrows Yamaha + 57 laps 22 J. Magnussen Stewart Ford DNS Drivers Championship 1 D. Coulthard McLaren MP4/12 Mercedes 10 1 J. Villeneuve Williams FW19 Renault 10 3 G. Berger Benetton B197 Renault 9 4 M. Schumacher Ferrari F310b 8 5 M. Hakkinen McLaren MP4/12 Mercedes 7 6 O. Panis Prost Mugen Honda 6 7 N. Larini Sauber C16 Petronas 1 7 J. Alesi Benetton B197 Renault 1 Constructors Championship 1 McLaren Mercedes 17 2 Williams Renault 10 2 Benetton Renault 10 4 Ferrari 8 5 Prost Mugen Honda 6 6 Sauber Petronas 1 Take Issue Results The first "Take Issue" results returned the expected verdict. According to visitors to the web site Irvine was the guilty party taking just over half of the votes. 6402 votes were cast and the results are as follows. Irvine Herbert Villeneuve Racing Accident 50.28% 5.47% 19.99% 24.25% This week we are looking for your views on Heinz Harald Frentzen's performance so far this year. As usual, the voting is via the "Take Issue" link on the web site. E-mail votes can't be counted. Canada Tickets The guy that had the tickets for Canada has now sold them (I don't know who to). He had just over 100 enquiries and mailed me with the following "I feel bad, I wish I had tix for all those people who responded, its nice to know that there are soo many other f1 gp fans out there". Contacting Us While we are always pleased to hear from people on the list, if you are going to write to us try not to resend the whole newsletter with your e-mail, we've already read it (we get the first copy!!) and it is a terrible waste of bandwidth. We can be contacted using either "Neil@bigvern.demon.co.uk" or "F1@bigvern.demon.co.uk". 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