Grand Prix Rejects

Got a 12.816 so far...

...now a 12.313.

Does anyone agree that it really needs some change? Caterham, Marussia and HRT are still moderately far away from the back of the midfield runners, and I'd imagine this is perhaps something to do with the point in time the places were allocated. Apparently, July '09 was the point when USF1, Campos a...

- Super Aguri (though wasn't that a Japanese Arrows?) To answer your question, the Super Aguri SA05(the car they started the 2006 season with), was indeed actually just an Arrows A23 that was updated to 2006 spec. And the Super Aguri SA06 (the car that they came out with mid-season 2006), was just ...

Some excellent finds! Enjoying looking at these photos.

Here's something I found, it's Gabriele Tarquini in the FIRST F189.
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/268/88tarquinif189judtro01.jpg/

I'd stay if I was Perez, just until the season's end. Replacing Massa at Ferrari, despite him having been quite poor, would not be ideal. Mainly because the car looks a handful and nobody would have the mileage to cope.

Good for Karthikeyan. Sometimes the top drivers forget, or take for granted, the scale of the job at the back.

These guys that coax a competitive lap out of a slow car or keep an ill-handling car on track are the real heroes in my book, rather than being given the tools to win from the start.

One question, what's James Allen actually like on radio? He doesn't still bum Hamilton does he?

Shrek! I was, er, just keepin' yo' seat warm for ya!

Welp, I was wrong about Razia. He was peerless, taking the lead off the line and holding it all race. Calado and Gutiérrez line up first and second for the sprint race, I think one of them will probably win. It was nice to get one prediction right this weekend! Calado won from first on the grid, ho...

Since unrejectifcation seems so difficult these days, who was the last driver before Perez to unrejectify himself with a podium (rather than a 4th or even a 5th or 6th having already got partly there)? The last one I can think of is Hamilton on debut but that was almost handed to him on a plate. Pi...

Vettel - Made a mess of lapping Karthikeyan, not particularly quick either. 6 Webber - Hung onto 4th, wasn't going to trouble the leaders though. 7 Button - Hit Karthikeyan, couldn't switch on a set of inters, a race to forget. 3 Hamilton - Started well, but lost out on pit calls. He was lucky Vette...

Massa - Was just rubbish. Has gone from having a poor 2011 to a dismal 2012 so far. Wonder if the phrase 'As useless as Felipe Massa' will gather popularity? Grosjean - Beached his car again. He might as well just start in the gravel trap in China, save the hassle. Mercedes - Always good on a Frida...

Karthikeyan was in the way constantly. He doesn't get off the racing line; he just drifts around aimlessly and hopes the other cars will overtake him. To quote Barry the Baptist: 'He's a bathplug liability'. Great race though, I was super disappointed when Perez lost all that ground to Alonso. Great...

Here's another one: Getting Nicked, by Bertrand Gachot and Andrea Sasseti Forget ye not JJ Lehto, Jean-Pierre Van Rossem, Jos Verstappen and Adrian Sutil. The book is dedicated to James Hunt. Of course! How could I forget about that lot. Their input would make for a very interesting narrative indee...

Yet again, we've gone off to-pic...

Peace and Quiet by Eddie Irvine A Talented Individual by Hideki Noda, foreword by Ricardo Rosset Keeping Your Nose Clean by Jean-Louis Schlesser Over the Hill by Michael Schumacher (this one title could relate to two different things) What the two things are for Over the Hill: 1: Eau Rouge 2: Crash...

Peace and Quiet by Eddie Irvine
A Talented Individual by Hideki Noda, foreword by Ricardo Rosset
Keeping Your Nose Clean by Jean-Louis Schlesser
Over the Hill by Michael Schumacher (this one title could relate to two different things)

Nick Heidfeld. Nick Heidfeld. Nick Heidfeld.

I'm serious.

HWNSNBM can get every 2012 race live on the BBC.

Vettel - Didn't qualify well, hustled the Mercs and Hamilton well in the race. Perhaps lucky to get 2nd, but did well. 8 Webber - Good, solid race. Nothing spectacular but stayed with Hamilton well. 6 Button - In the words of Charlie Sheen, winning. Stole a march on the rest of the field and stayed ...

The Sky coverage was pretty damn good. Simon Lazenby comes across well, and with Brundle and Hill are making a good team. I always enjoy Ted Kravitz's input, and Ant Davidson seems as enthusiastic as ever. Not too sure about Georgie Thompson on the Skypad, I noticed she just nods a bit when Ant's ex...

