Grand Prix Rejects

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Logan Sargeant: Did himself no favors by crashing the repaired Australia chassis in first practice. Had an ok showing until he undid it all with that mistake at Denger curves. You simply can’t be making that many mistakes at this level Pierre Gasly: I thought he got trounced by Ocon this weekend, Oc...

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Tsunoda I guess for a feel good point, no one else did anything for it

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2024 Japan feels better in April than September GP 1 Verstappen 2: Perez 3: Sainz 4: Norris 5: Hamilton 6: Leclerc 7: Alonso 8: Piastri 9: Tsunoda 10: Albon Pole: N/A Fastest Lap: Verstappen First Retirement: Russell ROTR: Russell IIDOTR: Tsunoda DBTMOTR: Stroll LP: Sargeant FTP: Hulkenberg YF: Russ...

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Perfect 13 for me though I so nearly tripped up on the Nurburgring picture

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Can only be Williams can’t it. Just how do you not have a spare chassis ready for use in this day and age? It’s amateur hour material. Was the decision to hand Sargeant’s car over to Albon the right one? Probably yes going off 2023 evidence but that decision basically told the world that Williams ha...

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Yuki Tsunoda: First points of the season, was in and around the top 10 on merit all weekend and once again making everyone wonder why Lawson isn’t in that car instead of Ricciardo. Haas: First double points finish since Austria 2022, we all thought these guys would be the clear worst team this year ...

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Well if we didn’t know before that Alex Albon was Williams’s chosen son then the news that he will take over Sargeant’s car for the rest of the weekend despite him crashing confirms it. What a blow that’s going to be to Logan’s confidence

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2024 Honey Badger’s return to Oz GP 1: Verstappen 2: Leclerc 3: Sainz 4: Perez 5: Piastri 6: Russell 7: Norris 8: Hamilton 9: Alonso 10: Stroll Pole: Leclerc Fastest Lap: Verstappen First Retirement: Ricciardo ROTR: Ricciardo (Oz return lasts 3 corners) IIDOTR: Alpine (11th and 12th is progress) DBT...

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Bearman will obviously win it for an excellent short notice debut but I would have given it to Haas not just for scoring a point that for the bottom 5 teams is looking like it might be gold dust this year considering the advantage the top 5 have but they actually showed decent pace, the car doesn’t ...

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Stake Kick Team Sauber (or whatever the hell their called): Looks like they’re just going through the motions until Audi takes over, only noticed them this weekend when Zhou crashed in practice Lance Stroll: I’m not Naomi Schiff’s biggest fan but she’s right when she says there’s 1 or 2 drivers who’...

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2024 Great Track, Not so great Location GP 1: Verstappen 2: Leclerc 3: Perez 4: Russell 5: Sainz 6: Hamilton 7: Norris 8: Alonso 9: Piastri 10: Ricciardo Pole: Verstappen Fastest Lap: Verstappen First Retirement: Stroll ROTR: Alpine IIDOTR: Ricciardo DBTMOTR: Sargeant LP: Sargeant FTP: Bottas YF: St...

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Lance Stroll: A good recovery to the points given he was punted off at the first corner and lost so much time Haas: We expected them to comfortably be the slowest car but they got a car into Q3 and both of them escaped Q1. Hulk even beat the Alpine’s despite a broken front wing HM: Carlos Sainz: Sai...

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Alpine: The pace was slow, the livery is crap, the axe was wielded yet again. No direction, no hope it seems Tsunoda: A pretty petulant display both during and after the race with those team orders. Would Ricciardo have stolen the last point had he cooperated? Who knows but Yuki didn’t exactly give ...

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2024 it feels like a holding pattern before the big driver moves GP 1 Verstappen 2: Hamilton 3: Leclerc 4: Perez 5: Russell 6: Sainz 7: Alonso 8: Piastri 9: Norris 10: Tsunoda Pole: Verstappen Fastest Lap: Verstappen First Retirement: Magnussen ROTR: Alpine IIDOTR: Tsunoda DBTMOTR: Stroll LP: Sargea...

