Grand Prix Rejects

Dom

I don't believe it's been mentioned yet, but spare a thought for 'anonymous' Webber, who followed Alonso into the pits after the restart and came out with five cars between them. And as a result, several more were able to leapfrog him the following lap despite pitting later, most obviously his team...

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The subscription to Sky is going to cost 60 Euro per month? Holy crap. I didn't realize it was going to be that much more expensive for you all. I understand the complaints here. (Still, however, this is how the world of business works, like it or not.) That's my best estimate I can get using the S...

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How much don? The license fee? 21e a month. The subscription? 25e a month. (Granted, it has 7 other channels too, but since the channels cannot be bought separately and since I only really wanted MTV3 MAX... its basically 25e) Wow, your TV licence is expensive! The UK colour TV licence is about 13 ...

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This is more than simply "not wanting to pay to watch F1" Oh, please, do me a favour and stop pretending this is even remotely about morals. It's making you look ridiculous and I feel like you take the mick out of me. Face it, you people would not care if it were a famous sport you have n...

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Right, who knows what European channels show F1? Presumably they'd still retain their contracts for broadcasting in their own countries and there must be a way to view their output from Britain - then we can just turn the sound off and listen to the radio commentary.

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This track is the problem, it's got no space for passing, and its layout means that there is only 1 optimal way around the track. It's the stupid not-quite-straight-straights. Yeah, the cars look really good going around those little kinks but they don't provide any challenge for the driver as they...

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I'm one of the few people who liked the A-1 Ring, but that's probably because I never saw a race at the Osterreichring. I'm the same. I never saw the old track, but the A-1 Ring was a simple, fun little track with none of the complicated chicanery of Tilke's later designs. I notice that there is so...

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More Rosberg/Schumacher shenanigans for Mercedes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uE67arN ... r_embedded

I did enjoy the way they pointed out how much better Rosberg was last year...

Dom

What about the commercials featuring Damon Hill and Murray Walker for Pizza Hut? (and damon has spun his pizza!!!) "Hill's lost it. He's out of control." m and outtakes: m Takes me back to my childhood... great times. I still miss Murray, I'm honestly not sure I'd have got into F1 without...

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http://i52.tinypic.com/ak9w2f.jpg This may explain why Heidfeld was so crap. The TVs gave him no airtime which is presumably why we all missed this. Looks like enough damage to cause a performance drop-off. Looks like enough damage to retire. It doesn't excuse his lame qualifying performance though...

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And trust Horner to casually throw that bon mot into the post race interview when he revealed that they'd stripped the KERS out of the car during practise because of reliability problems. As they say, Newey probably didn't design that car around KERS (instead, he designed the KERS around the car) -...

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free practice 1 = use whenever, free practice 2 = first hour use it, then 30 mins race trim, qualifying = use whenever, race = use in the zone, rain = switch it off... What is the point? FP2: Last half hour to test the regulating software works. Rain: Safety reasons. So how much rain is rain? Do th...

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I suggested this idea a few years ago but:- Award points for style like in ice skating:- Point worthy activities could include:- Actually trying to overtake. Crashing in a spectacular or amusing manner. Pushing Schumi off the circuit. Leading the race only to be robbed by bad luck or team orders. D...

Dom

Another suggestion universally regarded as stupid for you to consider: shortcuts. How would you make them work and be accepted by fans and teams? Put down some of that stuff they use at Paul Ricard that causes extra tyre wear - you can take the shortcut but only at the cost of possibly having to ma...

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What about the opposite? How about your favourite "Head in Hands" moments, when you see your hopes crushed by cruel fate? Mine would probably include: 1) Damon Hill's ultra-reliable Renault engine giving up, at Monaco of all places, when he was well on his way to victory at a track so clos...

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Ferrari pays tribute to Badoer By Matt Beer Saturday, December 11th 2010, 22:52 GMT Badoer received a Fiat 500 Tributo Ferrari plus a sculpture created from parts of all the Ferraris he has driven during his 13 seasons as the squad's leading test driver. He has now bowed out of the role. So, after ...

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That's not a fair comparason though, as marlboro doesn't own the ferrari team, nor does vodafone own mclaren. it's just sponsorship. ferrari owns ferrari, and mclaren owns mclaren. genii capital outright owns what was renault. I mean, we don't still call HRT 'Campos', or Mercedes 'Brawn' or 'Honda'...

