Grand Prix Rejects

It's likely to be a high stakes poker bluff, when the FIA wanted to introduce V8 3.5L engines for the 1989 season, senior Ferrari would have none of it and got Gustav Brunner to design an Indycar in late 1986. Threatening to leave F1 if there wasn't a V12. Ferrari got his way. If there is a breakawa...

I request to be the official ice cream and cold drink server for when the drivers retire, not qualify or get out of the car because it's raining a bit.

Should have posted this yesterday , but 15 years ago (30th April) the up and coming F1 reject Roland Ratzenberger was killed in the first fatal accident since 1986, when he damaged his front wing going off the track which damaged the suspension which caused his to spear off on the next lap on the hi...

Already working on the 88, 90 and 91 seasons. Will post them up during the week.

The World Motorsports Council (WMSC) have today found serious breaches in the sporting code in the 1992 Formula One season. The teams Canon Williams Team, Honda Marlboro McLaren, Camel Benetton Ford and Scuderia Ferrari have been found guilty of colluding to stop the midfield and minor teams from ev...

It's cute damn it, just think if Aguri Suzuki made a F1 themed anime called Suuuuuperrr Aguri featuring Aguri, Sato and Ide saving the world every week with the help of the SA06 against the evil overlord Nick Fry then they might still be around.

I've mainly gone for tracks that have hosted an F1 race, although some of them can't be run in the configurations I've stated and some would require modification to get to safety standards. I've also listed them in the most envioronmental friendly way so all the American tracks are together, then th...

I always thought that the Spirit 201C was a nice car but the Toleman TG183B was quite a pretty car, the rear wing just looked like nothing else and looked fairly modern at the time. It was also designed by Rory Byrne and it did do well in the last few races in 1983 with Derek Warwick scoring in the ...

Well, I think we need to keep two separate lists from now on. How about making it easier for us and post up the finishing order for the cars too? Alternatively, if some of you are going to choke on your pretzels at the thought that cars now starting to run DDDs are being allowed to remain in this e...

http://www2.pictures.fp.zimbio.com/Australian+Grand+Prix+F1+Drivers+Team+Photo+9kx6U7dUHhWl.jpg This is an image of the drivers line up taken in Melbourne, there are a few things I did notice... In the middle are all the diffusergate teams with the current team leaders in the dead centre The two te...

and much much less than you could have imagined. Unless the podcast is less then 10 minutes long then the podcast could never be much less then I could have imagined. I am surprised on how quickly the podcast has come, I was getting withdrawl symptoms last year when podcasts merged between races. N...

BMW for having a poor race and deciding to get revenge on a rival car company who are part of the diffuser trio by crashing into Trulli and Glock.

Indeed there are thousands of forums out there and I don't want to discuss mundane things like "What did you have for breakfast" and "Do you think that the continued strength of the Yen will make millions jobless around the world". The three forums which basically cover what I vi...

Ah I apologise then, I must have been not seeing the Life F1 from the F1 Cars (or woods and trees...). One season I would love to see a retrospective of is 1990, when you had not 10, not 12, not even 16 but 20 teams trying to Qualify (or for a number a team just trying to Prequalify) and over 40 dri...

I've emailed Jamie and Enoch a few times asking if they one day do a retrospect look at these seasons and do a Reject of the Year for them as they do seem rather missing from the seasons, but like calling that cute girl you met in a club a few nights ago, they won't return my calls. It would just ma...

It was the beginning of April yesterday.

Yes it was an aprils fools joke, as it was 1st April when I posted it (as I am in Japan...), Shiga Tsusa should be Shigatsu Sa (or basically April Fool...)

I for one would love to this to be true but unless Max leaves, I can't see Stoddard ever coming back...

APRIL FOOL Although it's not well know, I've heard from Shiga Tsusa a reporter from the Japanese website F1 Express has got an exclusive that will excite all F1 fans. Paul Stoddard has negotiated with Dietrich Mateschitz to buy back the team he sold back in 2005 and PS will buy the team back for $1...

Hi My favourite reject team is one that most of you have forgotten: Osella Squadra Corse! Sadly they scored 5 points, a 4th in the mostly FOCA boycotted race of San Marino in 1982 where Jean-Pierre Jarier in a 14 race car field got his car to the end of the race, a lap down but two laps ahead of El...

So as not all of us could have attended Australia for the Aussie GP (I would have gone but I've been banned from Australia for prefering Chilian wines over Australian ones) to meet Jamie and Enouch and have them ask us some questions, I thought we could do it here. So what is your favourite driver a...

The result was great, Ferrari not scoring any points, Piquet going out with 'brake failure', Kubica's face as he walked back to the pits, Vettel trying to go around to score some points with a obvious broken car, Nakajima doing a typical Japanese driver error and having a close personal meeting with...

I did email at the start of the season bright and early saying that maybe a limerick would be in the theme with the previous competitions. For example.... There was a driver called Ralf Who had quite a large mouth He would always loudly say "I have a drive on the way" But he is heading to ...

AGS still exist, although now as a F1 driving school, where you could drive the JH24 which in 1988 and 1989 racked up a lot of DNPQs, as well as Alesi's Prost AP02, Rosa's Arrows A20 and Alesi's Jordan EJ11. I am sure you could email them and get some more information on their wonderful team. m Alth...

One thing I missed from the podcast last year was the annual F1 Rejects podcast competition, although I never won, I was happy that I got on the close by no cigar page several times. I would love to see a competition happen for 2009 even if there was nothing to win, mainly as most F1 rejects would s...

Not listened to the Saturday or Sunday podcasts yet, mainly as I normally listen to them whilst cycling (so that'll be tomorrow), really looking forward to it as the F1 Rejects podcasts are the best podcasts ever and I don't know what I would do if they ever stopped. The interview with HWNSNBM is so...