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« on: March 29, 2008, 04:18:53 pm » |
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Hi there le mans fans,
I would like to know who is the best, British, Dutch, French, Danish, Japanese, Finish etc etc driver.
I am Dutch and my favourite driver is jan lammers, however i must notice that the most succesfull dutch driver is Gijs van Lennep who won Le mans 2 times.
Oh, and of course we don't know any racing drivers from Germany.
Greetings Bob
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« Reply #1 on: March 29, 2008, 05:33:19 pm » |
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Among the current Froggies, I'm a great Ayari fan. Most of my friends round here would probably nominate Henri P as the greatest living French driver, but then he's a Sarthois so they are biased!
Belgian : Has to be Ickx
German : Jochen Rindt for me
Scots : Jim Clark
Finnish (although born in Sweden) : Keke Rosberg
Bound to start a nice row, all that!
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« Reply #2 on: March 29, 2008, 06:02:34 pm » |
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I'll agree with that, (and Jan Lammers) although most people wrongly think that Rindt was Austrian.
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« Reply #3 on: March 29, 2008, 06:21:26 pm » |
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British - Stiring Moss
Dutch - van Lennep
French - Prost
Danish - TK
Japanese - Who cares
Finnish - Rosberg
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« Reply #4 on: March 29, 2008, 06:33:36 pm » |
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hahahah, maybe it's an idea to ask wi ch is the funniest japanese driver.....
p.s watching car channel right now. tey are following rollcentre racing team. great to see the track again
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« Reply #5 on: March 29, 2008, 11:18:02 pm » |
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« Reply #6 on: March 30, 2008, 11:46:54 am » |
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Belgian: Jacky Ickx German: (hate to say it) Michael Schumacher British: Stirling Moss French: I don't know much about LM history, so I can't make a proper choice between Prost or Pesca Danish: Tom Kristensen Finnish: Juha Kankkunen Argentinian: Juan Manuel Fangio Brazilian: Emerson Fittipaldi Dutch: Jan Lammers Austrian: Niki Lauda American: Dale Earnhardt sr. Canadian: don't know about history, but of modern times I'd say Greg Moore had the most potential Italian: not a clue Funniest Japanese driver: Ukyo Katayama  |
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« Reply #7 on: March 30, 2008, 10:41:03 pm » |
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I'll agree with that, (and Jan Lammers) although most people wrongly think that Rindt was Austrian.
Well Rindt was born in Mainz, Germany but lost both his parents during an air raid and was raised in Graz, Austria and raced with austrian license It was just the other way round with Harald Ertl, an Austrian with german license |
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« Reply #8 on: March 31, 2008, 08:11:29 am » |
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American: Dale Earnhardt sr. Mario Andretti? Phil Hill? Dan Gurney? Mark Donohue? Jabba the Foyt? |
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« Reply #9 on: March 31, 2008, 04:42:08 pm » |
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Donohue for me, Chop.
Italian : Ascari, probably, although before my time....
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« Reply #10 on: March 31, 2008, 06:28:03 pm » |
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Canadian: Gilles Villeneuve
US : Mario Andretti
Italian : Ascari
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« Reply #11 on: March 31, 2008, 07:04:38 pm » |
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Mine mirror Nordics, with one exception. Mario was born in Italy  , so I give the American nod to Dan Gurney. And for German? Bellof would have been very great. I'll throw a vote in for my hero, best Swede...Ronnie! Fax |
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« Reply #12 on: March 31, 2008, 07:12:17 pm » |
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Regarding danish drivers Tom Kristensen is amazing but Jan Magnussen is more of a rebel driver, and dont we all love a driver who really wants to winn ?
Best regards
Bo
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« Reply #13 on: March 31, 2008, 07:23:01 pm » |
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Mine mirror Nordics, with one exception. Mario was born in Italy , so I give the American nod to Dan Gurney. And for German? Bellof would have been very great. I'll throw a vote in for my hero, best Swede...Ronnie! Fax Canada? Has to be Villeneuve; Jacques of course!  |
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« Reply #14 on: March 31, 2008, 07:42:12 pm » |
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Which Jacques Andy? Fax |
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