Grand Prix Rejects

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And look who's just joined DTM.

I always thought this might have been the right move. Now, prove it.

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What usually happens is, I find the Actual Red Button to be a bit capricious and watch the race on Virgin Media's BBC Red Button channel (991) instead. Not this time - they were showing the Welsh Open snooker, even though FE was scheduled. I was greeted with "And on BBC2 Wales, we'll be staying...

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Snooker loopy, nuts are we,
But not when I want to watch Formula E!

STOP FANNYING ABOUT ON THE YELLOW, GET THIS MATCH OVER WITH AND THEN WE CAN GET TO MEXICO!

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And now, in a break from what I'd usually put on the football thread: the BBC asks "Where do Manchester City go from here?" Expect a mass exodus of the players who were only there because Manchester City are winning everything in sight at the moment, as well as the Johnny-come-lately fans ...

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dinizintheoven wrote:- Ferrari have reintroduced the "Viking horns" from the mid-2000s

I must be looking at the wrong thing, but the engine cover on the Ferrari is wing free?

They're smaller than McLaren's original version, but they're there.

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So far: - Haas have all but copied last year's car; - Ferrari have reintroduced the "Viking horns" from the mid-2000s (and the number font that was used from around 1982-95); - McLaren have brought back the indented shape over the bulkhead that was popular circa 2010. Who's been stealing D...

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Quite surprised nobody's done this yet, seeing as we've had our first unveiling today. And it's the Stars-And-Stripes-waving, AR-15-wielding, apple-pie-munching, God-worshipping TRUE 'MURICAN TEAM that's NUMBER ONE, Y'ALL! That's right, it's FORCE ONE USA, creation of GOD'S FAVORITE SON, DON PENTECO...

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Obvious though it is, the whole Rich Energy debacle, not just the bits involving Haas.

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Achtung! This post is not about football. Well, it is in a way, just the kind of football invented by a naughty schoolboy in 1800-and-something and played with a ball that Don Pentecost's fat aunt has just sat on, that's kicked through some goalposts shaped like the symbol on Arnold Judas Rimmer's h...

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Tom Belsø lost a battle with stomach cancer on 11th January, and is the first F1 driver to die in the All-New Twenties. I'm quite surprised that nobody has noticed within the last three days, given that he was a profiled Reject from t'old site after four less-than-successful outings with Frank Willi...

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And now for our latest carving on the automotive headstone: Clive James . Those of you thinking "hang on, what?" have obviously not seen some of the early Official FOCA F1 Season Review videos (specifically 1982, 1984 and 1986) with his irreverent, sarcastic and incredibly entertaining com...

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It's odd, you know; two things for which I wouldn't usually jump on the bandwagon are bashing the stewards and bashing Lewis Hamilton... but it seems, today, I am left with no choice. Suffice to say that I am unspeakably pissed off on behalf of Alex Albon, who should have been spraying some champagn...

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I rather like the look of the newly-rendered impressions of the generic 2021 F1 car. So why do I have this awful sinking feeling that, come 2021 pre-season testing, the teams will have found their ways to work around the new rules enough so that the cars are even uglier than the 2012 stepped-nose ho...

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Some say his hairstylist is a million leagues ahead of Lewis Hamilton's. Some say that his selfie stick is the steering column from Perry McCarthy's Andrea Moda. All we know is... he's not The Stig! But he is The Stig's Mexican Cousin!

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So, what track will get the boot when F1 races around Miami's Hard Rock Stadium ? Let's check the reject potential of this circuit. Built around a car park: did somebody say "Caesar's Palace"? A race in Florida in May when it'll be roasting hot: did somebody say "Dallas 1984"? Or...

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Here's one from some time in the last few days... It's the near future - possibly, probably even, the 2020 season. And McLaren have won a race! Only, the driver is Felipe Massa, and he's wearing the characteristic red and white overalls of the Marlboro-sponsored era. It may have just been Nottingham...

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The Dutch motorsport media is reporting that Ben Pon died yesterday. In summary: his only F1 entry was the 1962 Dutch Grand Prix at the proper Zandvoort, in a Porsche 787 run by honorary-unrejectified Carel Godin de Beaufort; the ensuing crash that threw him out of the cockpit put him off-single-sea...

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I suppose it's a fair point, so I should explain - seeing the AGS mechanic fitting the alleged-airbox directly over the existing bodywork set my reject alarm off - it's exactly what I'd expect from 80s and early 90s backmarkers, most of which you've mentioned, and I'd have made the same point had I ...

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Ooooooooooooh, matron! Put it away!

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WeirdKerr wrote:that was an absolute [street in York]

...you mean Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma Gate?

Anyway, anything that needed to be said has already been said by the time I'd caught up with qualifying...

Daniil Kvyat wrote:What a mess!

Charles Leclerc wrote:What a mess!

