Grand Prix Rejects

Valrys

Are there any places online where you can watch the GP2/3 races, either live or afterwards?

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People nominating Yamamoto - after all that practice mediocrity, he almost outqualified Senna

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redbulljack14 wrote:Yamamoto, for being miles off the pace in both practice sessions.

For FP2 at least, that's unfair, he only did 3 laps

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From: Alex Valrey (a.valrey@.precisionmotorsports.com) To: Niko Nurminen (niko.nurminen@.precisionmotorsports.com), Jeroen Krautmeir (jeroen@.precisionmotorsports.com) Hi, All the arrangements are made for our little stateside jaunt, and thank you Jeroen for arranging for Jasper to come along, I've...

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From: Alex Valrey (a.valrey@.precisionmotorsports.com) To: Jeroen Krautmeir (jeroen@.precisionmotorsports.com) Jeroen, While it's sad that Ed has had to leave the team (he was such a good laugh and an excellent driver), I'd just like to thank you for having faith in me and promoting me to the race ...

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From: Alex Valrey (a.valrey@.precisionmotorsports.com) To: Jeroen Krautmeir (jeroen@.precisionmotorsports.com); Ronan Griffin (ronan.technical@.precisionmotorsports.com) Jeroen, Ronan. Delighted to finally be back in F1 as a part of this promising new team, and looking forward to a hopefully succes...

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Q1 - No
Q2 - Not yet at least
Q3 - I personally wouldn't have been.

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Were Toro Rosso's seats decided already? I wouldn't be surprised to see this as an indication that he might be replacing Buemi or Alguersuari. I don't really see that happening, surely they'd put another Red Bull young driver in if they wanted to replace them, unless they were really hurting for fu...

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Love this idea! I've done similar things before on other forums, but not F1 related, so I'm definately up for this I'll take the test/reserve driver role, in my persona of Brit Alex Valrey (not my real name) Alex Valrey Age: 24 Nationality: British (Scottish-English) Career: 1990 - Final season of K...

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I think we'll just have to agree to disagree on Senna, sure it wasn't exactly smart, but I don't think he deserves ROTR.

New candidate, Kubica! For losing 2nd place because "he got distracted" altering settings on his steering wheel as he tooled down the pitlane

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1st - Mercedes, but particularly Rosberg, as he made fantastic use of the restart to make up 2 places 2nd - Petrov, 23rd to 9th, a mature drive with an excellent passing manuever in there for good measure. I'd like to give 2nd to Kobayashi, but I can't, as he his excellent pace seemed to evaporate a...

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Cynon wrote:I think ROTR should go to Bruno Senna for being outraced by Sakon Yamamoto and for not capitalizing on what opportunities he had.

He retired a couple of laps in, I don't think that's really fair.

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And Glock gets a grid penalty for blocking, of all people, Yamamoto

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So far:

Petrov - amateur error, if there's no rain tomorrow his race is screwed
Sauber - for both crashing out in Q1
Alonso - where was the pace?
HRT - for not gambling on a run on slicks at the end of Q1, Senna may have sneaked into Q2 going on FP pace if he'd been brave

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dr-baker wrote:Plus another £50,000 - it's £650,000!

Damn, that's a shame, I have £600,000 in cash in suitcases under my bed

*sigh*

Maybe I'll just go buy a 1 race drive with Hispania instead

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dr-baker wrote: Oh, and let Sauber test in Switzerland, to save them having to leave the country to test.

I don't think there's any circuits that can take an F1 car in Switzerland, due to circuit racing being banned and all that

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Waris wrote:
tommykl wrote:
Phoenix wrote:How come? Stirling Moss is in 5th place

Beats me...

AFAIK, he drove a few races in mediocre machinery before he became competitive.

Yeah, he spent a year or two struggling with slow and useless British no-hopers before he got himself a Maserati in 1954.

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Kobayashi - brilliant first lap, good pace throughout, just an all round excellent race
The New Teams - All the cars to the finish, none of the them blocked or did anything stupid, and even Yamamoto wasn't too shabby on the pace. Showing promise.

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Schumacher - for obvious reasons

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Loving this so far, hope Klok Motorsport doesn't run out of money!