Well...the car doesn't seem too bad, does it?

I'm sure there's some more performance to unlock, but it's definitely better than HRT.

[quote="AdrianSutil"]There's a few people on here that are quite biased towards a certain driver. Captain Hammer and Petrov, Peter and Bruno Senna. Even me towards Adrian Sutil. I suppose everyone has their favourites, but some people do go a bit loopy when someone slags their favourite dr...

Johnny Herbert got a 4th in his first race.

I assume Red Bull count as they scored more than the 6 points required for unrejectification...

I've only just realised - this is the team formerly known as Virgin... We have all recovered from our puerile sense of humour! There is no woman which doesn't qualify as insane in some way and is a virgin at the age of 32. There is no joke to be made here. Erm, this? That woman has made me decide I...

So this is what the internet was like when I was 1...wow.

How have we managed to get through this much of the thread and not mention the gigantic, elephantine rear wings that sprouted from just about every car on the grid in 1984? The Ferrari 126C4 is a particularly nasty example: http://www.maranello.cc/Common/Images/SN.Formula1/all/XLarge/Formula1.Monac...

BLN's Predictions 2012 Australian Grand Prix: 1. Raikkonen (I can dream) 2. Webber 3. Vettel 4. Button 5. Rosberg 6. Alonso 7. Kobayashi 8. Di Resta 9. Hulkenberg 10. Kovalainen Pole: Webber Fastest lap: Raikkonen First Retirement: Massa ROTR: Massa (takes Grosjean, Perez and the Toro Rosso cars out...

Aha, I had one last night. Maria de Vilotta was so shite in F1, Marussia entered her in WRC for a season for experience. After a WRC race around my local Tesco car park, it emerged she was having an affair with another driver. When I did some snooping, it turned out that it was Sebastien Bourdais an...

Can't Complain by Luca di Montezemolo
Abstinence by James Hunt
My Wins and Other Successes by Nick Heidfeld (if he ever releases an autobiography, it should be called...'Just a Second'. I'll get me coat. )

and of course, the critically acclaimed TV sitcom; 'Everybody Loves Jean-Marie Balestre'.

I had a dream where Wayne Rooney joined al-Qaeda, bombed Old Trafford while myself and several hundred random racing drivers were standing on the pitch enclosed in a giant Star Trek-esque forcefield. Sebastian Loeb then talked to me in French so I didn't understand a word he said and swiftly drove ...

Not a fan of the mish-mash colour schemes either... What are you talking about? Neither are anywhere near as godawful as the Ferrari and Sauber noses. The Renault's sidepods, on the other hand... Speaking of colour schemes and Sauber...I have to say the Sauber's colour scheme is rather unattractive...

Be grateful for the platypus noses, at least it isn't this: http://salonauto.blogs.dhnet.be/media/02/00/1093809010.jpg ...or this: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MPhlEnKCONM/SoRKpxUkd3I/AAAAAAAAEEY/Goo8WmwYGLI/s1600/22badoerfortigpmonaco19.jpg Not a fan of the mish-mash colour schemes either...

dr-baker wrote:
BaconLettuceNinja wrote:Had the FIA given Stefan USF1's entry, then they would probably be racing now.

Seriously?

Well, they had the TF110 ready didn't they? Plus, they had some kind of partnership with Toyota Motorsports. It's definitely feasible...plus they probably would have had Serbian government backing.

Had the FIA given Stefan USF1's entry, then they would probably be racing now.

I'd laugh if someone actually took a gamble on PURE and the engine turned out to be pretty damn good...

For a less serious read, EJ's autobiography is pretty good. David Coulthard's is another I have, and although it starts quite well, he does have to pad it out a bit towards the end. In more serious terms, look no further than 'The Life of Senna' or Jackie Stewart's autobiography. Very informative, a...

Via James1978 (background info: this pic comes from Imola 1984): http://b.f1-facts.com/ul/a/3996 Prost: Hey Arnoux, guess who's going to win the championship? Arnoux: One more word and I'll hit you with this bottle. Oh, and I sure hope you'll lose the title with as little margin as possible. Prost:...

My average is 0.17 posts per day...so I'm not gonna hit the 1000 mark in a hurry.

Here's the press conference 'fight' between Hakkinen and Irvine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtlNxwu43g8

I miss that guy...there's nobody these days that just messes about like ol' Swerve. If only I'd become a racing driver...

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