Grand Prix Rejects

lance_rambert

My only nomination is Mick Schumacher . He's a complete bust, full stop. I have no idea who to really pick for a #2, so here's a bunch of mentions: Stewards - How the bathplug do you NOT give Mick a penalty for destroying Vettel's car, but give Alonso one? Are the morons that judge Formula Drift eve...

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I see only one clear cut winner - the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix as a whole. Given the potentially life-threatening shenanigans within eyeshot and a tremendous crash highlighting the track's inherently unsafe design, this stupid race shouldn't have been greenlit in the first place. If not for that, ho...

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1. Those petulant divas leading Red Bull and Merc - The faster those dopes realize neither driver is totally innocent, the better. Horner deserves more [__] for the rather idiotic take on overtaking in Copse. I'm pretty damn sure I saw some passes happen there. Also, really, Wolff? I don't even want...

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Race Control needs to get their shite together. I normally point to NASCAR (see: this year's Roval race) as the poster child for dismal officiating, but F1 seems intent on taking that distinction given how god-awfully this race was run. Issues like the aforementioned make F1 that much more of a cho...

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It's official. Lewis gets pegged back 3 spots.

lance_rambert

Thank you to the stewards for ruining that race. NASCAR's officiating hasn't been this disgustingly incompetent. At least their errors can raise a laugh.

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Charles Leclerc - Just about every motorsport young gun this season has found some way to piss me off. All that's missing is his car having the number 9...

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Simtek wrote:But let's not forget the real tragedy here.

Blame Carlin. Their "throw crap at the wall and hope it sticks" approach to car setups did him (and the other two bathtubs) in.

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Good. McLaren have officially solidified their place as motorsports' professional lolcow. What an absolute joke and a complete disgrace to Bruce McLaren and Ron Dennis' groundwork. Thank you, McLaren for wasting all of our time. Now please leave and don't come back. This crappy, condescending attitu...

lance_rambert

The whole grid minus Mercedes should be ashamed of themselves. They had six years to get their sh*t together and it's all resolved to this.

I thought 2015 was the worst of it, but nope. Everyone else's performance is just a slap in the face to the sport and its fans.

lance_rambert

I'll throw a hat in the ring for Ferrari as a whole thanks to Leclerc's uncooperative engine and Vettel's aspirations to be even more disappointing...

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dr-baker wrote:No mentions of Senna and Irvine at Suzuka 1993?

Referring to the Piquet-Salazar fisticuffs makes more sense in this case because Max didn't punch Esteban in the face like Senna allegedly did to Irvine.

lance_rambert

While most folks are probably and rightfully nominating Ocon for -that- boneheaded move, I gotta give a shout to Max Verstappen for what transpired afterwards... This whole ordeal had all the makings of a NASCAR-style post-race brawl. After the wreck, Max insinuated over the radio he was going to be...

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On the F3 title... I genuinely didn't expect Mick's second half turnaround at all. He looked as mediocre as his rookie self in the first half, but then he apparently figured out qualifying and pulls out all of his 8 wins, including 5 in a row while cleaning out the Nurburgring. Gotta give serious pr...

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My first nomination goes to McLaren . At this stage of the season this team somehow has no shortage of finding new ways to piss me off. So, Zak, Mumtalakat et al., if you really want Vandoorne out of the car, why not just tell him to bathplug off and stick Norris in for the rest of the season? At le...

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1. Scott McLaughlin - The way he threw away the Supercars title will go down in folklore until the end of time itself 2. Renault's Pit Crew - Welp, I got a better look (replay) at what happened... I guess Hendrick Motorsports' #24 crew needed new jobs after Homestead. Dishonorable Mention: The New F...

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All 16 points to Renault, both the team and the engine maker. That was just shocking.

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Ed Jones is in the other Ganassi car next year. Let's see how he does alongside Dixon...

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1. Kevin Magnussen, Romain Grosjean - K-Mag is really starting to show why he's an ex- McLaren junior. I'm starting to lose sympathy for what McLaren did to him, and some. RoGro's showing shades of his same old self that I would have been calling for him to get kicked out of his seat. Poor Gene... h...

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1. Shane Van Gisbergen - Come on, dude... Jamie Whincup's supposed to be the one that normally chokes away a Bathurst 1000 victory.

2. Ferrari - What a mess. That race was Ferrari pretty much saying "Here, Lewis, have the Driver's Championship. Oh, and a nice delicious cake too."

lance_rambert

Then Toro Rosso will really be stuck as to who they should pick for 2018. After looking who's currently on the Red Bull junior team and what each driver is doing, I don't think Gasly (maybe even Kvyat, despite current events) has anything to be worried about. There's nobody in that stable currently...

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1. Sebastian Vettel - Oh. Boy. That was definitely not one of the things Seb needed to do to win the Driver's Championship. Add on that the fact that he is the one that instigated that junkyard of a start. Had Seb not chopped Verstappen off, maybe that wreck would not have happened. Max or Kimi woul...