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Myrvold wrote:I gues HRT would've done it better without Dallara.

Without Dallara, HRT would have had nothing.

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You've missed Sooper Aguri! from the 2007 team results.

But otherwise very interesting!

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http://twitter.com/antdavidson/status/19577363331

Oh Dear, more rejectness from our good friend Sakon

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eagleash wrote:Just out of interest Chandhok is apparently going to form part of the BBC R5live commentary team for 1st & 2nd practice on Friday. This is also transmitted via TV "red button".

And an excellent job he did too!

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Captain Hammer wrote:*pic*

"Of course we're giving you equal treatment, Mark ..."

ahaha, nice one

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Reading the post-race comments on Hispanias website, apparantly Karun suffered some damage to his car, particularly the bargeboards, which might go some way to explaining why the two drivers were so close.

I however, still prefer to think that Sakons just better than given credit for

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McJaggers wrote:
He actually got a puncture from Hamilton front wing.

Yes, and if he hadn't arsed about trying to chop Webber, his rear tyre wouldn't have been anywhere near Hamiltons front wing

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Sauber - putting on a set of new tyres isn't going to fix a disintegrating rear wing, folks Vettel - an unnecessary and violent chop on Webber, which if he hadn't have done, he wouldn't have got his puncture, slow on his new set of tyres and didn't really come alive until he'd been given a sniff of...

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And Yamamoto finishes less than a second behind Chandhok, setting his fastest lap of the race (1:38.309) on the last lap.

Not bad.

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Slightly more impressed with Yamamoto today, got closer to Chandhok, wasn't too far off of Glock, and improved in the first two sectors on his final laps in the last ten minutes, but lost time to letting traffic by in the final sector. Of course, he doesn't deserve to be there in place of Senna, but...

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Eh? The results on the screen say Kobayashi scored a point! Either Jamie made a mistake or timing problems... Yeah my mistake. f1.com live timing had a hiccup which meant I was following the race with just my mental order tracking. Usually it's reliable, but this time it seemed to have the judgment...

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Vettel, for obvious reasons
Lotus, for simultaneous hydraulic failures
Williams, for being very slow
Kobayashis race engineer, for not telling him Buemi was a lap behind him
Alonso, for his qualy performance, and then not being very quick or agressive in the race

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I nominate "the newbies" collectively for ROTR. None of the new drivers and none of the new teams managed to finish the race. Uhh, did you actually watch the race? Yes, of course I watched the race. Is my observation not corect? Your observation is correct, but none of the new teams and d...

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Pedestrian wrote:I nominate "the newbies" collectively for ROTR. None of the new drivers and none of the new teams managed to finish the race.

Uhh, did you actually watch the race?

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1) Kovalienen - very good pace, quickest of the new teams by quite some margin, and not too far off Petrov before his retirement 2) The HRTs - by far their best race on pace, Chandhok was matching Di Grassi before the Virgin retired, and almost stayed ahead of Trulli, while Senna did a great tyre ma...

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Captain Hammer wrote:Hispania because Bruno Senna reportedly damaged his chassis in Barcelona and the team have not been able to work out what is wrong with it, so he's forced to run the race wth a car that is even slower than it should be.

Seriously? Good lord, I love HRT, but that's verging on Andrea Moda'esque

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I'd be very interested in reading it.

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1) Kubica
2) Liuzzi

No explanation needed.

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Webber - watching all those replays of him driving into the back of Hamilton gave me my best laugh in ages Red Bull Reliabilty - or rather, the seeming non-existance of it Xtrac Hydraulics - self explanatory really, far too many failures Michael Schumacher - I'm sure tootling around in 13th, before...

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Valrys's Predictions 2010 Australian Grand Prix: 1. Webber 2. Hamilton 3. Alonso 4. Vettel 5. Button 6. Rosberg 7. Sutil 8. Kubica 9. Schumacher 10. Hulkenburg Pole: Vettel Fastest lap: Webber First Retirement: Di Grassi ROTR: Sauber IIDOTR: Kubica DBTMOTR: Petrov - not for being crap, but purely a ...

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