Grand Prix Rejects

andrew2209

Why is it that, although Bernie clearly doesn't care about the financial struggles of the minor teams, he still hopes that Caterham will make it to the Abu Dhabi GP? Have the sheiks demanded that on top of having the race worth double points, it must take place with a full 22-car grid? Call me cync...

andrew2209

Far right, second from bottom is Villeneuve I think

andrew2209

Has a team ever missed races and returned?

andrew2209

Does anyone else think that turn is just asking for a multi-car pile up to occur? It looks narrower than Monaco.

Also, is there any reason the rendering team used 2009 cars?

andrew2209

Caterham: If they geniunely asked Kobayashi to start-and-park, then it's not a good sign for the team, and seems reminiscent of the 90's teams who did similar. I'll leave off nominating the race, the track or the tyres, as I think Pirelli played it safe with the tyre compounds, and as it was, it ju...

andrew2209

It's also worth noting, in 1994 Sauber only run one car in the 1994 Spanish Grand Prix, 2 weeks after Wendlinger's accident.

andrew2209

I've applied for Univeristy this year (last year of school, Year 13) to do Automotive Engineering ,and 4 of the 5 Unis I've applied to do Formula Student IIRC: Bath, Warwick, Loughborough and Surrey. My ideal university, and my final choice don't, but it's the University of Cambridge, and I'm not go...

andrew2209

I just looked up the review of that Australian GP. I thought that Roberto Moreno had spun and dropped oil at that corner BEFORE Coulthard had his incident there. Turns out I was wrong... Coulthard kept the lead until the first round of pitstops. However, he came into the pitlane too fast, locking h...

andrew2209

I could definitely see a safety changes made in wet races if there's a crash, as Brazil 2003 (twice) Europe 2007 and sadly now today have shown that it's very easy for multiple cars to aquaplane off in the same place, even under yellows.

andrew2209

The major short term goal in my opinion is generating batteries that can last the whole race, as I think that's the challenge at the moment in making the series more credible. I think the series isn't throwing itself into the deep end in the same way series like A1GP did, and with a good plan of dev...

andrew2209

According to the rumours, in 2016 King Jules I will be partnered by Hamilton, Vettel, Ricciardo, Rosberg, Button, Hulk, Grosjean, Checo, JEV, Marciello, Koba and Kimi who will use his one year extension option. In addition to that, Alonso might return from McLaren, too, so that he would be only Tor...

andrew2209

I swear all these young F1 drivers look like they should belong in boybands.

andrew2209

Whist having 3 car teams could result in the points being locked out, in the 90's Ferrari, Williams, McLaren and Benetton regularly had the majority of points between them, so it's not like it hasn't happened before.

andrew2209

http://www.statsf1.com/photos/testcars/1386.jpg A Jaguar R5 in the livery of the team's new owners, similar to the Benetton. http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/x/f1-2006-scott-speed-toro-rosso-10729103.jpg A Toro Rosso STR1 from 2006 pre-season testing with a livery a bit too similar to the Red Bull (or ...

andrew2209

A different theory to the ban I thought of-could it be in response to the allegations of Rosberg being asked to make a mistake. We obviously don't recieve all of the radio transmissions the teams make, but maybe the FIA found something suspicious.

andrew2209

A few more pictures of the accident Diniz had, which just shows how lucky he was to escape serious injury

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Miguel98 wrote:Meanwhile.. https://twitter.com/adamcooperF1/status/510377700943749120

I would be surprised to see that rules strongly enforced, any driver bad enough to be given an F1 seat probably has enough spare cash to buy a superlicence.

andrew2209

Minardi Man wrote:This is one of the most varied grids in terms of liveries we've seen for a good while I think

2001 was the most varied IIRC.

andrew2209

When Johnny Cecotto is calling you an idiot, you know you've messed up

andrew2209

Pretty boring, and not much to say, but for some reason I had a dream Grosjean was driving for Force India at Monza. Also, I think the OSD had Grosjean with a double-digit number.

andrew2209

Bleu wrote:So the light blue with yellow stripes is e.DAMS?
Red/Yellow/Green is Abt?
McAfee car is Dragon?

