1992 Predictions: F1
John Posthill
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10. Williams wins the Constructor's Championship. Frank smiles for
a full 10 seconds as a result.
9. Eddie Jordan will be delighted when one of his drivers makes
it to the podium before mid-season.
8. We see an American driver start at least one GP this season (Wow!).
7. The heretofore ultra-reliable McLaren-Hondas will become not
so reliable after mid-season when they are forced to turn up
the wick to compete (7 DNFs out of a possible 16).
6. Ferrari will win *at least* 2 GPs in 1992 (how's that for going
out on a limb!).
5. Michael Schumacher crashes heavily once this season in a race. He
also wins his first GP this season.
4. The British GP will be run in the wet.
3. Ricardo Patrese has the best season of his career.
2. ESPN will screw up the live coverage for a least one F1 GP.
and the number one Formula 1 Prediction for 1992 is ........
1. Nigel Mansell stops his public whingeing and complaining, and
Senna concentrates on the business at hand and goes an entire
season without serious conflict with other drivers or FISA. (!!)
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John Posthill j...@rti.rti.org
Dan Jones
His top 10 predictions.
Oops, I almost forgot, its time for the yearly predictions. And you
all should be advised, we will save these away and at the end of '92
we will embarrass anyone who is brave enough to post predictions.
OK, here are mine:
1. '92 will be the year of the down on luck drivers. Nigel finally gets
his WC, Ernie Irvan his WC (the GOB kind), and Eddie Cheever wins the
CART title. OK, its only hope for Ernie, but I'm serious about Eddie
and Nigel. However, Davy misses the IMSA crown again because the
Toyotas are too fast.
2. Markku Alen wins the World Rally championship. Maybe this should be
1b.
3. Ford wins the WC makes championship. I need to get at least one right!
4. Bobby Allison and Chrysler announce they will hook up in the WC in '93.
5. An Andretti finally wins Indy for the first time since '69.
6. Fontmental scores at least 6 World Championship points.
7. Jim Hall leaves CART.
8. With Jim Hall's return in '91 and Carl Hogan's return in '92, we have
John Mecom return for '93. Davy Jones will drive.
9. David from Maryland Motorsports finally gets me my 91/92 AutoCourse
and finally admits there is noway he can get the SilkCut crew shirts.
10. And now the big news. Team Fizzball goes crazy and wins 13 consective
races bringing themselves to the attention of none other than Ron Dennis.
In a Bill Walsh or Luca Montezemolo move, Dennis signs on as director of
Team Fizzball. However the team fails to sign Senna after he demands
US$1M per SFR point scored.
Dan Jones
Mark Jackson
your heart:
- Renault is stretched thin by supporting both Williams and Ligier, and
proves unequal to the task. The resulting lack of reliability relegates
Mansell and Patrese to 2nd and 3rd (no prediction on order) in the
championship. Frank finds new engines for 1993.
- Ferrari once again fails to get its act together, and wins no more than
one race. Alesi and Capelli are both replaced at the end of the season
(if not before).
- Benetton finds developing the new Ford [or Jaguar] V12 a real handful,
particularly with a fresh car after starting the season with an interim
chassis. Schumacher does *not* get his first win.
- Jordan does well, getting a somewhat lucky win. Yamaha is pleased, and
more Japanese engine manufacturers come out of the woodwork for 1993.
- There are at least two ugly contract-related incidents involving drivers
during the season, although neither is quite so blatant as Schumacher91.
- Prequalifying is history, if not at the beginning of the season then by
Japan, as the economy drives entries below 31.
- Senna takes his fourth championship, wrapping it up by Portugal. Berger
does well enough to capture the manufacturers championship for McLaren.
- The manufacturers championship ends up McLaren, Williams, Ferrari,
Jordan, Benetton.
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- Mark <MJackson...@Xerox.COM>
(That's my EMail address, whatever it may say elsewhere this week)