Grand Prix Rejects

shinji

Now that I have the third highest post-count of any Irish user (I think), and the two ahead of me have a Japanese theme in their avatars and usernames (in fact, I almost signed up here as "Hideki" instead of "Simtek", before changing my mind), I have decided to be the conformist...

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April 8th 1979 - a historically messy start to the Long Beach Grand Prix as Gilles Villeneuve fails to stop in his pole position on the grid, taking the field all the way around the track again and confusing everybody. 20 minutes later the actual race started. The sole reject in the field, Jan Lamm...

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April 7th 1996 - a race of two dramatically rejectful moments takes place at Buenos Aires. Firstly, Luca Badoer was overturned in an incident with Pedro Diniz, extracting himself with minimal assistance from the marshalls. While the safety car was out for that crash, Diniz's Ligier was drenched in ...

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April 4th 2004 - HWNSNBM retires after 44 laps with an engine failure in the inaugural Bahrain Grand Prix. 1959 - by no means a reject by the metric of either results or longevity but imbued with the reject spirit we all love, Andrea de Cesaris is born in Rome. de Cesaris managed to compete in the ...

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April 3rd 1988 - the Eurobrun team participate in their first Grand Prix at Jacarepaguá. In the ER188 Stefano Modena and Oscar Larrauri qualify in 24th and 26th position respectively. This sadly wasn't a omen of things to come, however, as it proved one of only nine occasions in which both Eurobrun...

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He's gone. I'm sure that's a massive disappointment to anybody who signed the petition and believe being punched in the face at work is perfectly acceptable. I doubt that many of his supporters necessarily have the capacity to consciously recognise that's what they are advocating. Thought process i...

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March 23rd 1990 - Jaime Alguersuari is born. As we all know, the Spaniard was the youngest driver in F1 history until a certain Max obliterated that record last week. Poor Jaime was chewed up and spit out by the Red Bull driver factory and now plies his trade in the Formula E midfield. It remains t...

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Taking the time out of my busy essay writing to satiate the overwhelming demand for this to continue March 13th 1913 - Joe Kelly, one of two Dubliners to reach F1 along with Derek Daly, is born. He raced in the 1950 and 1951 British Grands Prix, failing to be classified in either one. I don't know i...

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Simtek wrote:
Also, I realised that we missed the chance to mark the 25th anniversary of Gary Brabham and Life's debut on the 8th.

We'll catch them at Imola, the crowning glory.

shinji

March 9th

1997 - the Grand Prix début of a certain NAKANO SHINJI

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March 8th

1968 - Michael Bartels, the second best German called Michael to make his début in 1991, is born.

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Also feel it needs to be said that Rodgers isn't English, he's Northern Irish...

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Don't recall this existing before, though I'm sure it has and didn't take off. Might give the ol' JDD forum a bit of a boost! March 6th 2005 - the glorious Grand Prix débuts of Christijan Albers and Patrick Friesacher at Melbourne. The former retired after 16 laps while the latter chuntered on to a ...

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Trinners for winners my good man! Oh, we're a Trinity James Allen are we? Seeing as I'm still throwing darts at my CAO handbook and a map of Ireland I now feel obliged to interrogate you about the place. Depends on what you would be studying, but in general: Pros Great campus Great location, bang i...

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With regards to Alonso, I'm glad they're taking every care with his injury. Given the atrocious approach to concussion in my other sporting love, rugby, it's good to see a sport not taking any unnecessary risks. Already one driver too many with a brain injury, no point risking a second concussion to...

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It's in the stacks of the library at my university (joys of a copyright library, access to every book published in the UK and Ireland!). I can order it in to campus and scan on the relevant pages if you want? I'm going to presume that's what you want. Will have it by Wednesday I'd say. Edit: have i...

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It's in the stacks of the library at my university (joys of a copyright library, access to every book published in the UK and Ireland!). I can order it in to campus and scan on the relevant pages if you want? I'm going to presume that's what you want. Will have it by Wednesday I'd say. Edit: have i...

shinji

It's in the stacks of the library at my university (joys of a copyright library, access to every book published in the UK and Ireland!). I can order it in to campus and scan on the relevant pages if you want? I'm going to presume that's what you want. Will have it by Wednesday I'd say. Edit: have it...

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I would be more than happy to act as an editor to any potential submitted pieces (profiles, articles or otherwise). I have some (limited) experience in that field, have to write a hell of a lot for college and I'm generally a reasonably strong writer, not that you'd know it from my posts on here! So...

