Grand Prix Rejects

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I wonder if Haas remembered what the last F1 car was that Dallara designed... http://www.arpem.com/competicion/formula_uno/escuderias/hispania-racing-f1-team/2010/imagenes/hrt-cosworth-lateral.jpg ...and what a resounding success it wasn't? Dallara is literally the only option if you want a top-lev...

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What if all teams ran 2 cars in 1985 and entered all races of the season and there was pre-qualifying? Would Tyrrell or RAM be the fourth team to pre-qualify? Tyrrell I believe. Their 1984 exclusion was as far as I know upheld (remains so in the record books to this day), so it would be Tyrrell and...

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What Haas are doing isn't exactly new either. Scuderia Italia also used Dallara chassis (although were a bit more honest in the naming of said car), but even aside from that a chassis running under the teams name would often be wholly outsourced. I actually learned from this very site('s predecessor...

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My ponder is age-related. Hamilton is well on his way to securing his third title and thus joining the legendary greats. But, much like with Vettel, I aint feeling it on a visceral level despite me appreciating the numerical achievements. As a disclaimer I am a Ham-Fan, when he's in the car I find ...

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Ferrari did the same, going with a raised nose 1992 to 1994, before going back to a low nose for that gorgeous 1995 car. Although (and I only realised this a few years later as I got older), even the "low nose" cars of that time were slightly raised and not a complete flat bottom to the no...

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Actually, TWR had taken over Hart and merged it with Arrows, and the engines they used were modified versions of the Hart-designed Yamaha engine from 1997. I may be wrong but weren't the Yamahas were built by Judd rather than Hart? I always thought the "Arrows" V10 was an all new Hart des...

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What if Nigel Mansell was paralyzed in that Formula Ford crash? The others to test the Lotus alongside Mansell that led to him getting the reserve/test/third/whatever seat were de Angelis (who got the actual race drive for 1980), Jan Lammers, Eddie Cheever and Stephen South, so one of those last th...

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Basically, Pastor Maldonado is this generation's Andrea De Cesaris Aside from the win that's a good comparison, quick on his day but crash happy and therefore owing his presence on the grid to the funding he brings. Long Beach '82 was probably the closest de Cesaris got to Maldonado's 2012 Spanish ...

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Agree on the variety point, I think that's the main reason the Tilkedromes as a whole have a bad reputation. One Tilkedrome in isolation has nothing wrong with it (well apart from the separate run-off debate), it's just they all seem a bit samey to me. A calendar filled with Monzas and old Hockenhei...

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I'm just going to come out and say it.

To hell with Villeneuve - I want Venturi to hire Bertrand Gachot and Ukyo Katayama for next season.

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I miss aggregate timing. I don't care if it could be difficult to follow, it kept the integrity of the race, and to be honest I've never been literally on my feet at the end of a race since Suzuka '94. Don't get me wrong, I believe the new VSC - when suitable - trumps everything - but at least in in...

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About two thirds of the way through watching 1992 races. This was my first full season watching and of all the great things that I do remember, from Mansell's title, to the strong performances of Alboreto late in his career, to Roberto Moreno qualifying an Andrea Moda at Monaco, one thing that I did...

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I remember Larini standing in at Ferrari when Alesi was injured in 1994, of course taking the podium in the tragic Imola race, but I had completely forgotten he also did a couple of races at the end of 1992, when Capelli was sacked. To continue the Larini/Morbidelli saga, Morbidelli also had a brie...

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I wasn't alive to see it - in fact my parents were literally babies at the time - but on the face of it Stirling Moss's 1958 I think takes some beating. Won quadruple the races of the champion, of the races he finished he won all but one of them, and winning in two different cars (including taking t...

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I remember Larini standing in at Ferrari when Alesi was injured in 1994, of course taking the podium in the tragic Imola race, but I had completely forgotten he also did a couple of races at the end of 1992, when Capelli was sacked.

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It's worth remembering his 1995 F3000 season was the last of the open chassis formula. It's not like the teams were constructors, it was more like CART (choose a Lola or Reynard and choose an engine to fit to it), but Super Nova were dominant that year and there was probably more scope for the team ...

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What if Niki Lauda didn't come out of retirement to join McLaren in 1982, and focused on his aviation interests with no further involvement in motorsport? Alain Prost would be a 5-time, 5-time, 5-time, 5-time, 5-time World Champion and he'd still be overlooked when people debate who the all time gr...

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1. Alonso - I know this should have been McLaren's least-worst track, but still, great drive to 5th. 2. Vettel - Had disappeared up the road (by modern F1 standards) prior to the SC, and then kept his head after seeing his advantage subsequently wiped out. 1. Kvyat - 2nd after messing up his tyres i...

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Anyone here have drivers that they once really didn't like, but your opinions of them have changed over the years? I ask this because although I really used to dislike him, in the last 3-4 years, i've really become a fan of Fernando Alonso, and i'm not sure why. I'm starting to think his 2012 seaso...

