Grand Prix Rejects

andrew2209

Fuji seems like a track that should be great, but some corners are a real pain in the backside, from my experience on Gran Turismo. Also, the old last corner was better in my opinion.

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Adam Cooper is speculating that McLaren may be doing a 'placeholder' livery, and the actual new colours will be launched in Australia. We can only hope. Bring back red and white. Bring back orange. Heck, run a pink car for papa smurf! Just, stop being so middle of the road. I swear they said that l...

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That Sauber, with the white/black wings, does have a bit of a backmarker look to it.

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The McLaren disappoints me just because there was so much hype about the revival of McLaren-Honda, the hints about the change, and all the unofficial concept liveries. It's not the worst livery, but it's similar to the Force India, and seems to be a throwback to the West McLaren-Mercedes cars, which...

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Jonathan Legard wrote:Oh problems there for Barrichello! That's a problem for him!

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One rumour is that Ferrari could be interested in buying the team. Gutierrez and Marciello could be a potential lineup, with Gutierrez's Mexican sponsors, and Marciello as part of the Ferrari driver academy

andrew2209

Removing the chicanes would spice up Monza, it would just make it too unsafe.

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Every race has had battles on the last few laps, it's amazing.

andrew2209

If Force India do a "livery reveal" it's a good chance they've changed nothing, or just stuck a few Mexican sponsors on the car.

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WeirdKerr wrote:Strange to see that Formula E doesn't even count....

Formula E doesn't strike me as a series drivers are going to use to move up the ladder, if anything it almost exists in it's own bubble.

andrew2209

I'm just waiting for someone to pick a number seemingly at random from those that weren't in general use for the last 40-odd years. Where is car 47, car 71, car 83, car 59... Eventually someone's going to choose #69. On the topic of numbers, I'd probably take #96, the last 2 digits of the year I wa...

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Rather than take the pit stop time from the entry to exit of the pit lane, could they use the time the cars are in the garage. Start the timer when the first car stops, and wait until the minimum time for the second car to drive off

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What are they meant to do to stop all the penalties? The rules exist for a reason, mostly safety, and the teams know what happens if you break them.

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Best Manager of the Year - Diego Simone for turning Club Atlético de Madrid into a La Liga winning club, meaning La Liga went to someone else other than Barcelona or Real Madrid for the first time since the turn of the century. 1996 to be precise. Valencia called to let you know that they won La Li...

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When they say Korean Grand Prix, maybe it's actually in North Korea?

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Apparently and according to a much maligned journalist/blogger, it is more pending on Ron Denis negotiations with some Danish sponsors. That is probably why he wants Magnussen to stay unlike pretty much anyone else bar the said Magnussen and respective family (and Button haters like Klon ). The pot...

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Finally another note, and albeit on GP2, Gasly makes his case for that Toro Rosso drive by topping the GP2 test day 1 on his first try narrowly beating McLaren top gun Stoffel Vandoorne. I honestly can see these two fighting for F1 major silverware in half a decade or so. Going for Gasly and Versta...

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Dj_bereta wrote:Heidfeld is slightly angry (and bored) with Montagny:

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/116934

Montagny pulled a similar move on Pic in the first race, he's quite prone to throwing himself down the inside of cars and pushing them wide.

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Dj_bereta wrote:If Andre Lotterer doesn't return to F1, his F1 career is going to be one of shortest of recent F1 era (shortest since Sarrazin?).

I don't know what recent is, but Marco Apicella didn't make it past the first corner in his only F1 race.

andrew2209

Another excellent Formula E race, even better than Beijing. The track helped I think, as it didn't have been long straights. The coverage was definitely better with the added telemetry and it was good to see fan boost actually used. How Sam Bird destroyed everyone the way he did I'll never know as ...

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Well, I'm getting an awful feeling that this is only the start of 4-5 years of untouchable Mercedes dominance. I really hope I'm wrong, as that's all the sport needs, what with the ongoing financial crisis... At least Rosberg could put up a fight to Hamilton. Then again, if Hamilton were to become ...

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Sauber-The conspiracy theory about them not actually racing and just being patched in the results seems more realistic every time I watch a race.

