Grand Prix Rejects

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The irony is that Monisha Kaltenborn is a former business attorney. Business law is basically contracts.

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Oh boy oh boy, F1 season is about to begin and..... wahhhhhhh???????

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This wrote:
andrew2209 wrote:When they say Korean Grand Prix, maybe it's actually in True Korea, the ONLY one, the one with the capital in the glorious city Pyongyang, under the leadership of the Dear Leaders General Kim-Jong Un and Eternal President Kim Il Sung?

Fixed.

You joke now, but Bernie does love his dictators.

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Is using the previous year's car not allowed if the rules stay the same? There were a string of years during Ferrari's dominant period that they would use the previous cars for the first few races of the year.

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Saw this year's Japanese GP at a casino in Reno. Trying to figure out what happened to Jules at the end without any audio was a bit surreal...

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Luca Badoer.

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Why cater for younger fans Ecclestone? Because in 30 years THEY will be the ones spenging the money A lot of this suiff, if it was true, seems very much short-termism. Bernie's plan is probably to milk as much money from F1 as he possibly can before he leaves. And when he leaves, F1 will be a smoki...

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Good news! No double points for 2015! But in his typical fashion Bernie isn't happy: One race is stupid but imagine if it was the last three races. It means that somebody would have to have a 150-point advantage minimum to be sure they will win. The teams have not accepted it because they are blood...

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Yep, i'm 31 now but became hooked as an 8 year old. More importantly - if I hadn't become hooked as a child, in a parallel universe and I was tuning in to F1 for the first time now, with DRS, miniscule grids, forgettable circuits, spec tyres, frozen engines, personal driver numbers and 3/4 of the d...

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Caterham's administrators have said the team may still go to Abu Dhabi even if, as expected, they fall short of the £2.35m crowdfunding target tomorrow. This cannot possibly end well. On the plus side they seem to be as determined as Zoran Stefanovic. I am Team Zoran Stefanovic Buys Caterham And Sh...

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Nope, sorry. Using the "Toyota" mark is still trademark infringement in any jurisdiction that I know of. Doesn't matter that Toyota is no longer in F1, Toyota Motor Company can still take action since the shirt says "Toyota." Also, there's quite clearly an Alpinestars logo on tha...

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roblomas52 wrote:
Captain Hammer wrote:I think I've already found the Reject of the Race:

The fact that it is a champ car on the front says a lot

This is the best worst shirt ever.

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I saw the crash video and it was very shocking, as I thought he had crashed a lot slower. The marshalls were lucky not to be injured. I guess Bianchi missed the double waved yellow flags. The crash reminds me of Brazil 2003, where Alonso ran over the debris and crashed heavily into the barrier. Eve...

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CoopsII wrote:Now the threat of the typhoon has shifted to Monday with Sundays weather expected to be somewhat better.

I sense Bernie's hand in all this...

Egads! Bernie controls the weather?

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But, at the eleventh hour, comes the revelation that an unspecified foreign substance contaminated Rosberg's steering column electronics during pre-event servicing. Not only did it derail Nico's race and possibly his championship, but it raises numerous questions. Like, why did it only affect Rosbe...

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Biscione, have you any graphics relating to bean-bags or futons? Bean-bags? C'mon guys, we're men, not 4 year olds... Now boomstick, what I would recommend is getting a long coffee table (or another table, as long as it's longer than you are tall) and covering it with blankets, cushions and the lik...

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Decided to take the Lotus to Buttonwillow this weekend AND make the car my avatar. Getting excited!

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Limiting free speech on the team radio is not going to fix anything but is a breach of human rights even. With all due respect, that's a ridiculous exaggeration. It is an exaggeration indeed. Yet it shows that teams could successfully sue the FIA to revoke the ban on team radio communicastion. In t...

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Kobayashi is in. Knowing Colin Kolles, he's probably going to axe him for Suzuka.

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broke my personal best today! from 23.04 to 22.87! i've got all the braking-zones down. now, just pushing it. also, the new overall track record was set at 21.98 seconds by my coworker, which is just insane considering the car he picked has a crooked chain-sprocket. Curious, but what do you do to w...

