Grand Prix Rejects

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I'm coming back from my very long hiatus here just to say that Haas has had, at 2019 mid season so far, and in the very brief period of 3 years and a half: - it's drivers hitting other drivers,.. - it's drivers hitting the barriers at 20 km/h... - it's drivers hitting each other... - it's drivers an...

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4th: Toro Rosso. For becoming increasingly anonymous after dumping a driver pair who were accused, by them, of giving nothing but anonymous results. 3th: McLaren pitstop crew. Already stated here ad nauseam. Silver: Bahrein GP, Bernie, FOTA and FIA included, except Force India, just for mercy. Gold:...

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No one in particular. Maybe some pit crew, making mistakes any other day would have been overlooked. Indeed, it was a specacular race, considering there was no rain or whatsoever. Maybe, there were to second chance of trajectory from Hamilton (defending from Vettel and Webber) and Perez (from Kobaya...

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First draft: 1.49.00... aboard a Hispania F112 (so top times should de around 1.41.00

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... CEsI&gl=US

How accurate actually it is it’s debatable, specially the part with grass.

PS: I Insist, the lollypop is totally unnecessary.

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Being cast aside of F1 daily news due to personal reasons, this is a topic in which I can give an insight. You'll see: I'm becoming older and south-american as days goes by; both issues could give a dime on this subject. Thing is that, despite I have my heavy reservations about recommending you to a...

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I would like to start the ""If I would have been hit by a suspension sping in my head, breaking my helmet, leaving me in comma at 250 km/h, I would have never drove a tricycle uphill again" appretiation thread". Look, I've been seriously thinking about what we've been posting her...

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1. Sergio Pérez - Nearly won. In a Sauber. In my opinion he wins this hands down. 2. Fernando Alonso - Great as Alonso may be, I think nobody expected that crapbox of a Ferrari to win, and he pulled it off. Honorable mention: Bruno Senna - Fell through the order like a rock, was in last place 30 se...

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3d: Button: I know HRT are mobile chicanes, but in this case it was totally unnecessary, next turn the Indian would have been history. Who knows where he would have been next. 2nd: I'll go for Perez's race engineer - just when he needed to know he was quicker, on fresher tyres and odds on to win the...

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dr-baker wrote:
AndreaModa wrote:Oh...dear...god!

What have I started?

A run of puns, a bit of word play - take your pic!

This virgin's Pic... does have a caption?

EDIT: Sorry, no more porn today...

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1) Maldonado: unforeseeable now matter how, the speed the aggression and the maturity (oh! the irony!) was there for the mayor part of the race. 2) Perez: 15 position climb. In a car that seems to me not particularly faster than the rest. 3) Grosjean: Evaluating him by himself, he did an amazing dri...

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3. Maldonado: Really, why were you pushing so hard on last lap? What orders did you receive from your team? Had to be on last lap or nothing? 2. Massa: an unmitigated disaster. Now matter in which perspective you see it. It's sad. It's not your fault. Sometimes drivers who come back after serious ac...

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Ferrari so far. No matter how far fro 107% HRTs were.

Sauber second stint? Why so pitiful?

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Back onto the actual topic, here is the proposed circuit: http://www.vorterix.com/common/contents/photos/2012_03_16_084107_03-16-12-plano-f1.jpg It was done in 2009 when Bernie first suggested a race in Mar del Plata, so things might have changed since then. Mmhhh. Not that awful. The source (at le...

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Mind that the Dakkar rally was held here for (I don't recall right now) three or four years by now. UK teams, as far as I know, have raced, and I heard of no particular case of corruption damaging the competition, at any level. An F1 GP would be no diference, with the excepction, maybe, of the appe...

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And for a sport that runs in Bahrain, China, Abu Dhabi, Spain (twice, probably), India, Hungary, and probably soon in Russia to worry that Argentina might be too risky seems a bit absurd. i would have said the same thing 2 years ago about the Bahrain GP being cancelled. Slightly Absurd. If they do ...

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The Argie GP in the nineties was always a pretty good one, it'll be great if we get to go back (unarmed and without aircraft carriers). Kidding aside on the name. (which i do believe they will do something.) If this happens, expect the UK Government to retaliate by hosting the first ever Commonweal...

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Is it in the best interest to F1 to go to a country thats currently bankrupt? Since when is Argentina bankrupt? Second that. There are some incoming issues, but the financial system is relatively on good shape. In fact, it gave the government the luxury of pumping up the inner consumtion, which fue...

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I told that shouldn't be a problem with San Luis Potrero de los Funes, which is another thing). When I saw the news about a potential Argentine GP, I was desperately hoping it would be at Potrero de los Funes. That would simply be awesome - no other word for it. Of course, it would have been the cl...

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As it goes on this journal, and it's a very reasonable one, there are talks with Ecclestone to host a GP in the city of Mar del Plata for three years.... beginning no less than in 2013. You can have the spanish version here (sorry, but I don't have the time to translate the proper way: m First of al...

