Grand Prix Rejects

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1. Stevens
2. Massa

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For me, while obviously there are massive problems in the sport, the award has to go to Caterham this year for embodying a true sense of rejectdom that hasn't been seen for many a year.

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Force India would be in more trouble than Williams I think. They have less chance of finding other backing. As Saward suggested, it's unlikely this is happening by coincidence, probably being pushed along by someone trying to further destabilise these teams. Of course by the logic of this ban, telec...

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Piquet was pretty awful with the interviews in 2012 too when he did them, shame they didn't give it to Emmo or someone else. I think for Bottas' 2nd stop, there was some debris stuck in the car so they were trying to remove it, so not sure if it was their fault really. Also, it wasn't the crew itsel...

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Considering Bottas was quite secretive about the seatbelts issue after the race, saying that he couldn't talk about it, do we assume that they were loose for a few laps before his stop?

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He got a podium, so even I can't nominate him now, (even though I did before the race). He's been rubbish, but less rubbish than others I guess if we go by results (which we should). He did advocate the use of the softer tyres which either redeems or condemns him further depending on your point of ...

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1. Massa (made it so difficult and somehow still ended up 3rd)
2. Button

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Woo Felipe!

Nice from Rosberg too to keep the championship relatively alive.

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Massa might get a podium yet, but he's tried so hard to throw it away that he could be nominated yet

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It would also suggest that the two Williams drivers are running a fairly low downforce package - it may help them if it is dry, but they could well regret that if it starts raining heavily in the race. Also might mean that they might get stuck behind the Mercedes and aren't able to overtake, which ...

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Damn it, would have been superb for Massa to grab pole - would have made it interesting for the championship battle too. Considering Williams' speed, should make for an interesting race - just hopefully no rain for them!

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Was Magnussen really testing the artificial sparks in FP1? REALLY? Is that a real solution to the problems facing the sport? Do the FIA really think people are so stupid that as soon as they see something from the past they'll forget about whatever other issues they had with the sport and suddenly ...

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4 years too late for Liuzzi to avoid getting RotR as well!

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Considering most of the sponsors that Barrichello had were probably there mostly for Interlagos, not sure if he'll be able to get a deal together to race at Abu Dhabi but who knows.

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Hopefully Williams now have the resources to not need to give up Bottas or Massa's FP1s regularly in 2015.

Anyway, very happy for Nasr, think he has good potential, but never managed to put it all together in a whole season in GP2. Was quite a bit faster than Magnussen in the same team in British F3.

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They've added more run-off at Turn 2 too...

Source: https://twitter.com/Mattzel89/status/530001071675310080

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Although had he been faster than Ericsson in any session, it would have given Marcus the dubious honour of being outpaced in a session by 5 team-mates during the year. (Kobayashi, Lotterer, Frijns, Merhi) You obviously failed to spot Marcus ploy to ease his team-mates into a false sense of superior...

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Although had he been faster than Ericsson in any session, it would have given Marcus the dubious honour of being outpaced in a session by 5 team-mates during the year. (Kobayashi, Lotterer, Frijns, Merhi)

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Realistically he would have been incredibly slow, so really not sure it would have been the farewell to the Brazilian crowd that he would have imagined.

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Caterham were apparently going to run Barrichello in the last 3 races!

http://adamcooperf1.com/2014/11/04/cate ... -comeback/

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Aguaman wrote:No one is talking about the great Pastor Maldonado on Autosport and F1Fanatics. It is like they care about a championship, pfftt. They should know their priorities.

Driver of the Weekend got 10% of votes.

BOO

Autosport did give Maldonado 9/10 in their driver ratings though.

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Makes sense to have a bit of (relative) experience in the team, plus Verstappen would know that Vergne is both a known quantity to judge himself against, and at the same time very unlikely to go ahead of him in the queue for a future Red Bull seat.

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As for the Perez saving Marussia argument, at the same time it could significantly hurt Sauber so I don't support that at all.

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1. Ricciardo
2. Maldonado

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Think Ricciardo had a better relative drive than Vettel, whereas Seb was just passing cars he is faster than, Dan had to perfectly execute his strategy to jump the Williams (even if he did get some help from poor strategy), as well as make a crucial early move on Alonso. It reminds me of Massa vs Bo...

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To be fair to Kimi, I strongly suspect that he was carrying damage from earlier in the race given that Perez rammed the back of his car - if that is the case, I'd be prepared to give him some leeway because of that. Yeah good point, had forgotten that. I guess with the standard of his performances ...

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Croft is consistently very poor. Probably Kimi for today, forgot he was in the race for the most part. Perez as well of course. Also a regular nomination for Williams strategy for throwing away a certain podium. With the Renault engine no way Ricciardo could have passed Massa on track so all they ha...

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Rosberg, Bottas and Massa were basically the only 3 cars with nothing to gain from the race starting, so that - combined with the terrible handling of the Williams in those conditions - would have led to Massa's comments in all likelihood. Same as his comments about the conditions later in the race.

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Pretty sure somewhere in the terms and conditions of buying a ticket it says that anything you film is property of FOM.

I don't normally agree with them removing crowd footage (e.g. Fuji 2007) but in this case probably a good thing to take it down.

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Is there really such an issue with leaving a crashed F1 car? Surely the cars are designed to survive high-velocity crashes into each other , so it'd be a lesser of two evils to leave a car in the gravel rather than sending heavy machinery into the same area? Only downside I could see is if the spin...

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I'm going for the typhoon if anything, don't think anything should be awarded unless Jules starts to pull through.

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I could definitely see a safety changes made in wet races if there's a crash, as Brazil 2003 (twice) Europe 2007 and sadly now today have shown that it's very easy for multiple cars to aquaplane off in the same place, even under yellows. Just as Europe 2007, most of the field were on the wrong tyre...

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Hopefully he can make a full recovery like Massa, even if he is out for a few months.

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Very encouraging update.

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Taki Inoue just posted quite a graphic image of the aftermath of the crash. View at your own discretion. Once again shows the downside of the change to Twitter this year that images in tweets automatically appear in your timeline, very difficult to avoid confronting images such as this or other thi...

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Taki Inoue just posted quite a graphic image of the aftermath of the crash. View at your own discretion. Once again shows the downside of the change to Twitter this year that images in tweets automatically appear in your timeline, very difficult to avoid confronting images such as this or other thin...

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It's good to have some hope, I was fearing even worse than what the update suggests to be honest. Fingers crossed the doctors can save him.

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The alternative is calling a safety car, not about the type of equipment used. Even under a safety car, we have seen drivers struggling to control their cars and sliding off the track (as happened with Ericsson in the opening laps). Given that drivers were complaining about aquaplaning behind the s...

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He'd already made some initial comments earlier to other outlets, so perhaps is just sick of talking about it (understandably).

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