Grand Prix Rejects

Pedestrian

I think we can call this qualifying session: "The revanche of the lower-rated team-mate". There were a lot of drivers today who outqualified their team mate in spite of public opinion (and previous trends) disfavouring them: Rosberg outqualified Hamilton for the firs time this season, Serg...

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It's got to be Jenson Button and Nico Rosberg for managing to finish behind Alonso. How the f*** did that happen! That's one of the most embarassing thing I saw in the last 10 years!

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- Sergio Perez: This is probably a good moment for him to regret moving to McLaren. Beaten by his replacement! I bet Sergio is thinking now what he could have done in that Sauber. He came second last year, after all - Button: I am conflicted about listing him here. On the one hand he was expected t...

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Many possible candidates. Listed here in order of relative rejectfullness: - Force India: double retirement in a race where they should have done well. And horribly bad pit stops too! - Kimi Raikonnen: How the mighty has fallen! He went from race winner to having to scrape for minor points for the l...

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As bizzare as this may seem. I can't think of any recipient more deserving than Sebastian Vettel, the winner. If last week's victory was "one of the easiest" for Raikonnen, then this one must have been one of the hardest victories in his career for Vettel. After all, weren't te Red Bulls s...

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No.... he was at RedBull in 2006, so his last year was 2005. The McLarens were evolutions of the 1997 car? I think you need to check your facts again, the rules were re-written in 1998! I remember that back in 2001 I read somewhere that the MP 4/16 was the first McLaren car that was designed 100% b...

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Newey's designs may not be liked by everyone - but they do work, otherwise how would Williams have been so quick during the 90's? The McLaren Mercedes package has only had one constructors championship - that was Newey's car. It is unfair to say he ruined McLaren because McLaren are good at doing t...

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A sneaking suspicion has occurred to me, one which I will keep an eye on over the next few races, and which may become an article if I find more proof to back up my theory. My theory is this: everyone says Adrian Newey is a genius, and he may be, but has Red Bull let Newey's brilliance go to their ...

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I had a bad dream a few days ago, that after 4 years of relative stability, Formula 1 was still dominated by a fizzy drinks manufacturer. Good thing it was just a bad dream, and when I woke up today, the reality was different. So far, it looks like Red Bull tried again their old trick of building a ...

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As for Bruno Senna, I would agree that his performance in qualifying was poor compared to Maldonado - he was consistently slower than Maldonado in qualifying apart from a couple of races, and spent much of the season being beaten by the Force India drivers when it could be argued that, at least in ...

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I went for Bruno Senna because he just hasn't lived up as much as his teammate has. Senna is just 14 points and 1 championship position behind his teammate. For comparaison, Schumacher is 4 places and 44 points behind Rosberg, Webber is 101 points and 5 places behind Vettel, Grosjean is also 5 plac...

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I can't stress the fact that Vettel is really just baby Schumi and is ruining the sport. Not (just) him, but Red Bull as a whole. Ferrari has at least tradition and passion for this sport. Red Bull has just the same attitude to F1, which they have at football. To be fair, it's not Red Bull's fault ...

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That was a surprisingly entertaining race, considering the premise. And in a condensation of the rest of the season, it was unpredictable even if it shouldn't have been. The McLaren team proved the point they needed to prove (that they were the fastest all along) and inadvertently proved another poi...

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Let's think about this for a moment: Is Kobayashi's podium really that improbable, or was he just doing what should have been expected from him? He had allready qualified 4-th, so he only needed to make up one more place. We allready knew Japanese drivers do well at Suzuka. We allready knew the Saub...

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As for Kobayashi, he doesn't seem to suit the economy drives that Sauber like to employ. Had his tyre strategy been swapped around (if he'd done his qualifying lap on the hards) then he might have had more pace in the latter stages on the medium compound. When Kamui gets his hands on fresh, soft ty...

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Aaaargh...! once again Fernando has the devil's own luck + team orders + disgusting favouritism from the FIA. Good thing that at least Perez took second place form him. Go Perez! In the championship, it's clear that the battle is now between Alonso , Lewis and Kimi. Now I'm rooting for either one o...

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Aaaargh...! once again Fernando has the devil's own luck + team orders + disgusting favouritism from the FIA. Good thing that at least Perez took second place form him. Go Perez! In the championship, it's clear that the battle is now between Alonso , Lewis and Kimi. Now I'm rooting for either one of...

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This qualy session promises a very interesting race tomorrow, especially with regard to the championship battle.
BTW, there are rumors on other sites that Alonso might have suffered a mechanical failure at the end of qualy.

