Grand Prix Rejects

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It occurs to me that if, by some freakish combination of luck, reliability issues, and weather, Rossi wins the race on Sunday, we get to hear "The Star Spangled Banner" immediately followed by "The State Anthem of the Russian Federation."

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1. Kovalainen
2. Webber

I chose this ordering because everyone else will have Webber first.

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1. Perez -- amazing first drive.
2. Petrov

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Now this is the way to start the F1 season! Thanks, guys.

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I'm back in with Thalion Racing. Kamui started doing well last year the race after I dropped him from my team, so I'm doing him a favor and not adding him at all this time!

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Thalion's predictions 2010 Italian Grand Prix: 1. Kubica 2. Button 3. Sutil 4. Vettel 5. Rosberg 6. Alonso 7. Massa 8. Alguersuari 9. Webber 10. Liuzzi Pole: Vettel Fastest lap: Sutil First Retirement: Kobayashi ROTR: Hamilton IIDOTR: Sutil (Could have finished 3rd easily but just couldn't find a wa...

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1. Petrov
2. Kobayashi

(The defending WCC doesn't deserve IIDOTR for this, IMHO.)

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Thalion's predictions 2010 Belgian Grand Prix: 1. Button 2. Vettel 3. Hamilton 4. Alonso 5. Webber 6. Kubica 7. Rosberg 8. Sutil 9. Kobayashi 10. Barichello Pole: Vettel Fastest lap: Liuzzi First Retirement: Alguersuari ROTR: Vettel (Throws away an easy win by binning it at Eau Rouge) IIDOTR: Sutil ...

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Thalion's Predictions 2010 Hungarian Grand Prix: 1. Webber 2. Vettel 3. Alonso 4. Button 5. Hamilton 6. Massa 7. Rosberg 8. Kubica 9. Barrichello 10. Alguersuari Pole: Vettel Fastest lap: Alonso First Retirement: de la Rosa ROTR: Ferrari's pitcrew IIDOTR: Alguersuari DBTMOTR: Buemi Minor League Prem...

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Just getting around to listening to the podcast now, and am loving it. Great work guys!

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Thalion's Predictions 2010 German Grand Prix: 1. Alonso 2. Vettel 3. Button 4. Hamilton 5. Rosberg 6. Kubica 7. Petrov 8. Sutil 9. Kobayashi 10. Barichello Pole: Vettel Fastest lap: Massa First Retirement: Hulkenberg ROTR: Bridgestone IIDOTR: Petrov DBTMOTR: Hulkenberg Minor League Premiership (Driv...

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WeirdKerr wrote:Am i the only person here to think that the old Hockenheim layout was dull......

no, you're not. i'm with you on this one, and i also agree with pedestrian that hockenheim has produced some great action since it was reconfigured.

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Thalion's predictions: 1. Webber 2. Button 3. Hamilton 4. Alonso 5. Sutil 6. Kubica 7. Barichello 8. Buemi 9. Massa 10. de la Rosa Pole: Vettel Fastest lap: Buemi First Retirement: Glock (assuming it's too late to pick Senna...) ROTR: Neil Horan IIDOTR: Kovalainen DBTMOTR: Algersuari Minor League Pr...

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I dropped Kobayashi for the first time this season--would have done it a long time ago had I known that was all it took for him to get a good result!

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Thalion's Predictions 2010 European Grand Prix: 1. Hamilton 2. Alonso 3. Rosberg 4. Button 5. Vettel 6. Webber 7. Kubica 8. Massa 9. Schumacher 10. Petrov Pole: Webber Fastest lap: Sutil First Retirement: Senna ROTR: the Valencia Circuit IIDOTR: Rosberg DBTMOTR: Alguersuari Minor League Premiership ...

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tc3j3r wrote:Leaderboard now updated as of Canadian GP. Michael Schumacher jumps from 3rd place to 2nd place, ahead to Kimi Raikkonen.

Ah, now we finally see the real reason for the comeback--he discovered there was one major statistical category where didn't have the top spot yet!

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I want to say Kovalainen, but honestly I'm coming to expect this kind of performance from him so it's no longer really an IIDOTR--meaning:

1. Liuzzi
2. Buemi

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Thalion's Predictions 2010 Canadian Grand Prix: 1. Button 2. Webber 3. Vettel 4. Hamilton 5. Rosberg 6. Alonso 7. Kubica 8. Schumacher 9. Kobayashi 10. Sutil Pole: Vettel Fastest lap: Hamilton First Retirement: Senna ROTR: Massa IIDOTR: Schumacher DBTMOTR: Liuzzi Minor League Premiership (Driver): A...

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Thalion's Predictions 1. Vettel 2. Webber 3. Massa 4. Hamilton 5. Alonso 6. Rosberg 7. Sutil 8. Schumacher 9. Kubica 10. Button Pole: Webber Fastest lap: Massa First Retirement: de la Rosa ROTR: Williams IIDOTR: Kobayashi DBTMOTR: de la Rosa Minor League Premiership (Driver): Alguersuari Minor Leagu...

