Grand Prix Rejects

TheBigJ

They had a slamdunk case. I am really surprised they aren't sueing the FIA for damages. I understand why they didn't challenge Max's title but I was expecting people higher up than Toto Wollf telling him that this is a way to get back the millions invested into this season. Reading reddit's reaction...

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If there is a SC 1-2 laps earlier maybe Hamilton pits and calls Red Bull's bluff...if they keep Verstappen out he has 3 laps to fend off Hamilton on supersofts in a faster car. Not as foregone a conclusion as what we saw but definitely Mercedes have more time to think it through. Speaking of the VSC...

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Actually you raise a good point I think many of us who are pre-Netflix (let's put it that way) are too used to Safety Cars being a fact of life in Formula 1. And don't see their overuse as something negative or positive. We saw Vettel win a championship under SC conditions. Many people tuning into C...

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I've logged in after a couple of years because I wanted to vote for Michael Masi as ROTR and eventual ROTY. Even though he is not actually befitting of the Reject title even. Whilst I am here I would also say that the above is indeed the way someone concerned with safety and protocol would have ende...

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I am signing back in after a long while thinking the site was down. Hello

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the demonstration of the pointlessness of having double points : dire race if you take the WC out of hte equation, and then that turned into a procession once Rosberg had car issues. Red Bull for being that annoying hipster that has to do everything different and bend the rules of society with his ...

TheBigJ

My nominations are the race and also Nico H for being anonymous again. Hulkenberg was deployed as a Trulli-train to allow Perez into 10th place. I nominate Caterham for Kobayashi's start-and-park race which is already rejectful in itself and then trying to make out the brakes were overheating. Hono...

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I actually think, if you compare this year's performance to recent years, Lotus have been performing worse than any of the other main nominations (Caterham, Sauber, Kimi, Ericsson etc). Have they really been rejectful though? A large part of their demise comes from lack of funding and losing people...

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Terrible day for motorsport.

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Taki Inoue just posted quite a graphic image of the aftermath of the crash. View at your own discretion. Once again shows the downside of the change to Twitter this year that images in tweets automatically appear in your timeline, very difficult to avoid confronting images such as this or other thi...

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Why aren't they showing footage of the crash? Must be bad... They never show. Like senna crash last few seconds is not yet released. Well, officially it was never recorded. On board footage would have helped us understand the nature of the crash but FIA didn't even show that, which is understandabl...

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I did wonder why they cut to seemingly pointless footage of the Sauber garage for so long just before the red flag. Stewards used a sheet to cover treatment of Bianchi behind his car in order to block tv from seeing any pictures. Really FIA? Bianchi might be injured. People want to know what happen...

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fjackdaw wrote:I did wonder why they cut to seemingly pointless footage of the Sauber garage for so long just before the red flag.

Stewards used a sheet to cover treatment of Bianchi behind his car in order to block tv from seeing any pictures.

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Why aren't they showing footage of the crash? Must be bad...

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Ferrari are staking a claim for this award.

EDIT : Honda take the cake for ruining the race.

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He's already stopped.

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Nice to see another win for someone other than Mercedes. It's a shame the wins can't be spread around a bit more, though! Yeah. The best race of the year. Not because of this, but it certainly helped. +1 This is why we watch. Canada was better. something like 5 or 6 cars at the end could have won t...

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Dj_bereta wrote:If I remember well, the last time that someone crashed during Safety car was Vettel in Japanese Grand Prix of 2007 season.

Yeah, bumped into Webber, although I also recall Liuzzi i think in 2010 crashing under SC conditions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDoKiRigaj4

TheBigJ

I think Ron Dennis and McLaren should be awarded the prize for their ridiculous boasting and saying they had a potentially championship winning car. On today's evidence they will be fighting for 3rd place with Ferrari and Williams.

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good_Ralf wrote:If Ricciardo is disqualified I will nominate the new fuel flow rule. Or Red Bull for not sticking to it.

Has to go to Red Bull when you consider that all teams know the rules and what happened to Vettel. From champs to chumps.

TheBigJ

I'm curious as to how the 'new' teams will fare. It's really make or break for them. If we just have Marussia's car with Caterham's drivers then it would look promising.

I think they are destined for rejectdom, and very abject rejectdom that is. I hope they prove me wrong.

TheBigJ

One thing I just thought of is why not let teams decide when they can have a double points race (rather than put in the end). Each team can chose which week-end they decide to activate their double points 'joker' (have to call it before FP1). It would add much more interest and mean you have at lea...

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pi314159 wrote:United Sportscar Championship (USCC), including NAEC or Daytona only entrants:

David Brabham
Max Papis
Justin Wilson
Pedro Lamy
Olivier Beretta
Gianmaria Bruni
Markus Winkelhock

This must be a joke?

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One thing I just thought of is why not let teams decide when they can have a double points race (rather than put in the end). Each team can chose which week-end they decide to activate their double points 'joker' (have to call it before FP1). It would add much more interest and mean you have at leas...

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Ataxia wrote:Rain. You can't censor me.

You can't censor Zsolt Baumgartner either.

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1. Perez
2. Button

McLaren are still ROTY imo

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Weather Forecast.

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I don't know where to post this so I guess a US GP thread in a forum named after the Legend himself is a good start...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY7IdWpqYXI

Who else cracked up after 'this bullshit race'...vintage Stoddart!

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This wrote:Sadly, no suprising teams qualified. The only ones that are making their debut are Bosnia-Herzegovina, but that's not a huge surprise.

Big thing for them though considering how broken their country is. Kind of like Belgium's story.

TheBigJ

I would like to nominate the two new teams, Caterham and Marussia. Hear me out - they have been around now for quite some time but are not much closer than they used to be and on paper their situation is deteriorating with each passing year. When they entered in 2010 they were rather better organiz...

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Nick Heidfeld should come back to F1.

Glad we finally got rid of Pay-driver Perez, the most hyped up useless piece of junk since Montoya.

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I'm stealing This' post here, but there are some goings-on in Belgium that I just wanted to talk about in my very own Meanwhile in Belgium . The main happening is relevant to me in particular, since it happened 3km away from where I live. Sprimont-Comblain, through a miracle of nature, are in the t...

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Adrian Newey comes across as an arse.

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Jocke1 wrote:

"At least I'm getting paid!"

TheBigJ

McLaren deserved it last year and they deserve it this year too. I find their arrogance as bad as Ferrari's. And their results don't match up either.

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I guess nobody wants to win the title here in Belgium... You forget they are essentially playing for 1.5 points a win instead of 3. As much as I'd like Standard to maintain the solid start, I think Genk are easily the best team in Belgium. Vossen and Mboyo are PL standard. With the Play offs you ne...

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F1 drivers don't have hot enough WAGs.

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belgiumwinslol But it must be said, i've never seen a team being less motivated than Croatia. This also shows that being a great team is not only about talent but also a state of mind. Secretly, i hope that against Wales, Wilmots will put both Lukaku and Benteke on the field together. They tried it...

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Highlights video of easily the best Suzuka GP. What's weird about that vid is the awful commentary right up to the point Alonso arse-rapes Schumi, just a classic piece of commentary that sticks into my mind... But I have a question to the experts here : can you reassure me that next year's rule cha...

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