What-a-Mess wrote:Woof.

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Another name to add to the list is Ferdinand Piëch , apparently. So far, all the news outlets are tracing their sources to Bild, rather than anything more credible, so I'm bracing myself for this post to be Guy Edwards Mark Two. Assuming Bild have their facts right, though, this marks the end of the...

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It is a really insane amount of time. Eight full seasons passed between Kubica's first and second careers in Formula 1. It just makes me think how many careers have come and gone in the meantime whilst he's been away: - Paul di Resta (2011-13, 2017) Fixed. Maybe that one-off race he had for William...

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Any of the more recent rejects perhaps (Jolyon Palmer, Esteban Gutierrez, Charles Pic, Giedo Van der Garde, Jules Bianchi, Max Chilton, Will Stevens, Roberto Merhi, Sakon Yamamoto), take your pick from one! According to the rules of The Old Site, Jules Bianchi was awarded an honorary unrejectificat...

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Tringapore cannot into motorsport lah! And I thought A1 Teams Pakistan and Lebanon were rejectful, not exactly being hotbeds of motorsport talent.

And it was also a helpful reminder that China cannot into street circuits, and Formula E has been taking notes.

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All right, I'll bite: what profiles do you want to see written for the site at some stage in the future?

(Or any kind of general articles for Centrale, for that matter, such as the one I almost wrote about the three 2010-entry teams and whether or not they were always doomed to their fate...)

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Merry complete-orbit-day for yesterday, which I can only say today now that I'm back in front of a screen. My 12th August was spent driving from somewhere around Ansbach to the Dunkirk car ferry...

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What happened to it? Did the remnants of the communist secret police drag it away for questioning at the House Of Terror? Or did it drink a bit too much Unicum and pass out in the gutter? Either way, a shot or two of said Unicum can be raised to George Russell, even though he doesn't look old enough...

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If they had a crack at it now, how many of the first-gen cars are still serviceable?

And is anyone else tempted by the prospect of an electric Touring Car championship at any stage, even if it might be a Nissan Leaf walkover at the moment?

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...and it happened, yesterday. I am now a 40-something.

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Nuppiz wrote:Carmageddon: The Movie. Coming soon to theatres.

...starring Sergio Canamasas as Max Damage, and Carmen Jordá as Die Anna...

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It speaks to the biggest problem I have had, and still have with DRS since 2011, and that's that it completely takes away any opportunity for the smaller teams to do well. It kills competition to the point where the smaller teams might as well not turn up. It simply sorts out to allow better teams ...

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Well, having a bit of a dive through Pato's palmarès, it does seem to have been judiciously manicured with the scrupulous care of the latest "unbeaten" boxing prospect to appear with a 12-0 record, only to get put on his arse by some 34-year-old hardman with bad tattoos that you'd never m...

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EVERYWHERE WE GO PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW WHO WE ARE WHERE WE COME FROM SO WE TELL THEM WHO WE ARE WHERE WE COME FROM WE ARE MERCEDES THE BRACKLEY BRACKLEY ARMY AND WE ONLY HAVE TO TURN UP TO WIN... (ad nauseam) I'm not sure whether it is meant to be a good thing or a bad thing that I'm not sure what yo...

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Wallio wrote:Personally? I think Storey = Don Pentacost

Or, possibly, this decade's Jean-Pierre van Rossem.

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EVERYWHERE WE GO
PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW
WHO WE ARE
WHERE WE COME FROM
SO WE TELL THEM
WHO WE ARE
WHERE WE COME FROM
WE ARE MERCEDES
THE BRACKLEY BRACKLEY ARMY
AND WE ONLY HAVE TO TURN UP TO WIN...

(ad nauseam)

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Och aye the noo (redacted)! Crazy D comin' atchta wit' da wickedywack flava o' Red Bull. Tastes like you is drinkin' it outta me homie Danny Ric's racin' boot, even if you isn't! Innit. But how Crazy D roll though, him be open ta tryin' otha flavas. An' da flava o' Rich Energy is... actually, me do...

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Surely it should be Christian Klien and Robert Doorknobs.

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Lee Iacocca died on 2nd July aged 94. And while he may never have been involved in F1, mainly due to being American (and probably barely recognising anything outside NASCAR and Indy), I think everyone on this board should at least be aware of his life and works. As close to F1 as he ever got would ...

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I nominate the Austrian flag draped strategically over Niki Lauda's McLaren MP4/2 after the race. Seriously, are they so paranoid about tobacco advertising that they can't even show the chevron shape on the livery even when the Marlboro logos have been removed?

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And it'd be a great test to see if Formula E is a proper feeder for F1 despite the drastic differences in series. And the only driver to have raced in FE before moving to F1? Pierre Gasly... All right, so it was strictly a one-off drive given that he had nothing better to do that weekend and Renaul...

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