Grand Prix Rejects

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Wander what the sad Kubica situation could do for the driver market? Massa might have been a good stop-gap at Ferrari until 2013, or late 2012 when Kubica could have had a preparation drive or two. Now it may be prescient for Ferrari to grab one of the cheap talents going spare. Can't see Petrov pul...

IceG's Predictions: 1) Hamilton 2) Button 3) Schumacher 4) Alonso 5) Vettel 6) Rosberg 7) Barrichello (yay!) 8) Alguasuari 9) Di Resta 10) Kovalainen (yay #2!) Pole: Hamilton Fastest Lap: Hamilton First Retirement: Massa/Webber on first corner ROTR: Massa for taking himself and Webber out on the fir...

"Where would Kubica have finished in 2011?"

Looks like the answer might be "In a Ferrari".

With the bad news that Robert Kubica has ruled himself out of the early races in 2012, I was wondering what he would have achieved in 2011. We know what Heidfeld and Petrov managed in the Renault and I suggest that as a minimum benchmark for Kubica. Could he have done even better? To start things of...

Re DRS, I was wandering which driver would be smart enough NOT to overtake in the first zone but just use it to get tight enough on the tail of the car in front to spook them into defensive driving into the chicane, then nail them in the second zone and thus make the pass stick. No-one seemed to.

IceG's Predictions 1. Button 2. Alonso 3. Schumacher 4. Webber 5. Hamilton 6. Alguersuari 7. Rosberg 8. Di Resta 9. Sutil 10. Kovalainen Pole: Vettel Fastest Lap: Alonso First Retirement: Vettel (well he has to crash out sometime) ROTR: Webber (can't win even when Vettel crashes out) IIDOTR: Schumac...

Vepe's idea in the customer car thread concerning scoring for constructors (only take the scores for the top two of a type) reminds me of an idea I had for three-car teams; only the top two drivers can score in a race for themselves and the team. A team could then run two prime drivers (although obv...

1. Hamilton
2. Webber
3. Vettel (Mark is faster than you)
4. Button
5. Alonso
6. Di Resta
7. Rosberg
8. Schumacher
9. Alguersuari
10. Kovalainen

Pole: Vettel
Fastest Lap: Webber
First Retirement: Trulli
ROTR: Williams
IIDOTR: Kovalainen
DBTMOTR: Massa
MLP: Di Resta
DNQ: Karthikeyan

Did Perez pit to put the "other" tyre on and avoid a 30 seconds penalty? I lost track of his pit stops but the usual Sauber tyre strategy is to run hard tyres down to the canvas.

I'd like to unrejectify Brundell who, after Japan when he forgot about Kubica, managed to mention him about ten times during practice, qualy and the race

I must come clean and admit my comment was based on having watched the Practice 2 replay

But if they lock up they can't avoid them. The emerging car is crossing the straight-on line rather than merging into the stream. T-bone guaranteed.

How was it last year, I can't remember?

ROTY - the Bahrain Grand Prix This was the worst performance by anything involved in F1 EVER . There were people dying in the streets and doctors being locked up for treating the wounded. And no-one with any power in F1 took a moral stance to just say "No". Everything else; petulant driver...

IceG's Predictions 2011 Korean Grand Prix 1. Hamilton 2. Alonso 3. Button 4. Vettel 5. Schumacher 6. Webber 7. Rosberg 8. Perez 9. Alguersuari 10. Kovalainen (he's surely got to score a point this season) Pole: Vettel Fastest Lap: Vettel First Retirement: d'Ambrosio ROTR: Massa IIDOTR: Hamilton (mes...

Brundle; for listing all the drivers available to Renault next year and forgetting Kubica - shame

My apologies for late submission and thanks for your flexibility.

I thought the deadline was end of 3rd practice.

OK, my first time at this so, like Ferrari for 2012, I'm going radical: 1. Button 2. Alonso 3. Di Resta 4. Hamilton 5. Kobayashi (home race!) 6. Massa 7. Rosberg 8. Schumacher 9. Kovalainen 10. Algersuari Pole: Vettel Fastest Lap: Button First Retirement: Vettel (out-accelerated by Button from pole ...

Hi everybody, I've been lurking around what seems to be the most erudite F1 forum on the web (well informed, good spelling, good humour, minimum flame wars) and thought I should finally join. Been an F1 fan since the early 80s and getting increasingly bemused by err....... everything. Other opinions...