Grand Prix Rejects

Evening everyone :deletraz: Today is a big anniversary in Formula One, for it is 20 years since Michael Schumacher secured the last of his seven world championships. Klon has decided to mark the occasion by reviewing the race in which he set a new record, the 2004 Belgian GP, in a very Gravel Trap s...

1. Harrison Burton. What a way to get the Wood Brothers' 100th win in NASCAR!

2. Kyle Busch. Finally getting some good runs in that RCR crapbox.

1. Sauber . Hopelessly off the pace. This is their worst season ever, even their trainwreck of a 2014 had a few moments of hope (before Guti and Sutil inevitably crashed). With Bottas/Zhou Sauber have an objectively better driver line-up and more money than they had in 2014, which shows just how ter...

With the news breaking that Russell is likely to be disqualified for an underweight car, the ROTR can only be Mercedes, the absolute morons. Way to wreck one of the greatest drives of the 2020s.

1. George Russell's tyres. How on earth did they last 34 laps, bloody hell.

2. Esteban Ocon. Wrung another point out of the shitbox.

Post your choices for Reject of the Race!

Hampshire Racing Alliance will enter the following:

Henry Taylor - Vanwall VW58 chassis 2, Vanwall VE2 engine 6
Peter Ashdown - O.S.C.A. F156A chassis 16, Vanwall VE2 engine 2

We continue to hope Mike Taylor's career fizzles out and he ends up in a South Wales coal mine.

1. 2024 Hungarian Grand Prix. Quite possibly the most hilarious comedy Grand Prix in some time.

2. Lance Stroll. Another race where he was better than Alonso.

1. McLaren. Absolute boneheaded stupidity, a complete driver management failure. If Norris loses the title by seven points, we can point to this nonsense.

2. Max Verstappen. A petulant toddler when he's not 30 seconds up the road from the next driver.

Evening everyone :deletraz: It's time for another occasional tourism-related Gravel Trap, where Klon has very kindly reviewed the Automuseum Prototyp in Hambug, a museum which may have the only surviving example of the rejectful 1991 Porsche F1 engine! Read it right here today! Trip into the Gravel ...

1. Lewis Hamilton. What a way to snap the winless streak. If I were him I'd be reconsidering that Ferrari contract ASAP.

2. Lance Stroll. Outperformed Alonso all weekend.

1. McLaren. Complete strategic incompetence cost the win for both Norris and Piastri.

2. Whoever stopped for inters the first time round. Their races were destroyed within laps.

1. Haas. An excellently executed race plan.

2. The battle for the lead. Yes it ended in tears, but an actual battle for the lead? In Formula 1? I thought that was illegal

1. Max Verstappen. Complete and utter head loss, not what we've come to expect at all. Even before the inevitable contact he was all over the place with constant reactive moves against Norris.

2. Fernando Alonso. Retire old man.

1. Alpine. Back to being best of the rest.

There wasn't enough intrigue from anyone else to merit an IIDOTR nomination.

1. Aston Martin . Looking more and more like the terrible outfit they were in early 2022. 2. Circuit de Catalunya . Please can we go somewhere else in Spain, the teams have so much data from this track that it always nullifies anything interesting from happening. :( Honourable mention to Mastercard ...

1. Haas. They deserve plaudits for trying something different at the start, shame it didn't work out in the end.

2. Alex Albon. That double overtake on Ricciardo and Ocon was amazing.

1. Ferrari. A disasterclass worthy of the Binotto years.

2. Sergio Perez. Not doing anywhere near enough to justify his contract extension.

1. Alex Albon. Finally some points for Williams in 2024!

2. Pierre Gasly. Survived attempted murder from his team mate to secure his first point of the season

We've only done half a lap and yet I feel we've got the nominations sewn up already. 1. Kevin Magnussen . I think we've seen the last of this idiot in Formula 1. Would be the most justified mid-season sacking since Nelson Piquet Jr in 2009. :facepalm: 2. Esteban Ocon . A frankly ridiculous move to p...

1. Takuma Sato. The guy's pushing 50 and he still continues to amaze us. Putting a Rahal car into the Fast 12 is one hell of an achievement.

2. Rinus VeeKay. The sheer size of this bloke's grapefruits to get his car into the Fast 12 having crashed a couple of hours earlier!

1. Alex Albon/Williams. Dangerous and ultimately silly.

2. Fernando Alonso. This geniuenly felt like the first weekend ever where you could argue Alonso's age was a factor against him. The guy's damn near superhuman but Old Father Time still remains undefeated.

1. Lando Norris. Could it really be anyone else? The first man to straight up beat Verstappen one on one since Austria 2022.

2. Esteban Ocon. Finally a points finish for Alpine in 2024.

1. Kevin Magnussen. Finally, Pastor Maldonado's record of most penalties in one race weekend is broken. Absolutely epic, he'll go far in this sport.

2. Sergio Perez. Nearly committed the cardinal sin and achieved the square root of sod-all today.

Well, of all the F1 races I've watched, this was certainly one of them. Nominate your IIDOTR contenders here!

1. Lance Stroll. wut r braks?

2. Kevin Magnussen. wut r mirrors?

Evening everyone :deletraz: Mention the name "Bugatti" in contemporary circles and almost everyone in the room will either say "bless you" or point to the Bugatti Veyron and its variants. A few nerds may wax whimsical over the legendary pre-war factory whose Type 35 cleaned up in...

1. Ollie Bearman. 30 hours ago he was ready for another bog standard F2 weekend. What a performance from the lad!

2. Nico Hulkenberg. A precious point for Haas.

1. Sauber. Slow, poor pitstops, tedious name, questionable existence.

2. Daniel Ricciardo. Just what is the point of him being in an F1 seat in the Year of Our Lord 2024?

Honourable mention to Lance Stroll

1. Lance Stroll. Good recovery drive after the T1 fracas.

2. Zhou Guanyu. Nearly a point for Sauber,

1. Alpine . What the hell happened during the off-season? 2. Nico Hulkenberg . Qualifying hero to first corner zero. Dishonourable mention to the state of Formula 1 . The sport simply cannot afford another season like 2023 and yet it looks like that's the most likely outcome. The other nine teams sh...

Evening everyone After a break of 182 days where we all thought it had been tarmacked over and turned into just another asphalt runoff, The Gravel Trap returns tonight like a Phoenix street circuit. :deletraz: True to form, Klon has gone statistical to see if it is actually possible for Formula 1 to...

Evening everyone The 2024 F1 season is almost upon us, but there's still time for GPR to bid adieu to 2023 with our fashionably late Season Review, plus the announcement of 2023's Reject of the Year! If you fancy reliving the trauma of the worst F1 season since 2002, read it right here today! :delet...