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As a Sidenote... This thread is EASILY the most viewed in the entire forum!!! Not by a huge margin. The Formula One Word Association Game thread has 101 pages, compared to the 37 pages of this thread, most of which are one-line posts. He said views, not posts. At the time of this posting, this thre...

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Thalion's Predictions 2010 Spanish Grand Prix: 1. Vettel 2. Alonso 3. Webber 4. Massa 5. Rosberg 6. Hamilton 7. Button 8. Kubica 9. Schumacher 10. Sutil Pole: Vettel Fastest lap: Webber First Retirement: de la Rosa ROTR: F Ducts/Blown Rear Wings IIDOTR: Kobayashi DBTMOTR: de la Rosa Minor League Pre...

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. I think what Hamilton and Petrov did in Malaysia wasn't dangerous at all. On that subject I was looking at some F1 starts from the last ten years on Youtube. I understand that rules have changed since then but I couldnt believe how many starts featured M Schumacher veering left or right to cover ...

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This podcast exceeded my expectations and made me wish that I had a Welsh accent.

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Thalion's Predictions 2010 Chinese Grand Prix: 1. Hamilton 2. Webber 3. Vettel 4. Button 5. Rosberg 6. Alonso 7. Sutil 8. Kubica 9. Schumacher 10. Liuzzi Pole: Vettel Fastest lap: Webber First Retirement: Buemi ROTR: Massa IIDOTR: Kovalainen DBTMOTR: Massa Minor League Premiership (Driver): Petrov M...

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Scarne wrote:

A rare point for Roberto Moreno

Ok, now this one made me laugh.

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The only problem I had with KERS was that the regulations limited it to the point that it was completely useless. The teams could have designed much better systems, but the amount of power it could generate was restricted to an unreasonably low level. That's why everyone criticized it as being compl...

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Thalion's Predictions

1. Vettel
2. Hamilton
3. Alonso
4. Webber
5. Rosberg
6. Schumacher
7. Button
8. Kobayashi
9. Kubica
10. Sutil

Pole: Massa
Fastest lap: Hamilton
First retirement: di Grassi
ROTR: Barrichello
IIDOTR: Kobayashi
DBTMOTR: Algersuari
MLPD: Kobayashi
MLPT: Lotus

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It looks good. The actual content is, as always, excellent, while the format changes make it more readable.

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McLaren's Hamilton strategy was the risk-averse thing to do. If the tires are good enough to last all race, Jenson wins. If not, Lewis wins. Hindsight, 20/20, etc.

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I'm gonna have to go with Kobayashi's front wing, but there were a lot of other strong candidates (especially over toward the red bull part of the pit lane and in the 7-times-world-champion section of the paddock). All the 'Formula One is doomed--let's make everyone take 9 pitstops' camp deserves an...

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Why are you folks nominating people for reject of the Race before the race has even started, let alone finished? If stuff that happened in free practice would count, surely it would be called 'Reject of the Weekend'? Because it's fun. Are we disrupting the flow of serious, reasoned, dispassionate d...

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When written here for the first time, I could have bet my arse that it was fake. God lord, ROTR straight away an ROTY candidate right now. They still have to make the car reliable enough to actually make it to the finish before they can even dream of getting ROTR for not having enough fuel. What a ...

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Thalion's Predictions
2010 Australian Grand Prix:
1. Webber
2. Alonso
3. Vettel
4. Massa
5. Rosberg
6. Button
7. Schumacher
8. Sutil
9. Kubica
10. Hulkenberg

Pole: Vettel
Fastest lap: Hamilton
First Retirement: de la Rosa
ROTR: Sauber
IIDOTR: Kubica
DBTMOTR: Liuzzi
MLPD: Kovalainen
MLPT: Hispania

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Kobayashi has already destroyed a front wing. At least someone is trying to keep F1 interesting this season.

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The FOGAQBAGPASAP Edition.

(that's Formula One Gulf Air/Qantas Bahrain/Australian Grand Prix At Sakhir/Albert Park Edition and can be called 'FOG.ack.bag.PAS.app' or by its initials)

The Gulfantas Bahralian Edition has a certain ring to it, too.

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I have a few insane ideas. - Mandate Single Lap Qualifying and none of this Q1, Q2, Q3 crap. Its insane because they tried it. It came, it sucked, it didn't last. I take it it's just me and Cynan who liked single lap qualifying then? Sure the qualifying itself was a little dull but it made race day...

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A good first race for me, but with Kubica looking competitive I'll have to rely on more bad luck for him (short-run) and Renault falling back in development (long-run) to have nearly the same results in the future.

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Captain Hammer wrote:
CarlosFerreira wrote:What happened to the "don't give it to the new teams" thing?

I said "don't give it to the new teams for being slow".

Stationary isn't slow enough for you?

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1. Lotus
2. Heikki Kovalainen (for actually racing with the other teams)

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Sauber, for finishing behind the Lotii.

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