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Anyone watched Top Gear last night this years new F1 cars are out ( almost ) . I could not stop laughing looks like the designers have cocked the lot up but they have not made a balls of them ( yet ) . Wait till you see, if my mind is correct was there not a F1 sponsored by Durex a good few years ago.

... yes, watched Top Gear as well
Jeremy & Co had a field day commenting on this idiotic looking design and getting "rear ended"


.. but I found the part about the hatchbacks well over the top ... too much blowing up things ... and not even funny ...

Yup, you are right, The London Rubber Company in the guise of Durex sponsored the Surtees team in 1976.

Yes, they are ugly looking lumps on the new F1 cars.
As for Top Gear, there were plenty of laughs but the "slap stick" routines with the old hot hatches were a bit predictable. When James's car was blown up by a tank, how could we have known he was going to be sat in a crater, smouldering with a steering wheel in his hand. Could we have got a clue from a similar incident not 5 minutes before when Clarkson emerged after a fireball in his car.

Not shown down under until next week....new F1 cars seem to have some issues. Especially the Renault engined ones.

I knew it was in my mind but could not remember which one . On the subject of The London Rubber Company this should give you a laugh . My old man had a large van for his business a local chap who was a rep for the LRC asked him to clean out his garage . The two of them filled the van with all the cardboard add stuff and boxes etc . I was a single lad and my mates just sat on the cardboard on a Sat/night out. If I was lucky and chatted up a girl the looks I got from the boxes in the rear kept me laughing for days and it was comfy . I went to a night club in Sunderland a few streets down from John street it was frosty and snow in the gutters . So thinking wise I put it in a car park a few more streets down . Did not want a ticket because of yellow lines under the snow that I could not see.
Only the van standing in the car park , it was one of those night clubs you have to rock your feet as your heels and toes stuck to the carpet if you stood still for a few moments and it was just a few streets from the van.
On setting off home we walked to the van I opened the rear doors my mates climbed in and we set off home , but a car was acting odd and trailing me from the car park . I was going to stop and call the police but drove on . By the time I got to the Tollbar pub ( its gone ) the road was blocked by Police cars . They stood in the middle of the road to stop me and it was covered in ice I had to use my skill to miss them and the cars . "Out out now" was the police shout , they had looked in the rear windows seen the flat cardboard and thought we where robbers and had raided shops so set up this road blockage . We all had suit and ties on when asked what had we been doing " chasing girls" did not go down very well . They looked and felt like fools and my mates could not stop laughing and cracking jokes right time to go Buster ok Ronnie we have a train to catch . I told them I was going to stop and call the police due to the one on my tail . It would have been so easy if the had came over as we started . Still laugh at it when I see a condom machine.

My pal that worked for Benneton F1, subsequently Renault F1, now Lotus said this morning he was going to have a lot more time on his hands soon.
At a guess, he wont be trekking over to the other side of Chipping Norton for much longer...

Sad if that spells the end of the team.

Jack - stop polishing that car of yours and start writing your memoirs before your memory begins to get gaps. I'd definitely buy a copy if it's anything like as funny as what you post on here...

.. but I found the part about the hatchbacks well over the top ... too much blowing up things ... and not even funny ... [/quote]

+1 very staged, not that funny because you could see through the staging and a very confused plot.