WhackyWill

Just spat out my Chablis.!!! :lol: :lol:

Welcome to The Land of Zed.

You should have offered to do her's

Lawrence Stroll will soon take over the Swiss Formula One Team Sauber. Stroll owns the Circuit Mont-Tremblant in Canada, a Ferrari dealership in Québec, and an impressive collection of cars that include two of the most expensive in the world (Ferrari P4 and a Ferrari 275 GTB/4). The fashion industry tycoon is also in the process of selling off his shares in Michael Kors, through his private equity firm Sportswear Holdings. He held a 5.7% stake in the company and with this decision, he will be left with plenty of money leftover to buy into a Formula One team. On Forbes, the 55-year-old is ranked as the 816th richest man in the world, worth $2.3 billion dollars. Bernie Ecclestone was in talks with Stroll to buy into CVC Capital, which is the private equity firm that owns Formula One. That deal did not go through. However, it seems as though this deal with Sauber is as good as done. The 'Russian rescue deal' It's been known for some time now that the team is financially unstable. Last year, what has become known as the 'Russian rescue deal' saw a trio of Russian companies form a partnership with the team. This new alliance quickly disintegrated as the Ukranian crisis escalated though, and all discussions which included putting Sergey Sirotkin in an F1 car came to a screeching halt. Sauber has struggled in 2014 thus far, failing to score any points between drivers Adrian Sutil and Esteban Gutierrez.

You'll be back Matt, leaner and meaner.. :thumbs:

Great looking wheels. Look brilliant.

Great pics thanks for sharing. Really sorry to see what happened to Matt Grundy.

Full Lewis's interview. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JW9LG8JmHGY

Oh and Whacky, about time you started adding where you get your quotes so we can all see the source of the information. Ye right..!!!

Ron should never have given Whitmarsh responsibility for the F1 Team. They now spend more time and resources on their road cars than on the F1 Team. It will turn around again, its the cycle of the beast that's F1. My old mate Patrick Head is now back at the helm of Williams as Director of Engineering as he was doing a Ron and heading up the Williams Electric Vehicle Division

And 67 ahead of McLaren.. :lol:

Race - Hamilton Triumphs in Italy after Rosberg slip up. Lewis Hamilton fought back from a poor start to claim an emphatic victory at Monza on Sunday, moving to within 22 points of Mercedes team mate and title rival Nico Rosberg. Rosberg had led early on, but the German had to settle for second when, coming under increasing pressure from Hamilton, he ceded the lead by out-braking himself heading into the first chicane. Felipe Massa claimed his first podium for Williams in third, while team mate Valtteri Bottas fought back from his own tardy start - he dropped from third to 11th in the opening laps - to secure fourth ahead of Red Bull duo Daniel Ricciardo and Sebastian Vettel. Hamilton had started the race by immediately dropping down the order as software issues hurt his getaway, enabling Rosberg to snatch the lead from McLaren's Kevin Magnussen and Massa. The Briton's fightback from fourth was aided when Rosberg made a totally unforced error in the Rettifilo chicane at the start of lap nine, which cut his lead from 3.9 to 2.3 seconds. Massa and Hamilton had already passed Magnussen on the fifth lap, with Hamilton then picking off Massa around the outside as the pair headed into the first chicane on Lap 10. After that, the chase was on. Both Rosberg and Hamilton made single stops, switching onto the hard-compound tyre on laps 24 and 25 respectively, and rejoined just 1.8s apart. Hamilton was advised to bide his time and wait for the end to attack, but decided his best chance was when his tyres were fresh and quickly set about cutting the gap, keen to put Rosberg under pressure and see what developed. The answer came on the 29th lap when Rosberg made his second error at Rettifilo, and this time Hamilton went speeding by into a lead he would not relinquish. Behind Massa, the fight for fourth was in doubt until the closing stages. Vettel seemed to have a lock on it for a while but he'd stopped for tyres as early as the 18th lap and thus was doomed when Bottas got into his stride in a great recovery. The Finn would pick off Fernando Alonso's Ferrari, Jenson Button's McLaren, Sergio Perez's Force India, Vettel and - after a fierce fight - Magnussen to seal the position. Third and fourth for Williams was a tremendous result, and moved the team ahead of Ferrari and into third in the constructors' standings. Vettel kept going in fifth but was powerless to defend when team mate Daniel Ricciardo came rushing back up the field in one of the best drives of the afternoon. The Australian had relatively fresher rubber, having pitted on the 26th lap, and took full advantage to dive down the inside of Vettel on the 47th lap. Vettel was left to fend off Magnussen, Perez and Button, the latter duo having staged an epic fight a few laps earlier. They remained locked in a tense battle until the flag, crossing in that order. Magnussen, however, earned a five-second penalty for running Bottas off track at the first chicane, and therefore dropped down to 10th in the official classification. Thus Kimi Raikkonen lucked into a sorry ninth for Ferrari on a day when team mate Fernando Alonso's car let him down mechanically, with gearbox problems, for the first time this season. Daniil Kvyat nearly snatched the final point after a super drive from 21st on the grid, but in the closing stages out-braked himself into the first chicane and only narrowly avoided Raikkonen before running straight on down the escape road, making two spectacular catches to keep his Toro Rosso out of the wall. He finished 11th, ahead of Nico Hulkenberg's Force India, Jean-Eric Vergne's Toro Rosso, Pastor Maldonado's Lotus, Adrian Sutil's Sauber, and Romain Grosjean's Lotus. Grosjean came under attack late on from Sauber's Esteban Gutierrez and the pair clashed, a collision which earned Gutierrez a drive-through penalty - which was converted into a 20-second post-race penalty. Caterham beat Marussia fair and square for the first time in a long while, courtesy of Kamui Kobayashi who was 17th ahead of Jules Bianchi. Gutierrez was 19th at the flag, having been delayed when he split his rear tyre pulling over too quickly on Grosjean. Apart from Alonso, the other retirement was Marussia's Max Chilton, who launched himself into the gravel trap and out of the race at the second chicane on lap six. Rosberg now has 238 points to Hamilton's 216 and Ricciardo's 166, as Bottas overtakes Alonso 122 to 121. In the constructors' championship Mercedes's first one-two since Austria takes them to 454 points with Red Bull next on 272. Williams are third with 177 ahead of Ferrari on 162, McLaren on 110 and Force India on 109.

Its just so easy to use. Just copy and paste "direct link" into the little green box marked Image and that's it..!! :thumbs: Here's two pics from last year that are on this computer, cannot fault it..

Just the same engine..That's enough.. :thumbs:

Worked so much better than PB as well, also easier to find your content.

Nice to keep it in the Family. :#1:

It seems to work as Photobucket lost all my images on it..!!! :rant:

Did Rosberg deliberately go off the track to let Hamilton through as part of the deal..!! Don't think the expected Lewis to have a problem at the start. Rosberg was fined $250,000 by the Team for the accident.

Looks brilliant, and will sound the "muts nuts" . :thumbs:

Nice find.. :thumbs:

Really coming on Matt. Looks great. Love those wheels. :thumbs:

Thanks Turboextreme :thumbs:

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Happy Birthday all, Have a good one.

Is there a link to the Nissan site these figures are on .