Grand Prix Rejects

Valrys

dr-baker wrote:Of course, there is a driver link between the two teams - Luca Badoer! But I doubt there is a driver who has driven for both Italian teams AND Jordan?

Can't find any, but there are a couple who get two out of three, surprisingly enough

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Izzyeviel wrote:If they do buy a team, why wouldn't they buy Enstone again?

The arrangements with Genii Capital, which are apparently quite complex with how the debt is structured.

Valrys

Time to stop going all dewey-eyed about the underdogs and ask ourselves what's Grand Prix racing and what isn't? So basically the only way a team can ever come into the sport/be rescued from failure is if they're a manufacturer or backed by a very very large business? I don't think the sport would ...

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F1 . 15 cars started the race. Excluding the the 2005 US Grand Prix, when has it ever been that low? To be fair though, of the no starters, 2 cars were from a team that only existed and took its cars out of storage a handful of weeks before showing up at the track, 1 was a freak injury to a driver ...

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Sauber should never have hired this guy, given how he pulled the rug from under the SuperAguri team back in 2005. Now, Giedo has done it again. Sauber's situation now in this matter is quite odd: are they even contractually allowed to park one of their full-season drivers for this race only? As if ...

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Oh, and by the way, has there ever been anybody who has been a Team Principal for one single race weekend only? Is Finnbarr O'Connell really the first person to achieve this feat? Does anybody else think this guy turning up to play at F1 for a weekend sucks? Caterham should be barred from racing th...

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roblomas52 wrote:Instead of the GP2 chassis, why not use the Super Formula chassis? after all, the Super Formula cars are turbocharged and IIRC they are as quick, if not a tad faster than a 2010 mid grid F1 car.

If it might mean more Japanese teams and drivers, that'd be a laugh

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BUMP Potentially good news for those in the Midlands - a time trial event is being planned using the Coventry ring road for May 2015 Hmmm...this doesn't really interest me much to be honest. Partly because it's a time trial and partly because when they shut the ring road, it's pretty difficult to g...

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Gutierrez - that was just pathetic all round

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To be fair to Massa, his day was ruined by getting some debris in his car, ruining the handling - once they'd cleared it out, he was matching Bottas on pace (and I think has the faster race lap) but the damage was done.

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Can't blame Hamilton for that - Rosberg should have backed out, but it was clumsy rather than malicious or stupid.

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Officially a fan of Artem Markalov now. Boy must have balls the size of Crimea...

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Jocke1 wrote:Proud of Ericsson today, a solid qualifying effort and only 0.969s behind Lotterer.
His future looks very bright at this point in time.

Severe quantities of mirth

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Caterham - Two early mechanical retirements, no pace Sauber - did we see them on TV except for Gutierrez retiring, and Sutil tooling around getting lapped at the end? Mercedes - Twin mechanical mishaps at exactly the same time? Madness Sure, Chilton's accident and then claim that it wasn't his fault...

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I would laugh if they drop straight in and beat Marussia and Caterham.

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JeremyMcClean wrote:I have no choice but to ask one brutally honest question:

Are you planning to watch the race?

Will be watching it, as I forgot to cancel my Sky Go monthly pass, meaning they already have my money for this month so I might as well make use of it.

Valrys

Having watched the replays some more, Narain actually did veer towards Vettel - but Vettel was also turning in to go back on the racing line, and Narain was apparently trying to not crash the car having gone out on the kerb/white line to give Vettel space, so definitely 50/50. Vettel is still acting...

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Ed24 wrote:Massa wasn't great, but Kobayashi was pretty awful as well considering what Perez could do, and that seems to be overlooked a little.

His pace was solid, Perez was just awesome. Also we don't know what caused him to retire, so maybe he was nursing a problem.

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Narain Karthikeyan (this coming from a HRT-fan...) What did Karthikeyan do wrong? He was racing for position with Button and Vettel moved across on him. Definitely, Narain was not at fault for those incidents, and made good use of the call to start on the wet tyres, even just running in the points ...

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Grosjean - threw away a great qualifying again
Massa - once again, godawful
Button - accident was his own fault, didn't do much afterwards
Mercedes - once again, nowhere
Sauber's strategists - if only they hadn't kept Perez out for an extra lap....

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Hmm, I wonder if anyone will take bets on Sauber remaining 4th or above in the constructors championship.

Fantastic race, Perez and Senna the clear standouts, with positive mentions to the Force Indias and Vergne.

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cbbcisace wrote:Don't think HRT did any quali runs, I think Marussia did at the end... Clos mentioned that on Spanish TV

De La Rosa definitely ran the medium tyre for at least one run, although not right at the end of the session.

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They'll surely qualify with pace like this. Fingers crossed!

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Seriously, for those complaining about British TV coverage: I cannot have Sky at the moment (I am uni halls until the end of May) Sky Go on your computer! Anyway, rejects: Caterham - double retirement, neither due to crashes, and Hekki made it sound like his car was literally falling apart Massa - ...

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Jeez, how cheeky was that by Di Resta?

I can only feel sorry for Maldonado though, that was a fantastic drive for 57.5 of the 58 laps

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I didn't watch FP2, but did Karthikeyan not get any proper dry running, or was he just genuinely that slow?

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What? It's quite clearly different, although the front wing does look like last years with some bits taken off of it.

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Darn! I attend Coventry Uni and had no idea this was on. That'll teach me to not pay attention to things.

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shinji wrote:
kostas22 wrote:
Cynon wrote:Hulu and Netflix do.

Neither of which are available in the UK, hence why I pirate all the US TV shows I watch!

Really? We have it here, I'm amazed you don't.

We do have Netflix here in the UK. The selection is awful though.

Valrys

Come oooooooon, bring that damn safety car in and let's go!

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New nomination - Tonio Liuzzi's new boots.

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Enforcer wrote:New nomination.

Eddie Jordan, for being within arms reach of George Lucas and not punching him.

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If it's so wet you're falling off......drive slower.

It does look so wet to be impossible just now, but they brought the safety car out unnecessarily, even if the Red Flag was needed.

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bathplug off, safety car start? Bunch of bathplug wimps.

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Apparently there's still a lot of rain at the circuit - I really hope they don't wimp out and start behind the SC

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East Londoner wrote:Oh dear, EJ running his mouth about DLR and Sauber...

Indeed, normally I don't mind EJ, but he really needed to shut the hell up today. Embarrassing.

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Anyway, found them - http://www.imar.pe.it/

And the car looks awesome even without sponsors, I'd pay them to keep it that way

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IMAR something. IMO, the logo is way too small, or are HRT calculating the size of the logo on how much the sponsor brings them? Isn't that how sponsorship works? And a quick google search I did yesterday turned up several IMARs - an Irish geophysical surveryor, the Institute of Marine Research, th...

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2011 Canadian Grand Prix 1. Hamilton 2. Alonso 3. Button 4. Vettel 5. Webber 6. Massa 7. Kobayashi 8. Di Resta 9. Barrichello 10. Kovalainen Pole: Vettel Fastest Lap: Button First Retirement: Maldonado ROTR: Mercedes IIDOTR: Kovalainen DBTMOTR: Maldonado Minor League Premiership: Di Resta Non-Qualif...

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Lols at the Marshal falling over right in front of Vettels car

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