Grand Prix Rejects

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Via the press conference ( replay here ), it appears that Carl is not fully retiring, unlike Nico. He even goes as far to say he's not "using the r-word". He opened up to the possibility of returning to JGR... if the stars align just right. Right now though, looks like he wants to be out o...

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Drivers: 1. Daniel Ricciardo : 9.0 - Mr. Smiley has rarely put a foot wrong this entire season. Whenever something goes wrong for Daniel, it's usually his team letting him down. He made short work of dispatching Kvyat, and managed to keep the very hyped up Verstappen in check. If the field bunches u...

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Here's the last chance of the year to pick out your first and second most surprising entities on track.

My Picks:

...watching a replay. I got nothing yet.

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Here's the last one of these for 2016. Pick whoever you thought was the biggest, and second biggest, goit on track today. My Picks: 1. Scuderia Toro Rosso - Nowhere all weekend. and a double DNF. 2. Jolyon Palmer - Almost ran out of talent, nearly taking out Sainz before the gearbox failure. HM: - M...

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Now that NASCAR's officially done for the year.. ROTY Podium of Drivers for the 2016 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Dishonorable Mentions: - Danica Patrick - A year where she visibly got worse. How do you finish behind all the Roush cars in points? In the same damn car Kevin, Tony, and Kurt got in the Cha...

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- Driver of the Year Award = Daniel Ricciardo - Team of the Year Award = Mercedes - Race of the Year Award = Spanish GP - Rookie of the Year Award = Pascal Wehrlein . I'm not considering Ocon until after his first full season. - Most Improved Driver of the Year Award = Marcus Ericsson - The "Fa...

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1. Romain Grosjean - Wow, you couldn't have binned it AFTER the green flag?! 2. Esteban Gutierrez - Hey, bud, after you parked it in the garage, why didn't you take your whiny little ass to the bus? Just open that seat up now so someone else much more worthy can race. Just flat-out disgraceful behav...

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With regards to the degree of the penalty being meted out to Vettel, I suspect that making the penalty harsher than usual is the FIA's way of implicitly punishing him for his attack on Whiting and on the stewards. Oddly enough, I kept this in the back of my mind after it got brought up in the IRC, ...

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1. The Stewards - In regards to the corner cutting: Lewis doesn't get anything, but Max did. Does Lewis get a pass because he was the leader? He shouldn't, because he clearly pulled out a long gap after pulling that stunt in turn 1. At least with Max, we know for sure he stayed ahead of Seb by doing...

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That's a livery I'd expect to see if Toyota decided to stick around.

Unfortunately, if we did see a Mobil 1-centered McHonda livery, we'd get something like this. Pretty plain in comparison.

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1. Carlos Sainz, Jr and Brian Scott - Toro Rosso shouldn't be finishing this high this late in the season. Neither should a Richard Petty Motorsports car driven by someone that is currently looking at a NASCAR Reject of the Year award this year. 2. Fernando Alonso - Not bad considering a disappointi...

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1. Scuderia Ferrari - That pit stop... you can't be bathplugging serious, right? Whoever was the dipstick that told Kimi to come back should also be fired. Plus there should be some sort of "No, you're NOT Chad Knaus!" Award given to their strategists. I genuinely couldn't understand what ...

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Also odd is that they are seriously considering Palmer- I can't think of any real logic to signing him, besides MSV money. You could put Palmer's apparent rising stock down to the fact that Magnussen, very disappointingly, failed to thrash him this year. Such a failure to do so might also be part o...

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Here's something that's pretty surprising (to me anyway). It's actually possible that Daniil Kvyat may not be totally screwed after all.

Please, please, please sign him, FI...

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The Georgia Golden Boy (Elliott), and my ROTR for Kansas, is effectively in a must-win situation now. A combination of mechanical issues and good old Larson-esque overdriving results in his second crappy finish of the round of 12. Took long enough for the scrappy, sloppy side of Elliott to come out....

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Guess enough time has passed for the results to be tallied up...

Reject of the Race: McLaren-Honda - 92

Esteban Gutierrez - 70
Lewis Hamilton - 60
Drivers whinging about backmarkers - 10
Carlos Sainz, Jr. - 6
People whinging about Hamilton's press conference conduct - 6

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1. Kasey Kahne - How did you get up in 3rd?

2. Ryan Newman - A probably desperate last attempt at keeping his seat from the much less talented Ty Dillon.

HM: Haas... I guess for not having brake issues for once.

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1. McLaren-Honda - For bathplugs sake. Of all the races you could've flat out sucked at, you chose THIS ONE?! 2. Esteban Gutierrez - Gene (or whoever does the driver contract nonsense), why the hell didn't you sign Charles Leclerc (or Vergne, or somebody actually worth a damn) for next year? You're ...

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Erm, in case you folks didn't watch, apparently Sky is taking notes from the Fox and NBC NASCAR crews w.r.t. the commentators talking to the drivers in the cars. Ol' Herbert gave Nico a post-qualy interview over the radio, while Nico was on his cooldown lap... ...and FFS, McLaren. You guys couldn't ...

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1. Hamilton's Engine - As fist-pumpingly happy as I was to see that and Nico grab more points, that was still a spectacularly crappy way for Lewis's race to end. Right up there with Button's Canada engine failure. 2. Gene Haas - Both the F1 team and the NASCAR team just flat out sucked today. We got...

