Grand Prix Rejects

Samster

Surprised no one has commented on Dick Tantrum getting a DAMS drive yet.

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The timing glitch that caused a 52 lap race is pure reject material. Perez can thank his lucky stars that happened.

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Another huge F2 accident this morning. Looks like Mazepin cut T2 at a million miles an hour, lost control and barrelled into the side of Matsushita, who then ate the Tecpro barrier hard and got a further impact from Mazepin afterwards. Race has been red-flagged and worryingly there are reports Mats...

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Ferrari Back to them handing wins on a plate to Mercedes again. VSC Pitstops I've been bitching about this one for a while now. And yes it is natural to been even more against it when it favours the team that already win too much. But it needs a rule change as they are race breaking as they are. Th...

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Well this isn't for 2020 but McLaren and Mercedes are getting back together for 2021.
https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/14627 ... -announced

And Toro Rosso has requested a name change to AlphaTauri for 2020.
https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/14627 ... e-for-2020

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Nic's season's over also. This made me sad. Although on a par with Mark Blundell (and he describes this season as he worst ever in more than 30 years), he often put in respectable performances and did not disgrace himself. Hope he makes it back for next year. Yeah, not really. Sadly for Nic, he's a...

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Sebastian Vettel - Perhaps he's not done as a top driver yet as many have recently suggested. Antonio Giovinazzi - Improving to the point that I wouldn't be opposed to him getting a second season despite it being at Hulkenburg's expense. Or at least less opposed than sodding Grosjean getting chosen...

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Mercedes Team Orders. Barring multiple DNFs from Hamilton, neither the Ferrari drivers or Verstappen can catch him for the title, even if one of them wins every race from here to the end of the season. And Merc are about 5 race wins ahead in the Constructors Championship too. But we can't even pret...

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I'd be very interested about the grounds on which Grosjean was retained! Armchair expert here, but I would have fired both of them - they've both had mediocre at best and incredibly damaging not just in terms of finances, but in terms of PR as well. I'm sure I'm not the only one scratching their he...

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Can't look past the Q3 farce for the reject award despite many contenders.

Mention to Lance Stroll for getting taken out by Vettel rejoining unsafely only to do the same thing to Gasly mere seconds later. Pure reject material there.

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Renault Given they have done well on the power tracks this year (Bahrain, Canada) I expected them to head the midfield here but they were on par with Red Bull here.

Antonio Giovinazzi Redemption for Belgium, he may finally be coming into his own now.

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George Russell Out qualifying cars from other teams is one thing but he stayed ahead of Stroll and Giovinazzi all race on merit.

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Quite a few underwhelming performances this time. Ferrari Absolutely nowhere, actually finished closer to Sainz than they did to Max/Lewis. Gasly Anytime he finishes behind a F1.5 on merit will earn him a nomination. Bottas If his crash last time was the deciding factor for his future then this shou...

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Going with the Mercedes pit crew that was even more comical than the infamous Irvine stop.

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Haas drivers - The hell was that? The idiot that sent out the safety car - Always love when a safety car ruins the flow of a race and screws over certain drivers, especially when its presence was a massive overkill. Vettel - Almost can't even be bothered nominating him. Colliding with others is alm...

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https://twitter.com/BTCC/status/1145386436256063488 This is Jelley's first BTCC win since Rockingham 2009, which surely has to be a record in the modern era. 20 effing seconds! Should have been five at most. Way to make even the F1 stewards look lenient. Well he did hit Matt Neal and that just isn’...

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Well in other news Williams are rumoured to be ditching the one good component of their car they had going for them by switching to Renault engines.

http://insideracing.com/index.php/formu ... X4BtavJKfQ

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East Londoner wrote:

This is Jelley's first BTCC win since Rockingham 2009, which surely has to be a record in the modern era.

20 effing seconds! Should have been five at most. Way to make even the F1 stewards look lenient.

Samster

Stewards - But mainly because the decision has made what happened in Canada look even more ridiculous now. Gasly - At least he was only beat by one F1.5 car this time. I was in favour of letting him have the remainder of the season but these last few races.... Just swap him with Kvyat already, if o...

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Well the first two Oulton Park races were yet more WSRWINSLOL but race 3 sees Jake Hill grab a win. At least provisionally as the stewards may have something to say about him spinning off Neal earlier in the race. Stephen Jelley is the first line to benefit if Hill gets penalised.

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H'mm to be honest if Vettel and Ricciardo deserved penalties then surely Max does for that if we are being consistent? Certainly its worse than Vettel's 'forcing' of Lewis in Canada.

