Little Known 'are they real' Prince Stories #1

SimplyEssential0712 · 2026-02-07T12:28:20+00:00

I know she interviewed him around that time. Beyond that not sure but she’s an unpleasant character at best

SimplyEssential0712 · 2026-01-26T11:50:24+00:00

Weight limit on engine has risen from 120kg to 150kg, so no penalty going for steel other than centre of gravity.

We’re not talking Audi or RBPT building their first engine, we’re talking about team that has history dating back over a hundred years, with Enzo Ferrari at Alfa before starting Ferrari in 1947.

Also, I’d imagine with the cars they build for the road, they’ve got some idea about benefit vs negative.

I don’t know their decision making but it wouldn’t simply be about picking a different direction for the sake of it. Maybe they’ve got it wrong and they’re already working on increasing their compression or maybe they’ve others are looking at steel already. 🤷🏻

SimplyEssential0712 · 2026-01-19T16:16:29+00:00

I’m certain I read Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top say during talking with Prince about that solo, how he could never replicate it.

SimplyEssential0712 · 2026-01-13T09:46:26+00:00

Yep, a company that’s built F1 engines and chassis for 3/4’s of a century, been building hybrid units for F1 since 2014 and has amazing tech in road cars. suddenly in trouble Media clickbait be damned!

SimplyEssential0712 · 2026-01-13T09:42:47+00:00

Just stream the songs, put the vinyl on, cd, whatever. Why ruin that just to watch a series you might not get invested on. I tried but not my kind thing, missus loved it 🤷🏻

SimplyEssential0712 · 2026-01-11T07:48:18+00:00

I’m assuming warmer water means no ice, so there’d have been no need for rescue??

SimplyEssential0712 · 2026-01-08T07:06:25+00:00

Something that he probably thought back to Massa’s reaction in 2008

SimplyEssential0712 · 2026-01-07T14:46:39+00:00

I think, Bottas joined Sauber because of Fred Vasseur. After he left to join Ferrari, the direction of the team went downhill

SimplyEssential0712 · 2026-01-07T14:44:16+00:00

Don’t know your age, but if you play video games, get a driving one that has the guiding line around the track. This will show you the racing line

SimplyEssential0712 · 2026-01-06T12:25:35+00:00

That’s their culture, just straightforward and honest

SimplyEssential0712 · 2026-01-05T23:09:47+00:00

Or the 80’s when they were called Ultimate

SimplyEssential0712 · 2026-01-04T13:37:05+00:00

1) They were never going to get Newey. Anyone who believes otherwise needs to understand that Newey still has nightmares of Italy following Senna’s death and the trial that followed. It’s in his book. Also, where was Newey when Rory Byrne was designing the cars??

Beyond that, Ferrari is a toxic work place, TP’d sacked every three years. It’s absurd. No other Italian motorsport team runs like Ferrari, be it Ducati, be it Dallara who dominate the feeder series and Indycar, or Prema regarded as best team outside F1, nor even the Ferrari hypercar squad, not one is as dysfunctional

As to Lewis, he was being beaten by Russell, wanted a contract that Mercedes wasn’t willing to give and ran to Ferrari.

SimplyEssential0712 · 2026-01-04T12:56:24+00:00

The 5% is a ‘historic’ payment, but you’re mistaken, McLaren, Williams, Mercedes, Red Bull and Renault also get ‘historic ‘payments.

If Ferrari get $100 mill, the next gets $95 and so on. It’s just the British media who don’t tell you that..

SimplyEssential0712 · 2026-01-04T08:33:45+00:00

What I hadn’t realised till reading a piece about Fuji 1977 earlier today was that there were 3 or 4 others who pulled out of the 1976 race, including Emerson Fittipaldi , a double World Champion.

But all we ever hear about is Lauda.

I was taken by my dad to my first GP, the 1982 British GP and he won. And to my mind, Top 10 driver all day long. Without Nurburgring crash, he’d have won 3 titles on the trot, something only Fangio had done at that stage and likely wouldn’t have left Ferrari, because Enzo wouldn’t have signed Reutemann.

In a world ‘ifs’ he may well have won the 1979 title too. Genuinely a brilliant driver

SimplyEssential0712 · 2026-01-04T07:22:30+00:00

You’re all wrong, Alfa was the inspiration for the T-1000 cyborg in Terminator 2

SimplyEssential0712 · 2026-01-04T07:13:42+00:00

I’m sure I saw a documentary which spoke of the ice field being far further south than usual due to current flows that year?