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Yeah to be honest when the spec engine for LMP2 was announced one of my first thoughts was the implications for Nissan (not saying that I thought it would directly cause them to reconsider their P1 program). But they've been a big supporter of that category, since 2011 IIRC with the Signatech car th...

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Hopefully this doesn't sound like too much of an unimaginative cop-out.. Obviously he completes the 1979 season with Ligier, showing well, but Ligier's competitiveness in general declined as Ferrari, Renault and Williams's new cars bedded in (FWIW I've never bought the "setup lost on a Gitanes ...

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Bertrand Gachot and Roberto Moreno both set their only F1 fastest race laps in the race before they were replaced in their team by Michael Schumacher. In consecutive races.

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RIP Jules, I'll be watching my recording of last year's Monaco race and raising a glass to you tonight.

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Enforcing a minimum fuel usage? I don't care much for "green" credentials personally, but if teams can calculate that running with less fuel and weight allows them to complete the race quicker even with the required fuel saving, I don't think there's anything wrong with that. And there are...

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It would be interesting to know how many average fans are turned away because of negative sound bytes coming from people with responsibilities in the sport (like the latest from Bernie in which he basically says F1 fans are dumb). I assume you mean this comment? But if you and I and go the grandsta...

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The four manufacturers for the new LMP2 regulations for 2017 have been chosen. Oreca, Onroak (Ligier), Dallara and Riley. So no more Gibson/Zytek, BR, HPD or Dome. This is the first I've heard of the LMP2 manufacturers being limited and I must say it really goes against what I originally loved abou...

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Oddly enough, I find Ralf's Jordan stint fairly anonymous compared to his Williams days when he looked a potential WDC (had his brother never driven in F1, of course), and his Toyota days when he claimed he was the third best driver in F1. Really Ralf, really? When did he claim he was the third bes...

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I find it a bit sad that the new Ligier LMP cars are called the JSP2 (LMP2) and JSP3 (LMP3) respectively. The name does what it says on the tin so to speak, but it'd be nice for them to have kept the numbering sequence going, plus their second LMP2 design in 2017 I don't know what they'll call, unle...

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No, it is not Sauber, I'm afraid. They had the words "concept by Mercedes Benz" on their airbox in their first year, running the Ilmor-Mercedes engine, and had been the Mercedes works team in sportscars (Group C) before. I'd say you'd have to go back to 1991 when Eddie Jordan's team enter...

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I like the Sky coverage... yes, it can focus too much on its own country sometimes, but you'll never find a channel that does otherwise.... Yep. As part of my personal project to collect old F1 races, going through most of the late 80s a lot of races I could find only had Brazilian Portuguese comme...

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Gianni Morbidelli's two race stint at Scuderia Italia in early 1990. Come to think of it, Bernd Schneider at Arrows and Gregor Foitek at Brabham as well. Similarly Stefan Johansson's two races for AGS at the start of 1991. And not sure if these count as they formed a part of larger stints that I do...

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WEC is the only championship I've actually gone out of my way to watch in real time this year, adjusting plans accordingly and so on. Everything else (including F1), I've tended to just record and watch whenever I get time. I still haven't watched the British GP as I type this, and haven't been part...

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According to Google Translate, "mon étron" in French = "my turd" in English. Is this a coincidence or was Jean-Pierre van Rossem taking the piss out of us all along?

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Regarding rim size, from an aesthetic standpoint I'm on the fence (or don't give a flying bathplug, to be less polite), This being motorsport I'd be more interested in which solution was quicker, and I genuinely don't know the answer to that. I'd guess lower profile tyres will maybe perform better, ...

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All very good points regarding the Bellof/Brundle comparison. I've taken a break from 1989 to rewatch the 1984 Detroit GP that I have in my archive, although it's only a 12 min low quality video spliced together from multiple You Tube videos I found. And yeah Brundle doesn't pull off any particularl...

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Stefan Bellof was overrated. Tend to agree with this - looking at that 1984 season, usually there wasn't much between him and Brundle, Bellof's drive at Monaco was impressive, but was it more so than Brundle's at Detroit? Brundle didn't have wet weather to further negate the power disadvantage eith...

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I'm also in the minority that would prefer a tyre war. Call me old fashioned but I'd prefer the winning tyre to be sorted out on track rather than in some sort of tender process. And if everyone ends up on one tyre like with Dunlop in the early 60s or Goodyear at various points in the 70s, 80s and 9...

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The #35 OAK however... but who can say anything bad about Nicolet. At the risk of sounding metrosexual or something, I am glad to have the black and pink works OAK cars back, especially with French alcohol laws ruining what would have otherwise been the best looking cars IMO, the ESM Tequila Patron...

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I see Horner has gone full Hembery and taken it upon himself to decide that F1 "needs" more pitstops. I must have missed the memo that a race's worth was defined by the number of halts to replenish consumables. The only thing "boring" about a one-stop strategy is the fact that a ...

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Why is it that whenever a team comes up with what they think is a big leap forward in performance in relation to the front-running team, they always fail to consider that the front-running team will not stand still? That reminds me a bit of something Peter Warr (of Mansell-induced constipation fame...

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