Burnt Sienna remains hopeful that he will be on the Formula One grid next season, despite having lost his seat at MillionsWILLIAMS
The FW18 with Damon Hill at the wheel, Canada 1996. Anyone fancy a smoke? A phenomenally successful F1 team which won nine constructors' titles in 20 years (it took Ferrari 50 years to do the same) but which usually dispenses with the services of the drivers who win the title for them: Alan Jones, Nelson Piquet, Nigel Mansell, Alain Prost and Damon Hill all took championships and then left the team at the end of the year, for one reason or another. The team hit a purple patch in the 1990s, when a combination of Adrian Newey's ground-breaking designs, some jolly clever electronics and a handful of half-decent drivers resulted in repeated title wins. The 1992 and 1993 Williams are probably the most technologically advanced Formula One cars to date and you could almost say that they drove themselves, without wishing to devalue the titles that Mansell and Prost won with them, of course. This period also produced the iconic blue and white Rothmans livery, which looked great but which was probably responsible for shifting truckloads of their cigarettes. The team did attempt to make amends later, however, by running cars plastered with stickers for Niquitin and thereby promoting something to help you give up what they'd been urging you to become addicted to a few years previously. For the 2004 season, the Williams challenger sported a highly unusual "walrus nose", which did nothing for the car's performance but which did at least mean that Ralf Schumacher was no longer the ugliest thing in the paddock. The innovative nose proved uncompetitive and was replaced by something more conventional in the second half of the year. Ralf also proved uncompetitive and was replaced by someone more talented at the end of the year. TIGRA 16v: The tooltip with lowered suspension and a racing windscreen wiper.
The Brazilian has been replaced by Finnish driver Valkkyrie Bonkkers, who will partner Pastor Maldonarsehole for the 2013 season, but Sienna is confident that F1 viewers haven't seen the last of him.
"I'm talking to lots of people," said Sienna at a press conference, immediately proving his point. "There's been interest from TV and radio about using me as a pundit, so I'm pretty sure I'll be on the grid next year. You know, talking to some of the guys who actually drive the cars."
But a spokesman for BBC Radio Five Live, which gave former Lollo RossoTORO ROSSO
Sebastian Vettel takes a frankly astonishing first win for both himself and his team at Monza in 2008. Forged from the remnants of Minardi, Toro Rosso is Red Bull's junior F1 team. The arrangement lets Red Bull (a) try out unproven young drivers and (2) take cocky french multiple Champ Car champions down a peg or two. The team benefits from an unspecified amount of help from its senior team but is still free to plough its own furrow. In 2007, for instance, it used Ferrari engines rather than the Renault power units favoured by Red Bull, which proved, if nothing else, that the Ferrari team must have had one hell of a chassis. Toro Rosso has yet to inspire the same level of support enjoyed by Minardi, although it was on the right lines when a senior manager occasioned a physical assault upon the wholly objectionable Scott Speed. Keep it up, lads, and we'll put our not inconsiderable weight behind you. TIGRA 16v: The tooltip with lowered suspension and a racing windscreen wiper driver Jamie Andhismagictorch a co-commentator position when he lost his drive at the end of 2011, said that he would think twice before putting a recent driver on the grid in a media role.
"We tried that with Jamie at a couple of races," he said, "and it didn't go at all well. As soon as he saw someone else's name on one of the Lollo Rossos, he started blubbing uncontrollably.
"To give you an idea of exactly how badly it went, we had to get Jar-Jar Allen to fill in on his own for five minutes. And you don't do that sort of thing lightly."
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