Grand Prix Rejects

Waris

What is it about planning road trips to Amsterdam at the moment? Guys on my nursing course were wanting to do the same thing! I think Waris is best qualified to explain the attraction of that city Does it really require that much explanation? I'm sure everyone here knows what Amsterdam is most famo...

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So I have this theory that Alonso's bad luck with being in the wrong car at the same time is kind of meant to be, destiny if you will. Why? Well, it's pretty clear to me now that given any car, Alonso will absolutely drive the balls off of that car every single time. So when you give him the best ca...

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If this road trip to Amsterdam ever becomes a thing, I'm game to join. I live above an Irish pub that shows F1 races live

Waris

I had a hearty chuckle. Finally F1 gets explained in terms that anyone can understand without too much analysis. I really hope Bill sticks around for the whole season. (Maybe by the time the US Grand Prix comes around, his race reviews will have picked up so much notoriety that they actually ask him...

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Yes, exactly dr-baker! Except the wings themselves were, well, Prost purplish-blue and not black. I guess my subconscious remembered those Ferrari rectangles and incorrectly applied them

Waris

I dreamed of an F1 car that was painted like a Prost in the back, like a Toyota in the front (but with a Prost-blue front wing), with sidepods like a Force India, and a weird yellow rectangle each on the left and right side of the front and rear wings.

Waris

Here's part 2 with some more nice quotes and pictures: http://www.gpupdate.net/en/f1-news/350129/feature-lola-s-brief-formula-1-foray-part-2/

My, that car really was a dog.

Waris

Incidentally, GPUpdate are doing a feature on Lola today and Monday: http://www.gpupdate.net/en/f1-news/350127/feature-lola-s-brief-formula-1-foray-part-1/ Some nice images there. I especially love the one with Sospiri and Rosset in the driver's parade, where you can clearly see the race suits had a...

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Another thing popped up that I'm wondering about. F1 teams are bound by the Concorde Agreement, right? But those Concorde Agreements only get made once every few years (I think the last two were in 1997 and 2010). So does that means that teams who join the sport after a new Concorde Agreement has be...

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DemocalypseNow wrote:Sauber
5.5
I don't understand the justification for the gold. I don't see what purpose it serves.

As far as I understand, it's part of the 25th anniversary commemoration.

Waris

I just realized, if Force India continues to exist in its current form for 5 more years, it will have existed in that form for as long as Jordan did.

Waris

R.I.P. for good now Manor.

Waris

I was a little struck by the disappearance of the 'charging bull' from the Toro Rosso, but now that I've actually seen the car in proper lighting (I have f.lux on my laptop which changes the colour temperature at night) I must say that I quite like the new livery. It's not quite the shade of light b...

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Apparently one of the potential buyers of the Manor outfit is the man who tried to form USF1. Small world m Tavo Hellmund was nothing to do with USF1, I think you've mis-read that. He's the guy that's involved with the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, isn't he? Yes, he is, and also helped bring b...

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Wasn't Hawthorne bi? I swear I read that somewhere, that it was like an open secret, like Aaron Rodgers today. I've read plenty of things about Mike Hawthorn, but this is very much news to me. ...although it does say "A gay, gallant sportsman" on his tombstone... Yes, I know the meaning w...

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Again this news pops up. I want to believe http://www.grandprix247.com/2017/02/02/finger-lickin-good-glimmer-of-hope-for-manor/

Pretty sure Sean Gelael isn't eligible for a superlicense though. But perhaps the FIA can be bribed.

Waris

Here, I made one in Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn for the heck of it too: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=7018014

4.9km. I like this one better. It looks a little bit like Silverstone, which makes sense considering they're both airfields.

Waris

Someone on Joe Saward's blog suggested that when F1 decided to have a race in New Jersey, apart from the Port Imperial track that was selected, there was another proposal for a race in Liberty State Park. I got intrigued and figured I'd see what kind of track I could come up with on those premises. ...

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Check this out. Some Italian (with a nice surname) started a crowdfunding campaign to buy the remnants of the team. He claims to be in contact with Capital GF. https://www.generosity.com/sports-fundraising/save-manor-racing-team

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Could a miracle be on the cards yet? https://thejudge13.com/2017/01/27/manor-already-rising-from-its-ashes/ This blog article goes a bit more in-depth into the acquisition process, but I have no idea how reliable or well-sourced it is, it doesn't mention any sources. CGF has advised their client to ...

