Category Archives: Centrale

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

GPR Awards – 2023 Japanese Grand Prix

With Max Verstappen only two laps short from yet another grand chelem, the Japanese Grand Prix was a massive reversion to the norm after the chaos of Singapore. However, as always we like to focus on the outrageous and the disastrous, and there was plenty

GPR Awards – 2023 Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix

As the Red Bulls floundered and Carlos Sainz Jr. triumphed, F1 fans were at last treated to a different team topping the podium in 2023, and in some style! Grand Prix Rejects reports on the best and worst from the Singapore Grand Prix.  George Russell

GPR Awards – 2023 Formula 1 Italian Grand Prix

After a suspiciously competent Ferrari was able to challenge in vain against Max Verstappen on home soil, the Dutchman still took his record tenth consecutive win (not counting two more sprint wins added to that). Behind him, the amount of rejectfulness made us at GPR

GPR Awards – 2023 Formula 1 Dutch Grand Prix

As Max Verstappen equalled the Ascari/Vettel record for consecutive wins, it seemed on Sunday evening at Zandvoort that nothing, not even the weather, could stop the Dutchman taking a clean sweep for the rest of the year. However, with changeable conditions came rejectdom from a