Grand Prix Rejects

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GRAND PRIX NEWS Your monthly source for racing news, stories and rumors | Wednesday 4th December, 1996 A Lot of Rumored Interest for Engine Supply 1997 will be Renault's last season as an engine supplier and it seems uncertain that Ford will continue its V8 engine programme any longer. Meanwhile, t...

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Kinnikuniverse wrote:Hope lola makes it, just for the lulz

Stay tuned!

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Press Release - HSBC Malaysia Stewart Ford HSBC Malaysia Stewart Ford proudly revealed its first ever Formula One car, the Stewart SF1, at a presentation in London. It marked the first major milestone in the new team's existence: Stewart Grand Prix has shown to be ready to compete in F1 in 1997. Te...

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1993DonningtonNo1Mk2 wrote:What if Colin Chapman was still alive when Senna joined Lotus?

Having just watched the Netflix documentary on DeLorean, I'm tempted to say there is a good chance that Chapman would have been in jail.

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GRAND PRIX NEWS Your monthly source for racing news, stories and rumors | Wednesday 6th November, 1996 1996 Season Review The 1996 Formula One season has come to an end and teams and drivers are either relaxing or already preparing for yet another exciting new season. Grand Prix News takes one last...

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1982 Keke Rosberg was the real life champion of 1982 and easily the favorite to win the Kubica Trophy as well. He did not disappoint: he won every race he finished, ending the season with an amazing points tally of 99. Rosberg was already crowned champion with three races to go. Only Manfred Winkel...

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1. The starting grid after the red flag. That was hilarious and therefore textbook ROTR material. 2. A shared nomination for the first lap nutcases Bottas and Stroll. That's the stuff some of us expected Mazepin to do. DHM to Alfa Romeo. Threw away every chance of a good result with silly penalties....

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1. Ocon - a win! And with an excellent, flawless drive under great pressure.
2. Latifi - 8th in a Williams and ahead of Russell

HM to the teams of Alpine and Williams as a whole and a very HM to Alonso. Perhaps slightly less unexpected (by me) but my goodness, the 40 year old's still got it.

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dr-baker wrote:Who's the best F1 driver?

Louder.

Who's the best F1 driver???

LAUDA.

I said, who's the best F1 driver?!?!?!

LAUDA!

I BLOODY ASKED YOU, WHO'S THE BEST F1 DRIVER?!?!?

AND I BLOODY TOLD YA IT'S NIKI LAUDA!!!

But what's his mother's name?

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1. Charles Leclerc for being the moral winner of today.
2. Fernando Alonso for his sprint race heroics.

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1. Lewis Hamilton for trying to kill his title rival. 2. Lewis Hamilton for trying to kill his title rival. DHM for Lewis Hamilton for trying to kill his title rival. DHM for the stewards for not disqualifying Lewis Hamilton. DHM to Sebastian Vettel for that silly spin. DHM to Sergio Perez for an aw...

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That's an interesting one, Rob. Petrov might have kept the seat, although it was clear he wasn't one of the best drivers available. I could see them settle for an experienced driver like Kovalainen or Glock, or could Hulkenberg have been an option?

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When I was doing the 1995 season of Nathan van Dijk's virtual career, I came across this rumor, which definitely deserves a mention!

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1- Kimi: Where the hell was he going, seriously. 2- Tsunoda: How do you even screw up getting into the pit lane twice in a row. 3- Masi: His rulebook apparently says "if multiple drivers break the same rule, the rule ceases to apply and everybody gets scot-free". The Q2 incident is not th...

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1. Lando Norris. Matching the Mercs on pace is textbook IIDOTR material. 2. Carlos Sainz. Great driving, well executed strategy. HM for George Russell. I am not nominating him, because I think he wasted too much by being over-cautious at the start. It was otherwise a very good race from him, albeit ...

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1981 Didier Pironi finally won France's second Kubica Trophy in 1980 and French drivers were again the favourites for 1981. Jacques Laffite and Alain Prost had gotten pretty close to winning the real-life championship, so it was likely that the fight for the Trophy would be between the two of them....

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1980 France had not had a Kubica Trophy winner since Jean Behra in 1956, but it seemed inevitable that a new French era would arrive in 1980. Nevertheless, the season opener was won by a Finn in a Brazilian team: Keke Rosberg shocked the world by winning the Argentinian Grand Prix in a Fittipaldi. ...

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2021 Alpine Grand Prix

1. Verstappen
2. Perez
3. Hamilton
4. Bottas
5. Norris
6. Gasly
7. Ricciardo
8. Sainz
9. Alonso
10. Leclerc

Pole: Verstappen
Fastest lap: Bottas
First retirement: Tsunoda
ROTR: Tsunoda
IIDOTR: Gasly
DBTMOTR: Ocon
MLP: Schumacher
HFB: 2 laps

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Apparently I had switched off BBcode in that post... Should be fixed now. Thanks for pointing it out! You did call it, but it especially surprised me that Scheckter did lead it until the very last moment. I personally find it a bit disappointing that both Regazzoni and Depailler missed out again wit...

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1979 1977 Kubica Trophy winner Jody Scheckter was the 1979 real life champion. Since South Africa was still eligible, he was a clear favourite to win it again. Or could this be the first time in history that the real life champion was beaten in the Kubica Trophy? His Canadian teammate Gilles Villen...