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1. Jolyon Palmer - Yep. I didn't think he'd actually score this year, let alone in the Renault. Then I get proven completely incorrect. 2. Nico Rosberg, Christian Horner - I don't know what the hell they were thinking when they decided to do the shoey with Dan. HM: McLaren , particularly Fernando Al...

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1. Kevin Magnussen - So, Renault, are you going to keep his contract in the air? He got you a point in that banana colored shitbox. 2. Daniil Kvyat - Please, oh please let this be a sign of a comeback. I don't want to see this guy confined to the black hole of dwindling F1 careers known as Formula E...

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1. Race Control - I don't know what in the F**K that g****** marshal was f**king thinking! It's also the second year in a row something this stupidly dangerous happens! Throwing shades of that awful race accident in 1977 seals it. 2. Romain Grosjean's Car - A crappy weekend with a crappy car apparen...

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Ferrari might have just gift wrapped yet another podium to Hamilton. It's like they're trying to purposely keep Rosberg from taking the championship lead back.

...I suck at mental math

, apparently because Nico could still take the lead back even with Hamilton 3rd.

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Great photo Dr. I don't know what the fuss about Danica Patrick is. She rarely seems to smile and she's somewhat overrated as a racer. I'd choose Simona every time. That fuss might be due to some modeling photoshoot she did for... I'm totally guessing here, Sports Illustrated? I know of Danica doin...

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1. Felipe Nasr - He's the only one that did something totally boneheaded during the race. Props for screwing both his and Palmer's races. 2. Ferrari 's Strategists, again - I'll just take a little something (Un)Happy Harvick said to his pit crew recently: "Y'all honestly just don't want to f*ck...

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The atmosphere at Maranello must be toxic. No, no, no. It's not the guys at Maranello that are toxic. That awful Spanish man now driving for the enemy McLaren was the toxic one. He left, so there's no more toxic atmosphere, right? Please don't think I'm serious here... Looks like Ferrari's back to ...

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Just for posterity, McLaren themselves confirm it. Per their website, Button's still going to hang around the garage through 2018. He probably is in McLaren's pocket if Alonso calls it quits after 2017.

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Junior's on the sidelines for another two races at least. Wouldn't be surprised if he's forced to retire. If he's still suffering over a month after he was diagnosed, he should really think about calling it a day. The risks to his health are just not worth it, given what we know about concussions i...

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Um. Hamilton was voted DOTD. I guess Alonso holding off a Ferrari and the two Williams in that trash heap McHonda isn't as impressive as a Mercedes bulldozing past five cars? Okay, Alonso also got lucky with the red flag, but he should've dropped back like a rock after the restart. Verstappen is als...

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It took a damn while, but Kyle Larson FINALLY got his first Cup win at Michigan! A late caution did save his bacon because Elliott was pulling away from him until Annett had a car/tyre problem instead of a driver problem for once. Elliott also learning from the Jeff Gordon Restart Academy also helpe...

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His comments after the race make it sound as if his moves on Kimi were out of spite for having his race spoiled at the start. He is quoted as saying this after the race: "The Ferrari's ruined my race in the first corner. Then I will not let them past. I'd prefer to run them off the track inste...

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1. Nico Hulkenberg - He actually did something today! He even beat Perez! Could've been a podium if the stupid red flag tire rules didn't muck it all up. 2. Fernando Alonso - This race should've been absolutely painful for McLaren and especially Honda, if last year was any indication. Somehow, Ferna...

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1. Max Verstappen - Sheesh, what the bathplug was up with him today? Oh, and no penalties somehow. I'd be less surprised if he decided to turn around another car into the wall at speed just for bumping his tires or "turning in" on him. Completely disgraceful driving, no doubt about it. I a...

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I thought David "PUT IT OUT" Hoots and his gaggle of idiots at NASCAR were the poster children of inconsistent stewarding. Well, the stewards here just usurped that title today.

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Okay. Max did a d***headed move for the second bathplugging lap in a row, and the FIA forgot to bleep out Kimi that time.

...there goes Palmer pulling out the glass of whine again.

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At least we now get to say that Buescher is better than the supposedly grossly overhyped Kyle Larson, Chase Elliott, and Ryan Blaney by virtue of getting his first Cup win before those three did. I'll find it hilarious if Buescher is the only rookie in the Chase, provided Elliott continues his bad f...

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1. Chris Buescher - People hype up Elliott and Larson, but no one gives a f___ about this guy. Guess who just got his first Cup win, and in a backmarker car? Not those two yahoos.

2. Rio Haryanto - Because why the hell not?

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What are you crackers talking about? Nico Rosberg clearly created a situation where Max Verstappen could either go off the track or run into the German. Whether Rosberg had braking lock doesn't matter, hell, if he did, it may condemn him even more because it would prove just how reckless his attemp...

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1. The New Rubens Barrichello a.k.a. Nico Rosberg - After Baku, Nico has found a way to irritate me every race. Nico, just sit down, shut the f*ck up, and be a nice little #2 driver from now on. It's obvious to me you're not near Lewis' level. 2. William Clyde Elliott II - Every driver I cheer for k...

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