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As far as I am aware, garage slots are normally allocated based on where the team finished in the WCC the previous season rather than on where their drivers finished No, recall Button took his WDC to McLearn... Apologies if I'm incorrect. I think it's only the case if the WDC changes team. m This s...

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A small part of me is hoping for the very unlikely scenario Alonso isn't going to leave Ferrari at all, and we see Alonso/Vettel in the same team.

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Not quite sure where to stick this, so this seems the best place. I tried searching for the story of the bloke who drove his girlfriend's car onto Brands Hatch in the middle of a VW Fun Race in the middle of June, but couldn't find any reference to it on this forum. Anyway, for the breach in safety...

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If Chilton races, I rescind all my comments about the pointlessness of Caterham racing at Abu Dhabi. It suddenly becomes the most meaningful thing in motorsport. Trouble is, have they said how they intend to race at Abu Dhabi without any staff? Do they only have the race-day staff left or is it a c...

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As an 18 year old, you're making my dream job of becoming an Formula 1 engineer seems less exciting by the day

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http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/cancer%20list.htm The complete list of things that give you cancer (according to epidemiologists) Acetaldehyde, acrylamide, acrylonitril, abortion, agent orange, alar, alcohol, air pollution, aldrin, alfatoxin, arsenic, arsine, asbestos, asphalt fumes, atrazine, AZT, ba...

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To be honest, if it's a double points race, and the grid is lacking slightly on drivers, I could see Alice Powell getting a superlicence to race just for publicity, seeing as she'd be the first female driver to attempt to qualify since 1992, and the first to actually race since 1976. Then again, I'd...

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My issue with customer cars is that it runs the risk of wiping out the midfield and creating a two-tier system. Teams like Sauber, Lotus, Force India won't want to spend millions developing their own car, if others spend far less on a spec chassis.

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Not quite a belt failure but Justin Wilson was flung around in the cockpit of his MInardi at Malaysia one season, 2002 or 2003 I think Wasn't it something to do with his HANS device? Apparently the HANS device wasn't fitted properly, trapping a nerve, and causing him to lose feeling in his arms. m

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Aguaman wrote:Do we know if it is going to piss down?

Not sure, seems to be a 40-50% chance of rain, and I saw somewhere reporting thunderstorms at 3:00pm local time

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Backmarker wrote:
Waris wrote:Great! The pinnacle of motorsports, now with Dallara chassis monopoly!

Formula E are supposedly going to open chassis design for 2015 at least.

https://transportevolved.com/2014/09/30 ... potential/

Formula E seems to be focused more on powertrains than chassis development.

andrew2209

Who would have thought it - maybe Formula E is the future after all?! I suspect that when Roger Penske sets a team up in there. He's popped up in V8 Supercars, NASCAR, IndyCar, and even F1 back in the 1970s... Until then, I bet on IndyCar being the successor to F1. Indycar needs to expand outside o...

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Is there not a terribly bad GP2/FR3.5 driver who has sponsors willing to cough up that money to get them to Abu Dhabi? Imagine someone like Cecotto or Canamasas at the double points race

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That livery is a concept made by this designer, so it's not official http://cdebdesign.blogspot.fr/ and there's some more concept liveries here http://www.f1colours.com/2014/09/30/fan ... love-them/

On a related note, Marussia using one of those 2 red/white/blue liveries would be beautiful if they make it to 2015.

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Force India-Threatening to boycott the race, then to keep the rumours up, only to double-DNF is a rejectful performance.

andrew2209

Please don't kill F1 in the USA, I like COTA, and I think there's a market for it, especially with Haas joining in 2016.

Threaten to boycott the Abu Dhabi GP, that will make Bernie do something.

andrew2209

When the budget cap was planned in 2010, I think there were around 15 new entries attempting to appl,y of which 3 (then later 4) became successful. What is their greatest achievement? 9th at Monaco. The current system in Formula 1 is failing, as there's no incentive for teams to join, if they'll be ...

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I was reading an old review of the 2007 Season, and I think the main counter argument against customer cars is that it can damage the midfield teams and aspiring small teams. What incentive do Force India and Sauber have to spend millions designing their own car if Toro Rosso or Marussia can just bu...

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