Grand Prix Rejects

Barbazza

Sorry, I wasn't being entirely clear - I've got the 2000 review on DVD, it's the 2001 one that I don't have as it only came with that PS2 game. But the 2000 one is pretty dreadful so I'm not that desperate to get hold of the 2001 edition.

Barbazza

There was also a 2001 season review that came with a limited edition of the PS2 game "Formula One 2002" and the limited edition of "Formula One 2001" came with the previously mentioned 2000 season review (I think these DVD's also contained footage from the Digital TV coverage). ...

Barbazza

Bah! Wossy wuined that years review. I think the guys great but his attempt at pronouncing Michael Schumachers name with a germanic slant gave me the heebie-jeebies. He pronounced it "Mikhial Schumaarrker". Irritating in the extreme. Agreed - technically it's correct but no-one actually c...

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Those time eras being so set makes me think it has to do with licensing issues. I doubt they got the rights to the footage they used in perpetua, for some reason. I would imagine so, plus there could potentially be right issues with the commentators (though probably NOT that crap one who did 83) an...

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Yes, I actually quite liked that review, even though it was hard to get an idea of what was going on in some of the races. Some more highlights: Senna on De Cesaris's huge crash at the Austrian GP: "And here is De Cesaris, just a small accident. Not much damage...(starts laughing)" Johans...

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The 1983 review has a hopeless commentary gimmick, whereby the commentator (Brian Kreisky) is "interrupted" by a girl bringing him his coffee, who then stays in the recording studio and offers various pointless observations, but the actual racing footage is much better than the 1992 revie...

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Well, 92 was the weakest of all seasons in Formula one. Granted, the Schumi years were dull with someone absolutely dominating too but atleast then the dominating driver was actually deserving and a good driver. Unlike 92 Even if you thought it was dull at the top end (which I don't actually, being...

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Jonathan Ross did do the 93 season, but Steve Rider voiced the 92 VHS - it was also the one season where the official video *wasn't* produced by Duke. Both of those years are 90 minute reviews which is very disappointing.

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I'm currently re-watching the 84 season so I have to go for Spirit!!

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782? That wasn't the March that ran in the 82 season was it? It gave Jochen Mass a pretty big rebound headache IIRC.

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Pah, call that hair?!

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We have a Lec fridge/freezer - it's very good actually as fridges go and I like to think of it as my tribute to David Purley. What an incredible man he was.

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At least they wouldn't have to worry about supplying food for the meetings at the Town Hall - enter Paolo Barilla with lots of pasta!

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Thanks very much for the avatar Shinji - it's perfect! I'd been looking for one for ages with no success...

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coops wrote:Good one. Nannini was a real wasted opportunity. Hows about Fabrizio Barbazza; I could never work out what happened to him. Or his hair. It was huge.

I'm here! Thanks for the vote of support. My hair needs no support as it has plenty already.

PS Not really.

Barbazza

Yes agree with that watched him in f3 in 1989...even my girlfriend was impressed.....but that accident at Donington set him back badly. Funnily enough I've just started watching a video of the F3 season (I'm about a third of the way through) which has sat on my shelf unwatched for over a year! I ag...

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baddriving50 wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ9hBtG7dVg

That's more like it, although I don't know why the poster thought it was a Ferrari.

Perhaps he thinks all Ferraris run with engines that sound like they've been transplanted from a Citroen 2CV?

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I felt terrible about doing it, but I had to watch the Tom Pryce video for the simple reason that I'd seen all the other major accidents in F1. Once I saw it I realised why that one particularly was never shown in full. So truly horrific, it actually made me feel sick and quite upset and I'm not tha...

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The spin-turn to nearly take out the RAM was more entertaining IMO. I'd like to think that was Alliot in that RAM and that after getting over the shock he thought that De Cesaris's move was actually a great blueprint for the rest of his F1 career in trying to move over on other drivers without looki...

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Pretty sure this was the first live GP I ever watched - no wonder I was hooked from then on, I thought they were all like this! There are so many amazing things going on that there are a couple of things I'd never really thought about before, namely - 1) It's amazing that Derek Daly kept going compe...

