Grand Prix Rejects

Vassago wrote: ↑02 Apr 2023, 07:17 Michael Masi is laughing over those nonsense. Expect a MASSIVE shitstorm after this clown show.

By a peculiar twist, Masi was apparently present in the paddock this weekend as a guest of the FIA.

In reply to Rob's question... 1981 Belgium Grand Prix- an Osella mechanic fell from the wall in the pits and was hit by Reutemann's car.He sadly died of a fractured skull. That is tragic, but I wonder if there even was a catch fence in 1981 or just wall at that point that didn't require any real cl...

The 2023 "I have a very intelligent joke to make. Because Australia is in the southern hemisphere, let's put our picture upside down to imply that the event is actually happening upside down because they're in the southern hemisphere, and that's on the underside of the Earth. Not only is the j...

https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/fia-bans-f1-teams-from-pitwall-fence-celebrations/10450137/ The FIA wants to clamp down on the rule forbidding people from climbing the pitfall, with celebrations at the end of races coming to their minds. Whatever next? As a general rule, I'm in favor of more safe...

It's funny, I wonder how many teams on the current grid would not be able to start now because of the buy-in fee and the huge startup costs? Three or Four? Gotta figure at least two. Also, if I was a multi-multi billionaire, what kind of outlay would I need to get to the grid? $200 mil buy in, prob...

Craig Pollock is going to be heading up a team with the aim of entering in 2026. With backing from an unspecified country in the Gulf region, the team will be called Formula Equal, with the intention that the team's workforce will be 50% male, 50% female, hopefully evenly spread throughout the orga...

I'm sure those tickets will give you exclusive access to the casinos, where you can lose more of your money for no reason! It seems most casinos have decided to create their own exclusive packages - it looks like they're not going after the sort of person who spends $500 on a ticket, they're going ...

I'm sure those tickets will give you exclusive access to the casinos, where you can lose more of your money for no reason! It seems most casinos have decided to create their own exclusive packages - it looks like they're not going after the sort of person who spends $500 on a ticket, they're going ...

So, the organisers of the Las Vegas GP announced recently that they had put 1,800 general admission tickets up for sale at $500, which have now all sold out. With that in mind, the organisers have now announced that they will be making more general admission tickets available, and that those tickets...

The stewards give penalties, not Race Control, so I'll go with the stewards for sheer rejectfulness. I would say there is still an argument that Race Control does deserve to be criticised, because it was the FIA's Remote Operations Centre, which forms part of Race Control, which asked the stewards ...

The safety show car: Just why? A VSC would have been more than enough, it really felt like they wanted to "spice up the show". Thankfully it didn't give us the VERSTAPPENWINSLOL we'll get in the next 20 races anyway. Dishonorable mention to Bottas – Zhou was clearly faster than him all we...

Whilst some have joked about Mercedes and their behaviour, the flip side to that is that they're not engaging in a blame game - unlike Tost, who is currently in the process of throwing his entire team under the bus. In Jeddah, he's been complaining that the engineers told him that they were making g...

This is a fair point in light of the current economy. I always believed that any Andretti F1 team would be more financially secure even before GM due to Gainsbridge. They were supposedly going to pour a ton of money into the project (assuming Herta was part of it). However, the current banking and ...

1. Verstappen 2. Perez 3. Alonso 4. Stroll 5. Russell 6. Hamilton 7. Leclerc 8. Ocon 9. Gasly 10. Tsunoda PP: Verstappen FL: Perez First Retirement: Norris ROTR: The race (although the grid penalties that Ferrari have been racking up before the race has even begun is already putting them into the fr...

I wouldn't mind seeing them sell to Andretti. I'm assuming Andretti would be capable of running a more competitive team, but I don't know. I'm not certain the Andretti operation is any better financed than Haas is, no other racing series they're in comes close to the budget needs of F1. (In fact, I...

Thanks for posting. This has the potential to be bad for Haas (the company). If they're flouting the rules, I hope they are punished for it. Just a couple comments, I know that TV news is a visual medium and so they need pictures, but the existence of training or promotional videos (even recent one...

Dear God , this drivel itself ought to be an early contender for Reject of the Year. Is this some kind of joke? "Oh no! We're not first! Taste my champagne tears!" Utter rubbish. Is it any worse than the repeated promises by Ferrari to move forward after a period of restructuring and cons...

1. Esteban Ocon . An absolute joke of an afternoon, was he trying to break Maldonado's record for most penalties in one race? :facepalm: 2. McLaren . Slow, dubious reliability, questionable existence, it's 2017 all over again. Honourable mentions to Ferrari , different year same garbage and Alpine ...

The "meh" Grand Prix 1. Verstappen 2. Perez 3. Leclerc 4. Sainz 5. Hamilton 6. Alonso 7. Russell 8. Stroll 9. Bottas 10. Ocon PP: Verstappen FL: Verstappen First Retirement: Norris ROTR: McLaren (even if I do feel that the hype around Aston Martin might well be a close second) IIDOTR: Bott...

Thanks Mario. I've learnt something new there, and gives me something to go away to do more reading more about. Always good to have historical assumptions challenged. It is perhaps a situation where the Italian phrase "se non è vero, è ben trovato" applies - it's one of those myths of mot...

Ironic that in the inter-war period, Mercedes left the car unpainted to save weight and the car ended up silver. Now Mercedes has left the car unpainted and therefore isn't silver any more. It went from white to silver to save weight on paint, then went from silver to black for exactly the same rea...