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Interesting that Scheckter won a race for Ferrari, he was still at Wolf in 1978 if i remember correctly (Irl it was Reutemann driving the Ferrari) Woops, slip of the pen there, thanks for pointing it out. Meanwhile, I've worked out 1979 as well. I won't give away too many spoilers, but Patrick Depa...

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1978 After several struggling seasons, Ronnie "Super Swede" Peterson was the top favourite for the 1978 Kubica Trophy in the iconic Lotus 78. He had a reasonably strong start to the season, but Patrick Depailler had started the season surprisingly well in his Tyrrell. The Frenchman won th...

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1. George Russell. He was heading for a top 8 result, on merit, in a Williams.
2. Lance Stroll. He had the measure of Vettel all weekend, drove a solid race and scored some very good points.

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1. George Russell's car. Poor guy.
2. Frank de Boer. What the bathplug was that? Yes, it took place a few hours after the Styrian GP but this was by far the most rejectful thing of this day...

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dr-baker wrote:Happy to see Hosino score a point in 1977, but sad that Lella Lombardi missed out on points in 1976.

This championship isn't good for female drivers at it turns out. The only one who isn't excluded is Desiré Wilson, but she failed to qualify on her one attempt in a championship race.

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1977 Niki Lauda had won Austria's third championship in 1976, so it was certain that 1977 would get another champion. Main favourite for the title would be real life runner-up Jody Scheckter, driving for the new Wolf team. The South African started the season almost perfectly with five wins in the ...

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2021 Bullsh*'t Grand Prix

1. Verstappen
2. Hamilton
3. Perez
4. Norris
5. Ricciardo
6. Vettel
7. Alonso
8. Ocon
9. Stroll
10. Sainz

Pole: Hamilton
Fastest lap: Perez
First retirement: Leclerc
ROTR: Bottas
IIDOTR: Norris
DBTMOTR: Tsunoda
MLP: Tsunoda
HFB: 2 laps

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I made this last winter, perhaps some of you like to see it. It is an infographic on the youngest and oldest starters of every Formula 1 Grand Prix.

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went wrote:the inexplicable decision not to pit Valteri at the end to have a go for fastest lap

I thought that was because Perez was still under investigation. If he would have had a 10 second penalty, for example, Bottas would have gotten 3rd.

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1. Ferrari - Both cars dropped like a brick through the order. 2. Esteban Ocon - He was nowhere in his home race. Dishonorable mentions for Mercedes, who managed to lose despite having the strongest package this race and Tsunoda, who again didn't have an incident-free weekend and who again didn't sc...

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1. Fernando Alonso - way ahead of Ocon and well in the points. Some nice battles along the way too. 2. Red Bull Racing - great drives from both drivers and clever strategy to finish with both cars on the podium, even though Mercedes did seem to have the edge on race pace. Honorable mentions to Georg...

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1976 I don't think I need to explain on this forum what happened in real life in 1976; it was possibly the most famous title battle in history. With James Hunt out of the equation, Niki Lauda should run away with it despite his near-fatal crash on the Nürburgring, shouldn't he? Lauda surely started...

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2021 Hon-Hon-Hongarian Grand Prix 1. Hamilton 2. Verstappen 3. Bottas 4. Perez 5. Norris 6. Leclerc 7. Ricciardo 8. Sainz 9. Gasly 10. Ocon Pole: Hamilton Fastest lap: Perez First retirement: Latifi ROTR: Vettel IIDOTR: Ocon DBTMOTR: Alonso MLP: Tsunoda HFB: 2 laps Oh, and double points, please.

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God, Gijs Van Lennep has scored 2 podiums. The world is coming to an end!! Two very happy podiums indeed and, I'm not going to lie, being Dutch myself it was one of the things I was hoping for. Now, let's see whether Lammers or Rothengatter can snatch away some more shock podiums or even a win... (...

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Press Release - Arrows Hart Arrows Hart is officially announcing its driver duo for 1997. In the second seat will be the team's current test driver and multiple F3000 race winner Kenny Bräck from Sweden. Kenny has impressed the team in the tests he performed during 1996, which is the main reason he...

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1975 Real life champion Niki Lauda was the clear favourite for 1975, but he did not really impress at the start of the season, only finishing 3rd three times in the first races. Jochen Mass had won two of those, but the red-flagged race in Spain only gave him half points. Nevertheless, his 16.5 poi...

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I did forget about Takagi for 1998 to be honest.. Whoops.

I love the happy podiums (Godin de Beaufort, Quester) and points (Godia, Von Opel) we've already seen so far!

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We could indeed end up with a 2 car championship that year: Nakano's Minardi and Magnussen's and Verstappen's shared Stewart drive.. Who knows

I might as well have called this "The Butterfly Effect" championship. Such tiny margins have such big consequences.

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1974 After winning two consecutive Kubica Trophies and as the real-life champion of 1974, Emerson Fittipaldi was the clear favorite for this year. If he won it, he would be the first driver in history to win the Kubica Trophy three times in a row. However, in real-life Clay Regazzoni, Jody Scheckte...

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1973 Jackie Stewart won the real life championship in 1973 by a comfortable margin, but British drivers have long been excluded from the Kubica Trophy. Emerson Fittipaldi, Ronnie Peterson and François Cevert all are still eligible and they finished quite close together in the real life championship...

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