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I always thought Barcelona looked a bit like a crab...

Dom

Glennerz wrote:Who walks around central London wearing £200,00 of jewellery???

Someone with an estimated personal fortune of £1.5 billion?

Dom

Shizuka wrote:With the engines have to be used in even FP's?

Definitely. I can see the tagline now: "Nineteen Races. Five World Champions. One Engine. No Excuses"

Dom

To be fair, not many of the drivers from the top teams have overtaken many of the others. Several times during the title run-in I have mentioned that I didn't believe Alonso deserved the title as he's not really overtaken ANYONE all season, except at Silverstone (well and Germany as well but that w...

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QuickYoda41 wrote:Most of the time he couldn't overtake anybody because there was no one ahead.

Fair point. Still, I wonder if anyone else has won a World Championship having to make so few passing moves (the obvious candidate that springs to mind is Mansell in '92 of course).

Dom

As part of a spirited debate on who the best driver was in F1 this year (I argued Kubica narrowly ahead of Kobayashi) I heard someone make the point that Vettel couldn't possibly be judged the best driver of the season because of the mistakes he made while overtaking in Turkey and Spain. This got me...

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Captain Hammer wrote:
JeremyMcClean wrote:Guess that pole wasn't enough...

Go ask Fernando Alonso who he'd rather overtake: Hulkenberg (passed him within eight laps in Brazil) or Petrov (spent nearly forty laps behind him in Abu Dhabi).

Passing is actually possible at Interlagos though.

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Controversial

Dom

While we are at the point of copyright, I can ask a question which I do not think is really worth an own thread: If either one of our dear site owners is reading this: I am using a text from F1 Rejects (namely the Eric Van De Poele biography) in my IT classes (no, unfortunately it's not about F1 te...

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Disqualified because of an accident? No doubt about his paternity then.

Dom

Identify the team and year of this F1 livery detail: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/Aerond/f1livery01.jpg Ligier, Adelaide(maybe more races as well, I cannot remember) in 1993. I always think of a cow when I see it... "Moooooo". Coulthard had to loan a helmet, because he couldn't ...

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dr-baker wrote:If it's bye bye to Vettel and Alonso too then I will be happy.

That would be karma.

Dom

thehemogoblin wrote:
So no tire changes are required at all then? Hmm. I either change to inters now or I wait as long as humanly possible to change my full wets.

I thought they had to stay on full wets while they're behind the safety car?

Dom

Right. This is ridiculous. I'm off to have an ice cream

Dom

( i still don't like it because of Tilke) If Tilke designed Spa tomorrow, would you hate it? Likewise, if someone else designed Korea, how would you feel about it? Tilke himself doesn't bug me, as he's shown himself to be plenty creative when given the opportunity. Just look at turn 8 in Istanbul, ...

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Do you know what I think they should do? A Pop Idol style commentator search. It would fill hours of winter airtime with F1-related stuff and there must be hundreds of knowledgeable fans out there who could do a decent job. Hell, I'd give it a go.

Dom

Can't one of us marry his daughter and then make a bid to carry on the sport as a sort of family business? F1 run by F1 Rejects? It'd be brilliant.

Dom

Henrique wrote:Wtf am I reading?

Question marks, mainly.

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Bleu wrote:Andrea Montermini Cup serves it well because he drove for Simtek, Pacific and Forti within two years of each team beginning.

Surely the Luca Badoer cup in honour of all those who are there just to take part?

Dom

The Portuguese Autosport is reporting that, when Yamamoto accidentally activated the fire extinguishing system, he was on a straight in 7th gear - and the resulting emergency shutdown immediately broke the engine and the gearbox in the HRT car... He should probably have his Superlicense revoked for...

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Holding the next F1 race in Texas makes sense for only one reason I can think of, it puts it closer to South America, where more interest in F1 lies. That's a pretty good point, but I wonder how many South Americans could afford travelling to Austin to watch a GP. Not many South Americans, but you ...

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I'd throw the book at Ferrari to be honest. It is true that team orders are a part of motorsport and the ban on them is, to an extent, unenforceable. And I don't think anyone really minds when a driver who can't win the championship moves over to help his teammate who can. Basically what the rule am...

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Your in Surrey??? People are usually awash with money there, most Surrey residents would only have to look down the back of the sofa to find that sort of money. On the weather, we've had months of almost unbroken sunshine, virtually no rain since March. Its quite eerie to live in London in consiste...

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