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I gave my vote to everyone bar Verstappen and Red Bull. Perez started well enough but losing Miami the way he did broke him and it was as if his season disintegrated from the moment he crashed in Q1 at Monaco, he limped over the line for what I thought was the weakest WDC runner up since Frentzen wa...

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The 2023/24 silly season was not at all silly. Not even a will he/won't he of any significance. Next season will start as 2023 ended. No change in driver line up anywhere on the grid. I’m predicting a 2009-10 style period here. In 2009 the only change was Red Bull promoting Vettel to replace the re...

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Yas Marina Circuit: Bar 2012 and to a lesser extent 2021 has this track ever produced a full race that was remotely memorable? Lewis Hamilton and Carlos Sainz: 2 drivers from the big 3 teams who were absolutely nowhere all weekend while their teammates got onto the podium. I know the only position t...

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Tsunoda: Actually led a lap on merit and another solid points haul. He was the driving force behind AlphaTauri’s late season burst Russell: Russell needed a good weekend and result to end what’s been a difficult season on a high and he got it, looked at home all weekend and thoroughly put Hamilton i...

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2023 let’s get it over with GP (Will use double points as I haven’t yet) 1: Verstappen 2: Perez 3: Leclerc 4: Hamilton 5: Sainz 6: Russell 7: Norris 8: Alonso 9: Piastri 10: Gasly Pole: Verstappen Fastest Lap: Verstappen First Retirement: Zhou ROTR: Alfa Romeo IIDOTR: Nobody DBTMOTR: Stroll LP: Sarg...

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The Drain Cover debacle: Pretty much got the weekend off to the worst possible start and ruined Carlos Sainz’s hopes of at least a top 3 before they began. It left you questioning if those in charge had actually considered any substance at all let alone over style. I felt sorry for the fans who shel...

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Another one down for both Ocon and Stroll. Yes the turn 1 chaos helped but Lance played a blinder by ditching the Softs early and Esteban gets bonus points for channeling his inner Sainz from Silverstone last year especially given how far Gasly plummeted down the order

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More modern examples I can think of are Montoya in China 2005 and I think it happened in the early days at Baku but can’t remember what year

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2023 ultimate cringefest GP

1: Verstappen
2: Leclerc
3: Sainz
4: Perez
5: Hamilton
6: Norris
7: Alonso
8: Russell
9: Piastri
10: Albon

Pole: Leclerc
Fastest Lap: Verstappen
First Retirement: Sargeant
ROTR: Las Vegas spectacle
IIDOTR: Albon
DBTMOTR: Stroll
LP: Magnussen
FTP: Ocon

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Aston Martin: That was more like the Aston Martin from Bahrain-Canada. Stroll put in his best weekend of the year (even though he got a higher finish in Australia) while the superlatives to describe Alonso have almost run out. Tsunoda: Excellent pair of results from the Japanese driver including tec...

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Charles Leclerc/His Car: I don’t care what the reason is, crashing out before the race even starts is an automatic ROTR. Invoking the spirit of Prost at Imola 1991. Mercedes: I honestly thought they’d be contenders this weekend, Hamilton loves this place and Mercedes were genuinely the team to beat ...

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2023 why is it called São Paulo GP S1: Verstappen S2: Norris S3: Hamilton S4: Perez S5: Leclerc S6: Sainz S7: Russell S8: Piastri 1: Verstappen 2: Hamilton 3: Perez 4: Norris 5: Russell 6: Leclerc 7: Sainz 8: Piastri 9: Alonso 10: Gasly Pole: Verstappen Fastest Lap: Verstappen First Retirement: Magn...

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Aston Martin: That weekend was almost Australia 2022-eqsue. What the hell has happened to them? Perez: An over ambitious move to rival Hamilton’s in Qatar with the same dire consequences. In that one move he wasted the gift he got at Austin to let Hamilton back into the fight (and I don’t think Hami...