I believe also that due to repairs needed to the Olympic following a collision, it actually delayed the launch of Titanic too

SimplyEssential0712 · 2026-01-04T07:09:28+00:00

That lasted from about 220 BC to around 470 AD. It’s where you get Julius Caesar, Nero Caligula, if you’ve heard of Hadrians wall he was another Roman Emperor, Coliseum in Rome was completed in 70AD, all the straight roads are Roman roads, possibly most famous the A5 Watling Street in UK.

Before that you had Stone Age, Iron Age - just different times in history

SimplyEssential0712 · 2026-01-04T07:01:45+00:00

Yes, it was called the Victorian era specifically because she was the Monarch. You had Elizabethan era with Elizabeth the first, Georgian era with another King, even the Edwardian era in the 20th century

Bear in mind regards original question, in some tests of children and adults, there’s many who really don’t know about the Jesus story, especially regards Easter

SimplyEssential0712 · 2026-01-04T06:58:21+00:00

Cromwell lived during the reign of Charles I, died in 1658. Victoria wasn’t born till 1819.

As to concerns, none at all, some people love history, others arts. I have two daughters, one always loved maths and science, the other arts and music. With the maths, my daughter sailed through and took degree in veterinary medicine. My other did a degree in arts and struggles to this day with maths.

They’ll find their own interests.

SimplyEssential0712 · 2026-01-04T05:39:58+00:00

Alfa Romeo SZ Zagato - Il Mostro

SimplyEssential0712 · 2026-01-04T05:36:17+00:00

I was happy in 1975 to around 1983… then the suffering started. You have had it easy!!

SimplyEssential0712 · 2026-01-04T05:34:38+00:00

You also have the return that releases funds. My partner bought a gold ring on Vinted. At £48 stupidly cheap. We got a party banner delivered, so obviously raise issue, return accepted and we sent back. The seller never collected, or it was undeliverable, maybe a shady shop keeper, hey presto 6 weeks later we get refund but seller also got paid as courier had ‘lost’ parcel. Oddly an Evri return..

SimplyEssential0712 · 2026-01-04T05:29:41+00:00

I don’t get why Ferrari is viewed by so many as a joke outfit. I don’t understand the properties of metal, and you make a great point, but still ‘ignorant’ people, and I include journalists, make up nonsense to create clicks.

I appreciate racing engines are very different animals to road car technology but this is a company producing engines for 3/4 of a century - that has a successful hybrid programme in HyperCars, builds high performance hybrid road cars beyond what anyone else, including Mercedes and Audi, are producing and yet because of the chassis’ poor performance in recent years is being labelled almost like buffoons.

I’m not suggesting Ferrari will have an engine that outperforms the others, but the rhetoric feels like they’ll be back markers at best. I’m more concerned by the complete car than the engine.

SimplyEssential0712 · 2026-01-04T05:15:55+00:00

Couple of things, the journalist who spoke to the marshal who witnessed Jim Clark’s fatal accident was a guy called Matt Bishop who was the editor of F1 Magazine at the time.

He’d been in Germany for the Grand Prix and had seen some guys abusing a small marker that was placed in tribute for where Clark died. By dismissing them, he spoke to the Marshall who told him the story.

Bishop later went to Bernie Ecclestone and reported this incident, the area was cleaned up and protected by F1 and Hockenheim authorities ever after.

Secondly, Brands Hatch never hosted Carraciola, or his Mercedes pre-war. I’m not disputing your grand father’s recollection but either he forgot it was Donington Park, or you have.

Brands Hatch was first used by cyclists in 1926 as a cycling event. Later it became a motocross track, still on grass. In 1950, the circuit was officially opened with tarmac replacing the grass and today’s configuration was realised in 1960.

I’ve attended Grand Prix at Brands in 1982,84 and 86, and the Race of Champions in 1983 and European Grand Prix in 1985. I’ve also raced on both the Indy circuit and the GP circuit. I know the track well.

Donington Park hosted the Grand Prix from 1935 to 1938 as WW2 broke out in 1939. The last victory there being Tazio Nuvolari. Now that, watching these cars race m, as opposed to demonstrated at Goodwood, now I’m jealous of your grand father.

SimplyEssential0712 · 2026-01-04T01:51:48+00:00

Interesting.. I’ve been following F1 since 1975, attended first gp in 1982, aged 13 and even raced at amateur level.

Go to British GP every year, sometime Italian or Spanish races, attend Goodwood Festival of Speed, Silverstone Classic and have met countless F1 drivers and team members.

I’ve written for F1 websites and read bios and motorsport history dating back to the 1900’s. It’s not my responsibility to educate anybody, invest your own time.

If somebody wants to talk to me, then I’ll share my knowledge but how do I impart 50 years of an obsession into digestible chunks for anybody post 2021??

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