Are they not allowed to paint the floors? Or are they just saving weight by not painting them (or maybe everyone just paints them black/dark gray)? From an examination of the regulations, I do not think there is anything which explicitly states that teams are not allowed to paint the floor of the c...

So far, I don't think I'm going to have any difficulty whatsoever identifying which car belongs to which team. It's all very much familiar. You can at least now add Williams and Sauber to the list, with Sauber's car at least looking a little different to last year. That said, so far only Sauber hav...

https://twitter.com/DarranShepherd/status/1619978310620188672 Heavy sigh. I guess we still have a foot in that old world. Hopefully it will be dead soon. As noted by some who have commented about that article on Twitter, what is already a fairly unpleasant article becomes more uncomfortable when yo...

This whole story strikes me with many assumptions. Firstly it was the heads of the legal teams publicly admonished Ben Sulayem. That shows to me that they want to cement their authority over someone who "doesn't get with the programme" and also probably that the €20b offer was more than j...

Having seen the rather noticeable difference in response from Mohammed Ben Sulayem and FOM/Liberty Media over Andretti's public announcements to submit an application, we now have another public spat to mull over. A few days ago, Bloomberg published an article claiming that the Saudi Arabian soverei...

Yeah, old Mikey's bid seems to be DOA before even being officially lodged! Nine out of ten teams saying no, FOM being lukewarm at best (and holding a veto on any 11th team), and now rumored demands of the "anti-dilution fee" being raised to $600 million. Mohammed Ben Sulayem had to tweet ...

Thanks for that research mario. Curious how GM did not even feature at the Indy 500 from 1950 to 1960. Maybe, but on the other hand Offenhauser's engine was to the Indianapolis 500 what the Cosworth DFV was to Formula 1 in later years - widely available, making it relatively easy to run and maintai...

On a related note, does GM still have the Daewoo brand? Because that'll be the day who decides if that brand should ever reappear at a non-existent Korean Grand Prix. Daewoo officially ceased to exist back in 2011, with the company renamed to GM Korea Company and all future models becoming Chevrole...

Evening everyone. You may or may not have seen an article from those Autosport botherers The Race , where Edd Straw bizarrely takes aim at the 2010 new teams and our 1989 pre-qualifying heroes, all while decrying those calling for more teams in Formula 1. We couldn't possibly let this rest without ...

There has been a recent announcement by the FIA that, in response to the criticism over problems running in wet weather, the sport is investigating the possibility of introducing wheel arches as soon as 2024. The idea is to create "standard bodywork kit” that can be fitted to the cars for "...

Genuinely in a quandary here between Max (seen some very worrying nasty personal traits in him lately. Having it against Hamilton is one thing but Checo quite another), and missing Yuki (the sort of thing Reject Gold is based on). Danny Ric was just clumsy but he's more in running for ROTY at this ...

1. Verstappen 2. Russell 3. Perez 4. Hamilton 5. Leclerc 6. Sainz 7. Alonso 8. Norris 9. Ocon 10. Bottas Pole: Verstappen Fastest lap: Verstappen First retirement: Zhou Reject of the Race: the race itself Infinite Improbability Drive of the Race: Alonso Deadbeat Teammate of the Race: Ricciardo Last ...

1. Verstappen 2. Leclerc 3. Perez 4. Hamilton 5. Sainz 6. Russell 7. Alonso 8. Vettel 9. Norris 10. Ocon S1: Verstappen S2: Leclerc S3: Perez Fastest lap: Verstappen First retirement: Magnussen Reject of the Race: Schumacher Infinite Improbability Drive of the Race: Alonso Deadbeat Teammate of the R...

Horner (and indeed Marko) are two of the most dislikeable people in the whole sport. I don't feel the relatively small punishment is a big deterrent for the other teams not to do the same next year! I don’t think Horner and Marko have ever cared about being disliked. If anything the last 2 years in...

Well, it's as if the FIA has effectively seen the nominations going round and gone "hold my beer and watch this". Firstly, we had the stewards penalising Alonso - but the stewards acknowledged that they were accepting Haas's application despite it being filed outside of the allowable time ...

Wrist slapped: "Red Bull: F1 team receive $7m fine & 10% aero research reduction" https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/63430407 The caveat being that what the FIA has done is to take Red Bull's 2023 allocation of 70% of the baseline figure of aero research hours and then reduced that ...

1. Verstappen 2. Perez 3. Sainz 4. Leclerc 5. Russell 6. Hamilton 7. Alonso 8. Gasly 9. Ocon 10. Norris Pole: Verstappen Fastest lap: Leclerc First retirement: Schumacher Reject of the Race: Schumacher Infinite Improbability Drive of the Race: Alonso Deadbeat Teammate of the Race: Ricciardo Last Pla...

Why are these stories circulating if there's no substance to them? Rather weak attempt to convince the septics that F1 = Indycar so increasing the interest in F1 in the US? I suppose that could explain it? Liberty Media does have some financial interest in IndyCar, given that they have a 30% stake ...

It's been rumoured for a while that the founder of Red Bull was in poor health. Given that Mateschitz was the main driving force behind Red Bull's motorsport division, I wonder just how secure the future of their F1 teams is. It is worth noting that the Yoovidhya family, which actually had a contro...

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