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I must be the only person who loves the Tyrrell P34 then - that picture looks quite recent so is probably the car I saw in the museum at Coventry as the blurb next to it said it was still being raced.

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I love that livery - much better than the Marlboro/Texaco one IMO. Is that the car he won the British GP in?

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One of the F1 magazines I had in that year actually printed these tables assuming that these non-turbo championships were continuing!

IIRC Rial were in pretty good shape according to those tables after the first few races...

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Thankyou SO much for this ADx_Wales - I loved that tune and for years have not known what it was!

I remember way back someone on Ceefax (!) asking what it was and the reply was given that it was Giorgio Moroder's 'The Chase' which I knew was wrong so finally I know....

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watka wrote:The first Alfa Romeo car in the pictures looks awesome, but probably went like a Life.

Really?! Each to their own - whenever I see a picture of that car it makes me want to weep that something that ugly got on a race track!

Barbazza

I don't think the 84 Renault was *that* bad in all fairness. The vast improvement by McLaren & Lotus just relegated it down the pecking order.
The 85 one OTOH was a complete dog. You only have to look at it to see that! A car truly worthy of Francois Hesnault's 'talent'.

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There was a brilliant race, I'm pretty sure it was San Marino 1985 where barely anybody crossed the line on the last lap as everyone was running out of fuel. I remember Boutsen's arrows barely making it and others konking out before getting there. It was ludicrous. If it was that race, then that was...

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Ah well, I was in Florence when last year's Singapore GP was on and went into an ice cream parlour just as it had finished. The fact that I managed to have a conversation in pidgin Italian about what had happened in the race and expressed my love for Ferrari and dislike for Lewis must surely grant m...

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Whis wrote:i wanna go away from italy.

Do you wanna swap? I'm sick with Chavland, sorry Britain, and fell in love with Italy when I went there on honeymoon last year!

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Another vote for Zanardi - I've always loved that design for some reason (and that's the one I use on BATracer!)

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God almighty, that is an absolute farce - Hamilton at Number 1? At this rate the entire British press will explode in a fountain of man-muck over the McLaren boys next year (they're welcome to - as I hate McLaren I won't be supporting either of them!) Rubens and Rosberg should be higher, and if Kubi...

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redbulljack14 wrote:One of the most legendary Formula 1 names returns, If he's half as good as his uncle then he's gonna have a great career.

Why, was Campos' uncle a good racer too?

OH, I see.....

Barbazza

I've always stuck up for Ferrari in the past when most people in this country are staunchly pro-McLaren (not me!) as I've been a fan since I started watching F1 but this is totally ludicrous. Have they got nothing better to do? Like, erm, designing a new car or something?

Barbazza

Bort wrote:You obviously never played Grand Prix Challenge.

Hee hee. No, I haven't!

If I see it then I might buy it and give it a go but I haven't found it 2nd hand just yet.

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Not-so-interesting fact: it was an edition of a long-defunct magazine that helped light the spark of Enoch and my love of rejectdom. The year was 1992. The magazine: Formula One International. (I think that's what it was called. Have I got that right, Enoch?) It contained a photo of the helmet of P...

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That footage is just brilliant. That's the first time I've ever seen the Coloni-Subaru in what passes for action (it even LOOKS horribly slow!) and the general 'can't be arsed' attitude all round is just brilliant, from the guy waving the chequered flag who would clealry rather be in bed, to the Eur...

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Not particularly exciting but in Stratford we were coming out of Waterstones just as David Richards was walking in.

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Short answer, yes. 04 was ok, except for a random bug where all the AI cars would slow down to an instant stop for no reason (they fixed it in the platinum version but by then it was too late) 05 was FAR to easy, and 06 is as buggy as hell (Several times when I have spun and ruined my car (eg destr...

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Are all F1 games on PS2 utterly shite? I gave up on F1 03 after one go as it was unplayable, F1 04 is little better even on easy mode but I thought I'd have a go at career mode anyway. I haven't got a race seat so the AI is generating the races and in every one whoever starts in 20th (seemingly some...

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I really hope he doesn't go to McLaren as they're my least favourite team and I can't stand Lewis either so I'd have nobody British to support next year except Williams!

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