Grand Prix Rejects

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Bearman.
No other needed

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ROTR: Latifi, easy. No excuse for that. None.

Honorable Mention: Alpine for their engines.

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1: Perez. Nobody expected that kind of a dominant drive.
2: Macca's: When everyone else seemed to bin it, they kept it on the road and quietly snapped up a double top5. Impressive.

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Oh Hey. This forum still exists!

Gonna pop in and say: Max deserved the title. Without stuff like Silverstone and Hungaroring the fight wouldn't have been close to begin with.

The era of Hamilton needed to end and it did.

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Yeah, no.

Crap like that will be more of a hinderance than an advantage. quick escapes, vision obstruction and looking stupid weigh more in the scale than the once in a blue moon event of something striking a driver.

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bathplug Hamilton. How the hell he escaped penalty is beyond me.
And then he had the balls to tell the team to order Valtteri to slow down.

EDIT: Oh screw you Simtek. I'm entitled to my opinion AND entitled to post it.

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Quite similarly, the facts show that IndyCar/CART drivers coming to F1 only rarely drove competitive machinery. Those who did? Villeneuve, Andretti and Montoya. Doesn't explain how they get consistently beat by their teammates in equal machinery. Bourdais in a car that won a grand prix managed a pa...

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Sorry to break it to ya but thats just how it is, the facts speak for themselves, and Facts ALWAYS trump opinions and emotions. Indeed. For example, the facts show that Lewis Hamilton is a better driver than Kimi Räikkönen. The facts merely show that Lewis is more consistent and has had access to b...

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1: Monaco Grand Prix. Screw tradition. Just get rid of the race already. The track is too narrow and too slow and too unforgiving for the fragile machinery of today. a 78 lap procession where the only interesting thing happened because of a brain fart from an once retired driver. 2: The tires. Serio...

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But it's true. the sheer fact that when talking about US based open wheel racing you need to go through a crapton of acronyms like Indycar/CART/OWRS/IRL/USAC makes the whole proposition seem smalltime compared to F1. Also not helped by the fact that Former F1-drivers who went over there and succeede...

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This is the third season in-a-row with Alonso missing one race. Also, third season in-a-row with McLaren using three drivers. And Alonso was the third best F1 driver in the Indy 500 qualify (behind former F1 drivers Rossi and Sato). ... I was about to come and point out that Rossi never actually ra...

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I admit I don't follow media as much as I should (chalk that down to the fact that even mainstream media is incredibly clickbaity here) but AFAIK FE gets NO coverage whatsoever in Finland. I'd imagine it'd change if A) They got a Finnish driver or B) they got a Finnish race. I mean, as far as Sports...

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Screw DRS and all other gimmicks. Tune the rules so that the cars won't be so sensitive to the "dirty air" that the car in front creates and we don't need any stupid passing gimmicks.

Also, Steel instead of Carbon Brakes.

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You know. F1 has had a way to recognize the driver for decades. HELMETS.
You know back when a driver would use the same helmet for his entire career, when you could actually SEE the driver in the car. Maybe it's just me, but I still identify the driver by the helmet.

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Fellow on HuffPost makes some good points, many of which we've made on here in the past... http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/tim-goodchild/bernie-ecclestone_b_14042534.html Some good points. Unfortunately due to their increasingly obnoxious liberal/leftist/feminist agenda, I cannot take anything post...

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Fellow on HuffPost makes some good points, many of which we've made on here in the past... http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/tim-goodchild/bernie-ecclestone_b_14042534.html Some good points. Unfortunately due to their increasingly obnoxious liberal/leftist/feminist agenda, I cannot take anything post...

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Kvyat getting fired and demoted to Toro Rosso after his home race for me. Although Marko probably made one of the best drive changes in all F1 history. Apart from Mansell winning his first race for Ferrari I don't think that was bettered before or will be bettered since Räikkönen actually one-upped...

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A good read. I do wonder. Why oh why do you keep making articles about these REALLY obscure guys and teams... when the reject team of all reject teams Osella STILL doesn't have one? I mean, the closest we got to an Osella-profile was Piercarlo Ghinzani's profile in the old site but even that had thi...

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Only one. 1: Hamilton's whining at the end . Seriously. "I've lost the championship, why should I care about losing the race?" or whatever it was he said. For a moment in the race I thought Lewis might be able to take a loss in stride, and then he went and said that. His tactical driving m...

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As far as tires go I got a solution for the tyre complaints. Bring 2 compounds to each race. Do away with the enforced pitstop. So... how would that help? Get rid of all other compounds save for Ultra Soft and whip up a compound harder than the current hard. So it would LITERALLY be a choice between...