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m I kind of agree with his point. In his two seasons as teammate to Ricciardo, I thought he acquitted himself rather well. He's definitely one of those drivers that seem more than deserving of remaining in F1, but it looks like he's going to join the F1 Toro Rosso scrapheap. (Also, the comments in t...

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dr-baker wrote:Jennie Gow looks nothing like how I imagined after previously only having heard her on the radio.

dr-baker leading with the important stuff. Never change <3

As for the race, sadly I had written it off as a gimmick. I may need to watch the next one.

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Take the Elise, there's like 10 over here, it shouldn't be parked! The Elise does get driven and in fact is generally the trackday car of choice. It's just that this time there are special circumstances. Still, I'm not sure I'm in the mood of be bumping more money into car parts this month after co...

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So expect to see messages such as "That banana I ate for breakfast is really not sitting well" be used as codephrases for ways to drive a certain way...

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Heading to Buttonwillow Raceway (13CW configuration: m) at the end of the month. I'm undecided as to whether to take the Elise SC or the beater Miata. The Elise SC is of course faster, but this will be my friend's first trackday and he has a very similar Miata to mine, so it might be more educationa...

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Arsenal seriously have the most neurotic fans out there. While fans of most clubs big up their chances and are generally optimistic after signing players, Arsenal fans are the exact opposite. Win the FA Cup, sign Alexis and Welbeck (who seem to be highly rated by ManU staff and fans), as well as get...

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It seems everyone is getting Prost and I did too. However, I can see myself being quite similar to Prost both in our approach and our driving styles (a friend once described my driving style on track as the smoothest he's ever seen).

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I'd imagine Merc is way beyond team orders. There's NO WAY Nico will let Lewis past because he's in the champinoship lead, and there is NO WAY Lewis will let Nico past, for the same reason. Merc has dug their own grave. Spa was just the appetizer. Worst is yet to come. And I'll call it now. If by A...

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We need a poll: Has this been the greatest or worst build up to a race from a F1Rejects perspective? At the very least, I think this is a subject we should debate.

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HYPE is pretty much the only thing that Caterham is going for these days.

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Let me lead the new "Go home Colin Kolles!" chant. Caterham is now officially the new HRT. (Though unofficially they've been the new HRT for quite some time.)

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andrew2209 wrote:The car on the poster looks out of proportion

And he doesn't appear to be taking the right line.

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CoopsII wrote:Monza going would be awful. Just awful. And it feels, to me, like another piece of F1 is being taken from us. From me, anyway.

Would Ferrari be okay with the Italian GP going? I feel like they'd be a bit against it.

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Thus far two teams that resided in that factory went bust - Arrows and Super Aguri. If Caterham will bail out, can we speak of the Leafield curse? And funny thing is, 6 years went by between the Arrows and the Super Aguri bust. ...and Super Aguri's leave happened six years ago. I'm standing up.

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1. Alonso - His genius is being wasted in the Ferrari.
2. Ricciardo - As much as safety cars benefited him, they benefited Hamilton equally if not more. In the end, making that move around Hamilton stick took balls. Lots and lots of balls.

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http://en.espnf1.com/f1/motorsport/stor ... xmKOX2K.99

Seems they will host the Grand Prix of Europe in 2016. What will the track look like? How many people will attend? Will we be losing a current race? And of course, the big question, will there be any Azerbaijan drivers and/or teams by the time the race is on the calendar?

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Cynon wrote:When I read the name of this thread I was under the impression it was for incidents that are CLEARLY self-inflicted that the driver desperately pins on others.

Then I read the posts.

That's actually a good idea. Let's change this thread to this theme.

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*EDIT* Now changed to highlight any moments where drivers clearly at fault simply can't let things go and proceed to flail about and try to deflect blame to anyone they can.

Because quite frankly his behavior is just getting embarrassing now: http://en.espnf1.com/williams/motorspor ... 68901.html

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Interesting that people thought the race was a great race. I thought it was rather boring compared to what we had previously. In my opinion, it was more tense than exciting, always promising action right around the corner, but never delivering.

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Max wins the prestigious ROTR award!

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