Grand Prix Rejects

Wallio

"Sir" Lewis Hamilton - The man who for years told us he was equal to Senna, pulls a Senna and takes his title rival out on purpose, never apologizes, and then cries at the slap on the wrist penalty he gets. At least he hasn't called the stewards racist this time. Not yet anyway.

Wallio

I wonder if people will feel quite the same if the 2022 cars all look pretty much the same - I don't think that some have quite realised quite how restrictive the 2022 rule set is, or quite how aggressively it limits the bodywork shapes to fit to a very clear template that those rule writers want t...

Wallio

Today's storm in a teacup comes from Daniel Ricciardo being caught on microphone that something or other was "terrible. It’s shite, it’s worse" when standing next to the new 2022 car. I can only assume he was talking about the new season of his favourite tv show, but folks are blowing it ...

Wallio

I was under the impression Roger was asked about this by Pruett or Fryer or Pockross or someone of their level, and he basically said "lol nah we're good".

Plus COTA cleared another fall date with the local authorities for a "major event".

Wallio

Similarly, it's quite possible to find some forums which were around in the early to mid 2000s where some of the comments being made about the likes of McLaren, Ferrari and Williams were not too dissimilar to what we hear now. Now that you're 100% correct about. I hung out on the SPEED Channel foru...

Wallio

I’m glad you brought up sky, because F1tv uses the sky commentary feed for English language. And espn uses sky as well in the US (or at least used to). I’m very happy about this as I love hearing Brundle. But also, someone in the US could probably be forgiven for believing F1TV and Sky were the sam...

Wallio

As I said, I'll have to go back and watch some of it again. But the fact that you have to nitpick so hard over one season from the last 15 or so pre-LOLMERCWINSLOL kind of makes my point for me. Even if for the sake of argument we accept 2011 as a squash, that still gives us 1988 (which at least had...

Wallio

Are you saying that, prior to the 2018 German GP, Vettel and Ferrari were not challenging Mercedes that season? Vettel certainly seemed confident, even rather cocky, about his performances until then (just take his radio message after the British GP that year, for example). Also, wouldn't some poin...

Wallio

1.) Danny Ric - This season feels worse than his start to 2019, which was pretty awful. Mclaren is 3rd in WCC on merit, essentially running one car. Especially glaring when most people (myself included to be fair) thought he would easily blow Lando away. 2.) Leclerc - Old "Chuck The Chair"...

Wallio

Now, I suspect this might be an unpopular opinion, but it is this - be careful for what you wish for, because you might not necessarily like the consequences of it. In the frustration of saying "I'm tired of driver X dominating, I can't wait for somebody else to win", there is the inevita...

Wallio

What's making them want to watch it when it's such a rejectful disaster every weekend? They aren't. The race didn't even register amongst all the motorsports this weekend. At least here in the US. Which means that it had less than half a million viewers at most, which is for all intents and purpose...

Wallio

I really don't understand why people are saying Ferrari. We have known since preseason testing that, while yes, they have taken a large step forward from last year, they still won't be any good this year. A pair of street circuits and fluky qualifying red flags simply flattered to deceive. Coupe tha...

Wallio

I'm not sure if this unpopular or not, but a trend that started last year ad really bothers me: Why does Liberty/Sky/Local TV peeps/Whoever only ever use footage from the V6-Hybrid era for the highlights in their "action zone" bits in the opening of sessions? I get that at like Algarve and...

Wallio

Bottas: Claims chassis is damaged/defective. Mercedes: Makes a big public show of switching chassis for FP1/2. Crofty and Di Resta: Make snide comments and take the piss out of it all day. Bottas: Goes P1 in FP1, and is only .008 off P1 in FP2. Lewis: Goes slower and complains "there is somethi...

Wallio

French driver hitches himself to Les Nouveaux Bleus in a move that will shock nobody ... ...unless you thought that French driver was Pierre Gasly, who will presumably have to wait for a certain two-time World Champion to retire before he can make the same move, by which time he may have gone elsew...

Wallio

French driver hitches himself to Les Nouveaux Bleus in a move that will shock nobody ... ...unless you thought that French driver was Pierre Gasly, who will presumably have to wait for a certain two-time World Champion to retire before he can make the same move, by which time he may have gone elsew...

Wallio

The whole paywall/free-to-air/streaming question. This is a bit tough for me to understand since I'm in the US, the free-to-air ship sailed decades ago. Almost noone here gets TV signal over the air, and the last time a significant number of people did was the 1980s. So I'm going to be paying one w...

Wallio

Honestly, there can be only one: David Bathplugging Coultard: We have a new leader in the WDC and the WCC! First time in legitimately years! And we have the winner and new championship leader right here! Do I interview him! AW HELL NO! Let's bring in a tennis player to give Max advice! Then I just f...

Wallio

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/2021-race-start-times-announced/5228920/?ic_source=home-page-widget&ic_medium=widget&ic_campaign=widget-1 Race-starts are back on the hour again, so at least a little less confusing. no more 10-past race starts. But will we still get the overly dramatic sh...

