Category Archives: Centrale

Formula 1.0 – You Can (Not) Have a Championship Battle

The season finale of the 2023 Stock Car Pro Series advertised itself by proudly announcing that there were no less than seven title contenders battling for the premier Brazilian motorsport title. That sounds intriguing, right? Only one minor issue with the claim: based on the

2023 Season Review

Overview Any regular reader of GPRejects’ race and season reviews will have received quite a clear picture of the last few years and how it feels to be a Formula 1 fan. In short, it’s exhausting. For another year, Liberty Media served up the championship’s

Teammate Collision #15: 2023 Season Review!

Welcome back to the Teammate Collision podcast, where this time we change the course of history through our discussions of all things the 2023 season, it’s lows and further lows, and by going over our personal Reject of the Year podiums! Of course, Lennart and

GPR Awards – 2023 Formula 1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix

The 2023 Formula 1 season finally ended in Abu Dhabi with Max Verstappen easing to his nineteenth win from  twenty-two races. Verstappen, one of only three race winners all season, finally put the F1 fanbase out of our misery when the chequered flag fell. Another

GPR Awards – 2023 Formula 1 Las Vegas Grand Prix

With a slight, self-imposed increase in difficulty, Max Verstappen won his eighteenth event of this gripping and exciting 2023 Formula 1 season. Behind and around him, the lights of Las Vegas were switched on to the championship for the first time since the days of

Book Review: Niki Lauda – The Biography

A year after the death of three-time Formula 1 world champion Niki Lauda, renowned British journalist Maurice Hamilton (no relation) wrote and published a final biography of the great Austrian. In it he collected countless reports and interviews from then and now, taking the reader

GPR Awards – 2023 Brazilian Grand Prix

For the twentieth time, Formula 1 held a Grand Prix in 2023, and for the 17th time Max Verstappen won one. Over two seasons he has already overtaken both Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost’s win tallies, and if he keeps it up through to Abu

GPR Awards – 2023 Formula 1 Mexican Grand Prix

Another race weekend, another Max Verstappen walkover. Just like Qatar, his win was never in doubt after the first corner. In Mexico, he said he would do what he could to help his teammate, home hero Sergio Perez, achieve runner-up in this year’s championship. It

GPR Awards – 2023 Formula 1 United States Grand Prix

In the second US race of the year (and the fifth sprint), Max Verstappen took all but one of the available points to him. In what was a largely-reject free event, we look at who were the biggest losers in Austin.  Aston Martin, albeit hesitantly,

GPR Awards – 2023 Formula 1 Qatar Grand Prix

As Max Verstappen took the world championship in abnormal circumstances for the third year in a row, there were a grand array of reject talking points, from the usual driver maladies to the race weekend itself!  Lewis Hamilton takes Reject of the Race after an