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I don't know any other way to put this, but... Kasey Kahne finally won a race! ...although race control decided to be goits again, by waiting until Kahne crossed the overtime line to throw the race-ending caution despite a wreck being triggered far enough back to warrant doing so. Xfinity race contr...

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Justin Allgaier easily takes ROTR of the Xfinity Indianapolis race for being the main cause of, frankly, the most god-awful, bathplugged up disaster of a pit stop I've ever seen . Oh, and the restrictor plate + front bumper aero mod package did its job of producing a much relatively better race than...

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East Londoner wrote:Alex Bowman in the #88 full time next year though? Yes pls.

The folks at Hendrick have the real answer. :dance:

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1. Scuderia Toro Rosso - I find it too easy to place all the blame on the Russian Torpedo for being the one that made the contact ending his teammate's and (almost) Kevin Magnussen's race, while Dani himself escaped relatively unscathed. As much as I'd like to fuel the fire for kicking Kvyat to the ...

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1. Lance Stroll - 94 2. Esteban Ocon - 82 3. Force India-Mercedes - 16 4. Sir Patrick Stewart - 10 - Ryan Blaney - 10 6. Sebastian Vettel - 6 Ooh boy this one was a bit close... but the teenage Canadian rookie Lance Stroll takes the IIDOTR honors this time around! The rather scrappy and unrefined r...

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Time to count up the results... 1. Carlos Sainz, Jr. - 132 2. Sergio Perez - 74 3. Honda - 38 4. The stewards - 16 5. The loose hat - 10 - Dale Earnhardt, Jr. - 10 - Scuderia Toro Rosso - 10 8. Force India-Mercedes - 6 - Jolyon Palmer - 6 - Red Bull-TAG Heuer - 6 - Tony Kanaan - 6 The coveted Reject...

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The second reason, however, is that they also didn't want to disqualify Vettel because of the impact it would have on the championship standings. In other words, they were more interested in preserving the entertainment factor of seeing Vettel and Hamilton fighting on track than they were in ensuri...

lance_rambert

This one's easy.

1. Lance Stroll

2. Fernando Alonso

HM to Kevin Magnussen. If only he held on to the podium spot...

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1. Carlos Sainz, Jr. - A rather stupid move on the first lap. 2. Sergio Perez - F**ked over Ocon out of a podium position. Also undoubtedly the Dick Move of the Race. Dishonorable Mentions: Honda - At least break down after Alonso crosses the fine for once. Hendrick Motorsports[' Brakes] - 3/4 cars ...

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1. Marcus Ericsson, Jenson Button - Two drivers having rather stupid accidents. Marcus commits the cardinal sin of crashing while trying to follow the damn pace car. Jenson showed us that maybe McLaren should have given a proper thought about a proper replacement for Alonso. 2. Fernando Alonso's Hon...

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For the first time since the October 2000 Talladega race, the #3 Richard Childress car is back in victory lane @ Charlotte, wheeled by none other than Austin Dillon . Both Kyle Busch and Martin Truex Jr. were denied the win after RCR pulled another fortunate strategy out of the hat. Currently, RCR h...

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Just to add fuel to the Alonso full time IndyCar seat fire, Alonso's F1 contract is up after this year. I wouldn't put it past McLaren to keep their relationship with Andretti to field a full time entry for 2018, with Alonso driving. Or maybe that's just me having wishful thinking... At the very lea...

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1. I'm giving it to Stoffel Vandoorne . - That incident... why? I know the McLaren has its lion's share of speed-related problems, but Massa was definitely alongside Stoffel before turn 1. I didn't think McLaren's most exciting junior prospect since Hamilton would make such a silly cockup. Neither d...

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1. Jolyon Palmer, Romain Grosjean - The former... just go away, The latter just had an outright terrible weekend. 2. Takuma Sato - Taku caused a caution at the Phoenix IndyCar race... in the midst of drivers making green flag stops. Now a ton of drivers were scored a lap down, except for five driver...

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1. Carlos Sainz, Jr. - Nice divebomb there, bud.

2. Jolyon Palmer - Pissed away a great points chance after getting into Q3. It even looked slightly intentional.

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HM: Honda. I'm already staring at 2017's ROTY in the face. Note that I did NOT say McLaren-Honda.

lance_rambert

1. Whoever at Ferrari made that strategy call - Someone in red tried to channel their inner Chad Knaus... again. However, unlike the numerous other times that made Ferrari look even stupider, it actually worked . Can't say I'm unimpressed. 2. Antonio Giovinazzi - Not bad considering Gio only had FP3...

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1. Whoever does the FOM scoring graphics and Kevin Magnussen - The former gets it because... wow. We got jack squat for scoring throughout most of the race. One would think they got their shite together after having this problem the last couple of Aussie GPs. The latter gets it for just being pretty...

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Antonio Giovinazzi is jumping in the Sauber this weekend in place of Pascal Wehrlein, as of FP3.

While the circumstances behind the switch are... not great, I'm pretty excited to see Gio finally get a shot.

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