Grand Prix Rejects

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You'd have to wonder about Alonso missing races following crashes in consecutive seasons. Does he have a particular recurring issue with concussion following the pre-season incident last year, or are he and McLaren just taking precautions which teams and drivers have avoided taking in the past? Give...

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After the famine a flood

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1) Grosjean! That was fantastic stuff, loved the enthusiasm over the radio from a guy who's had a good few podiums in his career. Really seems to have bought into the team and its ethos which is always nice. 2) New tyre rules. I'd pretty much plugged out of any awareness of F1 news for the last whil...

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Front page of the site updated!

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Really enjoyed that, familiar enough with that road past the Beehive so very cool to be able to place it in the context of that circuit.

Original content

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Aislabie wrote:but bare with me

I'd rather not, it's fairly cold and I don't really know you well enough.

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2/10 selfie technique there Tommy, made the classic mistake of looking at the screen instead of the camera

Karun's on point tho

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Nuppiz wrote:
Salamander wrote:Without dragging things out or being too dramatic - I'm leaving. If anybody wants my stuff, they can have it.

It's true...

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Second gift arrived today, properly chuffed

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I have to disagree. He is doing nothing wrong with his open questions. I don't know why some people are complaining against Whiteshore here. This topic was made for any "what if" scenario. Take a look in the first questions of this topic and you will see tons of open questions. I'd advise...

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Perhaps covered elsewhere on the forums, but check who's in the trailer for Zoolander 2 for about half a second!

I can imagine the horribly clunky dialogue introducing him if he's mentioned in the film - "Look Hansel, it's three-time Formula One World Champion Lewis Hamilton"

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Gift received on Tuesday, posted mine today.

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Nice work man, tragic outcome this morning but very well done on the piece.

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Shinji
Ireland

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10 place grid penalty for marrying a woman who looks distressingly similar to himself.

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Ferrim wrote:After last week's events, the first new article on the site must be Bianchi's.

Bianchi isn't a reject now, if my understanding of the rules is correct.

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Just over a year ago

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Given the father's comments recently, it's perhaps a merciful turn of events that Jules has slipped away. The grieving process can properly begin and he can be remembered for the talented, ambitious and strong young man he was rather than a body lying in a bed. RIP. An absolute tragedy which, for me...

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Groundhog Day

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Verstappen is looking pretty quick in the wet so far. If reliability stays as it often is at Monaco, he may have an outside shot at a podium. This makes me ponder what will happen if he does make the top 3? He's only 17, too young for even you drunkards in Europe to have a bottle of champagne... We...

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Some of that is heartbreaking, he seems so utterly disenchanted with Formula One as a concept and so unfulfilled by the experiences he had. Chewed up and spit out by Red Bull and the F1 machine, it must feel terrible to achieve your goal of getting on the grid and finding out it's not what you hoped.

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yannicksamlad wrote:sorry - I still have trouble getting the 'quote' thing to work....

Just press the speech bubble in the top right of a post, and write below it

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That's a top contribution there Simtek!

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1) McLaren and Lotus jackmen
2) Pastor

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May 7th 2006 - Franck Montagny made his Grand Prix début for Soopah Aguri at the Nurburgring, deputising for the main man Yuji Ide who had had his Super License revoked. Having spun in qualifying the 28 year old Frenchman was second last on the grid, 11 seconds behind his team-mate Takuma Sato, but...

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Behold the logistically questionable Dublin Street Circuit ! It winds its way through the city centre, passing notable landmarks such as the GPO , the Spire , the old Houses of Parliament and the university from which I am currently procrastinating an exam, Trinity College Dublin . The College build...

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Salamander wrote:My reaction after attempting to read the quote give by McLaren:

Such hilariously marginal details to be concerned about while the car is a toilet

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May 4th 2003 - the Spanish Grand Prix is held, at which Ralph Firman placed 8th and scored his solitary Formula One point. In his Jordan Firman profited from a race of high attrition, but he still had to beat out Button's BAR, Heidfeld's Sauber and the Minardis of Verstappen and Justin Wilson to ta...

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See link a few posts ago - last off-season's WAG was locked after less than a day and 12 posts. I too saw it as a bit of fun and must have made up at the very most 1% of my (admittedly large) post count. It seems to be effectively banned, judging by that attempt of the WAG. Quick bit of research (w...

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It also looks like the F1 Deprivation season may be even more long winded than usual - the indication is that they will cut back winter testing to just two tests for 2016, with the start of testing shifted to later in the year as well. It looks like the start of *2016 will be one of the quietest pe...

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Spectoremg wrote:http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/32506582
Hmmmmm, what's the agenda here?

Ecclestone felt he was a bit of a lone ranger fighting the fight against the sound of the engines and the processional races, so he text the first guy in his phone contacts list - Allen, Patrick - to back him up.

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All going well I'll be there, can't go too far wrong with Ryanair and a hostel/airbnb

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April 26th 1994 - Daniil Kvyat was born in Ufa, the capital city of what I'm sure is the lovely semi-autonomous Republic of Bashkortostan. Given he's a current figure in the sport I hardly need give the details of his career, but in his season and four races he has achieved a best result of 9th on ...

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I don't know whether this belongs here or in the field trip thread (will link to this post there in a minute), but there is news on tickets for the London races. Tickets will go on sale from 1st May, but will only be available for those who sign up to the newsletter for the first three days. Info h...

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April 25th 2004 - the qualifying session for the San Marino Grand Prix took place at Imola. Most of the F1 world remembers it for Jenson Button achieving his first pole position in a BAR, but we should remember the true achievement of that day. http://i.imgur.com/KyJxvBX.jpg One-lap qualifying, wha...

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April 22nd 1978 - Esteban Tuero was born in Buenos Aires. Undaunted by the prospect of being team-mate to Shinji Nakano at Minardi in 1998 at the tender age of 19, Esteban enjoyed a rollercoaster season of reject action. From potentially the worst pitstop of all time in his home Grand Prix to injur...

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And there's no pressure on you Simtek, it's cool you put yourself forward with the idea but it's also grand if you don't feel up to it or don't fancy it for whatever reason. All good

And you're being far, far too kind about my brief forays five years ago! Yikes!

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April 20th 1961 - Italian pasta magnate and pay driver extraordinaire Paolo Barilla is born in Milan. Barilla's pre-F1 career featured unsuccessful stints in Formula Two and Formula 3000, but he did slightly randomly emerge victorious driving a Porsche 956 in the 1985 24 Hours of Le Mans. He first ...

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April 13th 1949 - Ricardo Zunino is born in San Juan, Argentina. Zunino entered 11 Grands Prix between 1979 and 1981, first getting the opportunity to jump in a Brabham upon Niki Lauda's sudden first retirement in Canada. In 1980, while team-mate Piquet competed at the front of the grid, our Ricard...

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You've set a precedent there Simtek!

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