Wallio

I'm sure he's asked for a lot of money, but that's normal. If he's asked for permission to be more political...that could be more tricky, I suppose. The rumor here in America is that the issue is a weird hybrid of both of those. Allegedly Lewis wants a very long contract, but only a few years (most...

Wallio

I have been waiting for GPR to be back up and running all season just so I can post this, so here goes: I don't get George Russell. Like at all. Don't understand the hype, don't get the memes, can't understand why everyone wants to replace Lewis with him (and as y'all know, I'm no Lewis fan). So ye...

Wallio

Oh, my mistake. I must have misread Miguel's orginial post. I thought he was saying we already had a presence on Reddit. I have no idea what discord and mibbit are, and have no interest in finding out, but I do venture on Reddit occasionally and would support GPR there if it exists. If not, no biggi...

Wallio

I have been waiting for GPR to be back up and running all season just so I can post this, so here goes: I don't get George Russell. Like at all. Don't understand the hype, don't get the memes, can't understand why everyone wants to replace Lewis with him (and as y'all know, I'm no Lewis fan). So yea...

Wallio

Wow, did one of my periodical checks of forum link that I have been doing for the last few months, and was surprised to see us back up. Even better that there is an explanation this time! (Its wonderful not being lied to!) Hopefully the traffic loss won't be permanent. Also we have a Reddit? As much...

Wallio

I now withdraw all my complaints about commentary after watching FP1 and FP2 at work today. MORE PAUL DI RESTA!!!!!

He's properly glorious! Shutting down Crofty and Kravitz left, right and center, and when he was s**ting all over Stroll and his "contract" I quite literally laughed out loud.

Wallio

While it seems Renault made progress I have to respectfully disagree there. Renault is stuck in neutral until Cyril gets the (long over due) boot. Although maybe Alonso has enough sway to make that happen. That could be a plus. Also, they are the only Renault engined car next year, so if they can u...

Wallio

Out of pure speculation... Norris got the gap down to 4.802 seconds with fastest lap to take the podium-what if he hadn't quite managed to go so fast and ended up crossing the line 5.000 seconds behind Hamilton-what would happen then? Timing software goes out farther than it "reports". Wh...

Wallio

We were lucky in America as during that era we had the SPEED team of Varsha/Hobb/Matchett. Varsha was pretty meh overall but he deferred to Hobbs and Matchett enough so it was tolerable. NBC then improved things by bringing over the entire team EXCEPT Varsha. But now that I have F1TV I'm stuck with ...

Wallio

They're no Murray Walker, but surely they couldn't be worse than a theoretical paring of Jonathan Legard with Jonathan Palmer? Never heard Legard, but if he can identify the correct driver per car and not talk over the bloody radio EVERY SINGLE TIME, he's already an improvement. James Allen was bet...

Wallio

Pacific Edge wrote:FIA/FOM must be really thankful for those safety cars, it really saved what was looking to be a very dull race at the front.

Unless that was their plan...

Fixed that for you. Lots of action today, just had to look for it.

Wallio

1.) Unreliability - How glorious! 2.) Latifi - Endued an extra long off-season of jokes at his expense, and finished P11. Williams is ahead of Haas in the WCC, and I can't see them losing that. I know I've already posted here, but here's another thought. Is it good or bad that Martin Brundle and Dav...

Wallio

The trick to F1TV is not to watch the races live. I'm completely serious on this. This is my third year with it, and I've never had any issues. Just wait 5 minutes after the podium and watch the replay. . That's not acceptable. The whole point of the service is to watch all content live, as it happ...

Wallio

the NBC broadcast of the Indycar race . The worst broadcast of motorsport I've ever seen. ??????? That was one one NBC's better broadcasts. Much better than Texas was. DHM: F1 TV, because it didn't ******* work. Seriously, they had 4 extra months to do their one ****** job. +1 to your DHM. I bit th...

Wallio

3.) Sponsors taking this at all seriously (Blu-Emu especially look idiotic, as Bubba having a "gap race" this week allowed him to run his BLM scheme and sell more diecasts in one day than his career prior) I don't like the implication of the word "scheme" here...could you explai...

Wallio

Very well done Klon, glad to see another member of the minority speak out. I have been absolutely gobsmacked by 1.) People actually watching this (As the first real Indy race showed, real racing can often be boring enough) 2.) People paying the drivers for this! LeClerc is a millionaire, he doesn't ...

Wallio

sswishbone wrote:Bahrain and Vietnam are also off now. With hot rumor suggesting we may have to wait as long as Baku for the season to start

I mean they can't actually scrap Monaco........can they?

Wallio

I had just renewed F1TV before testing too. I'm not expecting much. Hoping, but not expecting.

Wallio

Has the race actually been cancelled? I mean, I'm sure it will be, and soon (everything else has been, except the XFL and NASCAR) but the FIA has not actually called it off yet, that I can tell. Only the BBC has.

Wallio

dr-baker wrote:Unless it gets held somewhere else like Donington Park?

Yes please! I'll behave!

Wallio

Of course the Brabham fan car was never officially banned, but was withdrawn before being so. On his episode of Beyond the Grid Gordon Murrary says it actually was approved by the FIA, but they told him it most likely would be banned the following season. His way of incorporating the fan had it act...

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