Yes, comparing car numbers to the entry list. Also the fact the car with a dragon on it isn't Dragon Racing is a minor nuisance

andrew2209

I'd imagine Merc is way beyond team orders. There's NO WAY Nico will let Lewis past because he's in the champinoship lead, and there is NO WAY Lewis will let Nico past, for the same reason. Merc has dug their own grave. Spa was just the appetizer. Worst is yet to come. And I'll call it now. If by A...

andrew2209

He apparently caused Bianchi's puncture. I say apparently because the damn race director didn't think it was worthy of being shown. I thought that was Grosjean, but I wouldn't know since the race director doesn't focus on anything past 10th place! Grosjean pitted on Lap 1 as well, for what I think ...

andrew2209

Anyone else think a seat at Mercedes could become available next season? If this actually happened, who would get it?

andrew2209

TV Director:What happened to Lotterer and Maldonado? There were periods of a race a replay of their retirements wouldn't have detracted from the race coverage

andrew2209

From what I could tell, he only got that far into the air because of the 'sausage' kerb? Because if so, shouldn't this 'incident' require the FIA to investigate how safe these kerbs are? Imagine if Liuzzi got that airbourne across the pack in his HRT at the 2011 Italian GP... For all the changes ma...

andrew2209

I never understood why, upon signing Pérez, they didn't go the route of "Telmex Sauber F1 Team" with a sky blue car and lots of Mexican sponsorship. Probably Telmex didn't commit enough of a monetary contribution to be a title sponsor, which is weird considering they're supposed to be one...

andrew2209

Could see Catalunya being kicked if Spanish interest in F1 dwindles. Also Austria could be a bit shaky, it seems quite random to bring it back, and it wouldn't surprise me to see it quietly removed again

andrew2209

Can HYPE splash their old paint schemes all over the Caterham? If not, I'm not interested

andrew2209

Big question is, what number does André Lotterer take? The whole unique number situation could get messy quite quickly if drivers come and go.

andrew2209

Would Jenson Button, Kimi Raikkonen and Fernando Alonso become the first F1 drivers to race against a father and son? All 3 drove in 2001 and 2003 against Jos Verstappen

andrew2209

Well for the first time I'm going to be seeing a Formula 1 driver younger than me. Did expect that a few years later than 2015 though.

andrew2209

Get rid of your more experienced, quicker driver for a 32 year old Le Mans Driver and SuperLeague Formula driver. Great logic

What's the point in having all those drivers in your youth academy as well?

andrew2209

Although I went to Wales a few weeks ago, it rained 1 morning and 1 afternoon there in the 7 days I stayed there That's what happens when you stay in the South. Try staying in the North, you sissy! Oh I've been to North Wales 3 times. Rhyl is basically the biggest dump of a town I've seen (well, ma...

andrew2209

Bridgestone were generally complimented for the performance of their intermediate tyres given that they had a very wide operating range, to the point where for a time it almost rendered the full wet tyre obsolete. Whilst the current intermediates produced by Pirelli don't have quite as wide an oper...

andrew2209

You know one complaint about Formula 1 that I absolutely have no time or patience That the drivers cannot handle rain - hence all the safety car starts and such. That is such complete and utter bullshite. The complaint should instead be about the fact that Pirelli cannot make a wet tyre worth a dam...

andrew2209

I've just been reading that Rossi has been having talks with Gene Haas about joining his merry band. I know it's for 2016 but we have no thread yet. Please nobody start a thread for 2016. Anyway, I know sharing nationalities could be a good incentive but I wonder if this is enough to make it the ri...

andrew2209

The car on the poster looks out of proportion

andrew2209

I'm quite surprised with all the nominations for McLaren, if the rain really did come down, then they would have pulled off a great strategy. Sometimes, you've got to take the risks to get the reward.

ROTR for Grosjean, binning it behind the Safety Car is a reject-worthy offence at any race.

andrew2209

Hamilton starts on inters

Sudden rainstorm on Lap 1

Everyone else has to pit for inters

Hamilton leads.

Now surely can't ever happen in F1.

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