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Okay lets see how many I get right. Mercedes Lewis Hamilton Esteban Ocon Unless Bottas can maintain a serious challenge for the title I see no reason not to take that punt on Ocon next season. Ferrari Sebastian Vettel Charles Leclerc No changes here. Red Bull-Honda Max Verstappen Nico Hulkenburg Gas...

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Renault Now that's more like it, finally showing the sort of form we expected for them this season. Clear 4th best team and even kept Red Bull honest.

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Stewards - Just when I think this season cannot get any worse, now Ferrari can't even win when they actually take the checkered flag first. All down to one of the most contentious penalties I've ever seen. 2nd nomination yet again goes to the 2019 season itself. Can we have any satisfaction this ye...

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I'm going to have to give it to Hamilton for having the gall to complain about something when he and his team are having possibly the most dominant season in recent history. Oh no you actually had to put in effort and overcome a major issue for once? For the first time in six races you nearly finis...

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Christ may as well give Ferrari ROTY now. Are they even trying to win anymore.

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. I was slightly underwhelmed when I heard the calendar would have 2 visits to Thruxton for that reason. I’d have had 2 visits to Oulton Park personally (slightly biased because that’s my home circuit) My nearest track already had two rounds each year, albeit on two different configurations (Indy a...

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Could we petition for MP Motorsport to replace Raghunathan with Markelov when King returns? Raghunathan’s easily the worst driver in the current F2 era and the worst I’ve seen in the 2nd tier overall since Giancarlo Serenelli in 2012. He shoved Jack Aitken into the wall when we was a lap behind for...

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Reading on social media that the F2 feature race this morning was utterly farcical, mostly because of the antics of Mick Schumacher. Truly a special talent is young Mick, he'll go far in this sport. Looks like the title battle is between De Vries and Latifi, in what is shaping up to be the dullest ...

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Blundell got an absolute slamming from Tom Chilton after he took him out in qualifying at Thuxton. m On a more positive note I have to give major props to Rory Butcher who after three meetings is tied with Turkington for the championship lead. Easily driver of the year so far. One more thing I think...

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Stewart Lines' Touring Car Trophy made its debut last weekend. Even after merging with TCR UK they only managed a nine car entry, two of which couldn't even make the start. Only two NGTC cars, Alex Day driving 'Sherman' and one of Matt Neal's sons, Henry driving a old shape Civic for Team Dynamics. ...

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1. Apathy . This may actually be the worst F1 season I've witnessed so far, and it shows given that we didn't even open a race discussion thread. I think it's been pointed out that this is the first time in history the same team has scored five 1-2 finishes at the start of a season. Something is ba...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfNw1S_CXUc&feature=youtu.be I've been a fan of Mahaveer Raghunathan's since his impressive GP3 stint back in 2016, and seeing him perform the same kind of magic in F2 is... so beautiful. He was barely within 107% this weekend. MP Motorsport must have been desper...

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Stephen Jelley is now 3rd in the championship, with the smallest team in the field. Let that sink in. The older 1-series did better than the new 3-series! Chilton wins the final race but he's joined on the podium by both Butcher and Jelley! The latter made a demon start from 6th and led the first q...

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Chilton wins the final race but he's joined on the podium by both Butcher and Jelley! The latter made a demon start from 6th and led the first quarter of the race. What a turnaround from last season.

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Fun fact, Stephen Jelley scored more points in the first race of the season than he did in the previous two seasons combined. And two races in Team Parker has scored more points than in their first four seasons in the BTCC combined. Shows just how pathetic this team had been till now.

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Qualifying at Brands Hatch and the impossible has happened. BMR's Subaru is finally fast at the start of the year and Sutton is on pole. Championship over already. Or is the bigger surprise Plato making the front row in his first race back in FWD? Final proof that he can't handle RWD or that Collard...

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Adding Autosport to my shortlist for giving Lewis a 10 despite lucking into a win. Not even the first time they have done this either. What did he do wrong then? Not taking anything away from Lewis but he did look pretty toothless with the stint on the softs when everyone else was on the mediums ne...

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Adding Autosport to my shortlist for giving Lewis a 10 despite lucking into a win. Not even the first time they have done this either.

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Lewis Hamilton's sheer god-like luck. If anything propels him to a sixth title it will be this. How many situations have just fallen into his lap now since Rosberg retired? There is nothing more obnoxious in this sport than someone who is both good and lucky. HMs Charles Leclerc Asides from a slow ...

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