Category Archives: Reject Teams

Team Profile: Bugatti

To be profiled on Grand Prix Rejects, a constructor must have scored fewer than seven points in world championship F1 or F2 events since 1950 under any of the pre-2003 points systems. Most readers of the site are presumed to have knowledge of this criterion

The Saga of AGS – Partie A: Allons, Enfants de la Patrie!

Prologue: Once upon a time in the South (of France) “Garagistes! Assembliatore!” These were the words that Enzo Ferrari used to describe the British teams who built their own chassis, but bought engines and gearboxes off the shelf, assembled them into a racing car, and

Team Profile – Aston Butterworth

Nationality British Years in F1 1952 Team Principal Bill Aston Races Entered 4 Races Started 2 Best Result DNF (twice) Throughout the 1950s and the early 1960s privateer manufacturers began emerging from Britain, entering Grands Prix around the world. Some of them had their fair share

Lola Cars: A Retrospective

It has been twenty years since Lola entered its works team into the 1997 Australian Grand Prix, and was a spectacular failure which resulted in collapse just prior to the following race in Brazil. Curiously, this was a once-upon-a-time large, successful race car manufacturer, building

Super Aguri Part 3: Judge, Aguri and Executioner

One of GPRejects.com’s favourite modern teams, we take an indepth look into the history of Super Aguri and analyse their trials and tribulations through their short history in Formula 1. This final segment looks at the team’s last season, their legacy and life after F1.

Super Aguri Part 2: The Fast and the Aguri-ous

One of GPRejects.com’s favourite modern teams, we take an indepth look into the history of Super Aguri and analyse their trials and tribulations through their short history in Formula 1. This second segment looks at the team’s second season, their rise through the ranks and

Super Aguri Part 1: Much Aguri About Nothing

One of GPRejects.com’s favourite modern teams, we take an indepth look into the history of Super Aguri and analyse their trials and tribulations through their short history in Formula 1. This segment looks at the birth of the Super Aguri team and their action-packed first