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Ricciardo is the only choice. I was skeptical when he came back at Hungary and then felt there was no reason for him to come back after Lawson’s performances. He’s proved me wrong this weekend and ramped up the speculation about the 2nd Red Bull seat even further.

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2023 Lighting strikes 3 times GP

1: Verstappen
2: Hamilton
3: Perez
4: Norris
5: Piastri
6: Leclerc
7: Russell
8: Sainz
9: Albon
10: Tsunoda

Pole: Verstappen
Fastest Lap: Verstappen
First Retirement: Magnussen
ROTR: Haas
IIDOTR: Tsunoda
DBTMOTR: Sargeant
LP: Hulkenberg
FTP: Leclerc

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For once ROTR is actually tougher to pick than IIDOTR 1: The Sprint race: This format only looks half decent when it’s either raining or it’s a short track like Austria or Brazil. Whose idea was it to pick a track like Austin for a Sprint race? It was dull, tedious and a perfect reminder that it’s a...

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1 Stroll: Given the miserable pace of the Aston Martin prior to Sunday and the car changes which forced a pitlane start, I didn’t expect Alonso to do anything never mind Stroll. And yet Lance put in one of his best drives in a while to take 9th on the road. His subsequent promotion to 7th is his bes...

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Freeze-O-Kimi becomes Alextrax52. Now that Raikkonen’s retired the name of his gun in Minidrivers is a bit dated now

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2023 The US race that has by far the best track GP S1: Verstappen S2: Piastri S3: Russell S4: Norris S5: Perez S6: Hamilton S7: Leclerc S8: Sainz 1: Verstappen 2: Norris 3: Hamilton 4: Perez 5: Piastri 6: Leclerc 7: Alonso 8: Ocon 9: Gasly 10: Bottas Pole: Verstappen Fastest Lap: Verstappen First Re...

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Hamilton: This was a golden chance to close right up to Perez for 2nd overall and he threw it all away before the first corner by colliding with his teammate no less Haas: Another godawful weekend made worse by Alfa Romeo’s big cash haul HM’s Gasly: Every time I saw him try to overtake someone he wa...

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Alfa Romeo: End of thread

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2023 will Max ever win a title normally? GP

S1: VER
S2: NOR
S3: LEC
S4: PER
S5: PIA
S6: SAI
S7: HAM
S8: RUS

1: VER
2: NOR
3: PER
4: HAM
5: LEC
6: PIA
7: RUS
8: SAI
9: ALO
10: GAS

Pole: VER
Fastest Lap: VER
First Retirement: HUL
ROTR: Race Control
IIDOTR: Nobody
DBTMOTR: STR
LP: SAR
FTP: MAG

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It’s gotta be Perez I’m afraid, he’s had a good 3 years of boosting up his win and podium stats but it’s time to get someone else, Merc, Ferrari and McLaren will all get stronger and I can’t see him making the end of 2024 if if that’s the case Sargeant: His form has now got to the point where I’ve s...

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Nothing for me as well. McLaren podiums aren’t shocking anymore and everyone else performed more or less how the weekend said they would

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2023 Land of the rising sun GP 1: Verstappen 2: Norris 3: Leclerc 4: Sainz 5: Perez 6: Hamilton 7: Piastri 8: Alonso 9: Russell 10: Bottas Pole: Verstappen Fastest Lap: Verstappen First Retirement: Tsunoda ROTR: Zhou (Wipes out himself and Tsunoda on lap one) IIDOTR: Bottas DBTMOTR: Perez LP: Sargea...

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I’ll give Alonso a pass after finding out that he suffered a cracked suspension in the early stages of the race, it can’t have been easy to control at a place like Singapore. I’m amazed he still finished the race tbh. So instead George Russell: Should have just settled for the 15 points mate, an ove...

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