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It makes it look like crashing into Alonso & Hamilton is somehow worse than crashing into, say, Pic & Karthikeyan. If punishment is harder for incidents involving big teams then that does not seem fair at all. While I'm the first to accuse the FIA of favoritism towards Alonso (and Ferrari d...

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Aaaand... Jenson wins. Wohooo! (Eat your heart out, haters! ) Wether this will help him get back in the title race remains to be seen. In any case, the fight for the title has gotten tighter after Alonso's crash. And some have profited from this opportunity more than others. Curiously, the one who p...

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It's strange how Vettel managed to distance himself in the end after such a close session.
I wonder if Red Bull didn't perhaps make some sacrifices to give themselves extra performance in qualy, which might hurt them in the long run during the race.

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Is it just my impressio or the teams are really close here? FP1: top 13 covered by 1 second; FP2: top 15 covered by 1 second; FP3: top 14 covered by 1 second.
This is close even for the standards of this season, no?

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I don't think there is anyone right now tat McLaren could hire and be sure to do better then Button. On the upside, this situation should finally put an end to the idiotic "Witmarsh is favouring Button" theory. McLaren started the year with a car that worked very well for both drivers, but...

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1. Schumacher, for crashing out in a manner worthy of a rookie.

2. Button. That was painfull to watch. He looked like Massa. But at least he finished in the points.

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This news has made my day. Particularly given that the always holier than thou McLaren who NEVER CHEAT REMEMBER were caught trying to cheat. Again. Here's hoping that Narain can make a mega start and hold Lewis up for a bit. Which is probably about as likely as Pastor winning, but I can dream... Do...

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McLaren: what an abject failure. It's like they are trying to loose the championship.

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The Finger is back! NOOOOO!
On a more serious note, the top 4 look awfully simillar to an average 2011 grid. Let's hope we won't see a return to that type of races too.

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I agree that we can start to speak about this year's hierarchy. I don't think that McLaren can loose the constructor's championship any more, in spite of all the mistakes they keep making. At this point is looks like Mercedes is thier most dangerous competitor, but they are very far behind in the po...

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While the day belongs to Rosberg, a honourable mention goes to Bruno Senna for for gaining the most positions (7) of all the top 10 finishers.

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I had an amusing image in my head earlier of Hamilton trying to understand that he was leading the championship without winning a race. Did anyone do the math to see if it is possible to win the championship without winning a single race? Other fun facts: Hamilton finished 3-rd in al 3 races so far...

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Kimi Raikkonen for providing the most graphic exemple of what it means for tyres to 'go off a cliff' I have ever seen. Honourable mentions for Kobayashi and Schumacher (courtesy of his pit crew) for wasting good starting positions. And McLaren once again managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of vic...

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After this qualifying, some questions arise: who will be McLarens main rivals for the championship this year? And how fast is that Sauber actually. Today, Mercedes, Lotus and Sauber (!) all put two cars in the top 10. Ferrari and Red Bull didn't. So should McLaren keep fearing their old rivals, or s...

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It's worth noting that another happy event happened today: Bruno Senna took his first step towards unrejectification. A small step for Bruno, a huge leap for Williams

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This was another "strange" race from the point of view of the final result, yet from the race and especially form qualifying we can get a pretty clear picture of the relative performance of the teams. McLaren were aggain robbed of a 1-2 finish. As a historical note, the last time the McLar...

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The reject of the race has to be whoever decided to delay the start of the Grand Prix. NOTHING ELSE COMAPARES TO THAT. It was an abjectly stupid decision. It was known that there is a hight risk of torrential rain this time of the day. we allready had the exemple of the 2009. If the rain had lasted ...

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How low have Marussia/Virgin fallen!

It used to be Virgin vs. Lotus (I supported Virgin, btw.) with HRT clearly in a class of thier own.
Actually, with their failure to qualify last race I still think HRT are in a class of their own when it comes to rejectfullness.

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Shadaza wrote: both William's drivers, Grosjean and Perez all have a chance

I say that's about it. Maybe the two FI drivers have a chance too, on account of them allready having scored some points.

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I for one hope there is no rain because rain these days means the race is stopped. Sepang is a good-ish circuit and should have the potential to produce a good race. As for the threat of a dry race being an indicator of the WDC: It won't "spoil" anything since we allready "know" ...

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DanielPT wrote:
mario wrote:
Ferrim wrote:I wonder how much longer it will take before they regret sending Rubens into retirement...

Rubens was old and I fear he would be holding them back. The current drivers are young and ambitious and have at least some potential.

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I actually meant to open a thread like this sometime later, but I was only going to ask people to alist a few drivers they like. Ranking all 24 drivers seems a very daunting task, but I'll try it anyway. As for the teams, the gaps between some of these people are very small and some of them could ea...

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