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1: Stewarding : Absolutely horrendous in inconsitency and magnitude. Letting Hamilton get scot free for cutting the first corner, giving Max a 5 sec penalty so late and handing Vettel a 10 second one even later. Also, nobody noticed that Hamilton was out of his starting slot by almost half of the c...

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Sheesh. Reminds me of the old saying (Can't remember who said it though)
"How to become a millionare in F1? Start out as a Billionare"

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Meatwad wrote:Both of these contributed to a delightful Ricciardo victory but still...

1. Hamilton's engine: May have ruined the remaining chances of a proper championship battle.

Wha? Seriously? Hamilton retiring was EXACTLY the thing we needed to have a proper championship battle.

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I am a simple man. I see Hamilton retiring, I rejoice.
It was a good race anyway. Shame Kimi couldn't push Nico harder though.
Also, that incident between Nico and Kimi was a simple racing incident. bathplug the stewards.

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I spoke to him over Steam recently, he's well and getting on with life. I think he'd just had enough of the forum and felt he was getting too worked up over stuff here. Pity, I miss seeing the old names on here. I was even pleased to see DonTirri back, just don't tell him. Awww. I didn't realize yo...

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You know watka, I think I did similar math back in 2014 and Halfway through the season the titlefight was between Bottas and Ricciardo... Anyhow, I started wondering just how "boring" this decade has been when it comes to championship winners, and started checking how this decade thus far ...

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Yet at the same time, had there been no tractor it would've been nothing but a harmless spin or at worst a trip to the barricade. Which the cars ARE designed to withstand. Or had there been no standing water or rain he probably would not have even spun. So not slowing down was a contributing factor...

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You're absolutely right. Blaming just one of the factors for his death is ignorant, it just so happens that's not what I was doing. The tractor didn't cause him to crash, the rain and water were beyond his control. His speed certainly was. And it cannot be denied that he was going too fast. If he s...

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Not slowing down under double yellows is what caused Bianchi's accident (Yes, Bianchi screwed up. That's a fact, you may stop your internal dialogue. "but mexi the rain and the water and the tractor amd he had no chanc"- shut up . You're wrong. Kay? Kay.) and people still think that this ...

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To quote a post I made at the Hungarian GP thread (which in retrospect belonged here" Can we really just get the monsoon tires? This is goddamn silly. Actually, can FIA start fiddling the rulebook so that the cars wouldn't be so goddamn sensitive to non-optimal circumstances? Overtaking is hard...

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Can we really just get the monsoon tires? This is goddamn silly. Actually, can FIA start fiddling the rulebook so that the cars wouldn't be so goddamn sensitive to non-optimal circumstances? Overtaking is hard because the cars can't stay close. Rain racing is hard because the cars aquaplane so easil...

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i've always preferred Imola over Monza. Sure, the Tamburello and Villeneuve were a bad way to address the issue, but they were still neccessary and didn't detract TOO much from the circuit. Monza on the other hand... The chicanes added to it just ruin it. Seriously, adding Mickey Mouse chicanes to a...

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My votes:

1:Whinelton: For cryin out loud. STOP bathplug COMPLAINING!
2:Red Bull Tyre Woes: Robbed us of a proper fight between Vet and Ric.

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You know. It ABSOLUTELY SICKENS me that we're here once again. It seems like whenever the "popular" Red Bull driver loses to his teammate, this forum, the one I thought was free of the Autosportish bias-rubbish, devolves into conspiracies and pulls out the tar and feathers. Max drove a fan...

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Verstappen all the way. No contest.

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The fact that Moreno actually got the Andrea Moda to the grid at Monaco On a serious note, I don't think there is any "Leicester moment" more fitting in F1 history than Keke's 82 championship. A nobody of a driver, in a car with an obsolete engine grinding through the chaos to claim the ti...

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I am getting sick and bathplugging tired at Hamilton-fans crying foul. And conveniently shutting up when Hamilton gets away scot free. That turn 2 in Sochi shoulda netted him a penalty. I am at a point where I don't care who wins as long as Hamilton loses. I am just sick and tired of his fans going ...

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1: Vettel : That First Turn stuffed up Kimi's race, and the whining didn't help >_> 2: Hamilton : Considering that Räikkönen finished 2 spots higher than he did despite the two of them being nose to tail after the Safety Car, and Mercedes being the superior car... Uninsipired is barely a strong enou...

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IF Sauber falls out of the sport, it should be a wake up call for the FIA. It will be a sad, sad day for F1 to see a team like Sauber forced to pack up. I mean, for teams like HRT and Caterham it was just a matter of time before it happened, just like so many other teams who enter the sport and neve...

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Continuing on the theme of championship wins, each decade of F1's existence has provided atleast ONE new winning team. Unless you count Brawn as a continuation of the Tyrrell-legacy, but considering that unlike Team Enstone, Brawn had NOTHING in common with Ken Tyrrells outfit, I would call them a n...

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