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watka wrote:
Go talk to Italy about that, Sassuolo are in Serie A and have a population of 41,000.

Sure look at Eibar in La Liga, only 27,000 proud inhabitants. Or in more relevant terms - it would take nearly 4 times their entire population to fill the Camp Nou.

shinji

I think long-form articles about F1 history etc. drawn from a pool of confident, capable writers would be an ideal direction to move in. There's definitely a market for that I feel, in the vein of These Football Times or In Bed With Maradona for football. As has been said, there's enough stuff onlin...

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Nice one lads, great that the site hasn't been lost to the ages! Design looks great to my mind as well

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All sessions from the season are avail. for replay on the FE app (under "Live"). That's absolutely spectacular, how are the FIA getting things like this so right with FE but so wrong with F1? By virtue of not owning the television rights to F1. Fair enough, just shows the virtues of start...

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johnston21 wrote:All sessions from the season are avail. for replay on the FE app (under "Live").

That's absolutely spectacular, how are the FIA getting things like this so right with FE but so wrong with F1?

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2003 Japanese GP: Fernando Alonso (Renault), Jenson Button (BAR) and Kimi Raikkonen (McLaren) shared grid with Jos Verstappen (Minardi) 2015 Australian GP: Fernando Alonso (McLaren), Jenson Button (Mclaren) and Kimi Raikkonen (Ferrari) will share grid (if nothing came wrong) with Max Verstappen (To...

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Is that the most experienced team-mate partnership ever?

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Sport Non-motorsport moment of the year: Ireland winning the Six Nations in Brian O'Driscoll's last international game, our first win in Paris since the famous BOD hat-trick in 2000. Perfection. Best sporting event that I attended: Same as above! Footballer of the year: Ronaldo for being comically ...

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Bleu wrote:This is the amount of trophies Red Bull has got through its F1 history. Each win is counted as two trophies as team member is also awarded trophy on the podium.
2005: -
2006: 1
2007: 1
2008: 1
2009: 22
2010: 29
2011: 39
2012: 21
2013: 37
2014: 15

Total: 166

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This thread will definitely end up on a watch-list somewhere with all the Irish IP addresses planning money and resources for the IRA

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Now that it has in all likelihood come to a sad end, can we come up with our ten best moments of the F1 Rejects podcast? My two favourites that come to mind are the funeral for Formula Elaborate Bluff, from probably the 2009 British GP Edition, and the Super Aguri tribute ('Only the Good Die Young')...

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I'm sure if Vettel had asked politely he'd have gotten his trophies, no need to stoop to something like this.

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Tonio Liuzzi for 4 races at Red Bull in 2005, replacing Fisichella at Force India at the end of 2009 and at HRT for the entire 2011 season. Passed me by completely, apart from that 2011 Monza crash!

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Thanks to McLaren moving to Honda engines, Gary Paffett will no longer be their test driver. Poor Gary probably racked up the most laps testing without actually ever competing in a race. Maybe he'll do some testing work for Mercedes now. And Oliver Turvey and Stoffel Vandoorne will probably be taki...

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San Marino's first clean sheet since 1993!

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It's good though because with views like this his hypothesis will be tested very soon. Young fans have to be engaged with something to maintain their commitment and interest. F1 could very rapidly lose such fans.

But the over 70s will still be in the Paddock Club at the track so no worries!

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Mexicola wrote:
shinji wrote:Does listening to a dog licking its balls get you excited?

That's between me and my internet service provider.

Excellent response, put me right in my box.

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I must be the only one in the entire world who dislikes Buxton's commentary. I do believe you are, why is this? The onyx reason I can think is his promotion of Palmer. I'm not totally sure if I'm honest. It's not a full, proper dislike of it because I haven't heard enough of him to make a full on p...

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Mexicola wrote:
This wrote:
Mexicola wrote:I don't understand what I do in this thread and I'm bitterly disappointed that this was not in fact the new Radiohead record.

This is probably the method how Radiohead writes some of their songs

I wouldn't be surprised!

Karma Police - Giacomelli

Wait I got confused

shinji

Honestly after Suzuka I'd say we'll never see racing on a genuinely wet track ever again. And I can't really argue with that. I'm not sure why exactly.. Bianchi's crash wasn't fault of the weather, it was more because of a mix of (very) unlucky cirscunstances. The reason we won't race on a wet trac...

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Honestly after Suzuka I'd say we'll never see racing on a genuinely wet track ever again. And I can't really argue with that.

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