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This wrote:Belgium is the Andrea Moda of politics, i think i don't have to explain anything more.

I think it resembles more to Osella. You don't know who is driving it, or why it's running, but it pretty runs for ten years without knowing how.

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It's kind of mass hysteria but everyone has an absurd behaviour, like collectively running a country without government (which might not be that absurd, mind you...) . Or, for instance, everyone in a city to adopt a small peeing statue as a symbol... In fact, after having 500~ days without a govern...

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I think Ciudad de Córdoba Airport should be closer, and, as far as I know, should have same facilities as Rosario, at least. And it's quite closer (I'll pass on the opinion about the condition of the roads there), but I could ask people I know who lives in Córdoba). I might be talking on soft reali...

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And about the "political distress" in Argentina: there's none. At least, not the distress needed to avoid the hosting of a F1-GP, by a big far margin. Mind you, OWS and indignados in Spain are supposing a worse scenario nowadays. Localized Strikes there and public demonstrations are commo...

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Hm... and what is actually wrong with the old Buenos Aires Circuit? We definitely don't need another Tilkedrome... It's not in very good condition - the circuit is run-down. It's also in a neighbourhood with a bad reputation. Indeed. It's a shame, but the neighborhood where it's placed simply sucks...

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Unfortunately, Karthikeyan was penalized for cutting a corner while battling Glock, and so he's 17th instead of 13th. One problem I see that HRT has, is race pace. One thing that they might be doing, which I know was what they were doing in 2010, was not pushing the car hard, so as to just make it ...

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DanielPT wrote:So, step one is complete.

Let's move on to step 2: Beat Lotus!

What a relief. I always thougth "Step 2" meant stop paying chassis supplier...

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I nominate the crowd in Canada . This might seem surprising, so please let me explain. Nice as it was for them to stay when it started to rain so heavily - why did they have to boo Vettel on the podium? Cheering for Button - great, I did that, too. It was a well deserved victory, probably the best ...

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Klon wrote:No, Lotus has one more 13th place, so HRT "only" beat Virgin. But still: muahahaha!

Go home, Carlos Ferreira!

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Where could I begin? Race control, for giving a SC start when not needed, for abusing on investigations after the race, ruin ing every potential podium celebreation. If you need six hours and six cameras to find out if a driver was. Much too far on the in side or not, its called racing incident; the...

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DOSBoot wrote:Seriously, what was that guy thinking? (Translation?)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOuS7wWT ... eos_sports

... left me amazed.

I cant' even articule an irony from it...

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Depends how you define "F1 Driver", to my knowledge Ribbs never attempted to qualify for a Grand Prix, so does that one test make him an F1 Driver? And it depends on the definition of "black". A boy born with a white mother, will never, in my eyes be black. He can be colored, bu...

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Here is the latest update - it seems Lux is pursuing the case to the courts and to the FIA. http://www.lefigaro.fr/auto-moto/2011/05/13/02019-20110513ARTSPO00568-eric-lux-attaque-adrian-sutil-en-justice.php Maybe a 10 place grid penalty? I must have missed something here. My knowledge of anatomy is...

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I might remind people that investment can also be a way of escaping debt. I doubt the Greek people appreciate that after the disaster of the 2004 olympics, but it's still true. The problem of Olympics and every major sports event out there, F1 including, is that the investment needed heavily outwei...

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Either way, regardless of whether Sutil did or did not intend on injuring Lux, the damage to his reputation through "trial by media" must already be beginning to kick in. As WeirdKerr says, if this story refuses to go away, but snowballs instead, this could potentially cost somebody - mos...

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AndreaModa wrote:
Cynon wrote:The last time this happened, a Belgian driver was replaced by a German.

This time... a German will be replaced by a Belgian...

So that's where these rumours about D'Ambrosio leaving Virgin are coming from! Sponsor trouble my arse! He just wants a better ride the cocky kid!

Good one...

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Off-topic but I really hope that this madness of the bailouts finishes, and soon. Greece CAN'T pay back its debt. It's awful that they keep trying to force them take "adjustment plans" that only push them into bigger moles of debt. And I thought that I was the only one!!!! ....I want to h...

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f1-gast wrote:Ralf Firman ?

Ouch!

+1

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Oh well, I actually enjoy his singing. Sorry, you what? Haha! Well, I like that kind of music. And it's for me far from the worst example of it. Of course, he's no superstar (in singing at least). But it actually frustrates me that I'm unable to get the CD. I hope this is what you are looking for. ...

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dr-baker wrote:
Popi_Larrauri wrote:
... and you also have Jaques.. you know... Jaques...

Jacques, maybe, but not Jaques!

I invoke "Smarthphone with freaky keyboard excuse" once again!

PS: You know, it was set to....err... Creol... how funny globalization can be...

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Robbie Williams has a video, dedicated almost entirely to Jackie Stewart (and a Williams team or him as a driver, not clear... and very funny, by the way) but as far as I know, there's no mention to him in lyrics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVaf7nurSZY

... and you also have Jaques.. you know... Jaques...

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