Waris

That's very sad news for all of us here at Rejects. They were a bit like the new Minardi for me; perennial backmarkers, but always trying hard, and it looked as though in 2017 they might have actually had a solid midfield car. Shame. But let's not forget they already rose like a phoenix once before,...

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I dreamed that Max Verstappen won a race by being the only driver to make no pit stop at all. Ah, too bad that isn't possible in real life... To some extent, Grosjean at Melbourne last year springs to mind. I'm pretty sure a minimum of one pit stop per race is mandatory under current regulations, n...

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I dreamed that Max Verstappen won a race by being the only driver to make no pit stop at all. Ah, too bad that isn't possible in real life...

Waris

Wow, amazing. F1 well and truly moves into the new era. I don't even think it's a bad thing, I'm just a little incredulous. I really thought the only way Bernie was going to leave F1 was in a coffin, and now so quickly, just like that, boom, he's out. Bernie can be credited for making the sport what...

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Well I'll be. Look what I just found: http://pitlane.gr/index.php/en/afieromata/cars/item/257-fondmetal-gr-01 I had no idea, but it seems that after the Fondmetal F1 team folded after the 1992 season, Ranieri Randaccio (bless him) bought one of its GR01 cars and converted it to a single-seater Can-A...

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Wait, it looks like I was confused. Ricardo Gelael is the KFC Indonesia guy. GC Capital doesn't have anything to do with him, it appears to be a private investment firm from San Francisco. Interesting... Might they want an American driver in the team? Also that makes me wonder if Ron Dennis is someh...

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Pretty colours? I hope they use that good old-fashioned yellowy orange (which, apparently, originally came from Reynolds' Aluminium) and not that orange they used in testing a few years back, which made it look like a Spyker. But in any case it would make the grid a lot more colorful, especially if...

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Spanish journalst Albert Fàbrega now reports that there is a "principle accord" with an investor: https://twitter.com/AlbertFabrega/status/822422354030632960 According to the Indonesian Motorsport.comit's GC Gapital (isn't that Sean Gelael's dad? Again? Does that mean Ron Dennis is no long...

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Autosport reports there's only a week left. Ouch, it's tight. And they have the car ready to go into production... http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/127722/one-week-left-for-manor-f1-to-be-saved Despite the financial situation, the 2017 car is ready to go into production at the team's Banb...

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CaptainGetz12 wrote:Manor Racing enter administration and are on brink of collapse

Damn it, so close and yet so far...

But note:

that article wrote:Manor Grand Prix Racing, which owns the rights to the team's participation in F1, is not in administration.

That is a glimmer of hope, I think.

Waris

Now I feel really bad about having cheered for Sauber when they scored that point at Interlagos.

I was feeling sad for them because they hadn't scored any the year before...

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I like the news about Giovinazzi, but where does that leave Leclerc?

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Buemi is a reject?? Unbelievable. I imagined he had at least three 6th places. Even Sainz isn't a reject anymore, is he?

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It sounds like Ocon may be the big loser in all of this, because I fully expect Wehrlein to jump the queue and take the vacant seat, and that means the way up for Ocon will be closed until Hamilton retires (or moves to another team, but I honestly don't see that happening).

Waris

I'll bet you it will happen once or twice and then it'll be abandoned again, just like with the new qualifying format this year (does anyone even remember that? I had long forgotten until I thought of it just now writing this).

Waris

Paul Hayes wrote:I hope he has a good one, not a Coutlhard-in-Brazil-2008. I shall miss him - he's been in F1 for half my lifetime!

And for more than half my lifetime!

Waris

I would hate to see Nasr out. He deserves to be in F1 on talent alone, plus it would be very bad for F1 in Brazil if there were no Brazilians in F1. (I'm not Brazilian, but I have a bit of a soft spot for them.) Maybe Manor will take him on, but then again I suppose they would also need the Banco do...

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I fear that if Interlagos disappears from the calendar, it may never come back unless it's drastically renovated (which they don't have money for), since it's considered an out-of-date facility (not by me, but by certain persons) which only remains on the calendar because of its historical value. It...

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Well written. However, I was under the impression that drivers who perished in an accident weren't eligible for a profile?

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tommykl wrote:Presumably the flag of the EU would be used, as it is the closest thing to a flag of Europe. However, I should also bring up the fact that when held in Valencia, the European Grand Prix also used the flag of Spain...

Really?? I must admit I totally missed that. Can you reference that somewhere?

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