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PRE-RACE = 2 races after getting badly injured, Didier Pironi still leads the quest for the 1982 F1 World title with his 39 points. Keke Rosberg (33) is now his main threat while John Watson (30) seems to never finish a race now with teammate Niki Lauda (26) closing in while Alain Prost (25) and Elio de Angelis (22) still have a shot at the title. This 1982 "Swiss" Grand Prix in France seems to be the result of Bernie Ecclestone wanting to give Dijon-Prenois one last chance after moving the French GP to the Paul Ricard Circuit. The very short fast track was hot on late August, never understood why France gets MotoGp/F1 races at the hottest points of the year.
QUALIFYING = Prost lapped the track in just 61,38 seconds and shared the first row with his teammate Arnoux. Patrese and Lauda qualified right behind and ahead of a surprising de Cesaris and Piquet. Daly, Rosberg, Giacomelli and Tambay completed the top10. The Austrian GP winner de Angelis qualified a disappointing 15th. Sadly enough, Tambay never made the start after he started having some back pains during friday and saturday.
START = The race started very cleanly with Rene Arnoux (Renault) leaping ahead of his teammate, Ricardo Patrese (Brabham), Niki Lauda (McLaren), Nelson Piquet (Brabham), Keke Rosberg (Williams), Andrea de Cesaris (Alfa Romeo) and Derek Daly (Williams). Arnoux' lead did not last for long as his teammate passed him at the end of the front straight. While the top2 seemed to be pulling away, there was plenty of action right behind them and we were able to see a few of the overtakes.
FIRST HALF = After around 10 laps, the BT50 #1 passed the RE30 #16 for second and tried to chase the race leader. Bruno Giacomelli (Alfa Romeo) had to pit early for reasons unknown and lost a lap in the process. After 20 of 80 laps, Alain Prost already had a lead of 7 seconds over Piquet, 10 over Arnoux, 13 over Rosberg, 17 over Lauda and 37 over Patrese's group (Daly, de Cesaris, Laffite, Alboreto and Warwick were pretty much nose-to-tail). John Watson also had to visit the pitlane (he lost 4 seconds in 1 lap, he probably went off-track and damaged his car).
Derek Warwick (Toleman) and both March cars had to retire with different issues. Jacques Laffite's (Ligier) top10 run ended on the pitlane after going off-track and damaging his car. Eddie Cheever Jr made a similar mistake but then tried to survive after visting the pitlane.
SECOND HALF = At halfway, Prost's lead had been
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Seeing as how the current street circuit contest is based around Dijon, I thought I'd give the old circuit the 21st century treatment.
http://imgur.com/a/QqT4f
(10 turns. 2.752 miles/ 4.429km)
The whole circuit has been widened, runoff areas extended, and the parabolique loop lengthened adding three new turns. I tried to give it an old school feel, using gravel traps as much as possible and keeping woodland destruction to a minimum. Hopefully, it would be a new home for the French Grand Prix along with other premier categories.
Anyway, one of my first posts in the group so please tell me what you think :)
I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Do your worst!
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies π
It really does, I swear!
